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Thirteen wanted in fake ID ring

University Police are looking for 13 University students who are facing fake ID possession and distribution charges. Police issued the warrants for the students’ arrest Friday. Last month U.S. Postal Inspector Gary Nork of Phoenix informed University Police of the shipment of fraudulent IDs from the University, according to the reports.

Aderhold noise vexes students

The end is near – at least the end of the Carlton Street construction that has had students and faculty in Aderhold Hall gnashing their teeth since December 2006.

Head of University Architects Danny Sniff said the construction is part of an effort to replace the existing steam and water lines running from Aderhold Hall to the Lamar Dodd art facility, which is now under construction.

Suggestions to avoid theft

Claire Simms came back from winter break to discover her apartment had been ransacked – clothing lay strewn across the floor, brown and white chunks of plaster showed from where pictures had been hastily pulled from the walls, and sheets, pillows and comforters were torn from their beds.

Men shed scruff to raise funds

If you’ve looked around the classroom over the past few weeks, you may have noticed the strange growth taking over campus. Variations include black, brown, red and tawny, and it’s creeping over the faces and legs of your fellow students. Although these friends may appear to be “Planet of the Apes” extras, they made a [...]

Sex in the Classic City for Her

Football game isn’t a dating arena Asking out a fellow Bulldog in Sanford Stadium is a terrible, I repeat, TERRIBLE idea. Although we may seem bound together by tradition, honor and a love of Georgia football on those special fall Saturdays, don’t let the red and black fool you. Your fellow fans are strangers. For [...]

Contest to have ‘dreamy’ boy band

What do you get when you cross a singing tuba player with a banjo player from Kentucky? A University music student says UGA Idol meets Battle of the Bands. The UGA Choral Society will host a variety show at 8 p.m. Friday as part of a fundraising effort to support a choir from the School [...]

‘Wacky’ groups to play at radio fete

What could be better than a Halloween party hosted by the campus radio station? A dual Halloween party and birthday party. WUOG, the University’s student-run radio station, is turning 34, and it’s hosting a dual-purpose birthday and Halloween party to celebrate. The station’s “Birthoween Party” is scheduled for 10 p.m. Friday at Little Kings Club. [...]

Intra-band romance sparks group’s new album

A love story that began with John Lennon and Yoko Ono led an Athens-based band to release an album in 2006, part of which will be performed Saturday night in Athens. “The Optimist’s Club,” the newest album from local group Casper and the Cookies, will be performed at the Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. Jason NeSmith, [...]

Students host show for class

For most students, a group project consists of meeting at the SLC a time or two before handing the professor a poster with everyone’s names scribbled on the back.  For students in the School of Music’s business certificate program, however, “group project” takes on a whole new meaning.  Students taking Intro to Music Business, a [...]

Bus-traveling poets to perform in Classic City

Ms. Frizzle and Liz are nowhere around, but another kind of school bus is headed to town. The Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour is a 50-day tour of 50 cities in which contemporary poets travel by charter bus, reading at coffee shops, bookstores and art galleries. The journey, in which more than 100 poets, musicians, [...]

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