Archive for August, 2007

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]