9.25.2012

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Tuesday September 25, 2012 year: 132 No. 105

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thelantern lantern Report: Gee ties on nearly $8M in various expenses

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MICHAEL PERIATT AND ALLY MAROTTI Managing editor for content and Editor-in-chief periatt.1@osu.edu and marotti.5@osu.edu President E. Gordon Gee’s paycheck is larger than that of any other public university president in the nation at about $2 million a year, but a recent Dayton Daily News investigation found that the university spends almost as much on Gee as the millions he makes. Using his passport like a driver’s license, wining and dining with donors, faculty, visitors and dignitaries, and maintaining his arsenal of bow ties and bow-tie paraphernalia are bank-breaking expenses that don’t come out of Gee’s pocket. Since 2007, the university has spent about $7.7 million on Gee’s expenses in addition to the $8.6 million in salary and compensation he was paid during the same time period. The university’s expenditures on Gee total about $1.1 million on travel, $813,000 on tailgating, almost $2.2 million on special events, $1.6 million on Gee’s office and $2.1 million on the president’s residence, according to the report. Gee makes no apologies for the expenses. “The reason I do it is the fact that’s it’s my job,” Gee told The Lantern during a Sept. 10 interview. “And secondly of all, I make no excuses for it, I raised $1.5 billion and the university is in the best financial shape of any institution in the country. You know I’m the highest paid university president in the country and I feel it’s a privilege to be a president here and I want to earn that salary every day. I think that I do.” JobsOhio President Mark Kvamme told the Daily News that this was the cost of running an institution that provides a wealth of jobs to the state.

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Defensive downfalls

OSU’s players and coaches said the defense needs to tighten up before the Buckeyes take on Michigan State.

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Photo illustration by JACKIE STORER / Managing editor, design ANDREW HOLLERAN / Photo editor

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Prime time disappointment

Our columnist was not pleased with the Emmy Awards’ choices Monday night.

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Joint jurisdiction driven by OSU students MICHAEL BURWELL Lantern reporter burwell.37@osu.edu After months of conversations about joint jurisdiction, the Ohio State Police Department and the Columbus Division of Police have reached a new agreement. The agreement, announced Wednesday, gives University Police authority to respond to emergency situations in the University District, a power it only had before with the permission of the Columbus Police. Under the guidelines of a previous mutual aid agreement, each force was not permitted to act independently in the other’s territory. While University Police can respond in emergency cases, it still is not permitted to patrol off campus. However, Taylor Stepp, Undergraduate Student Government president said if University Police sees something suspicious going on to or from university property, they can stop and investigate, which is similar to patrolling in those areas. It doesn’t have to tell the Columbus Police until after investigating. USG has been a driving force behind a new joint jurisdiction agreement, and

Stepp said securing University Police the ability to patrol off-campus wasn’t USG’s goal with the new agreement. “We want to make sure we’re not watered down on campus or off campus, and I think if we had our cops patrolling on the off-campus east of High Street, traditional off-campus area, some of our presence on campus is going to be watered down,” Stepp said. University Police Chief Paul Denton reiterated that the joint jurisdiction was primarily driven by students. “This was a student-driven initiative from last fall,” Denton said after the Wednesday meeting. “Undergraduate Student Government felt it was important to enhance officer presence and responsiveness around the neighborhood and particularly crimes that happened on the borders, where sometimes there were some limits on where officers could and couldn’t go even if they witnessed a crime.” Columbus Police Precinct 4 Commander Chris Bowling called the agreement “significant.” “Instead of just being able to see what’s going on and then call it into us based on the crime that’s taking place

2A Report pegs Ohio 13th fattest state in 2011

Deep-rooted controversy

Members of the OSU community weigh in on the antiIslam YouTube video.

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ANNA DUEE Lantern reporter duee.1@osu.edu

Obesity on the rise in Ohio, nationwide

If Americans continue their lifestyles, more than four out of every 10 people will be overweight by 2030. A new “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2012,” report by Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), revealed that by 2030, 44 percent of the population in all 50 states will be overweight, hitting an obesity record for the nation. In 2011, Ohio was tied with Kansas as the 13th most obese state in the country, with a rate of 29.6 percent, according to TFAH. This ranking, researchers say, is expected to rise within the next 20 years to 59.8 percent. In comparison, Mississippi was named the most obese state in 2011, with an obesity rate of 34.9 percent. Colorado had the lowest obesity rate, with 20.7 percent of its population being obese. More than any other recorded time, adult Americans are defined as obese, with a body mass index of 30 or more, according to the World Health Organization definition. According to the study, rising obesity rates mean higher health care costs due to more diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes or heart diseases. Reducing Ohioans’ body mass index by 5 percent within the next year would slow climbing health care costs, expected to increase by 15.2 percent by 2030, TFAH reports.

In 2011, Ohio was tied as the 13th most obese state in the nation with an obese population just 5.3 percent lower than the country’s most obese state, Mississippi. In the next 20 years, the percentage of obese individuals is expected to more than double.

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The Ohio State Police Department and Columbus Division of Police entered a joint jurisdiction agreement announced last week.

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Colorado source: healthyamericans.org Those numbers are caused by a lot of factors, said Janele Bayless, a wellness coordinator and nutrition counselor at Ohio State’s Student Wellness Center. A large factor is a sedentary lifestyle, with the lack of physical activity, or time constraints that don’t allow enough time to cook healthy food. “I have noticed that people don’t often, or always tend to listen to their hunger cues. So they eat for

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many reasons other than hunger. Whether it’s just the time of day, or their busy schedule or lifestyle, or bored, or stressed, or studying,” Bayless said. Finding the right rhythm and the right nutrition during college is a challenge every student has to face when leaving their parents’ house.

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