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The Sentinel is now an award winning newspaper. Hrm.

2008-10-27T14:33:00.004-04:00

Kevin O'Rourke, the president and publisher of the Sentinel, received the William F. Buckley Award for Outstanding Campus Reporting this past weekend in Scottsdale, AZ. It was presented by John Miller of the National Review at the Collegiate Network's annual Editor's Conference.

The article that grabbed Mr. Miller's attention, and that earned Kevin the prestigious award, was a little ditty titled "The Lantern Covers Up Published Plagiarism" that was printed in March of 2008.

So on behalf of the Sentinel staff and myself, congratulations Kevin. Although Gerrick Lewis and Dan McDonald threw a fit when this article came to print, it's obvious that the controversy was worth it. Hell, who am I kidding, the controversy was the best part. Nothing is more entertaining than comm school a-holes crying about FERPA laws and "matters of opinion."

-Deb

Be Patriotic – Support Socialism!

2008-09-30T18:24:00.002-04:00

After Joe Biden’s ridiculous straw-man attack on taxpayers (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_el_pr/biden_taxes_3 ) asserting that those forced to pay much higher taxes under an Obama administration should do so happily, as to be “patriotic”, one cannot help but watch with guttural fear as the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel keeps getting dimmer and dimmer.

You think paying taxes was so bad? It’s a sad time for America when private industry is nationalized in hopes that Americans will gain some kind of short-term ease. But once again, those in Washington, and across America, are being penny-wise and pound foolish.

As the $700,000,000,000 (pause for effect) bailout is being fought over by cronies in Congress, America waits with bated breath for Big Government to swoop in and make this all so much better.

Often I find that many people believe that the Federal Government should be responsible for easing the burdens of Americans – those are the people who also haven’t had the healthy realization that they are simply frontloading their own relief programs that don’t really work that well anyway.

It’s like giving your mom $10.00 so she can buy you a really crappy $5.00 present for Christmas.

And after all, it isn’t as if nobody would buy the pieces left behind from the credit crisis; Wall Street just knows that there is a mentally deficient buyer out there who will pay $0.80 on the $1.00 for what would otherwise be purchased for $0.20 on the $1.00: that buyer is the United States government.

But now, not only do we have to worry about funding a Wall Street bailout, we have to concern ourselves with Obama’s heralded campaign platform consisting of further redistribution of wealth to fund government programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and bad mortgage bailouts. The money-grubbing policy ideas don’t stop there though: on 9/11, Obama pledged that if elected, he will allocate approximately $3,000,000,000 to programs that promote the opportunity for people to get involved in volunteering for charity projects. Wow! That’s just what we, uh, needed right now?

As much as the previous paragraph may look like a tangential rant (which to some degree, it is), I hope to illustrate the bleak picture of the future if Obama is elected, and probably even if he isn’t. A country, built on a “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” philosophy has slowly succumbed to toxic socialist thinking and policy-making, and without some kind of exogenous force, the irresponsible policy-making and income redistribution will undoubtedly continue. Let’s just hope by the time most Ohio State students take the Shoe’s field for their graduation, the private sector will be able to afford to offer them gainful employment.

Chelsea

The Return of The Sentinel Blog

2008-08-26T20:33:00.001-04:00

Greetings Sentinel readers,

Welcome to the new and improved Sentinel blog. What's that you say? "When the fuck did The Sentinel have a blog?" Oh, yes. Well, we had a blog for several months last year, but, unfortunately, no one read it. Ever. Maybe it's because UWeekly hosted it on their website and we didn't meet the pointless meat head story quota (see that lost UWeekly readers, that's called a play on words). Or maybe it's because we posted 12,000 word blogs that could have been articles in our print edition. Either way, our original blog crashed and burned, and ended up being a pretty annoying experience overall, so we decided to close shop for awhile.

We ended up leaving the blog on the shelf for a lot longer than we originally intended; we had a change of administration and had to replace quite a few really good writers, but the blog continued to stay on our minds and in our plans. And, now, finally, we have straightened out all of those other issues and I am proud to welcome you to the first blog post in our newly refurbished blog.

In the next few weeks we will continue to play with the layout and format of the blog. However, even as we continue to play with the look of the blog we will be posting our political musings, jokes, random thoughts, and whatever the hell else we feel like posting. You will now have something to abate your in between issues Sentinel cravings.

For those of you who remember our past blog, thanks for your past support, and we promise, this blog is going to be much more casual and hopefully a lot more fun to read. For those first experiencing The Sentinel blog, we hope it's everything you would expect from a Sentinel blog.

Best,
Kevin