Red and Black News

We need a new hand gesture, one that says: "Excuse me, Hipster Guy or Fashionable Miss, will you remove your iPod headphones for a moment? Sorry to interrupt your personal concert, but this building may blow up." I discovered this need at 8:30 a.m. Monday when a bomb threat was reported at the Student Learning Center, where I work as a help desk consultant for Enterprise Information Technology Services.

For the Ad-Hoc University Task Force on Water Resources, "every drop counts and every person counts" as the University deals with the severe drought. The task force held a public forum Tuesday night in the University Chapel to address the situation and garner public input.

Mark Richt has been good on the road. But the "neutral site" in Jacksonville has not been so kind. Richt is 23-4 in road games since he arrived in 2001 but 1-5 against Florida at Jacksonville. While Jacksonville is in the state of Florida, it serves as a halfway point between Athens and Gainesville.

Widespread water damage at Dean Rusk Hall on North Campus sparked an $850,000 project.

The project aims to rework the building's masonry and replace 60 windows, University officials said.

The external overhaul of the 11-year-old law school annex is a long time coming, said Don Tadlock, construction director.

Brown, Lumpkin still out for Florida gameHead coach Mark Richt announced Tuesday at his weekly news conference at Stegeman Coliseum that senior tailback Thomas Brown will not play against Florida and will not make the trip to Jacksonville with the team. This news comes about a week after Richt said there was an outside chance of Brown being able to return from a clavicle injury.

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