The first day of Student Senate elections kicked off strong with more than 2,000 votes already cast, according to the Board of Elections and university officials.
Pam Benoit, Ohio University's executive vice president and provost, is in the running for a new job.
A resolution that caps campaign funding for Student Senate elections forces candidates to get creative with their restricted budgets.
No races are contested.
OU officials held the first of two public meetings on the Comprehensive Master Plan 2016, which outlines how Ohio University will approach the next 10 years.
No one else in Ohio has gotten the treatment.
Candidates in the race for Athens City Mayor’s race — Athens City Councilman Steve Patterson (D) and OU student Andrew Looker (R) — will be holding an open forum Wednesday afternoon in the Front Room to answer questions from both the press as well as students and Athens residents.
Athens County Commissioner held their weekly meeting Tuesday morning to discuss a groundwater sampling project, a promotion, the possible renewing of a road agreement and to decide whether to close a road down or not.
Jeremy Webster, dean of Honors Tutorial College, will spend next year away from OU participating in the ACE Fellows Program.
Chelsea Foster is no longer running in the GSS Elections, leaving only one candidate in the race for vice president of communications.
Although Athens Fire Department Captain George Klinger said the fraternity brothers would likely be allowed to return to the house the morning following the fire, Lee Fuller, president of the Housing Corporation for Phi Kappa Psi, said they would not be returning until the end of the week.
Ohio University President Rodericl McDavis spoke out about the controversy surrounding OU’s decision to move the president out of his former home on campus at a Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
Devin Sudman decided he will no longer run for the position of student trustee.
A new special events application would expedite council’s current six week system of approving special events as well as place a quick price tag for the city’s consideration.
A vote of no confidence in Ohio University’s top administrators and Board of Trustees will appear on the Student Senate ballot alongside candidates for 2015-16 Student Senate and Student Trustee positions.
The County Commissioners will speak with Jennifer Bowman on Tuesday about an upcoming Groundwater Sampling project.
OUPD finds three sleeping in room, with marijuana contraband, where fire alarm had been activated
Chris Stain, a New York-based muralist, spray painted four coal miners on the north wall of Lucky’s Sports Tavern last week. The project was completed in conjunction with Ohio University’s School of Fine Arts.
OU officials will hold public hearings on the Comprehensive Master Plan 2016, which forms a plan for how Ohio University will approach the next 10 years.
Stephen Golding will not ask OU's Board of Trustees to purchase the new presidential home.
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