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Michael Periatt Asst. sports editor periatt.1@osu.edu
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Picking up the pieces
After a loss against Michigan State Sunday, the OSU men’s basketball team looks ahead to the NCAA tournament.
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Everything was rolling for the Ohio State men’s basketball team. After piecing together impressive back-to-back victories against Purdue and Michigan in the Big Ten tournament, a No. 1 seed for the NCAA tournament was again a possibility for the Buckeyes. Then they ran into Michigan State. The Spartans avenged their Senior Day loss against OSU from a week ago and captured the Big Ten championship with a hard fought 68-64 victory. But MSU senior forward Draymond Green, who was named the tournament’s most outstanding player, said the victory was about more than revenge. “We never play for revenge at Michigan State,” Green said. “It’s never about getting someone back. They took the last game. They did screw up some things for us, but it’s more so looking ahead.” It was Green’s 3-pointer with 1:30 remaining in the second half that sealed the game for MSU. It gave the Spartans a five-point lead and the Buckeyes were never able to recover.
“I know my team is going to come to me when we need a play down the stretch,” said Green, who shot 4-of-15 from the floor and finished with 12 points. “I would be less of a leader to not take that shot in a moment like that.” OSU coach Thad Matta said Green’s three represented the big plays MSU made that the Buckeyes failed to capitalize on. “Down the stretch there we had some what appeared to be good looks and you have to make those,” Matta said. “You look at Draymond Green hit that big three. (Sophomore forward Deshuan Thomas) was right there on the challenge and it goes in.” It wasn’t only Green who made big plays for MSU, though. OSU had a sevenpoint lead with 14:06 left in the game when MSU senior guard Brandon Wood hit two consecutive 3-pointers as part of a 10-0 MSU run. The Spartans took the lead and never relinquished it. Wood finished with a gamehigh 21 points. “Things kind of bogged down for us on the offensive end,” said sophomore guard Lenzelle Smith Jr. “We stopped communicating, stopped getting back and they
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Sophomore forward Jared Sullinger walks off the court after OSU lost the Big Ten Championship game to Michigan State, 68-64, March 11 in Indianapolis.
Kony 2012 campaign sparks support, scrutiny invisible children organization reveals all
Chelsea Castle Managing editor castle.121@osu.edu
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Segal to ‘find self’ in film
The Lantern spoke with Jason Segal and Ed Helms about their latest film, “Jeff, Who Lives at Home.”
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Revival of Weinland Park
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It’s been almost 10 years since a trio of young adults from San Diego took off to Uganda with their video cameras in tow. It’s been about 26 years since guerrilla war leader Joseph Kony began his militant group that abducts children, turning them into sex slaves and soldiers of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). After a decade of raising awareness about the LRA, Invisible Children has established a new campaign. Led by Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey and Laren Poole, IC describes itself as being more than a nonprofit, but exists as an awareness organization. Their mission is to support the war-torn areas in East and Central Africa and to stop LRA violence, according to its website. Kony 2012 is IC’s latest campaign focused on finding Kony, and is centered around a 30-minute video that went viral in the last week. With more than 72 million hits on YouTube on Sunday, the video has sparked many tears, fits of action and criticisms. One OSU professor says the mission of Kony 2012 is a difficult undertaking, but to make real change, African governments need to coordinate and work together. The video shares the message that in order to capture Kony, he must be come famous. It says he must become a household name and everyone must know who he is so the U.S. government sees that America still cares enough for them to financially and
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source: Invisible Children chriS Poche / Design editor militarily support the efforts of tracking down this war criminal. “The point of the Invisible Children and Kony is that it’s our responsibility to, as humans and as individuals, to pay attention to this crisis,” said Katie Babcock, president of the Invisible Children OSU chapter. “We need to care about that to change the future of the world.” The Kony 2012 video has an expiration date of Dec. 31, 2012, because this is just the beginning of the movement, Babcock said.
Kristen Mitchell Lantern reporter mitchell.935@osu.edu
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“There is an expiration date on the video (because) this action needs to take a year,” she said. “(It’s) to show the power that mass media has.” While the point of the video is using the power of social media and the Internet to spread the message, it has become a double-edged sword. One of several claims against Kony 2012 and IC is the issue of money. “The whole movement is very misleading
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USG aims to give students more bang for their books
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The allocation of funds by the nonprofit organization Invisible Children has come into question with the recent release of their latest campaign, Kony 2012. Here is a breakdown of their expenses from 2011:
USG created the Buckeye Book Swap, allowing students to possibly get more money for selling back their books.
After exams have been taken, papers written and presentations given, many students plan to sell their used textbooks, adding a little extra cash to their wallets. Kicking off their Buckeye Textbook Swap initiative, Undergraduate Student Government representatives hope to give students more than what campus bookstores have been willing to pay them for their used textbooks. “It’s basically a textbook exchange, you sell it for more than the bookstore price,” said Nick Messenger, USG president. “You cut out the bookstore and the upcharge.” Messenger said he expects the program to save students $80 each quarter on average, earning roughly $25 more per book sold. Similar programs have been implemented at the University of Wisconsin and Michigan State University.
During finals week, drop-off stations will be located at the Ohio Union and outside the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library on the Oval side of the building. Students will be able to drop off their used textbooks and get a price recommendation from USG members working the stations. Students are asked to set their own price for the book, which will then be collected to be resold during the first week of Spring Quarter. If a book is sold, the seller will receive that payment on their BuckID, and if it doesn’t sell, their book will be returned to them. Students will be able to search online to find out if USG has collected the books they want to purchase for spring classes. “There’s an online component so you can look up the book you need. You can take a look at the website and see what is available and what you want to buy,” Messenger said. USG partnered with textyard.com to log and
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