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Unresponsive man pulled from Mirror Lake
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“He was limp, he was lifeless. He might have been breathing, it might have been really shallow.” Liz Young Campus editor young.1693@osu.edu
Speedy feet
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Head coach Urban Meyer is looking to work on players’ speed this season.
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Evolving into art
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Cirque du Soleil to flip back into Columbus.
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A man who was pulled out of Mirror Lake Sunday afternoon was last reported to be in critical condition. The man is not an Ohio State student, according to an OSU press release, but his name, age and affiliation with the university, as well as details of his condition, have not been released. The incident is being investigated by University Police. A 911 call reporting a “person in distress in Mirror Lake” was received at approximately 5 p.m., and other bystanders approached the OSU Public Safety Mobile Command Unit that was in the area because of the Student Involvement Fair, which took place on the Oval Sunday, according to the release. Police officers and Student Safety officers jumped into Mirror Lake to pull the man from the water, according to the release, and bystanders reported paramedics performed CPR and chest resuscitations for several minutes without any apparent reaction from the man. University Police Lt. Rick Green said at about 5:30 p.m. the man had been taken to the Wexner Medical Center in critical condition. Tim Struble, a 27-year-old OSU alumnus, was walking with a friend on Neil Avenue near Mirror Lake when they noticed hands flailing above the water. “We just thought it was someone messing around,” Struble said. “We saw a head pop up momentarily and then the hands and head disappear.” Struble and his friend headed down by the lake, where people had already called 911. Emergency Medical Services arrived less than a minute after Struble did, he said. “Then a cop came, he was a bike cop, and he took all his stuff off and immediately jumped in the lake and we told him the last place we saw him,” Struble said. “He eventually found him after another minute, minute and a half of searching (using his feet and pulled the
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OSU Police pulled a man in critical condition from Mirror Lake Aug. 18 shortly after 5 p.m., according to an OSU release. man to the edge) … My friend and I each grabbed a leg and shoulder and pulled him up.” Struble said the man was not responding to CPR and that the man did not have his wallet, keys or shoes on his body at the time of the incident. Christian Kyte, a second-year in electrical and computer engineering, said he and some of his friends walked over to the area from Thompson Library after seeing police cars going that way and witnessed officers pulling the man out. “We were right there watching,” Kyte said. “One (officer) jumped in and dragged him to the shore (and) took off the shirt and shocked him and whatnot … There was no movement from him whatsoever. They were constantly giving him compressions.” Kyte said after about 15 minutes of watching, he still saw “no sign that he was coming back to consciousness.”
Joshua Sharrock, a 31-year-old Columbus State Community College student, was visiting Mirror Lake when he saw a crowd gathered there and noticed the seemingly unconscious man. “There’s like 20 paramedics, everybody is just pumping on this guy’s chest and it blew up like a balloon. They were really pumping hard,” Sharrock said. “Nobody was talking, everyone was staring. Nobody was even on their phones.” Sharrock, who said he was 15 to 20 feet from the man at the time, said there was no apparent movement from the man. “There were a lot of paramedics … but they carried him off, he was limp, he was lifeless. He might have been breathing, it might have been really shallow,” Sharrock said.
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Presidential search process streamlined Liz Young Campus editor young.1693@osu.edu The Ohio State Presidential Search Committee has started taking action on what is expected to be a yearlong process, but financial details on its latest initiatives are not yet available. The committee introduced and discussed several initiatives being implemented to find the new president during its Aug. 16 meeting, including the hiring of a search firm to help with recruiting candidates, assembling a panel of university presidents to discuss requirements of a presidency and holding open forums around Columbus and OSU’s satellite campuses during the next few months to gather input from OSU community members. Dallas-based R. William Funk and Associates, which has handled about 375 searches for university and college presidents and chancellors, will be the search firm. The university contract with the firm had not yet been finalized as of Sunday, Gayle Saunders, assistant vice president of media relations, said in an email. The panel of current and former university presidents, which will be hosted by the OSU Board of Trustees
Aug. 30 at 1 p.m. in the Ohio Union, will discuss “the challenges and opportunities of research universities and requisites for strong leadership,” according to an Aug. 16 university press release. Harvard Graduate School of Education professor emeritus Richard Chait will organize the Symposium on the University Presidency, and Tufts University President Emeritus Lawrence
Bacow, Tulane University President Scott Cowen, Washington State University President Elson Floyd, University of North Carolina system President Thomas Ross and University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan will be among the panelists. The details of panelists’ travel and stay costs and whether or not they will be paid for by OSU are still being
finalized, Saunders said. Former OSU President E. Gordon Gee announced his retirement June 4, effective July 1, and former Provost and Executive Vice President Joseph Alutto assumed the role of interim president the same day. The announcement of Gee’s retirement came days after controversial remarks Gee made at a Dec. 5 OSU Athletic Conference became public. Comments about Notre Dame and the SEC in particular, among other remarks, brought national attention. The open forums, four of which will be held at the OSU Columbus campus in September, are an opportunity for OSU students, faculty, staff and alumni to “provide (their) thoughts and suggestions,” according to a Presidential Search Committee email sent to the OSU community Aug. 13. Presidential Search Committee advisory subcommittee convener Deborah Jones Merritt, a professor at the Moritz College of Law, said the forums that have been held so far, one for the provost, Joseph Steinmetz, and deans Aug. 13 and another for University Staff Advisory Committee Aug. 14, have been “well-attended” and are helping
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Alutto takes control
Among the changes over the summer was the man behind the desk in OSU’s presidential office.
Kathleen Martini Lantern reporter martini.35@osu.edu
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The South Oval opened this summer after being closed due to the installation of geothermal wells.
When Ohio State’s South Oval opened this summer after almost three years of construction, some upperclassmen were happy to see the area back in use. But others were excited to see it open for the first time since their arrival on campus. The area has been closed since November 2010 due to the installation of geothermal wells to improve the heating and cooling systems of South Campus residence halls. Though the initial targeted completion date was September 2012, problems with the drilling method in relation to the South Oval geologic condition delayed the project end date by more than a year. Chesapeake Geosystems, Inc., the company initially under contract for the renovation, was released from its obligations because of its ineffective methods, according to Lantern archives. The project originally cost $10.3 million and was expected to pay for itself in about ten years, but the budget jumped to $12 million due to the delays and was completed by Bergerson-Caswell. Some upperclassmen are glad to see the South Oval back in service, no matter the cost. “It’s really nice to have something I missed from
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