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VIDEO: Dawg Day of Service

August 30, 2011 by LISA GLASER  
Filed under Multimedia, Video

Students participating in Dawg Day of Service worked at numerous volunteer organizations, including environmental clean-up in the woods. ANDREA BRISCOE/Staff

Red & Black reporter Lisa Glaser profiles UGA’s Dawg Day of Service:

Crossword Puzzle, Aug. 30

August 30, 2011 by Online Editor  
Filed under Crossword Puzzle, Puzzles

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ACROSS 1 High __; baby’s kitchen seat 6 Native of Aberdeen 10 __-bodied; fit 14 Row of shrubs 15 Bananas 16 Sketch 17 Actor Jeremy 18 Gal., qt. & pt. 19 Voice amplifier 20 Certain 22 Black eye 24 Small flaps 25 Wobbles 26 Valuable holdings 29 Surround and assail 30 Sorority letter 31 Spine-chilling [...]

MAN ON THE STREET: Show Me My Buzz

August 30, 2011 by MEGAN INGALLS  
Filed under Greek Life, Health, News, Student Groups

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It’s a Friday night. You go downtown to grab a drink with some friends, but when the night is over, you aren’t quite sure how you’re going to get home. Well now there’s an app for that — the “Show Me My Buzz” app. You enter your weight and gender as well as how many [...]

Reverse the Curse morphs childhood bond into ever-evolving sound

August 30, 2011 by TIFFANY STEVENS  
Filed under Featured, Music, Variety

Reverse the Curse has been together since childhood, although its sound is far from childish. Courtesy Reverse the Curse

From childhood on, members of Reverse the Curse could always say they were with the band. “We’ve been playing since we were twelve,” said Ed Starcher, vocalist and guitarist. “Went to the same elementary school and same middle school and high school. We’re from a small town, a farm town in Hiram [Ohio], and there’s [...]

THREE MINUTE INTERVIEW: Maggie Silver, Zombie Organizer

August 30, 2011 by TIFFANY STEVENS  
Filed under Health, News

Courtesy Photo from Red Cross.

For Maggie Silver, teaching emergency preparedness to the public is as easy as fighting the newly risen dead. Silver, health communications specialist at the Office of Public Health, Preparedness and Response at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, helped create the Zombie Preparedness Campaign. The CDC campaign used pop-culture fascination with the Zombie Apocalypse [...]

Artist shares experiences of working world with students

August 30, 2011 by HILARY BUTSCHEK  
Filed under Art, Variety

Lamar Dodd is starting a lecture series that includes visiting artists and scholars. The first speaker will be Kristin Morgan. File/The Red & Black

The elusive “artistic process” is never easy to understand. However, the Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture Series wants to change that. Recently the Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee of the Lamar Dodd School of Art chose a series of lecturers to talk to University students about their experiences in the field of art. “We wanted to bring [...]

Duo ascend from “Damn! Show” to Daniel Tosh

August 30, 2011 by LINDSAY POTTER  
Filed under Comedy, Featured, Variety

ALAN LIOW/Staff

Correction appended. Waco O’Guin and Roger Black wouldn’t be stopped. “They tried to tell us we couldn’t be featured because we didn’t live in the dorms,” O’Guin said. “We told them they couldn’t run R-rated Kevin Costner movies and keep us off.” He means the University’s Housing Channel 12 when he says “they;” and he [...]

Editorial Cartoon, Aug. 30

August 30, 2011 by MARIAH WEATHERSBY  
Filed under Editorial cartoon, Featured, Opinions

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Advice for you, Facebook stalkers

August 30, 2011 by SYDNEY KIDA  
Filed under Columns, Opinions

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To the Facebook stalkers and eye-rollers that sit near me in class, I have a question for you: do you ever stop and think about how much it costs mommy and daddy to put your ungrateful self through school? Let’s look at the facts. It costs in-state undergraduates an estimated $20,820 annually to attend the [...]

Scholarship program points minority students to science careers

August 30, 2011 by LISA GLASER  
Filed under Diversity, News

KRISTY DENSMORE/Staff

Shanise Walker, a senior mathematics major from Columbus, attributes her success in college to the Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program, which recently secured a five-year, $4.9 million grant renewal from the National Science Foundation. “I’ve met other math majors that I probably would not have ever met within my whole UGA [...]

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