then-Ohio State third string quarterback Cardale Jones tweet out his frustration with having to attend classes. "Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain't come to play SCHOOL classes are POINTLESS." – Cardale Jones The tweet received negative backlash as Jones was seen as yet another irresponsible college football player misusing his opportunity. However, the biggest issue with Jones’ tweets is that he just may be right. In an article entitled “Colleges…
social justice work? I revised research question A. because it was too broad and not consider to be a real research question. The new research A. question turned into, what is it like to be a college student? B. Research question A. involved the snowball sampling. I started with my closet friends who are college students and interviewed them. For my…
College Football’s bowl season is underway and with 36 games left to play in the next three weeks, it’s difficult not to feel the excitement. Bowl season kicked off Saturday in a day that showcased five games, albeit some more exciting than others. • In the opening bowl of college football’s postseason, the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl, the Utah Utes defeated the BYU Cougars in a game that ended a lot closer than expected after Utah jumped out to a 35-0 lead in the first quarter. The bowl…
were children growing up in New Concord, Ohio. On April 6, 1943, they were both married at the College Drive Presbyterian Church in New Concord. After he retired, Glenn and his wife founded the John Glenn College for Public Service at the Ohio State University. It’s mission was to improve the quality of public service and to encourage people to do government jobs in their future lives. The Glenns also served as members of their college, Muskingum College. John Glenn still stayed as a supporter…
2012, former Ohio State third string quarterback Cardale Jones tweeted out his frustration with having to attend classes. "Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain't come to play SCHOOL classes are POINTLESS." – Cardale Jones The tweet received negative backlash as Jones was seen as yet another irresponsible college football player misusing his opportunity. However, the biggest issue with Jones’ tweets is that he just may be right. No athlete college…
The realm of sports have shaped and shifted communities ever since they first started being played. Being involved in sports and being constantly exposed to sports creates a certain level of comfortability with sportsmanship and competitiveness. For every Team A, there is a Team B who wants to defeat it and in essence that is how sport rivalries are born. While exploring through research of the Eastern United States, strong evidence stuck out that sports rivalries in these communities played a…
In Northeast Ohio the most vulnerable farms, those farms most lost to sprawl and development, are small family farms of 30 – 50 acres. Even with a growing local food movement, those farms find it hard to survive. For many years, the Foundation has supported programs, like City Fresh, that work with small farmers to distribute their produce in Cleveland neighborhoods. While these programs have helped small farms, most remain unable to compete with large industrial farms and remain the most…
If you woke up Thursday morning and were freaked out by the reports that four Ohio State players had been suspended for the season opener against Virginia Tech, then you should go back to bed, lay down and take a nap, because this isn't much of a headline. First off, clearly the biggest loss is Joey Bosa, a possible number one overall pick, and the leader of the Ohio State defense. Yet, with all that being said, the Buckeyes will be able to make it out of one game without Bosa against the…
Lima, Ohio is a small, industrial town of just around 40,000 people, located between Dayton and Toledo on I-75. If you were to go to Lima, Ohio and ask who the greatest basketball player ever was you would get one name, Greg Simpson. Greg Simpson's story was that of success and failure. There was nothing stopping him from success, but himself. He was his own poison during his college years. He was featured in the Lima News as an eighth-grader at West Junior High. He garnered coverage due to his…
rapid eye movement sleep and NREM is non-rapid eye movement sleep. These activities then affect the quality, quantity, and effectiveness of sleep (Thompson 1). Daytime sleepiness, due to sleep deprivation is a major problems for fifty percent of college students as compared to thirty six percent of adults. An…