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To Therese Hodges at the Bursar’s Office, I have to admit you caught me off guard with that forceful letter. As you threatened me with that overdue account balance, you made me feel for a second like I was back to being a frightened 20-year-old. There it is, in all capital letters, a FINAL NOTICE [...]

UGA student proposes plan to compost dining hall food

Michael Martin has a plan, and he said it will turn dining hall trash into treasure for local farmers.

The junior ecology major got an idea when he asked what happened to the food he left on his dining hall trays and didn’t like the answer.

“I found out they pulp it up and send it to the landfill,” Martin said.

VIDEO: Composting @ UGA

A look at UGA’s composting operation, and where one student wants to extend it’s reach.

Taking a leap of faith called graduation

I thought the kid was crazy. I thought if he did something that dumb, he probably deserved to die. Boy was I wrong. It was easy to think that way when I first heard about “Into the Wild.” It’s a book about a kid who abandoned life as he knew it upon graduating from Emory University.

Life question: Play the field or settle?

So it’s official. Tiger reportedly pounced on a reality show contestant a few dozen times. And now that seemingly flawless Tiger Woods has fallen to temptation, it raises wider societal questions for all of us. An article on CNN.com opened with, “If you were to judge the success rate of monogamy by the sex lives of public figures, perhaps couples should change their marriage vows to say, ‘Till a tempting new partner do us part.

Take a little break to reflect on the holiday

I think the full understanding of Thanksgiving sweetens with age.

Think about it. The significance of the day starts out early on in our lives as the time we get to trace our hands in the shape of a turkey.

Then later on we learn to thank those Native Americans for helping us live through our first winters-all so we could go on to exterminate them in the coming years.

Iraq vet opens barbecue shop

Many of us have stories on how we learned to cook a certain dish – but can you top Dustin Swaney’s?

He learned to cook as an infantryman during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, in some rough places where cooks weren’t allowed to go.

“They couldn’t drive convoys in because it got too dangerous at points,” Swaney said of the West end of Iraq.

VIDEO: The roughest game you’ve never heard of

It’s a 500 year old native american sport, and it can get pretty dirty. Here’s a look at UGA’s club Toli team:

VIDEO: Barbecue time

A look inside a new local business, and the owner who learned to cook in a way most of us didn’t.

VIDEO: North campus tailgating

A little look at the mayhem that takes place Saturday mornings on the UGA campus on days before the Bulldogs take the field.

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