Common Folk Using Common Sense

ITEM 1: On 09/18/2008 at approximately 11:50pm a Georgia Tech Student was robbed in the Student Center Parking Lot area by a white male using pepper spray and displaying a silver revolver. The suspect took the victim’s wallet and cellular phone before fleeing the area on foot. A short time later, two more students [...]

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Saturday, August 30, the University of Georgia football team begins its new season.

While I’m not a complete fanatic, I do try and keep up with sports from my alma mater. Yep, I’m a BullDawg, Class of 1985.
I’m not sure why we have to go through all this physical punishment every year. They should [...]

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Hat tip to John Hardin:
From the East Tennessean:

It has become harder for students to imagine themselves completely safe on their college campuses because of the recent school shootings across the country. The one-year anniversary of the shooting at Virginia Tech is at hand and images of the Northern Illinois shooting still fresh in our minds, [...]

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First let’s read an article by The Associated Press:

The hunt for a serial rapist spread fear around a college campus Sunday after police linked a 19-year-old woman’s death to at least two other attacks in the area.
The woman’s body was found in a field on Friday, nearly a month after she vanished from a home [...]

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From WSB-TV:

A $10,000 reward has been offered for information about the murder of a Walton High School graduate Tuesday near Auburn University.
Lauren Burk was found shot to death on a road a few miles north of the Alabama university. Officials said Burk’s boyfriend, identified as Sean McQuade by other students, and other friends have been [...]

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From CRIME, GUNS, AND VIDEOTAPE:

Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL–Illinois politicians gave Chicago’s Mayor Richard M. Daley what he wanted. They made it a felony crime for a law abiding citizen even those holding valid Firearm Owner Identification Cards to carry a handgun for simple self-protection.
They’ve known for a long time that violent criminals and the [...]

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From VillageSoup/Knox County Times:

The Merriam Webster Dictionary definition for flatulence is brief: “flatus expelled through the anus.” And while it’s a natural bodily function, it seems some Camden-Rockport Middle School eighth-grade boys are taking it to new heights and making a game of seeing who can expel the loudest and grossest flatus.
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From 11Alive.com:

A student was shot in a cafeteria Monday [Feb. 11] during a high school gym class, and the suspected shooter was in custody, police said.
The injured student, a male in the senior class, had at least two gunshot wounds and was believed to be in critical condit