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Post Column: Shifting Tides: Accepting uncertainty is a fulfilling change

Someone once intelligently observed, “People don’t change, they just become who they are really meant to be.” Half of March is gone from the calendar and the air of summer is sweeping through my veins. I become dumbfounded when I think of my first days in Athens at a very young 18, filled with negativity at a life I had to part with and accepting the one I wasn’t in the mood to begin.



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Postmortem: Too much depends on arbitrary age milestones

There are several important facets of law and order that we cherish dearly in America, like the plan of our nation’s founders that, regardless of vast shifts in societal norms and political culture over hundreds of years, is still completely relevant. We also hold true that communism is bad, democracy is good and the most effective way to deter crime and maintain a healthy society is to assign random ages of legality to various life activities.


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Post Column: Pope Francis has some new competition

For those of you who haven’t been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, we’ve got a new pope! If you have been living under a rock, seek help, because that’s not normal behavior, and you’ve probably got a disease.



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Post Column: Charity scheme hurts veterans, not bigwigs

Florida’s Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll resigned Wednesday after investigators questioned her about a charitable organization called Allied Veterans of the World, according to  Bloomberg Businessweek. The organization was a cover-up for a $300 million gambling scandal.


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Post Column: Two-Hearted another excellent Bell's brew

A few weeks ago, we ranted and raved about one of the beer world’s greatest treasures, Bell’s Hopslam. And we noted that it definitely slammed you with hops. Maybe you just like hops, or even like-like them. But you don’t love them like us or don’t appreciate being slapped in the face by them. Does that mean that you can’t enjoy a good IPA every once in a blue moon? Not if you can get your hands on one of Bell’s other fantastic beers: the Two-Hearted Ale.


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Video games not main culprit for US violence

So much of our entertainment and culture is centered on violence. It is shown in almost every form of media we have — music, movies, television, advertising and books among the group — yet video games are made the scapegoat.


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Post Column: Shifting Tides: Finding one's place an exhausting part of life

Five past midnight, Monday, March 11. I had ventured back to Ohio from an ethereal week in St. Augustine, Fla., and even though the cats of the town made me ill with their dander, spring break could’ve stayed with me until May and my life wouldn’t have been unlived. But my girlfriend made this return trip with me, so suddenly I felt I could be here without simultaneously being lost in a sea of nostalgia.


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Post Column: Expansion of high-school fishing good for sport

High-school sports are a great way for youths to be active while learning discipline, hard work, teamwork and the joy of competition, which is why Missouri is currently pushing to join Kentucky and Illinois as the only states to include bass fishing as a publicly sanctioned varsity sport.


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Weekly Rewind: Space exploration is a worthy human pursuit

Airplanes, automobiles and home appliances all became commonplace during the 20th century, but one particular development ranks among the invention of the wheel and the printing press: mankind’s first forays into outer space.


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Post Column: Pinterest: Keeping track of things you'll never make

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook as a way for people to network socially, and we all know how that turned out. Jack Dorsey created Twitter so the world could share the human experience as fast as the chatter of birds and it became just that, as well as an outlet for people to regurgitate what others have written and call themselves journalists as well as to passive-aggressively fight with each other through the use of vague public messages.


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Post Column: White House staffers have a sweet gig

Two weeks ago, something monumental happened: White House Chief Beekeeper Charlie Brandts retired. Which means that, for the aspiring beekeepers at OU looking for greener pastures, have at it! REPRESENT!

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