Eric Cordell, junior business administration major, has been elected as student body president for the 2008-2009 academic school year. This is Cordell's second year running for OU student body president. During the 07-08 school year, Cordell ran against Teranee' Hutch and Shannon Fisher for the student body president position but lost to Hutch.
Paola, Kansas's own, Tom Reynolds, held a poetry reading at Ottawa University on Wednesday, April 23. Students attended to hear Reynolds, a Johnson County Community College assistant professor of English, read from his book of poems titled "Ghost Town Almanac.
Senior Amy Turner, art major, created multi-media, clay, photography, acrylic and mixed media art to represent her experience of cancer during her time at Ottawa University entitled Time Capsules and is on display at the Mammal Artc Center for ACE credit. In her Confessions multi-media acrylic piece, Turner writes "I never told people that I was going to radiation.
For some student-athletes, the end of a playing career doesn't always mean leaving the team. For three former players at Ottawa University, that chance to stay with their team was kept alive through coaching. Anni Quarando finished her playing career in 2006 for the Lady Brave's soccer team where she was a conference champion and team Co-MVP.
In 1958, when Margaret Kornfield walked out of Wilson Field House as a graduate of Ottawa University, she had little idea of the path that life would take her down. "I had no clue this would be the story but I really did believe my life would be interesting," Kornfield said.
Walt Ohnesorge-Fick grew up in what he calls "the tenacious chaos" of Lawrence, and took a few credits elsewhere before becoming one of the most visible fixtures here at the college. Walt's art is a popular topic of conversation around campus, though that was far from the original plan.
Study after study reveals that more Americans know more about pop culture than they do about their government, their history and (especially) the environment. A survey by the McCormick Tribune Museum in Chicago revealed that only one in four Americans could name more than one of the five fundamental freedoms granted to them by the 1st Amendment, while almost double that could name more than one member of Homer Simpson's fictional household.