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OSU linebacker Ryan Shazier wore No. 48 Saturday in honor of a friend who died over the summer.
When her family in New Jersey went to buy a generator, they found clean shelves instead. “They’re preparing for the worst right now,” said Jill Martinko, a second-year in exploration, of her family living in New Jersey about an hour-and-a-half from the Atlantic coastline, where Hurricane Sandy is expected to hit Monday. The hurricane, which passed through the Caribbean killing about 60 people in its path, is expected to disrupt life on the East Coast this week. In anticipation of the hurricane, several places on the East Coast have declared a state of emergency, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, New York and Washington, D.C. Bob Armstrong, the director of
OSU emergency management, and Dave Isaacs, a Student Life spokesman, said severe weather isn’t anticipated in Columbus. According to the Weather Channel, there have been high wind and flood alerts for the northeast part of Ohio, and rain is expected in areas throughout the state for the rest of the week. In Columbus, there is a 30 percent or more chance of rain until Thursday. Many students with family and friends in the areas expected to be directly affected by the hurricane have been checking in on their loved ones to make sure they are prepared for the storm ahead. Gabby Ubilla, a third-year in French and English, said her family living in Sterling, Va., near Washington D.C., had been preparing for the storm by finishing up housework, charging electronics and gassing up their three cars. “Our main concerns right now
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Hurricane Sandy stays offshore, as viewed from a beach access point on the north end of Pawleys Island, S.C., Saturday, Oct. 27. are the power going out and our house flooding,” she said in an email. “During major storms our basement floods as well. The last time this happened was during tropical storm Irene just over a year ago. It was so bad we had to get rid of the entire basement carpet and put in new
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Kal Penn visited the Ohio Union Sunday to talk about his career in politics and comedy.
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flooring, and we lost a lot of stored items in our crawl space due to water damage.” Hurricane Irene was a severe storm that hit the East Coast during the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season
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OSU sophomore quarterback Braxton Miller (5) dives into the end zone for a touchdown in the 3rd quarter of the 35-23 game against PSU.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Despite Ohio State’s 35-23 victory Saturday, Penn State’s “White Out” crowd lived up to its reputation. They wore white jerseys, waved white pom-poms and shook the stadium with noise. In the beginning of the game, they appeared to shake Braxton Miller too. To change the play at the line of scrimmage, the sophomore quarterback had to shuttle from lineman to lineman and shout the instructions through their helmets’ earholes. And as the noise level rose, Miller’s passes seemed to soar even higher. On the first drive of the game, Miller was almost intercepted twice — one of which likely would have been returned for a touchdown — and overthrew a wideopen receiver who had nothing but green grass between him and the end zone. At least three times in the first quarter, the player who has been billed as a Heisman candidate airmailed open receivers. Senior receiver Jake Stoneburner described his demeanor as “jittery.”
OSU’s first six offensive drives ended in a punt — the last of which was blocked and recovered in the end zone to give the Nittany Lions a 7-0 lead and sent the white-cladded crowd into a frenzy. Miller’s coach wasn’t worried, though. “He had that look in his eye,” said coach Urban Meyer. “There’s twice this year I’ve seen that look — he’s such a competitive guy — it was Nebraska and this one. It’s a night game, it’s the rah rah, it’s the flash.” The turning point for the OSU offense appeared to come on a misstep from the PSU defense. On a 4th-and-8 play late in the second quarter, OSU punted the ball away, but a holding penalty against the Nittany Lions gave OSU a first down and new life. Stoneburner said the PSU defense looked tired and the Buckeye offense quickened its pace. A few plays later and for one of the first times all game, Miller sprung free for a 33-yard dash to PSU’s six yard-line. Junior running back Carlos Hyde finished the job and ran into the end zone to knot the game up at 7.
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No fire in 94% of OSU fire alarms liz young Lantern reporter young.1693@osu.edu The sound of a fire alarm is something many students living in residence halls dread. Fire alarms can be set off by something as simple as burnt food in the microwave or a smoking hair straightener, and with thousands of students living together across campus, evacuations are bound to happen during the course of an academic year. From move-in day Aug. 19 until Oct. 20, 61 of the 65 fire alarms that have been set off and responded to by Columbus Division of Fire have been caused by burnt food, maintenance work, hot showers and hair straighteners, according to fire-related incidents data from Ohio State fire prevention. That’s roughly 94 percent of signaled alarms. However, the university isn’t charged any money for Columbus Fire responding if there isn’t a real emergency. Eleven of those 65 alarms were signaled in residence halls between the hours of 11 p.m. and 8 a.m., which is about 17 percent of total signaled alarms. However residents did not have to evacuate for all of those. At Indiana University, about 95 percent of alarms were caused by similar “occupant activity,” said Mel Lane, assistant director in IU’s Office of Insurance, Loss Control and Claims. He said “very few” alarms go off anytime between midnight and the early hours of the morning. At Northwestern University, 25 of the 29 signaled alarms since its Sept. 20 move-in day were caused by construction and maintenance, as well as burnt food, according to data from the Office of Risk Management at NU. That’s 86 percent, a lower percentage compared to OSU, but still a vast majority. Only four of the alarms sounded between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m., about 14 percent. Of the 22 alarms signaled at the University of Cincinnati this year, data from UC’s Department of Public Safety Emergency Services suggests that all were false alarms. Ten of 22 went off between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m., about 45 percent of alarms. At OSU, the policy is that an alarm can’t be canceled until a public safety official, anyone from a police officer to a Columbus firefighter, has responded to the scene and declared that it can be cleared. However, Bob Armstrong, director of Emergency Management and Fire Prevention at OSU, said Columbus Division of Fire does not bill the university when it responds to false alarms.
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Neil and 12th avenues flood after a water main break left Mack Hall residents without water Saturday evening.
Cause unknown in Mack Hall main break liz young Lantern reporter young.1693@osu.edu For the second time this semester, a water main break on campus has affected students in South Campus residence halls. A water main break caused Mack Hall to lose water Saturday at about 6:45 p.m., said Dave Isaacs, Student Life spokesman, in an email. The area around the break at the intersection of 12th and Neil avenues was flooded, with the water and mud extending down Neil Avenue to the Mirror Lake area. An 8-inch line broke, and a contractor was able to fix the line and get the water back on in Mack just before noon Sunday, Isaacs said. No cause had been determined for the break by 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Oxley and Pomerene halls were also affected by the break but saw minimal impact since it occurred over the weekend, Isaacs said. A water main break on Sept. 16 caused Park-Stradley Hall, Ohio Union and Baker halls East and West to be evacuated, displacing about 2,000 students from their
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