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Your Turn: Free speech closer than ever

Oct. 23, 2007

Free speech has been a hot buzz topic on campus for almost a year now. As a result of discrepancies in administrative action toward students and ambiguity in the Use of Outdoor Space on the Athens Campus policy, Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. Kent Smith charged Student Senate to create a committee whose main purpose was to review the current policy and report any recommendations. Representatives from Student Senate, Graduate Student Senate and Students for a Democratic Society drafted these recommendations for the administration and presented them at the end of spring quarter last academic year. We had been anxiously awaiting a response until meetings reconvened fall quarter. After several drafts and situational disagreements, Dr. Smith presented his proposal to the committee last week. Expressing my enthusiasm and happiness would be an understatement in comparison to the commitment to shared governance and students that Dr. Smith has portrayed in his suggestions. The idea of an open campus for free speech and expression is closer to a reality thanks to these recommendations. Policy changes take time, but now with executive administration support, the process should move quickly and hopefully the policy will be implemented by spring. I would like to publicly thank the Committee on Free Speech for the countless hours spent revising the policy and Dr. Smith for his support and genuine interest in student rights.

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Your Turn: Returning to 'Constitutional roots' is a way to get back on track

Oct. 23, 2007

The Constitution was not and is not meant to be the be all to end all. It was meant to be a framework through which the government could be regulated, yet still allow it to change with the times. Article V of the Constitution is there for a reason, to give it the ability to grow with our nation. However, the fact remains that many of the government institutions that exist today do so outside the bounds set forth by the Constitution and its current amendments.

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Your Turn: With Athens' vegetarian options, there's no excuse to eat meat

Oct. 23, 2007

In response to your article Vegetarians find love at first bite (10/18/07), it was wonderful to read about Ohio vegetarians finding romance in Athens. While nobody likes the idea of limiting their dating pool, it's understandable why vegetarians would prefer to date each other over their meat-eating counterparts. Across the board, vegetarians benefit from lower levels of cancer, stroke, heart disease, impotence (that's right, cholesterol stops the flow of blood to all vital organs) and recent studies even show that they smell better! It's true. According to the National Institute of Health, results of repeated measures analysis of variance showed that the odor of donors when on the non-meat diet was judged as significantly more attractive

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The Word From Wales: Lack of foreign-language skills doesn't deter study-abroad student

Oct. 23, 2007

I was cold. I was tired. I was hungry. But I didn't care. I'd just spent the day in Rome, and then I headed two hours north by train to Viterbo, Italy, to stay with a friend from Ohio University who is studying there this semester. The original plan had been for me to call Marshall when I left Rome, but of course my cell phone, which was supposed to work, did not. So it was on to the contingency plan that we'd made over AIM the night just before I left Swansea. I'd chuckled before at the thought of actually following it but couldn't have been gladder that we had it.

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Editorial: Milking more money

Oct. 23, 2007

Card key locks, lots of closet space and a sink in every room. These are the fevered dreams of those condemned to live on campus. The remodeled rooms of Adams, Biddle, Johnson, Read and Bromley Halls seem to the outsider the closest thing to the holy grail of rooms. Clean, comfortable and above all, air-conditioned, many a student have fought to gain the right to live in these residence halls. But these dormitory darlings now carry a larger price for the privilege of university hospitality.

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Your Turn: Kathy Krendl should not underestimate 'power of democracy'

Oct. 22, 2007

In response to Kathy Krendl's recent e-mail to the student body, I would like to comment that the tone of her e-mail (particularly the second paragraph) came across as very condescending. I do not know enough about the no confidence votes that have been given in the past year to have been directly involved, but I do know that when both the student body and the faculty of an institution are both saying something is wrong with the administration, then they're probably right.

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The Great Mantra

Oct. 22, 2007

Pushing the strange yellow and red foods around their plates, the students whined and grumbled ' This food is gross

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Wikipedia ethics

Oct. 22, 2007

Most professors warn their students to avoid citing Wikipedia as a source. Others, apparently, have their OAK IDs traced to anonymous Wikipedia edits.

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Book bind

Oct. 22, 2007

A plan to help some of the busiest, hardest working, financially burdened citizens who are seeking to better the world through higher education? What a concept.

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Ohio alumnus dedicates book to Athens' ghostly history

Oct. 22, 2007

Ghost stories are always fun to tell around this time of year, and now Ohio University students and Athens residents can get into the spirit of Halloween with a new book dedicated entirely to OU's ghastly ghosts.

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Ohio's sports teams bring fans pain, disappointment: O-H, the agony

Oct. 22, 2007

Face it, Indians fans ' after the Tribe lost Game 5 of the American League Championship Series to Boston, you had to have seen it coming. Playing Games 6 and 7 at Fenway Park against the only team to ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in Major League Baseball's postseason should have been enough to give you a sick feeling in your stomachs.

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Your Turn: African Americans have contributed to region for a long time

Oct. 22, 2007

I would like to take the time to respond to a few of the comments made by Roger Anderson. I was very disturbed about many of the comments that Mr. Anderson wrote. He mentioned that in its 200 year history, the presence of African Americans is new to Athens and to Southeast Ohio. This type of comment really upsets me and shows the ignorance that many on the OU campus share, students and faculty alike. African Americans have been in this area for hundreds of years. They go by different names or titles, so to speak, such as WINS, Tri-racial, or Melungeon to name a few. Many offer various shades of Blackness, but we are here. We are a unique culture that continues to live with the poverty, lack of educational opportunities and the racism in this region. Without us, many slaves would not have escaped to freedom. Without us, the coal industry and the steel mills would not have been as successful. Without us, Ohio University would not have a Community and Campus Days, the African American Research Institute and the project that the African American Studies Department is working on, entitled the African American Presence in the Ohio River Valley. As you have seen, we have contributed greatly to this region and to Ohio University. Maybe I should not just blame Roger Anderson. I should also put the blame on the faculty, students and staff at OU. Many programs at OU have failed many African Americans in this region. I have personally given presentations on my people in many classes and I am always shocked to hear that no one knew that we existed in Southeast Ohio or in the rest of Appalachia. OU needs to realize that it has a commitment and a chance to educate many of us in this area that are first generation or potential first generation college students. In closing, I challenge any of you that want information about African Americans in Southeast Ohio or Appalachia to e-mail or call me. If I cannot answer your question, then we have many genealogists and professors in the local community who can.

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