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Monday March 17, 2014 year: 134 No. 36

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Mumps a Buckeyes awarded 6-seed, to face Dayton threat despite vaccinations Eric Seger Sports editor seger.25@osu.edu

Brandon Merriman Lantern reporter merriman.65@osu.edu With 21 cases of mumps reported at and around Ohio State, students are being advised that a vaccination will not completely guard them from infection. Jose Rodriguez, spokesman for Columbus Public Health, said Saturday 21 cases had been reported as of Friday. “Seventeen are OSU students, one is a staff member, one is a family member, and two have community links to OSU students,” Rodriguez said. Mumps is a viral infection of the salivary glands, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. It can spread through coughing, sneezing or contact with saliva or mucus. Those affected by mumps might have swollen and tender salivary glands under the ears or jaw on the side of the face, fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, loss of appetite and inflammation of the testicles in men,

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Ohio State said it was ready to go up against some fresh blood and break away from the rugged Big Ten for the NCAA Tournament. Little did the team know, though, its first opponent in the Big Dance houses a former teammate, in addition to a descendent of Thad Matta’s extensive coaching tree roaming the sidelines. Meet Ohio State’s first matchup of the 2014 NCAA Tournament: the University of Dayton. The Buckeyes are set to take on the Flyers (23-10, 10-6) in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, after they were awarded a No. 6 seed in the tournament’s South region Sunday. For Matta, playing a school located a mere 72 miles away has its benefits. “For this team, it’s a great thing,” Matta said Sunday. “I like that. Because there won’t need to be a wake up call, there won’t need to be a, ‘Who is this? Who are they? What conference are they in? I haven’t heard of that guy,’ or anything like that. So I like that from that perspective.” After falling to top-seeded Michigan, 72-69, in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament Saturday, the Buckeyes (25-9, 12-9) were given lower than a No. 2 seed in the tournament for the first time in five seasons. Headed by coach Archie Miller — who spent two seasons as an assistant under Matta before heading to Arizona with his older brother, Sean — the Flyers are led by former Buckeye and redshirt-junior Jordan Sibert, who transferred to Dayton following the 2011-12 season. Sibert, an outside sharpshooter, leads the Flyers with 12.5 points per game while shooting 43.9 percent from beyond the arc. He was a member of the same recruiting class as OSU senior guards Aaron Craft and Lenzelle Smith Jr., who both said they haven’t talked to him recently and are just excited to start the NCAA Tournament. “We’re excited, obviously, this is the time of year we want to play for and we’re in the tournament so got a great game against Dayton coming up and we’re excited about it,” Craft said Sunday. Smith Jr. agreed, but said if he put himself in Sibert’s shoes, he would be plenty excited to play against his former teammates. “At the same time, we’re both in the same boat

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Coach Thad Matta and players high five each other during a timeout. OSU lost to Michigan, 72-69, in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament March 15 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. — you lose, you go home,” Smith Jr. said Sunday. “So I think we’re both going to be jacked up for the same purposes.” Sibert left Columbus for Dayton because he wasn’t getting the playing time he wanted — he played just 481 minutes in 49 games over his two seasons at OSU. “When he left he said, ‘Look. I want to play a lot.’ And he’s definitely getting to do that, and he’s honestly having a great career there,” Matta said of Sibert. “I’m one of those guys that says, ‘Hey, as long as everybody’s happy in terms of where they are and what they’re doing, I’m happy for them.’” The Buckeyes enter the second round matchup after winning nine of their last 13 games, but failed to make the Big Ten Conference Tournament Championship game for the first time in six years after the loss to Michigan Saturday in Indianapolis. Although it was a little different watching the Selection Show at home instead of after playing for the championship, junior forward Sam Thompson said the mindset didn’t change too much. “The location was different but I don’t think the seeding was too much different,” Thompson said

Sunday. “We know whatever seed we get, wherever we’re placed in the NCAA Tournament, there’s no such thing as an easy game, there’s no such thing as an easy opponent.” In what is now his 10th season at the helm of the men’s basketball program, coach Thad Matta had led the Buckeyes to a victory in their first game of the NCAA Tournament six of the seven times they have played. The lone loss was a 74-72 double overtime loss to Siena in 2009. OSU was on probation in Matta’s first season — 2004-05 — and won the National Invitational Tournament following the 2007-08 season. Initially, Matta said he was excited to see Dayton make the tournament because of Miller — then he realized it was his team that was matched up with Miller’s. “I wanted Arch to get in the NCAA Tournament. Then I was kinda like, ‘Huh, here we go,’” Matta said. “But I think from the perspective, I’m so happy for him in terms of getting in … the longer you do this, the more inner workings there are that it works itself out.” Tipoff Thursday between the Buckeyes and Flyers is yet to be determined.

Leaving Gateway a murky battle for Gooeyz owners Nearly $9K of property stolen from OSU team Danielle Seamon Arts editor seamon.17@osu.edu

From sewage leakage to an air conditioning system riddled with problems, a husband-and-wife team with Ohio State ties described its first small business venture in the South Campus Gateway as one in which the best of times became the worst of times. Spouses and Gooeyz co-founders Lanne and Dave Bennett set up shop in the alley of the Gateway plaza in August 2010, welcoming college students to campus with a taste of home in the form of cheesy, greasy comfort food. Lanne Bennett graduated from OSU with a degree in food business management and was a varsity cheerleader, and Dave Bennett also attended OSU. In November, however, Gooeyz closed its doors, taking its giant skillet and leaving a tweet thanking patrons for “all of the Cheezy Love.” Gooeyz later reopened in a partnership with Woodland’s Backyard at 668 Grandview Ave. However, the announcement of the restaurant’s departure from the South Campus Gateway came less than two weeks after Charlie Bear: Land of Dance, a dance club that was located inside the Gateway’s alley at 1562 N. High St., confirmed it was moving to Olentangy River Road, and about two months before athletic shoe and apparel store Finish Line announced its closing at 1624 N. High St. in the Gateway. All of those announcements were preceded by Kildare’s Irish Pub, which was located at 1576 N. High St., leaving the South Campus Gateway last summer. The Gateway is a subtenant of Campus Partners, which is a private nonprofit corporation that works on community planning in the campus area alongside OSU and the city of Columbus. Lanne Bennett said she couldn’t speak for all of the businesses of the South Campus Gateway, but she attributed the recent business blackout of the alleyway and the surrounding area, as well as the unexplained, sudden departures, to Gateway’s general management being uncooperative with business owners. “The overall takeaway of why we closed is just the physical plant of the building and the deficiencies in there,” Lanne Bennett said. “We couldn’t afford to stay there.” Lanne Bennett tells the South Campus Gateway’s story as the tale of two cities, where “the Eddie George’s, the Panera corner … is doing very well, is very active right by the (Ohio) Union, and the alley is (on) its own.” She said that story is one other Gateway

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The South Campus Gateway where Gooeyz opened in August 2010. The restaurant left in November 2013 after numerous problems with Campus Partners and the South Campus Gateway. business owners are afraid to recount for fear of the Gateway’s management. “It’s just everyone’s scared, no one will talk. And why shouldn’t they be? I mean, it’s a big ol’ monster coming after you,” Lanne Bennett said. Amanda Hoffsis, president of Campus Partners, gave a statement in an email when asked to comment on Lanne and Dave Bennett’s experience at Gateway. “Gooeyz turned over their space to us on Monday, Dec. 2, 2013,” Hoffsis said. “We are currently working to ensure obligations, based on the terms of their contract, are fulfilled by both parties.” Heating, ventilation, air conditioning issues In January 2010, Lanne and Dave Bennett began to inquire about the space at 1554 N. High St., a unit nestled between the Gateway Film Center and the Ohio Art League that was formerly owned by Greek and Mediterranean restaurant The Happy Greek. The South Campus Gateway was 5 years old at that point, and Lanne Bennett said she and her husband were told by the management, which was Columbus Commercial Real Estate of CBRE Group at the time, the space was fairly new, a turnkey restaurant where the two could come in and launch Gooeyz after signing the lease. Dave and Lanne Bennett signed a three-year lease that May, agreeing to take everything “as is” and projecting to open Gooeyz’s doors Aug. 1, 2010. But upon firing up the power and electricity of the

space, something Lanne Bennett said they could not do until after signing the lease, problems with the HVAC units’ mechanics became apparent. “We got into this space and there was so much stuff that was broken and didn’t work that they knew about but didn’t tell us about, especially the HVAC units,” Lanne Bennett said. One of the couple’s first service calls to repair one of the two HVAC units revealed the unit was disconnected because it had “catastrophically failed” before Lanne and Dave Bennett took possession. “(Management) knew about (the HVAC unit being disconnected), but they never told us that. So it became our responsibility when we took it over, and (management) said, ‘Well, you’re just going to have to deal with it.’ So we dealt with it,” Lanne Bennett said. The issues with the HVAC in addition to the GFI breaker, which is a device that protects against electrical shock in high-risk areas, such as restrooms and basements, not being installed “up to code” postponed Gooeyz’s opening by nine days to Aug. 10, 2010, Lanne Bennett said. Sewage leaks Michigan met OSU at Ohio Stadium Nov. 27, 2010, for The Game, resulting in a crowded campus and a “crazy, busy day” at Gooeyz, Lanne Bennett recalled.

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Karlie Frank Lantern reporter frank.359@osu.edu The Ohio State women’s rowing team had approximately $8,925 worth of personal belongings stolen from its vans at the Dayton Boat Club in Moraine, Ohio, earlier this month. The theft was reported March 1 at about 1:15 p.m. to the Moraine Police Department. OSU rowing coach Andy Teitelbaum told police four of OSU’s five vans had been broken into and 19 team members had items stolen from them during practice, according to the Moraine Police Department report. OSU athletics spokesman Dan Wallenberg referred The Lantern, on behalf of the athletics department, the coaches and team members, to police for comment. Teitelbaum told police the team members were away from the vans from 10 a.m. to noon while they were practicing, according to the report. Two officers checked the surrounding area and dumpsters for any discarded stolen items or other evidence, but nothing was found. No suspects had been identified at the time the report was filed.

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