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Monday April 20, 2015 year: 135 No. 28
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GENDER AT OHIO STATE
How do female employees stack up at Ohio State?
SHADES allows LGBTQ students of color to discuss issues TIANA REED Lantern Reporter reed.1034@osu.edu The first time Neil Ramirez, a second-year in mechanical engineering, attended a SHADES meeting, he said he found a place where he belonged. “I started going and it was just a really good experience, something I couldn’t relate to anything else. It was very unique,” Ramirez said. SHADES is a student organization for students of color who identify as part of the LGBTQ community. SHADES was originally founded in 2005 at Ohio University, and in 2009, the SHADES Buckeye chapter was started at Ohio State, said Cynthia Tyson, a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning and academic adviser for SHADES. Since coming to OSU, SHADES has been attempting to create a place for LGBTQ students to deal with issues of race, Tyson said. “The thing SHADES’ Buckeye
Photo illustration by: JON MCALLISTER / Asst. Photo Editor
ALEX DRUMMER Oller Reporter drummer.18@osu.edu Despite university diversity initiatives, the presence of female leaders — especially women of color — remains low. Hazel Morrow-Jones, director of The Women’s Place, associate provost for Women’s Policy Initiatives and a professor of city and regional planning at OSU, said she is pleased that the portion of female faculty has continuously improved since The Women’s Place started 15 years ago. The Women’s Place is an office at OSU that “serves as a catalyst for institutional change to expand opportunities for women’s growth, leadership and power in an inclusive, supportive and safe university environment,” according to its website.
Despite initiatives, some at OSU say that it has room to improve on gender issues But it seems there is still work to be done. Female faculty are most prevalent in lower-level positions within in the university, Morrow-Jones said. Referencing The Women’s Place’s “2014-15 Status Report on Women at Ohio State,” a report on the status of women to show the progress in OSU’s gender equity, Donna Bobbitt-Zeher, an assistant professor of sociology with a focus in gender inequality who teaches at OSU-Marion, said the roles women occupy at OSU are consistent with trends seen nationally.
“Many of the patterns in the report are illustrative of larger patterns in workplaces across the country,” Bobbitt-Zeher said in an email. For example, the portion of female assistant professors (48 percent) is closer to being equal than the portion of female full professors (25 percent). This follows national trends because higher status, higher paid jobs are predominantly held by men, Bobbitt-Zeher said. There are some external reasons for those trends. Molly Cooper, a senior lecturer who teaches a course in the economics of gender in labor markets, said the responsibility of taking care of children or aging parents is usually taken on by women, so
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Bucks ‘not a good team’ at Spring Game Meyer says individuals improved despite overall regression since title TIM MOODY Sports Editor moody.178@osu.edu There were more than 99,000 people at Ohio Stadium to watch the Buckeyes’ annual Spring Game, but they didn’t see a national-championship caliber team on the field. At least not in the eyes of Ohio State coach Urban Meyer. “That was not a good team out there,” Meyer said Saturday after the intrasquad scrimmage. The three-time national champion coach said the Buckeyes didn’t improve as a team this spring, despite coming off a victory in the firstever College Football Playoff National Championship in January. Meyer said that regression was partially because of health issues and added that there were still bright areas to lean on. “As a team, that’s much worse than what you saw in January, obviously,” Meyer said. “But we did individually get better.” Meyer named redshirt-sophomore offensive lineman Billy Price, redshirt-junior running back
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MARK BATKE / Photo Editor
Redshirt-junior quarterback Cardale Jones (12) competes against redshirt-freshman quarterback Stephen Collier (13) in the circle drill on April 18 at Ohio Stadium. Gray won, 17-14.
Students envision new way to recycle used cellphones MCKENZIE MERRIMAN Lantern Reporter merriman.64@osu.edu As smartphones get smarter, people are constantly upgrading to the newest forms of technology, which can ultimately result in usable devices going to waste. That result in turn led to the launch of
an effort to collect and recycle the valuable technology inside old or broken devices that would otherwise end up in the trash. Sprint invited young visionaries and engineers to develop strategies to reuse pre-owned smartphones in new and innovative ways for the company’s first Smartphone Encore Challenge, and a team of two Ohio State students have made it to the final eight with their proposal.
As part of the competition, participants were given two smartphones. Using these smartphones, they were tasked with developing a business solution, which included a product concept, marketing plan and the option to create a promotional video. Sreekanth Krishnakumar and Santiago Lopera are first-year MBA students at the Fisher College of Business. As Team Buckeye Green Solutions, they have developed a business model to repurpose old smartphones into a form of in-car technology that can help track driving habits. According to the business model developed by Krishnakumar and Lopera, these
Soda pub aims to be a ‘rambling house’ CHRIS SLACK Lantern Reporter slack.77@osu.edu At the corner of Hudson Street and Indianola Avenue is a little venue that prides itself on being the local pub where people can gather. After opening last year, Rambling House Soda provides the campus community with locally brewed soda, beer and live music five days each week. It primarily focuses on selling its homemade soda, which is brewed in a factory less than a mile away from the pub. Owner John Lynch used to brew beer and said it taught him vital skills for brewing soda. “I worked for a brewery in town for five years and saw the huge explosion in craft beer,” Lynch said. “And I wanted to do something similar … I thought there was an opportunity to create a little niche for the bar venue and create an option for people that do want to come out
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devices can help insurance companies track the driving of their clients, and reward safe drivers with lower rates, providing further incentive to drive more carefully. Krishnakumar is a mechanical engineer interested in working with operational efficiency, improvisation and innovative uses of technology who has returned to OSU to pursue his MBA. He said these devices can inform drivers 30 years old and younger — the population currently paying the highest insurance premiums — about their driving habits and the benefits
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