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Threat From Page A1 student newspaper, reports that approximately 1,500 students were affected by the evacuation of the four buildings. Those who left the building thought they were leaving the buildings because of a routine fire drill and some left their personal belongings inside the building as they walked outside into the rain. OSU sophomore business major Jesse Gentile said bus routes were blocked off, causing difficulties for some students to get to class. One student who was affected was Ben Stumph, a freshman majoring in
mechanical engineering, who had a physics lab in Smith that evening. Stumph said he was mostly frustrated with the inconvenience of the threat because he had a midterm yesterday. “I mean, it ticked me off because I needed to get to these classes. It was kind of an inconvenience. It was the biggest thing I felt, anger,” he said. Another student, Emily Musal, a sophomore majoring in meteorology, said she did not take the threat seriously because police were allowing students into buildings attached to McPherson who had class in the afternoon. “Obviously they were not taking it seriously and I
wasn’t taking it serious,” Musal said. According to OSU Police Chief Paul Denton, nothing suspicious was found in any of the buildings. Public Safety Director Vernon Baisden said classes and functions were to continue as scheduled despite students who said their instructors called off classes in buildings close to the evacuated buildings. “They told us that nothing was found and buildings were reopened as scheduled,” Gentile said. The search concluded about 8 p.m. and by 9 p.m., all buildings was open, according to an article published by The Lantern.
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The Franklin County Bomb Squad as well as OSU Airport Police and several other local public safety agencies were on hand to search McPherson Laboratory following a bomb threat Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010.
Chronicle From Page A1 peaks of excellence to strive for.” “If we tried to follow in the footsteps of the University of Michigan, we could work as hard as we can for the rest of our lives and never catch up,”
Jacobs told the Chronicle of Higher Education. Other universities mentioned include Ball State University, Portland State University, Texas Christian University and the Virginia Commonwealth University. The Chronicle listed the universities as each having
their own attributes which make them examples of universities that are building reputations for themselves. The article reports, successful institutions “of the future” will “reframe the way they perceive themselves, even as the world changes the way it sees higher education.”
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Shirts From Page A1 Building. “These shirts are more of a reflection of the diversity of this generation,” Mendez said. “Unlike older generations, our generation really embraces diversity. It’s oldschool not to.” Mendez said these shirts are meant to have people become more aware of others’ languages and the cultures they speak, but because they have cool designs that attract younger consumers, this happens indirectly. “It’s sort of a starting point for someone to become more aware of another country by knowing a single word they speak — the most important word they speak,” he said. Since many of these shirts also feature details about the country the language is spoken in, it also exposes people to the history of a nation they may not be aware of. The idea to create shirts with “love” in different languages came after Mendez’s sister Olivia sent him a picture she drew of their family in the mail. Mendez sent the picture back with the word ‘love’ written all over it in different languages. “When my sister called and said we should make shirts with the word love on it, I just thought ‘why,’ what would be the point,” he said. Now Mendez sees the tshirts as something beyond a product he is selling: it’s a concept he is trying to promote. “The shirts aren’t meant for people to brag about national pride but to see how similar all of us really are,” he said. “People ask me why ‘love,’ but what other word would I put on a shirt? Love is the one word that means the most to the most people everywhere.” The first shirt was created with ‘love’ written in Tibetan and was made while Mendez was a freshman in college. After the strong reception by friends and family, he continued creating more.
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Students peruse the shirts for sale at the “Zamforia” vendor stand in the Student Union Building near the food court yesterday afternoon. The shirts have ‘love’ spelled in different languages. “The word love has always had this image of being pink and purple with hearts everywhere, but it’s not, it’s real,” Mendez said. “Love is important and with this so are the people and the languages they speak.” Today, Mendez has shirts written in 23 different languages, some shirts featuring a combination of languages like the memorial eagle shirt that displays love in the languages of various countries the United States has gone to war with. The shirts are sold online and at a store in Boston called “Zamforia.” The name of the company is a word Mendez made up that he defines as “the embodiment and aura of the perfect action, at the perfect time.” At his store in Boston he said he is already seeing the effect the shop has on
the young people who frequent it. “I can ask any of the kids who go there ‘what’s love in Hindi’ and they all know it’s ‘prem,’” he said. “They are these young white kids who hang around the store because they think the shirts and store are cool but you see this effect it has on them.” Yesterday was the first time Mendez was in Toledo, having been to college campuses in Columbus, Ohio and Philadelphia, Penn. since October 2009, and today, he and his cousin are in Cleveland. Each shirt sold comes packaged in a sealed potato chip bag with the company’s logo, but unlike the t-shirts the company is based on, the chip bags don’t really have a deeper meaning, Mendez said. They are just potato chip bags.