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Federal authorities are warning Ohio college students about cychlorphine — a new, synthetic opioid that can be 10 times more potent than fentanyl — as the drug has the highest prevalence in Ohio, as well as Texas and Tennessee. Cychlorphine has been linked to at least 55 deaths nationally from 2025 to 2026, according to […]
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Ohio State is renovating Buckeye Commons in the Ohio Union this academic year, adding new collaboration and study spaces designed to expand student support and community-building services. Buckeye Commons is a multi-purpose space for students to sit, study and hang out with their peers, according to an Ohio State website. New additions include collaboration
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Ohio State broke ground on the Timashev Technology Tower on Tuesday, marking a new phase for students’ education and investment opportunities for the university. The eight-story and 103,000-square-foot building will bring students, research, startups, large companies and a center for software innovation all together, said University President Ravi Bellamkond
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A Vote Early event rallied over 200 people outside the Ohio Statehouse’s William McKinley Memorial to encourage voter participation ahead of midterm elections. Though the 2025 No Kings event in Columbus focused on challenging policies from the Trump administration, per prior Lantern reporting, this year’s event pushed civic participation through six speakers
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Carson Hinzman stood onstage with a microphone, looking into a crowd of hundreds of people listening to his testimony. A fifth-year center on the Ohio State football team, Hinzman said he grew up in a small western Wisconsin farming community. Although he regularly attended church with his family, Hinzman struggled to find God’s meaning in […]
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A U.S. Congressman, Maxwell Frost, visited the South Oval on Monday to speak with students and encourage voter turnout for the Nov. 3 election. Frost is the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 10th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2023. Why would he leave Florida to speak here? Elected at 25 years old, […]
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With midterm elections less than a month away, college students are more likely than ever to head to the polls and cast their votes, new data suggests. As many as 66 percent of college students will vote in the 2026 midterms, according to an August survey conducted by the Center for Information and Research on […]
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A reporter for The Lantern was denied entry to a campaign event featuring gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton at the WOSU building near campus Wednesday. Cameron Dewey, a second-year in journalism and a Lantern reporter, said that she went to the entrance and explained to the person at the door that she was there to cover […]
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The Columbus Museum of Art will present its newest exhibit, “Queer Constellations: Photographs from the Aronowitz Family Collection,” on Friday. The exhibit was made to honor a gift of 50 photographs to the museum by the Aronowitz family of Columbus, said Kaitlin Booher, the museum’s associate curator of photography and co-curator of the exhibit. “This […]
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In 2004, Ohio State physics professor Bunny Clark gave an interview as part of The Ohio State University Oral History Project, where she shared that the best thing she did in her time at Ohio State was “take over” the fourth floor men’s bathroom in an engineering building. Clark said in the interview that an […]
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