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New meal plan to help offset $2 million losses in food court

Ohio University’s Dining Services created a new meal plan to boost sales in Baker University Center, where Baker Dining Services has lost an estimated $2 million since opening in Winter Quarter 2007. The meal plan, tentatively called Destination ...

From CAITLIN BOWLING, The Ohio University Post,  2 Jun 2008

University set to sign new contract for AlcoholEdu

Despite previous funding concerns and student complaints, AlcoholEdu will return to Ohio University for its fifth year. The university will sign a new one-year contract this week to continue AlcoholEdu, an alcohol education program that costs $42,900 ...

From CAITLIN BOWLING, The Ohio University Post,  28 May 2008
Related Topics: Kent Smith

OU alumnus sues over camping injuries

A former outdoor studies student is suing Ohio University for injuries sustained during a wilderness survival trip. During Spring Quarter 2006, then-senior Christopher Mance went on the trip despite his history of epileptic seizures. While on the trip, ...

From CAITLIN BOWLING, The Ohio University Post,  27 May 2008
Related Topics: Robert Miller

Former OU trustee secretary selected for Hocking College Board

A little more than a year after announcing his retirement from Ohio University, former Board of Trustees Secretary Alan Geiger accepted a position on Hocking College’s Board of Trustees. A school board caucus of representatives from the Athens County ...

From CAITLIN BOWLING, The Ohio University Post,  23 May 2008

You’ve got scams: fake e-mails more frequent

Masked as urgent messages from legitimate sources, more e-mail scams are being sent to Ohio University students and employees than ever before. Phishing scams, whose senders attempt to trick recipients into disclosing personal information, typically ...

From CAITLIN BOWLING, The Ohio University Post,  21 May 2008

Accreditation committee evaluates academic quality

Along with the ratification of the 16th Amendment and the first crossword puzzle, the year 1913 brought about Ohio University’s first university-wide accreditation. The North Central Association (NCA), which accredits universities in 19 states, sent a ...

From CAITLIN BOWLING, The Ohio University Post,  1 May 2008

FundingEdu

The XFL. Pepsi Blue. Communism. Sometimes things that sound great on paper turn out less successful in practice. Enter AlcoholEdu, the infamous alcohol education program and required reading for thousands of incoming freshman every year at ...

From CAITLIN BOWLING, The Ohio University Post,  30 Apr 2008

Housing schools of research animals

While people attempt to rid their homes of rodents and other pests, Ohio University’s Lab Animal Resources houses a few thousand mice, along with several thousand fish and various other animals. The department cares foar various animals used in ...

From CAITLIN BOWLING, The Ohio University Post,  30 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Scott Carpenter

Committee debates self-evaluation plan

A day before Ohio University’s Board of Trustees discusses the presidential evaluation format, a trustee committee debated evaluating themselves. The Governance Committee proposed a plan to comprehensively evaluate the board every four years at its ...

From CAITLIN BOWLING, The Ohio University Post,  18 Apr 2008

First-year debaters win national championships

Six members of Ohio University's forensics team defeated competitors from 41 other schools to win the Novice National Forensics Championships at the University of West Florida this past weekend. The team won 21 individual awards and four individual ...

From CAITLIN BOWLING, The Ohio University Post,  21 Mar 2008

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