On November 17, I was on the [UC Blue Ash] campus for an appointment with the Dental Clinic. I picked up the edition of the November 14 Activist. I found your newspaper to be an entertaining, yet informative piece of literature. However, my opinion changed after I read the Feature […]

Though we may be hundreds of miles away from Wall Street, Cincinnati is also being occupied by protestors. Since the Occupy Wall Street movement began on September 17, in Zuccotti Park in New York City, satellite protests have sprung up in almost all major cities in the United States, as […]

By the end of the year, the total of student loan debt in the United States will reach $1,000,000,000,000 (a trillion dollars), according to Forbes magazine. Today, Finaid.org reports that students on average are borrowing twice as much as they did just ten years ago, which is probably in part […]

What do you think about the newly drawn “No Smoking Beyond this Point” lines? Do you think it’s fair? Matt Gillespie “I do feel restricted. It’s good for the people who don’t want smoke blown in their faces. So they can go to their section, and we have ours.” Susan […]

I don’t know how many people are actually nerdy enough to have ever watched an episode of “60 Minutes” on CBS, but if you did I’m sure you probably got a lot of information on current news topics that you may not previously had heard of or particularly cared for.  […]

The other day I went to the Kenwood Mall, and I was a little shocked to find that they already had their Christmas décor up. Don’t get me wrong. I love Christmas. It’s my favorite holiday—but seriously? We just got done with Halloween. It was only November 3 when I […]

We all know that as we get older our body changes, and for that reason, I ask myself should there be a law that people over a certain age should have to retake the driver’s test? My answer, of course, is an emphatic yes. I understand that teenagers cause plenty […]

In the past few years, the war on bedbugs has been a struggle that has plagued communities across America. Here on the UCBA campus, the most recent attack has been thwarted thanks to our diligent staff. This is not the first time that the pests have been discovered here and […]

Nebraska to the BigTen, Colorado to the Pac-10, Texas AM to the SEC—it was only a matter of time until the Big East would also undergo re-alignment along with other conferences. Only instead of expanding, the Big East conference is losing two teams, two of Cincinnati’s rivals in the University […]

Usually we like to have students outside of the newspaper staff do this segment, but so few of you were willing to have your picture taken that we had to use ourselves. Hopefully this issue will inspire you to be in the next one. For the Halloween issue of the […]