campus Discount program gives OSU students no reason to ‘mooch’ when shopping local CAITlIn eSSIG Asst. multimedia editor essig.21@osu.edu
OSU students given opportunity to note thanks, appreciation for academic advisers JOSePh FrAZIer Lantern reporter frazier.193@osu.edu
Ohio State students have the opportunity to pay at 15 local merchants including Formaggio Pizza, Across the Field, Kafe Kerouac and Kildare’s Irish Pub using a new form of currency: their name. Students can become members of Moocho Open Tab for free by entering their debit or credit card information at moocho.com. After shopping at a Moocho merchant, members present a photo ID to charge their purchases to their Moocho accounts and automatically receive discounts. CEO and founder of Moocho, Matt Levenson, said he hopes to offer the option of linking BuckID cards to Moocho accounts soon. As members of Moocho, students receive exclusive discounts at participating merchants and earn credit every time they spend a certain amount at each merchant. “You start out with 28 free dollars,� Levenson said. “On top of that, for all of the merchants except Campus State Liquor Store, you earn $1 of free credit for every $10 you spend. For that one (Campus State Liquor Store) you earn 50 cents for every $20 you spend.� Levenson said the benefit of this program is that the available merchants run specials for Moocho members that allow members to save, on top of the free credit they earn as they spend money at the merchants. “You can get 10 percent off at Hookah Rush, or $1 cherry bombs at the Loft. There are new specials every day,� Levenson said. “Moocho allows you to make yourself a VIP.� Levenson said details regarding the specials are available on Moocho’s website, and members also receive email alerts for new deals, receipts and credit balances. One merchant offering access to Moocho is Formaggio Pizza, located at 20 E. 13th Ave. Formaggio owner, Fadi Michael, said it is hard to tell how or if the program will benefit his business at this time. “(Moocho) is still very new,� Michael said. “We don’t know what to expect, but we hope it will work well for us. It should work out.�
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Michael said since the program is new, he hasn’t had any students use it yet, but he said he thinks it is a convenient way for students to save money. Formaggio offers $1 pizza slices to Moocho customers from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and the Loft at Formaggio offers $1 cherry bombs during the same time span, according to Moocho’s website. Levenson said there are about 3,000 OSU students signed up for Moocho, a number he hopes will grow. Another number Levenson said he expects will increase is the number of businesses who accept Moocho. “We absolutely expect to expand,� Levenson said. “In the next few weeks, I hope the number expands by 10 or 15 merchants.� Some students, such as Adam Chatlain, a second-year in business, said he would also like to see the program expand. “It’s a good idea, but I don’t know if I’d use it,� Chatlain said. “I’d be more interested in it if there were more options, maybe some more big names or popular places.� OSU is one of only seven college campuses nationwide where Moocho offers its program. “We chose OSU because it’s the best,� Levenson said. “(It’s) vibrant college community who really backs the local community.�
6 senior OSU faculty members awarded $20K grant for substantial research I saw President Gee walk in the meeting with some of my graduate students, I knew something was up, but I wasn’t expecting an award. It was absolutely shocking and very humbling. I normally find out about things, but I guess I’m not as good as I thought.� Hopper has made breakthroughs within her career, and her discoveries with the tracking of tRNA’s, a living cell or virus molecule that transports amino acids to ribosomes undergoing protein synthesis, in yeast will require that textbooks be rewritten. She loves her graduate students at OSU because they have a passion to learn and are easy to motivate. There is never a time when she isn’t being a scientist, she said. “I love plants and I have three dogs and I have a pond with koi fish. Science invades my life, but I love it. I live and breathe it,� Hopper said. “It’s more than a job, it’s a lifestyle.� Gee’s visit also surprised Louis DiMauro, professor of physics, said the commitment to education is what attracted him to OSU. The New York native has established a research group that focuses on the interaction between atoms and intense laser pulses on an atomic timescale. Researching and teaching is something he takes pride in. “The people of Ohio really value education,� DiMauro said. “I put a number of my graduate students at Stanford and Harvard. You are training the next generation.� Buckeye of about 16 years, Vince Roscigno, professor of sociology, focuses his research on the inequalities of groups in the American culture and across the globe. Recently, Roscigno has been working with scholars in Israel comparing the inequalities in religion. He said the research he has come across has been interesting and intriguing.
TIAnnA TOllIVer Lantern reporter tolliver.52@osu.edu As if being one of the six faculty members to win the 2012 Distinguished Scholar Award wasn’t shocking enough, President E. Gordon Gee made a surprise visit to the winners. The award recognizes senior professors who have completed substantial research. Established in 1978, Office of Research supports the award. Departments nominate the recipients, and a committee of senior faculty, including past recipients, choose the winners. This year’s Distinguished Scholars will be able to use the $3,000 honorarium and $20,000 research grant throughout the next three years toward their research in American politics, the inequalities in the American society, atomic physics and molecular genetics. Only six professors are recognized by this award annually, and Gee said he is proud of his colleagues. “Everything we do and accomplish at Ohio State depends on the talented people who work here,� Gee said. “These distinguished scholars are the cream of the crop, nominated by their peers and exploring some of the most vexing and pressing challenges of the day. Exceptional in their fields, they bring distinction to themselves and to Ohio State.� During a faculty meeting that seemed to be ordinary, each professor was interrupted with a surprise visit Gee who was accompanied by family members, students and other university administrators of the awardees. “I view myself as very nosy,� said Anita Hopper, professor of molecular genetics. “I like to know what’s going on and I’m not easily surprised. When
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Advisers across Ohio State were recognized during Adviser Appreciation Week with thank-you notes from students. To recognize OSU advisers, the Office of Undergraduate Education and the Academic Advising Association sponsored Adviser Appreciation Week April 16-20. “We don’t do it for the money, let’s just say that,� said Jane Palmer, an academic counselor in the Fisher College of Business. “But we really enjoy helping students across all walks of life achieve what it is they’re here to achieve.� It is that kind of sentiment that Adviser Appreciation Week recognized. “Advisers have been working overtime and on weekends to support students through the semester conversion, so in thinking about all of the different creative ways to recognize them, this week was developed,� said Amy Soter, an academic adviser in the School of Communication, and Jen Belisle, an advising resource coordinator in the Office of Undergraduate Education, in an email. One way for students to recognize an adviser was through the “Thank an Adviser� initiative. Students could send electronic thank-you notes through the Office of Undergraduate Education’s website or write a handwritten thank-you note at one of the tables set up throughout campus during Adviser Appreciation Week. Soter and Belisle said in the email they received about 150 electronic thank-you notes and more than 100 handwritten notes. Students will be able to send electronic thank-yous throughout the academic year, and handwritten notes will be sent to advisers during each annual Adviser Appreciation Week, Soter and Belisle said. Palmer was able to deliver some of those thank-you notes, not just receive them, because she is on the executive board of Academic Advising Association. “I’ve been on both sides, been able to receive some of these great benefits and also help provide them to other advisers across campus,� Palmer said. “Yesterday when I was at the table and students were coming to fill out the thank-you cards, just the number of students, it was just as rewarding for me to be standing there hearing students say, ‘Wow this is a great thing to be able to thank my adviser,’ and then again to actually participate in delivering the thank-yous.� Elizabeth Riter, an engineering scholars program manager, displayed one of her handwritten thank-you notes on her desk. “I had a student who was really appreciative of me helping them plan their major, and so I received a nice thank-you note from her, which was really
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As a result of the time and devotion he puts into his research he has published two books, 55 articles and five book chapters. “Make sure you find and love what you do. And then work you ass off,� Roscigno said. The phenomenal reputation of OSU is what brought Janet Box-Steffensmeier, professor in government and politics, to Ohio from the University of Texas. Steffensmeier started off wanting to be a math teacher as she became the first person in her family to go to college. After earning her Ph.D. in 1993, she made OSU her home because she said she felt confident this is where she could get a good start. So far, she has used her research grant to help send one of her undergraduate students to a congressional convention and hired students
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last week was Adviser Appreciation week at OSU. nice just to see what sort of impact we’ve made on students,� Riter said. Adviser Appreciation Week also provided advisers with free coffee coupons, 10-minute massages, a tote bag that included a letter thanking advisers and a party at the end of the week. Riter, however, said she was too busy to take advantage of the week’s events. Kristen Rupert, an academic adviser in the College of Education and Human Ecology, said she took advantage of the massage. Her supervisor brought coffee and bagels to the office throughout the week as well. But it wasn’t the massages and coffee that were the most important to Rupert. “I got a really nice card from a student, which was awesome, because I think that’s kind of the most important thing to me,� Rupert said. Palmer, who also took advantage of the events, agreed. “I think that the thing that stands out most to me is the ‘Thank an Adviser’ opportunities,� Palmer said. “Just to see how when we’ve delivered the thank-yous to the different advising staff, you can see that it helps us remember why we do what we do.� But while the thank-you notes were the highlight of the week to many advisers, only about 250 notes were sent. Lars Benthien, a third-year in history, didn’t participate in Adviser Appreciation Week but said he was “dimly aware of it.� Benthien, however, supported the purpose of Adviser Appreciation Week. “Advisers are somewhat underappreciated, so I’m all for it,� Benthien said.
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for the summer to help with her research in mass politics and legislators. Being presented with the Distinguished Scholar Award is still a shock for her, she said. “I was absolutely oored that my face had started turning red,â€? Steffensmeier said. “To be recognized by your own institution really meant the world, and it’s the best honor because I love OSU so much.â€? Michael Grever, a professor at the College of Medicine, and Jin-Fa Lee, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, were also awarded. SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS
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