Compiled by Joseph Hughes

Here's a sampling of recent Ohio University mentions in the media:

Michael Real, director of Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, told Columbus Dispatch reporter Joe Hallett he's amazed at the proliferation of information from journalists both embedded with U.S. troops and in Baghdad. "To think that there may be 150 journalists in Baghdad seems inconceivable," Real told Hallett. "If they had been in Berlin in World War II, they would have been imprisoned. We now have a flow of information across battle lines that we've never seen before -- and we don't have rules. We're making them up as we go along."

Real continued by theorizing that as technology advances, so will competition among media to get the story. This competition, he said, could lead journalists to cross the line between informing and compromising U.S. troops. Referring to the firing of Peter Arnett, Real said, "I think we'll have other confusion like this, because we don't have the old barriers of war. Information a reporter thinks is safe and standard may be interpreted by military people as secret and compromising."

Ohio University researcher Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch and a colleague at the University of Akron drew notice from the January 31 edition of Science for their research into the amount of species in ancient lakes. Both are collecting data on animal life from 35 present-day and now-dry fossil lakes. So far, Science reporter Erica Goldman reported, their work suggests the total number of species present in these ancient lakes may have been greatly underestimated -- by as much as 50 percent. Gierlowski-Kordesch's work joins others in an article about how the creatures of Lake Baikal in Siberia and others could help scientists explain why some life forms speciate and some do not.

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Ohio University alumnus Robert Walter, chairman and chief executive of Fortune 500 company Cardinal Health, can't leave his house without being recognized. It's a stunning change for the man who turned Cardinal Foods, a company which he founded in 1971, to the 23rd-largest Fortune 500 company best known for shipping drugs from manufacturers to pharmacies, retailers and hospitals. "I frankly can't go to a restaurant and somebody doesn't know who I am," he told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "The world's changed."

After shifting gears from food to drug distribution, Cardinal grew to a dominant player in the field. In a tough economy, earnings and sales have grown in recent years thanks to Walter's customer-based focus. He's also a calculated risk taker. "Very few times I've ever seen where you can make great gains without taking risk," he said. "When we started out, we didn't have anything."

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Using the new Peter Yarrow written song "Don't Laugh At Me," elementary school teachers are attempting to curb bullying. However, as Ohio University's Richard Hazler told The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash, totally eliminating bullying from the unofficial curriculum could have deleterious effects to children. "There's a normalcy in this whole process," Hazler told Labash. "I don't want to say that bullying is okay. But it's a teaching tool for kids. It teaches them to get along with people, how to use power, the victims -- how to obtain power when not in power positions. How do we stop bullying and victimization? I hate to make this case in public. But we don't entirely want to -- because if kids didn't have it -- how would they learn? These are mistakes they're making. We want a cooperative atmosphere, but we also want to show them how to deal with aggression."

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After a hard-fought semifinal loss in the Mid-American Conference basketball tournament, Ohio University's Brandon Hunter drew praise from noted Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Bill Livingston. Livingston, who appears regularly in the Plain Dealer and is a frequent guest on ESPN Radio's "The Tony Kornheiser Show," lauded Hunter's dominant senior season, also mentioning the motivation provided by the recent death of Hunter's grandfather.

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Joseph Hughes is a graduate student writer with University Communications and Marketing.