Ohio Northern University

ADA — The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents a celebration of choral music as part of the ONU Homecoming festivities in the Snyder Recital Hall in the Presser Building on Friday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.      

The evening’s program will begin with the ONU Men’s Chorus presenting a variety of glee club pieces, and the ONU Women’s Chorus will follow with popular musical settings voiced for women.

The ONU Chamber Singers will offer an assortment of styles in both Latin and English. Finishing the program will be the University Singers with music in German and English and a spiritual by Moses Hogan.

By Tim Glon

Freshman Will Freed threw for 439 yards and three touchdowns in his first collegiate game to lead Ohio Northern to a 29-22 football victory over Utica (N.Y.) in its 2015 season opener Saturday afternoon at Dial-Roberson Stadium.

The Polar Bears improve to 1-0, while the Pioneers fall to 1-1.

Freed completed 27-of-36 passes and TD scores of 73, 56 and 8 yards in his college debut, marking the first time a freshman quarterback started a game for Ohio Northern since Ed Chessar in 1987.

His 439 yards passing is the second-most in ONU history, trailing only the record 452-yard effort by Shane Franzer at Hanover (Ind.) in the 1999 playoffs.

Ohio Northern University is once again featured as one of the nation’s top schools in The Princeton Review’s annual college guide, “The Best 380 Colleges: 2016 Edition.” ONU also is one of the 159 institutions that The Princeton Review recommends in the “Best of the Midwest” section of its website feature, “2016 Best Colleges by Region.”

“We are pleased that this student survey again places ONU among the best universities in the country,” said Daniel A. DiBiasio, Ohio Northern University president. “This is reflective of the quality of our programs and personnel and the appreciation our students have for excellence.”

Ohio Northern University will observe Constitution Day with a panel discussion on “The President and the Constitution” in the Pettit College of Law’s Celebrezze Moot Courtroom on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Scott Gerber, ONU professor of law, will serve as moderator of the three-person panel presentation. Each speaker will tackle issues concerning the executive office and the U.S. Constitution.

Ohio Northern University has been ranked No. 2 among Midwest regional colleges in “Best Colleges 2016,” which is published annually by U.S. News & World Report.

Ohio Northern has appeared in the top 10 of the publication’s Regional College Midwest Rankings for the past 24 years and in the top five for the past 11 out of 12 years.

Ohio Northern University’s T.J. Smull College of Engineering has been recognized as one of the nation’s top 50 undergraduate engineering programs in “Best Colleges 2016,” published by U.S. News & World Report.

The college ranks 39th among engineering schools whose highest degree is a bachelor’s or master’s, marking the eighth time in nine years that U.S. News & World Report has listed ONU in its top-50 rankings. U.S. News ranks undergraduate engineering programs accredited by ABET (formerly known as Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology).

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