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Have you ever wanted jerky delivered to your door? Two former OSU students started a Chase grantwinning company that does just that. ON PAGE 2

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Columbus’ Own band Room & Board is back in action after changing its name because of a copyright issue. ON PAGE 4

OSU men’s basketball is counting on fresh faces to play a critical role after the loss of four starters from last season. ON PAGE 8

Construction at the Schott to improve fan experience WILLIAM KOSILESKI Lantern reporter kosileski.2@osu.edu Guests and fans at the Schottenstein Center will find themselves in a changing space starting in 2016. Renovations will be made to the sports and concert venue, and are expected to be complete in 2018. “We’re committed to providing the best guest experience that we can,” said Mike Penner, senior associate athletic director at the OSU Department of Athletics. “We think that the improvements we are making to the Schottenstein Center will improve the guest experience.” The project, which was approved by OSU’s Board of Trustees in an SOURCE: 2015 CLERY REPORT | ILLUSTRATION BY DENNY CHECK | DESIGN EDITOR August meeting, has a total budget of $32 million, which will be paid with university debt and development funds, according to meeting notes. Construction includes renovations to the concourse, the creation of new offices for sports programs, documented in OSU’s annual secu- college career, as opposed to an an- aligning the building with the atrity reports. nual report. Also, the survey covers tached practice gym, and relocating SCHOTT CONTINUES ON 3 In late September, the Associa- incidents occurring at off-campus tion of American Universities re- locations, compared with the Clery leased its national campus climate report being mostly limited to OSU survey on sexual misconduct and locations. relationship violence, which inDavey also said the difference dicated 24 percent of female un- between filling out an anonymous dergraduate students at OSU have survey and filing a formal report been victims of nonconsensual sex- might add to the difference in reual contact as a result of physical sults. force or situations in which they “There are elements of the Buckwere unable to consent. eyes ACT program that are meant The campus-wide survey was to address that (lack of reporting), available to all OSU students and and it’s something that we’re going saw an 18.1 percent response rate. to be actively engaged in addressDiscrepancies between the Clery ing,” he said. “The discrepancy of WILLIAM KOSILESKI | LANTERN REPORTER report and this year’s AAU survey these numbers (in the security reA view of the southern part can be attributed, in part, to the col- port) and the survey would be re- of the Schottenstein Center lection of information spanning a CLERY CONTINUES ON 3 from Lane Avenue.

Annual campus safety report Reports of forcible sex offenses rise, reports of arson drop to zero in 2014 MICHAEL HUSON Campus Editor huson.4@osu.edu A recently released security report for Ohio State shows a rise in the reporting of forcible-sex offenses on campus last year. Last year’s crime statistics were released last week in the 2015 Annual Campus Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report, a federally required disclosure of certain crimes committed on or near campuses of federally aided U.S. universities. The report shows forcible-sex offenses at Ohio State rose to 32 last year from 24 in 2013, a rise of 33 percent. Of the 32 on-campus

reports in 2014, 20 incidents were rape. There were 21 forced sex offenses reported on campus in 2012, 28 offenses in 2011 and 12 in 2010. OSU spokesman Chris Davey said the university attributes the rise in offenses to an increase in the number of victims coming forward and filing police reports, and added that this is not an indication that more rapes are occurring on campus. He also said that the university is hoping the increase in survivors’ willingness to report instances of rape and other forms of forcible-sex offenses continues. From 2009 to 2014, 138 instances of forcible-sex offenses were

OSU students breathe hope for a cause LEAH MCCLURE Lantern reporter mcclure.607@osu.edu Ohio State students are raising awareness about cystic fibrosis while contorting their bodies into positions that many yoga outsiders could only describe as painful. Breathe Hope, a student organization co-founded by the group’s president, Hannah Rinehardt, organizes yoga classes on and off campus in an effort to educate people about cystic fibrosis while raising money for the cause. All of the proceeds are donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. According to the CFF’s website,

cystic fibrosis is a progressive, genetic disease that causes lung infections and a buildup of mucus in several organs. This causes difficulty breathing as well as a slew of other symptoms. Rinehardt, a fourth-year in chemistry, said she became interested in starting Breathe Hope after spending a summer volunteering at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. There she worked with kids who were diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. “I saw this need for a presence on campus,” she said. Although Rinehardt had been practicing yoga for a while, the idea to make Breathe Hope yoga-based

didn’t come to her right away. She initially thought about organizing something like BuckeyeThon. However, when she realized how well yoga and cystic fibrosis tie together because of the importance of breath, she said she knew that it was the right fit. “With yoga there’s a really big focus on breath, mindfulness and acceptance, so I thought there was a good connection there,” Rinehardt said. Breathe Hope’s largest on-campus events have drawn more than 50 people, and the group raised COURTESY OF HANNAH RINEHARDT $1,000 at its most successful fund- Members of the Breathe Hope Yoga Club pose for a picture. raising event. Rinehardt credits YOGA CONTINUES ON 5


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