Writer, Comedian to perform at OU
Jan. 15, 2004Al Franken is set to perform to a sold-out crowd in Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium.
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Illegally parked cars get 'the boot' from OU's crowded lots
Jan. 15, 2004Vehicles repeatedly in violation of Ohio University parking rules are about to be booted from campus - literally.
Ohio grabs Bulls by horns for win
Jan. 14, 2004For the first 20 minutes, Ohio looked well on its way to a handful of historic lowlights against Buffalo.
Senate seeks to alter scholarships
Jan. 14, 2004Student senators encouraged Ohio University officials to consider restructuring certain scholarships in a resolution adopted at last night's meeting.
Expert to address 'war on terrorism'
Jan. 14, 2004Ohio University's Contemporary History Institute will present a status report on the war on terrorism today with speaker Daniel Benjamin.
What's in store: Latest gadgets get smart
Jan. 14, 2004These days, almost everything is digital. Almost anything can be done from a simple key stroke of a cell phone. Although most products are expensive when they first appear, with time, the price goes down and the technology goes up. Here are a few of the latest and greatest:
Forward finds a home in Athens
Jan. 14, 2004Within the last year, Elizabeth Brown has made the transition from being a student athlete at a small junior college in Wyoming to the second leading scorer on the Ohio women's basketball team. Brown, who followed her former head coach and current Ohio assistant Gary Becker to Athens, has started 10 of Ohio's 13 games thus far. In December, Brown was named to the all-tournament team of the Hatter Classic, finishing off an undefeated weekend and tournament victory for the Bobcats.
No player brings more excitement than Nelson
Jan. 14, 2004I know what you're expecting; you think I'm going to say the most exciting player in college basketball is some guy with a 44-inch vertical leap who spends most nights going to bed thinking about breaking backboards.
Olympic redshirt provides college wrestling controversy
Jan. 14, 2004As is the case in many sports, controversy has riddled college wrestling in the form of Olympic redshirting, an NCAA bylaw that can be used to obtain a sixth year of eligibility without a significant injury.
New MAC contenders step-up as conference play begins
Jan. 14, 2004While some of the preseason Mid-American Conference men's basketball preseason favorites, namely Bowling Green (6-8 overall, 2-2 MAC) and Miami (6-5, 2-1 MAC), have struggled out of the gate during the non-conference season, other teams have taken up the banner of the conference.
Bush to propose budget
Jan. 14, 2004WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush will propose an election-year budget Feb. 2 in a world starkly changed since his first White House bid, with recession, tax cuts, war and terrorism having transformed soaring surpluses into huge deficits.
Glouster asks for funds to fix water system
Jan. 14, 2004The Athens County Commissioners are working with a local organization to receive state funding that would be used to make improvements to the water system in Glouster.
Marathon Ashland wants less paperwork for minor maintenance on pipeline
Jan. 14, 2004COLUMBUS - Marathon Ashland Petroleum doesn't want to have to notify the state each time it performs what it considers minor maintenance on its fuel pipeline under public land.
Buffalo poses bigger challenge than in past
Jan. 13, 2004One shot stood between the Ohio women's basketball team and its first victory against Ball State in six years.
Mass. court ruling legal
Jan. 13, 2004For a couple hundred years, give or take a few, democratic debate has been a bedrock of the American governmental process. I wish to further it here by responding to U-Wire columnist Joe Schilling's opinions on recent Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. I also want to avoid the common pitfall of editorial responders by engaging in a tit-for-tat game of rhetorical point-scoring. Although I do disagree with many of Mr. Schilling's statements, a simplified analysis of the ruling and the legislative and judicial processes of the state of Massachusetts do not further our endeavor to understand this issue. I offer, instead, this alternate view of the issue.
Presidential points to ponder
Jan. 13, 2004Remember in grade school when your conscientious third grade teacher explained the difference between principle and principal? In my case, she boldly declared the principal is, indeed, your pal. At the college level, we have the next best thing: a president. Right now, Ohio University is preparing for the monumental transition from one president to the next.
Sexual harassment issue among students leads to policy review
Jan. 13, 2004A recent incident among students at Trimble Middle School caused a routine district policy review to be timelier than expected.
APD distributes firearm safety kits to Athens residents
Jan. 13, 2004The Athens Police Department began handing out 200 firearm safety kits provided by Project Childsafe to Athens residents Monday.
Anti-smoking grant would target teens
Jan. 13, 2004At yesterday's Athens County Commissioner's meeting, Jack Frech, Department of Job and Family Services' director, proposed a $50,000, one-year contract with Case Western Reserve for Tobacco Prevention.
Court rejects death-row inmate's last appeal
Jan. 13, 2004COLUMBUS - Studying legal documents and refusing to select a last meal, convicted killer Lewis Williams spent the day before his scheduled execution quietly while a final appeal went before a federal appeals court.
