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Tuesday January 17, 2012 year: 132 No. 8

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Science of keeping frozen diamond on ice

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PaT BrEnnan Sports editor brennan.164@osu.edu

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Fifth man standing

Sophomore guard Lenzelle Smith Jr. played a key role in the OSU men’s basketball team’s win against Indiana Sunday.

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CLEVELAND — After five months of anticipation, the installation of 26 miles of tubing under the playing surface and 900 tons of coolant, the Frozen Diamond Faceoff, played between Ohio State and Michigan at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, finally arrived Sunday. Once the teams took to the rink, which sat atop the home field of Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians, it was business as usual as far as the CCHA conference rivals were concerned, though the No. 15-ranked Wolverines skated to a 4-1 win against the No. 2-ranked Buckeyes. But preparation for the game, which included constructing the outdoor rink, should hardly be considered business as usual. Ice Rink Events, a company that builds and maintains both permanent and seasonal skating surfaces all over the world, constructed the playing surface for what might have been the most historic event in the history of OSU men’s ice hockey. Kevin Gifts, operations manager for the rink built at Progressive Field, said the process of building a rink begins when his installation specialists and technicians install a system of tubes in a flat, base layer of sand. “There’s about 26 miles of tubing,” Gifts said. “Then, we run glycol through the tubes.” Glycol, known more commonly as automotive antifreeze, is pumped through the tubes at subzero

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CoDy Cousino / Photo editor

osu defenseman Devon Krogh (27) races away from 2 michigan forwards during the 1st period of the Frozen Diamond Faceoff, held at Progressive Field in Cleveland, ohio, on Jan. 15.

Both parties hit the books in campaigns saraH sTEmEn Oller reporter stemen.66@osu.edu

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Convention gets sexy

The Lantern recaps Sexapalooza, an event featuring dancers, sexual education and more from the weekend.

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With Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Columbus Thursday focusing on education, President Barack Obama has indicated that he thinks education reform will be a decisive issue in the upcoming 2012 presidential election. Biden visited Gahanna Lincoln High School with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to discuss the importance of higher education. Biden said the Obama administration has and will continue to focus on doing everything possible to make sure middle class families can send their children to college. “Plato once said ‘education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire,’” Biden said on Thursday. “I promise you, high school students, you’ll be surprised what a spark will burn for your entire lifetime if you get a college degree.” Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential primary candidate and recent winner of the Iowa and New Hampshire caucuses, said he believes in increasing standards for education and quality-based incentives for teachers. During a Republican primary candidate debate in Orlando, Fla., on Sept. 22, Romney voiced his thoughts on education reform. “One, education has to be held at the local and state level, not at the federal level,” Romney said. “We need to get federal government out of education. And secondly, all the talk about we need

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rPaC scales back

After winter break, the RPAC relocated and completely removed some weight scales in its facility.

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Police offer cash reward for robbery tips

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About a month after a robbery in a campus building, Ohio State Police have released a suspect sketch for the Dec. 6 robbery. Following the robbery, University police sent out a Buckeye Alert to all students, parents and affiliates enrolled in the system. At 3:38 p.m., a male with a handgun entered the basement of the campus building located at 33 W. 11th Ave. The suspect then robbed a male victim at

smaller classroom sizes — Look, that’s promoted by the teachers unions to hire more teachers.” Duncan highlighted the programs and initiatives during the event that Obama has put into place during his time in office. “We’ve tried to do a lot and we haven’t done everything perfectly yet,” Duncan said. “We have a lot of work ahead of us, but I’m actually really, really proud of what we have done so far.” Duncan said the Obama administration has “dramatically simplified” the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) form. They have also created “Pay-As-You-Earn,” a program that allows loan repayments to be capped at 10 percent of an employee’s income. “As you go forward, your loan repayments are going to be based on your income,” Duncan said. “So if you have a higher income job, you pay more and if you have a lower income job, like in the public sector as a teacher, you’ll pay less.” Ron Paul, another Republican primary candidate and runner-up in the New Hampshire caucus, said the student loans system has failed. “I think the policy of student loans is a total failure. I mean $1 trillion of debt? And what have they gotten? A poorer education and costs that have skyrocketed because of inflation and they don’t have jobs,” Paul said during a November debate. During the debate on Sept. 22, Romney criticized Obama, but praised Duncan. “I think the Secretary of Education, Arne

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gunpoint, University police Capt. David Rose said. The suspect has not been found. The suspect is described as a black male in his 30s and is 6-feet-1-inch tall with a thin build. He was wearing a black hoodie, baggy pants and shredded Converse shoes, Rose said. He was also wearing a toboggan-style hat and has a gold tooth. According to the police report, $40 in cash was stolen at gunpoint from the victim. Rose said no injuries were reported. The building houses OSU’s Office of Legal Affairs, Office of Student Affairs, Student Housing Legal Clinic and Student Judicial Affairs. Rose said anyone with information regarding the suspect is encouraged to call the OSU police at 614-292-2121, Rose said. University Area Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $500 for any information leading to the arrest. Students can call 247-8477 to provide information to Crime Stoppers. All calls to Crime Stoppers are anonymous. Since November, University police have issued six Timely Warnings, which are different warnings than the Buckeye Alerts, to students, faculty and staff, alerting them of armed robberies in the area. December’s alert was the first Buckeye Alert issued since the emergency alert text messaging system was updated in October. There have been no Timely Warnings sent by University police since the Dec. 14 warning sent regarding the robbery at the campus-area Donatos Pizza.

BriTTany sCHoCK / Asst. photo editor

Vice President Joe Biden speaks to a group on Thursday about college affordability.

BriTTany sCHoCK / Asst. photo editor

secretary of Education arne Duncan speaks to a group on Thursday about the need for higher education.

Day of service honors MLK Jr. ron milEs Lantern reporter miles.139@osu.edu Despite the day off of classes for a national holiday, students ventured out of bed and to the Ohio Union before 8 a.m. Monday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through acts of community service. Put on by the Ohio Union’s ServeCorps, the MLK Day of Service provided a way for students to be involved in the Columbus community to honor King. Katie Dean Williams, a first-year masters student in higher education and student affairs, works as a graduate administrative assistant with ServeCorps. Williams organized the day’s events. Williams and her staff worked with several different companies around Columbus, organizing 48 different sites at which 1,061 students volunteered. These locations included soup kitchens, Columbus Metro Library branches, the YMCA and Big Brothers Big Sisters. ServeCorps arranged for students to be assigned a volunteer location Monday morning at the Archie M. Griffin Ballroom. “It’s great to see so many different groups who want to work with OSU students, that are having their staff open up and work with us on a national holiday,” Williams said. Ohio State students were not the only people involved in service on this holiday. President Barack Obama spoke at a school in Washington D.C., Monday about the importance of service in the community. “There’s nobody who can’t serve, nobody who can’t help somebody else,” Obama said. “At a time when the country has been going through some difficult economic times, for us to be able to come together as a community, people from all different walks of life, and make sure that we’re giving back, that’s ultimately what makes us the strongest, most extraordinary country on Earth.” The early morning at OSU began with a welcome ceremony put on by ServeCorps members. Speakers included President E. Gordon Gee, Larry Williamson, director of the Hale Center and Curtis Austin from the

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