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Gameday – Alcohol = Not Happening

With the creation of family friendly zones this football season, the administration learned one important sports lesson: if you build it, no one will come. We give props for the effort, but the drinking culture might be too far ingrained in the Bulldog faithful – in which case, we suggest banning alcohol on .

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Excused absence We used this page yesterday to call out University President Michael Adams for missing a scheduled meeting with Franklin College of Arts and Sciences faculty without providing a reason — now we have one. Adams missed Wednesday’s meeting due to a family emergency. We certainly understand the urgency of the situation and do [...]

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Ladies’ night, no more? After a man filed a complaint in New Jersey, bars in the state are no longer allowed to host ladies nights. If this happens in Athens, the downtown area will look like the Georgia Tech campus. Yikes! Girls, Girls, Girls! Georgia Tech is bolstering their recruitment efforts to get more female [...]

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Ignoring our roots The University is turning its back on its agricultural heritage with job cuts For a school whose history is rooted in agricultural sciences, officials certainly haven’t been respecting the University’s past very well. In the recent sweep of layoffs, 18 of the 47 people left jobless were from the College of Agriculture [...]

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Why not change the state flag? The previous Georgia state flag, to many people, represented racism, slavery, and oppression. The Confederate battle flag of the Old South took up a majority of the design on the old flag. Why fly a symbol that brings recollection of an unjust and weak period in our good nation’s [...]