Section 437, buried deep within the 1,158 page Higher Education Act of 2008, contains provisions that provide greater access to federal financial aid for mentally disabled students.
As a new academic and fiscal year begins, it seems like a good time for members of the Ohio University community to reflect on the last academic year and the McDavis administration's misplaced budget priorities. Many will recall the informational picketing conducted at various locations on campus by maintenance and custodial union AFSCME Local 1699. They were picketing because of a $770,000 budget reallocation that resulted in the cutting of more than 20 within the Facilities Management division. Despite the union's picketing and protests raised by students and faculty, administrators refused to reconsider the budget reallocation even as Local 1699 continued to insist that it was both unnecessary and a violation of the contract made between the university and the union. At the time, both union picketers and student protesters noted that the obscene salaries made by senior administrators and newly hired, needless white-collar employees would perhaps be better targets for budget reallocations.
Why are people so shocked by liberals' sexist attacks on vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin? Sure, they've created Photoshopped images of her as a porn star and bikini model, nicknamed her VPILF (a spin on MILF) and, for good measure, suggested she should be at home raising kids instead of running for office. But this is nothing new. Although certain members of the left love to accuse Republicans of ignoring women's interests and being the party of white males
Ohio University settled its lawsuit with the provider of an allegedly failed water valve that caused more than $1 million in damages to the school in 2006.
Yesterday afternoon, while a friend and I were walking home from dinner, we saw, to our utter amazement, a young woman jogging down Congress Street. Topless. We were speechless, of course. What a tactless display of indecency! I sternly said to my friend, stomping my feet and averting my eyes.
Several years of pushing for a barber who understands black hair care ' and debating whether the demand was great enough ' never came to fruition.
Ohio University has officially introduced a program designed to provide additional support to students who seem to be a risk to themselves and others.
When Athens police officers discovered a 2-foot-long alligator near 145 Mill St. this summer, David Sagan, director of the Hocking Woods Nature Center at Hocking College, was called to pick up the reptile.
Theo Scott pulled no punches when talking about everything from his injury to how Ohio State will fare against the University of Southern California this weekend. Scott broke his collarbone on a hard hit by an Ohio State defender and had surgery to repair the compound fracture on Monday. He was all ready back on the field for Ohio's practice on Tuesday with his arm in a sling. Here's what he said in an interview with reporters after practice.
With a few exceptions, the first weekend on campus for most Ohio University students passed quietly, according to local police reports.
The Ohio Board of Regents is offering students at the state's public schools electronic textbooks at half the price of print versions.
I'm sorry to say that I am not as excited about the Well Being Planas Ohio University's administrative staff seems to be. Although it is asmall step in the right direction, I'm appalled at the university'sdecision to start charging for counseling services.
When I started OU in the fall of 1988, one of the first things we learned was that during a football game, once you saw the band perform at halftime, it was time to leave.
Freshmen moving into the newly renovated Lincoln Hall Thursday were not expecting an encounter with the president of their university, let alone his help hauling boxes full of clothes and books up four flights of stairs.
The Institute for the African Child at Ohio University advocates for a marginalized population that is in danger of becoming faceless among poverty and the continent's other challenges.
The Ohio soccer team just didn't have enough energy left when it faced Northeastern yesterday in the Regina Moench Memorial Tournament. Ohio was short-handed all weekend because of injuries to key players, and that ' coupled with a lack of execution ' was too much for the Bobcats to overcome as they lost 2-0.
There is a new face on Court Street and it isn't that of a student or faculty member, but the newly transformed College Book Store, which was remodeled this summer.
Coach Dave Cooley's team returns almost all of their top players from last season.-
With time ticking down in the third quarter and the Bobcats clinging to a two-point lead, punt returner Mark Parson fumbled away a chance at history.
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