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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Scholarship Pageant, Miss UGA 2012 Crowned

Kayla McIntosh, a senior health promotion major from Cumming, was awarded the Floreida Harrell Miss Congeniality Scholarship for the second consecutive year.

A third year public relations major and music business student is the new Miss University of Georgia 2012. Shelby McLeod of Madison, Ga. was crowned Saturday night, Oct. 8, during the annual scholarship pageant held in the Tate Student Center in Athens. McLeod will compete in the Miss Georgia Pageant in June 2012 and the winner of that pageant will go on to the Miss America Pageant. Kayla McIntosh, a senior health promotion major from Cumming, was awarded the Floreida Harrell Miss Congeniality Scholarship for the second consecutive year. Other honors were awarded to: First runner-up, Jennifer Johnson, a fourth-year advertising major from Marietta Second runner-up and best interview, Abby Killough, a fourth-year communication sciences and …

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

It's the End of the Band as We Know It

R.E.M. calls it "quits" after 31 years together making fantastic rock music.

A simple, straightforward announcement on R.E.M.'s Web site told their fans and friends that after 31 years together, the band is breaking up. "As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band," the note says. "We feel kind of like pioneers in this--there's no disharmony here, no falling-outs, no lawyers squaring-off," said Mike Mills in a statement on the Web site. Michael Stipe's statement said, "I hope our fans realize this wasn't an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way. " "Being a part of your lives has been an unbelievable gift," said Peter Buck to the band's friends and fans. R.E.M. began in 1980, playing in clubs and venues around …

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