Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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Staff photo A student ' s wallet gets a work-out in four years. Now you know where the money is going. Not many students look forward to waiting in line at Chubb Hail ' s Bursars office. Here students wait in lunch hour lines to pay their tuitions. Where ' s Our Money Going? — 29

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Where ' s our Money Going There ' s more to it than tuition By Gretchen E. Jenkins Jeanine Ward Jt takes a large amount of money to keep this University going, and yet the sources of that money are quite vast . The source that most of us think about is the student ' s tuition. What happens to the money each one of us pays? According to William Kennard, Ohio University ' s treasurer, the tuition that we as students pay is 43% of all the money spent to run the university. Compare this figure to the 47% contrib- uted by the State of Ohio and the 7% from the federal government. The money does not stop coming. During the fiscal year 1984 OU took in $12,731,940 for research and sponsored programs. Each year Adam J. Marsh, manager. Office of Research and Spon- sored Programs compiles a report of the money coming to the university through professors ' solicitations for funds to do research or develop special programs. Marsh ' s report breaks down the university into colleges, then each college into departments. Through the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs the money comes through in one of two forms, either for externally sponsored programs or for externally sponsored research pro- grams. Under the category of externally sponsored programs roughly $9 million found its way to our campus. Several interesting projects were undertaken by our professors. In the College of Arts and Sciences Ernest Johansson of the English department headed a project entitled, Books our Children Read: Communication through Literature. For his project Johansson acquired roughly $62,000 to create a film which was shot at Fort Frye High School in Beverly, Ohio. The film debuted in April and received the honor of a mentioning at the Athens International Film Festival. The second channel which money comes into the office of Research and Sponsored Programs is through externally sponsored research pro- grams. The University received around $3.5 million in this area. In the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Walter J. Costello of the department of Basic Sci- ences received $20,000 from the Mus- cular Dystrophy Association for his re- search in the area of Genetic Analysis of Neurotrophic Influences in a Developing Motor System. Dr. Costello ' s project has been ongoing since January 1983 and has a prior funding of $20,000. These are only a few of the projects underway in all areas of the University. So you can see that it takes more than students to keep our school going and we are not the only people in- volved. As Students and members of the Ohio University community we can take pride in our school, as the Beach ] Boys sing, Be true to your school. Wej not only educate students, but we aidj the world with research developments! and breakthroughs achieved on our campus. So when we look to the future we have the knowledge that the people of Ohio University are making the world a better place to be. fj ] 28 — Campus Life

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Why come to OU? Out-of-staters find it worthwhile too By Laura Sutkus ■ i An outstanding pho- tography curriculum brought feff VonHoene all the way from Bir- mingham, Alabama. Lynda, Paul, Jeff, Henning and Mooi. They are five individual stu- dents, yet they have one common char- acteristic. Each one has traveled hun- dreds and even thousands of miles from their homes to attend Ohio Uni- versity. Why did each of them leave the se- curity of family and friends to begin a new life at Ohio University? Lynda Flory from LaFayette, Calif., said she came to Athens because OU offered her a full swimming scholar- ship. She was offered scholarships at other universities, however, most of them were located on the west coast. I wanted to live where there was snow, she said, explaining why she chose OU over the other universities. The OU institutional research office reports that 17 percent of OU students are from out-of-state. The office also said that 49 out of the 50 states are re- presented by students at Ohio Univer- sity. The only state not currently repre- sented is Wyoming. The civilian branch of the Air Force Institute of Technology is what brought Paul Blanzy all the way from Melborne, Fla. to Athens. The institute let Blanzy choose between the Univer- sity of Florida and Ohio University. I chose Ohio University because of the different climate, he said. I also wanted to see what was going on in the north. The outstanding photography curriculum is the reason I chose to transfer here, said Jeff VonHoene, a photography major. VanHoene originally from Birmingham, Ala., transferred to OU from Auburn University in Auburn, Ala. I like the adventure of being in the north. he said. In addition to out-of-state students, a substantial proportion of Ohio Univer- sity ' s student body is composed of stu- dents from abroad. International students come to OU from 84 countries world-wide, with the largest population of students coming from Malaysia. Foreign students account for 10 percent of OU ' s population. This percentage is the highest among state supported universities in Ohio. On the average, other universities in Ohio have a 3-6 percent population of international students. Like Flory, Henning Klemp, from Oslo, Norway, came to OU on a swim- ming scholarship. A few of Klemp ' s friends had come to OU a few years before him and told the swimming coach about Klemp ' s swimming abilities. My friends told the coach my times, and he offered me the scholarship, said Klemp. Mooi Lim Ng from Penang, Malaysia said she came to OU with her husband to receive her master ' s degree in busi- ness administration. Her husband is also a student at OU. The MBA program here is much shorter than at other universities, said Ng-H] W 30 — Campus Life