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Students run Muddy Duck Dash to fundraise for elementary school

A group of University students are raising funds for an elementary school by combining mud and rubber ducks. For their Integrative Event Design class, these students created the first ever Muddy Duck Dash. This 3.5 mile obstacle course aims to raise money for Friendship Elementary School, a health and wellness charter school in Gainesville that relies on donors for [...]

Festival features regional artwork, live music

Local artists are selling their work on Saturday and Sunday through the Athens Indie Craftstravanganzaa, an annual art festival that focuses on regional artists. The festival forbids the sale of commercially produced or imported goods, so vendors at the event sell only handcrafted work, according to the festival’s website. For the first time since its inception, [...]

AIDS Walk to raise funds for education and prevention

The Public Health Association and AIDS Athens are conjointly hosting the Athens AIDS Walk Saturday, April 7 at 9:30 a.m. Graduate students in the college of public health Shannon Hanby and Tiffany Howard are working together with Mumbi Okundaye, program administrator for the students in the Master of Public Health program, to coordinate the event. [...]

Tate post office closes its doors, space to be reassigned

The Tate Center Post Office will mail its last letters on May 31 — but there may not be many letters to send at all. Tom Jackson, vice president of public affairs, said when he sent out the announcement that the post office will close one student replied, “What post office?” Joey Fitts, junior banking and [...]

Students create their own study abroad program to China

Many University students will travel abroad this summer, but only two — funded by the Honors International Scholars Program — will travel to China to study medicine. Junior Muhan Hu and sophomore Matthew Hess, biochemistry majors from Augusta, will leave for Beijing in June. From there they will travel to Kaifeng, China, where they will shadow doctors in the city hospital. The couple will [...]

Univ. class teaches students how to help the Athens community

A single University class will be responsible for helping nine different businesses or organizations by the end of the semester. The course — Advanced Program and Event Management — structures the class as a “company” so students can explore concepts in depth in a way that mirrors real life. Students in the class are considered event coordinators for the [...]

MCAT making changes starting in 2015

Effective in 2015, the Medical College Admission Test will undertake revisions that will make the test about seven hours long. The MCAT, which was originally five hours long, is the standardized test pre-medical students are required to take. The Association of American Medical Colleges, the national organization that administers the MCAT, recently released the recommendations for change. [...]

Univ. students compete in Hillels of Georgia singing competition

Two University students will compete as finalists in Campus SuperStar — a state-wide singing competition hosted by and benefitting the Hillels of Georgia. Emma Cooke and Paul Adeyemi are two of eight finalists competing for the $5,000 first-place prize on Tuesday, March 27 at the Buckhead Theatre in Atlanta. Adeyemi, who is a senior agricultural [...]

MAN ON THE STREET: Plan B

Shippensburg University students may be skipping plan A and going straight to Plan B — an emergency contraceptive form of birth control in a single pill. These pills are being provided via vending machines at this Pennsylvania university for $25 dollars, the base price it costs the university to purchase them from a pharmaceutical company. [...]

University to revise email policy which caused lowest speech code rating

The University is looking into changing the email policy that gave it the lowest free speech rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The low rating means it does not create a forum for free expression. Stephen Shewmaker, director of the legal affairs office, said the University’s email policy was already in the process of revision [...]

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