#AthensVotes Midterm Elections 2014
Nov. 4, 2014Check back throughout Tuesday night for results as we get them.
NEWS BLOGS
Graduate Student Senate approves preferred name and pronoun policy
By Megan Henry | Nov. 4, 2014The resolution to support a university-wide preferred name and pronoun policy passed at Graduate Student Senate’s meeting Nov. 3.
Police Blotter: Police deal with stolen potty, glued door, other sticky crimes
By Joshua Lim | Nov. 3, 2014Local law enforcement officers had some messy situations to deal with in the last week.
Voting details: when, where, how
By Nora Jaara | Nov. 3, 2014The Athens County Board of Elections has a slew of polling locations in Athens for students.
Social Media on Unseen, Yik Yak threats difficult for police to trace
By Emma Ockerman | Nov. 3, 2014Students and anonymous users of Yik Yak and Unseen rejoice, police aren’t on creeping on your posts — yet.
Democrats heard gubernatorial running-mate Neuhardt's office goals night before election
By Nora Jaara | Nov. 3, 2014On the eve of the midterm election, local Democrats gathered to make one more push for taking Ohio’s gubernatorial office.
OUPD uses Twitter to increase communication with students
By Will Gibbs | Nov. 3, 2014At Ohio University, police officers are no longer inaccessible uniforms on bikes and in cars. Now, they’re just a tweet away.
OU’s top see highest levels of satisfaction
By Dina Berliner | Nov. 3, 2014A survey measuring the work environment at Ohio University revealed that top administrators are by far the most satisfied group of employees at the institution.
Two HCOM students ran through an Ebola outbreak simulation to help prepare for possible outbreaks
By Kaitlin Coward | Nov. 3, 2014Two students from Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine traded their scrubs for normal clothes while portraying patients with the Ebola virus in a practice simulation.
Director of the Global Leadership Center takes leave of absence
By Alex Meyer | Nov. 3, 2014The director of the Global Leadership Center took a leave of absence from his position for reasons not released by the university.
Students unhappy with student ID logo change
By Maria DeVito | Nov. 3, 2014Ohio University changed the design on the student identification cards this year, and students aren’t happy about it.
Students create cards for members of the military
By Fanta Conde | Nov. 3, 2014About 30 students showed up to hand write and decorate cards to be sent to members of the American military.
Student Senate passed preferred name and pronoun policy
Nov. 3, 2014The resolution to support a university-wide preferred name and pronoun policy passed at Graduate Student Senate’s meeting Nov. 3.
Raising money for the Ebola campaign comes with global organizations’ efforts to inform students.
By Marisa Fernandez | Nov. 3, 2014Raising money for the Ebola campaign comes with global organizations’ efforts to inform students about the disease on campus.
Council may be seeing more trash
By EMILY BOHATCH | Nov. 3, 2014Proposed changes to the Garbage and Rubbish Ordinance have cleared all the procedural hurdles it needs to be adopted this week, but the councilwoman who introduced and authored the legislation has said that might not happen.
Walk a Mile extends to week filled with activities, events
By Emily Bamforth | Nov. 3, 2014Walk a Mile extends to week filled with activities, events.
Enrollment is the highest its been in OU’s history.
By Maria DeVito | Nov. 3, 2014Enrollment is the highest its been in OU’s history
There’s a graveyard of lost phones, keys and IDs floating around Uptown.
By Emma Ockerman | Nov. 3, 2014There’s a graveyard of lost phones, keys and IDs floating around Uptown, awaiting their owner’s return to the bars.
GSS to vote on preferred name policy for LGBT students’ benefit
By Megan Henry | Nov. 2, 2014A resolution drafted by Elliot Long, LGBT affairs commissioner, to support a university-wide preferred name and pronoun policy will be voted upon at Graduate Student Senate's biweekly Monday meeting at 7:30 p.m. The policy would allow students to change their pronouns based on their gender expression or lack thereof. For example, a student who does not identify as male or female could select the pronoun “they” to use in university settings. “(Commissioner) Long would like to reform university policy so that there is a preferred name and pronoun policy in place so that members of the (OU) community are referred to by their preferred name and gender pronoun,” said Carl Edward Smith III, GSS president. A discussion about cultural awareness and understanding will also take place in response to costumes worn at the Halloween Block Party on Oct. 25. “A number of students expressed frustration and concern with some costumes that showed up at the Halloween Block Party,” Smith said. “There were people in attendance wearing Arab clothing ... with a suicide vest on. That can be very offensive to people in those communities because that’s not a part of their culture. “Those stereotypes create expectations in our minds and can be very damaging to the way we view other cultures.” Despite being in poor taste, it is not a official violation of OU’s Student Code of Conduct, Smith said. Susanne Dietzel, director of OU’s Women’s Center, will speak about the graduate assistant parental leave policy and a discussion will take place concerning the policy. A resolution to discontinue grad fest until 2015 will be on the table. At the previous GSS meeting on Oct. 20, the discussion was tabled to the Nov. 3 meeting so that alternative funding models for grad fest could be explored, Smith said. “Unless there are some solid alternative funding models for grad fest, we are going to vote to discontinue grad fest,” Smith said. The grad fest party — that usually less than one percent of OU graduate students attend — costs two-thirds of senate’s budget, Smith said. “There are far more valuable projects that do require money that we would like to focus on this year,” Smith said. @megankhenry mh573113@ohio.edu
Transformer failure left some off-campus students without power
By Joshua Lim | Nov. 1, 2014Officials on the ground worked to restore power Saturday morning and into the afternoon.
