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Study abroad programs may suffer after HOPE cuts

Consequences of the proposed cuts to the HOPE Scholarship present themselves in areas other than standard semester tuitions and fees. Cuts to the HOPE scholarship may also affect students who are considering study abroad, because in most cases HOPE can be applied to the tuition of a study abroad semester. But according to Kasee Laster, [...]

Students plan greenway: Bicyclists see a need for ‘safer passage’

“Share the road” bumper stickers are often a source of debate among Athens drivers and riders. But a team of engineering students is starting design plans for a potential bike greenway that would give bicyclists a road of their own through campus. This design is a variation of a final design project that engineering students [...]

Library to host poker style scavenger hunt

The University library —  that big building on North Campus with all the books — will be hosting a round of library poker today, though it won’t be of the cigar smoke, high-stakes variety. The blue card event, which is actually a type of scavenger hunt, will pit participating teams against each other as they look [...]

Festivities top off homecoming week

Homecoming spirit is in the air, and just past the midpoint of the week, the biggest events are still to come. The pre-tailgate event — think football tailgate with music and free food, minus the beer — is sponsored by the Homecoming Committee of the University Union Student Programming Board. The tailgate will be the [...]

Georgia Theatre to begin steps in reconstruction

The day the Georgia Theatre burned was one of the worst days of owner Wilmot Greene’s life, but now he is only looking forward, with construction of a new and improved theatre in the works. In early July, Greene received all of the final permits needed from city, state and federal levels to finally begin [...]

40 Watt to host juvenile jammers

Who: Athens Band When: Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Where: 40 Watt Price: $6; $8 under 21 The ATHENS Band is on a high after a promising first half of the year. “Athens,” as the members often refer to themselves, earned a spot on the main stage at AthFest this summer and won the audience over [...]

DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOPS: Students defy dorm code of conduct

Freshman dorm rules — there are those who took these as serious as the law, and then there were the ones who saw the policies as merely suggestions. In the past, students found some pretty creative ways to work around those pesky suggestions and managed to avoid persecution while doing so. Here are some of [...]

Dart league lacks membership

Throwing one pointed dart and hitting the bull’s-eye: the great equalizer.  Athens Dart Association brings together dart fanatics from all walks of life with one common goal- — the bull’s-eye.   “It’s a very different mix of people—we have Ph.D.s, nurses, teachers, students, repairmen and some people that don’t work at all,” ADA treasurer Jen [...]

OH BABY, BABY!: Bear Hollow adopts new cubs

Animal lovers have two new reasons to take a stroll at Memorial Park’s Bear Hollow Wildlife Trail.   Bear cubs Yonah and Athena arrived at the small zoo in Athens four weeks ago, Zoo Coordinator Berkely Boone said. “Yonah is Cherokee for Bear,” Boone said. Athena, the more rowdy and rambunctious of the two, was [...]

Pot users are not police’s focus: Concentration is on dealers

For those who plan on celebrating “4/20” today, University Chief of Police Jimmy Williamson would advise you not to do so in your dorm room. “The number one way people get arrested for marijuana on campus is that they smoke in the residence halls and a neighbor complains,” Williamson said.  “The majority of the time [...]

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