Ohio State’s Digital Flagship initiative is taking steps toward the development of a mental wellness app, with the latest step being a trip to Apple headquarters. A group of campus representatives traveled to Cupertino, California, on Jan. 21 to kick off the development of an ...

On Sunday morning, over 200 students in 30 different organizations attended Clean Up Columbus to pick up litter on the streets surrounding campus. Clean Up Columbus is an event organized by Undergraduate Student Government and held monthly throughout the academic year. This past week, student ...

PERIOD at Ohio State, a non-profit activist group, held a press conference Wednesday afternoon in Curl Market to spread awareness about its work to allow free access to tampons on campus and its efforts to aid in driving the bill to eliminate the tax on ...

Undergraduate Student Government’s General Assembly passed three resolutions Wednesday regarding Title IX changes, school security and affordability. USG said the resolutions expressed concerns regarding Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s proposed changes to Title IX policy, supported the use and installation and use of P.A. systems ...

Student government leaders recounted the organization’s progress during the fall semester and turned their attention toward the last 11 weeks of the administration at the Undergraduate Student Government State of the University Address Tuesday night at the Ohio Union. President Shamina Merchant, Vice President Shawn ...

American jurisprudence guarantees that anyone facing criminal charges can be judged by a jury of his or her peers. The same principle is true for the Committee of Academic Misconduct at Ohio State. COAM is tasked with addressing suspected cases of academic misconduct brought to ...

Under the Shamina Merchant and Shawn Semmler administration, Ohio State’s Undergraduate Student Government has worked through the summer and fall to implement its campaign promises, while also addressing immediate issues facing the student body. Now, Merchant and Semmler are entering the last three months of ...

In September, Ohio State President Michael Drake’s mental health task force released its final recommendations for improvements to the university’s mental health resources, with some changes already made during the fall semester. Drake said in an interview with The Lantern that he met with the ...

Election Day was characterized by a push for people between the ages of 18 and 24 to vote, specifically on college campuses. Following efforts to mobilize the college student vote, the Ohio State midterm elections turnout rate increased by more than 10 percent from 2014-18. ...

For the second year in a row, Undergraduate Student Government General Assembly debated for more than five hours on a resolution calling for the support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement on Wednesday, which was ultimately rejected in a secret vote. The controversial resolution ...