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Monday March 2, 2015 year: 135 No. 16
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Play examines race issues
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Students skeptical of redevelopment plan
Summit talks about poverty
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OSU reports 47 Big Ten, NCAA violations Coach’s 4-year-old son accidentally texted recruit tim moody Sports editor moody.178@osu.edu
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OSU introduced plans for major redevelopments that would affect 9 acres of land east of the university near North High Street and 15th Avenue.
Area includes businesses like Toos Under High, The O Patio & Pub, Brenen’s Cafe Daniel Bendtsen Arts editor bendtsen.1@osu.edu Campus Partners bought Long’s Bookstore in 2000, nearly a century after it first opened. Since that point, the community-planning corporation has bought other properties while working on a long-term master plan of the area. Details of that master plan were unveiled Friday, and would involve
a redevelopment of more than 9 acres around 15th Avenue and High Street. Campus Partners, along with local property owners, aims to tear down the building that currently houses Brenen’s Cafe, Jimmy John’s and The O Patio & Pub, replacing them with a public square. Campus Partners President Amanda Hoffsis said she envisions a “really beautiful public square that you would find anywhere in Europe.” Her company doesn’t own that property, but Hoffsis said they are “currently working on” it for the future. The plan also aims to construct a parking garage to service the entire area and flank the public square with shops and a “signature building,” currently planned to be a hotel. Campus Partners wants that hotel to become a “district icon” by providing a “terminating vista on axis with the campus spine that
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One autumn night, the Kitchens gathered for a family lunch at Eddie George’s Grille 27, but the occasion wasn’t a purely happy one. Mitzi Kitchen, the mother of the family, was diagnosed with angiosarcoma, a rare form of cancer that affects the inner lining of blood vessels. It spreads quickly because it’s in constant contact with the blood supply, her son Stewart Kitchen said. Stewart Kitchen added that although the diagnosis was initially hard to accept, his mother is responding well approximately three months into treatment. “There’s not a lot of research on prognosis and treatment because it is such a rare thing, but the positive thing is that she’s been responding pretty positively to chemo,” Stewart Kitchen said. Chemotherapy treatments usually last between five and six hours, said Alyssa Kitchen, one of Mitzi’s daughters and a graduate student working at the Office of Human Resources.
In response to hearing his mother’s diagnosis at that family lunch, Stewart Kitchen, a drum major for the Ohio State marching band in 2006 and 2007 and the first OSU drum major instructor, decided to sell some of his old gear on eBay. The role of drum major has been a part of the marching band at OSU since 1878. The drum major accompanies the band during performances, and each drum major uniform is custom-made. “I was really surprised at first because it was a huge part of his life,” said Alyssa Kitchen.“I just think it’s really great that he was willing to do that for Mom.” He put his drum major breastplate and a marching band hat up for auction, and a cheerleader friend of his, Zac Nixon, who graduated from OSU in 2008, contributed a cheerleading sweater to the auction, which ended Feb. 23. “I wanted to do something, not just to help my mother out with her fight, but also to spread awareness,” Stewart Kitchen said. “Angiosarcoma is such a rare cancer. It would be nice to have more research, it would be
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Fatal stabbing off campus raises concerns for some students AMANDA ETCHISON AND MICHAEL HUSON Campus editor and Lantern reporter etchison.4@osu.edu and huson.4
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Some students are concerned about off-campus safety after a homicide was reported near Ohio State’s campus on Sunday morning. Officers responded to a report of a stabbing near Summit Street and Northwood Avenue on Sunday at about 3 a.m., according to a Columbus Police Department media release. They found 21-year-old John Austin Snyder “critically injured” in front of 2142 Summit St., the release stated. Snyder was transported to OSU’s Wexner Medical Center, but he died at approximately 4 a.m. Detectives arrested a suspect, 23-year-old Alexander N. Delap of East Frambes Avenue, and are in the process of executing a search warrant at the suspect’s residence. The investigation is still ongoing, according to the release. This incident is the 12th homicide in Columbus this year. Austin Hartman, a second-year in chemical engineering, can see the intersection of Summit Street and Northwood Avenue from his front porch. He said he was asleep when the incident occurred, but found out about it Sunday morning on Twitter. “It’s freaky. I feel a little uncomfortable about it,” he said. “I know the area is kind of
Stewart Kitchen (left) and mother Mitzi Kitchen pose together inside Ohio Stadium during an OSU game against Cincinnati on Sept. 27.
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Band alum auctions old gear for mom’s medical costs ROBERT SCARPINITO Lantern reporter scarpinito.1@osu.edu
Ohio State self-reported 47 minor Big Ten and NCAA rules violations in 2014, including one as the result of an accidental text sent by a football coach’s 4-year-old son. OSU wide receivers coach Zach Smith’s son picked up his father’s cell phone when a recruit called on May 27, and accidentally sent an automatic text message in return. The university sent a letter of education to the football coaches after the incident in regards to NCAA texting rules and phone security. The NCAA did not review the case as part of its interpretations philosophy, which allows for flexibility when reviewing rule violations. This information is the result of three separate public records requests submitted by The Lantern. The most recent request spanned from Sept. 1 through Jan. 18. The records request showed 19 self-reported NCAA and Big Ten violations in the final four months of the year.
Local band Deadwood Floats draws inspiration from mundane Kat Niu Senior Lantern reporter niu.57@osu.edu In an attempt to shine light on local music, The Lantern’s “Columbus’ Own” is a weekly series that will profile a new Columbus band each week. If a seed grows into a tree, then Drew Williams and Adam Schutz are the seeds and Deadwood Floats is the tree. Stemming from a two-man band, Columbus folk sextet Deadwood Floats members express their emotions through ambiguity and enigma. The six-piece includes founding members Schutz and Williams, as well as Joel Arter, Katie Kramer, Luke Fleeman and Tommy Williams. Their wide choice of instruments ranges from acoustic guitar to accordion and violin to ukulele. Drew Williams said the band’s music is a mixture of nostalgia and melancholy. “Its pretty introspective,” Drew Williams said. “We sing about our experiences — it’s mundane stuff. We are emotional people.”
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Adam Schutz performs in his Columbus band, Deadwood Floats, at Rumba Café on Feb. 21.
Schutz said their songs focus on times and places in life, though sometimes they add a dash of melodrama. “We make our lives sound like they are a lot harder than they are but they are still experiences. It’s on a personal account,” he said. The band’s song “The Colours I Earned,” written by Schutz, expresses challenging events such as roommate bickering and disagreements. “It was pretty mundane, normal roommate arguments that I turned into a song. In my head at the time, it was a more intense than it really was,” Schutz added. Drew Williams’ “Mars Oversea” tells of a long-distance relationship he was involved in. The song was inspired by a phrase in the song “I See the Moon,” written by Meredith Wilson. “There is a weird little saying I heard once: ‘I see the moon and the moon sees me and the moon sees the one that I want to see. So God bless the moon and God bless me.’ It’s about the fact that we can both look at the same
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