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After about six years, Ohio State Provost Joseph Alutto is expected to step down from his position at the university. Alutto, who also holds the title of executive vice president and serves the university as chief academic officer, is expected to leave his post and be replaced bvy College of Arts and Sciences Executive Dean Joseph Steinmetz. OSU spokeswoman Gayle Saunders told The Lantern Alutto will step down as provost June 30, and Steinmetz will take his place July 1. “He’s been certainly such a strong provost,” Saunders said. An email from Saunders said Alutto will continue to work with the university as a special adviser to the president, and will work on “several initiatives, including distance education and university advancement activities.” Alutto is currently paid a $554,559 salary and Steinmetz is paid $348,418. In an email sent to faculty Tuesday evening, OSU
President E. Gordon Gee said Alutto’s “rigor of thought, clear vision and compassion have provided the ballast that helps keep our university on an upward trajectory.” Alutto has been with OSU since 1991 and assumed his current position in 2007, making him the second-longest serving provost in OSU history. Prior to that appointment he was dean of the Fisher College of Business. During his time at OSU Alutto has been involved with the creation of the College of Arts and Sciences, the $396 million North Campus construction plan, the semester conversion and increases in financial aid, said Saunders in an email. “I could go on and on,” she said. Steinmetz came to the university in 2009 to work with the College of Arts and Sciences, the largest college within the university. Before that he served as interim provost at the University of Kansas. Gee said in the email that Steinmetz “will continue and expand the effort to move us forward academically and solidify our position in the front ranks of American universities” in the provost position. The university will immediately begin a “national search” to fill Steinmetz’s current position, according to the email from Gee.
OSU Executive Vice President and Provost Joseph Alutto is planning to step down.
OSU’s Simon, Miller named best of the B1G ANDREW HOLLERAN Photo editor holleran.9@osu.edu
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OSU senior defensive end John Simon (54) (left). OSU sophomore quarterback Braxton Miller (5) (right).
The accolades just keep coming for members of the Ohio State football team. A day after being named first-team All-Big Ten by the media, sophomore quarterback Braxton Miller and senior defensive end John Simon were recognized as the Big Ten Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, respectively, on Tuesday. The award comes three days after OSU completed its undefeated season by defeating Michigan 26-21. Miller, who was also named the GreiseBrees Quarterback of the Year for the Big Ten, joins elite Buckeye company in being honored as the Big Ten’s Graham-George Offensive Player of the Year. Former OSU greats Eddie George, Orlando Pace and Troy Smith are the only other Buckeyes to have received the award, established in 1990. Simon sat out the Michigan game with a knee injury, ending his streak of 37 consecutive starts, but his nine sacks and 14.5 tackles for loss were enough to earn him the Nagurski-Woodson Defensive Player of the Year in addition to being named the Smith-Brown Defensive Lineman of the Year. “It means a lot to win this award,” Simon said in a release. “It is truly a great honor, but first and foremost it is a team award. I wouldn’t be given this award if it weren’t for the great play of my teammates … great coverage in the back end and guys taking up blocks on the front end. I praise those guys for helping me get this and that is what it is all about.” Coach Urban Meyer has called Simon “the heart and soul” of his team and said the awards are well-deserved. “I think everyone knows how highly I think of John Simon,” Meyer said of the two-time OSU captain in a release. “He is absolutely one of the finest young men I have had the privilege to coach. His determination and effort and selfless approach are second to none, and there is no better player or person to be honored with this player of the year award.”
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Powerball jackpot surpasses $500M mark ZACH LOW Lantern reporter low.65@osu.edu
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A payday of at least $500 million (with a cash value of $327.4 million) should have lottery players buying up Powerball tickets. The jackpot increased to this record high after Saturday’s drawing failed to yield any winners. The next drawing will be Wednesday evening and, according to the Powerball website, odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 175,223,510. The largest Powerball payout so far was a $365 million pot that went to eight co-workers in Lincoln, Neb., in 2006. The Powerball record is the highest ever recorded for the game and the second highest jackpot in lottery history, trailing only behind $656 Mega Millions prize awarded in March. Powerball is a relatively new game in Ohio. The state added it to the lottery system in April 2010, however the game itself has been around since the late 80s, according to the game’s website. With a large payday up for grabs, more people than normal across the state have been considering playing the game. Wanda Smith, an employee of more than three years at the Marathon gas station at 1584 Summit St., confirmed that the store has seen an increase in ticket sales. Smith said she observed a marked increase in Powerball sales since the jackpot was announced. “That’s quite a bit of money,” Smith said. But who is actually buying the tickets? Even being within such close proximity to campus, local gas stations and ticket vendors might not be catering to a large student crowd. Andrew Krumel, a third-year in civil
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$ 5 0 0 M source: reporting engineering, said he “never played” the lottery, though he had heard about the Powerball Jackpot. Krumel said even with a record-high jackpot, he was no more likely to play than he was before. Still, he could imagine what he would do with the money if he had it to spend, and said he would “buy a bunch of property” and save the rest. Other students said with such low chances of winning, they had better things to spend their money on than a lottery ticket. “If the prize is really that much, then everyone is going to be buying tickets,” said Jimmy Deter,
KAYLA ZAMARY / Lantern reporter
a third-year in civil engineering. “So many tickets will be sold that my already slim chances will only plummet further. There’s no way I’m spending money on that instead of my beer fund.” Kyle Banfill, a third-year in pharmaceutical sciences, agreed, and said he can think of better ways to waste his money then buying a Powerball ticket. “If I lit my money on fire at least it would look cool while I was throwing it away,” Banfill said. Ryan Guenther contributed to this article.
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