At a public forum for the local Ohio House seat yesterday, one candidate stressed the importance of alternative energy while another voiced his disagreement regarding Ohio University students' voting in Athens.
The distance between Gardena, Calif., and Athens is 2,334 miles. For Boo Jackson, a few old friends and some new teammates made the gap much more manageable.
Ohio University's Scripps College of Communication has been named Ohio's first Center of Excellence in the Cultural and Societal Transformation category, state and university officials announced yesterday.
The unlikely coordination of an American rock pianist and a British novelist might have found its perfect match in Ben Folds and Nick Hornby. The transatlantic relationship between the songsmith and the pop music-obsessed writer culminates in the release of Lonely Avenue, an album of lyrics by Hornby set to music by Folds.
In an attempt to meet the needs of students in the College of Arts and Sciences and University College, a new advising center for social sciences has been opened on the first floor of Bentley Hall.
Before the advent of social media, bands advertised their shows with posters and flyers. Today, bands are personally marketing their shows to fans with Facebook invitations.
I hate those days when nothing ever seems to go my way: My hair went flat, there was a pop quiz, I got in a fight with my roommate, etc. It seems like those days occur more often than the awesome days where everything seems to go right.
A man convicted of aggravated assault and felony murder in June 2009 was denied his application yesterday to reopen his appeal.
As a cold and rainy autumn approaches, a little common sense might be just what the doctor ordered.
Bars are an institute of their own in Athens. Frequenting one or more throughout the week can definitely put a serious dent in your budget. With more than 20 bars near campus, it is easy to find somewhere to spend your cash. However, many bars have specials to help ease the pain when you see your tab at the end of the night.
The beginning of this year marks many changes at Ohio University, particularly that of the newly activated noise ordinance. The Athens Police Department has taken a new approach to dealing with unlawful noise; police will still take citizen complaints about noise, but are now issuing warnings and citations to residences they determine to be producing unlawful noise.
Ohio University's Scripps College of Communication is the state's first Center of Excellence in Cultural and Societal Transformation, according to a news release from Ohio's Board of Regents.
Athens city is expected to appeal a court ruling this month that essentially overturned a Board of Zoning Appeals ban on a Stimson Avenue strip club.
A former Athens County Democratic Party Chairwoman, who was charged with two counts of falsification in January, filed an appeal brief with Athens County Court of Common Pleas last week.
Despite Joe Germano and Ian Dixon being mere sophomores, coach Ryan Adams knew he could trust the pair as starters for his Athens Bulldogs.
An ordinance authorizing $145,000 to be spent on a project that would create safer walking routes for Athens City School students was discussed at yesterday's Athens City Council meeting.
Sunday, I couldn't make any more excuses. After five years of trying to deny it, I started to believe the opinion of so many others: Carson Palmer is overrated.
Two weeks ago, there were 11 tornadoes in Ohio, and one touched down in Athens County. Athens High School's football field was destroyed, about 300 homes were damaged and the event was declared a local emergency. Because a good portion of the residencies hit by the storm were mobile homes, they were ruined completely.
In an attempt to avoid the intimidating, 2-foot-high pile of homework on my desk, I looked up my name on UrbanDictionary.com yesterday. For those who are unaware, UrbanDictionary.com is a website where users vote on definitions for a word, moving the most popular definition to the top of the page. Because anyone can write a definition, they range from the bland, Webster Dictionary definition to just plain bizarre.
Women on campuses nationwide are taught to walk home in groups at night and learn self-defense to prevent sexual assault and violence. However, men, with whom much of the violence is actually starting, receive little of the same education about sexual violence.
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