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While it sounds like something Georgia Tech might suggest, Tim Bryant with WGAU (1340AM) in Athens just posted this:

People for Ethical Treatment of Animals has a suggestion for the University of Georgia, which is looking for a replacement for Uga VII, the Georgia Bulldog mascot who died last Thursday in Savannah: PETA says the University should use what it calls an “animatronic dog,” or use a person in a costume. PETA has sent its suggestion via e-mail to University of Georgia Athletic Director Damon Evans. The PETA e-mail follows…

In the wake of the untimely death of the University of Georgia’s (UGA) bulldog mascot, Uga VII, PETA has asked the school’s athletic director, Damon M. Evans, to replace the mascot with an animatronic dog–or to rely solely on a costumed mascot–instead of using another real bulldog. Bulldogs are prone to breathing difficulties, hip dysplasia, heart disorders, and other congenital ailments, and acquiring a dog from a breeder perpetuates the animal overpopulation crisis while causing another dog waiting in an animal shelter to be condemned to death.

Don't miss the opportunity to purchase slightly damaged books from UGA Press at deeply discounted prices. Subjects include African American studies, American and Georgia history, civil rights history, Civil War history, decorative arts, ecology, environmental history, field guides, folklore, natural history, and southern studies as well as fiction and poetry. Thousands of books, most priced under $5.

When: 10.01.09 - 10.02.09
Where: Tate Center Plaza
Time: Thursday, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m

"An 18-year-old University of Georgia fraternity pledge said he was hazed and forced to drink alcohol.

Athens-Clarke police arrested Ry Thomas Mercado for underage drinking early Thursday after a taxi driver called authorities to say the UGA freshman had vomited in his cab and refused to pay the fare. Officer Derek Kristan Scott said Mercado told officers he wanted to pursue hazing charges against the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity."

Read the rest here and here.

Seems to be the kind of person who refuses to take responsibility for his actions (not just drinking, but vomiting in a cab and refusing to pay the fare).

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Volunteer tax planners are UGA financial planning students, and students from the accounting honors society Beta Alpha Psi. Those planning to have their taxes done should bring: a valid picture ID, copies of all W-2, 1098, or 1099 forms that you received and the amount of other income received by you and your spouse; Social Security or Tax Identification number for you, your spouse, child, and any other dependents, shown on the tax return; child/dependent care providers address and tax ID number, Form 8332 or copy of divorce decree for non-custodial parent claiming the child as a dependent; proof of bank or credit union account number and routing transit number of the financial institution for direct deposit into a savings or checking account and a copy of prior year’s tax return, if available.

When: 02.28.09
Where: Clarke County Community Federal Credit Union.
Time: 9:00 a.m.

"Ruckus, a downloading service that provided free music and movies for University students, shut down operation Feb. 6. The University has not been informed why this happened.

"Ruckus simply just closed their doors," said Bert DeSimone, communications officer for Enterprise Information Technology Services. "They ceased operations. They really provided no information.""

You can read the rest over at the R&B but they don't know why Ruckus closed.

We do! Its DRM only worked with Windows, not Mac, and that's just daft. Why? Well, it also didn't work on iPods.  Jason Herskowitz, V.P. of TotalMusic, wrote a few words about the closing.

The earliest known telling of the tree’s story comes from a front page article titled "Deeded to Itself" in the Athens Weekly Banner of August 12, 1890. The article explains that the tree had been located on the property of Colonel William Henry Jackson. William Jackson was the son of one James Jackson (a soldier in the American Revolution as well as a Congressman, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Georgia), and the father of another James Jackson (a Congressman and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia). He was the brother of Jabez Young Jackson, also a Congressman.(William Jackson was reportedly a professor at the University of Georgia and is sometimes given the title of Doctor; the nature of his military service and the source of the title Colonel is unknown. Jackson supposedly cherished childhood memories of the tree and, desiring to protect it, deeded to the tree ownership of itself and the surrounding land. By various accounts this transaction took place between 1820 and 1832. According to the newspaper article, the deed read:

I, W. H. Jackson, of the county of Clarke, of the one part, and the oak tree… of the county of Clarke, of the other part: Witnesseth, That the said W. H. Jackson for and in consideration of the great affection which he bears said tree, and his great desire to see it protected has conveyed, and by these presents do convey unto the said oak tree entire possession of itself and of all land within eight feet of it on all sides.

The UGA Theatre and Film Studies Department will present The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, in spring 2009.  Written around 1620, The Changeling is an exciting and erotic murder mystery.  This production will offer a rare opportunity for audiences to see a play by one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries.  In support of the production, the Theatre and Film Studies and the English departments plan a small symposium that considers what happens when an important literary text moves from the page to the stage.  

(Athens, GA) - UGA’s FRENCH FILM FEST is back!  For the 7^th year, UGA’s Film Studies Program presents recent French films (subtitled, projected in 35mm) at the Tate Student Center Theater.  This year’s line-up includes six movies, including films by famed veteran director Alain Resnais, Catherine Breillat, France’s more controversial female director, and China’s Hou Hsiao-Hsien, whose Flight of the Red Balloon was commissioned by the Orsay Museum in Paris.