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An OSU student tells stories of his summer on the road with the band O.A.R. ON PAGE 3

YEAR 135, ISSUE NO. 43

Ohio State football is set to continue its home stand and end nonconference play with a match against Western Michigan on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ON PAGE 8

Take control of your mental and physical health by managing stress and avoiding procrastination. ON PAGE 6

OSU aims to reduce uncertainty regarding sexual assault

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JEREMY SAVITZ | Oller Reporter | savitz.3@osu.edu

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he Association of American Universities released its national campus climate survey on sexual misconduct and relationship violence on Monday, and Ohio State plans to improve its numbers. • Survey results indicated that 24 percent of undergraduate women said that while at OSU, they have been victims of nonconsensual sexual contact as a result of physical force or in situations when they were incapacitated and unable to consent. • As for undergraduate males, 5.3 percent said they have been victims of either nonconsensual penetration or sexual ASSAULT CONTINUES ON 2

Appointment-free consultations move to the Union SHIYUN WANG Lantern reporter wang.6973@osu.edu The Office of Student Life Counseling and Consultation Service is offering informal psychological consultation sessions every Thursday this semester with the aim of increasing the accessibility of its services to students. The program, called Let’s Talk, provides access to free and confidential consultations in the Lower Level Meeting Room of the Ohio Union from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. In contrast to formal counseling, students can drop in without an appointment or assessment of concerns in advance and discuss their problems with counselors. “We recognize that for some students, there might be stigma associated with mental-health treatment,” said Jeeseon Park-Saltzman, a psychologist from the CCS and coordinator of the program. “Let’s Talk is geared towards students who may have concerns about coming to our formal service sessions.” Park-Saltzman said one of the informal, 15- to 20-minute consultation sessions could serve as a soft entry point to longer-term counseling sessions, which contain more thorough assessments of concerns and multiple meetings with counselors. Let’s Talk ensures that the procedure before seeing a counselor is minimized so that every student who needs guidance has access to professional suggestions, as well as information about other resources. “We noticed that internaTALK CONTINUES ON 2

Steelcase Education Grant creates new opportunities in OSU classrooms STEPHANIE WISE Lantern reporter wise.1075@osu.edu Ohio State offers a range of art, athletic and academic opportunities for college students. As a recipient of the Steelcase Education’s inaugural Active Learning Center Grant, OSU will now offer another opportunity in its new Active Learning Classroom in Hagerty Hall, which opened in early September. Steelcase’s grant allows recipients who demonstrate creative-learning use in classrooms to further transform physical

classroom spaces into areas where smarter, more active learning spaces can exist, according to its website. The company combines furniture and architecture to “unlock human promise and support social, economic and environmental sustainability.” “Our goal is to advance the understanding of active learning with institutions that share our passion,” said Craig Wilson, director of market development at Steelcase. “We believe that the Active Learning Classroom will free the instructors from constraints imposed by static classrooms and allow students to move freely between different

modes to collaborate with one another and enjoy the experience.” Hagerty Hall, where the new classroom is located, also houses a similar room called “The Space,” which is a Steelcase digital collaborative classroom. As stated in the grant, The Space has made an impact with facilitating small group work and sharing among students. Diane Birckbichler, director of the CLLC, spoke about the benefits an innovative classroom can have on teaching. “We have a lot of experience innovating in foreign language. One of the things we found that we liked best about the classroom is how it

transforms your teaching practice,” Birckbichler said. “It is no longer a static classroom, but one that has maximum flexibility.” As stated in the grant, the classroom allows for four modes: lecture, group, discussion and distance learning. Rebecca Bias, assistant director of the CLLC, said there are advantages to configuring the room. “Given the limited amount of time we have students in the classroom, we want to maximize that time with them in the immersion situation and enable them to use their own creativity and imagination to move into different groups

and work collaboratively on projects,” Bias said. Bias said this is one of the best ways to help students reach their goals in the realm of language learning. The new Active Learning Classroom is currently home to classes in film, foreign language, literature and culture. “When we set up the first classroom, people asked if anyone will use it. We told them it’s like the field of dreams: If you build it, they will come, and instructors have come,” Birckbickler said. “It totally transformed the way we look at how we teach, and I think that will also happen in the active learning center — that people will see the possibilities.”


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