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Tuesday January 7, 2014

the student voice of The Ohio State University

year: 134 No. 2

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Frosty weather keeps OSU closed REGINA BONFIGLIO Lantern reporter bonfiglio.20@osu.edu A blizzard hit the state and led to two straight days of canceled classes for Ohio State in January 1978. While 36 years later, classes have been called off for two consecutive days again, the circumstances are fairly different. The 1978 blizzard killed more than 50 people in Ohio, according to the Akron-Beacon Journal. Temperatures in Columbus Jan. 26, the day the blizzard hit, reached a high of 39 degrees and a low of 1 degree, while winds reached up to 46 mph, according to Weather Underground. In comparison, the temperature in Columbus Tuesday is predicted to hit a high of 11 degrees with a 10 percent chance of snow and winds reaching about 19 mph, forecasted as of Monday afternoon according to The Weather Channel. Temperatures rose to 31 degrees Monday but fell to minus 7 by Monday evening, as winds stayed at about 20 mph. Because of those extreme weather conditions, all OSU campuses are closed for the second consecutive day Tuesday. OSU Emergency Management sent a message to the OSU community Monday at about 3:20 p.m. confirming the closure, and campus is expected to be open and resume normal activity Wednesday. The other OSU branches scheduled to be closed Tuesday are ATI Wooster, Mansfield, Newark, Lima and Marion. “Essential personnel” are expected to report to work as usual, according to the OSU Emergency Management website. Of those campuses, Tuesday’s temperatures are predicted to reach 9 degrees in Newark, 6 degrees

SHELBY LUM / Photo editor

OSU canceled classes Monday and Tuesday because of extreme weather conditions. in Lima and Marion, 5 degrees in Wooster and 4 degrees in Mansfield. Most of those campuses face a 10 percent chance of snow, though Wooster has a predicted 20 percent chance of snow, as of Monday evening, according to The Weather Channel. Tuesday is the 10th time OSU has closed since 1978. OSU Administration and Planning spokeswoman Lindsay Komlanc said most recently, evening classes were canceled in February 2011 because of snow. The

most recent cancellation in January was January 2009, which was because of snow, Komlanc said. Some dining locations are expected to maintain limited service Tuesday, as they did Monday. Those locations included Sloopy’s Diner and Traditions dining locations, and some students living in residence halls headed to them Monday for food. Maggie Smith, a first-year in accounting, said the weather interfered, though.

Feed the meter: Ohio State paying $290K for traffic, parking study KRISTEN MITCHELL Editor-in-chief mitchell.935@osu.edu Ohio State is paying a private consulting firm $290,000 to assess university transportation needs and plan for the future. OSU has hired Massachusetts-based Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., to carry out a study over the next several months, with the information gathering and planning phase kicking off in January and running through May. The study is expected to compile traffic data, such as what entry points students, staff and visitors are using to get to campus. VHB is set to evaluate the university’s short- and long-term goals to align with the One OSU Framework Plan, a initiative that identifies OSU’s lomg-term goals and how to achieve them. “Within the first couple of weeks in January, they’ll actually be facilitating input from the university community … we feel, and our consultant feels, it is important to get feedback from people using it everyday,” said Administration and Planning spokeswoman Lindsay Komlanc. The $290,000 is coming from “general funds,” Komlanc said. The move was approved by the Board of Trustees in November, and representatives from VHB did not return multiple requests for comment. During the purchasing process, 21 firms expressed interest in the project and received requests for proposals, and four firms responded

“The wind was whipping us in the face” while she and others were waiting outside at Sloopy’s to eat, she said. After making the walk from Baker Hall West to Sloopy’s with three friends, Joe Mulea, a first-year in business, said he was in pain. “It hurt physically to walk. My face was hurting. I felt my nose hairs freezing, it was so cold,” he said. Jason Crowe, the operations manager for Sloopy’s, said for the most part, though, students who went to the diner were in high spirits and were understanding about the wait time. He added that Sloopy’s was “super slammed” with a greater volume of customers than anticipated. Crowe said many employees who were not scheduled to work Monday came in anyway to “chip in and help out on their day off” because they thought the staff would need help. Student manager of North Commons, Craig Fink, a third-year in sports industry, said his staff also experienced hectic conditions in the North Campus dining locations. “Traditions dining is very busy, as students are just hanging around in dining areas,” Fink said. Steve Scudier, a third-year in international studies and manager-in-training at Morrill Traditions, was scheduled to work the closing shift Monday night at the dining hall. Scudier said Monday afternoon he was not looking forward to his usual 25-minute walk from his house. “I plan to wear two coats and a bunch of layers to get there,” Scudier said. Laughing, he added, “I am trying as hard as I can to convince my roommate to drive me.”

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OSU set to open Brazil Gateway office in 2014

and were interviewed before VHB was selected. VHB has formed a team including three other entities: Trans Associates, MKSK and Kolar, but OSU is contracted with VHB specifically, Komlanc said in an email. While OSU retains the ownership of its parking assets, it agreed to a 50-year, $483 million lease to a private company in 2012. QIC Global Infrastructure, an Australian investment firm, placed the bid and created CampusParc to operate the parking facilities. The deal was finalized and approved by the Board of Trustees in June 2012. Komlanc called CampusParc a “major stakeholder” on campus transportation decisions. “Certainly parking is absolutely interrelated with transportation and traffic management. As those cars are coming to campus to park, we need to know what their needs are,” she said on the phone. With the parking lease, OSU still has control over the parking policies on campus, while CampusParc handles the day-to-day operations. President of CampusParc Sarah Blouch said the company will play a role in the university study. “Our role is to provide parking information and data to inform assumptions or answer questions and assist with the development of solutions,” Blouch said. “It is important to everyone (CampusParc and OSU) that the parking, transportation and roadways all work together as a system since it takes all three components to work.”

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Study finds more female faculty, fewer leaders Percentage of Ohio State employees that are women

59%

51%

41%

49%

1999

2012

Job areas that have seen the most change in number of women employed:

Senior administration

28% Board of Trustees

14% Non-faculty executive staff

10%

Full professors

9% Source: womensplace.osu.edu

Tuesday January 7, 2014

MADISON CURTIS / Design editor

ALEXIS HILL Lantern reporter hill.1241@osu.edu While the proportion of female leadership at Ohio State has increased over the years, the university’s top ranks are still predominantly male with no consistent increase in gender equality across positions. Each year the Women’s Place, a women’s policy office that, according to its website, “serves as a catalyst for institutional change to expand opportunities for women’s growth, leadership and power,” releases a report on the status of women to show the progress in OSU’s gender equity. The 2013 report found that while women in faculty positions has increased since 1999, the percentage of women in other leadership position has decreased, but some OSU employees said the university is on the right track to becoming more equal overall. According to the 2013 study, “the proportion of women in all faculty ranks has increased continuously since 1999.” The study shows, however, that there is a low representation of women of color in faculty positions at OSU. There are also other positions, such as senior administrative leadership positions, at OSU where women are poorly represented, compared to senior professional staff positions. According to the report, these senior administrative leadership positions include president, Board of Trustees, vice presidents and senior vice presidents. Hazel Morrow-Jones, associate provost for Women’s Policy Initiatives and director of the Women’s Place, said one of the goals of the Women’s Place is to increase the representation of all women so the numbers will eventually reflect the larger society. The Women’s Place has other goals it’s hoping to achieve as well. “We want to increase diversity in order to increase our levels of innovation and to provide a diverse learning environment that will

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Courtesy of Christopher Carey The OSU Brazil Gateway office is set to be located on the eighth floor of a building in São Paulo.

EMILY HITCHCOCK Lantern reporter hitchcock.47@osu.edu The newest Ohio State Global Gateway office is poised to open in Brazil by early fall 2014 at a cost of about $250,000, pending the approval of the Board of Trustees in January. The office is set to be about 270 square feet, located in a district of São Paulo called Moema, said William Brustein, the OSU vice provost for global strategies and international affairs. The Global Gateway program aims to give OSU a presence in selected countries by providing students, alumni and faculty opportunities for networking, studying abroad and conducting research, according to its website. There are currently offices in Shanghai, China, and Mumbai, India. The annual cost of running the Brazil Gateway is an estimated $250,000, and the majority of funds will come from the university, Brustein said. The office space will be made available to OSU free of charge as a gift from a university alumnus in Brazil. “The principal expenses are paying the salary of the director and legal fees and fees for having a license to operate as a university in the country,” Brustein said. “A lot of the money has also gone to fund student and faculty travel and research in the Gateway countries by running grant competitions.” The Brazil Gateway aims to focus more on recruiting international undergraduate students than the Gateway offices in India and China do, Brustein said.

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