Tuesday February 28, 2012 year: 132 No. 32
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thelantern Fatal shooting rocks Chardon
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Chelsea Castle Managing editor castle.121@osu.edu
No dash for Nash
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The National Hockey League trade deadline was Monday, and despite rumors, Rick Nash is staying put.
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A group of OSU students gather in front of the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library Monday evening to pay tribute to the victims of the school shooting at Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio.
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Silently stealing the show
The Lantern recaps the 84th Academy Awards, where “Hugo” and “The Artist” were big winners of the night.
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Thomas Bradley Campus editor bradley.321@osu.edu Gov. John Kasich visited the Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University Monday to talk to physicians about how the state’s boost to network bandwidth could improve medical care statewide. With Ohio’s Academic Research Network (OARnet), a plan to increase network speeds across the state that was announced at Kasich’s State of the State announcement, doctors from Youngstown to Cincinnati will be able to share medical information, video and images instantly. “Our state has tremendous advanced resources in medical research that are the envy of the nation,” Kasich said. At the Prior Health Sciences Library, Kasich sat down with physicians at the Wexner Medical Center and video chatted with doctors from across the state about the new technology. The state is spending $10 million on this project and Kasich said it will “open the faucet” to information sharing. Dr. Ali Rezai, a professor of neurosurgery at OSU, sat down with Kasich to introduce different ways the technology can advanced medical care. “We can remotely evaluate and monitor our
Thomas Bradley / Campus editor
From left to right: Dr. Steven Gabbe, CEO of the Wexner Medical Center, Gov. John Kasich and Dr. Ali Rezai, a professor of neurosurgery at OSU, talk about how OARnet can improve medical care in Ohio.
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Woody Hayes Drive construction has closed Tuttle Park Place to thru-traffic between Neil Avenue until April.
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The tragedy that struck Chardon, Ohio, Monday morning was described as “surreal” and “shocking” by Buckeyes from the small town near Cleveland. A shooting at Chardon High School left two students dead, two injured but in stable condition, and one in critical condition, at the time of print Monday night. The alleged gunman, 17-year-old Thomas Lane, began shooting in the cafeteria and was later chased out of the school by a teacher. He later turned himself in and is in custody of the Geauga County Safety Center, according to multiple reports. In a town where neighbors are comfortable not locking their doors, CHS graduate Gordon Moser said he doesn’t want this event to characterize his hometown. “The character of Chardon is not what everybody has seen today,” said Moser, a third-year in chemical engineering. “It’s what the response has been and how everyone has gathered together.” Moser was involved in a senior mentoring program with some of the victims at CHS, though he said he did not personally know anyone involved in the shooting. A vigil was held Monday evening on the Oval, and a candlelight vigil was held at the high school Monday evening, according to the mother of a student. CHS will be closed Tuesday. “That’s the character of Chardon that I want everybody to see, not what we saw today from T.J. Lane,” Moser said. Rebecca Moser, 17, was at school this morning when the shooting happened but did not know anyone involved. Rebecca Moser said it was a normal day, and it took a few minutes after the school went under lockdown to realize it wasn’t a drill and something serious was going on. “We had our phones, so we were getting texts
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Kristen Mitchell Lantern reporter mitchell.935@osu.edu
For years there has been a surge of students applying to law school, but the trend has reversed nationwide, and the Ohio State Moritz College of Law is no exception. Of the about 2,300 applicants and 880 accepted students, 212 prospective law scholars accepted their seats in Autumn Semester 2011. Kathy Northern, associate dean for admissions and associate law professor, said in 2008, when the number of applicants was at its highest, about 2,700 students applied. Since then, the numbers have dropped significantly. “Applications from the last year are down 16 percent in the Great Lakes area,” Northern said. Applicant numbers might be down, but they fluctuate from year to year. “If you look at the last thirty years, the number of applicants goes up and down,” Northern said. President E. Gordon Gee has noticed this trend, but isn’t concerned about the decline in interest. “A number of people have decided not to go to law school,” Gee told The Lantern editorial staff on Feb. 6. “It wanes up and down, but ours remains one of the most competitive in the country, so we’re happy about that.” Northern said the job market and economic issues likely contributed to the surge in applicants in 2006 to 2008.
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The number of law school applicants has declined nationwide and the same trend has been seen at OSU Moritz College of Law. “I think people might have said to themselves, ‘It may be difficult to get a job, maybe I’ll go to school,’” Northern said. With a $26,328 price tag for the 2011-12 school year for resident students, and $41,278 for out-ofstate students, Northern called law school “an expensive place to find yourself, and an expensive way to wait out the economy.” George Wolfe, an attorney at Columbus-based
Wolfe Legal Services, said the law school applications are probably dropping because students don’t want to run up huge loans. But less applicants could be better for those who do decide to go to law school. “It’s probably a good thing for the people who have graduated and haven’t been able to find jobs,”
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