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President Carter’s sit-down
Five takeaways from Ted Carter Jr.’s Wednesday interview with The Lantern By Reilly Ackermann and Nora Igelnik Campus Editors
ident and provost positions, currently held in the interim by Karla Zadnik. Yet, no decision has been made to perPDQHQWO\ ¿OO WKH SRVLWLRQ Carter said the university has been conducting interviews, and “sometimes being a little bit patient will get you the best answer.” Within 30 days, Carter said the university will be making an announcement regarding the positions.
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Carter’s recent raise and bonus
Space standards Following a sharp increase in on-campus political activism last year due to the war in Gaza, the university reissued its space rules — now known as “space standards” — two days before the April 25 pro-Palestine protest which resulted in 36 arrests, 16 of whom were students. In light of Aug. 26’s on-campus Christian baptism ceremony — at which the organizing group outstayed its space reservation and zero arrests took place — there has been some FRQIXVLRQ UHJDUGLQJ KRZ VSHFL¿F SURvisions of the space standards, which were updated over the summer, are apSOLHG WR GL̆HUHQW HYHQWV When asked if violating the standards’ “Tents and Temporary Structures” section results in harsher con-
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Ohio State President Ted Carter Jr. speaks to The Lantern in an exclusive interview.
sequences for student activists in comparison to other sections, Carter said the April 25 protests only ended in arrests because of “a planned attempt and a clear statement to violate [Ohio State’s] campus space rules.” “At the end of the day, as we saw in many campuses across the country, once those encampments started and grew, there was no way to ensure the safety of those people that were there, and I did not want to see that happen,” Carter said. Carter said violations of multiple, separate sections of the space standards within an event do “not neces-
sarily” compound to warrant a harsher response; however, if “somebody breaks the rules and there’s a real violation, particularly if it’s [a rule] opposed to some sort of safety or an attempt to incite violence,” then those instances will be reviewed by the university.
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Vice president and provost positions In a conversation Carter had with The Lantern in April, he mentioned the university was “weeks away” from making a decision about the vice pres-
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On Aug. 22, Carter received a 3.5% raise — or $38,500 — from the Board of Trustees, along with a bonus of $164,368, according to previous Lantern reporting. These additions bump up Carter’s annual salary to about $1.3 million from his previous base salary of $1.1 million, situating him among the top ranks of Big Ten presidents. He also surpassed former university President Kristina Johnson’s salary, which was $1.19 million in 2022, according to previous Lantern reporting. ³7KH ¿UVW WKLQJ , ZDQW WKHP WR NQRZ is I didn’t ask for that,” Carter said. “So WKDW¶V P\ ¿UVW UHDFWLRQ 7KH VHFRQG LV this is what’s in my contract. So, they have to review my contract.”
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