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Spring break travels might bring safety concerns Experts advise checking travel notices before break YANN SCHREIBER Lantern reporter schreiber.135@osu.edu The first time Khalifa Miller saw a beach was during spring break 2014, when he and three friends took a road trip to Panama City Beach, Fla. “It was pretty awesome,” the third-year in physics said.

For Miller and his friends, looking up safety information on their U.S. destination wasn’t something that crossed their minds.

“We just randomly went down there,” he said. “It was a fun time.”

But for those traveling abroad, looking up crucial information on safety and good practices can save a lot of trouble.

The Department of State’s bureau of consular affairs will share tips for smart travel during a Google Hangout at 1 p.m.

Thursday.

The Google hangout will share “tips and tricks for having a fun and safe spring break,” said Andrew Ellis, a country officer in the Office of American Citizens Services and Crisis Management.

Three of the top-ten spring break destinations — as nominated and ranked

by Cheaptickets.com staff using booking information for the period — are outside

Photo illustration by: YUE WU / Lantern photographer

According to data, women comprise almost 15 percent of executive officer positions and hold about 17 percent of Fortune 500 board seats.

Despite inequalities, women at OSU are working to succeed in business ELIZABETH TZAGOURNIS Lantern reporter tzagournis.24@osu.edu

Heidi Liou does not agree with how women are viewed in the world of business, but she hasn’t let any societal predispositions stop her from pursuing her professional goals.

“I will have to work extra hard to prove to people what I am capable of,” said Liou, a fourth-year in fashion and retail studies. “As a woman, my passion could be seen as aggressive and may turn people away from wanting to collaborate with me.” continued as Women on 2A

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Women’s hockey coach resigns after reported harrassments JAMES GREGA, JR. Asst. sports editor grega.9@osu.edu

Special election pending for divestment issue AMANDA ETCHISON AND NICK ROLL Campus editor and Lantern reporter etchison.4@osu.edu and roll.66@osu.edu

After just four seasons, Ohio State women’s hockey coach Nate Handrahan and one of his assistants have resigned, an OSU spokesman confirmed to The Lantern on Wednesday afternoon.

Nate Handrahan According to a report from The Columbus Dispatch, Handrahan resigned instead of being fired after being investigated by the university for “inappropriate and unprofessional conduct.”

The Dispatch reported that the university received complaints about sexual harassment and sexual innuendo. In one instance reported by the Dispatch, a witness said Handrahan told his players to “get horny for the puck.”

An OSU spokesman confirmed the

Although Issue 1 didn’t get placed on the ballot for the 2015 Undergraduate Student Government election, Ohio State students might have the chance to vote on the issue in a special election later this month.

The USG Judicial Panel announced on Wednesday in a press release that the vote will take place from March 30 through April 1, pending approval from the USG General Assembly.

“To ensure fairness and student representation in this case, the Judicial Panel is instituting a special election as the only body charged with handling the entirety of undergraduate student elections,” the Judical Panel said in the release.

“We call upon the rest of USG, namely the General Assembly, to approve the issuance of a special election. We also call upon President Celia Wright and Vice President Leah Lacure (who have expressed their concerns about

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The organization OSU Divest collected more than 3,000 signatures to bring forth Issue 1 to the ballot.

Obama announces plan to make student loan repayments easier President signs ‘Student Aid Bill of Rights’ MICHELE THEODORE Managing editor for content theodore.13@osu.edu There are about 1.97 million people in Ohio who have taken out student loans. That’s the equivalent of filling Ohio Stadium about 19 times.

And those people have piled up the sixth-biggest state debt in the country at more than $49.6 billion, according to information from the White House.

To try to combat the growing student debt problem, President Barack Obama announced an initiative on Tuesday that aims to make it easier and more efficient for students to pay back loans.

Five years after he signed student loan reform into law, Obama signed a presidential memorandum he

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President Barack Obama announced an initiative on March 10 that aims to make it easier and more efficient for college students to pay back loans.

called the “Student Aid Bill of Rights.” A presidential memorandum is similar to an executive order and is used to command government officials and agencies.

In this case, Obama is specifically directing the Department of Education and other federal agencies to work on making student loan payments more affordable.

“Higher education remains one of the best investments you can make in your future but also one of the best investments you can make in your country’s future,” the president said in a Wednesday conference call with college media. “The problem is it’s never been more expensive.”

The average undergraduate student graduates with about $28,000 in loans, the president said.

Obama said his memorandum aims to make student loan payments less complicated.

It will create a feedback system where students

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campus Women from 1A But Liou is not alone in her determination to promote women’s success in the workforce.

Women were found to outperform men when it comes to raising funds on sites like Kickstarter, according to a study conducted

by Ethan Mollick, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Jason Greenberg, a professor at New York University. Although women own only 30 percent of all companies, the study said they are 13 percent more likely to meet their fundraising goals online.

Last month, Liou participated in an OUAB-sponsored event where students had the chance to pitch their business ventures to “Shark Tank” TV star and multimillionaire entrepreneur Daymond John. Liou, who was the only female presenter out of four participants, presented her idea for a product called TigerBra, which is a sports bra that measures heart rate, body temperature and hydration, she said.

But there’s still a gap between the sexes when it comes to women taking on leadership roles in business.

Women hold almost 15 percent of executive officer positions and make up about 17 percent of Fortune 500 board seats, according to statistics from the Center for American Progress.

Additionally, the highest-paid female CEO in 2013 made less than a third of what the highest-paid male CEOs made in the same year, according to an analysis of executives’ pay published in The Wall Street Journal.

Additionally, data from executive compensation

firm Equilar stated that of the 200 highest-paid CEOs in 2014, only 11 were women.

Liou said strong women in powerful positions are oftentimes seen as overzealous and intimidating.

“Looking at history, (women) ‘belong at home.’ They aren’t seen as people who will bring in the income for the family,” she said.

“We can change this by educating people in the workplace about feminism … It is learning how to treat people equally.”

Elyssa Helker, a third-year in accounting and finance and incoming president of the Undergraduate Business Women’s Association, said she believes the defined gender roles play a large part in the inequality of executive positions and salary.

“Men receive more favored treatment because they can receive more face time with upper management through activities deemed suitable for only businessmen, such as golf,” Helker said. “Many companies offer maternity leave, but not paternity leave. This encourages women to stay home since they will be paid or assured a job when they return to the company, while discouraging the ability for men to be able to stay home.”

Helker said she also feels that OSU has been very supportive by providing several different opportunities and resources for women in business. Women are not excluded from any position, class or organization, and many different programs are promoted to encourage gender equality, she said.

“The Office of Career Management talks to women about how to successfully have talks about negotiating wages,” she said.

Additionally, Helker said organizations

Divestment from 1A OSU Divest’s voice being blocked) to aid us in the assurance of fairness and integrity of elections and allow OSU Divest the chance to express their student voice via the special election on Issue (1).”

Issue 1 was brought forth by a petition from the organization OSU Divest, and asked whether student voters thought OSU should divest — or cut financial ties — from companies “complicit in Israeli human rights violations and the occupation of the Palestinian Territories,” according to the OSU Divest website.

Cruz Bonlarron Martínez, a fourth-year in geography and publicity director at the OSU Committee for Justice in Palestine, said in an email that OSU Divest, USG and the USG Judicial Panel had engaged in discussions following the Judicial Panel’s decision on Sunday to deny Issue 1 a spot on the USG ballot.

A rally was held in front of the Ohio Union prior to the Judicial Panel’s decision to create a special election on Wednesday, and was attended by approximately 40 people.

At the rally, organized by OSU Divest, students delivered speeches and shared their feelings on the subject.

The speeches touched on the apartheid that occurred in

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OSU’s Fisher College of Business such as the Undergraduate Business Women’s Association allow interaction and networking opportunities with an array of women speakers who both motivate and inspire students.

“Having an organization created to inspire women to lead and take charge of their careers is the first step in giving women confidence in their professions,” she said.

“We aim to create a feeling of mentoring in the organization so that girls can start having conservations early.”

The Fisher College of Business undergraduate program at OSU has a population of 42 percent females, according to its website.

Zoya Alam, a fourth-year in marketing, said

South Africa from 1948 through 1994, drawing parallels to the current events occurring in Israel and Palestine.

In the Wednesday release, the Judicial Panel defended its initial decision to deny Issue 1 a spot on the ballot because the petition failed to meet certain submission criteria outlined in the USG election bylaws.

“In the recent events surrounding the issue of Clerk vs. OSU Divest, we ruled in accordance with the USG election bylaws in that the lack of circulation signatures on OSU Divest’s petition entitled ‘Issue 1’ invalidated the overwhelming majority of their petition pages and determined that Issue 1 would not be on this year’s election ballot,” the release said.

According to USG’s Judicial Panel, for a petition to be valid, it must have the name of the circulator on every page. The petition from OSU Divest failed to have the name on all the pages, the panel said, so the pages without the name were thrown out.

The panel said the invalidity of the pages did not leave a “sufficient amount of signatures” for the petition to appear on the ballot, and added that had the name appeared on every page, the issue would have been included on the ballot.

Some students at the rally did not think this was a valid reason to disqualify the issue from appearing on the ballot.

“It wasn’t really grounds to disqualify them,” Akela Jennings,

she understands why women would be so supportive of one another.

“A lot of women want to be successful (and) they want to be in their career, but they also want to be a wife and they want to be a mother,” she said. “Right now in our generation (everyone’s) trying to find that balance.”

Alam advised fellow women to find confidence in who they are and not to let their gender negatively impact the way they interact with others or view themselves.

“It’s really important for girls to know that when they’re talking, they’re being respected,” she said. “Always take initiative, always ask questions, never doubt yourself.”

a fourth-year in public affairs and a member of OSU Divest said in reference to the ruling. “If anything, we could have had a fine or something like that. I feel like they might not have been trying to treat us unfairly, but the treatment was definitely going to stifle student voice.”

In the release, the Judicial Panel acknowledged “the presence of procedural error in the handling of this case,” specifically pointing out that the hearing to determine the validity of Issue 1 was held the day before USG elections began and that the petition was confirmed without the presence of a circulator spot on the page.

“Given that the panel is responsible for maintaining fair elections, the Judicial Panel feels that the procedural errors in this case were unjust,” the release said.

Vidar Thorsteinsson, a volunteer with OSU Divest who attended the rally, seemed confident that the issue will reappear later this year, even before the announcement was made.

“I think there’s no way that USG and the university would not let students have a legitimate vote on an issue like that, because there’s a very strong impetus behind this,” said Thorsteinsson, a fifth-year in a Ph.D. program in comparative studies. “We collected a lot of signatures, 3,000 students voices came out and said they want to have this issue voted on.”

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the U.S., including Cancun, Mexico; Los Cabos, Mexico; To submit a letter to and Nassau, Bahamas. the editor, either mail “We want our students or email it. Please put to be prepared, be informed your name, address, and be safe,” Ellis said. phone number and Participating in the hangout email address on the will be Stephanie Yoder, letter. If the editor solo-travel blogger and decides to publish it, editor of “twenty-somethinghe or she will contact travel.com” and two State you to confirm your Department employees, identity. volun-tourism coordinator Mary Dykstra and Email letters to: travel-safety expert Rachel lanternnewsroom@ Crawford. gmail.com “I don’t think students are necessarily more vulnerable, Mail letters to: as long as they are aware of The Lantern their surroundings and don’t Letters to the editor overindulge in alcohol and Journalism Building use illegal drugs,” Ellis said.

242 W. 18th Ave. An important part Columbus, OH 43210 of being prepared and informed, Ellis said, is to visit the bureau of consular affairs’ website, travel.state. gov, and sign up for the Smart Traveller Enrollment The Lantern corrects Program. any significant error The website offers brought to the atten“specific information for tion of the staff. If every country in the world,” you think a correction Ellis said, which is “updated is needed, please by us on a minimum of a email Liz Young at yearly basis.” young.1693@osu.edu The website displays Corrections will be information on countryprinted in this space. specific passport and visa requirements, recommended or mandatory vaccinations, as well as safety information, Ellis said.

The Department currently has travel warnings and alerts for 42 countries or areas of the globe, according to its website.

A travel warning can remain in effect for several years and is issued when the Department of State thinks travelers should reconsider going to the country at all. Reasons for issuing a travel warning include a civil war, frequent terrorist attacks, unstable governments and ongoing intense crime or violence, the website said. Countries currently under a travel warning include Iran, Libya, Ukraine, Mexico and North Korea.

A travel alert, on the other hand, is issued for short-term events, such as demonstrations, strikes or disturbances, a health alert or outbreak, or evidence of increased risk of terrorist attacks. Travel alerts can be canceled when a possible threat is over, the website said.

Areas currently under a travel alert include parts of West Africa because of the Ebola virus and the South Pacific because of weather associated with the tropical cyclone season.

Gabby Tobin, a second-year in psychology, said she will leave for Cancun with her roommate on Friday.

“We wanted to get out, de-stress,” she said.

Tobin said they looked up hotel and crime information on a privately operated website. She said she never heard of the State Department’s website, but will check it out.

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Obama from 1A can voice their complaints about collectors, colleges, lenders and services, make sure their payments are affordable, that the process is fair and that students receive better customer feedback. The complaint system will be online and is set to be ready by July 2016.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said the Student Aid Bill of Rights also affects lenders.

“We’re going to make sure that the banks that service federal loans are held to high standards and provide better information to borrowers,” he said on the conference call.

“We’re raising the bar for debt collection to make sure that these charges to borrowers are reasonable and collectors are fair, transparent and help student borrowers get back on track when they might need help.”

Part of the plan also involves pushing students to take advantage of pay-as-you-earn, income-based payment plans, which allows students to pay only 10 percent of what they make.

Obama said when he announced the plan in a speech at Georgia Tech that these plans have been underutilized so far.

“It gives you an opportunity to make sure that if you make a career choice that doesn’t make tons of money, you’re still able to do the responsible thing and pay back your loans at a pace that allows you to build a family and buy a home and live your lives,” he said in the Georgia Tech speech.

Duncan added that there has been a four-fold increase in those payment plans over the past year, adding that there are about 3 million borrowers currently participating. That’s less than 10 percent of the total 40 million borrowers, though.

The plan comes roughly two months after Obama announced that he was putting a plan through to Congress that would make community college free for two years.

That initiative was met with pushback from Republican

QUICK LOOK While on spring break: • Vaccinate before leaving • Stay away from drugs, as narcotics penalties differ in other countries • Take a cellphone picture of your passport photo page and leave your passport at the hotel Source: U.S. State Department

Although the State Department has a travel warning for parts of Mexico because of threats to safety and security posed by organized criminal groups, it continues to be the No. 1 foreign destination for U.S. citizens traveling overseas, Ellis said. However, a travel warning itself can mean many different things and does not necessarily cover the whole country, he added.

“We ask that people look in the travel warning to see what specific areas they should avoid,” he said, adding that in the case of Mexico, students will probably not run into problems in tourist areas.

“But there are certain areas along the border, for instance, that we do recommend that people stay away from,” he said.

Additionally, to be fully prepared, the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program allows the Department of State to communicate with students if there is a change in the country’s security situation while they are there, Ellis said.

Students can sign up for the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program on the department’s website, and the security messages will be sent via email.

“It’s only specific for the country and the time period for which you’ll be in that country,” Ellis said. “Most of the time we never have to contact our enrollees.”

While students enjoy their time away from school and work, the Columbus Division of Police and community organizations help to make sure that left-behind houses and belongings stay as safe as their traveling owners.

When it comes to the safety and security of students’ homes, Columbus Police Deputy Chief Tom Quinlan said within logistical limits, police will step up patrolling in the off-campus area.

Columbus police are also likely to “use more plainclothes in the area” to watch for suspicious activities, he said.

Quinlan said locking doors and windows, as well as putting valuables out of sight, are the most important pieces of security advice for spring break travel, adding that Columbus Police will also put special efforts into patrolling the area during break.

Ezra Baker, co-director of the Student Life Community Ambassadors and a third-year in economics and French, said there are resources available at the Ohio Union that can help keep off-campus houses safe.

“If you don’t have a security system, our office offers free window and door alarms through Neighborhood Services and Cooperation,” Baker said.

Students can get as many window and door alarms as they want at no cost, Baker said. The office also gives out electrical timers for lights and televisions.

The devices can be picked up at Ohio Union, room 3106, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

legislators who questioned where the money would come from to pay for the schooling.

But Ted Mitchell, under secretary for the Department of Education, said this plan hasn’t received much pushback yet.

“We hear that and we want to move as quickly as possible,” Mitchell said.

Duncan said keeping high-wage, high-skilled jobs stars in the country starts with education.

“We have to think about this as the continuum from cradle through to career and do everything we can to give every young person a chance to have a world-class education, and we need political leaders across the political spectrum to invest in education rather than walk away from it,” he said.

Rachael Collyer, a fourth-year in English and Spanish at Ohio State and a field organizer and Columbus campaign leader with the Ohio Student Association — a nonprofit organization aiming to cut down on student debt loans — said she’ll graduate with $20,000 in debt this May. “I was always taught, ‘You play by the rules, you work hard, you go to school, and then you make grades, you should be able to achieve the American dream,’ but that’s actually become more and more difficult and just become much harder to pay for school and to pay off school,” she said.

She added that since Ohio has cut higher education funding from its budget in the past, it’s especially important for students to pay attention to college affordability problems, and added that the federal government could be doing more to help.

Ohio has enacted cuts to per student funding of 27 percent in the last five years, according to the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University and the State Higher Education Executive Officers. Collyer said student loan debts have nearly doubled as well.

“The cost to go to school right now is really high, and (with) the amount of debt that students are struggling under, it seems like we should be investing in the state of our future and students are our future, and shouldn’t we be making it easier for people to achieve an education and stay in our state?” Collyer said.

Amanda Etchison contributed to this article.

Coach from 1A resignation in an email to The Lantern on Wednesday afternoon, as well as the resignation of assistant coach Keith Maurice, who joined the program in May 2013.

The spokesman did not provide a reason for the resignations.

The Dispatch reported that on one occasion, another assistant coach, Carson Duggan, and Handrahan missed a team bus heading for the airport. When they later arrived at the airport, they were “smelling of alcohol and acting unprofessionally.”

Handrahan was just the second head coach in the 15-year history of the program.

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firing within the university in the last two years that relates to sexual harassment complaints or a sexualized culture.

In July, former OSU Marching Band director Jonathan Waters was fired after an investigation found “an environment conducive to sexual harassment” within the band.

In May 2013, two assistant cheerleading coaches, Eddie Hollins and Dana Bumbrey, were fired after an OSU investigation found “sufficient evidence” both men had violated the university’s Sexual Harassment Policy.

Then in November 2013, the head cheerleading coach, Lenee Buchman, was fired after an investigation determined she failed to disassociate herself and the program from those fired assistant coaches.

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opinion Students should demand financial transparency Letter to the editor: In response to an opinion piece in the March 2 edition of The Lantern, many of the issues students currently face stem from university financial mismanagement, secretive accounting and lack of representation, as well as those student have brought upon themselves.

Recently many students have mentioned the burden of purchasing customized textbooks, paying tuition hikes and managing finances. On the other hand, the student body continues to demand the university provide services such as the RPAC and Undergraduate Student Government events, as well as give out other “free” trinkets.

Students are being exploited by the university, as the higher administration makes a pretty penny at the expense of student debt. The university is gouging the price of its textbooks, as well as tuition, and the second-year on-campus living requirement will soon add another significant load on the back of incoming students.

However, the student body demands some of these services. Whereas off-campus private gyms would cost only the participants, all students are forced to fund the glass box known as the RPAC. Rather

than dole out trinkets such as pens and leaflets, the university could save students money or at least divert it to tuition. When university officials scream from the peaks of their mountainous salaries about income inequality, perhaps they should choose instead to divert portions of their salaries back to the students. Whereas our forefathers could work summers to pay off their college education, our generation will toil for it years into the future. Students don’t demand that the university expand into the University District and reshape the district in the university’s image, but they do demand Starbucks, the RPAC, and other services nonessential to a public university’s mission of higher education.

Do students ever get to see where their money goes? Unlike the 7-Eleven or United Dairy Farmers, the university fails to provide a receipt that truly explains how, with a large student body paying at least $10,000 each in tuition annually, the university still has to beg alumni for alms. Where does the money go, President Michael Drake? Students are paying for a service, and should at least see how their money goes through the university.

Finally, as the Undergraduate Student Government elections come into full swing, it is amazing that students rarely understand the money in play. Unlike many student

organizations, USG holds a high degree of power and influence with the university officials who spend the collective money of all students toward whatever they wish.

USG is full of honest and eager politicians.

However, like the vegetarian wolf, the honest politician is a myth. The USG gets a lion’s share of student money to carry out events that not all students support or wish to attend. Rather than distribute its funding to student organizations that cater specifically to individuals, the USG creates its own objectives.

Both the Michelle and Noel and Abby and Abby campaigns promise to make the USG accountable and accessible, as well as change the way the university directly spends money. However, both candidacies fail to recognize USG’s role in wasteful spending.

These financial burdens result from student demand and the university’s eager demand to take more and more funding and direct student life. These demands cause students further harm financially, and leave behind the university’s original goal: to educate.

There are ways to change this pattern.

University officials can take a voluntary pay cut and keep the money in student pockets.

Students can demand the university scrap

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Aimme Ruiz works on an essay on the UC-Merced campus in Merced, Calif. the Second-year Transformational Experience Program. Students can demand transparency in university finances, as well as seek out USG candidates who will return the organization from another arm of the bureaucracy to its original role as a student voice.

Jonathan Kubesch First-year in evolution and ecology kubesch.1@osu.edu

Ohio needs to reform the tax code to modern times Letter to the editor: In the past three decades, Ohio has lowered the state’s income tax almost year by year, promising more jobs and growth through investments. Three decades of promises have come and gone, and we’re still here with not much to show for it, except ever-increasing sales taxes and empty promises. You might like seeing a few more dollars in your paycheck, but unless you’re making the big bucks, chances are you’ll find yourself paying more in sales tax than before.

Currently, Ohio is ranked 19th overall in combined state and local sales taxes at about 7.11 percent. Kasich’s budget proposal for 2016-17 would bump the Buckeye State’s average combined tax to 7.61 percent — this means a higher combined sales tax than 36 other states in the nation.

In the past decade, Ohio has increased sales tax 0.75 percent, and is planning again to increase it .50 percent in just two years — that’s a .25 percent increase per year versus 0.75 percent in the previous 10 years. This “tax shift” has the majority of Ohioans paying more, so the richest Buckeyes can pay less.

So why does this half a percent matter so much? With the proposed 23 percent decrease in income taxes, the $5.7 billion tax reduction needs to be made up elsewhere. By increasing sales tax, the lower- and middleclass workers will bear the most burden, spending a greater portion of their incomes.

According to Policy Matters Ohio, for six out of 10 Ohioans, “the amount paid in tax could actually go up.”

As the saying goes, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Not only would Ohioans see their grocery and tobacco bills go up, but Kasich plans

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to extend these taxes even more broadly to services that were before unaffected. The 2016-17 proposal aims to include taxes on services such as cable TV subscriptions and parking/travel services, but the taxes don’t stop there; that new car you were looking to buy might just cost a little more because of reduced tax breaks on used-car trade-ins.

According to state Senate Minority Leader Joe Schiavoni, even larger businesses “would be hit with a $691 million increase in the Commercial Activities Tax and senior citizens would have to pay $318 million more.”

So what’s the reasoning behind the governor’s tax cuts? According to The Columbus Dispatch, Kasich said income-tax cuts could make wealthier Ohioans want to stay in state and make investments that could create jobs.

These statements are flawed: 21 out of 25 studies on “tax shift” since 2000 have shown that state and local taxes have very little or no

impact at all on a state’s economic growth, according to a policy report from the Georgia Policy & Budget Institute.

Ohio needs to stop shifting the tax burden to Ohio’s middle and lower class. Cutting income taxes means 60 percent of Ohioans paying more per year. Ohio needs to reform the tax code to modern times and come up with a budget where it doesn’t just shift around the burden. By decreasing the sales tax and finding alternative sources of revenue, we can see an increase in savings across the board, giving lower- and middle-income families the tools to save and invest in their futures.

If Kasich really wants to encourage job growth, we need a budget that provides jobs.

Andrew M. Can Fifth-year in economics can.10@osu.edu

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TIM MOODY Sports editor moody.178@osu.edu The Ohio State men’s basketball team tasted a blowout loss on the final day of the regular season, but the Buckeyes don’t have much time to reflect.

After OSU lost to No. 6 Wisconsin, 72-48, on senior day on Sunday, the Buckeyes are set to play Thursday night in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament. Coach Thad Matta said he wants his team to learn from that loss, but added that the players can’t dwell on it.

“For me, it’s more of just having the understanding that we can’t change what happened Sunday,” Matta said Wednesday. “‘OK, that’s over with. We had one of those games, don’t have another one of those for the remainder of the season.’ I hope that we wash it down the drain afterwards and guys are ready to go.”

Matta added that there’s always added pressure when tournament play rolls around, and his players have to be up to the task.

“You chose the wrong school if you don’t want the pressure tomorrow night at 8 o’clock, if you don’t want the pressure the next day, the next day, going into the NCAA Tournament,” the 11-year OSU coach said. “If you don’t want that, we made a mistake recruiting you.”

The Buckeyes (22-9, 11-7) didn’t find out exactly who they’d play until late Wednesday night, meaning they didn’t have a particular opponent to prepare for.

But Matta said their opponent might have a slight advantage, already having won one tournament game.

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D’Angelo Russell wore the No. 11 on his jersey up until high school.

Then Russell, now a freshman at Ohio State, switched to No. 3, he said. But when he got to Columbus, No. 3 was taken by senior guard Shannon Scott and No. 11 was retired. After fellow freshman Jae’Sean Tate chose No. 1, Russell settled on the number that most closely resembles OSU’s block “O” logo on his jersey.

The Louisville, Ky., native said he’s not really sure why he chose zero, but threw out one idea with a smile on his face.

“Zero people can guard me, that’s probably what it was,” Russell said Wednesday.

Jokes aside, Russell has proved to be a difficult matchup for many of the Buckeyes’ opponents throughout his first collegiate season.

The Big Ten Freshman of the Year averaged 19.2 points per game during the regular season, including 20.3 points per game in Big Ten play.

Those numbers put him a full nine points ahead of senior forward Sam Thompson, who finished second on the team in scoring.

Russell also led the team with 5.6 rebounds per game for the entire season, and finished first in conference play with 5.1 assists per game.

Russell said he recognizes his ability to take over games, but added that success going forward will have to be a team effort.

“It’s all about timing and shots falling and just being aggressive every possession I get,”

Senior guard Shannon Scott (left), freshman guard D’Angelo Russell (0) and senior forward Sam Thompson.

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Coaches stay motivated after title run JAMES GREGA, JR. Asst. sports editor grega.9@osu.edu Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer has won three national championships and led the Buckeyes to their first title in 12 years less than two months ago — and he isn’t letting up.

OSU senior linebacker Joshua Perry said Meyer and the rest of the coaches were just as intense on the first day of spring practice as they have ever been.

“They want to coach us really hard and they want to put us in those situations where we have to kind of fight a little bit,” Perry said. “They want to make sure we get the best out of everybody and we want to develop young players and make sure the older players know what they’re doing and have great leadership.”

Perry, who was part of Meyer’s first recruiting class at OSU, led the Buckeyes in tackles during their title run.

Another member of his recruiting class, senior offensive lineman Taylor Decker, said Tuesday that Meyer’s consistency is what has led to the success of the football program at OSU. “He is the same guy. He is not going to change,” Decker said. “He will recognize guys for their efforts but he is not going to change the type of person and the type of program or the culture that we have around here.”

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Coach Urban Meyer (left), co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Tim Beck (center, without helmet) and co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach Chris Ash led the Buckeyes on the first day of spring practice March 10 at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. The Buckeyes kicked off practice less than 2 months after winning the 1st-ever College Football Playoff National Championship. and quarterbacks coach Tom Herman bolted to the University of Houston for a head coaching position while running backs coach Stan Drayton accepted the same position with the NFL’s Chicago Bears.

Meyer said losing a coach like Drayton worries him.

“You lose a Stan Drayton who is a heck of a football coach. You worry, will there be a drop off in that room?”

Meyer said. “I am going to watch it even more closely now than I ever have.”

Meyer will likely also be

watching over the quarterback room, which is now occupied by Tim Beck, who was hired from Nebraska to replace Herman.

Meyer said the reason for bringing in coaches like Beck to replace Herman and Tony Alford from Notre Dame to replace Drayton is important because of what they can add to an already established culture.

“You look at what Nebraska, the last 10 years, it’s one of the winningest programs in America. I picked their brains about some of

the things they did well,” Meyer said. “Then Tony Alford came from one of the great programs, they played for a title two years ago. I try to absorb and pull information out of them.”

Make no mistake, though: Meyer is committed to what OSU is doing and is sticking to it.

“We have a coach’s manual that we kind of went through.

There is a very detailed way we teach. The expectation level of your unit room, the culture of the program, there are three parts of the

culture you are expected to know,” Meyer said. “I would have to say that’s one area I am insane about.”

But while Meyer is worrying about introducing new coaches into the OSU environment, he said he is also encouraged by the coaches who have already been in the system.

“Our defensive coaches … they actually led a team meeting today,” Meyer said. “Chris Ash and Luke Fickell (led it) and it was magical. You have meetings that are reactive and proactive.

Reactive meetings are awful.

The meeting we had today was proactive.”

While the defensive coaches are starting to lead team meetings, it’s an offensive coach who received an offseason promotion.

Offensive line coach and co-offensive coordinator Ed Warinner was upgraded to offensive coordinator after Herman’s departure, which Decker said he was happy to see.

“He deserved something like that, a promotion like that. When coach Herman told us he was leaving, I knew coach Warinner wanted that spot because he had been in that seat before,” Decker said. “I am completely confident in his ability to do that.”

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sports Stieber a ‘Jedi Master’ for Ohio State wrestling patrick kalista Lantern reporter kalista.4@osu.edu It’s 7:30 a.m. on a Wednesday, less than a week before Logan Stieber and his wrestling teammates board a bus for St. Louis and the NCAA Championships.

The three-time National Champion is waiting in the French Field House for his teammates and coaches to arrive for conditioning.

Why someone of his caliber would need to be up this early for a workout is debatable, but that’s what makes Stieber a different breed of athlete.

Sprints of 300 meters ensued after a half-mile warm up run, and Stieber was near the front for every activity. I should know: I partook in this workout.

After being in the lead for maybe 10 seconds of the opening sprint, I felt my legs turn to jelly, my heart beat faster than the OSU drumline as I watched the other wrestlers all pass me by.

Coach Tom Ryan put my underwhelming performance in wrestling terms: “You got the first takedown, then you got tech falled.”

The run was part of a single day I spent as part of the OSU wrestling team. My goal: to see what it takes to compete like Big Ten champion Logan Stieber.

In the humid confines of the indoor track facility, the average person might want to wear less clothing whenever possible. But Stieber, with a 2015 season record of 24-0, makes sure he sweats enough for the entire team with a long-sleeve shirt and sweats tucked into his socks, so not to trip over his red and black Nike running shoes.

“I have goals beyond college wrestling that I want to accomplish, so that keeps me motivated,” the No. 1-seeded 141-pounder said. “Everyone I wrestle wants to be the one who knocks me off, so I always have to be on my game.”

Stieber recently won his fourth Big Ten title and did so in a place he has come very familiar with while at OSU: St. John Arena. His performance might have been one of the most dominant in finals history — a 16-1 technical fall in 187 seconds — and Stieber said he went in hoping to give the crowd something to remember him by.

“Competing one last time in St. John Arena was unbelievable,”

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Redshirt-senior Logan Stieber, a 4-time Big Ten champion, is set to go for his 4th National Championship as well. he said. “I thought I wrestled smart and a little conservative my first two matches of the tournament, but for my last match, I wanted to go out and score lots of points and put on a show.”

Ryan, who won Big Ten Coach of the Year, put Stieber’s performance in a category by itself, but said he has come to expect that from his senior leader.

“When you master a position and your opponent has no answer to it, that’s what happens,” Ryan said. “Logan’s not good at the position, he’s not great at the position, he’s not extraordinary at the position. He’s a Jedi Master.”

Stieber became the first Buckeye to “four-peat” a championship and was just the 14th wrestler in Big Ten history to

achieve four conference titles. Doing it at home made the moment even more perfect, Ryan said.

“It was a fitting ending to the most amazing career in over a 100-year history of Ohio State wrestling,” he said. “That’s the way he should have gone out. It was amazing.”

Winning championships has been the norm for Stieber since he started wrestling, having won the state tournament in Ohio all four years at Monroeville High School. Those experiences, combined with his 114-3 collegiate record, have made some indelible memories for Stieber.

They include winning his fourth high school state title, his first national title, being named 2015 Big Ten Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Year and the 2013-14 Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year.

He has also appreciated the chance to share his success with his younger brother, Hunter, who battled injuries all season, but has long pushed his elder sibling to be the best.

How someone could become so dominant at one individual sport is a question many have asked Logan Stieber, but he deflects all credit to those who have long supported him.

“My coaches and training partners are the reasons why I am as good as I am,” he said.

Stieber, who has managed 49 falls, 26 technical falls and 17 major decisions, has about 10 days left in his college wrestling career, but his legacy in the sport will survive.

And after a brief break, he will be back training in freestyle wrestling, with his goal to make the 2015 world team and, ultimately, the 2016 Olympic team.

Before he represents his country, Stieber has one more tournament to try to win for OSU. He hopes to join the likes of Cael Sanderson, Pat Smith and Kyle Dake as a four-time NCAA champion — a goal he set for himself as a freshman, he said.

“It would be amazing to win my fourth,” Stieber said. “It was a goal of mine when I first came to college and it’s cool that I have a chance to do it. It would be an accumulation of my life of work to end my career at Ohio State with my fourth NCAA title and team title.”

Men’s hockey set for Wisconsin to cap regular season slate kaley rentz Lantern reporter rentz.21@osu.edu All six teams in the Big Ten hockey conference will be playing this weekend in their final series, but four teams will have a chance to shake up the Big Ten standings.

With the Big Ten title and No. 1 seed up for grabs, the Ohio State men’s hockey team is waiting to see who it will play in Joe Louis Arena in Detroit on March 19 in the first round of the tournament.

Last weekend, the Michigan State Spartans snagged the top spot after sweeping

Wisconsin, while Penn State remained the fourth seed after sweeping the Michigan Wolverines, who sit at second.

OSU played a role in the mix-up after splitting the weekend series with Minnesota, which is now tied in second place with the Wolverines.

After 10 inconsistent weeks, it all comes down this final weekend in the Big Ten. The Golden Gophers will be taking on the Nittany Lions, while the Spartans will be facing the Wolverines in a home-and-home series.

Since Michigan State, Michigan, Minnesota and Penn State could all finish fourth, the Buckeyes won’t know who their opponent will be until Saturday night.

OSU associate coach Brett Larson said the Buckeyes aren’t worried about where they stand, but added that it’s hard to ignore the standings when they are posted in the locker room.

“To see that we are only three wins away from battling for the title, it almost is tough to take,” Larson said. “That’s the parity of the league, anybody can win this thing.”

But Larson said the Buckeyes are only focused on themselves.

“When you have no idea who you are playing next week, the main thing is to be playing your best hockey,” Larson said.

“No matter who you play, that’s who you have to focus on. We’ve proven we can

beat everybody in the league. We’ve beaten everybody at least once and that’s important.”

For OSU, this weekend isn’t necessarily about winning or losing, but about gaining some momentum and swagger as it enters preparation for the tournament.

“All the teams are in the same boat which is nice, no team gets an advantage over another,” Larson said. “Whoever you play, they are going to be good, and it’s not going to be easy but it’s going to be fun.”

But first, the Buckeyes are set to take on the Badgers in the final series of the regular season on Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 7 p.m. in Madison, Wis.

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Freshman guard D’Angelo Russell (0) led the OSU men’s basketball team in points, rebounds and assists during Big Ten play.

Russell from 5A he said. “And just coming together as a team when adversity hits, and whenever it sets in, we just gotta be stronger and everything’s gonna happen from there.”

Coming off a 72-48 loss to Wisconsin in Sunday’s regular-season finale, Russell and the Buckeyes’ next step is set to be in the Big Ten Tournament. OSU is scheduled to take on Minnesota on Thursday night in Chicago.

After the Buckeyes’ Big Ten run comes to an end, they’ll find out their NCAA Tournament fate Sunday night.

While he’s been one of the key reasons OSU has won 22 games, Russell shook off comparisons to former University of Connecticut tournament heroes Shabazz Napier and Kemba Walker when it comes to his plans for his first collegiate postseason.

“I wouldn’t say (a) Shabazz or Kemba type thing, but I would definitely do a D’Angelo Russell approach and do whatever I got to do to lead this team,” Russell said.

“If it’s scoring, rebounding, whatever coach needs me to do, I’m willing and I just want to win, and I know the guys that I got around me and the coaching staff want the same thing.”

OSU coach Thad Matta said he’d be willing to “swear to” Russell’s drive to win games, not to put up individual statistics.

“D’Angelo would probably rather average 15 points, eight assists and six rebounds and win than score 25 points and that sort of thing,” Matta said Wednesday. “That’s kind of his mentality, he doesn’t take to losing easy.”

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Matta added that Russell spends “a lot of time” discussing exactly what the coaches need the team to do to win games.

“Just saying, ‘Hey, what do we gotta do since Sunday, what do you want me to do?

How can I get these guys? Let’s do whatever we need to do,’” Matta said. “You know that kid cares.”

Matta acknowledged that Russell’s success amid the team’s times of struggle have led to extra pressure on the freshman.

“I think we’ve put so much pressure on him, we’ve gotta get these other guys playing,” he said. “D’Angelo didn’t play well Sunday, he’ll be the first to tell you that.”

Russell, who scored 17 points but made just 1-of-7 3-point attempts in the loss to Wisconsin, said the team as a whole has to find a way to put that loss behind it.

“I think we’re all on the same page and we know that that was a tough loss,” he said.

“But like I said, it can trigger anything with success and just playing well for the tournament and then the NCAA Tournament and so forth.”

While the Buckeyes’ season will end whenever their postseason run concludes, Russell will be faced with a decision as to whether he wants to do it again. Projected as a top-five pick in the 2015 NBA Draft, Russell said his focus hasn’t strayed from the task facing OSU in the postseason, beginning with Thursday night’s matchup.

“It’s not on my mind,” he said. “Not really preparing for any of that right now, just trying to get the most wins we can and be as successful as we can.”

“You need a little bit of luck,” Matta said of the keys to finding success in a tournament.

“I think a lot of it is getting through that first game. Whoever we play will have played a game in there before us.”

OSU learned its tournament draw when Minnesota (18-14, 6-12) topped Rutgers (10-22, 2-16), 80-68, in the first round at the United Center, sending them through for a matchup with the Buckeyes.

OSU already played Minnesota once this season, and it took every last effort to top the Golden Gophers, 74-72, in overtime on the road on Jan. 6.

Freshman guard D’Angelo Russell said it will be important to focus on each opponent one at a time, rather than dwelling on the past or the future, especially in tournament play.

“We’re in the postseason, so if you’re not mentally prepared for this, it’s not for you,” Russell said Wednesday. “I think we’ve got a great connection of guys that are willing to do whatever it takes to win and advance round by round, just take one game at a time and be successful with it.”

But even if OSU is now focused on the task at hand, Russell said the Buckeyes can still look at the Wisconsin game and gain something from the senior day letdown.

“I feel like it can trigger a great point of what we need to do, and what needs to be

done and all the work that we need to do to be successful in the tournament,” he said. “So we can just take it as a learning point.”

Last season, the Buckeyes lost two of their final three regular season games, but pulled out a close win over Michigan State to close the regular season. Then OSU won two games in the Big Ten Tournament before falling to Michigan, 72-69, in the semifinals.

That roster included four of OSU’s five current seniors, who were also on the team when the Buckeyes last won the conference tournament in 2013. That happens to also be the last time the tournament was held in Chicago.

Matta said players have to have camaraderie on the court to succeed in tournament play, and he has at least four Buckeyes who have already experienced that.

“I think one of the big keys is the togetherness that you have, because it is game after game after game,” he said.

“And you’ve gotta have a purpose, you’ve gotta have a cause when you go into these things.”

This time around, the Buckeyes aren’t coming off a five-game winning streak like they were in 2013. With the loss to Wisconsin still fresh in his mind, Matta said he’ll just have to wait and see what OSU can do.

“I’ll be interested to see on how they come out and play,” he said. “I want them to feel the heat.”

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On the mend Redshirt-senior quarterback Braxton Miller returned to the practice field March 10 for the first time since tearing the labrum in his throwing shoulder last fall.

offensive coordinator at the University of Kansas for three years before coaching for two years at Notre Dame.

So with a mix of new and returning coaches, how is Meyer going to monitor his team?

“That’s something I’m going to watch like a hawk,” Meyer said.

“That the culture here is established now we have to just add to it not change it.”

The Buckeyes are set to play their annual Spring Game on April 18 at Ohio Stadium before starting the 2015 season on the road against Virginia Tech on Sept. 7.

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1. Chase Gordon, a second-year in anthropology, practices parkour near Hitchcock Hall on March 11.

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3. Sophomore running back Ezekiel Elliott (15) and members of the OSU football team perform a dance routine alongside the OSU dance team during halftime of a game against Wisconsin on March 8 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU lost, 72-48.

4. Minnesota junior goalie Adam Wilcox (32) zeroes in on the puck during a game against OSU at the Schottenstein Center on March 7.

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Norm Steinmetz (left) and John Quigley practice a scene from a play during their InterACT class on March 10 in the basement of the Drake Performance and Event Center.

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Amy Jean Greenblott practices a scene from a play during her InterACT class on March 10 in the basement of the Drake Performance and Event Center.

Students create theater to interact with surrounding world HAILEY STANGEBYE Lantern reporter stangebye.1@osu.edu While in most plays, audience members simply sit and enjoy the show, InterACT Theatre Project for Social Change , a theater group on campus, performs with the purpose of interacting and facilitating dialogue with the audience about social issues.

“The title says everything — we want the audience to interact with the actors and we want the actors to interact with who they are portraying,” said Andrew Trimmer, the undergraduate studies coordinator for the Department of Theatre and a former member of InterACT.

Students do this by first creating a short performance based on a controversial issue on campus, Trimmer said. Then, the actors remain in the characters that they have created so that the audience can ask questions about the performance. “(The audience) can ask for information about what’s going on under the surface,” said Elizabeth Wellman, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Theatre who has taught InterACT for five semesters and was involved with the course “Creation of Outreach Theatre” before that as well.

InterACT is a class that students audition to be in.

Audience members can also change what transpires on the stage by asking the actors to repeat scenes and change the outcomes, Wellman said.

“We don’t ever come to a performance knowing the answers. The majority of problems that we face, as a society, are complex and they require a lot of different voices to solve them.”

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The dialogue that results between the actors and the audience is aimed toward finding solutions for the issues presented by the short play.

“We don’t ever come to a performance

knowing the answers,” Wellman said. “The majority of problems that we face, as a society, are complex and they require a lot of different voices to solve them. We come in with a lot of questions and we ask our audience to try and solve it.”

Issues InterACT has covered in the past include the stresses of being on a college campus, communication between instructors and students, and military veterans who make the transition to college life.

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Robin Thicke’s money thinner after lawsuit ‘The Bachelor,’ ‘Zoolander’ sequel also make pop culture headlines

SALLEE ANN RUIBAL Asst. arts editor ruibal.1@osu.edu This is part of a weekly series called “Pop Opinions” where The Lantern offers its take on the week’s pop culture news.

Miller High Life Windell D. Middlebrooks, the actor best known for playing the Miller High Life delivery man in commercials, was found dead in his home Monday morning.

I’m more of an Anheuser-Busch kind of gal, but regardless of the hops you prefer, Middlebrooks was good at keeping it real in beer commercials.

Clydesdales and puppies are good at pulling on heartstrings and serving as clickbait. But a man knocking on your door telling you that a beer company wants to sponsor regular ol’ you, that there is the American Dream.

Pour one out and rest in peace.

‘Zoolander’ Blue Steel is back, baby.

Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson took the runway as Derek Zoolander and Hansel at the Maison Valentino show at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday to announce the sequel to their 2001 comedy.

“Zoolander” is a comedy that pokes fun at the male modeling industry. “Zoolander” is also one of my most quoted movies and the movie my mother asks we watch every Christmas Eve. A male model’s pursuit to save the prime minister of Malaysia is a lot like the story of the holy pregnant virgin, right?

‘Blurred Lines’ Robin Thicke, singer and professional douche, is known for singing about the blurred lines of consent, but he really should have been more concerned about the lines of copyright infringement.

Thicke and Pharrell Williams, the song’s co-writer, were ordered to pay $7.3 million in damages for infringing upon Marvin Gaye’s No. 1 hit “Got to Give It Up.” Some people have said this opens the floodgates of artists claiming others stole their precious intellectual property.

I think, considering that Thicke’s last album,

“Paula,” completely flopped — it sold just 24,000 copies the first week in the U.S. — maybe he really should give it up.

‘The Bachelor’ The second-best way to watch “The Bachelor” is to catch the first few episodes and then the finale. You learn just enough about who everyone is to be remotely excited when one of them gets the bling.

The best way to watch, however, is to not watch at all.

On Monday night, Whitney got the ring from filthy rich farmerturned-Bachelor, Chris.

My roommate and I already knew this thanks to Reality Steve, a blogger who is known for predicting results that matter, such as winners of “The Bachelor.”

In the after show, ”After the Final Rose,” it was announced that the next season of “The Bachelorette” will feature not one, but two girls from the past season. The male contestants will then decide in the first episode which Bachelorette they want the season to revolve around.

Because there really wasn’t enough girl-ongirl cattiness already.

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This is also where it becomes important for the actors to interact with the people that they aim to portray, Trimmer said.

In her experience with InterACT, Tameishia Peterson, a fourth-year in theater who was involved with the course for two semesters, was asked to explore the lives of minority students in the College of Nursing.

“It’s not like your average class where you find a topic, go to the library, and research,” Peterson said. “It was basically pulling from the statistics from this campus and looking at other predominantly white campuses and then interviewing the minority students who were involved with that program.”

Peterson would also spend time with nursing students to get an authentic feel for their situation so that she could translate that into a realistic character.

After developing their characters, the actors in InterACT have to generate a short performance. The students are the ones writing the piece, Trimmer said, adding that the process requires in-depth knowledge of the characters and the ability to improvise as a character.

“How you build your script is by standing up and just conversing with your classmates,” Peterson said.

“With this course, you get a lot of improvisational skills. You’re forced to really delve into your character’s background, so you’re forced to really develop a real character.”

This becomes especially important during performances when the audience has the power to change the outcome of a scene or ask a character what he or she is feeling but maybe not expressing, Wellman said.

“It requires a level of bravery from the actors and from the audience,” Wellman said.

“I think the mission of InterACT is to facilitate social change — it’s to make people aware, it’s to basically allow people to have a discussion in a place where most people wouldn’t discuss things,” Peterson said.

InterACT was first created by

Robin Post, a visiting assistant professor who specializes in Shakespeare, applied theatre, acting and voice. The program, according to Post’s faculty biography, “was established in 2006 with the mission to perform interactive theatre with socially conscious content.”

“InterACT has a service learning component — it’s a group and a course that’s meant to serve, specifically, the university community,” said Wellman.

For this reason, InterACT focuses on bridging the gaps between different departments on campus, Peterson said.

“Working with the different departments really helps you to understand that everybody has their place in life,” Peterson said. “You kind of just get an understanding of their world.”

Not only does InterACT coordinate with different groups on campus, but it also encourages students from any major to participate in the class.

“We really welcome a really diverse group of students,” Wellman said. “It makes us better, overwhelmingly. The best groups have come from a wide variety of experiences.”

Peterson emphasized the effects the group has outside of class.

“This is where you get to show your community what you’re made of,” Peterson said. “Everybody can be a vehicle for change.”

The next opportunity to see InterACT in action will be April 25 at 7 p.m. in the Bowen Theatre at the Drake Performance and Event Center. Admission will be free but seating is first come, first serve.

Trimmer said attending an InterACT performance is an inviting way to start a discussion on a topic that otherwise wouldn’t be discussed, in a non-intimidating environment.

“It gives people a space to be honest about where they’re coming from,” Wellman said. “As a teacher, it’s humbling because it reminds me that I don’t know everything — and I think that’s why I love it so much …

I love InterACT — it’s probably the best thing I’ve ever done.”

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Top: ‘Connected’ by Cory Reeb, a fourth-year in photography Bottom: ‘Heads Will Roll’ by Elizabeth Martin, a fourthyear in ceramics Both pieces, along with 18 other students’ works, are featured in The Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, displayed in Hopkins Hall Gallery through April 17.

Scan the QR code on the right to see full gallery and story at thelantern.com

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