NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP BOWL TOUR PACKAGES ON SALE NOW

The Buckeyes are headed to New Orleans on Monday (1/7/08) to play in the Allstate BCS National Championship football game. Faculty, staff, students, and parents may now purchase bowl tour packages from Student Affairs. A limited number of packages are available, and can be purchased online using a credit card, by phone at 247-BOWL or in person at the Ohio Union at Ohio Stadium (room 112B/Meeting Room 2 between gates 22 & 24). Individuals who previously purchased a Rose bowl package may convert to the new package or obtain a refund. Visit: http://ohiounion.osu.edu/bowltour/main.asp

OUAB presents: WILL FERRELL in his Funny or Die Comedy Tour

OUAB presents: WILL FERRELL in his Funny or Die Comedy Tour

With guests Zach Galifianakis, Nick Swardson & Demetri Martin
February 6, 2008
Value City Arena

In April 2007, Ferrell launched "Funny or Die," a streaming video website where short comedy films are uploaded and voted on by users. The site features the popular “The Landlord” skit starring Ferrell, Funny or Die co-founder Adam McKay and McKay’s 2-year-old daughter Pearl. Will Ferrell is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American comedian, actor and writer who first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has since gone on to a successful film career. Most well-known for his performances in recent movies including Blades of Glory, Anchorman, and Elf, the comedian has over 30 film credits to his name.

OUAB will be distributing 12,000 FREE tickets beginning Monday, January 14th at 5pm at the Ohio Union Information Desk. It is ONE ticket per current Columbus campus student BuckID. BuckIDs will also be scanned at the door on the day of the event.

Faculty, staff, and regional campus students are not eligible for the free tickets, however they can purchase tickets beginning this Friday, Dec. 7 at 10AM at the Schottenstein Center Box Office and all Ticketmaster outlets. Charge at 614-431-3600 or online at ticketmaster.com. Tickets are $37.50.
Please contact ouab@osu.edu with any questions.

BART Seeking Undergraduate and Graduate Student Representatives

The Bias Assessment and Response Team (B.A.R.T) is seeking undergraduate and graduate student representatives to serve on the team. Students need to have an interest in looking at and crafting responses to various issues of bias, including but not limited to bias based on race, sexual orientation, religion, gender, and disability. Students will be responsible for implementing ways to increase awareness about the specific issues of bias prevalent on OSU's campus, as well as serve as a sounding board for B.A.R.T decisions.

The team prefers students who are not overextended and/or have excellent time management skills due to the nature of the work and the potential for the time commitment to increase.

If you are interested, please submit your name, phone number, address, e-mail, and brief blurb about why you think you would be a strong student to have on the team (no more than three sentences) to Rebecca Lane (lane.237@osu.edu) no later than Thursday, December 6, 2007.

Thanksgiving Dinner On Campus

As I am sure you are all well aware, the University will be closed on Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving, which of course means no classes!

For those of you who will be in town and do not have any Thanksgiving plans, you should consider attending Ohio State's 16th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner on campus. This event, sponsored by the Office of International Affairs, brings together more than 1200 students each year who are not able to go home for the long holiday weekend.

More information about the event can be found at http://www.osu.edu/events/event389991

Rose Bowl Ticket Packages

For those of you interested in heading to Pasadena to watch the Buckeyes play in the Rose Bowl, or perhaps to New Orleans for the BCS Championship Game, a great way to get tickets is to stop by the Ohio Union for tickets.

More details can be found at http://www.ohiounion.osu.edu/bowltour/main.asp

Dr. Jane Gravelle

You are invited to attend a talk by Dr. Jane Gravelle, Senior Specialist in Economic Policy at the Congressional Research Service (advising the congress on tax policy). A former president of the National Tax Association, she will be in town for the 100th meeting of the Association.

She will present an informal session on current issues in tax policy at the School's doctoral colloquium on Friday, November 16th in 110B Page Hall at noon.

We will be serving a light lunch so if you have not done so already, please let me know if you plan to attend so that I have a sense of how much food we should have.

Anand Desai.1@osu.edu

New blog

To be more responsive to student questions about academic and career advising, we have created a new blog for our graduate students at http://glennschool.blogspot.com/. I hope to post the answers to some commonly asked questions that we receive each week so that everyone can be on the same page. In most cases, the answers can already be found at http://glennschool.osu.edu/current/mpa or http://glennschool.osu.edu/current/ma and in the pdf handbooks available at those sites as well. However, I will attempt to use this as an additional form of communication.

If you have any feedback or suggestions for items you would like to see listed on this blog, please feel free to email me at meadows.76@osu.edu.

Thanks,
Ryan