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The OSU women’s basketball team began its season Sunday with a win against Tennessee State, 78-51.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Ohio State will need a miracle to qualify for the Big Ten Championship or BCS bowl games after its 26-23 overtime loss Saturday at Purdue. With less than a minute left in regulation, a 13-yard touchdown pass by Braxton Miller thrust OSU back into the game it had spent trailing the Boilermakers. An extra-point kick was all that separated the Buckeyes from their third straight come-frombehind win — and a kicker who had converted each of his 28 attempts in the season lined up to try for No. 29, which would tip the scales and all but secure a 21-20 Buckeyes victory. Purdue blocked the kick. The game went into overtime. And, the Boilermakers claimed a 26-23 victory with a 1-yard touchdown. Miller’s game-tying touchdown pass to running back Jordan Hall and the following botched extra-point attempt dominated postgame discussion between media and players. It was the play that may prove to keep OSU out of Big Ten title contention. To qualify for the Conference Championship, the Buckeyes must win their final two games against Penn State and Michigan. Should it accomplish that, OSU still would need a series of other cards to fall into place.
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Senior quarterback Robert Marve (9) stretches the ball over the goal line for the victory in overtime during an NCAA football game between Ohio State and Purdue at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 12, 2011. OSU lost, 26-23, in overtime. OSU would need Penn State to lose its remaining games against OSU and Wisconsin. And, to top it off, the Buckeyes would need Wisconsin to lose to Illinois on Saturday. In their Saturday matchup at
Purdue, the Buckeyes faced deficits of 10-0, 17-7 and 20-14; their only scores leading up to the final minute of regulation had come on a 34-yard touchdown catch by Hall and a 6-yard run by Miller. Hall’s second touchdown
catch, with 55 seconds to play, appeared to have lifted the Buckeyes to victory. “I thought the game was over after
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Student group runs for Somalian famine Ayan Sheikh Multimedia editor sheikh.51@osu.edu The Somali Student Association at Ohio State organized its first-ever 5k/one-mile run Sunday on the Oval in an effort to raise money for the victims of the famine in Somalia. Project Run for Life: Horn of Africa, was developed over the summer by SSA board members and OSU Undergraduate Student Government senate member Bilal Bajwa. Since then, Run for Life has raised $11,000 in donations from various businesses across Columbus, sponsorships from USG, student organizations and from several OSU departments, according to Zakaria Farah, SSA treasurer and a second-year in environmental engineering All proceeds from the event will be presented to Helping Hand for Relief and Development, a non-profit organization based in Detroit, Mich., which provides humanitarian aid in emergency situations, according to its website. SSA president and third-year international relations and diplomacy major, Simona Noor said Helping Hand was the perfect choice given that members from Helping Hand are on the ground in Somalia and in neighboring refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya. “We wanted (Helping Hand) because they were on site. We could’ve sent it to the U.N., we could’ve sent it to all these other organizations, but we thought this was the best choice for us for now,” Noor said.
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More than 200 students gathered for the Somali Student Association’s 5k run to help provide support for the Somali famine. The United Nations agricultural agency said in a press release in September that famine conditions had spread to a sixth area in Somalia, putting approximately 750,000 people in the country at risk of starvation this year. Despite the overwhelming humanitarian response to the drought and famine crisis in the Horn of Africa, the demand for food and health relief remains high, according to the U.N.
Farah said the purpose of the fundraiser was not only to raise money, but to also help spread awareness around campus of the ongoing issues in Somalia. “We wanted our project, our 5K and our experience to get others motivated to do something and be aware of what’s going on in the world,” Farah said.
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Three OSU graduates opened a pop-up suit shop in the South Campus Gateway in October, catering to students.
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Penn State students took to the streets after former football coach Joe Paterno was fired Nov. 9, 2011.
After the whirlwind of media coverage on major news outlets about former Penn State coach Joe Paterno’s dismissal for his knowledge of a sex scandal involving retired defensive coach Jerry Sandusky, it may be easy for Buckeye fans and students to compare PSU’s sex abuse scandal to Ohio State’s tattoo and memorabilia scandal. While one scandal is a legal issue and the other involves NCAA violations, students at respective schools still have similar reactions to the loss of a football coach. “There are similar reactions in the way (students) are responding to their team and their school and their coaches,” said Peter Cappucci, a first-year in mathematics. PSU’s retired defensive coach Jerry Sandusky is accused of sexually abusing boys in a charity program, The Second Mile, a foundation created by Sandusky to work with at-risk youth. Sandusky is accused of sexually abusing the boys in his home and in PSU’s football locker room, according the grand jury report. Paterno, athletic director Tim Curley, senior vice president for business and finance Gary Schultz, and assistant coach Mike McQueary allegedly knew of
the incidents happening since 2002 or before, but did not report it to the proper authorities. Paterno did, however, report the violations to PSU officials, but failed to report the issues any further. OSU’s scandal involved NCAA violations when football players sold memorabilia and received improper benefits from outside sources. Despite knowledge of the violations, former OSU coach Jim Tressel failed to report the violations. News of OSU’s NCAA violations occurred in December 2010. Tressel resigned in May, months after the 2011 Sugar Bowl against Arkansas and prior to the 2011 football season. About 200 students rallied and visited his home in Upper Arlington, Ohio, to show support and sing “Carmen Ohio.” After news of the sex scandal broke and Paterno cancelled his weekly press conference Tuesday, students rallied. About 300 PSU students showed similar support by appearing at Paterno’s house Tuesday evening. “I definitely think students rise to the occasion to support their coach, especially these two coaches,” Cappucci said. “It’s not that they were just one- or two-year coaches, they were long tenure coaches and they were loved for what they did for the success they had at their schools.” Paterno announced Wednesday morning he was to retire after the season, but PSU’s Board of
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