Thursday May 26, 2011 year: 131 No. 76 the student voice of
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Ex-Buckeye says players get deals ‘every which way’ ZACK MEISEL AND JAMES OLDHAM Editor-in-chief and Senior Lantern reporter meisel.14@osu.edu and oldham.29@osu.edu
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Hitting it off
The OSU baseball team beat Minnesota, 5-3, in the opening game of the Big Ten Baseball Tournament.
arts & life
Ray Small saw it all – and did most of it, too – during his four years suiting up in scarlet and gray. Small told The Lantern on Wednesday he profited off of memorabilia while at Ohio State, adding that some student-athletes “don’t even think about (NCAA) rules.” “I had sold my things but it was just for the money,” Small said. “At that time in college, you’re kind of struggling.” Small, who played receiver at OSU from 2006-2010, capitalized on the Buckeyes’ success during his college career. “We had four Big Ten rings,” he said. “There was enough to go around.” Small said he sold the rings to cover typical costs of living. “We have apartments, car notes,” he said. “So you got things like that and you look around and you’re like, ‘Well I got (four) of them, I can sell one or two and get some money to pay this rent.” The wheeling and dealing didn’t stop with rings. The best deals came from car dealerships, Small said. “It was definitely the deals on the cars. I don’t see why it’s a big deal,” said Small, who identified Jack Maxton Chevrolet as the players’ main resource. The Columbus Dispatch reported on May 7 that OSU was investigating more than 50 transactions between OSU athletes and their families and Jack Maxton Chevrolet or Auto Direct.
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“We have apartments, car notes. So you got things like that and you look around and you’re like, ‘Well I got (four) of them, I can sell one or two and get some money to pay this rent.”
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“They explain the rules to you, but as a kid you’re not really listening to all of them rules. You go out and you just, people show you so much love, you don’t even think about the rules. You’re just like ‘Ah man, it’s cool.’ You take it, and next thing you know the NCAA is down your back.”
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They’ve got ‘Whatever It Is’
Zac Brown Band will perform tonight at Nationwide Arena. The country group is known for hits such as “Free.”
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THOMAS BRADLEY Senior Lantern reporter bradley.321@osu.edu
Tornado season has been particularly devastating in 2011. The official death count from tornado fatalities this year is 504, the highest since 1953, when there were 519, according to the National Weather Service. While the death toll remains high, Ohio, and more specifically Columbus, have been spared by the recent string of deadly tornadoes, because of the lack of necessary elements to create a tornado. Jay Hobgood, a professor in atmospheric sciences and adviser to the Meteorology Club at Ohio State, said the conditions need to be perfect for a tornado to form. “We are far enough east; its relatively rare that we see tornadoes here,” Hobgood said.
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“(People say) ‘Oh you got a deal, it’s because you’re an athlete.’ … Playing for Ohio State definitely helps. But I know a lot of people that do nothing and get deals on their cars.”
Hobgood said the mixture of warm, moist air masses near the surface, generally from the Gulf of Mexico, and cool dry air masses from the Rocky Mountains, create the possibility of a tornado. Jeff Rogers, a professor in atmospheric sciences at OSU, said there are very few tornadoes in Ohio because of the lack of these elements. “The primary reasons we don’t see tornadoes here is that we don’t see the mechanisms that create tornadoes,” Rogers said. “We don’t see the flow of low-level moisture typically seen in the spring and summer evenings in the southern states.” Christie Lightfritz, a second-year in atmospheric sciences and president of the Meteorology Club, said the mechanisms include a change in wind direction at an elevation. “The change in wind direction in elevation, added to the cold air up high and the warm, moist air lower … the air masses meet, and it starts a rotation called a mesocyclone,” Lightfritz said. The National Weather Service rates the intensity
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of tornadoes, which ranges from an F0 to an F5, where F5s are the most devastating. Rogers said the number of tornadoes, in addition to the tornadoes hitting highly populated areas, was the main cause of the high number of deaths. “It’s extremely abnormal. The high number of tornadoes this year is unbelievable,” Rogers said. Rogers said death tolls were a lot higher in past decades because of primitive warning systems. “We usually think that such older large death tolls were due to the poor tornado warning system of bygone decades,” Rogers said. “Now the warning system is much better so other issues now arise such as the possible increased intensity of tornadoes and the chance misfortune that they have regularly hit large cities this year.” The most tornado-caused deaths in a year was in 1925, when 794 people were killed, 694 of which
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ROTC must fight for country, scholarships HARRY LOCKE Lantern reporter locke.59@osu.edu Vitalized on the brink of dawn, at an hour when most are still clinging to sheets and pillows, Bridget Ruccia is all smiles. She paces by Converse Hall, a ghost-whitecolored building providing 70 years of service as the center of military education and activity at Ohio State. “This was where I was free to be what I wanted to be for the rest of my life,” Ruccia said. “Not a college student, but an Air Force officer.” At 22 years old, Ruccia, a fourth-year in Chinese and international studies, is one of the most decorated cadets currently in the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, or AFROTC, at OSU. Among a parade of accolades, Ruccia was appointed the highest cadet position of Wing Commander Fall Quarter, and was flown to Shanghai to represent OSU at the Global Forum of College Students on Environmental Concerns at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. There, she proved her winning ways were not confined to the 50 states, bringing back the Best Delegation Award. “I live with one of the core values that the Air Force has, before I even knew it existed: excellence in all we do,” she said.
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HARRY LOCKE / Lantern reporter
Cadets from OSU’s Air Force ROTC stand at parade rest in the annual Tri-Service Pass In Review parade on Friday. During the parade, cadets from all 3 services march in formation to be reviewed by professors of military science at OSU.
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