Bike race brings sales boom downtown
The sounds of ringing cash registers will accompany the clicks and whirls of bicycle wheels rolling through downtown in the Twilight Criterium Saturday night.
“Twilight is consistently our busiest day of the year because we’re located at one of the corners of the race,” said Jamie Locher, manager of The Globe bar at the corner of Lumpkin and Clayton streets.
Windows Vista comes to campus
New operating system presented to students by Student Technology Services
Protecting ugly speech on campus
Sara Pauff’s article about hate crimes will engender a debate about tolerance for minorities related to race, religious affiliation and sexual orientation. However, a second type of minority – the minority of people who espouse unpopular viewpoints – needs protection, too.
Dodd building on schedule
Tate II plans have stalled, but the new School of Art building is already taking shape on east campus.
“Everything’s looking good,” said Danny Sniff, head of University Architects.
The building should be completed in the spring of 2008 and ready for classes that fall, he said.
Univ. provides rest, fun for finals
Students may dread final exams, but they can look forward to cookies and cartoons, courtesy of University departments.
As the University prepares for finals week, some departments make special concessions for stressed students, including cookie decorating in the dining halls and a cartoon marathon in the Student Learning Center.
Frats still waiting for final offer
December 7, 2006 by JOE MASON
Filed under Uncategorized
Six fraternities are playing the waiting game as University officials craft a new offer to entice them to move to River Road.
Rodney Bennett, vice president for Student Affairs, said he hopes early in the spring semester the University will present a new offer to move the fraternities to houses the University would build and lease on River Road.
Univ. may lose Navy site vote
The University may lose a solid vote for its bid to develop the Navy Supply Corps School into a health sciences campus. The Local Redevelopment Authority, the body appointed to develop a plan to reuse the 58.5-acre site on Prince Avenue, approved a policy that may keep one University representative from voting for the University’s [...]
BOR endorses funding plan
The University could have greater discretion in how and when it spends state money for construction. The Board of Regents endorsed a new model for distributing construction funds to the University and other public institutions in the state. In the new model, the regents will use a formula to decide how much each institution will [...]
Frats question building costs
Almost a month after a deadline to accept a University offer to move to River Road, the Lumpkin Street fraternities are waiting for the University to respond to their concerns about the plan. “The ball is in our court,” said Rodney Bennett, vice president for student affairs for the University. Bennett said no fraternities have [...]
Students, professors informed through RSS
Editor’s Note: This is the last of a three-part series about new media technologies on campus. Many students don’t know what RSS feeds are, but some University departments are using this time-saving Internet technology to improve academic life. RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, allows Internet users to subscribe to their favorite Web [...]
