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Overtime overthrow
The OSU men’s soccer team defeated Penn State Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, in its third overtime victory.
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The conditions in Hughes Hall were “scary.” At least that’s how Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee described them. But that was before a recent renovation project to the building, which houses OSU’s School of Music, that included improvements in acoustics, removal of hazardous materials, upgraded lighting and ceiling treatments, installation of new doors for rooms on the fourth floor and Wi-Fi. The Lantern toured the renovations Friday with Gee and School of Music director Richard Blatti. The project was originally given a budget of $724,000 but was bumped up to $2,183,280, which the School of Music committed to funding. Renovations began over the summer, so the project could be completed while many students were away for Summer Quarter. The six-week project was completed on Sept. 16, 2011. The major fix to Hughes Hall was the building’s acoustics. Because the building, which was built in 1948, was not built to house a music school, sound would “leak” out of practice rooms, which made it hard for students to play their own music. The new rooms feature sound insulation, called “box-in-box,” which helps contain the sound of the music to the room from which it originates. Facilities Operations and Development described the acoustics upgrades as fixes on a “short- to mid-term basis,” according to its website. Rooms on the fourth floor received new doors, not only to insulate sound, but because door handles on the old doors would fall off or simply not work, which resulted in students occasionally getting trapped in their rooms. Music students share a story about one student who got trapped in a room without a phone. He tried to escape by climbing out of a window, walking along a ledge on the outside of the building and re-entering through an open window. Blatti said students would have to knock on their doors until someone came to let them out. “Wow,” Gee said. “That’s scary.”
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Comics come to Columbus
The Mid-Ohio Comic Con was held Saturday and Sunday at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.
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OSU’s version of FIFA World Cup tournament comes to the ARC
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Gov. signs order to tame animal owners Erika Dejolsvay-Brooks Lantern reporter dejolsvay-brooks.4@osu.edu After the escape of 56 wild animals in Zanesville last week, Gov. John Kasich made strides toward changing Ohio’s lack of ownership laws. On Friday, Kasich signed an executive order for more regulations on exotic pet auctions and for severe penalties on unlicensed auctions. Kasich called on the help of state agencies such as the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to enforce registration of exotic pets and the Department of Agriculture to use their authority to regulate auction houses and shut down any unlicensed auctions. Kasich also wants law enforcement, public officials and humane societies to work together to ensure that animal welfare and public health laws are upheld. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and the Wilds will work as advisers with law enforcement to help evaluate animals found and try to place them in zoos or accredited sanctuaries. Dale Schmidt, CEO of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and the Wilds, said he wants Ohioans to understand the magnitude of taking on a wild animal as a pet. “The resources it takes are immense. Normally people shouldn’t have them as pets,” Schmidt said. Schmidt said the cost to house wild animals is sometimes too much for even animal sanctuaries to afford.
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Traffic signs warn drivers to stay in their cars because of exotic animals on the loose near Zanesville, Ohio, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. “There are certain things they need that people can simply not provide,” Schmidt said. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium issued a statement commending the quick action from Kasich and vowed to lend its assistance. “The animal care experts at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, in conjunction with their partner institutions in the state of Ohio and around the country, are ready to provide resources and expertise to
support the plan announced by Governor Kasich to protect the exotic animals and citizens of Ohio,” the statement said. The Columbus Zoo had worked with former Gov. Ted Strickland on his executive order, which did not ban ownership of exotic animals but would have required the animals to be registered with the
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OSU President E. Gordon Gee plays the piano in a newly-renovated room in Hughes Hall, which recently received a $2 million upgrade, on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011.
Students cheer and the OSU Athletic Band plays in the 1st half of the OSU 93-65 win against Wisconsin on March 6, 2011, at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Student tickets for the 2011-12 Ohio State basketball season sold out in just 45 minutes Saturday leaving many students who didn’t beat the rush upset and disappointed. According to a press release from OSU’s assistant athletics director for communications, Dan Wallenberg, the allotment of approximately 1,400 student ticket packages went on sale at 10 a.m. and were gone within the hour. With OSU’s recent success on the hardwood, the demand for the student tickets, which included tickets for games against No. 6 Duke and No. 10 Florida, was higher than in recent years and many students who missed out on tickets were upset. “I was just really disappointed because I’m a huge college basketball fan,” said Nick Larbes, a fourth-year in psychology. “Basketball tickets were
definitely the one thing I was looking forward to this year.” For Kaleigh Patrick, a fifth-year in financial planning, not getting basketball tickets brought tears to her eyes. “I had my mom and like 10 other friends on trying to get me tickets and by the time all of them were logged on, the tickets were already sold out,” Patrick said. “I actually cried.” After the tickets sold out Saturday, a small group of students gathered outside the Schottenstein Center with signs protesting the lack of tickets available to the student body. An online petition addressed to the athletic department entitled “The Ohio State University Athletic Department: Increase the number of men’s basketball season tickets for students,” was created on the site www.change.org. By Sunday evening, the petition had more than 1,100 signatures. In response to the demand, the OSU Athletic Department said more tickets will
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