Plains woman charged with assault after bar fight
Aug. 25, 2004An 18-year-old woman was charged with felonious assault Friday after allegedly stabbing a bartender at an Uptown bar.
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T-shirt chain opens doors Uptown
Aug. 25, 2004UniversiTees, a new shop selling Ohio University apparel, opened Uptown Monday at 30 N. Court St., the former site of Zachary's.
Music festival takes stage around Athens
Aug. 25, 2004In its first year, the Athens Community Music Festival consisted of one concert on the roof of the city parking garage. This Saturday, over 35 bands will play at the seven different venues around Athens, although the parking garage will not be one of them.
OU embraces academic rank
Aug. 25, 2004Ohio University is ranked 18th for students who almost never study, but the 46th for top academic programs in the country.
FBI investigation targets peer file sharing network
Aug. 25, 2004WASHINGTON - The FBI seized computers, software and equipment as part of an investigation into illegal sharing of copyrighted movies, music and games over an Internet peer-to-peer network, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Wednesday.
2004 the defining season for football coach
Aug. 25, 2004As a sports journalist you often have to separate your personal feelings from the facts presented to you. Now I'm not just talking about staying non-partisan through the crush I had on the entire women's volleyball team when I covered them last year. No, I'm talking about relationships that you build with people here at Ohio. One of those relationships is the one I've had with football coach Brian Knorr.
Football team tests plays in scrimmage
Aug. 25, 2004With 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 temporary halt to construction
Aug. 25, 2004A group of Athens residents has successfully garnered a place for their anti-construction issue on the November ballots.
McDavis dishes on diversity, development
Aug. 25, 2004Less 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.
College partying an unlikely character builder
Aug. 18, 2004The 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.
Shepherd chosen for Krendl's old position
Aug. 18, 2004Greg 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.
Communication professor given top honor: J.W. Smith named Educator of Year by National Federation of the Blind
Aug. 18, 2004An Ohio University professor was named the Blind Educator of the Year by the world's largest organization of the blind.
New offense dominates discussion
Aug. 18, 2004Nearly 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.
OU makes Princeton Review's 'party schools': University also listed for greek life, beer drinking, no studying, happy students
Aug. 18, 2004Ohio University is ranked as the nation's fifth-best party school in the 2005 edition of The Princeton Review's The Best 357 Colleges.
OU group heads to Africa
Aug. 18, 2004In 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.
Under-funded and overpaying
Aug. 18, 2004Ohio 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.
Eastern campus prof booted from Bush rally
Aug. 18, 2004It 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?
Tasers beneficial to some law agencies
Aug. 18, 2004Although 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.
NCAA picks linebacker for athletic committee
Aug. 11, 2004The 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.
