Ohio University had a typical summer. There was a scandal that ended with an OU athletics administrator resigning and pleading guilty to stealing more than $31,000 in university funds. An anarchist parade marched through the streets of Athens and held up traffic, resulting in allegations of police brutality. The Board of Trustees gave OU President Roderick McDavis a glowing job evaluation despite recent surveys from both the faculty and students with the majority of both proclaiming they had no confidence in his leadership.
So, basically it was business as usual.
One thing that students can celebrate is that thanks to an increase in state funding for higher education, OU has guaranteed there will be no tuition hikes for the next two years. Of course, that goes hand-in-hand with a six percent increase in room and board costs, but, well, you can't have everything.
If you're going to be eating in the dining halls this year, make sure you live it up. Eat that extra ice cream cone, because you're paying an extra $485 for it this year, according to a July 6 article from The Associated Press.
But OU is trying to put this extra money to good use. There have been some changes in data security this year, in the form of thousands of shiny new ID cards being distributed to students. Apparently the old ones had unencrypted social security numbers on them, and these new ones would keep us safe from identity theft. At least until hackers try to break into university servers and steal information again, anyway.
For students, this mostly means having yet another piece of plastic featuring a terrible photo of themselves. It's especially nice for returning students, as they get to choose to keep the awful photo of themselves from freshmen year, or go down to the HDL Center and get a new and inevitably terrible picture taken for the ID card.
As for myself, I chose to keep the picture from freshman year. There's something about the vague confusion on my 18-year-old face that warms my heart even as I cringe at how the frizz of my hair takes up most of the frame. Oh, but how well I remember being a na+
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