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The OSU men’s ice hockey team takes on Michigan in a rare outdoor game at Progressive Field Sunday in Cleveland.
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A day before the New Hampshire Primary, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, speaks to a crowd of business leaders and owners during the Nashua Chamber of Commerce breakfast series in the ballroom of a Radisson Inn in Nashua, N.H., on Jan. 9.
GOP wants options, SC primary crucial Kelsie Ozamiz Lantern reporter ozamiz.4@osu.edu While former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney beat Rep. Ron Paul by about 17 points in the New Hampshire primary, some Republicans continue to search for the “non-Romney” candidate. In Iowa, Rick Santorum gave Romney a run for his money, and in New Hampshire Paul finished close behind. Both candidates, and others, are pushing to challenge Romney for the Republican nomination. Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative Republican activist, said many Republicans are looking for a more traditional option to compete against Romney. “What’s pretty obvious is that the Republican establishment and the media are for (Romney), but
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Jaime Ortega-Simo Lantern reporter ortega-simo.1@osu.edu
Ohio State is involved in an FBI information sharing program called InfraGard that some critics say lacks transparency and raises questions about privacy rights. InfraGard, which began in the FBI’s Cleveland Field Office in 1996, is a private organization that serves as a public-private partnership for sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States. Many civil and privacy rights groups are weary of InfraGard’s transparency policies. Amy Murray, OSU spokeswoman, confirmed in an email that OSU is an Infragard member after she spoke to OSU security network personnel. “OSU is an InfraGard member, and in the past, several of the university’s Office of the Chief
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Information Officer security staff have served on the local InfraGard board,” Murray said in the email. “However, none currently are.” Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said InfraGard is deceptive in how they present themselves. “What they are doing looks illegal. They are presenting themselves as a federal agency program, but they are not,” Coney said.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center is a public interest group that focuses on protecting privacy, the First Amendment and constitutional values. Matthew Rothschild, editor of “The Progressive,” a monthly political magazine, has written about InfraGard’s activities in the past. Rothschild said the activities of InfraGard should raise some questions. “I am very surprised OSU is a member of this
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Messenger agreed with Schlafly that South Carolina could be indicative of a final result. Messenger said he expects a resurgence of Santorum or Texas Gov. Rick Perry. While South Carolina might bring a turn of events, in his victory speech Tuesday night, Romney was presumptuous of his name on the November ticket against President Barack Obama. “The president has run out of ideas; now he’s running out of excuses,” Romney said. Romney asked that voters in South Carolina join New Hampshire “to make 2012 the year (Obama) runs out of time.” Chris Redfern, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, said the results in New Hampshire hurt Romney.
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the grassroots really don’t like to be bossed around neither by the media or by the Republican establishments who think they run things,” Schlafly said. “I think (the) grassroots may rise up and have a different candidate when they can figure out who they want to concentrate on.” Romney now has two primaries won, but Schlafly expects the next primary, in South Carolina, to be telling of who the final candidate is. “(South Carolina) is the biggie,” Schlafly said. Nick Messenger, president of Undergraduate Student Government, said Santorum’s lack of success in New Hampsire was not a surprise to him. “(I didn’t) expect Rick Santorum to do very well (in New Hampshire), because most of his campaign strategy in Iowa hinged on him doing a traditional campaign of stumping,” Messenger said. “He doesn’t play in as well with fiscal conservatives.”
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A fridge at Buckeye Express Convenience Store was full of cases of Four Loko Nov. 17, 2010.
Phusion Projects announced it would be removing the caffeine, taurine and guarana from their formula for the popular Four Loko beverages in November 2010, and just more than a year later the demand for a Four Loko has decreased locally. After a number of incidents that resulted in the hospitalization of numerous college students nationwide due to overconsumption of the high energy and alcohol levels contained in a 23.5 ounce can, the Food and Drug Administration required Four Loko and competitors to take the energy supplements out of the alcoholic beverage. PJ’s, a late-night sandwich shop and beer stop at 15 E. Frambes Ave., was one of the largest suppliers of Four Loko on campus during its popularity peak. Jen Wingate, an employee at PJ’s, said that when the original formula was being sold, they would have to restock the cooler of Four Loko’s about four to five times per night. When the announcement was made to pull the energy from the
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drink, Wingate said PJ’s was at the top of the Four Loko market. “We stocked up on the original formula,” Wingate said. “Our supply held for about 6 months, we were one of the last places near campus to have them.” One student that The Lantern has chosen to keep anonymous, said he built his own supply of the original Four Lokos before they vanished. “I bought as many as I could while they were still available,” the student said. The student still has some of the original formula stashed away in a kitchen cabinet, and explained that a can of “the good stuff” is valuable on campus. He said that one can of Four Loko can turn quite a profit. “I made $12 off of one can before,” the student said. The caffeine-free version of Four Loko hasn’t been able to bring nearly as much business to PJ’s as its energy-packed predecessor. “Once we only had the energy-free version in stock, many customers turned to products such as Joose, which still had caffeine in it,” Wingate said. “That lasted as a substitute until we ran out of those, since Joose is no longer made at all.”
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