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.
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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.
Bid Day brings new sisters together
By Luke Furman | Sep. 22, 2014Bid day comes to an end leaving girls united with their sisters.
OU Crushes passes the Twitter handle
By Will Gibbs | Sep. 22, 2014If you’re too shy to talk to your crush in person, one Twitter account will let you anonymously profess your feelings — 140 characters at a time.
'Kings' take over Ping courts
By ELIZABETH BACKO | Sep. 21, 2014While many people continued with their normal workout routine last Saturday, 18 teams stormed the new basketball courts to battle for a title of royalty.
Global student population may increase
By Amy Schmitt | Sep. 21, 2014HED: OU could see increase in international students
Professor’s project to be tested in space
By Bret Jamerson | Sep. 21, 2014Sarah Wyatt and her team are getting what could be a once-in-a-career chance of sending their research project to space.
New policy gives survivors privacy
By Kaitlin Coward | Sep. 21, 2014About 50 percent of reported assaults come from victims who did so accidentally or unknowingly, with no intent on pursuing an investigation.
