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Center-Sponsored First Mock Trial Team Receives “Spirit Award” Honorable Mention

Center-Sponsored First Mock Trial Team Receives “Spirit Award” Honorable Mention

On Friday, February 19, 2016, nine Olivet Nazarene University students traveled to Joliet, IL to participate in a two-day regional mock trial competition of the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA). Olivet’s mock trial team – known as the ONU Trial Tigers – was comprised, mainly, of History and Political Science majors and Legal Studies minors, some of whom are also members of the Law...

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Center Staff & Friends Meet Colonel Oliver North at Sanctity of Human Life Event

Center Staff & Friends Meet Colonel Oliver North at Sanctity of Human Life Event

On Thursday, March 3, 2016, members of the faculty and staff of Olivet Nazarene University and The Center for Law and Culture, traveled to Merrillville, Indiana, to attend a dinner sponsored by the Northwest Indiana Women’s Center. The featured speaker for the event was Colonel Oliver North, a combat-decorated Marine in the Vietnam War, former counterterrorism coordinator on the National...

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Students Represent Center-Olivet Partnership in Washington, D.C.

Students Represent Center-Olivet Partnership in Washington, D.C.

As part of Olivet’s Legal Studies program, students are selected each January to participate in a week-long Federal Seminar study trip to Washington, D.C.  The seminar occurs in conjunction with the National Association of Evangelicals’ (NAE) Student Leadership Conference, which attracts students from several evangelical colleges and universities. During the conference, students attend...

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Center Co-Sponsors Visit from Dr. Ben Carson

Center Co-Sponsors Visit from Dr. Ben Carson

The Center, along with Freedom’s Journal Institute, was delighted to co-sponsor U.S. presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson as the featured speaker at Olivet Nazarene University’s chapel service on October 1. Carson told a capacity crowd at Olivet’s Centennial Chapel that the United States was “a place of dreams” for him as he overcame poverty, pursued higher education, and rose to the...

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Center Celebrates Constitutional Heritage & Introduces New Initiatives

Center Celebrates Constitutional Heritage & Introduces New Initiatives

American founder and legal scholar, James Wilson, once wrote that “Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love unless they first become the objects of our knowledge.” Similarly, famous American founder, Thomas Jefferson, taught that “An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic.” In that spirit, the Center for Law and Culture...

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