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Marriage ban may be on ballot

Hearings will begin June 27 that could determine whether Georgia voters will see gay marriage on the ballot again in November. With Judge Constance Russell’s May 16 overturning of a constitutional amendment passed by 76 percent of the electorate in 2004, Gov. Sonny Perdue is appealing the decision with the possibility of putting it back [...]

Student enters rewarding, service filled life in Peace Corps

This May, while most new University graduates will be surfing MonsterTrak, moving back in with parents or considering graduate school, Bridget French will be her bags for Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where she will go through her training to enter the Peace Corps. “I have always been interested in environmental protection and plan on going to (graduate) [...]

Folk music remains a large part of diverse music scene

Though present-day Athens boasts one of the most varied music scenes in America, that was not the case in the mid-80s when a group of University students and local Athenians founded the Athens Folk Music and Dance Society. Today, the group regularly holds hoots – a gathering of local acoustic musicians – to give performers [...]