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The Wex is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Indian dance and cultural event.

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Ohio State researcher’s study retracted from journal IAN DOHERTY Lantern reporter doherty.122@osu.edu Research from an Ohio State communication professor was retracted from a scientific journal after two outside researchers found discrepancies in variables from the original experiment when they replicated the study.

Brad Bushman and former Ohio State doctoral candidate Jodi Whitaker had their research on first-person shooter video games and their effect on real-life marksmanship retracted from Communication Research, a peer-reviewed journal. Patrick Markey of Villanova University and Dr. Diane Elson of Ruhr University Bochum, in Germany, found “irregularities in some of the variables of the data set” when they tried to replicate Bushman’s experiment.

“The Ohio State University was alerted to irregularities in some of the variables of the data set by Drs. Markey (Villanova U) and Elson (Ruhr U Bochum) in BUSHMAN CONTINUES ON 2

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University Police officers outfitted with body cameras

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ASHLEY NELSON Sports Director nelson.1217@osu.edu Following a trend gaining traction across the country, University Police is using body cameras.

The process to outfit the department with 57 body cameras, which have been in use for about a month, began in 2013, when the department applied for a grant and was awarded $32,000. The funds were used to acquire seven cameras and server space to properly store all video. A pilot program began in 2014.

Funding through the university provides the ongoing annual costs of $26,000 to maintain the cameras, the editing and storage technology.

Before using the cameras on active duty, officers go through a two-hour training session that includes learning how to use the cameras and how to upload and mark video for evidence and longterm storage.

“We viewed it was a good tool to help protect your safety and to help us in our law enforcement mission here to gather evidence in the form of video,” said University Police Captain Dave Rose.

“Also, there’s a benefit in terms of transparency and accountability,

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Officer Joanna Shaul demonstrates how the body cameras are attached to her police uniform. but it was really before the national dialogue started about (body cameras).”

The discussion around body cameras was reignited in Columbus in September, when a Columbus Division of Police officer shot and killed 13-year-old Tyre King.

At the time, some Columbus residents, including OSU students, told The Lantern they wanted video evidence of the altercation to better understand what happened.

OSU’s new use of body cameras is part of a push for university police departments across the nation to adopt the technology. Universi-

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The body-camera program underwent a pilot phase in 2014.

ty police departments at Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin have been using body

HANNAH HERNER Arts&Life Editor herner.12@osu.edu The Dr. Martens Store, located at 1764 N. High St., will close its doors permanently on Sunday, store manager Sarah Imbrogno said.

All merchandise in stock is on sale, Imbrogno said, and there are no plans to open a new location in the Columbus area at this point.

The store opened in Nov. 2013.

The space will be available for lease and has no pending tenants, said the property’s landlord Scott Ranney.

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DACA, endorsed by Drake, intact

Trump orders wall, expected to act on refugees, but DACA not a focus NICK ROLL Campus Editor roll.66@osu.edu

As President Donald Trump rolls out various executive orders relating to the anti-immigration platform he ran on in his 2016 election, the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals policy — a 2012 executive order favored by University President Michael Drake — is left standing, for now.

DACA is an executive order introduced by former President Barack Obama that protects people who came into the United States undocumented as children.

If the person meets the qualifications, any action on their immigration status is paused, which could include deportation, for a renewable period of two years.

Trump had previously promised to repeal DACA, but, during a news conference on Monday, his press secretary, Sean Spicer, said it wouldn’t be an immediate focus

of the new administration.

“The president’s been very, very clear, that we need to direct agencies to focus on those who are in this country illegally and have a record — a criminal record — or pose a threat to the American people,” Spicer said during the press conference. “That’s where the priority is going to be, and then we’re going to continue to work through the entire number of folks that are here illegally. But right now the clear focus is on that.”

Ohio State students have previously expressed fear regarding DACA’s uncertain status. OSU, like many colleges across the country, has students covered under DACA, although the university has said that it isn’t aware of the exact number.

In The Lantern’s interview with Drake on Monday, he praised what he called “the incredible journey” that DACA-protected students make in their efforts to attend college.

“(Multiple university presidents) work together to determine how policy, federal policy, national policy, can affect things that are important to us,” Drake said.

“This pathway to being contributors broadly in our society is one we want to enhance and not do anything to impede in any way.”

Drake also mentioned letters he signed in conjunction with other university presidents urging the then-incoming Trump administration and U.S. officials to support DACA. “To our country’s leaders, we say that DACA should be upheld, continued, and expanded,” reads a November letter signed by more than 600 university presidents, including Drake, spearheaded by the president of Pomona College in California. “We are prepared to meet with you to present our case.

This is both a moral imperative and a national necessity. America needs talent – and these students, who have been raised and educat-

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President Donald Trump walks on stage to greet supporters during a private event held in Columbus during his election campaign on Oct. 13. ed in the United States, are already U.S.-Mexico border, a move to part of our national community.” make good on a campaign promThe staying power of DACA, ise. The actual building and fundhowever limited, comes as Trump ing for the wall remain up in the rolled out other portions of his air. immigration platform this week.

Set to be introduced later this On Wednesday, Trump intro- week via executive order is a ban duced an executive order calling on refugees from Syria, and a DACA CONTINUES ON 3 for the building of a wall along the

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sues Navient

Ohio State urges students to seek help outside the university “Navient has been responsive in addressing the complaints and responding to our office ...

The goal is to reach some mutual agreement.”

Kate Hanson Public information officer, Ohio Attorney General’s Office

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Navient is the largest student-loan provider in the U.S. OLIVIA BALCERZAK Lantern reporter balcerzak.13@osu.edu On Jan. 18, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a suit against Navien, the largest student loan distributer nationwide, misleading customers “at every stage of repayment.” While this lawsuit affects Ohio State students using the company to pay for school, the university does not have a uniform loan distributor and might be limited in its ability to help students, said spokesman Ben Johnson.

The CFPB released a statement outlining the offenses with

which Navient, formerly a part of Sallie Mae, allegedly committed. Among these are failure to respond to complaints, incorrectly processing payments, creating obstacles for repayment and cheating customers out of money by deceiving them about rights to lower payments and requirements for co-signer release. Additionally, Navient is being accused of damaging the credit of the disabled, including veterans.

“For years, Navient failed consumers who counted on the company to help give them a fair chance to pay back their student loans,” Richard Cordray, director of the CFPB and former professor

at the Moritz College of Law, said in the statement. “At every stage of repayment, Navient chose to shortcut and deceive consumers to save on operating costs.”

OSU spokesman Ben Johnson said that OSU Financial Services will continue to monitor the suit.

For these kinds of cases that broadly affect OSU, this means communicating with close partners and elected officials in Washington, D.C., as well as other universities.

Since Navient is a third-party provider, Johnson said there is little OSU can do regarding assisting students.

“The Ohio State University, as with all other colleges and universities, does not select the servicer assigned to a federal student loan,” Johnson said in a statement.

The statement described the role of the U.S. Department of Education, which determines the provider students use once they apply for loans.

“The U.S. Department of Edu-

cation contracts with private companies to help service the portfolio of federal student loans that current and former students have borrowed,” Johnson said. “Navient is one of these loan-servicing companies.”

Students whose loans are contracted through Navient are encouraged, Johnson said, to contact the Federal Student Aid Ombudsman Group of the U.S. Department of Education regarding any disputes that need settled confidentially.

Additionally, students might file an informal dispute resolution to the office of Attorney General Mike DeWine to have a specialist reach out to Navient and resolve issues. In the days following the Navient lawsuit, public information officer Kate Hanson said that the Ohio attorney general’s Office has only received 2 complaints.

While attorneys general from both Illinois and the state of Washington filed against Navient on the same day as the CFPB,

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January 2015,” Jason Grabmeier, OSU’s director of research communications, said in an email.

Bushman referred a request for comment to OSU. After replicating the experiment, Markey and Elson noticed two different data files for the variables used, and the raw data from the story was missing.

“We discovered two different data files between which the codes for variables were altered,” Markey said in an email. “These alterations occurred in a manner which supported the original study’s hypotheses. Additionally, the authors of the original study were unable to provide the raw data in order to confirm which data file was correct.”

OSU was alerted about the discrepancy, but Grabmeier said the original research records had been “taken” from OSU, leaving Bushman and the university “unable to confirm the values of the questioned variables.”

The article was originally published online in April 2012, and in print in Oct. 2014, but was not replicated until Jan. 2015.

Once replicated, Markey and Elson brought their issues to OSU, which then recommended the article to be retracted.

“Therefore, in November 2015, Dr. Bushman and The Ohio State University recommended the retraction or correction of the arti-

cameras as early as 2011, which is when the University of Iowa first implemented the cameras throughout its entire department.

University Police officer Joanna Shaul said she is a fan of the program.

“I’m a fan, personally, of the program, as I have been an early adopter for a long time,” she said.

“I think there’s a lot of things that we see as police officers that cannot be explained in words. Pictures are worth a thousand words and a video is worth millions.”

Public availability of body-camera footage has been has been a gray area in various legal rulings, but University Police will treat all footage as public records. Anyone can request footage, barring ongoing investigations, and the footage can be evaluated by the department and released after the process is complete, Rose said.

Rose added that the technology is still relatively new and there are physical limitations to what the cameras can capture, but the hope is that the cameras will provide more evidence and create a transparent relationship between the department and the public.

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OSU communication and psychology professor Brad Bushman speaks about the effects of video-game violence at the Journalism Building in 2014. cle,” Grabmeier said in an email.

“In 2016, Drs. Markey (Villanova U) and Elson (Ruhr U Bochum) sent an inquiry regarding this matter to Dr. Gibbs, one of the editors of Communication Research, who decided that a retraction was warranted. A replication of the study

by Dr. Bushman has been done and is under review.”

Whitaker and Elson both did not respond to requests for comment.

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Hanson said there are no known public enforcement actions made

by DeWine against Navient.

Patricia Christel, vice president of Navient’s corporate communications, said in an email that Navient will deny allegations made by the CFPB. “We will defend ourselves vigorously against these unsubstantiated claims, but our core goal remains the same: to help our customers achieve financial success,” Christel said. “Navient is a leader in helping customers who need a lower payment on their federal student loans enroll in a plan that bases the monthly payment on their incomes.”

The CFPB set an ultimatum for Navient to settle by Inauguration Day, which Navient rejected. As of now, no new information has been released.

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OSU-associated candidates eye PUCO positions OWEN DAUGHERTY Lantern reporter daugherty.260@osu.edu The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has two of its five seats open, with two of the remaining eight finalists having Ohio State ties.

Among the remaining finalists is Daniel Conway, an adjunct professor at Moritz College of Law and a partner at Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLP. The other Buckeye vying for a seat on the commission is Raymond Lawton, a now-retired adjunct professor at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and former director of The National Regulatory Research Institute.

What started out as two dozen candidates has been whittled down to eight.

On Thursday, the 12-member selection committee will send four recommendations to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who will then select two to be approved by the Ohio Senate, said Matt Schilling, a media representative for PUCO. Schilling said this is the first time that two seats have been open simultaneously.

The five-member regulatory commission is responsible for overseeing utility service providers within the state, including gas, electric and water companies.

The commission reports directly to the governor’s office.

Lawton attributes his qualifications for the position to his time at OSU and what he has learned in more than 30 years here, dating back to 1973, when he received his doctorate.

“I came here to earn my degree and

“The preparations for class and the inclass interactions with students have given me opportunities both to expand, sharpen and refresh my understanding of utility regulatory law and policy issues.”

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never left,” Lawton said. “I love the state of Ohio and think this is my time to give back.”

The shakeup at the five-member PUCO board comes at a time when Ohio will look to scale back regulation in the utilities departments, most notably the state’s electric regulatory structure.

Deregulation of utilities is a hotly contested topic, with many prominent companies both opposing and supporting of such measures. Columbus-based American Electric Power is among the most vocal opponents of deregulation. CEO Nick Akins called for the increased regulation of Ohio’s changing energy market in April.

Both Conway and Lawton said they were not able to comment on goals for their time as commissioners until the selection process was completed.

Lawton said his experience both domestically — he has worked in all 50 states — and abroad, most notably in Egypt, would set him up to excel in such a position.

“We could really use someone to help move things ahead,” Lawton said. “It’s not about political lines or how we vote.

It’s about doing what is best for the state.”

Conway’s resume and application for PUCO show he has worked hand in hand with both PUCO, as well as state and federal courts, to “address fundamental changes in the technologies and economics that drive markets for communication and energy services.”

Conway said he attributes his readiness for the position directly to his time spent in the classroom, both teaching and interacting with students on a regular basis.

“I thoroughly enjoy my time in class with students, and I certainly have benefited from that experience,” he said. “The preparations for class and the in-class interactions with students have given me opportunities both to expand, sharpen and refresh my understanding of utility regulatory law and policy issues.”

tries affected by the expected executive order are all majority-Muslim.

Although DACA is not going anywhere for now, Frederic Aldama, a professor in the Department of English who has publicly supported the program, said the unknown future of DACA is concerning for DACA-covered and undocumented immigrants.

“I am worried about (DACA’s) status going forward. But more importantly, what it’s doing is keeping our undocumented communities, our DACA kids,

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month-long ban on refugees from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen, according to The New York Times. As a whole, the U.S. refugee admissions are to be halted for 120 days as screening procedures are reviewed, and when the program resumes it is set accept a much smaller number of applicants.

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Raymond Lawton is a now-retired adjunct professor at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and former director of The National Regulatory Research Institute.

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Buckeye Mela celebrates 10th anniversary SARAH UPTON Lantern reporter upton.91@osu.edu Buckeyes will bring Bollywood and Bhangra to campus this weekend.

Buckeye Mela, the second-largest South Asian dance competition in the nation, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

The event was founded by Ohio State’s Indian American and Indian Student associations, and hosts collegiate dance teams from across the country to compete for prizes.

Shashank Raghavachari, co-director of Buckeye Mela X and a fourth-year in neuroscience said 16 teams will compete on Saturday, consisting of eight Bollywood-fusion teams and eight Bhangra teams. Bollywood-fusion contains Western influences, while Bhangra is a traditional Indian style of dance.

“Bhangra is a traditional dance, it originates in northern India,” Raghavachari said. “It’s very high-energy, very colorful, (a) lot of technique-oriented dance to it and then Bollywood-fusion, really it’s just fusion. It’s Bollywood dance with Western influences like hip-hop, contemporary and modern.”

Raghavachari said competitors can expect a few special additions to the weekend-long event. While they perform once for the public, competitors take part in social events prior to the performance and following. This year, it was expanded from two days to three

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to add a hip-hop dance workshop and brunch.

Raj Grover, president of OSU’s Indian American Student Association and a fourth-year in marketing, said the Buckeye Mela dance competition began as an addition to a larger event that celebrated South Asian culture.

“There was a few different things that used to go on over the span of the days, like booths and sports competitions,” Grover said.

“Then, eventually, the dance competition was added after a couple years.”

Raghavachari said that in addition to being a way to celebrate

South Asian culture and arts, Buckeye Mela is a way to give back. Every year, Buckeye Mela partners with a charity, and all proceeds from the show go to that charity.

This year, Buckeye Mela has partnered with Pratham USA, a charity that helps to provide access to quality education for children in rural India. The charity also focuses on providing education to Indian girls who have been pulled out of school by their families.

“In India, a big problem is that if their family comes from a poor background, girls especially find

it hard to do further schooling,” Raghavachari said. “Their families usually, they don’t have the funds to provide for even their male kids so their female kids, they pull them out of school by the 10th standard just because in their minds, there’s nothing more that can be accomplished by sending these girls to further schooling.”

Raghavachari said ticket sales for Buckeye Mela X have already skyrocketed compared with previous years, and he hopes more people outside of the South Asian community will come out for the experience.

When a cute puppet is onstage, one doesn’t expect it to give raunchy, risqué speeches. But that is exactly the case with Tyrone, the sock puppet starring in Short North Stage’s new production, “Hand to God” by Robert Askins.

The play follows teenager Jason and his mother as they cope with the death of his father through their church’s puppetry club. Jason’s sock puppet, Tyrone, begins to take on a life of his own, becoming a foul-mouthed demon that terrorizes the cast.

“I saw it on Broadway and I thought it was hilarious,” said Rick Gore, executive producer of Short North Stage. “It’s raunchy and edgy from start to finish.”

The show originally premiered on Broadway in 2015, where it was nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Play.

Short North Stage is the first theater company in Ohio to put on the show. Gore was recommended the show by Dayton’s Human Race Theatre, who claimed the material was too edgy for Dayton, but just right for Columbus.

Andrew Trimmer, a 2014 Ohio State theater alumnus who works at the Department of History of Art, is the understudy for the dual role of Jason and Tyrone. He

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AAUW presents Lisa Maatz, 4 p.m. at Page Hall. The vice president of government relations for American Association of University Women is set to speak about legislations and future plans for the organization. Admission is free.

Fishbowl Improv, Operation Smile and Ukulele Club show, 7 p.m. in the U.S. Bank Conference Theater in the Ohio Union.

Three student organizations team up for their first event of the semester. Refreshments will be provided. Admission is free with any donations to benefit Operation Smile charity.

Buckeye Mela, 5 p.m. at Mershon Auditorium.

Ohio State Indian American and Indian Associations present the 10th year for the intercollegiate Bollywood Fusion and Bhangra dance competition. Admission is $8 for students and staff.

OUABrushes and Brunch, 10 a.m. at the Ohio Union Performance Hall. A painting class guided by a professional artist is set to take place with complimentary brunch. Admission is free, but is first-come, first-serve.

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Buckeye Mela performers dance during a routine at the ninth annual gathering of the event. The 10th annual Buckeye Mela kicks off Jan. 28.

“Doctor, Beware” and “... and the Wild Women,” 7 and 8:45 p.m. in the Wexner Center for the Arts. Two blackand-white Italian films featuring Anna Magnani are set to screen, as part of the “Retrospective: Anna Magnani” film series. Admission is $6 for students and $8 for the general public.

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The Lumineers, 5:30 p.m. at the Schottenstein Center. The indie group is set to perform with openers Andrew Bird and Margaret Glaspy. Tickets start at $37.10, including fees, via Ticketmaster.

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Hiss Golden Messenger, 7 p.m. at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The North Carolina-based singer-songwriter is set to perform along with Phil Cook, as part of the Next@Wex entertainment series. Admission is $15.

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First-year MFAs show ‘Making Art is a Mistake’ “...it’s more reflective of an anxiety that what we’re doing in the Master of Fine Arts program for the first year is not the most productive use of our time.”

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EMILY DEAN Lantern reporter dean.242@osu.edu New master’s candidates are considering whether art is worth their time, or so it seems, in a new exhibit.

“Making Art is a Mistake,” brings a mixed bag of visual mediums from first-year students of the Master of Fine Arts program to the first floor of Hopkins Hall.

Artist Jamie Battersby said he finds the title of the exhibit humorous.

“It’s less of a normative statement,” Battersby said. “Rather, it’s more reflective of an anxiety that what we’re doing in the Master of Fine Arts program for the first year is not the most productive use of our time.”

The exhibition showcases work from 14 first-year students in the program, which usually takes three years to complete. The students’ visions are presented in an array of mediums, with specialties ranging from photography to ceramics and sculpting.

Teri Bailey specializes in glass-

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Jamie Battersby’s piece “Go Bucks (?)” draws inspiration from the Ohio State football game against Tulsa last fall.

work, but used wood with her piece on display. Her featured work, titled “Delicate Revolution,” had to be constructed entirely on site. Bailey said the use of wood in ribbon-like form threaded through eye-hooks took roughly 15 hours to craft before the exhibit’s debut.

“A lot of my aesthetic revolves around softer art forms, like knitting and ribbon work, and I try to incorporate a lot of that into my glasswork,” Bailey said. “It wasn’t really much of a leap for me; rather, it was more like a detour.”

Battersby’s piece, titled “Go Bucks (?),” celebrates the spirit of Ohio State football. It depicts a moving football player in a combination of sculptural and paint-like

textures. He said he draws from a variety of source material, such as movie stills and personal experiences, to incorporate in the various aspects of his works.

The gallery in Hopkins Hall is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. A reception will be held on Thursday from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The gallery will be on display through Feb. 16.

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Clark’s Cape performing from left to right: Colin Covell, Dustyn Cimo, Mack Covell.

EMMA STEELE Lantern reporter steele.849@osu.edu When Mack Covell started messing around on drums his senior year of high school in his bedroom in Tiffin, Ohio, he had no intention of starting a band. For him, playing music was a sense of control, an outlet.

“I’m an extrovert and an introvert at the same time, but I’m only extroverted if I can control the entire environment,” Covell said.

“With music, and with playing music, you can totally do that.”

Eventually, some of his friends became interested and began playing along on guitar and bass. After

playing a few shows consisting of Blink-182 and Jimmy Eat World covers in their local park, Mack Covell, his younger brother Colin Covell and their friend Dustyn Cimo decided to officially call themselves a band.

“It’s one of those things where you feel like you can’t, because you don’t know how to start,” Mack Covell said. “It seems impenetrable, but just that moment, when you hear a song you’re covering sound almost like it does when a professional band plays it … that’s when we all collectively were like, ‘Okay let’s do this.’ All you have to do is play.”

Since its founding in 2012,

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“It’s something for those of us who grew up on ‘Sesame Street,’ but it’s 100 percent for adults.”

Andrew Trimmer Ohio State alumnus in theatre

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Left to right: Danny Turek, controls his puppet Tyrone as cast Jonathan Putman, Chad Goodwin, Barbara Weetman and Kate Lingnofksi pose for a picture promoting the Short North stage production of “Hand to God.”

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agreed that the show has appeal for Columbus audiences.

“It’s something for those of us who grew up on ‘Sesame Street,’ but it’s 100 percent for adults,” Trimmer said.

Trimmer said the intimate atmosphere of the Garden Theater’s Green Room makes the play even more engaging.

“The absurdity of it is fun,” he said. “It’s an up-close experience you’re seeing firsthand and it’s fun for both the audience and the actors.”

A puppeteer was brought in to work with the cast through the difficult acting needed to bring Tyrone to life. Additionally, a dialogue coach helped them adopt an East Texan accent. These challenges were only compounded by a tight rehearsal schedule, with only two-and-a-half weeks to prepare for 12 performances, Gore said.

OSU alumnus Jonathan Putnam, who portrays Pastor Greg, said earning his MFA in theater helped him take the craft seriously.

“At Ohio State, I learned a lot about techniques but also commitment — about committing yourself to a hard program,” he said.

Putnam said the show will be surprising for audiences.

“People have this idea of theater that it’s a stuffy endeavor,” Putnam said. “Here is an opportunity to see fresh theater that is provocative.”

“Hand to God” opens on Feb. 2 and runs through Feb. 19. in the Green Room of the Garden Theater at 1187 N. High St. Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday with Sunday matinees at 3 p.m.

Tickets are available through the Short North Stage website with a $10 discount available for OSU students.

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Clark’s Cape has released an EP, “Better Days,” and a full album, “B Team,” featuring Mack Covel on guitar and vocals, Colin Covell on bass and vocals and Cimo on drums.

For their EP, the trio would try to churn out upbeat punk songs as fast as they could, using random lyrics they had scrawled away on scraps of paper — Colin Covell even wrote one entirely on a suspension slip when he was angry about getting suspended from school for a few days. While “B Team” keeps that same pop-punk sound Clark’s Cape started out with the songs are more thought out.

“My favorite song (from “B Team”) is ‘Things Change,’” Cimo said. “For me it hits home. We’ve all been through some drastic changes over the past few years and I think you can really feel it in that song.”

The Covell brothers and Cimo moved from Tiffin to Columbus in the fall of 2014 after writing “B Team” and said they feel like the album predicted their future.

“It’s all about leaving home and challenging yourself,” Mack Covell said. “Everything in the album was basically like, ‘Go give it a shot, do what you need to do to try to be happy.’ It kind of inspired us.”

In the two and a half years since they’ve lived in Columbus, Clark’s Cape has taken a break from touring but has played in various places around town — including Donatos’ Basement and the Tree Bar — along with house shows. Mack Covell said the band would also travel around Ohio, into Pennsylvania and as far as Syracuse, New York.

“I’ve definitely had the most fun playing in places we haven’t before,” Cimo added. “It’s just cool to meet other bands and come together for a kick ass show.”

Many bands would determine their success by how many shows they book, how far they travel or how much money they make, but for Mack Covell and the rest of the band, it all comes back to messing around and having fun with each other.

“When we all play together there are moments where we all smile and to me that’s worth it. I don’t have to be touring and doing this as a job if I have that,” he said.

Cimo said he wouldn’t have been in a band if it wasn’t for his friends.

“At the end of the day, I think the best thing about being in a band with Mack and Colin has got to be the fact that outside from whatever happens with the music, good or bad, we’ll still always be friends,” he said. “We were friends before we were a band, and now Clark’s Cape is something we all can share.”

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Wrestling takes on two top-ranked rivals TODD NEER Lantern reporter neer.60@osu.edu Following a dominant 30-12 victory at Maryland on Jan. 22, the No. 4 Ohio State wrestling team will take on No. 3 Iowa on the road this week and top-ranked Penn State at home next week.

The absence of junior Kyle Snyder, the returning national champion at heavyweight, this week could spell trouble for OSU late in the dual. He is currently representing the United States in the Ivan Yarygin Memorial Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

“There are no better opportunities in our schedule than these opportunities to really learn a lot about where we are,” OSU coach Tom Ryan said. “You’ve got a great team in Iowa, in an away venue, and then you’ve got another opportunity at home, in front of the home crowd, to wrestle SMITH FROM 8

championship run, Smith said that he was worried after the semifinal game against Alabama that the players wouldn’t be physically capable of playing a 15th game.

Now throwing in a possible 16th game, when factoring in a conference championship game as well, Smith said that wear-and-tear on the bodies of the players is too much when playing against the best of the best.

He also cited exam schedules and the rest of the bowl season.

Smith said that by pushing the playoff further into January, the college season would run into

“I don’t look at it as we have to do the same thing. That has nothing to do with the team in from of me.”

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minutes of the second, as senior Marc Loving drove inside and launched a pass to the left side to a wide-open Wesson for 3, giving OSU an eight-point lead with less than 10 minutes in the half.

A Lyle turnover led to a 3-pointer from Coffey to cut the deficit to just three for Minnesota, and another 3 by Mason brought the Gophers within two. After a timeout following a Minnesota foul, the teams went back-and-forth, as Loving and Minnesota guard Akeem Springs traded 3-pointers with less than a minute left.

Following a Minnesota turnover, Lyle missed two free throws providing a window of opportu-

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his junior and senior years.

“I think it’s something you’ll always have the rest of your life, being an alumni wherever you played college hockey,” Strobel said. “You wish them well as an alumni but we’ve got to take care

(against Penn State).”

The matchup against Iowa will feature a plethora of marquee matchups, including fifth-ranked 149-pounder Micah Jordan (OSU) against second-ranked Brandon Sorensen (Iowa), tenth-ranked 184-pounder Myles Martin (OSU) against fifth-ranked Sammy Brooks (Iowa) and first-ranked 133-pounder Nathan Tomasello (OSU) against fourth-ranked Cory Clark (Iowa).

Micah Jordan missed last week’s action against Maryland due to illness, along with his brother — 174-pounder Bo Jordan — and 125-pounder Jose Rodriguez.

“I haven’t wrestled anyone (ranked) at one or two yet,” Micah Jordan said. “The next two weeks I have No. 2 and then No. 1, so I’m really excited to see where I’m at.”

In addition to the tough team matchups, many of the wrestlers will face their most talented oppo-

nents yet.

“We’ve wrestled some tough teams, but I’m just really looking forward to these next couple of matches,” Martin said. “Especially for me, a lot of the guys I have are top five in the country.”

Over the next four matchups, all of Martin’s projected opponents are ranked in the top 13, including No. 5 Sammy Brooks (Iowa) and No. 2 Bo Nickal (Penn State).

Bo Jordan did not compete against Maryland, but could have wrestled if needed. Ryan held him out in order to give him another week to recover from injury, and prepare for the tough task ahead.

“If we needed him to step in there to win the dual, we could’ve wrestled him,” Ryan said. “But, logically, it made no sense to risk further injury when you’ve got Iowa coming up next weekend.”

The Buckeyes look to be in good health, as the only starter expected to be out is Snyder in the

the NFL playoffs and the NCAA would not do that. Therefore, the playoffs would start earlier in December which, in turn, could eliminate a few bowl games — something Smith doesn’t want to see, although speculated expansion would happen at some point.

“Somebody’s going to lose,” he said. “Something is going away.”

Committee clarity From serving on numerous committees, Smith knows what works. All committee meetings are closed-door sessions and he understands why.

Through the CFP committee’s first three seasons, the group of athletic directors, former coaches and others familiar with the bureaucratic process of intercollegiate athletics has been lambasted with the lack of transparency presented when it releases the weekly rankings starting in early November leading all the way up to the announcement of the semifinalists in mid-December.

As a member of the basketball committee, Smith valued the eye

test the most. He said in his new role, he’ll probably watch three times the amount of football he watched this season. Smith added that the eye test might not be as important to him because he’ll be watching elements of the game that he never has before.

“I would never talk about my preferences. You guys can ask me, “What’s your criteria? What are you going to use in the room?”

Smith said. “I’ll never talk about that because one it’s my criteria integrated with the criteria of my colleagues.”

Smith said all committee members not revealing their individual preferences regarding the weight of conference championships, nonconference scheduling and overall strength of schedule is vital to having constructive discussions in the decision-making process.

“I think once you pull the curtains back on that, then it gets back to that ability to be open and free,” he said. “And I think that that is so important. We need to come

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OSU freshman Luke Fletcher celebrates his first varsity victory over Missouri’s Zach Synon. heavyweight division.

“Kyle (Snyder) gives you a sense that, of the 10 weights, we’re getting bonus points in this weight, so we’re going to need for (redshirt senior heavyweight) Josh Fox to really step up,” Ryan said.

“There’s much less room for error,

so it’s just compete to the best of your ability.”

The match will start at 8 p.m. on Friday in the Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa.

out collectively on our decision and all stand behind one another.

When you take the veil off, I think it makes it very difficult to do.”

Smith discussed the importance of eliminating the history of a program. Teams like Duke, North Carolina and Michigan State in basketball, and Alabama, OSU and Michigan in football have such a large enterprise attached to their names with NFL talent and Hall-of-Fame coaches that it’s challenging to ignore the brand and focus on the team.

In 2016, OSU became the first non-conference champion to play in the CFP. Moving forward, Smith’s comfortable with setting precedents in the committee’s selection, much like he did with VCU in 2011, saying “that’s the way you got to do it.”

“You look at the teams this year, 2017 ... to me, it has nothing to do with the last three championships. Those things are over,” Smith said. “I don’t look at it as we have to do the same thing. That has nothing to do with the team in

front of me.”

After his three year term is finished with the CFP committee, he said that his committee work is likely over. As for a timeline for his time left at OSU, Smith doesn’t have any plans for retirement saying “until they fire me.”

“I know that if I can’t come to work positive and energized like I am, then no one will have to tell me. I’ll know it’s my time,” he said. “I have some things I want to do for our student-athletes and I want to get them done. Ohio State should be the preeminent intercollegiate athletic program in the country that everyone aspires to be like, and we’re close.”

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nity for the Gophers. However, a missed shot followed by two made free throws by the Buckeyes and a resounding Trevor Thompson block put the game away.

It was Minnesota’s fourthstraight conference loss. OSU is set to travel to Iowa on Saturday at 8 p.m. to square off against the Hawkeyes.

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OSU junior center Trevor Thompson (32) waits for a rebound during the Buckeyes’ game against Minnesota on Jan. 25. of our backyard and we want to do what’s right for our program.

I like to see them do well against everyone but us.”

When the game starts on Thursday, history, connections and friendships are all secondary.

What matters to the coaches

involved is OSU and Wisconsin, facing off for the 25th time in history.

“Obviously, how can I not think of what happened (at Wisconsin),” Rohlik said. “To win a national title, to be a two-time captain and play with the guys I played with.

Those memories are forever. At this point for me, it’s all about Ohio State. I bleed Ohio State every day, and there’s no other place I’d rather be right now. I’m here just to carry on the tradition.”

Puck drop between OSU and Wisconsin is set for 7 p.m. on

Thursday at the Schottenstein Center, with Saturday’s contest taking place at 7 p.m. at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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Smith talks role in CFP, expansion Buckeyes JACOB MYERS Assistant Sports Editor myers.1669@osu.edu COLIN HASS-HILL Assistant Sports Director hass-hill.1@osu.edu Ohio State Senior Vice President and Athletics Director Gene Smith has served in numerous roles on NCAA committees throughout his 12-year tenure in Columbus. Some of those roles include five years on the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament selection committee — he was the head of the committee in 2011— three years on the NCAA Division I Administration Cabinet and is currently serving his third of four years on the NCAA Men’s Basketball Oversight Committee.

On Jan. 17, Smith added another title to his list of committees. He was named to the College Football Playoff Committee. Smith replaces Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez.

Like all members of the committee, Smith will be a part of the decision on selecting the final fours teams to play in the national semifinals for the next three years, when his contract ends in 2020.

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Senior Vice President and Athletics Director Gene Smith sits down with The Lantern on Jan. 24.

Smith will be required to be out of the room when the committee discusses OSU, like he did when acting on the basketball selection committee.

He told The Lantern that he will take his experiences from the NCAA tournament selection committee and apply those to his new role with the playoff committee.

Smith admitted he understands the guidelines and the processes the committee goes through,

but will rely on those with CFP committee experience, including Alvarez.

When the NCAA first instituted the College Football Playoff, Smith said he originally wasn’t in favor of the playoff committee because of guidelines and structuring concerns — he liked the Bowl Championship Subdivision system in place at the time — nor was he interested in being on the committee.

“I admire what the first (committee) did, and how they set it up and the way it ran. Obviously, I have been the beneficiary two out of the three years, so I’ve got a little biased view,” he said. “But you know I really did like how they set things up. So now I’m much more comfortable. I had a little apprehension at the beginning.”

Smith was the head of the NCAA tournament selection committee when the field expanded from 64 teams to 68, which only added two more games. Smith said he was criticized heavily for his selection of the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams as one of the final four at-large teams, but he was confident in his decision having seen VCU play numerous times.

In 2011, VCU became the first No. 11 seed to make the Final Four.

As a member of the CFP committee, he won’t be asked to vote on expansion given the television deal in play through 2025, but Smith said he would not be in favor of expanding the playoff to more than four teams.

“I’d vote against it,” he said.

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Badgers, Buckeye coaches connect MILES MCQUINN Senior Lantern reporter mcquinn.7@osu.edu March 23, 2013 marked the final game of Mark Osiecki’s threeyear tenure at the helm of Ohio State hockey. The Buckeyes lost 3-1 to Notre Dame in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association semifinal. Osiecki has fired and then-assistant Steve Rohlik was promoted.

Rohlik and Osiecki were not only teammates on Wisconsin’s 1990 national championship team, they were both captains, with Rohlik donning the ‘C’ and Osiecki an ‘A.’ Following that title, the two went through various coaching stints around the country, including two more NCAA championships for Osiecki as an assistant at North Dakota in 1997 and Wisconsin in 2006.

“I got the opportunity to be here because of (Osiecki). He’s coached a lot of different levels, he loves the game, he’s passionate about the game.”

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A portion of Minnesota-Duluth’s 2011 national championship roster can be credited to Rohlik, who served as an assistant there for 10 seasons from 2001-2010 before reuniting with Osiecki in Columbus.

“I was in such a great spot at Duluth for 10 years,” Rohlik said.

“I was treated so well and we had a great thing going. But in this game, sometimes you have to take a leap of faith. To me, it was kind of about the Big Ten. It was before the league, but there was talk that it was going to happen.”

Rohlik, now in his fourth year guiding the Buckeyes, is set to face his close friend for the first time on Thursday since their separation almost four years ago.

“I got the opportunity to be here because of him,” Rohlik said.

“He’s coached at a lot of different levels. He loves the game, he’s passionate about the game. He’s very organized and detailed and those are some of the things, for me, that I’ve learned that can help me.”

Osiecki spent the last two seasons with the Rockford IceHogs in the American Hockey League before becoming part of the massive regime change in Madison that saw Tony Granato replace Mike Eaves as head coach.

Rohlik, who played with all three of Wisconsin’s coaching trio during his career as a Badger, currently has the Scarlet and Gray ranked as the No. 8 team in the country, their highest ranking

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Former OSU coach Mark Osiecki will return on the other bench when the Buckeyes’ face Wisconsin on Jan. 26. since they were No. 6 on Jan. 23, 2012, under Osiecki.

Wisconsin, meanwhile, has started to turn things around. After just 12 wins the past two seasons combined, the Badgers are 11-8-1 and coming off a weekend split against No. 6 Minnesota in Madison.

“They’ve done a great job coming in and putting a spark in the program, but let’s not forget they’ve got some great hockey players when you look up and down their lineup,” Rohlik said.

“It’s been a perfect mesh, and they’re a team to be reckoned with.”

The Badger-Buckeye coaching connections don’t stop there.

After the departure of OSU assistant Brett Larson in the summer of 2015, another former Badger was brought into the fold on the Buckeye bench, Mark Strobel.

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With criticism weighing heavily on the minds of the Ohio State men’s basketball team, the Buckeyes got out to a fast start against Minnesota, and fought off a late comeback to pick up a 78-72 victory over the Golden Gophers (15-6, 3-5 Big Ten) for their third conference win.

After Minnesota got out to an early lead, OSU went on a 9-0 run to grab a 13-6 lead. The Buckeyes’ biggest run was a 14-2 mark over four minutes and 34 seconds that was finished by a senior forward Marc Loving 3 to give OSU an 18-8 advantage with under 14 minutes to play.

The Buckeyes (13-8, 3-5 Big Ten) shot 52 percent from the field in the first half, in addition to a perfect 9 for 9 from the charity stripe. Minnesota struggled early to find its rhythm, but eventually finished 41 percent shooting from the field.

Redshirt junior center Trevor Thompson was on fire out of the gate, as the big man scored 10 of OSU’s first 15 points. He ended his night with 19 points and 10 rebounds for his seventh double-double this year.

His hot night, paired with sophomore guard JaQuan Lyle’s big night from outside, the Buckeyes kept Minnesota at bay. Lyle went 3 of 5 from behind the arc, and finished with 11 points overall.

Redshirt junior guard Kam Williams, who suffered a thigh bruise against Northwestern, left the court limping in the first. After a short stint on the stationary bike, he finished his night with seven points and four rebounds.

Minnesota came roaring back just before halftime, notching a 12-0 run to cut the OSU lead to just five. Sophomore forward Jordan Murphy tipped in a missed shot with less than a second on the shot clock to cap off the run.

Minnesota freshman guard Amir Coffey was kept in check for most of the night, including when OSU freshman forward Andre Wesson was tasked with guarding the speedy guard. Wesson finished with nine points, six of which came from the free throw line.

The combination of junior guard Nate Mason and redshirt junior center Reggie Lynch gave the Gophers 31 points. The duo also picked up 13 rebounds.

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