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Ohio State readies a tougher application process for potential employees LARRY BAUMAN Lantern reporter bauman.7@osu.edu
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The shooting on March 9, 2010, took place in room 107 of the Maintenance Building located at 2000 Tuttle Park Pl. The shooter, Nathaniel Brown, entered through a door at the loading dock and shot two of his coworkers before killing himself. The victim, Larry Wallington, passed away later that morning. The survivor, Henry Butler, was operations shift manager at the time of the shooting. He is currently taking a leave of absence from the university. W Woodruff Avenue
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Change is coming to the Ohio State hiring process a year after a disgruntled custodial employee opened ÿre in the Maintenance Building, but much has stayed the same. On March 9, 2010, Nathaniel Brown brought two handguns to work and opened ÿre on two of his supervisors, Larry Wallington and Henry Butler. Wallington was killed and Butler suffered injuries. Brown then committed suicide. The Lantern reported on Sept. 21 that OSU has programs to investigate and remove employees who could be violent, but Mary Lynn Readey, associate vice president for Facilities Operations and Development said those mechanisms “simply did not get triggered.” A background check never turned up that Brown had spent time in prison for receiving stolen property. The Department of Human Resources’ former vice president Larry Lewellen said a new background check policy is expected to be implemented effective April 1 of this
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Go fetch Joe Wachtel, a third-year graduate student in history, tosses a ball for his dog, Jondalar, to retrieve on the Oval on Monday.
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OSU athletes prove blood is thicker than pool water DANNY HICKS Lantern reporter hicks.361@osu.edu
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Ohio State synchronized swimmer Meghan Kinney didn’t think it was serious when she experienced pain in her knee. Doctors told her otherwise. “I had been training on national team in California for six months and I noticed this pain in my knee,” Kinney said. “I was expecting to hear maybe I needed surgery … instead they sat me down and told me they found a tumor.” Osteosarcoma, or cancer of the bone, was causing the knee pain that Kinney had believed to be nothing more than a tear in her meniscus. “I felt like my life was in jeopardy,” Kinney said. Kinney was diagnosed Oct. 5 and left the synchronized swimming team to recover from her chemotherapy treatments and the surgery to remove the tumor in her knee. “It was complete shock. It was one of those moments they always say, ‘You never thought this could happen to you,’ it was exactly like that,” Kinney said. “I just felt right away nothing else mattered.” Doctors removed the tumor from her knee, and followed up with full body scans to make sure there were no other tumors. They did not ÿnd any. After the removal, Kinney has no cancer in her body, but is going through extensive chemotherapy to make sure the cancer never comes back. “The only cancerous tumor they found was in my knee,” Kinney said. “I am getting eight more months of chemo to prevent anything in the future, because if it came about in the ÿrst place it could come back in a while.” When word got around to other OSU athletes, the rowing team took charge to help raise money
The man who appears in Lady Gaga’s ‘Born this Way’ music video said he spent $16,000 on tattoos.
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CORY SHAFFER Lantern reporter shaffer.294@osu.edu Nearly three months after Ohio State revealed a massive security breach, students’ e-mail inboxes were targeted with a phishing attack. The e-mail, sent Sunday, had the subject heading “Urgent Security Update” and tried to lure students to enter their username and password by following a link to “re-login and resolve the issue.” The e-mail claimed it was from 8help@osu.edu, the e-mail address of OSU’s Ofÿce of Information Technology. Cathy Bindewald, director of communications in the Ofÿce of the Chief Information Ofÿcer, said this is clearly a phishing attack. “We will never ever ask anyone for their password,” she said. “If any e-mail is asking for a password, you’ll know it’s a phishing attempt.” According to buckeyesecure.osu.edu, a website that the ofÿce of the CIO manages to promote safe computing, phishing is an attempt to “steal conÿdential information by trolling for unsuspecting
victims through e-mails and sending them to fake websites, where they are tricked into providing personal information.” The CIO’s ofÿce has also set up an e-mail account, report-phish@osu.edu, for students to forward suspicious e-mails to be investigated, Bindewald said. If the e-mail is found to be a phishing attempt, the author of the e-mail is barred access to OSU’s webmail system. Bindewald said spammers are able to fake the return address on e-mails, which would explain why OIT’s e-mail was listed as the return address. “They’re very creative,” she said. “But if you just stop and look at it, there are a lot of clues in the messages to show that they are illegitimate.” Those clues include misspellings, the use of odd English phrases and links to other websites asking for a password. Jon Giacalone, who received the phishing e-mail, said the link in the e-mail was a “dead giveaway.” “They warn you like a million times never to respond,” said Giacalone, a third-year in evolution, ecology and organismal biology. “So I just deleted it.” If a student fails to recognize the e-mail as a scam and enters his or her personal information,
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Bindewald said action should be taken promptly. “In order to protect yourself, you should immediately change your password and send the message to report-phish,” she said, adding that OIT would help the student through that process. Bindewald did not know how many students had received this e-mail. Bindewald said this attempt has no connection to the security breach OSU announced in December, in which sensitive information of nearly 760,000 current and former students, including Social Security numbers and dates of birth, was stolen. “Those are two completely unrelated things,” Bindewald said. “(A spammer) getting your username or password is not likely to lead to your identity being stolen.” The Lantern has pending open records requests that were submitted Jan. 27 for more information concerning the security breach announced in December. Because of its size, OSU is a regular target of phishing attempts, Bindewald said. “I would just say it’s a pretty regular occurrence,”
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