No reversal in sport team cuts
Feb. 18, 2007Although 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.
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Locke Work Orange:
Feb. 18, 2007A 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.
Baseball: Ohio swept by Vanderbilt
Feb. 18, 2007The Ohio baseball team dropped all three games of its season-opening series against Vanderbilt.
Voinovich still center, not school
Feb. 18, 2007After Friday's Board of Trustees meeting, Ohio University's Voinovich Center for Leadership and Public Affairs remains a center, not a school.
Porter addition delayed
Feb. 18, 2007Citing 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.
Editorial: One thing at a time
Feb. 18, 2007The 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.
Softball: 'Cats suffer heartbreak at Spartan Classic
Feb. 18, 2007A team can get its heart broken a lot of times over a season. For Ohio, three of those times came over the weekend.
Graduate Student Senate: Low printing quota hurts grad research efforts
Feb. 18, 2007Ohio 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.
Indoor track & field: Bobcats find unexpected success at Buckeye invite
Feb. 18, 2007Austin Schiele ran faster than he thought he could this weekend.
Second never felt so good
Feb. 18, 2007Most 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.
Cold weather hurts Valentine's Day sales
Feb. 18, 2007Frosty weather that hit Athens on and near Valentine's Day kept flower sales at some Athens shops from blossoming this year.
Chinese groups celebrate New Year in Athens
Feb. 15, 2007While 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.
Editorial: Dangerous games
Feb. 15, 2007It 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
SIS vendors vie for $20 million contract with OU
Feb. 15, 2007The 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.
'Casablanca'-type film fails to impress
Feb. 15, 2007Steven 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).
Hockey: Top-seeded Bobcats to use home ice as an advantage
Feb. 15, 2007Paul 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.
Early art education can improve cognitive skills of children
Feb. 15, 2007From an early age, children instinctively create art by drawing on the walls and other such creative youthful endeavors. Experts say that this expression is beneficial to children in a variety of ways.
Your Turn: Discussion of show proves play's promotion of dialogue
Feb. 15, 2007A forum to discuss the value of a performance called The Vagina Monologues. Is this the best idea a group of disapproving women could come up with? If the monologues are designed to heighten awareness about issues involving female sexuality, which seems to be the case, the forum would have only promoted discussion about the very issues the show takes up in its monologues.
Party to support women's health
Feb. 15, 2007For Ohio University students, $300 could cover books for a year, but for women in poor countries it can buy the chance of a normal life.
