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The organization continues to push for more equitably and ethically sourced food on campus.

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Research reports on Anti-Trump protests impact of fake news continue in Columbus “The millennial generation is (part of) all the growing evidence that suggests that people just trust the thief that’s in front of them ... They just assume that their Facebook feed is trustworthy. They assume Facebook itself is trustworthy.”

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SHERIDAN HENDRIX Senior Lantern reporter hendrix.87@osu.edu In a world where access to information is at people’s fingertips, anyone can create content and, thanks to social media, news can travel faster than ever. But with “fake news” and “alternative facts” threatening to skew what is presented as truth, how can the public fight to stay informed in an era of information overload?

Gerald Kosicki, an associate professor in communication, said he sees a lack of media literacy –– the ability to access, analyze, engage and create media in the 21st century –– as a main cause of fake news’ presence in the world today. “(Media literacy has) kind of been a neglected stepchild, in a way, in our discipline,” Kosicki said. That’s a mistake.”

Kosicki said this lack of knowledge on how to stay informed with real news, combined with people not always knowing to disregard fake news, has produced a climate in which individuals are able to manipulate the system to push a false narrative.

How millennials get informed Kosiski and doctoral candidate George Pearson published a research paper last January titled “How Way-Finding is Challenging Gatekeeping in the Digital Age,” which discusses the ways media habits are rapidly changing.

Traditionally, older generations are loyal followers to only a few different news outlets, Kosicki told The Lantern. Younger generations, however, do not do that, he said. Instead, they use “way-finding,” a new way of engaging with news, to get information.

“You get social media feeds, some interesting thing comes by, you click on it and it takes you off to some site and you read that,” Kosicki said. “And then you see another thing and go off in a different direction, bouncing from one thing to another. There’s diversity in that, but it’s also without purpose.”

The problem with this method, Kosicki said, is it requires readers to place their trust in those sharing the stories on their social media feeds.

“It’s hard to know what are the priorities and what is the agenda being set by your friends,” he said.

“You’re really leaving important decisions about how you’re going to learn about the world to the mercy of others.”

Pearson said this trend is likely due to excessive trust by millennials.

“The millennial generation is (part of) all the growing evidence that suggests that people just trust the thief that’s in front of them,” Pearson said. “They just assume that their Facebook feed is trustworthy. They assume Facebook FAKE NEWS CONTINUES ON 2

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The rise of Facebook and social media has made access to news — real and fake — easier, researchers say.

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A demonstrator stands in front of the police line during a protest against President Donald Trump held on Jan. 30. Another protest was held earlier in the day at city hall, following Trump’s recent executive orders on immigration, demanding Columbus become a sanctuary city. Both protests follow scores of anti-Trump demonstrations held across the country — including in Columbus — since Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. See coverage of last night’s protests at TheLantern.com.

Hale Center to host Angela Davis for 45th MLK celebration ceremony GHEZAL BARGHOUTY Senior Lantern reporter barghouty.5@osu.edu MADISON MUNDY For The Lantern mundy.113@osu.edu Ohio State’s Frank W. Hale Black Cultural Center, along with Columbus State Community College, will be hosting Angela Y. Davis as a speaker for the close of the 45th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Tuesday evening.

The celebration will be held to end a monthlong celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s work and also serve as an opening for Black History Month in February, said Santierra Hutson, a third-year in strategic communication and student assistant at the Hale Center.

Davis, an activist and educator in the women’s, gender and sexuality studies department at Syracuse University, is prominently known for her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and Black Panther Party. She was formerly the FBI’s most wanted person in America and has also ran for vice president on the Communist Party ticket twice.

Hutson described Davis’ involvement with MLK’s work, and

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Angela Davis speaks at Roma Tre University in Rome on March 14, 2016. The event at Hale Center will be free. said she has had a great impact on the African-American community and the American experience.

“I’m excited to have someone that was such a revolutionary, that has made such an impact on our society and someone that has tested the limits as much as (Davis) has,” Hutson said. “I think that’s one of the things I’m most excited for, meeting this woman, who has had such an impact on our history, and the fact that she’s still around and cognitive and capable enough to share her story.”

Davis was chosen as this year’s speaker because she demonstrates MLK’s dream in a way young-

er generations can relate to, said Lawrence Williamson, director of the Hale Center.

“Back in the ‘60s, she experienced what had actually went on (in) the Civil Rights Movement,” Williamson said.

Curtis Austin, an assistant professor in the Department of African American and African Studies, said anyone, but especially students, can come to Davis to learn more and move beyond the current political climate.

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Students help former prisoners re-enter workforce tutoring.

Jackie Haight, a volunteer and intern coordinator at Alvis, this is a great help to many individuals who sometimes struggle with the GED, especially the math portion.

“To have a student group come in is a great help,” ERIN GOTTSACKER | LANTERN REPORTER Haight said. “I The PassGo team, comprised primarily can’t thank them of the class of 2018 Eminence Fellows, enough for helpposes for a picture outside of the Kuhn ing our clients find Honors and Scholars House. jobs and complete ERIN GOTTSACKER their GED. PassGo has definitely Lantern reporter contributed to the 180-degree imgottsacker.2@osu.edu pact at Alvis.”

PassGo also seeks to spread For many former inmates look- community awareness about the ing to readjust to life after prison, current state of the criminal-jusmaking the transition and finding tice system. economic stability is a challenge.

“For a justice system, there’s However, the student organiza- a lot of injustice involved,” said tion PassGo has worked for the Jordan Maier, chair of the organipast two years to change that re- zation’s Employment Opportunity ality by connecting ex-offenders Committee. with potential employers. By hirMaier said some of the chaling former prisoners, those em- lenges facing today’s jails and ployers then have the opportunity prisons include overpopulation to receive tax breaks through the because of mandatory minimum federally funded Work Opportuni- drug sentencing. She also spoke ty Tax Credit. of the struggles some families Specifically, PassGo partners face when a family member is imwith organizations like ex-offend- prisoned. er assistance programs Alvis and “Usually if they are in poverty, Kindway. Their work includes they’re thrown deeper in poverty developing computer literacy pro- and it raises the likelihood that grams, resume workshops and their children are eventually going job-preparation classes, in addi- to end up in the prison system as tion to volunteering at already es- well,” Maier said. “I think (Passtablished GED programs.

Go) is one way that we can kind At the same time, the group of work to end that cycle of incarreaches out to local businesses ceration.” that could benefit financially by To spread awareness about the hiring ex-offenders and tries to impact the prison system has on reduce the stigma that they face. people and families, PassGo is “When it comes to being in organizing an art exhibit to allow prison and getting out, you still ex-offenders to share their stories need to be able to build yourself through artwork. back up and it’s difficult because “The essential message Passyou have a record now, and a lot Go wants to communicate to its of people treat that with stigma,” members and to the Ohio State said Eleni Christofides, president community is not to make judgof PassGo. “We realized how im- ments about a person’s value or portant it is to break down that ability based on one feature, when stigma at an individual level and we know nothing else about them make sure that people can inte- or their experiences,” Christofides grate themselves back into their said. communities.”

The program started when a The Engaged Scholars logo acgroup of students found the Work companies stories that feature Opportunity Tax Credit and felt and examine research and teachmany local businesses were un- ing partnerships formed between aware of the tax credit’s advan- the Ohio State University and the tages. Since then, PassGo has community (local, state, national connected with other local orga- and global) for the mutually bennizations also aiming to connect eficial exchange of knowledge and ex-offenders with the opportuni- resources. These stories spring ties and resources necessary to from a partnership with OSU’s Ofresuming life after prison. fice of Outreach and Engagement.

One of these organizations is The Lantern retains sole editorial Alvis, a nonprofit agency that control over the selection, writing works with individuals who have and editing of these stories. spent time in the criminal-justice system. Members of PassGo partner with Alvis to help with GED

Crime map: Jan. 23 - 30

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MITCH HOOPER Engagement Editor hooper.102@osu.edu An alleged rape reportedly occurred at an off-campus location in the 43rd cruiser district on Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. (Not pictured on map) 1. A woman not affiliated with the university was arrested for theft at Rhodes Hall at 4:17 p.m. on Sunday.

2. An amber alert was issued Monday at 9:30 a.m. after a woman reported her child was inside

her vehicle that was stolen from her home on North Fourth Street near Chittenden Avenue. At 10:15 a.m., the search for the alleged missing child was canceled after the child was found safe and the woman admitted she told law enforcement her child was in the car so the missing vehicle would be found quicker.

3. A man not affiliated with the university was arrested at Morrill Tower on Sunday at 1:11 a.m. for “offenses involving underage persons,” prohibited acts and criminal damaging. Additionally, a female student was reportedly in-

volved in the incident resulting in her arrest for “offenses involving underage persons.”

4. An alleged robbery on East 14th Street near Big Four Street was reported to the Columbus Police on Wednesday at 3 p.m. The victims reported that two cellphones, an Xbox One and marijuana were stolen.

reporting on it.”

Media outlets such as CNN and The Washington Post have created fact-checking guides available online to help scope out fake news, and websites like realorsatire.com allow users to copy and paste URLs to articles to confirm if they’re real or not. Snopes.com has also curated a list of known fake news websites to also confirm one’s findings.

Know your bias In a time of divisive politics, Kosicki said questioning and recognizing one’s own biases is important, especially when consuming news.

“What are you trying to do with your news consumption?” Kosicki said. “Feed your prejudices and come up with talking points and arguments that you can use with your friends? Or are you really trying to understand the world as it is and have an accurate view of the world?”

If readers know their biases, Kosicki said, makes it possible to understand not only their own views, but the views of others.

“If you know the bias, then you can make mental corrections for it,” Kosicki said. “They say that if you had a rifle and the sight is 2 inches to the left, you can still learn to hit your target by aiming and making adjustments on your end.”

Kosicki said he recommends reading news from sources from the other side of the political aisle, for example, reading something from Fox News if someone usually sticks to MSNBC. This exercise, Kosicki said, is great

to see, “What does that look like over there?” Additionally, visiting sites such as Allsides.com allows readers to take in a full scope of news, from far-right to far-left and everything in between.

Pearson said it’s important to remember, though, that not all bias is inherently bad, and that an article having a bias doesn’t automatically mean it’s fake.

“People do definitely need to be aware of what other viewpoints are and what the other side of thinking is if you want to have a very successful democracy and more to the point, to get along with one another,” he said. “But that is a different realm to falsify information, which is all fake news is … I think we do need to make efforts on our public level to rid ourselves of fake news. But I think you can have a healthy functioning democracy with bias in news.”

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itself is trustworthy.”

Fighting fake news A quick scroll through one’s Facebook feed might reveal a mix of viral videos and status updates from family and friends. Scroll a little longer and you might start to see fake news, with headlines and articles designed to present fictitious and fabricated content as true.

The term “fake news” has been tossed around to describe a number of different things, something that Pearson said is a problem. “(Fake news) usually (refers to) an entire media outlet that is set up to propagate intentionally misleading and falsified information and that’s a very, very distinct category,” Pearson said.

Pearson said that it’s important to distinguish between fake news and what is really just a journalist’s error.

“Journalists have always made retractions and got things wrong,” he said. “Biases have always existed … but those two things are not necessarily completely corrosive to democracy in the same way that entire news outlets set up to spread false information are.”

Pearson said the best way to confirm whether something is fake news starts with a simple Google search before clicking “share.”

“If anything seems ‘too good to be true’ in terms of your political bias, google the headline and see who else is reporting on it and see it elsewhere,” Pearson said. “Most of the time, you’re reading these stupid fake news articles, you’ll realize very quickly that not a single other news outlet out there is

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In current political climate, sustainability is important Sustainability.

Here at Ohio State, this word is tossed around like an old hacky sack, bounced around from buildings to banners as “green this, green that.” From our Discovery Themes to our football stadium, this language is everywhere, affirming our university’s seeming commitment to an environmentally sound, community-oriented future. But do we, as students, ever question the legitimacy of this messaging? Has this constant talk talk talk actually prompted action? As all progressive student groups on campus eventually learn, the answer is a resounding NO. For the past three years, we as members of OSU’s Real Food Challenge have campaigned tirelessly for one simple concept: real food. Food that nourishes both people and planet. Food that is local, community-based, fair and ecologically sound.

For three years, we have mobilized, organized, rallied and protested — always with one mission in mind: pressuring OSU to sign onto the Real Food Campus Commitment, which would shift our university’s tremendous institutional purchasing power toward a more just, sustainable food system. And for three years, we have tried to work with the administration when possible, from writing proposals and meeting endlessly with Dining Services to passing an Undergraduate Student Government resolution in support of the commitment.

However, it was only after coalition-building with Reclaim OSU and one particularly notable display of student power — our occupation of Bricker Hall last spring — that our university finally began to take us seriously. We were invited to sit on OSU’s newly established Panel on Food Sustainability, a committee tasked with increasing the university’s purchase of “local and sustainable” food to 40 percent by 2025. Progress, right? Wrong.

After months of working with this panel, the students of Real Food OSU have come to an unfortunate conclusion: Our university and its panel do not share our community’s vision of an equitable, just food system. We have come to realize that these commitments and committees are largely hollow, symbolic ges-

tures. Despite the panel’s best intentions, OSU’s brand of sustainability is just that — a brand.

The way we see it, OSU’s vision neglects the most foundational flaws in our food system, including the corporate consolidation of land, knowledge and power and a legacy of racial oppression. Our university espouses ideals of “sustainability,” “community” and “progress,” yet we continue to align ourselves with the same corporate forces that degrade the environment, dismantle both rural and urban community life, and refuse to treat producers, farm workers and people of color fairly.

One might ask: What progress, if any, has OSU made toward its year-old goal?

By contrast, the Real Food Campus Commitment’s finely tuned, meticulously researched standards would create a system that is not only socially and environmentally just, but also transparent. The commitment creates a structure in which students — not simply Dining Services or administrators — work alongside frontline communities, food-movement leaders and producers to hold the university accountable, preventing the abuses and “greenwashing” that too often comes with self-reporting.

Indicators of such greenwashing include exaggeration, vagueness and weak verification, according to University of Oregon’s Greenwashing Index. So how does OSU stack up? A goal of 40 percent local and sustainable food purchasing by 2025, all without clear definitions of those words and no established method of verification? Check, check and check.

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David Crawford Jones, senior lecturer of the department of African American and African Studies said that Davis is one of the seminal figures of activism in

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The celebration will also consist of a gospel tribute to King performed by OSU’s African American Voices of Gospel Choir at The Ohio State University and a candlelight vigil to King by the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

“It’s very symbolic, and they sound amazing,” said Brooklyn McDaniels, president of the Black Student Association at Ohio State and a third-year in

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LOCAL MATTERS Students and alumni strive toward improved food security in Columbus communities. | ON PAGE 5

Alum screens ‘SMART’ documentary ELIZABETH TZAGOURNIS Senior Lantern reporter tzagournis.24@osu.edu A team of modern superheroes has vowed to never let an animal die alone in the dark.

That is what Justin Zimmerman said about the roughly 14 individuals known as the Specialized Mobile Animal Rescue Team, the stars of the his feature-length documentary “SMART.” Zimmerman, a 1999 Ohio State alumnus, directed and produced “SMART,” which is set to screen Wednesday at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

The film has won seven awards at various film festivals nationally and internationally — and was nominated for three more — since its release in December 2016.

What started as a passion project, he said, became three years of capturing rescue missions and personally connecting with the rescue team. The group propels down cliffs, zip lines and performs helicopter and water rescues to save any of the nearly 14 million animals in Los Angeles, should they need help.

“As you get into your work, you worry less and less about the audience and you worry more and more about what you can do to make the film as good as you can be,” Zimmerman said. “You’re not worrying about whether

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SMART animal rescue team is featured in new documentary by Justin Zimmerman. you’re going to do a good job, you’re worrying about how far can you push yourself to tell the story right, whatever that means from your experience.”

After finishing his undergraduate degree in English with a minor in film criticism in 1999, Zimmerman went on to graduate school at Ohio University in cinematography and video production. He last visited the Wex in 2006 to screen his feature documentary “Fire-

land,” which tells the story of a 1963 nursing home fire.

“I dislike documentaries which showcase a huge issue and then say it’s bad and that’s it. I’m not a big fan of that form of storytelling,” Zimmerman said. “I hope that people get connected to the men and women of the SMART team because, if they get connected to the members of the team, then the team’s responsibility will be shared by the audience.”

Zimmerman said he hopes his story encourages some form of reaction and response. The best way to achieve this, he said, is to create a compelling story that resonates with audience members.

“My hope is that when people get into the film, get into the characters and walk out saying ‘This is something we should be able to solve. This doesn’t feel right so let’s think of some ways in which we can participate and get

involved and do something,’” he said. “But it doesn’t work unless you make a cool film and tell a cool story.”

Melissa Starker, the creative content and public relations manager at the Wex, said her office has reached out to many different animal-related advocacy groups and causes — from the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine to the local humane society — about the documentary screening. She said there has been a lot of excitement generated and that the screening may provide viewers with more than just entertainment.

“People are a little tense right now, for a number of reasons,” Starker said. “Seeing people who are just living the life of doing everything they can to save these animals in LA sounds like a really wonderful and almost therapeutic thing to do on a Wednesday.”

“SMART” screens Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the film/video theater at the Wex. Zimmerman will speak with audience members during a Q-and-A session following the screening. Tickets are $6 for students and $8 for the general public.

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Student startup takes on Vineyard Vines ADAM ROBBINS Lantern reporter robbins.347@osu.edu A dorm room in Nosker House houses Marc Rice, his roommate and his clothing line.

Marc Rice, a second-year in finance, started Atlantica Apparel as part of an assignment for his innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship scholar group in 2015. He said his mission is to produce a clothing brand that inspires people to appreciate the East Coast.

Rice sells a variety of unisex clothing items including $15 T-shirts and $18 hats from his dorm room. They all feature either the company logo or a depiction of a lighthouse from Rice’s hometown of Westport, Massachusetts.

After watching a YouTube video, Rice built a screen printing press with the help of his father, which he now uses to make his T-shirts in his room. In the past year, he has sold more than 200 shirts. Once business began to pick up, Rice decided to expand his line from just shirts to include windbreakers, hats, stickers and flags. His said his passion for his East Coast home influenced the line.

“I love the East Coast, and I

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Ohio State student Marc Rice creates Atlantica Apparel from his dorm room.

Sydney Varner models Atlantica Apparel clothing.

don’t think Vineyard Vines does the East Coast enough justice,” Rice said. “I feel that this is a better brand image for all that the East Coast has to offer. The East Coast has fantastic people and fantastic views, and I really wanted to capture all of that.”

Justin Hill, one of Rice’s recent customers, said he feels Rice did a great job capturing what college students enjoy wearing.

“I really like the color and style

The line is are split into two different categories, a winter collection and a summer collection. The winter collection features darker colors such as black and red, while the summer section features more vibrant colors such as teal and coral.

Rice isn’t sure what he wants to do in the future, but right now he’s focusing on his company.

“I think this has a shot to take off and hopefully become a major

Marc chose,” Hill said. “I bought one of the shirts because I feel like this style is in right now, so his stuff is really good.”

Hill also said he feels his clothes would fit in at any university.

“I could definitely see kids from the West, Southwest, Southeast — really anywhere — wearing these clothes,” he said. “Marc has a really cool design, and while it does have an East Coast vibe, it could fit in anywhere.”

brand name on college campuses,” Rice said. “If our brand gets out there, who knows where this could go.”

Atlantica Apparel is available online on the company’s website.

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OSU students and alumni work toward improved food security nutrition, Ryan sought out Local Matters and began as a volunteer when she moved to Columbus from upstate New York.

“It’s motivating to come to work every day and help raise money for the organization, knowing that you’re helping the community,” Ryan said.

Even though both women are on the administrative side, Ryan noted that volunteering is just as important.

“Volunteering is a huge thing and from there you are opening doors for yourself, so I always tell first-year students that getting your foot in the door and being open to exploring different options opens you up to a whole realm of different opportunities,” she said.

“It’s motivating to come to work every day and help raise money for the organization, knowing that you’re helping the community.”

Laura Ryan Local Matters member

MADISON MACEACHEN Lantern reporter maceachen.7@osu.edu Now buying food can help others who might not have the option.

Since it was founded in 2008, more than 350 Ohio State students and alumni have volunteered with Local Matters, a Columbus-based nonprofit striving to help the communities in need of access to adequate nutrition.

Contributing to the charity is now as easy as going to the local FUSIAN or Alchemy Juice Bar + Cafe. Until Feb. 28, these two eateries are offering a special sushi roll and smoothie sold at their respective locations. For each roll or smoothie sold, one dollar is donated to the Food Matters program and will go toward improving the

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FUSIAN’s superfood roll has brown rice, seaweed, roasted tofu, sweet potato, avocado and pickled beets topped with micro kale, puffed quinoa and dragonfruit sauce.

food education program at Moler Elementary School in Columbus.

Through four core programs — Growing Matters, Food Matters, Cooking Matters and Wellness Matters — the charity provides resources that address food security one step at a time. Some of the resources offered by these programs include cooking classes, food education in schools and community food planning, which involves ar-

ranging access for those who don’t have good access to a food source.

Amanda Hemann, a 2013 OSU graduate in public administration, currently works for Local Matters, handling developmental communications and brand management. Hermann first got involved with Local Matters after taking a fundraising class at OSU that was taught by a professor working with the organization at the time.

“Local Matters is my first fulltime position and I always wanted to work at a nonprofit because I think your passion can be your work, and I’m not sure that working for business organizations fulfill you in the same way,” she said.

A member of Hemann’s communications team, Laura Ryan, is a current graduate student pursuing a master’s in Public Health.

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CAP IT OFF ‘CAPtivate’ repurposes bottle caps in OSU Faculty Club EMILY DEAN Lantern reporter dean.242@osu.edu The Ohio State Faculty Club is now decorated with what many would consider trash: bottle caps.

OSU alumnus John Taylor-Lehman uses bottle caps to make art for the feature exhibit, “CAPtivate.”

The exhibit will be on display through March 10 in the main hallway and member’s lounge of the club.

Curated by art coordinator Lisa Craig Morton, the OSU Faculty Club’s art program serves the local art community while filling the halls with works that have ties to the campus.

“Some of the pieces are really akin to paintings,” she said of Taylor-Lehman’s works. “But when you get up close and actually look at it, it’s made of beer bottle caps.”

Crushing the caps for his art used to be a labor-intensive process that required flattening each cap with a hammer, Taylor-Lehman said. Since then, he collaborated with engineering research scientists at OSU to modify a log splitter in order to produce more flattened bottle caps so he could turn out more pieces.

A Master of Science in botany from OSU, John Taylor-Lehman is a former public high school teacher and current biology lec-

turer at Zane State College. He said he is entirely self-taught in his bottle cap art. Though his last art class may have been in grade school, he said he was exposed to many things that inspired him to make art while growing up in Cleveland, such as exhibits in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Taylor-Lehman has previously dabbled in painting, silk screening and wood carving, but decided in 2014 to devote his time and energy into crafting one-of-a-kind mosaics constructed entirely of repurposed beer bottle caps and other materials.

“I needed to pick something to be known for,” he said. “I don’t draw particularly well, but I like to construct things, and I have a bit of color sense.”

In fact, Taylor-Lehman’s workspace is arranged with many bins of color-coded bottle caps that are saved by him, or donated to him from friends and family.

Taylor-Lehman doesn’t shy away from integrating different artistic concepts that are unfamiliar to him in his pieces. He said for his work titled “Shaky House,” which features a gradient sunset, and rippling caps to render shingles on a roof, he looked to the realist works of Edward Hopper, but wanted to add some perspective and a little bit of his own flair.

Taylor-Lehman’s talent and

“I needed to pick something to be known for. I don’t draw particularly well, but I like to construct things, and I have a bit of color sense.”

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“Shaky House” by John Taylor-Lehman incorporates a gradient of bottle caps to create a sunset, a technique that was new to him at its conception.

willingness to go outside of typical mediums are what made Morton bring his work to the faculty club, she said.

“I can say, with certainty, that I don’t think we’ve ever had any art made of beer bottle caps before,” she said.

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John Taylor-Lehman’s method of crushing bottle caps for his art involved flattening them individually, until he worked with engineers at OSU to modify a log splitter to get the job done.

Buffalo Exchange trades profits for protection OLIVIA BALCERZAK Lantern reporter balcerzak.13@osu.edu Rather than trading with friends or siblings, students can now exchange clothing with the whole city of Columbus.

Buffalo Exchange is a clothing company that recycles fashion by reselling clothes bought from customers to be traded or sold to others — and now it has come to Clintonville at 2643 N. High St. “There are really so many clothes produced,” said Columbus-area manager Anna Weldon.“It’s really wonderful to know that you can make yourself look good and feel good while doing something good for the environment.”

While Buffalo Exchange is relatively new to Clintonville — having opened in early December — the company started in 1974 and has spread to 49 locations in 20 states over the years. Weldon worked in the Texas, Minnesota and Washington, D.C. locations prior to coming to Columbus.

“I think the biggest difference (between us and other companies) is that we hand-select — we curate our inventory from our cus-

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The interior of Buffalo Exchange located in Clintonville at 2643 N. High St. tomers, so there’s a community feel,” Weldon said.

While the community feel may be the same, marketing director Stephanie Lew said the individualized fashion sense in every city creates an inventory of clothing that varies from location to location.

“Every Buffalo Exchange is

unique because it takes its own fashion from the community,” Lew said. “So whatever is there was collected from the neighborhood. Each Buffalo you go to will be different.”

Lew said many customers travel to various Buffalo Exchange locations, from New York to Arizona, to see the vastly different fashion

represented in each store.

Weldon said the ability of the store to cater to different demographics, depending on the location, is one of her favorite aspects.

“If you’re selling clothes to buy clothes it’s like your own walk-in closet,” Weldon said. “I like to think of it as we are Christmas shopping for literally everyone.”

Buffalo Exchange is currently holding a charity event called Coats for Cubs, taking place until April 22. For the event, customers donate fur coats to be sent to animal rehabilitation centers where they will be made into blankets for abandoned animals.

“Our Coats for Cubs drive helps give furs back to the animals,” Buffalo Exchange vice president Rebecca Block said in a press release. “Many people inherit fur coats or simply change their mind about wearing fur. This program gives those people the option to repurpose their furs for the well-being of wildlife.”

Lew said that coats are shipped to 37 to 40 rehabilitation centers nationwide each year, depending on the urgency.

Last year, Lew said that the company collected 1,178 coats for donation.

Another charity event coming up for Buffalo Exchange is the Earth Day dollar sale on April 18.

During this event, select items in the store will be $1 with all proceeds going to A Fund For Animals, a charity affiliate with The Humane Society.

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Ohio State has a consistency problem JACOB MYERS Assistant Sports Editor myers.1669@osu.edu Knowing what you’re going to get every night from your team as a head coach should be affordable. The 40-some practices in the preseason coupled with another 100-or-so and over 20 games played is more than enough time on the court to find an identity as a team.

It was alarming, at the end of the nonconference season, that OSU had won by just two points

against mid-major University of North Carolina Asheville. That came just days after OSU beat Youngstown State by 37 and allowed a season-low 40 points on defense. It’s back-to-back contests like those that hasn’t permitted the OSU fan base to have excitement for its men’s basketball team.

The Buckeyes were winners of three out of four heading into their matchup with the Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday night, in Iowa City.

With a win, OSU would have been tied for sixth in the Big Ten standings. Instead, the Buckeyes

played one of their worst games of the year, losing convincingly 8572. OSU never led in the final 31 minutes of the game.

Coach Thad Matta’s team had played like that before. The team came out of the gate, unfocused, not ready to compete for 40 minutes like the players have discussed at length this season. But against Iowa, it was clear that the Buckeyes most substantial issue this season is stringing together productive performances.

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OSU redshirt junior guard Kam Williams (15) shoots the ball during the Buckeyes’ game against Northwestern on Jan. 22. The Buckeyes lost 74-72.

hold themselves and their teammates to,” Matta said. “This team has had a tendency to go back and we sort of start over and I think that’s been one of the challenges with this group of just continuing to demand as much as we possibly can.”

Matta continued to insist on Monday that the Buckeyes have played some “really good basketball” — which they have.

OSU played its best game of the season against Minnesota just three days prior to the debacle at Iowa. Against Minnesota, the Buckeyes were the team out to a double-digit lead in the first half.

They were able to make stops and free throws down the stretch anchored by 19 points each from senior forward Marc Loving and redshirt junior center Trevor Thompson.

At Iowa, the story couldn’t have been more different.

Thompson had zero points and six rebounds. He fouled out of the game after just 13 minutes on the floor.

Loving scored nine points and was 4-of-11 shooting in 32 minutes of action.

Matta has had teams like this before. In 2013, OSU, ranked No. 13 at the time, lost at No. 20 Wisconsin by 22. It dropped Matta’s team to 8-5 in conference, but the Buckeyes rallied to finish second in the conference, won the Big

Ten tournament and were five points away from a second consecutive final four appearance.

Matta said the 2012 team had a similar struggle, finishing the regular season at 4-3. Yet that team found a way to turn the edge and make the Final Four.

The argument can be made that those teams were vastly talented than the current OSU roster, but it’s true that Matta has had teams that surpass inconsistency. However, each time the 2016-17 Buckeyes have showed any sign of becoming a consistent team, they’ve fallen flat.

“Sometimes it just has to click,” Matta said. “We got a great opponent (Tuesday) night in Maryland and we’re going to have to play 10-times better than we did the other night.”

Matta said he doesn’t believe that this team, currently tied for 11th in the Big Ten at 3-6, will just lay down through adversity and fall off a cliff. He believes that all the problems are mendable, it’s just a matter of when the team buys into the message.

“They’ve got to want to shake themselves out of it,” Matta said.

“This is where the tough get going.”

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OSU looks for win against Ball State ALIYYAH JACKSON Lantern reporter jackson.2674@osu.edu In the No. 1 Ohio State men’s volleyball team’s journey to rewrite the record books, all roads lead through No. 12 Ball State.

When the Ohio State men’s volleyball team lost in five sets on Feb. 6, 2016, no one thought much of it. It was a close-fought match between two top 15 opponents.

That was it.

At that point, not many thought OSU would win the national championship. Even fewer thought that the Buckeyes would threaten a school record that has stood for almost half a century.

On Thursday in Muncie, Indiana, No. 1 OSU goes for win No. 33 to set the longest win streak in program history when it takes on No. 12 Ball State — the same team that gave the Buckeyes their last defeat.

Ball State and OSU’s rivalry goes back to the creation of

“I think prior to that lost (against Ball State) we were on a good winning streak and then that happened.”

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the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association. The two teams are the only two that still exist from the beginning of the conference. Ironically enough, after going 24-0 in the 1969 season and 8-0 to start the 1970 season, the Buckeyes were defeated by the Cardinals to end their 32-win streak.

“When you’ve got that much history, there’s a rivalry there for sure, naturally,” said OSU coach Pete Hanson. “Ball State — I’m sure they circle the Ohio State matches on their calendar every year and I think our guys do too.”

OSU comes into the matchup against Ball State with 15 wins over opponents ranked in the top 12 nationally, with six of those wins over teams in the top 5.

In this season alone, the Buckeyes have topped teams currently ranked No. 2, No. 3, No. 7 and No. 15 in the country.

Hanson credits the team’s success and win streak to the team’s growing maturity over the past two seasons.

“What I saw — after that loss to Ball State — I saw somewhat of a renewed commitment by a lot of those older guys — by Gabriel, Miles, Christy — to say we didn’t like this feeling and we’re going to work very hard to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” Hanson said. “Just through their efforts every day in practice and in the weight room, how they approach

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OSU redshirt sophomore middle blocker Blake Lesson goes to serve in the set against No. 4 Long Beach State. OSU won 3-1. matches, the attention to detail on the game plan — those are things veterans do that kind of go unnoticed by, as a coaching staff you notice them.”

Offensively, OSU will need continued attacking success from team leaders, senior opposite hitter Miles Johnson and senior outside hitter Nicolas Szerszen, to overcome the highly ranked blocking efforts from Ball State’s junior middle hitter Matt Walsh.

Walsh ranks second nationally in blocks per set with 1.29.

In last season’s losing affair, the Buckeyes won the first two sets by a combined 20 points, only to lose the match in the fifth set, 16-14.

“We all looked at that loss and obviously, no one liked it,” Johnson said. “I think that prior to that loss we were on a good winning streak and then that happened.

So, then we had to figure out ways where that wouldn’t happen again.”

The team found ways to prevent losses over the 23-game win streak, which contained an

avenged win against Ball State as well as MIVA and NCAA titles, to close out the 2016 season.

In addition to tying the school record for consecutive wins, two other Buckeyes etched their names in school history as both Johnson and Szerszen sit atop the career serving aces list. They are tied at 124.

The Buckeyes will be looking to keep make school history against Ball State on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Worthen Arena.

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2017 recruiting class Meyer’s best KEVIN HARRISH Lantern reporter harrish.3@osu.edu Coach Urban Meyer has signed a top-10 recruiting class every year he’s been at Ohio State, but the upcoming 2017 class, which becomes official on Wednesday’s National Signing Day, is his best by a wide margin.

OSU’s 2017 class consists of five five-star players – Meyer has signed just six in his previous five classes combined. Of the 19 current commits, 12 are ranked in the top five at their position and 16 are ranked in the top 15. Even OSU’s lone three-star and lowest-rated commit, kicker Blake Haubeil, is the top player at his position.

“When you compare the class to its predecessors at Ohio State, it’s pretty clear: this is the most talented and accomplished class in Urban Meyer’s brief stint in Columbus,” said Jeremy Birmingham, director of recruiting at Land of 10. “There are no holes, no weaknesses.”

Not only is the class good by OSU standards, its average player rating is the highest ever recorded

“It’s arguably the most-talented team of all-time, if you look at it on a per-recruit basis.”

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OSU coach Urban Meyer watches as the Buckeyes warmup before their game against Nebraska on Nov. 5. The Buckeyes won 62-3. by recruiting services.

“It’s arguably the most-talented team of all-time, if you look at it on a per-recruit basis,” said Andrew Lind, football recruiting analyst at Eleven Warriors. “Florida’s 2010 class is considered the gold standard by recruiting services with a 93.55 average. Ohio State’s current class — with 19 commits — sits at an unheard-of 95.20.”

The 2017 class has a chance

to get even better by National Signing Day as the Buckeyes are finalists for a number of players making their college decisions, including the nation’s top defensive tackle, Marvin Wilson. OSU also seeks commitments from four-star defensive tackle Jay Tufele, and four-star offensive lineman Thayer Munford.

While he thinks they will miss out on both defensive tackles,

Lind said an OSU commitment from Munford is “all but certain.”

Despite the class’ historic average player rating, Birmingham and Lind agreed that Alabama — not OSU — will likely have the top class in the final 247Sports rankings, but it’s not quite black and white.

“It’s hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison to Alabama’s recruiting class because

the Crimson Tide have six more players committed than the Buckeyes do,” Birmingham said. “But it’s absolutely a toss-up nationally between the two.”

If the Buckeyes do finish behind Alabama, it will be OSU’s second No. 2 recruiting class since Meyer’s arrival. The first No. 2 fish was the 2013 class, which helped lead the Buckeyes to the 2014 national title and break an NFL Draft record with 10 players taken in the first three rounds.

“Being highly ranked doesn’t guarantee success like the 2013 class had,” Birmingham said.

“But it’s a good start.”

Editor’s note: Kevin Harrish is a staff writer for Eleven Warriors.

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Buckeyes’ toughest conference test ahead NICK MCWILLIAMS Sports Editor mcwilliams.66@osu.edu It’s been a rough season for the Ohio State men’s basketball team, and it could get a lot rougher after the team’s next game.

The Buckeyes were embarrassed by then 11-10 Iowa in their last game, dropping a winnable game 85-72 in a contest that could have pointed the program in the right direction. OSU picked up a big win against Minnesota at home, but lost all momentum against the Hawkeyes.

Simply put, the loss to Iowa was a low point for OSU. Even though the worst loss in terms of score came at the hands of Wisconsin, the Buckeyes looked totally outmatched by an Iowa team missing its leading scorer, Peter Jok. Now, with a 3-6 conference record and just nine games left to salvage anything from a season littered with missed opportunities, the Buckeyes must find a way to beat the Big Ten’s best team — Maryland. And given how OSU has played thus far, there is little to convince Buckeye fans of a possible win on Tuesday.

Following the team’s loss to Northwestern, junior center Trevor Thompson expressed his views as to why the team was losing, and losing in such ugly fashion.

“We have to play for Ohio State,” he said. “We have to play

for the university and for each other. What happens is we start to play for ourselves and were not thinking about the team. We have to be selfless. That has to be consistent.”

The Terrapins are 19-2 this season and have won six straight conference games. Highlighted by a tough defense and the dynamic scoring ability of junior guard Melo Trimble, Maryland is one of the toughest matchups OSU will have this season.

After Iowa, OSU coach Thad Matta was straight to the point about what went wrong.

“We’ve got to try harder,” Matta said. “We did some things defensively tonight that I’ve never, ever seen us do. And give Iowa credit, my god did they play well. We just couldn’t get the stops that we needed.”

Against Maryland, OSU will have to get stops. The Terrapins are a team that might not light up the scoreboard with points, but will limit an opposing offense to an average of 65.8 points per game.

By contrast, the Buckeyes average 73.4 points per game, but have suffered from a lack of output from upperclassmen like senior forward Marc Loving and redshirt junior guard Kam Williams. Although each have averaged 11.4 and 10.3 points per game, respectively, both have been wildly inconsistent.

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OSU senior forward Marc Loving (2) fist bumps a fan during the Buckeyes’ game against Northwestern on Jan. 22. The Buckeyes lost 74-72.

Both players have the lowest plus-minus mark of the OSU starters, as Loving has posted a 3.7 on average, while Williams averages a meager 2.9.

Thompson has been one of the lone bright spots for the Buckeyes, averaging 10.5 points and 9.2 rebounds per game this season in his starting role. However, against Iowa, he failed to score in 13 minutes, and fouled out in the second half.

Although a rebound for Thompson is likely against Maryland,

OSU will need stronger output from Williams and Loving for the rest of the season if anything is to come for the Buckeyes. After the loss to Northwestern, Williams stood up in the locker room, and addressed the team.

“We need everybody, going into a basketball game, to have the same, positive, common goal to win the game,” he said. “Not stats, not how many rebounds I can get or how many points I can get. The ultimate thing we are trying to achieve is to win basket-

ball games. That’s why it’s a team game.”

Williams might be standing up,expressing his views vocally and trying to rally the troops, but OSU has little hope if play does not improve.

Maryland rolls into Columbus on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Schottenstein Center.

Prediction: Maryland 83, Ohio State 69.

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