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Monday April 13, 2015 year: 135 No. 26
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Joey Bosa sets his goals high
Student’s hats a Bad Ass idea
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CBEC holds official opening
Alum sentenced to life in Egyptian prison
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Soltan has been in prison since August 2013 Rubina Kapil Senior Lantern Reporter kapil.5@osu.edu
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Columbus Division of Police officer leans over a porch while shutting down a party on Chittenden Avenue in the early hours of April 12. A few hundred people attended several parties on the street as part of an event often called ‘Chitshow.’ Police started clearing sidewalks and front yards at about 1 a.m. on April 12. To see more photos of the fest, visit www.thelantern.com.
Ohio State graduate Mohamed Soltan was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday after being imprisMohamed Soltan oned in Egypt since August 2013. The verdict came after more than 25 postponed court hearings since August 2013, said Masoud Nafey, a member of the Free Soltan campaign and Soltan’s close friend. Soltan, a dual AmericanEgyptian citizen, was arrested in Egypt in August 2013 after the military coup and overthrow of former President Mohammed Morsi. Morsi’s time in office was filled with political unrest amongst citizens, despite his being the first democratically elected Egyptian president. Soltan was participating in a Muslim Brotherhood-led protest in a square in Cairo in August of that year to defend democracy when he was shot in the arm. As many as 900 people were killed in the square that day, according to The New York Times.
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Weinland Park project rises Billboard aims to engage neighborhood, highlight its positive aspects Nick Roll Lantern Reporter roll.66@osu.edu
TIANA REED Lantern Reporter reed.1034@osu.edu
Out with the alcohol, and in with the art — at least that’s the thought process behind Weinland Park’s latest community redevelopment project. The Weinland Park Collaborative replaced a billboard Saturday that was formerly adorned with a UV Blue Vodka advertisement. It now sports a community-created mural that will host four different works over the next year, rotating every three months. “We kept hearing complaints about the billboard, that it’s ugly, that it only advertises alcohol and that if this was Upper Arlington they wouldn’t tolerate that. And I said: ‘You know guys, we can take this back,’” said Jean Pitman, educator for youth programs at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The Weinland Park Collaborative is a partnership of businesses, nonprofits and the city of Columbus that aims to revitalize the neighborhood. Ohio State and its nonprofit
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Space aims to help students recovering from addictions
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The new Weinland Park billboard is fully revealed at the Weinland Park Billboard Celebration and Unveiling on April 11 in Columbus. This particular design is one of four to be displayed as part of the project.
As a child, Ahmed Hosni said it had always been his dream to work at Ohio State. But after battling an addiction to alcohol, Hosni said he felt that dream had faded away. But his dream has now been revived: He serves as the program coordinator for the Collegiate Recovery Community. “I like to think it was my destiny to end up here, since I too am a person who is in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction,” Hosni said. “At one point in my life, that dream kind of faded away and then got sober.” The CRC helps OSU students struggling with alcohol addiction get and stay sober while in college. The organization also operates an on-campus living option for students in recovery from drug or alcohol addictions called Pennsylvania Place. The residence hall is located on South Campus at 1478 Pennsylvania Ave. Not all students in the CRC live in the Recovery House, though. All
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Olympian hired as women’s hockey coach james grega, jr. Asst. Sports Editor grega.9@osu.edu Just over a month after former Ohio State women’s hockey coach Nate Handrahan resigned, the Buckeyes have found his replacement.
Jenny Potter will become the third head coach in the program’s history, OSU announced Sunday. “We are extremely excited to welcome Jenny Potter to the Ohio State family as the head coach of the women’s hockey program,” Shaun Richard, associate athletics director for sport administration, said in an OSU press release. “Her experience in the sport of hockey
as a highly decorated player both at the NCAA and Olympic level will give the student-athletes an instant ‘winners’ mentality.” Potter, who most recently was the head coach at Trinity College, is an Olympic gold medalist as a member of Team USA in the 1998 games.
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Jenny Potter, shown with her daughter, was hired as the next OSU women’s hockey head coach on April 12.
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