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Tobin Grendzynski and Leanna Uselton performed together in AU Theatre's 10-Minute Play Festival

Ashland University’s Theatre Department Presented for The Ten-Minute Play Festival

Lauren Gulden, News & Features Editor April 19, 2023

The AU Theatre Department is known for the many plays it puts on each year. The last show for the 2022-2023 season, “The Ten-Minute Play Festival,” occurred on April 14 and 15. The cast and crew is...

The Ashland Symphony Orchestra in concert.

The Ashland Symphony Orchestra presents “ Triumph & Celebration”!

Ashland Symphony Orchestra, Press Release March 28, 2023

The Ashland Symphony Orchestra will present its concert season finale on Saturday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Robert M. & Janet L. Archer Auditorium at Ashland High School. “Triumph & Celebration"...

Peace Scholar Josie Brown (right) and Kelly Sundberg (left) after Social Justice Book Club with Sundberg's novel "Goodbye Sweet Girl"

Ashland Center for Nonviolence and Women of Excellence host a Women’s History Month Book Club

Brynn Meisse, Features Editor March 16, 2023

Ashland Center for Nonviolence and Women of Excellence are hosting a social justice book club on March 28 at 7 p.m. in Bixler room 209. The club was created in March 2022 by ACN intern, peace scholar,...

Coburn Art Gallery is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Juried student exhibition at Coburn currently open until March 24

Brynn Meisse, Features Editor March 15, 2023

The exhibition displays 82 art pieces from 21 students. Visitors can expect to see painting, drawing, illustration, graphic design, sculpture ceramics, digital art, and printmaking. The artwork displayed...

Student Senate members come to support the Celebration of Excellence Ball and Love on a Mission.

Celebration of Excellence Ball Gallery

March 2, 2023

Photos taken by Brynn Meisse from the second annual Celebration of Excellence Ball hosted by the Black Student Alliance and Women of Excellence.

Brielle Nettles, director of the office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Access as well as Special Assistant to the President, celebrates a job well done at the Celebration of Excellence Ball

Student Organization Lead Celebration of Excellence Ball Received Well On Campus

Bryce Shafer, Design Editor March 1, 2023

On Feb. 24, Women of Excellence (WOE) and Black Student Alliance (BSA) hosted the Celebration of Excellence Ball, an event for student organizations under the Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Access umbrella...

Actors Tobin Grendzyndski, Lily Dowler and Mattie Vermilya.

Musical Review: Once Upon a Mattress

Logan Gray, Reporter February 25, 2023

This was, overall, a surprisingly good musical. When I first heard that it was based on a children’s story, I thought it would be boring or unfunny. I could not have been more wrong, though. This...

Former President Hannah Myers and current President Rhiannon Reed pictured together at EFP's open mic night in 2022

Club Write-in: Eagles for Pride

Rhiannon Reed, Reporter February 20, 2023

Eagles for Pride is a club meant to foster a safe and welcoming community for queer people and their supporters on campus. Despite the many trials and tribulations the club has experienced over the...

Poetry Write-In: Uncertainty

R.W. Keating, Poetry Columnist February 17, 2023

Everybody has uncertainty And for us it’s clear to see We love so open, so knowingly But still linger the thoughts of uncertainty We’re each too doubtful to make a move But we’re each to faithful...

Leah Debracy sings Our Love is Here to Stay.

AU choir, chamber singers performing at Winter Choral Concert

Public Relations February 16, 2023

Ashland University’s annual Winter Choral Concert will feature the AU Choir and the AU Chamber Singers and will take place Sunday, Feb. 26, at Jack and Deb Miller Chapel (527 College Ave.). The performance...

Poetry Write-In: History

R.W Keating, Poetry Columnist February 10, 2023

Is it deaths door that feels so peaceful Or is it the want of a great upheaval I need movement and change in my life Not something small or swift like a knife I sit alone with my dreams in hand Hoping...

Schine's Theater is located at 216 Center Street and plans to open in early spring after sitting vacant since 2009.

Early spring latest target for Schines Theater opening

Brynn Meisse, Features Editor February 10, 2023

The movies will return to Downtown Ashland by early spring, four years after the Schine’s Theater renovations began. The theater has postponed its expected opening dates a couple of times due to supply...

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