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A Mother’s Story

Portage County battles growing heroin problem

LOSING DYLAN

Kent Stater Staff Report

Editor’s Note: Dylan Stone, a Kent State business major, lost his life to heroin. Dylan’s mother, Juli, agreed to tell the story of her son’s addiction in her own words, as told to Ian Flickinger.

My son died alone after a 6-month battle with heroin.

It was March 11 and my husband, Robert, and I were at an appointment when he tried calling us. He left a message, but wouldn’t pick up when we tried calling him back.

Instantly, I was sick because I knew. He didn’t answer. We flew home and I knew.

On his voicemail, all we could hear was him rustling around. We think we were listening to his last breath.

Our world is destroyed forever.

When Dylan was in fifth grade, his travel baseball team won the state title because of him.

His teammate hit a single and they put Dylan in to pinch-run. Before you knew it, he had stolen from first to third base. It was a tie game, with two outs — his coach told him, ‘Don’t steal.’ Well, he stole anyway.

They won.

While his teammates were carrying him on their shoulders, the coach was screaming, ‘I told you not to steal!’

That was always kind of him — he was always going to push it.

Everything came easy for Dylan: teachers loved him, he was good at sports, girls liked him, he had plenty of friends — he had it all.

He was the oldest of our kids. I used to always think, when he was younger, how happy I was that he was the oldest, because he was very responsible. I was on bedrest my entire pregnancy with my 13-year-old daughter Audrey.

Dylan was only in kindergarten, but he did the laundry, washed the floors and waited on me hand-and-foot. I was always so thankful for him.

Dylan did everything early. He stood up and took his first steps at eight-anda-half-months old. I remember, when he was in grade school, he broke his arm playing football and the doctors had to put a hard splint on his arm.

One day, he climbed up a tree and fell and broke his cast. I had to explain to the doctors how my son, with a broken arm, had broken his cast. But, he was always so adventurous; he always wanted to have fun.

For the last year-and-a-half of his life, Dylan took care of my 101-year-old grandpa — cooking his dinners and doing laundry. They’d have outings for ice cream and hardware store trips—Dylan never missed a day no matter what because family was very important to him.

He loved old cars. He used to attend car shows with my mom and stepdad; I used to joke that they loved him more than they loved me, but it’s true.

They really did.

His substance abuse issues first started in high school. There were upperclassmen using drugs: smoking weed and snorting Adderall and cocaine. Dylan was the kind of kid who wouldn’t smoke cigarettes; he’d always say they were bad for his body. But, to him, smoking marijuana was OK. We fought about it all the time and did everything we could to stop it. In

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the end, there’s only so much you can do.

The biggest reason why he turned to heroin was he couldn’t sleep — he never could, not even as a baby. He was always concerned about other people being upset and, honestly, he probably cared too much about what other people thought. I think that’s why he couldn’t sleep; his mind would race at night.

When his best friend, Andrew Moncheck, died at the hands of a drunk driver, things only got worse.

(Editor’s Note: On July 12, Mon 2014, Stow-native Andrew Moncheck, 18, was struck and killed by David Brown on Interstate Town 77 in Bath Township. It was Brown’s fourth drunk drivdriv ing-related arrest and ninth car crash since 1996.)

Dylan was supposed to be with Andrew, but Dylan went on a senior trip to Myrtle Beach. I had to make the call and tell him he needed to come home. It rocked his world.

To m a k e matters worse my grandmother passed away shortly after. They put him on Benzodiazepines, Valium, Xanax, Ativan and Klonopin — you name it he had it prescribed. But he couldn’t sleep. The physician then stopped prescribing them all.

Last summer, an upperclassman told him, ‘Heroin will make you sleep even better.’

That’s when his addiction began.

I first learned he was using heroin in August 2014.

He was sick and wanted to quit it all; he came to us and asked if we could take him to rehab. He didn’t use very long — six months at most.

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Photos courtesy of the Stone family

Portage County Court of Common Pleas Judge Becky Doherty struggles with the decision of whether to keep heroin abusers in custody for their own protection or to let them out.

In one case, she let a male defendant go home overnight for a doctor’s appointment after he had been in the Portage County Jail for two months.

She soon realized the magnetic pull heroin has on addicts.

“He ordered heroin like he would order pizza,” she said. “It was delivered at 3 a.m. And they found him overdosed in the garage.”

Doherty’s decision to keep heroin abusers in custody has consequences, adding to the county jail’s overcrowding problem while offenders wait for treatment beds at the Northeast Ohio Community Alternative Program, or NEOCAP, where the waiting list is about 60 days long.

“If I don’t, I read about them in the paper or the probation officer calls and says, ‘Hey, we lost another one,’ ” she said.

Editor’s Note: The Kent City Police DepartDepart ment said they typically receive eight to 10 herher oin-related calls per month. Wayne Enders, the coroner’s office administrator, said Portage CounCoun ty ranks at the fifteenth largest county in Ohio.

Portage County Sheriff David Doak is on the receiving end of the defendants Doherty and the rest of the judges incarcerate. At one point in February, Doak closed the county jail and acceptaccept ed only felony and violent misdemeanor cases because the number of inmates was at 228; the jail is certified to handle 218.

Overcrowding in the jail has been a problem for several years and many of the inmates are there because of drugs or drug-related criminal activity.

Officials like Doherty and Doak are dealing with a significant rise in heroin-related incidents.

More seriously, the number of heroin deaths in Portage County increased each of the last three years; it ranks fifteenth of 88 counties in Ohio.

An analysis of data from the coroner’s office shows there were 216 drug-related, accidental deaths in Portage County since 2011. Fifty-nine of those deaths involved heroin while others feature what Wayne Enders, the coroner’s office administrator, calls a “cocktail.”

“When (users) buy an illicit drug, they don’t know what’s in that powder or in that cube,” he said. “They think they’re going to have heroin, which they’re accustomed to using,” Enders said, “and they end up using fentanyl because you can’t tell the difference and it’s 50 times stronger and they die almost instantly.”

Fentanyl — a more potent, synthetic drug that has similar effects to heroin and morphine — is commonly used to “cut” heroin, which means it’s mixed in to make the drug stronger, combating any tolerance an addict may have. Since mid2014, twenty-five drug-related deaths have indicated fentanyl use in the autopsy results.

“We’re close to Warren, close to Akron, close to Cleveland, close to Youngstown, so a lot of stuff makes it down here,” said Wayne Enders, the coroner’s office administrator.

In 2014, the National Institute of Drug Abuse reported 10,574 heroin overdose deaths in the U.S., while the Ohio Department of Health reported 1,177 deaths in the state.

“It’s bad everywhere,” Enders said. “This year, we’ve had the most cases in the first four months than we’ve had in any other year.” The coroner’s office is six weeks ahead of the number of cases it had in 2015, a year in which it set a record for total cases.

Overdose Education

Project DAWN, or the Deaths Avoided With Naloxone program, was started by the Portage County Health Department and the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Portage County in September 2015. The free, 30-minute class is designed to help anyone dealing with heroin addiction by offering

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Samaria Rice calls for solidarity and social change in May 4 address

Karl Schneider / The Kent Stater Kent State’s Black United Students raise their fists to symbolize black power during the ceremonies held in the Commons on Wednesday, May 4, 2016.

Emily Mills Editor Samaria Rice called for "white privilege" Americans to get involved in the Black Lives Matter movement during

her keynote address as part of the annual May 4 commemoration ceremony.

"It's almost like they got somewhat of a power, and if we can get to them, we can all come together — white privilege Americans, Black Lives

Matter, all lives matter — we can come together and have some change across this nation. It's gonna take all of us to change this."

The May 4 Task Force invited Rice, the mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by Cleveland police in November of 2014, to speak as part of the commemoration, which was themed “Black Lives Matter: Long Live the Spirit of Kent and Jackson State.”

Rice said the four students shot and killed on May 4 were exercising their First Amendment rights.

“We're still wanting justice for these four babies that (were) killed,” Rice said. “America should be ashamed.”

Alan “Tré” Dufner, a junior philosophy major and president of the May 4 Task Force, said the ceremony went better than he ever could have imagined.

“In order to honor the lives of those that were lost at Kent State, you have

to honor the lives which are lost due said Baldwin, who also addressed to police brutality, and the way that the crowd during the ceremony. “It manifested itself today is through brought home the point that I was tryracial violence, such as the kind that ing to make in my speech too.” happened to Tamir Rice and the kind that the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement is trying to fight.”

President Beverly Warren opened the ceremony, thanking Samaria Rice for coming to speak.

“This day, and the legacy of this day, the memory of this day, is so very important,” she said.

“Our community has a solemn and enduring responsibility to honor the promising young lives we lost that day.”

Chynna Baldwin, a sophomore psychology major and newly elected president of Nikos Frazier / The Kent Stater Black United Students, said she Samaria Rice spoke to a packed Kent State enjoyed Rice’s speech.

Commons about racial unity and her late son, “I thought it was really rele- Tamir Riceduring the 46th annual May 4th vant; I thought it was really real,” Commemoration on Wednesday, May 4, 2016.

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Students paint rock in support of Black Lives Matter Marissa Barnhart City Reporter The rock on front campus was painted several times within a few hours on Wednesday during the May 4 commemoration ceremony, The rock was initially painted with “black lives matter #solidarityforSamaria” around 10 a.m. in support of Samaria Rice, who delivered the keynote address during the ceremony.

Samaria Rice is the mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by police in a Cleveland park in November 2014.

After “Black Lives Matter” was painted, the rock was repainted to say “All Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter,” in reference to police.

Arie Hayre-Somuah, a senior public health major, said she initially went out at 10:45 a.m. to paint the rock in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

She later heard in the afternoon the message had been painted over.

She said “Black Lives Matter” doesn’t mean all lives don’t matter or cops’ lives don’t matter; it’s meant to show that black lives are equally as important.

“They don’t understand where we’re coming from,” Hayre-Somuah said. “Black lives are being disproportionately killed. In this moment, black lives matter.”

She said she was upset to see “Blue Lives Matter” painted on the rock because it represented how cops shouldn’t take responsibility for their actions, and black lives matter enough for them to be held accountable.

Ritchie Allen, a sophomore sociology major, said he didn’t paint the rock, but ran out with spray paint in hand once he saw on social media that it had been changed. He said he wanted to help because the rock being repainted was a sign of “state oppression.”

“It’s not a subjective reality you can choose to see,” Allen said. “Freedom is merely privilege extended to all. We’re all entitled to it.”

Allen said there are students who believe the lives of black students are important, and it’s essential for others to support them.

Hayre-Somuah said students coming together to paint the rock back to “Black Lives Matter” is a symbol that the deaths of black lives is an issue that affects more than just one community.

She said it serves as a wake-up call and demonstrates that it’s not an exclusive movement.

“They don’t care if we die,” she said. “We’re here to say we’re part of this nation, too.”

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Baldwin stood on stage with the executive board of Black United Students, which passed out fliers with a smiling sketch of Tamir Rice and the words “Justice for Tamir Rice.”

“Understand that by us saying ‘Black Lives Matter,’ it’s not detaching ourselves from any other group,” she said. “It’s just highlighting the fact that our lives do matter. There’s been so many instances that our lives don’t matter, so it’s just us showing that we do.”

Rice said racism is still present in America, and the country needs “cleaning up.”

"Racism is a disease,” she said. “You are not born with racism. You were taught racism."

Four people spoke about the

four victims of May 4: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder.

Jennifer Schwartz, Allison Krause’s cousin, said Krause was peacefully protesting on May 4, 1970.

“What had them shaking in their boots was not pebbles in the pocket of a college freshman with flowers in her hair,” she said. “She wielded words of truth.”

Krause’s mother, Doris, died in January.

Throughout the day, the rock on front campus has been repainted several times, with messages ranging from “Black Lives Matter,” “all lives matter” and “cops lives matter.”

“I just think it was kind of a petty move, I think, personally,” said Baldwin, the new BUS president. “Whenever we have a comment, this is how we respond: we paint rocks.”

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DYLAN A Mother’s Story...

He wasn’t someone who was using for years.

He started by snorting heroin, but then began injecting it — someone had told him that you can buy a box of 100 insulin syringes for $8 at Walmart.

I would never, in a million years, have thought he would inject. He would never share a needle, but once he knew he could get his own packages, things changed.

My son was ashamed. He didn’t want his brothers and sister to know he was going to detox — he asked us to tell them he was camping. We kept it quiet; none of them really knew.

He lasted three days at a detox facility in Akron. I remember thinking, "this is the kid who inspects spoons at home to see if they’re clean — this is not going to fly well."

We took his car away and were driving him back and forth to school at Kent just to limit his ability to go get heroin.

But that didn’t prevent him — of course.

Friends would drive him to Akron to go get it because they wanted to do it too.

In January, he overdosed for the first time. My husband (an Intensive Care Unit registered nurse) found him and had to do CPR on him. I was getting my nails done at the spa on Graham Road.

He was awake in the emergency room for all of two hours and then the following day, the doctors sent him home.

His brothers and sister didn’t know about his addiction until he overdosed, but they knew then.

We took him out of classes and brought him home. Later that week, he left the house on foot and used again. I went to check on him and, although he was breathing, he was completely out of it. This time, my husband just loaded him up in the car and took him back to Akron General Medical Center.

By the time I got there—I had to wait for someone to come pick up my daughter — they were already signing the discharge papers. There was nothing; no toxicity screens or psychological consultations, even though I requested one. It was basically, ‘Oh, here you go.’

They gave us an injectable can of Narcan (Naloxone). The next day, he was very sick and by Sunday, he was begging us to give him money so he could go use just so he could stop the cravings, which we wouldn’t do. My husband was literally restraining him and his brother had to tackle him in the snow.

We knew he needed help.

Monday, Glenbeigh (an alcohol and drug treatment center in Rock Creek, Ohio) called and said they had a bed.

We saw him on Saturday after his first week—he was so sick they extended his detox. Finally, the next week, you could see he was starting to get better.

Our first visit, we talked the entire time we were with him — he told me everything — most of which I already knew by then.

I knew he was getting better, because he would give me a whole list of food requests: Emidio's pepperoni pizza with extra bacon and a cannoli, or my mom’s cupcakes — all of his favorites.

We planned on getting him into IBH (an addiction and recovery center) in Akron because they have a 90-day residential treatment program — longer than Glenbeigh’s typical 30-day stay — and he needed more time. Your brain simply doesn’t heal that fast. We asked for special permission to take Dylan out of treatment at Glenbeigh early, and on Feb. 15 we picked him up to get him assessed.

Robert and I waited for Dylan in the parking lot for six hours. I asked him if he was on the waiting list when he came out and he replied, “Mom, they said I can’t go to IBH.” I was fuming; I didn’t know you needed to have Medicaid to receive treatment. I couldn’t understand why my son couldn’t go because he had private insurance, two parents, a home and a driver's license. When h e f i r s t o v e rdosed, we asked one facility if we could bring him in. They told us, “bring him in, in a week.”

I didn’t think he would make it that long; I thought he’d be dead in a week.

When someone is trying to get services, they shouldn't be denied because they don’t have Medicaid. It’s a messed up system. He should

Heroin Statistics

27 51 percent

of drug-related coroner cases since 2001 have been linked to heroin

people died of heroinrelated causes in Portage County since 2012.

While addiction to other drugs has fallen, heroin has increased for the third straight year in the Akron-Canton region.

The class focuses on the signs or symptoms of an overdose, rescue breathing, calling 911, and administering naloxone (also known as Narcan) in an overdose situation.

Naloxone is repeatedly being referred to as the “lifesaving drug” and an “opioid antagonist” for its slowing or

have had more time. He should have had more time to heal.

People think, ‘Oh, they just need to ask for help.’

Well, bullshit. That’s not the case.

On March 1, he came home. We were unsure what to do. My husband and I set it up so that one of us was always home with him and he went to a meeting once a day, sometimes more. We drove him every time.

He began IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program) treatment. Dylan told me he didn’t mind them, which surprised me because he wasn’t always so keen on group meetings with people he didn’t know because he was shy by nature.

He sent me a text, I said: “How was IOP and what time is your meeting today?”

“Good,” he replied. “The counselor calls me Princess.”

“Why is that?” I asked.

“Because I look so young and innocent and good-looking,” he responded. “It’s kind of embarrassing, but whatever.”

Wednesday, March 9 was the first day he was alone at home. I was a nervous wreck. I beat myself up about going back to work.

Thursday, our friend drove him to meetings. He’s a music teacher and was going to teach him guitar lessons because Dylan was bored at home.

Dylan liked to be busy; when he had a lot of things to do he was at his best. So, him sitting at home wasn’t really good for him.

Thursday night, he went to a meeting and he talked to a couple of his friends he made at Glenbeigh.

Now, I know that his friends from Glenbeigh had used a couple of different times. From what they tell me, Dylan was the one on them saying, “Don’t use or I’m going to kick your ass.”

They felt like he was the strongest one of them.

He hated heroin. Hated it.

I knew something was up Thursday night—he was up late. He was back on medication for sleep and had been going to bed. But, that night he wouldn’t go to bed, he kept talking about guitar lessons or transferring to the University of Florida. His grades weren’t great. It’s amazing he passed anything his first semester to be quite honest—he was high the majority of the time.

It was one of those situations where you’re still half asleep and don’t snap right into things. He just said, “Nevermind Mom, I’ll talk to you about it later.”

That’s the last time I ever talked to him.

I’ll never understand what happened that Friday, ever. All I know is it’s that strong of a craving. People have that negative opinion about using, but 75 percent of people are addicted after one try.

I know this: If this could happen to my son, it could happen to anyone.

He had been home 11 days—clean for 48 days—and he had snorted it.

There wasn’t even that much, we haven’t gotten his toxicity screens yet, but suspect there was fentanyl in it.

Editor’s Note: Fentanyl, according to

reversal of opioid effects during an overdose. The naloxone separates the opioid drug from the brain’s receptors and allows the individual to breath again within two to eight minutes.

“Everybody has somebody in their life that’s addicted to heroin … you can’t find somebody who isn’t touched by this,” said Becky Lehman, the director of health, education and promotion for the Portage County Health Department.

“I have a personal connection with heroin. Who doesn’t?”

the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is a powerful synthetic opiate analgesic similar to but more potent than morphine. When combined with other abused substances, fentanyl can markedly enhance their potency and danger.

As angry as I am about the person who brought it to him, I’m more upset about the lack of services.

My husband and I both constantly see him lying on the floor. If I sleep for three hours, it's a good night. I can’t go in his room.

I am in denial. I either think he’s still in Glenbeigh or I can’t function.

You know, you try very hard to keep it together, especially for the other kids.

We don’t want to see them so upset.

I literally think about him every second of every day. You rehash and rehash, ‘What could you have done differently?’ I feel angry at him, sad for him, and you feel like you failed him as a mother. People always said I needed to cut the cord with him, I have four kids, but it was just different with him.

We just had that connection and now it's gone. I love my other kids but no one can make me laugh like he could. And that sucks.

We were open and honest with each other and so I know kids his age who are using. I’ve reached out to a couple of them. I’ve reached out to parents, too.

Some are in disbelief. People don’t want to believe it’s a big issue, but it is. And it's a big problem in Kent.

I want people to know that if someone is using they need to run toward them not away from. That’s what they need. I want to tell people to educate themselves; don’t be ignorant about this. He had a supportive family with two parents, siblings and grandparents.

He had all the right things. He wasn’t from a broken home, we weren’t arrested or criminals. He had it all.

Our world is forever destroyed. He should have been going to school, planning his future, dating, having kids—all these things he’s never going to get to do. We feel cheated.

Dylan didn't fail. I'm proud of my son, I know who he was and how he was with my family. I’ve had people come up and tell me things he did for them—he would do anything for anybody. But this is an addiction, and once you start, good luck getting off of it.

A friend made me a charm necklace to remember him: It has a ‘D’, a heart that says ‘son,’ an angel wing, a football, an old car, a dolphin and a sand dollar. Every beach vacation our family took, he was a dolphin because he could hold his breath forever and he'd always collect so many sand dollars, his boogie board was covered.

And, there’s the legend of the sand dollar.

Now break the center open/ And here you will release/ The five white doves awaiting/ To spread goodwill and peace./ This simple little symbol,/ Christ left for you and me./ To help to spread His Message/ Through all eternity./ Without him, our world is forever destroyed.

Samantha Karam / The Kent Stater John Cleary (standing), who was one of the injured students on May 4, 1970, shakes hands with author Thomas Grace (sitting) during the Carrie George / The Kent Stater book signing at the University Book Store on Wednesday, May 4, 2016.

Carol Meyer stands in Allison Krause’s memorial in the Prentice parking lot on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. In his hands he held the lantern in remem- Cleary said he finally started enjoying coming back to campus because it's an opportunity to connect with other wounded students. brance of Allison Krause who was shot and killed in the May 4, 1970 shootings.

Austin Mariasy / The Kent Stater Black United Students members Mi’Kayla Jones (middle) and Geriece Drone (right) talk with Beverly Warren (left) on Wednesday, May, 4, 2016. Beverly Warren thanked them for their presence at the 46th commemoration ceremonies for the May 4, 1970 shootings.

Karl Schneider / The Kent Stater Spectators sit on the lawn in front of the stage while Samaria Rice, Tamir Rice’s mother, speaks to the crowd gathered in remembrance of the May 4, 1970, shootings on campus on Wednesday, May 4, 2016.

Alex Delaney-Gesing / The Kent Stater Kent State students showed solidarity for the Samaria Rice, keynote speaker for the 46th annual May 4 commemoration ceremony on the university's Commons on Wednesday, May 4, 2016.

Carrie George / The Kent Stater Couple Karen (left) and Kenny Shane (right) read about the May 4, 1970, tragedy in the May 4 Visitor’s Center on the 46th anniversary of the shooting on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. Kenny Shane was a freshman at Kent State when the shooting occurred.

Carrie George / The Kent Stater Carol Meyer (left) and Floyd Baumann (right) stand together in the Prentice Hall parking lot on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. Meyer was 14 when the shooting occurred and was wearing the same outfit he’s wearing in the photo. Baumann, a Kent State student at the time, was on his way to deliver a psychology textbook to Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the shooting.

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School of Art director to retire Holly Disch Visual Arts Reporter

Christine Havice, director of the School of Art, is set to retire following this spring semester after being with the Kent State community since 2003.

Havice was an art history professor along with being the School of Art director. She made her move to Kent after years of being the director of the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky.

“I had a former student who was in the School of Art at Kent (State who) called to say (the School of Art) was searching for a new director and it was the right time,” Havice said. “When I came, I still hadn’t made up my mind how interested I was, but I was really struck by the work ethic among the students.”

Havice grew up in Trumbull County and attended Ohio University. She was a junior in college when May 4 occurred at Kent State.

While at Ohio University, she made a decision to switch from chemistry to art history at the end of her sophomore year, which started her journey into traveling the world and becoming an art historian.

“Finding out about students being killed on their way to classes (on May 4) is a horror that has always stayed with me,” Havice said. “Part of my job as a historian is to really raise people’s critical faculties.”

Throughout the years—from a teacher to an administrator— Havice feels ‘why’ and ‘how’ are the most important questions to ask.

As the director, Havice had the opportunity to speak with donors to raise money for the university, especially the new Center for the Visual Arts (CVA.) “The days are never the same; that’s kind of the fun part of the job,” Havice said. “There are a lot of routine stuff like filing reports, collecting things and sending them on.”

She helps support other faculty by raising money, finding resources or identifying opportunities. Havice also had to solve the everyday problems, including communication with the construction on the CVA. Havice said her favorite part of the job has been working with people and encouraging students to think critically about their work and the world.

“One of the best things is helping raise money for student scholarships,” Havice said. “Scholarships that can support students in conferences, presenting papers or study abroad.”

Though Havice’s official last day is June 30, she still isn’t quite done. After retiring as director, she plans to continue teaching, when her schedule permits. Right now she is working on an online class she is teaching next fall.

She would also like to continue writing her book that she’s been too busy to complete.

“The one thing I really need right now is some time away from schedules, so I don’t have to be on anyone else’s schedule,” Havice said.

Michael Loderstedt, professor of printmaking in the School of Art, will be the next interim director. He was a member of the search committee 13 years ago when they selected Havice.

“Havice impressed us greatly then. I remember at the time how much she spoke directly to the duties of the job, something the other candidates did not,” Loderstedt said. “(Havice) has overseen the coming together of all our arts facilities under one roof with the completion of the (CVA).”

Loderstedt believes that with the help of the faculty, the CVA was possible under Havice’s leadership.

Hillel at Kent State and the brothers of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity joined together on Wednesday night outside of the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (M.A.C. Center) to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as Yom HaShoah.

First, The Rock by Hilltop Drive was painted with the words “Yom HaShoah” and “#never forget.” Students then moved to outside of the M.A.C. Center to recognize the names of those lost during the Holocaust.

“I’m here today to commemorate all of the Jews and non-Jews and the six million that have perished in the Holocaust,” said Alec Stern, senior criminal justice major and member of Alpha Epsilon Pi and Hillel. “Most of us will be camping out for 24 hours, (and) we will be reading (the) names (of those who were lost during the Holocaust.)”

Terry Hugo, a brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi and senior business management, said even if

Clint Datchuk / The Kent Stater Cassie Pegg-Kirby, assistant director of the Women’s Center, shows off the food pantry at the Women’s Center on Tuesday, May 3, 2016.

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As the interim director, Loderstedt believes the School of Art will face some natural growing pains as they learn to work more collaboratively with each other as faculty programs share resources.

“I expect a great number of new challenges as we transition from many locations to one, moving into our new facility,” Loderstedt said. “I believe we are excellently poised for positive growth in the visual arts at Kent State.”

Loderstedt is a tireless advocate for the transformative power of the arts education. He plans to bring this passion to the interim director’s position.

“I anticipate working alongside another efficient and talented individual whose goals and objectives align with the College of the Arts’s mission of ‘Transforming Lives Through the Arts,’” said Effie Tsengas, the communications and marketing director of the School of Art. Tsengas believes Havice is a passionate, dedicated leader.

“I have so much admiration Havice,” Tsengas said. “The CVA is an amazing manifestation of her stalwart efforts.”

Havice has worked on the new CVA building project since before 2008. The building will officially open on May 6.

“I think the CVA is a wonderful space that everyone can be proud of,” Havice said. “ I am happy to be leaving when things are in such great shape.”

The food pantry at the Kent State Women’s Center hopes to increase its impact by moving from the Carriage House into the Williamson House this summer.

With a new, larger space available, the pantry hopes to begin filling its barren shelves with donations from expiring meal plans.

“The pantry is currently pretty small,” said Cassandra PeggKirby, assistant director of the Women’s Center. “We have all nonperishable food. Any student ... can come fill up a bag with food from the pantry. Over the past couple of years we have—(on) average—around 100 visits. Typically it’s about 50 or 60 people (who) use the pantry a semester.”

Food is a cost that students in search of a higher education should not have to worry about. “(The food pantry is) not meant to be a system for people to get all their food from,” Pegg-Kirby said. “It’s more for students who had an extra bill to pay this month or are running low on their meal plan. If we have the food, we won’t turn people away. But it is here to serve as (many) people as we can.”

Jose Calderon, a sophomore accounting major, believes the food pantry’s expansion is a good idea.

“It’s great the pantry is getting a larger space,” Calderon said.

“I went in last year to bring in some food and they only had a couple shelves available.”

The new space at the Women’s Center will allow for additional initiatives to be based in the larger building.

“We’re gonna have one of those free libraries,” Pegg-Kirby said.

“It’s only a shelf, but it will be a place where people (can) put books when they’re done reading it and pick up a new one.”

This mentality of a sharing community is one Pegg-Kirby hopes the expansion of services offered at the Women’s Center with continue to promote.

Across the hall from the new pantry will also be feminine products drive. Female students unable to pay the increasing cost of feminine products will be able to receive free pads and tampons at the Women’s Center.

“Feminine products are definitely a necessity,” said Anna Hofer, a senior hospitality management major. “Every girl has to have them and they are somewhat expensive. If I was unable to buy those, I don’t know how I would be able to focus on school.”

Additionally, the Women’s Center will be able to have a permanent diaper drive in the new space, which will also be located across from the food pantry. These services will help lessen the stress that student parents have to deal with.

The Women’s Center will move to the Williamson House following the spring semester, on May 20.

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someone isn’t Jewish, they can still participate in the observance.

“I’m not Jewish (and) I come up every year and read (names) at least three times,” Hugo said. “I think it’s cool to make the students realize that we are welcoming and want everybody to come up and take part in this because we can’t do it ourselves.”

Hugo also said everybody on campus is supportive of the observance.

“We are on a very diverse campus,” Hugo said. “A lot of people are willing to be inclusive and involved with it, rather than shying it away. I’ve seen other campuses that do this event and they don’t have as much success with it because (of) the fact that a lot of people have a little bit of hate.”

Sarah Cahn, a senior fashion merchandising major and member of Hillel, said even though the world may have moved past the Holocaust, everyone should still be aware of it.

“It was a huge world event, I think if we don’t do things like this, it can easily be glossed over,” Cahn said. “Even if five people

stop throughout the day, and just say ‘what is this’ and they learn a little bit, I think that’s why it’s really important.”

Stern said he is mainly participating in order to give support and educate other students with correct information.

“There (are) still people who don’t believe it (the Holocaust) existed, and we are losing our generation where there are actual Holocaust survivors,” Stern said. “All we have is video testimony and books, but we won’t have the physical thing.”

Michael Pollak, a senior criminal justice major and member of Hillel, has organized the observance on campus for the past four years.

“I believe this reaches not just me,” Pollak said. “Not just anyone that participates, not just the Kent campus, but everyone in the world needs to know about this day and remember why we honor it, and everyone who perished in the Holocaust.”

The remembrance wil last until 7 p.m. on Thursday night. dmill139@kent.edu

Nikos Frazier / The Kent Stater Gathering around the rock on front campus, members of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity and Hillel at Kent State hold six candles on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. The six candles symbolized one million Jews that perished during the Holocaust. They gathered around the rock before walking to the M.A.C. Center to stand and recite the names of those who parished during the Holocaust for 24 hours.

KSU alumni stars in more than 200 films, sets world record Benjamin VanHoose Entertainment Reporter Although Kent State alum Bill Blair, 61, has graced movie theater screens and television sets for more than 30 years, even the most observant audience member probably wouldn’t know it. That’s because the majority of Blair’s roles require several layers of makeup and prosthetics.

In fact, Blair has spent so much time in front of the camera in the guise of aliens, monsters and creatures, that he even established a new Guinness World Record category: most special effect makeup characters portrayed in a career.

His official total: 202 different characters, and counting.

“I contacted (Guinness World Records) to see if they had any categories like that and they didn’t,” Blair said. “They asked me to submit, so I began compiling a spreadsheet of all my roles.”

The process of establishing the record was no easy task; Blair had to assemble records and visual proof of each character, as well as acquire signed statements from people on the sets that could confirm he was there.

Blair was able to rack up such a large number of makeup-heavy characters during the proliferation of science fiction franchises in the ‘90s.

Among others, he was featured in 69 episodes of “Babylon 5,” and more than 50 episodes of various “Star Trek” spin-offs.

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“I was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to get involved in the business,” Blair said.

“Acting, basically, fell into my lap.”

Acting happened upon Blair after he endured a serious car accident that rendered him unable to continue touring with his band Expression. Leaving his music career behind, Blair turned to modeling. That’s when he was asked to stand in for someone of the set of an “American Playhouse” TVmovie set.

“I got a close-up with the two main actors and didn’t even know it,” Blair said. “They ended up using the shot in the final version.”

Then, with an agent and some onscreen experience in tow, Blair moved to Los Angeles to compete for his name on the cast lists of major Hollywood productions.

“I’ve been wandering around Southern California ever since, scratching out a living,” he said.

It took Blair awhile to become accustomed to the makeup application procedures—a process that he said is three hours (on average) of artists painting, gluing and spraying materials onto him.

“The toughest part truly is, ‘Can I sit still for that long?’” he said. “These are artists who work on canvases (or) easels. That canvas doesn’t move, so (the artist) can do what they need to do.”

Blair said other complications in the process throughout a day of filming can be sweat smearing a design,

itches that are unable to be scratched and an occasional feeling of claustrophobia while donning the heavier costumes.

All of Blair’s performances aren’t given from under painstakingly crafted makeup designs; His filmography consists of credits like Man At the Bar in “The Master,” Minister in “Pretty Little Liars” and Diner Patron in “2 Broke Girls.” He was even involved with two Academy Award best picture winners “The Artist” and “Argo.”

He is most celebrated for his “Star Trek” credits, however, which have a big enough fan base to warrant many conventions around the world. Blair attends six to eight of those a year as a featured guest, interacting with fans, holding makeup demonstrations and signing autographs.

“I’ve enjoyed where I’ve been,” Blair said. “I’ve made a comfortable living and I can walk down the street without being followed by cameras.”

That level of privacy applies to Blair’s visits to his hometown of Kent when he returns to see his mother, who still lives in the home he grew up in.

“I try to get back a couple times a year,” he said.

Blair attended the Kent State University School, a K-12 laboratory school that allowed education majors to gain experience right on campus.

He was part of the last graduating class of KSUS (now the Schwartz Center) before it closed in 1972.

Though Blair has been away from

Kent for so long, what he learned while earning his telecommunications degree has proved useful in one recent role in “Nightcrawler.” In the film, Blair is seen in the control room scenes operating a switch board.

“There I was using what I’d learned all those years ago,” he said.

Over the course of his career, Blair has worked with the likes of George Clooney, Bette Midler, John Goodman and Bruce Willis. But his favorite celebrity exchange happened on the set of “The Birdcage” with the late Robin Williams.

“I had a nice little private conversation with him that really meant a lot to me,” he said. “It was during the time my father was passing away Photo of Bill Blair, courtesy of IMDB. and (Williams) had just lost his dad not too long ago.”

Night” and an Emma Stone-led film As far as dream franchises he wishes he could be part of, still in development.

Blair said he’d thankful for the Blair regrets never being on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and said he types of roles he’s cast in because would accept any role in a “Star Wars” it allows him to get the best of both worlds: starring in major productions installment.

Until he’s enlisted into the galaxy and maintaining anonymity.

“I’m not at all bitter about where far, far away, Blair will continue to star as extras in other big-time films. He I’m at; I’m actually happy,” he said. recently finished filming scenes for the “To me, it’s not a job; what I do isn’t upcoming comedy “The House” star- work—it’s too much fun.” ring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler, the bvanhoos@kent.edu Ben Affleck-directed drama “Live by

Josh's addiction Hannah Armenta Guest Columnist

I was sitting in Reagan National Airport, waiting for a flight back home to Cleveland last spring when my phone buzzed. The screen read "Joshie.”

It takes a certain amount of mental preparation to open a text from your brother who says he hates you, so I sat there for a minute or two before I actually read it.

I closed my eyes, took a breath and looked.

The text said he loved me and that he was going to jail.

I didn’t ask him why. I already knew the answer. Josh was addicted to heroin.

My name is Hannah, I’m a senior at Kent State and Josh is my little brother.

Despite being only two hours away, I didn’t go home much because I knew what was waiting for me — a depressed mother and an angry brother.

Being the child of a depressed parent is hard.

It’s hard to not blame yourself for how they are feeling. After all, she always called us her whole world. Did it mean we weren’t good enough?

We both had to live in constant fear her depression would swallow her whole. We had already come close to losing her, and that reality lived in our minds. I chased perfection to ensure I only had good news to tell her. Josh became angry, lashing out at me and my parents. He felt like my mom used up all of her love on me and there was nothing left for him.

He had to face high school on his own.

While I was away at school, I continued to be an overachiever and my brother continued to decline. I was on the Dean’s list every semester and my brother was failing almost everything, with the exception of his math classes.

He is a math wiz. While I continued to play sports in college, my brother was getting an F in P.E. because he didn’t feel like dressing up.

The faster I moved forward in my life, the slower and more backward Josh moved in his.

Josh’s problems become worse

Growing up

He’s three years younger than me but four years behind me in school.

Fifth grade was when it became a real nuisance to have a little brother. I was a big kid and he was a little one. Josh just wanted to hang out with his older sister, and I really enjoyed bossing him around so it worked out well. He would let me dress him up in tutus and dresses. We would put on shows. Naturally, they were written and directed by me. He would follow my lead wherever we went. But as we got older, that all changed.

Our parents got divorced when I started sixth grade. We moved across town to a smaller house and my mom got a job as a substitute teacher. She was sleeping on the couch because she didn’t have a bed and couldn’t afford a new one until she made some money. Our mom was sad, but at that age, we couldn’t see she was slipping into depression.

I quickly adjusted to life at my new school.

My brother started at a charter school. He had trouble in public school because of his ADHD. He liked his new school, but he always needed a little extra help.

Josh wasn’t into organized sports. In my life, I’ve played nine different sports. My brother never played any. The year I quit cheerleading, I dove into the world of theater and was in five different plays. My brother would reluctantly attend performances and hated when I would sing show tunes in the house.

In high school, I was busy with (cheerleading), swimming, choir and honors and AP classes. My brother was put in special education, which he hated because of his learning disability.

I graduated when I was 17 years old and moved two weeks later to San Francisco for design school, leaving my brother behind with a mother whose depression was getting worse.

His best friend, Kyle, died when Josh was 16. Kyle was riding his bike home from a youth meeting at our church and hit a rock. He flew over the handlebars and—even though he was wearing his helmet—hit the ground in just the right way. He was brain dead instantly.

I came home for a weekend trip when Josh was a junior in high school. Before he left for school, we got into an argument about how he talked to our mom.

That day, my brother didn’t come home and my mom started to worry. She is the worrier to end all worriers. I told her she should stop freaking out and just wait for him to come home. She didn’t listen. She knew something was wrong and drove around for more than an hour until she found him.

He was laying next to a cement bench passed out in front of a Food 4 Less. His friends left him there.

My mom called me in hysterics. “Your brother took something and he had a seizure.

I’m taking him to the hospital.”

When I got to the hospital, I didn’t go in.

I was scared he was going to die and by not going in, I could pretend it wasn’t happening.

I sat in the car for two hours. It was then I realized my brother might have a problem.

My brother survived. He says he didn’t know what was mixed in with the pot he smoked. The tests they took at the hospital couldn’t figure it out either.

Another year passed and he managed to graduate high school. Barely, but he did graduate.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports in 2012, 669,000 Americans had used heroin in the past year. In 2014, the Center for Disease Control said there were 10,574 heroinrelated deaths in America, which is a 439 percent increase since 1999.

While I was interning in D.C., I saw a Facebook post by my brother. It hinted he was arrested and would soon be going to jail. A quick look at the Monterey County Police crime log and I found out that my brother made a death threat and was found in possession of illegal weapons, including a set of brass knuckles.

He already had several misdemeanor charges on his record at that point, including theft.

It was hard to believe. The Josh I left behind was funny and loved practical jokes. He was my baby brother, and the baby brother I remembered would never have done that.

Soon after he was sent to jail, my dad had to bail him out. He couldn’t take detoxing from heroin. The first time Josh went to jail, he didn’t call me. He didn’t call me the second time either.

Trying to save himself

The most recent time he was in jail, I began to miss calls from an unfamiliar phone number.

My dad told me my brother was trying to get in contact with me from jail.

I set up my account with the calling company so I could actually talk to him. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I finally picked up.

“I asked the judge to put me in,” he said. “I don’t want me to be the one in our family to die from this.” We have two cousins who overcame heroin addictions when we were younger.

Josh decided he needed to go to jail in order

to detox.

About half way through our conversation, he broke down crying. He apologized to me for everything bad he said to me the past few years. He told me he loved me, and that he never stopped looking up to me.

After that first phone call, we talked to each other almost every day. If there was a day he didn’t call, I would worry. I spent most of my time worrying about him. Every thing I knew about jail was from movies or TV shows. I feared my brother would say the wrong thing to the wrong person and be killed. If my phone rang with the calling service’s number, I dropped everything to talk to him.

He is lucky. He passes as white, despite our Hispanic heritage—being a part of the Mexican group in jail means a lot more rules and a lot more violence.

I can’t remember a time in my adult life when my brother and I have been closer. We talked about my girlfriend and my time as the editor of The Kent Stater. He told me when he gets out he wants to be a journalist like me.

We spent a lot of time talking about books.

One day we were talking about Katniss’ character progression in The Hunger Games. I started to cry. I’m not even really sure why I did. I think it’s because it was the first time I could remember my brother being passionate about anything in a long time, even if it was just about some stupid book.

Limbo

My brother was released from jail after two months for good behavior. He still has to go back in, but since he is clean again the judge decided he could wait for his trial at home. For now, my brother is in limbo.

He can’t get a job because he never knows when he might have to meet with his lawyer or go to court. Josh can easily get into an inpatient program while he waits for his court date because my dad used to work for the city, but he doesn’t want to go.

Everyday he sits and waits for his sentence.

A sentence that will determine how much of his twenties will be wasted because of decisions he made while high on heroin.

We haven’t talked since he was released from jail in February. I miss talking to him everyday, and I still worry about how he is doing.

I know he is going back to jail, but I don’t know when or for how long. I don’t know when or if I will ever get to see him again.

The hardest part about loving someone with an addiction is the uncertainty. The only thing I know for sure is that whether or not I recognize the number, I’ll always pick up the call. harmenta@kent.edu Photos submitted by Hannah Armenta

Heroin takes over

Later, the texts started. “Fuck you.” “You ruined my life.” “Selfish bitch.” “I hate you.” I learned later they only came after he asked my parents for money and they said no. He wanted to get high and since he didn’t have a job, he needed money from someone.

At first I tried to respond to the texts, but that only led to more fighting. So eventually, I just stopped replying.

Intellectually, I knew he didn’t mean it. He loved me even though he was never really good at showing it, but I knew he did.

Debating Across the Aisle

Editor's Note: The Kent Stater will feature columns from the Kent State College Democrats and Kent State College Republicans each Thursday on popular political issues.

The story so far Jared Strubel College Democrats At the beginning of this year’s election cycle, there were five Democratic candidates.

After an eventful and arduous journey, it has been narrowed down to two potentials. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both possess the drive and ideals this nation needs, so no matter how the remaining primaries and the convention go this summer, the Democratic Party and the American people will have a strong candidate ready to fight for progressive ideals.

2016’s political climate Jacob Tabler College Republicans Donald Trump was once again the victor of the latest Republican primary that took place Tuesday. The GOP frontrunner won the state of Indiana, claiming all 57 delegates. Meanwhile, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich have both announced the suspension of their campaigns.

Trump is now the only candidate left in

We will come out with someone ready to take on student debt, to ensure all people have access to healthcare, to protect women’s reproductive rights and who will keep us safe with a sensible foreign policy.

The road leading up to today has been not without its bumps, though. On the campaign trail of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, violence has erupted among protestors his rallies, with some being beaten and threatened.

Trump did nothing to stifle the violence , going on to declare, “I love the old days,” he said. “You know what they used to do (to protestors) like that when they got out of line?

They’d be carried away on a stretcher, folks.”

The hypocrisy of the political right to claim that personal freedoms and rights are under attack by “liberals” in an attempt to be politically-correct is illuminated by their own intolerance of dissent. When protestors appear at a Republican rally, they are thrown out or dealt with in other ways. On the other hand, Democratic candidates such as Sanders are

seen giving their stage to Black Lives Matter protestors. As university students, the right to assemble and protest should be protected and violence against peaceful organization should not be tolerated.

Beyond individual actions, we have also seen the influential role that the media can play in political discourse. The media has come under attack for underreporting on some candidates and have been accused of portraying the Democratic race as already decided. While Sanders has an uphill battle ahead of him to secure the nomination, neither he nor Clinton are giving up the fight before the convention.

Beyond candidate coverage, the media has also helped determine what Americans think are important issues. Through a lack of coverage of certain rallies, a limitation on discussion of policy and redundancy regarding over-discussed issues, the media at all levels has stifled the political discourse. This is the case because it has either worried too much about ratings and money or has been too timid to ask real

questions and draw true comparisons between candidates or hold them accountable for what they have done or said.

This election cycle has thus far proven to be an adventure; The Zodiac Killer, a bird whisperer, an irrelevant governor, a fascist with a bad spray tan and a hot-sauce lover have all ran or are still running for president of the United States.

From a Democratic perspective, it has been a thrilling ride—though not filled with nearly as much controversy as the Republican side— with it narrowed down to two candidates who are both committed to taking this contest to the convention. No matter how the convention shakes out, the Democratic Party will have a far more sensible and progressive candidate for president, ready and capable of taking on whoever the other side may choose.

the race and is the presumptive nominee. It is important at this time to explore the political climate of the current election cycle and the reasons behind the nomination of Trump.

At the beginning of the race for the Republican nomination, Trump was never expected to be the frontrunner. However, there have been two strong movements among the Republican base that allowed for him to rise in the polls: Firstly, there has been a strong anti-establishment movement in this election cycle. For the most part, I feel that conservative voters feel disenfranchised and have chosen to support a candidate that they feel represents their beliefs and will advocate for them.Trump argues that not being a politician takes him out of this establishment category and that he will

represent voters better than the party has in recent years. Voters see him as a fresh start that is separate from the normal party leadership that has not listened to their constituents.

The other important movement that allowed Trump to get this far was resentment of gridlock in Washington D.C. This is different from the first movement because it is more focused on issues and the inability to solve them. Voters are tired of the political game in Washington and would rather see problems be solved than more debate over policy. Trump has used this resentment to boost his campaign. He has depicted himself as a strong leader who is capable of action. After years of seeing nothing getting done, Trump has presented himself as a man who will take action and solve the most

pressing issues that are upsetting the Republican base.

It is also important to look at the election ahead. The Republican Party will be faced with an interesting situation moving forward.

Trump has a strong base of voters that are very loyal to him. However, there is a large number of Republicans who do not support Trump. The question is whether or not the party will rally behind him, or if the anti-Trump sentiment will divide the party in the general election.

Either way, the next few months will be very exciting.

The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the College Democrats as an organization.

The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the Kent State College Republicans as an organization.

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Athletes team up with MAC to fight depression

Photo courtesy of Mike Vollant Kent State fifth-year senior Mike Vollant (right), a wrestler who plans on attending med school after graduating this May, wants to be a physician. He attended the MAC Mental Health Summit to learn more about how to help student-athletes battling depression, anxiety and other mental health issues.

Richie Mulhall Sports Reporter The hashtags are not the ones usually associated with college sports: #ItsOKtoNOTbeOK, #StopTheStigma and #TakingMACtion.

They serve as symbols of a major initiative at Kent State, in the MidAmerican Conference and in the NCAA—a movement to spread awareness, even change a culture that has rarely acknowledged that student-athletes can have mental health problems.

The hashtags have become the MAC’s platform statement to spur action to destigmatize mental health issues and encourage student-athletes to seek the help and treatment they need.

There’s a negative stigma attached with admitting to having a mental health issue and a huge chunk of the MAC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee’s initiative entails eradicating that stigma.

The goal is to stop the stigma and stress to people, especially student-athletes, that it’s OK to not be OK. As Eastern Michigan University tweeted out earlier this year, “Seeking help for mental health should be just like seeking treatment for a physical injury.”

Kent State SAAC, the student organization that serves as a liaison between athletes and administration, also took to Twitter to make an effort to destigmatize mental health with personal messages.

The group held its first annual Mental Health Awareness Week, which took place Feb. 14- 20. It also

organized a “Love Your Selfie” photo booth at one of the men’s basketball games this past season, where students could have their photo taken while holding cardboard cutouts inscribed with the words “It’s OK not to be OK,” “Stop the Stigma” and “I’m Stigma-free” next to their faces.

MAC Associate Commissioner Kristin Williams, also director of Career Services, said the growing voice of student-athlete shift has been the primary factor in making the mental health component of the studentathlete a top priority.

“The focus of the NCAA is now back on the student-athlete and what they want,” Williams said. “It’s been occurring all along, and I think it’s finally being realized that we need to do something about it.”

The realization is that as many as one in every four college athletes deal with some symptoms of mental health problems.

According to an article published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in January, about 25 percent of college athletes in a study reported “clinically relevant” levels of depressive symptoms. About 6.3 percent of athletes met the criteria for clinically significant depression. Female athletes were about two times more likely to experience the symptoms as males.

A study by Drexel University and Kean University researchers of 465 athletes at a unnamed Division I institution showed similar results -that nearly 30 percent of female ath-

letes and 18 percent of male athletes showed symptoms of depression over a three-year period.

“This study shows that the rates of depression among athletes are probably comparable to rates in the general college population,” said Eugene Hong, the study’s principal investigator and an associate dean at Drexel University College of Medicine, “and it highlights the need for increased mental health screening for athletes as part of standard sports medicine care.”

The NCAA has recently recognized what the studies found and released new guidelines for institutions to follow when dealing with the mental health of college athletes.

These new guidelines, which were released in early January, outline four best practices for mental health care for college athletes.

“Concussions may be the elephant in the room, but mental health is really, I think, going to be a game changer for the NCAA,” NCAA medical chief Brian Hainline recently told Inside Higher Ed. “My hope is that mental health is going to become as accessible to every student-athlete as an ankle sprain, and the NCAA is going to take a leadership role in telling the rest of the United States of America how to move away from the pathetic way it handles mental health. And it is pathetic.”

Follow the lead

When MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher reached out to members of his conference and asked them what the MAC needed to improve, they said no one across the country was addressing the issue of mental health among student-athletes.

“It’s challenging,” he said. “You have gone from being a star athlete probably every step of the way, and now you’re in college and you’re playing with the elite of the elite. Sometimes you don’t always have the success you had in the past. So how can we help people develop the coping mechanisms?”

Institutions such as the NCAA and the MAC have focused so much on the physical health aspect of collegiate athletics—concussions in football being the most recent example— but so little has been done to address the mental health aspect of sports in collegiate athletics,” Steinbrecher said.

“What we do in intercollegiate athletics should be about the holistic

development of that young man or that young women,” Steinbrecher said.

In 2013, Steinbrecher appointed a task force of athletic directors, faculty representatives and health professionals to study the issue. Working in tandem with SACC and the NCAA, the MAC’s task force, chaired by Kelly Andrews, senior associate athletic director at the University of Toledo, examined how campuses within the MAC were managing mental health among student-athletes and devised a list of best practices, which ended up being a three-pronged approach to tackling the issue of mental health among student-athletes. After consulting with NCAA administration, the task force presented its findings to the MAC Joint Council, which ratified the protocols. These three items are proactive education, creative of “care teams” made up of individuals in regular close contact with the student-athletes that can recognize signs of mental health problems, and staff that can support and treat people who are struggling.

Steinbrecher said implementing these sweeping changes all starts will basic education. Institutions in the MAC should be telling their student athletes that they can help, where to find help and inform them of what resources are out there.

Making steps

Institutions such as the MAC have followed the NCAA’s lead and organized events and programs to help raise awareness of college athletes’ mental health concerns In February, the MAC held the nation’s first-ever Mental Health Summit in conjunction with the NCAA. Administrators, student-athletes, coaches and support personnel attended the event consisting of speakers and discussions dealing with identifying problems, discussing solutions and examining the best ways to foster good mental health among student-athletes.

“The NCAA’s (Dr. Brian) Hainline intended the MAC Summit to serve as a sort of ‘skeleton agenda’ for other conferences to follow,” Williams said.

Steinbrecher was overwhelmed by the positive response from attendees.

As it turned out, the summit, spearheaded by Williams, exceeded Steinbrecher ’s expectations and could become an annual event.

Kent State senior soccer player Madison Helterbran and fifth-year

senior wrestler Mike Vollant represented Kent State at the summit.

Each student-athletes who deals with mental health issues such as depression has a different way of dealing with their problem. Some students might take the “talk to someone” route and meet with the school psychologist. Others might not want to talk to other people about their issues. It’s a case-by-case issue, and frankly, a personal preference, Helterbran said.

“If you’re depressed [for example], you’re not always going to come out and say it, so that’s why we want to have different ways student-athletes can have someone they want to talk to,” Helterbran said.

While growing up in a generation governed by the “suck-it-up” mentality, Muccio said athletes were expected to keep quiet about their mental anguish, but now things have changed. Muccio said he thinks society’s view of mental health is changing. Discussion of mental health issues is more common, and it’s much more acceptable to seek treatment.

“I’m glad that the MAC is making steps forward to make a difference in this,” Helterbran said. “Hopefully what we’re doing can kick-start other conferences and other schools. We want to make sure people know that it’s OK not to be OK.” rmulhal1@kent.edu

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Photo courtesy of Katie Schilling, Kent State SAAC Kent State gymnasts (from left) Michaela Romito, Jordan Hardison and Samantha Gordon demonstrate their support of Mental Health Awareness Week by taking a selfie by the “Love Your Selfie” booth arranged by SAAC. The booth took place at one of the basketball games in the M.A.C. Center during Mental Health Awareness Week February 14-20.

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