Tuesday December 4, 2012 year: 132 No. 142
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thelantern Water main break cost, effects still unknown
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ben keith Lantern reporter keith.146@osu.edu
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Almost three months after a water main break in Park-Stradley Hall the lasting effects on the university have not been fully calculated. Lindsay Komlanc, Administration and Planning spokeswoman, provided new details about the events surrounding the water main break, but the cost of the break and subsequent repairs remains unknown. A 10-inch water main broke in a utility tunnel underneath College Road, near Drinko and Steeb halls early in the evening of Sept. 16 and led to the evacuation of 2,000 students from Park-Stradley and Baker East and West halls. Aside from time allotted to pick up some select items from their rooms, Park-Stradley residents were unable to return to their building for three nights. Baker Hall residents were able to return the following morning. The Ohio Union was evacuated that night, but was reopened the following morning as well. Service2Facilities, a campus entity that handles maintenance requests, became aware of the problem when high water levels in a sump in Park-Stradley Hall triggered an alarm. Sumps collect water,
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Laquinton Ross’ rise
OSU sophomore forward LaQuinton Ross scored 22 points against Northern Kentucky Saturday.
andrew holleran / Photo editor
Park-Stradley Hall located at 120 W. 11th Ave. on OSU’s South Campus. A Sept. 16 water main break in the building led to a 3-day evacuation.
Jesse Owens North set to have air conditioning by late spring 2013 The North Campus Residential project initially delayed the installation of the air conditioning at JO North, which is estimated to cost $250,000.
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Initial cost comparisons: JO North & South: RPAC:
$500,000 $140,000,000
Fall 2012 attendance*
*Attendance taken from Aug. 22 - Nov. 27
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Victoria’s Secret’s big show
The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is scheduled to air 10 p.m. Tuesday on CBS.
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Columbus Zoo lights impress
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SARAH MONTELL / Lantern designer
JO North:
69,669 total; 710 daily
JO South:
86,512 total; 882 daily
RPAC:
Steamy JO North to install AC by late spring kayla byler Lantern reporter byler.18@osu.edu Jesse Owens North Recreation Center is scheduled to have air conditioning installed in late spring — finally. “The Jesse Owens North (JON) air conditioning project was delayed … because the Office of Student Life and Recreational Sports were waiting to learn the status of the North Campus Residential project,” said Emily Howard, spokeswoman for the Department of Recreational Sports in the Office of Student Life, in an email. When the Ohio State Board of Trustees approved the North Residential District project to include keeping the existing JON, the Department of Recreational Sports put the project on the list for approval in late September, Howard said. “The department didn’t want to use student fee dollars to make facility improvements to a building that may or may not have existed in the new North Campus plan,” she said. The JON project is estimated to cost about $250,000. Michael Orr and Evan O’Brien, third-years in welding engineering, said they heard last spring that air conditioning would be installed in JON but had not heard anything since then.
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Nadine Akra / Lanter reporter
James Feller, a 2nd-year in biology, Joe Bilardello, a 2nd-year in logisitics management, and Jack Hart, a 2nd-year in logisitics management, work out at Jesse Owens North on Nov. 20.
OSU scavenger hunt proposal goes viral kayla zamary Lantern reporter zamary.3@osu.edu
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419,555 total; 4,281 daily
One Ohio State graduate has set the bar high for marriage proposals on campus. Notable marriage proposals are commonly viewed on YouTube and if creative enough, will gain national attention on the Web. One OSU couple has joined the ranks of Internet fame after a roughly 20-minute video of alumnus Stephen Kaes proposing to his now fiancée and fellow OSU graduate, Nicole Frie, through a campus scavenger hunt gone viral. Frie was driven around campus and taken to different locations that were memorable to the couple — where they had their first date, where they spent football Saturday’s together and Mirror Lake, where he popped the question. At the various locations Frie was met by friends who handed her flowers and showed her videos created by her soon-to-be fiancé and other loved ones. Kaes incorporated the couple’s family and friends into the occasion by having them star in these clips and hold up signs with lyrics to songs. The idea for the elaborate proposal came to Kaes when he decided he wanted to do something different for his then-girlfriend. “The idea for the scavenger hunt
Courtesy of Nicole Frie
OSU graduates Nicole Frie (left) and Stephen Kaes (right) pose for a photo in Ohio Stadium. The two recently got engaged, and a video of their engagment is online. and the separate videos came from hearing about other scavenger hunts, and I thought it would be fun,” Kaes said. “I wanted to do something a little bit different than just a normal scavenger hunt, so I found a YouTube video that included family and friends that weren’t in town and I thought them sending me videos would be a good opportunity to include people
that couldn’t be in Columbus for the proposal.” Everyone was happy to be in the video, Kaes said, who was really surprised by how willing everyone was to be involved. “It was asking a lot from people to get so involved and spend time putting them together,” Kaes said. A couple of Kaes’ friends helped
him by picking up the videos from everyone involved. Kaes said he was “touched by how many people wanted to be involved.” He said it was stressful waiting to find out how many videos he would get back and get them together in time. Kaes said he spent a few hours putting together each video, and he put three or four hours into putting together the final video that is on YouTube. The video is more than 19 minutes long and has been viewed more than 65,000 times since Kaes posted it on Nov. 18. He said he posted the video for the couple’s friends and family and was not expecting the video to gain so much popularity. Kaes had a Pedicab driver take Frie around campus for the scavenger hunt. Columbus Pedicab employee Joshua Hipsher said he did not know what was going to happen but heard there might be an engagement at the end of the hunt. Hipsher said the Pedi cab ride lasted only an hour and the hourly rate for the service is $50. The video starts with an unsuspecting Frie planning to have a night out with some friends on Nov. 10, but on their way they spotted a friend from out of town that Frie was surprised to see on campus.
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