thelantern
Thursday February 13, 2014
the student voice of The Ohio State University
year: 134 No. 23
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Recruit is crown jewel
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Lego Movie clever, funny
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Ohioans still smoking
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Some question nutritious value of campus food ALEX DRUMMER Lantern reporter drummer.18@osu.edu
Pickup game spurs assault report at RPAC KAYLA BYLER Managing editor of design byler.18@osu.edu Three men were reported for assault after they got in a fight during a two-on-two basketball game at the RPAC Sunday at about 5:30 p.m. Two of the men got into a verbal argument over whether a foul had occurred, which escalated into a physical fight involving the third man and left “several significant blood stain areas,” on the gym floor, according to a University Police report. A crowd of bystanders was eventually able to stop the fight and police were notified, the report said. One of the men sustained a one-inch-long cut between his eyebrows and his front tooth was broken in half, and he had several small cuts on both hands. The individual was transported to the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center to receive stitches for the cut on his face. Another man had significant bruising and swelling on his face, in addition to small cuts on his ear, elbow and both of his hands. Police discovered only one of the individuals was an Ohio State student, while the other two had both used another student’s BuckID to gain entry into the RPAC. Officers were unable to determine a primary aggressor in the incident and both individuals received similar injuries, so no charges were immediately pressed and the involved individuals were
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Though some Ohio State officials tout the nutritional value and the variety of options available at on-campus dining halls, some students said they aren’t impressed with what they see on the nutrition facts labels. “Ohio State tries to make it seem like they have healthy options, especially at the RPAC, but everything’s actually really bad for you if you look at the nutrition,” said Emily Harris, a second-year in biology. Harris also said it is even harder to eat right on the weekends since limited dining halls are open. On Saturdays and Sundays, 10 of the 29 dining locations on campus are closed, according to the Dining Services website. Kaitlyn Cappel, a second-year in strategic communication, also said nutritious options on campus could improve. “I definitely think (campus food) could be more healthy. I think there are healthy options, but I also think that they portray some things as being healthy, but when you look at the labels, it’s really not,” Cappel said. Recently OSU’s Dining Services released a few statistics that “show students are making healthier choices when it comes time to eat on campus,” according to OSU news briefs posted on the onCampus website, a university faculty and staff news source. “In the last three years, fresh fruit and vegetable sales have increased 40 percent,” the list reads. “For every burger sold in the Ohio Union Market, two salads are purchased. More fruits and vegetables are sold than chips and French fries combined.” Student Life spokesman Dave Isaacs said in an email that information came from “register sales at all (Dining Services) locations, but the system is really set up to track inventory, not trends,” so there was not “broader” information available. Gina Forster, a registered dietitian and assistant director of nutrition and health for OSU Dining Services, said the increased availability of fruits and vegetables on campus and the fact that people have generally become more health conscious in recent years contributed to an increase in healthy eating. “There’s just more information out there about the benefits of eating healthy,” she said. “This generation is growing up getting those messages sent to us via
email, via social media — all the time. It’s in our faces how important it is.” But French fries and other “unhealthy” foods likely won’t disappear from dining halls anytime soon. “There are certain options that are never going to go away,” Forster said. “We are here to cater to the desires of the students. That’s just like any restaurant.” One option, the Margherita pizza at Marketplace on South Campus, has 1,412 calories and 134 percent of the recommended daily value for sodium, according to Dining Services nutrition information online. Others pack in the calories as well — a cookie sundae at Mirror Lake Creamery has 899 calories and 115 percent of the recommended daily value for saturated fat, and a buffalo chicken wrap at Sloopy’s Diner has 1,350 calories, 183 percent of the recommended daily value for sodium and 107 percent of the recommended daily value for total fat, according to the nutrition information. Although healthier options are always available, the unhealthy choices are meant to mimic the real world, where people have to choose for themselves, Forster said.
“If we took all (the unhealthy options) away, what are you going to learn?” she said. Students’ access to nutrition information regarding the foods on campus is a work in progress, as not all nutrition information for all locations is available online yet, Forster said. “We are probably about 60 percent finished with that, and the majority of that 40 percent (left) is the Traditions (dining),” Forster said. Forster said that information should be fully posted by next year. In the meantime, a social media campaign is slated to take place soon to encourage OSU students to eat right, Forster said, and informational packets are being given out to help increase students’ knowledge about healthy eating. One of the pamphlets is set to feature recipes students can make in their residence halls using items found at the convenience stores on campus, Forster said. Cappel said that idea is “really cool” and she would be interested to see the recipes. “It’s hard to cook in the dorm because most recipes involve an oven,” she said.
BuckeyeThon hopes to raise $760K MFA grad students
to showcase myriad mediums with exhibit THY THY NGUYEN Lantern reporter nguyen.1070@osu.edu
RYAN ROBEY / For The Lantern
Participants in BuckeyeThon 2013 at the Ohio Union.
LEE MCCLORY Lantern reporter mcclory.10@osu.edu Ohio State students preparing to dance for 12 hours straight this weekend should refresh themselves on the Michigan rivalry. Fourteen miracle kids are set to come to Ohio State Friday and Saturday to watch Ohio State students dance in their names at the 13th annual BuckeyeThon, which will have a portion dedicated to pumping students up using the OSU-Michigan rivalry. Miracle kids are children who are often being treated at the Hematology, Oncology & Blood and Marrow Transplant Department of Nationwide Children’s Hospital. OSU students are set to dance in 12-hour shifts at BuckeyeThon to raise money for Children’s Hospital. “For some of (the kids) it’s just as much fun as Christmas morning,” said Zach Horner, director of public relations for BuckeyeThon and a fourth-year in marketing and business development. After raising about $608,600 last year and with plans to raise at least $758,000 this year, the funds from BuckeyeThon typically constitute the second biggest fundraised donation to Nationwide Children’s, said Courtney Cahill, associate director of annual giving at the hospital.
“We shoot for about 20 percent more each year, and we base our organizational goal off that,” said Brendan Kelly, director of fundraising for BuckeyeThon and a fourth-year in international studies and economics. The biggest issue BuckeyeThon faces every year is attracting a high enough turnout for the dance marathon, Horner said. About 2,800 people showed up for BuckeyeThon last year, while 3,500 had signed up, Horner said. Horner said the BuckeyeThon Committee hopes about 3,000 people will show up this year to dance. To help in reaching that goal, there is a subcommittee devoted to recruiting more people from various parts of campus, called the expansion committee. “No child should be confined to a hospital room and not be able to go outside when they have cancer,” said Jessica Sunkamaneevongse, a third-year in Japanese who serves on the Dancer Relations Committee, which works to recruit people to participate, when asked why she participates in BuckeyeThon. On the same weekend that OSU hosts BuckeyeThon, the University of Connecticut and University of Michigan are also set to host similar dance marathons to raise money for hospitals in Children’s Miracle Network. “We’re going to play off the (OSU-Michigan) rivalry a little bit,” Horner said. BuckeyeThon is set to include a “Beat
Michigan hour” to play off the rivalry and pump people up during it, Horner said. Bri Laycock, mother of Hayden Laycock, a miracle kid, said BuckeyeThon has made a difference to her son. “BuckeyeThon gave (Hayden) the boost he needed to feel better about himself and see his pacemaker as a benefit instead of as something that slowed him down,” Laycock said in a statement about BuckeyeThon sent to The Lantern by Christine Kaiser, director of family relations for BuckeyeThon. While the biggest event of BuckeyeThon is the annual 24-hour dance marathon, the club holds events with miracle kids and their families all year long. Miracle kids and BuckeyeThon members have outings, a fashion show, dinners, a video game marathon and various other events where the families can interact with OSU students. Each dancer is required to raise at least $100 or they aren’t permitted to participate, according to the BuckeyeThon website. Donations are accepted through the BuckeyeThon website. Virtual dancers also raise money, but don’t dance at the dance marathon. Cahill said OSU students continue to surpass expectations each year. “We are blown away every year by the amount of time and money OSU students put into this event,” Cahill said.
Warm exhaled breaths reveal the visual work of one artist. David Knox, a third-year graduate student pursuing a master’s of fine arts at Ohio State, is planning to showcase his work — which includes an interactive piece that invites visitors to breathe against a piece of acrylic glass — in an art exhibit scheduled open Saturday. When two visitors are breathing against each side of the acrylic glass, the beads of condensation from their exhalations reveals various of words on the art work. As soon as their breaths dissipate, the words disappear on the acrylic work, Knox said. His work and that of other MFA graduate students is set to be showcased in The Mirage and the Rainbow: 2014 Department of Art Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. The gallery is slated to hold the students’ thesis work for completing their degrees in the Department of Art and is to be open to the public through March 15 at the Urban Arts Space downtown. The art to be showcased includes a wide variety of mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass pieces, prints, ceramics and art and technology pieces. Keith Garubba, a third-year MFA graduate student, is planning to showcase mixed media and sculptural works which include silkscreen, a type of printmaking process. He also plans on revealing an interactive form of artwork that includes drip paintings. In his interactive work, Garubba invents a fictional story of a doctor fascinated by paint drips and uses the story line to invite visitors to make their own paint drips. Garubba said he is excited to see how his interactive piece will play out in the exhibit. “It’s been exciting because I’ve had the luxury of making work that I have never made before and taking risks that I may not be able to in other contexts,” Garubba said. Leah Frankel, another third-year MFA graduate student, is arranging two mixed media installations. One of her pieces is an installation that is made up of a suspended steel bowl with water contained in it and a ring of light coming in from outside. The other piece focuses on the intersection of two lines. She also plans to display linoleum block prints with digital animation to help showcase the succession of the prints. Sage Lewis, also a third-year MFA graduate student, plans on showcasing some of her sculptural carbon-paper forms she made in early 2013. For these constructions, she said she constructed the carbon paper, crushed the paper through a printmaking press and then constructed the paper into a 3-D shape. She also photographed
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