June 4, 2012

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Monday June 4, 2012 year: 132 No. 79

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thelantern $7,793,757.13 The cost of a scandal

sports

Urban Hire Salary

Jim Tressel

Attorney costs for players

New Staff Urban Meyer

Jim Tressel

$3,777,000

$4,000,000

Assistant staff

3 year total

$11,331,000

$12,450,000*

$1,262,881 Difference, per year, in total staff salaries

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$1,119,000 NCAA investigation consulting Compliance revamp Cost for hire Kekst and Company

$617,415.92

$3,788,643 Dewey and LeBoeuf

Protiviti Cost for hire

$226,950

$280,000

$29,499.85

$201,480.21

$230,980.06 Sugar Bowl and future bowl vacated Sugar Bowl Potential earnings lost

$388,811

Future Big 10 bowl ~$350,000

5A ‘Tattoo-5’ scandal costs OSU almost $8M FTI Consulting, Inc.

$507,927.88

$1,408,184.07

Banding together

Cost for hire

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*Meyer earns a $450,000 retainer bonus after his second year

$282,840.27

Vorys, Sater, Crabbe, Brown Seymour & Pease & James

Urban Meyer

Per year

The Compliance Group

source: reporting CHRISTOPHER BRAUN / Lantern designer CHRIS POCHE / Design editor

With a bowl ban looming for the 2012 season, some OSU football seniors said they are playing for each other.

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THOMAS BRADLEY Campus editor bradley.321@osu.edu I was just like every other sports journalist in Columbus last year. Standing outside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, home of the Ohio State Football team, looking for stories, evidence and quotes. About this time last year, Jim Tressel had just been forced out of his head coaching position, Luke Fickell was being introduced as interim coach

$506,950

and photographers and piles of public records requests were trying to figure out the legitimacy of former quarterback Terrelle Pryor’s car. I wrote about the emails, I wrote about the cars, I reported about the “deals” Ray Small claimed to get, I wrote about the cover-up and I wrote about the seriousness of the situation: about the black eye that will cost the Athletic Department for years to come. But then I got to thinking, everyone understands what the cost of this “Tattoo-5” scandal had on the reputation of the university. I stood on the sidelines of every away game last season and heard fans from other teams yell things about tattoos, cars and

**Denotes money not earned, rather than spent.

~$740,000**

one fan not-so-politely asked me where Pryor was. I watched ESPN constantly update its sidebar with more mistakes at OSU. The reputation has made a recovery. With coach Urban Meyer at the wheel and all the players involved in the NCAA investigation either graduated, drafted or departed from the university, the OSU football program is returning to normalcy. But I got to thinking. These five players received tattoos, money, deals on cars and maybe a free meal from time to time. A small amount of money that

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2 football players suspended after arrests

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PATRICK MAKS AND THOMAS BRADLEY Senior Lantern reporter and Campus editor maks.1@osu.edu and bradley.321@osu.edu Ohio State redshirt senior Jake Stoneburner and redshirt junior Jack Mewhort have been suspended from the football team until recent legal issues are resolved. Stoneburner and Mewhort were arrested early Saturday morning for allegedly urinating in public and running from police. Mark Collins, a Columbus-based attorney, said the football players learned of their suspension Sunday, and would be barred from the Woody Hayes Athletic Center until their case is resolved. “I’m going to try to work the next week or so to resolve this to everyone’s satisfaction to get these two

young men, get this taken care of and get them moving forward and get them back on the team hopefully,” Collins told The Lantern. The two are scheduled to appear in Delaware Municipal Court June 11. Representatives from the Department of Athletics, including coach Urban Meyer, did not immediately respond Sunday night to The Lantern’s request for comment regarding the suspensions. Shawnee Hills Police arrested Stoneburner and Mewhort for “obstructing official business” at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday by the Bogey Inn near Dublin, Ohio. Multiple attempts to contact the Shawnee Hills Police were unsuccessful. Police said they spotted Stoneburner, Mewhort and a third person, Austin Barnard, urinating in between buildings. When they attempted to confront the three individuals, police said they ran away.

JACK MEWHORT

JAKE STONEBURNER

Although Barnard is unaffiliated with the OSU football program, he is a business student at OSU. Two of the suspects were found trying to hide in between vehicles in a parking lot being used for this past weekend’s Memorial Tournament. The third person fled into the woods, but was ultimately caught by police after threatening to use a police dog. Adam Widman, assistant director of

communications for the Department of Athletics, on Saturday said Stoneburner’s arrest was being investigated. Widman did not respond to The Lantern’s request for comment regarding Mewhort’s arrest. Obstructing official business is defined by Ohio Revised Code 2921.31 as “No person, without

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OSU students, faculty unsure about pending $483M parking lease

Armed robbery victims desire more police protection

THOMAS BRADLEY AND SARAH STEMEN Campus editor and Oller reporter bradley.321@osu.edu and stemen.66@osu.edu

KRISTEN MITCHELL Senior Lantern reporter mitchell.935@osu.edu

Ohio State officials announced the highest bid for leasing university parking assets to an outside firm as $483 million, and many students and faculty are still unsure on the possible deal. The school began looking to privatize parking assets about a year ago, and is planning to make a decision whether to go forward with the plan sometime soon. Joseph Alutto, OSU’s executive vice president and provost, said he was not surprised the Friday bid was $108 million more than the basement price set for bids at $375 million. “I’m not surprised by the fact that it came in much higher,” Alutto said. “The overall number is high, which gives us the flexibility to invest in the quality of the institution.” Alutto stressed this was not a “done deal,” and there are still several stages to go through before making a recommendation to the Board of Trustees.

THOMAS BRADLEY / Campus editor

The highest bid for the parking assets of the university is $483 million. If recommended to the Board and then passed, the private company, which has yet to be named, will take over operations

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“You better start running if you don’t want to be killed.” That’s what an unidentified man with a handgun told Kim Klumb, a fifth-year in nursing, after he took her cellphone and cash last week on Chittenden Avenue. Klumb and her roommate were walking home from Kildare’s Irish Pub in the South Campus Gateway at about 2 a.m. Thursday with a group of friends before turning on Chittenden Avenue to visit a friend who lives on Indianola Avenue before turning in for the night. Arriving at their friend’s apartment, they found he was not home and turned to leave when a man passed them on the stairs outside the building. As they passed him, he turned around and began following them down the stairs. Klumb said he followed them, and cornered them against a wall of 100 Chittenden Ave. as he pulled out a handgun and aimed it at Leslie Ferch, a fourth-year in nursing. He took both of their cellphones. After threatening to rape and kill them, he sent them walking down the street. Ferch first, then Klumb. The man was later described in a public safety notice emailed from the university as “a black male, 19 to 20 years of age, with a baby face, 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 6 inches, 140 pounds, wearing black pants, blue and white plaid shirt underneath a gray hoodie, a black baseball cap (turned around backwards). The suspect hair style was in dreadlocks/dreads.”

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