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Business students turn class project into music company

Music Business student Stephen Prevost, the graphic designer and chief financial officer for H.E.R. Hip-Hop, LLC, wants to set the record straight. Hip-hop isn’t dead — it’s just not getting played on the airwaves. “You have to expand beyond the radio if you want to hear hip-hop,” Prevost said. The 2010 H.E.R. Showcase at New [...]

Dr. Cornel West to speak

Whether he’s lecturing in his Princeton University classroom or being quoted on a Starbucks coffee cup, Dr. Cornel West has a reputation for being outspoken. During an October 2009 speech at the Central Library in Los Angeles, he noted that it would be tough for President Barack Obama to be a war president after winning [...]

Live models go buff for the bucks

Chelsea’s and Toppers aren’t the only places in Athens where students can make the big bucks by taking it all off. Along with driving University buses and working for Parking Services during football games, nude modeling tops the list of the best-paying student jobs on campus. According to Charles Westfall, the modeling coordinator for the [...]

New exhibit wades through the aftermath of floods

The only tangible evidence artist Katherine Taylor has of her past is stained by flood water. Like many of the artists contributing to the Athens Institute for Contemporary Arts’s upcoming Deluge exhibit, Katherine Taylor has a personal interest in floods. Taylor, an assistant professor of drawing at Kennesaw State University, is originally from Biloxi, Miss. [...]

Cars Can Be Blue inspired by sketch comedy

With song titles like “D in the P”  and “Dating Batman”, Cars Can Blue has expressed its unique, off-color humor before it even hits the stage at the Caledonia Lounge. It’s fitting really: Nate Mitchell, one half of the dynamic duo traces the band’s name to an MTV comedy show called ‘The State’. “There was [...]

‘Life is a banquet’ in Town and Gown’s new play ‘Mame’

From mountain climbing related deaths to Massachusetts boarding schools, Mame is a musical that has it all. “It’s a fun play,” said Dr. Leara Rhodes, the play’s assistant director and a Grady College professor. “It’s about living and looking through different eyes”. The musical, based on Patrick Dennis’ novel Auntie Mame, chronicles the tumultuous and [...]

OUR TAKE

Lights, camera … Forbidding students from videotaping in the MLC is an academic hindrance The name says it all – the Miller Learning Center – is a place where students go to absorb knowledge in a comfortable and spacious environment. What the University fails to realizes is that by requiring prior approval in order to film in the MLC, they deprive journalism and film students of an opportunity to learn.

Our Take

Valuable aid work Due to the current economic climate, some students may balk at the idea of volunteer work. As the saying goes, “time is money” and many of us are unwilling or unable to sacrifice either to support a good cause. Against the bleak backdrop of an increasingly self-centered generation, the activities of Soon Kyung Yoon and the rest of the Bulldawg Outreach to Nursing Homes and the Elderly are an inspiration to all of us here at The Red & Black.

Our Take

So long to Benson Rats. Flooding. Asbestos. Over the years the Benson Building has been afflicted with a slew of plagues that rival the blights of biblical Egypt. Although the Institute for Women’s Studies has since moved to the Promised Land of Gilbert Hall, The Red & Black’s editorial board is happy to say good riddance to the much-maligned Benson Building.

Our Take

Achievable aimsThe New Deal should focus on goals that are attainable, not far-fetched. The results are in – Katie Barlow, Cameron Secord and Joe Chaudoin are our executive representatives of the Student Government Association for the next year. During campaigning, the three showed their business side by presenting goals they know are feasible and goals they hope are feasible.

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