For all of you music fans, senior reporter Sarah K. Wilson highlights popular music festivals Hangout music festival Five and a half hours out of Atlanta, Hangout has a lineup with a little something for everyone. The up and coming group Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will be headlining as well as Kings of Leon. For [...]
Midnight Breakfast chimes in for its 22nd year At the end of every semester, when work is piling up and students are at their wits’ end, there’s something to look forward to: Midnight Breakfast. This event, now in its 22nd year, is put on by Campus Activities Board (CAB) and catered by Sodexo. “Midnight Breakfast [...]
On the topic of racism, a number of people say the issue is something of the past. Racism brings to mind images more often found in history books covering the 1950s and ‘60s than in present day. Yet according to Robert Bernasconi, racism today is alive and well. On Tuesday, Bernasconi visited Georgia College to [...]
Last Thursday, the Sallie Ellis Davis House on Clark street was standing room only for a lecture by history professor Mark Huddle. The lecture, “Meanings of American Freedom: The Emancipation Proclamation at 150,” centered on the sesquicentennial, or 150th, anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863. “I’d like [...]
On the right side of Herty Hall is an illuminated concrete path. Follow it to the glass-paned wall of the science building and you’ll find a staircase that leads to something extraordinary in our small town. Georgia College’s very own observatory sits in a metal dome atop Herty Hall on the fourth floor. Although the observatory [...]
The decrepit concrete and metal bridge spanning across West Hancock Street between The Bellamy apartments and the North Irwin parking lot is an eyesore. With a crumbling foundation, red-rusted fence and a padlock on the catwalk to keep pedestrians off the potentially hazardous structure, the bridge has been deemed unsafe by the Georgia Department of [...]
