With only two weeks remaining before the season opener against Virginia Military Institute, the Ohio football team held its first scrimmage under the lights Saturday. During the 90-minute session, the Bobcats ran about 80 plays and focused on aspects of a normal regulation game.
A group of Athens residents has successfully garnered a place for their anti-construction issue on the November ballots.
Less than two months ago, Roderick McDavis was fulfilling his service as provost at Virginia Commonwealth University. Today, he is situated in his Cutler Hall office, overseeing the university from which he earned his bachelor's degree 34 years ago.
The apartment was hot and overcrowded, someone vomited on the couch and I had to walk a guy from my floor back to the dorm, where without warning he urinated in the sink. That sums up my first college party, which was way back in September of 1996.
Greg Shepherd, director of the Ohio University School of Communication Studies, will serve a one-year term as the interim dean of the College of Communication beginning Fall Quarter.
An Ohio University professor was named the Blind Educator of the Year by the world's largest organization of the blind.
Nearly eight months have passed since the installation of Phil Earley as offensive coordinator for the Ohio football team, and still the only thing the media can talk about is his one-back offense.
Ohio University is ranked as the nation's fifth-best party school in the 2005 edition of The Princeton Review's The Best 357 Colleges.
In the face of a declining number of international students on campus, an Ohio University department has launched a strategy to improve relations between OU and the international community.
Ohio University is certainly justified in paying top dollar for qualified faculty and administrators, and if market trends stipulate it, unconventional perks may be necessary. But, instead of reacting to the market, OU's decision to give incoming First Lady Deborah McDavis a $25,000 salary is instead a trend-setter, and is far too generous -in other words, completely unnecessary.
It started as an experiment borne of curiosity: what would happen if one attended a president's speech wearing a T-shirt bearing his opponent's name?
Although it has been four months since the Athens Police Department acquired 10 taser guns for their officers, other law enforcement agencies are not planning to purchase the equipment right now.
The NCAA Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee appointed Ohio linebacker Spencer Tatum, the organization announced recently. Tatum, a sophomore who sat out most of last year with a hip injury, begins a two-year term Sept. 1 to represent all athletes who participate in the MAC.
Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx going mano e mano would seem, at least from an acting standpoint, the equivalent of English Premier League soccer power Manchester United taking on its cross-town rivals, Manchester City. In other words, a total and tragic mismatch. After all, Cruise is perhaps America's most popular actor and is backed up by widespread critical acclaim. Foxx, on the other hand, has a somewhat undistinguished career, mostly in comedy. However, with Cruise at his typical best and Foxx doing yeoman's work in keeping up, the two drive director Michael Mann's latest film, Collateral
Ohio University President Roderick McDavis put a stop to the demolition of the Mill Street Apartments after touring the complex last week. McDavis said in a press release that he sees in the 10 apartment buildings a potential we cannot afford to ignore.
An Ohio University administrator who was charged with cocaine possession will leave the university by Halloween.
Students returning to campus this fall will see a few changes to the Athens bar and restaurant scene, as two Uptown businesses recently underwent renovations.
Gov. Bob Taft announced Tuesday that Gene T. Harris of Columbus was appointed to the Ohio University Board of Trustees for a term ending May 13, 2013.
Incoming Ohio University President Roderick McDavis took another step toward filling some major administrative vacancies when he named Larry Corrigan interim vice president for administration and finance, effective Sept. 1.
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