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thelantern Study: Donors were eager to give Consultant: Union can raise $10 million to $15 million Potential donors were asked in 2004 if they believed the Ohio Union could raise $20 million for the Union. Fifty-six percent of the participants answered “yes”. The consultant, Hodge Cramer & Associates, Inc., recommended a $10 million to $15 million campaign. Below is a graph showing study responses.
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“If the University and the Board of Trustees get behind it, it will not fail.” “I don’t know with all the other campaigns out there.” “$20 million is a lot of money to raise but I think it can be done.” “Sure we would. $20 million is not that big of a deal but they need to do it now.”
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CAITLIN O’NEIL Lantern reporter oneil.97@osu.edu Ohio State ofÿcials say the university and the new Ohio Union have “exceeded expectations” by raising $3.6 million from donors for construction of the $118.8 million project. But in a feasibility study conducted for the Union from June through November 2004, consultants concluded that the Union could raise $10 million to $15 million. The study, done by Hodge Cramer & Associates, Inc., also said that more than half of the people surveyed believed the university and Union could raise $20 million. However, OSU’s Ofÿce of University Development reviewed the study and found it unrealistic, said Tracy Stuck, director of the Ohio Union, in an e-mail. Michelle Cramer, an OSU alumna and president and CEO of what is now Cramer & Associates, said she didn’t know the Union changed its goal after the study was submitted, and that she never got much feedback.
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Undergrads present research at Denman ERIC EASLEY Lantern reporter easley.28@osu.edu
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The Olentangy River really isn’t very pleasant. Its tributaries are contaminated with fecal bacteria from local septic systems. That’s what research from Vanessa Burrowes indicated Wednesday at Ohio State’s 15th Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Burrowes was one of more than 540 students who presented research at the annual event designed to showcase undergraduate students doing research. “There’s so much fabulous research being done, and a lot of times you only know what’s happening in your own department,” said Vicki Pitstick, the Honors Center program manager and a Denman organizer. President E. Gordon Gee echoed her sentiments in the awards ceremony. “You are a collective force of nature, a scarlet and gray army and an important part of one of this nation’s greatest universities,” he said. During the awards ceremony,
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More than 540 students present at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum on Wednesday at the RPAC.
Female athletes outperform males in class ASHLEY WALTERMEYER Lantern reporter waltermeyer.3@osu.edu Ohio State’s male athletes might be bigger, stronger and faster than female athletes, but after Winter quarter, the females win in the classroom. Out of seven varsity sports at OSU with both men’s and women’s teams, the women averaged higher cumulative grade point averages in every sport except diving. “That makes me extremely proud to be a female student athlete,” said Ashley Caldwell, a track and ÿeld athlete. “And beyond making me proud, it goes deeper, though, ÿghting those stereotypes that women aren’t as good as men.” For Max Stearns, a 4.0 GPA fencer studying political science, the feeling is mutual.
“I think it’s great,” Stearns said. “Our women’s sports are doing really well, so it just shows that our women’s side of athletics is great at balancing everything and keeping everything in line.” The team whose athletes boasted the highest cumulative GPAs was men’s diving at 3.54, narrowly beating the women’s cross country team, which carried a 3.43. The women’s diving team had the highest GPAs during Winter quarter with a 3.85 average. For football and men’s basketball, OSU’s two largest revenue builders, the GPAs fell just shy of the average, landing at 2.82 and 2.74, respectively. Women weren’t the only ones doing better in the classroom. Athletes who participated in sports that involved distance running, swimming and diving also had higher GPAs. The 983 NCAA participants came out with a 3.04 cumulative GPA when the
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Construction is set to begin this Lane Avenue week on a cellular tower on top of Drackett Tower dormitory on North Campus, depending on weather. Estimated completion date is July 31.
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BRICE YOST Lantern reporter yost.97@osu.edu Ohio State’s Drackett Tower residents might be hearing more noise than usual while the Sprint Nextel Corporation installs a new cell phone tower on the roof. Construction slated to begin at 9 a.m. Monday has yet to commence because of rainy weather. Once started, the construction is expected to continue until July 31. The tower will be ready for Sprint Nextel users returning in the fall, said Jordan D’Souza, an ofÿce assistant at Drackett Tower. Workers will build a structure to house the antennas and other equipment that transmits signals. Sprint Nextel signed a lease agreement with OSU for $2,500 a month that allows it
to build and maintain the tower, said Scott Conlon, a director of projects at Facilities Design and Construction for OSU’s Facilities Operation and Development. Part of the agreement requires Sprint Nextel to repair and update the tower with its own money, said Bruce Ennen, a real estate coordinator for OSU’s Facilities Operations and Development. The tower, which has been planned for a few years, will boost the cell phone signal for Sprint Nextel users in the north campus area, including Ohio Stadium and the Schottenstein Center, said John Adams, a spokesman for Sprint Nextel. Drackett’s tower will be the third cell tower on campus and was selected because of the building’s height. Other cell towers are on top of Jones and Steeb towers.
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