Donald Trump's recent executive order bars entry to refugees for 120 days,
and to those from Syria indefinitely. It blocks visitors for 90 days from
seven countries.
Refugees are among the most vulnerable people on the planet. Many have
suffered unimaginably. In the United States is a nation of refugees and
immigrants.
I hope that our representatives in Congress and in Ohio will pressure
President Trump to reverse this order. Meanwhile, I hope within Ada, we all
work to show international students, immigrants and refugees that they are
welcome and valued in our community.
ADA — The Ohio Northern women's basketball team has moved up two spots to No. 6 in the ninth weekly D3Hoops.com poll, released Monday evening.
Northern stayed perfect on the season after an overtime victory at Wilmington and a defeating Capital at the ONU Sports Center last week.
Northern (19-0) is one of eight unbeaten teams in the poll.
Tufts (Mass.) held on to the No. 1 spot with 613 points and 15 first place votes, while Amherst (Mass.) remained at No. 2 with 601 points and six first place votes and St. Thomas (Minn.) moved into third place with 565 points and one first place vote.
The undefeated ONU women's basketball team has a major contest on Wednesday evening that may go a long way in determining the conference championship and the team's national ranking.
Tip off time is 7:30 p.m. In the ONU Sports Center for the ONU-Baldwin Wallace game. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for seniors.
BW is 16-3 overall and in second place in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 9-3 record.
ONU is tops in the conference and continues to climb in the Division III polls nationally, now ranking 6.
In their first contest this season, ONU bested BW 60-55 in Berea.
ADA — Robert “Bob” DiBiasio, the Cleveland Indians senior vice president of public affairs, and Jim Rosenhaus, the Indians radio announcer, will conduct a question-and-answer session from 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. on Feb. 7 in James F. Dicke Hall on the campus of Ohio Northern University. The event is free and open to the public.
DiBiasio, who has been with the Indians for more than 30 years, and Rosenhaus, who has been broadcasting the Indians since 2007, will discuss their respective roles with the Cleveland Indians, as well as the current state of the defending American League champion Indians.
Ada Icon Editor Monty Siekerman spoke to the ONU chapter of the Society of Collegiate Journalists on Monday at the Freed Center, saying:
•The Icon meets the needs of the community by informing readers about events and people of interest to them.
•The Icon is highly successful with 28,000 pages read in January alone, up 42 percent from a year ago.
•it was named Business of the Year in 2016 by the Chamber of Commerce.
•The Ada Icon has 60 advertisers to support it.
•The Icon posts more than 50 news stories, with photographs, each week, which is digging out a lot of news in a community with 5,000 people and a campus of 3,200.
