Common Core House Bill receives mixed opinions
By Heather Hare | Sep. 8, 2014Those working in education in Athens County are unsure of how a bill to repeal Common Core in Ohio would affect life at work.
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Councilman Patterson's passion for peppers
By William T. Perkins | Sep. 8, 2014A profile on Steve Patterson, Dem. At-Large City Council Rep, who serves as chair of the disabilities’ commission and has worked to provide visibility and accessibility to the disabled community.
Reading day to be benificial to students
By Maygan Beeler | Sep. 7, 2014A reprieve from fall semester academic fatigue is coming to •Ohio University students for the first time this year on •Friday, Oct. 3rd in the form of a short “fall break” dubbed Reading Day.
Letter: Megan Marzec should step down as Student Senate President
By Rabbi Danielle Leshaw | Sep. 5, 2014Jewish students have asked for your resignation. And I agree with them. I think you should resign. Not because of your politics, but because of your lack of awareness, compassion, and mostly, because of your lack of vision. Leaders need vision, they need partners, and they need counsel.
Megan Marzec: 'I've received death threats'
By Will Drabold | Sep. 5, 2014Megan Marzec, the embattled president of Ohio University Student Senate, has told The Post she has received death threats over her pouring of fake blood over her head to protest Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
Path from Mill Street to Hockhocking Adena Bikeway closed until December
By Samuel Howard | Sep. 5, 2014Cyclists looking to cruise onto the bike path may need to choose a different route for almost the rest of the year.
Both family and force: APD officers ride their horses with mounted patrol.
By Emma Ockerman | Sep. 5, 201418 years since the Athens Police Department formed it’s mounted patrol division, officers and horses alike have seen it all.
Water Project brings attention to issues in Appalachian Ohio Valley
By Megan Henry | Sep. 5, 2014The launch event to celebrate the kick-off of the Water Project took place Thursday afternoon in the lobby of the •Schoonover Center for Communication.
After bids, $4.8 million Richland Avenue project to start moving forward
By EMILY BOHATCH | Sep. 5, 2014Athens is expected to accept a bid on the Richland South Project. Construction projected to begin this month.
Brake failure causes accident on Richland Avenue
By William T. Perkins | Sep. 5, 2014Richland Avenue accident victim was an OU student.
OU unexpectedly owes more than $1.054 million after audit
By Jeremy Hill | Sep. 5, 2014OU will pay $1.054 million to the IRS following an audit of the university’s 2011 and 2012 fiscal years.
Marzec speaks to 'The Post' regarding viewers' backlash
By Will Drabold | Sep. 5, 2014In the wake of fiery discussion at the Student Senate meeting held in Walter Hall on Wednesday evening, pro-Israel groups at Ohio University are calling for President Megan Marzec’s resignation.In an interview with The Post on Thursday evening, right before press time, Marzec said she’s received “overflowing” amounts of hate mail and death threats related to the video she posted this week in which she poured “blood” on herself in protest of OU’s study abroad program in Tel Aviv, among other academic and cultural relationships.The video was in response to OU President Roderick McDavis challenging her to complete the ALS Ice Bucket challenge. “People calling for my resignation are opposed to freedom of speech,” Marzec said. “I made the video to draw attention to an issue I am very passionate about.”Marzec said several OU faculty members; OU Student Union; the national chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine; the national boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement; have expressed their support for her stance.The BDS movement started in 2005 as a call from Palestinians to cut all ties with Israel until “international law and Palestinian rights” are met, according to BDSmovement.net.Other university organizations on campus, including Bobcats for Israel, a club promoting Israel Advocacy on OU’s campus and Alpha Epsilon Pi, have said her actions don’t speak for the OU community. The Post was unable to contact both organizations after speaking with Marzec. News of Marzec’s action has gone viral, soliciting international opinions.“We need to educate Ohio University Students on what is actually going on in Israel,” said Becky Sebo, president of Bobcats for Israel,. Sebo is the sister of David Sebo, The Post’s assistant design editor. “The BDS movement is an anti-Semitic movement that really calls for the destruction of Israel.”Marzec said her stance was not anti-Semitic.“I have apologized for anyone that felt I was speaking for them,” Marzec said. “But I will never apologize for standing with the oppressed people of Palestine.”Jonah Yulish, the rush chair of Alpha Epsilon Pi, echoed Sebo’s sentiments and agreed Megan should step down.“Regardless of the platform they ran on, that’s how being a president works,” Yulish said.Yulish also said that he met Marzec after watching the video.“I literally got up from class and left for her office,” Yulish said, adding that the meeting ended with hostility.Marzec said she doesn’t recall any hostility.On Thursday night, members of Bobcats for Israel met with Dean of Students Jenny Hall-Jones and Vice President for Student Affairs Ryan Lombardi. Hall-Jones and Lombardi invited the group to “reassure students of their safety at OU,” Sebo said.Lombardi was not available for comment as of press time.Earlier in the day, McDavis issued a campus-wide statement saying he does not echo Marzec’s views, adding that “the manner in which we conduct ourselves … is of utmost importance.”Sebo clarified that it is not Marzec’s beliefs that led Bobcats for Israel, as well as the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, to call for her resignation, but that it was the manner in which she identified herself as Student Senate President while stating her personal beliefs.Marzec has shut down her Facebook account and made her Twitter private.@WillDrabolddd195710@ohio.eduAlisa Warren contributed to this report.
Haning Hall evacuated, closed for the night
By Samuel Howard | Sep. 4, 2014Ohio University staff and faculty evacuated Haning Hall late Thursday afternoon when the fire alarm was set off by a freon leak.
What you should know about Megan Marzec's 'Ice Bucket Challenge'
Sep. 4, 2014Ohio University Student Senate President Megan Marzec doused herself in a bucket of "blood" (red paint, tomato juice and water) in a video posted Tuesday.
Convictions on the rise for Athens County Prosecutor
By Suhyeon Park | Sep. 4, 2014Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn only had three trials in a 12-month period ending last month.
Senate approves new committees
By Alisa Warren | Sep. 4, 2014Student Senate members are enthusiastic about change coming due to headway made during Wednesday’s meeting.
Meeting of city, school reps unlikely
By William T. Perkins | Sep. 4, 2014Athens City Council says Student Senate has not reciprocated efforts to meet.
APD, OUPD not getting cameras
By Joshua Lim | Sep. 4, 2014Athens police units say they don’t have dashboard cameras for their cruisers, let alone lapel cameras.
Future cycling initiatives in Athens remains unclear
By EMILY BOHATCH | Sep. 4, 2014After a visit from the League of American Bicyclists, Athens has to decide which improvements it wants to implicate.
Video draws ‘blood’
By Maria DeVito | Sep. 4, 2014Droves of students spoke out at Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting in response to President Megan Marzec’s Ice Bucket Challenge video.
