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School's athelete grad rate low
Evans aspires to increase rates
Issue date: 10/29/2007 Section:
The University ranks last in graduation success rates in the SEC for men's basketball and football, according to NCAA data released Wednesday for the 1997-2000 entering classes.
Nineteen percent of the University's men's basketball players and 41 percent of football players from the 1997-2000 entering class graduated.
The data does not encompass the players men's basketball coach Dennis Felton recruited after he became head coach in 2003. Football head coach Mark Richt inherited many of the players included in the graduation success rate when he became football coach in 2001.
"It's still mostly not (our players)," Richt said Wednesday, referring to the coaching staff that began in 2001. "We like to concentrate on what we've been doing since we've been here."llamcorper.
Wht are we trying to do here?
From the Staff
Issue date: 10/26/2007 Section:
Well here we go, off into the unchartered waters of a community portal, citizen journalism or whatever you want to call this initiative. We think UGA is ready for something along these lines and hope you agree and want to participate. UGAToday.com could just as easily be YouGaToday.com because we're counting on YOU, the University of Georgia community, to embrace this site and make it work. Head up the Chess Club at UGA? Use this site to communicate what you're doing: all the who, what, when, where and why's that go into letting people know more about you or your organization. Have an interesting story to tell? We'd like you to tell it here whether in pictures, video, audio or the written word. Over the coming months we plan to have all the tools available to you.
Student-led wizard sport comes to campus
from the Red & Black
Issue date: 10/23/2007 Section:
Kristin Foxworth is a shiny golden ball with wings. Sort of, anyway.
Foxworth, a freshman from Ellaville, is a golden snitch in the University's Quidditch league, an amalgamation of students who created their own version of the beloved Harry Potter sport.
"(To be a snitch I) have to be kind of sneaky and good at hiding in things that won't expose my yellowness," Foxworth said of her duties as an elusive flying sphere. "I'm a pretty fast runner, but I tend to hide more because when I run sometimes I trip."
With the obvious disadvantage of Muggledom restricting their use of magic, co-founders got together and created a Quidditch game that their Facebook group says "brings together elements of ultimate frisbee, dodgeball, and X-treme scavenger (sic) hunting."
Students not warned of SLC bomb threat
Issue date: 10/23/2007 Section:
Students expressed concern Monday after officials did not inform the University community of a bomb threat that closed the Student Learning Center for two hours.
"Since Virginia Tech, I think we should have been forewarned that it was just a threat and sent another e-mail that nothing was found," said Susan Bell, a sophomore from Athens.
Vice President for Public Affairs Tom Jackson told The Red & Black the incident was not reported to students because it was isolated and not an imminent threat.
"Everyone who was involved had been notified, and the situation was being handled," Jackson said. "If something had been found, of course we would have sent an advisory."
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Issue date: 10/22/2007 Section:
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