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Some campus Wi-Fi spots getting upgrade About 1,900 total; to cost more than $100K AMANDA ETCHISON Campus editor etchison.4@osu.edu Waiting for endless video buffering and slow file downloads could be a thing of the past after Ohio State’s Office of the Chief Information Officer upgrades more than 1,900 wireless network access points on campus. OSU’s wireless network currently has more than 9,000 access points, according to an OCIO press release. Of those, 1,925 are scheduled to be upgraded by the end of this semester, said Katharine Keune, spokeswoman for the OCIO. An access point is a piece of technological infrastructure that allows wireless devices like laptops, tablets and phones to connect to a wireless network via Wi-Fi, said Ryan Holland, senior network engineer for the OCIO. The access points are usually attached to the ceiling or walls of a room, he said. Upgrading each access point costs approximately $550, Keune said. She added that the money for the project came from the “current budget and funding reserved for this project within the OCIO.” It takes approximately 10 minutes to upgrade an access point, Holland said. However, he added, because there are multiple access points in many buildings, Wi-Fi users will most likely be routed to a different access point while the others are being upgraded. “There are multiple access points and they will keep servicing the area,” he said. “So if we pull one down, that one will no longer be functioning, but there are remaining ones in place.” OSU began installing access points as a
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Planning can help alleviate scheduling stresses BREE WILLIAMS Lantern reporter williams.4998@osu.edu Graduating on time will be on T.J. Cifuentes’ mind when he schedules his classes for Fall Semester. “I’m most worried about making sure I’m getting all of the classes I need in order to stay on track to graduate on time,” Cifuentes, a first-year in business, said. With scheduling for Fall Semester beginning the week students return from spring break, many first-year students can be overwhelmed with all of the options of classes to take, said Amy Treboni, director of University Exploration, a program designed to “assist incoming and current Ohio State students who are undecided on their major,” according to its website. “Many first-year students are taking general education requirements and there are so many options for each category,” Treboni said in an email. “I recommend selecting a few different options per category in case the first-choice class fills up.” Treboni added that she thinks students
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champion Logan Stieber becomes 4th wrestler to win 4 National Championships patrick kalista Lantern reporter kalista.4@osu.edu
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ach year, 330 wrestlers compete for a National Championship. Since 1929, when national championships were officially first handed out, only three had won four individual titles. That number rose to four on Saturday when Ohio State redshirt-senior Logan Stieber accomplished the feat for himself. But even after inking his name in the history books, Stieber’s time on the mat isn’t over. The celebration won’t last long as the Monroeville, Ohio, native sets his sights on the World Team and, ultimately, the 2016 Olympics. “I’ll be able to take a week and a half off, and let my body rest and start lifting again and I’ll get three weeks of hard freestyle training in and be ready for the U.S. Open,” Stieber said. His title puts him alongside Cael Sanderson (Iowa State, 1999-2002), Kyle Dake (Cornell, 2010-13) and Pat Smith (Oklahoma State, 1990-1992, 1994) in the elite group of wrestlers to win four NCAA titles. Stieber accumulated a 119-3 record as a Buckeye, and he became the first OSU wrestler to tally four Big Ten individual crowns as well. Logan’s father, Jeff, said he was happy to see his son’s hard work pay off in his last tournament at OSU. “I’m extremely proud and happy for him,” he said. “To see all the hard work he’s put in
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Redshirt-senior Logan Stieber reacts after winning his 4th consecutive NCAA title by beating Edinboro’s Mitchell Port in the 141-pound championship match on March 21 in St. Louis.
Young adults at highest risk for suicide
Ohio State researchers encourage better university resources, access after study MICHAEL HUSON Lantern reporter huson.4@osu.edu He couldn’t talk. He couldn’t move. He couldn’t cry. Jacob Bruner, an OSU graduate, could only bury his head under his pillow and ask himself, “Why did this happen?” His mother had just told him that his hero, his older brother, had committed suicide. “There are questions that go unanswered to this day,” said Bruner, who graduated with a degree in political science in 2013. “And that’s why I think suicide is so rough: You don’t really have any closure on why someone did it.” Many families like Bruner’s ask the same questions about suicide. Young adults age 20 to 24 are the highest risk group for suicide among youths, said Cynthia Fontanella, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral health at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center and
lead author of a new study focusing on youth suicide rates. The study, published in March in JAMA Pediatrics, found that the youth suicide rate in rural areas was nearly double that of urban areas from 1996 to 2010, and that the rural-urban suicide rate disparity could be widening. Researchers offered several possible explanations for high rural suicide rates, including access to firearms, geographical and social isolation and access barriers to mental health services in rural areas. Fontanella said the researchers identified three possible approaches to improving access to services in rural areas: integration of mental health care within physical health care, improvements in telemedicine, and school-based intervention and prevention training. “There’s an urgent need to improve access availability and acceptability of services in rural areas,” she said.
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OSU picks Zagster to roll out new bike-sharing program MICHAEL COLIN Lantern reporter mikecolin13@gmail.com
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OSU and USG’s upcoming bike-sharing partnership with Zagster plans to add 115 bikes and 15 bike stations around campus.
A partnership between Ohio State and Massachusetts-based bike-sharing company Zagster is set to make zipping around campus on two (and sometimes three) wheels a transportation option for students and faculty as early as this fall. The university announced its decision to partner with Zagster on Thursday. This decision comes after an examination of bids from five different bike-sharing
companies, which included NextBike, Social Bicycles, the Gotcha Group, Motivate, which operates the CoGo bike-sharing program in downtown Columbus, and Zagster. OSU announced its intention to create a bike-sharing program, a joint initiative between the university and Undergraduate Student Government, in January, and was in the final stage of decision-making in early March. Although OSU will partner with Zagster, the exact terms of the contract
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