CNN has an article about the Princeton Review of the top party universities, and the University of Georgia makes the list at #5. West Virginia scores the top spot, as the top party school in the nation.
Ht: AthensWorld.
Aug 20 2007
Breaking: Campus Assaults Follow-Up Email
The following is a follow-up email sent to UGA students, staff, and faculty regarding the previously-reported assault:
Over the weekend, information was sent to the campus community concerning a stabbing incident which occurred on the University campus. One person is hospitalized and another is under arrest in connection with that incident. This is to inform you that the UGA Police and the Athens-Clarke County Police are investigating two additional, separate incidents involving a knife being pulled on someone. At least one of these incidents occurred after persons witnessed a confrontation between two parties and tried to intervene. The second incident that occurred on the UGA campus also has resulted in an arrest. We reiterate to students, faculty and staff that if you should become involved in a confrontational situation you should contact law enforcement authorities for assistance. While we encourage members of the community to get involved if they see criminal activity and applaud those who do so, the best way to get involved is to contact law enforcement and describe what is occurring.
Stay tuned to UGA News for further updates on this and other breaking news.
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Aug 19 2007
Breaking: UGA Police Email ‘Notice of Campus Assault’
An email just received from UGA Police:
TO: UGA Faculty, Staff and Students
FROM: UGA Police Department
At approximately 3:00 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, August 19, 2007, an argument ensued between individuals who were known to each other. The argument took place in the NO3 Lot at the corner of Oconee Street and Thomas Street. Sometime during the argument a physical fight broke out. After the fight ended it was determined that one of the persons involved had suffered stab wounds. We would like to remind all students, faculty and staff that whenever they are out on campus or out in the community, whether in Athens or elsewhere, and find themselves in a confrontational situation to please contact the local law enforcement authorities rather than attempt to handle the situation themselves. The case is currently under investigation by the University of Georgia and Athens Clarke County Police Departments.
UGA parking lot N03 is located on the southeastern corner of the intersection of Thomas Street and Oconee Street, near downtown Athens.
UGA News will bring you further updates as we learn of this breaking story.
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Aug 17 2007
Daily Digest: August 17, 2007
A little news for the day:
- UGA is back in the top-20 in the public college rankings (ABH and AJC)
- 3 letters to the editor in the AJC about sorority rush
- 27 students have been arrested so far this semester (R&B)
- More on SGA VP-gate
- The Athens World blog has two good articles:
- There were several armed robberies lately downtown
- A brief review of the UGA Key
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Aug 16 2007
Daily Digest: August 16, 2007
Today was the first day of classes at UGA, and the first day of printing for the Red and Black, the student-run campus newspaper.
- More on the UGA police officer charged with molestation (ABH)
- Day 5 in the AJC series on sorority rush
- An article in the AJC explaining the high costs of textbooks
- Student government vice president arrested for DUI and resigns
- Multiple suspensions on the football team, including RaMarcus Brown
- An intro to Georgia gameday by the AJC
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Aug 15 2007
Daily Digest – August 15, 2007
The big news of the day is that a UGA police officer resigned after he was charged with child molestation, aggravated child molestation, and violating his oath of office. See the story in the Athens Banner-Herald.
In other news, David Ching and Scout.com are reporting that veteran cornerback Ramarcus Brown has been suspended for the first two games of the season for violating team rules. This is sad news to hear after such a great afternoon of Georgia football news. Also, Georgia quarterback Matt Stafford was added to the Manning Award watchlist.
Also, the AJC continued its series on sorority rush at UGA and included an editorial on delaying rush and an equal time response from a member of the National Panhellenic Council.
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Aug 13 2007
Students Put The Key Back Online
A group of students has made The Key available again at UGAKey.com. In case you don’t know, The Key is a grade database for UGA courses that UGA originally put online, but later took down.
The new system is pretty cool, as it is interactive and has all the data from 1999 through 2007 in one place.
Here’s the news release from the creators of the new site:
Continue reading “Students Put The Key Back Online”
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Aug 12 2007
UGA Sorority Rush on AJC Frontpage
UGA sorority recruitment (rush is a bad word now) made the front page of today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution (the Sunday edition, no less). See the articles here and here, subscription required.
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Aug 10 2007
Daily Digest: August 10, 2007
There was an exciting practice for the football team yesterday afternoon. The thought they were going to the Ramsey Center for indoor workouts, but were surprised when they walked into the pool and saw Coach Richt do a back flip off the 3-story high dive. The team got to play in the pool for the afternoon.
Coach Richt does a back flip – Image by Rebecca Hays
More coverage on the afternoon of “practice”:
- GeorgiaDogs.com has two separate articles, they also have a picture gallery
- Coverage by David Ching
- Article and pictures on the Georgia Sports Blog
- AJC photo gallery of practice
- Dawgpost has a lot of pictures from practice
The Red and Black released AthensScape yesterday, their annual welcome back issue, with a lot of good stuff. Here are some of the highlights, including some good tips for the new students on campus:
There are a couple of pictures of a neat event in the Athens Banner-Herald here. A local 17-year-old with liver disease asked the Make-A-Wish Foundation for a bulldog. Jacob Hudson received a bulldog puppy from Mike “Big Dawg” Woods (who apparently is a local dog breeder), a visit from Kelin Johnson and Thomas Brown (to give Jacob “players experience” for the week of the Western Carolina game), and many other goodies.
Athens World talks about the parking decks being free to park in this week and whether Parking Services will pro-rate already paid for parking permits for the month of August.
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Aug 06 2007
Daily Digest: August 6, 2007
A couple of good news stories from this weekend and this morning:
- Unexpected tuition hike for some public grad schools in Georgia (AJC).
- Milner gets probation for furnishing minors with alcohol (ABH). Lewis Fish partied at Milner’s house the night he died. Milner is the same guy who got away from ACC police by canoe after they were called to another house party of his.
- Lumpkin Street construction finished (ABH).
- Pharmacy School construction has closed a Stegeman parking lot (ABH).
- On-campus move-in begins this Friday, so stay away from the high rises (ABH).
- University raises $100 million (Savannah Morning News).
The AJC also printed an article on data loss at local universities, mentioning UGA:
Georgia Tech was the first, assigning students randomized student ID numbers in 2003. The University of Georgia and Georgia State University are implementing new student ID systems this fall. Colleges are required by law to notify students or faculty if their Social Security numbers have been breached.
The article also mentions Josh Weiss, a student at UGA.
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