Wednesday January 18, 2012 year: 132 No. 9
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Former OSU defender David Tiemstra was drafted by the San Jose Earthquakes Tuesday’s MLS Supplemental Draft.
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ThoMAS BrADLey AnD SArAh STeMen Campus editor and Oller reporter bradley.321@osu.edu and stemen.66@osu.edu Ohio State students pay $82 per quarter as a part of a required Recreation Sports fee, and some student organizations want to know exactly where that nearly $14 million is going. More than three months after a line-item budget was requested, the university cannot explicitly say where these student dollars are going and a top OSU official apologized for the lack of transparency. Nick Messenger, president of Undergraduate Student Government, said required student fees are intended to be used exclusively for student services. He said it should be clear where that money is going. “I want to be able to say ‘here’s where your student fee dollars go,’” Messenger said. Brandon Edwards, chair of the Rec
Sports committee representing USG, said the university gives students a detailed list of how the student fees are divided up. “Having the fees laid out in an itemized fashion so that we’re able to see the breakdown of costs is helpful for students,” Edwards said. But Messenger said he wants to know where these student dollars are going. “There should be a really strong oversight mechanism for students to have input and feedback and to know where that money is going,” Messenger said. In an attempt to find exactly where these student fees are going, Messenger said USG requested detailed budget information in October. “We are just curious what’s going on because they have some great programming over there and it’s a great facility,” Messenger said. “What’s kind of unfolded since then has been a three-month gray area where we
elvis is in the building
A ‘Birthday Edition’ Elvis Presley tribute show is scheduled to premiere at the Capitol Theatre Saturday.
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ALLy MAroTTi Copy chief marotti.5@osu.edu After being found guilty of 12 robberies over an almost five-year period, Sylvete Gilbert, otherwise known as the “Church Lady Bandit” because she wore nice clothes, was sentenced to 51 years in prison Tuesday morning. FBI Special Agent Harry Trombitas, who has been on the case, said he thought it was an appropriate sentence. “She robbed 11 banks and one hotel and she scared the heck out of those people,” Trombitas said. “She needs to be held accountable for what she did and I think the sentence reflects that.” Sean Boyle was the defense attorney for Gilbert during her trial. “I wasn’t really that surprised,” Boyle said. “I was just disappointed.” Gilbert, 47, began her string of robberies in 2006, robbing 11 banks and one motel before police apprehended her Dec. 23, 2010. Gilbert robbed several banks throughout Central Ohio, including the U.S. Bank branch located in the Ohio Union, in which she passed a teller a note written on a piece of cardboard that demanded money and indicated she had a gun Oct. 20, 2010. She was found guilty of all 12 robberies on Jan. 10 in the Franklin County Common Pleas Court. Columbus police officers apprehended Gilbert after the Dec. 23, 2010, robbery after the dye-pack the teller handed her with the money exploded. Boyle said 51 years was not a usual sentence for robbers. For manslaughter, a typical sentence is only 18 years, he said.
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Ohio State alumnus Lawrence Barnett donated $6 million to the College of Arts and Sciences Tuesday to establish a new arts center and support Sullivant Hall renovations. Barnett’s donation will be used to create the Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise, which will house a conference room and the Barnett Theatre, according to an OSU press release. A portion of the donation will also go toward continuing extensive renovations of Sullivant Hall. When the building is complete, it will house the new Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and the departments of dance and art education in the College of Arts and Sciences. The updated music hall will also include the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, according to the press release. Mark Shanda, professor of theatre and divisional dean of arts and humanities, said the new theatre will have a flexible and contemporary design.
New performance spaces and renovations will not be the only things that will benefit from the donation. Because of Barnett’s background in the business side of art and entertainment, this will to be a large focus of his namesake center. The donation will also benefit an outreach program for art students. OSU hopes to create partnerships with local art communities outside the university through internships, Shanda said. Some students are looking forward to opportunities that will be made available through the partnerships. President E. Gordon Gee thanked the Barnetts for their donation. “I am deeply grateful to Larry and Isabel for their extraordinary commitment,” Gee said in the press release. “Thanks to the remarkable foresight and generosity of Larry and Isabel, our students, faculty, and staff are able to pursue excellence in all manners of the arts and human expression.” Genevieve Simon, a second-year in
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Laurence and isabel Barnett donated $6 million to the College of Arts and Sciences to establish a new arts center and to support renovations.
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