Category Archives: Blog Features

Everything you want to know about parking and transportation at OU is on the university website, so that’s not what this is about. Rather, this is a word about parking trends in general for university students. Only you know how badly you need a car on campus. Will you have a far commute from …

Got a bad case of the wintertime blues? OU Bobcats basketball can be the answer for the cold season doldrums. After all, basketball is one of the liveliest and most exciting competitive sports of all. The season is well under way, but you can get started by reserving your seat for the meeting between …

Like opera? You don’t have to go far from your Ohio University housing to enjoy the best. The Metropolitan Opera is live in high density at the Athena Cinema. This award-winning series of opera performances is transmitted live from the Met stage into movie theaters around the world. It’s pretty cool to experience live …

Ohio University celebrates University Trombone Day 2020 on Feb. 8 when OU School of Music presents Jose Milton Vieira, international soloist. Vieira’s performance is just one event marking Trombone Day. Other trombone-related activities include a group warm-up, master classes and a mass trombone choir, to be capped off by Vieira’s performance. A “rising trombone …

In the comedy-drama play “She Kills Monsters,” Agnes Evans loses her parents and sister Tilly in an auto accident. Having been distant from her sister during her lifetime, Agnes tries to know her sibling better through a Dungeons and Dragons module that Tilly had written, and that Agnes stumbles across when cleaning out the …

Now that you’re settling into your Athens Ohio rental housing, you’re likely well aware that you could have used a ___ (fill in the bank). We know you’ve realized you forgot something. Or more than one thing. Here are a few things most college students need that they may have overlooked when packing. So …

Athens is rich with cultural events that can draw you out of your Athens Ohio rentals and out among your fellow art/music/theater lovers. Many events are located on the campus of OU, For starters, there’s the Feb. 16 presentation of the musical, “The Color Purple”, based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice …

A weeklong observance of the Martin Luther King holiday (officially, Monday, Jan. 20) is set at OU. The week will honor the “life and legacy” of King, the celebrated civil rights advocate who led the nation’s nonviolent struggle for racial equality and justice for all until his assassination in 1968. Among the events for …

International Student Orientation is set for Jan. 4-11 at Ohio University. Students arrive Jan. 4-5, then participate in a variety of activities during the week. Here’s the line-up Monday, Jan. 6 — Check in, 9:30-10 a.m. Combo Room Lounge, Baker; ISO welcome, 10 a.m.; Living in Athens, 11-12:30 a.m.; Lunch, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Baker; TOEFL …

Spring classes at OU officially start on Monday, Jan. 13, which will be followed the next week with an official holiday: Martin Luther King Day, on Monday, Jan. 20. Classes will not be in session, and university offices will be officially closed. However, residences will remain open. Be sure to check the culinary services …