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thelantern Big Ten champs Winning 73-57 against Illinois, the Buckeyes clinched at least a share of the Big Ten title in what was perhaps the last home game for junior guard and OSU star Evan Turner
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The night started with tears dripping down the face of senior Mark Titus. It ended with a ° oor full of Buckeye nuts celebrating Ohio State’s ÿrst Big Ten Championship since the 2006-07 season. Behind a barrage of 3-pointers by junior Jon Diebler, the No. 6 Buckeyes raced past Illinois to win 73-57 on senior night at the Schottenstein Center. Diebler drained seven shots from behind the arc, including ÿve in the ÿrst half. He paced the Buckeyes with 21 points.
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Highlights of the new Ohio Union First Floor The new $118 million Ohio Union will feature 17 rooms in honor of donors who contributed $3,618,871 to the building. In the next four issues, The Lantern will explore all of these rooms and the donors honored in the new building, which opens March 29. Today, we take a look at the first floor.
U.S. Bank Conference Theater: $500,000
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Kenneth D. Roth, president of Roth Produce Company, a Columbus-based company whose clients include OSU, donated $50,000 in honor of his parents Ben and Arlene. A lounge was named for his parents.
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Although his wife didn’t attend Ohio State, alumnus Robert H. Schmahl made a donation to recognize her pride in the university. Robert, who is now a member of OSU’s Alumni Advisory Council, donated $100,000, and his wife was honored with a suite on the first floor.
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U.S. Bank made a donation of more than $1 million to OSU on Monday, with $500,000 going to the Union. University administrators named a conference theater for the bank, where the Ohio Union Activities will host lecture series and movies. The bank will also open a branch office and four ATMs on the first floor.
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Donors who helped pay for Union recognized with rooms CLAIRE RACINE Lantern reporter racine.10@osu.edu
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Seventeen rooms in the new Ohio Union have been named in honor of donors who contributed more than $3.5 million to the building, which opens March 29. The private donations ranged from $25,000 to $2 million, said Heather McGinnis, director of development for the Ofÿce of Student Life and the Ohio Union. Donors don’t make commitments in exchange for a room named in their honor, McGinnis explained, but rather administrators choose to recognize gifts to the university with these rooms. “If you make a gift in support of a building because you believe in this university, the gift will be recognized,” McGinnis said. Before donations were accepted, the development ofÿce decided what the appropriate donation amount should be for each space in the new Union. Gifts
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toward the new $118 million building included monetary donations as well as equipment donations, and came from corporations, groups and individuals. On the ÿrst ° oor, the spaces named for these donors are the U.S. Bank Conference Theater, the Ben and Arlene Roth Lounge and the Joe-Ann Schmahl Suite. U.S. Bank gave $500,000 to the Union and will also open a branch and four ATMs in the new Union. The Conference Theater will host OUAB’s movie and lecture series, among other things, said Tracy Stuck, director of the Ohio Union, in an earlier interview with The Lantern. Bank representative Dave Sceva made the donation
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An Ohio State student told police she was raped by a college-aged male near McPherson Lab early Monday night. At 8:45 p.m., the 20-year-old student was walking to her dorm in Houck House after attending a meeting on campus when a man grabbed her from behind near the south side of McPherson, police say.
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