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'Low-key' drama better than its trailers depict

For a lucky few, graduating means getting a job and starting a career. For most others, graduating means having to take a terrible, low-paying job for months before finally being able to start out in the real world. Adventureland tells the story of one such graduating student who has to get a job working at a rundown Pittsburgh amusement park in 1987.



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Fluoridation risks cause scientific, public disputes

Ohio University freshman Ibriham Alassaf first began researching fluoridation his senior year of high school after hearing about it on a radio show, and is pushing City Council to end the practice.


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OSU reports meningitis case

Less than a month after two Ohio University students were diagnosed with the infection, Ohio State University announced that a female student has a confirmed case of bacterial meningitis.


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Administration inflated as other OU employees laid off

I am a little confused and maybe someone can explain to me what is going on. As most everyone knows there are layoffs at Ohio University because of the budget, but what I am having trouble understanding is that if OU is in such a budget crisis, what was the ad in the Sunday paper for a director of retail for the vice president for Finance and Administration? I think that is Bill Decatur's Office. I think he has a number of assistants, and yet he needs more. There is something wrong with this picture. When he lays off all the people who keep the university up and running, is he going to go clean a dorm, fix an overflowing commode, or clean up vomit in the stairwell? I don't think so. Ohio University is overflowing with chiefs, and we are slowly running out of Indians. I have talked to Dr. McDavis and Mr. Decatur before about other things, and neither one of them has ever gotten back to me. But Dr. McDavis and Mr. Decatur have college degrees, and I am sure they know what they are doing.


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Buck up

Ohio University's Student Senate has forgotten its role: to represent the student body.


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Senators insult students' knowledge of trustee actions

On Wednesday, April 1, I attended a Student Senate meeting for the first time so that I could show my support for the proposal to add a vote of confidence in the voting members of the Board of Trustees to the May 16 Senate ballot. As a student at Ohio University, I feel that I should have the right to at least voice my opinion about the people who wield the most power here at OU. Much to my surprise, and dismay, 22 of the 34 Student Senators did not feel the same way; their main argument being that the students of Ohio University do not have the knowledge or understanding of the Board of Trustees to form such an opinion. Well, to those 22 senators, I say to you that I do have the knowledge and that your feeble arguments were insulting to all of those whom you supposedly represent. Wednesday night, 10 students came to the Student Senate to show their support of this proposal. Ten students who asked to have the chance for their voice to be heard; 10 students who you denied a voice. On Wednesday, 22 of you chose not to represent those who elected you into a position of power; but fear not, you will have the chance to redeem yourselves next week. We will be back.

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