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Former Buckeye basketball star Clark Kellogg continues to make contributions to the game.

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Fall usually means a sea of scarlet and gray at Ohio State, but construction on campus this fall has many seeing orange. Some of the biggest road closures are near the medical center as a result of the ProjectONE expansion project. The billion-dollar project, which began in 2007, required crews to close Cannon Drive, one of the area’s major arteries. Though Cannon Drive is back open, 10th Avenue is closed between the Ross Heart Hospital and the medical center parking garage. It will remain closed for at least the next six months, said Jay Kasey, the chief operating officer of the OSU health system. He said the work hasn’t been a major obstacle to medical center access. More patients have visited the emergency unit and outpatient care since construction began, Kasey said. Those patients receive questionnaires asking whether they had trouble getting to the university. “We don’t think we’ve got a problem, but it’s an effort to make sure,” he said. The project is scheduled to finish in 2013 and will require traffic changes until it wraps up, Kasey said. The area around the Lane Avenue parking garage also underwent changes during construction of the new Student Academic Services Building, which opened in the spring. The building houses many departments, including the Office of the Bursar and the Office of the University Registrar. South Campus Kennedy Commons, a south-campus dining hall, is closed for renovations. Construction on the project, which will cost $14 million, is expected to be completed by Aug. 1, 2011, and Kennedy is expected to re-open in September, said Dorothy Leachman, the associate director for facilities projects. Another major project, the South Campus High Rise, will turn south campus into a long-term construction zone. Major construction will not begin until next year, when Park and Stradley halls will close. The project will connect Park to Stradley and Smith to Steeb with the addition of an 11-floor highrise between the buildings. Rather than four towers, the layout will look more like two “H’s” after construction is complete, Leachman said. Each “H” will house about 1,000 people, a population size closer to that of Morrill Tower, she said. Thyrone Henderson, the associate director for the

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‘the last smoker in america’ The new musical comedy will be performed Sept. 29 through Oct. 24 at the Riffe Center.

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Jones tower gets a facelift “the showers are new and the rooms are nice,” said nici emke, a fourth-year in history and office assistant in Jones tower. emke, behind the desk, checks in Justine Pardi, a secondyear working for OsU Facilities management, on sept. 21.

construction hinders bikers stephanie mazal dismounts her bike to safely traverse construction on the Olentangy bike trail on sept. 21. “it is an inconvenience, but if it’s better when it is done, then it will be worth it,” mazal said. “to continue on the trail you use to have to go through campus, so it will be nice to have to connect here.”

students side-step construction the renovation of cunz hall near the RPac took away much-needed space for Buck-i-Frenzy on sept. 21. Various construction sites across campus impede walkways.

All photos by tyleR JOsWick / Lantern asst. photo editor

OSU averaging 10 data breaches a year Jenny FOgle Lantern reporter fogle.96@osu.edu With six data breaches in the past year, Ohio State officials are urging students and faculty to help keep private information safe. “Ohio State has been tracking [breaches] for the past three years,” said Charles Morrow-Jones, director of IT Security. “We’ve been averaging about 10 per year and virtually all of them involve Social Security numbers.” Of the six recently reported breaches, two were dismissed and four were classified as “minor.” “I think every single one of [the minor cases] was somebody disposing of an old computer to surplus and they didn’t cleanse all of the information off their computers,” said Catherine Bindewald, director of communications for the Office of the Chief Information Officer. “So they found that the information was made public.” Data can also leak when faculty members keep old student rosters on their computers, Morrow-Jones said. Old student lists sometimes include Social Security numbers because, until recent years, the university used the numbers to identify students. “The main reason that we have data exposures is that an awful lot of Social Security numbers are floating around out there,” Morrow-Jones said. Now that OSU assigns identification numbers to students, he said, the number of breaches will decrease.

Students and faculty can also help prevent data exposure. “Students should make sure they never give their passwords away,” said Chief Information Officer Kathleen Starkoff, in an e-mail. “Ohio State will never ask for their password.” Cleaning computers is a key preventive tactic, especially for faculty, MorrowJones said. They should delete past students’ Social Security numbers because if that information is needed, the registrars will have it. “Another thing I would recommend to students is Google yourself,” MorrowJones said. “I know most students do, but for anybody who doesn’t, it’s a good way to see if somehow or another your Social Security number has ended up on a website.” Students and faculty are not the only ones who must protect valuable information. The university is responsible for Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and unpublished research. To prevent data exposures, OSU officials are implementing new security measures. “It is actually based on some international standards who say you should implement all of these standards, protection of servers, protection of data or even physical standards of if you have these kinds of buildings this is how things need to be locked up,” Bindewald said. For example, the university will regulate who is coming in and out of the data security center and what they are doing, Morrow-Jones said.

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Rec Sports to improve Jesse Owens North, natatorium

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Students can expect to see many changes from Ohio State’s Department of Recreational Sports this fall. Two of the largest projects involve the Jesse Owens North Recreation Center and the Recreation Natatorium. Jesse Owens North’s heating system began to fail in 2009, and a temporary system was put into place during the winter months. In addition to fixing the heating system, the department decided to install air conditioning to prepare for the impending change from quarters to semesters. In the past, Jesse Owens North has not

been open during the summer, but the change will enable it to remain at a comfortable temperature during the warmer months. “With the addition of (air conditioning), we will be able to keep (Jesse Owens North) open through the summer to provide more recreation options for the campus community,” said facilities associate director Diane Jensen in an e-mail. Jensen said planning for the project is complete. Tentative installation is set for December 2010 and January 2011 and will cost about $500,000. “We are working to mitigate the impact on users while the new system is installed,” Jensen said. Jesse Owens North will also receive new equipment, including six stationary bikes and nine benches. Jason Percival, Jesse Owens North coordinator, said the Adventure Recreation Center, the RPAC and

Jesse Owens Recreation Centers collectively spend more than $500,000 on equipment replacements each year. “Our equipment at the Jesse Owens centers is upgraded on the same schedule as the RPAC equipment so that students will be guaranteed a consistent quality of equipment regardless of where they choose to participate,” Percival said in an e-mail. The Recreation Natatorium, the swimming facility below the RPAC that includes lap and leisure pools, dry saunas and a recreation spa, was also renovated this summer. “For the past few years, we have been experiencing a peeling of the paint on the spiral metal duct in the Recreation Natatorium,” Jensen said. The project, an undertaking of OSU Facilities

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