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Part of OU’s IT operation moves into Baker Center’s first floor
July 3, 2008
The days hiking down Union Street while lugging your messed-up laptop, or venturing for a new student ID, are over.>>
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OU alum returns to campus to refresh a familiar Fab Four mural
July 3, 2008
Summer in Athens is synonymous with renovation. Roads are repaved, saws are buzzing, and the smell of fresh paint is in the air. One South Green paint job, however, is far from ordinary. Artist Douglas Arnold returned to Ohio University June 23-27 to restore a mural he painted as a resident of the South Green’s Weld Hall in 1972.>>
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Faculty angry about McDavis’ big raise
June 30, 2008
Faculty leaders at Ohio University reacted angrily Saturday to the Board of Trustees granting President Roderick McDavis a 29 percent raise worth more than $85,000 on Friday.>>
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Trustees OK budget and hear more on semester switch
June 30, 2008
The Ohio University Board of Trustees approved a new budget, learned that plans for a new health center are on hold, heard about the proposal to switch to semesters, and discussed a wide range of other issues at their meetings Thursday and Friday in Athens.>>
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All types of deal-makers flock to OU’s quarterly surplus auction
June 30, 2008
He leans against a black cart containing a 20-inch television and VCR, glancing back and forth between his clipboard and the man spouting out numbers. Ed Hergatt knows what he wants.>>
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OU official expresses satisfaction at booze-drug offense decline
June 30, 2008
Alcohol and drug violations are way down at Ohio University, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into a corresponding big decline in students’ usage of alcohol or illegal drugs.>>
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OU answers lawsuit by burned student
June 30, 2008
State attorneys acting for Ohio University have responded to a lawsuit by a former student athlete, who was badly burned in an accident during a wilderness-survival class exercise.>>
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OU theater school head to direct in Iceland
June 26, 2008
William Fisher is no stranger to theaters of the world. He’s worked in France, Croatia, Germany and London. And in January, he’ll add Iceland to his list.>>
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Judge to review documents in OU public-records lawsuit
June 26, 2008
A local judge has said he needs to examine a controversial consultant’s report before he can rule on Ohio University’s request for partial summary judgment, in a lawsuit by two OU officials who got fired in the wake of a computer security breach.>>
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Hocking College poised to make drastic personnel cuts this week
June 26, 2008
The Hocking College Board of Trustees approved a budget Tuesday evening that calls for reducing funding for personnel by $550,000.>>
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OU’s Russ College record-setting gift from namesake’s estate grows to $100 million
June 26, 2008
The largest gift any public engineering college has ever received — and the largest to any public university in Ohio — just got larger, according to an Ohio University news release.>>
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OU Trustees set to discuss semesters, health center
June 23, 2008
The Ohio University Board of Trustees will discuss a possible switch to semesters, a proposed new student health center, pay levels for the president and top administrators, and a wide range of other issues at its meetings this week.>>
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OU-COM student coauthors monkey research article that receives national press
June 23, 2008
On May 28, Chance Spalding, a returning third-year student at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, coauthored an article in Nature reporting a demonstration of brain-machine interface technology, according to a news release. Spalding was a member of the team that taught two monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains to direct a mechanical arm to retrieve snacks — using only their thoughts.>>
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OU announces it’s hiring official from college in Kentucky as its new chief of staff
June 23, 2008
Ohio University President Roderick J. McDavis announced last week that the university is hiring an official from a public university in Kentucky to fill the job of chief-of-staff and special assistant to the president.>>
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Big campus moveout creates windfall for local ‘dumpster divers’
June 16, 2008
For some, the last week of spring quarter is a hectic race to finish schoolwork and then move out of one living arrangement and into another. For others, “student move-out” is a scavenger’s holiday when people from all over converge on Ohio University for a weeklong celebration of trash.>>
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Peter King sets the tone for an inspired OU graduation
June 16, 2008
Ohio University’s graduating seniors and the audience cheered, laughed, groaned knowingly and ultimately rose up in wild clapping Saturday as Sports Illustrated senior writer and NBC Sports analyst Peter King put color-commentary touches on a speech that any OU alum could love. It was a proper sendoff for a class brimming with parting sentiments about its time in this place.>>
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SI’s Peter King fondly recalls time at OU
June 16, 2008
In between addressing Ohio University’s two undergraduate commencement ceremonies Saturday, OU alumnus and acclaimed national sportswriter Peter King talked about what an honor it was to return to his alma mater for this purpose, and reminisced about some famous and infamous Athens/OU touchstones.>>
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OU Faculty seeking to unionize
June 12, 2008
A resolution to organize Ohio University professors into a collective bargaining unit to negotiate contracts with the administration was proposed to Faculty Senate Monday night. The senate will take action on the proposed resolution in the fall.>>
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OU Zanesville branch settles contract lawsuit with nursing faculty
June 12, 2008
Ohio University has settled a lawsuit with seven nursing faculty from its Zanesville branch campus, who claimed that the university re-wrote their 2005 summer-quarter teaching contracts at lower pay levels two days after the session began.>>
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Like many others, OU must deal with getting rid of toxic ‘e-waste’
June 12, 2008
Building 9 on the Ohio University campus looks like a technology cemetery. The plots for dozens of computer monitors, printers and slide projectors sit on distinct shelves. Microscopes crowd the shady bottom shelves. A few copy machines stand like mausoleums.>>
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