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1. Poster highlights Athens’ pub scene2. County Engineer: Missing records from predecessor mean $300K in federal reimbursement on hold3. Don’t lose track of the fundamental mission of the Athens Farmers Market – local food4. Escalating the war on hunger 5. Free-speech protest at market not met with vendor applause6. Youngstown voters shoot down anti-fracking ballot measure7. New local summer street bash to help feed hungry8. Glass Harp ruled NE Ohio once upon a time9. Lenders unaware of business buyer’s out-of-state drug case10. City backs statewide injection-well ban11. Athens Voice 5-13-1312. Group signs on locals to test air quality near injection wells13. OU scientists make primate evolution discovery14. Man says county making progress on chronic thievery in Rome Twp.15. Athens Voice 5-9-1316. Let Farmers Market get back to core function, local food17. Athens Voice 5-16-1318. Future of solar and wind energy on an ever-hotter planet19. Squabbling over use of OU’s Ridges nothing new20. Athens-based prof does his part to help rebels in his native Syria
Wednesday, February 6,2013
Decision to close OU after robbery a classic over-reaction
To the Editor:
The decision to close Ohio University, like so many other decisions that come from the top and trickle down with stupidity, is a classic example of overreaction from an administration that is totally not qualified to make this type of call. This is a perfect example of the TAIL WAGGING THE DOG.
Are we going to close every time a pizza-delivery guy gets held up on campus? Maybe we should close and ban all pizza delivery on campus and send all employees and students home. If a sexual assault takes place on or around campus, we should at least send all female students and female workers home.
The decision to close the university put many students and workers out on the same streets that the police were looking to find the "THE FIVE DOLLAR BANDIT."
The decision to cancel the basketball game did prove one thing: THAT STUPIDITY IS CONTAGIOUS.
Don
Allen
Albany
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OU did what was right. OU is a small campus where everything is within walking distance to where the robbery took place.
I was put out by the that basketball game too, but it would have been irresponsible for OU to continue with a sports event after cancelling academic classes.