Monday December 5, 2011 year: 132 No. 50
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Football flashbacks
The Lantern looks back at some of the events in the past year for the OSU football team.
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Ohio State travels to Jacksonville, Fla., for a January matchup against Florida PAT BRENNAN Sports editor brennan.164@osu.edu After months of speculation regarding whether the Ohio State football team would compete in postseason play, the Buckeyes accepted a bid to the 2012 Gator Bowl Sunday. OSU will take on the Florida Gators Jan. 2, in Jacksonville, Fla., at EverBank Field. Buckeyes coach Luke Fickell, who will guide OSU until after the game
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when newly hired coach Urban Meyer will take over as coach, officially accepted the invitation during a Sunday conference call. “We’re ecstatic and excited, and I know that I can’t wait to tell our young men and the rest of our staff,” Fickell said. The Buckeyes and Gators both posted overall records of 6-6 and conference records of 3-5, in the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference, respectively. The game will see Meyer’s new employer take on his former employer. Meyer was introduced as the new head coach of OSU football Nov. 28,
department sent prior to the Monday press conference said Meyer, who was first contacted about the coaching position by athletic director Gene Smith at OSU on Nov. 20, will make $4 million annually for six seasons. During the Sunday conference call, Fickell was vague about whether Meyer would help the Buckeyes prepare for Florida, saying he would continue to focus on the coaches currently leading OSU. “I couldn’t tell you exactly how the whole situation’s going to work,”
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$25K to clean up Mirror Lake’s reflection MARY POSANI Lantern reporter posani.3@osu.edu As students enjoy the annual tradition of jumping into Mirror Lake the week of the Ohio State-Michigan game, it comes at a cost to the university. OSU Landscape Services and Facilities Operations and Development paid nearly $25,000 to clean the area and repair and fix damages from the jump. The sidewalks around Mirror Lake were covered in mud, trash, flip-flops and other articles left behind by students. The landscape that once was green grass is now dark mud with thousands of footprints marking spectators and jumpers present late Tuesday night. “The volume of cleanup was pretty significant (and) the damage to the ground was significant,” said Paul Walsh, interim assistant director for Landscape Services. The Mirror Lake jump is an annual tradition where students jump into Mirror Lake to show support for the football team the week of the OSU-Michigan game. Students traditionally jumped into Mirror Lake the Thursday before the football game. However in recent years, the game has been the Saturday after
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Following the Mirror Lake jump on Nov. 22, 2011, the university will have to pay about $25,000 in repairs. Thanksgiving, so students then pushed the jump to the Tuesday before the game. Despite the university discouraging students to jump, students continue the tradition year after year. This year, the jump caused $19,000 worth of damage to the grass and landscaping around the
lake. The university pays an additional $6,000 to employees annually to clean the area and restore the landscape, Walsh said. This year was one of the worst for the jump.
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and has 10 seasons of experience as an NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision coach at Bowling Green, Utah and Florida. Meyer’s six most recent years as a coach came with the Gators where he won two national championships, including a 41-14 victory against the Buckeyes in 2006. OSU’s loss in that championship was the last meeting of the two teams. Overall, the Ohio native has compiled a record of 104-23 and a 7-1 record in bowl games. Meyer’s bowl triumphs also include a 4-0 record in Bowl Championship Series games. A release from the OSU athletic
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Cheryl Krueger, founder of Cheryl & Co., is the commencement speaker at this year’s Autumn Quarter commencement.
Ohio State’s Autumn Quarter graduation will feature as its commencement speaker an Ohio native who overcame many obstacles to find success. Cheryl Krueger, founder of Cheryl & Co., a gourmet baked goods and arrangements company, will speak at Autumn Commencement on Sunday. Although she hopes to shed some light on her road to success, Krueger said what she hopes to do most is to challenge graduates to do something more. She attributes much of her business knowledge to Leslie Wexner, under whom she worked for six years at The Limited Brands, Inc. before giving up her job to pursue her baked good business. “He taught me how to be innovative and creative and to not limit my thinking to what you see, but to limit it to what it could be,” Krueger said. In her speech, she said she hopes to focus on
one point, which is to “see the invisible and do the impossible,” she said. President E. Gordon Gee wrote a letter personally asking Krueger to speak at Autumn Commencement. “I was just overwhelmed,” Krueger said. “Ohio State is where my heart is, even though I didn’t graduate from here.” She graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1974 with a double major in business and home economics. When Krueger became a full-time employee at the store after the passing of her business partner, she said the business struggled for the next five or six years. The biggest breakthrough, according to Krueger, was when the company decided to include other baked goods and also a seasonal gift store. Some students have familiarity with the company and said Kruger’s story interests them.
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