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The Cost of Convenience

On a Tuesday evening in May, University President Michael Adams had a dinner date in Macon with donors.

Adams piled into the University’s twin-engine Super King Air 200 turboprop plane with his assistant Mary McDonald, Provost Arnett Mace, Senior Vice President of External Affairs Tom Landrum and his wife, and external affairs director Greg Daniels, for a 15-minute flight to a city 90 miles from Athens.

OUR TAKE

Suspicious denial Fraternity could be behind a pledge’s decision to retract hazing charges They hazed me. They hazed me not. They hazed me. They hazed me not. Which is it, Ry Mercado? Mercado’s concession to The Red & Black that Pi Kappa Alpha did not haze him is a complete contradiction to the story he told police when he was arrested for underage drinking Thursday.

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Ticketing troubles New ticket system had relatively few hitches, still needs to correct issues The football home opener has come and past, and many fears of the new ticketing system have been alleviated. In the first year of having tickets on student’s UGA card, many students feared being unable to enter the stadium because of a faulty card.

Feud ignites over student filming policy

Several Grady College professors are challenging University policy that restricts students from using handheld video phones or camcorders inside the Miller Learning Center without prior approval.

“At this point we are investigating the legal basis for the University’s claims,” said Ann Hollifield, head of Grady’s telecommunications department.

Our Take: Want to know the furlough days? Here they are

Do you want to know the furlough days? Drumroll please. The days are Oct. 30, Nov. 25, Dec. 24, Jan. 4, March 8 and April 30. Almost every department on campus was told already so they can begin planning how it will affect faculty and staff, but President Michael Adams decided not to dish the update until today’s budget session in Tate Theater.

ANALYSIS: UGA slowly alters contracts with students, faculty

The Board of Regents increased tuition and fees Tuesday, axed tuition guarantees and bumped up tuition flat rates to encourage students to take 15 hours. And the University administration is encouraging further action by the Regents in requesting the addition of a furlough clause to tenured faculty contracts.

Is erasing painful memories worthwhile?

My friend walked into her father’s office in high school and found him slumped over his desk dead, a handgun in his mouth. It’s taken her years of therapy and hundreds of sleepless nights to wash that vision from her memory. But some nights, without warning, she is back in her father’s office, his blood on her bare toes, and she wakes up screaming.

Faculty equate furloughs to pay cuts, ‘free days’ of labor

Unpaid vacation? That’s not a furlough – it’s a pay cut, as far as some faculty are concerned.
“I would probably work anyway on a furlough day, so I don’t see [furloughs] affecting my classes that much,” said Robert Shewfelt, food science and technology professor, who experienced furloughs at UGA’s Griffin campus in the early ’90s.

University OK with endowment deficit in ’09

Funds that help recruit and retain the University’s most valuable scholars and teachers – endowments – are down 30 percent, but the University is faring just fine without $270 million of its private donations, an administrator said.

“For fiscal year 2009 we were able to fund all of the needs as far as scholarship commitments and endowment professor commitments, but we did so because we had a bit of a reserve,” said Tom Landrum, senior vice president for external affairs.

Newspapers still vital parts of society

I’ll take my ink-stained hands to the grave. Newspaper professionals say young journalists such as myself will redefine journalism, that our technology-attuned minds will turn the old newspaper business model on its head and take our craft worldwide on the Web.

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