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When Baker Hall East resident Carol Fragoso’s roommate woke up to get a drink of water at about 5 a.m. on Jan. 26, she noticed the door to her dorm room was slightly ajar, even though she and her roommate had closed it earlier that night. “She didn’t think anything of it. She just figured that someone had peeked in, one of our friends did or something,� said Fragoso, a first-year in business. “In the morning, she noticed that her money ($200) was missing.� Fragoso said she usually locks the door at night, but they had “just forgotten about it� that night. Although at the time, Fragoso said her roommate thought the money had been misplaced, later that day, their resident adviser informed residents that a theft had occurred in the building overnight. Fragoso did not notice her missing belongings until after the floor meeting. Fragoso and her roommate’s things were among a total of $4,550 worth of items that were taken from three dorm rooms and six people at about 4 a.m. that morning, said Ohio State Police Deputy Chief Richard Morman. “Some people were sharing their stories and some guy said that his laptop got stolen, his MacBook. And I was like, ‘Wow, that’s crazy, I wonder why he didn’t steal mine.’ And then I go
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About $4,550 worth of items was taken from 3 dorm rooms in Baker Hall East at about 4 a.m. on Jan. 26. Baker Hall East is located at 93 W. 12th Ave. on South Campus. back to my room and check, and then my laptop’s not even there,� Fragoso said. Items that were stolen from other rooms included $59 in cash, two MacBook laptops, an iPhone, an iPod touch, a Panasonic digital camera and two wallets with IDs, gift cards, debit cards and a room key inside, according to the police reports. There is a suspect in the case: a non-OSU
Michigan blocks Craft’s shot OSU junior guard Aaron Craft (4) shoots the ball over Michigan sophomore forward Jon Horford (15) in the 1st half of the Feb. 5 game in Ann Arbor, Mich. Michigan won the game, 76-74.
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OSU football bucks dwindling football attendance trend Alex Newman grew up in southern Ohio and had parents who never wavered in their support of Ohio State football. He learned early to support the men wearing scarlet and gray. “It’s a tradition,� said Newman, a fourth-year in animal sciences. “People in Ohio grow up cheering for the Buckeyes. We all love the football team, and some of us even come to school here because of it.� That tradition, many say, is what keeps OSU football strong in a year when interest in college football seems to be waning. According to a study from AL.com, attendance for college football games featuring teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision conferences hit a nine-year low in 2012. Average attendance per game fell by more than 1,000 people from 2007. Television ratings for college football games fell by nearly 4 percent on ESPN and by more than 10 percent on CBS, according to the report. But OSU saw more fans at its home field in the 2012 season than it did in 2011. The number of fans in attendance at Ohio Stadium on Saturdays hasn’t fallen below 104,000 in the last 10 years. Even during the 2011 season, when the Buckeyes lost their starting quarterback before the season and finished with a losing 6-7 record, average attendance at home games only decreased by about 50 people per game from 2010, according to the OSU athletic department. Television ratings were less stable. The two OSU football games broadcast on ESPN in 2012 averaged almost 2.5 million viewers, while the three games the sports network broadcast in 2011 averaged just more than 2 million viewers, said Mike Humes, an ESPN spokesman.
Walk the Moon is scheduled to perform at the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion on Thursday at 7 p.m.
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student who is “not from the Columbus area,� according to an email from Baker East hall director Halea Hatten, sent on Jan. 31. The suspect supposedly entered the building after telling office assistants at the front desk that he had left personal belongings in the building
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OSU ramps up campus video surveillance john wernecke Lantern reporter wernecke.5@osu.edu
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The number of cameras watching Ohio State is expected to double over the next few years, partially because of new software that allows for cheaper installation. Ron Balser, director of OSU security and protective services, said the way OSU approaches security it is not forced to use just one piece of equipment and isn’t “stuck with one brand.� Balser said since OSU departments and organizations purchase their own surveillance equipment, they could save up to 50 percent because of the flexibility to choose from a variety of camera brands. “Let’s say we had a seven- or eight-camera system that we probably could do for about $40,000. Easily I think we could come down to $25,000,� Balser said. OSU’s library system is one organization taking advantage of the savings to update the “backbone� of its surveillance operations, including upgrading channeling and storage units where video footage is held.
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An alarm and video monitoring officer surveys OSU’s campus on security cameras at Blankenship Hall on Feb. 5.
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