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Nearly four weeks after President Barack Obama’s campaign rally on Ohio State’s Oval, the university is paying the price for hosting the event — literally. The Democratic National Committee paid for many of the rally expenses, but OSU was left to pick up a tab of nearly $80,000. OSU paid $35,000 for public safety and security operations at the event, which will come from the university’s general funds, said Liz Cook, assistant director for the Office of Media Relations. Besides the university’s police department,

Columbus Police and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office both paid out of pocket to help secure the event. The event cost the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department approximately $35,600 in overtime costs. “The DNC doesn’t pay for that. They never have and never will, I don’t care what they say,” said Franklin County Chief Deputy Steve Martin on Oct. 18. “We just have to provide security. We do it every election year.” OSU spent $16,084 for preparation and cleanup expenses. Officials said the university didn’t ramp up the number of employees working that day for the department of Facilities Operations and Development. An eight to 10 member crew took about four hours to clean up the mess left by an estimated crowd of 35,000.

Unlike other campus events, such as the upcoming Mirror Lake jump, “this clean-up did not require any major repair or restoration efforts on the part of FOD after the event,” said Mary Lynn Readey, associate vice president of FOD. The university also paid $27,783 for transportation and parking services. Despite the bill, and even though Obama failed to muster enough support to keep Democrats in power in Ohio, Undergraduate Student Government President Micah Kamrass said the event’s benefits outweigh the costs. “It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our students to see the president and first lady of the United States,” he said.

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MOLLY GRAY / Lantern managing editor for design

Derek Singrey, a second-year in pharmacy, studies in the Cohen Family Grand R eading R oom in the William Oxley Thompson Memorial L ibrary on Monday.

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moll y gra y Managing editor for design gray.557@osu.edu A year after William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library reopened after extensive renovations, students are calling for more. On Monday, 1,866 students confirmed themselves as attending a Facebook event titled “Do you want Thompson Library’s hours extended?” The event, created by Tara Workman, Undergraduate Student Government associate director for libraries, and Niraj Antani, a senator in USG, is spreading word that there

College of Public Health gets $100K from ex-exec of tobacco company

will be extended library hours during finals week, in hopes that it will generate support for extended hours yearlong. But university officials are not convinced that many students would take advantage of extended hours, which could cost more than $100,000 a year. “We’re hoping to get a strong student turnout,” said USG President Micah Kamrass. “That should be a persuasive argument as to why they should make (library hours) extended to 2 a.m. all year round.” During normal hours, the library is open until midnight Sunday through Thursday and 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The hours will be extended until 2 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday of finals week.

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Cross-country ride Tom Weis, president of Climate Crisis Solutions, an environmental consulting firm, stopped near campus yesterday during his ‘R ide for R enewables’ — a nearly 2,500-mile trip from Boulder, Colo., to Washington D.C.

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The Ohio State College of Public Health recently accepted a $100,000 donation from a former executive of the second-largest tobacco company in the U.S. Dr. Robert G. Fletcher, former medical director for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and his wife Karen made the donation in May. Although the College of Public Health has a policy against accepting donations from tobacco companies, the Fletchers’ donation was acceptable because it was from private individuals, said Stanley Lemeshow, dean of the college. “We would not accept a gift from a tobacco company in any way, shape or form,” Lemeshow

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