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Newman, BSJ '77, and about 85 other past winners of Ohio University Alumni Association awards will be in town for the weekend's festivities. They'll attend Friday evening's awards gala at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium, view the parade from the lawn of Konneker Alumni Center and watch as the Bobcats take on Bowling Green at Peden Stadium.

Twenty-one years after embarking on his world-famous walk around the globe, Newman - who earned the alumni association's Medal of Merit in 1988 - remains in demand among audiences curious about his four-year walk of more than 15,000 miles. Known as "The Worldwalker," he has spoken to thousands of groups, mostly in schools and corporations, to share tales of his encounters with Saharan sandstorms, 10-foot worms and, above all, the wonderful people he met along his walk through 21 countries on five continents.

He estimates that journey, which made him the first person ever documented to have walked solo around the world, required 41 million steps. They were steps he took to learn about the world and to see if was still a place where love and compassion prevail



http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/04-05/35f-045.cfm

How did he hold his breath long enough to cross the Atlantic?

Flipper wrote:How did he hold his breath long enough to cross the Atlantic?

Perhaps he is a Pederpes Finneyae. How old is he?

Oh. my god please save us.......

Film and television actress Sarah Jessica Parker will stump for John Kerry and John Edwards today at the Blue Gator in Athens. She'll also briefly visit the Athens County Democratic Party's Nelsonville office in Nelsonville.

Parker is scheduled to take the stage for a get-out-the-vote rally at the Blue Gator at 5 p.m. Prior to that, at 4:30 p.m., she's scheduled to make an appearance at 25 Public Square in Nelsonville at the Dem Party office.

The former star of HBO's hit comedy "Sex in the City" is a Nelsonville native and is coming home to Athens County to encourage young people to vote Nov. 2. She will be accompanied in her visit to Athens County by Athens City Councilwoman Sarah Sexton and Pat Lang, Democratic candidate for the 92nd State House District and former City Councilman.

Sexton ran with the campaign slogan "Sexton in the City," a spin on Parker's former show, when she unseated a six-term incumbent Republican last fall. Her victory made Sexton just the third Ohio University undergraduate student to hold a seat on City Council.

http://www.athensnews.com/issue/article ... y_id=18556


I hated Sarah Jessica Parker and Sex in the City before, now its like a nightmare come to life.

She's proof that Hollywood doesn't always need a pretty starlet.

Thought we learned our lesson with Ronnie Reagan and Arnie Schwarzeneger.

rollalongFF0304 wrote:She's proof that Hollywood doesn't always need a pretty starlet.

Way too many Sarah Jessica Parkers out there in NYC thinking their too good for any guy as a coal miner's daughter. Kind of like Ben Stiller in Zoolander.

It gives all Ohioan's a bad name. When you tell someone from the East Coast that your from Ohio, they assume your parents are working in a steel mill in Youngstown, drinking Iron City Beer all day.

What's wrong with having parents who work in a steel mill and drink Iron City beer?

Are you one of those pseudo-french cultural elitists I've heard about?

Flipper wrote:How did he hold his breath long enough to cross the Atlantic?

He probably pulled a Jesus and walked right over it...

"pulled a Jesus"

Dayons_Den wrote:Thought we learned our lesson with Ronnie Reagan and Arnie Schwarzeneger.

Lets nto forget Jesse the Body Ventura

Dayons_Den wrote:Thought we learned our lesson with Ronnie Reagan and Arnie Schwarzeneger.

Yeah...Creating policy that led to the fall of the USSR, stopped the globalization of communisim, and ended the Cold War. Ronnie...What a moron!

Sure can tell which way folks lean politically from these posts!

Seriously, how anyone can say Ronald Reagan was a failure is beyond me. He had quite a mess to clean up from a guy named Carter...who has done much more out of office than he ever did in office.

Flipper wrote:What's wrong with having parents who work in a steel mill and drink Iron City beer?

Are you one of those pseudo-french cultural elitists I've heard about?

The cultural elite is liberal on values. The more intellectual the job the more points you score with these people. One a scale of 1 to 10, I would put working in a steel mill about 1. A teacher or a doctor about a 5 because they actually help people. An activist or liberal arts professor an 8. Only way you get a 10 is if you're a renowned intellectual leader for a liberal cause.

Unless you're a professor of economics, any conservative tendencies are frowned upon. Sales is viewed as the latter day blue collar profession. A corporate business job is okay because it requires a higher level of education and professional track record to get in. Being a quality business professional in a fortune 500 company is just average joe. An education from an Ivy league level institution is considered standard.

The very worst you could do is have a father who was an ex-Marine, taxidermist, who when you bring your date over for dinner talks about killing deer, backwoods opinions, ect. When you're sibling makes a remark, the Dad telling you to kick their asse. Who wants to deal with this kind of crap?

Everyone from the cultural elite expects to date someone from a modern liberal educated family. You say the words "Ohio" or "Pittsburgh" and you may as well say "backward" or "unsophisticated", and conveys images of gun racks, obese people, crappy old towns. What they want to hear is Paris, or London.If you say Athens, they assume you just returned from Greece.

And if you tell someone you're a janitor, or work at a fast food place, they'll just be like "No. Really, what do you do?" like the notion of a native born American doing something like that is incredulous. And it pretty much is in the world of the cultural elite.

MotownFalcon wrote:

Dayons_Den wrote:Thought we learned our lesson with Ronnie Reagan and Arnie Schwarzeneger.

Yeah...Creating policy that led to the fall of the USSR, stopped the globalization of communisim, and ended the Cold War. Ronnie...What a moron!

It was a tongue in cheek reference. My point is all the neo-cons are saying how "unqualified" these HOllywood elitists are to have political opinions, but how quick they forget. . . .

Reagan was great at what he was. But the HUGE economic mess he got us in was why his be George Herbert Walker Joyner Kersey couldn't get re-elected. Hmmm funny how history repeats itself. Four years of bad economics followed up by 8 years of Democrats cleaning things up. For a conservative Reagan and W sure are liberal with the spending.