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McDavises at OU Inn until university finds ‘suitable’ home

By Dina Berliner | Mar. 18, 2015

OU’s president and first lady have been staying at the OU Inn since Deborah underwent surgery for a broken foot.

Bars on the Bricks

By Rebekah Barnes | Mar. 18, 2015

The Post headed out to talk to over 70 people at 20 bars in Athens to get the scoop on who you can find hanging out at each bar.

Despite losing season, men’s basketball attendance remains high

Mar. 18, 2015

The attendance for women’s basketball games is slowly on the rise, but it still lags behind attendance at the men’s game.

What is your green jamming to?

By Luke Furman | Mar. 18, 2015

What kind of music would each of the greens listen to?

Miami-OU rivalry should be kept above the belt

Mar. 18, 2015

An anonymous writer claiming to be a Miami University student wrote a blog post Monday for The Drunken Undergrad — a blog presumably dedicated to the drunken debauchery of Oxford — arguing that Ohio University students should be ashamed for celebrating Green Beer Day.

NCAA has plenty of work before game gets better

By Ian Ording | Mar. 18, 2015

The best time of the year is upon us. For the next month, hundreds of college kids across the country will be clashing on the basketball court to prove once and for all that Kentucky is the best team.Though I’ve been neglecting my work to watch games since November, there are sure to be hundreds of thousands tuning in for the first time this week. It’s likely that their collective mindset upon the first few matchups of the tournament will be something along the lines of “Why is this game so boring?”Now, there are few things I love more than college basketball, but my infatuation lies more in the sport as a whole than in watching any single game. The contests are glacial in pace, scores rarely exceed the 60s and hardly anyone can shoot. It’s a real problem in my favorite sport.However, it’s a problem with a solution. In the more-or-less consolation tournament, the NIT, a 30-second shot clock will be implemented in place of the standard 35 seconds. What that means is shorter possessions, and as a result, more opportunities for scoring.This is an obvious first step toward improving the flow of college ball. The NCAA men’s league is the only basketball league at any level that uses a shot clock for the duration of 35 seconds. The NIT’s rule change helps get more points on the board.There will certainly be more shooting in this year’s NIT, but with the zone defense employed by many teams, it will still prevent those shots from being good.What really needs to happen is a two-pronged effort to better space players across the floor. The NCAA needs to bring in both an NBA three-point line and the NBA’s defensive three-second rule.The three-point line is fairly self-explanatory; three-pointers being shot from farther away will spread players out, making for more room within the arc.The three-second rule is a little more arcane to the casual fan. In the NBA, a defender is not allowed to remain in the lane — the painted rectangle under the basket — for more than three seconds. Because of this, it’s easier to get in the lane as a ball handler and prevents teams like Kentucky, with 90 guys taller than seven feet, from having their trees camp out and wait to swat layups away.Should both these changes be applied to college ball, we shouldn’t end up with conference championship games with final scores of 38-36 (looking at you Georgia State and Georgia Southern).I want to love more than just the construct of college basketball again. I want the games themselves to be fun to watch. Ian Ording is a senior studying journalism and copy chief and BedPost columnist at The Post. Email him more rule suggestions at io312410@ohio.edu.

Why ‘Man Seeking Woman’ is the essential millennial show

By Will Ashton | Mar. 18, 2015

‘Man Seeking Woman’ is must-see millennial television.

Go Bus heads to Cleveland

By Jeremy Hill | Mar. 18, 2015

Ohio University students from Northeast Ohio no longer have to hitchhike home.GoBus recently announced it would expand its services — daily bus trips to cities throughout Ohio — to include Cleveland and other stops in the region. A one-way ticket on the route will set riders back $25.More than 3,000 OU students resided in the counties serviced by the new route in 2013, according to a university report.The new route runs twice daily. A bus departs from the Parma, Ohio bus office at 11:25 a.m. and arrives at Baker University Center at 4:15 p.m. At 4:45 p.m., a bus leaves Baker Center and arrives in Parma at 9:40 p.m.Both the north and southbound trips include stops in: Marietta, Caldwell, Cambridge, New Philadelphia, Canton, Akron, Broadview Heights and Cleveland.Buses started making the trip on March 6. Riders currently must buy tickets on Greyhound.com, but will soon be able to snag them straight from RideGoBus.com, according to the website.Prior to the announcement, those looking to catch a bus from Athens to Cleveland had to ride a Lakefront Lines bus to Columbus, then change buses before heading to Cleveland. The trip includes a roughly three-hour layover in Columbus, and five total hours of ride time.The new GoBus route is $4 more expensive, but doesn’t include a bus change, and someone riding the route end-to-end can do so in a little under five hours. The announcement comes three months after “ride board,” a university website designed to help students find rides home with other students, vanished from the web due to an outdated server.@JeremyHTweetsjh082913@ohio.edu

Six individuals arrested for drug trafficking in one day

By Julia Fair | Mar. 18, 2015

The Athens Major Crimes Unit arrested six people Tuesday for drug trafficking

Athens Police asking public for additional information on pick-up truck, skateboard incident

By Rebekah Barnes | Mar. 18, 2015

The Athens Police Department is seeking information from witnesses of what it is calling an "incident" involving a pickup truck and a skateboarder on North Shafer Street Wednesday morning.

What you need to know for this year's graduation ceremony

Mar. 18, 2015

Thousands of students will walk across the stage at the commencement ceremony of 2015. Here’s the information you need to make sure that day runs smoothly for you and your family.