ONU Students Find Opportunity

A student reports (anonymously):

Every bad situation can have a positive outcome. After being sent home from campus on Thursday, Jan. 6, my roomates and I spent some time drinking and thinking. Although the drinking part could be looked at as a positive side of the icy situation, there was yet a bigger and better outcome we discovered. In our drunken moments, we decided that since we are business students, lets start up a tree service business. What started as just an idea became reality on Saturday, Jan. 8th. That afternoon, we headed back to icy Ada, Ohio, armed with chain saws. That evening we got our first job offer for $150. The 2 hour job proved profitable so we decided to continue our adventures the next day. On Sunday, Jan. 9th, we collected $850 for cleaning up people's yards. (That's right, we collected a gross profit of $1000 in about 11 hours of work) Our thanks goes out to Dr. Kleine and the rest of the Business college. They have enabled us to always find market opportunities, and how to take advantage of them. The market we targeted was the older, well-off people who did not want to clean up all the tree mess, and had money to pay us to do it. Hats off to Dr. Kleine!

Ah, the value of an ONU education!

News & Information from Ohio Northern University

ONU's News and Information dept just published this synopsis of the ice storm:

Classes resume at Ohio Northern University

Classes resumed at 8 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 11, at Ohio Northern University, following the ice storm of 2005.

The university dismissed students at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 5, and remained closed due to storm damage caused by a combination of freezing rain and later snow. Ice accumulation on the heavily wooded campus caused limbs and branches to sag and break causing hazardous conditions.

Because roads remained open, many students left campus and returned home.

During the height of the storm the university opened its facilities to shelter area residents who had lost power. Older residents were invited to use the facilities of McIntosh Center while families were housed in the Sports Center. Approximately 40 people made use of the facilities that were powered by back up generators provided by ONU graduate R. Scott Bodie of Fostoria, Ohio.

After the vast majority of the students left campus on Jan. 6, ONU provided 3,289 meals to community members, ONU staff, and the students who chose to remain on campus. Nursing staff worked 12-hour shifts to assist residents, students and staff. Student staff kept the McIntosh Center open 24 hours a day. Shower facilities were made available in the King-Horn Center and at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, the university hosted an ecumenical church service that was attended by approximately 200 people.

Ohio Northern President Kendall Baker said, “We are extremely thankful for the extraordinary efforts of our faculty, staff and students, especially the marathon work of our physical plant and food service employees who met every challenge and provided incredible service through out the emergency.”

Today approximately 38 ONU students, fraternity and sorority members, Student Planning Committee members and Residence Life staff who remained in Ada, are volunteering with Village of Ada crews to help with community clean up.

Posted On: 1-11-05

Photos

The university has posted these photos taken of the ice storm (transitory URL may not work for long).

ONU to Resume Classes Tuesday

Subject: FACULTY-L Classes resume Tuesday
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:46:27 -0500
Sender: owner-onu-faculty-l@postoffice.onu.edu


Ohio Northern University will resume regular classes at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 11.

All classes and events will be held as scheduled.

For questions, call (419) 772-2000 or (419) 772-2400.

Email to ONU Community

Text of email--sent at Sunday, January 09, 2005 1:58 PM--to all members of the ONU community:

Ohio Northern University anticipates re-convening classes at 8:00 a.m.
on Tuesday, January 11.

At 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 11, Ohio Northern University will resume normal, full operations. All classes and scheduled events will be held, as normal beginning January 11.

Administrative and staff personnel should report, as per normal, on Monday, January 10.

Students of Ohio Northern University should monitor their University e-mail accounts and the University web-site for the most current messages.

Questions may be addressed by telephoning (419) 772-2000 or (419) 772-2400.

ONU Web Server Now Serving ... again

ONU's web and email servers are serving again. ONU's homepage hasn't been update to reflect the cancellation of Monday's classes.

ONU Classes Remain Cancelled on Monday, January 10

Rich Meininger just called to say that ONU classes scheduled for Monday, January 10, are cancelled. Tuesday classes are iffy.

On a personal note, Rich indicated he still has no electricity at home. Oh, my, Ada continues to peg the high end of the fun-o-meter.