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Monday January 23, 2012 year: 132 No. 11
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The Ohio State wrestling team beat Iowa Friday night, 21-9, for the first time since 1966.
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KriSTen MiTchell Lantern reporter mitchell.935@osu.edu Richard Ehrbar III is anything but a typical undergraduate student at Ohio State. He is a 29-year-old student, and when he isn’t in class, he’s on the campaign trail, preparing for his U.S. Congress run. The Libertarian candidate and third-year in strategic communication has never held a government position before, but has considered getting into politics for a while. “I decided officially that I was going to run back in July. It was something I’d thought about and strongly considered for the past couple of years. I decided that the time was now,” Ehrbar said. Ehrbar is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for Ohio’s newly formed 3rd District, which encompasses OSU’s Columbus campus, Columbus State Community College, Franklin University and Capital University, as well as Clintonville, the East Side, Worthington and part of the Short North. Ehrbar submitted petitions to the Franklin County Board of Elections on Dec. 30, 2011, and was certified to run as the 2012 Libertarian Party candidate about a week later. There is no incumbent seat holder in the district and the field has yet to be narrowed down to a single candidate in the Republican and Democratic parties. One of Ehrbar’s opponents is Joyce Beatty, senior vice president for outreach and engagement at OSU, who recently said she is stepping down from her position to pursue the 3rd District seat. Mayor Michael Coleman, a Democrat, has
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richard ehrbar, a 3rd-year in strategic communication, is running for congress for the libertarian Party. already endorsed Beatty’s campaign. Coleman said Beatty is a “visionary leader at every stage of her career.” Ehrbar, from Huron, Ohio, graduated high school in 2001 and worked in the food industry to save enough money to continue his education at Bowling Green State University in 2006.
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“I grew up in a lower-middle class family. At the time there really wasn’t much money to go around to pay for college, so after I got done with high school, I went to work,” Ehrbar said. He described his path to OSU as a “blue collar, no collar kind of journey.” Ehrbar transferred to OSU in March 2010. “I always wanted to be a Buckeye,” he said. Ehrbar’s childhood friend, Ryan Terry, said Ehrbar hadn’t shown an interest in politics when he was younger but “had always been interested in what’s going on in the world.” While Ehrbar took this quarter off to focus on his campaign, he plans to continue classes during the coming Spring Quarter and Fall Semester. “I want to be visible on campus during the home stretch,” Ehrbar said. If Ehrbar wins the election, he plans to take more time off school. “I would want to focus, of course, on my responsibilities, maybe an online class. I’d be so focused on going back and forth between Washington and Columbus, rallying, organizing, facilitating, I don’t think I would have much time to be in the classroom,” he said. Should he be elected, after his term or subsequent terms end, Ehrbar said he plans to return to OSU to finish his bachelor’s degree and pursue a master’s degree. Robert Bridges, the political director for the Libertarian Party of Ohio, doesn’t work directly with Ehrbar and his campaign, but said he is excited to work with him in the coming months.
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Joseph Vincent Paterno, the former Penn State football coach and all-time wins leader of Division I football, died Sunday at the age of 85. Paterno died at the Mount Nittany Medical Center near University Park, Pa., surrounded by loved ones, according to the PSU athletics website. Paterno guided the Nittany Lions to two national championships and 409 wins before he was removed as coach in the wake of allegations that former PSU defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky molested multiple children. Paterno was diagnosed with lung cancer in November 2011, and though doctors were optimistic that he would make a full recovery, the former Nittany Lions coach re-entered the hospital on Jan. 13. He would never again leave the hospital alive. The Paterno family confirmed the coach’s death in a Sunday release, which said: “It is with great sadness that we announce that Joe Paterno passed away earlier (Sunday). His loss leaves a void in our lives
that will never be filled. He died as he lived. He fought hard until the end, stayed positive, thought only of others and constantly reminded everyone of how blessed his life had been. His ambitions were far-reaching, but he never believed he had to leave this Happy Valley to achieve them. He was a man devoted to his family, his university, his players and his community.” Paterno won his final game — a 10-7 victory against Illinois — on Oct. 29. That victory vaulted Paterno past Grambling State coach Eddie Robinson for the lead for most wins by a majorcollege football coach. Paterno’s final appearance in a bowl game came against new Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer in the 2011 Outback Bowl. Meyer’s Florida Gators defeated Paterno’s Nittany Lions, 37-24. In an exclusive interview with The Lantern, Meyer said he took time to appreciate the matchup against Paterno during their encounter in the bowl game. “It was just epic,” Meyer said. “I just caught myself during the game looking across the field thinking, ‘You know, this is Joe Paterno.’” Meyer also said Paterno’s
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Internet hacking savants under the name “Anonynous (Anon)” disabled multiple government and corporate websites including the Department of Justice, the FBI, Universal Music and more Thursday in retaliation to the FBI shutting down MegaUpload. com, a file sharing website accused of hosting pirated materials. “We Anonymous are launching our largest attack ever on government and music industry sites. Lulz,” Anonymous said in an online statement. “The FBI didn’t think they would get away with this did they? They should have expected us.” The Department of Justice filed a 72-page indictment against MegaUpload and it was taken down amidst the media-storm surrounding SOPA, a bill proposed that would allow the government to block access to sites of its choosing. The bill was not in effect Thursday but MegaUpload was still taken down by the Department of Justice and the FBI, stating the site and its owners had been “running an international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of numerous types of
copyrighted works … generating more than $175 million in criminal proceeds and causing more than half a billion dollars in harm to copyright owners.” Anon’s twitter feed, @YourAnonNews, was ablaze Friday when it was announced that both SOPA and PIPA bills have been pulled for revision, saying, “THIS IS VICTORY! SOPA is DEAD!” The congress members sponsoring the bill have not publicly listed Anon’s actions as a reason for reconsideration. Along with the list of sites Anon attacked, they also list information about Motion Picture Association of America CEO and former Sen. Christopher Dodd, Jr. (D-Conn.), his family, addresses and personal contact information. The MPAA defines what material can be considered pirated, and its site was one of those attacked in the retaliation. Anon has claimed responsibility for a multitude of digital retaliations and campaigns including attacks on PayPal and the Church of Scientology, claiming that acts of censorship had occurred and thus warranted their brand of punishment some media outlets refer to as “hacktivism.” Anon has been said to use a hacking method known as a denial-of-service attack, which in some cases involves making a site unusable by overwhelming its server with impossible requests.
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