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Improvements from construction project will result in “most advanced” facility in veterinary field.

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Lily In The Weeds has learned that their best work can’t be rushed.

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Kyle Snyder eyeing revenge as No. 2 Ohio State goes for Big Ten title.

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No. 6 Ohio State championship aspirations start on home ice in Big Ten tourney.

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Ohio State students help immigrants navigate U.S. pharmacy system LYDIA GINGERICH Lantern reporter gingerich.50@osu.edu

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Men’s basketball assistant coach Ryan Pedon sits with his father, Felix Pedon, in the Schottenstein Center during a family visit in 2017.

Forever in Section 7A Ryan Pedon’s role as assistant coach allows father to ‘die a happy man’ EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu Ryan Pedon still remembers the exact seats he sat in for Ohio State men’s basketball games in St. John Arena with his father, mother and sister when he was growing up.

Section 7A, row 14, seats 1, 2, 3 and 4.

For nearly 15 years of his childhood, Pedon sat in those seats next to his father, Felix Pedon.

Ryan, hired to be an assistant coach for the Buckeyes in June, remembers the time spent in that arena as well as anything else from his youth. His mind often wanders back to those seats, especially now — now that he could be close to losing his best friend.

Felix has battled Lewy body dementia since his diagnosis eight years ago. At age 86, after years of watching Ryan’s games as an athlete, and now as a coach, he is nearing the end of his battle.

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Emmanuel Osei moved to the U.S. from Ghana in 2009. He understands how challenging it can be to do something as simple as picking up medication or getting blood pressure checked.

His experiences led him to join Ohio State’s Pharmacy Ambassadors — an organization that works to educate immigrants in the Columbus community on pharmacy practices in America — so others would not have to endure the struggles he experienced first-hand.

In Columbus, 7 percent of the city’s population, about 146,200 residents, were born in another country, according to a 2016-17 Global Report from the Columbus Council on World Affairs.

At Ohio State, 6,399 international students attend the Columbus campus, according to Autumn 2017 university data.

With such a vast immigrant community both on and off campus, Pharmacy Ambassadors works with various health care resources and institutions to better educate those who need help maneuvering the U.S. pharmacy system.

“The idea of going to a doctor

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Brenda Shen, a thirdyear pharmacy student decided to get involved with Pharmacy Ambassadors in 2016 because she saw the need to help firstgeneration immigrants navigate the U.S. health care system.

where the pharmacy is not in the doctor’s office and everything is not under the same roof is very foreign to those who are new to America,” pharmacist Ben Michaels said.

Michaels works with Pharmacy Ambassadors at the Kroger pharmacy on Morse Road, about 15 minutes away from Ohio State’s campus. He was assigned to work with two fourth-year students PHARMACY CONTINUES ON 3

How likely is stricter gun regulation in Ohio?

JERROD A. MOGAN Lantern reporter mogan.7@osu.edu After the Feb. 14 killing of 17 students and adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, many of the survivors have called on lawmakers to act on gun control once again.

Deanna Wilkinson, an associate professor in Ohio State’s College of Education and Human Ecology, said she’s “cautiously optimistic” those calls might soon be answered with new legislation.

The rate of mass shootings in the United States has tripled since 2011, according to the Harvard School of Public Health. No federal gun law has been passed in the seven years that followed calls for gun control after mass shootings at churches, concerts, movie theaters, schools and more.

“I think the key will be how long pressure is kept up, and

when and if the next [mass shooting] happens — which it will,” said Wilkinson, who has studied gun violence prevention throughout her career.

If the federal government doesn’t pass additional regulations on firearms, states could decide to act on their own.

In Ohio, Republican Gov. John Kasich convened a group to develop and recommend solutions to gun violence to the General Assembly. He said he hopes the group can present an outline on gun control legislation to lawmakers this week.

Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan expressed doubt that gun control legislation would have an effect on preventing gun violence in an interview on Fox News. “[Bad people] are going to get around the law and do something bad if they’re bent on doing that,” he said.

For more than a decade, Ohio lawmakers have consistently vot-

ed to expand gun rights, a trend that Dean Rieck, executive director of the Buckeye Firearms Association, said is good for the state.

“We’ve made some progress over that period of time, not as fast as we would like, but that’s politics,” he said.

BFA was formed in 2004 to fight for the right of Ohioans “to own and use firearms for all legal activities,” according to its website.

Kasich — who signed numerous laws expanding access to firearms as governor — surprised many by recommending a ban on semi-automatic weapons.

Rieck said he’s disappointed in Kasich’s decision and attributes it to political posturing.

“He’s planning another run for the presidency,” he said. “It’s a calculated move on his part.”

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Veterinary lab to become ‘most advanced clinical and professional training facility in the field’ SONIA SELVAKUMAR Lantern reporter selvakumar.5@osu.edu Ohio State’s Veterinary Clinical and Professional Skills Laboratory is receiving a facelift. Ongoing construction aimed at enhancing students’ educational experience is installing new technology and modernizing the space.

The total cost of the construction project, slated to end in August, is $9.3 million, said Dan Hedman, a spokesman for the Office of Administration and Planning.

The new state-of-the-art laboratory will be used by veterinary students to enhance clinical and communication skills, said Rustin Moore, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine.

“The skills lab will utilize both high- and low- fidelity models, be outfitted with the latest in technology and include 3D-printing capability,” Moore said. “The new training environment includes spaces that are realistic to

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The Veterinary Medical Center is located on 601 Vernon L. Tharp Street on West Campus. actual client or patient processes and spaces.”

As for the construction, Moore said it will provide an opportunity for students to get hands-on

clinical and communication instruction starting in their first and second years of the veterinary curriculum.

“This will start building skills

“The policies to enhance gun rights and … concealed carry and the states that have that — when it’s systematically examined with pretty rigorous models — show an increase in violent crime overall and an increase in homicide,” she said. “I think it’s very dangerous to pretend that those policies don’t potentially have negative implications.”

ment that carriers identify they’re concealing a weapon to law enforcement.

Movement on gun-related legislation remains unknown, but discussions regarding an increase in school security have taken place, Republican Senate President Larry Obhof said to the Statehouse News Bureau on Feb 20.

“We’ve talked about additional funding, potentially for more school safety measures like what we saw with the previous grant program,” Obhof said.

BFA offers a free service, — FASTER Saves Lives, — that trains teachers how to respond in active-shooter scenarios. Rieck said the program has trained more thanover 1,300 teachers and is known to reduce the amount of time a shooter can remain active, which would — reduceing the number of victims.

“These guys don’t go to a police station. — tThere’s a reason for that. — tThey know that they’re going to get stopped pretty fast.

They go to a school because they know, in many cases, there’s no one there to effectively stop them.

It’s the same reason they go to a church,” he said. “They’re looking for body count.”

Wilkinson said school security measures can be helpful, but they also have potential downsides — which she witnessed in her work.

“When young men thought everyone else was armed, they were way more likely to be armed and to gang up,” she said.

For that reason and more, Wilkinson said it’s important to fully understand the effects enhancing security might have before making any sweeping chang-

and better prepare students for their fourth clinical year, allowing them to use their final year to focus on refining their skills,” Moore said.

Prior to the laboratory’s construction, the College of Veterinary Medicine received a $39 million donation from The Stanton Foundation. A chunk of the funding went toward the update, and another portion established the Building Preeminence in Veterinary General Practice Education program, which is designed to increase the graduation rate and general practice of veterinary students.

He said the space will allow students to learn at their own pace and increase professional confidence, self-awareness and lifelong learning for students.

“Once [the project is] completed, this lab will represent the most advanced clinical and professional training facility in the field of veterinary medicine,” Moore said.

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the controversial law that allowed 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz to purchase the AR-15 he used in the Parkland, Florida, shooting before he could legally purchase a handgun at age 21.

Several bills have been introduced by Democrats in the Ohio House of Representatives Statehouse to ban semi-automatic weapons and bump-stock devices — which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire at near fully-automatic speed — but none have been voted on yetreceived a vote.

“Those would be helpful, they’re just never going to pass,” Wilkinson said.

Rieck said banning any firearm hardware is a mistake that would only negatively affect law-abiding citizens.

“We had a national ban for 10 years under the Clinton administration and when that was studied, people from that administration concluded that it made no difference,” he said.

In Ohio, Republicans control both houses of the General Assembly, and have supported efforts to expand gun rights in the state.

No member of the Senate majority leadership has voted against legislation to expand gun rights for the state, in the Senate according to Vote Smart, a non-partisan group that tracks elected officials.

Senate minority leadership has collectively voted against expanding gun rights two-thirds of the time.

The legislation has largely focused on expanding permissions to concealed carry licensees.

Wilkinson said there is convincing evidence these laws result in more crime.

“I think the key will be how long pressure is kept up, and when and if the next [mass shooting] happens — which it will.”

Deanna Wilkinson Associate professor in Ohio State’s College of Education and Human Ecology

Rieck said policies that prohibit guns in certain areas make people less safe because criminals are more likely to target those locations — especially if those policies are announced.

“Somehow, that makes some people feel safer, but what it really does is it sends a signal to criminals, ‘Ah, this is a place where they can’t hit back,’” he said.

Two Republican-backed bills that would expand gun rights are awaiting review in the Senate Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, after being passed by the House in 2017.

One bill would allow concealed carriers to carry in gun-restricted areas until they’re asked to leave.

The other eliminates the require-

es.

“If [lawmakers] are going to propose some of these things, they should also propose an independent study that’s going to capture what impact it’s having — negative and positive,” she said.

Enhancing school security with gun-trained staff has been proposed by President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association as well.

Critics have said the NRA has too much influence over politicians. Rieck, an NRA member, said the group’s influence comes from the support of voters.

“You can’t pass laws or you can’t have influence with politicians unless they think that voters actually support the issue,” he said.

Rieck said BFA estimates there are roughly 4 million gun owners in Ohio — about one-third of the state.

“That’s a big voting bloc,” he said.

All of Ohio’s current Republican representatives in Congress have received contributions from the NRA according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Sen. Rob Portman received more thanover $3 million in his career. Republicans in the House of Representatives received more thanover $450,000 in donations throughout their collective careers.

Rep. Tim Ryan is the only Ohio Democrat in Congress to have received NRA contributions, but not since 2012, according to the center.

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Gun control law proposed The debate on gun control continues to get trickier this week.

Congress is set to vote on a gun control measure proposed by a Democrat, but members of the party appear ready to oppose the measure.

The Fix NICS Act, co-sponsored by Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy from Connecticut, would punish federal agencies that don’t submit criminal records to the national criminal background check system for firearms.

Democratic leaders have bashed the bill on the Senate floor this week.

“What will prevent future tragedy? Comprehensive background checks will. The Fix NICS bill will not,” Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday.

“Let’s not set our sights too narrow or squander this moment.”

The change of stance from Democrats following the Feb. 14 Parkland, Florida shooting is a major shift from what Murphy said about the bill in November.

At the time, he hailed the bill as the most important piece of bipartisan guns legislation since Manchin-Toomey, a 2013 bill that failed to pass the Senate, which would have required background checks on all commercial gun sales.

Now, following the tragic massacre, a majority of Democrats are seeking more comprehensive gun legislation than the bill Murphy has proposed.

If Congress passes any new gun laws, it is clear that there will have to be bipartisan support.

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tournament in New York City, is unsure if his father will be alive when he returns.

“My gut says about a week, but I don’t know,” Ryan said Tuesday.

“I don’t know what to base that off of. I’m not a doctor. Just kind of watching him, looking at him in his hospice bed right now. He’s peaceful. I don’t think he’s having trouble breathing at the moment, so maybe a week or two.”

On most road trips, Ryan has been able to effectively compartmentalize his feelings. He said he is always trying to balance his roles as a coach, father, husband and son.

But given the health of his father, Ryan’s trip to New York for what could be several days will be different.

Felix has always had a family member by his side since his diagnosis. Now that his health is beginning to fail him, Ryan might not be there at the end, something with which he has made peace.

“At this point, I think I know my dad would want me to be with the team,” Ryan said, breaking down in tears. “And as much as I’d like to be there for him at the end, you put your faith in the man above and you’ve just sort of got to let the chips fall where they

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may. Sort of, you leave him in the Lord’s hands. I think that’s probably the best thing I could say.

“I’ve got to be there with our team and hope I’m around when it happens, but if I’m not, then I know we’ll have other family that will be here.”

--If there was a golden child in the family, it was Ryan, said Dean, his second-oldest half-brother Felix was always heavily invested in sports, having played tennis until a knee operation in 2008, as well as coaching basketball, baseball and football at St. Catherine’s high school for several years.

Dean said Felix knew once Ryan, his fifth son, was born, he had a future basketball player.

“My dad came out and he was so proud that he had another boy,” Dean said. “He said, ‘He can dribble with both hands and he goes right to the basket.’ And that truly is how he introduced Ryan to me.”

From an early age, Ryan’s parents encouraged him to play basketball — to a certain extent.

Ryan had a basketball “bigger than he was,” said his mom, Sally.

He took it with him wherever he went, until his mom found it deflated in the trunk of the family

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Pedon visits his father in hospice care following the Buckeye’s 80-64 victory over Michigan State on Jan. 7. station wagon one summer.

While Sally expressed concern that her son was becoming too “one-dimensional,” Felix encouraged the habit, building a basketball hoop in the backyard above the garage and frequently playing with Ryan. He even put lights

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from the College of Pharmacy to create the program in 2013.

After five years of growing in numbers and resources, it now educates at least 200 immigrants per year in Columbus, said Chelsea Pekny, the current director of Pharmacy Ambassadors.

Pekny said the original Pharmacy Ambassador members “saw a need for this service because there was a Kroger pharmacy located in an area with a large population of immigrants. The students noticed that immigrants didn’t really know what to do at the pharmacy, in terms of dropoff and pickup.”

The group created simple handouts to explain things such as reading drug labels and the difference between over-the-counter and prescription drugs. They contacted members of the immigrant community in Columbus and held classes to present the information and answer questions.

Students have expanded the program by connecting Pharmacy Ambassadors to organizations within Columbus. For example, Osei, a doctoral candidate, works directly with PrimaryOne Health in his role.

“We partnered with PrimaryOne because they provide health care to underserved patients, and patients that cannot afford to pay for the treatment,” Osei said.

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weapons and related equipment, according to WOSU. Akron City Councilwoman Tara Mosley-Samples introduced the resolution, which passed at a council meeting Monday night.

The resolution is not law, but instead calls on the Ohio legislature, which has stopped cities from regulating guns locally, to outlaw the sale of semi-automatic rifles.

In addition to the ban on guns, the bill also calls for limiting gun magazines to no more than 10 bullets, and prohibiting bump stocks and trigger cranks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly.

According to the Akron Beacon Journal, Mosley-Samples made a motion to vote on the resolution 30 minutes into Monday’s meeting. All council members, except Bob Hocht and Donnie Kammer, voted for the resolution.

“No more prayers and condolences without action,” Mosley-Samples said Monday.

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ryOne allows the program to provide services such as taking blood pressure and blood glucose screenings along with the pharmacy education provided by the ambassadors.

Pharmacy Ambassadors also works with resettlement organizations such as US Together Inc. and Community Refugee and Immigration Services. These are the groups that first come in contact with people new to the U.S. and are able to enroll them in a Pharmacy Ambassadors class.

Pekny said the resettlement organizations provide clients and translators to help facilitate the program.

The groups provide information on how to navigate pharmacy “within the health care system, but then also to introduce a pharmacist to people so there’s less hesitation to approach a pharmacy or a pharmacy technician that they might see in the store itself,” she said.

Pharmacy Ambassadors have not only expanded within the city, but within Ohio State as well.

Third-year pharmacy student Brenda Shen saw the need for pharmacy education for international students in 2016.

“My parents are first-generation immigrants so I really related to people who struggled with learning about how the U.S.

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around it so Ryan could continue playing until midnight, often keeping the neighbors awake.

When they couldn’t play in the backyard, they went to a local community center.

Ryan and his dad were so close, Ryan made him the best man at

his wedding in 2010. It was, as Felix shuffled down the aisle, that the family doctor — who was a friend and neighbor in attendance at the wedding — noticed what he believed to be symptoms of Parkinson’s.

His disease was originally diagnosed as a form of Parkinsonism, Sally said, but around a year later was identified as Lewy body dementia after Felix underwent multiple tests at Ohio State.

“I didn’t know a lot about Lewy body, and I certainly did a little bit of research, but it was something that we found out would be a gradual, you know, sort of a gradual progression,” Ryan said.

Given that it is a slow-moving disease and his dad still seemed to be in relatively fine condition — though he began to lose motor skills — the family felt fortunate in some respects.

“I don’t want to make it seem like in 2010 it was a death sentence either, because it wasn’t,” Ryan said. “The last eight years, it was probably a blessing that we could see it coming a little bit, too, as opposed to — when it’s a loved one, I think we’re all different with how we respond to death of loved ones. Everybody’s

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OSCARS 2018 Oscar nominations reflect a consideration for diversity and opportunities for political dialogue. | ON PAGE 5 KAYLEE HARTER Lantern reporter harter.83@osu.edu Without the internet, psychedelic blues-rock band Lily In The Weeds probably wouldn’t exist.

Vocalist Alex Burnsides and guitarist Mike Furman met on Tinder and later connected with drummer Matt Bailey and bassist Andy Bailey, whom are twins, on Craigslist.

Burnsides said she was skeptical of Furman’s musical abilities when they first matched on Tinder in January 2016.

“When someone on Tinder says they play guitar, you never really know how it’s going to hash out in real life,” she said.

At the time, Burnsides was singing backup for Columbus band Zoo-Trippin’ and Furman was, and still is, the guitarist for local band Gold From Grief. The two took their time dating before considering playing together.

“Ok, yeah let’s maybe date for a while and make sure we like each other before broaching that subject of like ‘OK, you’re in a band, but what kind of band?’ Because that could be a deal-breaker,” Burnsides said.

But hearing each other play was a deal-maker, and the two decided to form Lily in the Weeds — a name Furman derived from an Oscar Wilde poem — in fall of 2016.

Then, they found the Baileys who both typically played in jam bands, which are typically rock

that.”

The EP is being recorded by a fellow Columbus musician, bassist Cameron Reck of The Turbos, at Songcatcher Studios.

“It’s such a personal process and you have to do multiple takes and you have to be told that you’re doing something wrong or that you’re not getting it right,” Furman said. “So [Reck] has managed to balance that really well.”

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“When someone on Tinder says they play guitar, you never really know how it’s going to hash out in real life.”

Alex Burnsides Lily In The Weeds vocalist

Lily in the Weeds is Alex Burnsides, Mike Furman, Andy Bailey and Matt Bailey. groups that play music with sections of improvisation within their songs. The group started writing songs together, but hesitated to book shows in the the first few months playing together.

“We were all on the same page of ‘I don’t want to play out until we’re ready,’” Burnsides said.

The group played its first show in November at Ruby Tuesday, after releasing three songs in July.

The group’s dynamic, bluesy songs usually begin with a riff, then Burnsides writes the lyrics — often in her car.

Burnsides said that although she tends to be goofy — “If you just look at her, you can make

her laugh,” Furman said — most of the songs she writes are about things that make her mad.

Some, she said, are about things she’s seen in the headlines this year and others are about her own experiences.

For example, the song “Unsatisfied,” which will appear on the group’s debut EP late this summer, is about men who have approached her in bars, expecting her attention.

“I don’t actually owe you anything,” she said. “You just decided to come over here and talk to me and I’m going to be really nice until you say something offensive or disrespectful and then it’s not

going to be great for you.”

Also appearing on the EP is “Brown Liquor.” It has more major chords and a happier tone than Burnsides typically writes, which posed a challenge for her.

So, she dug through old college journals hoping to gain inspiration from a time when she was less cynical, she said.

“It was about a time on The Oval where I saw a guy I had briefly dated and I waved at him and his friends pretended not to see me,” said Burnsides, who graduated from Ohio State in 2012 with a degree in Italian and globalization studies. “I had some scathing journal writings about

Reck’s enthusiasm has kept the group moving throughout the recording process, Furman said.

The drums and bass were recorded all in one day and without a metronome.

“It helps when the rhythm section was once in utero together,” Burnsides said, laughing.

Lily in the Weeds will be performing at The Shrunken Head Friday as part of the Wonder Doug Variety Show benefiting the Sexual Assault Response Network of Central Ohio (SARNCO). The show will feature music, comedy, burlesque and poetry. Tickets are $5.

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Diversity holds the spotlight at this year’s Academy Awards AMAL SAEED Lantern reporter saeed.40@osu.edu Though the 90th Academy Awards show is set to recognize diversity and minorities in the film industry, political protest during the award show remains a cause of contention.

The 2018 Oscars has shown a commitment to diversifying its finalists, and this year’s Best Picture and Cinematography nominees are no exception. With a racially charged horror film in the running and the first woman nominated for Best Cinematography, the award show is continuing to make changes after past criticisms of “Whitewashing” and sexism.

With cultural movements like #MeToo and Time’s Up dominating Hollywood, the Oscars have made a significant effort to recognize women in the industry. For example, the academy has recognized Cinematographer Rachel Morrison for the film “Mudbound,” as the first female nominee in that category, and Greta Gerwig will be the fifth woman nominated for Best Director with “Lady Bird.”

The nominations for the Best Picture category have also made great strides. In 2010 the number of Best Picture nominees increased to a maximum of 10, having previously been five, which has been maintained in the remaining categories. The ability to recognize more than five films has allowed for greater diversity in plot types and smaller-budget films to be acknowledged.

“It is reflecting a little more effort in the industry to have a greater diversity,” said Sean O’Sullivan, an associate professor for the Department of English who studies film and television.

Lower-budget films also have a bigger chance to be more emotionally charged than in years past, a trend that started with 2017 Best Picture winner “Moonlight.”

like Spielberg and Nolan.”

This year’s award ceremonies have been packed with support of political movements. At the Golden Globes, actors and actresses wore black and brought activists as guests in support of Time’s Up, a legal defense fund to support those who have been victims of sexual harassment in the workplace, which has been a problem exposed in all industries, not just Hollywood.

“It is reflecting a little more effort in the industry to have a greater diversity.”

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Oscar statuettes that will be presented to winners at the Academy Award presentation ceremony.

The nominations of “Call Me By Your Name,” a film about a boy struggling with his sexual identity, and “Get Out,” director Jordan Peele’s first feature film that hits on racial issues, for Best Picture indicate a continued shift in the academy’s willingness to recognize films that challenge what used to be taboo topics.

Not only is Peele one of five black men in history nominated for Best Director, but the four nominations for “Get Out” are a rarity for horror films, which reflect the plot’s cultural impact.

However, O’Sullivan said the push for diversity in this year’s show might not reflect the whole story.

“I think it’s a slightly dangerous thing to treat one year as a symptom of anything broader,” he said. “There’s also a one-hand attempt to recognize traditional filmmakers

However, this year’s Oscars will not be a platform for protest. In an article for The New York Times, Jennifer Todd, one of the lead producers of the Oscars, said they want to focus more on “films, not the culture around them.”

That is fine with Erica Gbur, a fourth-year in political science, who said the political demonstrations at recent award shows failed to resonate with her.

“I feel like any time they do this stuff at award ceremonies, while it’s a good cause, the stuff at the Golden Globes was tone-deaf,” Gbur said. “It’s just like Hollywood patting themselves on the back, which is not to say that movement isn’t important, but the way it’s portrayed at award ceremonies is pretentious.”

Gbur said although the academy has shown more diversity, there’s still plenty of room for improvement.

“I mean we do see more nominations, but besides ‘Get Out,’ all the nominations are pretty much white. It’s a Hollywood problem,” Gbur said.

The 90th Academy Awards will air at 8 p.m. Sunday on ABC.

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Terra Byte Cafe hours will extend until midnight during finals week starting this semester.

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Late nights in the library will soon satisfy late night cravings.

This Spring Semester, cafe hours will extend until midnight during finals week at Terra Byte Cafe in 18th Avenue Library, and Berry Cafe in Thompson Library.

The proposal to extend cafe hours was spearheaded by Yueyi Hua, a first-year in data analytics and member of the Undergraduate Student Government at Ohio State.

As a member of the Student Affairs committee that tackles dining hall reform, Hua took the initiative to present the proposal to USG two weeks ago in hopes of changing cafe hours for students who study late at night in libraries.

“If students want to spend their night at the library because of finals, when they get hungry at night, they would spend so much money to order delivery or go outside to buy something to eat, which is very unsafe at night. So that’s how we got that idea,” Hua said in an email.

Although the initial idea was to keep cafes open 24 hours, Hua said her initial planning with Kathie Serif, associate director of dining services, made her realize that a mostly student-run cafe would be difficult to staff in the late hours of the night.

“I knew that 24 hours was not possible because the people who work at the cafe are mainly students,” Hua said. “It is impossible to force students to work such long a time.”

Regular hours at Terra Byte and Berry cafe are from 7:45 a.m. to 11p.m., but come exam time, students will be able to study and grab a bite to eat until midnight without having to leave the library.

“I know when I was a student I would have loved for Terra Byte and Berry to have been open later.”

Kaleigh Timko Campus Grinds assistant manager

“I definitely think the one hour is significant. I know when I was a student I would have loved for Terra Byte and Berry to have been open later,” said Kaleigh Timko, assistant manager at Campus Grinds, the organization that oversees campus coffee shops. “I think it will be very beneficial for students studying late at night to be able to get their coffee and food a little bit later, to get revamped for a long night ahead.”

The first one-hour extension will take place during finals week this spring and will occur for all future finals weeks.

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Piano Man Pictures is a collective of filmmakers, writers and artists screening their short films to connect with people on a more personal level.

ANDREA OH Lantern reporter oh.377@osu.edu The Piano Man Pictures Roadshow is heading to Gateway Film Center for its second stop on a six-city tour throughout the Midwest.

Piano Man Pictures, a collective of filmmakers, writers and artists, will be screening four of its directors’ short films on Sunday to connect with people more personally in its first-ever tour.

“We thought we’d put together our own roadshow,” said Chad Allen Barton, co-founder of Piano Man Pictures. “We’re treating this like a band that’s going to go across the country to see new people and meet new people and show them what we’re doing.”

The roadshow will showcase short films, including Shelby Baldock’s “Faceless, But Remembered,” Chad Allen Barton’s “H.I.D.,” Rachel M. Taylor’s “Avarice” and Stephen Teague’s “The Price of Air.” From the horrific story of a kidney transplant patient to the comedic conspiracy about charging people to fill up their tires, all the films connect in one way.

“They have a weird, cohesive message — not that we planned it that way,” Barton said. “There

are strange, dark worlds inhabited by people who are trying to figure out what’s going on, and half the time, they fail.”

During the event, there will be a Q&A in which Barton and Baldock will Skype in the other directors to talk with the audience and preview trailers of their current projects.

“The filmmakers are going to talk about their film, talk about their creative process, maybe talk about things that they are working on,” said Scott Vezdos, director of communications for Gateway Film Center. “To have that extra layer of context … really adds to the experience.”

Eventually, Barton is planning to organize another tour later in the year to show these films, either in the West or South, and find people who are interested in what Piano Man Pictures is doing.

Piano Man Pictures is a group of creatives from Memphis, Tennessee, that collaborate to bring stories to life in a variety of mediums, including feature films, short films and albums.

“We’re constantly looking for ways to present new filmmakers, compelling movies, movies that reach a wide audience,” Vezdos said. “[The roadshow] is something that there’s an audience for.”

The event will take place 7 p.m. Sunday at Gateway Film Center. Admission is $10.

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197 pounds, but lost two of his past three matches. He lost to Penn State’s unranked Anthony Cassar in what was the main turning point of that dual meet, which the Nittany Lions won. Moore rebounded against Michigan’s Kevin Beazley, delivering a major decision win over the four seed for the Wolverines. However, Moore also dropped a bout with Michael Macchiavello, a top-10 wrestler from North Carolina State.

Ohio State’s drastically different directions are one of the reasons Ryan believes his team has not yet reached its potential.

“In no one weekend did we really wrestle 10 guys the way they can, and we are banking on this is the first of two weekends where that happens,” Ryan said.

Along with Snyder, Pletcher, a 133-pound wrestler, and 174-pound Bo Jordan enter the tournament ranked second in their weight classes. To capture a conference title, Pletcher will need to beat Michigan’s Stevan Micic, who defeated him on Feb. 11. Jordan is the underdog to Penn State’s Mark Hall, but also lost to Michigan’s Myles Amine.

“I was ahead in both matches and got taken down in the third period on both to lose, so I’m excited for both of those rematches,” Jordan said. “Usually at this time heading into the Big Tens and nationals I haven’t been tested, and I haven’t really wrestled anyone in the top five.”

That is not the case this season. Jordan has faced plenty of competition against the best guys in his weight class. Last season, Jordan beat Hall 6-4 to win the Big Ten championship at 174 pounds, but Hall got revenge at nationals, beating Jordan 5-2 in the championship.

Bo Nickal of Penn State is the top seed at 184 pounds, with Ohio State junior Myles Martin one spot below. The pair has wrestled seven times in their college careers,

health care system works, so it was really important to me and it was something I was passionate about,” Shen said.

Shen made a few tweaks to the material used by Pharmacy Ambassadors and worked with the Office of International Affairs to present at the international student orientation in August 2016.

“People would come up to me after and just be like, ‘Wow that was so helpful,’ and then they would ask me questions and I could talk to them one-on-one,” she said.

Shen said the group strives to have a lasting effect on those with whom they interact.

“I just hope that they can at least take something away from it and that it will be helpful to them at some point in time or at least direct them to resources that could help them,” she said.

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Ohio State junior Joey McKenna (right) wrestles Vince Turk in the dual meet against Iowa on Jan. 21 in the Schottenstein Center. and there will likely be an eighth matchup this weekend. Nickal leads the series 5-2 versus Martin.

Ohio State senior 125-pounder Nathan Tomasello lost against Iowa’s Spencer Lee on Jan. 21 and didn’t wrestle against Nick Suriano of Rutgers when the Buckeyes beat them on Jan. 7 because he was recovering from an injury.

“We love Nate. It’s his senior year, he’s going for his fourth Big Ten title, and he’s got an opponent that’s real,” Ryan said.

“This guy has won three world titles. He thinks he’s going to win. We think we’re going to win, so that’s when the fun starts.”

Tomasello finds himself seeded third behind Suriano and Lee, and would likely wrestle both if he has a chance to win the Big Ten championship.

At 157 pounds, Ohio State No. 4 seed Micah Jordan will be looking for revenge against Michael Kemerer of Iowa. Kemer-

er is tied with Jason Nolf of Penn State for the top seed, since it is still unknown if Nolf will wrestle after suffering an injury on Jan. 28 against Rutgers. Jordan did not match up with Nolf on Feb. 3 because of the injury.

None of the Buckeyes’ 10 wrestlers is seeded lower than ninth, and nine of them are seeded in the top five. Ke-Shawn Hayes is seeded fifth at 149 pounds and Te’Shan Campbell is slotted ninth at 165 pounds.

Ohio State has aspirations beyond this weekend, which puts an emphasis on being mentally prepared.

“It’s kinda difficult cause as much as you want to have a great performance at the Big Ten’s it’s important. But the endgame is the NCAA tournament,” associate head coach J Jaggers said. “So we can’t dial back our training too much to peak for Big Ten’s because we still have twelve days until NCAA’s start.”

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Chemistry of Life Across

21. Lines drawn on a weather map that connects

Across 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.

12. Violent whirling windstorm, crosses land in a narrow path 15. Large, severe storms that form over tropical oceans, and loses power when it reaches shore 18. A stratous cloud that forms near the ground 19. High level 20. Low level

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 13. Boundary between two air masses with different temps., density, and moisture 14. State of the atmosphere at a specific time and place determined by factors 16. Middle level 17. Something that influences a result

1. Reduce activation energy of chemical reactions 5. Any substance that has mass 8. Neutron charge 9. What type of biological molecule are enzymes 10. Electron charge 12. Monomer for a lipid

Down 2. The reactants in a chemical reaction 3. Control the rate of reactions and regulate cell processes 4. Organic compound that stores the most energy 6. Main source of energy 7. Monomer for carbohydrates

14. Monomer for a protein

11. One of the most common elements found in organic compounds

15. One of the most common elements found in organic compounds

13. One of the most common elements found in organic compounds

16. Monomer for nucleic acid 17. Monosaccharide used by cells as an energy source 18. Proton charge 19. Store and transmit hereditary or genetic information

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Taver Johnson and Alex Grinch return home to Ohio State WYATT CROSHER Lantern reporter crosher.1@osu.edu A day after Ohio State revealed the roles Alex Grinch and Taver Johnson will be taking this season, both assistant football coaches spoke to the media for the first time since being hired.

Grinch, who was Washington State’s defensive coordinator from 2015 to 2017, was announced as the co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Grinch said that transitioning from Washington State’s eccentric head coach, Mike Leach, to Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer is a challenge.

“Well, comparing the two, I’ll start there, there is no comparison,” Grinch said. “But I think to somehow suggest three years with coach Leach is now my expectation for a working environment would not necessarily be accurate.”

Johnson, who coached at Temple as the defensive coordinator last season, returned to Columbus for his second stint as an assistant coach for Ohio State. His first came as a defensive backs coach under Meyer in 2012 and former coach Jim Tressel from 2007 to 2011.

This time, Johnson will be taking over as Ohio State’s cornerbacks coach and special teams coordinator for Kerry Coombs, who departed for the Tennessee Titans defensive backs coaching position.

“Intimidating? No. Pressure? Always,” Johnson said. “I told the guys and I already know I have some big shoes to fill, and I’m accepting that challenge and I’m excited about it.”

Both Grinch and Johnson are Ohio natives. Grinch was born in Grove City and Johnson in Cincinnati, and while returning to their home state might have not been the main selling point, Grinch said it was a factor.

“Ohio is home,” Grinch said. “Is that the driving force in this opportunity? No, it’s

the program, it’s the university. But obviously to suggest that’s not an added bonus, I’d be lying to you.”

Though spring practices will not start until Tuesday, both coaches are ready to bring their experience to their new positions with an already established group of players.

“This place has done very, very well without me, and so anything I can do to add to that certainly is my motivation.”

Alex Grinch OSU assistant football coach

“I’m excited to get to practice because now we can get to doing a little more football,” Johnson said. “Everyone in the program is going to compete, everyone’s going to be a competitor. [That’s] what’s going to take some of the guys to the next level.”

Grinch was the 10th assistant coach for Ohio State after the NCAA passed a measure to allow college football teams to increase their coaching staffs by one additional assistant.

“My role here is to help in any way I can in terms of adding value to the defensive side of the ball,” Grinch said. “This place has done very, very well without me, and so anything I can do to add to that certainly is my motivation.”

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Ohio State cornerbacks coach and special teams coordinator Taver Johnson addresses the media for the first time as a member of the coaching staff on Feb. 28, 2018.

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Ohio State football co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach Alex Grinch addresses the media for the first time as a member of the coaching staff on February 28, 2018.

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different, but I know our family, we were appreciative that we were able to say our goodbyes and sort of see it coming.”

--For a while, most of the Pedon family was away from Columbus. Four of the five sons lived out of state, as did Ryan’s sister, Amy. However, Ryan was hired to join head coach Chris Holtmann’s staff at Ohio State in the summer, bringing him back home to his father.

Having grown up the son of a Buckeye fan and raised as one, Ryan felt pride at the chance to be able to tell his father that he would be coaching at Ohio State. It had always been a dream of the Pedon family for Ryan to be able to return to Columbus.

The dream, unfortunately, was met with a morbid moment.

“When I told him I was coming to Ohio State — I’m sorry I’m getting choked up a little bit here,” Ryan said, “But he said, the night I told him I was coming to Ohio State, he said, ‘I can die a happy man.’”

Shortly after being hired, Ryan took his parents and his high school basketball coach on a tour of the Schottenstein Center.

The group ventured throughout the arena, seeing where the shoes are kept in the locker room, the coaches’ offices and the court with empty seats.

Sally said Felix was so proud and that it felt like a dream come true for him to receive a tour of the Buckeyes’ home arena by his son — one of the coaches.

Felix was in better shape during the tour of the arena, but as the season neared, his

health declined. Ryan said he is unsure if his dad was even able to comprehend or fully watch a game with Ryan as an Ohio State coach on TV given his current mental state.

“The saddest thing is he was looking forward to — that was his goal in rehab this fall was to get better and stronger so he could go to that [Nov. 5 matchup against Wooster],” Sally said. “It was sad that he did not get to make that game or any this season.”

“When I told him I was coming to Ohio State — I’m sorry I’m getting choked up a little bit here. But he said, the night I told him I was coming to Ohio State, he said, ‘I can die a happy man.’”

Ryan Pedon OSU assistant basketball coach

Ryan visits his dad as frequently as he can. Often, he goes by himself when he can find the time. Whether it’s on the way home from games, before a road trip or just some free time, Ryan tries to spend time with his dad whenever possible.

“It’s been pretty cool to be able to go, and with the season we’ve had and go there and tell him that, ‘Dad, we just beat the No. 1 team in the country. We beat

Michigan State,’” Ryan said. “You go after games, and sometimes I’ll go real early in the morning. Sometimes I’ll go real late at night. But I just go and sit there and just talk to him.”

Ryan has not opened up about his father’s disease much with his fellow coaches. In fact, Holtmann said he asks Ryan about his father more often than Ryan brings him up.

Holtmann said he knows Ryan has gone through a lot and encourages him to take time off should he need it.

“He needs to know he has my blessing to do that and more than anything, I’m encouraging him to do that, if that’s what he feels like he needs,” Holtmann said. “But he also may feel like, hey, like he told me, ‘My dad would want me to be doing this.’”

Even with Ryan having said it has been nice to have the eight years with his father rather than an unexpected loss, Ryan will be losing the person he calls his father, his role model, his best friend.

Sally, who has spent countless hours watching the two play pickup basketball outside and going with them to play golf, knows it will be hard on Ryan. It will be hard on everyone in the family.

“I’m proud of my kid,” Sally said. “It’s the end of an era. Ryan and his dad have been the closest of all the children.”

When he steps onto the team bus that will take him to the airport to board a plane for New York City on Thursday, Ryan won’t know for certain whether he will see his father alive again.

But he will forever see his father in his

memories, always in that same row, always in the same seats.

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Buckeyes hope home ice is nice in Big Ten tournament CAMERON THOMPSON Lantern reporter thompson.3262@osu.edu The No. 6 Ohio State men’s hockey team made it a goal to earn home ice throughout the Big Ten tournament and reach the championship game for the first time since 2014.

“We just got to take care of ourselves.

Five-man defense, whoever’s out there, it doesn’t change.

We got to stay connected.”

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With a different format than in the past, this year’s tournament allows the higher seeds to host their games at respective home arenas, which gave the Buckeyes a vision of playoff hockey at the Schottenstein Center early in the campaign.

“We’ve talked about it all year starting in August when the team got here that we are playing for home ice this year in the playoffs,” junior forward Brendon Kearney said. “The different format was a big deal for us just to be able to stay in Columbus.”

The second-seeded Buckeyes will open the Big Ten tournament at home with a best-of-three series against seventh-seeded Mich-

Ohio State redshirt senior defenseman Matt Joyaux (46) takes a shot in the first period of the game against Wisconsin on Feb. 23 in the Schottenstein Center. igan State in the first round.

The Buckeyes will not take the Spartans lightly given the result of the teams’ most recent meeting, a 6-3 Michigan State win.

Michigan State, the lowest seed in the tournament, used a heavy forecheck to pin the Buckeyes in their own zone. The strategy forced turnovers and pucks piled into the back of their net.

Ohio State head coach Steve Rohlik said multiple areas need improvement to ensure a different outcome.

“Puck management, number one. I talk about that a lot. We

turned the puck over a lot. If they are going to play that style and come down, we just got to make plays,” Rohlik said. “We got to take care of the puck, we got to support the puck. I think that’s the key against this team, and that’s the approach we are taking.”

Michigan State has one of the conference’s most talented top lines, which has even earned a nickname of the “KHL line.”

Sophomore forwards Patrick Khodorenko and Taro Hirose and freshman forward Mitchell Lewandowski accounted for 42 of the Spartans’ 86 goals this sea-

son.

Rohlik said Ohio State will not abandon the defensive style that is allowing just the third-fewest goals-against per game in the country (2.06 goals) in order to shut down the Spartans.

“We just got to take care of ourselves. Five-man defense, whoever’s out there, it doesn’t change.

We got to stay connected,” Rohlik said. “I talk about this all year, it’s not just our goaltender or defense.

We got to play solid five-man defense.”

Ohio State could face some daunting opponents in the ensu-

ing rounds if it gets past Michigan State. No team would be more daunting than Notre Dame in a potential Big Ten championship game, but the preceding rounds will not be easy, given the depth of the conference. Five Big Ten teams appeared in the regular season’s final USCHO top-20 poll.

“It’s that time of year, and our league speaks for itself,” Rohlik said. “I think anybody could beat anybody on any given night.”

With back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time in 15 years, there is a sense of confidence that Ohio State has emerged as one of the conference’s top programs and will compete for a Big Ten championship beyond just this year.

“It’s about our culture. You go out there and expect to win every night you play. It’s not going to happen. We understand that, but I think that’s the attitude that our guys have,” Rohlik said. “Credit to the 27 guys in the locker room, it’s great for the program, but certainly we’ve got a long way to go.

We’re not satisfied with where we are at.”

Ohio State’s opening game of the tournament against Michigan State will begin at 7 p.m. Friday and the second game will start at 7 p.m. Saturday. If necessary, the third game of the series would commence at 7 p.m. Sunday. All games will be at the Schottenstein Center.

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Ohio State senior Kyle Snyder wrestles Steven Holloway in the dual-meet against Iowa on Jan. 21 in the Schottenstein Center.

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Gold Medalist and second-seeded heavyweight Kyle Snyder is not one of them.

The Ohio State wrestling team will have a chance to win its second Big Ten championship in a row when it heads to East Lansing, Michigan, Saturday to face off against wrestlers from 11 teams ranked in the top 25.

The Buckeyes have an opportunity to win a team title, but also have multiple wrestlers in contention for individual championships. Ohio State finished the regular season ranked second in the country, but sophomore Luke Pletcher believes the important part of the year has not yet begun.

“Everything before this really doesn’t matter too much,” Pletcher said. “Now we get to the postseason, some people either crumble or they rise to the occasion. I think that just speaks to how we handle the pressure.”

Ohio State (14-1, 8-1 Big Ten) has two No. 1 seeds at their respective weight classes this weekend, but 2016 Olympic

“Everything before this really doesn’t matter too much. Now we get to the postseason, some people either crumble or they rise to the occasion. I think that just speaks to how we handle the pressure.”

Luke Pletcher OSU sophomore wrestler

Snyder entered the season as a heavy favorite to earn a third national championship, but lost his first match in nearly three years on Feb. 11 to Michigan heavyweight Adam Coon, a 6-foot-6, 285-pound behemoth who did enough to defeat Snyder.

In order for Snyder to capture an individual conference championship, he would likely have to

defeat Coon. So in this case, at least, Snyder finds himself as the rare underdog.

“You base somewhat the future by what you’ve seen in the past, right? And the past says that when the stakes are really high he performs really really well,” head coach Tom Ryan said. “Coon is going to get the very best Kyle has to offer. That I can guarantee.”

Ohio State junior 141-pounder Joey McKenna and redshirt sophomore 197-pounder Kollin Moore are both top seeds in their weight classes. But both of them will enter the tournament with wildly differing trajectories.

McKenna has climbed up to No. 4 nationally after upsetting North Carolina State’s now-No. 5 Kevin Jack in the last dual meet of the season. McKenna also upset now-No. 8 Nick Lee of Penn State on Feb. 3, but Lee will be searching for revenge as the second seed behind McKenna.

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