Students to help grant child's wish
May 13, 2007For their birthdays, many young boys ask for the newest toy or video game. Seven-year-old Shane Bernier's birthday wish is to break a world record.
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Student group favors fee reallocation
May 13, 2007Student Senate's General Fee Advisory Committee voted to reallocate $570,000 from different Ohio University departments last night, with athletics taking the biggest cut.
Protestors divided along ideological, racial lines
May 13, 2007Officials in the College of Education encouraged students to support Ohio University President Roderick McDavis in a counter-protest Friday, which pitted black pro-McDavis protesters against the overwhelmingly white Students Against McDavis.
Your Turn: OU community quick to pass judgment on current administrators
May 13, 2007Liberal, cry-baby bigots.
Editorial: Zealous change
May 13, 2007The Post endorses sophomore Will Klatt for Student Senate president.
Your Turn: Despite positive findings, report of decreased cheating 'hard to believe'
May 13, 2007Recent articles in The Athens News and The Post have reported what appear to be significant decreases in academic dishonesty among OU students especially in the undergraduate population. Cheating decreased by half in one year for undergraduates from 44.7 percent to 21.6 percent and for graduate students, 17.7 percent in 2006 to 13.7 percent this year. Percent of faculty observing academic misconduct dropped from 68.3 percent in 2006 to 52 percent this year. Although encouraging, it appears that cheating is still at a relatively high level. Also for those faculty reporting these observations, were they serious enough to be reported to judiciaries, or were they based on suspicions and went officially unreported?
Your Turn: OU administration should accept Strickland's higher education compact
May 13, 2007Earlier this year Gov. Ted Strickland released his first budget, which includes new proposals for institutions of higher education. Receiving a higher education is a key to future success in the increasingly competitive workforce; however, college is becoming less accessible to the average citizen.
Your Turn: Columnist has wrong idea about gun control speech
May 13, 2007I respect people's rights to have whatever opinion they wish to have about any given subject. However, I do have a problem when people give flat-out wrong information, especially when the information is printed in the newspaper. I am referring to Rainy Phrompechrut's article, Eliminating gun control promotes kill-or-be-killed society.
Baseball: Ohio shortstop, weekend starters making transitions
May 10, 2007When Zach Hartle took over for injured shortstop Hayden Johnston on April 18, he had played in 13 games and had a .172 average.
Editorial: Free to speak wherever
May 10, 2007Free speech zones at Ohio University are nothing new, but they're in the news again thanks to United Campus Ministry's Free Speech Zones discussion and the ever-present activism of Students for a Democratic Society. Ohio University has 22 areas that can be specifically reserved by anyone who wants to say anything. They include locations such as College Gate, West Portico and the Howard Hall site. The problem is that if there are 22 areas where totally free speech is allowed, there are countless areas where it is not.
Your Turn: Bill also 'hypocritical, cynical'
May 10, 2007Ken Brown (May 2 letter) criticizes the Partial Birth Abortion Ban of 2003 because it prevents women from choosing their own best treatment in consultation with their physicians. The bill should also be criticized for its appalling cynicism and hypocrisy.
Your Turn: Conservative Week meant to air not-often heard opinions in Athens
May 10, 2007I'm addressing some issues in Cloud's column on Conservative Week. Let me ask this, would he have a problem with a diversity week? For Conservative Coming Out Day
Your Turn: 'Robustly armed citizenry' not answer to VT tragedy
May 10, 2007In response to the Virginia Tech tragedy a number of letters and opinion pieces have appeared in these pages observing that, had the students at Virginia Tech been armed, they would have been able to defend themselves and stop the killer before he had killed so many. One cannot deny that this is so. On the basis of this observation, the writers of these letters and essays recommend that we allow students to carry guns on campus, that as a nation we arm ourselves in ready defense against madmen such as the murderer at Virginia Tech.
Your Turn: Crowd's reaction to evangelicals less than 'thoughtful, intelligent'
May 10, 2007I am writing to express my sincere disappointment with the recent behavior of some members of the Athens community. Along with a small crowd of others, many of them students, I had the opportunity to witness the quixotic preachings of some evangelical Christians near College Gate. While there are a lot of things I choose not believe in, like God or Hell or Sin or Evil, there is one thing that I do believe in: the fundamental freedom to speak one's mind and peaceably assemble. As evident by the crowd's behavior, it would seem that many in this community do not share this belief with me. As members of the Ohio University community, with ostensibly liberal and progressive tolerance, I expected more from them than heckles and occasional, thankfully unheeded calls to violence. I felt a twinge of shame from the banal and hypocritical volley between these preachers and the crowd. If the crowd felt it necessary to respond to the evangelicals, I would venture to guess that thoughtful, calm and intelligent rebuttals exist; yet, apparently no one in the audience possessed the constitution to find one. I hope this behavior is the exception, not the rule.
Illegal file-sharing stunted, says CIO
May 10, 2007Peer-to-peer traffic at Ohio University has been almost completely eliminated, said the university's chief information officer.
Your Turn: Brown's opinion fails to include crucial information
May 10, 2007In a May 2 letter to The Post, Dr. Kenneth Brown wrote that the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 threatens a woman's right to make personal medical decisions and that it leaves women with only the alternative of turning to procedures that are more dangerous than partial birth abortion.
Death penalty lawyers face unique risks, challenges
May 10, 2007In local attorney Herman Carson's office there are pictures of an inmate wearing a blue jumpsuit. His name is Keith LaMar.
Unhooked
May 10, 2007Editor's note: Only first names were used for students interviewed for this article because of the personal nature of the story.
Graffiti workshop provides lesson about hip-hop art
May 10, 2007The Ohio University chapter of the Hip Hop Congress wants you to know hip-hop culture is about more than just rap music.
