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Sphinx Senior Honorary Room: $500,000
The Sphinx Senior Honorary society donated $500,000 to the new Union and were recognized with a room in their honor.
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Student-Alumni Council Room: $70,000
Over a five-year period the Student-Alumni Council donated $25,000 to the Union, along with $45,000 contributed from alumni and friends of the group. The room named in the group’s honor will host its weekly meetings.
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Ohio Stater’s inc. Founders/Traditions Room: $600,000
Ohio Stater’s inc., donated $500,000 to the Union in honor of the group’s upcoming 75th anniversary. In honor of that gift, the Union will Ben and Arlene Roth Lounge: $50,000 feature a Founders Room and Traditions Room named for the group.
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Archie M. Griffin Grand Ballroom
Bruce and Cynthia Cassidy, friends of Buckeye football legend Archie Griffin, donated $2 million to the Union and the Alumni Association. That gift was honored with a lavish ballroom in the new Union.
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$2M gift aids Union, Alum Assoc.
Buckeye basketball stars Evan Turner and David Lighty say the Big Ten title isn’t enough to keep them satisfied
The second ˜ oor of the newly renovated Ohio Union features rooms named in recognition of three donors, headlined by a ballroom that honors Archie Grifÿn. Two donors who were initially anonymous, Bruce and Cynthia Cassidy, made a $2 million donation in honor of the former Ohio State football great and current president and CEO of the OSU Alumni Association. The Alumni Association and the Ohio Union each received $1 million from the gift. The Cassidys “just want to show their love for the university and show appreciation for the things I accomplished as a student, administrator and now
president of the Alumni Association,” Grifÿn said in an interview with The Lantern in January. Grifÿn, who won the Heisman trophy in 1974 and 1975, is the only player to have captured the award twice. He came to OSU in 1984, working for one year in Human Resources and then for 19 years in athletics. He has headed the Alumni Association since 2004. When the Alumni Association was formally integrated into the university in February, he added the title of Senior Vice President for Alumni Relations. The second ˜ oor also features two rooms named in
Switch to semesters Students light causing ticket tussle up Times Square campus
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The switch to semesters in 2012 has students, faculty and staff, alumni and the Athletic Department grappling over football tickets. On Tuesday, the Athletic Council, a subcommittee of the University Senate, discussed competing proposals on how best to allocate tickets starting with the 2012 season. After the switch, the autumn term will begin much earlier, meaning students will be on campus for more football games, and they want more tickets set aside for these games. Alumni want to keep at least the number of tickets they have now, but want them more spread out throughout the season. Under the plan now, most alumni tickets are concentrated in the early games. Faculty and staff generally want to preserve their current share of seats. The Athletic Department just wants to make sure it doesn’t lose money by allocating more cheap tickets for students. “Reallocation is a zero-sum game,” said Karen Mancl, a professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering
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and the chair of the Finance and Facilities subcommittee. Changes in the number of tickets for one group affect every group, as well as the amount of money generated, she said. In January, student representatives on the Athletic Council, with the input of student government leaders, presented a proposal to the subcommittee that would give students more tickets for the early non-conference games. The tickets would add 20,000 to the total number of student tickets by taking them away from the faculty and staff category. Last week, the students sent a letter to President E. Gordon Gee, director of athletics Gene Smith and chair of the Athletic Council Sharon West. The letter bemoaned the lack of a discussion about “an equitable distribution” of tickets. “Rather, those constituencies with a voting majority have managed to advance proposals without rationalizing how the distribution ÿts with our committee’s charge,” the letter said. Students on the council said the subcommittee has not put forward detailed proposals, only charts and graphs that do not explain the rationale for shifting tickets. “The biggest concern is that the
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Ticket allocation may change with semesters switch The switch to semesters means students will be on campus for more games. Students, faculty and alumni are debating how tickets should be allocated then. The “Current Allocations” shows the current ticket distribution. The proposed allocation shifts more tickets to students for early games but does not increase the overall number available to students. This option reflects a plan to offer students a new ticket package.
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Gee, Union director up in arms over disputed painting
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ROBERT MUNOZ Lantern reporter munoz.39@osu.edu It will be a battle of the bicep between two of the university’s top administrators, and it all started over a painting. On Friday, Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee and Tracy Stuck, director of the Ohio Union, will compete in an arm wrestling match to ÿnd out who gets to keep a coveted painting by Alice Schille. “I ofÿcially ‘challenged’ Dr. Gee a little over a year ago,” Stuck said. “I can assure you that I’ve been
on a rigorous training regimen with the help of the RPAC staff.” The painting previously adorned the former Ohio Union, but when that building was cleared out two years ago in preparation of the new $118 million Union, Gee installed the artwork in his home. “I am not one to back down from a challenge,” Gee said, “and the painting really is one of my favorites.” If Gee wins, the painting stays at his house. If Stuck wins, it will go to the new Union, where Stuck has already reserved a speciÿc space for the painting. The painting in question is “Children at the
Beach,” a piece painted in 1911 by Schille, who attended the Columbus Art School, now the Columbus College of Art and Design. No matter who wins, the painting will be retained as property of the university. Schille is noted as one of the foremost female watercolor painters. After her education in Columbus, she launched a career that took her from Columbus to Paris and around the world in search of inspiration for her works. Schille passed away in 1955 at the age of 86. The match will be held at 10:30 Friday a.m. at the RPAC and is open to the public.
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