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emergency personnel assist the victims at the scene of a bomb blast during the Boston Marathon in Boston april 15.
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hockey coach gone
OSU announced Monday that Mark Osiecki is out as the hockey coach.
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OSU students witness marathon bombing CaiTlin essiG and liZ yoUnG Arts editor and Asst. sports editor essig.21@osu.edu and young.1693@osu.edu The length of a football field. That’s what separated Taylor Landes from the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday when she heard an explosion. “I was about 100 yards away and was actually looking the other way and heard a big boom, which sounded like someone released a cannon, fired off a cannon,” said Landes, a third-year in international studies at Ohio State and a Boston native. “I turned and saw a cloud of smoke.” The explosion was the first of two blasts that the Boston Police Department has determined to be bombs
that left at least three dead, including an 8-year-old boy, and at least 141 injured as of 10 p.m. Monday, according to the Boston Globe. Landes said the second explosion was closer to where she was standing with her family, who attends the race together as a tradition and was supporting a family friend who ran. “About 10 seconds after the first explosion, two blocks closer to us … there was a blast with fire and a big cloud of smoke,” Landes said. “It smelled like fireworks. My brother-in-law who is a former Marine said, ‘That’s what a bomb smells like.’” Landes said she and her family had “not confirmed where (their family friend) is,” as of about 4:30 p.m. Monday.
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emergency personnel assist the victims at the scene of a bomb blast during the Boston Marathon in Boston april 15.
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Off-campus fire displaces 8 from home liZ yoUnG Asst. sports editor young.1693@osu.edu Ten years to the week after a fire that claimed the lives of five college students, another house off Ohio State’s campus has fresh ashes on its porch. Unlike the 2003 incident at 64 E. 17th Ave., all eight women who live at 2205 Summit St. were able to escape uninjured after an “accidental cooking fire” started Monday at about 2 a.m., said Paul Ferguson, public information officer for Columbus Division of Fire. The fire on April 13, 2003, took the lives of students from OSU and Ohio University. It started on a couch on the front porch and is suspected to have been arson, but the case has never been solved. Julie King, a resident of the three-story house on Summit Street and a third-year in human development and family science, said smoke detectors played a role in getting the women out safely. “I woke up to the smoke alarm and at that point, one of my roommates had already gone downstairs but I hadn’t heard from her,” King said. King said she then woke up her roommate and the two ran downstairs while King called 911. By
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in the coffee spirit
Tree Spirit Coffee, a new campus-area coffee shop, opened about 2 weeks ago.
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Football tix to be sold in June
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all 8 women who live at 2205 summit st. were able to escape uninjured after a suspected ‘accidental cooking fire’ started april 15 at about 2 a.m.
Students against Ohio State’s $1,000 annual international student fee are gaining support from the Undergraduate Student Government. USG is scheduled to hold a town hall meeting Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in the Ohio Union for international students with a focus on discussing the fee, said USG President Taylor Stepp, a third-year in public affairs. “We wanted to conduct the meeting to hear from international students about their concerns on the fee and a variety of other issues,” Stepp said. “We believe this meeting will be productive and will give USG better perspective on how to move forward.” Stepp has in the past shown his
opposition to the fee, which in part goes toward study abroad opportunities for all students. “Study abroad for domestic students SHOULD NOT be paid for on the backs of int’l students. This practice must change,” Stepp said in a tweet on April 10. This tweet was also retweeted by USG’s Twitter account. Stepp said there is a gap between domestic and international students and would like to hear more from international students at Wednesday’s meeting. “I urged international student(s), or any student for that matter, to contact me with any of their concerns but specifically this,” Stepp said. “We have a problem with this and we want to make sure that we get this handled.” Fifty-five percent of the fee will go into academic and service enhancements
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international student fee 25%
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25 percent of the annual $1,000 international student fee will benefit study aboard programs.
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International students represent about 8 percent of the undergraduate student population.
There are 3,322 undergraduate international students at Ohio State representing 76 countries.
*statistics are from autumn 2012
source: reporting, OSU Undergraduate Admissions
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