Two weeks after the journalism department hosted a week-long celebration of First Amendment rights, this publication suffered an infringement of its own freedom of the press. Last week, The Transcript ran stories on page one about the 50-Day Club at the Backstretch Bar and the possible installation of surveillance cameras in campus residence halls. (2) comments
The tension rose and tears filled eyes in Bishop Cafe on April 2 as students found the courage to share traumatizing sexual encounters to a room of strangers. Whether rape, sexual assault or the uneasy feeling of a consented sexual experience, young men and women spoke out at this session during Take Back the Night, sponsored by the Women's House, in hopes to put their pasts behind them. (0) comments
Junior Shahina Pohoomul, an international student from India, was physically assaulted on Saturday, March 28 by Caryn Cummins, a former employee of Chartwells, OWU's dining service, according to a Delaware police report. (0) comments
After a fear of penny pinching earlier in the semester, WCSA Secretary Megan Evans said the budget is stable, and the budget committee has been having success in funding additional programs for the campus community. The current budget stands at $22,864.77 after this week's requests. (0) comments
On April 20, frozen accounts and outdated technology will be a thing of the past when OWU trashes its 10-year-old, self-created Webmail interface for Google Apps. At the request of President Rock Jones, a 20-member IT Task Force of faculty, staff and administrators began a comprehensive evaluation of the University's technological capabilities inside and outside the classroom - the first substantial IT evaluation on over 10 years, according to Director if Information Services Jason LaMar - and recognized the need for an updated email interface. (0) comments
Slice of College Life presented admitted high school students with the opportunity to gain valuable insight into life as a college student while current OWU freshmen expressed the importance of their experience by hosting students this year. An event spanning two-days, Slice allowed for prospective students to attend classes and meet with various faculty members, staff, administration and athletic coaches. (0) comments
Upperclassmen will have to switch residence halls to make room for the 2009-2010 YearOne freshmen community, which will fill up Thomson and Bashford Halls. Assistant Director of Residential Life Julie Blaszak said YearOne is a program that takes a large number of freshmen students and houses them together with a higher ratio of Residential Aides (RAs) in order to create a supportive living and learning community. (0) comments
On Monday, April 13, there will be a candle lighting ceremony honoring those who died in the Holocaust and Darfur, followed by first-hand accounts from Holocaust survivors. John Koenigsberg, a child survivor of the Holocaust, will share his experience of being among the seven percent of Jewish children who survived in Nazi-occupied Europe; he was hidden by a Catholic family and arrived in the United States after the war at age 16. (1) comment
As the semester draws to a close, many students are finding their remaining food point supply puzzlingly low because of higher prices at Thomson Store. Freshman Anne Flowers said her food points seem to have disappeared. "I'm on the middle-sized food plan, and I go to Thomson often," she said. (0) comments
The "Who We Are" program allowed students to make signs about their identification as feminists and foster discussion about what "feminism" means. Students gathered on the JAYWalk on April 1 as a part of the program with a variety of signs, such as "I am a feminist, and I love men," "I'm a feminist, and I listen to rap" and "I am a feminist, and I watch What Not To Wear. (0) comments
Students may deepen their understanding of comparative politics, political economy and East Asian studies in the fall of 2009 when JiYoung Choi becomes an OWU professor. Danielle Hamill, chairperson of the Academic Policy Committee, said the APC presented the politics and government department's proposal to hire a new professor because it wanted to offer a broader world view of politics and economics. (0) comments
Students belted out their favorite lyrics last Thursday in Bishop Café for SAGE's (student awareness group for epilepsy) first annual lip-syncing contest. Students paid $3 for admission to participate individually or in groups and helped raise $80 for the Epilepsy Foundation of Central Ohio. (0) comments
The word "should" is used everyday. Students should do their homework, should go to class and should do their laundry. "Should" is an innocuous word, and even the faculty Academic Policy Committee (APC) has been thinking about 'should' and what it can mean to students. (0) comments