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President wants to make tuition tax credit permanent and invest in infrastructure CORY SHAFFER Lantern reporter shaffer.294@osu.edu
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Pur-don’t: Bucks win again
The OSU men’s basketball team lived up to its No. 1 status in a 87-64 victory over Purdue.
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Students who decided to watch the Ohio State men’s basketball game Tuesday might have missed someone on television offer them $10,000 for going to college. President Barack Obama used his second State of the Union address to call for investment in American innovation and education, including making an annual $2,500 tax credit for students permanent. Obama said these investments will help America out-compete other countries. “To compete, higher education must be within reach to every American,” Obama said. “This year, I ask Congress to go further, and make permanent our tuition tax credit — worth $10,000 for four years of college.” To pay for these investments, Obama suggested ending subsidies to oil companies, closing loopholes in the tax code and adding three years to a two-year freeze in domestic spending he proposed in last year’s speech. “This would reduce the deÿcit by more than $400
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“This year, I ask Congress to go further, and make permanent our tuition tax credit – worth $10,000 for four years of college.”
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billion over the next decade, and bring discretionary spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president,” he said. Obama also said investing in infrastructure is important to restoring the nation to the prosperity of the 20th century. “America is the nation that built the transcontinental railroad, brought electricity to rural communities and constructed the interstate highway system,” Obama said. “Within 25 years, our goal is to give
80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail, which could allow you go places in half the time it takes to travel by car.” The president said accomplishing all of this must be done with members of Congress coordinating and not competing. “We will move forward together, or not at all,” Obama said.
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Laptop saved from fire; TV not as lucky MALLORY TRELEAVEN For The Lantern treleaven.4@osu.edu
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Kid Rock
The polarizing performer is scheduled to perform at the Schottenstein Center on Friday.
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President of USG to give speech online
TOP: The house at 91-93 W. Northwood burns early on Jan. 17. Photo by ANDY GOTTESMAN / Multimedia editor
LEFT: The house sits damaged and boarded up later in the day on Jan. 17. Photo by TYLER JOSWICK / Asst. photo editor
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Walking through her duplex just days after the ÿre, Alainna Ipjian said her former home reminded her of the sunken Titanic. Instead of searching for the “heart of the ocean” diamond, Ipjian went in and retrieved her Tiffany’s necklace, the only belonging of hers the ÿre hadn’t destroyed. About midnight Jan. 16, the duplex at 91-93 W. Northwood Ave. caught ÿre. The blaze severely damaged the 93 W. Northwood Ave. side of the duplex and 91 W. Northwood Ave. had smoke damage. The tenants of 93 W. Northwood Ave. were Ipjian, a fourth-year in nursing, Meredith Conine, a third-year in nursing and Michelle Schroeder, a second-year in nursing. The tenants of the opposite side of the duplex were Valerie Johns, a fourth-year in health science, Megan Johnson, a fourth-year in human development and family sciences and Addie Payne, a fourth-year in microbiology. Earlier on the night of Jan. 16, Ipjian was spending time with friends. She recalls taking her popcorn bowl to the kitchen at about 11:51 p.m., passing through her family room to watch a few seconds of the movie “Meet the Fockers” and going upstairs to brush her teeth. “I smelled something, but didn’t think anything of it because we recently had some problems with our gas that ended up being nothing,“ Ipjian said. Soon after, the smoke detector started going off. “I walked down the steps and smoke was just bellowing up and the front two rooms were on ÿre,” Ipjian said. The only one home at the time, Ipjian said her ÿrst instinct was to grab the TV. Instead, she took her laptop and left the house. “We have two entrances to our house, one in the
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TRENT BARTER Lantern reporter barter.1@osu.edu
Becoming a Secret Service agent
The United States Secret Service came to Ohio State as part of an internship career fair Tuesday and is scheduled to be at Ohio Union’s Performance Hall today. This is the ÿrst time the College of Arts and Sciences has hosted a career fair that the Secret Service is involved in, said April Calkovsky, internship adviser in Arts and Sciences Career Services. “The most important thing you can do for yourself is meet your employer faceto-face, and this allows for that,” Calkovsky said. The Secret Service hopes to see many faces. “We try to visit as many colleges and military bases as we can,” said Jacquie Wasson, Secret Service employee for the recruitment program. “It’s competitive out there, and we’re looking for the best of the best.” The Secret Service also looks for the best at high schools and even elementary schools. “We started actively recruiting after 1985 and the Oklahoma City bombing,” said David Barrick, acting resident agent in charge of the Columbus Field Ofÿce. “All agencies increased after 9/11.” Secret Service application processes and background checks could take nine to 18 months, he said. Started in 1865 as a branch of the U.S. Treasury Department, the Secret Service employs about 3,200 special agents, 1,300 uniformed division ofÿcers and more than 2,000 other technical, professional and administrative support personnel, according to the Secret Service website. The qualiÿcations and training are different for all three divisions of employment. Special agents and uniformed division ofÿcers undergo some of the most rigorous application processes and training. “It’s a nine-month interview process,” said Michelle George, a 2009 OSU graduate. “There’s initial interviews, then panel interviews, then a polygraph test.” Special agents are responsible for protecting high-level ofÿcials and families of ofÿcials, such as the president, vice-president or foreign diplomats.
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Qualifications for special agent and uniformed division officer • Be a U.S. citizen • Be between the ages of 21 and 37 at the time of appointment (21 and 40 for UDO) • Physical fitness evaluation including vision, hearing, cardiovascular and mobility • Extensive background checks into criminal history, employment, credit, driving record • In-depth interviews • Urinalysis drug test • Polygraph test (when applicable)
Special agent training • 10-week Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s Basic Criminal Investigator Training program • 17-week Special Agent Basic Training program at the James J. Rowley Training Center Uniform division officer training • 12-week Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s (FLETC) training program • 13 weeks of specialized instruction at the James J. Rowley Training Center
Photo: Courtesy of MCT MOLLY GRAY / Managing editor for design
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