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Having lived on the West Coast most of my life, I was unsure what to expect out of my four years in southeastern Ohio. I have come to realize that Athens is a culturally and creatively diverse community, a network created by a variety of personalities and backgrounds. This was Backdrop’s inspiration for the cover design.
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The Brotherhood: a look at Ohio University’s black greek letter organizations
On a cold April night in Athens, a group of young black males files into the photo studio, each one in different red and white attire, or “crimson and cream,” as they will politely correct you.
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One man’s trashed, half-eaten loaf of bread is another man’s choice eat. Kip, a local dumpster diver, has unearthed everything from avocadoes to cases of wine, and each item has a past—from a grocery store, to a college student’s kitchen, to a local trash receptacle. And now, Kip and freegans worldwide are ready to salvage what consumerist-America has written off as garbage.
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“When I was hired, they asked me to write up a public philosophy of Forensics,” Dan West begins. “I told them, very gutsy of me I guess, ‘Look, I am an Empire-builder. If I am going to do this again, I am going to be one of the best in the country. And I want a school that wants that too. If you don’t want that, you don’t need to hire me, you need to hire someone else.’”