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AFC North Nation: Thursday Night Football doesn't keep players' safety in mind

By Adam Wondrely | Nov. 7, 2014

If you have been watching the NFL throughout the past decade, you can tell that the refs have become a little more trigger-happy with their flags. These yellow flags are supposed to represent Commissioner Roger Goodell’s concern for the players’ safety.The term “hitting a defenseless receiver” has become all too common in the NFL in recent years. I understand they don’t want the defensive players destroying a guy because he is vulnerable, but how are you supposed to play the game nowadays if you can’t hit someone hard? The sole reason why these guys get paid so much is because what they do is dangerous. Fines have been too frequent lately. Each fine is based on how much the player gets paid, and the penalty is priced accordingly. But if player safety is such a concerning factor for the Goodell, why add another game (Thursday) to the weekly schedule?The NFL is where modern day gladiators go to battle as entertainment for us. It’s comprised of some of the biggest, fastest, most athletic men in the entire world, and they line up against one another and hit each other in the head for a couple of hours. There is a reason the NFL only has 16 games while Major League Baseball has 162 — the human body simply can’t take beatings the way these NFL guys do on a consistent basis.I love the idea of a primetime game; it gives America a chance to zone in on one game and gather around to enjoy America’s favorite sport. But we already had that with Monday Night Football. Altering the schedule to have a game on Thursday night is just a ploy to put some more money in the NFL’s pocket.If a team plays on the previous Sunday, then the players would only have three days of practice and rest before they have to go out onto the field and put themselves at risk again. But I guess it’s okay, right? Because Goodell is allowing more flags to be thrown.Sure, it’s their job and they get paid like kings, but I think it’s wrong to give these guys another game to go out there and destroy their bodies just a little bit more. However, this goes with the issue about penalties and fines. If you’re going to fine someone for endangering another player, but you add another game onto the weekly schedule, that screams hypocrite to me. Goodell is all over the place, and it seems like he is losing a grip on things. He already did a horrible job dealing with the Ray Rice incident earlier this year, and he was the one who instilled this new Thursday Night Football gimmick that only allowed DirecTV users to watch the game.The NFL needs to end Thursday Night Football and go back to the normal schedule. He is letting his greed get in the way of really keeping these players safe.Adam Wondrely is a senior studying creative writing and journalism. Email him aw922910@ohio.edu

Cassie Fait

AfterTASTE: Cell phones cut off personal communication

By CASSIE FAIT | Nov. 7, 2014

I was seated at my favorite Japanese steakhouse restaurant, Shogun. The chef was performing intricate maneuvers, twirling knives and catapulting shrimp at individual plates. It was amazing, but when I looked around the table, patrons with illuminated faces were staring down at their gadgets. These people are missing the spectacle. Half the enjoyment of a Japanese steakhouse is the visual presentation of the food.

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Editorial: Congratulations to Thomas Suddes, professor and mentor

Nov. 7, 2014

Thomas Suddes, an assistant professor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, a longtime Ohio political reporter, a dear friend and mentor to many of The Post staffers, will be inducted into The Press Club of Cleveland’s Hall of Fame on Friday.The selection could not go to a more deserving person.He’s established as arguably the most knowledgeable person on Ohio politics. He spent about 20 years covering Ohio legislation for The Plain Dealer and ran the newspaper’s Columbus bureau from 1988 to 1990.He’ll be the first to tell anyone he was nominated for The Press Club of Cleveland’s Hall of Fame because of how long he worked in the city, not because he was particularly special. But we beg to differ. He’s one of the most humble journalists we’ve encountered, and he sets an example for us that has been modeled by Posties for the past 15 years.Chances are, if you’ve worked in the Statehouse throughout the past three decades, you’ve had an interaction with Suddes. He is revered by those he writes alongside and by students he teaches here at Ohio University and is respected by those he covers.Suddes has critiqued our content since the beginning of the last decade and has been integral in helping Posties land internships and jobs throughout the country. We really can’t thank him enough for all he’s done to help us forward our publication and our careers.From all of us involved at The Post, we would like to wish Dr. Suddes a warm congratulations for a much-deserved induction and a continued thank you for everything he helps us with.Rock on, Suddes.Editorials represent the majority opinion of The Post’s executive editors.

Bailey Breece

Societal Sexism: Feminism should include transgender women

By Bailey Breece | Nov. 7, 2014

In October, a Filipino woman was discovered dead in a motel bathroom, her head hanging over the toilet. Time Magazine reported that a U.S. Marine is suspected of murdering her by strangulation and pushing her face into the toilet water. Her name was Jennifer Laude, and she had been seen with the Marine checking into the motel before her body was found. According to the article, condoms were found in the trash in the room.

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Letter: Discord exists between tuition hikes, OU values

Nov. 7, 2014

The themes, discussions and assignments in a majority of my classes at Ohio University all have some components pertaining to social inequality and stratification. In Cultural Anthropology, my notes read: there is a 70 percent chance of staying in lower economic class if you were born there; an essay prompt in American Literature asks me to “make sense of ethical systems” that pertain to colonization; and this week I gave a presentation on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. My question then becomes, if the curriculum (albeit in humanities) at OU is asking me to question the status quo — to ask questions pertaining to social inequality, inaccessibility and stratification — then why does the cost of attending the university literally prevent people from engaging in the process of critical inquiry? There is discord between what is being taught at the university and what is being expected from the student to attend the university.The university expects $22,068 per year from freshmen. Included in tuition is the mandate to purchase a meal-plan (the lowest, Traditional 10, costing $3,581 per year) and pay into a general fee (estimated $1,256 for Academic Year 14). The biggest chunk of the general fee money, 34 percent in fiscal year 2013, was used to pay for “Intercollegiate Athletics and Operations.” That would be approximately $427 and would take around 53 hours to pay off washing dishes in the Nelson dish-room.Equally frustrating is the increase in tuition yearly and simultaneous increase of compensation for administrators. This year, a proposal was signed to raise tuition by 1.5 percent, raise fees for campus housing by 3.5 percent and raise meal plan cost by 1 percent. According to The Post, 17 percent of the increase in tuition went to pay raises for OU’s top 10 highest-paid employees. McDavis received $118,730 combined pay raise and bonus this year (last year, tuition increased by 1.6 percent and he received a $97,050 bonus). An increase in tuition means an increase in administrators’ compensation.Last April during campaign season, I remember spewing out facts similar to these to students on campus and us uniting in our bafflement, frustration, anger, and fear. This fueled the election of RESTART into Student Senate. Senate passed a resolution on Oct. 8 demanding a living wage for student workers, no more tuition hikes and an end to “gross excess in compensation” for top administrators. If the student body is still as frustrated, confused and frightened by the undemocratic nature of the university, then we need to pick the discussion back up and rally behind these issues. We must be active. In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire writes that “an act of violence occurs when one party does not allow the other to think critically.” We deserve to have the opportunity to think critically without being subjected to poverty wages and lifelong debt.Madeleine Toerne is a student at Ohio University.

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