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Protesters say they’ll continue to pressure OSU to end contract with Sodexo GORDON GANTT Lantern reporter gantt.26@osu.edu
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OSU baseball will look to pitcher Drew Rucinski today when it faces Minnesota in the Big Ten Tournament.
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About 40 protesters banging drums, shaking noisemakers and shouting chants rattled the walls outside Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee’s ofÿce Monday, but it’s not clear if the message they brought will resonate with the university administration. Nine protesters, including seven OSU students, were arrested during a sit-in outside Gee’s ofÿce in Bricker Hall. All nine protesters posted bail of $254 each and were released by 1:45 p.m. Tuesday. Ryan Marchese, a fourth-year in international studies, was one of those arrested. He is president of the group that organized the demonstration, United Students Against Sweatshops. He said he and the other protesters were separated and kept overnight at a Franklin County correctional facility on Jackson Pike. All nine were charged with criminal trespassing and one was also charged with resisting arrest after OSU police told the group to leave. Seven of those arrested were OSU students:
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We are absolutely going to be putting pressure on our administration and showing them that students won’t be silenced until the contract with Sodexo is cut. Ryan Marchese fourth-year in international studies
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Marchese; Natalie Yoon, a second-year in international studies and USAS secretary; Carolynne Grace Jones, a student in public affairs; Casey Ellen Slive, a student in geography and international studies; Terasia Bradford, a student in French and globalization studies; Isaac Paul Miller, a student in exploration; Hutchinson Srisoontorn Persons, a student in philosophy. OSU police said the other two protesters arrested are not OSU students: Adrian Evangelos
Bradley Jusdanis, 21, of Columbus and Christopher Ian Wells, 28, of Stone Mountain, Ga. The nine were a small contingent of an estimated 100 protesters that USAS organized who gathered between Sullivant Hall and the Wexner Center for the Arts at about 2 p.m. Monday. After that rally, about 40 protesters entered Bricker Hall and crowded the area just outside Gee’s ofÿce in an effort to force Gee to address the group’s accusations against OSU contractor Sodexo, Inc. USAS has accused Sodexo of violating workers’ rights to unionize and of various other forms of worker mistreatment, including sexism and racism. “Sodexo is aware of what happened at OSU yesterday,” Sodexo spokesperson Jennifer Hart told The Lantern Tuesday. “Our position is that we believe this was provoked as part of an ongoing corporate campaign that the Service Employee International Union has launched against Sodexo.” The labor union and USAS have made similar claims about Sodexo. Hart said she is frustrated because the groups repeatedly make the same accusations.
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Quidditch on the Oval A group of students played Quidditch, a game from the popular Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling, on the Oval Tuesday afternoon. The students used brooms, volleyballs and kickballs in place of the magical objects in the books.
LAUREN MRUK Lantern reporter mruk.3@osu.edu
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Star-studded farewell
After 25 years on TV, the two-part finale of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” aired Tuesday and today.
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As the trial run of extending William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library’s hours during Spring Quarter wraps up, it’s still unclear if the extended hours will continue next year. University ofÿcials said they will discuss the changes and it’s unlikely that a decision will be made before summer. In previous quarters, Thompson closed at midnight Sunday through Thursday, and stayed open until 2 a.m. during ÿnals week only. This spring, library ofÿcials agreed to keep the 2 a.m. closing time for the entire quarter, except for Friday and Saturday nights, when the library closes at 10 p.m. Joseph Alutto, executive vice president and provost of the Ofÿce of Academic Affairs, said ofÿcials will make a decision once they receive the director’s assessment of the temporary extension. “We will not begin to make an assessment until the quarter is over,” said Carol Diedrichs, director of university libraries. “At that time, we will pull together all of the data that we have gathered regarding usage and cost.” The Lantern reported in February that the experiment would cost an estimated $50,000 per quarter. If the hours remained permanent, this would mean it would cost the university an additional $150,000 per year. Library ofÿcials agreed to try to keep the library open longer at the urging of the Undergraduate Student Government last quarter. Kelly Kaltenbach, a fourth-year in psychology, said the extended hours come in handy during
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TYLER JOSWICK / Asst. photo editor
Summer brings studies for OSU, COSI CAITLIN HILL Lantern reporter hill.855@osu.edu The warmer months in Columbus are often designated for picnics, swimsuits, baseball games and outdoor activities. This summer, however, a group of exercise science students are taking their activities indoors to COSI in a collaborative research attempt to examine and explain human body performance. A group of at least 10 Ohio State students will engage in several different research projects at the Performance Lab in the Labs in Life section of COSI. The lab, which opened in fall 2009 and consists of three glass-enclosed research areas and one glass-enclosed conference room, is fully viewable to the public and open to public participation. “Because of our unique location at COSI we are able to carry out research and utilize the public while sharing our research with the public,” said Carmen Swain, program director in sport and exercise sciences at OSU and director of the Human Performance Lab. The collaboration, which grew out of an effort from the upper administration at OSU and COSI to bring research into the community, began after ofÿcials on both sides reviewed surveys and questionnaires that showed a community disinterest in research, Swain said. Two studies scheduled for this summer will examine how promotion of physical ÿtness in men and women participants can reduce the likelihood of cancer. Chrissy Knopp, a third-year in exercise science education, and Erica Toivonen, a second-year in exercise science education, are receiving a Pelotonia research scholarship of $12,000 each for their work in the lab. They plan to test 300 participants ages 18 to 65 who are moderate to highrisk cancer subjects. “Reduce the Risk” plans to recruit 150 male volunteers who have a link within two generations to renal, colon or lung cancer and “One Goal” plans to recruit 150 women volunteers who have links to breast, uterine or colon cancer, as these cancers are highly correlated with physical inactivity in the respective sexes, Knopp said. Researchers will call on COSI visitors who are watching the research to volunteer. During the study, Knopp and Toivonen plan to test the participants’ ° exibility, resting heart rate, blood pressure, aerobic output and, with the help of the BOD
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Researchers conduct exercise experiments at COSI’s Performance Lab in the Labs in Life section. POD, an instrument that measures lean body mass and fat mass via air displacement, they will test each individual’s total body composition. Researchers said they hope the study will make participants more aware of their physical health and promote lifestyle changes that will reduce their risk for cancer. “We want to see after we test them if their intent to exercise increases. It is important in this population because these cancers are really highly correlated with physical inactivity. There is about a 25 percent decrease in getting breast cancer if you are physically active, which is huge,” Knopp said.
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