KANSAS CITY -The last time I saw Dan Lowe, we were both perched on the edge of our seats in the Gaylord Entertainment Center, smack in the middle of Nashville, Tenn., watching with some sort of shocked amazement as the Ohio men's basketball team mounted a 20-point comeback against the Florida Gators in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Dan Lowe, a founding member and driving force behind the O-Zone, died Friday from apparent heart failure while playing basketball in The Convo. He was 24.
It has been brought to my attention -numerous times -that many minority students across Ohio University's campus are less than satisfied with the amount of diversity at OU. I understand what many of these students are saying, especially because I come from a background that is similar to the one they came from. Evidence of this fact is that some students have proclaimed to me that the Web site was misleading, because every time it loaded there would be a photo of a diverse group of students in the pictorial border.
Ohio University's Board of Trustees met last Friday, approving the school's budget for next year, increasing salaries and making changes to the sexual harassment policy.
Athens -Saturday, July 2nd -Boomsday 2005 begins at 10 a.m. with a parade on Morris Avenue. The fireworks show starts at 10 p.m. on East State Street.
Landmark Court Street theater, The Athena, closed Tuesday for cleaning and maintenance work. It will reopen July 15 for the opening weekend of Tim Burton's remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -For Engineering Professor Moayad Yasin al-Samaraie, President Bush's pledge to keep U.S. troops in Iraq until their mission is complete was the promise of order over chaos.
I recently saw a hawk. A hungry hawk, eating savagely. When the hawk noticed me watching, it gorged faster. A circle of red spiraled around the hawk, a kind of bloody dinner table, and it kept peevishly glancing at me -overall, it was cute.
After a 3-game weekend against the Lima Locos resulting in two wins and a loss, the Copperheads were back at it again Tuesday against the Delaware Cows. Prior to the game, rain began to pour upon Bob Wren Field, but as the game began, the Copperheads poured on the runs en route to a 10-2 decision against the Cows.
Ohio University announced the newest addition to its athletics department yesterday -former University of Oklahoma associate athletic director Kirby Hocutt will begin his tenure as the university's athletics director in August.
These days, Ohio University's recycling program operates by more than the crunch of soda cans and the dismantling of corrugated cardboard pizza boxes -it operates on the premise that providing recycling services to the OU community is a means to promote recycling throughout Athens.
Popular country music serves as a certain form of escapism. In a genre where stage presence often trumps lyrical complexity, likeability and familiarity are just as important to country performances as the musical intricacies are.
At Monday's city council meeting, members gave a first reading to an ordinance that would amend the current policy on the discharge of weapons.
Melodies from the stage and screen filled the air of College Green yesterday evening as the Ohio University Summer Band presented its first concert in the annual Under the Elms concert series.
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After a four-game losing streak on the road, the Southern Ohio Copperheads returned to Athens at Bob Wren Stadium to play the Stark County Terriers.
MOSCOW -An attempt to launch the world's first solar sail spacecraft fizzled when a booster rocket failed less than two minutes after liftoff, showering debris over the Arctic Ocean, the Russian space agency said yesterday.
I dealt with the results of last year's presidential and congressional elections the same way that many other Liberals dealt with the results of the elections. Poorly.
At a press conference yesterday in Copeland Hall, Ohio University President Roderick McDavis announced the completion of a first draft of the school's strategic plan.
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