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Responding to SGA Prez

Seemingly in response to the opinion piece attacking SGA last week in the Red and Black, SGA President Katy Bowers has an opinion piece today entitled “SGA requests opinions of all”.
I have quite a few comments about her opinions, so I am going to post my responses line by line.
Creating change in a community of [...]

UGAKey.com Online, In Much Better Form

The Key is back online, and it wasn’t SGA that put it up. See UGAKey.com.
This new version of The Key is quite amazing, and really easy to use. It has data for classes from 1999 through 2007, including info for new plus/minus graded classes.
Here is the press release regarding the new site:

SGA Puts Up Crap Version of Key

SGA recently put online a horrible version of The Key:
The 2006-2007 Key is now online!
To access grade distribution information click on the resources for students icon. This year, courses have been categorized alphabetically by the first letter of the course.
SGA’s venerable webmaster (Wonder if this took him the 6 hours he claimed?) put online 8 [...]

The Key in the R&B

Two weeks ago, Josh Weiss lashed out at the SGA for failing to update The Key, the grade record previously kept up-to-date by the University. Here’s the backstory:
However, for all intensive purposes, The Key is dead.
After Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness Bob Boehmer crippled the online database of grade distributions in spring 2006 by [...]

Where to find The Key

Last year the University of Georgia administration took down The Key, a grade reporting website. The Student Government Association was charged with putting The Key online, and they have failed.
As such, the editor of the Ruddle Report, Paul Ruddle, has made available an Excel file with the 1999 through 2006 Key data.
If you would [...]