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Tuesday September 28, 2010 year: 130 No. 125 the student voice of

The Ohio State University

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thelantern Res halls to go geothermal

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How geothermal heating works

dylan tussel Lantern reporter tussel.2@osu.edu

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Like father, like son

OSU men’s soccer star Konrad Warzycha learned from his father, Robert, coach of the Columbus Crew.

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Ohio State plans to tap the earth’s natural temperature to provide heating and cooling to Park, Smith, Steeb, Stradley and Siebert halls. Abound 450 vertical geothermal wells will be drilled into the South Oval to a depth of about 550 feet in October, according to a Facilities Operations and Development document provided by Kenneth Wayman, senior director for Facilities Design and Construction. “Geothermal” means heat from the earth, which is exactly what the wells will use to heat and cool the five south campus high-rise residence halls. Although above-ground temperatures vary throughout the year, the temperature just below the earth’s surface remains virtually constant. During the winter, cold water will be pumped underground, gaining heat from the earth along the way. It will then be transferred to a pump above ground. “There’s a heat-exchange (pump) at the surface that takes the heat from the water and condenses it and puts it into a more usable form for heat,” said Jeffrey Daniels, an earth sciences professor at OSU. During the summer, the process is reversed. The pump will transfer warmth from the air to the water in the pipes. The water will then be pumped below ground, cooled and returned to the pump to cool buildings.

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Heat-exchange pump

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During the winter, cool water will pump through the closed-loop pipe system hundreds of feet below the South Oval. The water will gain heat from the earth along the way, before circulating back to the pump, which will use the water’s warmth to provide heating to Park, Smith, Steeb, Stradley and Siebert halls. The process will be reversed during the summer.

Source: Delta-Montrose Elecric Association

Cool water is warmed by ground heat.

Heated water travels back to the pump to heat residence halls

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Obama: Universities should reveal spending MOLLY GRAY Managing editor for design gray.557@osu.edu

Think Pink!

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Elle Woods comes to life when ‘Legally Blonde The Musical’ arrives at the Palace Theatre tonight at 8.

campus

Buckeye tree trouble on campus

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President Barack Obama issued a call Monday for greater transparency in university spending. “There should be a pie chart at every university that says, ‘Out of every dollar you spend in tuition, here is where your money is going,’” Obama said to a group of college journalists during a conference call. College students “should have some good understanding of that and be able to make better decisions as a consequence of that information.” He said students and parents, as consumers, need to put more pressure on universities to make sure costs stay under control and money is spent in the right places. “When I go to some public colleges and universities and I look at the athletic facilities that exist these days or the food courts or other things that have to do with quality of life, it’s sure a lot nicer than when I was going to college, and somebody has to pay for that,” Obama said. “Part of what we have to examine is, ‘Are we designing our universities in a way that focuses on the primary thing?’ — which is education.” Jim Lynch, director of OSU Media Relations, said the university is in a unique situation because the athletic department actually provides money for the university, rather than the other way around. “We are very proud of the fact that our Department of Athletics is one of the few schools in the country to operate without any state or university subsidies,” Lynch said. “Not a penny of tuition or tax dollars” is used. OSU’s budget, which includes charts on spending, is posted online by the Office of Resource Planning. The Lantern has repeatedly asked how much the university pays performers brought to campus by the Ohio Union Activities Board. Officials say those costs are “trade secrets.” “Unfortunately, it would not be wise for the university to release how much we pay to bring in national acts, as it would put us at disadvantage when negotiating future entertainers,” Lynch said. Increasing transparency in college spending is only part of Obama’s goal to improve higher education in the United States. Students “are going to drive the future success of the United States,” he

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ANDY GOTTESMAN / Lantern multimedia editor

President Barack Obama spoke about the economy Aug. 18 in the backyard of a Clintonville home.

Obama talks Student Health center offers new flu vaccine political activism

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jamie morgan Lantern reporter morgan.693@osu.edu

With flu season approaching, the Wilce Student Health Center began offering a new vaccine against three common viruses Monday morning. The center is also providing additional time slots for vaccination. “The seasonal flu vaccine protects against three influenza viruses (H3N2 virus, influenza B and the 2009 H1N1) that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming season,” said Jennifer House, public information officer for the Ohio Department of Health, in an e-mail. The World Health Organization recommended this type of seasonal vaccine Feb. 22 with approval from the Food and Drug Administration, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. “The viruses in the vaccine change each year based on international surveillance and scientists’ estimations about which types and strains of viruses will circulate in a given year,” House said. “This year’s flu vaccine is made the same way as flu vaccines from previous years.” Dr. Roger Miller, a preventive medicine physician

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JOE PODELCO / Lantern photo editor

Melissa Gusching, a second-year dental student, gets a flu shot from the Wilce Student Health Center on Monday.

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