


Special Alumni Section
Stories
University urges accountability after students and police collide
From Ohio University to Washington State, UConn to T
ennessee, student disturbances this spring
have prompted school officials, alumni and community members to look back on their own college
days. Whether those days came in the live-and-let-live '80s, the Vietnam-era '60s and '70s or the
more conservative, prank-happy '40s and '50s, the talk at water coolers and Little League games
suggests folks just don't get the latest spate of campus uprisings.
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Campus Memories... Flood of '68 left lasting mark
As it is during many springs, the weather had been cool and wet in Athens in May 1968. Then came
the downpour that wouldn't stop. Beginning May 23, four inches of rain fell on Athens County in a
24-hour period, causing the area's worst flood in 55 years.
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Campus institute lends a helping hand to the region
The Monday Creek Watershed is a fixture on the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's priority list for restoration, a clean
up job estimated to require several million dollars and a few decades. It also is a fixture and high on the priority list for Ohio University's Institute for Local Government Administration and Rural Development (ILGARD), a major player in the environmental effort and one of 20 federal, state and local groups working in collaboration.
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First-of-its-kind software offers wealth of film school lessons
We sit in the dim light that peeks around t
he drawn shades in Anderson
Auditorium in Scripps Hall, all eyes fixed on a large screen at the front of the room. Save for an occasional wave of chuckles or expression of awe, we are silent, all 100 of us engrossed in Film Professor Rajko Grlic's demonstration of his first-of-a-kind CD-ROM program.
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Study offers hope for disease sufferers
When Sandy Williams describes the symptoms of her disease, she does not use medical terms, refer to t
est results or rattle off percentages and statistics. She details her symptoms in a language easily understood by any working woman with an active lifestyle, a husband, two adult children and two grandchildren.
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The Big Cat - Jim Grobe OU Football Coach
Smart alecks on campus used to find easy prey in the Ohio University football team. One barb always good for a chuckle: "The Ohio University football team hasn't won a championship since the Jo
hnson administration. That's Lyndon, not Andrew." But while it's true the Bobcats haven't won a Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship since the fall of 1968 30 years ago the wise guys on campus have had to find a new target. Ohio University football is no longer a joke.
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