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Residence halls already filling up

  Spring quarter hadn’t even begun before students had to decide whether they were going to live in a dorm next year. Returning students who want to continue living in University residence halls had to sign up for rooms in March. University Housing has received 4,000 applications so far from new freshmen – 300 more [...]

Campus Transit to keep up with student growth

  The expected increase in University enrollment will bring more traffic to campus, but University and Athens bus system officials say they plan to keep up with the additional number of students and cars. The University Transit System has added more buses and new routes to serve the larger student body. Over the past few [...]

Forum to discuss affirmative action, minority issues

  Affirmative action and the University’s atmosphere for black students have been points of heated discussion over the past year. Saturday, the Black Faculty and Staff Organization will hold a forum to examine these and other issues. The conference, "Empowerment into the Millennium," is to feature a host of University, local and state officials leading [...]

New majors possible, pending approval

  If women’s studies was a major, Joshua Stewart’s years at the University would have been very different. The junior from Decatur said if it were possible, he would major in both English and women’s studies. That option may soon become a reality for students like Stewart as several departments around the University ask the [...]

Parking deck to hold 1,200 new spaces

  When students return from winter break next year, there will be 1,200 new parking spaces on campus. But the actual number of those spaces available to students has yet to be decided. The $8.5 million North Campus Parking Deck, located on Jackson Street next to the Visual Arts building and the Bishop House, is [...]

RHA elects acting president for fall

The newly elected Residence Hall Association president said he wants to make RHA one of the "top organizations on campus." In an election Tuesday night, sophomore Jonathan Jones defeated senior Chris Groskopf for president. Jones has been acting president of RHA since the end of last quarter, when the former president, Glen Ramsey, resigned after [...]

Advertising director will lecture on campus

Doug Walker, the managing director of DDB Needham/Dallas, will speak tonight at the University in a meeting coordinated by the Advertising Club. He represents the Ambassador Program of the Advertising Educational Foundation, which sends high ranking and experienced advertising or marketing executives to colleges and universities all over the country. He will speak to faculty [...]

New College housed Civil War refugees

New College isn’t just a place where students wait in line for advising appointments; it’s a building with a long history. As the second major building built on campus, New College, which now houses the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, was completed in 1823. Moses Waddel, who became president of the University in June [...]