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BuckeyeThon raises more than $767K ‘for the kids’ Weight of a ‘silverback’ lifted off Loving daniel rogers Asst. sports editor rogers.746@osu.edu
Melissa prax / Lantern reporter
BuckeyeThon participants at the Ohio Union wait for the total amount raised for Nationwide Children’s Hospital to be revealed Feb. 15, during the 24-hour dance marathon Feb. 14 and 15.
Melissa Prax Lantern reporter prax.1@osu.edu Some Ohio State students danced and fundraised their way to collecting more than $767,000 for children in need this weekend. Participants in BuckeyeThon raised $767,277.78 for Nationwide Children’s Hospital during the 24-hour dance marathon Friday and Saturday. In its 13th year, the event sponsors children being treated in the Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Department at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, which is part of the Children’s Miracle Network, according to its website. Suraj Hinduja, president of BuckeyeThon, said he was in disbelief when the amount of money raised was revealed Saturday. “To think that we just exceeded our goal that our members have put their lives, hearts and souls into everything we have just done – that’s what speaks volumes to me,” said Hinduja, a fourth-year in special education. BuckeyeThon consisted of two 12-hour shifts that attracted more than 3,000 participants total at
the Ohio Union, according to a BuckeyeThon press release. The first shift was from 8 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday, and the second shift started at 11 a.m. Saturday and ended after the final amount raised was revealed at 11 p.m. The founder of BuckeyeThon and an OSU graduate, Rosa Ailabouni, said 140 people attended the first ever BuckeyeThon event in 2001 and $3,200 was raised. “The idea came from wanting to bring the Ohio State community together, and also wanting to bring Ohio State together with the Columbus community,” Ailabouni said. She said Saturday she was in awe of the money raised this year. BuckeyeThon participants raised nearly $159,000 more than the 2013 event, where about $608,600 was collected. Hinduja said he hopes participants can increase the number of donations next year, too. “I have no doubt in my mind that they will continue to break barriers,” Hinduja said. Two other universities also held dance marathons to raise money for hospitals in Children’s Miracle
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Melissa prax / Lantern reporter
BuckeyeThon participants reveal $767,277.78 was raised for Nationwide Children’s Hospital Feb. 15, during the 24-hour dance marathon Feb. 14 and 15.
It had been a long time since Ohio State freshman forward Marc Loving scored a basket. Four hours, 35 minutes and 14 seconds of game time to be exact. Loving hadn’t scored a field goal since a 3-pointer with 20 seconds remaining during a 68-62 loss against Nebraska Jan. 20. He had also failed to score in any way since the Buckeyes fell, 71-70, in overtime against Penn State Jan. 29, when he hit a pair of free throws. But when his team needed him to recapture the form that had excited coach Thad Matta and the Buckeye faithful earlier this season, Loving did just that. Against Illinois Saturday, the Buckeyes struggled to score — putting up only 20 points in the first half and a season-low 48 points in the game — and led by just one point with 12:18 remaining. After buckets from bench players junior center Trey McDonald and sophomore guard Amedeo Della Valle pushed the lead to five, Loving found the scoring touch he hadn’t seen in nearly a month. “It was like a monkey climbed off my back,” Loving said after OSU’s 48-39 win against the Fighting Illini. When he was asked to identify the size of the primate, the freshman was quick to clarify. “A silverback (gorilla),” he said. Loving’s first made jumper in the month of February was followed by two more field goals and a pair of free throws, as the freshman scored eight consecutive points for the Buckeyes. “We needed a little spark off the bench,” Loving
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OSU student Questions remain after fraudulent email was sent buzzes into ‘Jeopardy!’ Alexis Hill Lantern reporter hill.1241@osu.edu
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Maria Khrakovsky, a fourth-year in accounting and French, poses with Alex Trebek.
Regina Bonfiglio Lantern reporter bonfiglio.20@osu.edu For Ohio State student Maria Khrakovsky, “Jeopardy!” was always more than just a TV show. As a young girl trying to learn English, she would tune into the program every evening, and she dreamed of one day being a guest on the program. Khrakovsky, a fourth-year in accounting and French, got to cross the feat off her bucket list Friday when she appeared on “Jeopardy! College Championship” representing OSU. “Ever since I was a little kid, I have loved ‘Jeopardy!’” Khrakovsky said. Khrakovsky only made it through the first round of the competition after losing her place in the lead because she incorrectly answered the final
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Some students dream of receiving the email students in Robert Zellmer’s Chemistry 1250 class received roughly 25 minutes before their Fall Semester final that said the exam had been postponed. Unfortunately for them, the email was a hoax. Zellmer, senior lecturer of chemistry and biochemistry at Ohio State, taught two sections of Chemistry 1250 during Fall Semester. Zellmer said for the final, he had students taking it in three different rooms at different times. Zellmer was getting ready to give one of the chemistry finals, which was set to start at 8 p.m. Dec. 6. At about 7:35 p.m., students in Zellmer’s class received an email, allegedly from Zellmer, stating the Chemistry 1250 final would be postponed to the following day because of poor weather conditions. The email was brought to Zellmer’s attention, and once he saw it, he said he knew it was fraudulent. He sent out follow-up messages to all of the students who had not yet taken the final when he saw it, about 11 minutes after the fraudulent email was sent, telling them the previous correspondence was not from him. Some students in the other classrooms who had seen the email, though, had left their respective exams. “I sent out two more emails, telling the students we would wait until 8:15 p.m. to start the final, since we were the last scheduled exam, and (then I sent) another telling them to come back to the exam,” Zellmer said in an email. He said he was able to get all of the students who had left the room after seeing the fake email to come back to take the final. Blake Gehret, a second-year in mechanical engineering, said he was in a different room than Zellmer where the final was about to be given when a student received the fake email and told the class that the final was postponed. “Initially after reading it, I started walking home,” Gehret said. On the walk home, Gehret called his friend,
who was also in the class. His friend told him Zellmer said the email was a fake and the exam was still set for that night. “I then headed back to my exam. When I got back to the building, I noticed a lot of people had left and Zellmer was shouting that the exam was still on,” Gehret said. Jake Cordonnier, a second-year in mechanical engineering, was also in a different room than Zellmer where the final was set to be given when he received the fake email. Cordonnier said he got really excited when he first saw the email, thinking he would not have to take the final that night. Cordonnier said he happened to be standing by a teaching assistant who also saw the email. “If I wouldn’t have been standing by a teaching assistant when I saw it, I would have walked home and never checked my email again to see Dr. Zellmer’s other emails that stated the final was still on,” Cordonnier said. To accommodate those students who arrived late, Zellmer said he stayed past the assigned finish time to allow them as much time to take the final as the other students. Zellmer said he still does not know who sent the email or why. “I feel it was a juvenile prank, which caused a
lot of commotion and could have caused a lot of problems, including perhaps causing someone to have an accident, because they were sent home and then had to come back,” Zellmer said. Zellmer said the problem was sent to someone another staff member knows after the incident and was told it would be forwarded to the Office of the Chief Information Officer. So far, Zellmer has yet to hear anything regarding whether OCIO was able to identify who sent out the fraudulent email. According to OCIO, there is no record of the issue being reported. If a student sent the email, OSU’s Code of Student Conduct states that any student found to have engaged in dishonest conduct, including “misuse or falsification of university or related documents by actions such as forgery, alteration or improper transfer,” is subject to disciplinary action by the university. Zellmer said he has already taken steps to attempt to ensure a similar incident won’t happen. “I told the students this semester I would never send an email canceling an exam, lab, recitation or lecture,” Zellmer said. “The only way anything will be canceled is if OSU does so and it’s officially posted on the OSU web page.”
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