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Your Turn: OU Events interns recognize dismissed administrator

While we understand the necessity of restructuring the administration of the university due to extensive budget cuts, we feel that Gretchen Stephens' dismissal is a devastating loss to our university community. She has not only been a supervisor to us, she has been a mentor both professionally and personally. Furthermore, we are not the only students and staff who have been touched by Gretchen's benevolence in serving as a teacher and as an administrator.

Time ripe to buy new cars, shop at local dealerships, despite economic downturn

Not only is graduating from college exciting for Elisabeth Flannagan, 22, but also that her parents offered to buy her a new car.

Local mental health care providers feel economic stress

While financial circumstances in Athens County exempt it from statewide mental health care budget cuts, local providers still struggle with funding problems.

What I Do Every Week, Pinky: Columnist tells legend of Jesus' holy, magical mule

You know you're all thinking it. Especially today.

Theatre production depicts Trojan War through perspective of Greek women

The story of the Trojan War is familiar to those who have read Homer's Iliad or seen Hollywood's action-packed Troy. While the epic poem and film depicted warriors, neither gave the Greek women characters center stage.

Smith's gift balances Beautification Day budget

Kenyan rock band to blend 'high energy' choreography, East African music at Baker

In 1993, five men from Kenya met on a boulder and decided to form a musical group called Jabali - or rock

'Low-key' drama better than its trailers depict

For a lucky few, graduating means getting a job and starting a career. For most others, graduating means having to take a terrible, low-paying job for months before finally being able to start out in the real world. Adventureland tells the story of one such graduating student who has to get a job working at a rundown Pittsburgh amusement park in 1987.

University Layoffs: Expected cuts would eliminate about 90 employees campus-wide

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Christian radicals attack uncommon obstacles to American ideals

but murder is not as immoral as marijuana. If the Supreme Court was not so blinded by a veil of ignorance

New Board of Trustees resolutions to be debated in Student Senate

Ohio University Student Senators are submitting two new resolutions regarding the Board of Trustees.

Probable case of viral meningitis in Bush Hall

New E-mail System Needs Name

Track: Bobcats dominate Green and White Invitational

There really is no place like home.

Student Senate: Proposal fails in recent vote

Student Senate voted down a resolution to add a vote of confidence in Ohio University's Board of Trustees last night after an hour of heated debate.

Moran Report: OU's legal battle over exposed databases settled after 2 years

Ohio University ended a two-year legal battle in March, agreeing to pay two former employees $90,000 and revise censorship of a controversial report on the series of computer security breaches that rocked the university in 2006.

Fluoridation risks cause scientific, public disputes

Ohio University freshman Ibriham Alassaf first began researching fluoridation his senior year of high school after hearing about it on a radio show, and is pushing City Council to end the practice.

OSU reports meningitis case

Less than a month after two Ohio University students were diagnosed with the infection, Ohio State University announced that a female student has a confirmed case of bacterial meningitis.

Annual Baker Peace Conference hosts series of events focusing on India, China

In 1984, former Ohio University President John C. Baker and his wife Elizabeth established the John and Elizabeth Baker Peace Studies Endowment and held the first Baker Peace Conference at OU.

Administration inflated as other OU employees laid off

I am a little confused and maybe someone can explain to me what is going on. As most everyone knows there are layoffs at Ohio University because of the budget, but what I am having trouble understanding is that if OU is in such a budget crisis, what was the ad in the Sunday paper for a director of retail for the vice president for Finance and Administration? I think that is Bill Decatur's Office. I think he has a number of assistants, and yet he needs more. There is something wrong with this picture. When he lays off all the people who keep the university up and running, is he going to go clean a dorm, fix an overflowing commode, or clean up vomit in the stairwell? I don't think so. Ohio University is overflowing with chiefs, and we are slowly running out of Indians. I have talked to Dr. McDavis and Mr. Decatur before about other things, and neither one of them has ever gotten back to me. But Dr. McDavis and Mr. Decatur have college degrees, and I am sure they know what they are doing.