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ABC6 interviewed OSUPD Chief Kimberly Spears-McNatt about game day safety in advance of this weekend's highly anticipated matchup of No. 2 Ohio State and No. 8 Penn State. Kickoff is set for Saturday at noon at Ohio Stadium.

As the outlet reported, three national television networks will be on campus this Saturday all at the same time for their pregame shows. Athletic Director, Gene Smith said it's a first.

"First time in history you have Fox The Big Noon Kickoff, ESPN and BTN here as well," Smith said.

The Lantern wrote about a new Franklin County program called CitizenAID which will allow 6,000 safety kits to be distributed among 15 counties in central Ohio starting in December. The safety kits will be provided in central Ohio — and at Ohio State — in order for citizens to be able to help first responders in an emergency situation.

According to a recent article by The Lantern, over the past five years at Ohio State 36 percent of all on-campus accidents involving pedestrians and vehicles occured along Woodruff Avenue.

Share the Road is an educational university initiative to promote traffic safety for all traffic types. The initiative emphasizes that all pedestrians and vehicle operators share the responsibility of safety when traveling on and around campus, and each semester, the university holds an educational event and places signs around campus to promote traffic safety.

The Lantern wrote about two intitiaves -- joint patrol and joint jursidiction -- that allow The Ohio State University Police Division and the Columbus Division of Police to work together and more quickly share crime-related information. Joint patrol involves one OSUPD and one CPD officer patrolling the immediate off-campus area on bikes, from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Ohio State Division of Police and Columbus State police officers have been going through what officers say is essential training. This past week the officers have been looking at different threats and learning how to stop them.

The training they go through looks and sounds real, and that's the purpose, to put the officers through lifelike scenarios.

To learn more, read and view the full story on ABC 6's website.

Keeping campus safe: that's the aim of active aggressor training for officers from Ohio State and Columbus State.

To adapt to evolving threats, Ohio State police are constantly altering their training based on trends.

To learn more, read and view the full story on 10tv's website.

They are simple devices. But they can make a big impact. Locks are being installed on classroom doors at The Ohio State University, according to a recent story from ABC6 News.

"The feedback we got from students, faculty and staff, particularly faculty and students was they wanted a way to more uniformly lock the door," OSU spokersperson Dan Hedman told the station.

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According to Columbus Police records, nearly 200 residential burglaries were reported in the last year in off-campus areas populated by students. Off-Campus and Commuter Student Services is contributing to the safety and well-being of Ohio State students who commute to campus by providing door and window alarms and light timers.

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Ohio State has won awards of all kinds for its academic achievements and athletic accomplishments. In August, it added an Emmy to the list.

Ohio State’s Department of Public Safety and WOSU Public Media won a regional Emmy for their work on “Surviving an Active Aggressor,” which was produced in 2018. 

Ohio State fans have been gearing up the season opener this Saturday. This season, fans have been looking forward to more than just football.  They're also excited to see what's new in The Shoe.

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