BPC should make meetings transparent: Students deserve to be a part of process
Sep. 30, 2012Last year, 62 percent of the 1,900 students who voted in the Student Senate election said they were unaware of the existence of the Budget Planning Council.
Last year, 62 percent of the 1,900 students who voted in the Student Senate election said they were unaware of the existence of the Budget Planning Council.
It’s become apparent that this year’s Student Senate is looking to define itself by the questions it asks and its willingness to encourage discussions that need to be had for the sake of the student body.
It would be foolish for Ohio University not to come forward with a stance on the party culture that exists on campus.
The suicide of a student is one of the most difficult things a university could ever face.
This week, an important step for students was taken in what has become the saga of Ohio University’s multipurpose center.
After Wednesday’s meeting, Ohio University’s Student Senate invited Executive Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit and Vice President of Finance and Administration Stephen Golding to attend next week’s meeting.
On today’s front page, you’ll find a story detailing Ohio University’s capital improvement plan, a project worth more than $2.5 billion in spending during the next 20 years.
Almost two years of spirited campaigning by student leaders and activists finally paid off yesterday.
This is the column I never wanted to write.
They came. They saw. They accomplished.
This year, Ohio University students have been offered the chance to choose from several Student Senate presidential candidates and multiple tickets.
As is the case every year during the weeks that follow Palmer Fest, our opinion page has been full of students, professors and administrators weighing in on the oft-riotous street fests that occur at Ohio University each spring.
Whether you were home cooking a pizza or on Palmer taking shots to commemorate the flames, most of us have seen the images and video of last weekend’s Palmer Fest fire. Apparently partygoers have upped the ante from lighting couches to setting fires in houses.
In my four years at The Post, no kind of coverage has caused more blowback than the annual spring Student Senate elections.
There was a beautiful irony about the stories that led yesterday’s paper.
Being hit with tear gas in the bottom of Baker Center; suing and being sued by the university; pissing off local ministers, athletics coaches and politicians; rarely if ever showing up for class (don’t even bring up GPAs), and, of course, being the envy (and favorite mocking target) of all of the Scripps kids studying those “other” kinds of journalism.
For the third academic year in a row, Ohio University’s Budget Planning Council has recommended increasing the cost of education for students by asking for a tuition increase. Like the increase approved by the Board of Trustees last year, BPC has asked for another 3.5-percent hike in student tuition next year.
It didn’t take much more than a blue and orange striped tie, but during Thursday’s Illinois press conference John Groce was no Bobcat.