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Monday February 16, 2015 year: 135 No. 12
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Men’s hockey splits weekend
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A taste of Taste of OSU
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Student Safety Service seeks to be a steady force Organization does more than just drive students back and forth ERIC WEITZ Lantern reporter weitz.25@osu.edu Student Safety Service vehicles are often seen shuttling students around campus late at night, but the program does more than chauffeur students from the Union to residence halls on chilly evenings. Student Safety Service recently wrapped
up a year of crime deterrent practices, which introduced a bus security program and an off-campus high-visibility patrol initative. In 2014, Student Safety Service provided escort services to 20,496 people. However, program coordinator Sean Bolender said the program provided a variety of services to students last year. He said Student Safety Service worked 3,014 hours, or more than 125 days, outside of escort services in 2014. It worked at
sporting events, concerts and other university events, including move-in day, Buck-iFrenzy and commencement. Student Safety Service senior manager and recent Ohio State graduate Neal Wilson said the duties of officers changed from event to event based on the particular security needs at the time. “One of the nice things about Student
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Elevator upgrades going up Ohio State to spend $4.8M to renovate as many as 17 elevator systems on campus
ERIC WEITZ / Lantern reporter
In 2014, Student Safety Service provided rides to 20,496 people in vehicles similar to the one above.
Wrestling advances at National Duals PATRICK KALISTA Lantern reporter kalista.4@osu.edu
MARK BATKE / Photo editor
Students use elevators inside Thompson Library on Feb. 11.
ROBERT SCARPINITO Lantern reporter scarpinito.1@osu.edu
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ome campus elevators are set to be fixed up in the coming year. Elevators in several academic and research buildings will be upgraded next year after a $4.8 million project was approved by the Board of Trustees on Jan. 30. The money will affect as many as 17 elevator systems in 11 academic buildings, chosen based on condition, according to trustees meeting minutes. The elevators will be upgraded, modified or replaced entirely based on need. The funding will be provided by state appropriations. “The work will be based on recommendations by professional industry consultants taking condition, usage and estimated costs into consideration,” Dan Hedman, spokesman for Administration and Planning, said in an email. Improvements are set to begin June 16 and run until Jan. 17, 2016, Hedman said. About $4 million will go toward the construction itself, including contingencies in case things don’t go as planned, while $800,000 will cover service fees. continued as Elevator on 2A
Even a move from the Big Ten regular season to the first round of the National Duals couldn’t slow down the Ohio State wrestling team. The Buckeyes (13-3) topped the Edinboro Fighting Scots (13-5), 30-7, on Sunday to move on to the quarterfinals of the National Duals in Iowa next weekend. OSU has now won nine straight matchups. OSU redshirt-senior Logan Stieber, who is ranked No. 1 at 141 pounds, and Edinboro’s redshirt-senior Mitchell Port (ranked second) wrestled to a 6-3 Steiber win. Afterward, Stieber said he feels confident when facing such tough competition. “I felt good. I keep feeling better every weekend, I felt like I was in control the whole time,” Stieber said. “It’s good to wrestle a good opponent like Mitchell, as it will only help me prepare for the big matches to come.” The Buckeyes will look to use the momentum from their winning streak — including senior Ray Gordon’s first win of the season — heading into Saturday’s National Duals finals in Iowa City. “It was a good team performance, especially seeing our heavyweight (Gordon) win a match,” Stieber said. “Now we just have to focus on continuing to improve as well as getting in better shape and keep doing what we’re doing.” Redshirt-junior Johnni DiJulius (133) said the team has what it takes to win in the postseason. “We’re getting in a groove at the right time and that is helping with confidence and momentum,” DiJulius said. Coach Tom Ryan agreed that his team is hitting its stride at the right time and added that OSU could continue to get even better after facing Edinboro. “That was a tough team that brought some big matches, and overall, we looked good,” Ryan said. “We’re looking better as the season progresses.” The three freshmen in the lineup continued their dominance and all gained the team bonus points for their efforts.
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Watch out: Smartwatches stir discussion around classroom technology ALAINA BARTEL Lantern reporter bartel.21@osu.edu As Will Sloan sits in class, he stares down at his watch and smiles. Other students file into the room, maybe wondering what amusement could possibly be on a watch, but soon seem to shrug it off as Sloan pulls out his phone. His observers are probably unaware of the Pebble Smartwatch on his wrist. Wearable technology is increasingly used in an educational setting, and a few universities have taken action to prevent academic misconduct with these devices. City University London and the University of London in the United Kingdom have banned all watches during exams in fear of students cheating with a smartwatch, but the topic of wearable technology is not a new one at Ohio State. “Since the introduction of the calculator watch in the 1970s, wearable technology has been a part of the conversation around technology in education. As the technology we have access to becomes smaller and more ubiquitous, conversations about academic misconduct become increasingly complex, but the bottom line is that
Courtesy of Will Sloan
Wearable technology is becoming increasingly popular in classroom settings, with a few universities taking action to prevent academic midconduct by its use.
cheating, in all forms, is not allowed, regardless of whether it involves technology or not,” Liv Gjestvang, associate vice president of learning technology, said in an email. Sloan, a second-year in computer science and engineering, said Pebble Smartwatches are connected to the user’s smartphone, and the users get notifications such as previews of text messages on their watches. “The easiest way to think of the smartwatch is an extension of the phone,” Sloan said. “When we had flip phones, and on the outside there would just be a really basic screen, all you could see is just a little bit of information, but it’s enough to see kind of what was going on. And when you opened it up, all of the information was on the inside. It is kind of like that, except it’s right on my wrist.” Sloan said he has never been confronted about removing his watch during an exam. However, he said he would be mildly annoyed if he was asked to do so, but he understands why professors have concerns about academic misconduct. The use of technology in an academic setting was the subject of a study published last year. Conducted by researchers at Princeton University and the University of California, Los Angeles, the study found that handwritten
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