The ONU Wind Orchestra will perform at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22 in the Freed Center..
Thomas Hunt, professor of music, will conduct this opening concert. The first half of the program will feature “Vision Fanfare” by American composer Eric Knechtges, “Musica Boema” by Czech composer Zdenek Lukas, “Overture for Band” by German composer Felix Mendelssohn, “October” by American composer Eric Whitacre, and “March of the Belgian Parachutists” by Belgian composer Pierre Leemans.
The second half of the program will feature “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.
Members of "Polaris," ONU's literary magazine, learned about moveable type printing presses and assembled letters to each spell out a favorite quote. Prof. Melissa Eddings-Mancuso showed the students different types of prints: regular, ghost, reverse, and shadow. Today's printed material is all prepared with the help of computers, whether actually printed on paper or presented to readers online, like the Ada Icon.
The ONU Symphony will perform at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 15 in the Freed Center. Tickets are $20 for general admission, $15 for ONU faculty and staff, $10 for seniors, and $5 for students. The Freed Center box office is open Monday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Phone orders are accepted with American Express, MasterCard, VISA or Discover by calling 419-772-1900. Tickets also are available online at ticketing.onu.edu.
Cambridge University Press has announced that it will publish "The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law: Reviving American Labor for a 21st Century Economy."
The book will be co-edited by Richard Bales, professor of law at Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, and Charlotte Garden, professor of law at Seattle University School of Law, with an expected publication date of fall 2018.
More than 40 leading labor law scholars from throughout the United States will contribute.
By Grant Pepper, sports editor of ONU Northern Review
Last Sunday was a day of righteous, widespread protest in the NFL.
Many teams linked arms during the National Anthem, while some individual players kneeled, sat or stretched as it was played before kickoff. A handful of teams stayed in the locker room.
The civil protest stemmed from former San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick’s demonstration over a year ago, when he kneeled during the National Anthem to protest police brutality and the oppression of African-Americans in America.
Dr. Jo Ann Scott, long time member of the ONU Political Science program and founding member of the Criminal Justice program, has died.
Chair of the Department of History, Political Science, and Geography, Rob Alexander released the following statement: "Our colleague and friend, Dr. Jo Ann Scott passed away yesterday after a brief illness.
Jo Ann retired in 2015 and left her mark on the Department and Ohio Northern. Her most noteworthy accomplishments include the creation of the Criminal Justice major at ONU as well as establishing and coaching the Mock Trial team on campus for many years.
