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Softball: Marshall comeback leads to 2 Ohio losses

A slow but steady rally by the Marshall Thundering Herd turned an 8-2 third-inning deficit into a 9-8 second-game victory on their way to sweeping the Ohio softball team in Tuesday's doubleheader.



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City questions legal standing in retirement suit

A May 5 hearing will determine if two Athens residents have legal standing in a lawsuit that questions the validity of city ordinances permitting construction of a debated retirement center, according to an April 14 journal entry by county Judge Michael Ward.


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Bobcats play host to Retrievers today

The Ohio women's lacrosse team does not have to stray from its home field for the rest of the season and it is doubtful that anyone on the squad is complaining.


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Fielder learning to lead

Centerfielder Willie Walker has emerged to become one of Ohio's most dependable players with his range of abilities as the Bobcat baseball team steams through its schedule.



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Do as I say ...

A fund-raising gun advocacy group, Friends of NRA, played host to a banquet at Nelson Commons less than two weeks ago, and raffled off memorabilia, camping equipment and, most significantly, firearms. To be fair, the guns were not loaded and exceptions to OU's policies governing the possession of firearms on campus can be made for artistic reasons or other reasonable circumstances, according to John Burns, OU director of legal affairs. Despite the responsible oversight of the Friends of NRA, OU should reconsider its approach when handing out exemptions to its policies, lest it rightly be accused of hypocrisy.


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Language barrier no barrier at all with help of basic human kindness

My lack of money and planning meant that I'd be staying in Ohio with the snow for spring break. Aware of the fact that I knew passable Spanish, my mom asked for my help. It wasn't quite phrased as a request, more like payment for all the cooking I had blackmailed her into doing (Mom


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SOLICH'S DUI CHARGE: E-mail raises questions

This week was supposed to be the second installment of a two-part series on why boxing is lame and how the Ultimate Fighting Championship soon will overtake boxing as the most exciting display of fisticuffs in the United States.


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Prize-winning playwright to share 'vision of world'

The first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in theater will address students, faculty and Athens residents at 7:30 tonight in Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium as a part of the Kennedy Lecture Series.


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And we're spent

March 2006 is officially the U.S. government's highest spending month of all time. The Treasury Department revealed last week that the federal government spent $250 billion in March, which surpasses the previous record set only a month before. Two consecutive months of record spending only add to an already staggering budget deficit that should concern any American. Worse, this reckless spending is taking place under an administration and Congress that calls themselves conservative.


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Column: 'Oppressed majority' is fearful of change

I will preface this column by stating that I'm neither a liberal nor a conservative. When it comes to political philosophy, it seems that I can hardly support any of the two extremes because there is no sense in rigidly following an absolutist ideology. This preface is necessary because the content of this column likely will be misinterpreted.


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Independent labels give bands freedom

Independent music labels are a financial risk for bands and businesses, but the ability for creative control make them worth the struggle, area artists and national record founders say.


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Dancers put hips in hookah bar

Gypsies and belly dancers use their gyrating hips, pounding bongos and quivering tambourines to hypnotize hookah smokers every Tuesday night at Shishah Caf+

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