UGA sent an email out to all students, faculty, and staff about “railroad safety”.  That is in quotes because the email is more a warning that if you mess around on the railroads, you will be arrested and prosecuted.  Yep, “safety”.  In fact, this is the subject line of the email: “railroad safety on campus” [...]

Official UGA announcement from Georgia’s IT department (known as EITS) warns of phishing emails asking for your UGA password:
TO: UGA Faculty, Staff and Students
FROM: EITS
RE: Fraudulent Email (Phishing Scam) Reminder
Once again we have had incidents of phishing scams being received in campus e-mail inboxes. Unfortunately, some members of the University [...]

Just an FYI, we’ve setup a Twitter account to promulgate posts to this website and also to allow postings in case of a campus emergency. The account can be found here (http://twitter.com/uganews).
This emergency part needs an explanation. The weekend before last, there were tornadoes across North Georgia and around campus. The number [...]

The following email by UGA President Michael Adams about the recent sexual harassment allegations was sent out to all students, faculty, and staff this afternoon.

March 21, 2008
TO: UGA Faculty, Staff and Students
FROM: Michael F. Adams, President
RE: Update on Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment (NDAH) Policy
As discussion has continued on campus in the past weeks [...]

Email from UGA:

TO: UGA Faculty, Staff and Students
RE: Child Care Consultant’s Report
The University of Georgia in fall 2007 commissioned a comprehensive child care needs assessment study to better understand the needs of its faculty, staff and students for child care services. WFD Consulting has delivered the report, which was designed to provide [...]

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.

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 [...]

Email from UGA Housing dealing with road construction:
The purpose of this e-mail is to inform you of construction activities that might impact your movement around campus, particularly during commencement.
From Monday, July 30th through Sunday, August 12th, a portion of Carlton Street from East Campus Road to D. W. Brooks Drive will be closed for through [...]