Football woes cancel spring classes
By Asad Dawg / Student Publications
After a football season to forget, spring semester classes have been cancelled. Football players will still be graded for their workouts.
University[sic] of Georgia President Michael F. Adams has announced the cancellation of the spring semester due to the poor football season.
"We lost to Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, even Vanderbilt on our Homecoming. It doesn't seem as though there's any point to continue the year with such a poor record from the Bulldogs," Adams said.
The termination of the second semester of school is nothing new and has been employed under a variety of different circumstances. In 1980, the last and only year that U[sic]GA won a national championship, the school cancelled the second term of school.
"There was nothing else to accomplish. As far as I was concerned, we had done our job and delivered on the school's main goal," said Garnett S. Stokes, Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Science.
In the one bright spot of the season, the Bulldogs upset then No. 5 Auburn last week in front of a stunned Jordan Hare Stadium.
Still, the school could not accept this as enough to merit a reconsideration of their decision to close the school.
"Kentucky! I mean, seriously? Who loses to Kentucky?" Adams said.
Students overwhelmingly agreed with the decision and came out to support the administration's choice and their reasoning behind the determination.
"This is a really good idea and verdict. Football is everything here and I just don't know how I can concentrate in the middle of class when I am thinking about our quarterback controversy and our inability to win close games," said Billy Goatmez, a sixth year Romance Languages major.
The main concern of the administration was the cancellation of other sports and their seasons.
"It seemed as though we might be hurting the other sports when we cancelled the rest of the year but who really cares about basketball anyways? Not like we win at that either," Adams said.
