Our Take: Get involved now
February 28, 2011 by MIMI ENSLEY
Filed under Opinions, Our Take
No more campaign pizza and T-shirts? Where will we get our free candy this SGA election season? OK, in all honesty, we’ll probably appreciate the break from unnecessary campaigning. And if The Link party sticks to its word and instead spends this election listening to students and their ideas, we’ll be more than happy. But [...]
CRIME NOTEBOOK, Feb. 28 (w/ documents)
February 28, 2011 by ADINA SOLOMON
Filed under Crime & Courts, Documents, Multimedia, News
Student arrested for DUI A University student was charged with DUI, underage possession or consumption of alcohol and failure to obey traffic control devices Saturday night, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report. An officer approached the vehicle of Joseph Carl Hassett, 19, and detected a strong odor of alcohol coming from the vehicle. Hassett [...]
Author calls mountain cabin ‘home’
February 28, 2011 by SHAWN JARRARD
Filed under Books, Variety
You never know where author Josh Weil will be. “I’ve lived a pretty peripatetic life, bounced around a lot,” Weil said. Born in southwest Virginia, Weil moved to east Africa and experienced his earliest memories in Malawi, where his father, a professor of soil science at the University of Maryland, conducted research. At the age [...]
WHERE’S MIKEY, Feb. 28
February 28, 2011 by Staff reports
Filed under News
President Adams had his staff “hold” today. Did Monday have a bad day and need a hug or something?
‘ROYAL BLOOD’ : Princess also a Fulbright scholar
February 28, 2011 by KATHRYN INGALL
Filed under Diversity, News
Vusani Tshivhase is a Fulbright scholar who happens to be the daughter of a king. “I kind of come from a royal family,” said the health promotion major. “In a way, I’ve got royal blood flowing in my veins.” Tshivhase’s father is king of the Venda tribe in a rural corner of northeast corner of [...]
Code of Conduct must not hurt free speech
It’s time to take a close look at our University policies. First, the issue was sexual harassment. Now, the University is looking at adding anti-bullying language to the University Code of Conduct, according to The Red & Black (“Conduct code may add bullying,” Feb. 22). In the spirit of keeping the academic atmosphere a safe, [...]
SGA will continue to work for you
February 27, 2011 by KAITLIN MILLER
Filed under Columns, Opinions
What does the Student Government Association do? It’s a great question, and one we want to spend the next week and year in office trying to answer. Looking back on my past two years serving within SGA, let me give a few highlights: Our athletic board representative, Trey Sinyard, and student body president, Josh Delaney, [...]
No. 1 Georgia blanks No. 1 Arizona, 8-0
February 27, 2011 by Georgia Sports Communications
Filed under Softball, Sports
CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. – Freshman Morgan Montemayor tossed a three-hit shutout to lead the No. 1-ranked Georgia Bulldogs to a five-inning, run-rule victory over Arizona on Saturday night at the Cathedral City Classic. Saturday night’s game pitted collegiate softball’s two No. 1-ranked schools with Georgia coming out on top as Montemayor (6-1) led the Bulldogs [...]
Georgia puts together strong effort to dispatch South Carolina
February 27, 2011 by Mitch Blomert
Filed under Men's basketball, Sports
The Georgia men’s basketball team finally found the full 40 minutes of basketball it was looking for. After a series of dominant leads blown by poor second-half play in the previous weeks, the Bulldogs ousted South Carolina 64-48 on Saturday at Stegeman Coliseum, controlling the pace of the entire game and preventing any Gamecock rallies. [...]
Lady Bulldogs freshman guard out through SEC Tournament
February 26, 2011 by RYAN BLACK
Filed under Sports, Women's basketball
Lady Bulldogs freshman guard Ronika Ransford has been suspended through at least next week’s SEC Tournament by Georgia head coach Andy Landers for “not taking care of academic business”. “When you don’t go to class, and you don’t do what’s expected of you academically, then you suffer the consequences,” he said. “Unfortunately, your team suffers the consequences, [...]
