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.
Adina Paytan, Ph.D., will discuss “Using oxygen isotopes in phosphate for source tracking and P cycling” at 3 p.m.on Monday, Oct. 2 in the Mathile Center.. She will give a second lecture, “Coral and Acid – Impacts of ocean acidification on coral reefs,” at 7 p.m. on Oct. 3 in the Dicke Hall. Both talks are part of the Kritzler Lectureship in Chemistry Series at ONU, and both are free and open to the public.
A play "Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches" will be presented at the Freed Center from Sept. 28 until Oct. 1. The drama is an examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s.
The writer, Tony Kushner, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for the play that has been described as the most influential play of the last 25 years.
Set in 1985 in Manhattan, in the age of Reagan and at the onset of the AIDS epidemic, Kushner’s play faces head on the central crises of American culture. Political, religious and social conflicts underpin a story with characters whose personal crises of love and abandonment interconnect with larger societal questions.
By Monty Siekerman
ONU President Emeritus Dr. Kendall Baker and wife Toby cut the ribbon during dedication ceremonies of the Baker Residential Commons at Homecoming festivities on Saturday morning.
The Bakers returned to campus from their home in Colorado to attend the ceremony in their honor: the naming of a complex of 7 residence halls in the southwest portion of campus that were built during his tenure here as president.
