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thelantern Semesters might begin earlier Calendar conflict means switch could begin Summer 2012, a term earlier than planned CAITLIN O’NEIL Lantern reporter oneil.97@osu.edu Ohio State may start its semester calendar in summer of 2012, university officials said this week. A university committee has proposed a revised calendar for the semester switch, which was planned to begin no earlier than fall of 2012, according to a university resolution passed last year. “To be quite honest, most of the faculty and administrators have been in agreement that [starting semesters in the summer] makes a lot more sense, and is kind of a way for us to kind of try out the semester process on one level,” said Terry Gustafson, executive associate dean of the College of the Arts and Sciences. “But there is still the official approval process that must be gone through to officially implement that. I think this works to the
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students’ benefit and I don’t think this will be detrimental at all.” If the semester switch occurred as planned, in fall of 2012, the previous Summer Quarter would overlap into fall’s term, Gustafson said. This is because summer terms on the quarter system are a full 10 weeks, while summer terms on semesters are only half a semester — seven weeks. In addition, Gustafson said, students generally sign up for summer and fall courses at the same time in the spring, making a summer 2012 semester logical. Tim Gerber, chair of the Faculty Council, said nothing has been decided yet. Faculty Council members have received the proposal from the University Senate’s Council on Enrollment and Student Progress Committee, and would have to discuss and pass the proposal before the decision became official.
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Ticket prices could go up ALLYSON KRAEMER Lantern reporter kraemer.18@osu.edu
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The Ohio State Board of Trustees will vote Friday on a ticket price increase affecting football, men’s basketball and golf course fees for 2010-2011. Students would expect to pay $32 per football ticket in 2010, which is up 3.2 percent from last year. The proposal would require students to pay $15 for single basketball tickets, which is up 3.4 percent from this season. The upper level end zone seats sold on the day of the game will remain $10. The golf course annual dues for students would jump 2.7 percent to $575. Daily greens fees are not affected by the price increase. Athletic Director Gene Smith said officials need to increase the prices to offset operating costs, utility increases, financial aid, travel and the debt service. “The university has $200 million of debt service,” said Ben Jay, senior athletic director of Finance and Operations. The debt service has accrued due to the depletion of the
OSU wants to hike football, basketball prices The Ohio State Athletic Department is asking the Board of Trustees Friday to approve an increase in the price of football and basketball tickets and the dues and fees at the OSU golf course. The increases would take effect in the fall. The higher prices and fees would generate $8 million for the department over the next two years. (Details about the golf increases, page 3A)
Football
‘05-‘06 ‘06-‘07 ‘07-‘08 ‘08-‘09 ‘09-‘10 ‘10-‘11 % increase proposed
Student
$28.00 $29.00 $30.00 $31.00 $31.00 $32.00
3.2%
Faculty/Staff
$47.00 $48.00 $49.00 $51.00 $52.00 $56.00
7.7%
B&BB Boxes
$68.00 $69.00 $70.00 $72.00 $73.00 $80.00
9.6%
Reserve
$58.00 $59.00 $60.00 $61.00 $62.00 $70.00
11.1%
Club
$59.00 $60.00 $61.00 $63.00 $63.00 $71.00
10.9%
Men’s basketball
‘05-‘06 ‘06-‘07 ‘07-‘08 ‘08-‘09 ‘09-‘10 ‘10-‘11 % increase proposed
Personal seat license
$25.00 $26.00 $27.00 $28.00 $29.00 $30.00
3.4%
Public 1
$23.00 $24.00 $25.00 $26.00 $27.00 $28.00
3.7%
Public 2 - upper level corners
$18.00 $19.00 $20.00 $21.00 $22.00 $23.00
4.5%
Public 3 - upper level endzones
$13.00 $14.00 $15.00 $16.00 $17.00 $10.00
0.00%
Faculty/Staff 1 $18.50 $19.50 $20.00 $21.00 $22.00 $23.00
2.2%
Faculty/Staff 2 $14.40 $15.00 $16.00 $17.00 $19.00 $19.50
2.6%
Student
3.4%
$12.00 $13.00 $13.50 $14.50 $14.50 $15.00
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A professor in the College of Pharmacy can continue to seek information about how the university handled allegations against one of her colleagues, a judge ruled last week. Professor Sheryl Szeinbach, who has sued OSU for discrimination and retaliation, will now have access to two grant applications submitted by Robert Lee, a researcher who misused federal grant money, according to a federal investigation. OSU attorneys argued that the documents contain trade secrets and were irrelevant to Szeinbach’s suit.
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Szeinbach filed a whistleblower complaint in December 2008 accusing Lee of applying for two federal grants to pay for the same research project, a violation of national research guidelines. She also alleged that Lee improperly used grant money to pay his wife, then an accounting student at OSU, and that he violated accepted publishing practices. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services investigated Lee and found that he misused nearly $100,000 in federal money by failing to document
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The Ohio State student who won free tuition for a year last week during a basketball halftime contest failed to complete all the shots in the required 30 seconds. Austin Hylander, a freshman, won the prize at an OSU women’s basketball game on Jan. 28. To win, a contestant has to sink a layup, foul shot, 3-point shot and a half-court shot in 30 seconds. The YouTube video posted by Ohio State athletics showed that it took Hylander 36 seconds to complete all four shots, Lantern multimedia editor Andy Gottesman said. He found out when he received the video from ohiostatebuckeyes.com and watched it before uploading it to thelantern.com. “As I was watching it, it was taking a surprisingly long time for him to make the baskets,” Gottesman said. “I went back and timed it and found it took him 36 seconds from the first shot to the last shot.” No one noticed at the time and the people running the contest declared Hylander a winner. The
Athletic Department had been running the contest for four years and until Hylander, no one had ever won it. Gottesman contacted the athletic department Monday, and within hours the video of the event that had been posted on YouTube was taken AUSTIN HYLANDER down. Now, there is just a 7-second version of Hylander’s feat on YouTube. “We aren’t allowed to talk about it,” said Carrie Snyder, assistant director of Fan Experience and Promotions for OSU athletics. No one has explained why the video has been re-edited. A judgment call was made to give Hylander the money anyway, said Andrew Kossoff, general manager for IMG College. IMG is a sales agent for OSU athletics and works with sponsors, such as Big Lots, who sponsored the tuition prize. “We made them aware [of the time issue] after
you all had shared it with us,” Kossoff said. “We want to protect the integrity [of the contest], but we will still reward the student the tuition.” Hylander was not informed he took longer than the required time. “They had a shot clock running, but obviously I wasn’t paying attention to that,” he said. “People told me after I was done I had like 3 seconds left.” He isn’t phased at all by the news. “It still feels amazing — it’s an awesome feeling,” he said. “Everybody back home knows. It’s the talk of the town.” Hylander will be awarded his tuition prize by Big Lots and OSU athletics at a future basketball game. “We’re working with fan experience to see which game we can award the prize,” Kossoff said.
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