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Making the house a home

Making the house a home

The heat is on, the turf is down and the opening of the Walter Fieldhouse is within sight for Ohio University student-athletes.


Theater group revives risque musical

Theater group revives risque musical

When the Lost Flamingo Company opens the curtains for its spring musical, it will be the first time Michael Mayberry has been on stage since kindergarten — he played the donkey in the story of Mary and Joseph.


Missing persons scares frequent, but rarely serious

Missing persons scares frequent, but rarely serious

The body of Denison University senior David Hallman III was found nearly 24-hours after he was last seen at an off-campus bar in Granville, Ohio, earlier this month, which Ohio University officials say personifies the importance of mobilizing quickly in the case of a missing person.


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Letter: History department's focus on Europe is appropriate

Mr. Farmer’s fixation on the supposed inequities of the history department belies a fundamental misunderstanding of academia and of the larger pursuit of knowledge. A crude equalization of the number of faculty in each field by arbitrary quotas would not bring us any closer to the truth, but it would assuage the egos of the guilty, who confuse their own conception of ethics for the perceived sins of others. The columnist decries the fact that a global perspective does not equate with “an egalitarian representation of history.” On this account he is right, but his prescription is wrong. History itself is not egalitarian; it necessarily “privileges” the study of those peoples, societies, and topics that people in later eras feel compelled to study, for a myriad of reasons. Those reasons range from wanting to study those who succeeded at statecraft and empire-building, to wanting to know why certain societies failed in the way they did, to trying to figure out why people acted in the way they did in the face of competing alternatives.


Costly miscalculations during the Walter Fieldhouse construction cause delay

Take a tour of the Walter Fieldhouse

Ryan Lombardi, Ohio University vice president for Student Affairs, and Mark Ferguson, executive director of campus recreation, show The Post around the long-awaited Walter Fieldhouse. Read our latest story about the facility here.

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