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An OSU student waited for hours to appear on ‘The Price is Right’ but is mum on whether he walked out a winner.
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Then-freshman OSU quarterback Braxton Miller (5) is tackled during a game against Illinois Oct. 15, 2011. OSU won, 17-7.
Junior quarterback Braxton Miller was thrown to the wolves in his freshman season with the Ohio State football team. Miller was the starter at quarterback in each of the final 10 games of 2011, including the Buckeyes last game at Illinois’ Memorial Stadium, Oct. 15, 2011. In that game OSU pulled off a 17-7 victory, although Miller only completed a single pass. “I was thrown in there early. I don’t think I was ready at that time, but I did what I had to do,” Miller said after practice Wednesday. “It was kind of a big stage at that time, so I had to prepare and it was kind of tough and I didn’t expect to play as a freshman.” Now the No. 3 Buckeyes (9-0, 5-0), will return to Memorial Stadium Saturday, looking to extend the nation’s longest winning streak to 22 games. Coach Urban Meyer, who took over the Buckeyes following the 2011 season, said Miller has come a long way since that game. “I can assure you that (he’s) in a much different place than he was two years ago,” Meyer said Monday.
It was a career-low in completions and passing yards for Miller, who has since developed into one of the top quarterbacks in the country. He was named a semifinalist for the Davey O’Brien award Nov. 4. Junior wide receiver Evan Spencer said the game in 2011 was a difficult situation because of Miller’s inexperience. “His freshman year, it was kind of a unique situation for all of us really and we were trying to win games (OSU finished the year 6-7), whatever it took to win a game,” Spencer said after practice Monday. “So now that he has really developed as a passer and he’s gotten better at reading what he has to do, we flow so much better.” Redshirt-senior left tackle Jack Mewhort said in hindsight, it’s hard to believe the Buckeyes only completed one pass during that game. “Looking back, that’s crazy to me just because our passing game has evolved so much now and so many different guys can score touchdowns for us now,” Mewhort said Monday. “One pass, that’s kind of unreal to think about, and Braxton and the skill guys have come so far.” In his freshman season, Miller
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Remediation plans for Gee included trips to ‘unfamiliar’ places LIZ YOUNG Campus editor young.1693@osu.edu
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In defense of the young Bucks Junior linebacker Ryan Shazier said the Buckeyes have stepped up their play by learning to work together.
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Buckeyes for Public Health is holding Movember events to raise awareness for men’s health issues.
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Visits to Buddhist temples and women’s centers could have found their way onto former Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee’s schedule if he hadn’t retired. One of several remediation plans presented to OSU for consideration after controversial comments Gee made became publicly scrutinized outlined a “cultural awareness session” that included holding the session in a place to be determined, but “somewhere off campus” and in an “unfamiliar place to President Gee (i.e., a Buddhist Temple, a women’s center, etc.),” according records provided to The Lantern Wednesday morning to fill a records request filed June 15. The aim of the plan, proposed by Edelman Public Relations, was to have Gee “develop a greater awareness of and appreciation for the myriad backgrounds, experiences and needs of the diverse population in which he serves and interacts at Ohio State University and beyond.” The plan also included a “moment of self-reflection” section in the proposed structure, which would have posed questions to Gee asking
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OSU President Emeritus E. Gordon Gee during an interview with The Lantern Oct. 21 at his office in Page Hall. him to “recall times when he made an assumption about someone based upon their cultural differences” and answer a variety of questions, including why he feels it is “acceptable to say and do some of these things” and how he thinks it “made them feel.” No sessions ever occurred with any of the firms considered, though, because of Gee’s retirement, OSU assistant vice president of media and public relations Gayle Saunders said in an email. Gee said the remediation plan was important to him before his retirement.
“I can attest to the fact that leaders of both public and private organizations are constantly looking for new ways to enhance their global perspective and leadership best practices,” he said in an email to The Lantern Wednesday. “The focused approach was something that both the board and I found important for me to do as president of the university. And before I retired as president, my team and I were working to make this happen.” Gee made comments at a Dec. 5 OSU Athletic Council meeting about
how “those damn Catholics” at Notre Dame can’t be trusted and that’s why the university has never been invited into the Big Ten Conference. He was also recorded saying Notre Dame’s priests are “holy on Sunday, and they’re holy hell on the rest of the week.” Gee also made statements about the academic integrity of the SEC. He said as a Big Ten president, it was his job is to make sure the conference is comprised of schools that value academics, which is why the conference wouldn’t be adding schools like Louisville, a Big East school, or the University of Kentucky, an SEC school. The comments attracted public criticism at the end of May before Gee announced June 4 he would be retiring from the university presidency, effective July 1. He now holds the position of OSU president emeritus. The OSU Board of Trustees became aware of the comments Jan. 31, and a letter dated March 11 from OSU Board Chairman Robert Schottenstein to Gee outlined a remediation plan that included seeking the assistance of professionals who “could assist with revisiting your personal communications.” Records show the Board was in contact with Edelman Public
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Int’l students unconcerned by OSU drop in rankings SHAY TROTTER Senior Lantern reporter trotter.35@osu.edu Despite a drop the rankings of international enrollment and the number of students studying abroad, some international students said it’s worth leaving home for an Ohio State education. OSU was ranked No. 15 nationally for its international student enrollment and No. 25 for the number of students studying abroad in an annual report published by the Institute of International Education. The data were released through a report called Open Doors, which, according to the IIE website, contains information gathered “through surveys sent to approximately 3,000 accredited U.S. higher education institutions, who report on the international students enrolled at their campuses. Separate surveys are conducted for U.S. study abroad, international scholars and intensive English programs.” Although OSU fell to No. 15 from the previous year’s No. 10 ranking for the number of international students the university hosted, there was a 5.5 percent increase in 2012 to 6,478 students, said Maureen Miller, director of communications for the Office of International Affairs, in an email. Yiqun Wang, a fourth-year biology and mathematics student from China, said OSU’s prominence is appealing to international students. “It’s one of the biggest universities in the U.S. so I guess it has more opportunities,” Wang said. Sandeepa Rathnayaka, a fourth-year chemical engineering student from Sri Lanka, said while she initially came to OSU because of a friend who decided to attend, she was also drawn to her major’s program. “For engineering, the rankings are quite good and
the price is lower compared to other good schools,” she said. U.S. News and World Report 2013 rankings listed the OSU College of Engineering as the No. 29 Best Engineering School. OSU’s tuition for international students was more than $26,700 per semester for the 2013-14 academic year, according to the OSU Undergraduate Admissions website. Out of the top 25 institutions on the list, OSU was preceded by six Big Ten universities: University of Illinois, Purdue University, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Penn State University and Indiana University.
Miller said OSU’s international program will continue to develop regardless of the rankings. “Ohio State’s strategy with respect to international student recruitment is one of steady, gradual growth,” she said. “We want to have all the necessary programs and enhanced support services in place to ensure the success of our international student population.” Ohio State also dropped in the rankings to No. 25 from No. 14 institutions with the highest total number of students studying abroad, with 1,716 students for the 2011-12 academic year. According to the report, it was preceded by Michigan State, Indiana, University
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