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Matta’s squad bounces back The OSU men’s basketball team took a victory from Purdue Tuesday as Michigan’s visit to OSU looms.
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From left to right: OSU running backs coach Stan Drayton, co-defensive coordinator Luke Fickell and defensive line coach Mike Vrabel. Each of the 9 assistant coaches on OSU’s staff and Coach Urban Meyer received a bonus for the team’s Leaders Division title. andrew holleran Photo editor holleran.9@osu.edu
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Urban Meyer isn’t the only Ohio State coach who will benefit financially from the team’s accomplishments this season. The leader of the Buckeyes’ 12-0 squad received a $150,000 bonus for OSU’s No. 3 ranking in the final
Associated Press top 25 poll of the season, but The Lantern has learned that each of Meyer’s assistant coaches will be rewarded as well. In an email to The Lantern, OSU athletics spokesman Jerry Emig confirmed that all of Meyer’s assistant coaches received a bonus equal to three months of their salary as a result of the Buckeyes winning the Big Ten’s Leaders Division, as stated in their respective contracts. Meyer gets a $50,000 bonus for the team’s Leaders Division title as well, Emig said. In total, Meyer was paid
Punctured gas line hinders North Campus
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Ben Keith Senior Lantern reporter keith.146@osu.edu Gas service was disrupted to several buildings on North Campus Wednesday night after utility work on North Campus damaged a gas line. The break was located near a gas-line regulator on Lane Avenue. “It was a contractor who was doing work there and punctured a gas line,” said Ohio State Student Life spokeswoman Kellie Uhrig. The break left several North Campus buildings without heat Wednesday. “We don’t have hot water and we don’t have heat,” said Stephanie Giese, who works for the university and lives in an OSU-owned apartment building on Lane Avenue. She said she was unconcerned about the break Wednesday evening. “It stays pretty warm in here.” The break affected all North Campus dorms and buildings, Uhrig said. University buildings Raney and Royer Commons were affected, as well as North Campus dining halls including North Commons and Burritos, which offered a reduced menu Wednesday evening. Multiple residence halls had posted signs informing students of the temporary heat and water loss, and a message from residence hall staff was sent to
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Gas leak leads to loss of heat, hot water Lane Avenue between High Street and Neil Avenue was closed Wednesday afternoon due to a gas leak on North Campus that caused several buildings to lose heat and hot water.
some affected North Campus residents Wednesday. “We wanted to make sure you are aware that a gas line serving the North Campus area was punctured earlier this evening. The fire department has responded. There is no danger from the incident, and the gas line has been shut off,” the email said. The email said the situation was under control and being handled by Columbia Gas of Ohio. “Columbia Gas has work crews on site and they will work throughout the night to restore service. We expect this restoration to take place sometime early tomorrow morning. Once restored, it will take an additional three to four hours for the system to come back to full service,” the email said. Service2Facilities tweeted from its account @OSU_S2F at 5:37 p.m. Wednesday that gas service was expected to be restored by 7 a.m. Thursday. However, the email asked residents to conserve heat in the meantime. “We ask that all windows be kept closed overnight. (The) RPAC is available for showers until midnight tonight and opens at 5:45 tomorrow morning,” the email said. The email asked residents to contact their residence hall staff with any questions about the situation, however some living in the area said they aren’t worried. “We’ll be fine,” Giese said, “as long as it comes back (Thursday).”
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Park-Stradley removes co-ed bathroom doors
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liz young Senior Lantern reporter young.1693@osu.edu
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$4.2 million this season ($4 million salary, $200,000 in bonuses). OSU co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Luke Fickell received the biggest bonus among the assistants, taking home $187,500 (he makes $750,000 annually). Fellow co-defensive coordinator and assistant head coach Everett Withers was next in line with $112,500 (he makes $450,000 anually). Buckeyes’
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Park-Stradley Hall residents returned to their dorm after winter break to find a change in the layout: the doors to their bathrooms had been removed. The doors were removed over break due to feedback from residents who said they would “feel more secure if there was no divider between the hallways and that area,” said Dave Isaacs, spokesman for Student Life, in an email. The Park-Stradley bathrooms have the same setup as six other halls on campus: Mack Hall, Canfield Hall, Bradley Hall, Patterson Hall and Scholars East and West. These buildings have a
common sink area with multiple separate rooms off that area that each hold a toilet and a shower, Isaacs said. Park-Stradley has about four common, semiprivate bathrooms on residential floors. The bathrooms are co-ed. The doors that were removed were the doors to the common sink area. The other rooms remain closed off and private. The other six halls with this setup do not have doors closing off their sink areas, so Student Life decided to make ParkStradley’s design consistent with that layout. Park-Stradley was designed with the doors because there was initially feedback that “the ability to close the door to the common areas in the bathroom pods would be desirable for students,” Isaacs said, but as the semester went on, new feedback from residents suggested otherwise.
The feedback came from hall staff talking to their residents and reporting those requests up the chain of command, Isaacs said. Some residents of Park-Stradley have been speculating that the doors were removed because of multiple reported sex crimes that occurred in the residence hall last semester. “They (Park-Stradley staff) gave us some excuse, but most residents know it was because there were several rape cases in Park-Stradley first semester, and they want to cut down on activity after hours in the bathrooms,” said Connor Quinn, a Park-Stradley resident and first-year in political science. “(They’re) trying to cut down on that reputation Park-Stradley has right now.” Multiple sex crimes were reported in
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