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Osu football and basketball tickets will rise in 2013
Basketball Conference home games: -Faculty/staff: $4.50 increase for lower bowl and $3 increase for upper bowl -Students: $1 increase for all seat locations
Premier games: -Faculty/staff: $37 increase for lower bowl and $20 increase for upper bowl
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-Students: $13 increase for all seat locations *Price for non-conference tickets will not increase for next season, with the expection of premier games.
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All games: -Students: $2 increase per game
The OSU basketball team defeated Wisconsin, 58-49, at the Schottenstein Center Tuesday.
-Public: $9 increase per game* *Premier game prices vary
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kristen MitChell Campus editor mitchell.935@osu.edu The Ohio State Board of Trustees is scheduled to meet this week to discuss raising the cost of football and men’s basketball tickets, renaming Central Classroom Building and changing the university seal. The meeting, set for Thursday and Friday, is the first time the 19 Trustees are scheduled to meet in 2013 and since the football team finished with a 12-0 season in November. The football team, coach Urban Meyer and Athletic Director Gene Smith are expected to be honored when the Board reconvenes Friday after Thursday’s committee meetings. The Finance Committee is scheduled to meet on Thursday to approve a price increase in men’s basketball and football tickets for the 2013 seasons. The Board meeting agenda reveals that the university has not raised ticket prices in three years. The agenda states “the Athletics Department contributes financially to the university’s academic mission, returning about 25 percent of its budget each year to the university to support libraries, scholarships and other academic needs.” Facing rising operating costs of athletic facilities on campus, the Board will vote to increase the price of student tickets by $2 to $34 per game and the public football price by $9 per game. The Board can opt to “designate up to two home football games as ‘premier games’ which would price tickets between $79 and a maximum of $125 and $150 per game, or a maximum $175 for a single game. However, no student tickets will be designated as premier games, and there will be no additional price increases.
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‘Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade 1940-1950’ is coming to the Columbus Museum of Art Friday.
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The Wexner Center for the Arts is looking to change gears this weekend when it presents its first-ever robot theater performance. And while some might consider the use of robots as thespians innovative, others say it’s merely “cute.” Chuck Helm, director of performing arts at the Wexner Center, compared the robot performers to Hello Kitty. “They’re cute, they’re sweet, they’re very differential,” Helm said. “These robots are more like what they call ‘cute culture’ in Japan.” The Seinendan Theater Company and Osaka University Robot Theater Project are slated to present an android-human theater performance of “Sayonara” and a robot-human theater performance of “I, Worker” 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday in the Wexner Center’s Performance Space. Both performances will be presented each night and will be performed by a mixed cast of robots or androids and humans in Japanese with English subtitles. “The plays are roughly a half an hour a piece and that’s partly due to the limit of the batteries that run the robot,” Helm said. “I, Worker” centers on two domestic robots or robot maids.
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an android-human theater performance and a robot-human theater performance are scheduled to be presented at the wexner Center for the arts’s Performance space from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. at 8 p.m.
Thomas propels OSU to victory Osu junior forward deshaun thomas celebrates during the 2nd half of the Buckeyes’ 58-49 victory against wisconsin Jan. 29. thomas led Osu with 25 points.
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Columbus is known as a gay-friendly city, but the gay community at Ohio State discovered a part of campus life that did not have a specific place for them. That’s what led a few students to establish an OSU chapter of Sigma Phi Beta, a fraternity for gay men. Ethan Fink, a third-year in psychology and Sigma Phi Beta president said the fraternity will focus on the LGBT community but is also open to any heterosexual that has an interest in LGBT issues as long as the student identifies himself as male. “I know people in the LGBT community who are in other fraternities and sororities and they function just fine, but there are also those people who might not be as
comfortable,” Fink said. “It comes down to whatever works best for the individual.” The organization started with a group called LGBT Athletes of OSU, and that sparked the idea to start a homosexual fraternity. Fink contacted the national organization of Sigma Phi Beta and OSU’s Multicultural Greek Council to seek interest in starting a new colony at OSU. The group became an established colony in October, joining eight other MCGC chapters at OSU. Maxi Henn, a third-year in psychology, is an active brother of Sigma Phi Beta and said the organization has provided him a great support system. “I don’t think a lot of gay guys have that tight-knit community,” Henn said. “Family sometimes isn’t as supportive as it could be.”
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