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Humanities Scholars Wrestle with Grammar in Writing Minor Smackdown

 What do the Biffel Beaters, the Terminators, and the Structural Linguists all have in common? They were the top three winning teams, respectively, of the Grammar Smackdown held on October 28, 2011 for first-year Humanities Scholars. These teams accurately corrected the most error-ridden sentences and raced their answers across the Royer Activity Space to the Smackdown Judges’ table in the least amount of time. ....(read more) 

 

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Red Horse was in town recently with Six String Concerts and stopped by our studio to talk about songwriting, their self-titled album, and being a folk "supper" group.

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Image from Buckley's They Eat Puppies, Don't They?

Christopher Buckley, appearing with the Thurber House on May 16, discusses his new book, They Eat Puppies, Don't They? Also, science fiction author, Paul Melko, appearing at the OSU Bookstore on May 22, discusses his writing.

Monday, May 14, 7 pm., WCRS radio, 98.3 & 102.1 FM
Wednesday, May 16, 8:00 p.m., WCBE radio, central Ohio's NPR station, 90.5 FM

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Gwen reading review

OSU Creative Writing instructors (Clayton Clark, Allison Davis, Nancy Dinan, Bill Riley, Molly Patterson) discuss creative writing at Ohio State University. Also, OSU student Gwen Herrick (left) reviews the audio book of The Marriage Plot.

Monday, May 21, 7 pm., WCRS radio, 98.3 & 102.1 FM
Wednesday, May 23, 8:00 p.m., WCBE radio, central Ohio's NPR station, 90.5 FM