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an interview with The Lantern Oct. 24 plans to move had been in the works for “about two weeks.” Campus Partners was unable to disclose the exact parameters of the lease, or the contracts themselves, because the leases “are between those businesses and South Campus Gateway LLC,” Hoffsis said in an email. Bean did not respond to multiple requests for comment over the last week concerning the lease with the Gateway. Although the dance club is set to make the move to the new location, Hoffsis said on the phone negotiations are still underway. “We are continuing to have those discussions even though they have made the decision to close and move their operation. We are currently negotiating an end to that lease,” she said. Charlie Bear’s lease was scheduled to end in January 2016, Hoffsis confirmed in an email. Bean said Charlie Bear will not be using the location in the Gateway after its move and final open weekend. Allison Roda, fifth-year in business marketing and strategic communication, went to the bar on its last
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open night before the doors of the land of dance closed for good Oct. 26. “A lot of people were a little bit down about it, but I think everyone thought Charlie Bear was closing because of poor performance and just not having enough people coming in,” she said. Allison Jordan, a fourth-year in finance, said she wasn’t surprised to hear Charlie Bear was closing, but for different reasons. “I thought it was just because it was too big, they couldn’t pay the rent,” she said. Nine days later, another Gateway tenant shut its doors. A 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!!” Monday. Hoffsis said in an email Gooeyz’s decision to close didn’t have to do with a problem fulfilling the terms of its lease with the Gateway.
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Gee’s retirement marks end of second-term success DAN HOPE Oller reporter hope.46@osu.edu For the second time in a 16-year span, E. Gordon Gee has sent Ohio State searching for a new leader. Gee left his first term as OSU president, which began Sept. 1, 1990, when he was elected as president of Brown University by the university’s governing body in June 1997. Gee remained at OSU until Jan. 2, 1998, roughly six months after his plan to depart was announced. His second departure, however, was much more sudden. Gee announced his retirement from the presidency June 4, days after controversial comments he made about Notre Dame and the Southeastern Conference, among others, during an Athletic Council meeting Dec. 5 became publicly criticized. Herb Asher, OSU’s senior vice president for Government Affairs and counselor to the president, was a member of the presidential office staff for both of Gee’s presidential terms. “There was a much greater level of surprise this time,” Asher said of Gee’s retirement. Gee is the only president in OSU history who has served two distinct terms, though Edward Harrington Jennings, who was the president from 1981 until the start of Gee’s first term, returned as interim president for a time in 2002. Joseph Alutto is serving his second term as interim president, having previously held that role prior to Gee’s second term. The experience Gee gained at Brown and Vanderbilt, spanning nearly 10 years, made him a better leader during his second term at OSU, he said. “I was a lot younger, I was also probably not as
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Then-OSU President E. Gordon Gee poses for a photo June 27 at the Ohio Union. The event was the last official photo opportunity with Gee before his retirement July 1. tuned to the nature of a significant complex institution,” Gee said in an interview with The Lantern Oct. 21 about his first term, which began when he was 46 years old. “Even though I’d run two big institutions before, Ohio State is so much different. Ohio State is the difference between an aircraft carrier and a speed boat.” By his second term, the president emeritus said he learned to trust OSU’s “very talented” faculty. “What you do is become more of a catalyst for change and engage in a stronger visionary leadership role,” Gee said. “So the second term was substantially different from the first term for me.”
Asher agreed Gee’s second OSU presidency was a better one. “The second term was more focused, more disciplined, more a sense of prioritizing,” Asher said. “In the first term, there were so many things that needed to be considered and decided, and I think in the second term, I think we had really then charted a path that the university would be taking.” Overall, Asher said Gee’s leadership made a “tangible and intangible” impact on the university. “Whether you’re talking about the quality of the student body, you’re talking about the quality of the academic programs, whether you’re talking about the physical plan, I think there’s been so much change and so much progress,” Asher said. Although Gee no longer holds the university’s top leadership position, he is not leaving OSU entirely this time around. While he plans to teach at Harvard University during Spring Semester, he still has an office at OSU — albeit a smaller one than his former suite in Bricker Hall. “I want to be an active member of the university family and make certain I am contributing in any way possible to the success of the institution,” Gee said. While Asher said the transition is different than the end of Gee’s first term because Gee is not leaving the university, he does not think Gee’s continued involvement will be a “major issue one way or the other.” “It makes it a little different,” Asher said. “I don’t think it creates any problems. Not sure it makes it smoother or not … Obviously Gordon’s a higher-profile person than a lot of ex-presidents, but we’ve certainly had examples here at Ohio State where the former president stayed on campus.” Visit thelantern.com to read the rest of this story.
BoT to support student trustees’ voting rights DANIEL BENDTSEN Lantern reporter bendtsen.1@osu.edu
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Fewer lights will flicker on in the South Campus Gateway this weekend, and patrons aren’t the only ones who were surprised. Since the beginning of the summer, at least three properties in the area have closed — Charlie Bear: Land of Dance, Gooeyz and Kildare’s Irish Pub, the former two of which announced their leaves via Twitter within the last two weeks — leaving owners of the spaces surprised. “The social media blurb was news to us,” said Amanda Hoffsis, president of Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment about Charlie Bear’s notice. “We were not expecting that announcement.” Campus Partners is a private nonprofit corporation that works on community planning in the OSU campus area alongside OSU and the city of Columbus. South Campus Gateway LLC is a subtenant of Campus Partners, Hoffsis said in an email. The later abrupt notice of Gooeyz’s closing was also unexpected by Campus Partners. “I expected them to be open (Tuesday). I found out (Tuesday morning) about their announcement,” Hoffsis said on the phone. Within a span of less than two weeks, patrons of these two establishments have had to accept that late-night grilled cheese sandwiches following a night of dancing are no longer an option in the Gateway. 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 is owned by the same people as Charlie Bear. A new location might not be the only motivation for the threemile shift off campus though. “I can tell you in the past six months (Charlie Bear has) been unable to fulfill their lease terms, and we’ve been in negotiations with them since early summer how to address those issues,” Hoffsis said, though she told The Lantern she could not disclose specifics. Matt Bean, Charlie Bear’s general manager, said in
Ohio State students might soon have a couple of voices on the OSU Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday at the Longaberger Alumni House. Its schedule includes limiting the power of the recently established Wexner Medical Center Board of Trustees, giving the two student OSU Board members voting privileges, adopting a Presidential Search Committee document, approving a new building naming policy and accepting a nearly 400 acre piece of property. Trustees to limit Med Center Board The Board is set to revoke some of the powers of the Wexner Medical Center’s Board of Trustees when it votes at its Friday meeting. The Medical Center’s board was
established in August in order to provide a more specialized governance of the Medical Center in light of its continued expansion. However, after a planned discussion at the governance committee meeting Thursday, the Board is set to vote Friday to change some language with regard to the authority of the Medical Center Board. The changes were recommended by the Medical Center Board, according to the Board of Trustees agenda. The current version of the bylaws grants the Medical Center Board the authority of “development and strategic allocations of resources of the University Wexner Medical Center,” including operations, fiscal health, space and facilities management and utilization. If approved, the new bylaws would limit those powers and others to a “consultative role” which will make recommendations to the OSU Board of Trustees. The revised bylaws also state any action taken by the Medical Center Board should only be taken by the
voting, non-public members in a majority vote. Voting privileges for student trustees The Board is also set to give support for Ohio legislation proposing full voting and participation privileges for student trustees. Student trustees make up two of the 18 board members, however, they currently can only observe and discuss items and cannot vote on them. The proposed resolution coincides with pending Ohio House Bill 111, which would grant voting power to student trustees. The possibility of students gaining voting privileges is contingent upon that legislation. OSU’s current student trustees are Benjamin Reinke, a third-year graduate student in nuclear engineering, and Stacie Seger, a third-year in agricultural communication.
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