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Softball team splits Saturday doubleheader, needs to increase “base hits”

Saturday afternoon’s softball game against the Arkansas Razorbacks marked the 800th career win for Georgia head coach Lu Harris-Champer. The No. 11 Georgia softball team won that game 3-2 — and then lost 2-1 in the second game of the afternoon. After moving up one spot in the polls last week, the Bulldogs returned to Athens [...]

New Media Institute’s SLAM Showcase gives students chance to network

Students of the New Media Capstone and Rich Media classes worked all semester to create projects that would shine at the upcoming Spring SLAM Project Showcase. Emuel Aldridge, one of the professors teaching the Capstone course, said the Capstone students were divided into 10 groups at the beginning of the semester. Each group then had to think of a project [...]

EDITORIAL CARTOON: May 3

President Adams’ tenure led to prestige, diversity for University

For 16 years, President Adams has served the University and the state of Georgia with his time and passion. The statistics for his tenure speak for themselves; the University’s prestige is the highest in its history. His dedication, the administrative team he assembled and the effect of the HOPE Scholarship have all helped to increase [...]

Surviving finals — intact, if not in style

First things first: leggings are your best friend in the coming days. In the stylishly ambiguous time known as finals week, I resort to the lowest of the low scale. Anna Wintour would be shocked to see me walking about casually, I’m sure. Again with the leggings. My goal during the dead week that is [...]

Writing under deadlines brings out human potential

Writing under deadline becomes its own art. That’s actually a lie. Writing under deadline is a delicate balance between — you know what, stop. That’s another lie. Honestly, writing under deadline is one of the bloodiest, most soul-eviscerating activities known to mankind. It’s really messy and I hate it. Take tonight, for instance. We needed [...]

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL: Community, competition form roller derby

Editor’s note: For the next in “two hours with” — a series of reported encounters between variety editor Adam Carlson, senior reporter Julia Carpenter and everyone else — a set of morning warriors. This is how you avoid a hit: you don’t. Sunday mornings are for battles. Or “bouts,”as they’re called in the world of [...]

Adderall abuse on the rise

A University student’s Adderall was never prescribed by a doctor. The student, who chose to remain anonymous, named two reasons for why she takes Adderall on a weekly basis: as a study aid and as a pick-up pill after nights of partying. “It’s literally a magical hangover pill,” she said. “If I go out, then [...]

Forging college friendships is a slow process

People always say that you find out who your real friends are in college. Some even go so far as to say your close friends from high school won’t remain that way in the next four years — that your life-long best friends will be the ones you make in college. I can’t say that’s [...]

Pursuing the passion worth the pay cut

I can’t remember exactly when I decided I wanted to be a writer for a living, but I do recall it was early on in life. Of course, I had all the childhood professional dreams normal to kids that age. I saw news about the space station and all of the sudden I wanted to [...]

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