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@Jimryan015: “When I cried driving out of Athens after graduation I knew I had to leave so kids like you could take my place.” ‘58 OU grad I interviewed.
Long-term insufficient funding from state capital bills coupled with a massive construction boom in the 1960s left Ohio University with a staggering deferred maintenance backlog that it is now struggling to address.
Enrollment at OU doubled during Vernon Alden’s time as president from 1962 to 1969, and the increased number of students and faculty needed to be accommodated with new buildings.
“Our enrollment doubled because of the demographics of the time, so we had to do a crash program of building,” Alden said.’
FreedomOhio picks Athens County to kick-off same-sex marriage ban repeal
“This is the best corner ever!” exclaimed Andy Murphy as throngs of Ohio University students and their mothers, in town for OU’s Moms Weekend, passed the Athens County Courthouse on Saturday.
Murphy was one of five petitioners in Athens on Saturday to kick off an 88-county effort to collect the 385,253 valid signatures needed to put an Ohio constitutional amendment on the November 2013 ballot to repeal the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
Athens County was chosen to kick-off the petition drive because it was the only county in Ohio where a majority of voters in 2004 rejected the ban, a constitutional amendment that defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Read more from The Athens Messenger (subscription required) or read for free from The Post. | Photo credit: Steve Robb, The Athens Messenger.
RELATED: OU earns high marks for LGBT-inclusive community (The Post).
Hours after the flames were put out at Palmer Fest, an infamous YouTube video of a girl from Illinois student surfaced and went viral.
Notorious phrases from the clip, such as the student asking “Are you cooking a pizza?” when she heard the smoke alarm going off, portrayed a perhaps lax atmosphere within the house during an otherwise tense situation.
Palmer Fest’s sudden end resulted in an investigation of the cause of the fire, which was reported to be arson. A $5,000 reward has since been offered to anyone with information leading to the person’s identification.
Read more from The Post or from The Athens NEWS. | Video by Sway the Crowd Productions via The Post.
Although top Ohio Athletics officials vowed to finance the new multipurpose center completely by donations, two months after the initial deadline, fundraising remains short and student-fee dollars might be used to bridge the gap.
Despite fundraising difficulties thus far, Ohio Athletics officials say they are confident the remaining $1.1 million needed for the project can be raised in the next two to three weeks by targeting a handful of big-ticket donors.
Resorting to student-fee money to finance the facility’s construction, they say, remains highly unlikely.
How often would the average (non-varsity athlete) student have access to this building? If it’s going to be a sort of alternative to Ping, it seems like it could be worth using general fees for, but if its use is going to be limited to Ohio Athletics, then there’s more reason for concern.
ATHENS — Ohio University’s sports administration program has been named the world’s best postgraduate course by SportBusiness International’s postgraduate sports course ranking 2012.
“This ranking is a testament of our continued success in understanding the business of sports,” said Dr. Ming Li, head of the OU department of sports administration. “Our curriculum helps students get an academic grounding in the business of sport while ensuring they have the leadership skills and personality to succeed professionally.”
According to the SportBusiness, the department of sports administration was not only the sole course provider to get 100 percent of its 2009 graduates full-time jobs within the sports industry just 12 weeks after graduating, but it also achieved the highest total satisfaction percentage from the student responses to the criteria of quality of teaching, provision of job support and provision of extra-curricular support.
Court rules university to repay former department director for missing relics
Ohio University will have to pay the former director of the Latin American Studies department more than $700 after the court ruled in his favor for his lawsuit about missing artifacts.
The relics were put on display Oct. 3 and were returned to Bruce Ergood on Oct. 25. When he was unpacking them he discovered a hand-woven red tablecloth, ceramic ashtray and two pairs of juarachis, or sandals, were missing.
Ergood decided to put the items on display after a suggestion from graduate student Erica Harding, who took the items to the center Oct. 3 and returned them to Ergood’s house Oct. 25, according to court documents.
Read more from The Post or from The Athens Messenger (subscription required). | Photo credit: Dustin Lennert, The Post.
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City wants to control fests, not stop them; In wake of arson fire, pressure’s turning up on city, OU
After an alleged arson at 11 Palmer St. effectively ended Palmer Fest for the third time in four years Saturday night, critics in letters and online message boards have been urging the city to ban the annual spring student block parties entirely.
But an outright ban on unsanctioned street festivals doesn’t appear to be where the city is headed. And Athens Mayor Paul Wiehl said at his weekly press conference Wednesday that he doesn’t see how the city could ban constitutionally protected rights of assembly anyway. Instead, city officials are opting for a renewed community dialogue and perhaps some administrative changes to the law enforcement approach to these events.
Shortly after 7 p.m. on Saturday, a fire broke out in the basement at 11 Palmer. A half hour later, Athens Mayor Paul Wiehl declared Palmer Street a “riot area” due to some partygoers throwing bottles at firefighters and impeding access to the fire. Law enforcement cleared the street and went house-to-house shutting down individual parties by 8 p.m.
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