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Public safety notice sparks questions LOGAN HICKMAN Campus editor Hickman.201@osu.edu
police the rape had occurred earlier that morning between 2-3 a.m. in a residence hall on North Campus, according to the notice. The suspect — described as a 19-year-old white man, standing at about 5-feet-8-inches tall and weighing approximately 185 pounds — had been “identified and removed from campus,” the notice said. University Police Chief Paul Denton said in an email Monday the suspect was an OSU student but not a resident of the dorm where the reported incident occurred. He later said the suspect did not make a forced or illegal entry into the residence hall, and that the suspect and victim were “very casually” acquainted. Although the suspect was identified and removed from campus, it’s uncertain if the suspect was ever at large before the notice was issued — Denton said Wednesday he would not provide a timeline of events for the incident, citing the fact that the investigation is still open and ongoing. When asked to clarify how the suspect was “removed” from campus, Denton referred to a statement he provided The Lantern Monday after the safety notice’s release. “The suspect was identified and
When a public safety notice was released Monday about a rape reported Sunday, it prompted questions about the reason for the delay. Those questions remain, since the suspect was identified and apprehended before the notice was ever sent — the first time in at least three years when that’s been the case. Public safety notices, after all, are issued when a crime occurs that’s considered a concern or continuing threat to campus. And because the suspect had been apprehended, it’s unclear what continuing threat or concern prompted the notice’s issuing after the rape, which reportedly occurred early Sunday in a North Campus residence hall. The University Police chief, meanwhile, referred The Lantern to Ohio State’s policy on timely warnings when asked what exactly the concern was that prompted the notice. He also said the police wanted to make sure everything was accurate when they sent it. The incident The incident was reported on Sunday at about noon by a woman unaffiliated with OSU. She told
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Bahamas trip expenses
$223,221= ~1,404 student basketball tickets valued at $159 per package
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Source: ohiostatebuckeyes.com
LEE MCCLORY / Design editor
Buckeyes drop $223K for trip to Bahamas JAMES GREGA, JR. Asst. sports editor grega.9@osu.edu The Ohio State men’s basketball program spent $223,221 on hotel and airfare for a team trip to the Bahamas in August, OSU athletics spokesman Dan Wallenberg told The Lantern. The team was in the Bahamas Aug. 5-10 to play two exhibition games against the Bahamas All-Stars and the Providence Storm. The Lantern originally requested this information on Aug. 11 before receiving the final numbers after a third records request Wednesday afternoon.
The cost for the Atlantis hotel was $65,000, while the airfare totalled $158,221. While on the trip, the team also participated in extra activities that included snorkeling, a three-hour catamaran tour and a trip to a USA soccer game being played nearby, according to an OSU release. According to a search on travel website Kayak made Wednesday night, the minimum price on a roundtrip flight for one adult from Columbus to Nassau, Bahamas, departing Oct. 5 and returning Oct. 10, was $528 as of Wednesday evening, while the same search on travel website
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RYAN ROBEY / For The Lantern
OSU students gather around Mirror Lake on Nov. 25, 2013, in an effort to continue the Mirror Lake jump tradition after university officials attempted to organize the yearly event. The student-led jump, taking place the day before the scheduled Tuesday jump, was coined ‘Mirror Lake Monday.’
Mirror Lake jump could see changes JEREMY SAVITZ Lantern reporter savitz.3@osu.edu Even though Ohio State administrators and students might be finding common ground in regards to university intervention of the beloved Mirror Lake jump, one OSU official said the recurring problem of alcohol intoxication could shut down the event. “It’s alcohol that’s the problem,” Jay Kasey, senior vice president for Administration and Planning, said. “We are here today because our new president said this is an important thing, alumni agree and we should have the jump. We’re trying to do the best we can, but if it completely gets out of hand, it will be shut down.” Kasey joined other OSU officials at a panel on Wednesday evening during the second meeting of a three-part forum hosted by the Undergraduate Student Government. The series aims to provide transparency of the planning of the jump for students after last year’s jump — which required wristbands for entry through a fenced-off lake — resulted in some students’ frustration. Although he said he still think fences are a good idea, Kasey said last year’s jump could have been organized better. “We didn’t do a good job last year, I’ll admit,” Kasey said. “The wristbands were an idea that came at the end of the process. What I would recommend is that once again we put the fences up, but we will probably need more entrances that can be accessed easier.” In protest, some students jumped in the lake the night before the planned jump after plowing down the fences last year. And more sour news might be around the corner for the tradition where OSU fans jump in Mirror Lake the week before the OSU-Michigan football game. This year, the jump could be threatened by various unconfirmed plans to change the water source to the lake and re-landscape the surrounding area. The lake was drained after last year’s jump to allow for work on a roughly $28,000 sustainability study aiming to prevent water loss because of leaks in the lake’s structure. The study was also set to address maintenance issues related to deterioration of the lake’s walls. The study, which concluded in July, ultimately determined that groundwater is a viable option for sustaining the lake, officials have said. Mirror Lake was refilled in early August with water from a recently-dug well that cost an additional $30,000, but a final design for Mirror Lake is set to be chosen in early November. In the meantime, officials have said the lake could be drained again. Molly Ranz-Calhoun, associate vice president for Student Life, also spoke at the USG forum where she
urged students to limit alcohol consumption as well. “The No. 1 thing they restrict when you do a polar jump anywhere in the world is alcohol,” Ranz-Calhoun said. “The combination of the cold weather, the cold water and alcohol makes this thing very difficult to ensure student safety.” University Police Chief Paul Denton, who also sat on the panel, said students should wait to drink until after the event. “Have your parties post-jump,” he said. “If you think about the polar jumps across the country, they do their celebrations afterward.” Despite what students may think, Ranz-Calhoun said officials have students’ best interest in mind. “We really don’t sit and home and figure out ways to make students angry,” Ranz-Calhoun said. “We try to figure out ways you can have a great experience here and make sure you are safe.” Speakers and USG members addressed other concerns and suggestions including: • Concrete jump time • Ending the jump earlier to prevent alcohol intoxication • Sober student volunteers • Use of Twitter and mass texts to enhance communication • Using the jump to raise money for charity • Keeping high school students and other non-OSU students out • Having specific jump times by year with use of different colored wristbands • Using resident advisers more to pass safety information on to first- and second-year students • More security and support off-campus • Reaching out to the Greek community for security and cleanup While suggestions and concerns were shared in high numbers, Kasey reiterated that no changes have been decided as of this point. “There have been no definitive decisions made about changes,” he said. “We talked about the fact that we wanted to wait for this (Town Hall) first. We may not agree on everything, but we sincerely want to hear what you have to say.” Some students in attendance send they felt this week’s meeting was proactive. “The general assembly was very pleased with the administration’s willingness to collaborate with students and discuss potential solutions,” said Halie Vilagi, a second-year in public affairs and USG senator. “Tonight was a step in the right direction.” Although the university doesn’t recognize the Mirror
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From the Wexner living room to the Wexner Center DENISE BLOUGH Lantern reporter blough.24@osu.edu The home of L Brands chairman and chief executive Leslie Wexner and his wife, Abigail, is usually adorned with eminent artworks by Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet and Alberto Giacometti, but those pieces — along with much of the Wexners’ personal art collection — have found new, if only temporary, dwelling at Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts. About 60 works of art from the Wexners’ private collection have voyaged to the galleries of the Wexner Center for their first public debut in an exhibition that opens Sunday. The collection is centered on works of Picasso, Dubuffet and Giacometti, with about 15 works coming from each, but art by Susan Rothenberg, Willem de Kooning and Edgar Degas also play an important role in constituting the collection. The exhibit, titled “Transfigurations: Modern
Masters from the Wexner Family Collection,” lasts through Dec. 31 and is one of the ways that the Wexner Center — named after Leslie Wexner’s father, Harry — is celebrating its 25th anniversary. “It’s a very interesting collection in many ways,” said Lisa Florman, chair of the Department of History of Art, and the instructor of a one-time class that will be studying the Wexner family collection in detail. “I still think Picasso’s works are the most spectacular in the show, but there are ways in which the other artists’ works are going to be a revelation to people.” Guest curator of the exhibit Robert Storr, professor and dean of the Yale University School of Art and previous senior curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, comes to the exhibit with a deep and important background in art history, said Jennifer Wray, marketing and media assistant at the Wexner Center. The works in the collection, which range in date from 1898-99 to the 1950s but mainly focus on post-war European art, each explore a common concept: the figure. Anybody who wanted to be
considered a significant artist after 1945 in the United States was doing abstract works, but that wasn’t the case in Europe, Florman said. “Abstract paintings were still being made, but there were also really significant artists like Picasso, Giacometti and Dubuffet who were insistent that modern art could be representational and figurative. The tradition of the human figure lived on longer in Europe,” Florman said. The earliest piece in the exhibit is a charcoal sketch informally titled “Spanish Village Scene” and was created by Picasso when he was a mere 17 years of age. “One of the things I always have to get my students to wrap their heads around is how extraordinarily talented he was from a very early age,” Florman said. “We tend to think of artists’ style or technique developing over time, but Picasso is a little different in that he could be working in two unrelated styles almost simultaneously.”
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Pablo Picasso Femme assie dans un jardin (Woman seated in a garden), 1938 Oil on canvas 51 1/2 x 38 1/4 in. (130.8 x 97.2 cm) Wexner Family Collection © 2014 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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