Among Ono’s other attention-getting moves have been shaving his head for charity after the basketball team won 10 straight games and dressing up on campus as Santa Claus. But his ebullience dissolved during his formal investiture as president, tearing up as his Japanese immigrant parents watched.
Cincinnati’s first Asian-American president has spoken to several Asian groups locally and nationally.
“It makes you think twice about everything you do, because people are looking at you as a role model,” he said.
He’s also aware that “as a president of a state university you are always sort of under a microscope,” underscored this year when Ohio State University president Gordon Gee retired after criticism for remarks jabbing Catholics and rival colleges.
So, Ono said: “Before I push ‘send,’ I try to wait a little bit and then look at it again.”
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