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Marine Institute faces budget cuts

The Fiscal Year 2012 budget for the University’s Marine Institute on Sapelo Island was cut 8 percent from FY11 — and students may be expected to make up the difference. In FY11, former Gov. Sonny Perdue reduced the budget for UGAMI by $80,247. For FY12, Gov. Nathan Deal suggests a further reduction of $62,479. “Without [...]

No explicit process exists for discipline of harassment

Federal and state law mandate that universities must have some form of a non-discrimination and anti-harassment policy, but there is still a lot of leeway in how administrations handle complaints and what sanctions the universities might enact. “There is no template or federal law that says, ‘This is the way it has to be done,’” [...]

Univ. class sells plants: Money will benefit agriculture program

Kaitlyn Butler and her classmates weren’t all green thumbs at the start of the semester. But after learning how to grow plants in a greenhouse, the students in HORT 4040 — Floriculture for Educators — are ready to pass their knowledge and their cultivars on to the rest of the University community through their annual [...]

Opinion Meter

The boy who was arrested Thomas Scardino, Jr., has been arrested six times in two years. And this week he alledgedly impersonated a University student during a DUI arrest. Though the editorial board can’t condone his lengthy rap sheet, we have to admit we’re impressed with his tenacity and guile. We wonder what that mind [...]

College helps train military

For much of the past 50 years, Afghanistan has been ravaged by war, its economy falling hard and its agriculture heavily dependent on poppies grown for the opium trade. But not anymore. Faculty from the University’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Fort Valley State University are embarking on a three-year training period with [...]

New dean named for FACS college

After a lengthy search process, the University has announced a new dean for the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Jere Morehead, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, announced Wednesday Linda Fox will be the new FACS dean. Fox is the associate dean of and a professor in the College of Agricultural, Human [...]

Students plan campus effort to aid Japan

It was almost 1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on March 11 when a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Honshu, Japan. Now, leaders of Volunteer UGA and the Student Government Association are ready to spring into action. They held an organizational meeting at 10 p.m. Monday hoping to brainstorm ideas for the relief [...]

Univ. clubs win in outdoor sports: Groups set high standard

Log rolling, turkey calling and fly casting — just typical parts of spring break for University students competing in the Forestry and Wildlife Conclaves. This year, 38 students traveled to Auburn, Ala., to compete in the Wildlife Conclave March 17-20, and beat out about 20 schools for the first-place overall win and numerous other prizes. [...]

Beaches on Gulf mostly oil-free

Attention, spring break-goers: The resort beaches on the Gulf of Mexico are — mostly — oil-free. “We’re going to Destin, just to hang out and enjoy the beach,” said Elliott Smith, a senior from Athens, of his spring break plans. “I talked to [my friend Patrick Wells], who’s from that area, and he said to [...]

BLUE BLOOD: Samantha Joye says life experiences led her to Gulf

Samantha Joye’s throat was on fire, her face burning from the acid in the air. Standing aboard the Walton Smith, a research vessel, Joye was haunted by the scene unfolding around her. The Gulf of Mexico was a vision from hell — the air, the water, and the oil were all ablaze. It was not [...]

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