Despite grumbling from several students, $500,000 used to match a donation from Georgia Power for installing lights at the University’s intramural fields didn’t come out of the student activities fee fund, said Tom Cochran, assistant vice president for student affairs. There are two surplus funds, one of which is an administrative fund, and that’s where [...]

Milledge Avenue will be alive with the sound of music Wednesday as Beta Theta Pi fraternity hosts its 14th annual Choral Cup a cappella singing competition. The event is a fund-raiser for the American Cancer Society, selected after one of Beta Theta Pi’s members lost his father to cancer last year. Traditionally open only to [...]

The Red & Black has been named best daily student newspaper by the Society of Profes-sional Journalists. The paper beat out other college papers in SPJ’s region three, which includes Georgia, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. The Red & Black also was recognized as best overall on-line newspaper. Staff awards include a first [...]

Pledges in Ben Grantham’s fraternity left him dead on the side of a gravel road Thursday after taking handcuffs off his body so police wouldn’t suspect hazing in the death, the Oconee County sheriff said Monday. Two cars were traveling with the Infiniti QX4 that flipped after hitting a tree south of Watkinsville at about [...]

If you’re upset that the University put a freeze on hiring professors or wary of corporate sponsorship on campus, today is your time to speak up. Jobs with Justice, a national group led on campus by the Graduate Student Association and Students Against Sweat-shops, launches the Student Labor Day of Action today. Mark Faller, president [...]

Erna Dziewienski Martino, daughter of Holocaust survivors from Krakow, Poland, will speak tonight at 7 at the University’s Hillel Campus Center for Jewish Life. Martino’s parents survived Nazi concentration and extermination camps but lost many family members in the Holocaust. Martino, who came to the United States in 1962 and is married with two grown [...]

Take a look at the programs put on by any resident assistant on campus, and chances are, Federica Goldoni has been involved in at least one of them. Goldoni, who is from Italy and teaches Italian and Spanish for the Romance Language Depart-ment, is unique among faculty members because she lives fulltime in a residence [...]

A crackdown on underage drinking won’t start until the end of May at the earliest, instead of the original plan to begin inspections in February or March. The city doesn’t want to start inspections of bars, restaurants, package stores and grocery stores until after they are given a chance to go through training on how [...]

Panic came to Athens last weekend in two forms. Aside from music and wild dancing, drugs surged into downtown and surrounding areas. In response, the Drug and Vice Unit of the Athens-Clarke police and the Clarke County Sheriff’s Drug Task Force carried out a joint undercover operation around the Classic Center to halt illegal drug [...]

A student judiciary panel Thursday heard testimony from students who witnessed a disruption during an intramural basketball game. Terrence Dowling, a junior from Marietta, allegedly lost his temper during the game and knocked over a table, damaging University equipment and injuring a Ramsey Center employee. Dowling waived his right to a defender and represented himself [...]