Prof. Kevin Hill teaches a law and culture course during the law school January term. While in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand, they meet with Buddhist monks at the university in Battambang, visit the Bayon temple in Angkor Thom, and meet with defense counsel and prosecutors at the Genocide Court in Phnom Penh.
A total of 15 teams of undergraduate college students from various schools in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan are scheduled to participate in a mock trial competition at ONU on Saturday andSunday. The students will try a criminal case involving a charge of attempted murder.
Each team must prepare for both prosecution and defense. Many of the students plan to attend law college following graduation. They were given the cases in August and have been preparing since then.
By Monty Siekerman
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech at Ohio Northern University on Jan. 11, 1968. A copy of his 50-minute speech can be heard at the website Onu.edu/MLK. Other material about his visit to ONU is at that website, as well.
Theodore Presser had taught at Northern during its first year, and he maintained cordial relations with President Henry Solomon Lehr. After leaving teaching, Presser entered the field of music publishing and founded the firm which still bears his name.
In 1925, Presser's will provided funds for music buildings on 10 campuses, including Ohio Northern's. In ONU’s case, this gift amounted to around $100,000 (equal to $1.5 million in today’s dollars due to inflation).
Ohio Northern University professor of history Michael B. Loughlin, Ph.D., published an article in the December 2017 edition of “Historical Reflection/Reflections Historiques.”
The article, “From Insurrectional Socialism to French National Socialism: Gustave Hervé and the Great War,” situates Hervé’s political evolution within the context of World War I and was published 100 years after the United States’ entry into the war.
Community members can join ONU students for the course “American Architecture: Understanding the World Around You” during spring semester. The course will examine the importance of architecture in understanding history and the built environment.
Community member taking the course on a non-credit basis can attend free of charge.
The first class will meet from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 16 and will continue each Tuesday in the Dicke Building, except during spring break March 5-9.
