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5 keys vs. Rutgers

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Man caught living in Baker Systems

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Student who ran on field fined $100 Chelsea Spears Multimedia editor Spears.116@osu.edu

michele theodore Managing editor for content theodore.13@osu.edu University Police Chief Paul Denton said a man was living in an Ohio State building, and he also said there have been multiple unrelated criminal trespassing arrests in the past few months. A 28-year-old man named Demarco Armstead wasn’t supposed to be in any OSU buildings after previous warnings, but he was arrested on campus on Oct. 4 for criminal trespassing after he was caught on camera entering Baker Systems Engineering. Michael Zazon, the IT manager for the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering — located in Baker — said he was involved in setting up the camera. He decided to set up the hidden camera after students and faculty working in the suite of offices where Armstead was later found living said they would hear noises and see things rearranged. “The camera I installed would record any motion detected and save to a secure server on campus that only a select few people on our staff could review,” he said in an email. Zazon added that the camera only showed the man entering and exiting the room and didn’t show any activity in the office he was occupying. He decided to check the footage on a Sunday morning, Oct. 4 — when the building is typically locked — and found that the man had been recorded only

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OSU senior defensive lineman Michael Bennett (63), tackles Maryland redshirt-senior quarterback C.J. Brown (16) during an Oct. 4 game at Byrd Stadium in College Park, Md. OSU won, 52-24.

OSU takes on Rutgers for 1st time james grega, jr. Asst. sports editor grega.9@osu.edu While the colors won’t exactly clash in Ohio Stadium on Saturday afternoon, the Ohio State Buckeyes and Rutgers Scarlet Knights are set for battle in their first-ever meeting on the gridiron. The Scarlet Knights (5-1, 1-1) enter Columbus coming off a bye week of their own after defeating Michigan on Oct. 4 in just their second-ever Big Ten game. Now, Rutgers enters Columbus to play its first-ever Big Ten road game, and it comes during homecoming week at OSU. The Scarlet Knights are led offensively by senior quarterback Gary Nova, who is coming off a game in which he threw for 404 yards and three scores in a win over the Wolverines, a performance OSU coach Urban Meyer said he noticed. “The quarterback (Nova) had a hell of a day against our rival,” Meyer said. “We got our hands full. We feel that (they) have very quality receivers. We are going to be very

aggressive and we got to get this quarterback down ‘cause he is playing the best he has ever played right now.” OSU redshirt-freshman cornerback Eli Apple said the Buckeye defense has been preparing to limit the big play. The Buckeye defense allowed three scoring plays of 60 yards or more the last time they played at home, against Cincinnati. “They’ve got great receivers who can take the top off of defenses so one thing is just making sure to eliminate the deep balls and make sure we keep Gary Nova in the pocket and make sure he doesn’t scramble and beat us like that,” Apple said. While Nova may be playing the best he has ever played, he has struggled with turnovers in the past. Nova entered the 2014 season with 39 career interceptions and has added seven more this season, five of which came in Rutgers’ first Big Ten game against Penn State on Sept. 13. Apple said the Buckeyes are going to try and exploit Nova’s tendency to turn the ball over. “That is something that we

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Rutgers’ senior quarterback Gary Nova drops back to pass during a game against South Florida on Nov. 5, 2011. definitely watch, and feel like we can take advantage of,” Apple said. “Sometimes he does get a little bit rattled and he feels like he just has to throw it up there. That is something we are going to try and capitalize on.” Senior defensive lineman Michael Bennett said it is his unit’s job to fluster the quarterback, something the defense focuses on each week.

About 5 seconds. That’s roughly the time Ohio State student Anthony Wunder spent sprinting down the Ohio Stadium field in the middle of an OSU football game, but that’s all the time it took to land him a court-ordered fine and months of required counseling. Wunder, a fourth-year in mechanical engineering, appeared in Franklin County Municipal Court on Thursday morning on one count of criminal trespassing, a fourthdegree misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of 30 days in jail and a $250 fine. He pleaded guilty to the charge. “He’s taken responsibility for his actions,” said Mark C. Collins, the attorney representing Wunder. “He made the poor choice to go out there … He put himself in that situation.” Collins said the severity of the punishment is what he’d expect for a case like Wunder’s. Because of his age and lack of criminal history, Franklin County Jail 21-year-old Wunder Anthony Wunder did not receive the maximum sentence punishable by law. He won’t serve any time in jail, but he will be required to pay $100 and attend three to nine months of counseling. Although Collins denied any leniency in Wunder’s punishment, some students expressed mixed feelings about whether the punishment was harsh enough. Stephanie Keller, a third-year in industrial and systems engineering, said a lot of people were expecting Wunder to get a harsher punishment for his actions. “I was surprised at how — not how easy he got off, but how small the punishment was because at the game, people were talking about how he might be expelled,” Keller said. “I also understand that we’re college kids, so we make stupid mistakes all the time.” But it’s a mistake Ricky La Ve’, a fifthyear in psychology, said future offenders might intentionally make now because of what seems to be a lack of punishment for Wunder. “I don’t think it’s going to set a precedent for people not to do it,” La Ve’ said. “I mean, $100 and counseling … I don’t think

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Homecoming has a long history of drama Leisa Decarlo Lantern reporter decarlo.25@osu.edu For 1954 Ohio State graduate and former Homecoming queen nominee Ruh Manhart, Homecoming was a bit of a stinker after initially losing the 1953 title to a skunk. That skunk, named “Miss Enchanted,” beat Manhart when sorority-sponsored candidates entered the skunk into the race after suspecting a chance that they might lose, according to an article Manhart wrote on an OSU website called “Buckeye Voices.” “The strategy, they thought, would assure a Greek queen instead of one from the dorms,” Manhart wrote in the article. Miss Enchanted was later disqualified and Manhart, who was also in a sorority at the time, lost some of her votes after the Ohio State Board of Trustees was unhappy that the black and white creature had won. In the end, neither the skunk nor Manhart received the crown — it instead went to a woman from the dorms. “As it turned out, the queen was a truly lovely representative of the student body,” Manhart said. “And for years afterward, whenever I started to think I was really important, I would remember that I had once been put in my place by a skunk.” Stories like Manhart’s are part of more than 100 years of OSU Homecoming history. “A lot of the traditions that have survived until today are pretty long standing, which I think is really interesting,” said OSU research services archivist Lindy Smith. “It’s nice in that it connects present-day Ohio State with past Ohio State.” The Homecoming tradition originally began with professor and later, sixth OSU president, George W. Rightmire with the creation of “Ohio

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Ducks swim in Mirror Lake on Oct. 15

Permanent Mirror Lake wildlife ducks out Dylan weaver Lantern reporter weaver.699@osu.edu The Lantern archives

Maudine Ormsby, a Holstein cow that gained fame by winning the title of OSU Homecoming Queen in fall 1926, is featured in a May 9, 1952 edition of The Lantern. State Day,” for which he envisioned OSU graduates returning the evening before a football game each fall for a “spread and some toasts,” according to an OSU libraries archives website. “This idea of coming back to your alma mater, especially in conjunction with a football game during the fall, dates back a little earlier. So it has earlier roots, but we consider 1912 the first Homecoming,” Smith said. According to the OSU libraries archives website, Homecoming was initially held around the final football game of the season, but because of weather complications, Homecoming was changed

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After Mirror Lake was drained last November for a stainability study, some Ohio State students were left wondering what would become of the beloved ducks of Mirror Lake. Those ducks — which were initially relocated to a farm ­— will not be returning, a wildlife expert said. That’s because most of the ducks, which were relocated using a specialized wildlife management firm hired by the university, were bred for food and genetically too heavy to fly elsewhere, said Dirk

Shearer, president of the Wildlife Control Inc. “Those were domestic ducks and offspring of domestic ducks that people had dumped there,” he said. Shearer said that is how the Pekin ducks — also know as the common white farm duck — end up at ponds and lakes at parks around Ohio. The Wildlife Control Inc. was tasked with gathering and relocating the domestic ducks at Mirror Lake to a farm in Delaware County, because the ducks couldn’t relocate on their own. The owner of the farm asked to keep his farm off the record for fear that students might come searching for the ducks. “If it had just been a bunch of wild ducks, they could have

just drained the pond and the ducks would have flown over to the Olentangy River without a second thought,” Shearer said. “They can’t go find a new habitat — that’s why it was imperative that those ducks were actually relocated to a new home.” Because they can’t fly very far, Shearer said that capturing and removing the ducks is as simple as setting up a large pin and herding the ducks out of the water and inside. “It is simple, quick and humane,” he said. “The ducks were at their new home in no time.” Shearer promises that all

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