Group protests 'chola' pics at CSUSM
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 04:43:42 -0700 | political-news
A few dozen students protested at Cal State San Marcos Thursday afternoon asking school officials to do more to promote racial sensitivity on campus. The students were reacting to a recent incident in which members of sorority posted pictures of...
Campus 'chola' pics spark call for sensitivity
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 19:11:04 -0700 | political-news
Sorority and fraternity leaders at UC San Diego have joined in a call for racial sensitivity on college campuses after a recent incident at Cal State San Marcos in which sorority members dressed as cholas posted photos on social networking...
Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone
Source: Salem News
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 23:17:03 -0700 | travel-news
Both at the conceptual and practical level the discussions that took place were sober and pregnant with possibilities. All this brings home to us the importance of initiatives such as the Athens Dialogue which aim to eliminate the bomb from...
Recruiting: Georgia hoops team rounds out roster
Source: Ledger-Enquirer
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-04-21 15:20:01 -0700 | sports-news
Cameron Forte, a 6-foot-7 junior college prospect, apparently will be the final member of the Georgia men's basketball team's roster for next season. Forte, a native of Tempe, Arizona, tweeted on Sunday that he had just committed to Georgia. He...
Today in History
Source: Boston.com
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-03-31 01:07:29 -0700 | entertainment-news
On March 31, 1943, Oklahoma!,'' the first musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway. On this date: In 1889, French engineer Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its...
Country singer Tony Douglas has died
Posted by: Sherrill Fulghum
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-01-31 22:24:58 -0800 | obituaries-news
Sixties country music star Tony Douglas died Jan. 22 at the age of 83 in Athens, Texas after a battle with lymphoma. Douglas died surrounded by friends and family at the hospital. Douglas became interested in country music as a...
Wall Street closed the week with a flourish inspired by Italy and Greece
Posted by: kingston23
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-04-17 13:08:38 -0700 | odd-news
Wall Street closed Friday with a flourish a week of widespread increases encouraged by recent events in Italy and Greece that away for now, and even momentarily, the ghosts of a recession that had awakened new debt problems in the...
Michael Lewis predicts difficult time for Greece and Ireland
Posted by: Jennifer Rees
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-27 18:14:49 -0700 | business-news
Michael Lewis, the author of “Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World,” predicted on Tuesday that Greece is on the verge of default and will soon go bankrupt, Ireland may as well. Besides, he predicted that German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
BP Oil Spill: How Bad Is Damage to Gulf One Year Later?
Posted by: anonymous
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2011-10-16 17:55:25 -0700 | political-news
Carl Safina headed down to the Gulf Coast just days after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, 2010. A veteran of theExxon Valdez spill - and the head of the Blue Ocean Institute, a nonprofit that focuses on...
Greece - Assassination of 7 sailors due to fire on Greek ship before Venezeula
Posted by: Abdel Fattah Hussein
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-27 20:42:46 -0700 | your-story
on Friday - a fire was set in ambiguous circumstances on a Greek ship before the coasts of Venezuela led to assassination of 7 sailors from originally 24 . the ship was sailing from Brazil to Texas, iron cargo was...
Giant Salvinia Moves Deeper into Toledo Bend Reservoir
Posted by: LarryHodge
Athens :: TX :: USA | updated 2009-11-08 01:39:56 -0800 | sports-news
Giant Salvinia Moves Deeper into Toledo Bend Reservoir Runoff from recent rains flushes plants into main lake. ATHENS, Texas—A ribbon of giant salvinia and water hyacinth 200 to 300 yards wide and more than a mile long is floating down...
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