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Monday October 4, 2010 year: 130 No. 128 the student voice of

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LAUREN HALLOW Lantern reporter hallow.1@osu.edu

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Painful victory

In Ohio State’s 24-13 win over Illinois on Saturday, quarterback Terrelle Pryor suffered a strained quadriceps.

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OSU students go to 19 countries in Europe to study abroad Norway

Some Ohio State students studying in Europe were surprised to hear that the U.S. State Department had issued a terror alert for the continent Sunday morning. OSU ofÿcials set a goal of 10 a.m. today to notify the students, a full day after the federal announcement. Colin McMahon, a fourth-year in ÿnance studying at the University of Edinburgh in England, said he hadn’t received anything from the U.S. Embassy and did not know about the terror alert until he spoke with The Lantern. “It’s interesting because technically the Department of State is supposed to send out these e-mails,” McMahon said. “I guess I would have gotten those, but I didn’t.” The alert warned U.S. citizens traveling abroad in Europe about the heightened potential for terrorism. “Current information suggests that al-Qaida and afÿliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks,” according to the alert, which was issued at about 9 a.m. Sunday. “European governments have taken action to guard against a terrorist attack and … U.S. citizens should take every precaution to be aware of their surroundings and to adopt appropriate safety measures to protect themselves when traveling.” Grace Johnson, director of Study Abroad at the Ofÿce of International Affairs, said in a phone interview with The Lantern that the ofÿce is working to inform OSU students abroad about the alert. “We will be calling their attention to (the alert) and reminding them of basic safety precautions,” Johnson said. “The alerts will all be sent out by 10 a.m. (today), no later than that.” Johnson said there aren’t nearly as many students studying abroad this quarter as there were Summer Quarter, but she said there are still quite a few students in exchange programs.

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Res hall renovation to cost $171M

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Pull the plug

Columbus residents gathered Sunday to drain Goodale Park’s pond and pave the way for a new fountain.

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SAMANTHA HECKATHORN Lantern reporter heckathorn.12@osu.edu

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Ohio State is in the middle of what ofÿcials call a $171.6 million shortcut to make room for more students on South Campus. The project — dubbed the South Campus High Rise Renovation and Addition Project — will connect ÿve residence halls to house 360 more students by August 2013. “It’s basically building another building in between these two buildings,” said Scott Conlon, director of projects for Facilities Design and Construction. That building will serve as a central lobby for Park, Smith, Steeb, Stradley and Siebert halls. Besides the new lobby and extra residence rooms in the existing towers, the project will add lounges and study rooms to the dormitories. “We’re doing all these buildings, all these additional student rooms, at what it would normally cost just to renovate rooms,” Conlon said. “If you were building all those beds in a new spot, you would have to build all the infrastructure around it, too.” A new building would require new elevators and other costs that this project cuts, Conlon said. Ofÿcials realized they would need more campus space for students to accompany the university’s plan to enroll more students in coming years.

Geothermal wells will be drilled throughout the South Oval and the Hale Hall Parking Lot, and between Park and Smith halls. The wells will provide heating and cooling to Park, Smith, Steeb, Stradley and Siebert halls.

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DYLAN TUSSEL Lantern reporter tussel.2@osu.edu

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Among a grassy sea with 147,000 headstones, mausoleums and burial markers at Green Lawn Cemetery, one headstone in Section 87 is particularly important to Ohio State’s history. It is where Howard Dwight Smith, famed architect of Ohio Stadium, lies. Green Lawn’s First Saturday program, which highlights noteworthy aspects of the cemetery, paid tribute to Smith on Saturday. His daughter, Myrna Dupler, shared stories about Smith with the 15 attendees. “I was born at the same time the stadium was born,” said Dupler, 88. “We both arrived together on the earth … so I never forget when my birthday is.” Ohio Stadium opened in 1922, and the American Institute of Architects awarded Smith a gold medal for his work on it.

Smith designed 57 buildings on OSU’s campus, Dupler said, including Hughes Hall, St. John Arena, French Field House and the ÿrst renovation of the William Oxley Thompson Library in 1951. “He was a very square guy, and his students said he was a strict teacher,” Dupler said. “But my dad was a good problem-solver and creative at coming up with things that had never been done, like the horseshoe design.” Smith never shared stories of his work at home with his family, but that didn’t bother Dupler, who lives in Upper Arlington. “When you’re related to a famous person, you get asked crazy questions,” Dupler said. “People ask me if he told me about his work. I say, ‘Well, no. I was just a baby.’” Dupler said her father was also the architect of Red Bird Stadium, now known as Cooper Stadium. There has been dispute about whether Smith used the same designs used for Red Wing Stadium, built in Rochester, N.Y., in 1929. “Once, a reporter from The Dispatch tried to tell

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me that my dad copied another stadium in New York,” Dupler said. “It made me so angry. If I ever see that reporter again …” Smith was born in Dayton and graduated from OSU in 1907. He then studied at Columbia University and in Europe. After returning to Columbus in 1918, he became a professor of architecture at OSU and was the university architect from 1929 to 1956. “You know OSU professors don’t make much money, but my dad was kind of a socialist and he was proud that he didn’t make much,” Dupler said. “But he was one of the few people who still had a job during the Depression.” Smith passed away in April 1958 at the age of 72. Robert Albrecht, 65, is a regular attendee of the First Saturday sessions, simply because he is “goofy about Columbus history,” he said. He asked Dupler what her father would think of the additions to the ‘Shoe.

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