For most of my life, I felt like my people didn’t have a culture. In elementary school, I was taught that African people were taken from Western countries on the continent and brought to America and the surrounding areas as slaves. I also learned that after centuries of enduring harsh, uncompensated labor, the newly-named African-Americans marched,… Read More How a Music Class Taught Me That My Culture is Valuable Too
Ex-Stanford swimmer and convicted rapist Brock Turner will be banned from competing in any future USA Swimming events, including the Olympic trials, after he was found guilty of three felony counts of sexual assault in March. Read full post here.
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Ameya Warde had been a stay-at-home mom before, so when she transferred to Ohio State to finish her degree in 2011 with her then husband and one-year-old son, Killian Schrimpf, she said it was important for her to find a safe place for her son to receive an age-appropriate education and thrive while she continued… Read More Child-care centers provide assistance to Ohio State community
Although Gerard Basalla, a third-year in strategic communication, and Danielle Di Scala, a third-year in political science, are running unopposed on the ballot for Undergraduate Student Government president and vice president, new candidates have stepped forward to run as write-ins. Cin’Quan Haney, a third-year in physics, is running for president with Curtis Henry, a third-year… Read More USG write-in candidates offer options in upcoming election
According to the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors Data Report, Ohio State is ranked the 14th-leading institution in the nation to host international students in the 2014-15 school year. Last school year, OSU’s Columbus campus enrolled 7,121 international students, a 4.7 percent increase from the 6,800 enrolled international students in 2013-14, according to the report.… Read More Ohio State ranked No. 14 in the nation for international students
The Ohio State Undergraduate Student Government released an internal demographic report Monday after students expressed concern that USG is not accurately representative of minority groups at Ohio State. During a rally in November called #OSU2Mizzou, black students and allies marched and held a sit-in to show solidarity with protesters at the University of Missouri who… Read More USG releases internal demographic report
About 11 percent of undergraduate students in the U.S. have a disability. Of these nearly 2 million students, 33 percent earn a four-year degree within 8 years, according to the National Council on Disability. In honor of the 25 year anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, campus organizations collaborated to host… Read More Forum seeks ways to improve university climate for students with disabilities
With hopes of fostering an intercultural connection between students of color on Ohio State’s campus, campus community members collaborated for Afro-Latino Connection, a night of food and dance to foster unity between African and Latino students, as well as those who identify as both. The annual cross-cultural event took place on Thursday in Hale Hall,… Read More Student event creates intercultural connections
As Jean Deaux walks the streets of Chicago to get food and make a quick run at CVS, she tells me how she never wants her sound to be predictable. The West Side Chicago native, who now resides on the city’s South Side, started off performing spoken word at Harold Washington Library’s YouMedia space and… Read More The Constant Evolution of Jean Deaux
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