Several nations, the United States included, are worried about a developing technology offered by Google, Inc. that allows users to view satellite images of locations around the world on the Internet. The most common concern is that terrorists could use the technology - known as Google Earth - to plot attacks, but such worrying is largely unwarranted. Overall, Google Earth is an exciting new offering from an innovative company.
In the United States, where even presidents and presidential candidates have admitted past drug use in their college days, it is only now that the previous no-tolerance Federal Bureau of Investigation is considering softening its admissions policy to allow minimal past marijuana use by its applicants. Although some senior FBI officials are crumpling their brows with frustration toward the lax policy, it is time for the FBI to accept changing cultural norms and to acknowledge that the frivolous experimentation of youth should have little merit on serious, qualified applicants in later years.
Every so often, we journalists must turn our gaze inward to examine our successes and our shortcomings. In doing so, we perform the important and necessary public service of getting everyone else off our backs for a little while.
A new program for recent recruits to Ohio University fraternities and sororities is designed to educate them on fundamentals of greek life, and it held its first session Tuesday night.
While Ohio University President Roderick McDavis continues to focus on improving the university's research endeavors, such an initiative could reduce faculty in the classroom, a problem McDavis said is solved through the research process itself.
Does anyone care if nobody cares? Billie Joe Armstrong asks in Green Day's rock opera, American Idiot.
Athens City Council held a work session last night to compile a list of conditions for the development and requirements of the National Church Residences retirement community.
Diamond grills, Bentley Continentals and chicks with double-Ds may be standard in the hip-hop world of the rich and fabulous, but Detrick Rhodes, a.k.a. L.I.F.E., only knows what it's like to be an average student struggling for his voice to be heard over the static in the mic.
While first-year undergraduate Learning Communities at Ohio University more than doubled this year, Student Senate addressed potentially creating upperclassmen communities at their weekly meeting last night.
Take a seat, George Lucas. Joss Whedon has trumped you with his freewheeling sci-fi western Serenity.
I am sure you all have experienced that nervous, giggly feeling of anticipation before attending an exciting event, like tea with Johnny Depp or perhaps a fabulous shindig (at Johnny Depp's French villa). Those particular fantasies might be unique to yours truly, but you get the gist.
Instead of tuning in to Adult Swim tonight, fans of Cartoon Network's off-kilter animated comedies can catch a character from the shows live in Athens.
Two open houses today will aim to familiarize Ohio University faculty and students and Athens residents with ideas for the future of university growth
The Athens County Regional Planning Commission will start drafting a comprehensive plan next year to replace one created in 1989.
A bill introduced by Rep. Jimmy Stewart, R-Athens, might increase the amount Ohio families receive from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families fund by $100 a month.
Alexander High School is spending $25,000 a year to implement a drug testing policy focused on reducing the number of students abusing drugs, especially prescription drugs.
Future construction projects at Ohio University, its financial appropriations for the next seven years and a shift in authority delegation policy will be addressed at today's Board of Trustees Executive Committee meeting in Walter Hall.
Northern Illinois football coach Joe Novak was very cautious in calling his team's Oct. 5 matchup with Miami a must-win game this early in the season.
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