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Capital University announced in a statement by the Chair of the Board of Trustees Andre Porter and Interim President Dave Kaufman that the university will change its mascot, Cappy the Crusader, after the Board of Trustees passed a resolution in favor of doing so. The Board of Trustees completed “a 15-month process of study, discussion, and reflection.” Their studies showed that “a significant portion of the Capital Family” agreed that the “nickname and mascot should be a unifying symbol that enhances school spirit and pride for all who are affiliated with Capital.” The university community recently “challenged” the nickname because...

Filling in for her husband, who is in Hawaii visiting his ailing grandmother, Michelle Obama made the case today at a noontime rally in Bexley that Democrat Barack Obama "gets it." "Don't we deserve a politics, a Washington, that really reflects our values and reality? Don't we? Don't we deserve that?" Michelle Obama asked an enthusiastic crowd estimated at 2,000 at Capital University's Capital Center arena. "Don't we deserve leaders who get it? My one job this whole year has been to just try to let people know, from what I know, that my husband, Barack Obama, gets it. He...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS TO DRILL IN BEXLEY FOR EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT OCCUPATION By 24 Hour Museum Staff 29/02/2008 An illustration of Homo neanderthalensis at Swanscombe, Kent, one of the sites investigated in the AHOB project. © Natural History Museum Archaeologists from Durham University will be returning to a London borough site where a 19th century historian once found flint tools and animal bones. This time, however, the latest sonic drilling equipment will be used to take samples from the earth, for the ongoing Ancient Human Occupation of Britain II project (AHOB). Initial drillings were carried out at Holmscroft Open Space in September...

Don’t suppress gays’ emotions or rights Thursday, July 20, 2006 Marie LeDuc of Silver Spring, Md., wrote to express her family’s emotional distress at having to witness two women kissing on a park bench Downtown during Columbus Gay Pride week (letter, July 13). OK , let me see: We’re not supposed to join the armed services, get married, ask for civil unions, adopt children, ask for any sort of domestic-partner benefits at work or show affection in public. We are supposed to pay taxes, bring gifts and cry (public displays) at heterosexual, legally sanctioned weddings (and be thrilled!), and support...

We are having some response to our flyer distribution. One thing I have noted is that people are actually reading them and not throwing them away