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not, at that point, commit to another tuition freeze, though he didn’t rule it out either. Kasich’s budget proposal came out a week later. The board is expected to make a decision this semester about the tuition freeze. Along with a looming tuition decision, Stockmeister and the board will be tasked with making decisions about the university’s energy plan. The board began taking proposals last year to seek out private partners to help handle the university’s energy, including gas, water and electric. Decisions moving forward on selecting a
private company to work with OSU on energy as expected to come in the somewhat near future. Kasich recently praised OSU’s decision to privatize its parking with the 50year deal it struck with CampusParc. The winning bidder could control the operation and maintenance of OSU’s utilities for 50 years. OSU’s privatized parking plan — which Kasich praised recently at the Ohio Newspaper Association conference earlier this month — is also set for 50 years. Stockmeister told The Telegram — run by a Jackson County Broadcasting Inc., which is owned by Stockmeister — that
he was first contacted about being a board member more than three years ago. When officially offered the position this past December, Stockmeister took the opportunity. University spokesman Ben Johnson said the university welcomed Stockmeister. “We appreciate the thought and consideration that Governor Kasich and his staff put into appointments to The Ohio State University Board of Trustees,” he said. Stockmeister has a vast business portfolio, and is currently one of the owners of Dallas-based precious-metals conglomerate Elemetal, as well as chairman and CEO of
Ohio Precious Metals Inc., a refinery located in Jackson County that focuses on gold. The newest trustee has long-standing OSU ties as well, having started a $25,000 endowment in 1998 named the Alan Stockmeister Athletic Scholarship Fund. Stockmeister also has two children who currently attend the university. His nine-year board term officially started on Feb. 3. Stockmeister did not respond to requests for comment.
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ridiculous. That’s one of our biggest points, open-source textbooks, and making college more affordable for everyone.” The running mates also said they see the need for improvements in off-campus medical care options, going as far as recommending a new facility. “Another big policy point for us is we want an off-campus medical center in the new construction on High Street,” Honaker said. “That way, on High Street, there is just a version of the Wilce, even smaller than that. In case you’re sick, and you live on Summit or farther, you can go there instead of having to go on campus, because that’s a hike.” Honaker also said they have plans for reviewing university investments. “We have this policy point, it’s another big one, that we want an investment review board for humane and ethical standards,” Honaker said. “We want the university to lay out all of the university investments, and we would want to review all of our investments to make sure everything is ethical and everything is humane.” Andrew Jackson and Sophie Chang
Presidential candidate Andrew Jackson, a third-year in Spanish and political science, and vice-presidential candidate Sophie Chang, a third-year in environment, economy, development and sustainability, have organized their platform with an emphasis on affordability, inclusion and sustainability. “We’ve always been trying to advocate for students, for students who don’t have as much access to certain things on campus, so our aim at this point is to work for and with the students,” Chang said. As far as finances, Jackson and Chang said they want the continuation of steps taken by USG’s current administration toward textbook affordability. “In terms of textbook affordability, we have made great strides this year and, next year, we want to continue lobbying administrators pretty much, because USG is inherently a lobbying organization,” Chang said. “We want to continue lobbying administrators to offer low- or no-cost textbooks to students or to increase and expand resources within OSU libraries.” Jackson and Chang said that, as members of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, the issue of inclusion is one they have worked with in the past and is a vital component of their platform. They said they intend to continue outreach to student organizations, which began this year, in order to further diversify USG’s demographics.
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Current USG president and vice president Gerard Basalla and Danielle Di Scala pose for a photo in the Lantern TV studio on Feb. 25, 2016. “We’ve had one of our most diverse the running mates have a three-pronged classes in USG history, and part of that is agenda: college affordability, mental health we are reaching out to more students or- and inclusion. ganizations, student organizations who “We’re looking at 21 credit hours being wouldn’t normally have a voice in USG, covered by full tuition, which is in hopes because of that we’ve gotten a lot of stu- of students graduating in four years and out dents who wouldn’t normally be in USG,” on time,” he said. “We also want to halt the Jackson said. increase of tuition in certain communities, As for sustainability, Chang said they in- like the international and out-of-state stutend to increase off-campus access to recy- dents.” cling, provide more information about what Post and Todd also want to strive to make can be recycled and work with University the university a sanctuary campus for the Dining Services to utilize more locally students covered by the Deferred Action for grown food. Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-ad“Sustainability, that’s my major,” she ministration executive order which protects said. “It’s something that I feel encompass- certain undocumented immigrants. es everything at Ohio State pretty much be”We believe that we should stand by our cause it involves optimizing a system over peers,” Todd said. “We do think that since time and that’s something that has to be we’re all Buckeyes, we do belong here, toapplied socially, environmentally and eco- gether. We should support one another in nomically.” terms of allowing someone to get their eduThe duo added that if elected they intend cation just as much as anybody else.” to continue much of the work of the previAlong with the college affordability and ous administration. inclusion, Post and Todd said they want to “We’ve made a lot of good progress this add more embedded counselors. year, and the thing with USG is that USG “They would be counselors outside of administrations change year to year. Ob- the Younkin Success Center for students to viously, the work shouldn’t necessarily have access to and avoid the wait times at change year to year, but the priorities are the Younkin,” Todd said. different,” Chang said. “So, it’s really great Post and Todd have heard the positive when you have a new administration come impact that embedded counselors have, and in and have the same priorities, or have the hope that increasing the number of them desire to continue a project.” brings similar success. The duo also have Stephen Post and Lauren Todd plans of their in terms of where embedded Presidential candidate Stephen Post, a counselors would be located on campus. third-year in economics and political sci“We’ve heard from other Big Ten schools ence, and vice presidential candidate Lau- that they have been successful,” Post said. ren Todd, a fifth-year in English, want USG “We also want to get them in academic colto be a bigger presence on campus and push leges, toward specific communities. If you USG to have more of an impact on students. have an embedded counselor in the College “We want to be something more for the of Engineering, that counselor is going to student body,” Post said. have more experience than just a regular Post, whose campaign came under scruti- counselor about the kind of problems that ny for its fundraising tactics last week, said they might deal with.”
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