Fitness classes that previously cost $50 per quarter will now be free for all students beginning Spring Quarter. The Council on Student Affairs worked with Recreation Sports to determine exactly where the $82 per quarter fee goes, and found that it did not go toward one specific student service.
As the banner for the newly renamed Wexner Medical Center was unveiled, Leslie H. Wexner wiped tears from his eyes as "Carmen Ohio" was sung in the background. Wexner, an Ohio State alumnus, was honored Friday with the renaming of the Ohio State Medical Center to Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University.
In response to a number of armed robberies in the campus area Autumn Quarter, including one in a campus building, the university has invested in safety through the creation of several programs. At Ohio State's Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, Javaune Adams-Gaston, vice president of the Office of Student Life, and Jay Kasey, senior vice president for administration and planning, discussed improvements in safety because of "the unusual hike" in off-campus crimes last quarter.
After several months of planning and discussing a university-wide compliance program, Ohio State will create a new office called the Office of University Compliance and Integrity. Friday, the Ohio State Board of Trustees unanimously approved the plan, which was sparked after a year-long NCAA investigation into the university's Athletic Department, including compliance.
Four years ago, Amanda Knapp tried to find a part-time job through a babysitting service in Columbus, Ohio, to pay her way through college, but she never heard back from the agency. That led her husband to ask, "Why don't you start your own service?" and two months later, she did just that, launching Sitting Made Simple in 2008.
Ohio State alumnus Leslie H. Wexner was honored Friday with the renaming of the Ohio State Medical Center to Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University. A reception commemorating Wexner's honor hosted by President E. Gordon Gee and Steven G. Gabbe, CEO of the Wexner Medical Center, was held at 2 p.
A man charged in attempting to abduct two women at knifepoint near the Ohio State Medical Center in August was sentenced Thursday to 24 years in prison. David Phillip Morris, 45, pleaded guilty in December to charges of kidnapping and aggravated robbery and said the attacks were sexually motivated.
The central mandate of President Barack Obama's decision to require most employers to cover birth control and insurers to offer it at no cost has been a controversial issue affecting many. Three different Ohio State organizations, Voices for Planned Parenthood, Women and Allies Rising in Resistance and Ohio Feminists for Representation, took the issue into their own hands by campaigning on the Oval Thursday.
In the year 2030, America will still have the most "vibrant economy in the world." Vice President Joe Biden assured journalists attending the Ohio Newspaper Association Convention 2012 that jobs will come back to the nation. "With or without (President) Barack Obama and Joe Biden, I am absolutely convinced that America is better positioned than any other country in the world to be the leading economy in the world at providing Americans with decent jobs," Biden said.
