Wednesday March 28, 2012 year: 132 No. 42
the student voice of
The Ohio State University
www.thelantern.com
thelantern
sports
1B
Sullinger thanks media
With the Final Four around the corner, Jared Sullinger said he and the team are often fueled by critics and the media.
[ a+e ]
Lantern file photo
The Ohio Union celebrated its 1st birthday party last year and featured hundreds of balloons, a Union-replica cake, and thousands of people attended. Two years after opening, students continue to pay for the cost of the $118 million building.
Ohio Union’s 2nd birthday all business, no cake Sarah Stemen Oller reporter stemen.66@osu.edu The Ohio Union student facility fee brought in $8.5 million during the 2012 fiscal year, funding the annual debt payment of the building, with the remainder being used for building repairs. Ohio State students pay a $51 fee per quarter, known as the Student Union Facility Fee. This totals $612 from each student during a four-year college career.
5A
Viral Buckeye rap up
OSU student Calvin Scruby produced a rap video about Buckeye Nation that has gone viral around campus.
campus
Issues behind Trayvon Martin
2A
THomas Bradley Campus editor bradley.321@osu.edu Student tickets went on sale Monday at noon for the Final Four, but not every Ohio State student had an equal opportunity to purchase a ticket. OSU was issued 710 student tickets for both sessions — the semifinal session and the National Championship Game — at $25 for a two-session ticket, granting students admittance to all three games. The Buckeyes will travel to New Orleans to take on the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday at about 9 p.m. The victor will play the winner of the game between the Louisville Cardinals and the Kentucky Wildcats for the National Championship Monday.
Brett Scarbrough, assistant athletics director for ticketing and premium seating, said the 710 student tickets sold out at about 3:45 p.m. Monday. He said the tickets were sold through the NCAA’s website. Scarbrough said OSU was very close to selling out the allotment of 3,250 general admission tickets, but the student tickets were gone in less than four hours. The original intent was to send an email with ticket information to all students Sunday night, but Scarbrough said the NCAA requested the message not be sent until 10 a.m. Monday, with the sale starting at noon. Scarbrough said they sent out two waves of emails notifying students of ticket availability.
continued as Union on 3A
continued as Tickets on 3A
Cody Cousino / Photo editor
With OSU heading to the Final Four, some students were unable to get tickets to New Orleans.
Call Paul: The man behind the campus tutoring signs
high 74 low 43
Kayla Byler For The Lantern byler.18@osu.edu
am t-storms
partly cloudy few showers few showers partly cloudy Kayla Byler / For The Lantern
www.weather.com
“In addition, a portion of the fee is allocated to a building renewal and replacement fund to assure the facility is maintained in adequate condition throughout its life to best support student needs,” Wiseley said. “This can include things like replacing HVAC systems, safety systems, furniture, equipment and technology.” The Union recently had repairs done on the south side of the roof. Wiseley said the old Union did not have any funds for repair, so the university is cautious with its maintenance funds.
Students receive unequal chance for tickets
weather
TH 54/36 F 61/51 SA 62/41 SU 66/51
March 29 marks the second anniversary of the date the building, which originally cost the university $118.8 million, opened for business. Dave Wiseley, senior director of business and administrative services for the Ohio Union and Recreational Sports, said Student Life annually pays $7.894 million in principal and interest on the building. The almost $8.5 million the student facility fee brought in will entirely pay for the annual debt payment on the building. This will consume 93 percent of the student facility fee. The remaining 7 percent will go toward building maintenance, Wiseley said.
Chris Poche / Design editor
Paul Tucker has been tutoring at OSU since 1980, and his signs are featured all around campus.
We’ve all seen them. The yellow signs in just about every classroom on campus. “Tutoring: Call Paul $20/hour.” The signs are hung high in the corners of math and statistics classrooms and litter the hallways of various other buildings, but if you needed a tutor, would you call Paul? Who is he? What are his qualifications? Is it worth it? Meet Paul Tucker, a former instructor at Winona State University in Winona, Minn., a former high school math teacher and a tutor in the OSU community since 1980. “By training, (I’m) a psychologist, both an experimental psychologist and I have an interest in developmental psychology,” Tucker said. Tucker is a graduate of OSU, and said he quit his job as a teacher because he didn’t like teaching. “But ironically I ended up becoming a math tutor,” Tucker said.
Yet Tucker said his job doesn’t take a lot of skill. “It doesn’t take a whole lot of mathematic ability to tutor basic statistics,” Tucker said. “In any of the social sciences where statistics is used a lot, it is just applied elementary algebra.” Dennis Pearl, an OSU statistics professor who teaches Statistics 135, said he would not recommend tutors who pass out flyers, including Tucker, to his students. “I don’t know too much about the qualifications of the people who hand out flyers,” Pearl said. “I wouldn’t really recommend them.” Daniel Shapiro, a mathematics professor at OSU, agreed. “(These people) charge relatively high fees but are sometimes unqualified to tutor,” he said. Shapiro is a vice chair in the Department of Mathematics and oversees Math 050 to 150. Pearl and Shapiro said they do not know anything specifically about Tucker. If a student asks for tutoring, they refer them to the Mathematics and Statistics Learning Center.
continued as Tutor on 3A
1A