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University President Michael Adams is expected to release a statement today concerning the alleged beating of a University Police officer at a Kappa Sigma fraternity party early Saturday. Adams returned to Athens from a business trip to Washington Thursday morning and spent the remainder of the day in meetings with University Police Chief Chuck Horton, [...]

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Magazine selects professor as one of 30 most influential By BENJAMIN CARR Staff Writer While University professor Kevin Young paces in front of his African-Americancinema class as they discuss the film “Do the Right Thing,” thestudents comment about the reason of some characters versus the passionof others and the impact each character had on the [...]

Group of profs studies effects of pollution on DNA

There’s something fishy going on these days on South Campus, and the hope is that one day it will help human beings. A scientific team led by University researcher Richard Winn is on a mission to “build a better fish” that can evaluate contamination problems and ultimately alert humans to environmental problems that may cause [...]

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Theta Chi International Fraternity has suspended the University’s chapter pend- ing an investigation of reported underage drinking after a pledge was hospitalized Wednesday night. The University chapter of Theta Chi canceled all planned activities in compli- ance with the suspension. The chapter’s president and pledge pro- gram director resigned their positions Friday, according to the [...]

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Introducing the participants in Monday’s Richard B. Russell Symposium, moderator Richard Solomon assured the audience the four speakers behind him had perspectives on Sino-American relations ranging from A to B. If the ensuing level of debate was any indication, Solomon was not far off. Included in the four were former Secretary of Defense William Perry, [...]

UGA Theta Chi chapter suspended

Theta Chi International Fraternity has suspended the University’s chapter pend- ing an investigation of reported underage drinking after a pledge was hospitalized Wednesday night. The University chapter of Theta Chi canceled all planned activities in compli- ance with the suspension. The chapter’s president and pledge pro- gram director resigned their positions Friday, according to the [...]

Tickets still available for B-52′s

Students and fans lined up across Sanford bridge Friday morning to wait for tickets to see the B-52′s homecoming at Dawg Days ’97.   Tickets for the concert went on sale 9 a.m. Friday at the Tate Student Center. The line extended out through the Tate Plaza and across Sanford bridge by 8:30 a.m.   [...]

Record-breaking performance pleases Dog fans

Rocky Top beware.   After the Dogs’ 47-0 thrashing of Mississippi State, Georgia has moved up to No. 13 in this week’s Associated Press top 25 poll and pushed its record to 4-0 for the first time since 1982.   A quick flashback: ’82 was Herschel Walker’s final season, the Dogs were Southeastern Conference champions [...]

On your way to see Stone’s newest? Quick, make a ‘U-Turn’

There’s one thing on TV that can make me grab my remote control quicker than anything else – a Marilyn Manson video. Besides having no talent to speak of, Mr. Manson’s videos are full of disturbing, repulsive imagery and are undeniable proof that some people out there are just plain sick. That’s the same feeling [...]

Move to Athens humorous to old friends, family

The phone. It woke me up Sunday morn- ing. My mother on the line. She has an intellectual under- standing that despite the fact it is 11 a.m. in Colorado, it is 9 a.m. in Georgia. Nonetheless, it is a hard thing to accept, that it is not your time everywhere. Ruminating over this, we [...]

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