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Student reports armed robbery on 15th Ave.
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DAN HESSLER, LOGAN HICKMAN AND KATHLEEN MARTINI Lantern reporters hessler.31@osu.edu, hickman.201@osu. edu and martini.35@osu.edu
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An Ohio State student was the target of a reported armed robbery Monday. Sydney Adelstein, a secondyear in nursing and member of Delta Gamma women’s fraternity, parked her vehicle in a parking lot on Indianola Avenue near 15th Avenue — between her chapter’s house and the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house — after driving home from the library. “I was getting something out of my trunk. I think I was at my trunk for maybe three minutes, and I went to go shut it and I turned around and I saw this person coming up,” Adelstein told The Lantern Tuesday. “I thought it was someone in my sorority. And she just came up closer and (then) I just thought it was some homeless person … She asked me if I had any money and I was like, ‘Oh, no, sorry.’ “When I said ‘no,’ that is when she put her hands on me and she was like, ‘No, I know you have money.’”
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Adelstein said the woman then tried to take her bag but Adelstein didn’t cooperate at first. “I started screaming out of fear, and that’s when she took her gun and she was like, ‘I will shoot you if you don’t shut up,’ and she put it to my stomach,” she said. “I wasn’t resisting, I was scared. I literally thought I was going to die.” Adelstein said she then started looking through her bag for her wallet
to find money for the woman, forgetting she had left her wallet in her car. “She took my bag and was like, ‘Go lay on the ground.’ I was right next to my car so no one could really see,” Adelstein said. Adelstein said the woman started to walk away with her bag when Adelstein stood up to lock her car out of natural instinct. The woman, though, turned around and pointed the gun at Adelstein again.
Charlie Bear owner had ‘horrible’ experience with Gateway landlords SHELBY LUM Photo editor lum.13@osu.edu
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It seems safe to say the owner of Charlie Bear and his previous landlords at Campus Partners won’t be dancing together again anytime soon. Since the beginning of the summer, at least three properties in the South Campus Gateway have closed — Kildare’s Irish Pub, Charlie Bear: Land of Dance and Gooeyz, the latter two of which announced their leaves via social media recently. Charlie Bear owner Ted Lawson said the closing of these establishments is directly because of the management of the Gateway by Campus Partners. “It was a joke. We pay high, high rent and yet the landlord would never do anything to help us, and actually the landlord was our biggest enemy,” Lawson said. “People would ask me who my biggest competitor was, whether it was bars on campus or downtown, and I would tell people my landlord.” Campus Partners is a private nonprofit corporation that works on community planning in the OSU campus area alongside the university and the city of Columbus. South Campus Gateway LLC
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OSU has a record number of graduate student and alumni Fulbright scholarship recipients for the 2013-14 academic year.
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Junior forward Sam Thompson goes up for a dunk in a game against Ohio. OSU won 79-69.
is a subtenant of Campus Partners, said Amanda Hoffsis, president of Campus Partners in an email. Charlie Bear revealed via Twitter and Facebook Oct. 24 it would be moving to a new location at 2885 Olentangy River Road, formerly Cadillac Boo’s, which was owned by the same people as Charlie Bear. A Nov. 4 tweet from Gooeyz restaurant and bar’s Twitter account, @Gooeyz, read “Gooeyz is now closed. Thank you for your patronage and all of the Cheezy Love!!” Kildare’s, meanwhile, closed over the summer. Hoffsis saw Charlie Bear’s move from a different perspective. “There had been several safety issues and security instances over the course of the last couple of years … and certainly their inability to work with us in trying to address those led us to some of our decision, but they also owe us a significant amount of money in back rent,” Hoffsis said on the phone, referring to decisions leading up to allowing Charlie Bear to leave its lease, which was originally set to expire in 2016. But other problems had been rising, and Lawson said there were a number of
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Adelstein said the woman said, “Stay down, don’t f------ move.” After the woman left with Adelstein’s bag, which had her MacBook laptop, notes for class and other miscellaneous items in it, Adelstein ran to the back of the Delta Gamma house and had someone let her in. She then reported the incident to the Columbus Division of Police. Adelstein said though she tried to use a built-in locator to find her laptop, she was unsuccessful because the laptop was not connected to the Internet. She said the computer had a password lock on it as well. A public safety notice was issued about the incident Tuesday at about 5 p.m. In the notice, the suspect was described as a black woman between age 16 and 25, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and approximately 200 pounds. She was armed with a handgun and was wearing a camouflage jacket, black pants and a black scarf or mask over her face, according to the notice. A University Police representative
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It has been 117 days since the search began.
OSU summary highlights university partnerships, Marching Band LIZ YOUNG Campus editor young.1693@osu.edu The same day a document summarizing Ohio State’s best qualities was approved by the Board of Trustees, the Presidential Search Committee chairman said whoever is selected as the next president might not take the helm of the university until the beginning of Fall Semester 2014. “We did some analysis on how long it takes to find a president in an open, public search. The data tells us it’s about 300 days. We’re about 120 days in,” Presidential Search Committee Chairman Jeffrey Wadsworth said at the Friday Board of Trustees meeting. “That doesn’t mean we’re going to be looking for another 180, but if we find somebody in a couple of months, they may still not be able to start until the start of the academic year.” The recently released 63-page university portrait, drawn up by the Presidential Search Committee advisory subcommittee, mentions that the university president reports to the Board of Trustees, and highlights the definition of the president’s role as written in the Board bylaws. The president is the chief executive officer of OSU and is responsible for the administration of the university, but is subject to the Board’s control and does not have authority over “functions reserved exclusively to the senior vice president for Business and Finance and chief financial officer and trustees,” the bylaws read. The excerpt in the portrait also discusses the president’s leadership duties. “The president shall lead in fostering and promoting education and research as the primary aims of the university. It shall be the duty of the president to enforce
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Presidential Search Committee Chairman Jeffrey Wadsworth (center) at a Board of Trustees meeting, Nov. 8. the bylaws, rules and regulations of the Board of Trustees, and, as a member of the faculty, to interpret the Board proposals and actions of the faculty,” it read. The document underlines the achievements of OSU students, faculty and staff, as well as the contributions of alumni and various partnerships and agreements in which OSU is involved. In particular, it details that OSU’s parking privatization deal and agreement with Huntington Bank, worth $483 million and an approximate upfront payment and investment of $125 million, respectively, have allowed the university to generate funds for things including faculty initiatives, scholarships and investments in the neighborhoods around the Columbus campus. The portrait’s “culture” section features the OSU Marching Band and briefly mentions its recent viral halftime show videos. One YouTube video of the band’s video game
performance during the OSU football team’s 2012 season has more than 15 million views, while a video of the band’s Hollywood Blockbusters halftime show Oct. 26 has more than 12.9 million views and a BuckeyeTV video of a Michael Jackson tribute halftime show Oct. 19 has more than 8.7 million views. Some OSU students agreed that the band is an asset to the university’s appeal. “The band’s an important part of the university. I lived in Lincoln (Tower) my freshman year and they practice in that field in front of Lincoln and every day I would come out and I would see them playing and they’re so good. I would see the awesome things that they (were) doing. That was probably the part that made me feel the most at home here at Ohio State,” said Isabel Bozada, a third-year in early childhood education. Different sources of the university’s funding are broken down in the portrait as well — the majority of OSU’s funding comes from tuition and fees at 30 percent, the rest is divided up between grants and contracts, state support, gifts, auxiliary sales, educational department sales and “other.” Undergraduate Student Government President Taylor Stepp, a fourth-year in public affairs who is on the advisory subcommittee, said he was satisfied with the finished document. “I thought the university portrait looked fantastic. The office of communications and the search committee put a lot of work into it, I believe, and I think that anyone who’s looking at the document itself will get a good sense of all that Ohio State has to offer,” Stepp said.
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