World & Nation
When Playboy magazine ranked Mercer University among the nation’s top 10 “party colleges” last winter, students and administrators at the small Southern Baptist school here were incredulous.
Oct. 19, 1987
USC Sports
Many USC fans hated former football coach Clay Helton, but the nicest coach in college football is getting a chance to shine with Georgia Southern.
Dec. 16, 2022
University of Mississippi is trying to rethink an image linked with the Confederacy and Dixie intolerance. The effort has sparked a culture war that shows no signs of easing.
May 22, 1997
Technology and the Internet
With funding from the National Science Foundation, three of the top universities in Southern California are teaming up to supply instruction, events and research aimed at helping technology start-ups flourish in the region.
Aug. 26, 2014
Opinion
A California law banning the use of public funds to travel to states that discriminate against LGBTQ+ people has harmed Black academics, who often need to do research in southern states.
June 29, 2023
For the first time since it gained control of the national Southern Baptist Convention, the denomination’s powerful fundamentalist camp has been dealt a major setback in its efforts to extend its grip to state Baptist institutions and agencies.
Nov. 12, 1987
Books
THE LANGUAGE OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH by Cleanth Brooks (University of Georgia: $9.95).
Feb. 9, 1986
Sports
Erk Russell, 80, who led the University of Georgia’s “Junkyard Dog” defense under football coach Vince Dooley and then built a small-college powerhouse of his own at Georgia Southern, died Friday after a single-vehicle accident in Statesboro, Ga.
Sept. 9, 2006
Civil War prison yields new artifacts 150 years after the war began
Aug. 20, 2011
Five years ago, when the Chicago suburb of Morton Grove banned the possession of weapons within its city limits, this small Georgia town showed those benighted Yankees how folks here felt about that.
April 27, 1987