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In Tressel we trust? The Senator has infraction history BLAKE WILLIAMS Senior Lantern reporter williams.3012@osu.edu Before news broke Monday that Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel had violated NCAA Bylaw 10.1, many would have indicated the coach as one least likely to break the rules. It’s always the one you least suspect. Because of Tressel’s unwavering trust in his players and desire to do right by the young men he coaches, this is exactly the type of violation Buckeye Nation could have seen coming. “We talk about most especially we’re going to take care of these young people, and we’re going to treat them like they’re our own,” Tressel said in his Tuesday press conference. “Admittedly, I probably did not give quite as much thought to the potential NCAA part of things as I read (the e-mail that was not turned over to ofÿcials). My focus was on the well-being of the young people.” It was that focus, the coach said, that led him not to inform his superiors or NCAA ofÿcials of an e-mail indicating his players violated
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Lawyer who e-mailed OSU coach identified BEN AXELROD Senior Lantern reporter axelrod.17@osu.edu Columbus attorney Christopher T. Cicero, a former OSU walk-on linebacker, was the man who informed Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel that members of his team were committing NCAA rules violations, according to The Columbus Dispatch. Cicero, 54, was a member of the Buckeyes in 1983, the ÿrst year in which Tressel was an assistant at OSU under coach Earle Bruce. OSU performed an internal investigation that uncovered that Cicero e-mailed Tressel in April 2010 to inform him that multiple OSU football
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Prof compiles Columbus homicide database STEPHEN BOND For The Lantern bond.198@osu.edu
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Professor Richard Lundman walks into a room of 80 students with conÿdence attained through years of experience. He gives a broad smile as his voice ÿlls the large space with tales of murder, violation and corruption. Lundman has been a sociology professor at Ohio State for 36 years and is working on a research project that looks at whether race, ethnicity, social class, age and gender affect how homicides are solved. He and OSU Ph.D. candidate Meghan Myers, along with other students,
are dedicated to looking at individual characteristics, the research also has a focus on the homicide rates in Columbus. “You’ve got enormous variation because Columbus is a racially and ethnically segregated city, and it’s a social class segregated city,” Lundman said. “You’ve got black and white living in different places, rich people and poor people living in different places, and so what we’re also going to look at is what explains the differences in area homicide rates.” Areas with high rates of homicide are predominantly black and poor, while areas with low rates are predominantly white and af° uent, Lundman said. He said he wishes to
develop a better understanding of what is at the root of these differences, so that people can improve the situation. “I think we’re fascinating, fascinating to study, the institutions we build are fascinating,” Lundman said. “I want to ÿgure out how we as human actors, and the institutions we create, do what we do and why.” Although Lundman has similar motivations for his research as other sociologists, those around him have praised him for his willingness to go beyond others in implementing what he learns in his daily life. “What I appreciate about him as
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built a database of 2,730 consecutive homicides in Columbus dating from 1980 to May 2010. “It’s an incredibly rich database, there are so many cases,” Lundman said. “One of the things I’m interested in is whether or not a characteristic of the victim affects whether or not a homicide is solved.” One of the individual characteristics the study focused on is gender, which has brought to light the low homicide rates in women. “Women don’t kill very often, only about one in 10 homicide violators are women,” Lundman said. “We think that women kill men who’ve been beating on them and their children.” Although portions of the project
With week 10 coming to a close, Ohio State students are preparing for finals. Chris Atkins (left), a third-year in chemical engineering, works on finishing his last assignments of the quarter Wednesday in the Ohio Union. Andrew Desmond (top right), a first-year in English and music, flips through books Wednesday at William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, as the Grand Reading Room at the Thompson library is full of students (bottom right).
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Product design, advertising, energy conservation and bad breath. The Cincinnati-based company Procter & Gamble will collaborate with Ohio State and the Ohio Supercomputer Center on projects intended to bridge the gap between industry and academics. OSU will help Procter & Gamble with modeling and simulation projects as a part of the company’s master alliance agreement with Ohio universities.
A master alliance agreement is created when a company has several research projects with one client. The collaboration is the ÿrst at OSU. Procter & Gamble provides grants to pay for all the projects. The amount of the grants will vary. Sharell Mikesell, associate vice president of OSU’s Industry Liaison Ofÿce, said Procter & Gamble has “about 12 different technological platforms that they want help on.” At OSU, two projects are being ÿnalized, while about six are being reviewed that cover people from medical, engineering and chemistry to the Fisher College of Business. Mikesell said OSU is using its dental school to do a project related to dental health care. He said
research is being done with Procter & Gamble to develop a mechanism used to combat bad breath. Another project is being conducted to study total energy conservation. Mikesell said it deals with cleaning clothes in the washing machine and the future of washing with less water. “It is studying the mechanism of cleaning under different energy constrains,” he said. The school of psychology is also collaborating with Procter & Gamble. “One of the really very interesting ones is really understanding how do we make decisions when we
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