Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Student vote drive proves successful A three-week campus voter regis- tration drive accounted for nearly one third of an estimated 11,000 Franklin County residents who registered to vote in a recent county-wide effort. The Undergraduate Student Gov- ernment tUSGl and the Ohio Student Association lOSAl registered 3,500 students in the drive which ended Saturday. The drive peaked last week as USG members staffed a registration booth on the Oval. They also set up registration tables in campus dining halls Thursday evening and regis- tered 1,000 dorm residents. The extra effort in the dorms made a big difference. said Nancy Taglione, USG legislative affairs di- rector and OSA president. The dorm effort gave the drive an extra push, making it a success, she said. About 2,500 students registered in an on-campus drive last year. USG members are to call students who registered during the drive and remind them to vote. she said. They also plan to post fliers on campus to remind those who registered to get out and vote. SET booklet ready Wednesday The Undergraduate Student Gov- ernment lUSGl will publicize student evaluations of 34 classes and their teachers in a booklet available Wednesday. The Student Evaluation of Teach- ers lSETl booklet contains evaluations of faculty in Art Education, Political Science, Communications and Jour- nalism. The booklet will be available in those offices. Teachers and classes in the booklet were evaluated on a scale of one to 100. The lowest rating any teacher re- ceived was a 61 and the highest a 93. The lowest rating for a class was a 56 and the highest a 91o USG President Malcolm Taaffe said he expects a lot oi flak con- cerning the results of the booklet. Some people question whether or not students are qualified to evaluate UR VOICE FROM: 0 CITY COUNCIL teachers and others obiect to publica. tion of the evaluation results. USG to ask council for campus patrol USG members investigating the re- cent South Campus area arsons have discovered that area citizen's crime patrol units do not patrol the south campus area. where the arsons have been most prevalent. Chuck Numbers, director of com- munications for USG. said the Citi- zen's Crime Reporting Project on campus covers the area between Lane and 11th avenues in the High Street area. The Franklin CountyI Prosecuting Attorneys Office is cosponsoring a Neighborhood Crime Alert. but Bill Owen from that office said they had not yet recruited volun- teers for the south campus area. This leaves eighth. ninth and 10th avenues unpatrolled by citizen crime patrols right where they are needed most, said USG President Malcolm Taatte. Twenty days have elapsed since the last of the 10 arsons occurred. Arsons have plagued the South Campus area since June 14.

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. :- t 1 so - a 1.. . n, u-L -Li HpHHHHH'.ieiiJALJLJAlA...iLJLJliLJL-1LI 1.1.? 44 Hit Legal insurance An Ohio House bill allowing univer- sities to provide student legal insur- ance, similar to student health insur- ance, would offer a practical way to beat the high cost of legal fees. Although no definite legal insur- ance program has been drawn up. funding would most likely come from small, voluntary donations added to quarterly fees. ' With this money, a service could be set up where students could go to lawyers and law students for consul- tation about problems such as land- lord-tenant disputes, domestic prob- lems and consumer complaints. Considering the size of most stu- dent budgets, paying a iew extra dol- lars every quarter to ensure against high legal fees makes sense. USG fights crime The incidences of arson. bicycle thefts and other crimes in the univer- sity-atea have been increasing rapidly in in recent months. Undergraduate Student Govern- ment iUSGi should be commended for its decision to take positive action to combat this frightening situation. USG is attempting to mobilize the concerned south campus area resi- dents to be crime watchdogs. A crime alert proiect will be touched off in about two weeks, when USG dis- tributes safety information door-to- door. All students must support USGis efforts to make off-campus housing a safe place to live. Crime prevention taught About 250 of the 700 south campus area residents who registered for a crime alert project attended a training session Thursday sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Gov- ernment iUSGL Residents learned to identify suspects, secure their residences, de- fend themselves against attack. re- port crimes and increase awareness and observation. Residents who participated in the training session are to work with pa- lice to make trespassers in the neigh- borhood accountable to the peopie who live there, said Chief Donald Hanna of the OSU Police. I . Officials from the Columbus Divi- sion of Police, OSU Police. Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney's office and the Columbus Fire Department participated in the session. The Columbus police and county prosecutor's office helped USG orga- nize the project to increase neighbor- hood awareness in the area of West Eighth, West Ninth and West 10th avenues between High Street and Net! Avenue. The area has one of the highest crime rates in the city. Columbus Police Chief Earl Burden said the police cannot do the job of crime prevention and reporting with- out the help of residents. USG IS YO THE STATEHOUSE T

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