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Tuesday May 22, 2012 year: 132 No. 73

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After a loss, the OSU baseball team didn’t quite know how to act after landing a spot in the Big Ten Tournament.

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The final beam of the $1.1 billion OSU Wexner Medical Center expansion went into place on May 21 on the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. Medical Center officials said this expansion will help the hospital move closer to finding a cure for cancer.

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After a month of traveling around Columbus, the final steel beams found their home in the new Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute and Critical Care Center Monday afternoon. At about 4 p.m., Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center faculty and staff, university and state leaders and members of the Columbus

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Tim Gunn ‘makes it work’

Television personality and fashion icon, Tim Gunn, made a special appearance on campus Sunday night.

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With the raising of the final beams, many Medical Center officials said this is an important step to making the it one of the best in the world. Dr. Steven Gabbe, CEO of the Medical Center, said the OSU medical team will collaborate to do whatever it takes to find the cure for cancer. “If you think that’s unimaginable, it is imaginable,” Gabbe said. “If it’s going to happen, it will happen here at Ohio State.” President E. Gordon Gee said the Medical Center has been named one of the nation’s best hospitals for the last 18 years, and he has no doubt

it will only continue to improve as a leader in cancer research. “We have people who have devoted time to make a difference in the lives of so many patients and their families,” Gee said. “That is the beacon of hope.” Patients were the main priority when designing the new hospital, which will house 420 private patient rooms and “green spaces,” which will enhance recovery and health of cancer patients, Gabbe said. “We knew that patients must be

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Nye urges students to ‘change the world’ Andrea Henderson Lantern reporter henderson.578@osu.edu What do you get when you cross a stand-up comedian and professional scientist? One logical answer would be Bill Nye the Science Guy. At an event sponsored by the Ohio Union Activities Board, Nye shared some of his experience in the science field with a touch of humor to a group of about 1,500 students at 7 p.m. Monday in the Archie M. Griffin Grand Ballroom. The event opened up with the theme song, “Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Science rules,” which started off each of his kid-oriented science shows from the 1990s. Throughout Nye’s speech, he emphasized the importance of students making a change. “I hope (students) will get inspired to change the world,” Nye said in an interview with The Lantern. “I hope somebody out there gets inspired to really make a discovery that changes the world.” Whether he was talking about how the dinosaurs went extinct, what the atmosphere was like on Mars or showing his vast knowledge of sundials, Nye almost always tied it back to students being able to change the world and improve the future of science. “We are living at this extraordinary time where we can, dare I say it, change the world,” Nye said. “I want you to all be part of a more closely knit human community, and I want you to be part of the future.” Nye said that since the show, “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” first aired in 1992, the objective was always to encourage viewers to make a change in some way.

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Bill Nye “The Science Guy” visited OSU’s campus May 21 to talk about his show and to share some of his life experiences about science. The show lasted about six years, had a total of 100 episodes and won 18 Emmy Awards. “The 100 shows is still so far my greatest achievement, but I hope the best achievement is still ahead,” Nye told The Lantern. “And I hope it’s when one of you guys creates a new battery that enables people to store energy in a new way or that you cure cancer … (you) would say, ‘It’s because I watched your show, Bill.’”

Today, Nye works as CEO of The Planetary Society, an organization that studies space, and said he hopes to eventually have another show. This event was a collaboration of various organizations, such as Engineers Without Borders, Engineers for Community Service and The Chemistry Club.

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OSU has created a new plan with Apple Inc., to implement more interactive digital technology in the classrooms.

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community watched as the final beam was placed to complete the steel frame of the new hospital. Hundreds of donors, staff and community members have literally been able to leave their mark on the expansion by signing the beams as they traveled through various locations around Columbus. Dr. David Schuller, vice president of the Medical Center expansion and outreach, said the new $1.1 billion hospital is part of the largest expansion project OSU has undertaken and will result in one of the 15 tallest hospitals in the nation.

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Caitlin essig Asst. arts editor essig.21@osu.edu The Columbus Division of Police described situations at two block parties over the weekend as “extremely dangerous,” but did not say how many arrests occurred or explain why pepper spray was used to end both events. Neighborhood block parties Woodfest, on East Woodruff Avenue Friday night into Saturday, and ChittShow, on Chittenden Avenue Saturday night into Sunday, included almost every residence on those streets on their respective nights. Columbus Police Sgt. Richard Weiner said Columbus Police had an incident-action plan in place before Ohio State’s weekend’s parties, outlining what its response would be if the parties got out of control. He said the incident-action plan is followed up by an after-action report filed by the lieutenant on the scene during the block parties. Weiner said it could take up to two weeks for the lieutenant to file

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Partygoers on Woodruff Avenue, fill the lawns and houses down the street May 18 before police broke up the group of parties collectively known as Woodfest. the report, and the number of arrests made at Woodfest and ChittShow will remain unknown until the report is filed. Although Weiner said the number of arrests made at Woodfest 2012 is unknown, one non-student was arrested for disorderly conduct early Saturday morning near Woodruff Avenue, according to a report from Columbus Police. A theft was also

reported on East Woodruff Avenue early Saturday morning. At about 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning at the corner of Chittenden Avenue and Indianola Avenue, Columbus Police had one male in the back of a police car, and another male was talking to an officer outside of the car. Neither men were handcuffed. In May 2011, Columbus Police also used pepper spray to shut down

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Woodfest, but no pepper spray was used to break up ChittShow in 2011. According to reports, three people were arrested at each of the two block parties last year. On May 15, 2011, Weiner met with reporters to discuss Woodfest, which had taken place the Saturday night before. At the conference, he discussed arrests that had been made at Woodfest. This year Columbus Police used pepper spray to break up both parties, but Weiner said after talking to the police commander who was on the scene, he wasn’t sure why. “I don’t know why they used (pepper spray),” Weiner said. “I do know that bottles were thrown at officers, and the situation was extremely dangerous.” Weiner said the large party situation was dangerous due to a swelling crowd and bottles being thrown at officers. He said the police’s ultimate goal was for no one to get hurt, students or officers. Ohio State Police Deputy Chief

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