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Dream Center and studentvolunteers aim to help the homeless and build relationships.

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Student fashion designer seeks to use her clothing to enable and empower others.

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Before you watched him on the ice, Freddy Gerard was a famous “Call of Duty” player.

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Without its veteran leader from last season, Buckeyes looking for replacement from JUCO transfer.

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Potential government shutdown could disrupt OSU research JERROD A. MOGAN Lantern reporter mogan.7@osu.edu Ohio State avoided any major disruptions during the two-day federal government shutdown in January, but with another budget deadline approaching Thursday, the possibility of a larger disturbance is a real concern to Randy Moses, interim associate vice president of the Office of Research.

There are many ways in which Ohio State could be affected by an extended government shutdown, but a stoppage of federal grants and contracts to perform research

is perhaps the largest. The university spent $864 million on research in 2017, and most of that money came from federal funds, Moses said.

“I’m nervous,” he said. “We have a reasonable amount of uncertainty about the government.”

Moses said faculty and students write requests for “thousands of grants” every year to fund research. In the event of a shutdown, the federal agencies that award those grants would be unable to hear proposals. Not only would this disrupt research opportunities, but ongoing research might also be interrupted.

“We’re doing work on cancer

studies for patients, potentially groundbreaking, life-saving studies and if those studies stop, those patients are just in limbo,” he said.

“You’ve got to turn your computer off, you can’t check email, you can’t check telephones,” he said. “You can’t do anything.”

James Moore Urban education professor and former National Science Foundation program director

Another disruption to research would be access to federally stored information. Federal databases — such as U.S. Census Bureau data — that researchers often rely on to perform their work would not be accessible, Moses said.

These disruptions would be particularly consequential if the shutdown lasts longer than two days, such as the 21 day shutdown that began in December 1995 and ended in early January 1996.

When faced with situations like a shutdown where the university is immediately impacted by actions taken in Washington, Ohio State’s SHUTDOWN CONTINUES ON 3

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Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks to press during a briefing on the government shutdown at the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20

‘Call if you can; text if you can’t’

Texting 911 possible this year for Ohio State community

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Superfest on hold The Zac Brown Band performs in Ohio Stadium on June 19, 2017 as part of the Buckeye Country Superfest. The fest will be taking a break for the year. | STORY ON PAGE 4

Fluctuating immigration politics brings changes to OSU courses ABIGAIL RICE Lantern reporter rice.812@osu.edu Type the word “immigration” into Google and the screen is flooded with headlines ranging from the federal government fighting over funding to Congress trying to strike a bipartisan immigration deal.

The headlines differ, just as the class materials, perspectives and goals of immigration courses at Ohio State do as well. Because when it comes to an ever-changing and evolving subject, a syllabus that is set in stone just won’t do, said Amy Bittner, an adjunct law professor at Moritz College of Law. “Immigration has always been a changing animal.

I mean, the laws don’t change very much themselves because Congress hasn’t made an agreement for any legislative change,” she said. “So what really changes with immigration is the enforcement of the laws,

and that’s up to the discretion of the executive, basically the president.”

Bittner, a practicing immigration attorney, was brought to Ohio State recently to teach a graduate-level course on immigration law.

Bittner said she found herself devoting more time — on occasion spending entire lectures — on subjects such as President Donald Trump’s revocation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama era policy which protects undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children with their parents from deportation.

She said some immigration concepts are subjects even the newest version of textbooks don’t yet cover.

“Since President Trump has come into office, things have been a lot more uncertain for the immigrant because there have been a lot of changes with regard to how [the Trump administration is] going IMMIGRATION CONTINUES ON 2

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With the new text-to-911 technology, an Ohio State student on-campus can send a text for help that will go to the system in Columbus and immediately be rerouted to University Police, where authorities will respond.

ANTONIA SARPONG Lantern reporter sarpong.13@osu.edu Ohio State students who might be unable to speak on the phone with a 911 dispatcher will soon have a new way to seek emergency assistance.

Franklin County will be introducing its latest technology — a 911 texting correspondence — within the first quarter of 2018.

Areas on and surrounding Ohio State’s campus will be able to use this technology.

“You can contact the police with information and nobody would know you’re sending it,”

said Ramona Patts, administrator in the Columbus Division of Support Services.

Jeff Ortega, a spokesman for Columbus’ Department of Public Service, said the 911 dispatchers will see texts come through on a computer screen in a window that resembles a smartphone text-message chain.

He said although responders will have multiple programmed responses to quickly assess emergency situations, 911 dispatchers will type custom messages back, if necessary.

It costs $650,000 to buy and maintain the texting systems, and TEXT CONTINUES ON 2

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Dream Center aids homeless, shows studentvolunteers reality outside of campus ‘bubble’ LYDIA GINGERICH Lantern reporter gingerich.50@osu.edu Every Monday and Wednesday, Sam McWhorter drives 2 miles from her Grandview home to her field placement at the Columbus Dream Center where she helps serve the homeless population.

But the center is more than just an obligation for McWhorter, a graduate student in social work.

“It’s been really nice to be there twice a week and see the same people and start to develop relationships and get to know them as more than just people I’m serving,” she said, adding: “Learning that every person has a story and everyone has goals and a different place that they’re at in their life, that has been my favorite part.”

Established in 2015, the Columbus Dream Center is located in the Short North and provides meals, showers, laundry and medical care to the homeless and needy in Columbus. Positioned just 1 mile south of campus, at least 200 Ohio State students have served at the Dream Center in the past year, said Abi Marrah, the center’s volunteer coordinator.

In addition to McWhorter, Ohio State alumni Luke Davis and Zach Laughman lead volunteer teams at the center.

Laughman graduated in May with a degree in human resources and Davis graduated in December with a degree in industrial engi-

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Zach Laughman and Luke Davis meet with the volunteers who help with the center’s Thursday meal. They divvy out responsibilities and offer assistance with volunteers before opening the doors to the public. neering. The two volunteered at the Dream Center as students and now lead community meals every Thursday night.

“I started because I had the time and it fit in my schedule, and once I got here I was hooked,” Davis said.

The center serves an evening meal every week night, except Wednesday, and provides laundry and shower services Monday and Wednesday mornings. There are numerous other programs that the center organizes around the city

by compiling resources and building relationships.

In his time volunteering at the center, Davis said he has learned about the people and places that are often hidden from Ohio State students.

“At OSU, even if you’re not wealthy, you are in this bubble where everything is taken care of. You have housing, you have meals,” he said. “Everything is state-of-the-art, everything is safe, but literally just blocks outside of campus in almost any

direction, people have different realities.”

Laughman said he has gained perspective from working at the Dream Center, discovering value in every member of society.

“I don’t care where you’ve been, I don’t care what you’ve done, I just want to get to know you, and I want to hear your story and I want to, as best I can, walk with you in the things you are going through,” Laughman said.

Cris Gordon, director of Dream Center, said this genuine compas-

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to enforce the law and how the law’s going to be interpreted,” she said.

Nicolas Renouis, a third-year in political science and economics from Belgium, came to Ohio State because of his interest in politics. He eventually enrolled in a course on the politics of immigration.

“I really just wanted to know more about why most people immigrate, what most immigration looks like, where they go and the actual impact on host countries like the United States so I could actually be an informed consumer of the news,” he said.

Renouis said the information he learns about immigration through his coursework and through watching the news shows it has its upsides and downsides.

Renouis said changes being made by the current administration increased his interest in the subject matter — so much so that it has changed his preferred area of study.

“For example, the politics of immigration class, that’s certainly an interest of mine, and it was before the [Trump] administration, but the fact that there’s been so much focus on it in the past few months has definitely risen my interest. I don’t know if I’d have taken the class otherwise,” Renouis said.

Jeffrey Cohen, a professor in the Department of Anthropology, focuses on migration, development and nutrition. He said the current political climate on immigration has not necessarily changed his lecture content as much as the importance of the content has increased.

“We need to re-evaluate the way in which we think about migration and migrants and refugees. I probably spend a little more time on that than I did in the past,” Cohen said.

Cohen pointed to one noticeable change in his students — their increased interest in the challenges

three agencies will do so, Patts said. These include the Metropolitan Emergency Consortium Communications, or MECC, in Gahanna, Columbus and Dublin.

“You can contact the police with information and nobody would know you’re sending it.”

Ramona Patts Columbus Division of Support Services administrator

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Nicolas Renouis, a third-year studying political science and economics, immigrated to the U.S. from Belgium and took the course “Politics of Immigration” because of the national conversation around the issue.

refugees face.

“I think one of the things that’s happened, of course, is that the plights of refugees have become better known in the current climate and people are really concerned with what’s really happening from a very humanistic sort of place,” he said. “They want to know that these are people that are being taken care of and being treated well.”

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The primary dispatch hub for Ohio State’s Department of Public Safety, which includes University Police, will be the Columbus hub, Patts said.

The three locations will operate as the primary dispatch hubs for other local government agencies to tap into. That way, each agency in the county will not have to spend the money.

The 911 texting technology is expected to be functionable around June.

Patts said the equipment from the Columbus dispatch hub will immediately reroute 911 texts to their partner governments’ 911 centers — which for people on campus will be University Police.

sion is the purpose of the center.

“We want to serve and love the people who are homeless. But there is more to it,” he said. “Who has got that need? How can we meet it? Who is hurting? How can we fill that hurt?”

Volunteers like Davis, Laughman and McWhorter have found the process of meeting needs and healing wounds to be not only an act of service, but also fulfilling.

“There are multiple stories of people who are here at first because they have to be, and after coming and building relationships with people, they are coming back because they want to be here,” Davis said.

“If you want to be a part of something bigger than yourself,” Laughman added, “this is the place to be.”

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For example, when an Ohio State student on campus uses a cellphone to text 911 for help, the text will go to the system in Columbus and immediately be rerouted to University Police, where authorities will respond.

“Phone calls are still the preferred method to contact 911,” Ortega said, adding they allow dispatchers to pick up distress information and answer questions faster, as well as provide more precise location information.

“Call if you can; text if you can’t,” he said.

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It costs $650,000 to buy and maintain the texting systems, and three agencies will do so, according to Ramona Patts, administrator in the Columbus Division of Support Services.

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Office of Government Affairs acts as an intermediary between D.C. and university officials.

The office provides updates to the university regarding the outlook on Capitol Hill while informing Congress on how the situation is affecting the school, said Ohio State spokesman Ben Johnson.

“We have people that work at all levels of government to make sure the university’s position is represented,” he said.

Those working at Ohio State under federal contracts would be immediately affected. James Moore, an urban education professor and former National Science Foundation program director, said government employees receive strict orders in the event of a shutdown.

“You’ve got to turn your computer off, you can’t check email, you can’t check telephones,” he said. “You can’t do anything.”

Shutdowns also yield significant economic impact, Moses and Moore said.

Despite staff reductions and furloughed employees, the interruption often ends up costing more than if the programs remained continuously funded.

In fact, a Jan. 19 memo instructing executive agencies on shutdown procedures from Mick

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Mulvaney, director of the federal Office of Budget and Management, stated, “The determination of which services continue during an appropriations lapse is not affected by whether the costs of shutdown exceed the costs of maintaining services.”

It’s important to remember there is a human cost to a shutdown, Moses said. At Ohio State, he said grant money is often used to hire graduate students who are beginning their careers in academia, and without those funds those students might be out of a job.

“I try in these moments to think not so much about the dollar symbol,” he said, “but the eyes of the students that I would be looking at.”

1. A 20-year-old woman was arrested by the Columbus Division of Police for disorderly conduct and underage consumption of alcohol on North High Street near East 14th Avenue on Thursday at 11:50 a.m.

2. A motor vehicle theft was reported to Columbus Police as having occurred on East 12th Avenue near Indianola Avenue on Thursday at 11:30 p.m. The car’s owner told police the car had been locked and that the only set of keys were still in her possession.

3. An armed robbery was reported to Columbus Police as having occurred on Chittenden Avenue Friday at 6:42 p.m. According to a Buckeye Alert sent to Ohio State students and staff, three suspects forced their way into a residence and stole property from multiple students at gunpoint.

4. A woman and man, neither affiliated with Ohio State, were arrested for theft and complicity to theft, respectively, by Uni-

versity Police at the Ohio Union Barnes and Noble bookstore on Sunday at 2:37 p.m.

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Buckeye Country Superfest on hold this summer KAYLEE HARTER Lantern reporter harter.830@osu.edu Buckeye Country Superfest will take a hiatus in 2018 despite having drawn hundreds of thousands of people to Columbus since 2015.

The decision not to hold the two-day event at Ohio Stadium this summer was made in an attempt to keep the show from losing its spark.

“We’ve had the biggest headliners in country music,” said Gary O’Brien, director of communications and program development at the Schottenstein Center. “It takes a unique act to be able to headline a football stadium. They have to be at a certain level, and there’s only so many of them.”

O’Brien said the venue has always been part of the event’s appeal.

The Shoe’s past renovations also have worked to make the “iconic structure” better suited for concerts, O’Brien said. Since the first concert at Ohio Stadium –– Pink Floyd’s 1988 “Momentary Lapse of Reason” tour –– the venue has been a prime spot for summer shows, including The Rolling Stones, U2 and One Direction.

In the past three years, Buckeye Country Superfest has brought to campus more than 200,000 people and artists such as Zac Brown Band, Keith Urban and Luke Bryan. For O’Brien, it’s important that the event maintains the draw for artists of this caliber so audiences are willing to “travel great distances in great numbers.”

Artist availability and popularity will continue to affect if and when the event returns, but O’Brien said it is likely that the festival will be back in 2019. “[Time off] will be a good thing,” O’Brien said. “We don’t want people to be tired of it.

TONY WHITE Lantern reporter white.2726@osu.edu Born a triplet, Sarah Parker knew she needed a way to differentiate herself early in her life.

With the help of her aunt and grandmother, she did just that.

The two began to teach Parker how to sew clothes in 2006. Now, she designs and makes clothing for herself and others that promote a positive body image and environmental sustainability.

“Fashion is the purest form of self-expression,” said Parker, a first-year student in environmental science and fashion retail studies.

She said she uses a wide range of materials to design her clothes.

“I use fabric, but because I try to stay sustainable and I’m on a college budget, I’ve even used old office chairs to make clothes,” Parker said.

She Parker said her passion for sustainability and body positivity stem from the damage that the fashion industry has done to the environment and people’s self-image. For example, Parker focuses on the toxins released into the environment during clothing production, as well as the amount of water it takes to make clothing –– 2,700 liters per cotton t-shirt, according to www.worldwildlife. org.

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“Fashion should be used as a tool to help people.”

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Women model Sarah Parker’s handmade sustainable clothing. tool to help people, and I don’t see why it can’t,” Parker said.

Kelsie Parker, a first-year in public affairs and Sarah’s sister, described Sarah as a fixer with

a desire to help others. That was evident when Parker made prom dresses for girls at her high school who either could not afford one or could not find anything that made

“I know my goals are very high, but I am taking steps to help me get to that point,” she said.

One step she has already taken is her involvement with two student organizations on campus: Project Hope and the Fashion Production Association.

The Fashion Production Association is a campus group that helps students display their abilities in fashion, particularly through their annual fashion show. Project Hope creates clothing that will be donated to people in Haiti.

In the future, Sarah’s talent in design and her passion for helping others will go beyond the fashion industry, her sister said.

“I definitely see her becoming a fashion designer, but I can’t see her stopping there,” Kelsie said.

“I also see her working for a nonprofit organization or something that gives back to the community.”

White House moments, memes and memories Obama administration photographer talks new book at Ohio Union the two presidencies as more of a technical difference. During Reagan’s presidency he worked more with film cameras, whereas now he works with digital cameras.

“You’re always on call because you never when history is going to happen.”

Pete Souza Former White House photographer

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rituals as well. Events include meditations, divination technique sessions and a variety of rituals.

“Every Sunday at noon we do a blessing ritual,” Dillard said.

“We have High Day rituals, and we also have all kinds of meetups and classes. There’s always something going on.”

For those who wish to explore this alternative spirituality, Dillard said the best way would be to just jump into it.

“The simplest thing is to start a candle,” he said. “Start lighting a candle and doing simple meditations or simple devotions, even if it’s just to your ancestors because they, more than anyone, have a vested interest in your success.”

them feel secure in their bodies.

Sarah said she wants to own a fashion company that focuses on sustainability and body positivity.

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Pete Souza, former White House photographer, spoke at the Ohio Union on Feb. 5, 2018.

AMAL SAEED Lantern reporter saeed.40@osu.edu It would have been hard to miss the iconic photographs of former President Barack Obama, but not many know the man behind the camera. Pete Souza spent eight years as White House photographer documenting history by photographing Obama’s presidency.

The photographer discussed his new book, “Obama: An Intimate Portrait,” and took the audience behind the scenes of Obama’s two terms as commander-in-chief at the Ohio Union Monday night.

Spending eight years in the White House presents itself with some challenges. Souza took no more than three weeks off during Obama’s time in office. In the first five years of the administration, Souza didn’t take any time off — he was there through everything, including Christmas mornings with the Obamas.

“You’re always on call because you never when history is going to happen,” Souza said in an interview with The Lantern.

Souza also photographed Ronald Reagan’s presidency in the 1980s. He described the differences between photographing

After photographing the White House for two administrations, Souza said he learned about different roles people have in making a government work.

“It’s taught me that there are a lot of really good people in government that are trying to do the right thing, but the only time you hear about them is if they screw up,” he said.

Throughout the event, Souza presented photographs from his time as the White House photographer while explaining the story behind each photograph.

“I enjoyed how the event seemed so personal,” said Jacob Spiegel, a second-year in public affairs. “We got to see a side of Obama that we don’t necessarily see.”

Some of Souza’s most wellknown photographs were the ones

of Obama and Vice President Joe Biden that became memes after their release.

“I didn’t even know what a meme was,” Souza said. “I wasn’t really aware of the impact of the photos right away, but as I started to see them I thought they were hilarious.”

Surprisingly, photography wasn’t Souza’s intended career path until he took a photography class in his junior year of college.

That’s when he realized his passion.

Souza’s advice for anyone pursuing photography: take photos everyday.

“You just have to get out of your basement and get outside in the world and put yourself in situations that may sometimes make you uncomfortable. Just do it,” he said.

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Award-winning dance films return to Wexner Center festival

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“Ensemble” from the film “Home Alone,” which will be featured at The Best of Dance @30FPS. ALEX ANDREWS Lantern reporter andrews.624@osu.edu

Dance and film aficionados will get to experience nine of the best dance short films at this year’s The Best of Dance @30FPS on Thursday.

Hosted by the Wexner Center for the Arts, the annual international dance film festival will feature films curated by Mitchell Rose, an associate professor in the Department of Dance who has put on the event for six years.

Typically, Rose compiles a list of 15 to 20 of his favorite films from festivals he’s attended, and narrows it down to about seven for Dance @30FPS. This being the seventh year, however, Rose chose to put together the “Lucky Sev-

en All Star Show,” which will consist of nine films that have won judges’ and audience awards at previous film festivals Rose has conducted at Ohio State.

“For a lot of the people in the department, [the films] will have played before they ever got here so it’ll be brand new to them,” Rose said.

One of the films is set in Barcelona and centers on two parking-garage attendants — a woman who works the day shift and a man who works the night shift. Rose said they only see each other in passing, until the day-shift attendant watches the cameras from the night before and witnesses the night-shift man dancing through the parking garage.

Eventually the two start communicating through their dancing on the cameras, before finally meeting up to perform a duet.

“I love it a lot. It actually has the least amount of dance in it,” Rose said. “It’s a very solidly made, beautiful narrative.”

Josh Anderson, a master of fine arts student at Ohio State, has attended previous film festivals curated by Rose and is currently working on his own dance film. “[Dance film] means a couple of things.

Creating a piece for film makes you have to think about not only the dancers that you have, who are moving bodies within the environment, but you also now have this third participant of the camera,” Anderson said. “I think that dance film can be a lot of things, but I think that it is using filmic ideals while attending to movement as a main guide for whatever is going on.”

The Best of Dance @30FPS will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater.

Admission is free.

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Columbus pagan community finds sanctuary at The Magical Druid ganism, Wicca has found many followers who have been turned off by more conventional religions.

“I feel like there is more of a feeling of obedience in traditional religions. Fear tactics, you know?” Amore said. “Whereas the main philosophy in Wicca is like, do your thing, give good energies to the universe and generally be a good person.”

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Tarot cards and healing crystals at The Magical Druid.

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The Magical Druid on High Street might look like just a boutique with oils and incense to the uninitiated patron, but for a certain group, this is the hub of its spirituality.

While many people don’t know much about neopaganism and Wicca, their practicing members have formed strong communities, with The Magical Druid serving as their source for spiritual objects, such as tarot cards, incense, oils and more.

The “metaphysical store” located at 3165 N. High St. in Clintonville also offers psychic readings, chakra attuning and energy work.

“The Columbus sanctuary is good for those who want to join a coven,” said Lindsey Amore, a visiting pagan and firstyear in theater and journalism. “Plus I feel Columbus is very open, at least compared to where I’m from.”

Wicca draws from the old traditions of witchcraft and dates back to mid-20th century England. The largest form of pa-

“Give good energies to the universe and generally be a good person.”

Lindsey Amore Visiting pagan

The appeal of neopagan spirituality has lasted for thousands of years, but some, like co-owner of The Magical Druid, James Dillard, believe that those who join are interested in Wicca the way anyone is interested in any religion.

“I think neopaganism is hanging around for the same reason all religions hang around. It’s a compass and a map,” Dillard said. “It gives you a place, it gives you a community, it gives you like-minded, like-souled people to commune with.”

Though Wicca is merely one form of Paganism, there are several ways to practice, depending on the deities in the sect someone subscribes to and personal preference.

“My practice mostly involves meditation and simply talking to the angels and deities, either vocally or with tools like tarot cards, runes, and pendulums,” Amore said.

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ing back in 2013.

Freddy said he was cut by his gaming team a month before a major event, and this was the eventual breaking point for him.

“I was like, ‘All right well hey, hockey it is, let’s do it,’” he said.

While she was supportive of Freddy’s passion for gaming, Sally said she had no complaints about her son’s ultimate decision.

“We were happy about him choosing hockey, I have to say. I think he is too, at this point. I don’t think it was, probably, an easy decision for him at one time,” she said. “I think he saw that it would be a big market, that gaming was going to be a big deal, and he was kind of ahead of it.”

Moving to hockey full-time is a choice Freddy said he doesn’t regret, but he will always look back fondly at his time at the top of the gaming world.

“It was definitely a different experience than most kids I would say, because for a while you’re kind of like a little celebrity,” Freddy said. “I went out to an event in Anaheim and I was signing autographs for half an hour, me and like three of my other teammates, so it was cool...I’m a 16-, 17-year-old kid and I’m signing autographs.”

Freddy eventually found his way to Ohio State when he said it approached him after the 11th or 12th game of the season in Dubuque, Iowa, a game Freddy remembers because of how exciting it was for him.

Though the Rocky River, Ohio, native took some time to think about it, Freddy said it was a no-brainer to accept the Buckeyes’ offer.

“I had finally been told that my dream

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was going to come true and let alone at Ohio State,” he said. “It’s my state school.

It’s a couple hours away from home. It’s an awesome place to be.”

In his junior campaign for the sixthranked Buckeyes, Freddy has 10 goals and

“I remember my first time playing in front of a huge crowd like that. It’s nervewracking. You’re not sitting in your room anymore.

There’s a spotlight on you, so that took an adjustment.”

Freddy Gerard Ohio State junior forward

17 points, more points than his first two seasons combined. Plus, Ohio State should have a NCAA tournament bid on the horizon.

It’s been a long road for Freddy, who has seen the ups and downs of two unique fields that both took one major component: hard work.

“I worked all my life to play hockey. That was my first love, and I did it every single day for as long as I could,” Freddy said.

“I worked my ass off for that year-and-ahalf, two years in my last couple years of Juniors to make that happen, and I did it and I made it here, and I’m just trying to love every second of that.”

Freddy still plays video games from time-to-time, not with professionals, but with his teammates on the ice.

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The Ohio State men’s hockey team celebrates a goal from Freddy Gerard in a game against Michigan on Nov. 24, 2017.

Freddy doesn’t have any plans to return to competitive gaming, at least not while at Ohio State. He might have loved competitive gaming at a time, but Freddy said there are just some things hockey has that gaming does not.

“There’s just no feeling like playing hockey,” Freddy said. “That was my first love. I fell in love with it right away. I loved the feeling you get when you score a goal

or even just when you’re out there playing, you forget about everything. There’s not a care in the world.”

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Answer Key for Feb 1: 22. Roman god of fire & the forge after whom volcanoes are named (vulcan) 23. Process by which solid, liquid, & gas materials are ejected into the Earth’s atmosphere & onto the Earth’s surface (eruption) 24. Opening at the Earth’s surface through which volcanic materials issue forth (vent) Down 1. Outpouring of lava onto the land surface from a vent or fissure (lavaflow) Across 3. A crack or fracture in the Earth’s surface (fault) 2. Volcanic ash that has fallen through the air from an 4. Magma which has reached the surface through a eruption cloud (ashfall) volcanic eruption, streams of liquid rock that flow from 8. Volcano that is erupting or has erupted within historical time & is considered likely to do so in the future a crater or fissure (lava) 5. Subterranean cavity containing gas-rich liquid mag(activevolcano) ma which feeds a volcano (magmachamber) 10. Molten rock beneath the surface of the earth 6. Long fractures on slopes of volcanos (fissures) (magma) 7. Steep volcanic cone built by both lava flows & 11. Passage(pipe) followed by magma in a volcano pyroclastic eruptions (compositevolcano) (conduit) 15. Regions of mountain-building earthquakes & volca- 9. Volcanic center 60-120 miles across & persistent for millions of years (hotspot) noes which surround the Pacific Ocean (ringoffire) 12. Volcano which is presently inactive but which may 17. Vent in the surface of the Earth through which erupt again (dormantvolcano) magma, gas, & ash erupt (volcano) 13. Volcano composed of both lava flows & pyroclas18. Springs that throw boiling water high in the air, caused by volcanic heat warming trapped ground water tic material (stratovolcano) 14. Zone of the Earth below the crust & above the (geysers) core (mantle) 19. When hot rocks & lava burst from a volcano (vol16. Fine particles of rock dust blown from an explocaniceruption) sion vent (ash) 21. Volcano that consists of a complex of 2 or more vents or has an associated volcanic dome (compound- 20. Steep-sided usually circular depression formed by explosion or collapse at a volcanic vent (crater) volcano)

Across 2. When only the front axel is being powered by the motor 3. A synonym to the frame of a car 4. Turns solar energy into electrical energy 5. When only the rear axel is being poered by the motor 6. The force that makes a plane propel forward

Down 1. Has evolved from horses to trains to planes 8. An object in _____ stays in _____.

9. They are often stored in a box.

11. The force that tries to counteract thrust

7. It helps with traction

13. Spin each other to transfer energy from the motor to the axel(s)

10. Energy generated from the sun’s rays

14. Newton’s 1st law explains this

12. Engineering the creation of things 15. Transmits only mechanical power 16. Gravity, drag, lift, thrust, etc.

17. A few people working as a team, often in classrooms

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Gene Smith calls some football coaches’ salaries ‘ridiculous’ COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu The salaries and contract lengths of football and men’s basketball head coaches and assistant coaches have dramatically increased in recent years and only continue to grow.

Texas A&M made waves in the offseason when it hired former Florida State football head coach Jimbo Fisher to the same position, signing him to a fully guaranteed 10-year, $75 million contract, according to ESPN. Alabama spent $11,132,000 on football head coach Nick Saban last year, according to USA Today head coach salary database.

Though Ohio State pays its coaches in the upper echelon of salaries, it has avoided paying what Athletics Director Gene Smith believes to be unnecessarily large salaries for coaches.

“I don’t even put Texas A&M in our sphere because I’m considering Urban [Meyer]’s situation with three years left on his contract,” Smith said during Ohio State’s Board of Trustees’ Talent and Compensation Committee meeting Thursday.

“Talking with [Susan Basso, vice president of human resources] and [Joanna McGoldrick, associate vice president of total rewards], that’s not even someone that we’re comparing with because it’s so ridiculous.

“It’s the same way with Alabama and their total salary. Take it off the sheet because it doesn’t matter. Because it’s just no value to it. It’s a reactionary type of man-

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Ohio State Athletic Director Gene Smith stands on the field prior to the Buckeyes’ season-opening 49-21 win over Indiana on Aug. 31 in Bloomington, Indiana. agement.”

Smith’s comments are significant because Meyer, one of the sport’s most successful coaches, will have his contract expire in three seasons. Ohio State has the budget to pay him as much or more than every other university in the country, boasting one of the few profitable athletic departments in the nation. Smith’s remarks indicate the university recognizes coaching

salaries have skyrocketed, but that it might harbor an uneasiness to match Texas A&M and Alabama’s compensation levels.

Last season, Meyer made $6,431,240, according to USA Today. He was the fourth-highest-paid coach in the country last season and the second-highest paid in the Big Ten, behind Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh ($7,004,000).

The increased spending on coaches ex-

tends to assistants as well. Prior to last season, Michigan became the first college football program to pay three assistant coaches at least $1 million in base salary per season. Fifteen football assistant coaches made at least $1 million last season.

In USA Today’s database for total assistant coach salary, Ohio State ranked 13th in the nation and second in the Big Ten, behind Michigan. Ohio State’s most expensive assistant football coach last season, defensive coordinator Greg Schiano, made $700,000 in base salary. He was tied for the 38th-most expensive assistant coach in college football last year.

Recently promoted offensive coordinator Ryan Day is scheduled to make $800,000 in base salary next season, according to the contract he signed prior to the 2017 season, though he might receive a raise with his promotion. The Lantern submitted a public-records request for Day’s contract, but has not yet received the document from the university.

During the meeting in which Smith called into question rising coach salaries, the Talent and Compensation Committee approved Ohio State men’s basketball head coach Chris Holtmann’s 8-year, $26 million contract. Holtmann’s average annual base salary of $3.25 million would rank eighth highest among men’s college basketball coaches whose teams made the NCAA Tournament last season. Two of Holtmann’s Big Ten counterparts — Michigan State’s Tom Izzo ($4,251,751) and Michigan’s John Beilein ($3,370,000) — made more than $3.25 million last year.

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The curious case of Demario McCall, Ohio State’s enigmatic playmaker COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu Not many people can slow Demario McCall down.

The sophomore H-back has dazzling speed. He averaged six yards on 63 carries and 22.5 yards per catch on six receptions in his first two seasons at Ohio State.

But last year, McCall dealt with an obstacle that not only slowed him down, but shut him down, ending his season nearly before it even began. A day after the 2017 spring game, he underwent groin surgery to repair a sports hernia. He never fully recovered and said it continued to bother him “on-and-off.”

After serving as running back Mike Weber’s backup as a freshman, many people expected McCall to take a significant offensive role in 2017. H-back Curtis Samuel and wideouts Dontre Wilson and Noah Brown left for the NFL, opening extra touches for playmakers like McCall. His anticipated leap never happened, though.

McCall’s health prevented him from taking a major role in Ohio State’s offense. Instead, the Buckeyes relied upon Weber and freshman J.K. Dobbins at running back and Parris Campbell and K.J. Hill at H-back.

The team also relied on Campbell and Weber as primary kick returners, and Hill as the primary punt returner.

McCall did not touch the ball for the first three weeks of the season, then he caught one pass against UNLV in the fourth week of the season. The next week against Rutgers, McCall racked up a team-high 103 yards on 11 carries, including a 48-yard touchdown, and a 35-yard touchdown catch.

Even after his dominance of the Scarlet Knights, head coach Urban Meyer expressed skepticism about McCall’s health.

“He’s got more in the tank than what I

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Ohio State freshman running back Demario McCall (30) runs in a touchdown in the fourth quarter against Rutgers on Sep. 30. Ohio State won 56-0. saw,” Meyer said after Ohio State’s game against Rutgers. “So, you know, in that one where he broke away, usually he’s out.

We’re still fighting through that thing. He’s doing a good job trying to fight through it.”

McCall had three carries the following game, but never played again the remainder of the season. The Buckeyes opted to use a medical redshirt on McCall instead of hoping he could finally overcome the groin injury, Meyer said.

The health issues were exacerbated by the difficulties McCall was already experiencing as he attempted to transition to H-back from running back, the position he played in high school.

McCall said the coaching staff caught him off guard a few weeks into the season when he was told he would move away from running back to become a full-time slot receiver. That shift required a mindset adjustment because, as McCall said, “Once a tailback, always a tailback.”

“I still had to work on myself becoming a receiver and not a tailback because I had the mindset of ‘I’m a tailback, but I’m going to help the receivers.’ That’s one thing that I had to change,” McCall said after the Cotton Bowl. “Now that I know that I’m a receiver, I had to put more work into jugs, route-running, top ends, just things like that.”

Whether McCall will be able to show off those improvements remains uncertain.

The same players as last season — Hill and Campbell — will presumably remain ahead of him on the depth chart entering next season. And given his diminutive 5-foot9, 195-pound frame and Meyer’s penchant to play receivers who have blocking skills, McCall must overcome inexperience, injury and stature to earn playing time.

The Buckeyes struggled to find a consistent top option in the passing game last season. Not many players have a higher top-end speed than Campbell, but he struggled to catch the ball. Hill has great hands, but lacks explosion. On the outside, wideouts Terry McLaurin, Austin Mack, Binjimen Victor and Johnnie Dixon each had standout moments, but no one made consistent plays.

McCall might be the missing playmaker if given the opportunity.

But regardless of the amount of touches he receives, McCall has only one goal in 2018, and it does not involve carries, catches or returns.

“Physically, I want to be 100 percent healthy,” McCall said. “Without being 100 percent healthy, you’re a step behind. And that’s one thing I don’t want to be is a step behind because I was a step behind or two this year. It’s not a good feeling.”

The speedy McCall is not used to being a step behind. Against Rutgers on Sept. 30, the only players a step behind wore Scarlet Knight uniforms.

He might not have a clear path to playing time, but McCall’s inarguable talent with a regained burst offers Ohio State an intriguing weapon in 2018 it could not unleash last season.

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Freddy Gerard’s career began as a gamer off the ice WYATT CROSHER Lantern reporter crosher.1@osu.edu The idea of playing video games as a career is a dream for many teenagers. It is a thought that will always be there but most of the time will never become a reality.

Not many could do it, but Freddy Gerard achieved this dream at the age of 16.

Gerard, a junior forward on Ohio State’s men’s hockey team, played “Call of Duty” just like many other kids — except he quickly turned this time-killer into a skill.

“I wanted to see how good I was. So then I started doing little online tournaments,” Gerard said. “I started meeting better players I was playing against and playing with, and after a while I ended up finding a pretty good team, a set of guys to play with, and we ended up being pretty good.”

Gerard joined OpTic Gaming, one of the biggest names in video games, at 16 years old under the name “Folsom.”

“Folsom’s actually my middle name,” Gerard said. “I wasn’t sure if it would be cool at first.”

Gerard made YouTube videos for two years under OpTic, which became very popular. It became so well-know, in fact, that some of his current Ohio State teammates watched him without even realizing.

“I actually saw one of his YouTube videos, but I didn’t realize it was him until I played with him on Xbox,” Ohio State sophomore forward Tanner Laczynski said. “I think that was pretty cool that a pretty well-known guy in the video game

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Ohio State men’s hockey junior forward Freddy Gerard competed in the spotlight of the competitive gaming community. world was on my team.”

Gerard’s YouTube videos with OpTic continued to grow a following while he balanced school and practiced for a junior hockey team. He said he went to school at 8 a.m., then had practice after school for most of the afternoon until he resumed gaming at night.

Hockey and gaming became integral parts of Gerard’s life. That only grew when

he moved from YouTube to competitive gaming and began traveling across the country.

“I didn’t quite expect the jump of how good these kids actually were, because I thought I was pretty good. I’m the best kid in every public lobby I play in by miles,” Gerard said. “I found out real quick how much I need to improve so it was an adjustment for sure, but after sticking with it, I

knew I had something.”

From an outside perspective, hockey and competitive gaming might seem like two talents on opposite sides of the spectrum, but Gerard said there are more similarities than one would think.

“I don’t think people understand how team-oriented it is to play competitive video games like that. There’s four guys on your team, you and three other guys, and you are communicating nonstop,” Gerard said. “On the pressure side of things, yeah, absolutely. I remember my first time playing in front of a huge crowd like that. It’s nerve-wracking. You’re not sitting in your room anymore. There’s a spotlight on you, so that took an adjustment.”

While the gaming was taking off, Gerard found himself traveling for hockey, as well.

He first moved to Boston to play on the Junior Bandits. Then in 2014, he moved to play for the Madison Capitols in Middleton, Wisconsin, where Ohio State eventually discovered and recruited him.

In Boston, however, Sally Gerard, Freddy’s mom, said hockey and professional gaming became too much to handle all at once, and it left Freddy with a decision to make.

“I think that was hard for him to do both, at that point,” Sally said. “This was kind of like the cross in the road.”

Hockey was his passion his entire life, Freddy said, and gaming was slowly becoming a second priority. Especially with his hopes of going to college, Freddy knew it wasn’t entirely his decision to quit gamGERARD CONTINUES ON 6

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OSU turns to transfer Foppe to replace two-time captain at shortstop ANDY ANDERS Lantern reporter anders.83@osu.edu

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Ohio State junior shortstop Kobie Foppe throws a ball during practice. Foppe is set to start at short in the 2018 season for the Buckeyes.

The Ohio State baseball team was dealt a blow after the end of the 2017 season when senior shortstop Jalen Washington graduated and left for professional baseball.

The two-time captain was not only one of the most productive hitters for the team, but he also gave the Buckeyes a veteran dynamic it lacked.

“I think the thing we’ll miss more than anything is his leadership and his presence in our clubhouse,” head coach Greg Beals said.

One of the people tasked with helping replace him will be Kobie Foppe, a transfer from South Mountain Community College in Phoenix. It will not be easy.

Washington was a versatile defender who could play both catcher and shortstop. He consistently hit in the top two positions of the lineup, tying for the team lead with both seven home runs and 14 stolen bases. He led the Buckeyes with 38 RBI and was the only player to appear in all 56 games.

Foppe is set to be the team’s starting shortstop to open the season.

Despite being touted as the 10th-best high-school prospect from Arizona in the 2014 class by baseball scouting service Perfect Game, Foppe went the junior col-

lege route.

“I originally was gonna go to [Arizona State University] out of high school,” Foppe said. “Unfortunately there were a couple events that didn’t work out the way I would have wanted to, but going to South Mountain I think was actually probably better for me in turn.”

Beals said he and his staff do their best to maintain connections with junior colleges in Arizona.

Beals specifically reached out to his junior college contacts for a shortstop to add to the Buckeyes’ 2017 recruiting class.

“We felt like that shortstop spot was somebody that we wanted to have some experience,” Beals said. “We felt like whomever was coming in needed to step in and play right away.”

Foppe was identified as having the abilities Beals wanted. Then it became just a matter of convincing the Phoenix native that Columbus was the place for him.

Foppe was sold on his visit.

“I came on a gameday when they played Purdue. It was what they say, what they preach here, a brotherhood,” Foppe said. “That was really appealing to me and that ended up being a deciding factor.”

In addition to a fielding style Beals termed “smooth,” Foppe has a vice grip on the mechanics required to play shortstop.

“Just his instincts around the position,” Beals said. “The angles

that he takes, just a real solid feel for baseball and a knack for being in the right spot.”

Beals also is confident in the double-play combination created

by Foppe and second baseman Brady Cherry.

“They’re doing really well together,” Beals said. “Cherry has a lot of arm strength, which is usually not a characteristic of a second baseman, so that facilitates a good double-play turn.”

Now that he’s earned his starting role, Foppe wants to improve his offensive consistency to help contribute to the batting order.

He doesn’t expect to fully replace Washington in home run or RBI production, but Beals does not need that from him.

“This lineup, while it may not have a [former Ohio State left fielder] Ronnie Dawson in it, I like the one through nine and the depth within this lineup,” Beals said. “The vision of this offense is to be really tough, and wear down a pitching staff because of the quality of the at-bat we’re gonna be able to give top to bottom.”

Foppe’s debut with the Buckeyes occurs on Feb. 16 when the team opens the 2018 season in Port Charlotte, Florida, in the Snowbird Classic.

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