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Tuesday September 3, 2013 year: 133 No. 69

the student voice of

The Ohio State University

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thelantern Urban Meyer ready for Bradley Roby’s return

sports

ERIC SEGER Sports editor seger.25@osu.edu

Hall steps up

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A spotlight shone on Jordan Hall this weekend when he finished the game with a career-high 159 rushing yards.

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Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer was pleased with the effort that his shorthanded defense put forth Saturday in the Buckeyes’ 40-20 win against Buffalo, but he knows the unit still has some growing up to do. The Buckeyes were without redshirt-junior starting cornerback and preseason All-American Bradley Roby, who was suspended because of his involvement in an incident at a Bloomington, Ind., bar in July. Roby is back this week, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he will be inserted into the starting defensive lineup, Meyer said. “He will not be named starter,” Meyer said. “We’ll probably see (sophomore cornerback) Armani (Reeves) or Roby will start, depends on how they practice.” Meyer also noted Roby is someone he has “a lot of respect for” because while he could have left OSU after last season for the NFL, Roby made the decision to come back and finish his Buckeye career with the group of players he came in with. Roby went through “a little bit of a funk of buyer’s remorse,” Meyer said, after hearing people say he could have been drafted high. Meyer called his return this season “very admirable.” Roby was not the only returning defensive starter who did not play against Buffalo, as a lower leg injury made redshirt-senior safety and starter C.J. Barnett a game time decision, ultimately keeping him out. A nagging leg cramp led to junior linebacker Ryan Shazier being carted to the locker room in the second quarter, leaving senior safety Christian Bryant as the lone returning starter on the field. The unit’s lack of experience, coupled with both Shazier’s and Barnett’s absences showed, as Buffalo was able to capitalize on a pair of Buckeye turnovers

Then-redshirt-sophomore cornerback Bradley Roby (1) returns an interception during a game against Nebraska Oct. 6, 2012, at Ohio Stadium. OSU won, 63-38.

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Free ride to Michigan game open to students Batman buzz

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Ben Affleck was named to play Batman in an upcoming film, and speculation is swarming over who will join him onscreen.

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Cedar Point

Halloweekend (Sept. 14)

Ohio State’s Undergraduate Student Government announced it will be providing student bus trips to Cedar Point, the November OSU football game against Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., and major Ohio cities over Thanksgiving break during Fall Semester. The trips are part of USG’s expanding Buckeye Road Trip program, which started last year with the idea of giving students without cars a ride home over breaks. USG President Taylor Stepp said he is excited for the trips and expects them to be well-attended, considering spaces last year filled up within two or three days of registration opening. “Last year, we promised to expand Buckeye Road Trip to take the program to new heights. With this schedule for Fall Semester, I think we’ve done just that,” Stepp said. The trip will be free for students, although the Cedar Point and Michigan trips do not include admission for the events. Stepp said the three trips used roughly $7,000 of the $10,000 allocated this semester for the program. Dylan MacDowell, USG’s deputy director of student affairs, organized the trips and said he tried to “do something more creative” with the program this year. “Originally, it was just to take students home over Veteran’s Day weekend and Thanksgiving, but we’re trying to do things a little bit more unique,” he said. The Veteran’s Day weekend trips will not be provided this year because bus service was not available, MacDowell said.

Thanksgiving Break

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For each trip, the buses will hold 47 or 56 people.

Source: Reporting MacDowell said he first proposed the idea of a trip to the Michigan game and later ended up developing Buckeye Road Trip’s entire fall schedule. USG took a survey of Buckeye Road Trip attendees to get suggestions last year, which helped when choosing the destinations for this year’s trips, MacDowell said. He also said there was no criticism of the program last year. USG’s trips for Spring Semester have yet to be determined, but MacDowell said there are “some cool, creative options that are going to be different from what we’ve done in the past.” He said there is the possibility of USG planning trips to New York City, Pennsylvania and away games for men’s basketball. More trips could be added for this semester, too, he added. USG will provide one OSU charter bus for the Cedar Point trip and two for the Michigan game. The

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service for Thanksgiving break will send two buses to Cleveland, one to Cincinnati and one to Toledo. Each bus has a capacity of either 47 or 56 people. Some have Wi-Fi and televisions, MacDowell said. MacDowell hopes Buckeye Road Trip will continue to expand in years to come so it can host trips nearly every weekend. “There’s so many possibilities. We could go almost anywhere, within reason,” he said. “Hopefully it will get bigger and bigger, and more students will take advantage.” Kayla McDaniel, a first-year in Spanish, said the trips sound like a nice opportunity that she might take advantage of. Adam Burnfin, a fourth-year in comparative cultural studies, disagreed and didn’t think a bus trip to Cedar Point was an appropriate use of university funds.

Integrity, intellect desired in new president DANIEL BENDTSEN Lantern reporter bendtsen.1@osu.edu

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DANIEL BENDTSEN Lantern reporter bendtsen.1@osu.edu

A symposium on the university presidency hosted by the Ohio State Board of Trustees included a discussion about financing higher education, various means of governing universities and some desired qualities of a strong university leader. Richard Chait, professor emeritus of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, moderated the 80-minute discussion Friday, which also took questions from faculty, graduate students and the audience. The Board held the event with the intent of informing OSU’s Presidential Search Committee about more traits to look for in the next university president, said Presidential Search Committee Chairman Jeffrey Wadsworth. The conversation dealt little with OSU specifically, but instead

47 It has been

or about 16 percent of the estimated 300 days,

days*

since OSU began the search for a new president.

At the inaugural meeting of Ohio State’s Presidential Search Committee on July 19, Chairman Jeffrey Wadsworth said the search is expected to take about 300 days. *As of Sept. 3 Source: Reporting touched upon the broader problems in higher education and the experiences of the four panelists, Tufts University President Emeritus Lawrence Bacow, Washington State University President Elson Floyd, University of North Carolina President Thomas Ross and University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan. Tulane University President Scott Cowen was also scheduled to participate in the panel but was “stuck in the airport,” Chait said.

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Problems with financing the modern university Much of the early discussion at the symposium revolved around the difficulty of financing research universities in a time when state and federal funding are decreasing and mounting public pressure to keep tuition low. Bacow said this is as difficult a time to lead an institution as he can remember, calling it a “crisis environment.” “We’re under immense pressure

to bend the cost curve in higher education,” he said. “All of us feel it, I think. Virtually every single revenue source that we rely upon is under pressure: state support for higher education, federal support for higher education, federal research funding, tuition, expectations of endowment and growth and gifts for current use. Technology is putting pressure on all of us by creating expectations of new ways to deliver an education to students. At the same time, everybody still wants all that they’ve got.” Sullivan said an aging population is making it more difficult to get public funding because it’s a demographic that historically is less willing to support education. Floyd said the most significant factor in the research university changes is “declining resources.” “All of us want to do everything that we possibly can to maximize the return on the investments that have

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