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Within LeConte Hall, wars are fought like clockwork, hundreds of years after the fact. Chancellorsville today, Gettysburg tomorrow, Chickamauga by week's end. Armed with chalk, dry erase markers or Vis-A-Vis pens, professors conduct pitched battles, surprise attacks and elaborate sieges all from the sidelines via crude diagrams and the occasional primary source. … 7 Comments
A University employee was hit by a car Tuesday around noon. Barry Glenn, a building services worker in Hill Hall, was run over by a vehicle in the Tate Student Center parking lot, according to the recording on the University Police scanner. Mary Sutton, a custodial supervisor in Hill Hall, confirmed Tuesday afternoon that Glenn was in the accident, but Sutton declined to make any other comments at the time. … 0 Comments
? 103rd Sibley Lecture: The Concept and the Rule of Law. Sponsored by School of Law. Legal and political philosophy scholar Jeremy Waldron, professor at the New York University School of Law, speaks. 3:30 p.m. School of Law, Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom. Contact 706-542-5172, cindyh@uga. … 0 Comments
The UGAAlert system was not used Monday night after a shooting near campus because the incident was not a University-wide threat, officials said. "The system was not utilized because it was not a campus-wide, life-threatening situation," said Steve Harris, interim director of the Office of Security Preparedness. … 4 Comments
he granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and a former West Bank resident spoke against Israel's occupation of Palestine Tuesday night. Hosted by Athens for Justice in Palestine, Anna Baltzer's lecture was one of many in her book tour. She wrote the book, "Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories," to bring attention to the plight of Palestinians. … 22 Comments
