The Lantern

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Monday May 21, 2012 year: 132 No. 72

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The Ohio State University

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thelantern Football leads OSU’s 46 NCAA violations

sports

PAT BRENNAN Sports editor brennan.164@osu.edu

Big Ten bound

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The OSU baseball team earned the sixth and final spot in the Big Ten Tournament, albeit with a 11-13 conference record.

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Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and football coach Urban Meyer both committed NCAA violations in the last year, and they were not alone. Violations by Smith and Meyer accounted for two of 46 violations that the athletic department selfreported to the NCAA since May 30, 2011. OSU released documents last week detailing the violations that have occurred since the day former Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel was forced to resign from his job. The violations were attributed to 21 of the department’s 36 teams. Teams involved with the NCAA violations included football, men’s basketball, field hockey, synchronized swimming, men’s and women’s track, men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s golf, men’s volleyball, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s gymnastics, mixed rifle, women’s rowing, men’s swimming and diving, wrestling and women’s ice hockey. OSU football compiled the most violations with nine. Buckeyes football violations spanned across the coaching tenures of Tressel, former head coach

and current defensive coordinator Luke Fickell and Meyer. Six OSU teams — field hockey, wrestling, men’s swimming and diving, women’s soccer, women’s tennis and women’s ice hockey — committed three violations. The men’s basketball, synchronized swimming, women’s lacrosse, and women’s golf teams rounded out the list of teams with more than one offense. The OSU athletics communications staff also committed one NCAA violations categorized as “institutional” violations, which involved the women’s basketball. Of Smith’s part in the 46 violations, he and two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin recorded a personal recruiting video for prospective football student-athlete Ezekiel Elliott. Smith and Griffin both missed Elliott’s unofficial visit while attending the OSU men’s basketball team’s Final Four appearance on March 31. Smith told The Lantern it was not the first time he had prepared video recruiting material, and does so when he is off campus. “I have done videos before for recruits when I am traveling and coaches are hosting the recruits

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Buckeye’s violation breakdown Basketball (m)

2

Field hockey

3

Football

9

Golf (m)

1

Golf (w)

2

Gymnastics (m)

1

Ice hockey (w)

3

Lacrosse (m)

1

Lacrosse (w)

2

Rifle (m/w)

1

Rowing (w)

1

Soccer (m)

1

Soccer (w)

3

Swimming/diving (m)

3

Synchronized swimming

2

Tennis (m)

1

Tennis (w)

3

Track (m)

1

Track (w)

1

Wrestling Volleyball (m) Institutional*

The athletic department recently released documents of self-reported NCAA violations committed by Ohio State teams since May 30, 2011. Of the university’s 36 teams, 21 committed a total of 46 infractions. Here is a summary by teams of the NCAA violations.

*In these instances institutional infractions were those committed by the Athletic Communication 1 Department. source: reporting CHRIS POCHE / Design editor 3 1

Woodfest, ChittShow yield pepper spray action CAITLIN ESSIG Asst. arts editor essig.21@osu.edu

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Range of rock ‘n’ roll

The sixth annual Rock on the Range was held this past weekend featuring Incubus, Chevelle and more.

campus

OSU’s second annual Bike Fair

The Columbus Division of Police shut down two street-wide parties this weekend in Ohio State’s off-campus housing area by spraying chemical agents into the crowds. Neighborhood block parties Woodfest, on East Woodruff Avenue Friday night into Saturday, and ChittShow, on Chittenden Avenue Saturday night into Sunday, included almost every residence on their respective streets on their respective nights. Thousands wandered the streets with beer, liquor bottles and other open containers at both parties. Most houses’ parties took place in the front yards, with people playing beer pong, standing in the grass or sitting on roofs, until Columbus Police ordered them to get down so they wouldn’t fall, police on the scene said. In May 2011, police also used pepper spray to break up Woodfest. Two OSU students and one other man were charged with assault on a police officer, according to reports. ChittShow was not broken up with pepper spray in 2011, but three people were arrested, according to multiple reports. Police shut down Woodfest 2012 at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday by dispersing pepper spray, which affected people as far away as two blocks south of East Woodruff Avenue. Dina Hocevar, a fourth-year in strategic communication and resident of Woodruff Avenue, said she didn’t get sprayed, but the pepper spray came toward her house and “everyone was coughing.” “I heard the first house that got pepper sprayed was because someone threw a bottle at a cop,”

CODY COUSINO / Photo editor

Partygoers at 51-53 Woodruff Ave., fill the lawns and houses down the street before police broke up the group of parties collectively known as Woodfest.

2A Students face job struggles post graduation

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SARAH STEMEN Oller reporter stemen.66@osu.edu

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Leah Troscianecki is one of the lucky ones. After searching for a few weeks, she found a full-time job. But some Ohio State seniors are not as lucky. According to an Associated Press analysis of government data, one in two college graduates is either jobless or underemployed. Troscianecki is a fourth-year in political science and set to graduate in June. She began her job search during Winter Quarter and found her position as a sales representative for a company in Arlington, Va., on FutureLink, a job careers search website OSU provides. But things weren’t always smooth-sailing for her. “I was so worried I wouldn’t find a job,” Troscianecki said. “I just didn’t want to be part of that statistic of college graduates who aren’t employed after nine months.”

The job search continues for Zach Gallman, a fourth-year in history who spent five years in the U.S. Army before entering college. “It’s tough to write a resume and be honest with yourself about your skills and attributes,” Gallman said. “Luckily, I had the help of some people who have been in HR and top managerial spots to help me with putting together my resume.” With student loan debt hitting the $1-trillion mark last month, the looming question is whether students who do not find a job within six months after graduation will be able to make their student debt payments without defaulting. But the numbers aren’t all gloomy. Ohio’s unemployment rate fell to 7.4 percent for April from 8.8 percent in April 2011, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Labor Friday. But on further analysis of the same data set, out of the 9 million unemployed Americans in April, 4.7

Glass could be half full for graduates

NACE Ohio OSU r Employers are predicting a 10.2 percent increase in graduate hires, according to a study done by the National Association of Colleges and Employers

r Unemployment rates dropped to 7.4 percent in April from 8.8 the previous year r Ohio added 29,000 jobs during 2011, and 42,000 in the first three months of 2012

r 54.5 percent of the 2011 spring class had secured full-time jobs after graduation, according to a survey by the OSU Center for Study of Student Life

source: reporting CHRIS POCHE / Design editor

million said they had gone to college or graduated, while 4.3 million said they did not. This marks the first time in history the number of unemployed workers age 25 and up who have attended college exceeds the number of those who hold high school diplomas or less. Experts say this shift reflects the vast number of Americans who are

choosing to attend college, along with older Americans who were not as likely to pursue a college education exiting the work force. On the other hand, the National Association of Colleges and Employers shows that the class of 2012 is being offered more jobs with bigger

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