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.
