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Pretty cool idea on the Oval. Ohio State is always trying to stay creative.

 
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ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST. Here's a live look at Catfish Biff's last stand as the final piece of 11th Ave. not owned by Ohio State or its corporate partners.

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But inevitably, the mighty eventually fell.

With $1 million, Ohio State could purchase more than 65,000 pizzas from Catfish Biff’s. Instead, it’s opting for the building and land.

The Ohio State Board of Trustees will vote Thursday to authorize a $1 million purchase of the building formerly home to Catfish Biff’s Pizza and Subs, a South Campus staple known for its late-night customers. The purchase is meant to support the University Framework Plan, a long-term strategy to update campus-area infrastructure, according to the Board’s meeting agenda.

The move by the Board is a “strategic acquisition,” and there are no future plans at this time regarding what the space will be used for, university spokesperson Dan Hedman said.

Personally, I'm most disappointed that Catfish Biff's only got a cool mill out of those soulless bloodsuckers. I would have thought they would essentially have a blank check. Though I guess the money is a little more enticing when you haven't been able to operate your business for nine months.
 
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1970: May 7-19. The University closed for nearly two weeks after four students were killed by the National Guard on May 4 at nearby Kent State University. The closure was an attempt to calm protestors on OSU’s campus and was largely successful. Learn more at our web exhibit on the 1970 Student Demonstrations. (https://library.osu.edu/site/dissent/)

Just sayin': I have 1st hand experience on that shut down.
 
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1970: May 7-19. The University closed for nearly two weeks after four students were killed by the National Guard on May 4 at nearby Kent State University. The closure was an attempt to calm protestors on OSU’s campus and was largely successful. Learn more at our web exhibit on the 1970 Student Demonstrations. (https://library.osu.edu/site/dissent/)

Just sayin'; I have 1st hand experience on that shut down.
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I was a hippie protesting the draft for Kent State and a Guardsman doing duty in 1978. It was the only time that they issued live ammunition to us in Ohio. People in trailer parks were drunk and a few, who had been drinking, refused to be evacuated at gunpoint. We found them the next day, frozen to death. A couple of pictures are indelibly etched into my mind. Although I found that a snow plough had cut my VW Karmann Ghia in half when I was deactivated, that's not it.

The first picture is finding a Downs syndrome couple in a trailer home on the West side. They had an infant child and were keeping it alive by sheltering it in a corner with their body heat. Both were in pain with severe frostbite but the child was kept perfectly warm. We took them back to the Armory on Howey Rd, where a City social worker tried to take the child away from them. Several guardsmen threatened the social worker with loaded M-16s in their hands and were harshly told to stand down. Eventually, they won and the couple was treated and taken to a place of safety in one of the guardsman's homes.

The second is being issued with snowshoes and long poles and then sitting in the open windows of a Huey as we flew along 270 to touchdown and walk on the 15-20 foot snowdrifts to probe indentations for tractor trailer trucks. We found one driver in great shape, another nearly dead. Mostly we found nothing.

The third picture is driving in an armored personnel carrier under the freeway on Hiawatha to the Fairgrounds and then climbing the 30-50ft show mountains to slide down the other side.
 
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I was a hippie protesting the draft for Kent State and a Guardsman doing duty in 1978. It was the only time that they issued live ammunition to us in Ohio. People in trailer parks were drunk and a few, who had been drinking, refused to be evacuated at gunpoint. We found them the next day, frozen to death. A couple of pictures are indelibly etched into my mind. Although I found that a snow plough had cut my VW Karmann Ghia in half when I was deactivated, that's not it.

The first picture is finding a Downs syndrome couple in a trailer home on the West side. They had an infant child and were keeping it alive by sheltering it in a corner with their body heat. Both were in pain with severe frostbite but the child was kept perfectly warm. We took them back to the Armory on Howey Rd, where a City social worker tried to take the child away from them. Several guardsmen threatened the social worker with loaded M-16s in their hands and were harshly told to stand down. Eventually, they won and the couple was treated and taken to a place of safety in one of the guardsman's homes.

The second is being issued with snowshoes and long poles and then sitting in the open windows of a Huey as we flew along 270 to touchdown and walk on the 15-20 foot snowdrifts to probe indentations for tractor trailer trucks. We found one driver in great shape, another nearly dead. Mostly we found nothing.

The third picture is driving in an armored personnel carrier under the freeway on Hiawatha to the Fairgrounds and then climbing the 30-50ft show mountains to slide down the other side.
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Second paragraph is one of the most moving things I've read. Gives me hope for my troubled country if we can tap into that again.
 
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