Editorial: Students are still living through a pandemic. Bring back the S grade.
Most of us have felt it by now.
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Most of us have felt it by now.
Just three months ago, the future of The Post seemed bleak.
It’s a sad, cliche but universal truth: the COVID-19 pandemic has upended life for everyone in some capacity. At The Post, we’ve felt that impact in more ways than one.
At the center of journalism is fairness and balance. Those ethical pillars drive every story, interview and so on. Through those ethics, journalism’s No. 1 mission, above all else, is to give the unfiltered truth to the people.
Clarification appended.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted college life in practically every way, and Ohio University students are no exception to that.
All journalists are taught to be silent on topics that are deemed controversial — to take a fair, balanced and unbiased approach to reporting. Although these factors of journalistic reporting remain true, there comes a time where journalists need to look at themselves in the mirror and decide to take a stand on basic human rights movements.
Correction appended.
In the past week, Ohio University moved to online classes for the remainder of the semester. It came as a shock to all students, especially seniors.
Daily budget meetings, records requests, interviewing students around campus, seeking out stories ideas and localizing them: this is what student press freedom looks like to The Post.
News that Ohio University fraternities were suspended quickly spread across campus and the nation on Thursday.
We are well into the first week of October, meaning school has been in session for over a month. The first month of college is a monumental transition or exciting return for Ohio University students.
When we first caught wind that Ohio University’s annual Throwback concert would be moving forward despite the resurfacing of rape allegations against Sean Kingston, we knew we had a decision to make as a publication. Would we also go forward with our coverage of the event?
As Ohio University students, we were disheartened and surprised by a tweet that has circulated on social media recently. Several white OU students quoted a Vine that included the N-word and implied that black people are going to steal from a store. The video, and the people who were involved in it, told a message that black people are not welcome at our university.
Why ‘The Post’ decided to explore what is around city of Athens
When someone walks into a classroom or enrolls in a class, they most likely do their research on the professor in charge. They might go to ratemyprofessors.com or do a quick Google search to see what they find about that professor.
It is the duty of a public institution to hold itself to high standards of truth and transparency. And as one of the state’s largest public institutions of higher education, Ohio University owes it to itself — but also to its tuition-paying students — to be honest about how the university makes crucial decisions.
As an editorially independent student publication, we count ourselves lucky to be able to operate at an arm’s length from our university in order to report objectively on issues that matter.
In a nation that doesn’t seem to find much common ground, we can take some degree of solace in knowing that the importance of education is something we tend to agree on.
This November, Ohio voters have the chance to change the way the state addresses the relationship between drug offenses and the criminal justice system. And in the midst of an overcrowded prison system and a statewide opioid crisis, it is clear that changes must be made.