The Lantern 6-2-10

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Wednesday June 2, 2010 year: 130 No. 117 the student voice of

The Ohio State University

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U.S. oil spills inspire pieces of art

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thelantern How is Coke money spent? High-level OSU officials allocated $10M to new Union, but no one will discuss how the money was doled out

Coke distribution How money should be distributed from the Coca-Cola contract, worth at least $33 million, is not spelled out in the contract, which was renewed in 2008. Instead, toplevel administrators of the Senior Management Council decide how Coke money is allocated. Distributions

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Ohio Union – To offset construction costs and the student facility fee

$10 Million

Student Life, Sustainability programs, diversity initiatives

$4 Million

Contract Obligations – Including the Beverage Marketing Fund, which provides Coke for student events

$2.6 Million

Hold Harmless payouts to individual departments* – Including Athletics, the OSU Medical Center, the RPAC, Housing Food Services Event Centers

$17.35 Million

*Hold harmless distributions go to departments that gave up individual vending contracts “for the greater good of a single university contract,” said Jim Lynch, director of Media Relations. Source: Senior Management Council documents provided by Jim Lynch. Numbers may not total due to rounding.

OSU and Miami will meet Sept. 11 for the first time since OSU beat the ‘Canes for the title on Jan. 3, 2003.

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JACK MOORE Lantern reporter moore.1732@osu.edu It’s no secret what lies inside the red and white vending machines that dot Ohio State’s campus. Since 1998, OSU has had an exclusive contract with Coca-Cola. But details of the deal, which was renewed in 2008 for at least $33 million, and how money is distributed from it have often been as elusive as Coke’s secret recipe. OSU backtracked Tuesday on claims that contract numbers, such as royalty fees and vending commissions, are trade secrets and released an unredacted copy of the contract. But questions still surround some of the distribution of Coke money. Senior OSU administrators met last July, more than a year after OSU renewed the exclusive contract, to dole out the money that ° ows to OSU’s coffers from the deal. Because the current contract does not spell out how money should be distributed, decisions are made by the Senior Management Council, made up of top administrators, who report directly to President E. Gordon Gee. At last summer’s meeting,

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OSU releases contract with ‘trade secrets’ JACK MOORE Lantern reporter moore.1732@osu.edu Ohio State released an unredacted copy of its 2008 contract with Coca-Cola yesterday, after weeks of maintaining that details were trade secrets and should be kept from public view, even though contracts at comparable universities are not. When Jim Lynch, director of Media Relations, was told that other universities had provided unredacted copies of their contracts or shared details of them, he said he would begin looking into why OSU’s contract was redacted. “I may consider asking the company to revisit the redactions they have made,” Lynch said in an e-mail on May 26, “or ask them to articulate why they made the redactions to our contract, but not the others.” In an e-mail yesterday, Lynch said the university “had revisited the trade secret concerns with Coca Cola.”

Coke releases unredacted numbers... Specific numbers that were previously blacked out:

Upfront royalty fees

$10 million

Annual royalty fees

$13.7 million (in total)

Guaranteed vending commissions

$8.5 million

Source: Re-released 2008 Coke Contract

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Student will devote life to glass-blowing Video: Ben Manofsky’s glass blowing AMY MITTINGER Lantern reporter mittinger.1@osu.edu

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Abdul Irfan and Ashley Brown said they were attacked near 217 E. Northwood Ave. while walking home May 30 at 2:35 a.m. Both were knocked to the ground and sustained minor injuries.

Student says he was attacked by eight men in hate crime RICK SCHANZ Campus Editor schanz.5@osu.edu According to a Columbus Police report, a man attacked an Ohio State student and his girlfriend Sunday on an East Northwood Avenue sidewalk. Abdul Ahad Irfan, a fourth-year in

New Quechua class at OSU exposes students to indigenous Incan language

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Ben Manofsky, a fifth-year art major, cold works a piece of glass Tuesday in the Sherman Studio Art Center. “I’m making a bunch of pieces that look like crystals,” he said. “When I’m done, I’m going to melt them all together.” Manofsky said the goal of his project was to make something that looked natural.

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Ohio State students with an interest in exploring the Andes region of South America are now able to begin their journey in the classroom. The Department of Spanish and Portuguese started offering a Quechua class Winter Quarter that introduces the indigenous Incan language still spoken in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador to students. Though the language was previously taught in upper-level Spanish classes, January was the ÿrst time students were able to take Quechua 1, said Felix Julca-Guerrero, who has been teaching the course. When administrators in the department proposed

the idea of a Quechua class, Julca-Guerrero, who had been teaching introductory-level Spanish classes at OSU since fall 2008, said he was very excited. After weeks of advertising the new course in existing Spanish classes, Julca-Guerrero said he was pleased about the response he received. Many students were interested in learning about the Incan empire and visiting the capital cities of Quito or Lima, and learning Quechua was their ticket to understanding these cultures, he said. Today, 14 students are in the second level of the class, and Julca-Guerrero could not be more impressed with their progress, he said. Originally anticipating less than 10 students enrolling, the native speaker did not think his

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ÿnance, and Ashley Brown, a second-year in social work at Ohio University, were walking to Irfan’s house on East Norwich Avenue at 2:35 a.m. after having “a couple drinks” at The Little Bar, Irfan said. The walk home started in confusion when a taxi driver, who picked up the two at The Little Bar, drove them to Indianola

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Common Quechua phrases English

Quechua

What is your name?

Imataq sutiyki?

My name is...

ñuqap ... sutiymi

Goodbye

Rikunakusun

Yes

Arí

No

Mana

Hello

Rimaykullayki, napaykullayki

Good morning

Windía

How are you?

Ima hinalla?

Please

Allichu

Thank you

Añay

Where are you from? Maymantataq hamunki? You’re welcome

Ni imamanta

What is that?

Ima chayri?

MOLLY GRAY / Lantern designer

Humans not only species that deceives for sex

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Students interested in creating exquisite art should look to Ben Manofsky for inspiration. Although the ÿfth-year in art is eager to graduate, he said he enjoys his education. Manofsky transferred to Ohio State in autumn 2009 and began blowing glass. He said he ÿrst attended Ohio University with the intent to become a ceramics and sculpture major. After discovering that a local community college offered equal classes for a lesser price, he resumed classes at Hocking College and received his associate degree in applied business. But now, Manofsky says he is ÿnally ready to graduate. “Here I am now, my ÿfth year in college,” he said, but “as far as I’m concerned, it’s good for me. I will have gotten two different types of education.” He said he enjoyed his classes at both Hocking College and OU because they taught him how to run an art business. But he looks forward to having more experience when applying to graduate school.

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