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Changes in the College of Arts and Sciences include dean reorganization aManda CaHoon Lantern reporter cahoon.6@osu.edu

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The seniors look to lead the OSU men’s tennis team Friday in at the NCAA Team Championship Tournament.

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Students might not have noticed, but Ohio State’s largest college has administration changes in the final stages of completion. Joseph Steinmetz, executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and vice provost in the Office of Academic Affairs, is restructuring the college’s administration. Over the past two years, the College of Arts and Sciences has reduced the central college administration staff by roughly 25, Steinmetz said in a Thursday email from the office of the executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences to the college’s faculty and staff. As a result, the college has benefited almost $3 million in salary savings, Steinmetz told The Lantern. The total Arts and Sciences budget is about $275 million per year, made up primarily of the college’s individual department’s budgets, said Peter March, interim divisional dean of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. The departments in the college have more money to spend this year than they did last year, March said. The College of Arts and Sciences has 40 departments within the three divisions, according the Arts and Sciences website. The supplies, services and equipment piece of the separate department’s budgets increased about 5 percent, showing the salary savings, March said. The loss of about 25 administrators surfaced when the College of the Arts, College of Humanities, College of Biological Sciences, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and College of Social and Behavioral Sciences were combined into three divisions in the College of Arts and Sciences, Steinmetz said. “There’s a lot of duplication when you have five administrative colleges,” Steinmetz said. The process of evaluating administrative staffing included combining, eliminating and repurposing positions, he said. “The college was restructured to make it much more collaborative and cooperative between faculty and students,” Steinmetz said. The College of Arts and Sciences is now broken into three divisions: Arts and

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Six OSU students worked behind the scenes when Bon Jovi performed at Nationwide Arena Tuesday.

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Administration changes affect dean structure of divisional colleges

From 2009 to 2011, the College of Arts and Sciences reduced staff by 25 administrators, providing the college with nearly $3 million in salary savings. *The 3 administrators stepping down in June are not included in that total because their positions are reworked into the new structure

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Changes to administration

Adding: • associate executive dean of undergraduate and graduate programs and curriculum • associate executive dean of research and facilities • assistant dean position in Arts and Humanities Eliminating: • one associate dean position from Natural and Mathematical Sciences • one associate dean position from Social and Behavioral Sciences • special assistant to the executive dean position in the college

New dean structure The College of Arts and Sciences: Joseph Steinmetz, Executive Dean divisions Arts and Humanities one divisional dean, two associate deans, one assistant dean Natural and Mathematical Sciences one divisional dean, one associate dean, one assistant dean Social and Behavioral Sciences one divisional dean, one associate dean, one assistant dean KARISSA LAM / Design editor

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Sun shines for ‘Best Day of Your Life’ student volunteers hand out free lemonade on the oval wednesday afternoon in front of a 25-foot inflatable duck as part of the ‘Best day of your life,’ an event sponsored by ohio staters to raise awareness for mental health and suicide prevention.

Jesse o’neIll Lantern reporter oneill.134@osu.edu Ohio State’s Student Safety Service plans to expand its fleet with two new vans that will cost about $55,000. The Undergraduate Student Government and Byers Dublin Subaru, a Dublin, Ohio, car dealership, will partner to provide two Subaru Foresters to help get students home safely at night. “We’re very proud that we were able to do this,” said Micah Kamrass, former USG president. “This will keep students safe and able to get rides that they normally couldn’t have. The OSU Department of Public Safety are great people and work hard to keep our students safe.” Kamrass and Brad Pyle, former USG vice president, said this is their final act as president and vice president of USG. USG donated roughly $30,000 from their operating funds to the OSU Department of Public Safety, Kamrass said. “USG is donating a partial payment and we’re picking up the debit,” said Mark Laub, general manager of Byers Dublin Subaru. “There will be two brand new 2011 Subaru Foresters.” Laub has been in law enforcement for 31 years for Franklin County and still serves part time. He also has a son who attends OSU. “Law enforcement really works when you have partnership with the community,” Laub said. “I think

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Generations’ views vary on bin Laden saraH sTeMen Senior Lantern reporter stemen.66@osu.edu

Moments that have been remembered

Some experts at Ohio State say that for the college-aged generation, the death of Osama bin Laden might become a “where you were moment.” Sociology lecturer Joshua Dubrow said a “where were you moment” is one when people know exactly what they were doing and where they were when something happened. For previous generations, President John F. Kennedy’s assassination is an example. “Everyone loved (Kennedy), I would say more than the world hated bin Laden,” said Michael Chandler, an OSU employee born in 1959. “I will always remember what I was doing when JFK was shot, but not for when bin Laden was assassinated.” The generational divide has clearly shown its face through differing reactions, Dubrow said. Bin Laden’s death is affecting two generations. One, coined Generation X, was born in the 1970s, and the other generation, including most OSU students, was born in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Dubrow said he thinks members of the college generation will know exactly where they were when they heard about bin Laden’s death. He said he

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does not think it will be the same for Generation X, because the event did not affect them the way it did the college generation. “(Bin Laden’s) death, though it is not similar at all to JFK’s assassination, may be one of those moments that members of that specific generation remember

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where they were when the news was announced and exactly what they were doing,” he said. Ann Elizabeth Kean, a third-year in psychology, said she will remember bin Laden’s death for years.

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