Monday February 27, 2012 year: 132 No. 31
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Kristen Mitchell Lantern reporter mitchell.935@osu.edu
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The OSU men’s basketball team lost against Wisconsin Sunday, which was Senior Day for guard William Buford.
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Ohio State students shook the ground and raised nearly $500,000 for BuckeyeThon 2012, where about 1,800 student participants gathered for the annual 12-hour dance marathon. BuckeyeThon, which kicked off Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. in the Ohio Union, is one of the largest student philanthropies on campus. Students raised $454,826.09 this year for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, more than doubling last year’s $222,518. In 2011, the dancers doubled their raised funds from their 2010 numbers, and in 2012 they doubled it again, a feat that has not been matched by any other dance marathon in the country. Emma Crouser, a fourth-year in marketing and member of the BuckeyeThon marketing committee, said the final number was announced at the end of the event. “We weren’t sure (how much we would raise), we set $250,000 as a tentative goal, a benchmark, but we wanted to raise much more. No one knew what the total was after it hit $200,000 because they took down the donation thermometer from the website about a month ago,” Crouser said. Crouser said she was blown away by the amount of money students were able to raise. “In two years we have raised (more than) $700,000,” she said. “That’s a lot of money.” While organizers called BuckeyeThon fun, they also said it’s important that dancers remember the reason behind the party. Part of the rules for the 12-hour marathon require that they stand the entire time. “If these kids can go through radiation treatment
About 1,800 students crammed into the Ohio Union Saturday night for BuckeyeThon 2012. At the end of the 12-hour dance marathon, organizers announced the event raised $454,826.09.
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Students battle in real-life board game
A royal battle
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Nina West Drag Star Search took place Saturday at Axis Nightclub, crowning a drag king as the winner.
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Athlete shares near-death story
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You sunk my battleship. Ohio State Recreational Sports hosted the inaugural intramural battleship game on Friday evening, bringing the classic Milton Bradley Company board game to life. In the original board game, players position five different ships on a 10-by-10 grid, concealing the location of the ships from an opponent. Players then “shoot” at the battleship by guessing the opposing player’s coordinates, trying to sink the ship with two, three, four or five hits to the boat. The player who “sinks” all his opponents’ boats first wins. However, Rec Sports changed the rules and required participants to literally sink a boat. “The idea and kind of perspective you have behind it is you have your old game of Battleship that you played as a kid and we’re battling back and forth to try and sink each other’s ship. What if we could bring this game to life, to have it for real?” said Bonnie Mitchell, intramural sports coordinator. “So we decided to take some canoes, corner off an area and then you sink each other with water.” Christina Heun, a third-year in psychology, was on one of the first teams eliminated. Despite elimination, Heun said she enjoyed the competition and the hardest part was balancing the canoe. “It was so fun. It wasn’t so much keeping water out, it was about balance,” Heun said. “You have to strategically paddle. Even if three people move to the same side, the canoe would tip over.” Battleship took place in the competition pool in McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. In teams of four, students climbed in 15-foot-9-inch canoes and balanced in the pool. Two groups of six boats competed in two heats. The best three teams from each group from the two heats combined competed in the championship round to be declared Battleship Intramural Champion.
Jackie Storer / Lantern photographer
Several students participated in Battleship, a game based off the Milton Bradley Company board game, at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. Teams were provided three three-gallon buckets to try and fill opponents’ boats with water to sink the canoes, and one smaller bucket to empty the water that filled the canoes. Participants were also required to keep the canoes in the “battle zones” roped off in the pool to keep the boats in the center of the pool and away from the edge.
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Online presence can affect opportunities
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Tweets, photos and Facebook statuses are all part of your digital footprint, an impression that is becoming increasingly important to employers and job-seekers. A digital footprint, or one’s trail of activity and interactions in a digital setting, is one of many signs of rapidly changing communication, said Christina Rideout, Career Connections director. “The way that communication is available in split seconds, we’re having a lot more things we need to consider and think about that we didn’t used to have to,” Rideout said. For students actively seeking jobs and internships, social media
Putting your best foot forward With potential employers using social media sites to research candidates, it’s important to be aware of your presence online. Here are ways to monitor your digital footprint: • Be mindful of your audience • Adjust your privacy settings • Include only your face in your Facebook profile photo • Do not overshare on Facebook and Twitter • Be concise and clear on LinkedIn • Remember your digital footprint is permanent source: reporting chris POche / Design editor presence is especially important, Rideout said. “Particularly with Facebook, students really think about it as,
‘This is my opportunity to be social,’” Rideout said. “Even though it’s supposed to be private, it’s very public.”
In some settings, digital presence, especially social media activity, is a factor in reviewing candidates for employment. “If (an employer) can’t decide between two really good candidates, they might look at Facebook profiles to help them decide,” Rideout said. Pat DiNunzio is the Columbus managing director for Mergis Group, a nationwide recruiting firm that seeks candidates for positions in human resources and accounting. Though social media can feel very personal to its users, DiNunzio said employers conduct online searches when evaluating prospective employees. Some companies even have entire
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