<p>A year of scandals at "the Harvard of the Midwest" has the university president pleading to keep his job. According to the NY Times, none of the creative accounting and spending by OU administators (not the President) is illegal, perhaps. Oh yes, the football coach got a slap on the wrist for DUI.</p>
<p>I might drink too If I went from Nebraska to Ohio U.</p>
<p>links, please! (THis is my alma mater. It was a great place to go to school 28 years ago - really!)</p>
<p>I'm also an OU alum. I graduated when the dinosaurs roamed...1973. It was a fabulous school then, and has only gotten better. I BEGGED my daughter to look at the school. She wasn't interested largely because of the location. I'm sorry to hear that there are "shenanigans" with the money there.</p>
<p>"harvard of the midwest?!" lol....</p>
<p>im looking at OU. I'm OOS so i probably can't afford it.</p>
<p>Well, Miami of Ohio claimed the Yale of the Midwest so OU had to answer that.</p>
<p>Sorry Anxiousmom, the NY Times is a subscription web site (I read the hardcopy), but hopefully the wire services and other online newsites will pick up the story.</p>
<p>"The Harvard of the Midwest"???? ;-)</p>
<p>The Princeton Review ranked OU as their No.2 choice for schools that party the hardest! LOL!!
I'm sure that does give the attending kids something to boast about, but definately not something to be proud of in my book!</p>
<p>The school Admin. and city police have been trying to get ahold of the party situation {especially at Halloween!} for years but to no avail.</p>
<p>I was there several years ago at Halloween and actually feared for my life!</p>
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<p>Hey, don't stomp on me!!! I didn't make it up. Apparently OU has been calling itself 'Havard of the Midwest' years. LOL</p>
<p>And Barrons, Nebraska is oviously hardcore when it comes to Cornhusker football; Solich only lost three games his last season in Lincoln, as I recall. I doubt that a "mild" DUI or three losses would get him fired at OU.</p>
<p>Hey, don't stomp on me!!! LOL. I didn't make it up. Apparently OU has been calling itself 'Harvard of the Midwest' for years.</p>
<p>And Barrons, Nebraska is obviously hardcore when it comes to Cornhusker football; Solich only lost three games his last season in Lincoln, as I recall. I doubt that a "mild" DUI or three losses would get him fired at OU.</p>
<p>No, they call it Harvard on the Hocking, the Hocking being a miniscule river that flows around campus. No one takes it seriously especially those of us who have studied there. This is not to diminish the school's qualities, including academics, but the moniker is a joke.</p>
<p>LW, I was kidding. He's probably glad to be at a place that takes football less seriously.</p>
<p>...harvard of the midwest?!</p>
<p>Oh Yes...it was Harvard on the Hocking back when the dinosaurs roamed...maybe even before they moved the Hocking River to build the South Green!!</p>
<p>Nah, the south green was in and the hocking still flowed. cavemen but no dinosaurs.</p>
<p>it was "Harvard on the Hocking" when I was there.... I really need to get an alumni shirt!</p>
<p>It sounds like OU is in for a rough year...</p>