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Progress ReportPASSOhio University's School of Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences receives a passing grade for offering hearing and speech sciences as a minor for students starting Fall Quarter 2001. This minor will allow students to continue in the school's master's programs in audiology or speech language pathology. Hearing and speech sciences is an up-and-coming field, and OU is allowing its students to compete professionally by offering this program. This option especially will benefit special education majors because they work with children with articulation and hearing problems. PASSThe Spring Literary Festival, in its 15th year at OU, is an excellent opportunity for writers to present their works in the form of lectures, forums and workshops. This year, OU brought Mary Daly, a controversial radical feminist philosopher, and poet Lynn Emanuel, along with others, to Athens to offer an interesting mix of lecturers, and OU should continue to strive for that variety. However, with all the lectures and readings in Irvine Auditorium, the program was not easily accessible to many students. Next year OU should consider having the lectures in other buildings more central to campus, or because it's spring and the weather is nice, offer more in Scripps Amphitheater. INCOMPLETENelsonville Spring Clean Up is a week behind and is becoming costly. The cleanup week is a chance for Nelsonville residents to dispose of extra trash, mostly furniture. Last year the task was finished in three days; this year it is taking three weeks. Last year's total was 30 tons of trash at a cost of $4,480. So far this year's cleanup has collected more than 120 tons at a cost of $22,190. Much of the problem involves furniture, box springs and mattresses. Nelsonville residents should consider donating large pieces of furniture to ATCO or other organizations that also will pick it up for free year-round, rather than throwing it away. Nelsonville city officials need to make better plans next year and anticipate a lot of trash. Coordinating the Spring Clean Up with organizations that take used furniture also would be a way of keeping things on budget and on time. FAILAthens City Council approved an amendment to the pooper scooper law, requiring dog owners to carry materials to pick up animal waste. Athens city officials must have better ways to use their money than to cite people who do not take care of their pet's poop. This law will be similar to the leash law - hardly enforced. Pet owners need to have the common sense, and the decency to clean up after their pets have left a present in a neighbor's yard. And if people are bothered by pets using their yard, one option is to put up a fence. FAILAthens residents and OU students registered to vote in Athens fail for not voting in the Athens City and Federal Hocking Local School Districts levies. The Athens City School District passed its levy, while Federal Hocking Local School District did not. The turnout was extremely low. In the Uptown precinct, of 714 registered voters, no one went to the ballots. Students especially need to learn about the issues concerning local schools, but schools also need to make this information available to more people than just the parents in the district.
PASSThe Ohio baseball team, which rebounded from a dismal beginning of its conference season, took 10 of its 12 last Mid-American Conference games. The Bobcats thwarted elimination and grabbed the fourth seed in the six-team MAC Tournament, which begins Wednesday in Muncie, Ind. Ohio will face Kent State at 11 a.m. that day. |