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Lottery bonuses: Georgia Lottery Corporation can’t pay for HOPE, but it can cash its bonuses

The lottery-funded HOPE is drying up quicker than we can milk it. On Tuesday the Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill 152-22 proposing education cuts. Yet another chapter of the HOPE scholarship saga. Sure it hurts, but as students we need to face the facts — the state is in overdrive penny-pinching mode and [...]

Credit cards can fool students in the end

Heading into your senior year of college is nerve racking enough. Try adding a lawsuit into the equation. In January, I found out I had two weeks to pay $2,750 or Capital One would take me to court. How did my situation get so out of control? Well, like many naïve teenagers before me, I [...]

listen up! – Inpassing

Huddled under an umbrella outside the 40 Watt, I purchased “Then, Now, Always” with a $10 donation after listening to one song on an iPod. The album — six songs of uplifting, ’90s-inspired pop-rock that dabbles in love and loss — is led by the enchanting and dexterous vocals of singer and guitarist Robby Clay, [...]

APPETIZING APPS

‘TweetCaster’ Free on Android It’s easy to get pulled into the world of Twitter, but what happens when you aren’t near a computer? TweetCaster solves that problem tenfold. The user face is clean and friendly, tracking live tweets, mentions and messages. It also allows the option of retweeting with a personal message. ‘Colorblind’ 99 cents [...]

Twitter helps us to stay informed

Is the need for print journalism dead? It’s a hot-button question that pops up regularly in journalism classes. Social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook allow for breaking news to travel the globe in seconds, whereas The Red & Black articles could be obsolete before they even hit your hands. Last Friday I was [...]

Jimmy Eat World uses past to go forward

It took 11 years for Tom Linton to step back into the limelight. “Jim [Adkins] was kind of bogged down on writing lyrics for a few other songs he was working on,” said Linton, who is lead guitarist and singer for Jimmy Eat World. “We were kind of running out of time for our goal [...]

Taco Bell reveals country’s food problems

I’m not that worried where my meat comes from. Claiming otherwise would be hypocritical. I’ve eaten Taco Bell three times in the wake of a massive lawsuit filed by an Alabama law firm on behalf of California resident Amanda Obney. The claim? An independent study revealed Taco Bell’s meat is only 35 percent cow flesh. [...]

Listen up! – Phineas and the Lonely Leaves

“The Kids We Used to Be” almost bears the mark of an indie classic, poised between lo-fi acoustic ballads and fresh, straight-shot piano driven rock. Hitting stores Feb. 22, the sophomore effort by the Peekskill, N.Y. quintet Phineas and the Lonely Leaves is both apologetic and elegant, though there’s a spark that seems to have [...]

Listen up! – David Lowery

After almost 30 years in the business, David Lowery, co-founder and front man of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, is resistant to genre. “The Palace Guards,” Lowery’s first solo-album, boasts the classic lyrical wit and instrumentation that first put  him in the spotlight with cult hits such as “Low” and “Pictures of Matchstick Men.” Though [...]

Boost that résumé with a touch of variety

If you’re like me, the concept of getting back into the groove of things in Athens seems a tad overwhelming. There is something to be said, however, for picking up where we left off. Watching the sunrise day after day while under the influence of a Red Bull coma is perhaps (mentally) healthy for three [...]

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