Some local renewable energy advocates say Ohio University should accept a renewable energy deal to fund a solar power plant in Southeastern Ohio — or any plan that diversifies the university’s energy consumption — in part because of a commitment OU President Roderick McDavis signed in 2007.
Student Senate kicked off the year discussing a tobacco policy that will be presented to the Board of Trustees in the presence of some of Ohio University’s biggest names.
Athens County officials are at odds over the cause, but they know one thing is for certain: Drug users in the county are dying at one of the fastest rates in Ohio.
Encircled by the Appalachian Mountains and girdled by the Hocking River these natural boundaries act like a moat that protects the land from outside intention. The landscape sets a tone for the “bubble” that is created here. Those who enter this land are immediately overwhelmed by a sense of calm and political moderation that can only be present in a swing state. Some reside for the beautiful nature, others for the picturesque Uptown, but most simply for the atmosphere. Drawn by its masonic structures, blooming cherry blossoms and promises of front page access (we’ve got a good journalism school), the young and able flock to the educational assemblage known as Ohio University. It was opening weekend and the cars were loaded. Caravans of both returning and prospective students were en-route southward bound with dreams of glory and debauchery. Immersed in the river of cars were the alumni. We are those who have studied and proven merit, cried and conquered, danced and fested and we were returning, returning to see the people and places that we missed dearly. Upon arrival I began to reminisce of my initial visit to this wonderful place. From my very first step onto those brick streets I knew I was in a place that would be part of my life forever. I could feel the echoes of those who had come before ripple through my core. The anticipation of making my own rumbles that would extend into the unforeseeable future. I did not know what my major would be (maybe business?), where the Alpha Epsilon Pi house was (Jewography search) or who my friends would be (everyone I knew was attending OSU), but it did not matter. All that I knew is that it felt right, it felt comfortable, and it felt like home. For those of you who are not informed about this mythical place, it has a few reputations, many true, and others simply incorrect. Some know it as the No. 1 party school in the nation, Dirty Hippy Disney World, Harvard on the Hocking, or “The place that has a crazy Halloween celebration.” To some, those terms can be offensive and I have heard many alumni (mostly older) discuss how the reputation damages the degrees that they have earned. However, I see it differently. Athens is a place for radicals. Those who love to love and must experience all to its highest degree. I lived a bipolar lifestyle that included massive mud-wrestling-enthused music events as well as late-night team meetings and presentation preparation. I worked restlessly and woke up contemptuously. When all projects were done and we had presented our Powerpoint, we celebrated the way we did everything else, with vigor. In the Athens fashion, I wandered the streets that I had come to know so well. I ventured into old stomping grounds and was welcomed by 50-cent cheese sticks and smiling faces. I had fallen into the rhythm of Athens.
Ohio University President Roderick McDavis gave his convocation speech to faculty and staff in a smaller venue than in the one he gave to students, but was just as eager to share Ohio University’s accomplishments.
Speakers at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium took the stage to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Wednesday night. Standing room only, Ohio University students, faculty and Athens natives acted as an audience to hear what the speakers had to share.
I once asked a doctor, “What’s the craziest thing that you have ever seen?” Without hesitation the doctor, an internist, painfully said, “Necrotizing fasciitis.”
Ohio University’s two student trustees will join 12 other board members during their retreat on Thursday, but will not be casting votes despite efforts from student officials and state legislators.
Politicians in Athens County have made it clear they have a lot of questions about hydraulic fracturing.
Previously called a multipurpose center or pavilion, the indoor recreation facility being built adjacent to Peden Stadium now has an official title: the Walter Fieldhouse.
A new year brings a new crop of students and new members to campus groups. But for many, they must first pass the dreaded audition.
As a junior in college, Francine Childs traveled to the University of Texas at Austin in 1956 to see Martin Luther King Jr. conduct a workshop, not knowing that she would have the opportunity to meet and speak with him.
Ohio University’s Southern and Chillicothe campuses were recently deemed among national public universities two of the worst campuses for graduation rates, but university officials claim it’s not an accurate analysis.
The day was August 28, 1957. Following the passage of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, whites in the South had begun to violently rise up and commit heinous acts against African Americans, assaults and including church bombings.
Stafford loan interest rates for undergraduates increased this school year, but the 6.8 percent loan rate is off the table — for now.
Tim Pfaff, 51, never thought much of the basketball-sized rocks that would occasionally fall from the hill behind his Fort Street home in Athens.
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