Zipcar drives its way onto campus
By Kaitlin Coward | Sep. 28, 2014OU’s Transportation and Parking Services is now using Zipcar.
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The 110 reflects on band traditions
By Anna Gibbs | Sep. 25, 2014Marching 110 reflects their own traditions due to the OSU scandal of sexual harassment in the past years.
092614_Paramore, Clean Bandits, Miley Cyrus among artists to be covered by OU band
By ELIZABETH BACKO | Sep. 25, 2014Ohio University’s Marching 110 will play a series of female rock hits this week. The band recently was recognized by members of ‘N Sync for last weeks show.
Many popular events sold out in advance for Parents Weekend
By Will Gibbs | Sep. 25, 2014As parents descend on Athens this weekend, Ohio University is holding numerous events to entertain students and their elders — if they signed up ahead of time. Outdoor Pursuits is putting on a Stargazing and Campfire event both Friday and Saturday nights. The events are both sold out. Those who have already signed up will not only gaze at constellations through a telescope, but will hear tales of The Ridges.The Ridges were once a large mental health facility in Athens. The university now owns the facility, but the old insane asylum is known worldwide as one of the most haunted spots in the nation.The organization is also holding a Parents Weekend Zipline Adventure all day Saturday, which is also sold out. The event will also take place at The Ridges and feature a 300 ft. zipline. All equipment and optional transportation is provided in the price. The Ohio University Golf Course is hosting a nine-hole golf outing on Sunday morning. There will be food and prizes available and golfers will be separated into groups of two or four. OU’s University Program Council is putting on a brunch event Saturday morning. However, that event is sold out as well. “Every year it kind of fluctuates,” said Matt Thomson, coordinator for Campus Programs. The event, which is a yearly undertaking, usually sells out. He said the cap for attendance is 300 people, which according to Thomson, was met a few days ago. “This year the one thing that they really did different (was the addition of another time),” said Thomson. “There used to be two different seatings, they just combined them into one to make it easier,” he said.Thomson said in the past there were about 300 people, so this year the number will remain the same, just not as spread out as before. This is an attempt to move toward more of a brunch-style meal, said Thomson. There will also be different types of food, not just breakfast foods. Vice President for Student Affairs Ryan Lombardi will be speaking at the event. OU Improv will be performing in addition to an acoustic performance by Ben Leeson. A photo booth will also be available for use.@w_gibbs wg868213@ohio.edu
Tinker on free speech and student rights
By Alex Meyer | Sep. 25, 2014Though she was one of the students behind the landmark Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, Mary Beth Tinker said it was years later when she realized the significance of her black armbands.
African Student Union plans to raise awareness, funds through Ebola lecture
By Lacy Purdum | Sep. 25, 2014The African Student Union will be hosting an Ebola Epidemic Panel Discussion on Sept. 26. The goal of this panel is to raise awareness of the current Ebola epidemic that is taking place in West Africa.
McDavis’ pay raise sparks Senate debate on salaries
By Jeremy Hill | Sep. 25, 2014OU’s Student Senate has formed a committee to investigate the way student tuition dollars are being used to compensate university officials.
Petition calls for election recall
By Alisa Warren | Sep. 24, 2014A petition asking for a recall election is circulating on campus and has roughly 300 signatures.
Committee explores admin pay
By Maygan Beeler | Sep. 24, 2014Through executive evaluations and member-lead discussions, OU Student Senate looked back on its structure.
Sorority house window reportedly broken by brick
By Luke Furman | Sep. 24, 2014A window was broken out in Sigma Kappa's sorority house late Tuesday night.
The 4.8 million dollar students
By Seth Archer | Sep. 24, 2014Student group invests millions of dollars in the stock market and outperform professionals.
Two students arrested at OU Student Senate appear in court
By Suhyeon Park | Sep. 24, 2014Students arrested for speaking out against Marzec keep innocence plea.
Student SpeakOUt returns to beginning of senate meeting
By Maria DeVito | Sep. 24, 2014OUPD had not decided as of press time whether officers will be present at the meeting or what security measures they might take.
OU to get rid of coal power, bound by McDavis’ commitment
By Taylor Maple | Sep. 24, 2014The university has to stop using coal power due to President Roderick McDavis’s climate plan and an EPA mandate.
Developing Dublin
By MERYL GOTTLIEB | Sep. 23, 2014Ohio University hopes to expand even more to the Columbus area, giving theater students an opportunity to study there after severing its ties to a professional theater company this summer.
Ohio University ups fundraising ‘administrative fee’
By Jeremy Hill | Sep. 23, 2014Ohio University fundraisers have acquired more than $464 million in seven years — but officials say the process is expensive and they need more money to raise money.The “administrative fee” is allocated primarily to University Advancement, OU’s fundraising arm, and increased from one to two percent of spendable endowment dollars between the 2012 and 2013 fiscal years.The fee is “well within national benchmarks,” said Jennifer Bowie, executive director of communication and marketing for University Advancement.Bowie did not say to which universities she was comparing OU.OU’s endowment is budgeted to give $7.4 million to university fundraising expenses in the 2014-15 fiscal year. That’s more than three times the $2.1 million that was allocated in 2012.OU is also projecting $15.2 million will be drawn from the endowment’s interest this year for spending on various projects throughout the university.OU’s endowment totaled $497 million, according to March budget records, the most recent figures available.It wasn’t immediately clear as of press time how exactly the administrative fee would be allocated. The fee “supports essential functions” of University Advancement, and the increase in the amount allocated to fundraisers and their increase in raising money are “directly related to one another,” Bowie said in an email.The increase in administrative expenses comes after several years of unprecedented fundraising at OU. “The Promise Lives” campaign, started in July 2007, recently reached its $450 million goal 14 months ahead of schedule.The money spent from the endowment’s interest has increased by at least $1 million during each of the last four fiscal years.“When universities undertake these types of campaigns they incur extra expenses for fundraising materials, staffing, and travel,” Bowie said.John Day, associate provost for Academic Budget and Planning, said most of the administrative fee money goes to fundraising money for “The Promise Lives” campaign.The decision to raise the fee rate was approved by the Ohio University Foundation Board of Trustees, the board that governs OU’s endowment.Day said the fee probably won’t return to previous levels until the campaign’s initial end date next year despite officials meeting the campaign’s fundraising goal.Even then, he called a decrease of the fee rate, “theoretical.”“There has always been some fee … there is always going to be some fee,” Day said.The fundraising campaign will fund a number of university projects, including goals to increase “access and opportunity,” which include scholarship funding.Less than 50 percent of the campaign’s $450 million goal will be allocated to “access and opportunity,” according to the campaign’s website.@jeremyhtweetsjh082913@ohio.edu
Graduate Student Senate shuts down previously supported changes
By Megan Henry | Sep. 22, 2014A resolution to condemn the removal of B Level sanctions, one of the proposed changes to the Student Code of Conduct, was passed by Graduate Student Senate at Monday night’s meeting.
Circus, zoo to come to South Beach
By Olivia Hitchcock | Sep. 22, 2014Circus and zoo performers will be on South Beach on Wednesday.
Survey allegedly tied to Sigma Pi
By Luke Furman | Sep. 22, 2014An alleged Sigma Pi questionnaire was released on social media.
OU ups fundraising ‘administrative fee’
By Jeremy Hill | Sep. 22, 2014OU has raised more than $450 million since 2007, but in 2013 the “administrative fee” taken out of those funds quietly doubled.
