As a three-time Ohio grad and an avid fan of Ohio athletics, I have followed the teams in all sports since 1974 when I first was a student. In my opinion, history is repeating itself when it comes to the current basketball team, its level of play and its coaches.
An Athens County grand jury indicted Constance Connie Zwahlen, a former secretary for Athens County prosecutor, and her husband for felonious drug-related charges resulting from an October drug investigation.
The retention rate at OU has fallen again to 79.8 percent. This is a continuing trend that, as administrators have confirmed, has begun to affect the budget. Many of the monetary woes facing the university have been blamed on the falling retention rate. There is a problem keeping students at OU, and the university needs to start offering real solutions.
Although they had the power to reverse the decision to eliminate four varsity sports, Ohio University's Board of Trustees ultimately supported the action at their Friday meeting in Chillicothe.
A few weeks ago, I received news so good that I went to the roof of my dorm and shouted it to all who would listen. Well, that story isn't 100 percent accurate in the sense of being true, but I would have shouted it from the rooftops if the door to the roof wasn't closed, I wasn't busy and the temperature wasn't appropriate for cryogenic experimentation. That's how good the news was. You see, the seventh and final Harry Potter book comes out this summer, and I am excited. Very, very exited.
The Ohio baseball team dropped all three games of its season-opening series against Vanderbilt.
After Friday's Board of Trustees meeting, Ohio University's Voinovich Center for Leadership and Public Affairs remains a center, not a school.
Citing budget concerns, Ohio University's Board of Trustees unanimously postponed a $5.7 million dollar expansion to Porter Hall and the demolition of Anderson Laboratory.
The city of Athens is considering adding lights to its skate park, which would supposedly make it the first lighted outdoor skate park in the state.
A team can get its heart broken a lot of times over a season. For Ohio, three of those times came over the weekend.
Ohio University is striving for recognition as a research institution, but printing quotas for graduate students have some wondering if the university is fulfilling their research needs.
Austin Schiele ran faster than he thought he could this weekend.
Most teams might be upset or deflated after falling just short of a Mid-American Conference Championship, but Ohio was upbeat after finishing in second place Saturday.
Frosty weather that hit Athens on and near Valentine's Day kept flower sales at some Athens shops from blossoming this year.
While people in China spend the New Year holiday with their families, Chinese Ohio University students far away from their home country are celebrating with other students in Athens.
It was revealed in a Dispatch story last Friday that the city council in Oxford, home to Miami University, has considered banning all outdoor alcoholic games, because beer pong tables on front lawns invite very large parties
The second of two competitors for Ohio University's student information system contract gave live demonstrations this week, leaving the $20 million decision to the 20-member selection team, which must choose a vendor by late March.
Steven Soderbergh has emerged as one of Hollywood's most inventive directors, crafting subversively brilliant mainstream fare (Ocean's Eleven) and low-budget experimentalism (Full Frontal).
Paul Warriner knows that if his team expects to be in the Central States Collegiate Hockey League Tournament final on Sunday, they will not make it by cruising through the first two rounds.
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