ThePalestra.com reporter Tiffany Wilson, right, interviews freshman Diana Steuber during a primary results viewing event in Baker University Center. Fox News and ThePalestra.com hosted yesterday's event, which included food, music and giveaways.
After playing six games on the road and compiling a 3-3 record, the Bobcats are prepared to play their first home game of the season.
For the second year in a row
Over the next few weeks, most students will be huddled indoors, in love with climate control and thermostats ' hoping for that first 60-degree day.
I was quite taken aback early Friday morning when I opened up The Post to see that Arcade Fire was in fact coming to Athens, Ohio. I heard rumors that such an event was occurring, but with the whole Dave Matthews Band is coming to OU fiasco, I didn't think such a thing could be true. When The Post confirmed such an event was taking place Sunday night, I was ecstatic and I immediately planned my entire weekend around seeing them play live, for free, in Nelsonville.
I was shocked to read in Monday's Post that students from such a progressive community as Athens would give NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement) a big ol' stamp of approval. Particularly after nearly all of the respected news authorities called NAFTA one of the biggest issues in this election because of the fact that Ohio was so adversely affected by its passing. It becomes clear to me after reading the paragraph in the editorial Obama by a nose that the staff of The Post, like many of NAFTA's most fanatical advocates, never read the agreement. According to www.citizen.org, NAFTA is essentially an investment agreement as opposed to a free trade agreement. The agreement has allowed investors ever-increasing favor over voting people and workers abroad. It is a one-size-fits-all agreement that all domestic laws in each country involved must adhere to, also according to www.citizen.org. It does away with protective tariffs, thus allowing, and arguably encouraging, investors to relocate to the Third World where the wages are far lower, and the standard of living is often deplorable. NAFTA and other agreements like it allow companies to take manufacturing jobs away from Americans and relocate to countries where cheap labor is exploited, child labor and other laws are lax, and families are forced to choose between sending their children to school or having them work to make ends meet, while corporations like Exxon post record profits (Exxon posted a quarterly profit of $11.6 billion last fiscal quarter, the biggest quarterly profit posted by any company in history). NAFTA has kept millions of families around the world in poverty and destitution in order to satisfy an insatiable corporate appetite. I implore the staff of The Post and anyone else who read the editorial to reconsider before hitting the polls.
After months of proposing change, Pat Kelly is one election away from the chance to reform the Athens County Sheriff's Office.
Knox County farmer Fred Dailey won the Republican nomination in last night's primary for the 18th Congressional District, outrunning his closest opponent by almost 5,000 votes.
Incumbent Congressman Zack Space will once again be the Democratic candidate vying for the 18th District's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Ohio Board of Regents 2007 Diversity Report (The Post, February 27, 2008) makes the diversity problem at Ohio's public universities very clear: White, non-Hispanics are greatly underrepresented. According to the Regents' report, they compose only 78 percent of university students statewide, whereas they compose 84 percent of the Ohio population according to the Statistical Abstracts of the United States (http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/oh.html). Multiplying university enrollment data provided by U.S. News and World Report (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/tools/search.php) by the percentages in the Regents' report reveals that the under-representation of minorities at three Ohio public universities, including Ohio University, totals 1,010 students, while the over-representation of minorities at nine other public universities in Ohio totals 11,964 students. This excess minority enrollment in nine Ohio universities statewide is considerably more than the entire enrollment at the University of Cincinnati.
Ohio's chances at a bye all come down to one game.
Mental health has become an increasingly prominent topic of discussion on college campuses, especially with the shootings at Virginia Tech last spring and at Northern Illinois University less than a month ago.
I have known Susan Gwinn for many years and know her to have a strong and tested commitment to our community. She has the breadth of legal experience and the in-depth understanding of the issues and problems of the people who live here.-
Ani DiFranco is a renowned folk artist and a prominent voice for feminism and gay rights. She will be performing tonight at 7 at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium as part of the Mountain Stage performance that will also feature moe., Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Paul Kelly and George Stanford. Tickets for the event range from $20 to $35 and are still available. The Post's Ashley Lutz recently spoke with DiFranco about springtime in Athens and her new poetry book.
It's no secret that John McCain is disliked in conservative circles. Whether it is because of his pro-amnesty stance on illegal immigration, his reputed hotheaded temper when dealing with interns and staffers or the media's unexplainable fetish for covering the travels of the McCain Straight Talk Express bus, McCain has a definite problem proving to conservatives that he is one of them. The thing is, though, if you have to remind and prove to people that you're a conservative (or a liberal, for that matter), you're probably not one.
As an alumna I have frequently touted the captivating, almost magical draw of Ohio University, Athens and the surrounding area. Having recently moved back to the area, several friends and I planned a weekend visiting our old haunts and saying goodbye to a dear friend who is moving overseas.
Democrats will have their choice of candidates in tomorrow's primary with seven people running for the Democratic Party nomination.
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