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Mandel promises Brown emphasizes change in OSU return unions in OSU visit Hannah brokenshire Lantern reporter brokenshire.2@osu.edu “Do they still have BuckID(s) here?” Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Ohio State alum Josh Mandel asked when he visited campus Wednesday night. With Election Day less than two weeks away, Mandel’s visit marks the first time a major Republican candidate has visited campus since Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s Sept. 1 visit to Ohio Stadium.
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State Treasurer and Republican Ohio Senatorial candidate Josh Mandel (left) speaks to a crowd at the Ohio Union Oct. 24. Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (right) speaks to a group of construction workers at the Wexner Medical Center on Oct. 24.
“It was important for me to come because this is my alma mater,” Mandel said, looking to usher in a “new generation of leadership in Washington.” Mandel is a former two-term Undergraduate Student Government president and current State of Ohio Treasurer. He was first elected as a House Rep. for the 17th Ohio District in 2006 and was re-elected in 2008. Nicole Williams, second-year in international studies and USG member, attended the event as an undecided voter.
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Liz Young Lantern reporter young.1693@osu.edu Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown made an unusual visit to Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center Wednesday afternoon: he came to a construction site to talk to the workers. The focus of his brief speech was on how unions are important to the U.S. in times of economic hardship. Brown told the workers, “You’ve had good wages and good health care and good pensions in large part because
you take care of your pension and health care the way you do your health and welfare negotiations. “You got a middle-class wage that you can send kids to Ohio State or Columbus State, you can buy a house, you can buy a car, you know all that, you’re going to have a decent retirement as long as we keep you working in projects like this,” he said. The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades and the Building Trades Council brought Brown to the Medical Center to speak. Brown had a role in getting the
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5A Haunted, ‘gory’ tales buried in OSU lore
‘Disney’s Phineas and Ferb Live’ is scheduled to be performed 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday at Palace Theatre.
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ben keith Lantern reporter keith.146@osu.edu
The pleasant facade of Ohio State’s campus hides years of history — 142 years of history to be exact. And some of those years could be considered dark, giving rise to ghost tales, some of which are grounded in more fact than others. “They’re all gory, gory stories, stuff that people like to hear,” said Melanie McGurr, assistant professor with university libraries. The department is scheduled to hold its “Voices from the Vault: Unique and Amazing Finds from Special Collections,” display and discussion of strange finds in the archives at 4 p.m. Monday in 150 William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library. Referring to the ghost stories to be presented, McGurr said, “A lot of these, they might not be real. Stories in the ’70s or ’80s, they’re too real, it’s too sad. I like the nebulous ones a little bit better.”
Oxley Hall, McGurr said, is supposedly haunted by a young woman who resided there when it was a dormitory. “She was left there over break,” McGurr said. “And when they came back from break she was dead. She either hung herself or someone killed her.” McGurr also said three ghosts haunt Mirror Lake. Those include a skater who floats above the lake, the pink lady who looks out over the Lake from a window in Pomerene Hall, and the wife of Dr. Clark, who was a professor in the early 1920s. “(Clark) invested heavily in some sort of Alaskan scheme, and he lost all his money. He asked his fellow professors to invest with him, and they wouldn’t. Somehow he went to the administration for money and they turned him down because he had lost all his money. And he shot himself,” McGurr said. “His wife claimed she was going to haunt this place because of what they had done to her husband.”
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Pomerene Hall on OSU’s campus is said to be haunted by several ghosts.
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Kristen mitchell Campus editor mitchell.935@osu.edu This is the tenth story of an 11-article series leading up to the Nov. 6 presidential election that will break down the issues dominating political debates. Check back next Thursday for our segment on the Middle East and the troops. The presidential candidates are zoning in on
female voters with less than two weeks until the election. President Barack Obama attracted 1 percent more of the male vote than Arizona Sen. John McCain during the 2008 election. However, he captured the female vote by a 13 percent lead over McCain, winning more than half of female voters nationwide, according to CNN. Despite those numbers, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been making gains. According to the results of a Pew Research Center Poll gathered after the first presidential debate on Oct. 3, The lead Obama had in
mid-September has disappeared. The standings dropped from an 18-point lead for Obama to a 47 percent tie between both candidates among likely voters. Obama’s re-election campaign launched an advertisement in July featuring a woman calling the idea of Romney being elected “scary” for women. The ad claims that Romney supports overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 deciding Supreme Court case on the issue of abortion, and denying coverage for female contraceptives.
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