Some West Green buildings without heat, hot water
By SARA JERDE | Oct. 22, 2013Several West Green buildings are without heat and hot water Wednesday night.
NEWS BLOGS
Police release name of dead victim
By Kelly Fisher | Oct. 22, 2013After responding to a report of vandalism Friday at a Glouster man’s home, authorities later uncovered a dead body Monday and identified it Tuesday as the man’s father.
GSS joins cries to remove Southall; Student Senate committee reviews presidency
By Olivia Hitchcock | Oct. 22, 2013The clock was ticking for Student Senate’s Committee on Conduct and Discipline to formally discuss a student’s request to have President Nick Southall reviewed that was submitted last Tuesday.
City officials plan for block party
By Sam Howard | Oct. 22, 2013City officials assembled at Mayor Paul Wiehl’s weekly news conference Tuesday to address the city’s upcoming Halloween Block Party this weekend.
Hollaback offers self-defense workshop
By Hannah Debenham | Oct. 22, 2013Catcalling and other forms of street harassment might have become a socially accepted norm of nightlife, but Hollaback refuses to accept that type of treatment.
Searching for Sasquatch
By XANDER ZELLNER | Oct. 22, 2013Once a month, during spring, summer and fall, Doug Waller packs his bags and heads to the woods.
Panel discusses social media safety
By Seth Archer | Oct. 22, 2013With increasing prominence in social media usage, many Ohio University students are worried about how they appear online.
tRAC-or-Treat enjoyed by children, parents
By Courtney Speiss | Oct. 22, 2013With about a week left until Halloween and the Block Party fast approaching, pumpkin festivities are in full swing.
Kelly must comply with subpoena
By XANDER ZELLNER | Oct. 22, 2013A judge ruled Tuesday that Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly must comply with a request from the special grand jury convened as part of the state’s longstanding investigation against him.
GSS President airs concerns on Southall
By Olivia Hitchcock | Oct. 22, 2013Student Senate’s meeting started with a solemn tone, as Graduate Student Senate president Joel Newby spoke out as representative of graduate students and the Ohio University community.
Jerusalem Mediterranean Grill holds soft opening
By Lucas Daprile | Oct. 22, 2013After growing up in Palestine and spending 15 years working for Middle Eastern restaurants, Ata Abdel Rahman knows his way around a kitchen.
Tech Depot to offer free Microsoft Office
By Hannah Yang | Oct. 22, 2013Some college students, including Ohio University students, will be offered a complimentary new version of Microsoft Office.
LGBT lecturer to address lesbian activism
By Emily Bamforth | Oct. 22, 2013After launching last year, the LGBT History Month lecture will continue to profile different subsets of the LGBT community.
Provost Profile: New vice provost for diversity and inclusion hired
By Olivia Hitchcock | Oct. 22, 2013Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series profiling new staff in the Ohio University provost’s office.
Athens school halls to be randomly monitored
By XANDER ZELLNER | Oct. 22, 2013With a slew of school shootings in recent memory, Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly announced Monday that his deputies will begin doing random “walkthroughs” at Athens County schools outside the city limits.
Council discusses gun sale, budgets
By Emma Ockerman | Oct. 21, 2013Athens City Council approved an ordinance Monday night that gives the police department permission to trade 55 firearms to a Cleveland-based company for the cash to buy the city’s cops new guns.
Land donation sparks debate among county commissioners
By Olivia Bower | Oct. 21, 2013Before her death in 2012, Velma Cubbison, a Coolville woman, wanted to donate her six acres of forest and one acre of land with a creek near Wildman Rd. to the county, so she put it in her will.
Locals feel mixed effects of weeks-long federal shutdown
By Lucas Daprile | Oct. 21, 201316-day federal government shutdown may have grinded federal services, including Wayne National Forest, to a halt, but many of Athens’ local entities felt very little effect, officials said.
Data-driven provost gives OU insight
By Will Drabold | Oct. 21, 2013Editor’s note: This is the first in a series profiling new staff of Ohio University’s provost.
New professor to merge previously unrelated subjects
By William Ashton | Oct. 21, 2013With her arrival, Eve Ng, assistant professor of women’s and gender studies and media arts and sciences, has connected the two studies in engaging ways.
