By Leah Thompson
l-thompson.1@onu.edu

While most ONU students and faculty will be battling wind, rain, and
snow in March, professors Terry Maris and Terry Keiser, and up to ten
students, will be staying warm in sunny Havana, Cuba for eleven weeks
during spring quarter.

Maris, professor of economics, and Keiser, chairman of the biology department,
coordinate ONU's Cuba Center. They are currently in the process of
selecting students to study abroad in Cuba this spring.

"This program is not tailored to any particular major; it's eclectic," Maris said.

By Robert Allen
r-allen.4@onu.edu
There has been a recent series of break-ins at Ohio Northern University. Two rooms were entered over Thanksgiving break and a third theft occured over Christmas break.
Both rooms were entered through the window, explains Justin Courtney, Director of Residence Life. Whether the windows were not locked or simply forced open is not clear. In one of the two instances, the resident was still on campus.  In both cases, personal items were stolen.

By Bethany Miller
b-miller.11@onu.edu
Ohio Northern University is taking measures to ensure that the current recession and potential university deficit won't affect students' ability to afford college.
Robert Ruble, vice president for Financial Affairs, said the university is working to keep any budget cuts from affecting students financially, especially those already facing financial difficulty.

By Rachelle Pavelko
r-pavelko@onu.edu
Elizabeth Betts is just one of many on Ohio Northern's campus willing to "StandUp For Kids."
StandUp For Kids is a branch of the national Don't Run Away program, and is currently in its first year in the Lima area. According to www.dontrunaway.org, in every classroom of thirty-five kids, seven of them will run away before they are eighteen. Programs such as Don't Run Away and StandUp For Kids are trying to combat those statistics.

By Kaitlin Durbin
k-durbin@onu.edu
 
 
Walkways and grasslands are now healthier for students with the help of Goose Buster, a system designed to prompt geese to leave campus through a series of projected distressed geese calls.

By Rose Emrich
r-emrich@onu.edu

This year, the Ohio Northern Open Doors will host its third annual “Rubi Affair.”

“Rubi Affair” is a student run drag show that aims to raise awareness
and advance the goals of Open Doors. The student organization seeks to
strengthen the alliance between gay, lesbian, transgendered, and
bisexual individuals and other heterosexual individuals, called
“Allies.”

“We started this event to raise money for the AIDS
Resource Center in Lima” says Michalena Grosshans, the president of the
organization. “ And the money has been used to help start a support
group for AIDS and HIV patients in Lima.  The continued research and
finding [of] the cure for these diseases are something that this group,
and many others, are passionate about.  We’re hoping to be able to
really contribute a good amount this year.”

When asked how
the idea of a drag show came to them, Grosshans said “we were inspired
by the Rubi Girls, a group of drag queens from Dayton who have been
performing together since they were in college.  They do all of their
shows to benefit AIDS research.” 

Greetings colleagues,