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This isn’t the plot of the latest Johnny Depp flick. No, it is something a bit more cuckoo than old Jack Sparrow. The title of this post, "Pirates Party, Shoot Each Other" is the exact title of the link on Fox News' homepage.

On a sunny, post-homecoming Sunday afternoon, when most Athenians are recovering from the night before, people on South Green are savagely beating one another with cardboard swords.

The best feeling in the world is knowing that you are a part of a collective group of similar-minded folks. The Fall Student Organization Fair, which occurred on September 7, was the go-to event for students to search for a home away from home. While some kiss-up to members for recruiting them, many resort to the ultimate diss, the “oh-no-you-didn’t:” the stink eye.

Here’s the thing. We all sat through those little B.S. high school language classes. I don’t care if you took Spanish, French, German or Swahili: if you didn’t care about being worldly your freshman year of high school, you didn’t learn or remember a damn thing. At least I didn’t.

Unless you've got a mom who's allergic to alcohol, you know Mom's weekend is just another campus-wide delegated drinking weekend--perhaps the best one.

Residents walk past her door at all hours, but few stop in to say hello to Nicci Delgado, resident coordinator of Washington Hall. This caring individual really loves to connect with residents and welcomes the chance to meet someone new.

Sitting under the roof of the covered patio just outside the welcoming doors of The Gathering Place, Janet Boring escapes from the rain while casually puffing on a cigarette and chatting with a few ladies as she relaxes in a macramé lawn chair.

Writing an article exposing the horrors of underage drinking in Athens was harder than one might think. Staring at Court Street, I longed to see hordes of 18-year-old zombie drunks.

Even conservative Catholic schoolgirls can feel empowered by their lady parts, and one of those girls just needed a vagina workshop to prove it.

It is an inherent fact that the music scene in Athens is swollen with talent, teeming with life, rife with opportunity and overflowing with a seemingly endless string of shows. Fantastic musicians alone, however, cannot efficiently carry a prospering music scene.

 

 

Washington, D.C., hardcore punk band Minor Threat often receive credit for spawning the straight edge mentality with the release of the song “Straight Edge,” which expressly states, “I’ve got better things to do than sit around and smoke dope.”

I feel really bad for Britney Spears. That stated, we have got to talk about what's been happening with her. Did you hear what our girlfriend has been getting into these past couple weekends? There are so many stories surrounding what went down, it's hard to keep them straight.

 

A college student is taking on the city system by becoming a vital member of its mechanics.

Vietnam, like many non-Western countries, offers a unique history and perspective, said Gerard Sasges, Ohio University’s new history professor, in a lecture given as part of the ongoing International Studies Forum Series.

Walking into a small house nestled between two large businesses on East State Street with a large sign in front that says "Psychic Readings," one would not expect something called normal.

When zombies are mentioned, most people immediately think of the living dead that feast on brains featured in gory B movies. Here at Ohio University, though, students think of brightly colored Nerf guns, bandannas and sock balls.

When thinking about a “pop star,” images are conjured of over–the-top celebrities; however, Yan Mencius is not the typical aspiring singer. This Chinese artist is a multilingual talent with aspirations that can burst the bubble of pop star stereotypes.

Resident director and full-time graduate student Nadja Beglerovic has embarked on a journey that has taken her from war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina to the United States, away from family and friends and to another life.

Whether students’ hometowns are five miles from campus or halfway across the country, they always remember where they grew up, where they spent long nights at friends’ houses and where they acquired all of the skills they need to succeed in this life-altering place called college.

Seemingly unsatisfied by the world around him, Professor Aethelred Eldridge has effectively created his own. Tucked away in Room 427 in Seigfred Hall lies a black-and-white themed refuge full of loose pamphlets, random manila folders and the sprightly old artist himself.

Under the calm foliage of College Green, students gathered in outrage this week to support those who have assisted them for so long. Student support for the union workers who were fired has swelled, leading to discontent, protests and picketing.

The old wooden floorboards in McKee House creak like swaying swings. International graduate student Adam Chen and I hear the footsteps above our heads in his downstairs office, his home away from home while he studies abroad at Ohio University.

It's a typical Friday night on Court Street: heels are clopping, crowds are chattering, sirens are screaming. But amidst all this undue noise and bustle, a man is playing a piano.

As the Pulse presidential candidate for Student Senate, senior Patrick Heery is passionate about putting the emphasis back on students, getting their voices to be heard and bringing substance back to Ohio University educations.

With his involvement in Students for a Democratic Society, Students for a Effective and Accountable Leadership and Students Against McDavis, sophomore Will Klatt is ready to stop protesting the authority and become part of it- by running for Ohio University’s student senate president.

If you don’t seem to be on beat with Pulse and you aren’t into the whole Toga thing, then Shane Tilton may be the man for you.

Chalked sidewalks are billboards; fliers are promotions, and T-shirts are supporters. With student elections come unknown names and parties, so how do students know for whom to vote? The TOGA party thinks they may have an answer.

STAND, the Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, has welcomed a new chapter of its national membership here at Ohio University. The group began during winter quarter this year and has already had an effect by its refusal to take injustice sitting down.

This week Ohio University students and members of the Athens community had the chance to experience a wide range of unique films presented by the Athens International Film and Video Festival. Twenty-three feature films and 133 competition films were shown at the Athena, the Athena Grand and Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, from April 27 through May 3.

The Athens Film Festival is sure to showcase some of the area's most unique films created by talented individuals. Ohio University’s own students Charla Barker, Matthew Kraus and Mariana Quiroga direct one such film, "How Ohio Pulled It Off."

"How Ohio Pulled it Off" will be having an encore showing this Thursday night at 7:15 p.m. at the Athena. The filmmakers will be present to answer questions and discuss the film.

The Athens Film Festival this year is showcasing 163 exciting films from artists literally around the world. But who decides on those 163 films - only one-fifth of all films submitted for entry?

“I always knew I was going to write. I think in my family it was rather presumed that you were going to teach,” said Joan Connor, director of creative writing and professor of fiction, who has spent her entire life as a writer and an educator. Like many of the professors of writing here at Ohio University, Connor has won a number of awards for her writing.

With infamous stereotypes about sororities and fraternities, Ohio University’s chapter of Alpha Phi Omega shatters these labels and contributes what they can to the Greek life on campus.

One of Time Magazine’s “Best Inventions of 2006,” “Science on a Sphere” is a pioneer in film technology. A movie titled “Footprints” was created in 2006 for this revolutionary technology, and OU’s own Andre Gribou composed the soundtrack.

From the Baker Front Room to Donkey Coffee, students all across campus gather to enjoy musical shows, performed not only by established traveling groups, but by their own talented classmates, as well.

Every day, a student somewhere on campus sits in front of the television -- not to watch a re-run of “America’s Next Top Model" or another thrilling feat on "Fear Factor," but to watch the news.

Husband, father, faithful Christian, part-time homeless man. Each of these phrases describes Keith Wasserman, an Ohio University alumnus and the founder of the local center for the homeless called Good Works.

'Rick Okeefe, Athens' very own “piano man,” greets Court Street walkers and stumblers on most weekend nights with a piano, a friendly smile and a knack for improvisational jazz.