The Lantern - March 27 2018

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PELOTONIA

THURSDAY

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In memory of their father, two Ohio State siblings ride for all affected by cancer.

WOMENS’ MONTH

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Grace Azenabor: Ohio State athlete, business student, and African woman.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Keita Bates-Diop is leaving OSU for the NBA after a season that made him a star.

MEN’S HOCKEY

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No one thought Ohio State would be good, then it made the Frozen Four.

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Students, teachers, professors, parents and children took to the streets on Saturday demanding gun reform following the school shooting that killed 17 staff and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Feb. 14. As they left, demonstrators placed their signs on a fence surrounding the Ohio Statehouse to conclude March For Our Lives in Columbus. The march was one of more than 800 that took place.

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OSU researchers crush average with Joe Schiavoni 19 first-year funding recipients

strives to be ‘new, different and good’

JAKE RAHE Senior Lantern reporter rahe.21@osu.edu In an average year, the Ohio State College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center have four or five people who receive project grants from the National Institutes of Health for the first time.

This year, they have 19.

The impressive number of recipients resulted in a nearly 20-percent increase in total funding.

Peter Mohler, vice dean for research at the College of Medicine, attributes the success to the culture at the medical center and its incoming talent.

“If you don’t have great people with great ideas and people who are creative, then the organization is difficult to grow,” Mohler said.

“If you get the right environment, you get the right mentoring and you get really creative people, then that’s when really breakthrough science can happen.”

Not only is the number of recipients this year far above the national average, but the average age of the 19 recipients is 37, which is six years less than the national average.

“It is one thing for me to get a grant, and I am an old guy. It is a lot of fun,” Mohler said. “To see

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Ohio State saw unprecedented success this year in receiving a nearly 20 percent increase in NIH funding. someone who has been working their whole life to get their first big break and to get their first big grant from the National Institutes of Health is a life-changing moment.”

With the current funding climate in the U.S., only about 10 percent of the applicants to the NIH receive a grant, Mohler said.

Research funding has fallen across the country, and Ohio State has been hit hard. Its research and development expenditures, which are the total amount the university spends on research, hit a five-year low in 2016 of $847 million, after peaking two years prior at $983 million.

The university has consistent-

ly ranked in the top 20 among universities in total research expenditures, but fell to 22nd in the National Science Foundation rankings in 2016.

With 19 NIH recipients in 2018, Ohio State is competing on a higher level than it is used to.

“We are competing with places, not only the Michigans and the Wisconsins of the world, but the Columbias and the Stanfords.

So what does that mean?” Mohler said. “It means that our people are not just as good but are even better than the people at a lot of these places.”

Mohler said there is an environment that promotes the advanceFUNDING CONTINUES ON 3

Joe Schiavoni recognizes that he is in a Democratic race with big-name candidates, but he’s OK with that because through the primary, he is garnering a reputation for being different.

“I’ve been earning it,” Schiavoni said. “I traveled the state, and I talked to people. I brought their voices to the statehouse. I knew that there were going to be candidates that had higher name recognition than me, but I also know that I can feel this wave coming and people just want something new and different, but they want somebody new, different and good.”

Schiavoni, an Ohio Senator who represents part of the Youngstown suburbs is running in the Democratic primary for governor against household names in Ohio politics such as Richard Cordray and Dennis Kucinich.

Schiavoni sat down with The Lantern for an interview last

week to talk about his candidacy, an offer extended to all campaigns from both major parties.

Schiavoni was the only campaign to respond.

Schiavoni said he wants to represent a candidate in ways unlike other politicians.

“It’s not different just because we want something different.

[Voters] tried that with Trump,” Schiavoni said. “They want someone that actually understands issues, understands people, cares about people and is willing to put in the work.”

Schiavoni stressed the work he has been doing since he originally came to Columbus as an appointee to the state senate in 2008, a move he said came with no prior political ambition or agenda — just a desire to work with whomever he could on issues that matter.

“I just came down with an open mind, came down with a work ethic, came down knowing the things I understood about Youngstown, and I tried to work with everybody immediately,” Schiavoni said. “That’s how I still do it 10 years later.”

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A family ride

Ohio State siblings take part in Pelotonia in remembrance of their father MARA MASON Lantern reporter mason.816@osu.edu An “icebreaker,” or a short introduction of yourself, generally consists of a name, major and a short something-or-other about yourself. When asking Pelotonia riders for their brief biography, they state the name of the friend or family member they ride for in support of cancer research.

Some people ride Pelotonia, an annual bike race in Columbus that raises millions of dollars for cancer research, to support a friend battling the disease, a survivor or simply to raise money for the James Cancer Research Center on Ohio State’s campus.

Siblings Gracie and Teddy Parsley ride in memory of their father, who died of brain cancer a little more than eight years ago.

“Everyone who rides Pelotonia or who supports Pelotonia has some connection to cancer,” said Teddy Parsley, a first-year in exploration. “There’s always a story to tell with each rider.”

Gracie Parsley, a second-year in speech and hearing sciences, said after her father’s death, her mother started the family tradition of riding together each year.

“It’s something that we’ve always done as a family, and there’s no questions asked.

We always sign up, we always do it together,” she said.

Teddy Parsley said he and his sister have always ridden together. They first rode with their mom and other adults when they were younger. Now they ride with Team Buck-

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Flags hang along the Pelotonia route in Granville to remember family and friends who have been affected by cancer.

eye Student Riders.

“We both have been very active in the past, and we’ve found the Pelotonia Team Buckeye Student Riders organization here,” he said. “It connected for us, and we both love it.”

Although 18 months apart in age, they both made the decision to enroll at Ohio State almost simultaneously, since Gracie Parsley was transferring to Ohio State when Teddy Parsley was making his college decision in his final year of high school.

Because of their shared interest in Pelotonia and other student organizations, she said they get to spend time together and remain close.

“I think it’s so cool to have your brother [on campus],” she said. “People always say ‘Aw, cute,’ and yeah, OK, it’s cute, but it’s

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Team Buckeye riders Parris Miller, Cristin Sutliff (left of Brutus), and Teddy and Gracie Parsley (Right of Brutus) pose for a photo at a Pelotonia event. also fun because he’s my best friend.”

Now co-executive board members of the Team Buckeye Student Riders peloton, Teddy and Gracie Parsley continue to honor their father’s memory when they ride through their hometown of Granville, where family, friends and neighbors come out to cheer them on.

“I can’t even put it into words, and you just have to get on the bike and do it, and actually experience it.”

Gracie Parsley Second-year in speech and hearing sciences

“The amount of support [in Granville] is unreal. It’s something that you want every-

one to experience,” Gracie Parsley said. “I can’t even put it into words, and you just have to get on the bike and do it, and actually experience it.”

Another rider from Granville is Cristin Sutliff, who is a co-executive board member, and a second-year in financial math.

In addition to sharing a hometown with Teddy and Gracie Parsley, Sutliff shares pain with them — she lost her mother to cancer.

“My mom was first diagnosed when I was 6 years old,” Sutliff said. “She was re-diagnosed when I was in the eighth grade, and then it came back in her bones, and spread to her lungs and her brain. That was more so the power that drove me to eventually do it.”

She said her mother’s battle with canPELOTONIA CONTINUES ON 3

NPR’s Sam Sanders brings in good news in 2018 SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu Chris and his wife from Fort Worth, Texas, delivered their baby boy. Hillary from Columbus logged onto her husband’s student loan account and found he had nothing to pay off. Andrea from Helsinki, Finland, got Beyonce tickets.

These are some of the best things that happened to listeners of NPR’s “It’s Been a Minute” podcast with Sam Sanders and are just some examples of good news that Sanders said can unite anyone — regardless of politics and news — during the current polarized state of the nation.

It’s no secret that the majority of news filling social media feeds is negative, which is why Sanders asks to hear the good, along with reporting on the not-so-good.

He’s found that asking others to brag about themselves, their weeks or their loved ones is easy; everyone wants to talk about the good stuff that happens, and everyone listening can most likely relate to it.

The willingness of strangers to

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Sam Sanders, the host of NPR’s “It’s Been a Minute,” moderates a discussion about social entrepreneurship with Merry Korn (left), the president and CEO of Pearl Interactive Network, and BrewDog USA CEO Tanisha Robinson (right) on March 6, 2018, at the Fawcett Center. share such personal information is “a reminder in such crazy news cycles — like we forget that, regardless of what’s happening in Washington, D.C., we’re all still people just living lives,” Sanders said in an interview with The Lantern. “It’s OK to celebrate milestones in your life. Your life doesn’t stop because the administration changed. Your life doesn’t stop because of what he or she tweeted. Your life is still living.”

Sanders said it’s important for

news consumers to take a step back every so often from the constant refreshing of Twitter, or constant updates in the New York Times, Washington Post or local papers, and just breathe.

The current era of political polarization and divisiveness is not new, he said, nor is it particularly different or distinct from previous history and administrations, specifically on issues of immigration, race and gender.

“Those aren’t new things. May-

be the medium is different with Twitter and the tone feels different because there’s such a distinct difference in the way that Donald Trump talks to America compared to Barack Obama, but these issues aren’t new. Border wall’s not new,” he said. “People forget that there’s already a wall, there’s already a fence, and Democrats before voted for it.

“Be mad, be happy, be whatever, but don’t be too surprised.”

To relax, unwind and perhaps do the impossible of forgetting about America’s current events, Sanders said people need to put smartphones away and log off Twitter. “It’s not the real world,” he said and repeated. “It’s not the real world.”

“If you live in a constantly refreshing state of social media, everything’s afire, everything’s a crisis and everything is burning all the time,” he said. “And that’s not actually true. That’s not true. Whether or not you read the tweet, you’re still living a life.

Some days it’s OK to step away from the tweet and try to see the forest and not just every single tree.”

Sometimes, he said, when

that forest is seen for what it is, not just the trees that make it up, finding commonalities across political ideologies can happen — without knowing it. Both sides of the political aisle might only see faults in the opposing side’s antics, but “even a broken clock is right twice a day,” he said, “and it’s important to remind ourselves that we all contain multitudes and stripping things back to some of the universal [experiences] that people share … I think that helps.”

Because, at the end of the day, after all stories are filed and all headlines are read, Chris and his wife from Fort Worth, Texas; Hillary from Columbus; Andrea from Helsinki, Finland; and students at Ohio State all can relate to any good news and joy that comes with it.

“None of this stuff is really foreign to anyone,” Sanders said. “All of the things that we go through, we kind of all go through: love and marriage and life milestones like jobs or graduations or dealing with ailing loved ones.”

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cer was the reason she decided to raise money and ride for Pelotonia and become involved with Team Buckeye Student Riders.

“Last summer, my mom ended up passing away right before, not even a month before the race,” she said. “That was pretty emotional for my family. They all came down to see me when I was riding through town, which was really special.”

Similar to many small towns, Gracie Parsley said everyone knows everything about each other, which she hated growing up.

“But, for that one particular day, I don’t mind knowing everything, and everyone knowing things about me because you’re all coming together for one reason,” she said.

Teddy Parsley and Sutliff both said there are people along the way who hold up signs encouraging riders, and one man in particular always holds a sign reading, “Thank you for saving my wife.”

When Sutliff first saw that man, it “was the moment for me that I said, ‘This is so worth it.’ And so ever since then I have continued to do it,” she said.

Gracie Parsley said the executive board members of Team Buckeye Student Riders held a retreat, during which they were asked, “If you had to describe Pelotonia in one word, what would it be?”

“My word was love, because we all ride because we love someone. We loved someone.”

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are an example of going beyond the typical politician’s duties. He said many lawmakers briefly go to campuses to try to rally students during campaigns without actually listening to them.

“You got to talk to students about what’s really going on in their lives, and what I hear students talk about is student debt and opportunities when they graduate,” he said.

One of the major issues he works with that is relevant to students is college affordability and debt.

Schiavoni has laid out a plan that could impact college students similar to Maryland’s College Affordability Act of 2016. In Schiavoni’s vision, Ohio would implement an income tax credit for the purpose of student debt relief.

“At the end of the day we are going to have students that graduate with debt and we’ve got to figure out a way to help them deal with it,” Schiavoni said.

Another relevant school issue, especially after this weekend’s marches aimed at gun policy reform, is whether to arm teachers with guns to protect students in the classroom.

Schiavoni sides with most of his Democratic counterparts and does not want armed teachers in schools, but he said he he is not looking to enforce his views on local communities that feel differently, including Ohio communities that have already taken steps to arm teachers. Close to 30 Ohio school districts include controversial staff training to handle firearms in their security plans.

“The law currently says that the locals have the ability to make that decision. I don’t want to take away the locals’ ability to make that decision,” Schiavoni said. “I don’t think it’s a good idea. I don’t think that arming your teachers is the way you are going to protect

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your kids.”

Schiavoni’s larger stance on guns stops short of calling for some of the more heavy-handed measures.

He has not called for a ban on “military-style” assault weapons but said, “at the end of the day we have to figure out if we want people to have military-style weapons in communities.”

Schiavoni will continue to travel the state, like he has done for the last year and a half, as the primaries continue to come to a close with voting on May 8.

While it might seem like he has little chance of winning the primary, he said he’s determined to continue fighting, an approach he said he uses every day in his work life.

“I take that approach to this job everyday,” Schiavoni said. “You get up and you do it until you sleep and you just keep working through it and you reach people and you talk to people about what’s important to them.”

To watch the full interview and hear about Schiavoni’s views on the opioid epidemic, go to The Lantern’s website for extended coverage.

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ment of researchers throughout the medical center and in the College of Medicine.

“It is not just in one area. It is spread across a number of different areas,” Mohler said. “When you look back from 50,000 feet, we are taking care of all the people in all of the different areas.”

“To see someone who has been working their whole life to get their first big break and to get their first big grant from the National Institutes of Health is a lifechanging moment.”

Peter Mohler Vice dean for research at the College of Medicine

The environment the medical center created has brought improvements to how proposals are written, said Leah Pyter, assistant professor in psychiatry and neuroscience and one of the 19 recipients. Those available resources, she said, yielded the interdisciplinary, innovative proposals that have earned recognition.

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An investigation into Ohio State’s research practices related to the medical center concluded in early March. New procedures will be finalized in the coming months, based off recommendations from the law firm that conducted the investigation, as a preventive response to national research trends showing an increase of misconduct and data misrepresentation.

Regardless of misconduct shortcomings at the university, the grant milestone will have lasting impacts for generations to come and show young researchers that getting funding is possible, Pyter said.

“It shows that Ohio State has the resources that it takes to help people with grant writing, but also have the intellectual, the technical resources to convince the NIH that we can do this work,” Pyter said.

The future is very bright, Mohler said. Comparing university researchers to the football team, he said it would be similar to all of Ohio State’s best players being freshmen.

“When you have success, it really breeds success,” Mohler said.

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PINBALL Ohio State alum turns passion for pinball into a professional career. | ON PAGE 5 GHEZAL BARGHOUTY Arts & Life Editor barghouty.5@osu.edu Grace Azenabor has always associated herself with being an African, an athlete and a student.

But until her second year at Ohio State, she had never associated herself with being a woman.

The first time Azenabor thought about her identity as a woman was in a women’s leadership class.

The most important thing she learned? “Women are really able to do anything that they want, as long as they put their minds to it,” she said.

“Although we don’t always get the recognition that we deserve, keep working hard because even if people don’t see it, there’ll always be someone who will, and that’s always going to be an opportunity to inspire others,” Azenabor said.

Now a fourth-year in marketing and economics, Azenabor has kept herself busy as a dedicated member –– and now president –– of the African Youth League, a hammer thrower on the varsity track and field team and a member of Zeta Phi Beta sorority.

“It’s hard sometimes when you don’t see people who look like you in the same spaces that you are in.”

Grace Azenabor Fourth-year in marketing and economics

Born right outside Dallas to Nigerian immigrants, Azenabor said embracing her African heritage has always been a large part of her life. So when she came to Ohio

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State, finding an African league was a top priority. She immediately joined AYL her freshman year and quickly climbed up the ranks, becoming public relations chair her sophomore year, vice president junior year and president this year.

Not only did Azenabor find an avenue to raise awareness around issues in the African community through AYL, but she also found a home that united her with students just like her.

“It’s hard sometimes when you don’t see people who look like you in the same spaces that you are in, which is part of why I’m

so passionate about AYL because I’m very passionate about seeing African people succeed,” she said.

Though her role as president keeps her busy, Azenabor’s unwavered dedication to her sport offers her a different perspective into her own womanhood.

After walking on to the track and field team before starting her freshman year, Azenabor started her student-athlete career as a jumper, and switched to hammer throwing in her second-year.

However, for Azenabor, competing in a strength-intensive sport that is “masculine in nature”

doesn’t steer her away from her passion, even when she feels like she’s not strong enough.

“I really do think that the drive that comes from being a female athlete in a pretty masculine sport has carried over into everything else [I do]. It all stems from the desire to still want to be great as a female athlete here,” she said.

In spite of her leadership roles on and off the field, Azenabor said as a woman of color, being a student at Ohio State has been the biggest adversity she’s had to face, especially in the Fisher College of Business, where she said she’s often one of a few women

her economics classes, and usually the only woman of color.

For Azenabor, however, she copes with this adversity through the drive and confidence she’s obtained from her time in AYL, on the track team and in her sorority.

“It’s more so taking those experiences from those other activities that I do into the classroom and into other professional settings because I feel like that’s when I face adversity, that’s when I feel left out and that’s when I remember that I am sometimes the only one,” she said.

Despite the issues she personally faces, Azenabor hopes to someday empower business women in Africa to become leaders in their own professions.

“I feel like in Africa, women are not appreciated the way that they should be, and women are not allowed the same opportunities that men are simply because of their gender,” Azenabor said.

“At the same time, our culture builds such strong women that it doesn’t make sense that women aren’t in leadership positions.”

Azenabor’s drive hasn’t only come from her own experiences, but from a young girl she knows from her hometown church.

“She constantly tells me that she’s inspired by what I do, and I can’t wait till she gets to college to do all of it too,” she said. “As women, we should always keep that in mind, that we can be role models for younger girls, and we can show that they, too, can do what they want as long as they put their minds to it, and that they should never let a perception or a stereotype or anything stop them from that.”

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Two Bucks hops into campus bar scene SARA STACY Assistant Arts & Life Editor stacy.118@osu.edu A Cleveland bar franchise will bring its mom-and-pop atmosphere and low-priced food and drink specials to Columbus with its opening in the University District on Friday.

Two Bucks has moved into space previously held by Rooks Tavern on 195 Chittenden Ave. Eric Nugent, managing member of Two Bucks, said he believes that despite being so close to campus, the bar

“I think we speak to the masses, and we’re not trying to be all things for everyone.”

Eric Nugent Managing member of Two Bucks

will appeal to a wide range of people.

“I think we speak to the masses, and we’re not trying to be all things for everyone, but as a casual restaurant we attract the 21- and 22-year-old just as frequently

as we attract a 75-year-old, and the 40- to 50-year-olds as well,” Nugent said.

After a few weeks of testing the waters, Nugent said he’s aiming to hold the bar’s grand opening at the end of April.

Forgoing traditional specials that most bars offer during one time of the day or week, Two Bucks has built its brand on keeping low drink and food prices throughout the day. This will also be the case at its Columbus location, where most domestic beers, several cocktails and a special section of their menu are priced at $2.

This will be the franchise’s sixth location since first opening in Avon, on the west side of Cleveland, in 2009.

Kas Filippova, one of the Two Bucks Columbus owners, said the franchise stays away from prepackaged food, instead offering food made in-house.

“We’re not talking about rows of products that we get in bags and just throw in the fryer, we make a lot of things from scratch,” Filippova said.

Two Bucks inherited two smokers from Rooks Tavern, and decided to use them as an opportunity to make the Columbus menu distinct from its other locations.

Exclusively on the Columbus menu will be a dish called “Smok’n a Bowl,” which is a ramen-like noodle bowl served with

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Two Bucks’ drink “What She’s Having,” with Pinnacle raspberry vodka, peach puree, Razzmatazz and a can of Red Bull as a garnish. smoked meat or cauliflower. However, the bar will still offer its classics, such as its popular “Wake and Bake” dish, which features macaroni and cheese topped with homemade tater tots and a fried egg.

Filippova and Nugent’s team has decided to keep the general layout of the space, while adding a few elements to generate an atmosphere that reflects Two Bucks’ other locations.

“We’re adding more televisions and a jukebox to make it a little more neighborhood-bar feel,” Nugent said. “It’s a beautiful build out, so we’re keeping the structure and bones of it.”

Two Bucks will hold its soft opening at 5 p.m. Friday, and will be open daily at 11 a.m.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Pinball wizard Trent Augenstein makes a living doing what he loves most

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Trent Augenstein stands in front of his pinball machine collection at his 130-acre farm in Ostrander, Ohio. Augenstine is the seventh-ranked pinball player in the world.

KAYLEE HARTER Lantern reporter harter.830@osu.edu Like many students, when 1991 Ohio State alumnus Trent Augenstein first started college, he had no idea what he wanted to do.

Although he graduated with a degree in finance and real estate, he now makes his living off of what started as a favorite hobby — pinball.

Augenstein works as a distributor for Stern Pinball and

also operates, sells and repairs games out of a red-and-black barn in Ostrander, Ohio. Perhaps most impressively, he is the seventh-ranked pinball player in the world.

“He pretty much lives and breathes pinball,” said Al Williams, who has been fixing pinball machines longer than anyone else in Columbus by Augenstein’s estimate and helps out with repairs in the barn, despite being retired.

The barn sits on Augenstein’s 130-acre farm, just down the

road from where he grew up, and hosts his extensive collection of machines.

The collection began with a Phantom of the Opera game that Augenstein installed in a comic book shop in Grove City. Then, he began importing containers of 50 to 80 machines from Europe.

“I would keep the ones that I wanted for my collection and then I’d sell the rest to pay for them,” he said. “When that happened, my collection really started booming.”

Although Augenstein doesn’t know how many machines are in his collection, he knows the rulebooks and history of nearly every machine. The oldest is a wood machine from the 1930s, and his favorite is “Attack from Mars.”

Shelves of trophies line the walls, but Augenstein has never counted them.

His first award came from the 1994 Ohio State Championship, in which he placed sixth, although Augenstein had been playing at the Ohio Union and other arcades in the campus area throughout his college career. Since then, Augenstein has been playing as much pinball as possible.

At first, there were only three tournaments a year. Now, there are four leagues in Columbus alone and Augenstein plays in more than 100 events a year, which is thanks to a pinball rebirth that Augenstein credits, in part, to cell phones and the internet.

Augenstein said with people starting to play pinball on their phones, more and more people wanted to play the real thing, which drew in a larger and younger crowd.

“It’s fantastic,” he said.

Although Augenstein never moved away from his hometown, pinball carried him across the world.

In 1995, he helped move his girlfriend to California, staying with other pinball enthusiasts he

met over the internet along the way.

“They all had pinballs and we’d play pinballs,” he said. “It was a blast.”

In 1999, he and four other Americans traveled to the Netherlands for a tournament.

“He pretty much lives and breathes pinball.”

Al Williams Friend of Trent Augenstein

“That was a real experience because I don’t think at that point there were really any Americans that had gone overseas to play,” he said.

To make the experience even better, he won.

His experiences aren’t limited to pinball, though. After Augenstein graduated, he got his pilot’s license. Last month, he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, inspired 20 years ago by a chapter of Michael Crichton’s “Travels.”

In the future, he hopes to hike the Appalachian Trail and visit all seven continents — he’s been to all but Australia and Antarctica.

“To me, that’s what life’s all about — going out and meeting new people and seeing new places and doing new things,” Augenstein said.

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Ohio State redshirt senior linebacker Dante Booker (33) attempts to sack Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley in the second quarter in the game against Penn State on Oct. 28. Ohio State won 39-38.

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“He’s one of my favorite guys because he just goes as hard as he can,” Meyer said. “He’s a guy that’s made some mistakes on defense when he’s in there, and he’s just fighting through. The light is coming on, and he’s doing pretty good.”

On the outside, Jones and Harrison have worked with the starting unit. Werner and Browning also are pushing for playing time at outside linebacker. Booker will miss spring practice due to two shoulder surgeries, but is expected to compete for a starting role in the fall.

Harrison and Booker have the most experience of the group, but neither are locked into starting positions.

Booker started the opening games in 2016 and 2017, then dealt with season-ending injuries in both campaigns and will not be healthy until spring practice concludes. Harrison replaced Booker in the starting lineup for a couple games, but was moved out of the lineup later in the season.

Werner played mostly special teams last year, but Meyer raved about him in the fall and said he is having an “excellent spring.”

Ohio State will not have a problem filling three linebacker spots.

The only question that remains is who will take advantage of the wide open situation and burst onto the scene.

Still, Meyer is confident in the linebacker coach Bill Davis-led unit.

“Linebackers? I’m not concerned,” Meyer said. “Coach Davis is doing a good job, and there are some talented cats.”

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Buckeye career, especially coming off a season-ending injury. If there was any narrative around Bates-Diop heading into his redshirt junior season, it was that he would be counted on by a brand new coaching staff to provide solid production in the hopes of keeping the team afloat in the Big Ten. Instead, he became a star for the team, claiming the Big Ten Player of the Year honors after averaging 19.8 points, 8.7 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game.

Though still not becoming the vocal leader in the locker room that Tate was, Bates-Diop led the Buckeyes by example and was the star Holtmann needed in his first season to prove to potential recruits he can maximize a player’s talents.

“He developed, and I think hopefully he feels like that we helped him get there and whatever we can do that,” Holtmann said. “That’s something that sure is good that we can communicate to recruits and say look at what Keita and JT, look at how they were developed in just the one year that we had with them. He’ll be a good example for that in recruiting.”

Tate and Bates-Diop, the final two members of the 2014 class, will depart Ohio State both having gone through some ups and downs for the program. Both played key roles in helping turn

what could have been a rebuilding process into a quick rebound and lay the foundation for Holtmann to build upon.

“The good ones here that we recruit as a coaching staff will all realize that they stand on the shoulders of those really good players that came before,” Holtmann said. “And I think he realized that and so did JT, and that’s why I think they felt an obligation in a lot of ways to kind of put this to make the program relevant again.

“They stand on the shoulders of all those guys that have done it so well before them. So what he now can leave here, he can now leave here knowing that he did that.”

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Across 4. The female lead (juliet) 5. To bury (inter) 6. Epidemic (pestilence) 8. Juliet’s mom (ladycapulet) 10. The setting of the story (verona) 11. Killed by tybalt (mercutio) 13. Marries Romeo and Juliet (friarlawrence) 14. Romeo’s dad (montague) 15. Cloth used to wrap a body for burial (shroud) 17. Tells the prince who killed who when Tybalt and Mercutio died (benvolio) 18. Banished Romeo (prince)

Down 1. Juliets suitor, and planned future husband (paris) 2. Juliet’s friend and servant, mother figure (nurse) 3. Juliet’s dad (capulet) 7. Romeo’s mom (ladymontague) 9. Was sent to deliver a letter to a banished Romeo (friarjohn) 12. Juliet’s cousin, killed by romeo (tybalt) 16. The male lead (romeo)

2. Animal that eats dead animals without hunting or killing them 6. Animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals 7. All the food chains in an ecosystem 8. Place where living and nonliving things interact 9. Living thing that feeds on dead plants or animals 10. Changing of a liquid into a gas 12. Animal that a predator hunts 16. Way that plants and some othter living things make food by using sunlight 17. Changing of a gas into a liquid

18. Animal that eats plants 19. Members of one kind of living thing in an ecosystem

Down 1. Living thing that makes it own food 3. Living thing that eats plants or animals 4. Release of energy from food 5. Animal that eats other animals 8. Model that shows how energy moves through an ecosystem 11. Water that falls to earth 13. Path of the Sun’s energy from one living thing to another 14. Animal that eats plants and animals 15. All the populations in an area

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Early-season woes fail to slow Ohio State in Frozen Four run WYATT CROSHER Lantern reporter crosher.1@osu.edu Before the season began, there were no signs that this Ohio State men’s hockey team was going to do something only one other team in the program’s history had ever done.

There were no signs following a season-opening 7-4 exhibition loss to Ryerson and two 1-1 ties with an RPI team that went 6-274 that this Ohio State team would eventually dominate the defending national champions end-toend for 60 minutes on the way to the Frozen Four.

There were no signs. Yet, this is where the Buckeyes stand — two wins away from their first-ever national championship.

“I’d love to see your guys’ brackets and who you guys picked,” junior forward Dakota Joshua said. “Not a lot of people had us coming out of this side. So, it just feeds our game and helps us play better for sure. But hopefully people know who we are now.”

It’s safe to say people know what Ohio State is now: a team that dispensed a Princeton squad that came in winning seven in a row and a team that beat Denver, which spent seven weeks as the top-ranked team in college hockey, by a resounding score of 5-1.

“We just played one of the best

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Members of Ohio State’s hockey team celebrates Dakota Joshua’s second-period goal against Denver in the NCAA Tournament. teams in the country,” head coach Steve Rohlik said Sunday. “Defending national champs, they’ve been rated one or two all year. Any time you can go out there and go toe-to-toe and put in a good effort … it feels pretty good.”

The Buckeyes are back in the

Frozen Four, a place they haven’t been since 1998, when they were quickly shown the door in a 5-2 beatdown by Boston College.

This time around, Ohio State will be looking to improve on history in two respects. Not just searching for its first-ever nation-

al championship game, but doing so by avenging its 3-2 overtime loss to Minnesota Duluth that eliminated the Buckeyes from the NCAA tournament a year ago.

Runner-ups last year, the Bulldogs are a formidable opponent. But they will not be facing

the same Ohio State team they squeaked by in overtime last year, and Denver head coach Jim Montgomery learned that the hard way.

“They play like that, they’ll be national champions,” Montgomery said after the loss to Ohio State. “They were better than us tonight in every facet.”

It might have taken 20 years to return, but Ohio State showed it deserved the top seed in the Midwest region. After a full season of playing in the nation’s toughest conference — the Big Ten owns three of the teams in this year’s Frozen Four — the Buckeyes will look to make even more history in their already historic season.

Just a year removed from its last tournament run, Ohio State enters its semifinal matchup with the nation’s top penalty kill, while ranking in the top 10 in team offense, team defense and power play. There were no signs of this from a team that lost every goalie on the roster, as well as its star forward, to graduation during the offseason.

There were no signs that this Ohio State team would turn a 1-3-3 home record into the second-best home record in the conference at 13-4-3. Now, there are signs Ohio State might do something in two weeks it has never done before: bring back a national title to Columbus.

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OSU’s fluid linebacker position offers opportunity for inexperienced players COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu Prior to the start of last season, there was not much question as to which linebackers would start. Playmaking Jerome Baker and a fully rehabbed Dante Booker lined up at outside linebacker and Chris Worley slid inside to replace the outgoing Raekwon McMillan.

One year later, everything that was once clear has become jumbled with no clear starter at any position. Worley appeared in 50 games and started the past two seasons before graduating, taking his versatility and 154 career tackles to the NFL. Baker decided to forgo his remaining year of eligibility and declare for the NFL draft after patrolling the second level of the defense the past two years, totalling 158 tackles, seven sacks and two interceptions.

In their place, a bevy of linebackers — Keandre Jones, Malik Harrison, Baron Browning, Pete Werner, Tuf Borland, Justin Hilliard and Booker — are engaged in a battle for playing time. Even freshmen Teradja Mitchell and Dallas Gant have a chance to break into the rotation early.

For the first time in years, the Buckeyes do not have a single linebacker returning who started every game the prior season — though Booker started six games before suffering an injury.

“You’ve got some good bodies. We’re not ready to say who is going to be in what position. It’s our job to get the best of them out there,” Meyer said. “The good thing is there is some opportunity, like you said, for someone to step up and go. That position, once again, they’re not perfect and they

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Ohio State redshirt freshman linebacker Tuf Borland (32) prepares to defend a USC possession in the third quarter of the 2017 Cotton Bowl against USC on Dec. 29 in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Ohio State won 24-7. don’t have to be, but they’re trying. I kind of like that position right now.”

Meyer might say he likes the competition, but it’s hard to believe he enjoys the uncertainty, even if the season is more than five months from kicking off.

The situation became murkier Monday when Meyer announced Borland, who started nine games at middle linebacker last season, suffered an Achilles injury and

would miss time. Of those fighting for one of the three starting linebacker spots, Borland has the most experience. Meyer even said Borland was locked into a starting role.

Despite the injury, Meyer said he’s not too worried about Borland missing an extended period of time, hinting at a quicker-than-usual recovery.

“He’s a little bit like J.T. Barrett,” Meyer

said. “You say he’s out for a while, but he’s not going to be out for that long.”

Borland will likely remain a starter when he returns, but the absence gives the opportunity for a duo of intriguing linebackers to step up.

Browning and Hilliard have filled in for Borland during spring practice despite neither former five-star recruit having played meaningful defensive snaps with the Buckeyes. Both were ranked as top-three outside linebackers in their respective classes by the 247Sports composite rankings, but both their careers have taken different paths since they arrived in college.

A physical freak who Meyer called “as talented a linebacker as has ever walked through these doors,” Browning has the size and athleticism to play all three linebacker spots and pushed for playing time as a freshman after getting over early-career hurdles. “[Browning] did not play well early in the season. Just was out of his comfort zone,” Meyer said. “By the end of the season he was really contributing in a lot of areas on special teams and should have played some defense, but he just didn’t earn that yet. But he’s got it all now.”

Hilliard, on the other hand, has been kept off the field the majority of his first three seasons due to a multitude of injuries that put him behind his linebacker counterparts.

A hard hitter and special-teams ace when healthy, he has suffered multiple bicep injuries.

However, Hilliard has a chance to see the field if he can take advantage of Borland’s absence and prove he has the ability to both stuff the run and succeed in pass coverage.

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Bates-Diop leaves lasting legacy as 1st star of Holtmann era EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu Four years ago, forward Keita Bates-Diop was preparing to begin his Ohio State career along with a highly touted recruiting class.

The second-highest ranked member of the Buckeyes’ class, Bates-Diop came in with lofty expectations along with the other three players that were expected to form the core of a championship contender. They were coming to a team that had just lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, but had just made it to six straight tournament appearances.

But, on Monday, as the redshirt junior forward sat at the table in the media room of the Schottenstein Center announcing he would leave the team early for the NBA draft, he reflected a tumultuous time in Columbus. One that began with promise, stalled out and returned to prominence in what became his final season in scarlet and gray.

Though that 2014 recruiting class never came all that close to leading Ohio State to a championship, it laid the foundation for a strong program in the beginning of the Chris Holtmann era at Ohio

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Former Ohio State forward Keita Bates-Diop (33) drives in the second half of the game against Michigan State on Jan. 7 in Value City Arena. Ohio State won 80-64.

State.

“I think that’s the best feeling and kind of one of the best parts about all this,” Bates-Diop said. “Because like I said the last couple years have been down for Ohio State basketball and to do what we did and what I did individually and to kind of leave on

that note is a bittersweet feeling, but it’s probably the best way to go.”

The class itself each had members go in varying directions.

Dave Bell transferred after his redshirt sophomore season at Ohio State, D’Angelo Russell left after one season to become

the second pick in the 2015 NBA Draft and both Bates-Diop and Jae’Sean Tate stuck around for four years.

Tate was always a consistent presence for Ohio State. He never became a star for Ohio State, but he remained a steady leader for the team.

Bates-Diop was not necessarily that player. He was the 29th-best player in the class, but struggled in his first season before beginning to flash his tools in the sophomore season.

Right when people began to view him as a potential breakout candidate, he fractured his leg and didn’t to return to action. Instead of playing through the injury, he opted to undergo surgery and take a medical redshirt for the season.

In hindsight, that was the best decision he made during his time at Ohio State.

“I could’ve played through it, but I don’t think I would be here today if I had,” Bates-Diop said.

Holtmann said coaches talked with him before the season about how Bates-Diop had the tools to become a standout player for the team. The only questions they had were in regard to his motor and his toughness.

But as soon as Holtmann had time to work with him, he said he could tell Bates-Diop had a strong enough work ethic and desire to improve in order to turn himself into a great player.

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Rocky 4-year career ends with resurgent final season CAROLINE RICE Lantern reporter rice.840@osu.edu

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Former Ohio State forward Keita Bates-Diop announces his decision to enter the 2018 NBA draft during a press conference on March 26.

The decision that was made only a few days ago was not an easy one for Ohio State redshirt junior forward Keita Bates-Diop.

But he felt it was the right one.

Bates-Diop decided to forgo his final year of eligibility and declare for the 2018 NBA Draft, he announced while sitting beside his parents at a press conference Monday afternoon.

“I love this place. I’ve been here for four years and the memories I’ve made here, I had to weigh that versus my future,” Bates-Diop said. “Weighing all of my options, talking to my family, the coaches, former and pro teammates currently, I think it was the best decision for me.”

Bates-Diop said he will sign with an agent and eliminate the possibility of returning to Ohio State for another season, but he has not decided on an agency yet because he has been solely focused on the decision.

One factor that Bates-Diop said made a huge impact on his decision was his graduation from Ohio State in December. Bates-Diop placed an importance on leaving Ohio State with a degree.

In addition to his graduation, the star forward considered what

he had to gain, or rather, what he had to lose by staying another season. He fractured his leg near the beginning of his junior season and was forced to take a medical redshirt after appearing in just nine games. The fear of another injury provided Bates-Diop with incentive to leave early and avoid the chance of another injury harming his draft stock.

“Weighing all of my options, talking to my family, the coaches, former and pro teammates currently, I think it was the best decision for me.”

Keita Bates-Diop Former OSU redshirt junior forward

“I think he realized the timing is right given that he’s 22 [years old] and given that he’s got his degree and all of those things kind of lined up,” Holtmann said.

“I think he realized he made a significant contribution to our program in his time here but certainly this year in both his play and his leadership.”

In his final season at Ohio State, Bates-Diop capped off his career with his best season, taking home

the Big Ten Player of The Year trophy and leading the Buckeyes to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2015.

Feeling that he was leaving the program at a point where it only had an upward trajectory, Bates-Diop took into account the success of the team this past season and realized it was the perfect time to leave.

“It’s the best feeling and kind of one of the best parts about all of this,” Bates-Diop said. “The last couple of years have been down for Ohio State basketball and to do what we did and what I did individually this year and to kind of leave on that note is a bittersweet feeling but it’s probably the best way to go.”

He said he had been debating his future since the start of Big Ten play and that as much as he tried to keep the focus solely on the present, he couldn’t help but look toward the future.

Now he feels relieved to have a decision made so he can focus on the next chapter of his basketball career beyond Ohio State.

“These last four years have been the best four years of my life, and it’s been a great journey,” Bates-Diop said.

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