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Ignorance frames racial inequality

A statement has haunted me every day of my college career: “You only were admitted to UGA because you’re a minority.” That has had the power to dismiss my intelligence and years of hard work in a matter of seconds. Jeremy Dailey further reinforced this stereotype. Dailey’s insecurity about his chances at being admitted to law [...]

Opinion Meter

Number of female professors rises The University has increased the number of female professors but the gap still remains wide. The majority of full and associate professors hired this year are male, and only a fifth of tenured professors are female. We understand the problem is complex but here is to more women power around [...]

Islamophobia promotes ignorance

I remember the day I stopped being a kid.  I was a 12-year-old sitting in my seventh grade social studies class. My teacher turned on the T.V., and the image that would become permanently imprinted in my mind came into view. A plane crashing into the Twin Towers, people screaming as a balloon of dark dust [...]

Remember them

Take a moment to reflect on the lives of the three victims of last year’s shooting A year ago today, tragedy struck. The senseless killings of Marie Bruce, Tom Tanner and Ben Teague by University professor George Zinkhan shocked our community and forever changed the lives of their families and friends.  The Red & Black [...]

OUR TAKE: Relevancy issue

SGA president-elect Josh Delaney must make SGA relevant to the student body Snapshot party — congratulations on your SGA election victory. Now it’s time to get to work. SGA president-elect Josh Delaney, along with vice president-elect Stephen Thompson and treasurer-elect Maddy Adler, led his campaign based on providing an accurate representation, or a snapshot, of [...]

Our Take: Campaign clean

Student Government candidates must remind themselves of their true goals Enough is enough. As SGA elections have heated up, both campaigns — the Green Team and The Snapshot — have received substantial news coverage from The Red & Black and have been allowed space on this page to advocate for their candidacies through opinion columns [...]

Paddling pledges?

The University chapter of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity scrutinized for alleged hazing Would you take a bullet for your brother? Would you take a paddle? The hazing allegations of pledges by members of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and temporary suspension of the chapter bring to light a question that is often ignored — is hazing [...]

Colbert Campaign

Stephen Colbert is being touted as a possible commencement speaker U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Secretary of Defense Bob Gates and Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert? Students have launched a campaign to bring Colbert as the spring commencement speaker, and Facebook groups with thousands of supporters have already started cropping up.  The editorial board [...]

Food for thought

Eating disorders do not have to end in tragedy for friends if help is available We tend to look the other way but sometimes that only makes the problem worse. More than eight million people in the United States are affected by an eating disorder such as anorexia. The problem isn’t going to go away [...]

Borders insignificant in charity work

I admit it — while selling T-shirts for Dawgs for Haiti, I epitomized “those kids.” You know, the kids who hit up everybody walking through Tate for money to support their cause of choice. The ones who won’t leave you alone, despite the fact that you’re listening to your iPod or talking on your cell [...]

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