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Your Turn: Articles on employee health care nothing but 'feel-good PR'
Apr. 11, 2007What a nice juxtaposition: while we learn that Budget could shift costs of employee health care
Money woes threaten Scripps professorship
Apr. 11, 2007EDITOR'S NOTE: Sean Gaffney was employed with the Scripps Howard Foundation for an internship in Washington, D.C., this past summer. He is no longer employed with the company.
Baseball: 'Cats fail to recover from early deficit, fall to 0-10 in road games
Apr. 10, 2007Dan Weiss had a second inning that he would like to forget.
Editorial: Questionable decision
Apr. 10, 2007In all academic disciplines ' from history to the sciences ' transparency is the key to integrity. A recent report by Ohio University's Center for Automatic Identification fell short of this requirement of full and honest disclosure. OU's recent Consumer Reports-style review of several Radio Frequency Identification readers failed to disclose that a Web retailer of the devices loaned them to OU.
Your Turn: University can block IP addresses to help prevent trouble with RIAA
Apr. 10, 2007In the past several months the RIAA has sent out 405 letters to college students demanding $750 for each song downloaded or a settlement fee of $3,000. This has come following the 2006 attacks against 18,000 people, including a 7-year-old girl, 83-year-old dead grandmother and people who don't even have computers. Each of these new lawsuits were initiated by the RIAA tracking college computer networks of students who have accidentally forgotten to turn off the upload feature on their files. Realistically, these are not the avid users who download a lot of music, since most of the avid users know how to protect themselves by turning off file-sharing. The RIAA is only going after the sharing of music, not the downloading. But the real question is not about upload versus download. The real question is who is responsible for allowing file upload and download on college campuses.
4 candidates vie for 3 at-large council seats
Apr. 10, 2007Four candidates for three at-large Athens City Council seats shared their views on topics ranging from parking reform, public safety and rental housing in a discussion forum last night.
Revenge of the Nerd
Apr. 10, 2007It started like any other Wednesday, but by the end of the day I felt like I had bathed in a sea of mediocrity. I decided that I was running dangerously low on the staples of life ' pretzels, hot dogs and juice. So after class, I ventured off on an epic, consumerist journey into the bowels of Wal-Mart. After I bought my groceries, I understood why I hated Wal-Mart, but that I was doomed to shop there.
Fiscal woes plague school district
Apr. 10, 2007As Federal Hocking Local School District faces an imminent fiscal emergency, a state audit of its 2006 finances released yesterday confirmed its sizable debt and found several bookkeeping errors.
Course catalogs to be online only
Apr. 10, 2007Ohio University will replace the printed course catalogs with a program that makes the catalogs accessible through the university Web site by next fall.
OU students' TV usage falls below American average
Apr. 10, 2007Americans sure love their TV, but Ohio University students do not watch as much as the typical American household, a recent survey shows.
Changing channels
Apr. 10, 2007As it prepares to rework the campus television network this summer, Ohio University has gathered student opinions about changing channels.
Property taxes drag teachers' salaries below average
Apr. 10, 2007Although Ohio teachers have the 13th highest salaries in the nation, average salaries for teachers in Athens County are almost 20 percent lower than the state average, a disparity local school officials attribute to an over-reliance on property taxes.
Editorial: Definite possibility
Apr. 10, 2007Faculty within the Russ College of Engineering recently evaluated Dean Dennis Irwin. About one third of the faculty responded to the study, but 44 percent of that one third spoke loud and clear by suggesting a study be conducted to decide Irwin's reappointment as dean. This does not come off as extremely surprising, after the plagiarism scandal, a professor arrested for alleged cocaine distribution and lawsuits from an industrial accident.
Softball doubleheader canceled
Apr. 10, 2007The Ohio softball team's doubleheader with Youngstown State scheduled for today has been canceled. The games will not be made up.
Pride Week celebrates LGBT, civic involvement
Apr. 10, 2007The contributions that local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have made to their neighborhoods, cities and country will be acknowledged during this year's Pride Week, which kicks off today and continues until next Friday.
Your Turn: Forum explores overlooked questions
Apr. 10, 2007I believe the upcoming Veritas Forum might possibly be the most revolutionary event at Ohio University. In the academic climate at our school, spiritual topics are rarely discussed, rarely explored through deep questions and rarely unify the community we live in. Yet, the Veritas Forum strives to counter this spiritual taboo. Rather than setting tough questions aside and deciding that everyone's right
Forum seeks to explore truth, religion at OU
Apr. 9, 2007Questions about the meaning of life and the presence of a higher power are common among people of all faiths. Although significant inquiries, they are not always easy to discuss or to introduce into conversation.
Your Turn: Student center and its pool tables should be accessible to public
Apr. 9, 2007I've been willing to give the university the benefit of the doubt in regards to the abundant negativity that it has become associated with it and, after initial concerns, was also warming up to the new Baker University Center primarily in regards to the Front Room, food court and billiards room. At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, let me say that I first played on the old Baker Center pool tables as early as 1964 when visiting my older brother and that a total of four of my family members are OU alumni.
