the amazing has happened: The Ohio State University Cancells Class!

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Feb 16, 2010 6:55 AM
except I work for on campus dining and I still have to go in. Fuck my life.
Feb 16, 2010 6:55am
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Feb 16, 2010 6:56 AM
i bet that minimum wage is really starting to sound appealing.
Feb 16, 2010 6:56am
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Feb 16, 2010 8:16 AM
My practice is cancelled but I might just pop the head on and go have fun around campus today. Watch out for Brutus snowballs!
Feb 16, 2010 8:16am
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Feb 16, 2010 8:24 AM
amazing? I had two snow days at OSU. While it isn't anywhere near as frequent as high school, they do happen.
Feb 16, 2010 8:24am
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Feb 16, 2010 8:27 AM
I had one snow day when I was at the University of Toledo.
Feb 16, 2010 8:27am
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Feb 16, 2010 8:28 AM
bases_loaded wrote: amazing? I had two snow days at OSU. While it isn't anywhere near as frequent as high school, they do happen.
I also have had 2 snow days (well 3 counting my freshman year at OSU-Mansfield). However it's only like the 7th snow day in the last 20 years for Ohio State.
Feb 16, 2010 8:28am
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Feb 16, 2010 8:33 AM
Great news.........I had class/lab all day.
Feb 16, 2010 8:33am
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Feb 16, 2010 8:44 AM
KR1245 wrote: Great news.........I had class/lab all day.
Me too. I know we pay to be here blah blah blah, but that doesn't mean the child in me doesn't want a freakin day off every now and then
Feb 16, 2010 8:44am
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Feb 16, 2010 9:00 AM
Have never had a snow day on my campus.... haven't had a mass cancellation of classes in 40+ years according to some faculty....
Feb 16, 2010 9:00am
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ernest_t_bass

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Feb 16, 2010 9:02 AM
We had a few at BGSU.
Feb 16, 2010 9:02am
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Feb 16, 2010 9:22 AM
Haha this is great with one of my classes being cancelled for my professor being out of town all I was going to have today was just my 8am Stats Lab. I didn't even set my alarm if I woke up on time I'd go if not I wouldn't, I guess it didn't matter anyway maybe my "tweet" to President Gee last night inspired him to close today :D
Feb 16, 2010 9:22am
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Feb 16, 2010 9:34 AM
BGSU back in the early / mid 70's would alway have Snow days.
Really Wind days/ Driffting day/ .....that wind blowing across the open field of BGSU would just rip into your body. Back in 1974 or 75 there where drifting snow as high as the powerlines and Howard's was closed and the Clock was not open for breakfast.............
Feb 16, 2010 9:34am
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Feb 16, 2010 9:41 AM
I was at OSU through most of the 90's. They only cancelled classes once and I didn't find out about it until I tried to open the door to the building and it was locked. :(
Feb 16, 2010 9:41am
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Feb 16, 2010 9:56 AM
We get snow days for <1 inch of snow, lol. None this year, but we have had one each of the last two years.

We got 3 inches friday night, but of course it had all melted by noon on saturday.
Feb 16, 2010 9:56am
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Feb 16, 2010 10:00 AM
FatHobbit wrote: I was at OSU through most of the 90's. They only cancelled classes once and I didn't find out about it until I tried to open the door to the building and it was locked. :(
I went to my class today completely unaware of a snow day, and sure enough the doors to the building were both locked. I suppose the lack of people should have triggered something in my head, but alas, when in rome...
Feb 16, 2010 10:00am
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Feb 16, 2010 10:01 AM
This is only the 2nd time in my 3 years down here that I can recall being cancelled
Feb 16, 2010 10:01am
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Feb 16, 2010 10:06 AM
My college canceled classes three times while I was in school which doubled the total cancellations in school history (50+ years). It used to be that 80% of students lived on campus and most of the faculty lived next to campus. Now only 60% of the students live on campus and most faculty like 10-15 min away, so they're more likely to cancel now because it's more difficult for everyone to make it in for classes.
Feb 16, 2010 10:06am
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Feb 16, 2010 10:19 AM
In the 4 years of undergrad and 2 years of grad school I've done here at OU, we canceled once. (Ice storm in January 2009).
There was another day in 2005 where Athens County hit a level 3 snow emergency (automatic closure), but it was a Saturday morning so it changed nothing.

Apparently the last closure of the Athens Campus before that was in 2003.
Feb 16, 2010 10:19am
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Feb 16, 2010 10:35 AM
My Dad has worked at Ohio University since 1978...I think they've closed 4 times or something like that in 32 years.
Feb 16, 2010 10:35am
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Feb 16, 2010 10:38 AM
One of those times OU closed was in early '94...for a couple of days, too. Many brain cells met their death during that time.
Feb 16, 2010 10:38am
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Feb 16, 2010 11:32 AM
how do they go about notifying all 50,000 students? e mail? or are you just supposed to see it on the news
Feb 16, 2010 11:32am
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Feb 16, 2010 11:35 AM
What's really amazing is the way that everyone down here acts when they get a little snow. UK classes were cancelled from 5pm last night until 11 this morning. There were TWO inches. But I'm not complaining.
Feb 16, 2010 11:35am
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Feb 16, 2010 11:48 AM
UA5straightin2008 wrote: how do they go about notifying all 50,000 students? e mail? or are you just supposed to see it on the news
They send out e-mails plus it's on the front page of the schools website
Feb 16, 2010 11:48am
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Feb 16, 2010 11:49 AM
gotcha
Feb 16, 2010 11:49am
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Feb 16, 2010 11:54 AM
How come nobody has commented on the piss-poor spelling in the OP's title?
Feb 16, 2010 11:54am