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Thursday, September 27, 2012

President Adams to Cobbham: Sigma Chi A "Pretty Good Use" of Land

The UGA President speaks about students and community members during his monthly press conference in Athens, Ga.

During his monthly press conference, UGA President Michael Adams touched on a variety of subjects, one of which was the fraternity house Sigma Chi wants to build in Cobbham on North Milledge Avenue. * He wants students to be respectful of their neighbors, but he wants residents to know that students are one of Athens' most important assets. A bunch of students together in a fraternity house? "I don't have the fear that some of my friends do," he said. Adams no longer lives in the President's House on Prince, which is about two blocks from the proposed fraternity house. * He lived close to a fraternity house in Kentucky while he was at Centre College and had few problems with the brothers next door. If Sigma Chi can work out the parking …

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Rebecca McCarthy

9:48 pm on Friday, September 28, 2012

Irene, maybe he's thinking the problem can be solved the UGA way: build a parking deck. That's what UGA has done all over the campus. Really, who knows what he's thinking?   more ›

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Sigma Chi House Plans Determined Incomplete for an Athens, Ga., Neighborhood

ACC Historic Preservation Commission tables certificate of appropriateness application.

The Athens Clarke County Historic Preservation Commission voted Wednesday night to table a Certificate of Appropriateness application submitted by Milledge Avenue Development Group, LLC. The group wants to a new Sigma Chi fraternity house at 340 North Milledge Avenue, on the long-vacant site of the former St. Mary’s Hospital, between Meigs and Hancock. The tabling, which was recommended in the ACC staff report on the matter, will give the Milledge Avenue Development Group a chance to make design changes before again appearing in front of the Historic Preservation Commission. Neighborhood residents are upset over the prospect of a new fraternity house at this location, within the boundaries of the locally-designated Cobbham Historic …

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Rebecca McCarthy

9:02 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012

It would have to be that large to accommodate all the people who plan to live there, wouldn't it? It sounds tremendous....   more ›

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