With the NCAA Softball Tournament approaching, the Mid-American Conference prepares to send two teams for the first time. Central Michigan earned the conference's first ever at-large bid, and Bowling Green won a spot thanks to its status as MAC Tournament champions.
In 2001, the media marveled at the fact that both the best actress and best actor Academy Awards went to black actors. Denzel Washington won for his role in Training Day
Starter Bova keeps Bobcats competitive, saves bullpen
NEW DELHI -Manmohan Singh, whose humble origins inspired him to start the reforms that opened up India's economy, was named prime minister yesterday, ending weeks of turmoil that culminated with Sonia Gandhi's refusal to take the post.
NEW DELHI -Sonia Gandhi said yesterday she would humbly decline to be the next prime minister of India, a decision that stunned her supporters and followed Hindu nationalist outrage over the prospect of a foreign-born woman leading the nation.
With the new university center under construction, women on Ohio University's campus are beginning to plan a center of their own.
Ohio University's next president said yesterday he would like to nearly double research spending to $100 million during the next five to eight years to propel the school into the ranks of top-tier research universities.
When Ohio drivers receive their licenses, they face only one restriction on passengers -everyone in the front seat of the car must wear a seat belt. If the Ohio Department of Public Safety has its way, however, young drivers will have to abide by a new law that would allow only one passenger, other than family members, for 16-or 17-year-old drivers. While groups like the AAA Ohio Motorists Association claim the regulation would reduce risk for young drivers, teens and parents across the state are trying to halt this legislation. Wishful thinking leads to the belief that the one-passenger law will improve driving records. In reality, the new rule leaves drivers and law enforcement at a dead end. It's neither enforceable nor realistic.
The Twenty-Something Party won the four executive positions for senior class council elections, which took place yesterday.
In the beginning days of the season, seeds have been planted and patches of green have sprouted throughout the Athens Community Gardens, hinting at promises of a good gardening year.
Who is a minority and what is diversity, and why are neither of these very prevalent on the Ohio University campus?
Black people are the only people in this world that have no country -no place to call home. America rejects them. Sadly, so does Africa.
Two executive candidates for the Boston Tea Party might not be on the ballot in Thursday's Ohio University Student Senate election.
Fifty years ago, whites and blacks were segregated into schools the Supreme Court determined to be illegally separate but not equal. In Ohio today, minority students' schools are often separate and rarely equal. Now, however, the inequities are legal.
A savage Scotsman, a Victorian woman with a clubfoot, an androgynous timekeeper, a vicar, biological entrepreneurs and archaeologists are the characters in the Ohio University School of Theater's latest production, Fullest Vigour.
For years, students and faculty have been fighting to make the women's studies certificate program a major.
Ohio University students, faculty members and a staff member were recognized for their efforts to foster diversity on campus Monday night. The first annual Brown v. Board of Education awards ceremony was the culmination of the day-long commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that desegregated schools.
Wiped from the pages of the Western hemisphere's collective memory, the sorrow-laden Palestinian narrative of suffering and injustice has been forgotten. The memory of more than 400 demolished villages and 750,000 Arab refugees fleeing from Israeli militias in 1948 have been erased by the Israeli government to discredit the internationally recognized right of the Palestinian people to live freely and independently in their own state.
The Ohio softball team's season came to an end Friday in a close loss to Kent State in the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
With visions of academy awards and blockbuster screenplays dancing in his 16-year-old mind, Ohio University junior Dusty Wilson was inspired to pursue red carpet success the night Matt Damon and Ben Affleck struck Oscar-caliber gold with Good Will Hunting.
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