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Redshirt-junior wide receiver Corey Smith (84), redshirt-sophomore wide receiver Michael Thomas (3) and sophomore H-back Dontre Wilson (2) perform a warmup drill prior to a game against Penn State on Oct. 25 in State College, Pa. OSU won, 31-24, in double-overtime.
Ohio State to meet Big Ten foe Illinois JAMES GREGA, JR. Asst. sports editor grega.9@osu.edu With arguably the biggest game of the year on the horizon, the Ohio State football team has a rivalry game to play Saturday. Sort of. While the Buckeyes and the Illinois Fighting Illini play for the Illibuck trophy, no one in the OSU program seems to care about the 89-year-old tradition as OSU coach Urban Meyer didn’t once mention the wooden turtle during the week. Instead, Meyer is much more worried about the product the Fighting Illini will put on the field Saturday night. “Illinois is much better (than last season),” Meyer said. “I know they lost their quarterback, but they’re playing much better. I just spent all morning watching their defense, and they’re much better than a year ago on defense.” The Fighting Illini have started senior quarterback Reilly O’Toole the last two games in place of injured starter, Oklahoma State transfer redshirt-sophomore Wes Lunt who is out because of an injury.
O’Toole poses more of a running threat for the Fighting Illini, as he has rushed for 88 yards in his last two games, compared to Lunt’s -61 yards on the ground in five games. When Lunt was at the helm for Illinois, however, Illinois was a pass-dominant team as Lunt was averaging 313.8 passing yards per game before his injury. OSU cornerbacks coach and special teams coordinator Kerry Coombs said Monday that the Buckeye defense must now be alert for a more balanced attack. “They’re running the ball more, obviously,” Coombs said. “This kid (O’Toole) is a dynamic runner, but you can’t not cover guys, and they still have the passing game and the same attack that they’ve had in the past, so they’re going to get guys down the field.” Junior defensive lineman Adolphus Washington said Wednesday that the defensive line will have to first slow down O’Toole in order to shut down the Fighting Illini offense. “That quarterback (O’Toole) is a lot more of a runner than the starter was from what I have heard,” Washington said. “We just got to contain him. I heard that he can run and throw the ball a little bit so just got to try and contain him and keep him in the pocket.”
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Staying in the pocket might also be the key for the quarterback on the opposite sideline. OSU redshirt-freshman quarterback J.T. Barrett enters Saturday’s game with a sprained left MCL, Meyer confirmed this week. The injury is similar to the one sustained by then-junior quarterback Braxton Miller last season that caused Miller to miss two full games and the majority of a game against San Diego State. Despite the injury, Meyer said he expects Barrett to play and improve on the things Meyer told his young quarterback to work on during the week. “Proper reads and throwing with authority. He didn’t play great (against Penn State). He
Ohio State needs to place a greater focus on teaching, while continuing its goal of research eminence, President Michael Drake said in his first address to University Senate on Thursday. The university is a “modern land-grant institution that’s also a doorway to the world,” he said. “We teach for Ohio, but we do research for the world.” As examples of Courtesy of OSU OSU’s worldwide President Michael Drake presence, Drake noted the university’s Global Gateway offices around the world, such as the one in São Paolo that opened Sept. 13. Drake strayed from announcing anything bold for OSU’s future and he avoided taking up any controversial stances. Instead, the president used the forum to highlight the university’s accomplishments, and laid out goals for the future to make the university competitive in a difficult higher education climate. Drake gave an update on the status of the university’s Discovery Themes, a $400 million initiative that includes expanding research and bringing in 500 faculty over 10 years. Thirty-nine positions in more than 20 departments have been approved so far, Drake said. The new president also highlighted the accomplishments of the expanding Wexner Medical Center, which now comprises roughly half of the university’s more than $5 billion budget. The medical center was recently ranked third in the country by the University HealthSystem Consortium, behind the New York University Langone Medical Center and the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester, Minn. The latter hospital can “hear our footsteps as we come up behind them,” Drake said, hinting at hopes to pass up the Mayo Clinic in future years. Drake also took time to praise the university’s
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Crime brief: 5 rapes reported New encounters bring OSU hauntings to light in residence halls this year continued as Illinois on 2A
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In February 1893, a new building opened on Ohio State’s campus named Hayes Hall, after President Rutherford B. Hayes, a key supporter in OSU’s first years as a university. Unfortunately for Hayes, he was never able to see the completed building — he passed away two weeks before it opened. Even so, the building would later become living quarters for students from 1915-20, and back then, campus housing had a strict curfew policy. One brisk October night, two men missed their curfew again and didn’t arrive back to their home, Hayes Hall, until about 10 p.m. Afraid of getting in trouble, the men did not want to draw attention to themselves and decided to throw rocks at friends’ windows so they could let them in. This usually worked whenever the two came back late. But on this particular night, the two men got lucky when an older bearded man noticed them standing outside and let them in. They then asked who he was, because they did not recognize him. The man said he was the building curator. The two men likely didn’t think anything of the bearded man who helped them that night until they saw a picture hanging on a wall in the building of Rutherford B. Hayes: the suspicious curator
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Orton Hall on Oct. 22, located on OSU’s South Oval Mall of the hall who they never saw again. For a university that is 144 years old, OSU has its fair share of ghost stories. With a look into the university archives, these stories can come back to life — and it seems Rutherford B. Hayes isn’t the only Buckeye to visit campus after death. “We did a podcast episode last fall called ‘Haunted Oval Tour’ that covers some creepy fact and fiction about campus,” said Lindy Smith, a research services archivist with university archives, in an email. According to one Lantern article from 1994, a psychic/ channeler, Cindy Bethel, said, “there’s thousands of (ghosts) and they’re everywhere.”
Despite documented evidence, some OSU students and at least one faculty member said they are doubtful of the stories. “I’ve been around the building, even the basement which gets spooky at night, and I’ve never seen anything,” said Polly Graham, building coordinator for Hayes Hall. “I don’t really believe in ghosts. People kind of have their own imagination.” And even though some might doubt the presence of spirits, some incidents are hard to explain or ignore. Orton Hall As the second-oldest building on campus, Orton Hall has seen many students and faculty members come and go. But it’s
rumored that some people have decided to stay in the aging building for the afterlife. The building is said to house multiple ghosts — the most well-known ghosts are of Edward Orton Sr. and a prehistoric man. According to university archives, Edward Orton Sr. was the first president of OSU and the university’s first geology professor in 1873. Orton would often be found reading in the bell tower by lamp light after dark and it is said that you can occasionally still see the flicker of light from the tower. Before his death, Orton READ THE REST OF THE STORY AT
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Rape A female staff member reported a rape in a South Campus residence hall. The incident occurred Oct. 17 at about 4:30 p.m., but wasn’t reported until the evening of Oct. 22. Ohio State Police Captain Eric Whiteside said the investigation is ongoing and he couldn’t provide any more information. He said a public safety notice wasn’t issued because the police “have very limited information … and that was factored into the decision.” Whiteside later referred The Lantern to University Police’s timely warning policy. Public safety notices are issued when crimes occur that are considered to be a concern or a continuing threat to the OSU community. There have been at least five rapes reported on campus in residence halls this year and University Police has issued four notices for sexual assault-related incidents. A public safety notice was issued Sept. 15 after a rape was reported in a North Campus dorm. The suspect had been identified and escorted from university property before the notice was issued nearly a day after the incident. Another public safety notice was issued in February about a rape that allegedly occurred Jan. 25 in a residence hall. That notice said recent information about the rape had caused police officers to believe there was a continuing threat. The other two notices were issued the
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