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Thursday, September 21, 2017
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Year 137, Issue No. 36
2017 stadium arrests already exceed entire 2016 total
End is near for University City Center
MATT DORSEY Engagement Editor dorsey.215@osu.edu More arrests have been made on gameday the first two home football games this season than all seven of the Buckeyes’ 2016 home games. Additionally, more people were arrested at each of this year’s home games than any single home game last year. The 34 total gameday arrests the past two weeks exceed the 32 made throughout the entire 2016 season, the first season that alcoholic beverages were sold in the stadium during games. Twenty-one gameday arrests were made Sept. 9 — 13 inside the stadium during the Oklahoma game and eight outside the stadium — and 13 arrests were made Saturday — 12 inside during the matchup against Army, and another one outside — according to information provided by the Ohio State Department of Public Safe-
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The University City shopping center’s Kroger on Olentangy River Road is closing on Oct. 16. OWEN DAUGHERTY Assistant Campus Editor daugherty.260@osu.edu MARY WAITKUS For The Lantern waitkus.6@osu.edu JACK WESTERHEIDE | PHOTO EDITOR
62,291 students, and the university received a 21.1 percent response rate of 13,152 responses. Eighteen percent of respondents said sexual assault or sexual misconduct is very or extremely prevalent at Ohio State; 41.8 percent said it is not at all or a little and 40.3 percent said it is somewhat prevalent. Seventy-nine percent of respondents said it is not at all or a “little likely” that they will experience sexual assault or misconduct on campus; 5.6 percent report it is “very” or “extremely likely.” In 2016, 6.4 percent of the student respondents said it was likely they would fall victim to sexual misconduct or sexual assault while on campus. Seventy percent of respondents
The clock is officially ticking for the businesses making up University City shopping center. The center’s Kroger at 2913 Olentangy River Road is set for an Oct. 16 closing. It has been the centerpiece of the strip center for 56 years and announced Friday it would be closing in October — more than two months before it has to vacate due to construction. In addition to Kroger’s upcoming closure, a handful of businesses, such as Big Lots, have already closed. “For Lease” signs hanging in the windows of closed businesses almost outnumber existing business’ signs. The shopping center just north of Ohio State is set to be replaced by a six-story mixed-use shopping center with apartments. Robert Weiler Co. and DCR Commercial Development are teaming up on the overhaul of the current one-story retail center. Businesses in the parking lot of the center, including PNC bank, Sunoco, McDonald’s, Applebee’s and Raising Canes, will remain open during the redevelopment. Kroger’s early closing is a signal to other business owners that
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Thirty-four gameday arrests have been made during the 2017 season’s first two games. Thirty-two arrests were made in total during the 2016 season’s seven games.
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Campus survey: 1 in 5 undergraduate female respondents report sexual assault SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu For the second year in a row, one in five undergraduate female respondents to Ohio State’s campus climate survey reported being victim to nonconsensual sexual intercourse or touching by force, threats of physical force or incapacitation. The third annual survey, released Wednesday, recorded 13,456 student responses. Of those who responded, 20 percent of undergraduate females, 4.6 percent of undergraduate males and 19.2 percent of undergraduate genderqueer or nonconforming, questioning or not listed (TGQN) students reported being victims of nonconsensual sexual
intercourse or sexual touching by physical force, threats of physical force or incapacitation since enrolling at Ohio State. In 2016, 20.6 percent of the female undergraduate students who responded said they had been victims of nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force or while they were incapacitated, which was a slight improvement from the 2015 survey at 24 percent. This year, 12.2 percent of female, 2.9 percent of male and 13.1 TGQN undergraduate respondents said they were victims of sexual assault involving physical force or incapacitation since enrolling at Ohio State. The 2017 Campus Climate Survey was sent to 63,587 Ohio State students and had a 21.2 percent response rate. The goal
of the survey is to provide data to guide action on Ohio State’s campus around the issue of sexual misconduct and relationship violence. Of those who responded, 94.7 percent attended the Columbus campus and 78.1 percent of respondents were undergraduate students. “The data will also be used to take action to enhance current policies and procedures, as well as do more detailed analysis, and get feedback from the university community, to inform longer-term strategies and programs,” Ohio State spokesman Ben Johnson said in an email. “Examples include: continued importance of education about consent, unique needs of specific student populations.” The 2016 survey was sent to
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