Gov. Nathan Deal announced today a new need-based scholarship called REACH — Realizing Educational Achievement Can Happen — part of Deal’s Complete College Georgia initiative. “The REACH Scholarship continues our state’s ongoing commitment to providing access to higher education for all Georgians, regardless of their income,” Deal said in a press release from the Georgia [...]
Panhandling is often a vicious cycle, and University students may be enabling it. As recent efforts by the Athens Downtown Development Authority to change panhandling laws have brought the issue back into the local spotlight, students may remain unaware of their own contributions. Information gathered by the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing showed that higher percentages of students give money [...]
Kerrie Grunnett saw potential in a Memorial Hall closet. One semester, some wire shelving and hundreds of soup cans later, she and other volunteers created the UGA student food pantry, turning Room 208 in Memorial Hall into an organization that provides free food to students in need. Grunnett, a junior biological sciences major from Conyers, is a member of one [...]
For some, the concepts of Christianity and financial management are unrelated. But others, find them very much in harmony. Taylor Hooven, a senior English major from Evans, finds the concepts not only related, but intertwined. “I think a very large part of Christianity itself is putting yourself second to some other things. Those other things can be service to [...]
By fall 2014, the HOPE scholarship is expected to only pay about half of tuition. And though many University students may have already graduated by then, planning for the lack of funds begins now for some freshmen. “My dad’s a single business owner and pays for my college tuition by himself, so now, if HOPE [...]
Monday morning at 10 a.m. two members of ‘Walkupiers,’ a national branch of the Occupy movement, were arrested in Madison County.Group members are on a months-long protest march from New York to Atlanta on foot. As they were on their way to Athens to meet with Occupy Athens protestors, officers from the Madison County Sheriff’s [...]
Despite rain and temperatures in the 40s, Occupy Athens protestors met at the Arch Friday night to continue promoting economic justice. The protests, a regular event every Friday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., are a way for the Occupiers to continue promoting their goals now that they no longer have tents set up at [...]
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle told the Atlanta Press Club the HOPE Scholarship was never meant to become an “entitlement program,” according to the Associated Press. The program is looking at cuts, meaning University students with the HOPE Scholarship are expected to see an increase of more than $500 in the amount they pay toward tuition [...]
It may be the new popular job for students right after delivering pizzas. Last year, a total of 155 additional University students signed up to become sugar babies on SeekingArrangement.com, according to a press release from the website. A sugar baby is a young person who provides companionship to an older sugar daddy or mommy in [...]
Correction appended. University students with the HOPE Scholarship are expected to see an increase of more than $500 in the amount they pay toward tuition and fees starting Fall 2013, according to a presentation from the Georgia Student Finance Commission made on Tuesday to the Board of Regents. And that’s not all. By fiscal year [...]
