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Ohio University students walk toward Baker Center for the Bobcat Unity Walk on Feb. 18, 2016.

Bobcat Unity Walk rescheduled to Tuesday after water main break

After a water main break left some areas in Athens without water and forced the university to close on Feb. 16, the Bobcat Unity Walk was rescheduled to take place on Tuesday.

The walk, hosted by Ohio University’s International Student Union, is being held in an effort to “promote diversity and unity among people who are different from each other,” according to a previous Post report. Because part of the event was scheduled to take place in Baker University Center, which was closed along with all other university buildings, the walk was canceled until further notice.

ISU is not worried about a lack of attendance because of the rescheduling, Hannah Steele, ISU’s chief of staff, said.

“I think we’re doing pretty good,” Steele, a junior studying globalization and development, said. “We have redone the event on Facebook and invited a lot of people. We’ve been using our social media presence on Facebook, Twitter and things like that. ... So hopefully we’ll have the same amount of attendance as we would have had.”

The event’s route will remain unchanged — it will begin in Wolfe Garden and will end in Baker Center. Steele said the walk, now in its second year, is an important way to bring groups together on campus who normally wouldn’t interact.

“Last year it was a really positive experience,” Steele said. “It’s a way for the diversity at Ohio to kind of come together and just do something really positive. This is a way for students of all kinds to come out and support each other and see other student groups they don’t see every day, and kind of have some solidarity with them.”

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