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New OU honor society off to a 'slow start'

Though it was founded almost a year ago, it’s been a slow start for a new women’s and gender studies national honor society at Ohio University.

African-American artifacts traveling museum rolls into Athens

For Clifton J. Brown, what started as a personal hobby has grown into much more than that.

Sports Column: Manning converts nonbelievers after stealing Super Bowl

Less than a month before the NFL season began, New York Giants’ quarterback Eli Manning set the football world abuzz when he proclaimed that he considered himself in the same class as New England Patriots’ quarterback and future Hall-of-Famer Tom Brady.

Women's Basketball: Height doesn't pose a problem as senior guard Benson hauls in boards

A player that stands 5-foot-9 is usually not expected to lead a team in rebounds. Conventional wisdom says players with that stature handle their roles away from the inside scrum.

Fracking: Legislature creates caucus to calm concerns plaguing Ohioans' minds

With hydraulic fracturing looming in Athens’ near future, state and local officials hope that an Ohio caucus will help strengthen “relatively weak” shale oil and gas drilling.

Student Senate: Exec board highlights latest projects for Winter Quarter

About 3,200 tickets were sold for the fast-approaching Wiz Khalifa concert as of Monday morning, which is more than the number of people who attended last year’s B.o.B. concert, Ohio University Student Senate President Kyle Triplett said at a news conference Monday.

Guest Commentary: Ghanaian 'heartman' makes journey to Athens

Many in Ghana affectionately call him Ghana’s “heartman” in apparent bemusement for what he does for a living — opening the torsos of those with ailing hearts and fixing them.

GSS to participate in running, spooning contests at Relay for Life

Ohio University’s Graduate Student Senate members are slipping on their running shoes for the fight against cancer this spring.

Hockey: Ohio's struggle continues on ice as tournaments loom in future

For an Ohio team in need of a U-turn, this week can only be described as urgent.

OU's chapter of St. Jude campaign lending a hand with letter writing

Every day, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital treats 260 patients, many of whom are unable to pay for treatment, but the hospital never turns anyone away.

Ohio University Students Against Fracking seek GSS support

Housing plans weren’t the only topic of discussion at Monday’s Graduate Student Senate meeting — members tackled hydraulic fracturing as well.

Parents should OK sweetheart's stay

My boyfriend and I have been dating for two years. We have decided to live together. We know that my parents would not approve of this. Should we tell them now, later or not at all?

GSS comes to resolution on Housing Master plan

Despite major concern about where displaced graduate students will crash after a long day’s work once the Wolfe Street Apartments are razed, Graduate Student Senate supported Residential Housing’s Housing Master Plan at Monday’s meeting.

Aiding Athens: Sam's Gym

Sam Jones, a 71-year-old kickboxing champion, has been keeping kids off the streets of Glouster by teaching them how to box. Sam's Gym, a boxing gym started by Sam's father and grandfather, is free and open to anyone.

New way to solve problems available at OU

When it comes to settling a dispute, mediation may not be the first thing that comes to Ohio University students’ minds.

The World Spins Madly On: Current lifestyles take a heavy toll on our planet

Although we are privileged in many ways to live in such an exciting time, we are also held accountable for many horrible things that take away from our world’s beauty. In a state of oblivion, we are wasting resources and ruining our environment. We are destroying not only our own living standards, but also the standards of millions of plants and animals with whom we share this earth.

Campus group hoping to expose chocolate's dark side

Chocolate and extreme poverty are words that aren’t often synonymous, but to some people in Third World countries, chocolate can mean slavery, poverty and exploitation.

The Rundown - Feb. 8, 2012

OU alumna captures Barbie's 'unglamorous' side

A set of black and white photos will cast light upon Barbie’s moments of pain just one month before the doll’s 53rd birthday.

Crowning Life's champs

Editor’s note: This is the second in a five-part philanthropic series profiling nonprofit organizations in Athens County.