OSU´s skydiving class doesn’t require students to jump, but they all do
(A link to this story at The Columbus Dispatch)
By Bob Moser
The Columbus Dispatch
Aug. 10, 2006
Milena Radovanovic’s father knew she was going on a field trip for an Ohio State University class on Saturday. But she kept quiet on details until the last minute.
She called him on her way to AerOhio Skydiving Center in Marshallville, just outside Akron. She broke the news in a van with six other OSU students who planned to jump from a plane at 13,000 feet. “Don’t freak out, OK?” she told her father over the phone. “There are two parachutes, Daddy.”
Radovanovic, 20, closed her cell phone, turned to her classmates and grinned. “If I told him beforehand, he wouldn’t have let me go.”
The grin was contagious. It sprouted on the faces of every student in Ohio State’s Introduction to Sky Diving course, as if they were all getting away with something sneaky.
They’re taking the only for-credit college skydiving course in the nation.
- Ohio State University student Scott Plunkett, center, free falls with the help of teachers Jeff Whitt, left, and Sherry Butcher at AerOhio Skydiving Center in Marshallville, Ohio. Ohio State is the only college in the nation to offer sky diving for credit. (photo courtesy of AerOhio Skydiving)
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