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Tuesday May 8, 2012 year: 132 No. 65

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CHELSEA CASTLE Managing editor castle.121@osu.edu

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With President Barack Obama’s campaign going door-to-door in his efforts for re-election this year, it is also penetrating social media feeds and people are taking notice. Josh Gordon, director of client services and communications at the Karcher Group, a social media management company based in North Canton, Ohio, said the purpose of social media is to create communities and amplify a message. This is especially important to any political enterprise, he said, especially Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. “It doesn’t matter what channel (the message) goes through,” Gordon said. “Is it consistent across all the channels you communicate through? Not just social media, but is it the same offline? “With Obama’s campaign, you really see that. And I think that’s a testament to how he is using social media effectively.” Obama kicked off his re-election campaign Saturday at the Schottenstein Center to a group of about 14,000 people, and some attendees said they found social media use within the campaign and at the rally to be especially relevant. “It’s the best way to reach a large amount of people,” said Alicia Green, a Wright State University alumna who traveled from Dayton to see Obama at OSU. At the rally, campaign members used iPads to sign supporters up to help with campaign outreach. Attendees could also “check in” at the

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Sex offender, OSU fanatic arrested, jailed PAT BRENNAN Sports editor brennan.164@osu.edu

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TV personality Giuliana Rancic visited OSU Sunday and shared personal stories to about 400 students in the Ohio Union.

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Charles Eric Waugh, a registered sex offender in Kentucky who came in contact with Ohio State student-athletes and recruits, in-person and on social media websites, was arrested Monday and held overnight at the Boyd County Detention Center in Kentucky. An official from the Boyd County Detention Center confirmed Monday evening to The Lantern that Waugh, 31, of Ashland, Ky., violated his probation and also failed to comply with sex offender registration laws in Kentucky. The official said Waugh will not have bond and spent the night in the detention center. “(Waugh)’s stuck here until we hear otherwise,” a second detention center official said. After learning Waugh had been pictured with OSU student-athletes and recruits, OSU athletic director for compliance Doug Archie sent a warning email to Buckeye student-athletes. “The university has become aware that an individual who is listed on Kentucky’s sex offender registry has recently been seen in pictures with our student-athletes,” Archie said in the Thursday email obtained by The Lantern, which was preceded by a warning text message to student-athletes. Archie’s email to OSU studentathletes also contained an Internet link to a March 19, 2008, Daily Independent, in Ashland, Ky., report about Waugh entering “guilty pleas to five counts of possession of matter portraying sexual performances by minors.” Waugh also made contacts with OSU student-athletes and coaches on Twitter using the Twitter handles,

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OSU recruit Alex Anzalone (left) pictured with Charles Waugh (middle-left). Recruits Joey Bosa (middle right) and Mike Heuerman (right) are also pictured. @BdubsTriviaGuru and @tOSUGuru. In-person contacts between Waugh and OSU football recruits might have resulted in the decommitment of Wyomissing, Pa., linebacker Alex Anzalone. Anzalone committed to the Buckeyes 2013 class on April 21, but decommitted Friday after news of Waugh’s status as a sex offender went viral. Alex Anzalone’s father, Dr. Sal Anzalone, told the Reading (Pa.) Eagle that he does not blame OSU coach Urban Meyer for what happened during his son’s visit to Columbus. “There’s nothing wrong with Ohio

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CHRISTOPHER SCHWARTZ / Managing editor

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With the 2012 Pulitzer Prize luncheon approaching, officials still haven’t determined who will receive the winnings of the late Manning Marable, former chair of the Department of Black Studies at Ohio State. Marable, former chair of Ohio State’s Department of Black Studies, won the Pulitzer Prize for history for his book “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.” The award was announced April 16, just more than one year after Marable’s death April 1, 2011. Marable did not live to see his biography of Malcolm X published. Marable was the Black Studies department chair from 1987-1989. Horace Newsum, chair of the Department of African-American and African Studies and a associate professor in the department, said he was happy to hear of Marable’s win. “I’m glad he won the Pulitzer Prize, because I was so worried about the reception of the book,” Newsum said. Marable’s book received mixed reviews, partially because it included details of Malcolm X’s same-sex relations, which might have made some readers uncomfortable, Newsum said. However, Newsum also said that information was not new and has been used in other books about Malcolm X. The book was the subject of the Annual Diversity Lecture held by the OSU Libraries’ Diversity and Inclusion Committee Feb. 21.

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Manning Marable, a former OSU professor, won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Malcolm X on April 16. Marable died just more than 1 year before his prize was announced. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, associate professor of African-American history, was the featured speaker at the lecture and was one reader who had mixed reactions about the book that led to Marable’s Pulitzer Prize. “Marable, given his career contributions to history, African-American history in particular, and his service to his profession, is more than deserving of the award,” Jeffries said. “However, for this

particular work, I was less enthusiastic, less excited, because it left me wanting more.” At the lecture, Jeffries said the book “was a little bit disappointing, in that there is not much new revealed.” Reactions like Jeffries’ left Newsum wishing Marable was alive to defend himself. “I found myself feeling bad that he was not

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