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Adams gets 7.5 percent raise

Editor in Chief   University President Michael Adams, who has been in office for a year now, got a 7.5 percent raise by the Board of Regents last week, making him one of the state’s highest-paid university presidents. At $190,275 a year, the raise will make Adams the second-highest paid public college president in Georgia. [...]

Former student requests a witdrawal of his guilty plea

  A former University student who was sentenced to 25 years in prison and nearly $2 million in fines for drug charges is asking that his guilty plea be withdrawn, according to an article in the Athens Daily News. On May 12, Shawn David Swantner, 22, of Marietta was sentenced in Clarke County Superior Court [...]

Counterfeit case still unresolved

  Charges accusing two University students of running a counterfeit parking permit scam were dropped Wednesday morning, and five other students suspected in the scheme still have not been arrested, according to the office of Athens-Clarke County Judge Laura Jack. Arrest warrants for the seven University students allegedly involved in a scheme to manufacture temporary [...]

Speeding prevalent on campus

  The next time you consider speeding to your 9 a.m. economics class, you might want to keep in mind the more than 1,000 speeding tickets issued by University Police since January. University Police Chief Chuck Horton cited safety concerns as the main reason police give so many tickets. "I’d rather not do it," Horton [...]

Cyclist hit by car near Main Library

  A curious crowd of onlookers formed on Jackson Street Thursday afternoon after a University student was struck by a car while riding his silver mountain bike. Joshua Noah Freese, 24, of Athens was hit by a gold Ford Taurus at 2:17 p.m. when the car tried to make a right turn into the employee [...]

Victims report neglect by ACC police

  After a simple hello turned into a robbery on East Clayton Street early Sunday, a police officer told a University student and his friend to "come back tomorrow" because he was "too busy," according to police reports. Christopher Fisher, a junior from Marietta, and Kevin Cahn, a 21-year-old student at Georgia Southern University, told [...]

Students express concern over dorm safety after attack

  Creswell Hall residents say they’re concerned about safety in the dorms after an alleged simple battery on the fifth floor. "I’m scared – I guess you never imagine something like this is going to happen," said fifth-floor resident Hope Tryce, a freshman from Marietta. Last Thursday an unidentified male entered the room of a [...]

2 arrests made in fake parking permit case

  Two University students were arrested Thursday afternoon in connection with a scheme to counterfeit temporary parking permits. Arrest warrants were issued Wednesday after University Police received a report from University Parking Services of counterfeit permits being used on campus. Todd Folley and James Drew IV, both 23 and from Augusta, were arrested and charged [...]

7 arrests made in case of fake parking decal scheme

and ANDREW DEMILLO Staff Writers   Arrest warrants were issued Wednesday for seven University students allegedly involved in a scheme to counterfeit temporary parking permits. Todd Folley and James Drew IV, both 23 and of Augusta, were charged with felony first-degree forgery and theft of services. Drew also was charged with entering auto, also a [...]

Drug offender gets $2 million fine, jail

  A former University student who said he sold drugs to pay his way through college has been sentenced to nearly $2 million in fines and 25 years in jail. Shawn David Swantner, 20, of Marietta received the sentence Tuesday in Clarke County Superior Court. In a search of Swantner’s Steeplechase apartment in January, agents [...]

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