May 31 2007

Sports Digest – May 31, 2007

Category: Sports — Big Dawg @ 12:35 pm

The past few days have been busy for UGA sports, so we’ll try and hit everything.

  • First two games will be late starts (here, here, here, and here) – The football games against Oklahoma State (September 1) and South Carolina ( September 8 ) will start at 5:45 pm and 6:45 pm, respectively. Both will be televised on ESPN2.
  • Mens golf team 7 shots behind – Seven shots behind first-place Stanford, and four shots behind second at the NCAA Championship.
  • Georgia baseball finished – The Georgia baseball team didn’t make the College World Series, after qualifying last year.
  • Potential football prospects (registration required) – Discussion of prospects and more on GAC’s Robinson.
  • UGA hardest on drinkers – UGA has the toughest disciplinary policy in the SEC. Also, the SEC commissioner said there probably won’t ever be a conference-wide policy on alcohol.
  • NCAA Track and Field – Georgia’s track and field qualified 17 for the NCAA championships.
  • Softball pitcher named All American – Senior Kasi Carroll was named All American.

May 31 2007

Daily Digest – May 31, 2007

Category: Daily News — Big Dawg @ 8:57 am

And here at today’s top stories, from all over the Bulldog nation.

  • Supply school will go to UGA (registration required) – There is an agreement that the University of Georgia will take over the Navy Supply Corps School in 2011.
  • Savannah River lab will remain open for now (registration required) – UGA’s Ecology Lab at the Savannah River Site (a nuclear materials processing facility) will remain open for another month. The Lab was scheduled to close yesterday.
  • ACC Commissioner missing meetings – The Flagpole has a nice little article analyzing ACC Commissioner Carl Jordan. Apparently Jordan has a ranch in Idaho, and he has missed several commission meetings while at his ranch.
  • Editorial on UGA child care (registration required) – Athens Banner-Herald editorial talks about the demand for child care for professors and the lack of action by the administration.
  • Three professors hired – Three UGA professors were hired as consultants for Xethanol Corporation, a producer of ethanol.
  • Athens Regional Blood Drive is today from 9:15 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. at 1199 Prince Ave.

May 30 2007

Daily Digest – May 30, 2007

Category: Daily News — Big Dawg @ 6:10 am

This being first real post here at UGA News, I think we’ll start off with some UGA news. I’m hoping to do a post like this every day, and link to as many articles relating to UGA as possible.

  • An editorial by Bill Shipp – Shipp discusses how the State of Georgia is cutting funding for the University of Georgia, and its effects. The best parts are actually excerpts from a private report on the state of UGA:
    • “There are tenements in New Jersey that are nicer than the freshman dorms at UGA. The authorities have frequent middle-of-the-night fire drills because the dorms are such a fire hazard. Rats are as big as small cats. In fact, no cat in his right mind would dare venture into Russell Hall unescorted.”
  • New Media Institute moving back to campus (registration required) – Main issue here is that the New Media Institute runs one of the downtown wireless networks (known as the WAG Zone) and no one seems to know what will happen to the wireless network.
  • New info on medical campus in Athens (registration required) – Plans seem to be moving forward to build a campus for the Medical College of Georgia in Athens.
  • Interview with Coach Richt in AJC (registration required) – QA with Coach Richt about losing Hebron and Oliver, recruiting King, and the pictures of Stafford. My favorite quote (relating to the pictures of Stafford found on Facebook):
    • “He’s got to decide what is most important — being what he wants to be or being Joe Blow college student.”
  • Info on UGA football recruits (registration required) – GACS Robinson commits to UGA instead of South Carolina.
  • Illegal immigrant at Georgia Tech (registration required) – A student at Georgia Tech is upset because he will have to start paying out-of-state tuition. A new policy of the Board of Regents will charge illegal immigrants out-of-state tuition. This guy was the valedictorian of his Atlanta high school and made an 800 on the math portion of the SAT.