Student Senate: Fall Quarter resolutions take shape
By SARA JERDE | Jan. 8, 2012Ohio University’s Student Senate last met two months ago, but the work didn’t stop over Winter Intersession.
NEWS BLOGS
Homeless lack emergency shelter, county support
By Olivia Young | Jan. 8, 2012Editor’s note: The Glouster woman identified in this story is anonymous due to a possible custody battle over her unborn child.
Wallets, not well-being, count in rating
By Will Drabold | Jan. 8, 2012Although Athens ranked in the bottom 15 percent of a national “quality of life” analysis last month, local residents and officials disagree with the study’s methods, saying they distort the values of the college town.
Sales company searching for interns at OU
By Holly Moody | Jan. 8, 2012The local branch of a nationwide marketing company is seeking students for an internship that, in the past, has led to jobs at companies such as ESPN, Coca-Cola, AT&T and Enterprise.
Nelsonville City Council Agenda
Jan. 8, 2012The Nelsonville City Council will meet tonight for a regular session meeting at 7pm in the City Hall Council Chambers, 211 Lake Hope Drive.
Former trustee McGee Brown announces Ohio Supreme Court re-election campaign
By Brian Vadakin | Jan. 8, 2012A noted Ohio University alumna is hoping to keep her position in Ohio’s legal system.
Rebuilding South from the Green up: Soil, construction method could slow planned dorms
By Pamela Engel | Jan. 8, 2012Ohio University is searching for architecture- and utility-design teams for its overhaul of the residence halls on South Green and hopes to have both selected by next month.
Wolfe Street Apartments to close as part of capital improvement plan
By SARA JERDE | Jan. 8, 2012The 72 tenants that once called Wolfe Street Apartments home soon will have to hunt for a new place to lay their heads.
Alcohol-drug mix killed OU student
By Pamela Engel | Jan. 8, 2012The cause of an Ohio University junior’s November death was acute methadone and alcohol intoxication, the Athens County coroner determined.
Advocacy groups band together to fight fracking
By Kelly Gifford | Jan. 7, 2012A local group hosted a meeting Sunday afternoon at the Athens Community Center designed to organize the region’s resistance to hydraulic fracturing.
Local landowners jump gun on leases
By Kelly Gifford | Jan. 5, 2012Editor’s Note: This is the last of a four-part series about the economic factors of hydraulic fracturing.
Baker head sets sights on Sunshine State
By Brian Vadakin, Rebecca McKinsey | Jan. 5, 2012As Vice President of Student Affairs Kent Smith interviews at Langston University, another member of the department will be packing his bags.
New J-Bar shuffles into spot formerly called The Junction
By Sara Lowenstein | Jan. 5, 2012Bar hoppers descending on Athens for their weekend crawls will soon have a new destination in a familiar location.
OU librarians try to maintain human helpfulness in research
By Sabrina Fawley | Jan. 5, 2012A wealth of information and resources is housed beneath the ceiling of Alden Library — a wealth that Ohio University librarians fear students aren’t using.
OU-HCOM revives CDC's ditched meningitis study
By SARA JERDE | Jan. 5, 2012Next month, the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine will pick up an on-campus meningitis study that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was forced to abandon a year ago.
Water main break cripples water pressure
By Stefan Malmsten | Jan. 5, 2012Yesterday a contractor working for O’Bleness Memorial Hospital drilled though an eight-inch water main near the hospital.
After analysis, Alden admins hold off on 2nd-floor hardware updates
By Pamela Engel | Jan. 5, 2012Ohio University students will have to wait another year for new computers on the second floor of Alden Library.
Time Warner swaps 2 TV stations for Athens County
By Will Drabold | Jan. 5, 2012After two years of tuning into Columbus-based TV stations, Athens County viewers had to ring in the new year with Charleston versions of their CBS and FOX stations.
Bacterial meningitis absent from OU in 2011
By Pamela Engel | Jan. 5, 2012For the first time in two years, Ohio University has gone a calendar year without any reported cases of bacterial meningitis among its students.
ODNR speaker cancels last night's meeting
By Kelly Gifford | Jan. 5, 2012The keynote speaker at last night’s open Seirra Club meeting cancelled last minute.
