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Goal post damage estimated at $4,000 MICHELE THEODORE Managing editor for content theodore.13@osu.edu There could be $4,000 of damage to the ‘Shoe after about 200 people forced their way in to celebrate Ohio State winning the National Championship, according to an estimate from the building coordinator for Ohio Stadium. The group snapped a padlock in half when they broke in a gate at South Stands at about 1:45 a.m. on Tuesday after the title win. The approximately 200 people who made their way into the stadium were part of a larger mob that was “held at bay by police using crowd control tactics,” according to a University Police report. The group made their way to the goal post at the south end of the stadium and started hanging on it and pushing it until it broke in two places. The report said the post snapped at one of the spots where it was welded. Don Patko, who works as assistant athletic director for facilities, estimated the damage to the goal post at about $4,000. There was also at least one incident of offenses involving underage persons that night. On Sunday, there was a report of disorderly conduct when a student reported that her ex-boyfriend was in her North Campus residence hall trying to speak to her, but that he wasn’t welcome. The student and her ex-boyfriend had dated for less than a year before breaking up and remained friends until November when she told police that things got “bad” and she was uncomfortable with him showing up uninvited. Police told the ex-boyfriend to cease all communications with the student or face possible criminal charges. The student wasn’t afraid for her life or afraid of threats of violence, according to the police report. The next day, a student in a South Campus residence hall admitted to smoking marijuana. Police confiscated a vaporizer and a grinder in his room to be confiscated, said he was cooperative, and referred him to Student Conduct without charging him.
YANN SCHREIBER / Lantern reporter
A Columbus Police officer uses pepper spray on an OSU fan on North High Street near OSU’s campus in the early morning of Jan. 13. Police responded to fan celebrations following OSU’s 42-20 national championship victory against Oregon on Jan. 12.
Tear gas use questioned after National Championship celebrations
ALEX DRUMMER Oller reporter drummer.18@osu.edu Students celebrating Ohio State’s National Championship victory streamed out into the cold night air in a sea of scarlet and gray, only to be obscured minutes later by white clouds of tear gas. “We were all on the sidewalk. No one was really in the street, and we were all just cheering,” said Jacob Knock, a second-year in finance. Shortly after the College Football Playoff National Championship ended Monday night, students crowded campus — including Mirror Lake and High Street, particularly in front of the Ohio Union — to celebrate OSU’s 42-20
victory over Oregon. Officers from the Columbus Division of Police and a SWAT team wore gas masks and stood by to keep order as students and fans rushed through the street. Tear gas was deployed during the post-game celebration. “It didn’t seem like it was very out of hand. I mean it was no different than a celebration if my high school had won a championship game,” Knock said. But the high school-like atmosphere soon changed. Knock, who said he had watched the game at an apartment on 12th Avenue and went to High Street afterward when he saw a lot of people heading that way, recalled seeing two or three cop cars drive up and felt the tear gas maybe a minute later. “I personally was standing in the middle of crowd and suddenly I just couldn’t breathe
“If you’re in the middle of the crowd, and the officer’s yelling at you to go somewhere, and there’s 600 people between you and the next cross street, what do they want you to do?”
- Adam Goldstein, Attorney advocate at the Student Press Law Center
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FAFSA might be easier in the future KHALID MOALIM Asst. mutimedia editor moalim.2@osu.edu The Free Application for Federal Student Aid is a lengthy annual responsibility for some applicants, but six senators are out to tackle what can be a tedious task with a new bipartisan bill that proposes to simplify the FAFSA programs and application process. Senators Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., with others, presented the Financial Aid Simplification and Transparency Act on Jan. 7. It would
The Buckeyes have 3 capable QB’s coming back in 2015, but only room for one to start. Who will it be? Read the commentary on 7A.
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OSU to give $500K, tuition to student hit by dump truck LIZ YOUNG Editor-in-chief young.1693@osu.edu A settlement has been reached in the case of Daniel Hughes, a former Ohio State student who was struck by a dump truck near a construction zone on campus in September 2012. OSU will pay Hughes and his family $500,000 and will provide Hughes free tuition for the hours needed for a bachelor’s or associate degree, as long as it doesn’t take more than five years from his date of re-enrollment for him to complete that degree, according to a Court of Claims of Ohio copy of the settlement.
Hughes, who is from South Point, Ohio, was struck by a construction truck Sept. 5, 2012, while riding his bike to class near a construction site on Woodruff Avenue. The then-first-year student was taken to Wexner Medical Center following the accident and had more than 13 surgeries in the months following. The accident left Hughes without his right leg, right hip and most of his pelvis, or about one-third of his body. He also suffered nerve damage in most of his left leg and some element of brain damage due to blood loss, said Stephen Crandall, the lawyer for the Hughes’ family. Two separate lawsuits were filed relating to the
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Police survey the scene after then-first-year OSU student was struck by a dump truck on Sept. 5, 2012 on Woodruff Ave.
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