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Presidential profile finalized, $120K symposium price tag announced LIZ YOUNG Campus editor young.1693@osu.edu
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The Buckeyes are set to take on Northwestern under the lights in Illinois Saturday. SHELBY LUM / Photo editor
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OSU Interim President Joseph Alutto speaks to The Lantern Sept. 23. DAN HOPE Oller reporter hope.46@osu.edu Ohio State is in a transitional period of leadership as the university conducts a search for its 15th president, but Interim President Joseph Alutto said he doesn’t think that should preclude OSU from continuing to make progress. Alutto outlined his goals for his interim presidency during a meeting with The Lantern staff Sept. 23. He said he strives for OSU to attract the “very best” students and faculty, create programs that bring students and faculty together, work on making an OSU education
more affordable for students and to develop the university to make it “even more attractive” for OSU’s next president. “I hope this will be a better institution as a result of what I’ve been able to do,” Alutto said. “However long (the interim presidency) lasts, if this is a stronger institution (when I leave the interim presidency) I’ll be happier than I am today.” Alutto assumed the interim presidency July 1, on the same day as then-president E. Gordon Gee left office. Alutto is in his second term as an interim president, having previously held the position from July to September 2007 following
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In its search for a new president, Ohio State dropped more than $95,000 on advertising for a nearly $120,000 university symposium held this semester. The cost of the Symposium on the University Presidency and the final copy of the presidential profile were released to The Lantern Wednesday. The symposium, a discussion about what qualities a president should have and what a president should expect in his or her term, was held Aug. 30. It was hosted by Harvard Graduate School of Education professor emeritus Richard Chait. Tufts University President Emeritus Lawrence Bacow, Washington State University President Elson Floyd, University of North Carolina system President Thomas Ross and University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan were the panelists, and Tulane University President Scott Cowen was scheduled as one of the guests, but was unable to make it because he was “stuck in the airport,” Chait said Aug. 30. The event cost about $118,000, including travel, hotel rooms, transportation, advertising, dinner and honoraria, which are payments given for professional services on which there is no set price, according to a document emailed to The Lantern Wednesday by OSU spokesman Gary Lewis, filling a public records request filed Aug. 16.
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As listed in the Presidential Search Committee’s presidential profile “The panel was an important part of the search committee’s strategy and helped its members to refine their vision,” Lewis said in the email. Meanwhile, with the presidential profile’s official release Wednesday, it seems those interested in becoming OSU’s next president have their reading laid out for them. The eight-page document, which describes the qualities of the ideal candidate, is meant to be sent to potential candidates to give them an idea of whether they’re a good fit for the position or not. Writing that document, though, has taken a few weeks longer than was originally intended — the profile was supposed to be completed by mid-September. The pages of the presidential profile are filled with some basic desirable traits, including “superb
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Timberlake’s American Dream
Justin Timberlake talks his new movie ‘Runner Runner,’ which he said refreshes what the American Dream is about.
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AARON YERIAN Lantern reporter yerian.21@osu.edu In day two of the government shutdown, some Ohio State community members said they are concerned large portions of their department’s funding come from the government. A disagreement between the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate over an unapproved budget forced the first federal shutdown in 17 years Monday at midnight. The controversy surrounding the disputed budget and government shutdown involved a debate about how the government would begin funding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s health care initiative, which went into effect Tuesday. The act, often referred to as “Obamacare,” was signed into law March 23, 2010. The law is set to prevent insurance companies from turning people away because of pre-existing medical conditions and extending care to children of policy owners until age 26. Congress could not decide upon a budget to pass by Monday at midnight, pushing the government into
a shutdown. Federal workers who fall in a category considered “essential” continued working without pay, while “non-essential” workers had a half-day to prepare Tuesday before being furloughed, meaning they were given a temporary unpaid leave. Active-service military members are set to be paid, though, however long the shutdown lasts, according to The Washington Post. Some of the “essential” departments include the
U.S. Postal Service, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. military. The “non-essential” departments include the National Park Service, some of the Social Security Administration and most of NASA. Some OSU students said the shutdown did not come as a shock.
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The past week on campus has included 22 thefts reported and incidents resulting in arrest.
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Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO and chairman of Alcoa, speaks at OSU Oct. 2 at Pfahl Hall.
Representatives from aluminum manufacturer Alcoa visited Ohio State Wednesday to review the company’s current relationship with the university. Alcoa has provided nearly $1 million in grants to OSU since 2011. Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO and chairman of Alcoa, came to OSU with several members of his staff. While not formally announced yet, Alcoa will be giving OSU $250,000 in new grants for work to be done in 2014, as well as a $175,000 extension of a previous project, Tricia Napor, vice president of the Alcoa Foundation, said in an email. Alcoa has a variety of reasons to be invested in higher education including that OSU is a customer of Alcoa products and provides a pool for potential employees. Kleinfeld told The Lantern Wednesday Alcoa makes sure to stay engaged in a number of ways so that it can pull top candidates into the company. The grants Alcoa provides the university are one method of spurring student interest in the company. The most significant grant of $400,000 was given in July 2011 to OSU’s Institute for Materials Research to develop lighter weight vehicle structures. Under OSU professor Glenn Daehn, a team
of students have been working on developing new alloys to make vehicles lighter and more efficient, while maintaining the crash resistance of traditional methods. The grant is set to be renewed this year with an additional $175,000 for work in 2013 and 2014, Napor said. The grant is nonproprietary, meaning it is not being produced under exclusive legal rights of the inventor, and Alcoa would not have rights to the patents from any marketable materials developed, Paula Davis, president of the Alcoa Foundation, told The Lantern. Alcoa has also given grants to OSU to develop ways to increase recycling in the U.S. The U.S. has a recycling rate of about 65 percent, Kleinfeld said. While it is an ecological problem, for Alcoa it is also a business problem. The more aluminum that is recycled, the less raw metal Alcoa has to mine out of the ground. While the recycling rate in the industry is fair, the recycling rate for commercial goods, particularly in the U.S., is still very low, Kleinfeld said. “It’s frustrating how much goes into the landfill here in the U.S. A lot of that is behavioral. Very often, people think recycling is just for do-gooders — for tree-huggers. They don’t understand that there is also a giant economic value in it,” Kleinfeld told The Lantern Wednesday. Aaron Melchreit gave a presentation for the
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