With the new House of Black Culture scheduled to welcome its first residents in spring semester, we look back at the origins of the Butler A. Jones house and the sanctuary it provided then and now.
For his 50th reunion in May, novelist and columnist Richard North Patterson ’68 presented an examination of some of the common themes of division and discord spanning the decades.
A photo essay by Mark Schmitter ’12 of a few of the travel-learning experiences had by OWU students this summer, with visits to Northern Ireland, Paris, England, and Italy.
After spending decades in a Delaware home’s crawl space, World War I pins and rank bars belonging to an OWU family were returned thanks to a curious alumnus.
Guillo Gutierrez ’18 takes a turn down the Clifton rock slide near an observatory in Bristol, England. As described by The Guardian “this natural slide is nothing more than a sloping band of rock polished to shiny slipperiness by decades of dedicated bottoms.” Guillo is cheered on by classmates in the travel-learning course “Space Exploration: Past, Present and Future,” taught by professor of physics and astronomy Robert Harmon, (from left): Zoey Rosenthal ’18, Julia Anne Caple ’20, Haley Talbot-Wendlandt ’18, Dexter Allen ’21, Alec Martin ’19, Gracie Clevenger ’21, Emily Ehrhart ’20, and Sami Bates ’20. The group visited England and Germany in May and toured European Space Agency facilities and other European observatories. (Photo by Reilly Wright ’20)
The Class of 2018 got creative with their mortar boards at OWU’s Commencement this year.