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Ohio State experts weigh in on the ways that immigration legislation could affect campus diversity.

DANCE

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Ohio State student puts education on hold to follow passion for dance.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Archie Miller and Chris Holtmann begin new era of OSU-Indiana matchup.

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Christy Blough excelled as a setter, now he’s an integral part of coaching staff.

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That name looks familiar When it comes to professor’s own texts, more motives than just self-gain KEVIN STANKIEWICZ Editor-in-Chief stankiewicz.16@osu.edu Jennifer Siegel knows how it looks — a professor assigning students a book they authored.

She tries to avoid it as much as she can; since her first book was published in 2003, she’s done it just twice. Both were small seminars; both no more than 15 students.

Each time, Siegel calculated the money she would receive in royalties and then brought in snacks for her students “just because I felt that my students shouldn’t be paying me.”

“I’d love it if other people were assigning my books, that’s the goal,” said Siegel, a professor in the Department of History. “But I think that there is — it’s a gray area as to whether or not we should be assigning.”

Controversy around professors assigning textbooks they authored to students isn’t new. But the issue often receives renewed focus at the start of each semes-

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Debate persists on whether faculty should assign textbooks they authored, but students and professors agree it’s often a case-by-case basis. ter as students see their syllabi and learn what books they need to buy. The reality is the answers to questions about ethics or about the instances in which it’s appropriate are not clear-cut, or easy to find. It’s often a case-by-case ba-

sis, students and professors said.

At the end of the day, they said it comes down to trust.

The issue is addressed in the Office of Academic Affairs’ “Policies and Procedures” handbook.

It states faculty who plan on re-

quiring “a book or other material that would result in them receiving a royalty” must have it approved by their “chair/program director” and dean; and or, it must be reviewed and approved by “an TEXTBOOKS CONTINUES ON 3

Ohio State professors question merits, prominence of politics within EPA SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu The Environmental Protection Agency relies on research by scientists to address climate, energy and pollution concerns in America. Typically, researchers will provide the EPA with recommendations on environmental policy.

It’s a relatively simple process, Ramiro Berardo said, “except for the fact that it’s not.”

Berardo, an assistant professor in environmental and natural-resources policy, said the increased political nature surrounding the agency has further complicated the not-so-simple relationship between science and policy.

America’s current polarized atmosphere is also contributing to an increased influence of politics in scientific research, which is a costly move, Berardo said, because it amps up “bad” science, and hinders “good” science. He said “bad” science is now being used more than ever under the Trump administration and consists of studies and data that are

Energy Partners plan first round of conservation efforts

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Students Dana Jackson, Malcolm Guy and Madison Bell stand with professor Robyn Wilson during a press conference on Jan. 25, 2017. used specifically to support political claims regarding climate change and fossil fuel consumption.

Politicians are working this way “not to inform their scientific decisions, but to buck up the decisions that they have come up with before the science was even produced,” he said.

President Trump brought forth a slew of changes within the EPA since his inauguration. Most no-

tably, the administration has reduced the number of agency employees and prioritized different environmental goals. Trump has gone on record to disparage climate change, calling it “an expensive hoax.”

Becky Mansfield, a professor in geography, said the current administration is demonstrating denialism by seeking out supporting, lackluster research in support of its views. This denialism, she

said, “has undermined current EPA regulations or potential EPA regulation.”

“We can’t simply demand facts or pretend that all things that call themselves science are in fact good,” Mansfield said. “This is used to generate uncertainty and delay action. So there becomes these inherently political debates about what counts as good or sound science.”

The Lantern made several requests for the EPA to comment.

No requests were met with replies.

Berardo and Mansfield appeared Thursday at a press conference held by Defend Our Future, a nonpartisan entity that works to raise awareness of climate change. They were among four Ohio State faculty members who spoke on behalf of scientists alarmed by the EPA’s practices.

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Ohio State Energy Partners will present its first two energy conservation proposals to the Board of Trustees this week — including a $3.4 million lighting project and a $2.3 million upgrade to Dreese Laboratory’s heating and cooling system, according to Board documents released Monday.

The lighting project will upgrade existing lighting to LEDs in 51 Columbus campus buildings in the next two fiscal years to reduce individual building energy consumption. These buildings include Ohio Stadium, Independence Hall and University Hall.

A Dreese Laboratory proposal would reduce energy consumption within the building by 37 percent through upgrades in the next three fiscal years. Upgrades include enhancing the HVAC control system, insulating steam valves and adding a heat recovery chiller, which captures heat from the existing system that can be used for other purposes.

The energy partnership was announced March 2017 and established July 2017. A major component of the partnership requires Ohio State Energy Partners to manage the university’s energy system and meet its sustainability goal of reducing campus energy consumption by 25 percent by 2025.

In addition to the two energy conservation proposals, there will be work on infrastructure throughout campus.

Updates to McCracken’s boiler system will soon be underway — pending approval. Electronic combustion controls and safety shutdown systems will be updated for $6.2 million, as well.

College Avenue might be in line for a $1.8 million renovation of its utility systems. To go along with the university’s planned Arts District update, “the project will also address lifecycle renewal of steam and failed condensate return pipelines within the corridor,” according to Board documents.

Endowments will be created through Ohio State Energy Partners’ $1.015 billion upfront payment to the university — $75

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Experts: Trump immigration plan may stunt OSU diversity efforts JERROD MOGAN Lantern reporter mogan.7@osu.edu Whether in strong language or not, the Trump administration has made its desire for stricter immigration policy perfectly clear.

And its ramifications could disrupt Ohio State’s efforts to build a more diverse student population, according to two immigration experts at the university.

The plan, which intends to eliminate the visa lottery system, includes a 10- to 12- year path to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million people, calls for $25 billion to be put toward a border wall and prioritizes the immigration of family to spouses and minor children only to achieve a merit-based system, according to NPR. For Ohio State expert Frederick Aldama, a distinguished professor of arts and humanities, the policy would be wrong for the U.S. and threaten the university’s commitment to diversity.

“There’s going to be race bias,” he said, “and the real diversity that allows for creativity, growth, innovation, the kind of interactions across cultures, across different kinds of experiences, across different kinds of communities isn’t going to happen.”

Aldama, who founded Latinx Space for Enrichment and Research at Ohio State, an organi-

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A border patrol chief walks near border wall prototypes east of San Ysidro at the U.S. Mexico border on November 20, 2017. zation that provides resources for local Latino students to achieve success in higher-education, said the legislation could stunt diversity — including at Ohio State.

“We already have issues with recruiting our diverse demographics from within the U.S. that are already here,” he said. “Imagine what this is going to look like in 15-20 years from now.”

Despite university effort and a commitment to improving diver-

sity, Aldama said Ohio State is doing a poor job in recruitment when compared to other top research institutions and the U.S. population.

“If you look at our campus now, our percentages of Latinx students on the campus or African-American students on the campus is pretty shameful,” he said.

Aldama said it’s important for Ohio State to have a diverse pop-

ulation because college is often the only opportunity many people will have to regularly interact with others from a variety of backgrounds.

“Once you get into the workforce, your world and the people that you’re around will diminish by a hundredfold,” he said. “You go from a campus of 52,000-plus to a work environment of maybe seeing five to 10 people on a daily basis.”

Ohio State maintains diversity within the classroom, an area that allows students of different backgrounds to look at problems in a variety of ways to find solutions, Aldama said.

Evidence to support the need for such a system is minimal and the push for it is likely fueled by a fear that immigrants are irreversibly changing America’s demographics, Aldama and Reanne Frank, an associate professor in sociology, agreed.

“Everything suggests that that’s the underlying motivation,” Frank said. “It certainly plays to his base.”

Changes to immigration policy wouldn’t do much to slow down the changing demographics of the U.S., Frank said.

“Growing racial and ethnic diversity is already baked into the infrastructure of the United States,” she said.

Frank said the U.S. has repeatedly allowed its immigration policy to be shaped by the irrational fears of the public rather than by evidence and an understanding of how migration systems work.

“Migration from Mexico, which gets the most attention in the national spotlight and the most controversy, has been a negative net flow. There are more Mexican immigrants returning to Mexico than there are coming IMMIGRATION CONTINUES ON 3

OSU students mentor Columbus youth in hopes they achieve goal of higher education MARA MASON Lantern reporter mason.816@osu.edu After not seeing her “little buddy” over summer vacation, Hannah Baise wondered if Ella would be excited to see her, or if she would even remember her name.

Then, when her bus arrived at the Ohio Union turnaround, Ella bounded out and jumped into Baise’s arms, chatting excitedly about her summer. Baise, a fourth-year in consumer and family financial services, now remembers this as one of her fondest memories part of College Mentors for Kids, in which she now serves as the vice president of programming.

College Mentors for Kids provides guidance to inner-city Columbus children in first through fifth grade, hosting the mentees three times a week on campus.

It’s one of the many student organizations that focus on uplifting nearby youth by building supportive relationships.

The large group of mentorship pairs gather in the Union to participate in a multitude of different activities to learn and bond, including science projects and a recent visit from the Columbus Zoo. Baise said CMFK focuses on activities revolving around service, diversity, wellness and high-

er education, sometimes pairing with other organizations at Ohio State for activity time to bring the mentees a sense of what college is like.

She said pairing with other organizations “shows [the kids] that college is a place for everybody, and there’s nothing stopping them from coming to college.”

“Our goal is to not only bring out the best in the children, but bring out the best in the mentors as well,” Baise said.

Taryn Davis, a second-year in finance, said she first noticed the large group of children in the Union her first semester at Ohio State, and knew she wanted to be involved with the organization.

“I got paired with Fernanda the first semester of sophomore year,” she said “and it’s been the best thing I’ve ever done.”

According to its website, the Ohio State chapter of CMFK serves more than 200 children from surrounding elementary schools.

The university has several other mentorship initiatives to influence surrounding communities.

The Latinx Space for Enrichment and Research program through the Office of Diversity and Inclusion is a high school mentorship program for the Latinx community, which was created, founded and is directed by Frederick Aldama, a professor of

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Taryn Davis, a second-year in finance, poses with her mentee Fernanda at a College Mentors For Kids event held at Ohio State. arts and humanities.

LASER focuses on aiding high-school students in college preparation and the college application process.

“I decided that LASER would be a way for students at OSU to make a difference but also create community among the Latinx students at OSU precisely by working with the community,” Aldama said.

LASER is involved with nine Columbus high schools, called “hubs,” where two college undergraduate or graduate coordinators meet with students weekly to work with them on creating,

setting and achieving short- and long-term goals.

“Just being there and showing the students that they matter is a huge thing,” Aldama said.

The program also hosts events like FAFSA workshops to help students navigate the financial side of college applications, and hosts Latinx Role Models Day. Last year, Latinx Role Models Day brought more than 450 highschool students to Ohio State’s campus to spend time with undergraduate students and professionals in the community, Aldama said.

“We also bring in role models

from the community,” he said, “of all different aspects, lawyers, professors, people in finance, people in pharmacy, doctors, et cetera, and they get to meet and do panels and workshops with the students.”

Laura Fernandez, a hub coordinator and graduate student in Latin American cultural and literary studies, said the mentorship program guides students through applying to college and scheduling courses while balancing a high-school workload.

She said the program is especially important because of the amount of Latinx students who don’t get a college degree.

“The statistics are so low for [Latinx] to get into college,” she said. “I’m Latina and I did it, but I don’t want to be seen as the exception. I want that to be the norm.”

Not only does LASER assist high-school students in academic achievement, it also knits two communities together.

“It has not only created a pipeline for Latinx high-school students to get into a college like OSU, but it has created a social, cultural, academic environment for Latinx students on campus,” Fernandez said. “Creating community on campus by working with community off-campus, it doesn’t get any better than that.”

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appropriate committee of the department or college.”

When Siegel served as the history department’s undergraduate studies chair, she reviewed only a couple of these instances per year, and said “no one was abusing the system. There were always good reasons.”

Siegel said these review policies, as long as they’re wellthought out, are valuable because “more than anything, it makes people think about what they’re doing, how they’re assigning books.”

Even with the policy, the issue still draws ire from students. The best thing professors can do to alleviate some concerns is explain to students why they feel their book is best suited for the class, said Jerry Swanson, a fourth-year in logistics management.

“It’s a trust thing,” Swanson said. “It’s a relationship between students and professor, and you’ve got to trust each other.”

kind of affects your morale going in.”

Sam Rocco, a second-year in political science, said it’s not inherently wrong for professors to be assigning their own books.

“They do a lot of research on it. They’re well-educated on the topic,” she said. “If you genuinely think it’s the best book and you explain, ‘This is why I assigned it,’ then that’s fine.”

Greg Anderson, a professor in the Department of History, has never assigned a book he has authored, but he understands why it is done. If he were to do so, it would be because “this book best matches the way I want to present the material for this class.”

“It isn’t just pure self-interest or greed,” Anderson said.

In the hard sciences, Anderson said the standards could be different. “In say a field like calculus, I don’t think there would be any basic disputes about what the contents [of a book] would be,”

support for key university strategic priorities at the discretion of and approved by the president, the provost and senior vice president for business and finance and chief financial officer,” the documents read.

The Board will vote on these proposals Friday.

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million from the partnership and $43 million from Ohio State Energy Partners and the rest from university reserves — would be set aside to fund unexpected fluctuations in energy prices or other issues relating to the operating cost of energy efficiency.

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Rows of textbooks at Barnes and Noble near campus.

In the fall, Swanson took Supply Chain Management, a class in the Fisher College of Business taught by Doug Lambert. The required text for the class was “Supply Chain Management: Processes, Partnerships, Performance,” edited by Lambert.

To order the $75 book, Swanson said he had to go through its Florida-based publisher. Its shipment was delayed by a hurricane, so Swanson had to wait about two weeks for it to arrive. He said Lambert didn’t have copies available at Barnes and Nobles or the now-shuttered Student Book Exchange. He also said he couldn’t find it on Amazon.

A Lantern review of publicly available syllabi also showed other Ohio State supply-chain management courses not taught by Lambert assign his book.

“It could be a really good book,” Swanson said. But when Lambert, who didn’t respond to an email asking for an interview, is teaching a section, Swanson believes he should address the fact he edited the book. He did not, Swanson said.

“I’m not going to drop the class because the professor is doing it, but it’s going to put me in a bad mood on the first day of class seeing, ‘Oh my professor is trying to gyp me out of some money.’ It

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Anderson said, therefore a professor in that subject might be more likely to assign their own work in an effort to align the way the information is presented with the way they plan to teach it.

Anderson, a scholar of Ancient Greece, said if he was going to assign a book he wrote, he would make sure he addressed it up front with his students. He also wouldn’t keep the profits, however small they might be, and instead try to donate them to charity (when Siegel was an undergraduate at Yale, she said her art history professor did just that).

The other option, Anderson said, is to try and find a way to distribute the text to students for free, like through PDF scans on Carmen, which some students have experienced. While it might not be what publishers want to hear, Anderson, who was critical of the textbook industry writ large, said it boils down to him trying to avoid benefiting materially from assigning the book.

“Ultimately it is about trust, and … as a professor, I wouldn’t want to have my motives for that sort of thing questioned by students,” he said.

and the Office of Business and Finance also requested $210 million from the energy partnership’s initial payment to Ohio State to be put toward a strategic initiatives endowment, according to Board documents.

“The annual distribution from this fund shall be used to provide

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into the United States,” Frank said, “and that occurred prior to the Trump presidency.”

“We already have issues with recruiting our diverse demographics from within the U.S. that are already here.

Imagine what this is going to look like in 15-20 years from now.”

Frederick Aldama Professor of arts and humanities

Countries that have a merit-based immigration system, Aldama said, are potentially denying entry from people who might be highly successful — if not for

the circumstances of their birth — and who bring with them other traits that are beneficial to communities, such as resiliency.

“They’re cutting out the possibility of incredible people — made through incredible circumstances — and that would bring incredible experiences to enrich a society,” he said. “It’s like putting blinders on a horse.”

Such a system also is inhumane, Aldama said, as it fails to consider that most immigrants migrate out of necessity rather than choice, and that there is merit in surviving extreme conditions.

“Most people don’t want to leave homelands,” he said. “They leave them because of war … because of the violence that’s destroying communities. They leave because of impoverishment.”

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BITCOIN Bitcoin is a bit confusing, so here’s a look at how the cryptocurrency works. | ON PAGE 5 TONY WHITE Lantern reporter white.2726@osu.edu In 2008, Lisa D’Onofrio jumped on stage at a dance competition she wasn’t even a part of, and discovered an art form that would follow her through life.

After finding dance, D’Onofrio’s parents signed her up for ballet technique classes, and over the next several years, she was able to train at several ballet companies across central Ohio, such as the New Albany Ballet Company while she was in elementary school and BalletMet for nearly eight years.

“I’m open to whatever God has planned for me in my story.”

Lisa D’Onfrio Ballet Magnificat trainee

Now a third-year in dance at Ohio State, D’Onofrio is taking a break from her education to partake in the trainee program at Ballet Magnificat, a professional dance company in Jackson, Mississippi.

The program is based on a mission and ministry focus, which works to prepare Christian artists for ministry in its touring companies and in the field of other mission organizations. The trainee program is specifically structured to help dancers between the ages of 17 and 24 achieve their full potential as professionals.

D’Onofrio said she began participating in the trainee program in September 2017, and the program will conclude at the end of the academic year. Due to the specific style

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A third-year in dance at Ohio State, Lisa D’Onofrio is a current trainee at Ballet Magnificat, a ministry-focused professional dance company in Jackson, Mississippi. of ballet enforced at Ballet Magnificat, applicants must complete the trainee program in order to work with the company.

D’Onofrio attended Ballet Magnificat’s Summer Dance Intensive –– a program that works to foster technical and spiritu-

al training of dancers through specialized class instruction and workshops –– for three years.

The program has been an experience that challenged her both with dance and with lifestyle choices, D’Onofrio said.

“The hardest part about the program so far has been learning the new style of ballet the company does, as well as the life adjustments you have to make when you move to another state,” she said.

The trainee program consists of different ballet technique classes, including pointe, modern and conditioning, as well as the opportunity to perform with the company in events like a spring concert.

Arianna Fine, a fourth-year in dance and D’Onofrio’s classmate, said due to the harsh toll dance takes on the body, she believes it’s important for D’Onofrio to take these opportunities while she is young.

Fine said D’Onofrio’s work with the professional company has not gone unnoticed by her peers.

“The fact that she took time off and trained in ballet is an inspiration to many people here following their dreams as a dancer and any artist,” she said. “She brings a lot of energy [and] she’s always willing to try new things, even if it’s not ballet.”

For D’Onofrio, being a part of the Ballet Magnificat trainee program has had a great impact on her life, and the company’s faith-based aspect is only one of the many reasons, she said.

“I have been able to grow in my faith and my dancing,” D’Onofrio said, “I love the community. This program will help me decide whether dance is in my future or not.”

Through Ballet Magnificat, D’Onofrio said she’ll have many opportunities to use her dance experience, but she still hasn’t chosen what route to take.

“I would love to stay here if that’s what’s in the plan, but I’m open to whatever God has planned for me in my story,” said D’Onofrio.

Short North Food Hall to open doors this March

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Short North Food Hall will be located at 1112 N. High Street just north of Standard Hall in Columbus.

EMMA STEELE Senior Lantern reporter steele.849@osu.edu Short North frequenters will soon have a new location to add to their weekend repertoire. Corso Ventures — the development group that owns Short North Pint House, Standard Hall and Forno — has announced plans to open the Short North Food Hall in early March.

At 1112 N. High Street, Short North Food Hall is just north of Standard Hall, but the similarities mostly stop there.

“It’s a pretty old building so we kept a lot of the original elements [like exposed brick], but it’s a very bright and fresh space,” said Corso Ventures President Reed Woogerd. “Our venues are super authentic, rustic, but with this one we decided just to clean it up a little bit.”

Although the abundance of white tile might give off a modern French bistro aesthetic, Woogerd said those who come hungry will not be boxed in to one type of cuisine.

Woogerd said they have built several fully equipped kitchens in the food hall to fit the needs of the outside separate operators they plan to bring in, including food truck owners, local chefs and other restaurateurs.

“[They are] all different cuisines with totally different foods, so hypothetically you could order Asian, Mexican and barbeque just sitting at one table,” Woogerd said.

Patrons looking for “Instagram-worthy” drinks similar to those at Corso Venture’s other locations will be in luck at the Short North Food Hall, where there will be an emphasis on large format, shareable beverages.

“The craft cocktails are really going to be very fresh and flavorful,” said Mic Wesson, director of marketing. “We’ve got some great cocktail guys on it. We have a fun take with it.”

Thanks to an in-house app, all of the food and drink options can be ordered without waiting for a server.

“Essentially you could come to the Short North Food Hall, open up the app and order cocktails or food from any of the different kitchens just sitting there on your phone, which is pretty game-changing,” Woogerd said.

Like the group’s other locations, Short North Food Hall also will have happy-hour specials and offer brunch on weekends.

However, certain features — particularly a rooftop patio — will allow for more novel Short North experiences, a concept that has been central to the restaurant’s creation.

“This is an opportunity for us to bring a lot more variety to the neighborhood,” Woogerd said.

“We understand that this pocket is one of the last little pockets of the Short North that hasn’t been developed yet, so we’re going to do everything we can to give the neighborhood what it needs.”

“This is an opportunity for us to bring a lot more variety to the neighborhood.”

Reed Woogerd Corso Ventures president

Woogerd and Wesson both agreed that Columbus’ lack of food halls –– which they had seen pop up elsewhere around the country –– is exactly why they believe this restaurant is such an important project.

“The food hall concept is really hot right now and we want to be the first to bring it here,” Wesson said. “We have this beautiful space that’s clean and modern, and at the same time, we’re giving these opportunities to local [kitchens]. To be able to marry those two in our location feels great.”

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Art professor’s projections take the screen ANDREA OH Lantern reporter oh.377@osu.edu Filmmaker and associate professor of art Roger Beebe will be showing his experimental projector performances Tuesday at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

His films overlay various moving images on one screen, using 16mm and super 8mm projector films. Beebe’s screenings will work like performances as he works the reels during the showing.

Beebe will screen two of his newest projects as surprise showings, both of which are still in the process of being edited as of last week. Tuesday will be the first time the films are shown publicly.

“One of [the films] is really exciting for me in relation to the conversation about film versus the digital,” Beebe said. “What I’m going to do for the Wexner Center is try to think about the space of the desktop as a performance space in the same way that I’m thinking about the room.”

Other projects will be better known, such as “Amazonia,” a multi-projector performance that explores Amazon’s distribution centers, and “Soundfilm,” a 16mm film that explores the history of sound recording.

Beebe has shown his work globally, from places like McMurdo Station in Antarctica to New York’s CBS Jumbotron in Times Square.

He has been challenging the norms of film and moving images for 23 years, after initially taking a French New Wave film

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Roger Beebe, an experimental filmmaker and associate professor of art, displays a film reel in his office. class during his sophomore year at Amherst College in 1990. His interest led him to study abroad and become an avid watcher of 1960s European art cinema with his friends.

Beebe never knew that film would be so important to him.

“What is film made of?” Beebe said. “It’s light. It’s duration.

It’s this rectangle in this certain shape, and there’s a really weird … element in me that can dive down that rabbit hole and forget the world exists to just think about what happens inside of

those rectangles.”

Throughout his career, Beebe has experimented with using projectors as a medium.

“He really gets you to experiment with the world around you.”

Christoper Summers Media manager for OSU Department of Dance

“I was really interested in something direct and something

immediate and something that I could do without having to wait for funding,” Beebe said. “I moved toward a kind of filmmaking that I could do alone.”

After being hired to perform a show at a planetarium in 2008, Beebe knew he wanted to continue using projectors in his filmmaking.

“I built a bunch of abstract loops of nebula and what I called space-birds,” Beebe said. “When I showed that film, it was the most enthusiastic response I’d every gotten for anything I’d ever

shown, so I knew that this is it.

This is the thing.”

Beebe instills the same wonder for film within his students, especially within the moving-image production major, where he teaches Filmmaking Foundations 1.

“He really brings to light how filmmaking started … and filmmaking as an actual, physical object,” said Christopher Summers, media manager for Ohio State’s Department of Dance. “That really inspires his students how to think about film … and the physicality of filmmaking.”

The major is a new program that started Autumn Semester and is designed for students to get hands-on experience creating new work and understanding filmmaking from various perspectives.

For Beebe, the classroom becomes a laboratory for ideas, where techniques emerge from exploring new concepts and playing around with his students. “[Beebe] makes you appreciate filmmaking, for making moving images, because … he really gets you to experiment with the world around you,” Summers said.

Beebe’s curiosity for the world and desire to challenge his limits radiates throughout his personal life and teaching.

“He wants you to get out there, get your hands dirty, get the film dirty and try new things,” Summers said.

The event will take place 7 p.m.

Tuesday at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Admission is $6 for students and $8 for the general public.

Bitcoin breakdown: a closer look at the cryptocurrency AMAL SAEED Lantern reporter saeed.40@osu.edu Chaz Schmidt bought a Valentine’s Day gift for himself last year –– $26 worth of Bitcoin. Nearly a year later, his investment is now worth $2,700.

Bitcoin, a type of cryptocurrency, has exploded in popularity in the past year, though it has been around for nearly a decade.

Many have heard of Bitcoin but not many know the details behind the mysterious currency.

Bitcoin is a form of digital currency that was developed by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008, though Nakamoto is actually an alias for an unknown person, or group of people, who designed Bitcoin.

“The real innovation with Bitcoin was figuring a way to make digital cash work.”

Jim Fowler Cryptocurrency Club adviser

Though there are a variety of cryptocurrencies available at the moment, Bitcoin has become the most popular one for investors.

Bitcoin was created as a way to bypass government control on currencies and make online transactions easier. The underlying technology behind Bitcoin is a blockchain, a digital ledger in which public transactions made in cryptocurrencies are recorded in a global network of computers.

The Cryptocurrency Club on campus teaches students the information behind digital curren-

cy like Bitcoin. Schmidt, the president of Ohio State’s Cryptocurrency Club, explained Bitcoin using an analogy.

“Imagine you are playing poker with a group of strangers,” he said. “No one at the table is able to trust one another so everyone keeps a ledger of the bets that occur. At the end of each round, the group of players compares their ledgers with one another to form a consensus.

“If someone at the table attempts to cheat by changing their version of the ledger, the rest of players will notice and reach a consensus that excludes the cheater’s false bets. Once a consensus is reached, everyone turns the page and starts recording the new round on the next page.”

Jim Fowler, the club’s adviser and assistant professor in the mathematics department, said he remembers being on the internet in the ’90s and hearing people talk about making the internet cash concept work.

“The real innovation with Bitcoin was figuring a way to make digital cash work,” he said.

The way people make money off of Bitcoin is through data mining, the process of examining large databases in order to generate new information. Users are encouraged to create new pages in their ledger by making new transactions. To gain more Bitcoins they have to verify pending transactions and solve a math puzzle. Once a miner solves the puzzle, their block of transactions is added to the end of the chain and they’re able to receive new Bitcoins.

Nathan Crum, vice president of the Cryptocurrency Club, said the concept of Bitcoin is revolutionary. As more people become familiar with how the currency works, its relevance is likely to grow in years to come.

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advisory board members from receiving funding from the agency, a move she said directly targets academic scientists. And while Wilson spoke the longest, a constant undertone was displayed throughout each speech: resistance against the current administration.

Additionally, since EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was sworn in on Feb. 17, 2017, 700 people — including more than 200 scientists — have left the agency, according to The New York Times and ProPublica. The EPA told The Times the decrease in numbers is due to more efficient practices. However, under the new administration, scientists like Wilson have little choice other than to resign.

The directive initiated by Pruitt “brings into question a bit of what the intentions are behind [new regulations],” Wilson said.

“There’s obviously maybe another intention behind it because it’s duplicating, in my opinion, [preventive] processes already in place.”

She said the science advisory directive that affects her removes board members from institutions to make way for industry researchers who might agree with the current administration’s views on environmental issues such as climate change.

According to a report from the Center for Investigative Re-

porting, 68 percent of the new Science Advisory Board consists of industry-funded scientists, 14 members contributed nearly $320,000 to Pruitt’s Oklahoma state Senate campaign.

The new directives are not shocking to EPA staff members, Wilson said.

“Politicians want to get reelected.

Scientists are not concerned with that.”

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“The last time we met in person for the science advisory board was in late August and it was pretty clear,” she said, of the first meeting since Trump’s inauguration. “We actually jokingly took a picture of the board to commemorate the existence of the board — so we kind of knew at the end of August that there was going to be some big changes to it coming,” she said.

The role of science conducted by academics is crucial to EPA policy decisions, said Alia Dietsch, an assistant professor in parks, protected areas, and natural-resources management. She

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“The data itself is not the problem, it’s the decision that’s being made based on that data and that affects individuals’ lives,” Dietsch said.

Those decisions include EPA Administrator Pruitt’s reversal of a ban on chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to developmental problems in children; funding cuts; and decreasing environmental law enforcement.

The choices being made by the EPA and its administration are politically driven, not scientifically based, Berardo said.

“Politicians want to get reelected,” he said. “Scientists are not concerned with that.”

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Wesson brothers’ impact on Ohio State founded on family CAROLINE RICE Lantern reporter rice.840@osu.edu In a crowd of Scarlet and Gray, packing the Schottenstein Center, Stephanie and Keith Wesson prepared to watch their two sons, sophomore forward Andre and freshman center Kaleb, take the court for Ohio State prior to its Jan. 22 game against Nebraska.

Becoming Buckeyes was only a matter of time for the Wesson brothers. Keith, a former Ohio State player from 1983 to 1987, raised his sons in a Columbus suburb, practically preparing them to play for his former team.

The two played together at Westerville South, but it wasn’t clear if that would continue at the next level.

Andre and Kaleb won a state championship in 2016, playing at the Schott. A month later, Andre received an offer from Ohio State and signed his letter of intent with the Buckeyes. Now, the two play for the same team on the same court they shared that memorable moment.

“I’m happy for them that all of their work paid off and it’s just truly a blessing,” their father said. “They had a lot of choices, a lot of great schools, and for them to choose Ohio State, where I played, down the street. Words can’t describe how excited and happy we are.”

Even though the brothers are reunited, there have been roadblocks.

In only his third collegiate game, Kaleb was suspended for the Buckeyes’ game against Texas Southern on Nov. 16 for “a failure to meet the expectations of the men’s basketball program,” according to an Ohio State spokesperson. However, after one more game, he took over the starting center position for an injured sophomore Micah Potter and has not let go of it since.

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new coaches in the league,” Holtmann said. “How are they doing?

What’s their year shaped up like?

And I’m sure that will continue in the years to come.”

Scouting Indiana Indiana has been involved in a number of close games lately, with each of its past three games being decided by single digits.

Unfortunately for the Hoosiers, two of those were losses, including a 73-71 defeat at home to a middling Illinois team.

Miller’s squad has been strong in the interior, shooting with 54.2 percent on 2-point field goals and holding teams to just 47.9 percent inside the 3-point arc. Both percentages place the Hoosiers in the top-100 teams in the nation.

Outside the perimeter has been a different story. The Hoosiers have allowed opponents to shoot 37.8 percent from 3-point range, 297th-best in the country. Offensively, they have only mustered a 30.5 percent 3-point shooting percentage, which is 335th-best out of 351 total teams.

Forward Juwan Morgan, who typically starts at center, leads the Hoosiers with both 16.3 points and 7.1 rebounds per game this season. Like the team, he has struggled to shoot from 3-point range with only a 26.5 percent clip, but has shot 65.2 percent inside the perimeter.

While Ohio State does not rely on 3-point shooting, it is a team that can shoot from beyond the arc with accuracy. The Buck-

two Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors this season, while Andre has been praised by his teammates and head coach Chris Holtmann for his contributions off the bench.

The brothers grew up highly competitive, Stephanie said. They were always fighting and were so hard on each other that sometimes their father had to step in. But Kaleb has always been Andre’s biggest fan. Their mother Stephanie said Kaleb stands up for his brother whenever a negative comment is made about him.

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Ohio State freshman forward Kaleb Wesson (34) high fives his brother, sophomore forward Andre Wesson (24) after scoring in the first half in the game against Maryland on Jan. 11. Ohio State won 91-69. has not been as clear.

During the summer, Andre underwent medical tests on an unknown condition that forced him to stop basketball activity for some time, which instilled questions into his longevity with Ohio State. During this time, Andre’s father said he “literally couldn’t do anything.” He couldn’t pick up a basketball, swim or “walk fast,” according to his mother.

Andre made it back to the court for the Buckeyes and has become the Buckeyes’ top forward off the bench, averaging more minutes than any other bench forward and playing at least 16 minutes in each of the team’s last six games. However, his father

said the injury still slightly affects Andre, even months into the season.

Keith said it was a challenge for his elder son to come back and get back into the speed of the game after months away.

“An athlete who has been playing whatever sport since sixth grade, basically every day, that was really the hardest part for him,” Keith said. “And then just not knowing and not being able to do anything. It was tough on him, and it took a lot longer for him. He’s still recovering from this, especially from an offensive standpoint.”

Overall, both Andre and Kaleb have made quite the names for themselves in their time at Ohio State. Kaleb has earned

“I’m happy for them that all of their work paid off and it’s just truly a blessing. They had a lot of choices, a lot of great schools, and for them to choose Ohio State, where I played, down the street. Words can’t describe how excited and happy we are.”

Keith Wesson Father of Andre and Kaleb Wesson

Their parents have not missed a game this season, home or away.

“I just want them to get to their highest potential, whatever that may be. I want them to leave it all out on the floor. I tell them all the time, enjoy every minute of this,” Keith said. “Having played, sometimes you get so caught up in the wins and losses and playing well or playing bad that you forget to soak in the experience; playing in Madison Square Garden, walking down Times Square, going to these great facilities, flying on a charter plane.

“They get lost in the norm of how normal things appear but I always remind them that this isn’t normal.”

eyes’ 3-point percentage of 36.3 percent is the 113th-highest rate in the country. They also defend teams well, both outside the arc (34.1 percent allowed) and inside (46.1 percent allowed).

With interior defenders like redshirt junior forward Keita Bates-Diop and freshman center Kaleb Wesson, Ohio State will force the Hoosiers to find production outside of the paint and will make Miller rely more heavily on his guards than usual.

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two seasons.

Now, instead of Thomas watching Blough from the sideline, it is the other way around.

“Even last year, he [was] always giving me advice and help and stuff like that,” Thomas said.

“Right now, the official role is as a coach, but he’s been doing that ever since I got here freshman year.”

As a former setter, Blough said he has a good idea of what opponents are doing with a better view of what is going on from the sideline. Blough is still adjusting to watching the game he played for most of his life from a different angle.

“I’m nowhere near being proficient in that at the level of coach Hanson, coach [Tim] Embaugh,

coach [Kevin] Burch, who have done this for years,” Blough said.

“I think it just gave me more of an appreciation for what they are able to do on a daily basis.”

Hanson said he feels Blough has been a great fit for the Buckeyes early in the 2018 season, though he recognizes Blough’s future as a coach is up to him and “we certainly want him to be involved.”

Blough said it might be too early to determine how long his coaching career will be.

“I think that I’ll keep giving back to the program and the game that did so much for me while I still can,” Blough said. “But it is hard to say when that window is going to close or stay open.”

With Blough attempting to balance both coaching and medical school, it is hard for those observing him to imagine how he manages his busy schedule. However, Thomas said it’s just his normal way of doing things.

“Seeing him and hearing that he is balancing medical school and a coaching position is mind-boggling for definitely the outsider,” Thomas said. “But if you know Christy Blough, you would understand.”

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No. 17 Ohio State welcomes Indiana for first Miller-Holtmann matchup EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu No. 17 Ohio State (18-5, 9-1 Big Ten) suffered a devastating loss at home to Penn State, falling 82-79 on a buzzer-beating, near-half-court shot from guard Tony Carr for its first Big Ten loss of the season.

After four days of rest, which ties their longest break of the season, the Buckeyes will try to get back in the win column at 7 p.m. Tuesday when they welcome Indiana (12-10, 5-5 Big Ten) to the Schottenstein Center Miller vs. Holtmann Before accepting the head coaching position at Indiana, Archie Miller was Dayton’s head coach from 2011 to 2017 and an Ohio State assistant coach under Thad Matta from 2007 to 2009. His Ohio roots made him appear to be the most-likely successor when Ohio State and Matta parted ways.

However, Miller took the Indiana job in March, three months before Matta was fired by Ohio State. Five days after Matta‘s tenure ended, Ohio State hired former Butler head coach Chris Holtmann to run the sputtering program.

Indiana was not exactly a program coming off a sterling 2016-17 season. But given Ohio State’s losses of Trevor Thompson, JaQuan Lyle and Marc Loving, most people viewed the Hoosiers as the more potent Big Ten team. Instead, the Hoosiers have trudged through an inconsistent season while Ohio State has become a surprise

PROJECTED STARTERS Penn State G - Josh Newkirk - Redshirt senior 6-foot-1, 195 lbs., 8.1 ppg, 2.3 rpg, 2.9 apg

G - Zach McRoberts - Redshirt junior 6-foot-6, 205 lbs., 2.8 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 1.5 apg

G - Robert Johnson - Senior 6-foot-3, 195 lbs., 14.0 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 2.5 apg

F - Juwan Morgan - Junior 6-foot-8, 230 lbs., 16.3 ppg, 7.1 rpg, 1.2 apg

F - Justin Smith - Freshman 6-foot-7, 220 lbs., 5.5 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 0.3 apg

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Big Ten title contender.

Still, it is too early for either coach’s tenure to be judged. But the rapid rise of the Buckeyes and the tradition of the Hoosiers makes Tuesday’s game the first installment of a new-era matchup between two coaches assigned with the task of getting their programs back to the top.

Holtmann said he has not put too much

thought into the narrative of the game between two of college basketball’s up-andcoming coaches, but knows those conversations will circulate around the programs.

“Obviously, there were, what, three new coaches in the league. So to some degree, you recognize that there’s always going to be some comparison when you have three

G - C.J. Jackson - Junior 6-foot-1, 175 lbs., 13.0 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 4.4 apg

G - Kam Williams - Redshirt senior 6-foot-2, 185 lbs., 8.0 ppg, 1.8 rpg, 0.6 apg

F - Jae’Sean Tate - Senior 6-foot-4, 230 lbs., 12.8 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 2.8 apg

F - Keita Bates-Diop - Redshirt junior 6-foot-7, 235 lbs., 19.9 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 1.3 apg

C - Kaleb Wesson - Freshman 6-foot-9, 270 lbs., 11.2 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 1.1 apg

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Blough continues setting up others for success COLIN GAY Senior Lantern reporter gay.125@osu.edu Christy Blough still remembers his final game as an Ohio State men’s volleyball player vividly.

The Buckeyes defeated BYU 3-0 in May to claim their second-straight NCAA championship in front of a home crowd at St. John Arena. Blough felt only one emotion could fit the moment.

“I would just say overjoyed,” Blough said. “I mean, overwhelming joy just in the moment we got to play in front of our fans at home.”

After the confetti fell, reality set in for the senior setter. With his collegiate athletic career complete, Blough had a decision to make as to what the next chapter in his life would look like.

After ending his career ranked in the top five in Ohio State history for assists with 4,280, Blough had the experience necessary to pursue a professional volleyball career.

“It was always in the back of my head that maybe I’ll try and keep playing, you know, in Europe or something,” Blough said.

“But I just had some injuries, and it just seemed like I was kind of limping my way through the end of the season last year, and may-

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Then-senior setter Christy Blough celebrates a point with his teammates during the 2017 NCAA national championship game. be it was best to move on for my body’s sake.”

Blough turned his attention to helping others. After shadowing in the emergency wing at Nationwide Children’s Hospital during his junior year of college, the biomedical engineering major decided he would attend medical school at Ohio State. It has allowed Blough to remain a part of the volleyball team — as a stu-

dent-coach.

The trip to the hospital was enlightening.

“I think that I saw the care and the relationships that these physicians were giving to pediatric patients especially,” Blough said.

“Some of them were in such need that I just kind of found, I don’t want to say a calling, but something, a profession that I thought was maybe about as fulfilling a

profession as I could find.”

When fall arrived and medical school began, Blough still found his way to St. John Arena in his spare time, rehabbing his right knee after having surgery during the offseason and working out with players who were still on the team.

Blough said he felt as though he never left. One day in the locker room after practice, Blough

formed an idea that allowed him to stay around his former team.

“Some of the coaches were in the coaching office and they were joking around like, ‘Oh, you are staying here for medical school.

Maybe you can come around and help us out,’” Blough said.

Blough said he was unsure of what his time commitment could be as a student in medical school.

But as time went on and he became more comfortable with his schedule, the former starting setter decided he would return to the Buckeyes, not as a player, but as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2018 season.

Though head coach Pete Hanson said he felt Blough’s personality as a player translated well to coaching, the shift from the court to the sideline was strange not only for Blough, but the team.

“I think they kind of played along and gave me a hard time to start out with just because, you know, I was their teammate for some of them for three or four years,” Blough said. “I think it is a big change for them to see me on the sidelines too.”

Hanson said Blough’s major role on the sideline is to help with the offense, especially the setters.

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