Pedal-problems plagued my most recent and most ambitious victory lap yet. I decided, however ill planned, to ride out to Columbus Saturday, the day of Athens’ eighth annual C.H.U.D-Zombie-Mud-Fest (8Fest).
I have found that by the time guys are in college, they are often currently in a relationship, recently got out of one or are burned from a previous one.
The network TV season is slowly but surely coming to a close. For people like me, this means crawling into the cryogenic chamber for a deep, satisfying sleep before True Blood and Breaking Bad come on during the mid-summer. But for the networks it means only one thing: upfronts time.
Some passions come upon us suddenly; others begin with a small spark and grow in intensity over time.
The only person you can change is yourself. The best we can hope to do is act in a way that sparks a dormant idea in another individual.
I have not yet taken up a major cause in any of my columns, but I decided it was time to take a stand as the quarter is winding down on an issue that could soon affect all of our daily lives.
In journalism school and from working with talented journalists at The Post for four years, it’s been ingrained in my mind that I should never use clichés.
A bromance, according to the Urban Dictionary, is an unusually close and non-sexual relationship shared between two straight men.
The Hockhocking Adena Bikeway transported my pedal-playmate Dandelion and I to the Nelsonville Music Festival — my first since its inception seven years ago. It was nice to have a pedal-partner again; sure beats the hell out of solo cycling.
After attending the screening of The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks and Amer Ahmed’s lecture “Islam: Beyond the Myths, Breaking Down the Barriers” on Ohio University’s campus in the last few weeks, I feel I have received a thorough grounding in both sides of today’s heated debate about the legitimacy of Islamophobia.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or came to Athens yesterday, you know at least something about the Student Senate elections. We’ve all seen the signs, many have read about the candidates and some have attended the debates.
Editor’s Note: The following column contains a racial slur that might offend some readers.
(Visit ouvictorylap.tumblr.com to view pictures from the ride.)
When a girl like me is rejected by a boy, she often resorts to certain measures she will likely not admit to anyone, even herself.
During Spring Quarter, it is easy to get cooped up indoors. School is hard and transportation away from campus isn’t always easy to come by. Wanting to spend the weekends on Court Street is somewhat understandable.
We’ve all done a double-take these past couple days to wake up and see the sun shining not one, but two days in a row: a rare sight in Athens in the last month.
Peter Thiel is encouraging college students to drop out and actually do something societally productive.
Note: This is part two of a two-part series on college stereotypes. Part one featuring male college stereotypes is available to read online at The Post’s website.
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