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12 OSU students evacuated after apartment fire CHELSEA SPEARS, LOGAN HICKMAN AND ANDREW ZISTLER Multimedia editor, Campus editor and For The Lantern spears.116@osu.edu, hickman.201@osu.edu and zistler.4@osu.edu For Samuel Massari, a fifth-year in computer science and engineering, Sunday morning’s wake up call came a little sooner than expected.
“We all were asleep, and somebody was pounding on our doors and windows. We assumed it was drunk kids so I went out to tell them to stop,” he said. That’s when Massari realized there was no joke, but rather a fire that would later temporarily evict him from his off-campus residence. “When I opened the door, there was a guy standing there saying I needed to get out, and I looked behind him and the whole porch was ablaze,” he said.
That off-campus apartment fire — which forced a dozen Ohio State students from their residences early Sunday morning — wasn’t an accident, the landlord of the property said. Bryan Dulle, 1st Place Realty landlord, said three pedestrians saw a white man set fire to a couch on the front porch of his property at 1706 E. Summit St. at about 3 a.m. on Sunday.
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An off-campus fire occurred at 1706 E. Summit St. on Oct. 19.
Ohio State focuses on improving after 39-point win
MARK BATKE / Photo editor
OSU redshirt-freshman quarterback J.T. Barrett (16) runs through the Rutgers defense toward the end zone during an Oct. 18 game at Ohio Stadium. OSU won, 56-17.
TIM MOODY Sports editor moody.178@osu.edu The question for Ohio State heading into its matchup with Rutgers was simple: Will the momentum still be there? A quick 14-0 start for the No. 13 Buckeyes (5-1, 2-0) showed they still had a spark despite two weeks off. In a total team effort, OSU led the Scarlet Knights (5-2, 1-2) in nearly every significant statistical category — save penalties and time of possession — but its coach said there’s still work to be done.
“It’s time to, first of all, develop depth,” Urban Meyer said after his team’s 56-17 win. “We could go on and on about the mistakes that were made today. But enjoy the win tonight, go see your families, do what you gotta do and come back ready to go.” For the Buckeyes, the time to “come back ready to go” will be Saturday when they are set to face Penn State on the road. The last time OSU faced-off with the Nittany Lions, the Scarlet and Gray came away with a 63-14 win at home. That 2013 win came at Ohio Stadium, but the last time OSU traveled to State College, Pa., the result was comparable. OSU beat Penn State, 35-23, on Oct. 27,
2012, before last season’s shellacking. On top of recent success against their upcoming opponents, the Buckeyes are on a historic streak this season against all takers. Even with any room for improvement the coaching staff might see, the 2014 Buckeyes have already carved out a spot in the OSU record books, specifically when it comes to offensive production. The team posted 50-plus points for the fourth straight game — a school record — and it gained 500 yards or more in each of those games, which is tied for the program’s best.
While some students might be out bar hopping on a Friday or Saturday night, one group of watchdogs is out riding bikes to make sure those students — and the general public — stay safe. That group is made up of 12 uniformed officers and a sergeant working for the Columbus Division of Police. They’re known as the campus walkie crew, and their goal is to be bicycle-borne for most of their time on duty, Columbus Police Commander Christopher Bowling said. Sgt. Patrick Shaffer of the
Columbus Police bike patrol said the patrol is the best there is. Several days a week, these officers are out pedaling and patrolling, mainly in the University District — and they’re catching things that many officers in cruisers can’t. “I’m just — I’m closer to it. I can hear things that are going on that people in cars can’t,” said Officer Thomas DeWitt. “We’re right in the middle of it.” And it’s being in the middle of campus that sometimes helps these officers catch a criminal in the middle of a crime. That was the case back in September when DeWitt and two of his fellow bike patrol officers, Christopher
Billman and Phillip Walls, caught a homeless man who seemed to be raping a 21-year-old woman in an off-campus residential garage. When they saw what was happening, the officers immediately intervened. “(We were) just riding down a dark alley, shining lights into garages and came across that,” DeWitt said. Billman, a 14-year veteran with Columbus Police who’s spent four years with the bike unit, said the bike patrol officers routinely check on open garages in the campus area, but almost never come across situations like this one.
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Construction hinders North Campus businesses DEMI SNIDER For The Lantern snider.295@osu.edu One-lane roads and sidewalk closures are prompting some drivers and students to avoid the North Campus area during construction on the residence halls, leaving some local business managers unahppy. Mike Sanda, manager of Noodles and Company located at 2124 N. High St., said in years before the construction started, business would boom when students returned to campus in the fall. This year, however, things are drastically different. “Rather than a 100 percent increase, it has only been a 75 percent increase
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CPD bike patrol aims to be more accessible CHELSEA SPEARS Multimedia editor spears.116@osu.edu
SPORTS INSIDE
OSU to grow food for dining halls LEISA DECARLO Lantern reporter decarlo.25@osu.edu Ohio State Dining Services launched an initiative this fall to ensure that select produce prepared and served by campus dining halls will be locally grown, right on OSU soil. “Food is a meaningful thing,” said Zia Ahmed, senior director of University Dining Services. “It’s a lot more meaningful because it’s grown in our own backyard.” Howlett Greenhouse on OSU’s West Campus is set to be home to lettuce, kale, basil and other “lettuce-type” crops used for student consumption, said James Metzger, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science professor and chair. Produce will be planted, cared for and harvested by both volunteers and students within the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science as a collaborative effort between Dining Services and the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. “It isn’t something that just stops at the supermarket. This is the idea of being totally self-sufficient. People are going to see that they can make a contribution. People will get an understanding of what food production is about,” Metzger said. Overall, the initiative costs less than $1,000 and the money was provided by Dining Services, Ahmed said. This is the first time a specifically designed space on OSU’s campus will be dedicated to the growing and harvesting of some of the food students eat, Ahmed said. Metzger said although the reality of space limitations might mean that the initiative could not reach all campus dining halls, OSU could still supply a significant amount of produce. The goal is to start small and track the potential for what can be grown and sustained at OSU, Metzger said. “The more we can reduce the cycle time from the time it’s harvested to the time it makes it on the plate, it will, of course, taste better,” Ahmed said. The use of the greenhouse space is vital to the sustainability of the partnership and for year-round production, but it might be trickier when it comes to appropriate planting temperature and fertilization, Metzger said. “If you plant something in your garden, you kind of just let
MARK BATKE / Photo editor
Construction work being done Sept. 1 on OSU’s North Campus.
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