Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series about bilingualism in Athens.
When Emilia Alonso Marks addresses her son Adrian in Spanish, he typically responds in English or in short “sí” or “no” phrases.
Adrian and his sister Alex are heritage speakers of Spanish, which, in the United States, refers to people who are exposed to a foreign language at home but are educated in English, said Marks, a Spanish professor at Ohio University.
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From Dance or Die to 19 South, Ohio University students have plenty of opportunities to go out dancing. But even frequent dancers can have questionable techniques.
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Front Royal is a punk band of Ohio University students who balance its music and schoolwork while embracing the anti-establishment, rebellious attitude of true punk rockers.
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“The Taste of Study Abroad,” held in Grover Center, consisted of 34 testing tables where students could ask about questions and try a foreign treat.
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As part of International Week, Albaqir Mukhtar, director of the Al-Khatim Adlan Centre for Enlightenment and Human Development in Sudan, will speak and lead a discussion about the crisis in Darfur via a Skype videoconference in the Yamada House.
Read MoreCrab rangoon
It’s a pastry, it’s seafood and it’s delicious. Whoever thought that folding crab and cream cheese in an over-fried greasy shell would yield such wonderful results? Next time a White Castle or Goodfella’s craving hits, do the unique thing and head up to one of Athens’ many Asian restaurants to make crab rangoon your new favorite drunk food.
— Brigitta Burks
Hillary Clinton ‘Mad as Hell’ video
Read More1. $3.95 Chinese — For the price of a gallon of gas, you can buy over a pound of MSG-filled goodness.
2. Prime Time at Pawpurrs — A calorie-laden Triple Blackout for only $2? Gimme three!
3. Big Mamma’s Burritos — There’s no better way to top off a night of binge drinking than with a burrito the size of your face.
4. O’Betty’s Chili Cheese Fries — These delectable delicacies will put a smile on your face — and add a few inches to your waist.
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•Jakob Freely, The Speedbumps, 8 p.m., free — The Front Room, Baker University Center
•The Never Evers, Spooktober, Submarine Spaceship, 10 p.m., cover — The Union, 18 W. Union St.
•The Werks, Aleph I, 10 p.m., $5 — Jackie O’s, 24 W. Union St.
Tomorrow
•Jakob Freely, 10 p.m., cover — The Blue Gator (upstairs), 63 N. Court St.
•Dance or Die, 10 p.m., cover — The Union, 18 W. Union St.
•Ukulele Typewriter, W-S Burn, 9 p.m., cover — Donkey Coffee and Espresso, 17
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During the next few weeks, someone will ask you the question.
They might catch you during dinner; they might unexpectedly appear in your dorm room/apartment/ house/trailer off Route 32; they might jump from behind a bush wearing a Wolfman mask while you’re walking to class; they might call you again and again and again in the middle of the night. But it will happen.
And the question: “So what now?”
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As technology advances, the special effects created through computers become more and more unbelievable.
t's hard to believe that the fight scenes in movies such as Spider-Man can be so exciting, or that viewers get so attached to Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies, even though what's on the screen is essentially the result of a bunch of ones and zeros.
Despite these advances, it's still hard for filmmakers to create an entire virtual world that audiences want to see.
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