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Momentous day in the history of ONU

300 gather for $30 million engineering building groundbreaking
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, October 13, 2017

Story and photos by Monty Siekerman
Today (Friday) was a momentous day in the history of Ohio Northern when about 300 people gathered for a groundbreaking  ceremony at the site which will become a $30 million College of Engineering building located just east of pharmacy.

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Wind Orchestra to perform Oct. 22

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Wednesday, October 11, 2017

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.

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ONU Polaris members learn about moveable type

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Friday, October 6, 2017

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.

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ONU Symphony to perform Oct. 15

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Wednesday, October 4, 2017

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.

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ONU law professor co-edits labor law book

The book argues that American labor law should be reconsidered and reformed
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, October 3, 2017

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.

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Where does ONU stand on kneeling?

AD: "Peaceful protest is part of our country and what we are, and so you can’t extinguish that."
Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, October 1, 2017

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.

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