Wednesday May 18, 2011 year: 131 No. 71 the student voice of
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Tuition installments, summer length, student income affected by semesters AMANDA CAHOON Lantern reporter cahoon.6@osu.edu
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On the Wright track
OSU sprinter and hurdler Letecia Wright led the OSU track and field team to its first outdoor Big Ten Championship.
Payment installments and summer length affected by semester switch
GORDON GANTT Lantern reporter gantt.26@osu.edu
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Brewing excitement
The second annual Columbus Beerfest will promote local brews at the Columbus Convention Center this weekend.
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Cyclist injured in hit-and-run accident
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Students can learn from Woodfest
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“I think the best thing folks can do is kind of plan knowing that that’s going to happen,” Myers said. Taylor McConney, a ÿrst-year in special education, said she is not looking forward to the loss of four weeks next summer. McConney said she will have to start putting her own money toward tuition in her upcoming years, so “it’s the wrong time to have a short summer.”
Fall initial payment due $4,710 in-state $11,802 out-of-state 8/14 Fall initial payment due $4,710 in-state $11,802 out-of-state
Fall quarter begins 9/21
Fall semester begins 8/22
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KARISSA LAM / Design editor
Summers under semesters following 2012 will not be as short. There will be 74 days from the end of Spring Quarter 2012 ÿnal examinations on June 7, 2012, to the start of Fall Semester on August 22, 2012. This summer will have 102 days from the day after Spring
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OSU must fuel fleet at all costs
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Spring Sem Finals Week
The quarter-to-semester switch will bring a shorter summer and fewer installments of tuition that will be paid in larger increments. Next summer’s classes will be the start of the semester schedule at Ohio State. The initial switch from Spring Quarter 2012 to Fall Semester 2012, including a Summer Session, will result in a loss of about four weeks of summer because of the transition from the quarter schedule. Some are concerned that a shorter summer will mean less time for students to work to make money to pay tuition. If a student works for 40 hours a week and is paid the minimum wage of $7.40, he will make $1,184 in four weeks before taxes. “I think the biggest thing is just so that (students) know the summer of 2012 is going to be four weeks shorter than any summer that they have experienced, so that they can sort of plan ahead with their income and that sort of thing,” said Niraj Antani, a second-year in political science and philosophy. Brad Myers, university registrar, said students who are concerned about a shorter summer could think about working a few extra hours or consider the use of more ÿnancial aid.
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OSU uses substantial amount of fuel in 2010
With gas prices hovering around $4 a gallon, even drivers of small, fuel-efÿcient cars are feeling the pinch. So, imagine ÿlling up a bus. That is the reality for Ohio State Transportation and Parking Services, which fuels and operates the Campus Area Bus Service, handivans, or handicap-accessible vans, and all other university state vehicles. With so many vehicles, the university consumes a lot of fuel. Nicole Hernandez, assistant director of transportation and parking operations, said it consumed almost 528,000 gallons in 2010. In 2010, Transportation and Parking Services budgeted almost $772,000 for fuel costs, but in 2011 that number jumped to almost $829,000, Hernandez said. OSU purchases its fuel from Petron Oil in Chillicothe, Ohio, at non-ÿxed rates. Hernandez would not say if the university pays less than the average consumer for its fuel because fuel prices vary considerably. “Prices are not the same across the city, so it would be inaccurate for us to state that our fuel is less expensive as this really depends on the locations that you are comparing pricing to,” Hernandez said. OSU uses two types of fuel: regular gasoline with E10 ethanol and biodiesel. Ethanol and biodiesel are renewable energy sources which use biomass materials to power engines. Ethanol is an alcohol fuel made from plant sugars. Biodiesel uses greases, like vegetable oil or animal fat, and can power traditional diesel engines without any modiÿcation. At OSU, Transportation and Parking Services consumed about 229,000 gallons of a gasolineethanol mixture in 2010. In that same year, they consumed more than 298,000 gallons of biodiesel, and of that, CABS buses alone consumed more than 215,000 gallons, Hernandez said. These ÿgures are based on the fuel pumped at the OSU fueling station at 2578 Kenny Road.
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The OSU fleet (CABS buses, handivans and university state vehicles) consumed a total of 527,807 gallons of gas and biodiesel in 2010.
That is enough to fill up either:
251,336
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John Deere riding lawn mowers
Boeing 747s
16,493
2009 Hummer H2s
39,985
2011 Honda Civic sedans
That is enough fuel to power a 2011 Honda Civic sedan around the Earth’s equator
678 times.
Source: Reporting KARISSA LAM / Design editor
Survivor: ‘For that moment, I had hope’ VICTORIA JOHNSTON Lantern reporter johnston.517@osu.edu Even in the hardest of times, Holocaust survivor Irene Zisblatt found hope. Fifty years after being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and losing her entire family to the gas chambers, Zisblatt, who is now in her 80s, has shared her story with more than six million people, including students at Ohio State. “I didn’t talk about any of my experience until 1994,” said Zisblatt. “In 1994 I broke my silence at The March of the Living after “Schindler’s List” came out. Then I realized it was my duty to bear with it, and that’s when I started to talk.” As a blonde, petite woman standing barely 5 feet tall, Zisblatt loves to travel and spend time with her two children and ÿve grandchildren in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She travels all over the world, speaking to students and sharing her Holocaust survival story. Zisblatt shared her story Tuesday with OSU students at Hillel, the Ohio State Jewish Student Union. Born in 1930, Zisblatt grew up on a farm that her grandfather owned in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary. She lived in a small town with about 263 families, one-third of which were Jewish. She attended a four-room schoolhouse until the age of 9, or about third grade, before the Nazis threw Jewish children out of public school. “After that, we could not go to any public school but we continued going to our Hebrew school, which was only once a week,” Zisblatt said. “But that didn’t last long either, because when they (German Nazis) found out we were still going to school they stopped that too.”
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DANIEL ZAAS / Lantern photographer
Irene Zisblatt, an author and Holocaust survivor, tells the story of how she survived a death camp, Dr. Josef Mengele’s experiments and a death march to students at the Hillel Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday.
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