The Ohio State University
(OSU) is a public
research university located in Columbus
, Ohio
.
It was
founded in 1870 as a land-grant
university and is currently the second
largest university campus in the United States
. Ohio State is currently ranked by
U.S.
News & World
Report as the best public university in Ohio, among the
top 150 universities in the world, among the top 60 universities in
the United States, and among the top 20 public universities in the
United States. Ohio State has been officially designated as the
flagship institution of
the state's public system of higher education by the newly
centralized
University System
of Ohio.
History
The Ohio State University was founded in 1870 as a
land-grant university in accordance
with the
Morrill Act of 1862
under the name of the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. The
school was originally situated within a farming community located
on the northern edge of Columbus. While some interests in the state
had hoped that the new university would focus on matriculating
students of various agricultural and mechanical disciplines,
Governor
Rutherford B. Hayes foresaw a more classic,
comprehensive university, and manipulated both the university's
location and its initial board of trustees towards that end. Later
that year, the university welcomed its first class of 24 students.
In 1878, and in light of its expanded focus, the college
permanently changed its name to the now-familiar "The Ohio State
University" (with the article "The" as part of its official
name).
Ohio State began accepting graduate students in the 1880s, and, in
1891, the school saw the founding of its law school, Moritz College
of Law. It would later acquire colleges of medicine, dentistry,
commerce and journalism in subsequent years.
Although
development had been hindered in the 1870s by hostility from the
state's agricultural interests and competition for resources from
Miami
University
and Ohio University
, both issues were eventually resolved. In
1906, Ohio State's status as the state's flagship campus was
written into law by the Ohio legislature through the Eagleson Bill.
In 1916, Ohio State was elected into membership in the
Association of American
Universities.
Academics
Rankings and recognition
In 1916, Ohio State became the first university in Ohio to be
extended membership into the
Association of American
Universities, and remains the only public university in Ohio
among the organization's sixty members.
The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public
Universities (2000) by Howard and Matthew Greene listed Ohio
State as one of a select number of public universities offering the
highest educational quality.
U.S. News & World Report’s widely read
rankings of undergraduate colleges in America currently places Ohio
State as the 18th best public university and 53rd overall ranked
university in America, as well as the highest ranked public
university in Ohio. Ohio State ranked 14th in US News' new "Up and
Coming" colleges section. The list includes the top colleges in the
nation "that are making improvements in academics, faculty,
students, campus life, diversity, and facilities. These schools are
worth watching because they are making promising and innovative
changes."
China's Shanghai Jiao
Tong University
placed Ohio State as the 61st ranked university in
the world in their 2007 Academic Ranking of World
Universities.

Scott Laboratory, housing the
Mechanical Engineering department.
The
Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance at Arizona State
University
detailed analysis and rankings of American
universities currently places Ohio State as the 24th ranked
university in America, the 10th ranked public university in the
country and the top overall university in Ohio. Of their
nine ranking criteria, Ohio State ranked in the top-25 in four
categories and between 26-50 in an additional four categories. The
Washington Monthly college
rankings, which seek to evaluate colleges' contributions to
American society based on factors of social mobility, cutting edge
research, and service to the country by their graduates, currently
place Ohio State as 12th in the nation and 10th among public
universities.
Ohio State is also the only public university in Ohio to which the
Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has given both its
highest overall classification of
Doctoral/Very High Research
Activity and highest undergraduate admissions classification
of
more selective.
US News ranks the undergraduate program at Ohio State's
Fisher College of
Business 12th in America and the top undergraduate business
school in Ohio. The graduate program of the Fisher College is
ranked 22nd in America and is the top graduate school of business
in Ohio.
The Economist ranked
The Fisher College as the 29th ranked MBA program in the world in
their 2005
"Which MBA?" issue. Fisher's Executive MBA
program was ranked 3rd nationally for return on investment by
The Wall Street Journal in
2008 citing a 170 percent return on an average of $66,900 invested
in tuition and expenses during the 18-month program. In 2006, The
Public Accounting Report ranked Ohio State's accounting department
9th in the nation for undergraduate programs and 10th in the nation
for graduate programs. In each case, the ranking was the highest
among Ohio universities.
The Ohio State law school is ranked by
US News as top of
the nine law schools in Ohio and 31st overall in America. Ohio
State's medical school is ranked as the top public medical school
in Ohio and 31st for research and 38th for primary care.
US
News ranks Ohio State's undergraduate engineering program as
the 25th best program in America and the top undergraduate
engineering program in Ohio. Its graduate program in engineering is
ranked 26th in the country and highest in Ohio. Ohio State's
College of Education was ranked 17th in America by US News and the
highest in Ohio. The Counseling/Personnel Services graduate program
at Ohio State is ranked 4th in America by the 2008 'US News &
World Report'. The Department of Geography is ranked 5th in
America. In total,
US News & World Report ranked 19
Ohio State graduate programs or specialties among the nation's top
ten and 30 among the nation's top 25.

University Hall
Ohio State's
political science
department is ranked 13th in the country by
US News & World
Report, with the American politics section fifth,
international politics 12th and political methodology 10th.
A study by
Simon Hix of The London School of Economics
ranked it as the fourth best political science
department in the world, based on publications. Foreign Policy Magazine recently ranked
it as the 15th best Ph.D. program in the world for the study of
international relations while noting Professor
Alexander Wendt as the third most
influential scholar of international relations in the world.
Ohio State is one of a select few top American universities to
offer multiple area studies programs under "Comprehensive National
Resource Center" (often called "Title VI") funding from the
U.S. Department of
Education. The most notable of these is the Center for Slavic
and East European Studies founded in 1965 by Professor Leon Twarog.
Subsequently, Ohio State's Middle Eastern Studies Center and East
Asian Studies Center also achieved Comprehensive National Resource
Center status. The university is also home to the
interdisciplinary Mershon Center
for International Security Studies, which was founded in 1952
through a bequest of 7 million dollars (54.3 million in 2006 value)
from alumnus Colonel Ralph D. Mershon.
In 2003, it was
decided by the United States Department of
Homeland Security
to base the National
Academic Consortium for Homeland Security at The Mershon
Center.
In a study by industry publication
Dance Teacher, a survey
of 100 dance department chairs in the United States and Canada
ranked Ohio State's Department of
Dance as the
top ranked graduate program and the second ranked undergraduate
program in North America.
U.S. News & World Report ranked
the graduate program in Design at #5 in the nation in their 2009
rankings. Overall, the graduate Art program ranked #21, with the
ceramics and glass programs at #6. In its 2008 edition of
"America's Best Architecture & Design Schools, the
journal
DesignIntelligence ranked the undergraduate
Industrial Design program #3
nationwide, and the graduate program in Design #10 nationwide. The
DFC conducted their research by polling 270 corporations regarding
how design schools were preparing their students for the future of
professional practice in design. OSU was in the top ten rankings of
the corporate leaders' assessments in all regions (#4 in the south,
#2 in the midwest, #7 in the east, and #4 in the west). The
graduate program placed at #3 in the south and #2 in the east,
resulting in 10th overall in the nation.
Faculty and research
Ohio
State’s faculty currently includes a Nobel Prize-winning physicist,
twenty-one members of the National Academy of Sciences
or National Academy of
Engineering, four members of the Institute of Medicine, and 159 elected
fellows of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2008,
seventeen Ohio State faculty were elected as AAAS Fellows. Each
year since 2002, Ohio State has either led or been second amongst
all American universities in the number of their faculty elected as
fellows to the AAAS.

Physics Research Building
In a recent study by Harvard University's Graduate School of
Education, Ohio State was one of five universities rated as
"exemplary" workplaces for junior faculty. In the study, thirty-one
universities and eleven liberal arts colleges were evaluated on
tenure clarity and fairness, nature of work including workloads,
quality of students, and teaching environment, compensation, work
and family balance, collegiality and overall satisfaction.
In the last quarter century, thirty-two Ohio State faculty members
have been awarded the prestigious
Guggenheim Fellowship, which is more
than all other public and private Ohio universities combined. In
2008, three Ohio State faculty were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships,
placing Ohio State among the top 15 universities in the nation.
Since the 2000/2001 award year, fifty-five Ohio State faculty
members have been named as
Fulbright
Fellows, the highest of any Ohio university.
In a 2007 report released by the
National Science Foundation,
Ohio State’s research expenditures for 2006 were
$652 million, placing it 7th among
public universities and 11th overall, also ranking 3rd among all
American universities for private industry sponsored research.
Research expenditures at Ohio State are $720 million in 2007. Ohio
State also announced in 2006, that it would be designating at least
$110 million of its research efforts to what it termed "fundamental
concerns" such as research towards a cure for cancer, renewable
energy sources and sustainable drinking water supplies.
Admissions and tuition
Undergraduate admissions to Ohio State are classified as “more
selective” by
US News
& World Report and
The Princeton Review and according
to the data are the most selective for any public university in
Ohio. The 2007 freshman class had an acceptance rate of 52%, and
the enrolled freshman class had the following composition: students
graduating in the top 10% of their high school class (57%); the top
25% of their high school class (91%); the top 50% of their high
school class (99%). 27% of the freshman class scored in the top 3%
of the SAT or ACT, while 72% scored in the top 15%. The middle 50%
range of ACT scores for the enrolled class was 26-30, with an
average ACT score of 27. Of the 6,122 members of the 2006 freshman
class, 290 had been named
valedictorian of their high school's
graduating class. Ohio State’s freshman class has admitted over 100
National Merit Scholars for nine of the last ten years.
Tuition for full-time, Ohio residents attending Ohio State for the
2006-2007 academic year is $8,433. For the 2006-2007 academic year,
tuition at Ohio State for Ohio residents placed it as the fifth
most expensive public university and slightly beneath the weighted
average tuition of $8,553 among Ohio's thirteen public four-year
universities. In addition to being named a
Best in the
Midwest selection by
The Princeton Review, Ohio State
was also the only public university in Ohio to make their list of
America's 150 Best Value Colleges.
Endowment and fundraising
Ohio State was among the first group of public universities to
raise a billion dollar
endowment
when it passed the one billion dollar mark in 1999. At year’s end
2005, Ohio State’s endowment stood at 1.73 billion dollars ranking
it seventh among public universities and twenty-seventh among all
American universities. In June 2006, the endowment passed the 2
billion dollar mark.
In recent decades, and in response to continually shrinking state
funding, Ohio State has conducted two significant multi-year
fundraising campaigns. The first
concluded in 1987 and raised 460 million dollars—a record at the
time for a public university. The “Affirm Thy Friendship Campaign”
took place between 1995 and 2000. With an initial goal of raising
850 million dollars, the campaign’s final tally was 1.23 billion
dollars, placing Ohio State among the small group of public
universities to have successfully conducted a billion dollar
campaign. At his welcoming ceremony, returning President E. Gordon
Gee announced that, in the Fall of 2007, Ohio State would be
launching a 2.5 billion dollar fundraising campaign.
Schools and colleges

Kottman Hall: Home of the School of
Environment and Natural Resources

Drinko Hall: Home of The Ohio State
University Michael E.
The Ohio State University comprises the following colleges and
schools:
- College
of Dentistry
- College of Education and Human Ecology
- College of Engineering
- Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture
- College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
- School of Environment and Natural Resources
- College of
Medicine
- College of Nursing
- College of Optometry
- College of Pharmacy
- College of Public Health
- College of Social Work
- College of Veterinary Medicine
- Colleges of the Arts and Sciences
- School of Communication
- School of Music
- Graduate School
- John Glenn School of Public Affairs
- Max M.
Fisher College of
Business
- Michael E.
Moritz College of
Law
Campuses
Main campus (Columbus)

Orton Hall
Ohio
State's main urban campus is located in
Columbus
. Its
are approximately north of the city's downtown.
Four buildings are
currently listed on the National Register of
Historic Places: Enarson Hall,
Hayes
Hall
, Ohio
Stadium
, and Orton Hall
.Architecture on the Ohio State campus does
not conform to a unifying theme such as
Gothic revival or
Georgian but rather is an eclectic mix
of traditional, modern and post-modern styles.
The
William Oxley
Thompson Memorial Library, anchoring the western end of
The
Oval
, is the Ohio State library's main branch and single
largest repository. The Thompson Library was designed in 1913 by
the Boston firm of Allen and Collens in the Italianate Renaissance
Revival style, and its placement on the Oval was suggested by the
Olmsted brothers who had designed New York City's Central Park
. In 2006, the Thompson Library began a $100
million dollar renovation with the stated aims of becoming a
"global benchmark twenty-first century" library while maintaining
the building's classical Italian Renaissance architecture.

Wexner Center for the Arts
Overall, Ohio State operates the 18th largest university
research library in North America with a
combined collection of over 5.8 million volumes. Additionally, the
libraries receive approximately 35,000 serial titles on a regular
basis. Its recent acquisitions were 16th among university research
libraries in North America. Ohio State's library system encompasses
twenty-one libraries located on its Columbus campus. An additional
eight branches are located at off-campus research facilities,
regional campuses, and a book storage depository near campus. In
all the Ohio State library system encompasses fifty-five branches
and specialty collections.
Some of the more significant collections
include The Byrd Polar Research Center
Archival Program containing the Archives of Admiral
Richard E. Byrd as well as a significant collection of
polar research materials, The Hilandar Research Library
which contains the world's largest collection of
medieval Slavic manuscripts on microform, The Ohio State Cartoon Library &
Museum, which is the world's largest repository of original
cartoons, The Lawrence and
Lee Theatre Research Institute and the archives of Senator
John Glenn.
Anchoring
the traditional campus gateway at the eastern end of The Oval, is
the Wexner
Center for the Arts
. Designed by architects
Peter Eisenman of New York and Richard Trott
of Columbus, the center opened in 1989. Its founding was financed
in large part by Ohio State alumnus
Leslie
Wexner with a gift of twenty-five million dollars in the 1980s.
The center was founded to be a comprehensive visual arts center
encompassing all aspects of visual and performing arts with a focus
on new commissions and artist residencies. Part of its design was
to pay tribute to the armory that formerly had the same location.
Its groundbreaking
deconstructivist
architecture has resulted in it being lauded as one of the most
important buildings of its generation. Its design has also been
criticized as proving less than ideal for many of the art
installations that it has attempted to display. The centerpiece of
The Wexner Center's permanent collection is
Picasso's Nude on a Black Armchair,
which was purchased by alumnus
Leslie
Wexner at auction for forty-five million dollars and then
donated to the university.
To the south of The Oval is another, somewhat smaller, expanse of
greenspace commonly referred to as The South Oval. At its eastern
end, it is anchored by the Ohio Union, which is currently under
reconstruction.
To the west are Enarson Hall, the Kuhn
Honors House, Browning Amphitheatre (a traditional stone Greek theatre) and Mirror
Lake
.
The
Ohio State
College of Medicine is located on the southern edge of the
central campus.
It is home to the James Cancer
Hospital
, a cancer research institute and one of the
National Cancer
Institute's forty-one comprehensive cancer centers,
along with the Richard
M. Ross Heart
Hospital, a research institute for cardiovascular
disease.
Regional campuses
The university also operates several regional campuses and research
facilities at:
Research facilities
Student life

Recreation and Physical Activity
Center (RPAC)
The Office of Student Life is responsible for many of the
outside-the-classroom aspects of student life at Ohio State. Among
these are student housing; food service; health, wellness and
counseling; activities, organizations and leadership development;
recreation and intramurals.
The Office of Student Life also operates the
Schottenstein Center
, the Fawcett Center, the Blackwell Inn,
the Ohio
Union
the Drake Events Center,
and the Wilce Student
Health Center, named for football coach and university
physician John Wilce.
Ohio State has several student managed publications and media
outlets.
The Makio is the official yearbook.
The
Makio’s sales plummeted by 60% during the early 1970s; the
organization went bankrupt and stopped publication during the late
1970s. The book was revived from 1985 to 1994 and has since been
revived again in 2000 thanks to several student organizations.
The Lantern is the school's
daily newspaper and has operated as a laboratory newspaper in the
School of Communication (formerly the School of Journalism) since
1881.
Mosaic is a literary magazine published by Ohio
State, which features undergraduate
fiction,
poetry, and
art.
OHIO.FM is the student-run radio station with an
Internet audio stream (no broadcast signals are available in
Columbus). Students also operate a local cable channel known as
Buckeye TV, which airs primarily on the
campus cable system operated by the Office of Information
Technology (OIT).
The Ohio State
University Marching Band is a longstanding tradition at Ohio
State. The marching band is the largest all-brass and percussion
band in the world. The traditional school songs from "
Carmen Ohio" to "Hang on Sloopy" to "Fight the
Team Across the Field", are arranged to fit this unique
instrumentation. The band is famous for "
Script
Ohio," during which the band marches single-file through the
curves of the word "Ohio", much like a pen writes the word, all the
while playing the French march "Le Regiment de Sambre et Meuse." At
the end of the performance, the "i" in "Ohio" is "dotted" by a
high-stepping senior
sousaphone
player.
Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various
events such as
commencement and
convocation, and athletic games are:
Across
the Field, The Ohio State University
fight song and "Buckeye Battle Cry".
The tradition of high quality bands is not limited to the football
field. OSU's School of Music contains several high quality concert
bands consisting of graduate and undergraduate music majors and
non-music majors. The OSU Wind Symphony, frequently receives praise
on the national level, recently having been selected to perform at
the 2003 and 2008 College Band Directors National Association
(CBDNA) Convention, with the Symphonic Band performing in 2007. The
Wind Symphony has recently released its newest album "Jubilare!"
released on the
Naxos Label. The
Ohio State Jazz Ensemble
performed at the
Montreux Jazz
Festival in 1975, 1978,1986, 1996, and 2001. It has also
appeared at the
Mexico City
International Jazz Festival in 1990 and the
North Sea Jazz Festival in 1986,
1996, and 2001.
In addition to strong bands, the university is also recognized for
outstanding choral performance. The Ohio State Men's
Glee Club, formed in 1875, is the oldest
organization on campus.
In 1990, led by Professor James Gallagher,
the Men's Glee Club participated in the International Musical
Eisteddfod in Llangolen, Wales
and won the
male chorus competition by an unprecedented 20 points before, in a
unanimous decision of the judges, being named "Choir of the
World"—the first American choir to win such an
honor. The Glee Club is under the direction of Dr. Robert J.
Ward.
Ohio
State's "Buckeye Bullet" electric car
broke the world record for the fastest speed by an electric vehicle
on October 3, 2004 with a speed of 271.737 mph
(437.3 km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats
in Utah
. The
vehicle also holds the US record for fastest electric vehicle with
a speed of 314.958 mph (506.9 km/h), and peak timed mile
speed of 321.834 mph (517.9 km/h). The vehicle was
designed, built and managed by a team of engineering students at
the university's "Center for Automotive Research-Intelligent
Transportation" (CAR-IT). In 2007,
Buckeye Bullet 2 was launched. This
follow-up effort was a collaboration between Ohio State engineering
students and engineers from the
Ford
Motor Company and will seek to break the landspeed record for
hydrogen cell powered vehicles.
A unique aspect to Ohio State's multi billion dollar endowment is
the Student Investment Management Program. Upperclass finance
students taking Business Finance 724 are given the opportunity to
manage a twenty million dollar investment fund. Returns from the
student managed funds often outperform the
S&P 500 and frequently even the university's
own professional fund managers.
Jon Stewart hosted
The Daily Show's "Battlefield Ohio:
The Daily Show’s Midwest Midterm Midtacular" from Ohio
State's Roy Bowen Theatre during the week of October 30 to November
2, 2006.
Diversity
Ohio State's main campus has been lauded in recent years for the
diversity of its student body. In various surveys and rankings it
has been included among the best campuses in the nation for African
Americans. Additionally, Ohio State ranked 10th in the nation in
2006 for the numbers of African American doctors graduated.
The
Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students lists Ohio State as
one of the best campuses in America for
LGBT
students.
Ohio State, despite selective admissions, has also maintained a
high amount of socio-economic diversity among its students. The
2007 freshman class contained 22.7% of first generation college
students which far exceeded the national norm on American campuses
of 15.9%.
Residential life

South Campus Gateway
Ohio State operates 31 on-campus residence halls divided into three
geographic clusters: South Campus (site of the university's
original dormitories), North Campus (largely constructed during the
post-war enrollment boom) and Olentangy Area or "The Towers."
Within the residence hall system are 40 smaller living and learning
environments defined by social or academic considerations. Ohio
State also offers four honors residence halls: Bradley Hall,
Lincoln House, Siebert Hall, and Taylor Tower.
Separate housing for graduate and professional students is
maintained on the Southern tier of campus near the medical complex.
Family housing is maintained at Buckeye Village at the far northern
edge of campus beyond the athletic complex. At the university's
southeast corner along High Street, and across from the
Moritz College of Law, new apartments
have been built for law students in conjunction with the area's
Campus Gateway project.
Honors programs
Ohio State offers two distinct honors programs for high ability
undergraduates: Honors and Scholars.
The Honors program is open to students in all majors. The Scholars
program is centered around thirteen specific programs such as
"Architecture Scholars", "Communication Technology
Scholars","Biological Sciences Scholars", "International Affairs
Scholars" and "Politics, Society and Law Scholars." Students in the
Scholars program are expected to live and take select classes with
other members of the program. Additionally, Ohio State offers the
Honors Collegium with membership extended following the Spring of a
student's first or second year to the university's top
undergraduates. Collegium students try to compete for internships,
graduate schools and nationally competitive awards, such as the
Marshall,
Rhodes, or
Truman Scholarships.
Ohio State also administers two large-scale
scholarship programs to ensure access to the
university to high-ability students from
low-income or traditionally underrepresented
groups. The first of these, The Young Scholars Program, was
initiated in 1988. 120 promising minority students from Ohio's nine
largest urban public school districts are selected prior to
entering high school. The program offers a series of academic camps
each summer and counseling throughout the students' high school
careers. Upon completion of the program, which also mandates a
college preparatory curriculum and minimum grade point average, the
students are guaranteed admission to Ohio State as well as any
need-based financial aid necessary. The Land Grant Scholarship was
initiated in 2005. This program seeks to ensure access to Ohio
State to high-ability students from low-income backgrounds. Ohio
State has committed to offering a full-ride scholarship each
academic year to at least one student from each of
Ohio's 88 counties.
Ohio State maintains an honors center in the Kuhn Honors and
Scholars House which had served as the University President's
residence until the 1960s. Four dormitories are designated all or
in part as honors residences: Taylor, Bradley, Siebert, and
Lincoln.
Activities and organizations

Enarson Hall (Original Ohio
Union)
The
Ohio
Union
was the first student union built by an American
public university. The Ohio Union is dedicated to the
enrichment of the student experience, on and off The Ohio State
University campus. The first Ohio Union, located on the south edge
of the South Oval, was constructed in 1909 and was later renamed
Enarson Hall. The second Ohio Union was completed in 1950 and was
located prominently along High Street, southeast of the Oval. It
was a center of student life at The Ohio State University for more
than 50 years, providing facilities for student activities,
organizations and events, and serving as an important meeting place
for campus and community interaction. In addition, many student
services and programs were housed in the union, along with dining
and recreational facilities. The second Ohio Union was demolished
in February 2007 to make way for the new Ohio Union to be finished
in 2010. During this time, student activities have been relocated
to Ohio Stadium and other academic buildings.
Student organizations
Student organizations at The
Ohio State University provide students with opportunities to get
involved in a wide variety of interest areas including
academic,
social,
religious,
artistic,
service-based,
diversity and many more.There are over
900 registered student organizations that involve many thousands of
students. The university's
debate team has won
the state
National
Forensics Association tournament several times.
Leadership and service
The Union's vision is to prepare students to be responsible,
engaged leaders committed to community participation for social
action and change. Programs with which students can get involved
include are the Leadership Collaborative, Leadership Ohio State,
Residence Halls Advisory Council, LeaderShape, Buckeye Service
Council, Community Commitment Day, SERV team, Service Squad, and
BUCK I SERV alternative break trips. Additionally, the
Service-Learning Institute offers courses that educate students
while also helping the greater community. All of these programs
have the ultimate goal of making students better leaders, people,
and citizens of Ohio.
Student governments
At The Ohio State University, there are three recognized student
governments that represent their constituents.
- Undergraduate Student Government (USG), which consists of
elected and appointed student representatives who serve as liaisons from
the undergraduate student body to
university officials. USG seeks to outreach to and work for the
students at The Ohio State University.
- Council of Graduate Students (CGS), which promotes and provides
academic, administrative, and social programs
for the university community in general and for graduate students in particular. The
Council provides a forum in which the graduate student body may
present, discuss, and set upon issues related to its role in the
academic and non-academic aspects of the University community.
- Inter-Professional Council (IPC), which is a representative
body of all professional students in the colleges of Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Optometry,
Pharmacy, and Veterinary Medicine. Its purpose is to
act as a liaison between these students
and the governing bodies of the University.
- Residence Hall Advisory Council (RHAC), which is a
representative body of all students living in the University's
dormitory facilities. It's purpose is to help evaluate and improve
the living conditions of the dormitory residents
Athletics
Ohio State's intercollegiate sports teams are called the "Buckeyes"
(after the state tree, the
Buckeye),
and participate in the
NCAA's Division I
in all sports (Division I FBS in football) and the
Big Ten Conference in most sports. (The
men's
hockey program competes in the
Central Collegiate
Hockey Association, and its women's hockey program competes in
the
Western
Collegiate Hockey Association). The school colors are Scarlet
and Gray. The teams' nickname is "Buckeyes" and "Brutus" the
Buckeye is their mascot.

Ohio Stadium Rotunda
Ohio
State is one of only three universities (the University
of Michigan
and the University
of California at Berkeley
being the others) to have won national
championships in all three major men's sports (baseball, men's
basketball, and football). Ohio State is also one of only two
universities to appear in the national championship games in both
football and men's basketball in the same calendar year (the other
university is the University of Florida
which defeated Ohio State in both contests in
2007). Ohio State has also won national championships in
men's swimming & diving, men's outdoor track & field, men's
golf, men's gymnastics, men's fencing, co-ed fencing, and multiple
synchronized swimming championships. The Ohio State equestrian team
has won eight Intercollegiate Horse Show Association national
championships. Since the inception of the
Athletic Director's Cup, Ohio State has
finished in the top 25 each year, including top 6 finishes in three
of the last five years. During the 2005-2006 school year Ohio State
became this first Big Ten team to win conference championships in
Football, Men's Basketball and Women's Basketball. Ohio State
repeated the feat during the 2006-2007 school year, winning solo
championships in all three sports. In 2007, Sports Illustrated
nicknamed Ohio State's athletic program as being "The Program" due
to the unsurpassed facilities, unparalleled amount of men's and
women's sport teams, their success, and the financial support of an
impressive fan base.
Outstanding sports figures that were student athletes at Ohio State
include 1936 Olympics gold medalist
Jesse
Owens "the Buckeye Bullet" (track and field),
John Havlicek,
Jerry
Lucas,
Bobby Knight, and
Larry Siegfried (basketball),
Katie Smith and the first 3-time player of the
year in Big Ten Basketball history
Jessica Davenport (women's basketball),
Frank Howard
(basketball and baseball),
Jack
Nicklaus (golf); and
Chic Harley
(three-time All-American football running back). Ohio State
football players have combined for seven
Heisman Awards including the only two-time
winner
Archie Griffin in 1974 and
1975,
Eddie George in 1995, and most
recently
Troy Smith in 2006. Hall of Fame
coaches at Ohio State have included
Paul
Brown and
Woody Hayes in football,
Fred Taylor in
basketball,
Larry Snyder in
track and field, and
Mike Peppe in
swimming and diving.
Ohio State-affiliated media
Ohio
State operates a public television station, WOSU-TV
34 / WOSU-DT 38 (a local PBS
TV station), as well as two public radio
stations, WOSU-AM (NPR/BBC) and
WOSU-FM (Classical) in Columbus. In
2003, the television station began broadcasting in
HDTV.
Notable alumni
Ohio State currently has over 425,000 living alumni located around
the world. Ohio State alumni include
Nobel
Prize,
Pulitzer Prize, and
Medal of Honor recipients,
ambassadors, as well as
Fortune 500
CEO and members of the
Forbes 400 list of the world's wealthiest
individuals. Numerous graduates have gone on to become Governors,
Senators and members of Congress. Ohio State alumni have appeared
on the cover of
TIME twelve
times, with the artwork of alumnus
Roy
Lichtenstein featured on an additional two
TIME
covers.
Ohio
State alumni are enshrined in the Baseball
Hall of Fame
in Cooperstown
, New
York
, the NFL Hall of Fame
and the Basketball Hall of Fame
. Its athletes have won a combined
eighty-three
Olympic medals and three
times received the
Sullivan
Award as the nation's top amateur athlete.
Jack Nicklaus has been called "the greatest
golfer in history" while
Jesse Owens has
been called "the greatest Olympian in history." Twice, Ohio State
alumni have graced the cover of
Sports Illustrated as its
Sportsman of the Year.
Points of interest
Main campus attractions
- Ohio Stadium
, better known as "The Horseshoe" or simply "The
Shoe" due to its shape, is the home arena of the Buckeyes' football
team and is also on the National Register of
Historic Places. While recent construction has nearly
filled up the open end of the stadium, because the new stands are
free-standing, the stadium still resembles a horseshoe.
- Orton Hall was dedicated to the
memory of Ohio State's first President, Edward J. Orton, Sr. and houses the Orton Geological Library.
- Chadwick Arboretum

- Mirror Lake

- The Oval, which is the large open area in front of the main
library, is a hang out for students in the warmer months of the
school year. This 11 acre site is often the location for large
outdoor gatherings, concerts, demonstrations, and various pick-up
sporting events.
Off-campus facilities
References
Notes
Resources
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