Athens is now home to Campus Kicks, a student- and alumni-run business that sells wholesale fitted and snapback caps, shoes, apparel and other accessories to students.
Former Senator George Voinovich urged students to consider the importance of integrity in public service at a panel discussion today.
A former Ohio University student could spend three years in prison, after an appeal court denied his case yesterday.
Amidst the protests at last night’s Ohio University Student Senate meeting, one international student stepped in to speak his mind.
Even though Athens City Schools received an “excellent” rating from the state during the 2010–11 academic year, about 80 students living within the district are expected to enroll in online charter schools this year, taking almost $400,000 in state money with them.
Students in eight South Green residence halls have learned that their familiar treks to and from class will be altered in the foreseeable future.
The city of Athens will receive more than half a million dollars to improve low-income housing as a part of an Ohio Department of Development grant to improve more than 70 eligible communities statewide.
More than 50 students and city officials marched last night brandishing signs, stickers and T-shirts pleading with Ohio University Student Senate members to take a stance on Senate Bill 5.
The Ohio Apportionment Board voted 4-1 along party lines yesterday to approve a new set of Ohio House and Senate districts that have been called “highly gerrymandered” by state Democrats but “fair and constitutional” by state Republicans.
Despite dissent from student organizations and members of Student Senate, Ohio University Student Senate President Kyle Triplett declined to add a bill to tonight’s agenda that would raise student concerns about Senate Bill 5.
Despite his ousting last June by the Hocking College Board of Trustees, Ron Erickson has returned to his post as president of the school.
Try to picture a college campus without T-shirts.
On Friday, Ohio House Bill 194 is slated to go into effect and would shorten the absentee-voting period as early as this November’s elections. However, if Fair Elections Ohio’s referendum is validated today, the bill would be shelved and eventually decided upon in 2012.
After nearly two years of legal arguments, a lawsuit regarding University Estates was settled this past May leaving a plot of land untouched while the City of Athens and local land developers eye the property.
A Dateline NBC special featuring Athens County won an Emmy Award Monday for an exceptional news and documentary program concerning poverty in Southeast Ohio.
At tonight’s Ohio University Student Senate meeting, senators will discuss the possibility of joining their book-exchange website with a new, similar service called FourYears.com but will avoid the topic of a resolution addressing Senate Bill 5.
The Ohio legislature made an attempt to eliminate employment and housing discrimination against the LGBT community yesterday, introducing a bi-partisan bill to the Ohio House of Representatives.
For the past year, the Ohio tourism industry quietly established itself as one of the state’s most efficient and profitable. Yesterday, state officials came to Athens to explore opportunities that could potentially strengthen the diverse industry.
With the future of unionization resting on the shoulders of Issue 2, about 40 residents and students got a chance to hear how attempts to destroy unionization could potentially destroy the middle class yesterday.
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