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Guiton breaks single-game TD passing record
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DAN hoPe Oller reporter hope.46@osu.edu Two starts. Two wins. Two school records. Ohio State redshirt-senior quarterback Kenny Guiton is on a roll. Guiton set another school record Saturday versus Florida A&M when he became the first quarterback in OSU history to throw six touchdowns in a single game. Just one week before, Guiton was part of the longest play from scrimmage in OSU history when he completed a pass to junior wide receiver Devin Smith that
went 90 yards for a touchdown, just one minute and 53 seconds into the Buckeyes’ 52-34 win over California. He completed all six touchdown passes against Florida A&M in the first half, breaking the record on a 15-yard strike to junior wide receiver Evan Spencer in the end zone with just five seconds remaining before the break. Guiton led No. 4 OSU (4-0) to a 55-0 halftime lead in a game the team eventually won, 76-0, against its FCS opponent. Guiton broke a record previously held by Bobby Hoying, who completed five touchdown passes twice, once against Purdue in 1994 and again against Pittsburgh in 1995,
and John Borton, who threw five touchdown passes against Washington State in 1952. Including his six touchdowns, Guiton completed 24 of 34 passes for 215 yards, all in the first half. The Buckeyes did not attempt any passes in the second half. Guiton was on the field for two secondhalf possessions, including one touchdown drive, but only because redshirt-freshman Cardale Jones, who started and ended the half at quarterback for OSU, had to return to the locker room to receive stitches for a cut in his hand. Guiton’s two starts came in place of the Buckeyes’ regular starting
quarterback, junior Braxton Miller, who has not played since suffering an MCL sprain in his left knee on the first possession of OSU’s 42-7 victory against San Diego State Sept. 7. Considering he plays backup quarterback to Miller when the starter is healthy, Guiton said he “never thought” he would be in a situation to set school records like he has the past two games. “I’m just trusting the game plan. I go out and I’m just trying to execute and whatever happens, happens,” Guiton said. Coach Urban Meyer said Guiton
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Surplus in the buckeye backfield OSU has a number of running backs to play the field, especially with the return of senior Carlos Hyde.
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DANiel beNDTSeN Lantern reporter bendtsen.1@osu.edu Ohio State University Police officers will not be involved in the enforcement of OSU’s tobacco ban and will not issue citations, OSU spokesman Gary Lewis said. Additionally, a human resources memo from August states explicitly that, concerning tobacco violations, “Ohio State Police will not respond to calls, as policy enforcement is not their role.” Set to take effect in January 2014, the ban is a matter of policy, not law, and infractions will be dealt with by OSU Human Resources and the Student Conduct Board, Lewis said. Several people involved in the implementation of the plan, however, have said the policy is more bark than bite. Roger Crawfis, associate professor of computer science and engineering and member of Faculty Council, which is made up of about 70 members representing faculty from the 18 OSU colleges, the University Libraries, the Military Sciences and the regional campuses, according to the University Senate website, told those in attendance at a Thursday meeting the implementation discussions which took place during the spring determined OSU does not intend to crack down on tobacco use. “There really won’t be enforcement,” Crawfis said
at the meeting. “It’s more just peer pressure to help people who want to quit, quit. So it’s more just a psychological warfare.” Faculty Council Chair Leslie Alexander confirmed that to the group Thursday, and said while the implementation committee will set up a complaint system, the university does not appear to have a plan of responding to complaints. The university-wide ban on tobacco was approved by the Board of Trustees in April, and was initially supposed to go into effect Aug. 1. That
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was later pushed back to January to allow for more thorough education of the policy, Lewis told The Lantern at the beginning of August. Sanctions under the Student Code of Conduct stipulate that students receive hearings after a reported violation, with punishments ranging from letters of reprimand, which are written letters issued because of a student’s misconduct, to dismissal. Despite the complexity, Lewis said sanctions
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Career fair draws fewer employers due to federal budget cuts MeGAN WeyRAUch Lantern reporter weyrauch.5@osu.edu
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Despite federal budget cuts causing a decrease in the number of employers planning to attend an Ohio State career fair this week, one fair coordinator has been attempting to reassure students the fair will still be worth it. There are set to be 36 employers at the College of Arts and Sciences Career Services Public Sector Career Fair Tuesday, down from 41 last year, fair coordinator and an internship adviser for the College of Arts and Sciences April Calkovsky said. The fair is set to take place at the Ohio Union from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Calkovsky, who has co-coordinated the fair since 2009, said the sequester, cuts to federal spending that went into effect in March, is partly to blame for decreased number of employers attending. “Sequestration has really handicapped a lot of agencies that normally come to the fair (because) their funds have been cut,” Calkovsky said. The sequester resulted an estimated $85.4 billion in discretionary spending set to be cut this
year across numerous government programs and agencies, according to The Washington Post. Due to these monetary cuts, some of the employers who attended last year’s fair do not have enough money in their budgets to return, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and “things related to the environment, like the U.S. Department of Agriculture,” Calkovsky said. She said registration for the fair costs $90 for government agencies. “They don’t have the dollars to spend for registration, but more than that, they don’t have the travel dollars,” Calkovsky said. Despite the small drop in employers, Calkovsky said the larger agencies that typically attend, such as the CIA, the State Department, the FBI and the NSA, will attend the career fair Tuesday. She said she has been encouraging students to not let the decrease in the number of employers discourage them. “There’s no better way to develop a relationship with an employer than to meet them face-toface and have a chance to develop a rapport with them,” she said. Erin McAuliffe, a fourth-year in political science and German, attended the career fair
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