Students who just happen to be athletes
Some of the most gratifying hours of my time at Youngstown State each week are spent in Stambaugh Stadium. No, it is not cheering the Penguins on to another victory, although that is an enjoyable Saturday afternoon diversion. Rather, it is the time I spend each week as a consultant/tutor for the YSU Writing Center working with the student-athletes in the Academic Counseling room deep inside the massive stadium on the first floor. When the phrase “student-athlete” is correctly written with its hyphen, the emphasis is the student. However, the phrase is usually spoken, and, without that hyphen, the emphasis is wrongly placed on the word “athlete.” I like to describe the young people with whom I work at the university as “students, who happen to be athletes.” Those students usually refer to the room in which we work as “study table,” but the room is much more than that.
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Mary Madeline DePascale, 90, opened a Perkins Pancake House with her husband, Art, in January 1970 on Parkman Road.
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Octoberfest
Red Dragons vs the Tigers
kennedy/east volleyball
Food Coalition 25 years
McDonald fall festival
Day of Unity
Mahoning Ave. Austintown
Labor rally
