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UHDS to allow opposite sex roommates
Housing change aimed at creating safer living situations for transgender stduents
To help better accommodate transgendered students, University Housing and Dining Services will be allowing members of the opposite sex to room together in a section of Bloss Hall in fall 2007.
The new "gender-inclusive" housing will be featured as a pilot project holding approximately 40 beds, said Cindy Empey, director of UHDS.
Female engineers on the rise
Groups forming on campus are aiding women engineers, but the numbers are still low
Women make up eight percent of the overall engineering workforce in the United States. That's 113,100 women employed compared to the 1.06 million men who occupy the field, said the National Science Foundation.
"There aren't too many role models for girls in the engineering field," said Ellen Momson, director of Women and Minorities in Engineering Program.
OSU alum looks to explore his presidential possibilities
Michael Smith is proactive about is dissatisfaction with the Republican party
Michael Smith has added his name to the list of candidates running for the Republican nomination for the 2008 presidential election.
Before Smith graduated in 1999 from OSU as an accounting major, he was trained as a Russian linguist for the U.S. Air Force.
Speaker to discuss the state of 'Porn Nation'
Author Michael Leahy will be on campus to discuss the effects of living in a 'hyper-sexual culture'
Organizers of Porn Nation: Living in a Hypersexual Culture braved the rain Wednesday afternoon, to sell t-shirts and hand out flyers in the MU Quad, for the discussion which will be held at the LaSells Stewart Center tonight at 7 p.m.
"We're hoping it will fill [the LaSells Center]," said Keith McKinley, a junior in microbiology and a member of the Campus Crusaders for Christ leadership team.
