Weather permitting, the Ohio Northern University walking path will be closed for one week beginning Monday, July 30 through Aug. 6 for crack-sealing and painting. The path, known as The Green Monster, extends from one end of the campus to the other, mostly along the outer edge. It is used by students as well as townspeople for walking, jogging, roller skating, taking babies for walks in strollers, and exercising dogs.
Ohio Northern University’s long history of athletic prowess is about to enter a whole new era. Esports is the newest, fastest-growing trend to hit collegiate athletics, and ONU is excited to announce it will launch an official varsity esports team in fall semester 2019.
Esports, short for electronic sports, is competitive video gaming at the highest skill level and has become something of a world-wide phenomenon in the last decade or so, with professional gamers from across the globe competing for championships and prizes.
Although Alpha Omicron Pi social sorority left campus 23 years ago, members still gather for an annual reunion. From Friday through Sunday, 101 ONU sorority sisters enjoyed each other’s company with many staying at The Inn. A luncheon was held on Saturday and that evening many dined together at Viva Maria’s.
This was the local sorority’s fifth annual reunion at ONU, according to Anita Cook, one of the organizers. Anita, formerly on the Freed Center staff, now lives in Columbus. She said the women who returned to campus last weekend came from across the United States.
While here, the women also donated several thousand dollars to two charities.
"Opposition of Mars" is the program title of a 9:30 to 11 p.m. Monday, July 30, event at the ONU Observatory, according to Dr. Jason Pinkey, observatory manager.
Pinkey said: "Mars will be just three days passed opposition.'Opposition' is the planetary configuration in which the planet appears in the opposite direction as the Sun from the Earth's perspective.
"It is also the time of closest approach to the Earth, making Mars look bigger and brighter than usual. This will be the closest we've come to Mars since the 2003 opposition (but that was the closest in about 60,000 years).
Blake Moore, a recent graduate of Manchester University in Indiana, has been named assistant sports information director at Ohio Northern effective July 9. He graduated with summa cum laude honors.
At Manchester, he served as sports director of the campus radio station and interned with a baseball organization, and the Indiana Tech sports information department.
He is a native of Hagerstown, Ind., and plans to pursue a master’s degree from BGSU. He now lives in Ada.
