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4A Final Four basketball tickets sell in a flash ChrisTopher sChWArTZ / Managing editor
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Final Four tickets Ohio State’s student allotment of March Madness tickets for the Buckeye’s trip to The Final Four sessions on Saturday and Monday have sold out. OSU was issued 710 student tickets for both sessions — the semifinal session and the National Championship Game — at a cost of $25 for a two-session ticket, granting students admittance to all three games. The Buckeyes travel to New Orleans to take on the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday at about 9 p.m. The victor will play the winner of the game between the Louisville Cardinals and the Kentucky Wildcats for the National Championship Monday. Brandon Edwards, a fourth-year in political
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science, said he and 11 other friends started planning their trip to New Orleans as soon as the final buzzer sounded Saturday when OSU defeated Syracuse, 77-70. “It’s been a really hectic, stressful process,” Edwards said. “Everything from hotel costs to flights or how much it would cost to drive down has been crazy. But we are all really excited. “We actually didn’t know what the ticket buying process for students was going to be, so we actually bought our tickets on StubHub on Sunday,” Edwards said. The OSU Athletic ticket office sent an email out Monday morning with details about student ticket availability. On a first-come, first-serve basis, students were able to log in and purchase tickets to the games. For the first session, OSU was issued 355 tickets in the lower bowl behind the athletic band, and 355 tickets in the upper bowl. If the Buckeyes win
the semifinal game, all 710 tickets for the National Championship will be in the lower bowl, and if they lose, all 710 tickets will be in the upper bowl. The tickets are electronic, non-transferrable and cannot be resold. A BuckID and the credit card used for the purchase must be presented at the game to be granted entry. Tickets went on sale at noon Monday and OSU’s allotment sold out shortly after that. Edwards said once he received the email, his group decided it was going to sell the tickets they previously purchased on StubHub, which he said they bought for $197 a piece, and get the student tickets. “We were actually able to sell them all back already, and everyone in the group, as far as I know, was able to get the student ticket,” Edwards said. For the first game the seats in the lower bowl are
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AYAn sheiKh For The Lantern sheikh.51@osu.edu As the number of people choosing to pursue an online degree instead of attending classes on a university’s campus continues to rise, employers seem to disagree on whether they would hire applicants with a degree from a brick and mortar university over an applicant with a degree from an online institution. Gina Valent, a consultant for Randstad, a Columbus recruiting company specializing in manufacturing and logistics, said when it comes to hiring, her company does not consider where applicants graduated from. Instead, Valent said what matters is that applicants have experience working in the field. “The actual degree, if it applies, is what the client is looking for, skillwise and education-wise,” Valent said. Similarly, Glenna Halligan, a marketing coordinator for Dawson Resources, a staffing firm in Columbus, echoed Valent, saying employers look for experienced workers. “A lot of the times, the positions you’ve held and where you succeeded matters way more than if the diploma hanging on a wall
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employers continue to disagree on the importance of a degree from a brick and mortar university versus an online university.
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The number of women attending Ohio State has increased significantly, and the same is true among universities across the country since 1982, according to a recent study conducted at OSU. According to the study, the increase in numbers is partly due to the availability of programs and funds aimed at creating incentives for women to continue their college education. Claudia Buchmann, associate professor of sociology at OSU, conducted the study, which showed women tend to do better than men in college and it’s not because they opt for “easy” majors. “Women have always out-paced men in terms of performance in schools. They get better grades, they tend to enjoy school more,” said Anne McDaniel, postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia University. “Girls have fewer behavioral problems and they’re less likely to be diagnosed with learning disorders.” The first-year retention rates for OSU female students in 2010 was at 93.7 percent. The number is 1.7 percent higher than the total percentage of firstyear retention rates for male students in the same
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A recent study conducted at Ohio State shows the number of women at OSU has not only increased, but that women often do better than men in school. From 2001 to 2010, first-year retention rates at OSU have been higher among women than men.
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year. The male retention rates was reported to be at 92 percent. “That trend is not new and it’s not surprising,” said Yolanda Zepeda, assistant provost at the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. “We in Diversity and
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