Sept. 27, 2011

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Students strip down in protest

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Todd AVery Senior Lantern reporter avery.82@osu.edu

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Freshman connection

The relationship between freshman quarterback Braxton Miller and freshman wide receiver Devin Smith might bring a dynamic force to the Buckeyes’ offense.

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Several Ohio State students were rooting against the Dallas Cowboys on Monday, but it had nothing to do with their football team. A group of OSU students in United Students Against Sweatshops stripped down and protested in front of Bricker Hall on Monday in an attempt to prevent a potential apparel deal between Dallas Cowboys Merchandising and OSU. In a group of 15 students, all sporting cardboard signs and boxes, most of the men had no shirts on while several women went with only sports bras or strapped shirts to emphasize their point. “We would rather go naked than wear Dallas Cowboys Merchandising Apparel,” said Terasia Bradford, a third-year in French and sociology. The protest started in the basement of the Ohio Union where the students got their signs ready and moved on through the Oval while chanting “We don’t give a damn for sweatshop sweatshirts” to the tune of “We Don’t Give a Damn for the Whole State of Michigan.” The group traveled to Bricker Hall where they delivered a letter of delegation stating their demands to the secretary office of university President E. Gordon Gee before heading back to the Union. Nicholas Pasquarello, a fourth-year in psychology and sociology and co-president of USAS at OSU, said the demands included having the Cowboys’ merchandising company and its off-shoot Silver Star Merchandising, disqualified from the bidding process for an apparel deal, to have Rick VanBrimmer, director of trademarks and licensing for OSU,

TODD AVERY / Senior Lantern reporter

OSU students in United Students Against Sweatshops stripped down and protested in front of Bricker Hall on Sept. 26, 2011. removed from the deal and fired and that students and faculty be allowed to participate in the decision for an apparel deal. The University of Southern California recently signed a 10-year exclusive-merchandising deal with Silver Star Merchandising. University spokesman Jim Lynch said in a statement Monday that OSU is currently talking to license apparel companies, including Silver Star Merchandising, about an exclusive apparel model.

USAS, however, said that Ohio State has been secretly communicating with Bill Priakos, chief operating officer for Dallas Cowboys Merchandising Ltd., since spring of 2010 in an attempt to secure the Cowboys bid. The USAS has emails posted on their website, obtained by the Freedom of Information Act, between VanBrimmer and Priakos. In one of the

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New collegiate collection

American Eagle Outfitters released a new line of university apparel geared toward the ‘college experience’, which is exclusively available for purchase online.

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CODY COUSINO / Photo editor

Diesel-electric powered buses come to campus

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Westboro Baptist Church members protest on the corner of High Street and 11th Avenue on Oct. 4, 2010.

Westboro Baptist Church: ‘God hates’ OSU Thomas BRadley Campus editor bradley.321@osu.edu Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas church which commonly protests with its “God Hates Fags” signs, is coming again to Ohio State’s campus to spread their message. WBC announced Monday that they would be picketing on campus on Oct. 25 at 11:15 a.m. at the Ohio Union. In the picket schedule on the church’s website, it says that “God hates Ohio State University.” “When this largest University in the nation put policies of disobedience to the Commandments of God into effect, you marked this nation for destruction,” the schedule said. Timothy Phelps, an elder at Westboro and a son of church leader Fred Phelps, spoke to The Lantern about his upcoming trip to OSU’s campus. Timothy Phelps said recent decisions by the nation warrant protest. “The state of New York has set the bar and every state will follow very shortly here,” Timothy Phelps said. “And in fact, every nation will follow very

I say ‘Waaa. Get over it.’ (People) don’t want to hear that they have to answer to their creator. Timothy Phelps elder of Westboro Baptist Church

Hampshire, Vermont and New York. Timothy Phelps also said that the recent ruling to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is a cause for protest. “(Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) was kind of a schizophrenic rule anyway,” Timothy Phelps said. “But such as it did, try to put any kind of limits on these filthy creatures being full on out in the military.”

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was the official U.S. policy which prevented homosexuals from openly serving in the military. After nearly 18 years of the policy, it was officially repealed effective Sept. 20. Timothy Phelps said the actions of both New York and the U.S. will quickly be mirrored by the rest of the world, and will result in the destruction of the Earth. “This nation has done a couple of pretty clear things to show that it is right on the brink of destruction,” Timothy Phelps said. Jim Lynch, spokesman for OSU, released a statement concerning WBC’s upcoming campus visit. “College campuses like Ohio State have long been a place for crusaders who want to express their first amendment rights to free speech. The Westboro Baptists have visited Ohio State several times and we are familiar with their efforts across the country,” the statement said. “Our students here at Ohio State know that this is a very inclusive campus that rejects any form of prejudice, exclusion or disrespect. A brief visit by this group will in no way sidetrack our university’s long-standing values of

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(343) Days of waiting for Gordon-Levitt

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Alex Antonetz Arts editor antonetz.3@osu.edu

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Ohio Union Activities Board’s “hitRECord at the Movies with Joseph GordonLevitt” event originally scheduled for Oct. 24 has been postponed to Nov. 7, OUAB confirmed to The Lantern on Monday. The event will now take place at 7 p.m. in the Ohio Union’s Archie M. Griffin Grand Ballroom. The ticket release originally scheduled for Monday at 5 p.m. has been moved back as well, to Oct. 10 at 5 p.m. Tickets will be available for pick up at the Ohio Union Information Desk and students can pick up one per BuckID. The event has been postponed because of a scheduling conflict on

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shortly here to completely legalize same sex marriage.” Same-sex marriage became legal in the state of New York on July 24. Currently six states and Washington, D.C., grant same-sex marriage licenses: Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New

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Gordon-Levitt’s part, said OUAB adviser Katie Krajny. Gordon-Levitt’s publicist, Erica Gray, also confirmed that a scheduling conflict caused the event to be postponed, but did not say what specifically caused the scheduling conflict. However, GordonLevitt was cast in the next Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises,” which is currently filming in Los Angeles. OUAB became aware of the conflict at the end of the business day Friday, said Michael Niday, OUAB lectures chair. He said OUAB “did our best” to update their website and their Facebook page for the event over the weekend with the changes. Still, Niday believes the delay will help attendance. “I think this event will be a big success,

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Bryce Dallas Howard (left), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (right), star in ‘50/50,’ scheduled to hit theaters Sept. 30.

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