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Former Buckeye Charles Csuri played a part in the throwback jerseys OSU will wear against Michigan.
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Every year around midnight on the Thursday before the Michigan game, police and Ohio State officials ease up on the law when more than 12,000 OSU students jump into Mirror Lake, an act that officials say is technically criminal trespassing. The fourth-degree misdemeanor is tradition, but this year, tradition has changed. The Michigan game is the Saturday after Thanksgiving this year, putting the Mirror Lake jump on the Thanksgiving holiday. Because the jump is not a university-sponsored event, students took things into their own hands, broke tradition and moved the jump to Tuesday. “I just decided that it should be Tuesday and everyone else just join in,” said Brittany McDonald, a second-year in math who created the Facebook group “Mirror Lake Jump 2010,” an impromptu forum to organize the event. McDonald said she chose Tuesday because she knew most people would be home for Thanksgiving on Thursday, herself included. Thousands of other students apparently thought the same thing. According to the Facebook group, almost 13,500 people are attending the Mirror Lake jump on Tuesday. “The date doesn’t really matter so much as the entire student body of OSU getting together and giving Michigan a giant middle finger,” said Andrew MacMillan, a 2010 graduate who made the jump three times while at OSU. However, many students plan to jump both nights to keep tradition alive. The Facebook group,
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Jumping in Mirror Lake on any day throughout the year could be considered trespassing – a fourth-degree misdemeanor.
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along with university officials and police, advise students not to jump Thursday. “People who go in the water Thursday night are at greater risk of being charged for criminal trespassing,” said Capt. Eric Whiteside of OSU Police. “We don’t want people in the water at all on Thursday.”
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Signs posted around Mirror Lake say no trespassing or swimming in the lake. Normally, violators could be arrested and charged with criminal trespassing.
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The team, along with 45 others, participated in the fourth annual Quidditch World Cup in Manhattan.
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The former site of The Frat House, which was once Buffalo Wings & Rings, has been vacant since the business on High Street closed earlier this quarter.
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LAUREN HALLOW Senior Lantern reporter hallow.1@osu.edu If you stop to look in the windows at 1918 N. High St., you will see empty beer bottles and dirty dishes littering scattered tables. It’s a scene similar to many of Columbus’ abandoned buildings. What’s notable about this building is that it’s on a busy stretch of High Street and just months ago was a popular restaurant and bar for Ohio State students. What was once Buffalo Wings & Rings — and The Frat House and Kaiser’s after that — is now an empty building after being slapped with an eviction
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officially closed its doors, and Hendrickson, who will appear in court later this month, declined to comment for this story. Lackey said the amount Steak ‘n Shake is asking for covers the past-due rent and other payments. He also said this isn’t the first time the franchise has had problems paying rent on time. Lackey said “at one point … Steak ‘n Shake tried to work with them” by filing a forbearance agreement. By doing that, Steak ‘n Shake agreed not to evict Buffalo Wings & Rings as long as it caught up with its pastdue payments. But Lackey said Buffalo Wings & Rings failed.
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notice and a lawsuit for more than half a million dollars. Steak ‘n Shake, which used to operate a franchise at that location but now sublets the property, filed a lawsuit for more than $560,000 against Buffalo Wings & Rings OSU and Henry Hendrickson, the franchise owner. The lawsuit was filed with the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas on Oct. 28. Steak ‘n Shake filed the eviction notice almost two weeks later. Buffalo Wings & Rings “breached the terms of their lease,” said David Lackey, Steak ‘n Shake’s attorney. “There hasn’t been a rent payment since March.” Lackey did not know when the restaurant
An online simulation program aims to teach Ohio State faculty members how to help students dealing with depression. Put yourself in imaginary professor “Dr. Hampton’s” shoes. When speaking to “Alberto,” a student who has been struggling in school and seems troubled, it is up to you to choose what to say from a list of statements. The goal is to convince him to go to the counseling center. But be careful — choosing the wrong statement, like asking him
about his family history or saying he has an attitude problem, could cause Alberto to leave your office. Kognito Interactive, a company that creates role-play simulations to develop interpersonal skills, created the online simulation called “At-Risk.” “At Ohio State, we’re not just about teaching students and testing them on content, we want to recognize students in distress and get them help,” said Stephanie Rohdieck, instructional development specialist in the University Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Rohdieck conducts face-to-face suicide prevention training for faculty and staff, but many faculty members don’t take the time to attend, even
if they’re concerned about their students, she said. However, the online simulation takes about 45 minutes from start to finish, and faculty members can complete the program in their offices or on home computers, Rohdieck said. The two goals of the program are to identify signs and risk factors of students in distress — like decreased academic performance or changes in appearance — and ultimately refer them to Counseling and Consultation Services. “We consider all teachers to be ‘gatekeepers,’ meaning they are a point of contact for someone else in their life, whether they want to be or
not,” Rohdieck said. “As a campus, we want as many gatekeepers as possible.” Forty universities, including 35 faculty members from OSU, piloted At-Risk in 2009. After receiving “phenomenal feedback,” OSU invested $5,000 for 500 At-Risk licenses, Rohdieck said. The University Center for the Advancement of Teaching provided half the amount, and the Office of Student Life provided the rest. “This is a trial run. Let’s see if we can get 500 faculty to even do it, because our goal is to use all (the licenses) up and say we need to buy a lot more,” Rohdieck said.
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