Slippery roads possible cause of fatal crash
Jan. 27, 2009Slippery roads may have been a factor in a car accident that killed a New Marshfield woman yesterday morning, according to an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper.
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What I Do Every Week, Pinky: The first 100 days: Bring on the lightsabers, Velociraptors
Jan. 27, 2009As I write this, Barack Obama has been president for almost a week. He's done a lot: started closing down Gitmo, taken the Presidential Oath (twice). To quote the television show Arrested Development, There's a new daddy in town; a discipline daddy.
Men's Basketball: Bobcats game with Chippewas postponed
Jan. 27, 2009Due to inclement weather, Ohio's game with Central Michigan has been postponed.
Res Life and Housing merge, layoffs expected
Jan. 27, 2009Ohio University will merge administrative offices and cut jobs to save money, officials announced yesterday.
Faculty Senate: Emergency meeting called to discuss Provost replacement committee
Jan. 27, 2009Faculty Senate called a special meeting after President Roderick McDavis invited eight additional faculty members to the Ohio University executive vice president and provost search committee.
That's What She Said: Columnist takes lies over truth in primetime TV
Jan. 27, 2009Apparently the entertainment business has decided to write what it knows best: manipulation and deception. Two new primetime TV series juxtapose the two: FOX's Lie to Me, which premiered Jan. 21 at 9 p.m., and TNT's Trust Me, which premiered Jan. 26 at 10 p.m.
Hockey: Goaltender to put on US uniform for World University Games in China
Jan. 26, 2009A different jersey has never looked better for Paul Marshall.
Board must now approve constructions, renovations
Jan. 26, 2009A new policy will help the university keep a tighter leash on its spending.
Drive fuels blood feudbetween OU, Miami for highest donations
Jan. 26, 2009A battle is raging between Ohio University and Miami University, and there will be blood - 400 pints to be exact.
Committee continues dean searches after hiatus
Jan. 26, 2009The search for a new Honors Tutorial College dean has resumed along with a search to replace the dean of the College of Health and Human Services after last month's suspensions were lifted.
Streamlined meal plans on the table for next year
Jan. 26, 2009Building renovations might not be the only changes students see in dining halls on campus next year.
Backtalk: Former Bobcat fondly remembers OU
Jan. 25, 2009Thom Brennaman, radio and television broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds, graduated from Ohio University in 1986. He's also called play-by-play for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago Cubs, Fox Sports and the Big Ten Network. Brennaman is the son of long-time Reds broadcaster Marty Brennaman.
Your turn: Applications available for soon-vacant positions as OU student trustees
Jan. 25, 2009I was excited to see the public response to the Board of Trustees' proposed Statement of Expectations. The student trustees served as excellent conveyors of that response when the Board discussed the topic, and the Board is now in the process of revising the statement. I think this shows the importance of the student trustees.
Board of Trustees approves 2 faculty representatives
Jan. 25, 2009ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio - The Ohio University Board of Trustees passed a resolution at Friday's meeting inviting two faculty members to act as non-voting representatives.
Leaving local task force not a deterrent to drug control
Jan. 25, 2009The Athens County Sheriff's Office has plans to reduce the drug usage in the area despite leaving a multi-county crimes task force.
Your turn: Beware of thin ice: walking on pond not worth risking life
Jan. 25, 2009Okay, I can accept the youthful hijinks of someone rolling the giant cable spindle into the Emeriti Park pond.
