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JAHAN RAMAZANI TO SPEAK AT FALL CONVOCATION

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Oct.10 -- R. Jahan Ramazani, professor of 
English and chairman of the Faculty Senate, will deliver the annual Fall 
Convocation address on the South Lawn at the University of Virginia, Friday, 
Oct. 31.
	The event, which opens Family Weekend, will honor 661 students who 
earned grade-point averages of 3.4 or higher their first two years at U.Va. 
The Thomas Jefferson Award, given annually to a member of the University 
community who exemplifies in character and achievements the ideals of the 
University's founder, also will be presented.  Ramazani, who graduated from 
U.Va. in 1981 and received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1988 before joining the 
English department, will speak on intellectual community, one of the 
initiatives of this yearUs Faculty Senate. A Lilly Teaching Fellow in 
1993-94, he studied modern poetry and literary theory.  His book "Poetry of 
Mourning: the Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney,S was published in 1994.
	Ramazani's father, Ruhi K. Ramazani, the Edward R. Stettinius Jr. 
Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, gave the keynote address at 
Fall Convocation in 1994, the same year he received the Thomas Jefferson Award.
 	At 2 p.m. faculty in academic regalia will proceed from the steps of 
the Rotunda toward the South Lawn, signaling the start of the event.  In case 
of rain,the event will take place in University Hall.  A decision to move 
indoors will be announced by 10 a.m. Classes are not suspended for the event.  
Parking will be available at University Hall with frequent bus service to and 
from the Lawn area. 
	Family Weekend at U.Va. also includes the University Forum, a public 
address by President John T. Casteen III on the state of the University, 
followed by a public question and answer session with U.Va.leaders.  The 
forum will take place Saturday, Nov. 1  on the South Lawn from 9:30 to 11 a.m.  
The rain site is Cabell Hall Auditorium.
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                                                           October 9, 1997
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