Police used a Taser gun to restrain a resident outside of his home on Crain Avenue as it burned at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday.
The resident, Mike Bartlett, said he was returning from downtown for his cell phone when he noticed his sister's room on fire. He ran in to make sure she was not there and continued to find his friends in the basement and alert them of the fire.
Deborah Barnbaum has taken a look at autism in a new way. Barnbaum, an associate professor of philosophy, studies the ethical questions facing research in autism today. Her book on the subject, "The Ethics of Autism: Among Them, but Not of Them" won a bronze IPPY award from the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the category of Health, Medicine and Nutrition this summer.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. But did you know they're also very, very talented? Tom Stoppard's classic existentialist play, directed by second-year Case Western Reserve student Cyrus Taylor, was as entertaining as it was thought-provoking in this Player's Theatre Group production.
"Paranormal Activity" is not the fear-inducing, hide under your covers, scream at the top of your lungs movie that it's been hyped up to be. In fact, little of this movie is even scary.
I'd like to ask a question of all of those who've hailed this as "the scariest movie I've ever seen.
Case Western Reserve University is a school where academic excellence is not just something that is expected of students, but it is something that a typical Case Western student strives for. After all, CWRU is a school where 67 percent of the incoming freshman class was in the top 10 percent of their high school class.
On the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 21, I scrambled to finish a midterm essay in the library.
I was positioned next to a talkative man and his friend while they worked on a group project.
I listened to them discussing the details of the assignment as they proceeded to refer to their teacher using the derogatory word "c***," as if sexual orientation has anything to do with an instructor's grading process.
Since most college students live in a media bubble and don't follow current events many of you may not be aware of Obama's recent promise to end the military's policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." It seems that this effort will soon draw the issue of gay rights and its partner gay marriage to the political battlefront.
The Leonids meteor shower is expected to produce upwards of 500 meteors per hour on Nov. 17. While Youngstown is not the best area to see the better part of the show, there is still hope that those watching will get to see the shower while watching the sky.
Ironically, the first testing of the YSU Alert System came on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the arrest of a student carrying a weapon on campus.
On Monday, Youngstown State University Police arrested a student near Moser Hall with a loaded handgun in his backpack after being interrogated and searched because he fit the profile of the suspect in the attempted robbery at Subway on Elm Street and Rayen Avenue.
For those who aren't familiar, E. Turner Stump Theatre in the Music and Speech Center was set with a steel structure, like a fire escape, and two tables in the center of the stage.
I love words. I love the vast ways I can express myself or describe the world around me, even with a small vocabulary. Becoming an avid reader at a young age, I have a rather unusual appreciation for the building blocks of human communication. While many people dislike long words and often peg them as the discourse of the elite or stuck-up, I, by far, prefer "big words" (as they are called).
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