In response to Amy Robison's letter printed May 14, charges of bigotry and racism are to be taken seriously, and the way in which Ms. Robison has flung them upon any who dare speak in opposition to President McDavis and the Cutler Hall brass is appalling. Such painting with a broad brush is stereotypical and unjust.
On April 18, Will Klatt announced his intention to run for Student Senate president. You might think that someone like me who isn't even a student on the Athens campus wouldn't care one way or another who ends up being the next Student Senate president, but you would be wrong. Since deciding earlier this year to relocate from the Eastern campus to Athens this coming fall, I've been paying attention to events on the Athens campus, and that's why I know that Will Klatt should be the next Student Senate president.
Student Senate elections are coming up Thursday, and I hope all students intend to vote. Many of your classmates put a lot of effort into the student governance at Ohio University to represent you on concerns such as student conduct and discipline, LGBT issues, diversity issues, guest policy in the dorms, alcohol policy and more. This year there are two full-ticket parties, TOGA and PULSE. You might have seen their fliers around (or at least TOGA's).
College stereotypes come to life as the real girls go head-to-head with the copy girls in the new stage comedy Real Girls Can't Win!
Ohio University aviation student John Fry deserves his suspension for making threats and bringing a handgun and a knife on university property.
Federal Hocking Local School District has eliminated about $600,000 from its $1.8 million projected debt for 2008, but whether another $40,000 reduction will come from pay-to-play sports and other cuts will have to wait until June.
Dear Scripps Journalism Students,
At a time when science and religion are heavily debated, some scholars say that God is not a scientific element.
Rob Youdath, a senior from Painesville, Ohio, walks a slack line yesterday on College Green.
The Bobcats didn't have a large recruiting class this year, but the two players that they did sign are expected to step into large roles.
Last week President McDavis presented his Presidential Address to the university community, in which he appointed Provost Kathy Krendl executive vice president and provost. This reorganization is a change, but is it a change for change's sake.
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.
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