An Athens City Council ordinance that requires student tenants to sign a document stating they are aware of city regulations could have negative consequences, and Ohio University Student Senate passed a resolution urging council to revise the ordinance in last night's meeting.
Author Jack Driscoll will be conducting a fiction reading from his new book, How Like an Angel
A new program on campus just might help students get that leaky pipe fixed.
Two capital improvement projects and nearly $2 million in roadwork were the focus of Athens Mayor Ric Abel's news conference yesterday.
Cheers to the Ohio Board of Education, which voted Tuesday to remove language from the state's science standards that encouraged students to critically analyze evolutionary theory. Critics said this language opened the door for the teaching of intelligent design in science classes, a door that thankfully has been shut.
At first listen, With Love and Squalor by We Are Scientists sounds like a band I've heard once before but simply can't put a name to - the musical equivalent of a word on the tip of one's tongue.
Resident directors across campus will carry out their responsibilities in updated offices next quarter for the first time in 14 years.
Some Ohio University students and Athens residents, strapped for cash, regularly donate their plasma and make a difference in biological advancement.
The University Curriculum Council at Ohio University accepted the seven-year review of the Bachelor of Specialized Studies and Associate in Individualized Studies with one council member in opposition.
A Glouster couple is suing 66 companies that allegedly manufactured, distributed, used, supplied or installed the asbestos-containing products that caused one of the pair to develop cancer.
According to a new policy Ohio University's Office of Student Affairs will forward all allegations of hazing - regardless of the complaints' vagueness or anonymity - to the Ohio University Police Department. At that point, OUPD has the discretionary power to determine the legality of any reported improper hazing practices. The university should be commended for its restructuring of its protocol to ensure that all accusations are treated equally and that anonymous sources are taken seriously.
A proposed bill to prevent gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens from adopting children - or serving as foster parents - has been introduced to the Ohio House of Representatives. Under the pretense of the bigoted stigma denouncing same-sex parenting as harmful based solely on sexual orientation, this bill is a grim reflection of unwarranted lawmaking at its pinnacle. With no real evidence supporting the reduction of homosexual and transgender individuals' civil rights, the bill seems to be an attempt to legislate right-wing religious beliefs rather than to consider the best interests of the thousands of Ohio children in state and county custody.
So Democrats have pushed U.S. Senate candidate Paul Hackett out of the race against Sherrod Brown, have they? Well, they're not used to winning anyway - they'd only have messed it up sooner or later.
Editor's note: This is the third story in a seven-part series about aging in Athens and concerns of soon-to-retire baby boomers.
Bill and Vonette Bright founded Campus Crusade for Christ in 1951, and while its mission statement is to turn lost students into Christ-centered laborers
The Athens County Commissioners awarded the bid for a waterline improvement project in Glouster at their regular meeting yesterday.
The personal savings rate of Americans has dropped below zero for the first time since the Great Depression, according to a report released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Customarily, at this time in the quarter many students begin to feel like the gimp water-buffalo that is holding up the rest of the herd by falling behind in their studies - textbooks unread, papers yet to be started, etc.
Hanging in Athens High School's McAfee Gymnasium are six old and weathered banners, each one displaying the name and colors of a different member of the Southeastern Ohio Athletic League: Logan, Gallia, Marietta, Warren, Jackson and Athens.
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