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Thursday May 19, 2011 year: 131 No. 72 the student voice of

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thelantern OSU: Party safe or you’ll be sorry

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OSU email warns students that large parties could have large consequences THOMAS BRADLEY Senior Lantern reporter bradley.321@osu.edu

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OSU men’s volleyball players John Klanac and Steven Kehoe prepare to start professional careers overseas.

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An Ohio State ofÿcial warned students about having large parties this weekend, like last weekend’s Woodfest ’11, citing that legal action can be taken if laws are broken. Javaune Adams-Gaston, vice president of student life, sent an email to students at about 11 a.m. Wednesday. In that email, she said the university was aware of several large parties being planned for the weekend. “Your safety is our top priority. That is why the university strongly urges you not to host large parties or attend them, and why we support police in enforcing laws and shutting large gatherings down at the ÿrst signs that they are becoming unsafe,” Adams-Gaston said in the email. On Facebook, there are several groups getting attention from students and others interested in throwing fests similar to Woodfest. One of those groups has a party scheduled for Saturday, which they dubbed “ChittShow 2011.” As of Wednesday night, the group has more than 2,600 people attending and about 4,500 more waiting to reply. In the information box of the event it suggests

Is Saturday the end of the world as we know it?

Your safety is our top priority. That is why the university strongly urges you not to host large parties or attend them, and why we support police in enforcing laws and shutting large gatherings down at the first signs that they are becoming unsafe.

Javaune Adams-Gaston vice president of student life

roping off the yards to keep people out of the streets. Several attempts to talk to creators of the group were unsuccessful. Representatives from the Columbus Police Department were not immediately available to comment on Chittshow. Adams-Gaston also mentioned several of the laws that are applicable in a large party situation, like the situation at Woodfest last weekend. “When police issue an order to leave the area

(disperse), this is not a suggestion. It is a command, and failure to follow it is a violation of the law. When the order is given, you should immediately leave the area or go inside your house and shut the door,” Adams-Gaston said. Saturday evening into early Sunday morning, several houses organized Woodfest, a block party that spilled into the street, blocking trafÿc on East Woodruff Avenue between High Street and Indianola Avenue. Columbus police dispersed the party around midnight with the use of pepper spray. At Woodfest, two OSU students and a Columbus State student were arrested and charged with assault on a police ofÿcer. The three students — Matthew Coleman, 19, majoring in biology, Brian Witt, 21, majoring in civil engineering and Michael Shivak, 21 — have all posted bond and have a court date set for May 25, according to court documents. Several attempts to reach Witt and Coleman, the OSU students involved, were unsuccessful. Adams-Gaston said students who host parties like this could face university sanctions. She also added that anyone arrested — like the three at Woodfest — could be placed on immediate interim suspension from OSU.

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Love on the Oval The statue of former Ohio State president William Oxley Thompson received an addition this week when someone spray-painted a pink heart on its chest. According to Larry Allen, communications and marketing manager of Ohio State Libraries, the heart was spray-painted on sometime Monday night or early Tuesday morning. OSU Libraries is making plans with the Roads and Grounds Division of Physical Facilities to have the heart removed and the statue repaired.

DANIELLE HYAMS Lantern reporter hyams.2@osu.edu

They ‘feel home’

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Music group O.A.R., comprised of OSU alumni, will return to Columbus to perform at the LC Pavilion Friday.

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Some people around the world are preparing for what they say will be the end of time. These people are quitting their jobs, liquidating their assets, saying their ÿnal goodbyes and spreading the word: Judgment Day is Saturday. The Judgment Day movement is being spearheaded by Harold Camping and his organization, Family Radio. Camping, who is 89 years old, is a former civil engineer turned religious ÿgure who predicts the end of the world based on a numerical analysis of the Bible. He previously predicted that the world might end in 1994. Gunther von Harringa, who runs Bible Ministries International, which produces content for Family Radio, describes the horror that he says will engulf the world this Saturday as God punishing man for all their sins. “God will open up all the graves around the world,” Harringa said. “The entire surface of the earth will be littered with the decay of the people that died.” Harringa said a massive earthquake will ensue, and the devastation will continue until October 21, when “God will completely incinerate the whole universe and it will never be remembered again.” Harringa added that while “true believers” will be saved, many people falsely consider themselves to be Christians, but are not true believers. Ken Bushman, a 43-year-old retired correctional ofÿcer, has been spending his ÿnal days traveling the country to warn people of their “imminent” death. He has been planning for this day for nearly two

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LAUREN HALLOW / Lantern photographer

Rape, robbery Construction to move in before move out reported near campus

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A construction project on Ohio State’s North Campus might cause moving out to be a little more hectic. The university will close off West Woodruff Avenue from Curl Drive/College Road to Tuttle Park Place starting Monday. The initial date to start on Woodruff Avenue was supposed to be later, but Thyrone Henderson, associate director of University Residences and Dining Services, said in an email to The Lantern that the original start date had to change. “Because of the timeline, the project team has made the decision to begin the work a few weeks prior to graduation,” he said. Justin Frantz, a ÿrst-year in biology and resident of Haverÿeld House on the corner Woodruff and Curl Drive, said he thinks the construction could have waited a little longer. “Wait until the year is over. Wait until campus has cleared out,” Frantz said. “Personally, I don’t do studying in the dorm, but I’m sure the sound will be obnoxious.” Henderson said the construction team has been made aware of ÿnals week (June 6-10) and will keep the increased sensitivity to noise in mind. Henderson said the planned working hours will be from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, but at least two of the four crosswalks crossing Woodruff Avenue will be maintained at all times. He said the work will begin on the east side near Curl Drive and work west toward Tuttle Park Place. The bus stops on Woodruff Avenue will be relocated to 19th Avenue between Monday and the end of the quarter. During move out, there will be a route to cross Woodruff leading to the “driveway” near Blackburn House connecting it with 19th Avenue, Henderson said. Stephanie McGhee, a ÿrst-year in forestry, ÿsheries and wildlife, is a resident of Blackburn House on North Campus. She said she is unhappy about the decision to start the construction now.

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CAMILLE TRAVIS Lantern reporter travis.77@osu.edu

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“(The noise) is probably going to impact studying a lot and there will probably be a lot more trips to the library and not as much homework being done in the dorms,” she said. McGee said the construction should have waited because a lot of the residents in Blackburn use the bus stop on Woodruff Avenue since their classes are on West Campus.

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