In these times of budget cuts and possible tuition hikes, Ohio University students would do well to count their blessings, all 19 of them. Students enrolled at Ohio University’s Athens campus are endowed with a surplus of bars. With the newest uptown bar addition, 12 East, thirsty bobcats have their choice of a myriad of uptown dives in to imbibe their favorite poisons.

It may be an awkward conversation with your parents, a shiny new promise ring if you’re a girl, or maybe a lesson from your health teacher drilling “sex is bad!” into your not-quite-fully-developed teenage brain. Yes I am talking about abstinence, and yes it’s 2011.

On the third floor of Putnam Hall the Ohio University Little Monsters is practicing their dance for The Mr. Empower event they will be performing at on Thursday. For an organization that is dedicated to volunteer work, it sure looks like they have a lot of fun doing it.

I’ve been thinking a lot about growing recently. Not so much in the inches sense, but more so in the way things change and develop. This all started when we decided to add on a second production staff to our little publication.