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A KISS concert at ONU? Sorry, you're 40 years too late

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 25, 2015

A group of Ohio Northern University students and their professor are researching the concert and how it impacted the Ada community, according to Harry Wilson of ONU's management and information systems.

This May 9th marks the 40th anniversary of the event at ONU’s newly-built King Horn center. This was during KISS’ Dressed to Kill tour and they were on the verge of becoming very famous. 

"We have reason to believe that KISS played Rock & Roll All Nite for the first time ever live at the ONU concert," said Wilson.

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110 ONU students heading south - not for the beach; they'll volunteer for Habitat for Humanity

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Ohio Northern University’s Habitat for Humanity Chapter will send 110 students on work trips for spring break March 1-7.

Instead of heading down south for a week on a beach with friends, these ONU students will build homes for families in need. The habitat work teams will travel to Sumter, S.C., Jackson, Miss., and Davidson, N.C., and partner with Habitat for Humanity affiliates to work on homes in the area.

The spring break work trips have been the chapter’s tradition for 25 years.

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United Methodist Church bell - it's a story of community involvement

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 24, 2015

It make take a community to put a church bell in a place on honor.

Ohio Northern University engineering students participated in the bell project. ONU students learned woodworking principles from master woodworker Scott Phillips from "The American Woodshop " television program on PBS.

Phillips is helping with an EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) project to build a wooden display pedestal for the bell from the Ada United Methodist Church that was destroyed by fire in March 2013.

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Pettit Law Kormendy Lecture rescheduled for April 27

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Sunday, February 22, 2015

Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law will present the 2015 Kormendy Lecture in the Large Moot Court Room on Monday, April 27, at 12:30 p.m. The program will feature a presentation on “Justifying Regulatory Takings” by Joseph William Singer, Bussey professor of law at Harvard Law School.
Due to weather conditions, this lecture, scheduled for Feb. 16, has been rescheduled for April 27

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University Wind Orchestra to feature wind and percussion music

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Sunday, February 22, 2015

The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents the Ohio Northern University Wind Orchestra, featuring the best of wind and percussion music, in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m.

The program includes Johann DeMeij’s Lord of the Rings Symphony and works by Aaron Copland, Gordon Jacob, and Philip Sparkes. Members of the ONU Dance Company will collaborate with the ONU Wind Symphony for the performance of “Dance Movement” by Sparkes, choreographed by Elizabeth Cozad, lecturer in the ONU theatre department. The ONU Wind Symphony is under the direction of Thomas A. Hunt.

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Pettit College of Law recognized as top school that prepares students to pass bar exam

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, February 19, 2015

The Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law was recognized as one of the top law schools in the nation for preparing students to pass the bar in the 2015 February issue of The National Jurist 2015.

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