Five takeaways from Ted Carter Jr.’s Wednesday interview with The Lantern President Carter’s sit-down
By Reilly Ackermann and Nora Igelnik Campus Editors
University President Ted Carter Jr. visited The Lantern’s newsroom Wednesday to discuss some of Ohio State’s most pressing issues, including university space standards, the un-sitions, his recent raise and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Space standards
Following a sharp increase in on-campus political activism last year due to the war in Gaza, the university reissued its space rules — now known as “space standards” — two days before the April 25 pro-Palestine protest which resulted in 36 arrests, 16 of whom were students.
In light of Aug. 26’s on-campus Christian baptism ceremony — at which the organizing group outstayed its space reservation and zero arrests took place — there has been somevisions of the space standards, which were updated over the summer, are ap -
When asked if violating the standards’ “Tents and Temporary Structures” section results in harsher con-
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sequences for student activists in comparison to other sections, Carter said the April 25 protests only ended in arrests because of “a planned attempt and a clear statement to violate [Ohio State’s] campus space rules.”
“At the end of the day, as we saw in many campuses across the country, once those encampments started and grew, there was no way to ensure the safety of those people that were there, and I did not want to see that happen,” Carter said.
Carter said violations of multiple, separate sections of the space standards within an event do “not neces-
sarily” compound to warrant a harsher response; however, if “somebody breaks the rules and there’s a real violation, particularly if it’s [a rule] opposed to some sort of safety or an attempt to incite violence,” then those instances will be reviewed by the university.
Vice president and provost positions
ident and provost positions, currently held in the interim by Karla Zadnik. Yet, no decision has been made to per-
Carter said the university has been conducting interviews, and “sometimes being a little bit patient will get you the best answer.” Within 30 days, Carter said the university will be making an announcement regarding the positions.
Carter’s recent raise and bonus
On Aug. 22, Carter received a 3.5% raise — or $38,500 — from the Board of Trustees, along with a bonus of $164,368, according to previous Lantern reporting. These additions bump up Carter’s annual salary to about $1.3 million from his previous base salary of $1.1 million, situating him among the top ranks of Big Ten presidents. He also surpassed former university President Kristina Johnson’s salary, which was $1.19 million in 2022, according to previous Lantern reporting.
is I didn’t ask for that,” Carter said. “So this is what’s in my contract. So, they have to review my contract.”
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Candidates discuss abortion, immigration and other hot topics Trump, Harris face o in presidential debate
By Emma Wozniak Editor-in-Chief
PHILADELPHIA
— After months of anticipation, former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris met face-to-face for the debate stage.
The 90-minute debate, hosted by ABC News at the National Constitutionportunity to hear the candidates’ positions since Harris replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee in August.
Harris and Trump laid out their visions for the country if elected, answering questions on several subjects from the economy and the environment to abortion and the war in Gaza. Moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis were intentional about keeping both candidates on topic and within the allowed time limits, though the two candidates nevertheless managed to successfully evade many of the moderators’ direct questions.
Harris frequently appealed directly to viewers in her responses, at one point telling Republicans frustrated with Trump that “there is a place in our campaign for you.”
Trump frequently tried to tie Harris to Biden’s policies on immigration and the economy, also accusing her of fracking.
While the two bickered less than Trump and Biden at the June 27 debate, the candidates still took shots at one another, with Trump calling Harris a “Marxist” and Harris asserting that Trump would give up the country’s best interest for the sake of “friendship with a dictator who would eat [him] for lunch,” referencing the former presi-
dent’s ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Economy
Harris outlined plans for a few specuts of $6,000 for middle-class families and $50,000 for small businesses. She also described her opponent’s plans as the “Trump sales tax,” which -
dle class.
In reference to Harris’ economic policies, Trump said the vice president “doesn’t have a plan” and that she only copied Biden’s “four-sentence-” long economic policy. Trump said the policy Harris and the Biden administration implemented has “destroyed our country.”
Trump mostly dismissed the idea of a sales tax and defended his stance on
ican citizens won’t face higher prices while other countries will. When Harris argued that this policy would cost Americans more money, Trump noted untouched under the Biden administration.
Harris said it’s important to consider how Trump left the country after his presidency, referencing high unemployment rates and poor public health as indicators that the former president “has no plan for [citizens]” and only cares about tax breaks for the wealthy. Ultimately, Trump labeled the coun-ably the worst in our nation’s history,” contrasting it to “one of the greatest economies in the history of our country” under his past presidency.
Immigration and border security
Immigration was a topic Trump fre -
quently returned to throughout the night, even when it wasn’t expressly mentioned in the question moderators asked.
When asked why the Biden administration waited so long to address border-crossing reaching an all-time high during Biden’s presidency, Harris referenced a bipartisan border security bill that would’ve allocated more agents and resources to the border crisis, had Trump not instructed Congressional Republicans to “kill the bill.”
“What we have in the former president is someone who would prefer to the problem,” Harris said.
Though Muir asked Trump why he vetoed the border security bill, he never gave a clear answer.
In a separate conversation on immigration, Trump falsely said illegal immigrants are “eating dogs” and othto which Muir responded that the no credible reports of animals being
“Let’s talk about extreme,” Harris responded with a laugh.
Trump went on to assert that crime rates are lower “all over the world except here” because criminals from other countries are coming to the United States. When Muir said the FBI reported “crime is down,” Trump said those statistics are “fraudulent” because certain towns were excluded from the analysis.
“I think this is so rich coming from someone who has been prosecuted for national security crimes,” Harris said.
Though Harris explained how Trump called for the defunding of federal law
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Carter said the board has to consider what his “peers are doing,” and the performance measure in his contract allows for 30% on his base.
“It’s a little humbling for me because I didn’t come here for the money,” Carter said. “I [came] here for the mission. I’m somebody that served in uniform for 38 years, so it wasn’t like I made a lot of money most of my life. And it is a little embarrassing, personally, to have to read that in the paper, but, you know, I live a very public life now. So, I know there’s critics out there, and I understand that those are big numbers, and I get that.”
Carter also said he donated “a fair bit of money” back to the university and is a regular contributor.
Senate Bills 83 and 117
Ohio Senate Bill 83, if passed, would eliminate requirements for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion — or DEI — training and courses for students,
Lantern reporting.
In early May, a letter was published via Instagram that contained signatures from 34 student organizations, all demanding Carter’s and Ohio State’s response to seven questions regarding the bill. These questions revolved around on-campus DEI protections.
Carter said diversity “is something that is important to all of us.”
“I think it’s important that everybody can see themselves being here, that they feel comfortable here, they feel safe here, that they know we have the resources to take care of them here,” Carter said. “And at the end of the day, it’s really about student success.”
Carter said he has spent time talking to members of the Ohio General Assembly and has been involved in the conversation around the bill. He front of the Ohio Senate Workforce and Higher Education Committee about the bill and budget issues May 8.
“I wanted to make sure they understood what we mean when we’re talking about Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion,” Carter said. “A lot of people have a tendency to just go right to thinking about the color of somebody’s skin. Yes, that’s a part of it, of course, but it’s so much more. And ultimately, the power of what it means to be a diverse campus, to be working in a group that’s looking to work either towards a common goal, is about how we embrace the diversity of thought, and I’m proud of [the fact] I think we have a lot of that here at Ohio State, so we’re going to continue to cultivate that and embrace those concepts.”
Carter said the bill has not moved, which is something he feels has been “forgotten.”
“[The bill] didn’t make its way through, and we, as a Board of Trustees, as a university, had already expressed where we felt on that, and nor did we endorse Senate Bill 83,” Carter said. “There will probably be some other version of it written at some point, and all I’ve asked to do is be engaged in conversation, and where I want to make sure is they’re not asking us to do something that either, A, we’re already doing, or something that’s going to create another layer of bureaucracy for some sort of administrative review that doesn’t necessarily help us with our mission.”
Senate Bill 117, which was passed in last year’s state operating budget, created an intellectual diversity center at Ohio State, along with other public Ohio universities.
Ohio Senator Jerry Cirino (R-Kirtland) — who cosponsored Senate Bill the bill’s purpose and goals on Ohio State’s website.
“Leftist ideology has a monopoly on most college campuses that is squashing intellectual diversity and punishing wrong-think and anti-woke dogma,” Cirino stated.
Ohio State has been allocated $5tion of its intellectual diversity center, which has been dubbed the Salmon P. Chase Center. Carter said he likes the idea that the center will be a place that “can understand better the tenets of civics, the tenants of free speech [and] the tenants of having a conversation on both sides.”
“It’s just getting started,” Carter
said. “We haven’t really fully stood it up yet. We haven’t brought any programs to it, but we are moving along with that, and it’ll be an institute that I’m very excited about. I think our students will also be excited about the opportunity to attend classes for that institute.”
10-year plan
In a previous Q&A with the Lantern, Carter mentioned that around his 100-day mark, he would have a written
to-10-” year plan outlining his vision for the university’s direction.
By his 100-day mark in April, no plan was released to the public. During a separate conversation with the Lantern in April, Carter said he would have the plan ready for release “probably sometime in the fall.”
Wednesday, Carter shared that since the start of his term in August 2023, he had been in “listen-and-learn
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enforcement the day he was arraigned for 34 felony counts, she didn’t elaborate on Biden’s immigration policies or her own.
Abortion and women’s reproductive rights
Trump opened the abortion discourse by claiming that Harris wants to legalize abortion at nine months, and that her running mate Tim Walz even supports “execution” of the baby after it has been born.
“I said you were gonna hear lies,” Harris responded. She later commented that such claims are untrue and “insulting to the women of America.”
Davis noted there are no U.S. states where it is legal to execute babies.
Harris said Trump’s abortion bans make no exceptions for circumstances like rape or incest, and that medical -
tion procedures because some states threaten them with prison time if performed.
Though Trump said he personally believes in certain exceptions for abortions, he is proud of himself and the six
mode.” Now, Carter said he is in “action mode” and beginning to put together a “strategy for the future of Ohio State.”
While Carter did not elaborate on
in this future plan, he said Ohio State will be releasing a university-wide email Thursday that includes a plan “going all the way to 2035 centered around the simple idea of, ‘How do we become the higher education institution for the nation?’”
“This is not the Ted Carter plan, this is The Ohio State University plan,” Carter said.
Carter said the plan comes after engaging with “about 1,000 people who constituencies” to share “things they value” and tell Carter’s administration what it should care about going forward.
“We’re well underway in putting this thing together,” Carter said.
conservative majority Supreme Court justices for bringing the issue back to the states, making it “the vote of the people now.”
While Harris promised to sign a Congressional bill to reinstate the protections of Roe v. Wade if elected, she said Trump will instead sign a national abortion ban — one component of Project 2025 that Harris insisted Trump intends to implement if elected. Project 2025 is a political initiative proposed by the Heritage Collection and supported by many other rightwing groups for what critics say is its extreme conservative policies.
Project 2025, and said he’s “not a fan” of a national abortion ban. However, when pressed by Muir about whether he would veto such a ban if it was brought to him during his presidency, Trump evaded the question and said “he wouldn’t need to.” When pressed by Muir a second time, Trump gave the same response.
Harris, too, avoided directly answering Davis’ question about whether she would support any restrictions on women’s reproductive rights, to which the vice president said she supports reinstating Roe v. Wade.
ARTS&LIFE
of “Speak No Evil”
Actress Mackenzie Davis speaks on her role in ‘Speak No Evil’
By Samantha Harden Arts & Life Editor
She may not be speaking any evil, but Canadian actress Mackenzie Davis discussed her on-set experiences, costars and more in relation to herble interview Tuesday.
At the roundtable, college-aged journalists were given an opportunityviewed.
Davis is best known for her rolesries “Black Mirror” and the 2015 sci“Speak No Evil,” Davis plays Louise Dalton, a wife and mother who spendstect her family.
remake of Danish director Chris-
the Daltons, and their daughter Agnesish family while on vacation and agree to spend a few days at their seeming ly tranquil country estate. It soon be comes clear, however, that the Dal seem.
Disclaimer: Spoilers lie ahead.
Inspiration for the role
inspiration from renowned director -
the Dalton family.
“I was thinking about these bourgeois couples who live in this sort of intellectual space,” Davis said. “There is this elevated core of just being alive and maybe a bit divorced from their instincts that Haneke explores a lot, and
Davis said she also drew real-life inspiration from her own mother when
“My mom is a really ferocious woman. She is very powerful, and she has a face that says everything but pretends to be polite,” Davis said. “I think that
is really trying to be a good guest, but you can see everything they think on their face.”
she avoided when searching for initeration.
“None of the actors were asked to,
her head.
“I wanted her to be more layered and complicated, and so I made up a backstory that made it make sense for me,” Davis said.
because you want to see how your version of this would unfurl organically.”
Understanding Louise
Davis said at times, portraying Louise was a bit of a struggle. Being such an impulsive person, Davis said it was hard to understand why Louise never spoke out or stood up for herself -
standing why she was so silent because she seemed to have really good instincts,” Davis said. “[She] knew exactly what was what most of the time,
out how to justify that for myself.”
Davis said she was able to bring a newfound sense of understanding to her role by creating a more detailed backstory for Louise in
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Working with Scoot McNairy and James McAvoy
the industry over 10 years ago at age 24, she felt like she was a “late bloomer.”
“At the time, you know, you feelally nice energy to have, but it has been nice to sort of grow up and feel more collaborative in my participation in the industry.”
Despite feeling more grown-up,
and
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FAR RIGHT: Paddy (James McAvoy) in Speak No Evil, directed by James Watkins.
Ben Dalton (Scoot McNairy),
Louise Dalton (Mackenzie Davis) in Speak No Evil, directed by James Watkins.
directed by James Watkins.
FAR LEFT: L to R: Paddy (James McAvoy) and Ciara (Aisling Franciosi) in Speak No Evil, directed by James Watkins.
Davis said getting the opportunity to acted alongside him in the 2014 drama felt like a full-circle moment.
“It was great because I really rejobs I had when I started working, and at the time, as like my elder and this really experienced performer, so it was fun to reconnect with him,” Davis said.
Davis said viewing McNairy as an elder proved to be a challenge while playing husband and wife in “Speak No Evil.”
“It was a bit funny because we were playing husband and wife this time, and we had to have this light sex scene in this movie, and it just felt like I was kissing my dad or something,” Davis to describe that, but that was the difference; suddenly, I was romantic with this person who I viewed in a very different way and for good reason. That
think the producers were also uncomfortable with what that looked like.”
that it places that sort of social anxiety on the same plane as mortal danger because that is how it feels,” Davis said. “You want to die when you are doing bad socially, and the movie makes you feel that. On top of that, you are also being hunted by a serial killer, and that feels quite true to the feeling of being in those situations.”
Working in horror
Davis said working on the set of a industry.
and it was like two months of that awkward discomfort that most of the movie is,” Davis said. “By the time we got to the end, I was really really happy to wield an axe and spray some acid because I needed catharsis after that long two months.”
plored the horror genre much in her career, it is something she would gladly do again.
horror movies,” Davis said. “This one was great because it was mostly shot in the day, and the thing about shooting
serial-killer character Paddy can be quite intimidating, McAvoy is entirely
good at what he does, and it feels sothing that he snaps into, and the rest of the time he is just a joy to be around.”
Underlying messages
Davis said, serve as an investigation into gendered performances common-
being married where I think, at least in my imagination, that they were much more equal, but there has been a transgression and, in order to atone for it, my character is being more compliant and allowing her husband to take the lead as a gesture of solidarity,” Davis
element of just being in a relationship. of how gender impacts our social behavior.”
Davis said she saw her experienc-
“People gravitate to it because sitting in a room and having these cathartic moments together,” Davis said. “I was at a screening last night of the movie, and people were erupting into applause, and screaming at the screen and groaning. You could feel, like, the whole theater becomes one organism,
Davis also said “Speak No Evil” was
“Because we were in one location, we were able to shoot it right through,
wet and cold. This was dry as a bone and was almost all shot in the day, so would do it again.”
“Speak No Evil” is set to release inter, Studio 35 and other local AMC and Cinemark theaters. Visit our website, thelantern.com for more!
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Louise Dalton (Mackenzie Davis) in Speak No Evil, directed by James Watkins.
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Louise Dalton (Mackenzie Davis) in Speak No Evil, directed by James Watkins.
Movie review: ‘Speak No Evil’ remake needs to be talked about
Lantern Reporter
Disclaimer: “Speak No Evil” has not yet been released in theaters, with its wide-scalegin Friday. The Lantern recentscreening as well as a virtual roundtable interview with lead actress Mackenzie Davis.
Snakes. Heights. The dark. These common fears are widely acknowledged as daunting.
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drinks with co-workers or high school reunions, everyone has had to begrudgingly put on a good face to maintain the fragile balance of politeness and decorum that keeps an awkward situation from getting ugly.
In “Speak No Evil,” an American family befriends an overly exuberant British couple while on vacation, eventually agreeing to spend a few days at their house so their shy children can bond with one another.
ful playdate quickly turns into a fascinating battle of wills between the two
eccentric personalities begin to make the Americans question if their hosts are hiding a dark secret.
will excuse in the name of courtesy, even if it comes at the expense of their safety.
Though it may not be the most textoverpoweringly uneasy.
The sometimes-cringe, sometimes-disturbing feeling permeating or monsters; rather, this discomfort mirror at viewers, suggesting that if express similar behaviors to avoid an uncomfortable conversation or two.
apart from featuring a terrifying per-ably his best showing since his role as a young Professor X in the “X-Men” franchise.
beat remake of its Danish predecessor, its slightly more comedic tone. Debates around remakes aside,doubtedly an entertaining, well-paced horror-comedy that features great performances from its leads, including McAvoy and Mackenzie Davis (“Black
attention to another primordial fear that may just be more frightening than any other: dinner parties.
ie in the traditional sense of the term. It lacks the jumpscares and consistent frights necessary to consistently conform to the genre, but what it does offer is arguably more terrifying.
The main controversy surrounding “Speak No Evil” is its remake status, just two years ago. Some have criticized the apparent need to pander to English-speaking audiences that are too lazy to read subtitles.
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Rating: 3.5/5
TOP PHOTO: L to R: Ben Dalton (Scoot McNairy) and Paddy (James McAvoy) in Speak No Evil, directed by James Watkins.
PHOTO: L to R: Ant (Dan Hough), Ciara (Aisling Franciosi), and Paddy (James McAvoy) in Speak No Evil, directed by James Watkins.
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‘Improvement week’ upDAYtes
By Noah Weiskopf Sports Editor
The Buckeyes are headed into their against Mid-American Conference opponents, collectively outscoring Akron and Western Michigan 108-6. But the Buckeyes know bigger challenges lie ahead.
That’s why head coach Ryan Day bye week as an “improvement week.”
Instead of taking a week to relax, the Buckeyes will go to work on theSaturday.
Here are the three biggest takeaways from Day’s Tuesday press conference at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.
How the Buckeyes will approach their “improvement week”
Day said the Buckeyes’ 2024 schedno games against Power Five non-con-
ference opponents. This change gives younger players more chances to gain game experience, which will help the Buckeyes further down the road.
“It has allowed us a little bit of an opportunity with some of the newer guys to get them going and look to get their feet underneath them,” Day said.
“As we grow, we know that we got a long way to go on this thing, and it’s
With the bye week arriving after Ohio State’s second game, Day said the team would rather reassess and continue to build skill than just sit back and relax.
Day said a full season of college football isn’t a marathon — like many people claim — but rather 12 straight sprints.
“Everybody else in the country is playing this week for the most part, so we have to as well,” Day said. “We’ve got to get each other better.”
This week, Day said every player
improve upon from their respective positional coach.
“That’s the No. 1 thing this week: We gotta stay in a rhythm,” Day said. “We gotta have a good week of practice
and think of it like a game week.”
Seth McLaughlin and the offensive line
When graduate center Seth McLaughlin transferred to Ohio State from Alabama, the Buckeyes knew they were getting a seasoned veteran.
Day said having a pro like McLaughlin around has been an immense help to the players and coaches alike.
“If Coach Frye or myself are barking at him, like we will, he just has a calming presence like, ‘We got it, we’ll get this straightened out,’” Day said. “And that’s what you want to hear as a coach.”
sive thus far in 2024, despite being without senior Donovan Jackson, a two-time First-team All-Big Ten left guard. Jackson is currently dealing with an undisclosed lower-body injury.
second game, as proved by the rushing attack. Day said he’s seen a lot of
he knows it still needs to improve for tougher tests later in the season.
“Things were cleaner, but it’s just a start,” Day said. “Bigger challenges ahead.”
Without Jackson, and in a lopsided second half against Western Michigan, Ohio State was able to rotate in more depth linemen, allowing them to gain live experience in a game setting. Day said there’s encouragement in that as-
“I did think that the guys who came in in the second half on the O-line was a group that — Was it perfect? No —
but I did feel like coming out of this game, it was better than it was in the last couple years,” Day said. “We were were competing.”
Former Buckeye quarterbacks excelling elsewhere
Former Buckeyes quarterback Kyle
McCord has led the Syracuse Orange to two straight victories out of the gate, tallying a combined 735 pass yards and eight touchdowns, with only one interception.
Day said he’s happy to see McCord
“I’ve only seen a few highlights; it looks like [he’s] doing a great job,” games, he’s got a good rhythm.”
But McCord isn’t the only former Buckeye quarterback to begin 2024 on a strong note.
University of Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers has led the Longhorns to a 2-0 winning streak, most recently securing a top-10 win on the road in Ann Arbor, Michigan against the Wolverines 31-12.
Day said he uses examples like McCord and Ewers as key selling points to players who are considering committing to the Buckeyes.
“When you come to Ohio State, you’re going to get developed at a high level at every position,” Day said. “But at quarterback, I take a lot of pride in that, in the fact that we develop guys at a high level. And that even if you were to leave — we don’t want you to leave — but even if you were to leave, it’s time well spent and invested.”
CARLY DAMON | ASST. PHOTO EDITOR Head coach Ryan Day speaks at a press conference following Ohio State’s 56-0 win against Western Michigan University on Saturday.
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Bye week? Head coach Ryan Day said the Buckeyes are using their
Students-only ticket website SeatStock to launch at Ohio State
New platform looks to combat scams in secondary student ticket market with September release
By Reid Murray Managing Editor for Design
Ohio State students will have a new way to buy and sell sports tickets beginning this month.
SeatStock, a student-only ticket marketplace founded by University of Iowa students, is set to launch at Ohio State during the week of Sept. 30, ahead of the Buckeyes’ matchup against the Iowa Hawkeyes, according to co-founder Brady Stein.
Fellow co-founder Josh Cohen said the company, which originally launched at the University of Iowa in February, aims to add security to the secondary student ticket market after Cohen saw his own friends lose money to ticket scams on apps like GroupMe
and selling student tickets to make some money on the side, and I quickly realized that it was a really bad and fragmented market,” Cohen said. “A couple of my buddies got scammed, so I was like ‘Okay, this is a real problem.’”
ticketing partners — including Ticketmaster at Ohio State — don’t allow users to search for student tickets spe -
group chats to buy and sell tickets.
But according to Jay Ralston, an Ohio State third-year in business, these platforms can allow scammers to take advantage of buyers.
Ralston said he lost over $300 when attempting to buy a ticket to the 2022 Ohio State-Michigan football game in a GroupMe chat, despite taking multi-
as an Ohio State student.
“As soon as I sent the money, I got blocked,” Ralston said. “I couldn’t contact them, so they took my money and I was out $300-350 and no Michigan
Cohen and Stein said SeatStock has implemented security measures to prevent such scams from taking place, such as requiring a valid “.edu” email
Once a user’s university email adtickets at their preferred price or buy them using the “buy now” and/or “place bid” functions.
Once a buyer and seller agree on a price, SeastStock holds the buyer’s money until the seller transfers the -
ing platform — in Ohio State’s case, Ticketmaster. Cohen said if a seller fails to send the ticket, the buyer will be fully refunded.
On top of the agreed ticket price,
Ohio State students in the Block ‘O’ North section participate in an “O-H-I-O” chant during Ohio State’s Aug. 31 football game against Akron. Ohio State won 52-6.
Cohen said SeatStock will charge 10% of the ticket price from each the buyer and the seller in fees.
“We understand students don’t want to pay 40% fees,” Cohen said. “Ten percent is very reasonable, especially with the guarantee that you’ll get your ticket. To pay 10% more — maybe that’s 10-20 bucks to save whatever the initial purchase is — is totally worth it.”
Though the SeatStock purchasing process involves sending tickets through Ticketmaster, SeatStock is not nor Ohio State.
SeatStock began operating as a minimum viable product in February during Iowa’s women’s and men’s basketball seasons, but will be operating in its current, completed form for the
In addition to Ohio State, SeatStock will be available at multiple other college campuses in the fall, including the University of Michigan and Penn State.
Stein said when evaluating where to expand its operations, SeatStock prioritized schools with large student bodies and well-known athletic traditions.ent culture there,” Stein said. “Those schools are the ones that really need this product the most because they’re -
ing up the student section every single week. The lowest tickets are a pretty expensive penny for a college kid, and the most expensive might be $400. So, on that.”
At Ohio State, both football and men’s basketball tickets will be available for exchanging via SeatStock, Cohen and Stein said.
In addition to buying and selling tickets, Cohen and Stein said frequent users may have opportunities to earn rewards, including discounted tickets, reduced fees and prizes such as jerseys. To learn more, visit SeatStock’s website.
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