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Campuswide News & Events
WCSA Initiative Funding Requests – Due Fri. Apr. 30
The deadline to request funding for fall semester initiatives is approaching later this week for WCSA to consider. These requests should only be for items and events occurring during the 2021 fall semester, or for initiatives that span both fall…
Student Symposium 2021 – Online Application Now OPEN
The OWU Student Symposium showcases the research and creative work of Ohio Wesleyan students across the academic spectrum. The Symposium provides an opportunity for students to share their work with the OWU community and enter a dialogue that can spur…
Nu Rho Psi – National Honors Society for Neuroscience
Are you interested in learning more about the brain through events and guest speakers? Are you a Neuroscience Major looking for more experience and opportunities related to the field to add to your resume? Everyone welcome! Currently OWU does not…
WOW Speaker Series: No More Hiding May 18, 7:30-8:30
The WOW (Women of Ohio Wesleyan) is an event to bring together OWU women of all ages. This event discusses the Importance of Putting Yourself Out There, Relationship Building, and Bounding Past Your Fear of Networking. This session will be…
Humane Society of Delaware County Silent Auction
The “Fur Ball” Silent Auction () is a great way to support the Human Society of Delaware County (). There are plenty of items to bid on for animal and their humans! HSDC is community supported and does not receive…
Senior Recital featuring Kathryn Lawson, oboe, Sunday, May 2 @ 7 pm live stream
Department of Music Senior Recital, Kathyrn Lawson, oboe, will be performing Sonata in A Minor by C.P.E. Bach, Nebula by Noah Green, Solo de Concert No. 4 by Stanislas Verroust, Four Personalities by Alyssa Morris and Trio for Piano, Oboe…
OWU Connection News & Events
Student News & Events
Latham Entrepreneurial Scholars Deadline Extended!
The Latham Entrepreneurial Scholars Program will allow a select group of students from across campus disciplines to combine classroom knowledge with real-world entrepreneurial experiences that will prepare them with the entrepreneurial mindset necessary to succeed in their chosen field. Students…
Last Day to Sign Up to Act in “Scenes!”
“Scenes! 2022,” a showcase for new OWU students, has two openings for actors. If you are a new OWU student (first-year or transfer) and you’d like to perform in this Sept. 24 show (on the Chappelear Main Stage!), be among…
Sept. 6 & 7 – Volunteer Training Sessions for 2022 Voter Registration Drive
Every vote counts this November and OWU can make a difference. Want to know all the ins and outs to help your fellow students vote in 2022? Come to a training session! Those interested in volunteering with OWU’s voter registration…
Audition for Pitch Black A Cappella
Pitch Black is Ohio Wesleyan’s non-male a cappella group. The group will be holding auditions for singers and vocal percussionists! All class levels are welcome to audition! For more information about auditions, contact Abby Parker at alparker@owu.edu Established in 2005, Pitch Black…
Want to Make an Impact? Join WCSA!
WCSA (Wesleyan Council on Student Affairs) is Ohio Wesleyan’s student government. It handles issues like academic affairs, student and residential life, and student inclusion and advocacy. WCSA is currently holding elections for senate positions. Any student is able (and encouraged)…
Sept. 3 @ 7 p.m. – Ohio State vs Notre Dame Football Watch Party with Alpha Sigma Phi
Come watch Ohio State take on Notre Dame as the new football season kicks off with the brothers of Alpha Sigma Phi! Come over and enjoy free pizza and snacks at the house on 9 Williams Dr. Kickoff starts at…
Faculty/Staff News & Events
Feb. 26 – Opening Reception for Faculty Art Exhibit
This biannual exhibit by the studio art faculty showcases the broad range of talent in the Fine Arts Department at Ohio Wesleyan University. Come celebrate the work of your colleagues this Wednesday, February 26th from 5-7:00pm and enjoy live music…
StAP and Legacy Internships – Submit Proposals Now!
Faculty and Staff may continue submitting proposals for a StAP and/or Legacy Internship for 2020-2021. The deadline is Sunday, March 8th @ 11:59 pm. The guidelines, timelines, and application form can be found on the website below. StAP Proposal Application:…
#NPRreads: Wealthier Grays As well as Intersection Of Race And Guns
#NPRreads is actually a weekly element on Twitter and over the Two-Way. The premise is straightforward: Correspondents, editors and producers through our newsroom share parts that have saved them studying. They share tidbits using the #NPRreads hashtag and on Fridays, we spotlight a number of the most effective stories. This week, we convey you 4 reads. From Edith Chapin, NPR's acting executive editor:America's Seniors Locate Middle-Cla s 'Sweet Spot' . #NPRreadshttp://t.co/nVZKxGKiW5 EdithChapin (@EdithChapin) June fifteen, 2015 Though the U.S. economy is considerably brighter than it was a handful of several years back, the hangover in the economic downturn continue to throbs for numerous Us citizens. This tale resonated with me, as I envisioned the impact would have been the opposite on more mature individuals. As people are living lengthier, the prospect that fewer people today could po sibly be in a very financial squeeze is encouraging. It bodes far better for quality of life and maybe some fiscal resources which will be still left to the following generations for a basis for youthful people's economic setting up. The counter-intuitive portion obtained my attention suitable away together with the following rationalization:"Supported by profits from Social Protection, pensions and investments, also being an escalating variety of paychecks from delaying retirement, more mature people not just weathered the economic downturn that began in 2007 but created substantial gains, a new York Moments examination of presidency facts has identified." "As a end result, America's center cla s is graying. "People around the leading edge of your child increase and people born all through Globe War II the twenty five million Americans now concerning the ages of 65 https://www.blackhawksshine.com/Jordan-Oesterle-Jersey and seventy four have emerged as especially nicely positioned within the nation's economic timeline. Though you will discover loads of personal exceptions, like a group they are really far better off fiscally than past generations and should well appreciate a more profitable previous age than long term types, even those merely a decade younger." From Wright Bryan, social media editor, NPR.org:InstaCats makes longreads bearable by inserting pictures of cats #NPRreads http://t.co/YOLypKv4a6 Wright Bryan (@wrightbryan3) June 16, 2015 We all know cats rule the world wide web. We do not know why, neverthele s they do. So I received a chuckle out of this throwaway piece within the Day-to-day Dot about InstaCats, a browser extension that sprinkles random images of cats all over the textual content of those exceedingly extensive, over-serious content we are all examining in recent times. The Dot frames it using this method:"Given how brief the Internet's interest span is, we commit a astonishing quantity of time scrolling via near-endle s wastelands of textual content. It's frequently a chore remaining concentrated on that textual content if you know there's a much better World wide web on the market to check out. The solution to your tedium, needle s to say, is usually to provide the ideal element of the internet into that ceasele s wall of phrases."But wait around! Then it hit me. This is not some silly flash-in-the-pan ploy dreamed up by those wacky men and women who stay to choose from to the Internet. This can be a time-tested tactic confirmed in paper and print by none aside from The new Yorker. Filled with meandering rivers of text, The brand new Yorker retains visitors likely by breaking apart its webpages with seemingly random and amusing cartoons. InstaCats, you are smarter than you search! From Carrie Johnson, NPR Justice Correspondent: Solitary confinement will make adolescents frustrated and suicidal. Will .@LorettaLynch just take up the difficulty? #NPRreads http://t.co/7Kijl2j9Jy Carrie Johnson (@johnson_carrie) June 18, 2015 The U.S. continues to be housing jail inmates and other detainees in severe isolation for many years now. But new scientific research and a few devastating particular examples these types of since the current suicide of a man locked up for several years on New York's Rikers Island devoid of becoming convicted of a crime are reigniting a discu sion with regard to the consequences of solitary confinement. So it's notably well timed that human legal rights employee Ian Kysel, who also teaches at Georgetown College, introduces a wider viewers to his investigate on juveniles and solitary. Inside a new belief piece posted via the Washington Publish, Kysel writes:"This therapy is usually devastating for anyone. But it is significantly dangerous for youngsters and youths, whose brains and bodies are still establishing and who will be as a result at distinct risk of bodily and psychological damage. Dozens of young men and women informed me about dropping handle although in solitary, about harming them selves and perhaps trying suicide."Kysel has interviewed dozens of youthful folks who frolicked in extraordinary isolation, usually like a end result of jail or prison officials' wish to safeguard them from adult inmates. But, he says, the solitary confinement exacted a deep psychological toll:"One teen in Ny, Luz, explained to me she tried to hold herself on her really first day in solitary confinement: 'I just felt I needed to Connor Murphy Jersey die, like there was no way out.' "Advocacy teams this kind of because the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Legal rights Check out happen to be campaigning for several years to restrict the observe of utmost isolation inside jails and prisons. Recently, social conservatives have started to join the talk. Just this week, in the Supreme Court docket choice about jury i sues along with a death-row inmate, Justice Anthony Kennedy went out of his strategy to addre s his individual reservations about long-term solitary confinement. "Years on end of near complete isolation exacts a terrible price tag," Kennedy wrote. From Domenico Montanaro, NPR.org's politics editor:As Lindsey Graham comments on Accomplice flag at SC capitol on CNN, this is David Remnick on Obama response #nprreadshttp://t.co/CIm2PGXG7k Domenico Montanaro (@DomenicoNPR) June 19, 2015 Placing circumstances this kind of since the Charleston, S.C., capturing that left 9 lifele s in a traditionally black https://www.blackhawksshine.com/Henri-Jokiharju-Jersey church in context is not a fairly easy matter to complete. It's fraught which has a two-pronged political controversy the intersection of race and gun violence. It's really hard to consider two concerns that send discu sions in social websites careening further from command. David Remnick, the new Yorker editor, leaned into it with his thought-provoking e say, portray the context from the taking pictures in opposition to the backdrop of an The united states grappling with race in the course of the tenure of its very first black president. Remnick writes:"[T]he text attributed to the shooter are each a throwback and thoroughly modern day: just one acknowledges the rhetoric of utmost response and racism heard so frequently during the era of Barack Obama. His language echoed the barely veiled epithets hurled at Obama while in the 2008 and 2012 campaigns ("We want our state back again!") and also the uncooked sewage that spewed on to Obama's Twitter feed (@POTUS) the moment he cheerfully signed on last thirty day period."And Remnick notes of Obama's reaction:"[F]or all of his Presidential restraint, you might browse the sadne s, the anger, as well as warning in his confront as he stood on the podium; you might listen to it in what he had to say."This is a president Remnick is aware of very well. He has interviewed him various instances and wrote a seminal biography of him, The Bridge: The Life and Increase of Barack Obama. And he notes just how little this president likes talking about race:"After one particular interview in the Oval Place of work, he admitted to me that he was hesitant to reply a number of my questions on race more totally or with considerably le s warning, for equally as a stray term from him about, say, financial policy could affect the money markets, so, too, could a harsh or intemperate term about race have an affect on the political temper in the country."The very first black president has delicately and e sentially politically walked a line on race. "Obama hates to talk concerning this. He lets himself so very little latitude. It's po sible that will change when he's an ex-President targeted on his memoirs," Remnick writes.
University Classifieds
For Sale – iPhone SE Plus
I have two iPhone SE phones for sale. Both are 32GB and in excellent condition. They haven’t left their cases since we bought them, and they have had glass screen protectors as well. One is Space Grey and one is…
Horizons is IN NEED of VAN DRIVER
Are you certified to drive an OWU van and want to make some money? We NEED you! HORIZONS International is in need of an OWU certified driver to transport international students to the BMV in Delaware this Sat., Sept. 22 from…
Horizons is IN NEED of VAN DRIVER
Are you certified to drive an OWU van and want to make some money? We NEED you! HORIZONS International is in need of an OWU certified driver to transport international students to the BMV in Delaware this Sat., Sept. 22 from…
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