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Sophomore defensive lineman Joey Bosa (right) hugs senior defensive lineman Michael Bennett following a game against Penn State on Oct. 25 in State College, Pa. OSU won in double overtime, 31-24.
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Ohio State outlasts Penn State in double overtime, 31-24 TIM MOODY Sports editor moody.178@osu.edu In recent weeks, one thing was for sure when it came to Ohio State football: the offense was on a historic streak. But after posting 50 or more points in four straight games to set a new school record, the No. 13 Buckeyes needed a pair of overtimes and a defensive stand to escape State College, Pa., with a win early Sunday morning after a Saturday night kickoff. Despite the OSU offense posting just 293 total yards in the 31-24 win against Penn State, sophomore defensive lineman Joey Bosa — who sacked Nittany Lion sophomore quarterback Christian Hackenberg on the game’s final play — said the Buckeyes now have a better idea of who they are and what they have the ability to do. “I think we learned that we are a real team,” Bosa said after the game. “And when adversity strikes, we can come together and win a big game in a crazy environment.” Now the “real team” he spoke of has a week to try and right the wrongs from its win against the Nittany Lions. And while those rights typically outweigh the
wrongs when a team comes out on top, Buckeye coach Urban Meyer said there are still positions of concern that must be addressed. “Credit to our opponent,” Meyer said after the game. “They played their tails off. They outplayed us up front, I think. I was a little upset with the way we played up front and we’ve got to get that fixed.” The Buckeyes’ next chance to see if they were able to fix some of those mistakes is set to come Saturday against Illinois back home at Ohio Stadium. Beyond simply improving the on-field product, the team might want to use the week to catch up on rest after working overtime against the Nittany Lions. Following the game — which began just after 8 p.m. and finished well after midnight — Bosa said he was so exhausted that he didn’t immediately realize what he had done on the final play. “I was so tired, I didn’t even know it was a sack until everybody started yelling,” he said. “I looked over and (Hackenberg) had the ball and (junior defensive lineman Adolphus Washington) came to hug me and I just fell down and everybody jumped on top of me. “Oh man, I’m just so, so exhausted.” But no matter how many snaps they had played or how tired each individual player was, the Buckeyes still found a way
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to come out on top after the Nittany Lions tied the game at 17 with just nine seconds remaining in regulation. Redshirt-freshman linebacker Darron Lee said the team’s ability to pull through in the extra periods came from the knowledge that they simply had to stand strong as a group. “They had all the momentum because they drove on us,” Lee said after the game. “We just knew we had to stick together, bond together and just finish the game.” As his team got ready to stand up to the Penn State challenge in overtime, Meyer said he knew what side of the field the Nittany Lions would choose. During the first
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Say cheese: Tom + Chee coming to High Street in November LOGAN HICKMAN Campus editor hickman.201@osu.edu Students looking to stretch their stomachs, but not necessarily their wallets, might get the chance, as High Street is set to get a new grilled cheese and tomato soup shop in the wake of two restaurants closing. Cincinnati-based Tom + Chee is slated to open its doors Nov. 14 at 1980 A. N. High Street, and it hopes to bring students tasty, affordable and natural comfort food, an owner said. ”Grilled cheese caters well to the student population and we’ve got healthy choices,” said Ron Freeman, owner of the upcoming Tom + Chee campus location. Freeman — who also owns the two other Central Ohio Tom + Chee locations in Pickerington and Hilliard — said the shop is set to serve sandwiches that have hand-crafted meats, cheeses sliced in-house and soups that don’t contain sugar, but are sweetened naturally. “The founders were very, very adamant about keeping it all very, very natural,” he said. Those founders — Corey Ward and Trew Quackenbush — debuted the restaurant in 2009, before pitching their business idea on ABC’s entrepreneurship competition show, “Shark Tank.” Since then, the chain has
opened more than 150 franchise locations in 20 states. The Ohio State location is set to serve items such as the Tom+Chee, which consists of tomatoes, garlic seasoning, cheddar and mozzarella cheeses on sourdough bread. It’s set to cost $4.95. The most expensive grilled cheese on the menu — the Armagoetta — features goetta cheese, cherry peppers, fried onions, sweet hot mustard and pepper jack cheese, served on sourdough and rye breads and is set to cost $7.95. The restaurant also plans to serve up grilled cheese doughnuts — such as the Blueberry Blue, consisting of blueberry compote, blue cheese and lemon mascarpone on a glazed doughnut, which will cost patrons $5.45. Tom + Chee is also set to have gluten free, vegan and vegetarian options available, in addition to salads and soups. Those with a heftier appetite are encouraged to partake in the “Baker’s Dozen Challenge,” Freeman said, which consists of eating 13 grilled cheese doughnuts in 10 minutes with one beverage and no bathroom break. “It’s tough, I’ve done it. I got to seven,” Freeman said. So far, only two people were able to conquer the challenge in Columbus, he said.
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Ron Freeman, owner of Tom + Chee, poses in the new location located at 1980 A. N. High St. on Oct. 24. The restaurant is set to open Nov. 14. Winners get a T-shirt, a Facebook shoutout and their meal paid for, he added. Guests might remember the upcoming Tom + Chee location as the former Pera Fresh Istanbul Food, which Freeman said he purchased Sept. 1. ”We had been watching it (the Pera location) for a while and we managed to get things where we wanted them pricewise and we came to an agreement with the former owner and purchased it, and away we go,” Freeman said. The owner of Pera, Faith Gunal, did not provide comment Sunday as to why his business closed.
Freeman speculated the closing of Pera and other restaurants in the area were because of poor conceptions, not location. “McDonald’s knows how to pick real estate, why wouldn’t you wanna be next to McDonald’s?” said Freeman, whose business is next to the fast food company. Red Robin’s Burger Works, located at 1708 N. High St., also closed recently, but a Red Robin spokeswoman said Thursday that she had no further details as to why. However, the property
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An off-campus fire that forced 12 Ohio State students to leave their residences might have started after a fire was set to a front porch couch — a piece of furniture that the city of Columbus has banned from porches. Meanwhile, legal experts have said it’s unclear if the tenants or the landlord of the building might be held liable for the damages. That fire — which occurred at an off-campus apartment complex at 1706 E. Summit during the early hours of Oct. 19 — was an arson, according to some witnesses. Upholstered furniture on a front porch has been banned for a decade in Columbus, but Sarah Cole, a professor at OSU’s Moritz College of Law, said it’s unlikely the blame would go toward the tenants for property damage. “The person who is liable is the person who set the fire,” she said. “Assuming that person can’t be found I don’t think you’re going to find civil liability on the students because by leaving a couch on the porch you don’t create a risk that an arsonist would come by and set it (the couch) on fire.” Because having a couch on the porch is only a violation of a city ordinance, it could just mean that the city of Columbus will charge a fine, Cole said. However, it’s possible that landlords at 1st Place Realty, which owns the damaged building, could file a claim on their homeowner’s insurance against the tenants.
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Poll: Black grads more likely to have student debt “There is more work we have to do as a country and as a higher education system to make college more affordable.” -Brandon Busteed Executive director of Gallup Education
BREE CRYE Lantern reporter crye.4@osu.edu A recent Gallup survey found black college students were more likely to graduate with debt than white students, correlating with a lower sense of well-being after college. Meanwhile, some Ohio State students are concerned that the university is not doing more to help. The survey results were based on a collaborative effort between Gallup, Purdue University and Lumina Foundation in the first Gallup-Purdue Index to “study the relationship between the college experience and college graduates’ lives,” according to Gallup’s website. Gallup surveyed a random sample of 29,560 people living in the U.S. ages 18 and older with a bachelor’s degree or higher and who had access to the Internet from Feb. 4 to March 7. The results showed that 50 percent of black graduates reported more than $25,000 in student loan debt, compared to the 34 percent of white graduates who reported similar levels of debt. Furthermore, the survey revealed that from 2000 to 2014, black college graduates were 17 percentage points more likely to graduate with debt of any amount over white college graduates. This number has been almost constant since the 1970s. So what exactly do all these numbers mean? Brandon Busteed, executive director of Gallup Education, said the gap should be smaller. “In simple terms, there is more work we have to do as a country and as a higher education system to make college more affordable — for everyone — but especially underrepresented minorities and middle-tolower income families,” Busteed said in an email.
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