TRENTON, N.J. — A former Rutgers University student openly apologized for the first time on Tuesday for using a webcam to spy on a romantic liaison between a man and a roommate who later killed himself, saying he regrets his “thoughtless, insensitive, immature, stupid and childish choices.”
Polly Frentsos of Westerville died Friday afternoon (May 25, 2012) at her daughter’s residence in Newark. Arrangements will be announced by the DeVore-Snyder Funeral Home, Sunbury. Condolences may be expressed at snyderfuneralhomes.com.
Mikayla Cooper, who tossed a no-hitter to help Hayes capture a share of the OCC-Capital Division championship last week, followed the near-perfect performance with another equally impressive one, leading the Pacers to a 12–0 Division I sectional semifinal win over Watkins Memorial Tuesday in Delaware.
Late last week and over the weekend, a flurry of developments related to the near and longer term economic outlook took place, most of which could be a cause for concern.
Europe is economically big — very big. The 17 nation euro-zone is approximately equal to the size of the U.S. economy (depending upon how valuations are calculated in terms of currency conversions), and the more comprehensive 27 nation European Union (EU) is even bigger still. Given the tremendous economic interdependencies among countries of the world, when an economy as large as either of the above entities begins to experience significant economic problems, it is just a matter of time until those difficulties will be transmitted to the rest of the world.
Ohio Wesleyan University senior Sharif Kronemer (Silver Spring, Md./Springbrook) won the highest honor at the eighth annual Dale J. Bruce Scholar-Athlete Awards Dinner, held on Thursday in the Benes Rooms of the Hamilton-Williams Campus Center on the Ohio Wesleyan campus.
As quickly as possible people should move to their home’s storm cellar or place themselves in the bathtub with a mattress on top so as to shield themselves from the rapidly approaching economic storm. Or so the message would seem to be, according to many economists, after the Labor Department’s “disappointing” labor market reports last Friday. Fortunately, the stock market was closed for Good Friday observances so the ensuing panic was stalled for a few days.
While in Columbus last week President Obama suggested that those who oppose alternative energy sources might be considered members of the “flat earth society,” much like people who opposed exploration by the likes of Christopher Columbus. In this instance, according to the president, those who cling to fossil fuels and ignore alternative energy sources are much like ostriches, plunging their heads into the ground and failing to understand the need for change in any active, growing and healthy economy.