The Lantern 04.20.10

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Tuesday April 20, 2010 year: 130 No. 93 the student voice of

The Ohio State University

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Faculty and staff football ticket purchasing point system In 2009, faculty and staff purchased 13,339 full-season tickets and 997 split-season tickets, which include tickets for three games. Faculty points

Staff points

Decision based on rank plus years of service (one point per year).

Athletic Council examines faculty, staff member point system After four months of debate about more than a dozen proposals, the university Athletic Council will vote early next month on a proposed reallocation of football tickets after Ohio State switches to semesters in 2012. The Finance and Facilities subcommittee of the council presented its recommendation April 6, but before the full council votes to accept or reject the subcommittee’s recommendation, other issues are quickly filling up the agenda. In the next three days, The Lantern will explore some of the issues related to football ticket redistribution that the council might take up, either now or in the future. Today’s article explores the point system that determines which faculty and staff are eligible to buy football tickets.

Decision based on salary plus years of service (one point per year).

Professor – 35 points

$55,000 - above – 35 points

Associate professor – 30 points

$47,500 - $54,999 – 30 points

Assistant professor – 25 points

$39,000 - $47,499 – 25 points

Instructor – 20 points

$29,500 - $38,999 – 20 points

Lecturer – 15 points

$20,000 - $29,499 – 15 points

Source: Karen Mancl, Chair of the Finance and Facilities subcommittee to the Athletic Council.

Under $20,000 – 10 points MOLLY GRAY / Lantern designer

JACK MOORE Lantern reporter moore.1732@osu.edu Ohio State’s switch to semesters in 2012 has turned many football ticket dollar signs into question marks. The debate surrounding football ticket distribution after OSU’s semester switch is “also the time to take up a lot of other issues,” said Karen Mancl, a faculty member of the Athletic Council and chair of the Finance and Facilities Subcommittee. One of those issues is a complex point system

that determines which faculty and staff members are eligible to buy tickets. Some have argued it benefits higher-paid employees more than those who have worked at OSU for a long time. For faculty, points are first assigned based on rank. For example, a full professor is awarded 35 points and a lecturer 15, the lowest number. Then, for every year faculty members have worked for OSU, they receive an additional point. Staff members receive the bulk of their points

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HEY DUDE Kayla Feltz, a fourth-year Ohio State pre-vet major takes some advice from her coach, Debbie Griffith, during practice on Saturday. Feltz is practicing for a national western style competition that will be held May 6 through 9 in Kentucky. Feltz has been riding horses since she was 12 and has competed since she started college. “Riding became my life,” Feltz said. Read the story on 2A.

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Cake Boss at Ohio Theatre

Buddy Valastro, TLC’s Cake Boss, will create pastry items in an interactive show Sunday in Columbus.

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Smoking rules not enforced, some say EMILY TRAMTE Lantern reporter tramte.2@osu.edu Ohio State continues to allow smoking on campus despite many other colleges going smoke-free. Big Ten universities that have gone smoke-free include Penn State, University of Michigan, Indiana

University, University of Iowa, Purdue University and University of Wisconsin, according to the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation Web site. OSU’s campus smoking policy prohibits smoking in a 25-foot area around all building entrances, exits and windows. “I think it’s OK as it is,” said Taylor Chung, a first-year in business. “You

have to be careful safety-wise. You should try to have precautions to protect the buildings.” Some students like the OSU smoking policy but are unsure of what OSU is doing to uphold it. “I think it’s a good policy but I don’t think it’s enforced,” said Becky Fussner, a first-year in psychology. “If I were to have a problem, I don’t know who I would go to.”

Violations can be reported to building coordinators, said Ben Lewis, communication manager for Human Resources. He said he didn’t think there were fines and that people are mostly reminded not to do it again. The smoking policy adheres to the Ohio Smoking Ban that was passed in November 2006.

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Police investigating reported rape, but details are fuzzy

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When police were told that a student was raped outside McPherson Lab last month, they scoured the area around the building, searching for signs of a struggle. Then they did it again. Both times, police walked away empty-handed, unable to locate the scene of the crime. The case is particularly difficult to investigate because it was reported anonymously, meaning the victim never came forward to talk to police, said OSU Police Chief Paul Denton. Although he said that is common among people who say they were sexually assaulted, it means that investigators are

left to work with second-hand information and some details that are blurry at best. Much of the information about the alleged sexual assault on March 1 was reported by two women listed on the police report as a residence hall director at a North Campus dorm and a student who lives at another Curl Drive hall. One of those women filed the report, Denton said, and both had apparently spoken to the student who said she was assaulted. When the women filed a report at 3 a.m., they told police that the assault occurred at 8:45 p.m. near McPherson Lab, on West 18th Avenue. They said a man attacked the student from behind, sexually assaulted her, then ran away. There were no witnesses, and Denton said no cameras observe the area where police were told the assault occurred. The student was treated at OSU Medical Center

that night, but Denton wouldn’t say whether doctors performed a sexual assault examination. When an officer went to the hospital to talk to the student, she said she didn’t want to talk to police. Denton also wouldn’t say whether police had subsequently interviewed the student, or if she would press charges if police arrest a suspect. He would not discuss what evidence investigators had gathered since the assault was reported. However, the case is still open, he said, and investigators are asking anyone with information to contact police. He said that, based on the report, he has to assume there is still a rapist who has not been caught and who targeted a student on campus. The alleged attacker is described as a white man, about 6 feet tall and the age of a college student.

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