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thelantern USG candidates on the issues KELSEY BULLER Lantern reporter buller.10@osu.edu The time has come for Ohio State’s Undergraduate Student Government elections, and on Friday, the presidential and vice presidential candidates visited The Lantern newsroom to discuss their platform topics and other popular issues. For this year’s election, it is a battle of the sexes, with two males running opposite two females. Presidential candidate Micah Kamrass, a third-year in political science and economics, and vice presidential candidate Brad Pyle, a third-year in the Fisher College of Business, are running against presidential candidate Jordan Davis, a fourth-year in political science and leadership studies, and vice presidential candidate Ashley Sinram, a third-year studying international studies. Campus safety concerns Both teams addressed the importance of student safety and both want to work to revamp Crime Alerts and Buckeye Alerts, which are systems that send campus emergency updates through e-mail and text to students who sign up. Davis and Sinram want the alert system to be available on Buckeye Link, so students can easily sign up for the system and manage different features. Davis, current USG vice president, worked this
year with the Buckeye Action Network, a USG program that links students to news. The candidates want to expand this program to allow more information about crime and security to be given to students. When campus emergencies occur, “bits and pieces of information get distorted, and it creates kind of this panic and fear,” Sinram said. “The opportunity to give clear-cut information to students that request it is something that could deÿnitely improve the information about security on campus.” Davis and Sinram also want self-defense classes to be accessible to all students and they want to better publicize the Public Safety Web site to inform students of crime prevention tips. Kamrass and Pyle want to initiate an alert system that students are automatically enrolled in but that they can opt out of. They also want to change the program to immediately alert students of where a crime occurs. “Safety should be the No. 1 priority for students here on campus, and we should do everything we can to communicate the safety issues with them,” Kamrass said. In their campus safety platform, Kamrass and Pyle also want to add more emergency blue lights in the off-campus area and educate students on theftprevention strategies. OSU campus smoking ban When President E. Gordon Gee visited the Lantern newsroom April 6 to discuss university
USG When:
April 15 through 16
Who is on the ballot:
Jordan Davis and Ashley Sinram Micah Kamrass and Brad Pyle
How to vote:
Visit USG’s Web site usg.osu.edu issues, he said he is in favor of a smoking ban and would approve it if a proposal was brought to him. The candidates discussed their stance on the issue. Kamrass and Pyle said if a policy came forward, they would make sure there are primary areas of campus where smoking is not allowed, but they would maintain areas on campus where smoking can still exist. “I think that smoking is something that a lot of
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The sandwich club... Sam Marder Member of Ohio State softball team, OSU home run record holder, Jewish Collegiate Athlete of the Year Sandwich: Bistro Turkey
Tanya Rutner Ohio State alumna, past president of the Panhellenic Association, member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and former member of the Undergraduate Student Government Sandwich: Spice it up Chicken
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Margie Bogenschutz Employee at Fisher College of Business and student organization adviser Sandwich: Pulled Chicken Matt Desch Ohio State alumnus, founder of Student-Alumni Council, former president of ODUA and OSU Homecoming King Sandwich: Classic Reuben
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Joey Clark Ohio State law school student, incoming vice president for the InterProfessional Council, member of the Ohio Union Council, member of FIJI, former orientation leader and member of Sphinx Sandwich: B.L.T.
Cal Wible Ohio State alumnus, former OSU football player, former member of Ohio Stater’s, Inc., OUAB and Sphinx Sandwich: Fish Sandwich Platter Wendell Ellenwood Former Director of the Ohio Union Sandwich: Open Faced Meatloaf Dr. Charles Hitchcock OSU College of Medicine faculty member Sandwich: Classic Grilled Cheese Brad Okeson Student, founder of the Theme Park Engineering Group Sandwich: Turkey Club
Captain Noce Professor of Naval Science and commanding officer of the Naval ROTC, faculty member of the University Senate and the Council on Student Affairs Sandwich: Chicken or Tuna Salad Danelle Wilbraham Graduate student and vice president for the Council of Graduate Students, teacher, researcher Sandwich: Patty Melt Chad Endsley Ohio State alumnus, former member of the Board of Trustees and the Ohio Union planning committee Sandwich: Pork Tenderloin MOLLY GRAY / Lantern designer
Portraits courtesy of the Ohio Union Background image ANDY GOTTESMAN / Lantern photographer
What’s missing from the new Ohio Union? RACHEL JACKLIN Lantern reporter jacklin.5@osu.edu As Ohio State students continue to navigate through the new Ohio Union, some said they would have liked to see more out of the $118 million building. “It’s more of a social meeting place and has less quiet study areas than I thought there would be,” said Emily Tara, a ÿrst-year in English and journalism. Equipped with ballrooms, administrative ofÿces, study spaces, three dining options, a performance
hall and a theater, the Union offers many group study rooms that can be used if reserved. “About 78 percent of the reserved rooms are being used by students,” said Tracy Stuck, director of the Union. However, Will Garner, a ÿrst-year in health sciences, said there was too much ofÿce space, and Daniel David, a ÿrst-year in communication, said that a place to purchase groceries would have been a nice addition. The one missing feature that seems to have many students pondering its absence is a bowling alley. Present in the previous Union, rumors that one would be built in the new Union ran rampant during construction phases. Those in charge of
planning the Union have taken note of the students’ complaints. “In our original plans, we wanted [a bowling alley],” said Kurt Foriska, the associate director for marketing at the Union. “We talked to other campuses [that had one], and with the cost of building and upkeep, it wasn’t feasible … it was one of the toughest pieces to give up.” Foriska said they are still in the exploratory phase of trying to ÿgure out some way to incorporate a bowling or gaming option into the Union. Although some have been critical of what is not
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Two Lantern staff members win regional journalism awards
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BRIDGET CUNNINGHAM Lantern reporter cunningham.427@osu.edu Two Lantern staff members won ÿrst-place awards Saturday in the Society of Professional Journalists regional college journalism contest. Reporter Kathy Cubert and photographer Zach Tuggle, both journalism students, won the Mark of Excellence awards for work they did for The Lantern in 2009. Cubert won the feature writing category for a story she wrote about her 24-year-old daughter,
Deanna, who was being sent to Iraq for her third tour of duty. “This story was truly from my heart,” Cubert said. “It was hard to pick just one moment of our time together to capture in the story.” Tuggle won the general news photography category for his courtroom photograph of a former OSU student who dropped out of the university and went on a crime spree. The photograph of Jeffrey York shows the man with his head in his handcuffed hands.
KATHY CUBERT
ZACH TUGGLE
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