Thursday, May 16, 2013
Some legislators acknowledge the freebies can look bad, but they say the state's new ethics law will make it harder to mingle with constituents.
Georgia legislators who want to sit in the president's suite above the hedges at Sanford Stadium next year will have to pay their own way, thanks to ethics legislation signed by Gov. Nathan Deal last week. The law forbids elected officials from receiving gifts or event tickets exceeding $75. University System of Georgia lobbyists gave state and local lawmakers more than $14,000 in football tickets in 2012, the Athens Banner-Herald reports. The paper quotes state Sen. Bill Cowsert, whose district includes Athens, saying the football games have been a good way for him to mingle with his constitutents. “I think it’s really going to change things," Cowsert is quoted saying of the new ethics law. "I think it’s going to make it tougher for the …
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Adams devoted much of his speech to thanking those he has worked with over the past 16 years.
During Michael Adams' 16 years in Athens, the University of Georgia campus has been transformed into one of the most attractive university campuses in the country. His staff and he increased the school's endowment markedly, helped raise the national profile of UGA, built classrooms and research facilities, renovated arts buildings, tore up asphalt and replaced it with grass and gardens. He dedicated money to the arts, literature and the life of the mind and worked to improve the intellectual environment. Outgoing UGA President Michael Adams also shephereded through the Georgia Legislature two huge developments that will alter how UGA -- and Athens -- develops in the coming years: the new health sciences campus and the new engineering …
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Hackers had access to Social Securitiy numbers and names of current and past employees.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Hope that you don't get an email or a letter from UGA soon. The school is notifying about 8,500 employees, both current and former ones, that their personal records may have been hacked. According to a university press release, officials are investigating "a criminal act of computer trespass” by an intruder, according to UGA Vice President for Information Technology Timothy Chester. The initial hacking may have happened as early as Sept. 28. The investigation began Oct. 1 after officials learned that someone reset the MyID passwords of two UGA employees, both of whom work in sensitive information technology positions. The hackers then used those accounts to gain access to personnel data. “This appears to us to be a planned intrusion by …
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Leave your birthday wishes for Coach Dooley in the comments below. His birthday is Tuesday.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
How time flies. Vince Dooley, the University of Georgia's winningest football coach and one-time athletic director, turns 80 on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Dooley, now retired and living in Athens, won 201 games from 1964-88. He also was successful as athletic director from 1979-2004, wearing two hats as football coach and AD during some of that time. -- What are your favorite memories of Vince Dooley's coaching career? What are your special birthday wishes? Tell us in the comments below. He is best known for the 1980 season, when a freshman tailback named Herschel Walker led Georgia to the national title, capped by a Sugar Bowl win over Notre Dame. In all, Dooley's teams won six SEC titles. As athletic director, he hired current football coach Mark…
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Board reinstates top editors after the recent walkout.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The top two editors at The Red and Black, the independent student-run newspaper at the University of Georgia, are back on the job, according to a joint statement Monday (Aug. 20). Editor in Chief Polina Marinova and Managing Editor Julia Carpenter have been reinstated and will bring back the other staff members who joined them in last week's walkout. The dispute came over the editors' concerns about control of the paper's editorial operation. "We look forward to the editors and their staff resuming production of one of the nation’s top student news organizations," the statement said. "We want to be clear that students have editorial control over the contents of our publications with no prior review." Gwinnett newsletter publisher Elliott …
Saturday, August 18, 2012
"We felt like we were being walked on so we walked out," said Editor in Chief Polina Marinova.
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
An advertising executive has resigned from The Red & Black board of directors. Students will have more input into editorial decisions. And there won't be a non-student review of stories prior to their being published. With all three of their demands met, the former staff of The Red & Black student newspaper may return to their jobs, said editor-in-chief Polina Marinova. Marinova and her staff walked out Wednesday night, fed up with what they believed was too much interference and emphasis on happy, upbeat stories instead of real news about the UGA community. "We'll talk among ourselves and then reapply for our positions," said Marinova. "We're happy they met our demands and that we finally had a voice." The Board of Directors will hire a …
Thursday, August 16, 2012
The coach, who was fired after the 2000 season, is involved in a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Former University of Georgia football coach Jim Donnan has been accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of running a Ponzi scheme targeting former players and college coaches, according to an Associated Press report on the Huffington Post. Donnan, who was fired from UGA after the 2000 season, and a business partner raised some $80 million from about 100 investors in the scheme, according to William P. Hicks, associate director of the SEC's Atlanta office. The SEC's complaint charges Donnan and partner Gregory Crabtree, of Proctorville, Ohio, with violating federal securities laws, according to the AP report. Among the coaches Donnan reportedly helped attract were Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer, ex-Dallas Cowboys coach…
Thursday, August 2, 2012
University of Georgia football fans can park all season for only $140! You have to walk a little, but still.....
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Why mess around finding a parking space this football season? Use the decks! The University of Georgia Parking Services is selling season-long parking permits in various decks around campus: the Carlton Street Parking Deck, North Campus Parking Deck and the Performing Arts Center Parking Deck for all seven 2012 home football games. The cost is $140, plus shipping and handling. The passes are available until Aug. 24 at 5 p.m. And they will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information and to purchase passes, click here.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
The University of Georgia president says he's stepping down next year.
For a few seconds, it looked as though Michael Adams wasn't going to make it through a speech about his leaving the President's Office at the University of Georgia. He had said that when he accepted the job in June 1997, with him were his parents, both of whom have since died, and his wife Mary. His face collapsed a little, but he recovered. Many of those in the audience may not recover. The university community remains in shock over Adams' sudden announcement that he will step down from his job at the end of June 2013. Only a few of the inner staff and upper level administrators learned late Wednesday that he would be leaving. After his brief, formal speech, in which he thanked those who have helped launch the University into the ranks of…
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Running back played high school ball in Gwinnett.
Caleb King has been ruled academically ineligible to play football for the University of Georgia this coming fall. King played high school football at Parkview and Greater Atlanta Christian School. Coach Mark Richt made the announcement Friday in a press release that King will not be able to play for the entire season. "It's unfortunate Caleb will not be with us this season," Richt said. "We wish him the best in whatever he decides to do; however, we have to move forward and this will provide more opportunities for others to step up." King was a star running back for Parkview his sophomore and junior seasons. He transferred to Greater Atlanta Christian School before his senior year, but suffered a broken leg that kept him from displaying …
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Margaret
10:58 am on Friday, May 17, 2013
Sounds to me like the voters in his district (which includes Athens) need to remember his attitude come election day. He's not interested in "John Q. public", but only those he can shake down to line his pockets. Most liKely he's one that believes that Corporations are "People" too! more ›