After President Barack Obama addressed a University of Michigan crowd on Jan. 27 about rising college tuition costs, students and administration in Athens have something to say. Obama’s speech in Ann Arbor, Mich. called on colleges to maintain affordable tuition while asking states to invest more in higher education. “We’re telling the states, if you can find [...]
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 [...]
In college, politics were not Sonny Perdue’s first priority. “I was pretty much apolitical when I was your age,” the former Georgia governor said Wednesday night. “There were other things on my mind when I was here at Georgia.” However, detachment from political affairs is a part of his life history that the University alumnus [...]
Students have the opportunity to voice their opinions on a proposed resolution about undocumented students at tonight’s Student Government Association Senate meeting. The SGA resolution opposes a proposed bill in the Georgia House of Representatives, House Bill 59, that would restrict undocumented immigrants from attending any public college or university in Georgia, including the University. [...]
Students wearing red “U”s signifying their undocumented status will attend the Georgia State Legislature meeting in Atlanta Tuesday in protest of House Bill 59, which would ban undocumented immigrants from attending Georgia public universities. The protest is organized by the Georgia Students for Public Higher Education and the Georgia Undocumented Youth Alliance, groups that have [...]
Tomorrow, citizens from across the U.S. will participate in the nation’s first completely-virtual interview from the White House. At 5:30 p.m. President Barack Obama will answer questions submitted from American citizens via the White House’s YouTube channel. Viewers who watched the submissions over the past week voted on the questions. According to a White House [...]
Amidst the debate about a possible Walmart coming to downtown Athens, People for a Better Athens held an open discussion and viewing of the Robert Greenwald’s “Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price.” The event, held at Ciné, included the debut of a 10-minute film on Athenians’ views on a proposed downtown Walmart, creating a [...]
Fresh from a State of the Union address in which he called for a renewed focus on innovation, domestic employment, and the nascent economic recovery, President Obama is on the last leg of a three-day, five-state tour to promote his message of populism and sound notes of his reelection campaign. Obama visited Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Phoenix, Ariz. on [...]
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 [...]
