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Event Start Time: 5:00 pm
Event Location: WOSU Ross Community Studio Theatre
Event Location: WOSU Ross Community Studio Theatre
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Event Start Time: 12:00 pm
Event Location: WOSU Ross Community Studio Theatre, 1800 Pearl Street
Event Location: WOSU Ross Community Studio Theatre, 1800 Pearl Street
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Event Location: Thompson Library 150
Event Location: Thompson Library 150
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Event Location: 106 Journalism
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Recent News
By Noah Adkins
Ohio State students interested in careers in sports now have a new way to start building connections and professional skills early in college.
The Sports and…
SSI affiliate Dominik Stecuła recently wrote a guest column for The Columbus Dispatch on how Ohio State football can create common ground across political differences.
Stecuła, an Ohio…
by Noah Adkins
To much of the world, Jesse Owens is the four-time Olympic gold medalist who made history in Berlin.
To his grandchildren, he was simply Granddad.
The…
By Reilly Cahill
For Stuart Owens Rankin and Marlene Hemphill Dortch, memories of their grandfather Jesse Owens are not limited to four gold medals or Olympic history.
They…
