The Lantern April 11, 2011

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Monday April 11, 2011 year: 131 No. 49 the student voice of

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thelantern Tuition plan costly for those who wait CASEY HANSMAN Lantern reporter hansman.4@osu.edu

New policy affects refund schedule

Procrastination can come in many different forms, but new deadlines and fees might cause Ohio State students to start planning further ahead for their tuition payments. Starting this fall, the deadline for paying tuition at OSU will be one week before school starts instead of the ÿrst day of class. “The primary reason for this is to move off the current payment deadline to get students to pay on time. It should also help students to remain in school,” said Nancy Wygle, the communications coordinator for OSU’s Student Consolidated Services Center. There will be a $200 fee for anyone who does not pay tuition by the deadline. However, students will be able to add classes online through the ÿrst Friday of the quarter without a ÿne or without a permission slip from a professor unless notiÿed otherwise. After the second Friday of classes, there will be an additional $100 fee for every class added, and written permission will be required from the professor to add the class, Wygle said.

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Taking over the team

The Lantern looks at who could take the places of the five OSU football players suspended for five games each.

A new policy will make tuition for Fall Quarter due one week before classes start instead of the first day of class and implement a $200 fee for missed deadlines. The policy will also change the refund schedule. Percent of refund received

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Time since start of the quarter KARISSA LAM / Design editor

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Who is the next Brutus? One of 13 hopefuls to be the next Brutus Buckeye strikes a triumphant pose after saving a woman from drowning in a wading pool during the skit portion of the final round of Brutus tryouts in St. John Arena on Sunday. Those affiliated with running the tryouts chose not to release the names of those auditioning for the coveted role. The winner will be Brutus for a year, attend OSU football and basketball games, try to make an appearance at each sporting event at least once and be booked for corporate events, weddings, birthdays and other events.

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Board unanimously backs each agenda item at meeting GORDON GANTT AND AMANDA CAHOON Lantern reporters gantt.26@osu.edu and cahoon.6@osu.edu When Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee gave the president’s report that kicked off Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting, he discussed everything from new appointments to March Madness to Lady Gaga. Gee discussed the appointments of David Williams as the dean of the college of engineering and Brian Cummings as the vice president for technology commercialization. He also congratulated the men’s and women’s basketball teams on their successes in the national tournaments. But it was Gee’s comments about Lady Gaga’s March stop at the Schottenstein Center that brought a welcome moment of levity after a long day of committee meetings Thursday. “Being lectured to about morality and social issues by a 24-year-old woman in a see-through dress is certainly a memorable experience,” said Gee, whose comment was met with laughter from the 18-member board and roughly 30 audience members. The positive mood carried throughout Friday’s meeting at the Longaberger Alumni House, where the board unanimously voted in favor of every agenda item. Here are some of the highlights from the meeting.

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Dressed for success

The judges chose The Clark Manson Band while the audience liked Deadwood Floats at Battle of the Bands.

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University finances “In a word, our ÿnancial situation is good,” committee chairman Robert Schottenstein said. Geoffrey Chatas, university chief ÿnancial ofÿcer, reported revenues across the university were up 6 percent to $2.2 billion from $2.07 billion in the ÿrst six months of 2011 in the same period in 2010. Consolidated expenses increased by about $82 million during the ÿrst half of ÿscal year 2011 when compared to the same period last year. Chatas was quick to note that revenue increases more than covered the increase in expenses. Chatas said he was cautiously optimistic the state will make a $25 million subsidy lapse payment to OSU in December. The payment was originally canceled, but Chatas said state revenues were exceeding expectations and comments made at a recent Ohio House Finance Committee meeting lead him to believe the payment will be made.

OSU party has star power

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Will Boehner cry at OSU Market, competition determine profs’ pay speech? LAUREN HALLOW / Senior Lantern reporter

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CAITLIN HILL Lantern reporter hill.855@osu.edu

The pay scale for state employees who comprise Ohio State’s faculty varies depending on ÿeld, contributions and other factors, including competition and student evaluations of instruction. “There are individual faculty members within each area of instruction that are paid highly, and others that are paid less so. What determines that is the market,” said Tom Bond, the compensation manager for the human resources department. University ofÿcials pay competitively in order to attract the best instructors and professors, Bond said. Some on the payroll still say they are shortchanged. According to the Collegiate Times, an online database displaying public university salaries, the highest paid professors at OSU are in the colleges of medicine and business. Although these two schools receive substantial outside funding and grants, these extra funds do not enhance the pay of their faculty. “While tuition, state funding and university funding may all go into the pool of money that eventually pays these individuals, it does not

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determine the pay scale,” Bond said. “If one college has more donors it doesn’t mean we will pay those professors more.” The university uses salary information from benchmark institutions, other large, public, research universities that are comparable to OSU to set guidelines for compensation, said Susan Williams, vice provost for academic policy and faculty resources. “Any given department or college might have peer institutions that are different from the university as a whole,” Williams said. “The college of law may look at professor salaries from other law schools like them, the medical school may do this as well. Then they set a baseline for compensation based on those institutions.” According to the University Senate annual compensation report for 2009-10, OSU ranked fourth highest in faculty salaries out of 11 benchmark institutions, behind UCLA, the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland. The average overall faculty salary for 2009-2010 was $103,480, which includes assistant, associate and full-time professors. Graduate students who teach classes and conduct research are paid differently than full-time professors and instructors. “Graduate teaching assistant and research

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assistant pay is part of their ÿnancial aid package that is intended to help them get through school,” Williams said. Every graduate teaching, research or administrative associate appointed for at least 50 percent of full-time, or 20 working hours, receives full tuition, fee authorization and a monthly stipend. Fee authorization includes instructional and nonresident fees. Graduate associates are not allowed to work more than 75 percent of a 40-hour week. Graduate associates can also sign up for health care beneÿts from OSU, for which they would receive an 85 percent subsidy. The minimum stipend for three quarters for graduate associates is $9,000, with the stipend amounts varying between colleges, departments and appointing units, according to the Graduate School and Susan Reeser, the dean’s assistant. While these are base stipends, many GAs ÿnd that their compensation does not support their day to day living expenses “Our stipends are frequently not high enough to cover the cost of living in Columbus; a local agency recently calculated the monthly cost of living in Columbus at a minimum of $1,400 per month, and many departments on campus pay well below that,”

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