Ohio

When it comes to the college experience, one size does not fit all. Ohio native Dan Brown was not looking for the typical college experience he had found at his first school. “My junior year, I became disenfranchised with the experience there. It wasn 't working out well for me so a buddy and I decided to take a semester off and we ended up coming out to Colorado. Working as a lift operator, Brown realized that Colorado had a lot to offer him. “It was 1985 and we spent the season as lift…

coal miners, and is a prodigy politician who talked his way into a meeting with President Nixon at only eighteen years old, John Kasich is the emblem for a true American president. He has spent over two decades in congress writing bills that helped Ohio have a balanced budget, which hadn’t happened since 1997. Through his sheer dedication of being a better man, he also wrote two best seller novels and lived an adventurous life when he was kicked out of a Grateful Dead Concert when he tried to…

engineer, I shouldn’t just focus on that and I should look at what different majors offer. I might even end up finding a major I like more than engineering. Similar to the one girl saying that she was only interesting in nursing when she first came to Ohio State, but then found something she liked better.The second piece of information that was that I found really useful was getting a minor in a subject if possible. This was because it helps you sell yourself to a company when applying to a job…

I am the youngest child of two children. This is where I learned the importance of family, respect, and watching out for family and friends. I still live my life according to those values. I don’t mind hard work. I was always taught that you must work hard every day no matter how well your life is going and you must work even more when life isn’t going as planned. Early on in life, I was introduced to the sport of soccer. I fell in love with the sport. I ended up playing soccer from the age…

individuals regardless of race, sex, or ethnicity are granted the right to vote. But even in the twenty-first century, conflicts among voting rights are still subject to discussion and political inquiry. On January 3rd, 2018, the supreme court of Ohio struggled to dispute…

v. Wilkins case. The Ohio Supreme Court is attempting to narrow charitable use property tax exemption. The Community Health Professionals Inc. sought tax exemption status for administrative buildings that were leased. They claimed exemption under R.C.5709.12 and R.C. 5709.121…

short, 30 Days: On Minimum Wage, Morgan Spurlock and his fiancé explore the possibility of being able to survive for 30 days working only at jobs that pay minimum wage He and his fiancé relocate to Columbus, Ohio with each of them having only one week’s pay on minimum wage. Upon arriving in Ohio, they have to find a place to live and obtain employment. Their experiences take a deeper look into the lives of the working poor. While this experiment is still over 10 years old, the problem still…

planter, Langston had to deal with the deaths of both his parents when he was only five. He then moved to live in Ohio with a family friend, where he spent the rest of his childhood.…

for being different. Diversity means so much to me. To me, diversity is getting an opportunity to learn from others and see their perspective on the world. As a gay Mexican immigrant, I have a lot to contribute to a diverse college community like The Ohio State University. I have suffered from discrimination my whole life. People have called me pretty much every name in the book you can think of. Even though I was never physically abused…

After reading the Victimized On Plain Sites study and Stanford rape article, I became frustrated with the narrative that constantly plays out in cases where women are sexually abused. As a daughter of an attorney, I am familiar with the court system and am a supporter of how it works. However, in cases like the Stanford incident I do not understand how a judge whose sole job is to uphold the law could settle on such a verdict. As a woman, I am at a particularly high-risk everyday of enduring…