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Sleeps WHILE THE TOWN

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Dirty Girl

COFFEE pg. 24

VOICING SEXUAL ASSAULT pg. 40

Letter from the Editor

Julie Ciotola | Editor-in-Chief backdropmag@gmail.com

Colder months are swiftly approaching, which means more layers, steaming coffee and, for students, the impending doom of exam week. I have dozens of memories of late nights spent cooped up in Alden Library, longing for winter break and home cooked meals. It’s easy to wish away the final few weeks of the fall semester when your main concern is the amount of work that lies ahead.

For our second issue of Backdrop, I challenge you, as a reader, to think deeper about the impending winter season.

Consider the mass amounts of individuals and families who are food insecure in Ohio, a problem Managing Editor Ally Lanasa explores in an infographic (pg. 18). Consider Athens maintenance technician Thomas Keirns, a diligent and hard worker who spends every morning, rain or shine, cleaning up Court Street and surrounding neighborhoods. Writer and photographer Liz Moughon closely observed Keirns’ daily routine (p. 20). Consider the local business owners who make Athens a special place year-round, like jeweler Keith Chapman, who carefully details original jewelry pieces. Associate Editor Lilli Sher took a look inside Keith’s craft (pg. 10).

Athens is also packed with activities for the winter season, which writer Ryan Flynn rounded up in our On the Bricks calendar. Take your friends ice skating at Bird Arena or visit a public telescope night at The Ohio University Observatory at The Ridges (pg. 32). For a cozy night in, check out two of Backdrop’s original holiday recipes: peppermint punch and crunchy cake cookies. Web Editor Michaela Fath provides all the ingredients and instructions you’ll need to make the recipes a success (pg. 16).

Although I am much more of a warm weather person, I’ve come to realize that if winter has to come, Athens is the best place to be when it does. Before you pack your bags for break, take time for a walk down Court Street and appreciate all this town has to offer. Better yet, find an opportunity to give back to the community: donate cans to the Baker Center Food Pantry, thank a maintenance worker, find a volunteer organization and lend your time.

Don’t forget to appreciate what makes Athens so special.

Happy Holidays!

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OU club sailing team welcomes all skill levels to learn the ropes. Photo by Maddie Schroeder.

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CONTENTS FEATURES WHILE THE TOWN SLEEPS

Athens' maintenance technician Thomas Keirns starts his day at 4 a.m., cleaning up remnants of the Court Street nightlife.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

LIVE BOLD, LIVE BREWED, LIVE DIRTY

Southeast Ohio business owner seeks to create equitable job market in Athens County.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Q&A

CALENDAR

Managing editor of The Atlantic, Adrienne Green, discusses her time as a student at OU and shares details of her career.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Check out the best events in Athens this winter.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

ATHENS TO ATLANTIC

THE DROP

GIVE ACROSS THE GLOBE

OU students recount experiences volunteering internationally through GIVE organization. . . . . 8

CRAFTED WITH DETAIL

Athens native Keith Chapman shares his passion with the community through handcrafted jewelry business.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

SCIENCE COSMIC VIEWS

The Ohio University Observatory provides a clear view of the night sky to OU students, staff and Athens community members.. . . . . . . . . . . 12

RECIPE

MINT TO BE

Satisfy your holiday sweet tooth with a Backdrop original peppermint punch, paired with crunchy cake cookies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Cover photo by Liz Moughon.

INFOGRAPHIC OHIO IS HUNGRY

Nearly 20 percent of the Athens County population is food insecure.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

PHOTO STORY

LEARNING THE CYCLE

Macalester College students launch an India-based educational program focused on teaching girls about menstruation.. . . . . . . 28

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ON THE BRICKS

SEX & HEALTH

ANSWERING THE EPIDEMIC

College campuses across the country are looking to implement the use of Narcan to counter the opioid crisis.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

ENTERTAINMENT CHANGE THE TUNE

OU student organization Women in the Music Industry (WIMI) empowers members to pursue musical goals.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

SPORTS

GET TO KNOW THE ROPES

OU’s club sailing team welcomes individuals of all skill sets to learn more about the sport. . . 38

VOICES

NO PLACE LIKE OHM

One Backdropper spent an afternoon at Athens Yoga for a women’s meditation retreat. . . . . . . 40

LIVING AS A SURVIVOR

OU senior shares her journey of healing after experiencing sexual assault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

EXHIBIT A Showcasing a student’s photography of several

western national parks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

PHOTO HUNT Spot the five differences between these photos

taken at Glouster First Friday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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ATHENS to ATLANTIC An OU alumna is making waves at The Atlantic.

BY LIZ HARPER | PHOTOS PROVIDED BY ADRIENNE GREEN

WHAT WAS THE MOST MEANINGFUL LESSON YOU LEARNED AT OU THAT HELPED PREPARE YOU FOR LIFE AFTER COLLEGE? The thing that I learned the most about at OU was trial and error. So I started my work at The Post. Didn’t love it. Figured newspapers weren’t for me. Moved over to Thread, the fashion magazine, and realized that I loved magazines but that fashion wasn’t really my thing.

Then I got to have the opportunity to help start, or continue what was just started before my time, Fangle Magazine, and that was really great because I got to kind of move from a managing editor kind of role to the editor-in-chief role pretty quickly. I think that we have a tendency, at least when I was in school, to teach people that you have to kind of be a one man band, that you have to be everything to everyone all the time. But my experience at OU, the experience that I created for myself, showed me that that doesn’t necessarily have to be true, that you can kind of figure out what your version of your perfect fit looks like.

WHAT IS IT LIKE WORKING AT THE ATLANTIC? Hectic. I think we are a really excellent but small team, and I think other people think of us as the same caliber as the New York Times and The Washington Post and the New Yorker, but we’ve got a staff that’s a quarter of the size of those institutions.

We’ve got 25 people who make a magazine every month and a network of freelance writers and contributors, etc. so I think that requires a level of attention and dedication and hard work to kind of make a dollar out of 15 cents. But I think the work we do is excellent, so it makes me even prouder to know that we pull off the caliber of work that we do with the number of people that do it.

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2015 graduate of Ohio University, 25-year-old Adrienne Green is the managing editor of The Atlantic magazine, headquartered in Washington, D.C. Originally from New Jersey, Green studied journalism at her father’s alma mater because “it was a place that was excellent at the thing [she]

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wanted to be excellent at.” After graduating, she went to work for The Atlantic through a fellowship program, which led to a special projects job and, eventually, her current position. In this interview, Green talks about handling stress, how she got where she is and what she would have done differently. b

Adrienne Green speaks at the fourth annual Atlantic Education Summit.

Not stressed out as much… When you look back on a 40-year career, you’re not looking at just the decisions you made in your first two years out of school. I think I made all of the decisions in the first couple of years at my career like they were going to be the decisions that made or broke me. And they weren’t, and they won’t.

The decisions I make in the next five years are not the ones that will make or break me, right, if I have a long and storied and wonderful career, it’s because I woke up every day and made good choices and worked hard, not because one decision was the thing that was the consequential shift.

HOW DID YOU FIND A CONSTRUCTIVE WAY TO FUNNEL AND MANAGE YOUR STRESS? Often times [I ask], is this thing within the realm of my control? I can’t write a draft for a writer. I can’t copy edit a piece for a copy editor. I can’t fact check a piece for a fact checker. All I can do is look at what’s in the realm of control and it’s often asking them, what can I do to support you? What are the challenges that you’re having? How can I help you do this thing better? And then I go do those things. Stressing about how quickly a copy editor is going to copy editI can’t constructively channel that stress, you know?

WHAT’S A MOMENT THAT HAS BEEN REALLY MEANINGFUL TO YOU SINCE YOU BECAME MANAGING EDITOR? Definitely the release of our Martin Luther King special issue. … Not often do things live up to your dream of them. Like when you’re thinking, man if I could have everything I wanted, this is how it will turn out. Not often do things work out exactly in that way and I think this was one instance where, thanks to the help of a whole lot of people, we set out for a thing and it came out even better than that. And that was a really proud moment. The King family really endorsed and appreciated it. I got to do a bunch of different things, as far as writing for the piece, editing it, doing editorial planning and helping the art director see where we wanted to go as far as design, like, that was a really proud thing.

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GIVE

Across the

GLOBE A volunteer organization emphasizes sustainable community development and connection.

BY JESSICA DEYO | PHOTOS PROVIDED BY RUBY WILLIAMS

Williams shares a moment of laughter with two Lao children.

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nternational tourism, one of the largest sources of income for many countries, is an incentive for youth across the globe to learn English before they even learn their native language. Although children have heard English while watching their parents sell handmade products and services to visitors, they have little idea how crucial the language will be to ensure their financial security in the future.

That is why Ruby Williams of Growth International Volunteer Excursion (GIVE) wishes her job as an education coordinator didn’t have to exist.

Williams, a senior studying integrated social studies education, writes curriculum that will ultimately teach people

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in Laos, a small country on China's southern border, the English language. She hopes that the efforts made through GIVE will lead to less of a reliance on outside sources for an English education.

GIVE is an organization that challenges the current trends of volunteer work with its unique mission to value people, projects and principles over profits. The organization has over 10 million volunteers each year in six locations: Nepal, Tanzania, Thailand, Laos, Nicaragua and America's Pacific Northwest.

Williams was a freshman when she discovered GIVE and has had the opportunity to contribute to the expansion of the program throughout her four years of college. The program was small during its first year, and Williams recalls just a few teachers gathered around a table while an education coordinator helped plan lessons for the students.

“Our education coordinator, who personally plans the curriculum and the learning, is usually TEFL [Teaching English as a Foreign Language] certified. He basically would tell us, ‘Okay, today you’re going to teach colors, how are you going to do that?’ And we would brainstorm and really work collectively as a group,” she says. “But our lesson plan would be more like colors, a game, maybe ABC’s…it was great for its foundational sense because at that time the students hadn’t learned English.”

In the years following, GIVE’s education program grew rapidly. Williams describes the program as much more organized, with an advanced curriculum, set vocabulary lists and grammar lessons that have helped students become almost fluent in the English language.

Lauren Reese, a GIVE ambassador and a junior studying athletic training, volunteered through the Southeast Asia "package" and has seen first-hand how GIVE provides children with life-changing resources.

“The children are just flourishing and because they are doing these education programs, if they go so many days a week they get scholarships, so we aren’t only teaching them English, we are also providing scholarship opportunities,” Reese says. “Depending on how many times [a student goes], how many times [he or she] participates, [he or she] could get free school supplies, free boarding or scholarships.”

Providing those incentives isn’t the only aspect that sets GIVE’s education programs apart from those of other volunteer organizations. GIVE also strives to represent local culture, which is often overlooked by other groups, through lesson plans.

Williams says that teaching materials need to be relatable for the children. For example, a phonics chart that shows a little blonde girl, a white boy or an igloo are not relatable to most Lao children and can make them feel invaluable.

“They’re seeing this idea of European beauty in every Disney coloring book they get and every fairytale book,” Williams says. “Those pictures don’t look like them and it’s really damaging to their cultural identity.”

Additionally, teachers are required to learn parts of Laos' official language.

“We’re in this predicament where we’re teaching [the students] English because we know it will benefit them economically because of all of these unfair things in the world.

But, that being said, their own culture and their own language is being valued still and I drive that into my teachers up close and personally,” Williams says.

Beyond the curriculum, GIVE also strives to accurately reflect the culture through the appearance of their volunteers. Williams enforces modest clothing to be respectful of students’ culture.

Outside of the classroom, volunteers like Reese work to educate locals on sustainable infrastructure through building wells, building schools or planting gardens that fertilize themselves.

“I worked in the permaculture site and I just worked on changing the area they had so they could use the land for something other than rice because Thailand’s main profit in the food industry is rice,” Reese says. “... we were trying to teach these kids that you can use your land for so much more than just rice because rice isn’t as profitable as other things are.”

While GIVE members cater their projects to the wants of the location they are in, the approach stays consistent.

GIVE commits to asset-based community development, and through that promise, volunteers only use the resources readily available to the locals to ensure long term sustainability.

GIVE’s purpose is to give back to the local communities that it serves, but Williams says volunteers also gain a lesson in humanity. Within just two weeks of volunteer work, she says the local community is beyond grateful, takes in

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We’re teaching [the students] English because we know it will benefit them economically because of all of these unfair things in the world.”

RUBY WILLIAMS GROWTH INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER EXCURSION (GIVE) volunteers and shows nothing but compassion.

“Humanity is this giant group of people that live under one roof and border. Nations [and] labels don’t have to define us,” Williams says. “People are people and it’s this idea of global citizenship that every dot on the map is a group of faces, its a place, it’s a home to somebody and if you actually take the time to go and get to know [someone’s] story, you’ll connect with them and I think that’s an overarching lesson that everyone walks away from the GIVE experience with.” b

Children of all ages pose for a picture to celebrate the last day of school in Laos.

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CRAFTED WITH

Detail

A small-town fine jeweler serves the community he loves by crafting wearable works of art.

BY LILLI SHER | PHOTOS BY CELIA SNYDER

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nside a small storefront, Keith Chapman sits at his workbench, intently sizing a ring. Chapman is the owner, founder and sole employee of Keith Chapman Jeweler. An array of immaculately polished tools neatly lines the top of his desk, organized by function to optimize Chapman’s work space. He reaches for a pair of silver pliers and, squinting, embeds a small square ruby into a glistening gold band. His dog, a labradoodle named Harper, sleeps soundly in front of the glass door, curled up on a light brown welcome mat.

Tucked between Big Mama’s Burritos and Chase Bank, it’s easy to pass by the inconspicuous facade of Keith Chapman Jeweler without a second glance. However, the small storefront and workspace serves as a one-of-a-kind destination jewelry store in uptown Athens.

Chapman, an Athens native, says he never found a reason to leave the city.

“I grew up on Court Street when it was a whole different place, and I’ve just sort of grown and evolved with Athens,” he says. “These were residential buildings [on] Court Street until it was built up as a business district. It was a residential district, and it slowly, slowly changed.”

Chapman says his father owned a variety of businesses in Athens when he grew up, including a jewelry store, which led him to pursue his current career. At the time,

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uptown Athens was comprised of many locally-owned retail stores. “I worked in [my father’s] store in high school. I always enjoyed working with my hands on anything, I always have [had] a little bit of appreciation for design,” Chapman says. “I just kind of fell into it.”

Chapman started school at Ohio University, but quickly realized he wanted to work with his hands and with jewelry, leading him to earn his graduate gemologist diploma from the Gemological Institute of America

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I ran and owned a traditional jewelry store, but I kept finding myself just wanting to be involved in design and making.”

KEITH CHAPMAN OWNER OF KEITH CHAPMAN JEWELER

(GIA). He says the classes he took in art and design shaped his current business; Chapman designs and handcrafts all of the jewelry that he sells in his studio.

“I ran and owned a traditional jewelry store, but I kept finding myself just wanting to be involved in design and making,” Chapman says. “I’ve molded and created my business to where it is today: primarily commission-based, one-off pieces.”

Chapman says it’s “pretty neat” to be involved with every part of the jewelry-making process, working with the product and with the customer from concept to final creation. Chapman says he is mostly commissioned to create bridal work, such as engagement rings and wedding bands. His favorite piece of jewelry that he’s designed is his daughter’s engagement ring.

“That was the hardest project I ever touched,” he says, smiling. “Everything had to be so perfect. I’m sure I was a pain because I couldn’t find the right stones...I had to work the details out to perfection. It was the hardest and most fun piece I’ve ever made.”

A framed photo of the ring is prominently displayed near the front door of his shop, showcasing a glistening silver band that twists around a circular glittering diamond.

Chapman says he also enjoys repurposing family heirlooms into new pieces of jewelry because it connects him to his customers.

“It’s really one of my fascinations with gemstones and precious metals. That ring that was somebody’s father’s wedding band can become a piece of jewelry that they will appreciate,” he says. “Recently, I did a lapel pin that was a rose design. It was his mother’s favorite flower, so he could wear her gold on his lapel.”

The connection Chapman feels to his customers is heightened by his roots in Athens.

“It’s exciting to know that the town is still vibrant,” he says. “A lot of my customers appreciate that downtown is here...it adds to the feel of the community.

Any community can build a mall, not that many communities can hold together a downtown.”

Uptown Athens thrives partially due to its proximity to OU’s main campus. While Chapman’s primary business is not with students, graduating students and alumni looking for OU memorabilia often come to Chapman’s store during graduation season. He says he enjoys hearing the students and their parents reminisce about their college experiences and feels he is able to convey those unique experiences through his craft.

Kate Robey, the assistant director of strategic partnerships for the OU Alumni Association, says Chapman’s OU jewelry is very popular. Some of Chapman’s OU-specific products include a dainty silver bracelet adorned with a small pendant bearing a detailed design of Rufus the Bobcat, and sturdy square cufflinks embellished with green pawprints. “[Chapman] sells jewelry on our site, and he has for quite a few years,” she says. “He’s just been a great partner for the alumni association for a long time.

People shop on [the website] looking for unique products, products that are a little higher end [and] aren’t just your run-of-the-mill, everyday jewelry.”

Robey, who is also from Athens, says Chapman designed her engagement ring and wedding ring. “Just that he’s local and hand-makes the jewelry is really special,” she says, holding out her hand to display the rings. One is a delicate design of twisted silver encrusted with small glistening diamonds; the other, a simple silver band inlaid with a large square diamond.

Being able to interact with a variety of people, from OU alumni to newlyweds, through his craft, is what makes his business special, Chapman says.

“I look at my pictures and I’m proud of the pieces,” he says. “I have a lot of fun and it’s just the memories of the different people that [my products] have been done for, that I’ve built them for, and their reactions when they see them, and that’s what’s so fun; being able to do that and still being in a nice little town like Athens.” b

Chapman enjoys both designing original jewelry and repurposing older pieces.

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VIEWS

The Ohio University observatory gives viewers the opportunity to witness the unfiltered night sky.

BY NORA MCKEOWN | PHOTO BY MAX CATALANO INFORGRAPHIC BY JESSICA KOYNOCK

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erched on a hilltop at The Ridges rests the Ohio University Observatory. The domelike structure was built in May 2017 to permanently house an historic telescope that the university has owned since the 1950s.

"It took about 10 years to come up with the money and the location," says Doug Clowe, OU professor of physics and astronomy. "But [last year] we got to build the dome up on The Ridges and put the telescope in place up there."

Funding for the observatory was provided by the Office of the Vice President and Provost, the Physics Department and the Astrophysical Institute and totaled $320,000.

The astronomy faculty chose The Ridges as the location based on its accessibility for students and minimal exposure to light pollution from uptown shops and campus buildings. Minimal light pollution is essential for a clear view of the night sky.

Originally, there were plans to build the observatory on Radar Hill, which rests in the forest past The Ridges and is protected from light pollution.

However, the university worried about how difficult it would be for students to access an observatory at Radar Hill. The proposed site was about a two mile walk from campus, and this distance prompted the university to search for a new location. "[The Ridges] was the one spot that we could find close to campus that we thought was ideal," Clowe says. "It's up above everything, but you have trees surrounding it.

So, you block off most of the direct lighting. The only thing we really have to worry about are the football stadium lights, so we plan around [games]."

The observatory houses a refractor telescope produced

by J.W. Fecker Co. in 1950. OU purchased the telescope later that year and placed it on the roof of the Research and Technology Center, where it stayed in a plywood shed for over 50 years.

In 2004 the roof of the Research and Technology Center was deemed unsafe for such a heavy piece of equipment, forcing the university to find a new home for the telescope. This also gave the university time to make mechanical repairs to the telescope, which took on water damages and more during its 50-year rooftop stay.

The telescope was disassembled and refurbished by two mechanical system technicians at Ohio University, Doug Shafer and Mike Myers. OU’s Astronomy Assistant Thomas J. O’Grady says the two technicians made time to restore the telescope in addition to maintaining their normal work schedules, and the university saved a significant amount of money because of their work.

O’Grady has worked in the university’s astronomy department for 35 years and has extensively researched the Fecker telescope.

“It is not evident to me that they have ever made another great refractor...anywhere in the world since this one,” he says. “So, it's the last of its kind."

The telescope was manufactured at the same time as several other great refractors, so O'Grady says he is not certain that OU’s telescope was technically the final one to be produced. But he says that he believes it was one in the final batch.

"It's an incredible, valuable instrument that the university owns," O'Grady says. "As the years go on, it becomes an American treasure, and we should be happy to have it and have a home for it."

A refractor telescope looks like a cartoon image of a

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telescope, Clowe says. Refractors are long tubes with an eyepiece at one end and a lense at the other. They are older in design and best for viewing the moon and planets within the solar system.

The other common type of telescope is the reflector telescope. Similar to refractors, the reflector has an eyepiece to look through and a lens at the other end.

Reflector telescopes show the image after it has been reflected off a mirror and have an additional lens that creates the final image shown through the eyepiece.

“When you use lenses, you’re looking through two lenses, one is called the eyepiece and the other is the large lens at the other end,” O’Grady says. “...Overall, [OU’s telescope] is called a ten-inch refractor… A reflector telescope uses a mirror and you look through a lens on the eyepiece and it looks at an image that is magnified by a mirror.”

The observatory exists as a resource to allow as many viewers as possible to experience the awe and shock that ensues when looking at the night sky. On its opening night, people from all over the world came to look through the telescope.

O'Grady says 75 to 150 people visit on the free telescope nights as well, which are hosted by the astronomy faculty and students one weekend per month.

The observatory is primarily used by students taking

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It is not evident to me that they have ever made another great refractor...anywhere in the world since this one. So, it's the last of its kind."

THOMAS J. O'GRADY OHIO UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMY ASSISTANT Astronomy 1400, a nighttime observing class designed to familiarize students with observational equipment. However, According to the OU College of Arts and Sciences Forum, observers can see lunar craters, Saturn’s rings, Jupiter, Mars, star clusters or distant galaxies depending on the time of year and sky conditions.

"If no one has ever seen Saturn through a telescope, it is amazing to see it with your own eyes,” Clowe says. “[It] looks like a picture postcard." b

OBJECTIVE LENS enhances the magnification power of the eyepiece lens.

OCULAR OR EYEPIECE LENS magnifies the image from the objective lens.

EYE

FOCAL POINT

is where parallel light rays meet after passing through the lens.

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RECIPE

MINT TO BE Check out Backdrop’s seasonal favorites before planning the menu for your next holiday bash.

BY MICHAELA FATH | PHOTOS BY JESSICA KOYNOCK

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he upcoming holiday season is a time for gift-giving, gratitude and spending time with loved ones. There is no better way to host a successful gathering than having great friends, family and, of course, food. Before planning your holiday party, check out these Backdrop recipes guaranteed to pep up your guests for the most wonderful time of the year. b

For a non-alcoholic option, replace the peppermint schnapps with an extra scoop of peppermint ice cream and half a cup of whole milk (soy and almond milk are acceptable substitutes for dietary restrictions).

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CRUNCHY CAKE COOKIES Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 10-12 minutes Serves: 2 dozen cookies INGREDIENTS: 1 box white cake mix 8 tablespoons butter 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract A splash of peppermint extract 4 ounces cream cheese 1 cup chocolate chips 1 ½ cups crushed candy cane pieces INSTRUCTIONS: Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

In a large bowl, blend the cake mix, butter, egg, extracts and cream cheese until a soft dough is formed. Mix the chocolate chips and crushed candy canes evenly into the dough.

Roll the dough into 24 balls and place on a lightly-greased cookie sheet, 1-2 inches apart.

Bake for 10-12 minutes. The cookies should be extremely soft. Let sit for 20 minutes until completely cool, then enjoy!

PEPPERMINT PUNCH Total time: 10 minutes Serves: 6 servings INGREDIENTS: 3 cups eggnog 1 cup peppermint schnapps 8 scoops peppermint ice cream 8 crushed candy canes 5 tablespoons corn syrup Red or green food coloring (optional) holiday straws INSTRUCTIONS: In a large bowl, blend eggnog and peppermint ice cream until smooth. Add drops of red or green food coloring until desired color is reached. Pour peppermint schnapps into the mix and stir until thoroughly blended. Put corn syrup in a shallow dish and the crushed candy canes on a separate plate. Dip the rim of the glasses into the corn syrup and then roll it on the candy cane pieces, to give the drink a peppermint crunch.Pour holiday punch into glasses, serve with festive straws and enjoy!

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LOW FOOD INSECURITY AND VERY LOW FOOD INSECURITY HOUSEHOLDS IN THE U.S. According to the USDA, low food insequrity is defined by having reduced quality and variety of diet. Very low food insequity is when disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake occurs.

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WHILE THE TOWN

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Thomas “Mick” Keirns fills a trashcan with garbage that he picked up by hand on Court Street and the surrounding neighborhoods in Athens on Sept. 9.

Thomas “Mick” Keirns has been cleaning Court Street for the past 12 years.

STORY AND PHOTOS BY LIZ MOUGHON

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he torrential rain washes away the blanket of humidity, and the murky darkness feels like it’s been wearing on for days. A man wearing a bright yellow jacket, a ball cap, jeans and rain boots hops out of a bulky, white truck to dump out the excess water from the street sweeper.

For Thomas “Mick” Keirns, a maintenance technician for the City of Athens, picking up trash along Court Street and surrounding neighborhoods at 4 a.m. is simply part of his routine. Keirns, 64, stands methodically watching the water drain out of the truck like a mini waterfall. When it rains, he must stop more often. His shoulders slouch slightly, his hands fold in his pockets and his head droops down as he seems to monitor the pace of the water. He wears that rigid, contemplative stance in every type of work he does.

As a child, Keirns was easy to rely on. He says he didn’t have to be told what to do. He just did it. With eight siblings and nine step-siblings, he learned to relax.

“You got along,” he says of his relationship with his family.

“Mom and Dad made sure of that.”

His mom always called him Mick, but he never asked her why before she died. Maybe it’s because his middle name is Michael, but he thinks it’s because she loved Mickey Mouse.

They lived in a farmhouse near Millfield, Ohio, on Sand Ridge Road, a street fondly named after his father, who passed

away from a heart attack when Keirns was 18. Together, they grew a vegetable garden and raised horses, sheep and pigs.

Working with his hands is “just something [he doesn’t] pay any attention to.”

“Somebody’s gotta do it,” he says.

That perspective would guide him in all six of his succeeding jobs.

Often, while Keirns is working, an Ohio University professor walking his dog before dawn stops to pull pizza out from trash cans for his dog to snack on. Keirns still has to go clean up the broken crusts and smeared cheese, but he says he doesn’t mind. Sometimes the garbage includes phones, textbooks, wallets, watches and cameras, but anything of value Keirns turns into the police department.

There are 10 maintenance technicians working in the town of 25,000, and they rotate street cleaning schedules by the month.

The general city budget for street cleaning comes mainly from income and property tax, and what the technicians earn comes from that. The job is not as financially reliable as working for the water and sewer companies because those generate income.

But Keirns is just happy to be employed. “[He] always shows up for work, does what he’s asked, never complains. If he does, he don’t to me,” says Curt Mayle, Keirns’ boss from Amesville, Ohio.

Keirns drives the sweeper truck on E State Street in Athens on Sept. 26. He says that it’s a struggle to maneuver around parked cars. The city used to enforce street cleaning parking rules, but they don’t anymore.

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Thomas “Mick” Keirns walks across Court Street in Athens.

Sometimes other employees get cranky on the job, especially when they have to work on the snow plow as early as 4 a.m. and then stay until the next day, but Keirns quietly sticks it out.

There were only a couple times last winter when Keirns didn’t come in “when he worked 40 hours straight for 22 months,” Mayle mumbled under his breath.

Halloween is the hardest time of the year for the technicians.

Mayle says the trash has gotten out of control: they run one sweeper, two leaf trucks and about five blowers to gather up 10 to 15 cubic yards of trash over the course of four hours after the parties. Conversely, they gather about three cubic

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This is my livelihood...

If it weren’t for OU, we [maintenance technicians] wouldn’t be anything.”

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yards of trash on a regular weekend. Some people thank them, he says, but a lot of people don’t.

“Everybody that resides in this city that pays taxes is like my supervisor, because that’s who I’m working for,” Keirns says. “I mean, a lot of people don’t see it that way, but that’s the way I see it.”

Prior to his current job, Keirns worked at the Lancaster Glass Company for 27 years before it was bought by a food corporation, he says. He alternated night, afternoon and day shifts on and off for a week at a time. With usually seven-day work weeks, he only had one weekend off per month. Never catching up on sleep “makes an old person out of you,” he says.

Red eyes and blisters on his ears were normal, but those were minor compared to the hearing loss and contact with cancerous chemicals his co-workers experienced. The job demanded more than the equipment could handle, so finally Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which monitors the companies and safeguards employees in the private sector, shut the company down. Over 150 people lost their jobs. Another Appalachian industry died. More people were left looking for a way to make a living.

“That’s why it doesn’t bother me if they make a mess,” Keirns says of the parties on Court Street that create so much garbage.

“This is my livelihood...If it weren’t for OU, we [maintenance technicians] wouldn’t be anything. We’d be Nelsonville, and who wants to be Nelsonville?”

Nelsonville is the neighboring town of 5,000 with a poverty rate of 40 percent, according to the 2017 U.S. Census Bureau.

Keirns used to frequent Court Street businesses, mainly bars, when he was younger. But he wasn’t part of the “rowdy bunch,” he says. He’d wait until winter and summer breaks to go with his friends after the students went home.

“I ain’t standing in that line to drink a beer for 45 minutes,” he says. The Graduate, now Jackie O’s, was his favorite bar.

After Keirns gets off work around 4:30 p.m., he drives to his son’s house to pick up Tom Jr.’s laundry. Keirn takes the clothes home to his wife, Cheryl, who then returns to their son’s house with the previous day’s clean laundry and dinner.

It’s their daily routine.

“She hasn’t quite got to tucking him in yet,” he says with a chuckle.

Keirns enjoys watching his son race cars, and he loves watching television and relaxing at home with his wife. On weekends, he mows half-acre plots for his son and niece; he visits his sister who has breast cancer; he keeps in touch with distant siblings in neighboring Ohio towns.

Keirns sets daily and weekly goals for himself, whether it’s laying bricks or building a roof. On a sunny, sticky afternoon two days after the cool morning street clean, he hunches over on his hands and knees and methodically lays brick after brick to repair a road from damage done by a water leak. He doesn’t listen to music or audiobooks to pass the time. He barely says anything to his coworkers. He simply focuses on laying the next brick.

“This is my mentality,” he says. “If you think one step ahead, you never have to think about what you’ve already done. I don’t dwell on what’s been done. I dwell on what needs to be done.”

The street sweeper truck washes up a discarded cup along Court Street in Athens on Sept. 9.

Keirns talks about his long night in Athens, Ohio on Sept. 26. Working shifts at very early and late hours is something he’s been doing decades.

Keirns leans back on his heels to check that the rectangle bricks were placed in a straight line.

“When you get to my age it’s easier to stay down than to get back up again,” he says with a sigh.

Working for the city provides him with a predictable schedule, healthy sleep patterns, and most importantly, time with his family that he didn’t have when he worked at the glass company. He optimistically returns to work each day as early as 4 a.m. to pick up garbage and lay the foundations for thousands to walk over so that he can continue his simple life. b www.backdropmagazine.com

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FEATURE

LIVE BOLD, LIVE BREWED,

LIVE DIRTY Cancer brought Jane Cavarozzi to Glouster, Ohio, but coffee gave her a mission.

BY ELEANOR BISHOP PHOTOS BY MAX CATALANO

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t’s an early fall evening in the village of Glouster. The sky is clear and the setting sun bounces golden rays off the storefront windows uptown. In a parking lot across the street, old timers lounge in lawn chairs, eating Thai food from a nearby food truck. Children run free, playing in a patch of dirt created by a crack in the asphalt.

Young parents stand and talk in loose clusters. A band plays “Can’t Help Falling in Love” and the sound carries in the mild evening air.

At the edge of the action, Jane Cavarozzi is busy at work. Her stand, Dirty Girl Coffee, is doing good business. It’s always doing good business. She pours coffee, swipes credit cards and talks to customers. When she isn’t engaged, she stops to listen to the band.

Cavarozzi isn’t just a vendor; none of this would be happening without her.

“I think it’s important for people to see it: the path… the endgame,” Cavarozzi says.

The monthly event—called Glouster First Fridays— brings together community and culture in the area with local music, food and, of course, coffee. It is one of the many initiatives Cavarozzi is taking to challenge assumptions about the villages of Southeast Ohio and bring industry and sustainable jobs to the region.

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“There’s a lot of stereotypes about Glouster,” Cavarozzi says. “[That] it’s a very run down little town. People say, ‘Oh, even if you revitalized uptown and put stores in there they won’t buy anything’… I called bullshit on that.”

Cavarozzi’s relationship with the region began when she attended Ohio University, but she left after graduation and went on to have a successful career in coordinating distribution and transportation operations for Athleta, an athletic wear company.

In 2008, everything changed: Cavarozzi was diagnosed with breast cancer. With the support of her thengirlfriend and now wife, Kara Tripp, she decided to do some reevaluation.

“Joe, my boss then at Athleta, said I need to put more life in my work-life balance; he basically thought I was a workaholic, which I probably was, and so we decided to find a sanctuary,” Cavarozzi says.

That sanctuary turned out to be a property in Glouster complete with a 640-acre lake and 10 acres of woods.

“It’s a really nice place to relax, it’s also a really nice place to roast coffee,” she says.

Her interest in coffee production was also born out of her diagnosis. After her struggle with cancer, Cavarozzi started looking for foods with low acidity. The production of cold brew naturally reduces acidity in coffee up to 80 percent.

“A less acidic setting in your body helps you fight what’s wrong,” she says.

In 2015, Cavarozzi read about nitro cold brew—cold brew coffee infused with nitrogen and dispensed through a

“

It's our mission to support women’s economic progress. “ JANE CAVAROZZI DIRTY GIRL COFFEE OWNER tap, giving it a foamy head and a smoother texture.

“It kinda just spurred this curiosity,” she says. “It’s like, I like beer, I like coffee… a coffee that pours like a beer, that’s pretty cool.’”

Cavarozzi sampled cold brew across the West Coast and returned to Ohio with the equipment and resolve to start making and selling cold brew coffee of her own. Through trial and error, she developed coffee with a flavor that stands out among the dark and bitter flavors common in cold brew.

“We decided we didn’t like what a lot of places are doing, and we went with a lighter, prettier, kind of fruit-forward coffee bean,” she says. “We like to call our coffee the ‘Pinot Noir of Cold Brew Coffee.’”

Cavarozzi and Tripp kicked things off with a 30-day trial run in Columbus. It was there that Dirty Girl Coffee was established.

Business owner Jane Cavarozzi (left) interacts with Glouster resident Patsy Handa at Glouster First Friday on Oct. 5.

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“We had fun with it,” she says. “It helped us develop our culture as kind of a friendly, accepting [brand].”

The name Dirty Girl came from a desire to honor women in non-traditional female roles, something Cavarozzi and Tripp both know well through their careers in the male-dominated fields of transportation and distribution. On their website they state that they want to “pay homage to all women who perform every day.”

Their coffee can be found in stores and restaurants across the region, from Casa Nueva and the Nelsonville Emporium to the Wildflower Cafe in Columbus.

Dirty Girl aims to combat the economic problems challenging women in Southeast Ohio, where women are faced with a large wage gap compounded by the poverty of the villages in the region, where Cavarozzi says the per capita income is under $12,000 a year.

“Athens County women earn far less than men,” she says.

“We’re 18 points behind the national average… it really makes me angry.”

That mission fits hand-in-hand with their commitment to organic, fair trade, sustainable and women-produced coffee.

“It’s our mission to support women’s economic progress,” Cavarozzi says. “But, you know, we can’t do that and buy coffee beans from women slaves.”

These values led Dirty Girl to start roasting their own beans. After experiencing frustrations with the lack of sustainable and female-grown options available with their current roasters, they took to Kickstarter to raise money for a roaster of their own.

The campaign was a success, raising $12,500 in one month.

They soon hired two female representatives to do business with international coffee brokers.

“One of the neat things about being a woman coffee roaster in a male dominated industry is a lot of these brokers… are like, ‘hell yeah we want to deal with a woman,’ and, ‘hell yeah, we’ll get you whatever you want,’” Cavarozzi says. “And they just find us exceptional coffees.”

All of Dirty Girl’s coffees are now organic, fair trade and shade-grown. All but their Ethiopian beans are female-produced.

Cavarozzi and Tripp are committed to cultivating a sustainable and equitable job market to the villages of Athens County, where coal mining had long been the lifeblood of the region.

Using her years of experience in the distribution and transportation industry, Cavarozzi has identified what she believes is a ripe opportunity for industrial growth. The Central Ohio industrial market is reaching maximum vacancy, meaning that companies are running out of space to lease in the Columbus area.

To Cavarozzi, the solution seems simple. Central Ohio has too much industry and not enough space; Southeast Ohio has plenty of space and a desperate need for industry.

“Athens County is right in the position to be a pressure relief valve for the industrial-type work,” she says.

She’s putting her money where her mouth is; Cavarozzi is the

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Kara Tripp (left) and Jane Cavarozzi (right) run their Dirty Girl Coffee Stand at Glouster First Friday on Oct. 5.

Director of Fulfillment for QOR, an athletic wear company started by Athleta’s former CEO. In 2019, she plans to establish a QOR fulfillment center in Nelsonville. The center would store, pack and ship QOR inventory to customers across the country.

In keeping with Dirty Girl’s mission, Cavarozzi plans to hire women for as many jobs as possible. She will train them personally and hopes to become unneeded quickly.

“The sooner I can work myself out of that job the better,” she says.

The center would bring in around 80 to 100 jobs, but that’s just the beginning. Cavarozzi believes she can convince other companies of a similar size to build in the region. Unlike giant corporations such as Amazon or Gap, these companies are too small to automate their distribution systems, creating a stable source of jobs for the area.

“My goal is to have 1 million square feet built in Athens County because I know I can bring companies here, and I know companies will want to come here,” she says. “There’s a great local foods market, housing is affordable, there’s a great labor pool that needs good jobs and just a chance, and I believe in the people in this county.”

In order to learn firsthand about the real problems in the area, Cavarozzi immersed herself in the community. She moved to Glouster full-time and got to know its residents,

from community leaders to fellow members of the Athens Farmers Market, where Dirty Girl has a stand almost every Saturday.

“That’s how we developed our mission strategy really, was just listening,” she says. “We listened for a full year before we took any real position.”

They have faced complications with the Athens County Commissioners, who Cavarozzi says are lacking perspective on what’s really going on outside of the city of Athens. Cavarozzi admits to ruffling feathers, but not without reason.

“I really believe in working the problem and if you’re in one of those roles that can effect change, damn it, I want you to do it,” she says.

Dirty Girl is part of a larger trend of local businesses in the region working to give back to their communities.

Kathy Strode has been selling Dirty Girl Coffee in her restaurant, the Triple Nickel Diner, since she first opened her doors.

Strode started the diner with a mission to serve local food in the village of Chesterhill, a farming community about 20 miles outside of Athens city limits. It is an area that has an abundance of local food production, but nowhere local to eat it. Before the Triple Nickel, there hadn’t been a restaurant in Chesterhill for five or six years.

Strode tries to source everything she can from within a five mile radius. All of the diner’s meats come from local farms

and the vegetables come from Strode’s garden.

Strode met Cavarozzi while they were both applying to get small business loans. They were both working with the Morgan County commissioner, who suggested they might want to collaborate. “[Cavarozzi] came right over with samples and cheerfulness and was willing to do whatever it took to make this relationship work,” Strode says.

The Triple Nickel Diner became Dirty Girl’s first wholesale customer.

The coffee has been a hit with customers, especially when served as what Strode calls “Coffee in Jar”: homemade whipped cream in a glass jar with coffee poured over top.

“I just think it’s great that both businesses are so interested in the communities and supporting the communities and supporting each other,” Strode says. “I think that’s what all communities need: more jobs within the county and people willing to start more businesses to get jobs.”

The evening may be drawing to a close, but Jane Cavarozzi is far from done; she plans to put a brick-and-mortar Dirty Girl in Glouster somewhere down the line. She would love to clear space to build a public park, so the community can gather somewhere other than the uptown parking lot.

It’s unlikely she will run out of ideas any time soon, coffeerelated or otherwise.

“That’s what we do,” she says. “It’s just about constantly pivoting to see what you can affect.” b

A variety of Dirty Girl Coffee blends on display to be sold at Glouster’s First Friday event.

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PHOTO STORY

Learning

THE CYCLE STORY AND PHOTOS BY KISHA RAVI

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The girls pose for a picture with Amritha Subramaniam after the end of a twoday workshop at a government school in Bangalore, India.

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n 2017, Amritha Subramaniam and Nikita Naik, both students at Macalester College in Minnesota, started Ruby Days. The organization was founded with the mission “to teach young girls about the natural bodily process of menstruation.” Subramaniam, a junior studying applied mathematics and statistics, and Naik, a junior studying economics, founded the program with the help of a grant called the Live It Fund.

The grant is offered by Macalester College for entrepreneurial projects that strive to come up with solutions for global problems.

The idea stemmed from Subramaniam realizing that access to menstrual health education in rural India was a bigger problem than access to menstrual hygiene products.

“Women had access to pads or they had access to cloth but they didn’t know how to best use the cloth,” Subramaniam says.

Over the summer, Subramaniam worked with

several artists, organizations and translators to design the Ruby Days curriculum. The curriculum includes components that already exist in the realm of menstrual health awareness, as well as those that Subramaniam helped create. The educational model consists of several pieces, including comic books written in regional languages, coloring cards, pad making activities and an educational game.

Subramaniam has collaborated with a nongovernmental organization, Trinity Care Foundation, in Bangalore, India to create a sustainable medium to educate young girls about menstruation. The foundation will conduct year-round workshops with the model in 80 schools with the goal of reaching 8,000 girls by the end of 2018.

“This project has shown me the value in being able to mobilize resources across houses, across cities, across countries, and has taught me how powerful an impact that can have,” Subramaniam says. b www.backdropmagazine.com

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A girl holds up a reusable cloth sanitary pad she made during the first ever Ruby Days curriculum workshop.

ABOVE

Workshop participants play an educational card game designed to inform them about disorders, infections and female hygiene.

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A student threads her needle as she prepares to stitch a cloth sanitary pad.

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Workshop participants hold up their finished coloring cards designed to destigmatize the menstrual cycle.

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CALENDAR

OONN TTH THE HHEE Whether you’re looking to learn something new, de-stress during finals or just find something fun to do around the holidays, you can find it this winter at Ohio University.

BY RYAN FLYNN

Ceramics Sale NOVEMBER 29, 8:30 A.M.-5 P.M. Don’t miss the chance to buy handmade ceramics from students, faculty and alumni at the fall semester pottery sale hosted by the College of Fine Arts in the fifth floor lobby of Siegfried Hall.

Renter Workshop Series DECEMBER 1, 12-2:30 P.M. The workshop series will be held in Baker University Center. It will focus on where to look, what to expect and other helpful information for first-time renters of off campus housing. Visitors will receive a free lunch and a preferred renter card, letting landlords know they attended the workshop.

Holiday Chef’s Table with Chef Kevin DECEMBER 7, 6-8 P.M. Prepare for the holidays with a cooking lesson presented

by Ohio Culinary Services in the Culinary Studio at Jefferson Marketplace. Seasonal hors d’oeuvres such as apple slaw crostini and goat cheese and apricot truffles are just a couple of the festive fares that will be demonstrated in the limited seating event. Tickets are $25 per person.

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Public Telescope Nights NOVEMBER 30-DECEMBER 1, 7:30-9:30 P.M. See what’s happening in a galaxy far, far away at the Ohio University Observatory located at The Ridges. Telescope Nights are hosted by OU astronomy faculty and students.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Science Cafe: Julie Suhr, Detecting Deception DECEMBER 5, 5 P.M. OU Director of Clinical Training Julie A. Suhr, who holds a doctorate in clinical psychology, will give a talk in The Front Room as part of OU’s Science Cafe series. The series encourages a dynamic dialogue between the presenters and the audience.

Ice Skating at Bird Ice Arena

Ohio University’s Bird Ice Arena offers recreational skating hours Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Grab a group of friends and take on the ice. Skate rentals are $3 per person.

A unique gathering place of students and community members Social Justice • Fair Trade • Local Art & Music • Spoken Word Musicians Open Stage Reader’s Choice Friendly Service Awarded Best Coffee House In Ohio By Ohio Magazine

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As the opioid crisis continues to claim lives in America, colleges across the country are adopting preventative strategies.

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rug overdose rates rose to nearly 5,000 deaths in Ohio during 2017, according to the Ohio Department of Health’s 2017 Ohio Drug Overdose Data, and opioids ranked among the top five abused drugs. As a result, students on Ohio campuses and across the country are demanding access to naloxone, the antidote to an opioid overdose.

Naloxone, often referred to by the brand name Narcan, treats opioid overdoses by blocking the receptors in the brain that interact with the addictive drugs. In doing so, it restores a person’s regular breathing, which may have been shallow or nonexistent during the overdose.

“Whenever we have patients come through the emergency room now, we’re giving them more than one dose quite often to get enough to reverse the effects,” says Sherleena Buchman, a professor in the College of Health Sciences and Professions and a practicing nurse. “...They get enough of the dose and then they’re totally awake and able to interact.”

Patients often need more than one dose because the effects of Narcan are not permanent. Narcan does not cure an overdose; it simply halts overdose symptoms for a period of time. However, that window of time can be crucial for the patient until first responders arrive.

Narcan has become increasingly prevalent as the opioid epidemic worsens. Emergency rooms are stocked. Members of Ohio State Highway Patrol carry Narcan, and community members can also be trained to administer it. In Athens County, Project DAWN (Death Avoided With Naloxone) offers community members and students free two-dose packages of nasal spray Narcan once they’ve completed training.

“Anybody who feels like they need to carry Narcan with them all the time can go and get trained,” Buchman says.

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request it through Hudson Health, but the same twodose package will cost about $130. Though certain types of insurance may decrease the cost, paying for Narcan is not an option for many people.

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That’s why we use [Narcan] as an intervention to save a life for right now.

That life, for right now, will still be here tomorrow. We’ll look for a bigger solution for tomorrow.”

SHERLEENA BUCHMAN PROFESSOR AND PRACTICING NURSE Ohio University faculty and staff are addressing the opioid epidemic in other ways. Last spring, President Nellis created the OU Opioid Task Force, which reviews the university’s current efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.

The College of Health Sciences and Professions has also created Athens HOPE (Halting Opioid Abuse through Prevention and Education) in an effort to educate the community about opioid abuse and addiction. “[Athens HOPE] is a collection of over 60 individuals

and 25 to 30 different community organizations and representatives from different colleges at the university,” says Rebecca Miller, founder of Athens HOPE. Miller says the many people working to address the opioid crisis, both inside and outside the university, all have the same mission of assisting those in need and halting the epidemic.

“We’re going about it in different ways, and it’s exciting that there’s so much passion and dedication and energy behind it,” Miller says. “I’m glad that there are so many people that are invested and involved in these efforts.”

OU has addiction treatment services students are often referred to if they have drug- or alcohol-related problems. The OU Police Department also carries Narcan. Other universities, however, have taken Narcan availability a few steps farther.

The University of Texas, for example, has trained all resident assistants (RAs) to administer Narcan to students, and Ohio State University’s Student Government recently passed a resolution to have all residence hall staff trained and equipped with Narcan. There has been discussion about training the RAs at OU, Miller says, but no plans are currently in place.

Buchman echos Miller’s sentiments when she says that the resources available to the community are valuable and best used when all organizations work together toward the same end goal.

“I think that’s the big mystery of the whole opioid crisis: How can we stop it as a team and how can we collaborate?” she says. “That’s where we are, in the steps of looking for collaborative partners.”

Students on other campuses have mobilized to demand free Narcan for students, faculty, staff and community members.

One organization, Naloxone on Campus, is “a coalition of student advocates holding their colleges and universities accountable for access to life-saving overdose medication.”

Naloxone on Campus circulates literature and other materials to different campuses through student advocates, who do programming on their individual campuses.

“We try not to grandstand because every college is different, and we don’t like to tell the representatives what to do so much, but we do have a lot of different materials and resources that we come up with,” says Charlie Rinehart-Jones, founder of Naloxone on Campus and student at Oberlin College in northern Ohio. “...We talk to them and help them articulate why there might be different challenges.”

Rinehart-Jones says Naloxone on Campus launched in July and now has 17 advocates on campuses in nine different states, including Oberlin and Kenyon colleges in Ohio. Currently, there are no advocates on campus at OU. Some people are worried about the obsession surrounding Narcan, Buchman says. She has heard people say that Narcan is like a Band-Aid, offering a temporary solution and ignoring the larger problem of addiction. But, she says, the task forces and other organizations can address the larger problem. In the meantime, Narcan will save lives that would have otherwise been lost.

“You have to have that Band-Aid because if you don’t, you’re losing lives, and every life matters,” Buchman says. b

Amount of Drug Overdose Fatalities in the U.S. in 2018

SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS

33.1% NATURAL/ SEMI-SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS

16.8% HEROIN

18% METHAMPHETAMINE

12.1% COCAINE

16.4% METHADONE

3.6%

Source: https://www.drugabuse.gov/ related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates

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ENTERTAINMENT

CHANGE THE

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An OU student organization challenges students to defy stereotypes in the music industry.

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n the current political climate, the conversation about equality among men and women is fiercely debated across many fields of work. Across the country, women are standing up for equal rights, wages and respect.

On Ohio University’s campus, student organization Women in the Music Industry [WIMI] is working to inspire women to pursue careers in the music industry despite the fact it is often perceived as a boys’ club.

“I think there’s a shift in the way that non-male professionals in the industry are being talked about,” says Diana Buchert, president of WIMI and a senior studying recording industry studies.“It’s common knowledge now, at least to me, that women are paid less than men, face sexism and have to jump more hurdles than a man.”

According to a 2017 study conducted by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Inclusion Initiative, only 1.8 percent of the 651 music producers studied were female. Of the 2,767 songwriters credited, only 11.4 percent were female.

“I’ve heard stories from women about being talked down to by men, regarded as being skillful at their job ‘for a woman’ [or] assumed they were the girlfriend or groupie during a tour, it goes on and on,” Buchert says. “...It’s no surprise that non-males are finding it hard to break into the industry.”

For four years, WIMI has provided female and

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nonbinary students interested in working in the music industry with opportunities for mentoring sessions with music industry professionals. Those mentors include artists and repertoire assistants, music supervisors, producers and artists. This year, Buchert says the organization plans to host a panel with industry women during Communication Week, an event that will be funded by a showcase of local non-male talent.

“What WIMI strives for is to provide the resources, networks, friendships and career tips to build a group of strong, confident, insightful women that are ready to take on the industry as a career once they leave school,” Buchert says.

Ellyn Loss, a former WIMI president who now works at Mom and Pop Records in New York City, says mentorships are a crucial asset to have when entering the music industry.

“The music industry has always been predominantly male,” she says. “As a woman breaking into the industry, it’s super important to connect with other women who can mentor you and advocate for you. Always seek mentorship and connect with other women who have been through it.”

Buchert and Loss both attribute their professional successes to their involvement with WIMI. “WIMI is such a unique organization and it constantly

catches the attention of people in the industry,” Loss says. “Without a doubt, every employer that I have had post college has been blown away by how great of a concept WIMI is.”

The interest from employers proved fruitful for Buchert when she received an externship (a job shadowing opportunity similar to an internship) position with Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.

WIMI acknowledges the imbalance of power between men and women in the industry, but also strives to create a space for members to connect and share stories, Buchert says.

“WIMI has given me a family of amazing non-males that I know will have each other’s backs throughout our careers,” she says. “The passions, knowledge, confidence and insights from everyone involved in WIMI inspires me constantly.”

Although the music industry is still clearly maledominated, through experiences like her externship, Buchert has seen firsthand progress being made and wants to share this progress with women entering the industry.

“There are so many incredibly supportive men out there who understand the struggles we can face,” she says.

“There are definitely more supportive men than mean men.”The aforementioned study conducted by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, the overall study shows a general increase in female songwriters, although the statistics fluctuate from year to year.

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The passions, knowledge, confidence and insights from everyone involved in WIMI inspires me constantly.”

DIANA BUCHERT WOMEN IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY PRESIDENT In 2012, females made up only 11 percent of the industry’s songwriters. The 0.4 percent difference may seem miniscule in a larger context, but even small victories can help facilitate mass change. Josh Antonuccio, faculty advisor for WIMI, says the women involved in the organization are crucial in making that progress.

Diana Buchert, the president of WIMI, facilitates a WIMI meeting about securing internships and careers in the music industry.

“Those women have really helped move the needle,” he says. “It’s not just like some exercise in theory, it’s on a street level. They’re making those contacts, they’re doing the work, they are transforming certain sectors … these women are really beginning to define the next generation within the areas they were studying while they were here.”

During her time with WIMI, Loss says her team realized they were missing a critical strategy component when working to further progress.

“We decided we needed to open the events to both males and females,” she says. “...We realized, how are we supposed to get the word out about all of these insanely successful women if we don’t include men in the dialogue and help educate them about all that women do for the music industry?”

Antonuccio says it’s about more than just educating men to tolerate women. It’s about empowering women to pursue careers in the industry.

“The women in this group, or any other women that are successful, it’s not because of anything other than the fact that they’re extremely talented,” he says. “It’s just a fundamental question of are you willing to administer the same amount of dignity and respect that you give everyone else?”

The music industry still has a long way to go in terms of granting women equal opportunities as men. However, with organizations like WIMI, industry stereotypes can be challenged with the hope that progress will follow. b www.backdropmagazine.com

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SPORTS

GET TO KNOW THE

ROPES

The OU sailing team has found a community offshore.

BY CORINNE RIVERS | PHOTOS BY MADDIE SCHROEDER

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very week, a group of students makes its way down US 50 to Lake Snowden with a couple of small boats to take to the water and sail away. The students are part of Ohio University’s sailing team, one of many club sports on campus.

The start of the semester marks the beginning of the sailing club’s season, with the team traveling to races as early as the second week of school. The team includes a president, vice president, treasurer and fundraising chair, but also has positions that are specific to sailing such as a fleet captain, who is responsible for the team’s equipment.

Sailing club team president and junior John Holbrook began sailing at 10 years old at a summer camp in Massachusetts, where his father spent his childhood.

Now a seasoned sailor, Holbrook spends the hot summer months working as a sailing instructor at the day camp he once attended. Although Holbrook has extensive sailing experience, he says he often encounters members who are completely new to the sport.

“I don’t think [not knowing how to sail] should discourage people from joining because we get a lot of people who have never sailed before,” he says. “… Don’t let your lack of experience stop you from trying it out.”

Because the team welcomes experienced and amateur sailors alike, weekly meetings in Tupper Hall are dedicated to teaching the basics of sailing.

“We talk about things like how sailboats work, what are the different parts of the boat, because there’s a lot of different terminology and vocabulary which is the sort of thing we can teach inside,” Holbrook says. “We teach ideas like points of sail, thinking about how you want to adjust your sails based on the wind conditions and direction, and also racing strategy, which is thinking about what’s the fastest way to go through a race and how to read a course and things like that.”

Like Holbrook, a lot of the officers are also sailing instructors or have a considerable amount of sailing experience. Their expertise enables them to not only teach new members the basics of sailing in the classroom, but also get out on the water and demonstrate sailing firsthand. When the team carpools to Lake Snowden for practices, the officers always make sure to put someone experienced on a boat with someone new.

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I have a dynamic role,” says Katie Sanford, a senior at OU and vice president of the sailing team. “I help with instruction on the boat, as well as, I hope to promote team participation and inclusivity. Sailing can be intimidating for those who have never sailed before, but with enough push and support, new members can really grow as athletes. That can be said for members who have experience in sailing as well.”

With help and guidance from Sanford, Holbrook and other seasoned team members, new members have the opportunity to engage and learn from eager teachers.

“I hope that new members gain a passion for sailing,” Sanford says. “We have so many members with unique sailing experience, which I hope that new members are able to take advantage of. Sailing is such an incredible sport and our team has the opportunity to share knowledge and experience with anyone."

Full of support and friendship, the team cultivates personal connections that go far beyond OU’s college campus.

The club team at OU is one of many sailing teams that belong to the Midwest Collegiate Sailing Association [MCSA]. Through the partnership, the OU sailing team can travel to sailing tournaments and regattas, which are a series of boat races, throughout the midwestern area.

The MCSA has 45 sailing teams from Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa, making it one of the largest conferences in college sailing. The OU sailing team has travelled to regattas at Miami University, Ohio State University and Chicago. Typically when the team travels long distances, the boats are provided by the organization holding the event. For the Chicago regatta, local boat owners lent their boats to the college teams for the weekend.

“I think [tournaments] are a really great way to meet a lot of interesting people.

Probably my favorite part of sailing in college has been meeting people, not only at OU, but also at other schools that we sail against,” Holbrook says.

“It’s really cool to go and see these people at all sorts of different places throughout the year. You make some cool friends.” b

Nick Maude and Jackie Moran, members of Ohio University’s Sailing Club, sail on Lake Snowden on Oct. 17.

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VOICES

One Backdropper’s experience at a women’s moon lodge.

BY CORINNE RIVERS ILLUSTRATIONS BY SAMANTHA MUSLOVSKI

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hen I first heard about the women’s moon lodge event happening at Athens Yoga, I was instantly curious. I had never heard of a moon lodge, and I had no idea what the practice entailed. But I didn’t want my ignorance to stop me, so I packed up my yoga mat and headed down East State Street to the yoga studio.

I couldn’t have predicted the positive energy that was waiting inside.

A moon lodge, also called a menstrual hut or red hut, was part of a common ritual in ancient Mayan and Greek cultures in which women would retreat together once a month to recharge themselves while connecting with others. The main purpose of a moon lodge, historically, was to synchronize with the wisdom of the moon and its lunar cycles. That allowed groups of women to become in tune with their bodies and the divine feminity surrounding

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them. Some moon lodge sessions have a particular message or focus, while others grant freedom to do whatever feels natural: reading, journaling, meditating or resting.

Upon walking into the yoga studio, I came to a circle of women. Some sat on blankets, others yoga mats, but all wore the same inviting smile. I met Ashleigh Vale, a yoga instructor at Athens Yoga and leader of the moon lodge. I chose a spot near the wall and laid my yoga mat on the floor, folded neatly in half for comfort. In the middle of the circle was an array of jars and bowls as well as a variety of feathers and pinecones all arranged around a beautiful orange glassblown centerpiece. We found out the piece was made by Vale’s boyfriend, who is a glass artist.

As the women of the group engaged in introductory conversation, Caitlyn Rack, one of the regular attendees, brewed chamomile tea. An eclectic assortment of mugs

were passed around the circle, and we were free to fill our cups with the tea. In addition to the tea, dark chocolate and coconut drops were offered.

As an icebreaker activity, Rack laid out a set of cards on either side of the glass centerpiece with a corresponding book. We each took a card and read it aloud with our names.

The card I received depicted a rose, which corresponded to openheartedness. The reading stated letting go of anger, resentment and regret was very important at this time in my life. I also read about finding courage within myself.

Then, Vale read aloud “Wild Geese,” a poem by Mary Oliver.

We closed our eyes and focused on the poem’s words while sinking into our bodies and getting used to the space around us. There was a line in the poem that stuck with me that I thought pertained to the purpose of the moon lodge itself.

The line read: “Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile, the world goes on.” The truth and veracity of the line resonated with me. Through individual hardships and injustices, the world continues to spin, but that doesn’t mean we need to suffer by ourselves. We find strong relationships that we can rely on through the bad times and then we can continue on, just as the world does.

After we immersed ourselves in the overall message of Oliver’s poem, we opened our eyes and engaged in a series of meditation exercises including breath awareness and spine elongation.

One breathing exercise we did that is often implemented in meditation techniques is called Nadi Shodhana Pranayama, or Alternate Nostril Breathing. To use the technique, first you touch the tips of your right index and middle fingers to your palm.

Then, using the thumb of your right hand, close the right nostril while taking a deep exhale. Keeping the right nostril closed, inhale deeply and pause, holding your breath just for a few moments. Then remove your thumb, opening the right nostril, and simultaneously close the left nostril with your ring and pinky finger. Exhale deeply through the right nostril before inhaling again. Alternate breathing through each nostril for a few minutes.

When our bodies were at peace, we were invited to say whatever was on our minds. No advice. No judgement.

Just women listening to other women. One of the members brought a long woven stick that we used as a “talking stick,” so as not to talk over one another. The stick was passed around to each woman who had something to share. There were personal and private stories that evoked emotions and tears throughout the room.

When I was handed the talking stick, I spoke about my current hardships and the things I was dealing with, both inside and out. It was relieving to speak my mind to a room full of women who understood what I was going through. It helped me feel at peace knowing that I wasn’t carrying my burdens alone and that I had a support system of strong women who were there when I needed them.

It was fascinating to take part in something so pure between women. It was empowering to hear the support that the women in the group were giving to others, even women they had never met before. That is, in a large sense, the purpose of a moon lodge: connecting not only with yourself, but with others as well. b

WHAT TO EXPECT INTRODUCTORY CONVERSATIONS

TEA AND SMALL SNACKS

ICEBREAKER ACTIVITIES

POEM READING

MEDITATION

BREATHING EXERCISES

STORY SHARING

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VOICES

LIVING AS A

SURVIVOR

An Ohio University student recounts her journey to recovery and strength after being sexually assaulted.

BY TORI DORAN | PHOTOS BY BAXTER TURAIN

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n Nov. 27, 2015, my life changed forever. I was an excited freshman at a big university who was still thrilled about attending a school with such a good reputation.

It was a couple months into the school year, and I was starting to feel comfortable in the new chapter of my life. I found a couple of clubs that piqued my interest, I established a small group of friends in my dorm and I was able to make my way around campus without Googling the location of campus buildings.

But one night in November, all of my excitement about college, meeting new people, deciding my major, being in a new city and life in general — all of it was completely stolen from me.

My life as I knew it was ripped out from underneath me.

Nov. 27 was a Friday night, and a ton of my friends were

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visiting for a big Saturday football game. We decided to take it easy and just go out for a little while since we were getting up early for game day in the morning. It was amazing seeing friends from high school who I hadn’t seen in a couple months.

I was feeling good, looking good, having a great time, catching up with friends. After chatting for a while and having a few drinks, my friends and I made our way to the bars.

Sounds like a typical start of a night out, right? Now let’s add in a few more drinks, a crowd of way too many people, the darkness of the night and a twisted, deviant rapist. That’s all it took for a guy to change my life forever.

Although I might not remember exactly how I got into that unfamiliar bed in that random college house, I have a vivid memory of an aggressive, unapologetic guy forcing himself on me. Screaming and pushing didn’t convince my rapist to stop, but me getting sick did the trick. I rushed out of that bedroom, leaving my purse behind. But losing my purse that night meant nothing to me in comparison to everything else I lost the night I was raped — my pride, my confidence, my innocence, my safety and my security.

Rather than focusing on what that guy did to me, let me tell you about the people in my life who helped me take back everything I lost that night, and more.

Tori Doran, a senior studying journalism, speaks at It’s On Us Bobcat, a rally meant to confront more than 12 cases of sexual assault on Ohio University’s campus since the beginning of the 2018-19 school year.

CONTENT WARNING: THIS PIECE CONTAINS A GRAPHIC, FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.

On Saturday morning, my friends supported me and encouraged me to make the difficult phone call to my parents to tell them what happened to me.

My oldest brother, who was just a short drive away from campus, embraced me in my dorm room while helping me file a police report.

The police and investigators made sure I was heard as they trusted and documented every word I told them. The nurses at the hospital made sure I was safe and protected while examining me.

The survivor advocate who worked for the hospital sat next to me, held my hand and helped me see how strong I could become after such a horrific experience.

The rest of my family drove a couple hours so they could hug me with loving arms as fast as they could.

And I needed those hugs more than you could ever imagine because I was truly afraid to be touched — terrified to be touched — when I woke up that Saturday morning. I never wanted to be touched again after I looked at the marks my rapist left on my body. But my friends, my family and my support system knew I needed their love more than I ever had before. Thank God they did, because they helped me get from that broken, empty place to a place where I could be the

empowered, determined and passionate survivor I am today.

But the journey wasn’t easy. I was diagnosed with PTSD. My anxiety and depression got worse. I pushed some people away and shut myself out for a little while. I was losing my friends, and I lost sight of the future I wanted for myself. My mind was occupied with blaming myself for drinking too much and for being too careless when I went out. I was so wrapped up in thoughts of how I could have prevented it from happening.

With the guidance of my parents, I made the decision to transfer second semester from this massive school with a great reputation to the smaller, homier Ohio University. I couldn’t handle the thought that I could come face-to-face with my rapist at any moment on campus.

Even though the transfer process was long, and it meant I would be placed with someone random in my new dorm at OU, it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. My random roommate became one of my best friends, and she helped me realize OU was my true home. Transferring led me to decide on a suitable major and it helped me find the best support system in the world.

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myself enough to take what happened to me and turn it into something positive, and that is something that all survivors have to do.

We survivors don’t need sympathy, we need listeners. We don’t need advice, we need to be trusted. We don’t need answers, we need your love. With support from people who care, we won’t call ourselves victims of sexual assault anymore. We believe we are survivors, and we live like true survivors every day.

Living as a true survivor has encouraged me to join a sorority, where I have found the most empowering support system I’ve ever had in my life.

Living as a true survivor has given me the confidence to take on leadership positions, and it’s how I met the passionate board members of the Women’s Panhellenic Association.

Being a survivor has taught me to treat others with kindness

and respect because you never know what someone has been through. It has taught me to be careful with my words.

Being a survivor has taught me to fully embrace the good times because after experiencing something so dark, you realize how truly beautiful the good times are.

Living as a true survivor has empowered me to speak about what happened to me. I first spoke up at a chapter meeting when the topic of sexual assault was brought up after a lot of reports were made on campus. I spoke up again when reporters from the Cincinnati Enquirer asked me about the anti-sexual assault banners raised on sorority and fraternity houses around campus. That article eventually was published in USA Today. I’m so thankful that the focus of the story had nothing to do with my rapist, and he’s not making any headlines anywhere.

The most valuable part of being a survivor is having the

Students, faculty and community members take to the street to take a stand against sexual violence.

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ability to move others and encourage change with the power of my story and the power of my perspective.

I’m speaking up because I am fed up and wish to see a day where all humans respect other humans’ bodies, minds and spirits. I want to see an end to sexual assault, I want sex to be consensual and I want our community to be safe.

Let’s continue taking a stand, and intervene when we see something wrong. Let’s promise to be better bystanders and to put an end to the rape culture on college campuses. Be there for your friends who have their own stories.

If anything ever happens to you, please utilize the confidential advocacy services through the Survivor Advocacy Program here at OU. Receiving professional help and guidance was the best first step on my road to recovery.

I’ve decided to take a positive approach to sharing my story to give other survivors hope and to show the rest of the

world that we are a powerful force. We know how disturbing, violent, brutal and life-changing sexual assault is because we relive the torture that was done to us every day, and that is why we work so hard to put and end to it.

To all survivors, I hope you believe my final thoughts sooner than I did.

We believe you and what happened to you was not your fault. No matter what you wore, how much you drank or where you walked to, being raped was not your fault.

We are fighting to end sexual assault in honor of you and what you been through. Don’t be ashamed of what happened to you and remember you are not alone. Utilize the people around you, and let your light shine. Always remember you aren’t a victim, but a survivor of sexual assault. Live loud like a survivor would because that is who you are, and that is how you deserve to live. b

If you have personally been a victim of sexual misconduct, or know someone who has, Ohio University provides a variety of resources depending on your needs:

Counseling and Psychological Services

(740) 593-1616 3rd Floor Hudson Health Center www.ohio.edu/counseling counselingservices@ohio.edu * Confidential Campus Resource

Campus Care

(740) 593-1660 1st Floor Hudson Health Center www.ohio.edu/campuscare * Confidential Campus Resource

Survivor Advocacy Program (740) 597-7233 (24/7 Crisis Line) Lindley Hall 038/038C * Confidential Campus Resource

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Exhibit A. Andrew Thompson, a junior studying visual communication, captured the landscapes of Colorado and Utah while on a road trip with friends.

LEFT

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado

ABOVE

Arches National Park, Utah, at dusk.

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Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

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1.Ring gone from woman on right. 2. Shadow from pole removed. 3. Woman on left's shirt color altered.

4. OSU Shirt text removed. 5. House key removed from belt.

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ORIGINAL PHOTO BY MAX CATALANO

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