With Parents Weekend looming just around the corner most students are beginning to eye the monstrous pile of dirty clothes and the mess accumulating in their dorm or living room. If bearing down and cleaning seems just too awful to face, there is another option. Give the parents little time to criticize the chaos by keeping them busy.
As students across the country make the transition from home to college, they often bring one essential item to help them ease the process: faith. Ohio University offers several outlets for these students to stay active in their religions, such as the Newman Community, Young Life and many others.
Since college is a place where people can finally have their independence and make their own decisions, there is no one to tell them to do their homework, how they should dress and where they can and cannot go. Yet, the one regulation everyone may regret giving up is what they consume.
While living in Athens, not many Ohio University students encounter a Hindu monk. However, Wednesday, May 27, OU students and Athens residents had the opportunity to hear the wisdom of one such spiritual leader.
New technological upgrades are being introduced in multiple platforms at Ohio University for the 2009-2010 school year.
The university, with all its end-of-the-quarter hassles and ultimatums, has students panicked. It seems there’s nothing that can muzzle the monsters at the end of the quarter — except maybe the Athens Book Center.
The FBI has named Toledo, Ohio, one of the leading areas for children as young as 9 to be entered into sex exploitation. Globally, 27 million people are involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which has lasted over four centuries. Belts Breaking Bondage, a student organization that makes stylish belts out of donated fabric and donates 80 percent of the proceeds to an organization dedicated to stopping the sex trade, brought in Theresa Flores on Tuesday, May 19 to discuss her experience with the sex trade.
OU students have anxiously been awaiting the start of the fest season, and this past weekend was the Mama of all: Palmer Fest.
Nestled between Artifacts and Fig Leaf, a crazy window display greets customers of Ski’s Teases as they descend a steep set of stairs on the corner of Court and State streets.
Stand-up comedian Maria Falzone used lewd humor and personal stories to emphasize the importance of safe sex to Ohio University students Tuesday.
For many Ohio University undergraduate students, marriage is the last topic on their mind. Caught up in the whirlwind of the college dating world, students often choose to postpone marriage for several years. A few OU students, however, have chosen to take the plunge before graduation and are glad that they did.
The class of 98 students sits alert as one of their fellow classmates takes the stage. He walks up to the front of the room and, with a smile, begins. While his joke lasts only 30 seconds or so, it receives hearty laughs and encouraging claps from his peers. With this jovial start to the two-hour class period, the students take out their notebooks and prepare to listen.