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thelantern Gee’s move to Page Hall to cost about $50K
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LIZ YOUNG Campus editor young.1693@osu.edu
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Passing into a fresh season The Buckeye wide receivers are looking to make big plays this season.
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Ferret frenzy
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A ferret competition was held in Columbus over the weekend.
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Former Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee is set to have a new permanent place on campus by the end of September. Renovations on Gee’s new office space in Page Hall are expected to cost $50,000 or less and include minor construction, carpeting, painting and updating, OSU spokesman Gary Lewis said in an email. Lewis said in a Friday email construction could be starting this week, and the project should be completed by mid- to late September. Board of Trustees Chairman Robert Schottenstein had said July 31 no final decision had been made on Gee’s future office and denied reports that a $190,000 renovation project had been approved, adding that the goal was to find Gee an existing office to use, according to the Associated Press. OSU has hired Columbus-based Gilbane Building Company and Delaware, Ohio, based MB Design Group to handle the renovation of rooms 210F and 210G in Page Hall. The contract with Gilbane is worth approximately $18,000 and involves most of the painting and removing the wall between the two rooms, while the contract with MB Design Group is worth $3,087 and includes carpeting. The space will have an area for an assistant, an employee and students who are working with Gee on his research of 21st century education policy.
Page Hall houses the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. Gee will also maintain an office in Moritz College of Law, where he is serving as a tenured professor, but the “Page Hall space will be the only space for his center/staff,” Lewis said. Until then, “Gee and his assistant have been temporarily housed at (the South Campus) Gateway and will remain there until completion of the Page Hall renovations,” Lewis said. Some OSU students feel the renovation’s cost is appropriate. “I think the university has enough money to spend on a president
Areas that received donations:
KATHLEEN MARTINI Lantern reporter martini.35@osu.edu
$100M $80M $60M
$20M Scholarship $57.5M Faculty $118.3M Facilities $35.2M Research $111M Innovation $35.4M Karly Ratzenberger / Design editor
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An event for students was held in the ‘Shoe to ring in the 2013 football season.
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where how much is enough to give to Gee… I don’t think a renovated office is necessary at all.” Gee’s new position at OSU includes completing his research on 21st century education policy, as well as researching, writing, speaking nationally and teaching and lecturing for Moritz, the OSU John Glenn School of Public Affairs and the OSU College of Education. Gee, however, has not yet started at his new position — until June 30, 2014, Gee will be on special assignment with full compensation and benefits, according to the
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More than $374M donated to OSU in FY 2013
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who did as much as he did,” said Mitchell Gerhart, a second-year in neuroscience. Others agreed. “He is a really big figure for the university. I think that renovating an office for him isn’t too bold of a move for the university at all,” said Kathryn Wrightsman, a first-year in marketing. Some students, though, think the renovation is too pricey. “Given the amount of money he’s already received from the university and the retirement plan he’s already been given it’s a lot of money,” said Jeff Mojzer, a recent graduate in psychology. “It comes to a point
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Ohio State received more than $374 million in donations during the 2013 fiscal year. The “But for Ohio State” campaign is now more than halfway to its $2.5 billion goal, due to donations from nearly 228,300 alumni and other donors this year. The campaign raised $365 million in 2012, about 2.5 percent less than the 2013 total. Meanwhile, University of Michigan raised $288 million during fiscal year 2012, and Purdue University raised $227.3 million in the 2010-2011 fiscal year, according to their respective websites. The campaign raised $57.5 million for student scholarships and aid in 2013 as part of the $100 million Ohio Scholarship Challenge. The Challenge aims to create a full scholarship in each of the 88 Ohio counties and support other alumni club scholarships. Other priority areas this year were faculty ($118.3 million), facilities ($35.2 million), research ($111 million) and innovation ($35.4 million). Forty-five donors gave $1 million or more this year, including Sam Covelli, owner and CEO of Covelli Enterprises, a franchisee of Panera and O’Charley’s. Covelli’s
‘ratCHITT’ party results in about 5 arrests, several other citations DANIEL BENDTSEN AND LOGAN HICKMAN Lantern reporters bendtsen.1@osu.edu and hickman.201@osu.edu Thousands of partygoers took to Chittenden Avenue Saturday night into Sunday morning for a street party called “ratCHITT,” where there were about five arrests and pepper spray may have been used in one instance. More than 1,700 people replied they were going to the event on the ratCHITT Facebook page out of more than 5,500 who were invited. About 80 Columbus Division of Police officers were in the area, using patrol cars, bikes, horses and helicopters, Columbus Police Sgt. Patrick Shaffer said, partly to keep the street clear of pedestrians because it was not closed off to traffic. Shaffer said there were about five arrests and several citations and summons issued, but he wasn’t sure of the exact numbers. He believed one non-OSU student was pepper-sprayed when the man resisted arrest, but that the substance was not used “on a massive scale.” Most of the enforcement was in response to violations of open container laws and for underage drinking, Shaffer said. University Police representatives did
not return calls requesting comment late afternoon Sunday. Shaffer said the party didn’t get out of hand, though. “We had some minor incidences, but essentially, what we did was we ended up encouraging people to leave because it starts to get too big, the sidewalks get closed and it becomes a public safety issue,” Shaffer said, adding that when the sidewalks are too full, pedestrians spill into the street and end up blocking the paths emergency vehicles would need to take in the event of an emergency. People gathered on sidewalks and porches before mounted police moved into the streets shortly before 1 a.m. to close off the area and demand partygoers leave. Shaffer said issues don’t typically involve OSU students. “A lot of times, our biggest problems tonight (and) most of our arrests, are not university students. (There were) a couple that were visiting from other universities but a lot of our big troublemakers were not college students at all. They would be from other areas of the city. They hear about it, they come down here to cause trouble,” Shaffer said. “It’s always the non-OSU students who cause the most trouble.” He added that OSU students could
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gift of $10 million to the OSU Department of Athletics will assist in the construction of a multisport arena. “With a son who graduated from Ohio State and a daughter who is entering her freshman year this fall along with (owning) businesses in Columbus, we realize how special a place The Ohio State University is both academically and athletically under the great leadership of Gene Smith,” Covelli said in an email. The OSU Alumni Association has also played a large part in the campaign thus far by instituting a universal alumni membership model that in turn increased the amount of alumni donations, with nearly $79.7 million in donations coming from alumni. The campaign’s progress this year will allow for new innovations at OSU, interim OSU President Joseph Alutto said. “Thanks to the generosity and goodwill of many, Ohio State will take the next important step in our university’s tradition of finding solutions to grand challenges,” Alutto said in a released statement. The campaign is run by the OSU Foundation. Michael Eicher, senior vice president of advancement and president of the OSU Foundation, said the fundraising is a “testament” to donors’ support of OSU’s research and other initiatives.
Police officer struck by hitand-run driver near campus CAMERON RODA Lantern reporter roda.7@osu.edu A Columbus Division of Police officer was struck by a vehicle early Saturday morning on North Pearl Street between East 12th and Chittenden avenues, according to Columbus Police officers at the scene. The driver fled the scene after striking the officer with his vehicle and remained unidentified as of late afternoon Sunday. Columbus Police CAMERON RODA / Lantern reporter declined multiple requests Columbus Police cruisers stationed at the for comment at the crime Ohio Union on Saturday morning. scene and the victim’s name and condition are still unknown. While the exact time the incident occurred is unknown, Columbus Police arrived at the scene at about 1 a.m. Saturday. Police at the scene roped off North Pearl Street from 13th to Chittenden avenues and did not allow pedestrians through. At least four Columbus Police cruisers were present at the crime scene Saturday morning, while five other police cruisers were stationed in the area at the Ohio Union on East 12th Avenue, two of which were Ohio State Police Department vehicles. Officers at the scene declined to disclose their names.
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