2008 Woodie Awards
Campus
Banning ROTC on some campuses brings protest
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Citing support from both major presidential candidates, a conservative alumni organization called for the return of the Reserve Officer Training Corps to Harvard University and four other universities in letters to the schools' governing boards last week. The letter, sent by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, quoted Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama endorsing ROTC training on college campuses.
Openly gay bishop travels to Duke University
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An Episcopalian leader who has come to symbolize the debate over the role of gays in the church will be at Duke University today and tomorrow for a variety of events with students, faculty, staff and the Durham community. The Rev. Gene Robinson, Episcopalian bishop of New Hampshire, has been the subject of a firestorm of controversy since being elected as the nation's first openly gay bishop in 2003.
Solar car at Univ. of Kentucky made possible by more than $1 billion in grants
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Removing his jacket and setting down his coffee, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear lowered himself into the car's metal frame. Then a group of students from the University of Kentucky College of Engineering lowered a shell of blue solar panels over his head. Laughing, the governor pressed the accelerator and drove down Administration Drive, flanked by the solar car team and a horde of photographers.
A 'voice' for Obama
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Students who showed up to see "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane thought his speech was freakin' sweet. The event was part of the Obama campaign's last-minute effort to get people registered to vote before today's voter registration deadline. Adrianne Palicki, a star of the television show "Friday Night Lights," was also on hand to lend their support to the Obama campaign at a rally that took place on Saturday morning outside of University Hall.
Trustees deny police union contract
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The rejection of the University's only union contract overshadowed all other areas of the University Board of Trustee meeting Friday. The University Campus Police, which has been unionized since the early 1990s, was seeking a new contract to replace their three-year contract that expired in April.
Three arrested in McDonald laptop thefts
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Two Defiance College football players and one other Defience College student were arrested by University police early Friday morning after allegedly stealing three laptops and an iPod from McDonald residence hall. Aaron Whaley, 18, of Oak Park, Mich., and Emanuel Onwuemene, 18, of Livonia, Mich.
BGSU nursing students look to UT for classes
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BGSU nursing students may be taking all their classes at the rival Rockets' school, but they are still Falcons. In 2006, the former Medical University of Ohio merged with the University of Toledo to create the UT Health Science campus. Students start out at BGSU or UT in a pre-nursing program for two years and then they apply to the UT nursing program and upon acceptance they take all of their classes at the UT Health Science Campus.
