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Do you want diploma or education?

I aced a test in my Business Communications class for less than two dollars and walked away from the class with a solid B plus in the challenging class. I studied for that class, but I jumped into the winners circle with the added assurance of notes from Notehall.com. I don’t normally use Notehall.com, but I [...]

Americans must learn relaxation

I learned one thing from college breaks: I don’t know how to sit on my own behind and relax. Many of you piled into your cars to embark on the yearly University-induced spring break. Me? I worked twice my normal amount at my job, participated in a day-long interview and caught up on my classes’ readings. [...]

More awareness in restraining orders

My dad used to take my family to his childhood home in Florida every year. He would reminisce about walking a mile each school day — without my grandma fearing for his safety. I thought of my dad when I read that the number of student restraining orders has increased by about six times in [...]

University should teach life lessons

I’m still trying to get a few thousand more miles out of a ’98 Oldsmobile my parents gave me. I had trouble starting it the other day and it hit me: I don’t know how to buy a car. Now, I don’t want to disconnect from my parents when I turn my tassel May 13 [...]

We need sexual harassment course

Inever thought I would suggest my University classmates and I need education in sex. But today I am. Sex has created enormous problems in recent months. And I don’t believe the University is prepared to handle them. Two students have reported rape, a student was victimized by a flasher and it was revealed the University’s [...]

Side dish band adds dinner and unplugs

This Saturday night’s dinner will hit all the food groups: meat, green cheese and a side of tots, of the dictator sort of course. Local band Dictatortots plays the 40 Watt Saturday and plans to bring more to the table than just the usual appetizer of musical notes. The band has partnered with Blind Pig [...]

Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus works to spread diversity

The Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus hopes to spread diversity in Athens using only their voices rising in harmonious unison. “Our goal with this is to create a dialogue and to inspire people about what it means to find something about ourselves that is at odds with something an organization is telling us we should be,” [...]

Local musician to bring soulful voice to brewery

Musician Kyshona Armstrong is bringing soul, heart and a little bit of raw pain to Terrapin Beer Company today. “I consider myself a soulful folk singer,” Armstrong said. “People who have heard us say we have an acoustic soul and blues roots sound.” Armstrong will be singing and playing the guitar today with her bassist, [...]

‘The Love List’ questions ideal qualities in a partner: Adult humor has ‘some meat to it’

Sex is number four on Bill’s love list. It’s a list of qualities he wants in a significant other. Friday night is opening night for the Town and Gown Player’s production of “The Love List,” where the character Bill, a divorced 50-year-old, explores his own love list after seven years of celibacy. “It’s a comedy [...]