Ohio University tuition: $8,235 per year. A standard double dorm room: $3,855 per year. A meal plan offering 20 meals weekly: $3,831 per year. Cost to get into an Ohio baseball game: free.
For the Ohio softball team, there may be nothing more challenging than a game away from home.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is leading his party's charge to resort to the nuclear option to push judges through potential Senate filibusters. If the option is adopted, Senate rules could be changed to allow a 51-member vote to end filibusters, as opposed to the normal 60. This potential move is totally uncalled for and could, if executed, haunt Senate Republicans down the road.
College was not on 13-year-old Bryan Warman's mind, nor was his future career. In fact, all he wanted was a future. He wanted to live.
Forty miles east of Athens, one murder remains a mystery. And those who have answers are not revealing much -per the request of one movie director.
Last weekend, my friends and I got together to watch a movie. I brought my copies of Legally Blonde and Mean Girls
Walking around campus, it is hard to miss Ohio University students showing off their trendy destroyed jeans.
Well-tailored treatment program assists non-violent drug offenders F or years, Athens has regularly permitted a treatment option in place of a felony conviction for some first-time drug offenders. The program continues to generate controversy because of its perception as a lenient response to drug-related offenses, but a quick perusal of the qualifications an offender must meet to be eligible shows that it weeds out the more dangerous criminals. This, coupled with the growing nationwide problem of prisons being overcrowded with small-time drug offenders, justifies the use of programs like Athens'.
This weekend I road tripped into enemy territory to find out if my preconceptions of our rivals are true. I felt compelled to experience the popped-collar nation of Miami University. It was a mission to decide whether the stereotypes were justified or exaggerated.
Nothing compares to the raw energy you experience at a concert, especially if one of your favorite acts decides to make a pit stop in Athens, but booking the band, fighting through contracts, dealing with last minute changes and making sure the show runs smoothly requires skill and communication between many people behind the curtain.
(U-WIRE) -I have mowed a lawn once in my life. It took me twice as long as it usually takes my father, and when I had finished, it looked twice as bad. Not only that, but I also turned a perfectly acceptable pair of sneakers into chlorophyll-colored foot ornaments. Needless to say, no one ever asked me to mow a lawn again.
More than a week has passed since Pope Benedict XVI was chosen as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, but concerns regarding his well-known conservative policies remain.
(U-WIRE) -Throughout the past several weeks, there seems to have been an epidemic of selective outrage about the alleged ethics violations of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas.
The Ohio baseball team was washed out once again last night and will travel to face West Virginia 7 p.m. tonight.
The Ohio Secretary of State has reversed a decision from July 2004, now allowing touch-screen voting machines to be purchased by Ohio precincts in compliance with the Help America Vote Act.
If the Ohio House version of the 2006-2007 budget and past actions of the legislature serve as any indication, more funds meant to help prevent smoking in Ohio will be redirected to fill in the holes of the state budget.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -Newspapers suing for photos of uniformed police told state Supreme Court justices yesterday that an exemption in Ohio's open records law is so broad it would prevent anyone from identifying law enforcement officers.
Jana Miller's life came to a screeching halt Jan. 24, 2004.
For most, Spring Quarter is nearly synonymous with flip-flops. Of all of the trends that have swept our campus, few fail to unite such a diverse group.
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