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Ohio State economist: Black politicians matter MATT DORSEY Engagement Editor dorsey.215@osu.edu The skin color of political officials might have a significant impact on what policies are implemented in the area they serve, a study by an Ohio State economist suggests.

The study titled “Do Black Politicians Matter?” was authored by professor and chair of the Department of Economics, Trevon Logan. It was published on the National Bureau of Economic Research website in January.

Logan used historical data from the U.S. Reconstruction era to track the sudden influx of black politicians in the South in relation to regional policy changes in that area. Specifically, he found black politicians implemented higher county taxes than white leaders did, and expanded public education as well as agricultural employment opportunities for black people.

The Reconstruction era is anomalous in U.S. history, Logan said, and provided an opportunity to analyze the effect of a politician’s race in a way no other era could.

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Latest school shooting changes conversation to ‘education, not just gun violence’ MADDY FIXLER Lantern reporter fixler.8@osu.edu

be more gradual this year, and go longer into the season,” Gibbs said.

The author of the legislation, Emma Meersman, a fourth-year in public health, said this resolution was put in place to allow students to obtain the vaccination without any financial barriers.

“It would make it a lot easier and probably increase the amount of coverage we have if we were just to provide it free,” she said.

For students who do not have the comprehensive university health insurance, waived university health insurance for their own plan, or are insured through Medicaid or Medicare, Student Health Services might be considered out-of-network, resulting in a $37 charge for the flu vaccine, the resolution stated.

Meersman said it might be difficult for undergraduate students to find medical practices or health

Gun rights and possible legislative reform dominate discussion among students and politicians and on social media in light of the Feb. 14 shooting spree that left 17 dead in Parkland, Florida. While talk of what can be done after violent incidents often occurs, the intensity in which it has stemmed this time differs. Talk has ranged from stricter gun laws to arming teachers with guns in case of emergency.

Around 30 Ohio school districts include guns in their campus security plans, meaning staff members are trained to use the weapons should a shooting occur.

Eight days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, President Donald Trump called for arming teachers in order to prevent further incidents.

However, arming teachers with weapons has not been proven to deter gun violence in schools, according to research by Bryan Warnick, a professor of philosophy education at Ohio State.

Warnick’s work instead supports the notion that providing teachers with guns would instead create an atmosphere that is accepting of violence that so often stems from the weapon.

This change in attitude can lead teachers to think of their students not as learners, but potential shooters, his research shows.

In conjunction with professors from the University of British Columbia and Utah Valley University, Warnick published research in 2010 on school shootings beginning in 1978 and ending with the violence at Columbine High School in 1999, using a variety of sources and studies.

“We were trying to figure out what was going on in schools

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Trevon Logan, chair of the Department of Economics, used historical data from the U.S. Reconstruction era and found black politicians expanded public education and agricultural employment opportunities for black people.

As an example of how other eras do not lend themselves to such a study, Logan mentioned the recent change in race of Columbus’ mayor, from Michael Coleman, who is black, to Andrew Ginther, who is white.

“You might think about a situa-

tion like that, where you compare Mayor Coleman to Mayor Ginther and think about policies that they enacted that might give you some sort of clues to the sort of role that race might have had an effect,” he said. “But if you look over the last 60 or 70 years, you have very few

of those cases where you see that sort of transition of leadership by race. And so we can’t really be precise in our estimates there.”

By contrast, the Reconstruction era offers substantial numbers from which estimates can be POLITICIANS CONTINUES ON 3

USG passes resolution to provide free flu shots to undergraduates MARA MASON Lantern reporter mason.816@osu.edu The 2017-18 academic year has brought with it an abnormally high number of flu cases. Because of the harsh flu season, the Undergraduate Student Government unanimously passed a resolution to provide influenza vaccines free of charge to all Ohio State undergraduate students.

In the first week of Spring Semester alone, 25 of the 47 administered flu tests at Ohio State came back positive for type-A or type-B flu.

Taken to the USG floor on Feb. 7, the resolution proposes Ohio State provide flu vaccines free to undergraduates in an attempt to minimize the spread of the flu on campus and decrease the number of cases seen. A USG resolution is not implemented into the university’s policies; it is a sugges-

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The Wilce Student Health Center has seen an exceptionally large number of flu cases on campus this year. tion of reform.

In line with national trends, the Wilce Student Health Center has seen an exceptionally large number of flu cases on campus this year. Gladys Gibbs, director of Student Health Services, said the

flu is still very prevalent on campus late into flu season.

“It’s usually a gradual rise beginning in December, and usually sort of peaks about this time, and then there’s usually a more rapid decline, so I think the decline will

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Birth control services on campus leave students searching for alternatives SAM RAUDINS Lantern reporter raudins.3@osu.edu Hannah McDermott has used the Wilce Student Health Center since arriving at Ohio State in August; it’s the closest resource for her. But, when she tried to change her oral birth control prescription last semester, the smooth experiences she once had became a thing of the past.

“They just sort of fit me in a box … I had to go there four different times just to change it, and it didn’t even end up working,” she said.

Her medication increased her amount of hormones over three weeks, which she believes caused severe symptoms of premenstrual syndrome, also known as PMS. About one month after beginning a different oral contraceptive that had a consistent amount of hormones throughout, McDermott, a first-year in nursing, noticed she was experiencing symptoms of depression.

“I was trying to rationalize that it was the first month of college, and it’s probably really hard on me. Then a month later I realized, ‘Oh, this is probably not what it is,’” she said.

Before fall break, McDermott went back to Wilce. She said a nurse told her she “was probably just depressed.” She returned two weeks later to see a doctor who prescribed the same brand GUN VIOLENCE FROM 1

themselves that may have contributed to the violence that took place with an eye toward, if schools are playing a part, what we could do differently,” Warnick said.

His work questions why educational reform isn’t part of the response to a school shooting — something Warnick and his co-authors found to be necessary for change.

“Current policy responses

“This has become a conversation about education, not just gun violence.”

Kate Way Filmmaker and former high school teacher

do not address the fundamental question of why so many mass shootings take place in schools,” Warnick said in a recently published opinion piece. “To answer this question, we need to get to the heart of how students experience school and the meaning that schools have in American life.”

Five educational institutions, including Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, have been the sites of some of the deadliest mass shootings in the country since 2005: Sandy Hook Elemen-

of birth control that was causing her initial PMS symptoms, but with three increasing levels of hormones.

“The hurdles I jumped weren’t hurdles that needed to be there. What they told me could have literally been put in a paragraph email.”

Hannah McDermott First-year in nursing

“The hurdles I jumped weren’t hurdles that needed to be there,” McDermott said of her experience. “What they told me could have literally been put in a paragraph email.”

Gladys Gibbs, director of Student Health Services, declined to comment on specific student experiences. She said in an email that Student Health Services strives to make health care affordable and accessible to Ohio State students.

“Student Health Services is firmly committed to helping students achieve the best affordable health care. While Student Health Services is a fee-for-service facility, we do recommend resources in the community that may have a sliding scale fee,” she said. “We can also recommend pharmacies tary School in 2012; Northern Illinois University in 2008; Virginia Tech in 2007; and a Pennsylvania Amish schoolhouse in 2006.

For the past three years, schools in Sidney, Ohio, trained teachers to use firearms in response to a shooting in its security plan.

Filmmaker and former high school teacher Kate Way has been exploring the impact of those policies in “G is for Gun: The Arming of Teachers in America,” a documentary in the process of being produced with Julie Akeret.

“This has become a conversation about education, not just gun violence,” Way said. “K-12 schools and universities are supposed to be spaces of free thought and growth and learning, and guns can get in the way of that.”

While the conversation is sure to continue, Warnick said the discussion in schools matters when it comes to preventing shootings from continuing to occur.

“Certainly the easy availability of guns and our mental health infrastructure contribute to school shootings even more,” he said.

“But ... what goes on in schools does matter, and that aspect of the conversation wasn’t represented very well in this social discourse.”

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Hannah McDermott has experienced difficulty finding appropriate birth control via the Wilce Student Health Center, saying it “just sort of fit me in a box.” in the community where a limited type of birth control pills are very affordable on a monthly basis.

Our pharmacy also tries to find coupons from the manufacturers that might benefit students.”

While not all students have experiences similar to McDermott’s, hers does underscore the increasingly popular and sometimes difficult search for access to birth control.

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care providers covered by their insurance to find vaccines close to campus if they’re not covered under university insurance.

“It’s kind of a hassle to have to figure out what places you can go to get it, and out-of-state students [might not] have cars, so even if they wanted to see their family practitioner back home, they couldn’t really do that,” Meersman said.

In her resolution research, Meersman found the flu shot cost is not included in student fees, like other utilities and services such as the COTA or student activity fees.

She said Ohio State has “a ton of cost-benefit analyses that have been done on vaccines, specifically flu vaccines” that suggest providing vaccines would be a cost-beneficial measure by the university.

The resolution states the benefits of getting the flu shot would eventually outweigh the costs, citing the flu vaccination not only prevents illness, but prevents students from missing class, performing poorly on assignments, spreading infection, and other hindrances.

“I’m hoping that we can appeal to the university with the costs that we would save from treatment,” Meersman said, “[Missing] even a couple days in school, if you have a heavier course load,

tween the ages of 15-44, across the country, according to a study by the Guttmacher Institute.

Access to birth control in Ohio is “pretty decent” due to the Affordable Care Act mandates as well as Medicaid, said Alexandra Kissling, a doctoral candidate at Ohio State studying the sociology of reproduction.

On campus, Wilce offers contraceptive services such as prescriptions for the pill, the ring, the patch, intrauterine devices

(IUD), injections and implants, each requiring a consultation with a doctor. As is the case with any medical provider, students’ experiences at Wilce have been a proverbial mixed bag.

“Birth control should be widely accessible to whoever wants to use it, but I also don’t think that means that you should take whatever kind of birth control without any kind of knowledge or understanding of what’s happening,” BIRTH CONTROL CONTINUES ON 3

can produce significant adverse mental health effects, and then obviously there’s the physical pain of going through the flu.”

“It’s kind of a hassle to have to figure out what places you can go to get it, and outof-state students [might not] have cars, so even if they wanted to see their family practitioner back home, they couldn’t really do that.”

Emma Meersman Fourth-year in public health, sponsor of USG resolution

Whether it’s paying for the flu shot out of pocket, or being covered by university health insurance, Gibbs said it is still worth it to get the vaccine at this point.

“It is not too late to get the flu shot,” she said, “and wouldn’t it be a shame to have gotten this far through the season and get the flu?”

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made.

“From essentially no black political participation in the United States before the Civil War, the dramatic entry of blacks into American political life led to more than 1,300 blacks holding offices ranging from local school boards to Governor from 1866 to 1880 in the South,” the study states.

In addition to such significant increases in the number of black elected officials, Logan said black Reconstruction-era politicians were explicit in their policy goals.

“They were very articulate about stating their policy objectives and that’s actually really critical for this sort of policy analysis,” he said. “Going back through the narrative record, the historical record, and seeing these areas where they really had broad

agreement among black politicians.”

Those areas were public education and the breaking up of large land holdings.

Ultimately, Logan found each additional black official increased the per capita county tax by 20 cents, a typical hourly wage at the time. Additionally, the funding of public schools was largely a success during this time, as measured by higher literacy rates.

“Exposure to a black politician increased black male literacy by 6 percent and it decreased the black-white literacy gap by more than 7 percent,” he said.

The goal of breaking up large land holdings was less successful, but still had a positive effect for black people at the time.

Black politicians imposed a land tax to encourage landowners

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Congresswoman Joyce Beatty speaks at Summer Commencement in 2017. In her address she repeated the idea, that “When women succeed, America succeeds.”

to sell off the parts of their properties that were not being farmed.

Though they did not end up selling much land, they did farm the previously unused portions, thus creating an increase in demand for farm labor, Logan said.

“And when you increase the demand for labor for people to work the land, it changes the deals that you’re able to offer people as a landowner,” he said. “So you have to give them a better deal to actually have them work the land, and that’s exactly what I find.”

Not only did Reconstruction offer a sudden influx of black political leadership to study, the so-called “redemption,” wherein Southern states revoked voting rights from black people in the mid-1870s, gives a cutoff point to further clarify the effect of black politicians.

“One of the things that you see in the paper is the tax effects, which we see have huge education effects, right? They go completely away when the black politicians are out of office,” Logan said. “They completely reverse themselves.”

While the idea of implementing higher taxes might sound undesirable to modern Americans, it wasn’t always that way, Logan said.

“There was a strong belief earlier in American politics, and even up until the middle of the 20th century certainly, that we were investing in public goods and that there were a lot of public goods that actually had really positive externalities and did great things for us and for our communities,” he said, adding the pushback against such public investment BIRTH CONTROL FROM 2

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Birth control pills in their calendar dispensing packaging.

Wilce provides contraceptive services such as prescriptions for the pill, the ring, the patch, intrauterine devices (IUD), injections and implants.

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Kissling said. “We need to find a way to inform people about what the risks are in a way that actually get [understood].”

Emma Terres, a third-year in English, women’s, gender and sexuality studies and Latina studies, has been on birth control since she was aboutaround 15 years old. As an Ohio State student, she began looking for a new gynecologist to consult about a pre-existing condition and contacted Wilce to schedule a pelvic exam and birth control consultation.

“The lady said, ‘Yes, you can have a birth control consultation, but you cannot get a pelvic exam because you need to be 21,’ which is not true,” Terres said, adding that Wilce also said she could only receive an exam for an STD. “It’s recommended that you get [a pelvic exam] at 21 for every woman, unless you have pain,” Kissling said. Pap smears are typically given to women when they Director of Student Media General Sales Manager

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Logan calculated the policy effects in Reconstruction-era Southern counties by mathematically controlling for a plethora of variables, including access to rail lines, access to navigable water, urbanization, and a measure of segregation he created along with John Parman, an associate professor of economics at the College of William and Mary.

“I’m controlling for all that stuff, and I’m seeing that there’s still this residual effect that is due to black politicians,” he said.

Logan said he hopes the findings lead other researchers to examine an era he believes has been understudied.

“I would love to see the effect of these black politicians explored on, for example, local econom-

ic growth, other sorts of public goods that they could have potentially invested in, and political activity that they could have taken part in,” he said. “I also want to see if it has long-standing effects on voting outcomes today.”

Ultimately, he said, those questions about modern society are often the driving force in historical research.

“History really isn’t just about names and dates,” Logan said.

“It actually can be about social science and be about things that are very, very contemporary today, that we don’t study the past just to study the past. Usually, we are sort of spurred by a question that’s going on now in our contemporary world.”

turn 21, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

quire any health care coverage. It is only available in 12 states, including Ohio.

“The thing that jumped to mind first when I saw this is that it’s probably going to be very beneficial for teens,” Kissling said.

She said not requiring insurance would help women, adding other birth control providers who do not require health care such as Planned Parenthood are facing “lots of restrictions on what they can and can’t do, where they can and cannot be, what services they can and cannot provide at what locations, and I imagine that makes it difficult to navigate.”

While there are alternative options outside of campus, McDermott called for Ohio State’s health center to improve its OBGYN procedures.

“Everyone seems to desire to get on birth control. It’s not a big deal … if you want to take birth control, you should be able to go and get it,” she said.

“Everyone seems to desire to get on birth control. It’s not a big deal … if you want to take birth control, you should be able to go and get it.”

Hannah McDermott First-year in nursing

For some, subpar experiences with birth control providers have sent them searching for alternatives. Most health care providers — Wilce included — require health insurance plans to obtain birth control.

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A lifelong love affair with German Village

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Ohio State alumna Gail Stoy returned to German Village after one of her first dates with her husband almost 40 years ago. She now runs the German Village Walking Tours with her business partner John Clark.

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Gail and Frank Stoy met as sophomores at Ohio State in 1975. Forty years later, they returned to live in the same neighborhood they explored on one of their first dates.

The couple first took a trip to German Village and ate at Schmidt’s Sausage Haus and Restaurant in 1977, and married in August of that same year.

“We raised our family in Toledo and were empty nesters. My

daughter [lived in Columbus],” Gail said. “My husband had an opportunity to come here to Columbus and so we thought we’d turn the page and sell the family home.”

Gail said that it was her daughter who kept encouraging the two to settle in German Village and when Gail and her husband discovered their double-turned-single, two-story colonial house, they knew that’s where they wanted to be.

“We looked all around town and we ended up here and couldn’t have been happier,” Gail said.

The Stoys have only lived in German Village for about two years, but Gail said she was eager to get involved in the community right away. She began reading about the history of German Village and eventually joined the German Village Society where she gives tours and met her current business partner, John Clark.

John Clark and his wife, Jan, have lived in German Village for more than 20 years and, like the Stoys, John was fascinated by the long history of his community.

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Movie review: “Annihilation” is a groundbreaking, visceral experience WYATT CROSHER Senior Lantern reporter crosher.1@osu.edu “Annihilation” was written and directed by Alex Garland and stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Michelle Rodriguez and Oscar Isaac. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer and is about a professor with a military background (Portman) who accepts a mission into a very dangerous and mysterious area called “the Shimmer” in search of answers that her husband (Isaac) failed to find.

Garland was one of the most exciting new directors to look out for in 2015 with “Ex Machina,” so I was destined to be excited for whatever fresh project he decided to go with, and combined with an impressive cast led by Portman and a premise that promised loads of intrigue and mystery, “Annihilation” was a film that I was on the watch for since the first trailer.

The Good There is so much to appreciate with Garland’s direction of this movie, and that is because of how ambitious and challenging “Annihilation” can be at times. This is a slow burn of a movie that takes its time with set up and the unknown. But because the movie remains interesting throughout all of the build-up, the payoffs often feel massive in scope, and the film simply gripped me from beginning to end.

Portman was fantastic in the lead, continuing to show herself as one of the best actresses working today. She is very sub-

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“Annihilation” was written and directed by Alex Garland and stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez and Oscar Isaac. dued, but gives her character just enough to keep me interested in her. The chemistry that she shares with both Isaac and her team members was equally great.

I loved Leigh and Thompson in their supporting roles, for they both were able to make their characters enticing without overacting, showing emotion only in spurts and when it was absolutely necessary. Isaac’s role was rather small, but he electrified the screen every time he was given the opportunity.

From a visual standpoint, Rob Hardy’s cinematography is stunning, and the visual effects only

make it better. This is a gorgeous film to look at, with the visuals on these other-worldly creatures and landscapes looking beautiful and distinct enough to make the Shimmer stand out for all the right reasons.

The score by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow adds loads of intensity to scenes that were already tense enough without it. “Annihilation” had a way of getting under my skin throughout the film, and the music was a big player in that, especially as the film progresses and the plot really begins to come into its own.

There were so many scenes that

had me on the edge of my seat, for everything that took place within the Shimmer was done to near perfection. Garland gives the audience just enough to comprehend what exactly is happening, but also leaves plenty to the imagination, and this ambiguity drives home a completely insane back third of the movie that works wonders.

The final act of this movie is a total adrenaline rush and one that has loads of interesting ideas at play. My jaw dropped for most of the final half hour, for this movie reaches “2001: A Space Odyssey” levels of mind-melting, and

Warmer days call for frozen yogurt

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Frozen yogurt might be difficult to come by near campus, but the options Columbus does offer are sure to hanker any craving for the frozen treat.

RYLAN LEE For The Lantern lee.7244@osu.edu In Columbus’ frozen dessert game, ice cream clearly dominates. From classic takes on the sweet treat like Graeter’s and Jeni’s to the new rolled ice cream fad at establishments like Simply Rolled, options abound.

But what of frozen yogurt, the equally delicious but somehow

overlooked cousin of the cream?

Although a paltry fro-yo flavor or two are sometimes offered at an ice cream establishment, businesses solely dedicated to selling frozen yogurt are much harder to find in the Columbus area.

You might wonder, “When was the last time I got frozen yogurt?” or “When was the last time I even saw a fro-yo shop?”. Well, don’t strain your brain too hard, because we’ve rounded up the Colum-

bus area’s frozen yogurt options.

Though few and far between, if you’ve got a hankering, luckily, there are a few strongholds.

Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt 3130 Kingsdale Center Orange Leaf is one of the two primary frozen yogurt franchises dominating the Columbus market. With two Columbus-area locations, it is the only fro-yo option near campus for college students and professors alike to grab some chilled delight. In the typical style of the business, Orange Leaf offers a variety of self-serve frozen yogurt flavors — ranging from fruity favorite pineapple to classic cookies & cream — and toppings like gummy worms and sprinkles. Enjoy your sweet treat in a vibrant orange-and-green environment.

39 Below 85 Parsons Ave If you find yourself in between Downtown and Olde Towne East with a craving for some classic fro-yo, 39 Below is the move –– or would be, since the store is temporarily closed until March for construction. As the only truly local option, 39 Below occupies a quaint spot on Parsons Avenue under a cheeky black-and-white striped awning. It offers self-serve fro-yo, with flavors such as honey Greek, Nutella and pistachio, as well as classic toppings. If you’re

looking for dinner before dessert, the shop also offers Pho from November to March.

Menchie’s Dublin: 5043 Tuttle-Crossing Blvd.; 7545 Sawmill Rd. Gahanna: 85 N. Hamilton Rd. Like Orange Leaf, Menchie’s represents the other chain commandeering the Columbus fro-yo game with four locations sprinkled around the outerbelt. Its yogurt bar offers flavors ranging from Pecan Praline Surprise to Caramel Frappe to Cookie Dough Monster. Topping options are similarly as diverse; customers with sweet, sour, or fruity pallets will all be happy. Plus, who could resist a cute mascot with a giant fro-yo swirl for hair (found on each and every cup)?

OH-YO! Grove City: 4226 Buckeye Pkwy.

Though OH-YO! has a sister location in Wooster, it feels much more along the lines of 39 Below as a more local option for fro-yo connoisseurs. Like the other establishments, the yogurt and the toppings are self-serve. Have fun choosing between flavors such as dulche de leche, kiwi-strawberry and cotton candy — or, get crazy and don’t choose one. Enjoy your chilled concoction in the shop before or after a movie with an adjoining AMC theater just steps away.

it is all the better for doing so.

The Bad “Annihilation” thrives on being a slow burn movie, which means the first act does not come out with a completely roaring start.

There are a handful of scenes in the opening third that feel unnecessary or a little stale. I understand there should be some character development, but I think the rest of the movie did a good enough job with doing this more effectively.

This is less of a flaw than it is a note to make, but there will almost definitely be people who will not like “Annihilation,” for this is a risky film that takes a lot of leaps that you simply have to accept. While some might see the ending as overreaching and confusing, I absolutely loved how out there and original the whole experience felt, and it is movies like this that people will, and should, talk about for years to come.

Conclusion “Annihilation” is thrilling, suspenseful and brilliantly well-told.

Garland compiled a movie that brutally shows everything that it needs to, while building the characters and plot enough to have me totally on board. This film is smart with what it shows and what it doesn’t, and the technological feats in the camerawork, sound and visual effects only add to the experience. This might end up being a polarizing film, but it is one that any sci-fi fan should see since it is expertly handled throughout.

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in interest for tours and decided to turn their passion of being volunteer tour guides into a business called German Village Tours.

“They have more business than they can really handle at the society, more tour business,” John said. “So we decided that we would take part of that and at the same time we will be giving back to the society a portion of our profits to support them.”

The business partners have been in operation since the beginning of the year and hope to share their knowledge of the community with those who visit.

Despite having a romantic history with German Village, Gail said it’s special to her for more reasons than just that.

“I think between the history, the commitment of the people, it’s a real sense of neighborhood,” she said. “You really do know your neighbors. There are get-togethers. It’s just a strong sense of community. People are involved and, frankly, it’s beautiful.”

The strong sense of community is why Gail stays in German Village, but the house she and her husband chose to live in at the beginning is just around the corner from Schmidt’s Restaurant where the two began their relationship.

“Here we are, 40 years later, living our dream here,” Gail said.

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Ohio State senior guard Kelsey Mitchell (3) dribbles past defenders in the second quarter against Michigan State on Jan. 27 at the Schottenstein Center. The Buckeyes beat the Spartans 78-62.

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anie Mavunga, who became a first-team All-Big Ten selection by both coaches and media after earning a spot on the second team last year. Mavunga averaged a double-double in the regular season for the second year in a row with 16.2 points and 10.6 rebounds per game.

Both the coaches and players selected redshirt senior guard Linnae Harper as a second-team All-Big Ten selection. She also earned a spot on the conference’s

All-Defense team. The 5-foot-8 guard averages 15.1 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game.

Senior guard Asia Doss and redshirt junior guard Sierra Calhoun were named honorable mention by the coaches.

The Buckeyes will begin their postseason Friday when they take on the winner of Rutgers/Purdue at noon in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament in Indianapolis.

ferring to focus on being their best late in the season.

“I said this yesterday, our goal is to be at our best in March,” Ohio State head coach Kevin McGuff said after the win against the Spartans on Jan. 27. “There’s going to be high points and low points in every season. Let’s make sure this was the lowest point. Let’s learn from it. Let’s move forward in a manner that we’re going to be incredibly diligent about working hard to get back to where we were and to even be better than that.”

March has nearly arrived, and the team that struggled through those three games has won eight games in a row. The Buckeyes seemed to have listened to McGuff, peaking entering the season’s final month.

Ohio State had three games against Michigan State, Wisconsin and Penn State in which it allowed an average of 60.3 points per game, the lowest during a three-game stretch in McGuff’s tenure at Ohio State. But the Buckeyes improved upon that by allowing 59.3 points per game in the final three games of the season — against Purdue, Northwestern and Penn State.

Their offense has not suffered despite clamping down defensively. Ohio State has scored at least 78 points in five of the past eight conference games and has won each by at least 13 points.

Everything seems to be clicking.

Yet, there are some glaring factors that suggest otherwise.

The Buckeyes knocked off the seven lowest-ranked teams in the conference, including two wins against Penn State, in a row to capture the regular-season championship.

Even halfway through the conference win streak, the Buckeyes traveled to South Florida and were destroyed, 84-65, by the No. 20 Bulls.

Ohio State knocked off No. 16 Stanford with a commanding 8564 victory to begin the season, then nearly handed No. 4 Louisville a loss the following game, but fell 95-90 in overtime. That came in the first week of the season, and outside of an overtime win at Michigan in early January, it was the best the Buckeyes played the whole year.

Ohio State has particularly struggled against top-level teams with a dominant post player.

A rebounding-challenged team that starts four guards, including three who are listed 5-foot-8 or shorter, Ohio State had an impressive plus-19 rebounding margin in its final game of the season.

But Penn State entered the game with the conference’s worst rebounding margin.

The Buckeyes outrebounded their opponents in just three of the eight end-of-season confer-

ence wins, despite all of them coming by double-digits.

The recent margins of victory, amounting to a Big Ten title, seem impressive, but they will not matter much if the defense and rebounding issues that have plagued Ohio State for years resurface in the conference and NCAA tournaments.

It won’t take long to find out if the improvements are real or if they have been enhanced by inferior opponents.

In order to win its first Big Ten tournament since 2011, Ohio State must go through two of its most difficult opponents of the season. The Buckeyes will likely play the Hawkeyes in the semifinals. With a victory there, they’ll have another shot at the Terrapins.

For a team with just seven rotation players, five of whom are playing their final season in scarlet and gray, the pressure is on to peak in March, and March will have arrived by the time Ohio State opens play in the Big Ten tournament.

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Across 3. How many children did Oedipus and Iocaste have? (four) 6. Who introduced concept of second actor? (aeschylus) 7. Guy who defined the theater (thespis) 14. Series of dramatic episodes were separated by what? (choralodes) 16. One of Sophocles’s famous plays (antigone) 17. A conflict that occurs outside a character (external) 19. A way in which the audience infers thoughts and feelings of characters (gestures) 20. Were not allowed to act in Greek theater (women)

Down 1. What is a pretense of ignorance called? (irony) 2. What did the actors, in Greek theater, wear to represent characters? (masks) 4. What shape did the Greek theater have? (semicircle) 5. Who, in the fifth century, held festivals to honor Dionysus? (atheians) 8. One of the important elements in drama (setting) 9. Form of literature that includes one-act plays and full length plays (drama) 10. Where was Sophocles born? (kolonos) 11. What was the name of the king Laios’s wife? (iocaste) 12. Who wrote 123 or more plays during the course of his life? (sophocles) 13. Most of Greek’s plays are based on what? (myth) 15. Where is Greek located? (europe) 18. Who became the king of Thebes after the death of Jocasta? (creon)

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2. To predict a condition or event on the basis of observatins 3. Instrument used to messure atmospheric pressue 7. Line drawn on a weather map that connects pionts having equal temp.

9. Winter storm that lasts for at least three hours 10. Temp. at which air is saturated and condensation forms 11. Amount of moisture in the air compared with the amount it can hold at a given temp.

21. Lines drawn on a weather map that connects points having equal air pressure

Down 1. Indicates weather conditions at a specific location, using a combination of symbols on a map 4. Water falling from the clouds-includes rain, snow, sleet, and hail-whose form is determined by the air temp.

5. Large body of air that has the same characteristics of temp. & moisture as the Earths surface where it formed 6. Amount of water vapor held in the air 8. Studies weather and uses instruments to make weather maps and provide forecasts

12. Violent whirling windstorm, crosses land in a narrow path 13. Boundary between two air masses with different temps., 15. Large, severe storms that form over tropical oceans, and density, and moisture loses power when it reaches shore 14. State of the atmosphere at a specific time and place 18. A stratous cloud that forms near the ground

determined by factors

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Talent remains with Ohio State defensive ends despite depth departure EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu There was a case to be made that Ohio State’s defensive end depth in 2017 was as strong as any in college football. It could even have been the best of the past several seasons.

It not only had the 2016 Big Ten Defensive Lineman of the Year in Tyquan Lewis, but also the 2017 winner in Nick Bosa, as well as future NFL draft selections Jalyn Holmes and Sam Hubbard. Waiting behind the four starters were a pair of former top defensive end prospects in five-star freshman Chase Young and four-star redshirt freshman Jonathon Cooper, both of whom spelled the starters when needed.

That depth was envious in 2017. It will not be there in 2018.

Ohio State lost Hubbard to the draft while Holmes and Lewis both graduated, leaving Bosa, Young and Cooper as the only returning players at defensive end.

“We’ll find some guys to play with them,” defensive line coach Larry Johnson said after the Cotton Bowl. “We’ll make some changes. We’ll make sure those guys have a chance to be fresh. We’re a long ways away from that, but I think we’ll be OK.” The concern with Ohio State’s defensive end group will not come from the talent present. Bosa and Young could be a dynamic pairing at the top, potentially the most explosive duo in college football, if the talent they have shown in the past continues in 2018. Cooper will present the Buckeyes with a strong third option in the rotation.

And even though Young and Cooper have only part of one season full of garbage time minutes under their belts, they both feel ready to step into larger roles in the 2018 season.

“I think we were prepared right now,” Young said after the Cotton Bowl. “But even this spring and this winter and the

JACK WESTERHEIDE | PHOTO EDITOR

Ohio State defensive lineman Nick Bosa (97) takes down USC running back Ronald Jones in the third quarter of the 2017 Cotton Bowl against USC on Dec. 29 in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Ohio State won 24-7. summer, it’s going to get us, and after all three of those [seasons], man, I think we going to be there. Just watch out.”

The depth from there takes a bit of a hit and will remain questionable heading into the season.

Since the bowl game in December, Ohio State has a clearer vision of who will be able to provide backup to next year’s starters. The Buckeyes brought in defensive end recruits four-star Tyreke Smith, fourstar Tyler Friday and three-star Alex Williams. However, Friday will be making the change from defensive tackle to end while Williams might get a shot at playing tight end in college.

Even with the recruits coming in, it seems unlikely any of them will have extended roles. None are as highly regarded as Young coming out of high school.

Young appeared in 10 games and had 3.5 sacks while Cooper played in nine games.

Still, that playing time proved valuable for the pair. It was given chances to play against collegiate competition — though almost always toward the end of blowouts.

Bosa remembers that even when the game was not on the line, the playing time was important for his own development.

“My freshman year, I was able to play a decent amount,” Bosa said. “Just get that big game experience. Just get used to the speed of the game. It’s a lot different than high school and you just learn a lot when you actually get in there, you can’t really replicate it in practice.”

The recruits could be thrust into playing time due to the lack of depth, but none are expected to have Young’s impact. He demonstrated speed and elusiveness during

his freshman season that has convinced the Buckeyes he will be a force when he steps into a starting role for Ohio State.

Cooper’s name often gets lost in the shuffle — overlooked in favor of Bosa and Young — when looking ahead to 2018.

Cooper did not have as much impactful playing time as Young in 2017 and had just two sacks. But the players all believe he has the chance to be another top option for the Buckeyes when they need relief.

“If you name me and Nick, you’ve got to name Coop too,” Young said after the Cotton Bowl. “Coop, his motor is unreal and I don’t think guys have seen a lot of him this year, but like I said with [defensive tackle] Davon Hamilton, you going to see a lot of him next year, you going to see what he brings to the table.”

Ohio State is going to have to deal with a lack of depth, but there is still plenty of talent at defensive end. With Young, Bosa and Cooper, the Buckeyes have a formidable trio that should present challenges to opposing offensive lines, just like they did in 2017.

“I think it could be the best pass-rushing unit ever,” Bosa said on Jan. 19. “I think it could be a step up from last year just because they’ve really set the bar for us and we’re going to enhance it and just so much talent on this D-line right now, even though we’re young. Some of the best talent that I’ve ever seen, so it’s going to be really good once we get all the chemistry together.”

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Bates-Diop, Tate, Wesson earn All-Big Ten honors EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu

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Ohio State senior forward Jae’Sean Tate (1) takes the ball through traffic in the second half of the game against Rutgers on Feb. 20. Ohio State won 79-52.

The No. 13 Ohio State men’s basketball team surprised many with a breakout 2017-18 campaign that ended with a 24-7 overall record and 15-3 conference record. For the successful season, three Buckeyes were named to various All-Big Ten teams, the conference announced Monday.

Redshirt junior forward Keita Bates-Diop was named to the first team by both media and coaches.

Senior Jae’Sean Tate was named second-team All-Big Ten by coaches and was honorable mention by the media. Center Kaleb Wesson was named to the All-Big Ten freshman team.

Bates-Diop averaged 19.2 points, 8.9 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game, while playing in 32.7 minutes per game. He finished the regular season with 12 double-doubles and scored more than 20 points a dozen times. He was one of two unanimous selections for the first team by both the coaches and media, along with Michigan State forward Miles

Bridges.

Tate finished the regular season with an average of 12.5 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game. Tate was on the All-Big Ten honorable mention team last season.

Wesson had an average of 11.0 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game.

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Kelsey Mitchell, Keita Bates-Diop named conference’s top players

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Ohio State senior guard Kelsey Mitchell (3) takes the ball down the court in the game against Penn State on Jan. 31.

Ohio State won 94-64.

COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu A day after the Ohio State women’s basketball team clinched the outright Big Ten title with a win against Penn State, the Big Ten honored the main reason for its success the past four seasons.

The conference’s coaches selected Ohio State senior guard Kelsey Mitchell as the Big Ten Player of the Year for the third time in four years. She was also named conference player of the year in 2015 and 2017.

The media selected Iowa junior forward Megan Gustafson as Big Ten Player of the Year instead of Mitchell. Gustafson tore up the Buckeyes in a win on Jan. 25, dropping 29 points.

In the regular season, Mitchell averaged 24.4 points per game, the second-most in the conference behind Gustafson, on 46.1 percent shooting and 40.3 percent shooting from beyond the arc.

She also managed 4.1 assists per

game and 3.2 rebounds per game.

She maintains the longest streak in the history of the NCAA — 86 games — in which she knocked down a 3-pointer. Mitchell has both made and attempted more career 3-pointers than anyone in NCAA history.

On Sunday, she passed former Baylor forward Brittney Griner to have the third-most points in NCAA history. Mitchell has scored 3,286 points and is within 108 points of passing former Southwest Missouri State guard Jackie Stiles to become the second-highest career scorer.

A preseason All-American, Mitchell has a chance to become the first four-time All-American in program history. She was a first-team All-American in 2016 and a second-team All-American in 2015 and 2017.

All five starters honored Mitchell also earned a spot on the first-team All-Big Ten team.

She was joined her teammate redshirt senior forward StephMITCHELL CONTINUES ON 6

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Is Ohio State peaking or benefiting from its schedule?

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Ohio State redshirt junior forward Keita Bates-Diop (33) prepares to take a three-pointer in the second half of the game against Penn State on Jan. 25 in the Schottenstein Center.

EDWARD SUTELAN 32.7 minutes per game. He finAssistant Sports Editor ished the regular season with 12 sutelan.1@osu.edu double-doubles and scored more than 20 points 12 times.

Ohio State redshirt junior Before the season began, head forward Keita Bates-Diop was coach Chris Holtmann said that pegged by many as a sleeper for both Bates-Diop and senior forproduction before the start of the ward Jae’Sean Tate were going 2017-18 season. He was one of to have to carry the load at times the returning players on an Ohio for Ohio State. That narrative State team that was beginning a quickly changed to Holtmann perceived rebuild and was expect- saying he expected Bates-Diop to ed to be a major cog in the team’s eventually regress and stop averoffense. aging nearly 20 points per game.

In a season that has defied ex- But Bates-Diop never let up too pectations, Bates-Diop vastly out- much, though he did average only performed what many believed he 14.8 points in the final six games could do, leading the Buckeyes of the season.

No. 2 seed in the Big Ten tournaThe breakout campaign came ment. His efforts for the campaign a season after the small forward were rewarded Monday when the was forced to redshirt his true 6-foot-7 forward was named Big junior season after fracturing Ten Player of the Year. his leg. He appeared in just nine He is the first Buckeye to re- games in the 2016-17 season, ceive the honor since guard Evan while struggling to maintain conTurner earned it after the 2009-10 sistent production, averaging only season.

9.7 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.3 Bates-Diop averaged 19.2 assists per game. points, 8.9 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game, while playing in

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Rebuild to reward: Holtmann named B1G Coach of Year EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu When Chris Holtmann was hired as head coach of the Ohio State men’s basketball team, the expectation was that at some point in his eight-year contract, he would bring them success.

Everyone believed the first season, however, would be a rebuilding year.

That turned out not to be the case with Holtmann, who coached the Buckeyes to a 24-7 overall record and 15-3 conference record. The major turnaround after a dismal 2016-17 campaign proved enough for Holtmann to be named Big Ten Coach of the Year, the conference announced Monday.

This is the second straight season Holtmann has captured a coaching award. He garnered the Big East Coach JACK WESTERHEIDE | PHOTO EDITOR of the Year award following the end of Ohio State senior forward Jae’Sean Tate (1) speaks the 2017 season after his final season with head coach Chris Holtmann in the first half in at Butler. the game against Michigan on Dec. 4. Ohio State The Buckeyes finished just 17-14 won 71-62. overall and 7-11 in conference play in

the regular season last year, then lost to Rutgers in the first round of the Big Ten tournament and failed to reach the NIT. The dismal campaign, along with a struggle to recruit, led to the dismissal of former head coach Thad Matta and the hiring of Holtmann on June 9.

This season, Ohio State will enter the conference tournament with a tworound bye as the No. 2 seed and has locked up an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament.

Ohio State began the campaign slow, with a 5-3 record to start. However, it won 19 of its remaining 23 games, including wins over then-No. 1 Michigan State at home and then-No. 2 Purdue on the road.

Holtmann will try to continue to keep the surprising run to the season going at 6:30 p.m. Friday when Ohio State plays the winner of the Penn State vs. Northwestern matchup in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament.

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Ohio State redshirt senior forward Stephanie Mavunga takes a shot during the Buckeyes game against the Boilermakers on Feb 18.

COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu Nothing went right for the Ohio State women’s basketball team in mid-January. It was consistently outrebounded, out-hustled and neither kept its opponents off the scoreboard nor scored enough to make up for the constant barrage of shots made by its adversaries.

During a three-game stretch a little more than a month ago, the Buckeyes lost games to Michigan, Maryland and Iowa, allowing 84, 99 and 103 points, respectively.

However, Ohio State rattled off eight straight conference wins after those losses against lesser competition and watched Maryland blow its Big Ten lead with a three-game losing streak of its own, propelling the Buckeyes to an outright conference regular-season championship.

Ohio State responded from the poor defense shown in the three mid-season losses by holding opponents to fewer than 68 points in each contest. It appears the Buckeyes are peaking at the right time, but a look beyond the final scores paints a more skeptical picture of recent successes.

Despite the blowout losses, morale did not seem expectedly low. Redshirt senior forward Stephanie Mavunga said she felt Ohio State still had a “target” on its back as the favorite to win the conference after her team beat Michigan State 78-62 to end the three-game slide.

Even head coach Kevin McGuff, who had just watched his defensively challenged team allow more points than any three-game stretch in his tenure leading the Buckeyes, took a business-as-usual approach, preBASKETBALL CONTINUES ON 6