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An announcement that hasn’t been made in almost 600 years came from the Vatican Monday. Pope Benedict XVI, the church’s 265th pope, will be stepping down as head of the Catholic Church at the end of the month after an almost eight-year reign. The 85-year-old, born in Germany as Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, cited old age and deteriorating strength of “mind and body” as reasons for his resignation, which will take effect Feb. 28. “After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry,” the pope said in a statement Monday. Benedict said in his statement that he understood the seriousness of his actions, and that many of the world’s one billion Catholics are watching. “It will be interesting to see how students are responding,” said Austin Schafer, pastoral associate of campus ministry at the St. Thomas More Newman Center on Lane Avenue. “Most people are just offering prayers for the pope’s health and praying for the new leader of the church.” The Newman Center has about 2,500 students in its congregation, and Schafer estimated there are roughly 12,000 Catholic students on
Pope Benedict XVI attends a ceremony to mark the 900th birthday of the Knights of Malta, at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Feb. 9.
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Summer room and board rates rise about 6% MELINDA CASSIDY Lantern reporter cassidy.126@osu.edu
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Increase on Summer Term room and board rates
The Ohio State Board of Trustees approved increases for all three summer room and board rates currently offered to undergraduate students during their last meeting. According to the Board Finance Committee’s meeting agenda, Rate I includes air-conditioned two-person rooms with suite baths attached to the bedroom, single rooms and the Neilwood and Worthington/Neil apartments, which in fiscal year 2012 cost students $6,810 for Summer Term. A 6 percent increase will be implemented this year, raising room and board to $7,220 for Rate I fees. Rate II includes air-conditioned four-person rooms with suite and semi-private baths and two-person rooms with corridor baths which, according to the agenda, cost $5,685 in fiscal year 2012. With an approved 5.9 percent increase, Rate II will cost students $6,020 in 2013. Rate III includes non air-conditioned two, three and four-person rooms with corridor baths and was the least expensive rates priced at $5,620, a 6.1 percent increase over last year’s $5,295. Geoff Chatas, OSU’s chief financial officer, said during the meeting that the new rates were in response to OSU’s conversion to semesters. “Separate rates are required because the Summer Term is structured differently than autumn or spring,” he said. Summer Term 2013 will be split into a four-week May Session and a nine-week Summer Session. Students have the option of enrolling for a single session or for the entire 13-week term. Chatas said Board plans, which cover meals for on-campus students, will be optional for the Summer Term, unlike Spring and Autumn semesters when they are built into the housing fee. “(This reflects) the different needs of students who may be here,” Chatas said. In particular, this change is to accommodate students who plan to study abroad during May
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Session and will not be on OSU’s campus for the entire four weeks, he said. However, all campus residence halls are not open to students for Summer Term and Dave Isaacs, spokesman for OSU Student Life, said the dorms available for Summer Term are different every year. “The university does cleaning, maintenance and things of that sort that can’t get done when people are living there all year,” Isaacs said. “The way the
buildings are chosen has to do with the number of people coming in and the amount of repairs … but there’s no exact formula,” he said. Students will be living in the William H. Hall Residential Complex located on West 10th Avenue this year. The Hall Complex consists of the Worthington and Neil buildings and Scholars houses
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KAYLA BYLER Design editor byler.18@osu.edu Four arrests in two days are linked to a string of recent campus-area thefts from automobiles and dorm rooms. Officers arrested two males after they broke into a car at Panera on Lane Avenue Thursday at about 8 p.m. This incident was fourth in a line of automobile break-ins at Panera during a two-week span. In the Panera parking lot, two men broke the window of a 2011 Honda Insight and stole a backpack containing a Dell laptop computer valued at $10,000, according to an Ohio State Police report. The owner of the car is an OSU student who was inside Panera during the incident. A staff member of the Department of Public Safety Central Alarm Center witnessed the theft and notified police officers who then made the arrests, according to a release from University Police. One suspect was charged with theft and criminal damaging, the other with felonious assault and criminal trespass. In earlier incidents at Panera, OSU students reported two thefts in
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People eat in the Panera Bread on W. Lane Avenue during the company’s ‘Go Pink’ campaign last October. a two-day span on Feb. 5 at about 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday at about 2:30 p.m. These thefts were preceded by one on Jan. 25, also reported by an OSU student. Representatives from Panera did not immediately return requests for comment Monday. The two men arrested are only associated with the Thursday theft
and suspects in the other cases are unknown, said Lt. Kimberly SpearsMcNatt of University Police. “We’re going to continue to monitor all the parking lots on campus, not just Panera,” SpearsMcNatt said. “We hope that the car break-ins go down, but as always we try to encourage people to secure their valuables.” University Police also arrested
two males at Morrill Tower on Feb. 6 at about 6:30 p.m. following multiple reported thefts from the dorm since the beginning of Spring Semester. These arrests came after police received a call about suspicious persons. Officers arrived at Morrill Tower and stopped two males fitting the description the caller provided. Police found a stolen laptop computer in their possession, according to a release from University Police. The laptop belonged to a Lincoln Tower resident. Both arrested males are unaffiliated with OSU. One 18-year-old was charged with receiving stolen property, criminal trespass and possession of drugs — marijuana. The other, a 15-year-old, and was charged with receiving stolen property and criminal trespass. The two men arrested are only associated with the theft of the laptop they were found with, Spears-McNatt said. A Morrill Tower hall director declined request to comment on the incident. Student Life spokesman Dave Isaacs said he is pleased with how police, students and staff handled the situation.
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