New Café looks for student feedback

Here’s some food for thought: Campuscafe dining services has opened up a new storefront in the SRC and is looking for feedback and suggestions from students on how they can improve their services. Armed with flatbread sandwiches, hot coffee and a keen business sense, Campuscafe President and CEO Manoj Barot is ready to bring a [...]

Growlers bring fresh beer home

When people think about beer, most think about bottles, cans or on tap. Or, perhaps, some minds race to the recent marketing ploy known as the mini-keg, a holding cell for (mainly) commoditized, watered-down swill that tastes no differently than the watered-down swill you get in bottles and cans. I think we all know which [...]

SPS opposes censorship of artwork

Students for a Progressive Society sponsored a silent protest Friday, Feb. 4, over the removal of a faculty painting in an art show. GSC adjunct art professor Stanley Bermudez’s painting, titled “Heritage?”, was removed by GSC President Martha Nesbitt from a faculty art show after she received complaints. The painting depicted a robed figure carrying [...]

New student center, parking deck design

The Student Government Association Town Hall Meeting discussed new building floor plans and funding for Gainesville State College Oconee on Friday, Jan. 26. The noon SGA meeting productively introduced the floor plans to the four-story structure, including the two-story underground parking deck and building. It was announced that the desired ground breaking will commence during [...]

Best Television Shows of 2010

5. Sons of Anarchy FX’s third season of Sons of Anarchy was a sharp departure from the previous two seasons of the series. However, the outlaw biker drama really shined and continued to find its footing as a modern-day reimaging of Shakespeare’s epic play Hamlet. The second season finale bleeds over into the opening of [...]

Athens: Head shop heaven

Many towns in America have to fight tooth-and-nail for their right to have just one smoke shop to serve the community. Even Atlanta with its multi-million person population is left with only a select few choices, most of them being characterless chains. Luckily, that is not the case in Athens. We are blessed with a [...]

Top 5: Winter Ales You Can’t Pass Up

If you’re looking to keep warm this winter and don’t want to crank the thermostat beyond your monthly norm, then you might want to reach into your favorite grocer’s or bottle shop’s bodega. When most people think about drinking beer, they think about tapping certain mountain chains or chugging fizzy, yellow liquid that is only [...]

Deal wins governor’s race, Isakson, Broun win re-election

Nathan Deal will not be in a runoff against Roy Barnes, and Georgia’s senior Republican Senator Johnny Isakson will continue to represent the state in the capital for another six years. Governor-elect Deal defeated former governor Barnes 53 percent to 43 percent. The Libertarian John Monds received four percent of the vote. Had no candidate received at least [...]

Gay Pride Parade provides celebration

You’re walking down the street through a sea of people dressed in rainbows. When you look up, candy is falling from the sky. You notice that all around you people have bubbles, shiny necklaces and balloon animal hats. When you look out in front of you, you see a “man-er-fly” (man/butterfly) dancing giddily covered in [...]

Athens man lives American Dream in van

It is more than just a rustic, discolored, storage container-consumed van with its back seats torn out— for one Athens native it is a home. Van Beville, 58, has found himself living out of his car in an unfortunate predicament. “I haven’t always been homeless,” Beville said. “I am doing everything I can do to [...]

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