At 10 p.m. last Wednesday, all residence halls' exterior lobbies were locked. They'll stay that way permanently. In a move that came on the heels of the Virginia Tech shooting, the Ohio University administration offered up a supposedly new plan to deter crime on campus.
Where Walter Hall and the art installation behind it now stand on the corner of Richland Ave. and South Green Drive used to be Trautwein Field.
Regarding Jon Leirer's comments in Friday's Post chiding the crowds that gathered at the street preachers: Freedom of speech is a two-way street, and it was a two-way street that was vigorously used last week. I have to say, of the moments I was there, the entire time the street preachers were more insulting to the crowd than vice versa. Perhaps you saw an outlier event. Yet you have the audacity to lecture us and call our behavior in some way unacceptable.
Ohio University graduate student Chris Hitchcock helps take down 70 flags on College Green at the end of yesterday's International Week activities. Events will continue throughout the week, including today's keynote address by Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran. The one hundred forty flags will be put back up on the green Saturday to coincide with the International Street Fair.
As the number of judicial cases involving drugs other than alcohol increases, Ohio University could have a new drug policy in place by Fall Quarter.
In response to Doug Cloud's piece in the May 11 edition of The Post, BRAVO! I think he has written about everything I've been talking about since the beginning of this campaign. In order for the issue presented on this ballot to be taken seriously, the student body must come out and vote. The lack of turnout at the forums was a great concern of mine, and I feared that the lack of turnout to these forums would lead to another substandard turnout come election time.
Ohio University senior Jon Harris, a journalism student from the Akron area, takes a nap in his hammock under the shade of the trees on College Green yesterday afternoon.
The security aide program will remain on campus for the 2007-08 academic year, despite a proposal from Residence Life to eliminate the program if budgets were reduced by 5 percent.
Folks, it is time for a timeout. When we get to the point where no one can criticize President McDavis because he's black and if they go ahead and do it anyway they're labeled as racist, we've got a problem. We're treading on thin ice, and if we continue in this direction, we're going to end up at a place none of us want to be. As a group of university professionals and students, we should be able to have a debate about the merits of the current OU administration in a civil and respectful manner. It is incumbent on all of us to treat everyone in our community with the utmost respect and civility. I beg everyone in every corner of this debate to temper the rhetoric and think before they speak. We cannot let this debate degenerate into racial conflict. Not here. Not now.
The Ohio baseball team will close out its 2007 schedule this weekend without senior infielder Dusty Hammond and sophomore outfielder Kirk Payne.
Admissions for next year's incoming freshman class are lower than last year, reflecting more stringent selectivity, a university administrator said at last night's Faculty Senate meeting.
A group of dark, shadowy figures moved across the stage in February's Ohio University School of Theater production The Conference of the Birds. Most of these figures were not actors but video images projected on the stage.
Time for some rants and raves from the last week in sports:
Do I disappoint you? bellows singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright in the opening song on his first album in nearly three years.
In response to Ashley Herzog's May 7 column: I would like to thank Ms. Ashley Herzog for her article concerning the gender pay gap as it provides an excellent opportunity to shed some light on this important matter. I am not angry at the disdain Ms. Herzog has for those who believe in equal pay for equal work, but rather recognize her ignorance concerning the subject ' as I doubt highly that Ms. Herzog has ever had experience with not being paid what she was worth. Or perhaps she is simply a societal member of privilege, blessed with enough monetary wealth to secure her own financial future without feeling it necessary to acknowledge inequalities that do not apply to her own situation. We all are guilty of this at sometime or another.
Ohio representative Jimmy Stewart met with members of Graduate Student Senate last night to discuss senate's resolution recommending student trustees be given voting rights.
Like you, Miss Herzog, I often read editorials with the honest intention of not interfering with the author's views (though often erroneous and misguided). In fact, I did it again yesterday as I read your take on the crazy feminist gender pay gap theory. Alas, here I am responding once more.
In response to Monika Gasztonyi's letter dated May 10: Not only would I like to tell Ms. Gasztonyi that my interpretation was nothing of the sort, I would like to ask her which dictionary she is using.
I have a question for Jonathan Leirer (Crowd's reaction to evangelicals less than thoughtful
There are good things about the publication for which you work, which has finite resources.
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