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Here's ONU's Black History Month schedule

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Ohio Northern University commemorates Black History Month this February with a number of scheduled events. Several campus organizations will collaborate to provide diverse opportunities to celebrate African-American heritage. Here is the schedule of February’s activities:

Cultural Conversation Hour
“Thug Life: Beiber vs. Sherman”
Tuesday, Feb. 11
11 a.m.-noon
Heterick 301
Join us for a discussion on whether race in the media influences our perspective. Lunch will be served.

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ONU Symphony performs afternoon concert Feb. 23

Posted by Paula Scott on Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts presents the Ohio Northern University Symphony on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 4:30 p.m.


The ONU Symphony Orchestra will perform “Night on Bald Mountain” by Modest Mussorgsky followed by “Concerto for the Flute” by Carl Nelson, featuring ONU senior Marissa Mauro. The concert will conclude with Borodin’s “Symphony No. 2.” Borodin is considered one of the great Russian composers, known as The Mighty Handful, along with Mussorgsky, Rimksy-Korsakov and others.

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"Cinema as a Social Tool" Black History Month lecture

Posted by Paula Scott on Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Ohio Northern University Office of Multicultural Development and the Department of English present acclaimed filmmaker Ya’Ke Smith on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. in the McIntosh Ballroom to help celebrate Black History Month.          
           
During his lecture, titled “Art Reflecting Life, Life Reflecting Art: Cinema as a Social Tool,” Smith will discuss his experiences as a filmmaker and how his work seeks to debunk negative stereotypes, while sometimes using those same stereotypes to expose truths in the black community.
           

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Northern faculty presents chamber music recital Feb. 16

Posted by Paula Scott on Tuesday, February 11, 2014

 

The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents an evening of chamber music in the Snyder Recital Hall in the Presser Building on Sunday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

ONU music faculty members Lance and Pamela Ashmore, Michele Smith, and Thomas Hunt will perform selections from Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder (in an arrangement for voice, piano, oboe and horn by R. G. Patterson) and the Jean-Michel Damase Trio for oboe, horn and piano.

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Ohio Northern University LLM student to prosecute cases in Allen County Prosecutor’s Office

Posted by Paula Scott on Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Ezmarai Osmany, an Ohio Northern University LLM (Master of Laws) student who also is a former prosecutor in Afghanistan, will have the opportunity to prosecute in the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office after receiving special permission from the Ohio Supreme Court.

Bruce French, ONU professor of law and director of clinical programs, helped spearhead the efforts to have Osmany prosecute cases and said that this is the first time anything like this has been done in the state of Ohio. Traditionally, students must have completed two years of law school in order to get a student license, but a petition to the Ohio Supreme Court granted a license for Osmany.

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ONU alumnus John Bishop to be inducted into OFIC Hall of Excellence

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, February 6, 2014

John J. Bishop, a 1972 Ohio Northern University graduate and chairman of the board of The Motorists Insurance Group, was selected as a 2014 inductee into the Ohio Foundation of Independent College Hall of Excellence.

Bishop was among four selected for the Hall and will be formally inducted at the “Evening of Excellence” on April 16 at the Renaissance Downtown Hotel in Columbus, Ohio. Joining Bishop as inductees into the Hall of Excellence are author and health and nutritionist expert Jean Carper (Ohio Wesleyan University), chairman of NVR Inc. Dwight C. Schar (Ashland University), and chairman and CEO of Thomas Properties James A. Thomas (Baldwin-Wallace University).

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