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Brenda Drake may be one half of a power couple, but she’s also a standalone force to be reckoned with.

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MiChaela Barker strives to strike a balance between her academics and her art.

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Cancer in college

How Hanna Detwiler found balance, accepted a new normal in the face of leukemia SHERIDAN HENDRIX John R. Oller reporter hendrix.87@osu.edu Hanna Detwiler does not remember much about the first time she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She was only 3 years old.

She remembers every detail of her second diagnosis.

In March 2017, Detwiler, now 21 years old and a fourth-year in English, was diagnosed for the second time in her young life with leukemia.

Leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that affects the body’s white blood cells, is the most common cancer in children.

But having the same diagnosis 17 years apart is “a bit of a medical mystery,” Detwiler said.

It started a few months after she returned to Ohio State for Spring Semester her junior year. Working as a resident adviser, Detwiler became ill with what she thought was the flu. Weeks went by and she couldn’t seem to shake it. She thought it might be bronchitis, but medicine didn’t seem to help.

While on spring break, Detwiler noticed a strange rash. At first, she summed it up to razor burn, but soon it was covering her whole body. On March 21, 2017, Detwiler went to Wilce Student Health Services to have it examined. They ran some tests and let her go home.

Almost as soon as she left, though, her doctors called her back. They told her she needed

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nosed with cancer each year in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute.

It takes approximately 75 days for a young adult cancer patient to receive a diagnosis, said Kate Houghton, president and CEO of Critical Mass, an advocacy group for adolescent and young adult cancer patients. On average, it takes adult patients about a week, according to the American Society of Clinical

For six months, March 5 had loomed fatefully in the distance, an impending deadline for Congress to pass legislation reforming the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that was rescinded by President Donald Trump six months earlier.

Now March 5 has come and gone, and while Congress has yet to pass a permanent legislative solution, two court cases are enabling DACA recipients to continue to apply for work permit renewals.

These cases might provide temporary relief to DACA recipients hoping to live and work legally in the U.S., but they do not provide a sustainable solution or a path to citizenship for the nearly 800,000 people brought to the U.S. illegally as children who are enrolled in the Obama-era program.

Ohio State DACA students are keenly aware of this, and some say they are tired of being used as

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After completing three rounds of chemotherapy, Hanna Detwiler returned to Ohio State in September after being diagnosed with leukemia just six months prior. to go to the emergency room to get blood work immediately. Detwiler asked if it was cancer –– it had been a lingering thought for a while –– but her doctors couldn’t confirm anything without blood results. With her mom en route from Detroit and her boyfriend, Jake Vasilj, already by her side, Detwiler was admitted to The James Cancer Hospital that night.

Detwiler is one of almost 70,000 adolescents and young adults, aged 15 to 39, diag-

OSU working to improve its research procedures, reduce data misconduct SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu A law firm examining research integrity at Ohio State released its recommendation for the university Friday, citing ways it could improve its investigations into misconduct allegations.

A large portion of the recommendations included cementing written-out specific policies on its sequestration, which is the collection of data, and internal investigation practices.

The review is in response to Ohio State seeking an independent look at its investigation procedures regarding the handling of retracted research in response to misconduct investigations and allegations involving prominent cancer researcher Carlos Croce and the College of Pharmacy.

Croce has at least 20 documented complaints against him, many of which allege data manipulation. Ohio State has cleared him numerous times, and he still works within the College of Medicine’s Department of Cancer Bi-

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The College of Pharmacy is currently undergoing an investigation into research misconduct. ology and Genetics.

The College of Pharmacy is undergoing a misconduct investigation, for which results are not yet released.

Ohio State also hired Susan Garfinkel from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity to help design the university’s research integrity goals.

Garfinkel’s official title of assistant vice president for research compliance will make her a key component in the implementation and oversight of the new policies.

Ropes & Gray, the law firm tasked with the Ohio State review, suggested the university do the following: establish a faculty committee on research misconduct, pass on any information regarding misconduct of another university to that institution, and adopt uniform standards for its biomedical research.

These new procedures will be finalized in the coming months, said Jennifer Yucel, the research compliance administrator and research integrity officer, and are in part a preventive response to na-

tional research trends showing an increase of misconduct and data misrepresentation.

“The research community has seen over the last 10, 12, 15 years, a fairly significant increase in the number of allegations that we’re seeing in terms of potential research misconduct, primarily in the issues around image manipulation,” Yucel said. “As part of an ongoing national movement to try to address the issues of research integrity and how do we enhance and ensure integrity as a scientific record, we have taken a number of steps that we are doing.”

In addition to the misconduct committee and formalizing regulations, the university has implemented online training for its more than 25,000 research-eligible individuals. The training is specific to research fields and consists of three to five hours of education on ethical research practices, Yucel said.

Faculty, students and staff will have until June 30 to complete the training. After that date, all incoming research personnel will be responsible for completing it

before beginning research. If a researcher has not completed the training by the marker, his or her research will be blocked from continuing.

As for the university improving its referral procedures, Ohio State will implement a written policy on referrals to other schools if it finds inappropriate research came from another institution. It also will add written policy specific to sequestering data.

The university currently sequesters data involving research misconduct, meaning immediately after a misconduct meeting with a researcher, Ohio State collects written, electronic and photographic data from a researcher, but it does not have a formal policy, Yucel said. It will work to implement one in the coming months.

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Brenda Drake is avant-garde and cool SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu For Women’s History Month, The Lantern is releasing a series of profiles on powerful women at or involved with Ohio State. The first of the series is Brenda Drake, a former lawyer and current philanthropist, chairwoman and art expert.

Brenda Drake can’t stop complimenting artists: journalists, performers, actors, singers, bands, chefs, documentary directors. It doesn’t matter what kind of art. She knows who made it and she loves them.

One January afternoon, her praises centered on a French filmmaker named Agnès Varda.

Varda is in her 80s and made a documentary titled “Faces, Places (Visage Villages)” about her travels around rural France with a performance artist named JR. Brenda goes on and on about the incredible interplay between a filmmaker, “whatever she is, like 86 or 87, she’s amazing,” and the young artist who is “inspiring on a lot of levels.”

Varda, Brenda said, is “just so incredibly avant-garde and cool.”

The majority of Columbus doesn’t see Brenda Drake relaxed by a fireplace talking about art.

The majority of Columbus sees Brenda Drake in uniform, dressed to the nines at parties or fundraisers or events raising money for Ohio State and its students. She is often associated with her partner,

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Brenda Drake and her husband Michael, Ohio State’s president, could be considered a power couple. Apart, one could call her a stand-alone power. which makes it easy for the public to know her only as “the wife of,” when in reality, five minutes of conversing with the former lawyer and and current philanthropist and art expert displays just how vast her knowledge is. Five minutes with her could take any preconceived notions of her just being “the wife” and evaporate them into oblivion forever.

Brenda’s husband, Michael, is Ohio State’s president. He’s her movie buddy (they recently saw “Black Panther”); eating partner (they try to eat mostly vegetarian; their go-tos are stir fry and chili); and Netflix teammate (they’re watching “Godless”).

Together, one might call them a power couple. Apart, one could call her a stand-alone power.

She walks quietly, whether she’s wearing her loafers for an afternoon of reading or sneakers for her workout classes, but her presence is nothing but deafening.

Brenda carries conversation confidently with the knowledge only a woman with years of education, compassion and drive could.

At the Drake holiday party, it is Brenda who partygoers so often flock to first, not the university president. During an afternoon of tea, it is Brenda who lists off Beatles hit after Beatles hit, not

the men in the room. And during a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, it is Brenda who sits on a panel of legislators, contributing to the dialogue with equal power and emphasis.

She asks questions and makes statements that could easily be confused with text on Tumblr graphics, like “Are [newspapers] in vogue or not?” and “I actually love food.”

At 14, she fell in love with art.

She began to evaluate operas like “Madame Butterfly” and started listening to symphonies. Her walls were decorated with prints from art museums and her time was occupied by paintings and

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pawns in the political game of immigration reform, their lives used as leverage in an ongoing debate about border control.

“Stop using us as a playing piece,” said Lidia Garcia, a firstyear in women’s, gender and sexuality studies and DACA recipient. “We might have not been able to vote [our congressmen] into their positions, but they’ve been voted into office by the American people, and American citizens are saying these children deserve to have rights and to have this pathway to citizenship.”

Garcia was interviewed by The Lantern in September, when the Trump administration first announced its plan to dismantle DACA. At the time, she hoped the decision would lead to meaningful policy change that would guarantee her future, enabling her to legally live and work in the United States.

Now, however, that hope has evolved into frustration. She fears that the rights afforded to her under DACA might be taken away, perhaps in the near future.

“Being stripped of [those rights] is like being treated like an animal,” she said. “Animals have more rights than us right now. I feel like we are no more than a

music, poetry and dance.

She started applying for college at 16, went to Stanford at 17, graduated with two majors at 20 and started law school at University of California, Berkeley. She finished law school, passed the bar exam, got married and moved to Los Angeles in a three-month time period.

Brenda likes tea, art (all of it, all of its makers) and the news.

She loves Alice Waters of California restaurant Chez Panisse and her favorite athlete is Kelsey Mitchell, a star guard on Ohio State’s women’s basketball team.

She journals every day. She feels inspired by red cardinals in the snow.

Brenda wears loafers, but especially likes to wear Birkenstocks around the house when guests aren’t over. She loves the song “Redbone” by Childish Gambino.

To her, he’s infatuating.

“Donald Glover is awesome.

Childish Gambino, I think he’s great. He’s just so talented, it’s amazing. He’s really good, I don’t see how you do that. He writes, he acts, he sings. I think he’s wonderful,” she said.

Her kitchen is filled with organic food but she understands the privilege that allows her to afford it, “I appreciate the opportunity to have them.” She’d eat non-organic food without causing a fuss, though, “I’m not that person.”

She’s a news junky, “but not the kind of person who keeps CNN or something else on all day.”

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been able to renew my DACA. I guess I’ll have another two years in this country. At least I’ll be able to graduate.”

“Being stripped of [those rights] is like being treated like an animal. I feel like we are no more than a puzzle piece in all of this, a pawn in this legislative obsession with immigration.”

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Lidia Garcia, a first-year in women’s, gender and sexuality studies, said waiting for permanent DACA legislation makes her feel like a “playing piece.” puzzle piece in all of this, a pawn in this legislative obsession with immigration.”

Garcia is not the only DACA recipient at Ohio State who feels this way.

Yuri Arteaga, a third-year in accounting, also is worried about what his future might look like without DACA. Arteaga moved to the U.S. from El Salvador with his mother and

sister when he was 5 years old to join family who already lived in the country legally.

He’s lived in Columbus for most of his life, but his DACA status was set to expire at the beginning of August.

“Originally, I thought, ‘Wow, in less than a year, I’m not going to have a status in this country,’” he said. “So the court injunction has been a blessing because I’ve

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But what will come after graduation? Both Garcia and Arteaga would like to build their careers in the U.S., but neither are certain if that will be possible.

“This is all I know,” Arteaga said. “This is my home. But at the end of the day, I want to know, is [DACA reform] going to happen?

Because living in uncertainty is not a good life.”

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policy is revised and reviewed and adopted, all of that will be communicated to the research community.”

A misconduct committee will be created and formalized, as well. Currently, the university creates committees to investigate research misconduct as the allegations arise. This new structure will have a set committee already arranged should misconduct allegations be made.

Ohio State also is in the process of planning a research integrity summit that will be held at the end of September, Yucel said. Bringing together research stakeholders such as journals, publications and federal funding sponsors to “make sure that we’re all aligning in the same direction is something that’s very exciting and will truly be a game-changer in this area.”

Yucel said these changes are positive because they bring research integrity to light.

“All of our peers are struggling with the same types of issues, so some of things we’re doing around this area will really help provide leadership to other institutions of higher education,” she said.

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Hanna Detwiler, a fourth-year in English, was diagnosed for the second time with leukemia –– a cancer of the blood and bone marrow –– at age 21. When she was first diagnosed, Detwiler was only 3 years old.

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Oncology.

“We’re not taken seriously,” said Houghton, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia when she was 27 years old and has been cancer-free for five years. “We’re practically an invisible population.”

Houghton said getting a diagnosis is just the beginning of a laundry list of barriers young adult cancer patients face: a lack of research and available clinical trials, spotty medical coverage, confusing treatment protocols — all on top of learning to be an independent young adult.

“Every cancer patient has a horror story, but the young adult patient has all of them,” she said.

Cancer in college Detwiler came back to Ohio State in September after completing three rounds of chemotherapy. Her doctors didn’t fight her desire to go back to school, but they encouraged her to take it easy.

A self-described overachiever and perfectionist, Detwiler thought she was capable of balancing school and treatment.

However, it wasn’t long before things grew difficult.

Detwiler would end most days fatigued, not even wanting to cook for herself after walking up three flights of stairs to the door of her off-campus apartment. Thinking about smaller tasks like laundry and getting to class, on top of beginning a fourth cycle of intense chemotherapy, became huge stressors.

Right before fall break, Detwiler went to the ER with a fever. She was ultimately admitted for three days with neutropenia –– a side effect of chemo treatment that lowers the body’s white blood cell count and makes a person susceptible to infections. Pumped full of antibiotics, doctors essentially created a new immune system in her. Afterward, Detwiler said she hit a breaking point.

“I just thought, ‘I shouldn’t be doing this. I should just go home,’” she said.

After talking with her friends, Detwiler said she realized she needed to adjust her expectations she set for herself.

“It took a lot to find the balance and accept that I’m just not the same kind of stu-

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dent I used to be,” Detwiler said. “I have to worry about my health more than usual.

My biggest concern is my cancer.”

One of Detwiler’s greatest sources of support continues to be Vasilj, her boyfriend of more than two years and an Ohio State alumnus.

The two dated for about a year and a half before Detwiler was diagnosed. In the hours following the confirmation that, yes, it was cancer, Vasilj remembers feeling “nothing and everything” all at once.

“It was like the world had fallen apart,” he said.

Detwiler said adding cancer into the mix quickly changed their college love story to an adult relationship. She said she wouldn’t have blamed him for breaking up with her after she was diagnosed. Standing beside someone who is fighting cancer is not for the faint of heart.

Initially, Vasilj said it was emotionally difficult to switch from boyfriend to caregiver.

“I wasn’t prepared, but I was ready to play that role,” he said. “There was never any question in my mind that I would be there for her.”

Despite the difficulties they face, Vasilj said cancer has made them stronger and more grateful for what they have.

“What gets me going so often through the day is that I am inspired by this person that I am with because she is fighting through, she is getting amazing grades, she’s going to school when a lot of people don’t,” Vasilj said. “Hanna is a fighter and she is someone I am so proud of.”

A new normal It’s been three months since Detwiler finished her fourth and final round of chemotherapy. For the next two years, she’ll receive maintenance chemo, a treatment designed to make sure her cancer doesn’t come back again.

With a pixie cut of blonde hair, Detwiler is learning what her new normal looks like.

Originally set to graduate this spring, she decided to take it easy and graduate over the summer. It was a hard decision for Detwiler to push off graduation, but it’s been something with which she has made peace.

Detwiler still has fears about her future.

There’s a chance the aggressive chemother-

apy she received will affect her fertility. She wonders, “Is it gone? I don’t know.”

She thinks about what kind of career she’ll pursue. A political junkie, she thought of joining a campaign for a long time, but maintenance chemo would make that nearly impossible.

Whatever she does, Detwiler wants people to be more aware of the struggles that adolescent and young adult cancer patients deal with. She wants hospitals to create programming specialized for this age group.

She wants young people to ask questions and fight for better health care.

A lot has changed in the year since Detwiler was diagnosed. The life she planned for herself turned upside down by a disease she can’t control.

But to Detwiler, that’s all right. She beat cancer twice in her young life –– a notable feat she hopes no one else her age has to try and accomplish. Detwiler said she’s more balanced and at peace in spite of it all.

“This is just my life,” she said, “and that’s OK.”

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MiChaela Barker, a fourth-year in environmental public health, used her STEP money to record a variety of mini mixtapes and singles.

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In third grade, MiChaela Barker stepped onto the stage of her school’s talent show and started to sing Celine Dion’s acclaimed “Titanic” theme song, “My Heart Will Go On.” Now performing under the stage name of Bella Reign 13 years later, Barker’s love for music has grown into something more.

Born and raised in East Lansing, Michigan, performance was a part of Barker’s everyday routine, whether it was performing in musicals and plays or taking part in open mics during her high school years. When she came to Ohio State, however, academics stole the spotlight from her music.

This all changed Barker’s sophomore year when she participated in the university’s Second-year Transformational Experience Program, and decided to use the $2,000 provided by the program to create her own music.

“I was at a point in my life where I was trying to focus on academics, but I felt like I was missing that artistic side that I always could utilize and express in high school,” said Barker, a fourth-year in public health.

With that money, Bella Reign –– Barker’s alter-ego –– has recorded a variety of mini mixtapes and singles, including covers of chart-topping tracks transformed into the female perspective. Her 2016 debut mixtape “Clapback” featured the female version of popular songs like Drake’s “Hotline Bling” and Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself.”

“People have certain expectations and boxes that women just have to fit in.”

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Since then, Barker has focused on creating her own original music, which she describes as a mixture of pop and R&B genres. Pulling from influences such as Toni Braxton and Alicia Keys, Barker said her goal was to take the R&B vocals and tailor them into more upbeat,

relatable songs, similar to the work of alternative R&B newcomer SZA. “[I’m] just trying to find that balance between how I like my voice to sound, popular music melodies and still keeping a message that I agree with,” Barker said. “I write all of the lyrics to my songs, so anything that I’m talking about is something that I’m either passionate about or that I’ve experienced –– just trying to be really transparent in my art.”

Though music is a significant piece in Barker’s life, it doesn’t come close to defining her.

As if being on the pre-med track wasn’t enough, Barker’s resume speaks for itself.

When she isn’t studying or working on her music, Barker is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha; part of Sphinx Senior Honorary, a group that accepts only 24 exceptional seniors each year; president of the Minority Association of Premedical Students; and a Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation scholar in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

In preparing for medical school, Barker also volunteers at the James Cancer Hospital and interns at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

This list doesn’t stop there. This summer, Barker will be launching her own business, Melanin in Medicine, where she’ll be selling guided dream journals to help people cope with mental health issues and daily struggles in a healthy, creative way.

Being a minority in the pre-medical field, Barker said she often felt left out in certain spaces, and through Melanin in Medicine she aimed to tackle the taboo around mental health in the minority community and help ease the issue of representation for people like her.

“I wanted to actually fill a need that I’m seeing in our community,” Barker said. “For me going through my own personal struggles and hard times, I was like this is what I want to do with this.”

Though Barker never seems to have a moment of rest, music is her escape in the wake of academic stress or personal struggles.

Through her art, Barker said she has grown in more ways than one, especially as a woman. “[Music] has allowed me to be more vulnerable and also feel emotion,” she said. “As women, we’re often told ‘You’re super emotional, calm down, you’re crazy,’ and just people invalidating your feelings.

“For me, especially as a black woman, people think you’re always supposed to be the strong black woman, you can’t break down, you can’t cry, you can’t express how you’re feeling. I just got to the point where I was so used to building things up and I finally realized it wasn’t healthy and I wasn’t healing the BARKER CONTINUES ON 5

School of Music revamps classic operetta KAYLEE HARTER Lantern reporter harter.830@osu.edu Famous composer Leonard Bernstein would’ve turned 100 in August of this year, but the School of Music is celebrating early this week with its performance of the satirical musical comedy “Candide.”

Bernstein, most famous for writing the music of “West Side Story,” was a successful American musician, composer, conductor and music educator who lived from 1918 to 1990.

“This guy runs the gamut,” said A. Scott Parry, director of “Candide” and a lecturer in the School of Music. “I want to celebrate his life, I want to celebrate his contribution to music, his contribution to theater, his contribution to arts overall.”

The operetta –– a short opera with a humorous theme and spoken dialogue –– follows the main character, Candide, as he journeys from naive optimism to cynicism to a more mature understanding of the world.

“The thing I cling to with the character of Candide is this idea of he has no layers or filters between the inside and the outside world,” said Dane Morey, actor who plays Candide and a fourthyear in theater and industrial systems management.

“The lesson that it’s teaching is that every point of view has flaws.”

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The show’s female lead, Cunegonde, also goes on a journey of growing up, although her journey takes a different shape.

“She does have a lot of layers –– greed and temporary desire and a lot of impulsive decisions, not a lot of thought,” said Regan Tackett, a second-year Master of Arts in voice pedagogy who plays Cunegonde. “Learning the consequences of actions is maybe what brings her to maturity.”

The show takes place in a “ridiculous world,” Morey said. In 100 minutes, the plot travels to 15 different countries with the ensemble members constantly changing costumes and characters, making it a theatrically challenging piece.

Bernstein’s operetta is also musically demanding, Parry said, CANDIDE CONTINUES ON 5

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‘Red Sparrow’ wastes good performances on terribly boring film WYATT CROSHER Senior Lantern reporter crosher.1@osu.edu “Red Sparrow” was directed by Francis Lawrence and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Jeremy Irons and Matthias Schoenaerts. Based on the novel of the same name by Jason Matthews, the film centers around a dancer turned Russian agent, or “Sparrow,” who is sent on a mission to the United States in order to find out who is leaking Russian information.

The cast gave me some hope, but the premise and trailer didn’t really get me all that excited to see this movie. Sure, spy movies can be great, but with “Atomic Blonde” being rather lackluster and tropes of the genre being used far too often, I entered the theater with minimal expectations for the film, but hoped to be pleasantly surprised. I was not.

The Good Lawrence and Edgerton both gave very solid performances throughout this movie, and were able to often surpass the scripts they were given. The chemistry between these two worked very well, and Lawrence especially was able to shine in some of the harsher moments of “Red Sparrow.”

On shock factor, “Red Sparrow” was able to hold its own with some pretty graphic scenes that captured my attention.

The torture scenes especially stood out as vivid and grotesque, and while the action remained at a minimum, these moments allowed for an increase in intensity and intrigue that often were not there.

The Bad Sadly, even with a scene here and there

to up the tension, “Red Sparrow” lacks nearly anything resembling a pulse. This movie is pretty much dead on arrival, with very little to prevent audience members from taking a snooze during its run time.

To make a film 139 minutes, a director must be confident that the time doesn’t go to waste. That’s the hope at least, but the pacing put on display by “Red Sparrow” would make waiting at the DMV feel like a brisk walk in the park. I swear I’ve read phone books that had more gripping plotlines than this film, as there is just nothing that makes me care about anything that these characters go through, even when they are at the brink of death.

As I said, the acting in the film is perfectly fine, but the screenplay the actors are given to utilize: yikes. Screenwriter Justin Haythe put the bare minimum into writing and developing most of these characters, for they all remain incredibly one-note and the dialogue shared between any two characters at any given time always happens to fall flat on its face.

Did I mention the plot is boring? Sure, the opening sequence is slightly different, and this film manages to be more disgusting than ones before it, but this lead character of Dominika, whose name I had to Google even though I saw this movie less than an hour prior to reviewing, brings absolutely nothing new to the table as she goes through the most obvious of character arcs imaginable.

The film tries to make this move of being sexy by using sex and seduction as a manipulation tool, but every attempt to do so comes across as clumsy and unrealistic. The premise of an intelligence agent using seduction over violence is actually

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Jennifer Lawrence attends the ‘’Red Sparrow’’ US Premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Feb. 26.

interesting, but the execution of this decent idea is completely botched. Even “Atomic Blonde,” a movie I did not enjoy, utilized this better.

Conclusion “Red Sparrow” is well acted and well shot, but poorly written, horrifically paced and tremendously underwhelming. The film managed to never gain my attention from start to finish, a feat that is almost difficult to accomplish since my short attention span usually can get invested in something. But no, I saw every punch “Red Sparrow” was ready to throw, and even with a few decent twists and turns at the end, there is almost nothing redeemable about a spy movie that is nearly an hour too long for its own good.

way that I should in certain situations.”

Barker said her music is more than just breakup, it’s an outlet for humanizing issues faced by all women and encouraging women and girls to make themselves a priority. In her latest single, “Bout Us,” Barker created a breakup song that encourages women to cope with their feelings through self-care, rather than through hate and vengeance.

“You don’t have to get under someone to get over someone, and so for me, within that song I wrote about how there was a breakup, but I was focusing on self-love,” she said. “I say ‘I love myself enough for the both of us / And you can never take that away,’ and I just wanted women to realize that even though you’re going through this hurt, put yourself first. It’s totally fine to be selfish and focus on yourself.”

Like many female artists, Barker is often faced with “suggestions” on what she should and shouldn’t do with her songs, but this type of criticism doesn’t stop at the music. Historically, women have been hypersexualized and criticized in the music industry, and for Barker, that’s nothing new.

“People have certain expectations and boxes that women just have to fit in. You have to be super dainty and lovey or you have to be super sexual and out there,” she said.

But regardless of what society wants or thinks, Barker isn’t here for disrespect. Drawing strength from influences like Vanessa Williams, Barker holds her head high through adversity.

“For me, I’m always honest with myself, with whatever I do, whether it’s through music, how I act, how I dress,” she said. “Before I go to sleep at night, I ask myself, ‘Can you be OK with the decision that you made when you wake up in the morning?’ And so that’s just what I let dictate my life, and I don’t let anybody else tell me what they think I should or shouldn’t do.

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but perhaps the most difficult aspect of the show is the delicate balance between tragedy and comedy in satire.

Parry said he hopes the show will spark conversation by taking on “taboo” topics such as politics, religion and sex.

“You’re going to feel uncomfortable,” Parry said. “It presents a lot of different points of view. It offends, probably, every racial group out there. It offends every gender orientation, it offends every political persuasion. This piece is going to sort of push buttons for every group in the audience –– and it’s meant to.”

Bernstein and writer Lillian Hellman first adapted the piece in the 1950s from the 1759 Voltaire novella of the same name. The pair meant it as a commentary on “midcentury fracturing of American society,” Parry said, a theme that still resonates today.

“I took that and I updated it into a very modern 2018 setting so that you’re gonna see people dressed just like us, you’re gonna see societies that look like us,” Parry said.

A scene originally about the Spanish In-

quisition and Catholicism, for example, has been recontextualized as a Texas hoedown with current political figures standing in as the pope, the executioner, and so on.

“Different people are going to respond different ways and different people are going to have a particular investment or problem with different things,” Tackett said.

Although the show tackles a variety of issues, Parry said the show does not take a specific stance other than the idea of openness.

“The lesson that it’s teaching is that every point of view has flaws,” he said. “Every hard and fast position is problematic, is both good and bad somewhere on the sliding scale.”

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dent athletes.

For “The Circle,” coaches, swimmers and even alumni meet next to the pool, unless the meet is at home. At their home pool, the swimmers stand between the dive well and the pool.

Before each meet, while in the circle, they sing a song called “Long Time Sun” and after the meet concludes, they gather again to sing “Carmen Ohio,” an Ohio State tradition after many sporting events.

Head coach Holly Vargo-Brown, an Ohio State synchronized swimmer from 1986 to 1990, remembered being a part of some of the original circles, but couldn’t pinpoint exactly when the ritual began.

Vargo-Brown said “The Circle” unites the past and the present and provides a space for everyone to take a second to breathe. She also stressed the importance of current swimmers connecting with alumni so they might understand how fast time as a member of the team passes.

“It’s like synchronized swimming’s huddle,” Vargo-Brown said. “It’s that moment for us to just pull together and remind that we’re all close.”

“The circle is probably my favorite part of the meet,” sophomore Kaitlyn Carboun said.

“That’s the time that you feel most connected to everyone and

Having limited face-to-face interaction with international players, Ohio State has leaned heavily on technology to build relationships with recruits. This includes emailing, Skype conversations and FaceTime tours of the team’s indoor golf facility.

The team also strives to build relationships with players’ coaches in their home countries. Due to NCAA regulations, coaches are not allowed to directly contact recruits until their junior year of high school. Communication with coaches provides a middle ground for Ohio State to closely monitor a player early in the process without committing any violations.

Many high-school coaches continue to work with their players after they leave for college. Technology allows Hession to collaborate with these coaches and help players improve their game.

“You can sit there with your phone and take a video and send it off to the teacher and they can respond in five minutes with their synopsis of what they think is going on,” Hession said. “I like to talk to those coaches, too, and tell them what I’m seeing. Video shows one thing of a swing or a putt or a chip, but I get to see a lot of how they manage themselves on the golf course, how they’re handling pressure.”

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The Ohio State synchronized swimming team gathers for a cheer prior to a meet in January.Credit: Courtesy of Ohio State Athletics pump each other up and get ready for what’s about to happen.”

Once a year, though, that circle is closed. Instead of excitement and joy, tears are shed for a cherished former Buckeye.

On Feb. 10, the team traveled to Beck’s hometown of Richmond, Virginia, for an annual meet.

Each year while in Richmond, the team circles around Beck’s headstone with tears shed for the teammate many on the team never had a chance to meet.

“I think it’s interesting that everyone has a unique connection

with Jessica, even though we haven’t met her,” Carboun said. “She wrote a poem that’s outside of our locker room and her name is written on the door.”

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the team garner a reputation and attract talent from different countries.

Katja Pogacar, a native of Slovenia who golfed for the Buckeyes from 2013 to 2017, now plays on the Ladies European Tour. Hession said she believes Pogacar’s success at Ohio State leading to a professional career has made young players in Slovenia more aware of the team.

“When [recruits] know that [former players] have had a good experience and they’ve improved and they’ve gotten better and been on some great championship teams, that’s the best sales pitch that anyone could ask for,” Hession said.

In the past decade, Ohio State has seen golfers from five different continents on its roster. The weather has provided Hession with a challenge to find the talent.

But she has shown that she and the rest of the team will go anywhere to improve the team.

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Buckeyes reach NCAA tournament for first time ever ANDREW JOSEPH Lantern reporter joseph.488@osu.edu

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Ohio State redshirt junior goalie Kassidy Sauve (32) goes for a save in the first period of the game against Minnesota on Jan. 19. Ohio State won 3-2.

The No. 5 Ohio State women’s hockey team has made history — again.

The Buckeyes reached the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history and now have a shot to bring home their first national title with three straight wins.

They will face fourth-seeded Boston College (30-4-3, 19-2-3 Hockey East) in the NCAA quarterfinals at 1 p.m. Saturday.

After losing 2-0 to Minnesota on Saturday during the WCHA Final Face-Off, the Buckeyes (2310-4, 14-6-4 WCHA) were named an at-large team an at-large team in the tournament Sunday.

Ohio State will compete in the tournament with Clarkson, Mercyhurst, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colgate, Northeastern and Boston College.

Each winner of the quarter-

finals will advance to the 2018 Women’s Frozen Four. Should Ohio State win, it would face the winner of top-seeded Clarkson’s matchup against Mercyhurst.

Second-seeded Wisconsin will host Minnesota. No. 3 Colgate University hosts Northeastern University. Boston College holds the fourth seed in the tournament and hosts the Buckeyes.

Following two straight losing seasons, Ohio State made history this season by claiming the program record for wins in a season and at one point was ranked third in the country, higher than ever before in program history. A win in the NCAA tournament would add another improbable feat to the continued turnaround under second-year head coach Nadine Muzerall, who was named WCHA coach of the year.

The Buckeyes will lace up their skates and take the ice at the Conte Forum at 1 p.m. Saturday in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

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Shazier, Jenkins named honorary coaches for Spring Game EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu An emotional return of a former player awaits Ohio State fans attending the 2018 Spring Game on April 14.

Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier, who has been recovering from a drastic spinal surgery after having a major injury in a game Dec. 4, will return to Columbus with Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins to serve as honor coaches for the scrimmage.

“I’m thrilled and I can’t wait to see these two heroes back in Ohio Stadium,” Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer said in a statement.

“The respect and admiration I have for each of these young men is off the charts, and I am so proud for our program and for the Ohio State fans that these players want to come back and be a part of our spring game.”

Shazier was injured in a game against the Cincinnati Bengals, and the injury left him unsure if he could continue his professional career. It also had been report-

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Then-junior linebacker Ryan Shazier (2) makes a tackle during the Big Ten Championship game on Dec. 7, 2013. Ohio State lost to Michigan State 34-24. ed that he was unable to walk on his own and that he lost feeling in his legs for a time. The No. 15 overall pick in the 2014 draft, Shazier said he is expecting to return to the NFL. Before his injury, Shazier start-

ed 42 NFL games and totalled 299 tackles, including seven sacks and seven forced fumbles in four seasons. He also has picked off seven passes and recovered three fumbles. At Ohio State, he was a first-team All-American in

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Ohio State sophomore forward Andre Wesson (24) fights for a loose ball in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals against Penn State on Mar. 2.

Penn State clearly has the answer on how to beat Ohio State, which gives the Buckeyes plenty of film to mull over ahead of the NCAA Tournament if they are matched up with a similar team.

Many teams will have star players like Penn State’s sophomore guard Tony Carr, who presents the Buckeyes with a clear matchup problem with his size and top-tier scoring ability and played a big role in their three losses. The Buckeyes will need to be ready to face that level of talent in order to keep their season alive.

his junior season — his final collegiate campaign — and finished with 315 total tackles, 15th-most in program history.

Joining Shazier will be Jenkins, a two-time Super Bowl champion who won his second Super Bowl

as a Philadelphia Eagle in February. Jenkins has played in the NFL for nine seasons after he was drafted 14th overall out of Ohio State in 2009 by New Orleans.

He has made the Pro Bowl twice, and has become known for his social activism. Between his five seasons with the Saints and four years with the Eagles, Jenkins has appeared in 135 games with 695 tackles, 6.5 sacks, 16 interceptions, 12 forced fumbles and eight recovered fumbles.

Jenkins was well recognized during his time at Ohio State, winning the Jim Thorpe Award for the nation’s top defensive back as a senior in 2008. He was a consensus first-team All-American in 2008 and was first-team All-Big Ten honoree every year from 2006 to 2008.

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“Especially in the [NCAA] Tournament, you’re going to play against studs and obviously Tony Carr is a stud for [Penn State],” redshirt senior guard Andrew Dakich said.

“That helps us in a sense and obviously you want to play, you want to move on and have the opportunity to make it to the next round.

“It’s like win or go home.

That’s a cliche saying, but it’s true. We gotta wait like two weeks to play, which kind of stinks. But to have this opportunity, we get a second chance.”

home, one might expect it to be decorated with classic art, stiff sculptures and politically correct, approved-upon figures. That’s not the case. She picked out African busts, Pizzuti Collection canvases and modern sculptures that resemble colorful Post-It Notes.

In December, her living room was home to a 15-foot Christmas tree and a pianist. By January, it was replaced by a coffee table with a Pete Souza book on top.

Upon meeting her (she stands what can’t be more than 5 feet tall with a crisp, white-toothed smile) one might expect her to be standoffish or scripted. That’s not

usually the case — she’s a representative of the university, so she knows what to say and when to say it, but often withholds the produced version of herself. She’s in tune with pop culture and wants the best for college-aged women.

She tries Skyline to get to know students. She really, really likes Childish Gambino.

The photographs and interviews and conferences and panels she is often part of don’t give the impression that’s missed too often, perhaps the true impression, the impression that should not be missed at all: Brenda Drake is avant-garde and cool.

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Despite Penn State loss, Buckeyes get another shot in NCAA Tournament CAROLINE RICE Lantern reporter rice.840@osu.edu The No. 17 Ohio State men’s basketball team again fell short in heartbreaking fashion to Penn State, losing by one Friday on a near-last-second shot that sent it back to Columbus after just one game in the Big Ten tournament.

But unlike last year, when the Buckeyes fell to Rutgers in their first game of the conference tournament, their season is not yet over.

Despite being sent home from the Big Ten tournament after just one game for the second season in a row, the Buckeyes are not dwelling on past failures in preparation for the challenge March Madness presents.

Senior forward Jae’Sean Tate, one of only three players on the team when Ohio State last reached the NCAA Tournament, said he expects every potential team the Buckeyes could face to pose a challenge with “multiple great players” on every team.

“Everybody who knows about dancing knows that it’s a whole different energy and environment in March. With that, we’ve got to be prepared,” Tate said after the game Friday. “Every team is going to have great scouting and at the end of the day it’s going to come down to tough plays and just the more connected team.”

But the Scarlet and Gray have quite a bit of time before their next game. With the Big Ten tournament being moved ahead one week to play in New York and the first round of the NCAA Tournament not beginning until March 15, Ohio State has a near two-week layoff before it plays its next game.

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Before and after every meet, the Ohio State synchronized swimming team gathers in a circle outside the pool, always leaving one spot open for former teammate Jessica Beck who passed away in 2005.

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Chris Holtmann holds his hands above his head following the game against Penn State in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals on March 2 in Madison Square Garden. Ohio State lost 69-68.

Penn State and the time off, leaving the Buckeyes without a clear plan on how to best move forward.

Senior guard Kam Williams said he is expecting a hungrier team that will be ready to get back on its “P’s and Q’s.”

“We got to keep our approach consistent because we don’t know who we got to play,” Williams said.

“So all we can do is focus on ourselves and just look at everything that we did wrong today and focus on us and what we can do to get better for any situation that’s thrown at us.”

OSU honors legacy of former Buckeye in pregame tradition ALEX ANDREWS Lantern reporter andrews.624@osu.edu Before and after every meet, the Ohio State synchronized swimming team gathers in a circle outside the pool, always leaving one spot open.

From the stands, fans might be able to hear the athletes singing the lyrics of “Long Time Sun” or “Carmen Ohio.”

When Jessica Beck unexpectedly passed away in 2005, the synchronized swimming team

created a pact that there would always be an open space for Beck in their pregame and postgame tradition the team calls “The Circle.” “[Beck is] just our forever teammate so that’s her forever spot,” senior Quinn Connor said.

“It’s a different spot every time. It can be by whoever wants to have her there.”

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Ohio State junior golfer Jaclyn Lee tees off during a round of golf in 2017.

Nearly every student at Ohio State complains about the ever-changing weather. In Columbus, learning to deal with the wind, rain, cold and overall fickle forecast is seemingly a rite of passage.

Perhaps no member of the Ohio State community has more cause to complain about the weather than women’s golf head coach Therese Hession.

Ohio State has less reputation and notoriety in golf than it does in many other sports, giving Hession a more difficult time recruiting than top programs. This is in large part due to Mother Nature.

Top recruits want to go somewhere they can golf consistently year-round. Thanks to weather that gets cold early and stays chilled late, that’s just not possible in central Ohio.

Since the mid-2000s, Ohio State has looked to untapped markets outside the United States to attract talent and remain competitive nationally as a way to circumvent the obstacle that Ohio’s

climate presents.

“A lot of times, the top players in some countries are really good players,” Hession said.

“They might be equivalent to the top 10 or 15 percent of the players in America. A lot of the [top players] in the United States don’t give me a look up here in Ohio.”

“I wanted the opportunity to get better at my golf game. It’s hard to do that when the seasons turn in Canada, which is why I chose to come down [to the United States].”

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Plenty of international players want to come to the U.S. and compete in the NCAA. Hession said this is mostly due to the professional opportunities in North America — particularly the LPGA Tour — that are more lucrative than other international women’s tours.

In countries with colder cli-

mates, players who want to compete as much as possible are drawn to the U.S., where they can play in tournaments around the country throughout the year.

“I wanted the opportunity to get better at my golf game,” said Jaclyn Lee, a junior from Calgary, Alberta. “It’s hard to do that when the seasons turn in Canada, which is why I chose to come down [to the United States].”

Though the Ohio State women’s golf team spent only $19,207 on recruiting in the fiscal year 2017, according to Ohio State Athletics’ NCAA financial statements, international travel is expensive.

Hession said the coaching staff typically travels overseas to watch specific tournaments and monitor the players they want to pursue and have not seen before, rather than approach players they have already pinpointed as targets.

Yet the team still needs to build a relationship with its recruits in order to establish a supportive environment vital to performance. “[Players] want to feel like they can trust me and that I will be there to take care of them,” Hession said.

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