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Ohio State’s Oval held the largest crowd at a President Barack Obama rally since his election with an estimated 35,000 people, and the big crowd brought big costs. OSU’s College Democrats hosted Sunday’s event, but the Democratic National Committee paid for it. To rent the Oval alone cost the DNC $10,000. “My understanding is that it was a lot of money,” said Matt Caffrey, president of College Democrats. “The Democratic party are the ones that actually footed the bill and paid it through us, it’s not something we were directly involved in.” The DNC will reveal costs for a series of campaign stops leading up to the Nov. 2 election in Federal Election Commission filings, which haven’t been submitted yet. But even those won’t include all campaign costs. “I can’t tell you the permit cost, and as far as what we spent on lighting and shooting at the event, I don’t think that’s something we’re going to lay out for you,” said Alec Gerlach, regional press secretary for the DNC, in an interview with The Lantern on Monday. “We’re 15 days out from election and we don’t generally show our hand any more than we’re required to.”
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A group of columbus Police officers stand at the intersection of 12th and neil avenues to provide security and crowd control for President Barack obama’s ‘Moving America Forward’ rally on the oval at ohio state on sunday.
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R. Crumb’s collection, which illustrates the chapters of Genesis, is on display at the Columbus Museum of Art.
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Gee’s neckwear: untying the mystery DAnielle HAR tMAn Assistant arts editor hartman.271@osu.edu Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee was ranked the nation’s best public university president by Time magazine in 2009. But here on campus, students know him as the man in the bow tie. “It’s the most common question I get,” Gee said, pointing to the blue and yellow polka-dotted fabric tied around his neck. The small piece of clothing has become Gee’s trademark. “It’s become a part of who he is,” said Patricia Cunningham, OSU fashion historian and lecturer, and Lantern columnist. The bow tie “is a part of his personality. It’s unique, and that draws students to him.” During a survey of OSU students
conducted by The Lantern before Gee’s quarterly visit to the newsroom, many students responded that they wanted to hear more about Gee’s bow ties. The bow tie tradition began 51 years ago when Gee was 15 years old. He was sitting in an ophthalmology office with his dad in Salt Lake City when he saw a bow tie for the first time. “The guy sitting next to me had one, and I asked him what it was, kind of curious,” Gee said during his Oct. 6 meeting with The Lantern editorial board. “He undid it and then he tied it again, and I said, ‘How cool.’ “So I got my father to buy me a couple, and that’s how it all started,” he said. Gee now has a collection of more than 1,000 bow ties. “I try not to wear the same one but once a year,” Gee said. “Now this one
you won’t see for another at least 365 days — maybe another three years or so because I have so many of them.” Gee said his daughter likes to give him bow ties as gifts, but he gets them regularly from Carrot & Gibbs, a bow tie company that supplies stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom. “When I was a president at the University of Colorado, they would send me their samples,” Gee said. “They just sent them to me (Oct. 5), and I sat there picking at a few, as a matter of fact.” Neil Borin, founder of Carrot & Gibbs and a fellow bow-tie wearer, remembers working with Gee when he started his company in 1987. “I remember going over to his office when he was the president at the University of Colorado,” Borin said. “He would look at fabrics with us.”
Although Borin said he has not sent Gee bow tie samples for quite a few years, a local Carrot & Gibbs store is likely responsible for the recent gift. No matter how Gee gets his hands on the bow ties, Borin is happy to have Gee as a customer. “Gordon Gee is a good-looking guy and wears the bow tie well,” Borin said. “He truly is a special guy — he’s a gentleman. We’re proud to have him.” Borin said he would love to collaborate with Gee to create a special bow tie just for him. “That would be a pleasure to do. In fact, that is a goal I have,” Borin said. “It would be really fun to create a signature bow tie.” One of Gee’s many bow ties has even made a journey into space. Richard M. Linnehan, an OSU alumnus, borrowed one of Gee’s
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‘Church lady bandit’ suspect in Union robbery RicK scHAnZ Campus editor schanz.5@osu.edu The woman known as the “church lady bandit” might be the robber who struck at an Ohio State bank Wednesday, police said. At approximately 4:26 p.m., a woman entered the U.S. Bank branch at the Ohio Union and passed the teller a note written on a piece of cardboard that demanded money and indicated she had a gun. According to the FBI, the suspect did not appear to be armed. After the teller complied, the robber fled. A dispatcher for OSU Police said the robber was wearing glasses, a curly wig, a white long-sleeved T-shirt and dark pants, which police said matches the description of the “church lady bandit.” Lt. Rick Green of OSU Police said that woman — known for wearing nice clothing during one of her bank robberies — is a suspect in six robberies since January 2006. The FBI described the suspect as being in her late 30s, with a medium build, standing 5-feet-5inches.
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ohio state P olice offi cer Andrew Gillespie exits the south union Parking Garage after searching for the suspect of a u.s. Bank robbery in the ohio union on Wednesday. the robber y occurred around 4:30 p.m.
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