Wednesday August 22, 2012 year: 132 No. 82
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After making a surprise pit stop at Sloopy’s Diner on campus Tuesday morning, President Barack Obama spoke at Capital University to an eclectic crowd full of students, Republican protesters and other supporters. It was sprinkling as an estimated crowd of 3,300 people filed into the Quad at Capital to watch the president speak at his ninth visit to Ohio this year. Meanwhile on Ohio State’s campus, Obama was being served a Reuben sandwich during his surprise visit to Sloopy’s Diner in the Ohio Union. The clouds gave way just before Obama took the stage at 1 p.m. “I am glad we got some students here because I came to Columbus today to talk about what most of the students are doing every day,” Obama said. “Your education is the single most important investment you can make for your future.” Obama said it wasn’t breaking news to anyone in the audience that some type of higher education — be it a fouryear university, community college or technical school — was almost necessary to obtain a job. And higher education, he said, eliciting chants of “four more years,” should be available to everyone. “Higher education is not a luxury, it’s an economic necessity,” he said. Student loans are something Obama said he is all too familiar with, as he and first lady Michelle Obama only finished paying off their own student loans eight years ago. “We’ve been in your shoes. Neither of us came from wealthy
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President Barack Obama exited Air Force One Tuesday in Columbus prior to his visit to Capital University.
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Beginning Fall Semester, an additional per credit hour cost will be implemented for any student taking more than 18 credit hours. Here’s the breakdown:
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Last Fall Quarter, 16 percent of Ohio State undergraduate students were registered for more than 18 credit hours. With the addition of a new fee this semester for students “overloading” courses, that number has dropped to less than 1 percent of undergraduate students. Resident students enrolled in additional credit hours on the Columbus campus will pay an extra $382 in instructional charges per credit hour and a $15.50 general fee per credit hour, totalling $397.50. Out-of-state students will pay the $382 per extra credit hour plus a $642 non-resident fee and a $15.50 general fee, totaling $1,039.50 on top of regular tuition for each additional credit hour enrolled in past 18. The fee is smaller at regional campuses, where resident students are only charged $288 in instructional fees and a $9.50 general fee per extra credit hour. As of last Monday, University Registrar Brad Myers, said only 329 students are enrolled in 18 or more credit hours for the semester. He said the number will fluctuate slightly over the next few weeks as students add and drop classes, but that number pales in comparison to the 8,370 students who were enrolled in more than 18 hours last fall, a number that was taken on the first day of Fall Quarter classes last year. The roughly 16 percent of students taking more than 18 hours of class dropped to 13 percent at the census date a few weeks into Fall Quarter 2011. Ohio State’s chief financial officer Geoff Chatas said the university
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President Barack Obama swung by Sloopy’s Diner at the Ohio Union Tuesday to grab a Reuben sandwich before heading to Capital University to deliver a re-election campaign speech. According to several onlookers, Obama arrived at the Union shortly after 11 a.m. and left just before noon. Students pressed toward the west windows of the Union lobby, getting as close to Sloopy’s as possible to get a better glimpse at Obama eating his lunch. Christian Goodrich, a third-year in civil engineering and waiter at Sloopy’s, had more to brag about than just a glimpse. He took Obama’s order. “He ordered a classic Reuben with potato chips,
a piece of Buckeye pie for himself, and then for one of his aides, he ordered an American cheeseburger with french fries,” Goodrich said. He also said Sloopy’s staff was completely taken by surprise by the visit and was informed earlier in the morning that a VIP would be coming in, but only found out 15 minutes before Obama’s entrance that it was the president. Joel Linik, sous chef for University Dining, also took to Facebook when he not only saw the president for the first time, but cooked his Reuben. “I’m very proud to cook for the president,” Linik said while posting to Facebook on his phone. He also said, even though it was the president he was cooking for, he just made the sandwich as he would for any customer. “I would cook the same way for anybody,” Linik said. Some students in the building were selected
to go outside to the Union’s Potter Plaza, near its College Avenue entrance, and Bobby Bowles, a second-year in communication, was selected to join the crowd outside. “We saw Secret Service guys so we kind of knew something was going on,” he said. “All of a sudden we were in line to go outside. It just happened by chance.” Bowles said he shook Obama’s hand and the president complimented him on his Los Angeles Angels hat. “There was a bunch of people that were saying ‘I’m Republican, but this is still cool,’ he said. “It doesn’t really matter what party you are. It’s still the president.” Rob Schuetz, a first-year in exercise science, was also selected to go outside. He said it was
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