The Lantern - March 21 2017

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TUESDAY

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CRIME MAP

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Get a roundup of crime on and around campus from the past week.

JAZZ FESTIVAL

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The festival, hosted by the School of Music, will feature numerous performances by jazz artists.

COLUMBUS CONCERTS

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Two rock legends hosted concerts in Ohio’s capital city this past week.

WRESTLING

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The Buckeyes finished second at the NCAA wrestling championship, with Kyle Snyder winning an individual title.

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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

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Year 137, Issue No. 17

National companies and chains eyeing High Street

Students look to pressure Wendy’s contract with weeklong hunger strike

Companies like Chick-fil-A, Starbucks and Chipotle looking to open new locations NICK ROLL Campus Editor roll.66@osu.edu While North High Street might look unfamiliar to those who attended Ohio State just a few years ago, they’ll definitely be familiar with the businesses set to move in once the construction wraps up. Chick-fil-A, Target National fast-food chain Chickfil-A applied to the University Area Review Board last week to put one of its restaurants in The Wellington, the mixed-use apartment complex spanning North High Street between East 16th and 17th avenues. It is set to share the first floor with a Target store. The Target, announced in September, is set to open in July 2018, just ahead of the complex’s apartments, which are set to open that August. It is not clear when the Chick-fil-A is opening, and Ryan Szymanski, vice president of Edwards Properties, the building’s developer and manager, was not available for comment. Now demolished, campus bars Chumley’s and Bernie’s Bagels and Distillery were previously located in that space. Chumley’s, which came to Columbus in 2012, was the third location for the sports bar’s owners. It’s set to reopen in August on the ground floor of a five-story complex on

MITCH HOOPER | ENGAGEMENT EDITOR

Students from the Ohio State Student/Farmworker Alliance will be fasting outside of Bricker Hall from March 20 to 25 to protest of OSU’s contract with Wendy’s. MITCH HOOPER Engagement Editor hooper.102@osu.edu

NICK ROLL | CAMPUS EDITOR

The Wellington building, which will be located between east 16th and 17th avenues, will feature a Target and a Chik-fil-A. North High Street and East 9th rant and coffeehouse will comAvenue. Bernie’s opened in 1975. plement the existing Chipotle and Also on the eventual chopping Starbucks on North High Street, block are campus-area bars Too’s which are located near East 13th Spirits Under High and The O Pa- Avenue. tio & Pub, which lie in the path Jared Schiff, vice president of of OSU’s 15th and High develop- Schiff Properties, said the buildment project. ing, dubbed The Wilson, is also Chipotle, Starbucks, White Castle slated to host a CoreLife eatery Just a couple of blocks north, at and a White Castle, along with a the southeast corner of East Lane fifth, to-be-released, retail tenant. Avenue and North High Street, a The apartments are set to open Chipotle and Starbucks are slated in spring 2018, Schiff said. He to take space in another mixed- said he wasn’t sure if the businessuse apartment building currently es would open sooner. under construction. The restauHIGH STREET CONTINUES ON 3

S.M.A.R.T. lab teaches students stress management, resiliency skills SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Senior Lantern reporter cartwright.117@osu.edu A new addition to campus is aiming to help Ohio State students get S.M.A.R.T. It’s not a new course or tutoring center — it’s a lab located in the Student Wellness Center focused on helping students with stress management and resiliency training. The S.M.A.R.T. lab, which opened in early February, was created by Paul Granello, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies. It is home to relaxation, individual and group counseling, as well as biofeedback training. “There is too much stress on

“I think what’s really cool about the biofeedback is that (students) can come in and see how stressed they are, or they can see that technique immediately helping, and then over time they can use these new skills that they’re being taught.”

Students from the Ohio State Student/Farmworker Alliance will cut more than just Wendy’s out of their diet this week. On Monday, members began a weeklong fast coupled with a daily presence outside of Bricker Hall in protest of OSU’s contract with Wendy’s. Members of the Student/Farmworker Alliance said the purpose is to intensify pressure on the university to end its current contract with Wendy’s. The Student/Farmworker Alliance is demanding Wendy’s join the Fair Food Program and adhere to its standards for tomato pickers. The program has added 14 major corporations to its program, including McDonald’s, Burger King, Chipotle and Wal-Mart, but it hasn’t convinced Wendy’s to join. The Fair Food Program, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers — a workers’ rights organiza-

tion — and the Alliance for Fair Food work together to ensure the protection of rights and wages for farmers and farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida, according to their websites. Unlike McDonald’s and Burger King, for example, which buy tomatoes from farms in Florida that are protected by the Fair Food Program’s code of conduct, Wendy’s gets its tomatoes from Mexico. “We are fasting to prove to the administration that our demands have not yet been met, and that means they must end the contract,” Alex Hoey, a second-year in geography and member of the Student/ Farmworker Alliance, said in an email referring to OSU’s contract with Wendy’s. OSU spokesman Ben Johnson said the university remains committed to continuing its work on this issue, but emphasised “the university does not support any potentially harmful actions that could jeopardize the health and well-being” of students. WENDY’S CONTINUES ON 2

Columbus Metropolitan Library Northside Branch begins new chapter

Maria Lammy Graduate associate, S.M.A.R.T. lab

campus, and I think this stress underlies a lot of problems that students have, including everything from sleeping well to substance abuse to potentially violence and other kinds of problems,” Granello said. “I think that not everybody knows how to do stress management naturally, and so this is an opportunity for the counselor

education program at OSU.” Students who come to the S.M.A.R.T. lab first talk with a counselor on what is causing them stress. The counselors then come up with ideas on how to manage stressors specific to a student’s needs, which could include working with biofeedback software. S.M.A.R.T. CONTINUES ON 2

JACK WESTERHEIDE | SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

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