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Fissure in garage worries tailgaters, could take $140K and five weeks to repair KELSEY BULLER Oller projects reporter buller.10@osu.edu
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A hole — large enough for children to throw rocks through during tailgate parties — in the top ˜ oor of a campus parking garage is set to undergo “emergency” repairs today, almost a year after the ÿssure was identiÿed. Transportation & Parking Services posted a sign at the garage’s entrance Sept. 21 that said repairs are needed on the fourth and ÿfth ˜ oors of Ohio State’s Northwest Parking Garage, across from the Knowlton School of Architecture. The repairs, originally slated for completion during the summer, must be ÿnished before winter weather sets in or the entire level of the garage could be closed, OSU ofÿcials said. The roof-top hole measures about 2 feet long and 6 inches wide and opens to the ˜ oor below. The last time crews worked on the garage was 10 years ago. About a year ago, workers concluded that the garage needed about $140,000 in repairs. On football game days, the roof is also a hotspot for some tailgaters. “There’s all kinds of kids running around here that could trip and fall in the hole,” said Dawn List, 41, an OSU alumna who tailgated at the garage during the Buckeyes’ game against Eastern Michigan on Saturday. “They’re throwing rocks in the hole and damaging cars underneath. They won’t let us have grills up here because it’s too dangerous, yet holes are OK?” Emergency repairs are scheduled to start today and will take about ÿve weeks. About 75 of the garage’s 644 parking spaces will be closed this week. During the four weeks following that, workers will close about 50
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“My kids play up here all the time, throwing the football. My kid could fall through that hole. If something happened, they’d have a major lawsuit on their hands.”
Kevin Stearns Ohio State tailgater, 41
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spaces, said Sarah Blouch, director of Transportation & Parking Services. Blouch’s department submitted paperwork calling for repairs last fall after workers noticed that some concrete in the garage had deteriorated. “Areas requiring repair on the ÿfth level, as a whole, were identiÿed after the November 2009 assessment,” said Mary Lynn Readey, associate vice president of Facilities Operations and Development. “The growth of the opening occurred during the 2009-10 winter season and was speciÿcally incorporated into the current design and repair plans.” The repairs had been planned to begin during the summer, but delays in the contractor bidding process pushed the project to fall. Ofÿcials said the ÿfth ˜ oor is still safe for vehicles, but that hasn’t quelled tailgaters’ concerns. “My kids play up here all the time, throwing the football,” said
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One of several deteriorated areas on the 5th floor of the Northwest Parking Garage at 271 Ives Dr. has been deemed an ‘emergency.’
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Ohio State has colossal aspirations for an ofÿce not much larger than a university residence hall room. The 270-square-foot Global Gateway Ofÿce, which opened February in Shanghai, China, is expected to perform a variety of functions similar to international liaison ofÿces that other universities have established. However, unlike other universities’ liaison ofÿces, the gateway ofÿce will eventually be self-supporting, said William Brustein, vice provost for global strategies and international affairs at OSU. Other universities, such as the University of Southern California, have opened successful ofÿces abroad, but they depend on the university for ÿnancial support. The OSU Ofÿce of International Affairs and the Fisher College of Business’ Center for Executive Education are working to develop executive training programs, which will operate through the gateway ofÿce. These programs are expected to be the ofÿce’s source of revenue. “What we’re going to offer, in terms of these executive training programs, will be programs that already exist within the Center for Executive Education, such as logistics and supply chain management,” Brustein said. “But they will be customized for our clients operating in China.”
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The Global Gateway Office in Shanghai is aimed to succeed where other universities have failed by maintaining enrollment and becoming self-supporting. The main goal of the office is to facilitate study-abroad and internship experience for OSU students.
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Urban prep students get Pelotonia planners: Bike route is safe a tour of OSU continued as Gateway on 3A
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Despite the death of a rider in Ohio State’s Pelotonia tour this summer, organizers said safety along the route to Athens doesn’t need improvement. Michelle Kazlausky, 57, was hit and killed by a pickup truck at the intersection of routes 180 and 374 in Hocking County, said Lt. Jeff Skinner of the Ohio Highway Patrol. Jessica Kinman, the tour’s spokeswoman, would not say whether there will be any changes to the tour next year. “One of our ofÿcers was monitoring that position and the ofÿcer saw some bikes coming, stepped down to the road to stop trafÿc, and the ÿrst vehicle coming toward him failed to stop,” Skinner said. The driver, Ervin Blackston, 57, had reported working on the brakes earlier that day, Skinner said. The patrol determined that the brakes failed on the 1985 Ford pickup truck, and Skinner said Kazlausky failed to heed the stop sign as she approached the intersection where she was struck.
“Cyclists are supposed to obey all the normal trafÿc laws that apply to cars on the road,” he said. “No one saw (Kazlausky) stop at the stop sign.” Though it’s impossible to determine how many of the 4,047 riders obeyed the rules of the road, some reported that they frequently Michelle Kazlausky stopped at intersections. “People would stop at the stop signs and red lights,” said Blake Chaney, a second-year in Zoology who rode in the tour. “Everybody who I was riding with, the whole time obeyed the trafÿc signs, just like anybody else would have.” Despite Kazlausky’s death, event ofÿcials insist that the tour was safe for cyclists and will be next year. “I had a number of friends who rode this year, who are big-time cyclists and have ridden in events all over the country, and they told me this is the safest, best-organized event they have ever ridden,”
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said Alec Wightman, a James Cancer Hospital board member. “Obviously it was tragic, and I’m sure that everything that was done in the past will be done next year, and then some.” During the tour, police ofÿcers were stationed at busy intersections to direct riders and other trafÿc. Organizers are still determining how much money riders raised in the second year of the tour. Last year, the tour raised $4.5 million for OSU’s Comprehensive Care Center, said Juli Capani, Pelotonia volunteer coordinator. Fundraising for this year’s tour ends Oct. 22. Riders choose one of four endpoints on the route. The longest ride, spanning two days, takes participants to Athens and most of the way back to Columbus. “Everyone who rode the ÿrst year, rode the second and brought friends along,” Wightman said. “I expect it to keep growing.” Repeated attempts to reach Kazlausky’s sister and sister-in-law for comment were made with no response.
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