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Glaros, interim band directors garnered positive reviews LIZ YOUNG Editor-in-chief young.1693@osu.edu An Ohio State compliance official who oversaw an investigation into the marching band and two professors who are
currently leading the band all have been given excellent performance reviews in the past. Chris Glaros, assistant vice president of compliance operations and investigations, oversaw a university investigation into the OSU Marching Band that determined there was a sexualized band culture. That investigation
led to then-band director Jonathan Waters’ firing in late July. After Waters was dismissed, University Bands director Russel Mikkelson and University Bands associate director Scott Jones were named as the interim band leaders while OSU searches for new permanent leadership. The university has said it
plans to name a new director by February. Associate director Chris Hoch and assistant director Mike Smith kept their positions in the band. The employment files of Glaros, Mikkelson and Jones — provided to The Lantern on
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OSU coach Thad Matta: Too early to Required pick out team leaders crime reports vary in detail by university LIZ YOUNG Editor-in-chief young.1693@osu.edu
Photo illustration by: MARK BATKE / Photo editor RITIKA SHAH / Lantern TV News director
From left: Senior forward Sam Thompson, coach Thad Matta and senior guard Shannon Scott
TIM MOODY Sports editor moody.178@osu.edu Thad Matta has had rosters led by standout freshmen and teams led by hardened veterans. This season, he’ll have a mix of both. The Ohio State men’s basketball coach is entering his 11th season at the helm in Columbus as the team boasts a roster of four true freshmen, one redshirt-freshman and six seniors. Matta sat down with The Lantern on Wednesday and discussed the task of melding together a team with a strong freshman class and experienced veterans on the same roster. ‘Still early to tell’ who leaders will be A year ago, Matta knew exactly who the leaders of his team would be. Thensenior guards Aaron Craft and Lenzelle Smith Jr. had been key contributors and leaders on the team for multiple seasons and
were handpicked go-to guys off the court. This season, the Buckeyes’ roster still boasts seniors who have been contributors — guard Shannon Scott and forward Sam Thompson, for example — but Matta said it’s still too early to say exactly who will step into leadership roles this season. “Just in terms of how the season works and once you get into practice and you hit the tough days, you’re going through a stretch where it’s the fourth practice in four days, you’ve been going hard, at what point, what guy steps forward and says ‘Hey, this is what we’ve got to do, this is how we’ve got to do it’?” Matta said. But the former Xavier University coach said he still has an idea of who exactly could step up this season. “With that said, I think that Shannon and Sam have been guys that have played huge roles in this program,” Matta said. “I would expect all of our seniors to be — in terms of
While all colleges are required to release annual reports detailing certain crimes that were reported on-campus, not all reports are the same. Federal law dictates which crimes must be included, but some Big Ten universities go beyond that. Indiana University, for example, breaks nonforcible sex offenses into categories of statutory rape and incest, beyond the forcible sexual assault offenses. Penn State University has specifics on embezzlement, forgery, fraud and prostitution. Rutgers University’s report includes statistics on fondling and serving alcohol to people under the age of 21. Not all of those additional categories are technically part of the school’s Clery data, but they are notably included in the same documents. The Clery Act was designed to make college campus crime information readily available. It was created in the name of Jeanne Clery, a student at Lehigh University who was raped and murdered in her dorm room in 1986 after crime warnings were not sent out after a series of violent crimes on campus. It Related to is speculated that she could sexual have been more assault cautious if she had known about the crimes, which in Related to turn could have prevented her robberies unrelated death. As part of that act, colleges and universities Related to are required to an armed publish an annual robbery security report by Oct. 1 that includes certain Related to crime statistics on campus from the an past three calenattempted dar years. Those armed statistics include crimes such as sex robbery
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OSU men’s basketball coach Thad Matta in an Oct. 8 interview with The Lantern. leadership — supplying some (leadership), but obviously we have to grow that as the season continues.” Outside of Scott and Thompson, the other four seniors on the OSU roster include two centers, a transfer playing his first and only season for the Buckeyes and a walk on who Matta said “may come back another year.” Forward Anthony Lee transferred to OSU from Temple
during the offseason, but will be eligible to play right away because he has already graduated college. Fellow forward Jake Lorbach is a walk on who has never made an impact for the Buckeyes, and would not be expected to step into a leadership role. The two centers — Amir Williams and Trey McDonald — are set to battle it out for
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Police records requests now go through OSU MICHELE THEODORE Managing editor for content theodore.13@osu.edu Requesting police reports from the Ohio State University Police Department isn’t as simple as it used to be. Requests for police reports go through the police records department. And while The Lantern used to typically receive reports a few hours after requesting them, it’s recently taken as long as nine days. That’s largely because reports now have to go through the university’s Public Records office as well. Lizabeth Corrigan, the records manager at University Police, said all reports except traffic crash reports must go through the Public Records office. ”A few weeks ago, the OSU Public Records Office asked to review all report requests before we sent them out, as they are going to change how we release reports,” she said in an Oct. 6 email. The Lantern requests select police reports every week for a crime brief. The newspaper requested reports on Sept. 30 and didn’t received the reports until nine days later. A records technician for
University Police said she had asked OSU Public Records for clearance on releasing those reports, but hadn’t heard back from the office for more than a week. The Lantern requested more records last Wednesday and received them the following day. Both the Sept. 30 and Wednesday records requests were filled on the same day. To be sure, Corrigan was sick and out of the office for a few days around the Sept. 30 request, but she passed the records request on to a records technician to handle. While OSU spokesman Gary Lewis denied there was a change and said instead that the system is streamlining the process, it actually adds additional people and another office to a system that normally filled requests within hours. Still, he said he’s not worried that the records will take longer to process going through two departments. “They have the software and technology to do certain things,” Lewis said of the Public Records office. Ohio law states that public record requests must be filled “within a reasonable period of time,” and doesn’t offer a specific time frame.
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The Columbus skyline on Oct. 8.
Columbus ranked No. 1 city for opportunities LEISA DECARLO Lantern reporter decarlo.25@osu.edu Soon-to-be Ohio State graduates could have more of a reason to stick around Columbus than college nostalgia. Ohio’s capital was recently announced as the No. 1 city for making a mark, by a recent Forbes ranking of the top cities for opportunity in the nation.
The ranking, which was published in September, was produced in collaboration with Sperling’s Best Places as part of a list ranking the 19 Opportunity Cities in America. The Forbes ranking was based on factors including median house prices, population size, unemployment ratings and population age. The Forbes article said resources like OSU,
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