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garage to find a form of identification for the first responders, who had not yet arrived. Kinderdine said he initially went to the third floor, because that was where many witnesses believed she fell from, but he did not find anything. He then went to the fourth floor, but he did not see anything, either. He proceeded to the top floor, he said, where he found personal items, which are believed to have
belonged to Paul. Kinderdine said he found a backpack, a closed laptop sitting on the ground with a cell phone plugged into it, a lighter and a pack of cigarettes. The university expressed condolences in the statement confirming Paul’s death. “On behalf of the entire community, our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends
of Madison Paul,” the statement read. “We have reached out to offer our support and condolences to Madison’s parents.” The statement added that counseling is available for the community through the Office of Student Life Counseling and Consultation Service, which can be reached at 614-292-5766.
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MITCH HOOPER Engagement Editor hooper.102@osu.edu Two males were taken into custody by University Police Monday night in separate areas of campus in relation to an on-campus theft, a spokesperson for University Police said. As of Monday night, University Police were still investigating and could not confirm if the two men were students. (Not pictured on map) 1. An assault reportedly occurred on North High Street near East 12th Avenue on Saturday at 2 a.m. 2. A staff member reported an unknown suspect to University Police for possession of drug paraphernalia at the James Cancer Hospital on Friday at 8:34 p.m. 3. A man was arrested for disorderly conduct, obstructing official business, misleading a public of-
ficial and possession of marijuana on North High Street near East 12th Avenue on Friday at 2 a.m. 4. A student was arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. The report was filed at Curl Market at 1:57 a.m. on Sunday. 5. A man was arrested by the Columbus Division of Police for public indecency after being reportedly caught urinating at the intersection of North High Street and Chittenden Avenue on Thursday at 12:43 a.m. 6. A burglary in Mack Hall was reported to University Police on Wednesday at 12:38 a.m. Note: Crimes featured on this map do not represent the full extent of criminal activity in the campus area.
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food we know nothing about.” Furthermore, InFACT wants to produce some of that food directly on campus. “We’d like to work to identify new spaces where we could possibly implement new projects to help transform our landscape all around us for production purposes,” said Nicole Pierron Rasul, a program coordinator for InFACT. This includes planting apple trees, berry bushes and plants to attract pollinators, so students can learn about food production, while also experiencing the benefits of eating healthy, locally grown food. In the broader Columbus community, InFACT is partnering with community leaders, and local and urban farmers to develop sustainable production techniques, while recognizing the climate change in Ohio. This is part of a pilot project known as Ohio Smart Agriculture: Solutions from the Land, and if successful, the strategies and farming techniques created will be applied to other states in the upper Midwest. Ultimately, InFACT aims to address food insecurity by transforming the systems behind food production and distribution, so that food is produced in a more
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InFACT aims to address food insecurity both on campus and internationally.
environmentally sustainable way and so that people have access to healthy and locally grown food. “We are advocating broadly for food security as a basic human right,” Snyder said. “We feel that everybody has a right to good, healthy food.” The Engaged Scholars logo accompanies stories that feature and examine research and teaching partnerships formed between the Ohio State University and the community (local, state, national and global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources. These stories spring from a partnership with OSU’s Office of Outreach and Engagement. The Lantern retains sole editorial control over the selection, writing and editing of these stories.
OSU’s USG Senate as part of the Honaker and Gracia campaign. “It’s totally legal and everything, because it’s a student government campaign, it’s not like Congress or the president or anything.” She goes on to ask the student to “keep it on the DL,” because of TPUSA’s reputation “for being really conservative. They’re starting to call us the alt-right.” Mastrangelo declined to comment for this article. The national office of TPUSA did not immediately reply to a request for comment placed to its headquarters. Ohio State TPUSA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit which, according to its website, promotes limited government and fiscal restraint. It sells shirts with slogans such as “Socialism sucks,” or “Free Markets, Free People.” Though some members have backed Trump, there isn’t a consensus or total alignment within the group behind the president, who has split some Republican voters. Details of TPUSA’s fundraising strategy are laid out in a text-message exchange between Copeland and the OSU student who was recruited by TPUSA to run for a USG senate seat on Honaker and Gracia’s campaign. “TP is funding the campaign but that’s hush hush,” Copeland said according to the text messages. “Liberals consistently dominate campus student government and our goal is to secretly take them out without them knowing what’s coming.” Copeland also said she “will have people on the ground” during the OSU election, one text read. Honaker’s and Gracia’s slate “gets $3,500 + all senators $75,” Copeland said in the text exchange. In a text message, she estimates that makes nearly $6,000 that TPUSA has set aside for the Honaker and Gracia campaign. The spending limit on OSU’s USG campaigns, when combining senators and the presidential campaign in one slate, is $4,000. Honaker and Gracia, a thirdyear in international studies and a second-year in political science, respectively, have $3,985 listed in the campaign ledger on their website. Kadin Llewellyn, the president of OSU’s TPUSA chapter and deputy campaign manager for the Brooks brothers, said he was introduced to Honaker and Gracia by Copeland over winter break at TPUSA’s conference in West Palm Beach, Florida. He said he
“Liberals consistently dominate campus student government and our goal is to secretly take them out without them knowing what’s coming.” Kennedy Copeland Leadership director, TPUSA
was told by Honaker and Gracia that TPUSA would be supporting them financially, although he said he didn’t know an exact number. He said Honaker and Gracia told him there were ways to get around USG’s campaign-finance rules. Bilski, who is also the former president of OSU’s TPUSA chapter, said he was also at the meeting. “I did not agree that Turning Point’s national views aligned with what (Honaker and Gracia) were supporting,” Llewellyn said. “(Honaker and Gracia) said (during the meeting) there are ways to get around the USG bylaws, such as providing things at a super low price.” Both Llewellyn and Mastrangelo said the OSU TPUSA chapter and the national office had been at odds, with Mastrangelo calling the OSU chapter, who the Brooks brothers and their campaign are aligned with, “a problem child,” according to the recording. Denial, disputed timeline In her statement, Copeland said she approached Honaker with the idea of a campaign sponsorship, but Honaker “promptly denied” her. This runs counter to Llewellyn’s story, in which Honaker and Gracia briefed him on the TPUSA funding strategy in West Palm Beach. Frank called attempts to link TPUSA funding to the Honaker and Gracia campaign a smear campaign. “We believe that this is a smear campaign, designed to point to us as the team funded by Turning Point, and draw attention away from the Brooks Brothers,” Frank said in a statement. The Florida conference took place in December, according to TPUSA’s website. Copeland’s texts, in which she talks about TPUSA supporting the Honaker and Gracia campaign, are dated at the end of January. Frank did not respond to a request for com-
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USG candidates Reagan Brooks and Reese Brooks. ment asking when the Honaker and Gracia campaign says they rebuffed TPUSA’s offer. Across the country TPUSA isn’t just trying to influence races at OSU, however. As detailed in Copeland and Mastrangelo’s exchanges, the goal is to elect conservative students, and thus influence student governments, at universities across the country. “Usually, we have a bunch of people — and I don’t think we can do it at your school — but we have like a bunch of people with tablets making people vote and everything. But I heard your guys’ school, it prevents that or something, or we’re not allowed to do that,” Mastrangelo said in the recording, referencing USG bylaws that aim to separate campaigning and voting. “They’ll put money into (campaigns), but their big thing is having people, and having a lot of people doing the campaigning, and they’ll pay those people too.” Copeland said in the text exchange that she has been aiding Honaker’s and Gracia’s campaign as a “leadership director,” and has won campaigns across the country. In the phone recording, Mastrangelo made an offer to the OSU student she’s recruiting to have TPUSA pay members of his student organization who agree to campaign for Honaker and Gracia’s campaign. She said she didn’t know an amount, but TPUSA has offered $20 to $50 a day, per person, in the past. Specifically, she said she was told to get 60 people to campaign for the OSU effort, meaning TPUSA could be spending $1,200 to $3,000 in addition to the money slated for Honaker’s and Gracia’s campaign.
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