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As newly inaugurated Undergraduate Student Government leaders Shamina Merchant and Shawn Semmler met with Dr. J for the first of weekly meetings at Sloopy’s Diner in April 2018, a server came up to the three of them and asked for their drink order. When it ...

Two Ohio State fraternities were put on probation in February after violating the Code of Student Conduct, according to decisions letters from the Office of Student Life. The decision letters show that Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Phi Epsilon are both on social probation until ...

With all the bars that have been slowly leaving campus, one has remained standing: Out-R-Inn. From its Monday Mug Night deals to its daily happy hours, this bar has a lot of monetary perks that keep Ohio State students coming back. But Out-R-Inn is more ...

Total membership numbers for the Greek community at Ohio State dropped for the first time since 2010 due to the suspension of four fraternities. According to data provided by the Office of Student Life, the membership for Greek life decreased from 4,644 in 2017 to ...

Ohio State released its annual Campus Climate Survey in conjunction with 32 other universities within the Association of American Universities to study the trends of sexual misconduct on college campuses around the country. The Campus Climate Survey is a voluntary and anonymous questionnaire that explores ...

CNN host Fareed Zakaria has been met with controversy in his professional past, and Ohio State University President Michael Drake and the Commencement Speaker Advisory Committee said that his past issues were not a reason to keep him out of consideration. Drake said in an ...

Two Ohio State police officers responding early Feb. 24, to a call about possible underage drinking instead found two female students who suspected they had been drugged. The officers’ reports, obtained by The Lantern Tuesday, follow three other documents that detailed alleged druggings at campus-area ...

Ohio State University President Michael Drake gave more insight into the new Title IX office, the Office of Institutional Equity, in an interview with The Lantern on Tuesday. Drake highlighted how he expects the office to be structured and the status of the search for ...

Fareed Zakaria, journalist, political analyst and author, will deliver Ohio State’s spring commencement address, according to an announcement from the university. Along with hosting Fareed Zakaria GPS (Global Public Square) for CNN Worldwide, Zakaria is a columnist for The Washington Post, a contributing editor for ...

The Ohio State Board of Trustees amended the procedure for setting and reviewing total compensation to university executives during the Talent and Compensation Committee meeting Thursday. Susan Basso, vice president of talent, culture and human resources, introduced the amendments to the procedure documents that added ...