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Booze, books and the balance: A look at alcohol use in college see additional video coverage:
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An OSU student with a mixed drink at Seventh Son Brewing Co. at 1101 N. 4th St.
How does alcohol play into campus culture? Liz Young Editor-in-chief young.1693@osu.edu On a recent Saturday in Columbus, bars opened before 6 a.m. to accommodate for the gameday ahead. That’s how early some Ohio State fans started drinking in anticipation of the noon football game against the University of Michigan. Earlier that week, about 14,000 people
had flocked to Mirror Lake for the annual tradition where fans jump into the lake to show — in some way — their disdain for Michigan and love for the Buckeyes. Many of the people who jumped were intoxicated, and four medical transports and four arrests were made at Mirror Lake that night, according to the University Police log. It’s events like those of Beat Michigan Week that demonstrate the way that alcohol and college mix together. According to experts and students alike, students at college
campuses are drinking, but not always without consequence. A second-year OSU student in speech and hearing sciences, who wished to remain anonymous because she isn’t 21, said she started drinking every weekend when she came to college. “I personally liked it because I wanted to experience it but I didn’t think that there was any pressure whatsoever,” she said. She now lives off-campus and said that has changed her drinking habits in that she drinks more
often but more moderately. “I don’t binge drink as much,” she said. “In the dorms because it was more of a novelty and it was the first year of college, I kind of felt like that was what made it so prevalent and like, ‘Who’s gonna get s---faced?’” After all, college drinking isn’t rare. About 80 percent of students drink, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. And half of those who drink aren’t stopping at a beer — they’re binge drinking, drinking to get drunk. That means having about four drinks in two hours for women, or five drinks in that time for men, according to the NIAAA. But even though drinking is common, problems can arise. “I think alcohol is an issue on this college campus, it’s an issue on every college campus and an issue in society for that matter,” OSU’s Office of Student Life spokesman Dave Isaacs said. “It impacts students in a wide variety of ways.” The NIAAA agrees. “The problem with college drinking is not necessarily the drinking itself, but the negative consequences that result from excessive drinking,” the NIAAA’s website said. Every year: • 1,825 students between 18 and 24 years old die from alcohol-related injuries. • About 599,000 students are unintentionally injured while intoxicated. • More than 690,000 are physically assaulted by someone else who had been drinking. • More than 97,000 students are victims of sexual assaults that were alcohol-related. There are academic repercussions — every year, about 25 percent of students report receiving lower grades or other consequences because of drinking. And there are personal
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more than 9K students are victims of sexual assaults that were alcohol-related about 599K are unintentionally injured while intoxicated more than 690K are assaulted by someone else who had been drinking
This year, from dorm move-in day on Aug. 23 through Dec. 8, University Police listed 59 records on its log for offenses involving underage persons — which is only one of several alcohol-related offenses
Department exhibit to showcase Sugar Bowl pits familiar foes electrifying art and technology in Urban Meyer, Nick Saban denise bough Lantern reporter blough.24@osu.edu The world of fine art evolves as new media present themselves, giving artists new modes and environments for expression. Given that premise, what better medium to work with than the medium of today: technology, asks Ken Rinaldo, professor and head of the Department of Art’s art and technology program. Starting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, a cluster of electronically produced art is plugging into Hopkins Hall for the gallery for the art and technology program’s biannual student exhibition, “Algorithmic Sequitur,” which runs until Friday, has works chosen from roughly 280
submissions by faculty members, Rinaldo said, with an acceptance rate of about 50 percent. Jessica Ann, a student and TA in the art and technology Master of Fine Arts program, said creating art from technology is fascinating to her because she can explore emerging electronic materials, such as the electroencephalography headset, a wearable device that detects human brainwaves. EEG headsets have been examined for use in gaming and the medical field, Ann said, but she chose to use its components for something new: a brainwave-controlled video camera called the Biofeedback Cinema. “The system operates in lieu of a traditional cinematographer, and it’s the actor who will
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Taking a stand
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A protester stands above a crowd with his arms raised during a Ferguson protest rally on Dec. 8 outside of Columbus Police headquarters in downtown Columbus. The protest was organized to take a stand against the Ferguson decision and oppose police brutality. Vist thelantern.com for the full story.
james grega, jr. Asst. sports editor grega.9@osu.edu Paul “Bear” Bryant and Wayne Woodrow “Woody” Hayes. The first time the Ohio State Buckeyes and Alabama Crimson Tide took the field against each other, the two legendary coaches squared off in a battle for the — wait for it — Sugar Bowl championship in New Orleans. Now, almost 37 years to the date, two more legendary football coaches will roam the sidelines in the 2015 installment of the Sugar Bowl. While they don’t have nicknames like “Woody” or “Bear,” OSU’s Urban Meyer and Alabama’s Nick Saban know each other all too well. They’ve squared off three times as members of the Southeastern Conference when Meyer was at the University of Florida and are set to meet again in a College Football Playoff semi-final game in the first season of the new system. Saban said during a Sunday conference call that returning to the Sugar Bowl for a second year in a row is a “great opportunity,” especially against the Buckeyes. “(It’s) a real honor for our team to be able to come back to the Sugar Bowl, to be a part of the first-ever playoff system playing against an outstanding, very traditional, a great traditioned program like Ohio State, with a great coach like Urban Meyer,” Saban said. Meyer, who is 1-2 against Saban headto-head, said he can remember his lone win against Saban. “The 2008 game was just one of the great games in college football history, in my opinion,” Meyer said Sunday. “Where evenly matched teams were going back and forth, back and forth. And obviously we got, scored right at the end to take a two-score lead.” Meyer’s Florida Gators defeated Saban’s Crimson Tide, 31-20, in that game to earn a spot in the 2009 BCS National Championship, which they won over the Oklahoma Sooners. Combined, the two coaches have recorded six national titles, a far cry from the combined
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Coach Urban Meyer and redshirt-sophomore quarterback Cardale Jones (12) after the Big Ten Championship Game against Wisconsin on Dec. 6 in Indianapolis. OSU won, 59-0. 11 that Hayes and Bryant combined for in their coaching careers. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that both Saban and Meyer were not only OSU assistants in the 1980s, but also both played their college football in Ohio with Saban at Kent State and Meyer at Cincinnati. Meyer, who was a graduate assistant at OSU from 1986-87, coached his first game against the Crimson Tide, a 16-10 loss. Just six years prior, Saban was on the same Buckeye staff as a defensive backs coach under then-head coach and Meyer mentor Earle Bruce. During a fundraiser in Mason, Ohio, back in April, Saban spoke about one particular coach who made an impact on him when he was an up-and-coming football coach. In Saban’s second year at OSU, the unranked Buckeyes entered a game against
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