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Will apathy define our generation?

While many of you were enjoying a normal college spring break — lying on the beach, guzzling large quantities of booze and chasing anonymous co-eds — I was tucked away in small conference room in the frigid suburbs of our nation’s capital. My purpose: a week-long seminar on the role of newspaper Editorial pages in [...]

Why don’t we change the subject …

OK, now that everyone got to have their fun last week, I have to play the part of Opinions Page disciplinarian and put my foot down: Stop writing us letters about homosexuality. I know this discussion is important to many people, but, like abortion, the fight between Gay Choice and Gay Gene has gone 12 [...]

Don’t clean history, even if it’s dirty

I haven’t yet met a black person who shares my last name — but I know they’re out there. From pre-Revolutionary times up to the Civil War, members of my family became some of the largest slaveholders in the Carolinas, generating substantial wealth through the cultivation of rice, indigo and cotton. (Of course, it’s not [...]

Are grade quotas on the way?

Thank God for long-winded faculty meetings. The faculty senate of the University’s largest school — Franklin College — delayed a discussion Thursday of placing a quota on the number of A’s and B’s professors can award, after members were unable to agree on what role their departments should play in student grade appeals. And that’s [...]

No more crossword? No problem

How long will you read this page before your eyes stray a few inches to the right, and the crossword puzzle takes over? Not very long, I bet. Which is why, starting tomorrow, we’ve decided to cut it — it’s too distracting for you, our readers. Yeah, I know you probably get bored waiting for [...]

Univ. should improve class caliber

I’ve never been one of those students who sits in the front row of class everyday, shooting his hand into the air every time the instructor speaks. I don’t remind professors when they forget to collect assignments or give fewer quizzes than their syllabus says they will. When I evaluate my professors at the end [...]

Worst-case cut plans released

If the Board of Regents does not raise tuition in January, students will be unable to graduate on time, programs could close and faculty and staff would be laid off, several deans wrote in a second round of budget reduction plans. For a summary of proposed cuts to schools not in this article, click here. [...]

Tentative cut plans distributed

The University’s 14 schools stand to lose $2.86 million if the budget climate does not change, according to documents released Thursday by senior administrators. The “Tentative Plans for FY05 Budget Reduction,” dated Sept. 15 and obtained by The Red & Black through an Open Records request filed Tuesday evening, was distributed to University deans at [...]

School causes conflict

A proposal to create a College of Public Health is stirring debate among some faculty, as they weigh the need to address the state’s public health issues against the University’s ability to pay for the school without harming its other programs. Provost Arnett Mace said Tuesday in an interview that the University’s internal resources will [...]

BOR: Layoffs, tuition hike may be needed

ATLANTA — University System Chancellor Thomas Meredith will present today a plan to the Board of Regents that could call for layoffs or a mid-year tuition hike to combat a recent state-mandated budget cut. In an Aug. 9 letter to Gov. Sonny Perdue that was released by regents following their meeting Tuesday, Meredith outlined possible [...]

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