Girls with dreadlocks and nose rings and guys with dilated pupils, pay attention: Johnnyfrankcranks, a feel-good, reggae-inspired band, is ending its five-year run and playing its last show Friday at O'Hooley's Pub, 24 W. Union St.
WASHINGTON -Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid called yesterday for a swift vote in the Senate on legislation to expand federal support of embryonic stem cell research, and he criticized President Bush for opposing the measure.
Last Thursday, a woman I greatly admire, Phyllis Schlafly, visited OU. As many of you know, Schlafly is a conservative and anti-feminist activist; the title of her speech was The Failures of Feminism. She is most famous for waging a successful battle against the Equal Rights Amendment -a feminist project defeated in 1982.
SANTA MARIA, Calif. --The defense rested yesterday in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial without putting the pop star on the stand, wrapping up after a three-week effort to portray the accuser and his mother as shakedown artists.
Similar to its ominous namesakes stomping on pianos and breathing fiery guitars, The Beast and Dragon
For Ohio women's lacrosse coach Kate Brew, motherhood and coaching created a tough scale to balance.
On college campuses throughout the country, political affiliation significantly correlates to a person's levels of religious engagement and views on spirituality, according to a recent study.
With recent debates about what to do to sustain Social Security, some have suggested completely doing away with it in the future. They say people can save their own money, it's too expensive and it was never meant to fund workers' full retirements. Before people make any decisions about their views on Social Security reform, they should seriously consider what the country would be like without it.
I am writing today about the Ohio House Bill 91, which the Ohio University Student Senate opposes as stated in the May 19th edition (Senate opposes concealed guns). Although I do not agree with the senate's position that allowing weapons on campus will make the school more dangerous, the body does bring up a few interesting points about students who are disliking of firearms having to live with people who have potential weapons.
Some Ohio University students either have completed or currently are completing their housing contracts for the 2005-06 school year.
With a grizzled beard and disheveled hair, Tony Santone paced around the store as he talked.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -A car bomb exploded next to a U.S. Army convoy in Baghdad yesterday, killing three soldiers, and another American died in a drive-by shooting a half-hour later. Their deaths pushed the number of U.S. troops killed in three days to 14, part of a surge in attacks that have also killed about 60 Iraqis.
Competing agencies in the Athens rental world are unified in one respect this year: filling vacancies in next year's housing lineup.
In recent weeks, high schools from Athens' surrounding counties have received notices that local admission standards will change for Ohio University's 2009 academic year, after administrators said the current policy is a disadvantage to students.
Though Larry Reese made his first trip to Ohio as the first of four candidates for vice president of Finance and Administration, he found he had some unexpected links to Ohio University.
The 2004 season was one to forget for not only the Ohio football team, but for Brad Young.
WASHINGTON -Ignoring President Bush's veto threat, the House voted yesterday to lift limits on embryonic stem cell research, a measure supporters said could accelerate cures for diseases but opponents viewed as akin to abortion.
When interleague play in Major League Baseball began as an experiment in 1997, the Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds were able to face each other for the first time ever during the regular season. The match up was quickly named The Battle of Ohio
Many of Ohio's female student-athletes have Thomas Boeh to thank for their opportunity to play intercollegiate sports. In his 10 years as Ohio's director of athletics, Boeh made great strides in making Ohio's athletics program gender equitable.
Ever since the day I turned 16, I've relished the independent solitude found behind the wheel of my car. But when I moved into the dorms as a freshman, I was forced to leave my car behind and join the thousands of others who have only their two feet as their primary mode of transportation. Coming from an area swallowed in urban sprawl, I had been used to driving anywhere I wanted to go, and I wasn't sure how I would (or if I could) adjust to having to walk everywhere.
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