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ZINKHAN SHOOTINGS • ONE YEAR LATER: A powerful silence

A year ago the sounds were deafening.  Gun shots. Police sirens. The buzz of thousands of cell phones. A year later, there is only silence. The deaths of Marie Bruce, Tom Tanner and Ben Teague at the hands of University professor George Zinkhan were all anyone could talk about.  But no one is talking any [...]

UP IN THE AIR: As money depletes, station uncertain (w/documents)

University-owned television station WNEG could soon have plenty in common with former “Tonight Show” host Conan O’Brien. And no, it has nothing to do with crazy red hair or insult comic dogs. Following months of declining revenue and a growing deficit, the station faces the real possibility of being taken off the air mere months [...]

UGA research funding is drying up

As Provost Jere Morehead pushes for the hiring of new professors, efforts to reach research professors may prove pointless without a miracle influx of cash. Income for the University of Georgia Research Foundation, which helps to provide funding for start-up packages given to new professors, is drying up to a fraction of last year’s total. [...]

Task force examines issues of hate, bias

As the University approaches its 50th year since desegregation, diversity efforts have come a long way but still have a long way to go — especially when it comes to making students feel “at home” and comfortable on campus. A group of 14 faculty, staff and students formed in March 2008 to address hate and [...]

Two-year anniversary of harassment cases brings on investigation (w/documents)

Sexual harassment is on the minds and lips of the University community once again. Two years after The Red & Black revealed several ongoing cases of professors sexually harassing students on campus, a University Council committee is calling for an independent evaluation of how allegations are now being addressed. The Student Affairs Committee proposed the [...]

A SILENT STIGMA: Despite awareness of HIV, issue lacks open dialogue as infections get personal

AIDS Athens diagnosed more University students as HIV-positive last year than ever before. The group serves more than 20 student “clients” on a regular basis, and the largest demographic to see an increase was in the “under-25” range. But HIV is hardly a part of daily life for this demographic on campus. Bus cards may [...]

New dean to focus solely on student-related issues

More than five years ago, one senior administrator position solely represented students and their needs — the dean of students. Although the representation nearly disappeared, shouts from recent Student Government Association presidents kept the topic on the agenda. Now they’re getting what they want. By July, the University will hire a new dean of students, [...]

RESCUING A REPUTATION: A journalism professor wins a five-year battle for his name

When John Soloski first arrived at the University in 2001, he couldn’t wait to get to his office at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Now he can’t wait to leave it. Every day as the former journalism dean walks alone from his 2002 Toyota 4Runner to Grady College, he retraces the steps [...]

Grady professor cleared of all charges (w/court document)

After four years in litigation, a former University dean is clear of sexual harassment allegations. The University released a statement Monday that a 2006 lawsuit against John Soloski, former dean and now a professor at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, had been settled and dismissed. The court order states Soloski “did not [...]

Gates encourages graduates to serve missions ‘larger than yourself’

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates had some advice for the December graduating class of 2009: Consider serving the public – even if it’s not in Washington D.C. or Afghanistan. “To join the public sector, you don’t need to deploy overseas or sit in a windowless cube near the Potomac River. There are jobs outside D.C., [...]

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