Bank One’s new policy to charge non-account holders $3 to cash a check will not affect Ohio State University students or employees. The treasurer’s office at OSU confirmed that OSU faculty and staff will not be charged the fee when they cash their paychecks at Bank One. OSU employees without an account at Bank One do not have to open one to have the fee waived, said James L. Nichols, treasurer at OSU. According to Bank One’s new policy that went into effect at the beginning of March, non-account holders had to pay a $3 fee when cashing a check, even if the check was written from a Bank One account. Nichols said Bank One’s new policy will not affect OSU because of its long-standing relationship with the institution.Timothy L. Michel, assistant treasurer at OSU, said other large clients of Bank One have also been exempted from these types of charges.The branches now have a list of all OSU accounts, and when checks are presented the fees will be waived automatically, Nichols said. This also applies to OSU checks other than payroll.”It has been the policy not to charge extra fees from the time we have been a client of Bank One,” Nichols said. “Bank One services approximately 30,000 people on the OSU payroll account and this seems to be the fair thing to do.” The treasurer’s office said this exemption will be advantageous to students as well. Along with faculty and staff, students will not be charged to cash any OSU check at Bank One.Some of the faculty and staff who were upset at the charges are now relieved to hear the news. “They would have probably lost valuable business by doing this,” said Margaret M. Renshler, fiscal and human resource officer in the Department of Economics. “I would have taken my business somewhere else.” Some students are also glad to hear that they will not have to pay the fee. “I am thrilled to hear this because people who have steady jobs can afford that extra $3,” said Lisa Herd, a senior majoring in communications. “But college students cannot afford the adding up of charges.””It seems like our whole community is based on charges like ATM charges, and bank charges, and students are often the victims,” she said.