ADD ONE MORE TEST FOR SCHOOL TESTING

I believe in the required testing of our students, many people look at it as punishment, but I think the ultimate results provides everyone with a decent scale of a school system's measurement. The system of state wide testing will never be perfect especially when you have parents, teachers, administrators and students involved.

Over this past weekend I was "around town" and noticed many students that would be placed in the overweight category. It is kind of embarrassing, no one needs to order two Fried Breads at the Newark Earthworks Pow-Wow concession stand.

My proposal: all students yearly should be tested for physical condition. A student should be tested by walking three miles within a certain time limit every year. This phase of the state testing would not be a speed race and should not be broken down into different categories of weight, size and age.

Maybe even the parents will help promote their child by helping with conditioning, eating healthy and practicing. I would bet most Mall Walkers could beat many of the student's times.

Click her to read the Telegraph's article "Parents Think Their Overweight Children Are Normal Size".

WHY WE CAN NOT WEAR WHITE AFTER LABOR DAY

From Time Magazine:

"Instead, other historians speculate, the origin of the no-white-after–Labor Day rule may be symbolic. In the early 20th century, white was the uniform of choice for Americans well-to-do enough to decamp from their city digs to warmer climes for months at a time: light summer clothing provided a pleasing contrast to drabber urban life. "If you look at any photograph of any city in America in the 1930s, you'll see people in dark clothes," says Scheips, many scurrying to their jobs. By contrast, he adds, the white linen suits and Panama hats at snooty resorts were "a look of leisure."

Labor Day, celebrated in the U.S. on the first Monday of September, marked the traditional end of summer; the well-heeled vacationers would stow their summer duds and dust off their heavier, darker-colored fall clothing. "There used to be a much clearer sense of re-entry," says Steele. "You're back in the city, back at school, back doing whatever you're doing in the fall — and so you have a new wardrobe."

Click here to read the complete article and how Coco Chanel fought the issue.

NEWARK EARTHWORKS POW-WOW

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ALL ABOUT BEING A ROMAN

Once again thank you, Nicholas Bate.

SPENDING PROBLEMS

As posted by Steve Layman:



It is a spending problem..........

I have seen this handy explanation several places around the
Intertunnel, just can't remember where. My apologies for not
being able to credit the proper source. Anyway, to make our
Federal budget issue easier to understand, remove the extra
eight zeroes and pretend it is a household budget. Enjoy.

U.S. income: $2,170,000,000,000

Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000

New debt: $1,650,000,000,000

National debt: $14,271,000,000,000

Recent budget cut: $38,500,000,000
-------------------------------------------------------------

After subtracting the eight zeroes it looks like this:

Total annual income for the Jones family: $21,700

Amount of money the Jones family spent: $38,200

Amount of new debt added to the credit card: $16,500

Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710

Amount of spending cut: $385

Ouch. The first step to recovery from any problem is to
acknowledge we have one. Can we all agree we have a
spending problem? Please?

BIG BAND TRY OUTS

Second year chemistry major from Copely, Ohio during tryouts for the OSU Marching Band. If he makes the cut, this will be his second year to march.
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2011 OSU BUCKEYE SCHEDULE