In the Loop
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Daylight Saving Time Ends Sunday, Nov. 6
Photo Credit: Matteo Ianeselli/Wikimedia Commons
Remember to set your clocks back Saturday night.
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Man Accused of Harassing Voters at ACC Library
Photo Credit: courtesy of Tim Denson
The Athens-Clarke County Board of Elections has received several complaints about a man holding up anti-Hillary Clinton headlines in front of voters in line at the ACC Library.
On Thursday, the man was sitting in a reading room located adjacent to a hallway where people were lined up for early voting. He was pressing a tabloid with an anti-Clinton cover up against the glass facing the hallway.
"It's obvious he wanted to be seen," ACC Elections and Voter Registration Supervisor Cora Wright said. "He's not just sitting there reading."
Athens for Everyone President Tim Denson said the man was "harassing" voters. He sent Flagpole a video of a confrontation with the man.
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UGA Provost Pamela Whitten Is a Finalist to Head the University of Tennessee
Photo Credit: Andrew Tucker/UGA
University of Georgia Provost Pamela Whitten is one of three finalists for chancellor of the University of Tennessee.
Whitten visited the Knoxville campus on Wednesday. She told faculty and staff at the forum that she is “a defender of an inclusive campus who understands the nuances of a Southern, football-crazed, land grant university,” the News Sentinel reports.
UGA President Jere Morehead hired Whitten as provost in 2014. Previously, she headed the College of Communication Arts & Sciences at Michigan State.
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Athens Is Getting a Civil Rights Committee, and No One Is Too Happy About It
Every single Athens-Clarke County commissioner favors forming a local civil rights committee to deal with issues of discrimination in Athens, and so did almost every single one of the 100 people who packed City Hall for a commission vote on the topic Tuesday night. So why did most of them leave mad?
A bizarre 6-2 vote instructing county staff to bring forward a framework for the civil rights committee revealed rancor between not only the citizen activists pushing for the committee and the commissioners who approved it, but behind the rail as well.
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Early Voting at the Tate Center Is Crazy Right Now
Photo Credit: Houston Gaines
University of Georgia students are lining up in droves today to vote at the Tate Student Center—the first time Athens-Clarke County has set up an early-voting site on campus.
As of about 11:30 a.m., more than 800 people had already voted today at Tate, according to Student Government Association President Houston Gaines. He was kind enough to send some photos of lines snaking through the building and out the door, which are posted above and below.
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ACC Commissioners Will Probably Approve a Civil Rights Committee—But Which One?
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones/file
Hundreds of protesters marched on City Hall in September to demand a commission vote on a civil rights committee.
Tuesday's Athens-Clarke County Commission meeting just got a lot more interesting.
The commission is scheduled to vote on an ordinance banning bars from using bogus private events or selectively enforcing dress codes to keep out people of color. Local activist groups have been lobbying for a civil rights committee to supplement that narrow ordinance.
Until a couple of days ago, it seemed that a majority of commissioners were resisting that idea. Now, though, there are three different versions of a civil rights committee headed to the floor Tuesday.
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The Party's Back On at Frat Beach
Photo Credit: UGA News Service
Glynn County workers and volunteers clean up "frat beach" after the Georgia-Florida game in 2012.
Glynn County, GA has decided to Make Frat Beach Fratty Again. Sort of.
Authorities at the beach community that’s a notorious party spot for UGA students on the Georgia-Florida football weekend have decided to scale back the police presence after cracking down on rowdy students last year, the Golden Isles News reported.
Last year’s “zero tolerance” approach will still be in effect, but police won’t be out in force on St. Simons Island roads like they were last year.
“Last year may have been a bit of overkill,” County Commission Chairman Richard Strickland said last month, according to the News. “We were trying to get their attention, to make them understand. We appreciate them being here, but at the same time we have laws and we want you to behave yourselves. But we are more than happy to have them here.”
Last year, after getting fed up with partiers trashing the beach, Glynn County commissioners sent a stern letter to UGA and Florida students warning them to behave themselves. They didn’t this year. Apparently coastal merchants complained that the heavy police presence hurt their business.
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RIP Athens Civil Rights Leader A.R. Killian
Killian in 2013.
The Rev. Archibald “A.R.” Killian, Athens’ first black police officer and an outspoken local civil rights leader for decades, died Tuesday at age 83.
Killian was born in Athens and served as a military policeman during the Korean War. After leaving the Air Force, he nearly took a job as a police officer in Los Angeles but returned to Athens instead.
When Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter integrated the University of Georgia in 1961, Killian let Holmes live in his house and protected him from white mobs.
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