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Appalachian State vs. Ohio State, Saturday, 6 PM, BTN

LitlBuck

Kevin Warren is an ass
This is not football so the Mountaineers are not our friends when they come calling. Should be an entertaining game.
* Full Appalachian State stats

The Mountaineers are coming off 94-89 loss at Akron last week, their second-straight loss ... Appalachian State has had a somewhat up-and-down season, with a top-100 KenPom win over Davidson, but also losses to James Madison (261) and Western Carolina (286) .... This will be the first official matchup between Ohio State and Appalachian State. Their only meeting, in the 2000 NCAA Tournament, was an Ohio State win that was later vacated ... The Mountaineers will be playing the third game in what is a season-long four-game road trip ... Appalachian State gets a lot of its offense from behind the 3-point line, with 36.8 percent of its total points coming from beyond the arc. The Mountaineers are No. 13 in the country in 3-point field goals attempted per game. They're top-10 in the country in rebounds per game, total rebounds, free throw attempts and made 3s ... App State is also among the worst defensive teams in the country, ranked No. 265 in adjusted defensive efficiency ... Junior point guard Ronshad Shabbaz is No. 18 in the country in points per game ... Appalachian State is ranked No. 196 overall in the KenPom ratings.
Ohio State basketball vs. Appalachian State preview: TV info, key players, stats, prediction
 
Not sure what they are teaching at Ohio State these days. First commercial was about how they were teaching gardening to solve social justice, the next was dance curing chronic pain. I'll stick with the AT&T commercials at this point
agreed. what a waste of an education maggie griffin is receiving from ohio state. it's not like diabetes and obesity are a massive problem or anything.

Connecting passion to purpose

One winter evening, Margaret “Maggie” Griffin stopped in a nearby convenience store to grab a late-night snack after studying.

“I saw this family doing their grocery shopping for the week,” said Griffin, a 20-year-old senior in Ohio State’s College of Social Work. “That was their only source of food. It changed the way I thought about access and food. There were no fresh vegetables or anything.”

It might have been a routine trip to the store, but instead it put a face on an issue that Griffin had been wrestling with as a social work student: the need to alleviate food insecurity, namely food deserts -- low-income areas where residents lack access to nutritious food. She wanted to help.

Griffin did not let the experience in the convenience store linger lazily in her subconscious. She put her conviction to work and created the Unity Fridge Program, a food-sharing system that aims to replenish food deserts by bringing garden-fresh produce to children in Columbus elementary schools.

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Griffin's prize funding, which also starts in May, will go toward purchasing outdoor refrigerators that will be placed near five local elementary schools and stocked with fruits and vegetables from a garden run by Ohio State students at the university’s Waterman Farm. Local community gardens will supplement the produce while students develop their garden, and a greenhouse will extend the growing season during winter months.

The program will serve 12 families per school who will be selected based on economic need.

“I wanted to serve the most vulnerable populations,” said Griffin, who was initially drawn to social work because she wanted to help people. Her time at Ohio State, however, has revealed the depth and complexity of her future career path.

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the next time you get triggered when the words social and justice are used close to each other, take it to stuff where you and your other snowflakes can whine in symphony.
 
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