Who actually got tickets to the SEC Championship?  As on of the many graduating seniors who didn’t receive a ticket to the SEC championship game, I am curious to know how many tickets UGA received, and how many of them actually went to students. It would be great to have real information about where the [...]

Unfair ticketing process for SEC Championship Game   I’m writing in regards to the unfair ticket distribution of the SEC Championship game towards UGA seniors. It’s a heartbreaking story for seniors who are graduating this year but are still deprived of cheering their Dawgs one last time at the Georgia Dome due to unfair conditions [...]

Headline in female boxer story misleads   I am writing in reference to the article “Boxers call proposed skirts a ‘regression’” that was published in the Nov. 10 issue of The Red & Black. The article nicely represented the issue of the potential dress code for women’s boxers which is being proposed by the Amateur [...]

Administration needs to reconsider coal   Students for Environmental Action (SEA) is excited to see an active dialogue about the coal plant in the media. We were thrilled that Tim Burgess, the head of Finance and Administration here at the University, gave an update to the university community on the administration’s stance on UGA’s energy [...]

We beat the Florida Gators; go Dawgs! I can’t help but do this…GOOOOOOOO DAAAWWGGGGGGSSSSS!!!!!! WE BEAT FLORIDA!!!! Fourth time since most current University seniors were alive is toooo looonnnggg. The Dawg Nation didn’t get much of an opportunity to cheer our team to victory in the ’90s grunge style. However, here’s to a new decade- [...]

Herman Cain can’t be Republicans’ answer Herman Cain has been making a splash recently in the Republican primary. I was intrigued by his 9-9-9 plan and decided to look into it. Turns out that, according to Jared Bernstein, only the top 20 percent of Americans would see a tax cut. Meanwhile the bottom 80 percent [...]

Peace Corps not for westernizing locals The real goals of the Peace Corps are: 1)Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women. 2)Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the people served. 3)Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of [...]

Don’t party so hard at away tailgates My husband and I had the wonderful opportunity to drive down to Knoxville for our first game in Neyland cheering on the Dawgs, and I have to say that the UGA fans brought the class. Georgia fans were dressed well and acted with the utmost respect for all [...]

Stop worrying about stepping on people’s toes A segment of American society has argued that hate speech should not be declared as free speech protected by the First Amendment. The general basis of this claim is that hate speech is a physical action that causes tangible harm such as loss of the dignity of acceptance [...]

President Obama’s re-election uncertain I can not help but make some polite corrections to Will Petty’s column (“Obama shouldn’t worry while the Republicans are on parade,” Sept. 27). First, by most reasonable measures, Mitt Romney, and not Rick Perry, is the frontrunner in the GOP field. As of Sept. 28, the futures market on Intrade.com [...]