Chip Tower’s AJC Blog has an interview with UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson.

Williamson is asked about the recent arrests of Caleb King and NaDerris Ward, if UGA Police might be too strict. His response:

“Our police officers patrol campus every day,” Williamson said. “Most violations end up in written warnings or citations. But once an officer stops a driver and finds out he has a suspended license, then the officer no longer has a choice. He has to take them in.”

Williamson said state law mandates that a driver that cannot produce a driver’s license or has one that is currently suspended be taken into custody and finger-printed. He said the officer that arrested King was prepared to write a warning until King’s license was found to be suspended. He said Ward was informed of an unresolved traffic issue in Sandy Springs he needed to clear up.

While Williamson does answer the question of what is happening after someone like Caleb King is stopped by a UGA Police officer, he doesn’t address why his officers are pulling over moped drivers while there were several thefts and break-ins reported on campus that night.

Honestly, a guy on a moped going the wrong way down the 100 yards of one-way street on Sanford Drive, not speeding and not drinking? Obviously a public safety threat.

Caleb King broke the law, but UGA Police have much bigger fish to fry. Just read the UGA Police logs, you’ll see.

For those of you interested in the cost to get tickets to UGA football games, here is a little spice from the Georgia Sports Blog:

The University of Georgia Athletic Association Ticket Office has released the following cut off score requirements for the 2007 season.

Renewable Season:
Contributors who ordered and have a cumulative score of 1,991 or higher will receive adjacent renewable season tickets.

Non-renewable/Regular Season:
All orders will be refunded.

Oklahoma State, Troy, and Kentucky:
All contributors who ordered will receive tickets.

Western Carolina:
All contributors with a cumulative score of 9,000 or higher will receive tickets.

Mississippi:
All contributors with a cumulative score of 12,000 or higher will receive tickets.

Alabama:
All contributors with a cumulative score of 23,500 or higher will receive tickets.

Tennessee:
All contributors with a cumulative score of 22,200 or higher will receive tickets.

Vanderbilt:
All contributors who ordered Vanderbilt tickets will receive tickets.

Cut-offs for Florida and Georgia Tech will be released as soon as determined. All refund checks for unfulfilled orders will be mailed by August 15.

A couple of hits from the Athens Banner-Herald.

• A couple of 15-year old punks tried to rob a UGA student Monday night at the Subway on Alps Road.  The funny part is that one of the kids had a gun, but “[the student] and his passenger got in his car and drove away”.
• Somebody stole a computer, keyboard, and mouse from Tate over the weekend.  The UGA police log says that a monitor, power cord, and USB cable were taken over the weekend as well.  I bet the two incidents are tied together.
• Potential Georgia player Vance Cuff, a cornerback from Colquitt County, is still unsure if he will be at UGA this fall.  The issue at hand is whether a speech communications course he took counts as a core course for the NCAA.  No word on when a final decision will be made as to Cuff’s academic eligibility.

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 traffic due to road construction. Detour signage will be in place to direct traffic around roadwork.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause, however, due to the nature of the project, it is a necessary step to ensure completion before the majority of students return to campus and fall semester classes begin.

Should you have any questions or need additional information, please contact your Community Office.

East Campus Village: (706) 542-2041
Reed Community: (706) 542-3753

Here is a map of the area.

Freshman running back Caleb King was arrested last night by UGA police.

King was arrested last night at 10:38 pm on Sanford Drive. He was charged with driving with a suspended license and driving the wrong way on a one way street.

King is getting ready to start his first season with the Bulldogs football team, coming from Greater Atlanta Christian.

For further coverage, check with the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer and David Ching.

Update:

The Red and Black has further coverage.  King was operating a moped when stopped by UGA police.

According to the AJC (registration required), second string defensive lineman Paul ‘Tripp’ Taylor will turn himself into Cherokee County authorities today.

He was allegedly involved in a fight with 25 other individuals (kinda hard to believe) at Lake Allatoona on May 25.

No word yet as to why the investigation has taken so long, and why only two people (both football players) were the only ones implicated.

Additional coverage from AJC’s UGAblog and the Georgia Sports Blog.

SportsIllustrated has talked to Larry Munson, and it appears he will only be calling home games this football season.

The Red and Black has the story, TEP, Phi Delt, and Pike will move to River Road.  There are few details of the deal, and no one from the University wants to comment (yeah, that’s a little shady).

Chi Phi and Sigma Chi will still (possibly) be on lots on Lumpkin Street.  The R&B Editorial Board ripped the University for going easy on Chi Phi, especially after all of their legal problems this past year.

A couple of quick reads, but first, I want to point out a great interview that David Ching (and others) had with Coach Mark Richt. There were quite a few interesting points, and I would like to highlight a few:

• There’s a lot about the Richt family’s mission trip to Honduras. Coach admits to not being the greatest goalie, and he wants to take some of the players back next summer.
• He talks about the incremental transitioning of Coach Bobo into play-caller and offensive coordinator.
• The big news, the 2002 preseason camp was the craziest. Lots of people wanted to quit the team, including David Pollack, who ended up in Richt’s office crying one day. Luckily, most (if not all) finished the drill.
• Coach likes night games more.
• Lastly, Richt thinks that if the NCAA wants to limit game time (and prevent many injuries) they should not have kickoffs and start play somewhere around the 25-yard line. He notes that Boss Bailey, Reggie Brown, Thomas Brown, DeCory Bryant were all injured on kickoffs.

And for the other highlights today…

• The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ranked Uga as the most lovable college mascot.
• Georgia ended up 12th in the Director’s Cup standings.

You might have heard already, but Georgia Tech’s Ramblin’ Wreck was wrecked this past weekend.

Some GT engineers were taking the Wreck to Savannah when the axle on the trailer broke, causing the car towing the Wreck to veer off I-75.  Must not have been mechanical engineers.  The first irony was that they didn’t have insurance for the Wreck.

Anyways, in today’s AJC (registration required), the Tech guys said they wouldn’t allow pictures of the wrecked Wreck to be taken, fearing the pictures would be used to “deviously.”  You see, the Georgia Sports Blog had already offered $100 to whoever could send pictures of the wrecked Wreck.

Right there on the front page of the AJC they said no pictures.

And then Macon TV station WMAZ posted pictures and video of the wreck online this morning.

They couldn’t drive their Wreck, and neither could they defend it from devious picture taking.  I love it.