“Shoot First, Ask Questions Later: Self-Defense, Stand Your Ground, and the Trayvon Martin Tragedy,” will be the title of the discussion during the Ohio Northern University Cultural Conversation hour in the Celebrezze Court Room on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 11 a.m.
The event, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Black Student Union, the Black Law Student Association and the Office of Multicultural Development.
The Latino/a Student Unions of Ohio Northern, Bowling Green State University and University of Toledo will be hosting Latin Food Day and Festival at ONU in Affinity Commons on Saturday, Oct. 5 from 2-7 p.m.
The festival and food day are being hosted to educate the campus about Hispanic culture, and raise awareness about the LSU chapters at other Ohio campuses.
Activities include water balloon toss, tug of war, Frisbee, corn hole, soccer, football and dancing. Music will be at the event, and Latin food. Tickets are $5 and the event is open to the public.
Ohio Northern University will observe Constitution Day with a showing of “Search and Seizure: Mapp vs. Ohio,” a short documentary from The Constitution Project, in the Dicke Forum on Monday, Sept. 30, at 2 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
This documentary explores the Fourth Amendment case Mapp vs. Ohio, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained by police is not admissible in state courts. This 1961 case redefined the rights of the accused. Following the showing of the documentary, Bryan Ward, ONU associate dean and professor of law, will conduct a question-and-answer session to discuss issues arising from search and seizure.
Ohio Northern University will dedicate Dial-Roberson Stadium’s newly installed artificial turf as “Bill Robinson Field” during halftime of ONU’s football game against Mount Union on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 1:30 p.m.
The field is named in honor of William “Bill” Robinson, who is retiring after more than 50 years of service to ONU. Robinson, currently the executive assistant to the president, graduated from ONU in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science in education.
The Ohio Northern University Department of English Department opens its 2013 Fall Readers series with Jennifer Moore in the Elzay Gallery of Art on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
Moore, a poet and ONU assistant professor of creative writing, has had, or will have, her work published in American Letters & Commentary, The Volta, Best New Poets, Barrow Street, Columbia Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Her criticism has appeared in Jacket2 and The Offending Adam. She holds degrees from the University of Colorado and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The Ohio Northern University Dicke College of Business Administration and the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants are hosting a three-day training program on the Accounting Pilot and Bridge Project (APBP) from Oct. 13-15.
Dan Deines, CPA, the KPMG Peat Marwick professor of accounting at Kansas State University, will oversee the three-day session on APBP.
Deines has trained more than 750 teachers in 42 states and will bring with him a contingency of Kansas high school teachers who he trained in the APBP program and who have successfully used the materials in the classroom.
