Your Turn: Parents should look at the big picture with HPV shots
Jan. 31, 2007Apparently some people do not think it is important to prevent cancer. I was amazed to read in the article, Company pushes for preteen HPV shots
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Shedding light on dark matter
Jan. 31, 2007Dark matter exists, and a new associate professor at Ohio University helped prove it.
Your Turn: Post columns lack perspective, resemble 'idle chatter'
Jan. 31, 2007Prominently displayed on the first page of each Post are the editorials, giving students the unique opportunity to address social, cultural and political concerns. Unfortunately this opportunity is being wasted on a regular basis. During a time with such turbulent events affecting our lives, I consistently read columns from students who seem to be lost in their own world.
Editorial: Necessary measures
Jan. 31, 2007The axing of four sports by Ohio University was unfortunate but necessary. We can argue about whether it was fair to the athletes but it had to be done. Like most of the recent university administration's decisions, it was swift, brutal and without debate. It might be a bitter pill to swallow, but in this moment the university is right.
Broken Chords: Music for Midterm stress
Jan. 31, 2007The walls are moving in, my mind is jumping and thoughts of a sweet, blissful death providing serenity from the madness that is the middle of the quarter become more attractive with every passing minute.
Student Senate to form athletic affairs committee
Jan. 31, 2007Student Senate yesterday demanded budget justifications, analysis of considered alternatives, and all memoranda and meeting minutes involved in the athletic department's recent decision to cut four varsity sports.
Living in a world without meat
Jan. 31, 2007Noodles with olive oil, steamed vegetables and a simple salad are the only things Ashley Eastman eats for dinner. Eastman, a gender dance alternative health studies major, has been keeping away from any animal product for three years.
Swimmer talks food, Speedos
Jan. 31, 2007Parkersburg, W.Va., native and junior swimmer Cy Moser has helped the Bobcats (5-2, 2-2 Mid-American Conference) to its best regular season in Coach Greg Werner's tenure and recently sat down with The Post's Matt O'Donnell to talk superstitions and Speedos.
Study to decide airport site
Jan. 30, 2007The Gordon K. Bush Ohio University Airport will be among the airports studied by the Ohio Department of Development this year in an effort to determine where a regional airport could be created to serve parts of southeastern Ohio.
Senate to form Athletic Affairs committee
Jan. 30, 2007Student Senate yesterday demanded budget justifications, analysis of considered alternatives, and all memoranda and meeting minutes involved in the athletic department's recent decision to cut four varsity sports.
Your Turn: Team cuts reveal inaction to gain alumni input
Jan. 30, 2007Dear President McDavis and Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt,
Guest Commentary: OU will lose valuable support with its 'swift, faulty' decision
Jan. 30, 2007To Ohio University leaders,
'Cats to put home record on the line against Rockets
Jan. 30, 2007Even with a big home game on the horizon, the bitter taste of what they've done ' or not done ' on the road has been tough to get rid of for the Bobcats.
Tales from the laundry room
Jan. 30, 2007Mothers don't wash students' laundry at Ohio, but many Bobcat athletes will tell you they're fine with that ' they have Ryan.
Your Turn: Hobby of 'hogging' victimizes, devalues obese women
Jan. 30, 2007I am writing to increase awareness of a serious societal issue. I realize it pales in comparison to hunger or poverty, but sizism leads to true victimization. This is seen specifically through instances of hogging. It's a term that describes situations in which men go out to find and engage in sexual relations with overweight and/or ugly women. This is apparently seen as a game to these men; whoever finds the biggest one wins.
Windows Vista to be available for students at lower cost
Jan. 30, 2007Although Microsoft released its new Windows Vista operating system yesterday, Ohio University students won't enjoy the view for another few months.
Review: Dench, Blanchett hit career-high 'Notes' in 'Scandal'
Jan. 30, 2007No one gets shoved into a bookcase until the final act of Richard Eyre's spectacular, scintillating Notes on a Scandal, but the unbearable tension is palpable from the second Judi Dench purrs her first narrated words.
Athens looks for new city planner
Jan. 30, 2007For the third time in eight months, Athens is advertising for a city planner.
Smoking ban fires up vets
Jan. 30, 2007Some Ohio veterans are fuming about the statewide smoking ban, though enforcement of the regulation could be months away.The ban puts the survival of Veterans of Foreign Wars posts at stake because it will decrease business at posts that already are hurting monetarily, said Ohio VFW state commander William Seagraves.
