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Northeast Georgia News
Why UGA Doesn’t Have Emergency Blue Lights
Have you ever seen emergency blue lights as you’ve walked around a college campus? Well, the University of Georgia doesn’t have them. Greg Trevor, the executive director of media communications for the University of Georgia, said UGA “was one of the first campuses across the nation to install emergency call…
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Northeast Georgia News
University of Georgia Helps Veterans Attend Law School
The University of Georgia is providing financial assistance so military veterans can attend law school. Jacob Bohn spent seven years in the Army and retired as a captain. He is a first-year law student and said he is finding new opportunities at the UGA School of Law. “I’m grateful for…
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Athens-Clarke County
‘Queer Eye’ Guest, UGA Employee Sues University System of Georgia For Employment Discrimination
A University of Georgia employee and alumnus was in federal court Feb. 6, suing the University System of Georgia and its health insurance provider, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, to get coverage for his gender reassignment surgery. Skyler Jay (Musgrove) is transgender and has already undergone a mastectomy, which was…
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Athens-Clarke County
UGA Student Followed by Three Men in TJ Maxx
Abbie Clark, a fashion merchandising major at UGA, is warning others about a concerning experience she had recently at TJ Maxx. “I could feel them staring at me, and I was scared beyond belief,” Clark said. Clark said she went into the TJ Maxx and HomeGoods in the Beechwood Promenade…
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Northeast Georgia News
First Solo Woman Wins UGA’s Idea Accelerator Award
Senior Kaitlin Lutz recently won a $5,000 grant from the University of Georgia Idea Accelerator Program to start her very own company. “I think it happens to be one of the best moments of my life,” Lutz said. The UGA Accelerator Program is an eight-week long session offered every spring…
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Athens-Clarke County
UGA Comes Together to Support International Dawg in Need
Suraj Upadhaya, PhD student in Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, returned home to find that his apartment was robbed on Jan. 7, 2019. He said his door was locked, and there was no sign of forced entry into his South Milledge Avenue apartment. Upadhaya’s Nepalese passport, $3,600 and some sentimental…
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Northeast Georgia News
Happy Birthday, UGA: Celebration of A Long-Lasting Legacy
This past Sunday was the 234th anniversary of the founding of the University of Georgia. The Student Alumni Association is hosting activities all week to celebrate. “UGA has done a lot of great things, created a lot of great opportunities and we just want to be able to get together…
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Food
Female Student-Athletes Learn About Life After Competing at ‘More Than My Sport’ Event
“More Than My Sport” is a women’s initiative, sponsored by the UGA Athletic Association, to help female student athletes learn from professionals about their experiences with entering the workforce after their sport. This year’s event was held in the new West End Zone of Sanford Stadium and gave student athletes…
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Environment
UGA Office of Sustainability: A Student-Founded Solution to Go Green
This is one of several Solutions Journalism stories published through a Grady capstone course that reported on housing issues during the fall of 2018. Before 2010, the University of Georgia’s Office of Sustainability did not exist. Students wanted to change that. “In 2008, there was a group of students, mostly in…
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Diversity
Understanding Culture Appropriation: Explanations and Techniques to Avoid It
As holidays pass year after year, a practice now known as culture appropriation happens as well. Blanca A. Lopez Olmedo is senior majoring in journalism in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.