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Council takes on myriad of city problems

Trash removal, skate park funding and amendments for two current staffing levels were topics of discussion of last night’s Athens City Council meeting.



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Punishments given by courts should be equal

Domestic violence in a marriage can haunt both partners long after the courts get involved to protect the man, woman and their children. Court-ordered restraining orders serve as a common tool for women to protect themselves against physically and verbally abusive men. The key, however, is to respect the protection a court saw fit to grant.


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It's all in the meaning

As a person of the pen in many forms, I have found semantics is perhaps the most important of all aspects of writing. As a columnist, I have tried to push the dialog on issues that are very important to me, but responses have varied widely. Aside from the couple of "interesting" letters — such as the man who said women are the cause of one-third of all wars — I think most of the differences come down to semantics.


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FCC eases limits on media ownership in party-line vote

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators voted yesterday to allow companies to buy television stations reaching nearly half the nation's viewers and to own newspaper-broadcasting combinations in the same city, relaxing decades-old rules against media concentration.



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Dean evaluations responses up, but not high enough

Although the response rate from faculty members has gone up significantly, many people still feel the annual dean evaluation process needs a little "tweaking," said Ohio University Provost Stephen Kopp.


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Council eliminates noisy truck problem

Truck drivers will no longer be allowed to use engine brakes within Athens City limits, council members decided unanimously at last night's meeting.


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Jungle Brothers, Black Sheep to perform

Athens will play host to a rare performance by a pair of nationally known hip-hop acts, which local rap promoters and artists hope will spark an interest in the medium.


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Open Stage encourages musical diversity

Step into any Athens bar or coffee shop and one likely will hear music drowning out the gulps of java and alcohol. Folk, roots rock, punk, jam-based rock, indie rock, even hip-hop — Athens is a town with music for nearly everyone.


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Search begins for Rudolph's hiding places, legal battle brews

MURPHY, N.C. - Suspected Olympic park bomber Eric Rudolph, a 36-year-old former soldier and survivalist, remained under heavy guard in a county jail yesterday as federal agents in camouflage headed into the surrounding woods once again, this time hoping to figure out how he eluded them for five years.


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Redshirt gives Ohio more depth for 2003

Earning third place in the senior national tournament, first place in the state high school tournament at the 152-pound weight class, and finishing 10th in the nation at the same weight according to www.intermatwrestle.com, Ohio wrestler Vinny DiGiovanni has shown he has potential.


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Graduate students rally support for network in Ghana

Manfred Ashiboe-Mensah and James Agbodzakey, Ohio University international-studies graduate students, came from Ghana to the United States for education, but realized being abroad was the perfect opportunity to network and rally support for a non-governmental organization in Ghana: Save the Lower Volta Network, or SALVONET.

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