Thursday, December 20, 2012
News / First Slice First Slice 12/20/12: Beltline, the greenest transit project in America?
Posted by Clay Duda @clayduda on Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:34 AM
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- CUTTING TIES: Maria Arbatskaya, Director of Graduate Studies for Emory's Economics department, addresses protestors in September about her suspended program.
1. Morehouse College is set to offer its first class in LGBT studies this spring. The announcement comes about a decade after a Morehouse College student landed 10 years in prison for attacking another student he believed was gay. The GA Voice offers a good recap, tracing the campuses LGBT history and its move "toward something great."
2. Atlanta's Beltline: The Greenest Transit Project in America?
3. Speaking of the Beltline, looks like the organization is set to break ground on the Southwest Connector Trail, kicking things off at Beecher Hills Elementary School on Jan. 12.
4. USA Today ranked students' protest against cuts at Emory University earlier this year as one of the six campus protests that captured the nation's attention in 2012.
5. The U.S. Mint is testing out new metals to, hopefully, find a way to make less expensive low-end coins. Right now, a penny costs more than two cents to produce, and a nickel more than 10 cents.
6. It looks like Fulton County Jail will get some new locks, replacing the notoriously faulty ones that are easily picked by inmates. The County Commission decided Wednesday to take on $5 million in debt to make it happen. The move came less than a week after a key voter in support of the measure missed a commissioner's meeting and the vote, causing it to fail. Maybe the jail will even run another "dystopian experiment" to test out the new locks.
7. TIL armed backpacks are a thing, and parents have been buying them up like mad, along with a hefty lot of firearms, following the elementary school shooting in Connecticut last week.
8. Berry College down in Floyd, Ga. has officially launched its eagle cam! Visit your bald and feathery friends 24/7 from the university's live stream of their nest.
In case you didn't realize, it's raining ... and about to get kind of cold.
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