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President Barack Obama said if students at Ohio State aren’t sick of him visiting yet, they might see him again before November. In a Tuesday afternoon conference call with student-journalists from across the nation, Obama said the youth vote in the presidential election in November will be crucial. “The choice that you all face could not be bigger or more sequential,” he said. “I see the kind of changes you guys are able to bring about.” Obama said that many of the changes his administration was able to bring about, such as reforming health care and ending the war in Iraq, were possible because of the youth vote. “All these things happened because of you,” he said. Obama answered one question from The Lantern, along with one question each from student-journalists at Colorado State University, North Carolina A&T State University, Virginia Tech and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Obama won all of those states in the 2008 election. According to Politico, Obama leads Ohio, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia in the most recent polls. Obama said there are more changes to be made with the help of the youth vote, but that bettering our economy isn’t going to be easy. “Change is tough, it always has been,” he said. “All the programs that we’ve made in our history usually came about through some struggle.” Alfred Yates, a fourth-year in math and communications and co-chair of OSU Votes, said that students have a lot of power in the upcoming election. Obama said former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who officially became the Republican presidential nominee at the Republican Convention
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President Barack Obama waves to the crowd after he exits Air Force One during his Aug. 21 visit to Columbus. Obama later spoke at Capital University in front of about 3,300 people. in Tampa, Fla., Tuesday, is hoping young people won’t turn out to vote like they did in 2008. “They’re hoping that young people, even if they don’t vote for (Romney), don’t vote at all,” Obama said. Romney said the Obama campaign is not winning over college-aged students. “I don’t see how a young American can vote
for, well, can vote for a Democrat,” Romney said in a speech at the University of Chicago in March. “We’re students at the biggest university in the most important state in this election,” he said. “We
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Car-struck student wakes up from coma ‘Madden’ mania
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Katie Higgins Senior Lantern reporter higgins.254@osu.edu Rachel Stump, the first-year Ohio State student who was struck by a car near campus last week, is improving. Stump, a Troy, Ohio, native, was in a coma and critical condition days after the Aug. 19 accident, but her dad, Matt Stump, told The Lantern that she woke up from her coma Wednesday or Thursday of last week. He also said that doctors at the Wexner Medical Center decreased her pain medication dosage and removed her breathing tube Monday morning. “When they pulled her tube she was able to open her eyes, throwing her head a little bit responding,” Matt Stump said. “She knows her name.”
It’ll be a long time before she has a conversation, she was able to say her name was Rachel. She doesn’t know where she’s at or what happened.
Matt Stump Rachel Stump’s father He said that Rachel Stump does not remember what happened to her or the events that lead to the accident. “She can kind of squeak out, ‘Rachel,’” Matt Stump said. “It’ll be a long time before she has a conversation, she was able to say her name was Rachel. She doesn’t know where she’s at or what happened.”
The driver, also an OSU student, was driving southbound through a green light on North High Street near Chittenden Avenue when the vehicle hit Rachel Stump, according to a Columbus Division of Police report. The report said she was crossing the street without using the crosswalk. The driver’s blood alcohol content when Rachel Stump was hit was 0.19, which is more than double the legal limit. The driver did not respond to multiple emails from The Lantern. Rachel Stump’s blood alcohol content was not tested at the scene. The Lantern will not name the driver since drunken driving charges are still pending. Matt Stump said he understands how something like this could happen. “I don’t know what anybody’s blood alcohol was,” Matt Stump said. “But it was move-in
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Beginning this academic year, international students are required to pay $500 each semester toward an international student fee. While returning international students are not required to pay the fee, nearly one-fourth of all international students did pay the fee before Fall Semester, which will generate about $1 million to OSU.
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All international students enrolled at OSU will be required to pay $1,000 per year toward the international fee years The total revenue from students paying the international fee will equal about $6 million per year
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Kristen Mitchell Campus editor mitchell.935@osu.edu
Ohio State is expecting to make an extra $1 million from incoming international students this academic year. At its June meeting, the Board of Trustees agreed on a new fee that will cost undergraduate international students an extra $1,000 a year to attend the university. Roughly 6,000 undergraduate international students attend OSU. One-fourth of them are new to the university for the 2012-2013 school year and have been charged the fee for Fall Semester. The June Board agenda said that the fee is expected to generate approximately $1 million in the first year, which is $500 thousand lower than what math indicates it would be for one-fourth of all international students contributing. Returning international students were not charged the fee. In three years however, all international students attending the university will pay the $500 per semester fee, making the yearly monetary intake
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from this fee alone $6 million by then if enrollment patterns continue. Chief financial officer for the university Geoff Chatas said the extra money will go toward providing resources specific to an international student’s needs. “The number of international students has been increasing every year,” Chatas said. “When you add more and more international students you have to add resources for those students. There’s a cost to all that.” Some international students said they thought the higher tuition is enough of an expense already. “The fees are already ridiculous,” said Yuqing Zhu, a second-year in business administration and an international student from China. “For the semester most of my classes are big lectures and there are all kinds of students in there. And we’re paying extra? It’s not logical to me.” Other students said they were upset that future and first-year students would have to pay the fee. “The school wants to get more and more from us,” said Yihui Liu,
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