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THOMAS BRADLEY Lantern reporter bradley.321@osu.edu Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot Saturday in Tucson, Ariz., was one of 20 Democrats targeted in Sarah Palin’s anti-health care legislation Facebook post in March. Two Ohio politicians also were among those in Palin’s Jared Loughner “crosshairs.” Former Ohio congressmen Charlie Wilson and John Boccieri told The Lantern they felt unsafe last year after the virtual “targets” were put on their backs. On Palin’s Facebook fan page, SarahPAC, a map was posted that used crosshairs to identify 20 members of the House of Representatives that had
voted in favor of health care reform. The map said things such as, “It’s time to take a stand” and “Let’s take back the 20, together!” Repeated attempts to reach Palin were unsuccessful. Palin’s website, SarahPAC. com, addresses the incident in Arizona. “My sincere condolences are offered to the family of Charlie Wilson Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of (Saturday’s) tragic shooting in Arizona. On behalf of Todd and my family, we all pray for the victims and their families, and for peace and justice,” Palin said on her website. Wilson said strong feelings lingered even after he lost in November.
“I am one of the representatives that voted for health care reform, and we were the targets, there is no question about that … I’ve received a lot of hate mail even after the election, so there is a lot of emotion still out there,” Wilson said. Boccieri said he received numerous threats to his ofÿce while on the campaign trail as John Boccieri a result of the political debate. “If people think that they can move public opinion, or move members of Congress to believe or to vote or to act a certain way, based on fear or intimidation … I think they will be greatly mistaken,” Boccieri said. All three politicians were labeled as Palin’s
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Republican Gov. John Kasich took a ceremonial oath Monday afternoon in front of hundreds at the Ohio Theatre, half a block from the Ohio Capitol Building, where he says he will work to curb Ohio’s budget deÿcit and create more jobs. But now that the ceremony is over and the promises have been made, students are left wondering, “What now?” “I’m just interested to see if (Kasich is) actually going to change things like he says he is, like a lot of politicians do,” said Doug Fleischmann, a third-year in history. “I don’t want to point ÿngers, but I think the big guy at the top (referring to President Barack Obama) said he was going to change a lot and so far I haven’t seen it.” Throughout the campaign, Kasich’s competition, former Gov. Ted Strickland, painted Kasich as antistudent and anti-education, threatening that Kasich would undo all of his work to make education more affordable. In the two-and-a-half months since election night, Kasich has refrained from discussing tuition rates in detail, but has said he isn’t ruling out the possibility of a hike in the cost of higher education. Kasich is facing an $8 billion deÿcit he has promised to decrease during his tenure. The economy and job market were major talking points in his inaugural speech, given minutes after he and Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor were ceremoniously sworn-in. “It is my only purpose, it is my only passion,” Kasich said about Ohio’s economy. “Nothing will stand in our way.” Kasich’s most recent play before inauguration events began was to hire venture capitalist Mark Kvamme to transition Ohio from the Department of Development to a private nonproÿt company called JobsOhio in order to rejuvenate the state’s techonology production and manufacturing. “I’m really hoping that will spike the job count in
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Main: Ohio Gov. John Kasich gives his inaugural address in the Ohio Theatre Monday. Inset top left: Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner (center) watches Kasich’s address. Inset bottom left: Gov. John Kasich sings with his wife Karen and daughter Emma at the start of the ceremony. Inset right: Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor swears an oath of office yesterday.
Students get cash for notes MICHAEL HUGHES Lantern reporter hughes.1217@osu.edu A new Internet study tool gives students the opportunity to buy an entire quarter’s notes before the ÿrst class, introducing an ethical dilemma. Online note-sharing websites, such as ShareNotes, FlashNotes and GradeGuru, allow students to share their class notes with other students who are willing to purchase them. For the website to have success, students need to upload and buy each other’s class notes so the host company can acquire fees from the transactions. Speciÿc numbers vary by company, but revenue from note sales goes mostly to the students. A smaller percentage of the revenue goes to the companies who run the website. FlashNotes spokeswoman Katie Greenwald said students receive 80 percent of their notes’ revenue, while FlashNotes takes the remaining 20 percent. Students who upload their notes set the price, with a minimum of $1.99. Other note-sharing websites boast appealing bonuses for signing up and uploading notes.
ShareNotes offers a rewards program that hands out free gifts, such as an iPod or Flip camera, for referring friends and uploading class notes. GradeGuru, a start-up company run by education materials company McGraw-Hill, has an advantage because it prints many of the textbooks the class notes are written from. An increased use of online note-sharing sites might cause students to attend fewer classes, but FlashNotes CEO Mike Matousek said the effects of a possible rise in absenteeism would be minimal. “Students who abuse (note-sharing websites) are the same type of kids who sit in the back of class with their headphones on,” Matousek said. “They are not learning in class anyway.” Robert S. Coleman, chair of Ohio State’s Committee on Academic Misconduct, said the process of buying and selling notes is fair, according to the student handbook. “When you take a class, your course materials are your property,” Coleman said. “We can’t lend knowledge and ask for it back.” Coleman emphasized that even though note sharing is acceptable, other rules regarding academic misconduct still apply. “Copying the work of another and presenting it
as your own is never acceptable,” Coleman said. “You’re doing something to try to get out of work.” Jake Miller, a second-year in sports and leisure studies and FlashNotes user, said online notesharing sites can be a good resource. Miller said he understands how some professors ÿnd the note-sharing marketplace detrimental to academic success. “Some professors say it’s ÿne,” Miller said. “But other professors feel like you should go to class and pay your dues.” Miller said he made about $150 in two weeks uploading his class notes last spring, He has not, however, uploaded his class notes since. “Some classes, like GECs, are better for uploading than others,” Miller said. The process of transferring his handwritten notes to computer ÿles took hours, Miller said. Uploading the ÿles to the site and readying them for sale, Miller said, did not take more than a few minutes. “It’s a new and different way to get information across,” Matousek said. “We’re trying to ÿnd out what students need to succeed.”
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