On this day in 2002 a crowded theater in Moscow was seized by rebels from Chechnya in what has come to be known as the Moscow Theater Siege. Some 40 to 50 armed Chechens who claimed to be a part of the Islamist militant separatist movement in Chechnya carried out this siege; however, those in charge of the Islamist group in Chechnya denounced it publicly.
Like students at countless colleges spanning the nation, odds are that you have been bombarded by a growing epidemic that for many goes either undetected or blatantly ignored. The toxic epidemic that I speak of is, of course, the electronic cigarette. The government has not brought down harsh regulations on this industry as it has with tobacco.
Dear Bedpost,
Many rumors are going around about who will play whom in the Marvel Universe. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was rumored to play several roles in the universe, including Guardians of the Galaxy’s Star-Lord or Peter Quill, the title character of Marvel’s Ant-Man and even the Marvel character Dr. Strange, but
What we are attached to says a lot about us and how we live. As Trey Anastasio sings in his song “Shine,” “You are what you lean on.” We are what we identify with, what we put our emotions into.
Maybe there is a way for humans to hear what ghosts are trying to tell them.
This week, the Ohio University Board of Trustees fielded questions from Faculty Senate, but has planned no similar events to engage students. In fact, among the past four years, I can think of no instance where the Board of Trustees made such an effort.
On this day in 1859 the famous raid on Harpers Ferry, Va., by abolitionist John Brown to seize the arsenal there and start an armed slave revolt occurred. This raid happened in the beginnings of the push for the abolishment of slavery, and both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, two of the most famous abolitionists, were asked to participate in the early stages of planning the raid. However, they both ended up declining as Tubman was ill at the time and Douglass believed that Brown’s plan would fail.
As much as I love games now, I was a late bloomer. I never had consoles as a kid, and I never desired to until high school. When I finally did buy my console, I also bought many of the big name games that had recently come out like
Dear Bedpost,
In the present day, each person is faced with a constant plethora of issues in which one is forced to deem whether something is right or wrong based on a chosen set of rules which we give credence to as morality. Some things are more cut and dry such as murder, stealing and rape. Others, like gender identity crisis in cases of those born with hermaphroditism and other genetic disorders, cannot be labeled so easily by categorized levels of what is moral, much in the same way they cannot be labeled in the biological sense.
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi word meaning “life out of balance." Few terms are likely to sound or look more foreign to most of us, yet it sums up our way of life perfectly.
Even though the new Thor film, Thor: The Dark World, will be released next month, most comic book film news lately has been centered on the new X-Men film, X-Men: Days of Future Past. iO9, an online publication that covers science and science fiction, interviewed Evan Peters, who will play the role of the mutant Pietro Maximoff, better known as Quicksilver. Peters is best known for staring in FX’s American Horror Story.
Today’s front page features coverage of a march through Athens and campus Friday that was organized by a student group seeking to change rape culture.
This week has been terrible. I have had either a paper due or a midterm in almost all of my classes and I have barely gotten any sleep – the bags under my eyes will tell you that.
A few days ago, I reblogged a text post on Tumblr that said, “I’m so boring if I had the power to stop time, I’d probably just catch up on TV shows.”
I have tolerated Homecoming for the past four years, but being alarmed by a 20-foot tall gyrating green man outside Baker while I was trying to eat my burrito is the last straw in the ridiculous exhibition that is Homecoming week.
Correction: This column has been changed from its original form. The editor does, in fact, know who Ohio is playing on Saturday.
The Denver Broncos are the best team in the NFL and have the best quarterback in Peyton Manning, but the time to win is now.
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