Baseball: Senior enjoys new winning feeling during record-long hitting streak
Apr. 7, 2008Matt Stiffler is in the midst of his most memorable season as a Bobcat, and it has nothing to do with his current team-record 22-game hitting streak.
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Schaus named athletic director
Apr. 7, 2008Wichita State Athletics Director Jim Schaus will take over Ohio University's athletic department on about May 1.
Movie: King Gimp
Apr. 6, 2008April is diversity awareness month and this is one part of socio-economic awareness week.
Athens resident charged after false hold-up at Kroger
Apr. 6, 2008An Athens resident was arrested at Kroger late Thursday night after allegedly making false claims of being an undercover police officer and having a machete.
Baseball: Offense explodes against Rockets, 'Cats take series
Apr. 6, 2008With the Toledo defense resembling something out of a baseball bloopers video, the Ohio offense took advantage with an offensive explosion yesterday.
The Invisible Men and Women Among Us
Apr. 6, 2008April is diversity awareness month and this is one part of socio-economic awareness week.
Can't Touch This: Boycotting Olympic Games in Beijing would bring attention to human rights abuses
Apr. 6, 2008It's 2008, which is a year that's divisible by four, and you know what that means. No, not presidential elections ' that's old hat. This year, the Olympic torch will travel through mountain high and valley low to the mysterious, smog-infested land of China. Exciting stuff, huh? I can't wait to see athletes lacing up their track shoes and snapping on their filtration masks before they start running through the Beijing air, which had an average sulfur dioxide content of 80 micrograms per cubic meter in 1999, according to the American Embassy to China. In contrast, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the healthy level of environmental sulfur dioxide is no higher than 50 micrograms per cubic meter. In recent months, there have been allegations that the Chinese government manipulates its air quality statistics, just like it manipulates its economic statistics and its demographic statistics to put itself in a more positive life. However, the fact that Beijing's air smells like rotten eggs and might be detrimental to athletes' health is not the point.
Solving the Ohio Health Care Crisis
Apr. 6, 2008Dr. John Ross, a former president of Physicians for a National Health Program and teacher of internal medicine at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo, will speak with the main author of Health Care for all Ohians Act Bob Smiddie. The discussion will be about the need for a single-payer system and the savings it could bring to schools and government. The ability to sign a petition or ask questions is available.-
Finalist visits OU, could take Hocutt's place
Apr. 6, 2008Jim Schaus, a finalist for the top job in Ohio University's athletic department and current athletics director at Wichita State University, will tour the Athens campus today in his second round of interviews, the head of the search said yesterday.
Pancake lucks out in coin toss
Apr. 6, 2008A coin toss decided the winner of the March 4 Democratic county commissioner race after votes were recounted Saturday.
Furniture upended on Congress
Apr. 6, 2008Two North Congress Street houses were broken into early Thursday morning with furniture left overturned.
Kicks for needy kids
Apr. 6, 2008Students looking for unique footwear can design their own original shoes and help children in need tonight at the South Pole at the TOMS Style Your Sole event.
Your Turn: Forum discusses health care
Apr. 6, 2008Solving the Ohio Health Care Crisis will be the topic of a public meeting today at the conference room of the ACVNA, 30 Herrold St. Every week, 14 people die in Ohio because they do not have health insurance. John Ross, M.D., past president of Physicians for a National Health Program and a practitioner and teacher of internal medicine at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo, will discuss and illustrate the need for, and benefits of, a single-payer system. Bom Simiddie, main author of Health Care for all Ohioans Act (a current initiative petition), will discuss the significant savings to local schools and government with a single-payer plan. Come to sign a petition, ask questions and join in the discussion. For more information, call Arlene Sheak, Southeast Ohio SPAN at 592-1879, or see
Green With Envy: Tire incinerator not answer for Erie
Apr. 6, 2008Being a native of Cleveland, I frequent the beaches of Lake Erie during the summer. I live particularly close to Mentor Headlands Beach, and if you face north, the view makes it seem as though the lake is endless. When one of my friends got her senior pictures taken at the beach during high school, she took me to the other side of the beach to show me exactly where they had been taken. I had never been to this side before, which faces east and was beyond some trees, because it wasn't the kind of beach for tanning or playing volleyball (the sand was mostly covered in what could be called large rocks or small boulders ' ouch). I looked across the horizon, and what I saw startled me ' it was the Perry Nuclear Power Plant.
The Course of the Nature in Clay Exhibit
Apr. 6, 2008Location: Multicultural Center Art Gallery, Baker University Center
Winter rains prove flood system stable
Apr. 6, 2008Upcoming April showers can wash away May flowers as the spring months roll into Athens.
Your Turn: Patronize all burrito vendors
Apr. 6, 2008Oh, the glorious day! Chipotle finally arrives and showers the student populous with its blessings of free burritos. This was a day I had long looked forward to, but as I stood in line to receive the great offering, the talk among most people was about their other favorite places for a burrito fix nearby. I noticed several patrons casting a sad, almost shameful glance over toward a certain buggy and there was worried conversation that a great Athens institution may be in jeopardy. I, however, feel that the three other burrito joints on Court Street can coexist if we as a whole choose to support them equally (after all, Taco Bell and the Burrito Buggy both survived just fine right next to each other and Chipotle is much more expensive than Taco Bell). Here's a pledge that I encourage all Athenian burrito fans to take; for every Chipotle item you buy, swing by the buggy or Big Mamma's for your next fix. If enough of us do this, I think all three will thrive and the Burrito gods will smile upon our fair city.
Golf: Men finish 15th, women 7th at rain-shortened events
Apr. 6, 2008The rain-soaked golf course may have suggested otherwise, but there was no precipitation on Mark Phillips' parade ' until he stepped out from under his umbrella, that is.
BREAKING: Schaus to be named new athletics director
Apr. 6, 2008Current Wichita State athletics director Jim Schaus will be named Ohio University's new athletics director today.
OU postpones computer registration plan
Apr. 3, 2008This story has been corrected from its original version.
