'The Comebacks' features offensive jokes, not worth seeing
Oct. 23, 2007The Comebacks has all of the entertainment value of beating yourself over the head for 90 minutes.
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[b]Ailing Athens:[/b] Rolling topography, infrastructure create problems
Oct. 23, 2007Generations of Athens officials have pieced together the city's central infrastructure for more than two centuries, from dirt roads to a Great Depression-era storm water system to modern city buildings.
The Yellow Line: Modern women are over-stressed, over-drugged, under-treated
Oct. 23, 2007Lately, I've been so busy that I've considered switching over to two-in-one shampoo and conditioner to save time. That tension headache has reappeared at the bridge of my nose, and my eyelid is doing that vibrating thing that makes me look slightly deranged. It's definitely the end of the quarter, and ' as usual ' I took on far more than I could handle.
Rockies' streak will be tough to break, even for Sox
Oct. 23, 2007The winner of the 2007 World Series: the Colorado Rockies.
Close games lead to victories
Oct. 23, 2007Ball State might have been down with barely any time left, but the Cardinals didn't let up.
Defensive specialist sacrifices travel plans, returns to The Convo for 2nd senior year
Oct. 23, 2007Volleyball player Janice Matacic thought that she would be backpacking in Europe or visiting her sister in Asia this fall.
Cursed in past, Boston enters as series favorite
Oct. 23, 2007It's often said that history repeats itself. In the case of the 2007 World Series, the past is likely to do so.
Your Turn: Free speech closer than ever
Oct. 23, 2007Free 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.
Your Turn: Health care works 'well enough' for each governmental branch
Oct. 23, 2007In response to comments made by Joe Vance in his column The Voice of Reason in Thursday's edition of The Post:
Your Turn: Returning to 'Constitutional roots' is a way to get back on track
Oct. 23, 2007The 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.
Your Turn: With Athens' vegetarian options, there's no excuse to eat meat
Oct. 23, 2007In 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
The Word From Wales: Lack of foreign-language skills doesn't deter study-abroad student
Oct. 23, 2007I 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.
DJs feel the audience, 'take it to another level'
Oct. 23, 2007Whether remixing on stage at The Union or spinning records in a booth in Baker University Center, disc jockeys, more commonly know as DJs, in Athens bring life to the party.
Editorial: Milking more money
Oct. 23, 2007Card 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.
Your Turn: Kathy Krendl should not underestimate 'power of democracy'
Oct. 22, 2007In 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.
Your Turn: Citizens for Community Values are focusing on the wrong things
Oct. 22, 2007I've heard all the arguments for censoring adult entertainment establishments and forcing them to comply with a new law that requires midnight closings and no touching between exotic dancers and customers.-
The Great Mantra
Oct. 22, 2007Pushing the strange yellow and red foods around their plates, the students whined and grumbled ' This food is gross
County being sued over local homes' sewage block
Oct. 22, 2007A local couple has filed suit against the county for at least $25,000 after a blocked sewer line filled their home with four inches of sewage in March.
