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 [...]

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 [...]

‘Black Swan’ exposes the psychological effects of womens eating disorders

Eating disorders are fairly common among women in our society, but not everyone knows the impact they can have on the brain. Black Swan is a movie that focuses on the mysterious and almost scary effects of these disorders. Most eating disorders develop because of multiple factors: anything from a random diet to the way [...]

Eating for less possible for students

What student wouldn’t want to go downtown to stuff his face and get a few drinks to end a long day instead of cramming his face in books that cost more than this month’s rent? Thankfully, not only is Athens, Georgia the town that thousands of rowdy college students call home, it’s also the town [...]

Crash dieting a dangerous method of losing weight

Many college students across America feel the need to lose weight for many different reasons, and often do so, with complete disregard to the harmful effects it has on the body, with the use of different crash diets. Crash dieting is one of the most common, and dangerous, ways to achieve rapid weight loss by [...]

Managing your life: Four healthy, affordable meals

We all know that after the holidays, one may realize he has become plump due to the holiday sweets and cozy comfort food. The jolly spirit fades and he is left looking more like the jolly man himself. Well, it’s a new year, and of course one of the most common resolutions is to slim [...]

2012 Survival guide: 8 must-haves

With all the hype surrounding 2012, it’s hard to fathom that something life-changing could possibly happen. The one thing that is safe to say, however, is according to the recent winter storms, Georgians are not prepared for anything, not even a couple inches of snow. Students experienced the chaos a couple weeks ago when GSC [...]

Eating for less possible for students

What student wouldn’t want to go downtown to stuff his face and get a few drinks to end a long day instead of cramming his face in books that cost more than this month’s rent? Thankfully, not only is Athens, Georgia the town that thousands of rowdy college students call home, it’s also the town [...]

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