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Drake calls for mental health task force SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu A little more than one day after a former student fell from the same garage one student fell from days before, University President Michael Drake announced the creation of a task force to improve Ohio State’s mental health practices and resources.

“Tonight, I am announcing a task force led by Dr. Eileen Ryan, interim chair of our Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, and Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston, senior vice president for Student Life, to further evaluate national best practices and provide recommendations to me within 60 days,” Drake said in a statement.

On Sunday, Drake said he directed Ohio State public safety officials to launch review facilities on campus and enhance safety measures.

“These incidents have been shocking to our community and truly heartbreaking for the families, friends and loved ones of the victims. I know you join me in offering support and condolences,” he said. “The safety and well-being of our university community is — and always will be — our first priority. Thank you for con-

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leased prior to this article’s publication, but said, “We will share relevant updates and changes that may be made as a result of the review when completed.”

Led by Advocates for Women of the World, a student organization that focuses on bringing awareness to global women’s issues, the letter was written to pressure Ohio State to take action, said Karla Haddad, one of the letter’s two authors and AWOW’s vice president for marketing.

“We just want to reinforce the fact that, as a university, you should be providing these resources and the fact that while it’s under review, there’s been no interim resources in place,” said Haddad, a second-year in marketing and political science. “I think [its closing] is punishing survivors the most, and in my opinion, that’s extremely problematic.”

Following the office’s closing, the university said in a statement that measures were taken to move some of the resources provided by SCE into other offices. The letter said the help from SCE cannot be matched by other existing campus resources.

“Although the university provides alternate resources for survivors, such as the Office of Title IX and Counseling and Consulting Services, neither of these resources provide the same personalized, student-centered experience that the Sexual Civility and Empowerment (SCE) program provides,” it reads.

Brenda Chaney made her first trip to the Ohio Reformatory for Women in 1978. She was a teaching assistant at Ohio State to a professor instructing a class about prisons in the United States.

Forty years later, she has found a continued purpose inside its walls.

“It’s an entirely different place,” Chaney said. “When I was here for the first time, there were no fences around, there was no barbed wire, it was totally different.”

The outside of the ORW has changed, and so has what happens on the inside.

Now a senior lecturer in sociology at Ohio State, Chaney is an instructor for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, a program that brings “outside” students from surrounding colleges together with “inside” students currently serving time in correctional facilities for a collaborative-learning environment.

“The real reason that I was attracted to this program is because I think who ends up in prison and who doesn’t is largely determined by the family they grew up in and the neighborhood they grew up in when none of us get to choose that,” Chaney said. “If my students learn anything at all it should be that they’re not different from each other.”

The program aims to create two-way discussions about issues such as crime, justice and other social concerns by having students work together.

To date, Inside-Out has reached 45 states and expanded overseas to 10 additional countries with more than 800 trained instructors teaching courses ranging from criminology to philosophy. More than 30,000 students have taken an Inside-Out class, and there are now 20 instructors teaching the program at universities throughout Ohio.

On Saturday, more than 70 people filed into the chapel of ORW, with large carts of donated Bibles lining the walls of the entryway, a large wood cross hovering over the room, and chairs arranged in a large circle.

The place of worship trans-

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University administrators and student leaders are meeting to discuss potential changes to parking garage structures after two students fell from the same parking garage within 72-hours, leaving one dead and the other seriously injured. tinuing to support your classmates and colleagues throughout our Buckeye family.”

University administrators and student leaders began meeting Monday to address the concern for adequate mental health resources at Ohio State and review whether a restructuring of garages is needed.

University leadership, including administrators involved with the Office of Student Life, the Department of Public Safety,

CampusParc and Facilities Operation and Development have been meeting to review garages and consider potential additions that could prevent incidents like those that occurred Thursday and Sunday.

Many students were unhappy Monday morning when little information was sent from administration, though meetings regarding the tragedies were taking place around that time.

“We understand that students

are upset and we are very troubled, too,” said university spokesman Chris Davey. “Anytime that we lose a member of our community or someone gets seriously injured, it’s very upsetting for all of us. To have two incidents occur in such a short span of time in the same place, I think, has all of us very upset.”

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50+ orgs call for SCE reinstatement TERESA CARDENAS Senior Lantern reporter cardenas.53@osu.edu More than 50 student organizations signed a letter urging Ohio State to reinstate resources for sexual violence survivors in response to the recent closing and review of the university’s Sexual Civility and Empowerment program.

The focus of the letter, which is not addressed specifically to Ohio State, but to “whom it may concern,” is to bring awareness to the importance of SCE and the effects its current closure might have.

“While the reasons for the review of the office are unknown, we as an organization would like to emphasize the university’s obligation to provide a centralized and personalized resource for survivors of sexual violence,” the letter reads.

The SCE office was notified of its review Feb. 12 and asked to halt its work in March, leaving some students seeking alternative help because they’re no longer allowed to see SCE faculty that typically support them. Ohio State is deferring any student seeking help regarding sexual violence and assault to its Title IX office, Counseling and Consultation Service, and the Sexual Assault Response Network of Central Ohio (SARNCO).

Ohio State has not released specific information on the reasoning behind SCE’s review.

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Karla Haddad co-authored a letter signed by more than 40 student organizations calling on the university to provide interim services for survivors of sexual trauma while the Sexual Civility and Empowerment office is under review.

“The Ohio State University is committed to providing a safe and inclusive learning environment. We have an extensive system of programs for providing support and services for members of our community who experience sexual misconduct,” a university statement said.

Ohio State spokesmen could not comment directly on the letter because it was not re-

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Urban GEMS: Using gardening to reduce gun violence in Columbus LYDIA GINGERICH Lantern reporter gingerich.50@osu.edu While researching gun violence in the south side of Columbus, Deanna Wilkinson became overwhelmed and depressed, but she found healing in an unexpected activity: indoor gardening.

“The sound and the light, and growing something and being responsible for it — it just made me feel better. And it gave me the idea that if it helps me, maybe it can help the community,” Wilkinson said.

Wilkinson, a professor in the Department of Human Sciences at Ohio State, started Urban GEMS (Gardening Entrepreneurs Motivating Sustainability) in 2015 to bring restoration to the neighborhoods with high crime and murder rates she had been researching.

She placed three indoor growing towers in the basement of Family Missionary Baptist Church and invited youth from the community to join her in growing, harvesting and eating the plants.

In the years since, Wilkinson and her team have expanded the program to include plant towers at Millenium Community School,

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Nacir Groce and his aunt Tiffany Groce harvest kale at the Urban GEMS indoor farm on Parsons Avenue. the Center for African Studies at Ohio State and an indoor farm on Parsons Avenue. Currently there are more than 60 young people learning to plant, sustain and consume crops through Urban GEMS. Tiffany Groce, Urban GEMS project coordinator, said she is impressed by the many changes she has seen in the south side community since the beginning of the program.

“We have kids that have been involved with the program from

the beginning. So they may have started out as 12-year-olds and now they’re 15-year-olds. If they weren’t involved in our different programs that we have going on, where would a typical 15-yearold be?” Groce said.

Urban GEMS provides an alternative not only for violence, but also food insecurity. Groce said many of the participants come from households that rarely serve fresh fruits or vegetables.

“They will eat it if it’s provided for them but a lot of times it’s just

not provided for them. In these inner city neighborhoods it’s just really expensive to eat fresh fruits and vegetables, especially if you are feeding a family of five or six,” Groce said.

Her 11-year-old nephew Nasir Groce spends most of his time after school with Urban GEMS. He said his favorite part is “growing the plants and just taking them home and eating them and learning how to eat healthy.”

As a professor at Ohio State, Wilkinson brings awareness of the program to her students by taking them into participating communities.

“One thing that tends to be a challenge is that students don’t leave campus. A lot of the people that end up sticking with the projects have taken a class with me and are forced out of that comfort zone. Creating those opportunities for students is incredibly valuable but not logistically easy,” Wilkinson said.

Matondo Ngemba, a second-year in international studies, chose to get involved with Urban GEMS after reading the mission and vision of the organization. The values of community improvement and reaching out to marginalized communities aligned with her own.

While Ngemba studies international relations, she sees the importance of working locally.

She said tackling global issues without dealing with local ones is “like eating an elephant by trying to fit the whole thing in your mouth. You have to take it piece by piece. That’s why I’m starting with Urban GEMS in the community and then expanding.”

Wilkinson is already measuring the success of this project and hopes that it can be replicated across the country.

“If I’m not doing this, I’m not as happy as when I am doing this, so you know it works. And I can see it from the kids, I can see it from the adults, and I’m trying to measure it with our evaluation,” she said. “I’m not sure I’m going to be able to quantify every last thing that is happening but it’s turned into something great in a really short amount of time and it will only get better.”

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

There is help.

There is hope.

KEVIN STANKIEWICZ Editor-in-Chief stankiewicz.16@osu.edu This time of the semester is stressful and difficult; it can seem like every deadline in every class is stacked up back-to-backto-back. There’s countless other things weighing on us.

But the most important thing to remember if, and when, we are struggling is there is help.

There is hope.

It’s a message that seems particularly important to spread now.

On Thursday, one of our fellow students died, and on Sunday, another was seriously injured.

We won’t ever be able to say what factors led to these situations, but we can say, with certainty, there are resources available to help if you or someone you know is having thoughts of taking their life.

Having suicidal thoughts and behaviors — as well as any mental illness like depression or anxiety — are not signs of weakness. Too often, happiness is described as something you can choose to be. It’s not that simple. If you’re not OK, that’s OK. But suicide is preventable, and if you need it, there are people who can provide help.

If you need someone to talk to, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Life-

line at 1-800-273-8255 or text ‘START’ or ‘4HOPE’ — if you’re in Ohio — to the Crisis Text Line.

There’s also resources on campus if you’re experiencing an urgent need. In addition to calling 911 or visiting the emergency room, you can call Counseling and Consultation Services at 614-292-5766 to talk with a therapist; if its after-hours, call and choose Option 2.

You also can schedule counseling sessions, both individual and for groups, through CCS. You’ll have to schedule these, but they can be incredibly helpful. There are reliable private practices through central Ohio that provide counseling and mental health services, too.

The places and people who can help don’t stop there. The mental health advocacy group Half of Us’ campaign “Press Pause” provides great advice — like simple breathing exercises — if you’re feeling overwhelmed.

There also are things each of us can do on campus to help each other. If you think your friend might be struggling, don’t be afraid to ask them if they’re OK. Be mindful of your classmates, too. There are things we can do in our daily lives to make sure no one feels alone — because the truth is, you are never alone.

It isn’t easy to always remember, but no matter what you’re struggling with, there is help. There is hope.

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allows for more students’ mental health needs to be addressed, but said administrators recognize the counseling service still isn’t perfect. “[University administrators] know, and we hear from students that tell us, that we can still do better,” Davey said. “We’re going to be in dialogue and continue to examine our systems.”

Undergraduate Student Government also is seeking to continue the dialogue on mental health resources. The group plans to hold conversations specifically on students’ mental health in its Tuesday cabinet meeting, as well as in meetings with leaders, including a meeting with Drake planned for Wednesday, said Shamina Merchant, USG’s president.

“I think we all as a campus need to come together and figure out what we can do to make sure students have the resources they need,” Merchant said. “This is the No. 1 priority in conversation with administrators across the board, and we see them echo the sentiment that students feel they have adequate mental health resources now and into the future.”

USG is essentially the only student group that meets with the administration regularly, conversing with leaders such as Drake and Vice President for Student Life Javaune Adams-Gaston. The student group arguably

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Casey Kaiser (left), a third-year in psychology, and Samantha Woodring (right), a second-year in English and philosophy, tape mental health flyers on the Neil Ave. Garage Monday night.

has the most direct voice to call for action or change on campus.

Counselors from CCS are available to meet with classes and students who need support as needed, said Dave Isaacs, a spokesman for the

Office of Student Life.

In addition to the university’s effort to increase counseling following the incidents, the GroupMe message app is being used by hundreds of students to organize events on campus such as hanging up fliers that advocate mental health resources or sending a letter to Drake.

The group filled with students early Saturday morning and has continued to grow since.

Members of the group, along with Buckeyes Campaign Against Suicide, are met Monday night to put informational mental health resource fliers in campus garages.

A vigil for lost lives is being held Wednesday in the Great Hall meeting room in the Union at 7 p.m. All students and members of the Ohio State community are invited to attend and honor the lives of students who died too soon, Merchant said.

Ohio State’s Counseling and Consultation Service is located on the fourth floor of the Younkin Success Center on Neil Avenue. An additional location is at Lincoln Tower room 1030 on Cannon Drive. The service can be reached at 614-292-5766.

A crisis text line can be reached any day at any hour at 741741. Text “home” to the number for immediate assistance.

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formed into an integrated space for Inside-Out Ohio’s annual meeting where inmates, Ohio State students and leaders in the program had an open dialogue about prison reform, the re-entry process and issues specific to incarcerated women.

Outside the chapel, a few of the insider students were selling ornate, hand-crafted jewelry and pens on a fold-out table for a program that raises money to help cover the costs for inmates re-entering society.

A 28-year-old insider student, who studied globalization with Chaney every Wednesday during Spring Semester of 2017, now participates in a burgeoning “think tank” group, which focuses on crime, justice and related social concerns.

The student, who cannot be identified by name for legal reasons, said the program has given her a purpose and allowed her to take charge of her future. Since joining Inside-Out, she has used her experience in the program to pay it forward at ORW. She now tutors other women at the institution in literacy.

Surrounded by her classmates, she nervously presented about her experience with the new think tank program at ORW and how other institutions could implement their own.

She has eight months of her sentence left and is looking forward to using the tools she’s been given to move forward to the next phase of her life.

“It’s a long process and no one is going to do it for you,” she said.

“They can guide you but at the

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end of the day it is up to you to do the work.”

The event brought new ideas into the discussion about helping people who spent time in prison re-enter society, the disparity in criminology research focused on women and helping reformed citizens in rural communities with the specific challenges they face.

Former insider student Terry Green spoke at length about the difficulty of the re-entry process, especially for people who do not have a solid support system.

“Re-entry, for me, is every day,” Green said. “It’s a battle, I know that, but it’s worth it. You have to choose the life you want each day.”

Green was incarcerated from 2009 to 2013 and took initiative with his education while he was behind bars. Within 90 days of entering prison he had earned his GED, and within six months he was taking classes for college credit. He took his first Inside-Out course in 2011.

Green plans to become the first former insider student to become an instructor for Inside-Out. He plans on teaching a class on entrepreneurship in the spring of 2019 while also running a nonprofit social-justice consulting firm, “Think, Make, Live,” that helps individuals involved in the criminal justice system.

For some students, the meeting marked an end to their time with Inside-Out. Chloe Knoell, a fourth-year in pharmacy, has been a student involved with Inside-Out since her freshman year when she took Chaney’s globalization class.

She has stayed involved in book groups and developing the think tank for the past three years.

“This is a really unique learning opportunity that you can’t really get in any other more conventional classroom setting,” Knoell said. “[It] has been really valuable.”

Everyone, but especially the insider students, has made her want to be an advocate for former offenders and prison reform, Knoell said. Despite this program not aiding her pharmacy degree, she said she could not have imagined her time at Ohio State any other way.

“Inmates, because they’re painted in the media and regular society as being monsters when in reality they are people who, granted, have made a few mistakes in their time, but especially the women I’ve met in this class are people really actively trying to better themselves and work on successfully re-entering society when they’re able to,” Knoell said.

The event concluded with everyone taking a moment to thank Chaney for her constant support of the program that she unknowingly became woven into on her first visit 40 years ago.

“Every semester that I’m here somebody says to me that they learn more about themselves and about the other group than they did before and that’s the purpose,” Chaney said. “That’s why we’re here, to learn about other people.”

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Haddad — along with co-author Taylor Albright, a second-year in political science who works for the SCE’s front desk who also is a member of AWOW — introduced the idea of a letter to the group after they felt that someone needed to take direct action.

“My biggest concern was that nothing had been addressed,” Haddad said. “There was no clear path when the resources would be reinstated or if there were interim resources, and I think the biggest thing that hit me along with Taylor is that for the time being, survivors’ needs were not being met.”

The letter ends by emphasizing the authors’ demand for resources similar to the SCE to return to campus.

“The Ohio State University must be held to a degree of accountability to give survivors the resources that they need in a form that is personalized, accessible, and survivor-focused,” the letter reads.

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ASHLEY DIGGINS Lantern reporter diggins.10@osu.edu Most Ohio State students spend time on The Oval petting dogs or playing frisbee. Logan Broadbent, however, was cultivating what would turn into a successful athletic career.

Broadbent, an Ohio State alumnus, is a premier athlete in the unconventional sport of boomerang throwing: He is currently ranked No. 1 in the country and No. 2 in the world.

He recently partnered with Dude Perfect, a popular YouTube sports channel, to show off his boomerang skills. The video went viral, reaching more than 10 million views in 24 hours and 20 million in a week.

Broadbent said he started boomerang throwing very young because his father was on the U.S. Boomerang Team. The younger Broadbent made the team at age 14 and has competed ever since.

He introduced the sport to many of his classmates during his time at Ohio State.

“I used to throw a boomerang around out on The Oval and it always turned a lot of heads,” he said. “Everybody would walk up and say ‘What are you doing?’

Everyone would have to try it.”

He said he took his exams early senior year so he could fly to

fect has brought to the sport is incredible,” Snouffer said. “I think they really highlighted the skill that is involved and I know that the video is already stoking the natural curiosity that kids have about boomerangs. The sport needs more young people, so opportunities like Dude Perfect with great ambassadors like Logan can really help.”

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“Boomerangs are my passion. They’re my love. It’s what I’ve always done.”

Logan Broadbent No. 1 boomerang thrower in America and OSU alumnus

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Logan Broadbent (third from right) poses with the popular YouTube trick shot group Dude Perfect.

Rome to compete in the boomerang throwing world championship, which his team won.

When the five men behind the Dude Perfect channel asked him to collaborate, Broadbent said he was thrilled.

“They were super awesome, super fun,” he said. “You can tell in the video everybody just had a good time.”

The video is six minutes and 10 seconds packed with Broadbent performing outrageous boomerang tricks, including his signature

backflip catch.

Since the video went viral, Broadbent said thousands of people have reached out to him from around the world about boomerang throwing. He has his own business selling boomerangs, and he said sales have skyrocketed.

“It really exploded,” he said.

He said the video has brought other opportunities for him. He was contacted by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and has been offered the opportunity to produce a line of Logan Broadbent boomerangs.

Mostly, he said he is just excited about all the attention he is bringing to boomerang throwing, a relatively unrecognized sport.

“Boomerangs are my passion.

They’re my love. It’s what I’ve always done,” he said. “I’ve been lucky enough to be an advocate for the sport and help grow the sport.”

Gregg Snouffer, a fellow Ohio State alumnus and Broadbent’s coach on the U.S. national team, said he feels the same way.

“The attention that Dude Per-

Broadbent is not just a boomerang thrower. He also works at General Electric and competed on American Ninja Warrior for the past two seasons.

He will be returning for this third season at the end of the month, and said he hopes to continue bringing attention to boomerangs through the show.

“I have a feeling a lot more people are going to recognize me this year,” he said.

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Dance chair honored for service, leadership Stauf’s to TONY WHITE Lantern reporter white.2726@osu.edu When Department of Dance Chair Susan Hadley worked with University President Michael Drake to surprise her co-worker with an award for high-achieving faculty, she had no idea a surprise was in store for her as well.

“My husband and daughter were outside waiting to surprise me,” Hadley said. “I spent two weeks planning this surprise, while two staff members, my husband and daughter were planning this surprise for me.”

“Everyone in the arts must be constantly focused on advocating on the importance of arts.”

Susan Hadley Department of Dance Chair

Just as she thought the celebration was over, Hadley was presented the President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service in Sullivant Hall by Drake for her years of service and her dedication to several campus committees, including the Council of Academic Affairs and the Presidential Fellowship.

The Council of Academic Af-

fairs reviews changes in the curriculum at Ohio State, and the Presidential Fellowship gives funding to graduate students for their final year.

Before coming to Ohio State, Hadley was a principal dancer and eventually rehearsal director for the Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn New York. Her work has been performed by companies such as BalletMet Columbus, and has received recognition from many, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wexner Center for the Arts, among others.

Susan Petry, a professor in dance, said Hadley accomplishes all of this because she is organized, great with coming up with ideas and has a skill for planning.

“Last year she was in charge of a major collaboration with BalletMet and the Wexner Center,” Petry said. “It was a really complex program and she really made it successful.”

Hadley said receiving this award is not just important to her, but it brings attention to how important dance and the arts are to discussions and services on campus.

“Any time that students, staff and faculty are at the table with people across the university, we become advocates for dance,” Hadley said. “It is one more opportunity for us to make the excellence of this department more known to the university.”

Hadley said the Department

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Department of Dance Chair Susan Hadley was presented with the President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service in Sullivant Hall for her years of service and dedication to the university. of Dance has been a nationally ranked program for a long time and that she is following in the footsteps of the people who have come before her.

Petry said Hadley also has done great work to promote diversity and inclusion within the dance department and would like to continue that work.

“She’s really good about making sure that there isn’t just tokenism,” Petry said. “We are active-

ly growing in conversation with each other and students.”

As well as working toward a more diverse department, Hadley said she wants to continue to to inform the university about the Department of Dance and continue to advocate for the arts.

“Everyone in the arts must be constantly focused on advocating on the importance of arts in college education, K-12 education and in society at large,” she said.

Tom Griesemer smiles widely as he sits at a table by a few dozen wood barrels filled with coffee beans from as far as Nicaragua, Ethiopia and India. A warm, rich aroma saturates the air.

Griesemer is the founder of Columbus coffee staple Stauf’s, and nearly 30 years after the opening of the original Grandview location, he said he is surrounded by people he cares about, doing work that connects him deeply with his community. His company also has gone on to open three additional locations across Columbus, including German Village and the North Market.

“My work life has been the joy of my life,” he said. “And I’m not exaggerating. I’ve never felt like I work. I don’t work. I get to come here and hang. All my friends I met here, people I care about.”

Stauf’s will open a fifth location on the north side of downtown by the end of the month. The new cafe will be on the ground floor of a freshly constructed, modern apartment complex called the View On Grant.

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‘Isle of Dogs’ combines beautiful animation with strong characters

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Wes Anderson attends the ‘Isle Of Dogs’ Paris Premiere at Cinema Gaumont Capucine on April 3.

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“Isle of Dogs” was written and directed

by Wes Anderson and stars Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Greta Gerwig and a whole laundry list of other stars. The film is about a dystopian Japan that shipped all of its dogs onto an island full of trash, and one kid named Atari Kobayashi (Rankin) who travels to the island in search of his dog, Spots (Liev Schreiber).

Anderson is one of the most consistently strong directors working today, while also being one of the most unorthodox, so I am always excited to see his new proj-

ects. Specifically, with “Isle of Dogs,” he was going back to the stop motion that worked so well with “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” I was very excited to see this film, which includes and absolutely loaded cast, especially after seeing the trailer.

The Good Though it might be way different than anything done by Pixar or Disney Animation, “Isle of Dogs” is one of the most visually stunning animated movies in recent memory. Every single frame in this movie feels like a work of art, whether it be the fantastic work done on the dogs and humans, the beautiful pieces of scenery or incredible use of practical effects to make the stop motion work.

Anderson has made his directorial style a genre of his own with an extreme use of dry humor, symmetry and familiar actors, and “Isle of Dogs” is the epitome of Anderson’s style. The symmetry is there in every shot, the dry humor is consistently hysterical and very well-executed. Norton and Bill Murray, consistent favorites of Anderson, both shine in their supporting roles.

Cranston is the lead for the majority of the film, and he is terrific as Chief. His relationship with Atari is terrific, and Cranston does a great job with voicing a certain amount of anger and emotion throughout pivotal scenes in the movie.

The supporting cast of dogs were primarily utilized for their comedic abilities, and they all did a tremendous job. Norton did a fantastic job as Rex, but I loved Jeff Goldblum as Duke. Goldblum is the funniest of the group, especially with each successive rumor that he offers.

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Stauf’s will open a fifth location on the north side of downtown Columbus by the end of April. was selected because it is in a newly popular area called the Discovery District, said Mark Swanson, president of Stauf’s. Well-known sites nearby include BalletMet and Columbus State Community College.

“We were pretty excited about all of the development in the Discovery District, and our intention is always to be in up-and-coming areas … where we’ll be able to support the community and they’ll be able to support us,” Swanson said. “We just love the area.”

With an “open and airy” atmosphere, the new Stauf’s will have a patio, garage doors on one side, and WiFi throughout, he said. Customers also can expect freshly baked goods, including muffins, scones and desserts, in addition to a “full complement” of coffees and frozen drinks.

Swanson added that the shop will

take part in a new trend by serving nitro coffee, which he described as coffee combined with nitrogen in a keg and served on a tap, similarly to draft beer.

Later on, Swanson said the company hopes to add a beer and wine license to give the community a place to go after events at BalletMet. But for now, the new Stauf’s is keeping its focus on coffee and bakery.

Griesemer said focusing on the company’s primary products, especially coffee, has always been their top priority.

“Job one is making coffee as well as it can be done. Period,” he said. “When I started there weren’t many people who knew much about coffee. Turns out, now we’re the teachers — for people all over the world actually.”

He explained that the process of sourcing and roasting beans — then

serving it as freshly as possible to customers — takes a lot of work to get just right.

“It’s a complicated process. For example, roasting is not like cooking a Stouffer’s lasagna where you follow the directions. It’s an art, it’s mostly an art,” he said.

From numerous local baristas, to members of the band REM, to a man who went on to win the 2007 World Barista Championship in Copenhagen, Griesemer said he has trained many people on the craft of roasting and starting coffee businesses.

When Griesemer opened the first Stauf’s location on Grandview Avenue in 1988, the street was “sleepy,” he said. Now businesses of all kinds line the avenue for several blocks.

Stauf’s and its surrounding community have supported each other for many years, he said, noting that customers have written theses, books, and even a movie at the cafe.

In return for the customers’ business, he said the company has done outreach both internationally and locally, including giving the Grandview Library a major donation and doing a fundraiser for Star House, a homeless youth drop-in center.

Griesemer said he’s grateful to have had a career in which he has been able to help so many people in his own community and around the world.

“I always have felt like I have the luckiest work life of anybody I’ve ever met. It’s been my life,” he said with a laugh. “And that’s all there is to it.”

The downtown Stauf’s will be located at 350 Mt. Vernon Ave. and is set to open by the end of this month.

The movie smartly uses translations. Numerous times, characters speak in Japanese without any sort of subtitle. The only English translations the audience gets are through translators or the occasional subtitle, and that simply added more flair and creativity to each scene. I only received translations for what was important, and it made characters, especially Rankin’s Atari, emotionally impactful even without knowing a single word of what he said.

Deep down, there was just something I loved about Anderson’s vision of a simple idea: A boy searching for a dog he loved. The themes and the world become much grander than this, and in all the right ways, but the fact that this movie’s deepest theme is something so simple that every audience member can appreciate made the emotional potency work on a much larger scale.

The Bad There were a few scenes here and there that felt a bit unnecessary, or never fully connected back to the main storyline that I wish were cut or more strongly developed, especially in the human storylines.

Even though it was in typical Anderson style, I thought that the final 10 minutes of the movie were a little cheesy, even for someone who is such a huge fan of Anderson’s work. Without spoiling, I just felt that the end was too wrapped up in a nice little bow for its own good, and I wish that the film ended on a more open-ended, or less sugary-sweet note.

Conclusion “Isle of Dogs” is yet another terrific film under Anderson’s belt, using stunning visuals, tremendous voice acting and brilliantly implemented comedy to stay consistently entertaining and heartfelt. There were only small complaints to be had. This was a phenomenal film from start to finish with so much to appreciate at every turn.

Though it may not be a film for everyone — Anderson’s style is incredibly quirky and his humor is an acquired taste — I highly recommend giving “Isle of Dogs” a try for it is one of the best films of 2018 so far.

Puzzles

Answer Key for April 5: 20. This occupation involves a lot of this, from homocides to robberies (diversity) 21. The main field of work that this occupation is in (forensics) Down 2. Investigators can be exposed to these harmful products (chemicals) 3. This is a show based on this particular occupation (csi) 4. Investigators collect many samples of these at crime scenes (fingerprints) Across 1. An example of this is a blood sample (evidence) 6. Face covering that protects against chemicals & gases (mask) 5. This job can often be this for the investigators 7. Crime is going to occur forever. Therefore, this (distressing) job is... (alwaysneeded) 8. Crime scene investigators receive these like 9. Crime Scene Investigators work these kinds of other police officers (benefits) 11. A high level of education required to be a crime hours (longhours) 10. This course would help anyone who wanted scene investigator (university) 13. A type of skill required to converse with people to be a crime scene investigator with the criminal and voice thoughts or opinions (communication) aspect of it all (criminology) 12. Investigators are sometimes required to testify 17. A skill required to investigate crime scenes here (court) (observant) 14. These are somtimes very extreme, such as 18. Some investigators are employed by this very cold (conditions) Canadian police group (rcmp) 19. Investigators make lots of these when investi- 15. This type of training is required to be an investigator (onthejob) gating a scene (notes) 16. Crime scene investigators are often required to 20. This occupation involves a lot of this, from examine these types of scenes (homocide) homocides to robberies (diversity)

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5. Is the most interesting type of case out of any of them 6. You examine this to help with your case 7. You need to be _________ to analyze information shown in court 8. You must work as this for 5-6 years before becoming a Senior Lawyer 10. Your position is called ____________ because you prosecute the defendant 13. One of the two degrees required to start a career in being a lawyer 15. Highest ranking lawyer, you aren’t a junior, you are a ________ 17. Abbreviation for the test to enter law school 18. You need to pay attention to, or be involved in this in anyway

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1. The building of the company you work would in is called ____ 2. Is one of the most common crimes, seen, and heard of everyday 3. You must be this for one year before becoming a licensed lawyer 4. Being able to work well under this is one of the most useful skills 9. Is one of the three main areas you would work in 11. You must pass this in any province to be a lawyer 12. You are called _______ because you defend the defendant 14. Is another one of the that you would work in 16. You prepare these before, and during the court

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Fresh off title, Marc-Antoine Blais Belanger turns focus to Olympics

in place for how each back will be used.

“It just depends on the flow of the game and how things are going, and if we go back to that week [against Michigan State], that worked in our favor,” Alford said. “It’ll be a week-by-week deal.

They’re both going to play, and they’re both going to play a lot.”

After the Michigan State game when it appeared Weber was fully healthy, speculation arose that Ohio State might deploy a two-back set with both Dobbins and Weber standing beside Barrett in the backfield. It wasn’t until the Cotton Bowl that the scheme was used.

“I think we’ll do the two-back thing regardless of quarterback,” Weber said. “Because we started it toward the end of the year last year. We just couldn’t get to it the way how the game went. I feel like we can get a lot to it this year.”

Both Weber and Dobbins will receive ample carries during the season. They each have proven they can make things

happen with the ball in their hands.

But Alford is not going to give them the ball just because both have flashed greatness in the past and feel they deserve the carries. If he feels one is better, that running back will outcarry the other in a game. In another game, the two might split them evenly.

It is all about trying to find the best way to win the games. Alford said he is not going to give someone carries based on past successes or to keep someone happy in the locker room.

“I’m not in to keep people happy. And the guys that deserve to play are going to play. There’s going to be a lot of competition,” Alford said. “It’s not about keeping guys happy. Guys who produce are going to play. Guys that earn the right to play will play. And that’s not about keeping people happy. You’re happy when you win.”

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Ohio State senior fencer Marc-Antoine Blais Belanger is hoisted up by his teammates after winning the 2018 NCAA Fencing Championships on March 25 in State College, Pennsylvania.

KEVIN HARGRAVE Lantern reporter hargrave.10@osu.edu Two years ago, the biggest opportunity of Ohio State fencer Marc-Antoine Blais Belanger’s career was met with disappointment. After reaching the men’s epee finals in the 2016 NCAA Fencing Championships, Blais Belanger fell just short of the title, losing to Jake Hoyle, the top seed from Columbia.

On March 25 in State College, Pennsylvania, Blais Belanger once again found himself one victory away from becoming the NCAA men’s epee champion.

In the waning moments of overtime, with the hard-fought title bout against Sean White of St. John’s nearing its conclusion, Blais Belanger trailed 14-13. It looked like history was doomed to repeat itself.

Then, in the final bout of his career, Blais Belanger turned the tide.

With the clock winding down, Blais Belanger scored a touch on White to tie the score. Moments later, Belanger scored the touch with three seconds remaining that clinched his 15-14 victory.

Disappointment turned to triumph.

“Two years ago I came so close,” Blais Belanger said. ”If I wouldn’t have won [this time] it would have been really hard to swallow.”

Blais Belanger’s four-year Ohio State career reached a redemptive conclusion, but he does not plan on letting his fencing career come to an end. With a successful and memorable college tenure now behind him, Blais Belanger has turned his attention to the sport’s greatest competition: the Olympics.

Although Blais Belanger’s NCAA eligibility has expired, he plans to remain at Ohio State for one more year to complete his degree in mechanical engineering. He will still spend countless hours honing his skills in the Steelwood Athletic Training Facility to prepare for the final push to qualify and represent Canada in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. “[To qualify] you have to do almost every international competition and try to bank up on international points,” Blais Belanger said. “You have to be amongst the [best] in the Americas.”

But Blais Belanger believes his collegiate career, during which he has competed at the NCAA championships all four years, has prepared him for the challenge of qualifying for and competing in the Olympics.

“There’s so much pressure [in NCAA

competition] because everyone’s [trying to] go out and be the best for their school,” Blais Belanger said. “There’s always so much intensity in every tournament … I think that’s going to help me a lot to handle pressure.”

Blais Belanger also has competed for Team Canada at international competitions. Though he said the talent level is higher in international tournaments, they can’t match the intensity of NCAA competitions where team comradery and school pride inspire passion.

“During international competition you focus on yourself,” Blais Belanger said.

“Obviously if your teammate from your country does well you’re happy, but it’s not the same thing because you don’t depend on each other to win.”

There are plenty of great college fencers who fail to reach the Olympics. While experience and preparation are important, a certain degree of natural talent is necessary to compete among the world’s greatest fencers.

Ohio State fencing head coach Vladimir Nazlymov has an eye for Olympic talent. His lengthy resume includes three Olympic medals of his own when he competed for the Soviet Union in 1968, 1976 and 1980. He has been a member of the coaching staff of both the United States and Soviet national teams, and was the Soviet national team’s head coach in the 1988 Olympics.

Nazlymov said he believes Blais Belanger has what it takes to be an Olympian. “[Blais Belanger has an] unbelievably strong neural system,” Nazlymov said.

“He can be patient until last millisecond.

It’s not timing. It’s [instincts]. In this case he’s unbelievable talent.”

Maybe it was four years of learning to handle intense competition that allowed Blais Belanger to land the winning touch with three seconds remaining in his final college bout. Maybe the final strike was the type of instinctual response that his coach believes makes him a special talent.

One thing is certain: as Blais Belanger comes closer to reaching the ultimate goal of his athletic career, he will need to thrive in big moments. If how he fared in the biggest moment of his collegiate career is any indication, he’ll do just fine.

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This situation is not new for Ohio State.

Nor is it unfamiliar to Meyer. And sometimes, despite the lack of experience, a fresh group of talent works well.

In 2014, the last time Meyer returned to Columbus with a national-championship trophy, the Buckeyes’ core consisted of first-year players in key positions. In his first season as the starter, Barrett tossed passes to first-year starter Michael Thomas and handed the ball off to first-year starter Ezekiel Elliott. A bevy of first-year starters — Darron Lee, Vonn Bell, Tyvis Powell, Steve Miller and Eli Apple — helped turn the defense into a feared unit.

In a sport with more than 130 teams at the Division I level, it might seem insane to see a national-championship berth — or, at the very least, a College Football

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But Meyer did not just earn a $1.2 million raise to view a New Year’s Six bowl game as a success. Ohio State did not make offensive coordinator Ryan Day and defensive coordinator Greg Schiano the first two million-dollar assistant coaches in program history with the goal of anything other than a national championship.

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First-year players set for key roles in 2018 COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu Ohio State doesn’t have much room to complain about the year-to-year cycle of losing and replacing players. Massive turnover is just part of the cycle as a college football program — and given their recruiting prowess, the Buckeyes have it easy.

That does not mean things always run smoothly.

A large base of high-level talent means the program loses players to the NFL every year. The coaches have pressure to turn first-year starters into NFL-caliber players.

And while coaching and developing those athletes, the staff must prepare for the future by recruiting against the nation’s top teams.

The cycle often changes. Last year, the Buckeyes had several second-year players at key positions. They entered the season returning its starting quarterback, an All-American center, a bookend left tackle, the deepest defensive end group in the country and an experienced group of linebackers.

But as spring wraps up, Ohio State once again is in the position of relying on a smattering of first-year players to step up into roles in which they are relied to be major contributors.

That, of course, begins at the quarterback position, but extends elsewhere.

Out went J.T. Barrett, Rimington Trophy winning center Billy Price, first-team AllBig Ten left tackle Jamarco Jones and tight

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Ohio State then-redshirt sophomore tight end Rashod Berry (13) shakes off a defender while running the ball in the third quarter of the Ohio StateUNLV game on Sep. 23. Ohio State won 54- 21. end Marcus Baugh, a two-year starter.

Defensive ends Tyquan Lewis, Sam Hubbard and Jalyn Holmes, along with defensive tackle Tracy Sprinkle, are gone.

Behind them, the defense lost its leader in linebacker Chris Worley and two-year starting linebacker Jerome Baker. Safety Damon Webb and cornerback Denzel Ward also have left the team.

The Buckeyes will likely have first-year starters at tight end, center, right tackle, defensive end, defensive tackle, linebacker, safety and cornerback.

The large amount of new starters is not necessarily a bad thing to head coach Urban Meyer, who preaches competition —

even at quarterback.

“There’s zero stress, minimal stress when you have great players that are competing,” Meyer said on March 5.

Despite the anticipation that Ohio State will rely heavily on unproven players, optimism about the situation is not hard to find.

Because the Buckeyes have recruited better than ever before, the expectation exists that former five-star recruits and four-star prospects will step into primary roles in the fall.

Several former five-star prospects — sophomores defensive end Chase Young, linebacker Baron Browning and cornerbacks Jeffrey Okudah and Shaun Wade — will compete for open spots, along with

many four-stars and a few three-stars.

Even when a former three-star prospect — like sophomore Thayer Munford, who is penciled in as the starting right tackle — grabs a spot, he is seen as a worthy starter because he beat out highly regarded recruits for the role.

The expectation also differs by position.

Not only are Okudah and Wade former five-stars, but they play a position at which Ohio State has had immense success.

Whoever wins the starting center role — Brady Taylor, Josh Myers or Matt Burrell — will feel massive pressure in replacing Ohio State’s second consecutive Rimington winner. That is especially true on the defensive line, historically a position group of strength that does not just hope to have a major impact, but views that as a necessity.

“I think the standard’s been set,” Meyer said. “We just can’t drop below that.”

But not everyone pans out, which often gets forgotten.

Redshirt junior cornerbacks Kendall Sheffield and Damon Arnette, junior wideouts Austin Mack and Binjimen Victor and redshirt senior linebacker Dante Booker slid into starting roles with opportunities to take advantage with big seasons. Though none completely failed in their roles, none significantly broke through.

So while Ohio State should be confident in redshirt junior tight end Rashod Berry, sophomore safety Isaiah Pryor and redshirt sophomore defensive end Jonathon Cooper taking a step forward, a cautiously optimistic attitude might be the best approach.

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OSU searches for balance between pair of 1,000-yard rushers EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu

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Ohio State then-freshman running back J.K. Dobbins (2) evades a Wolverine in the third quarter of the game against Michigan on Nov. 25 in Ann Arbor. Ohio State won 31-20.

No coach will ever complain about the problem of trying to find carries for a pair of explosive running backs, especially in the case for Ohio State.

Ohio State prepares to head into the Spring Game on Saturday with sophomore J.K. Dobbins and redshirt junior Mike Weber — the two most recent of the four freshmen running backs to rush for more than 1,000 yards in program history — both trying to edge one another out for the most snaps.

And while they always seem to get along well, they are competing fiercely for who is going to finish the 2018 season with the most carries.

Running backs coach Tony Alford wouldn’t have it any other way.

“If they didn’t want the ball and they didn’t want to play and they didn’t want to compete, then why the hell do I want them? I don’t want to be around you as a person,” Alford said.

During last year’s spring practices, Ohio State had a clear answer to who was going to carry the football. Though the team often leaned on quarterback J.T. Barrett for rushing yards, it was clear the overwhelming majority

of the handoffs would be going to Weber, who was fresh off his 1,096-yard campaign.

But a hamstring injury limited Weber’s time in the summer and ultimately held him out for a lot of the earlier games in the season, pushing him behind Dobbins who took the chance at regular carries and ran with it.

As the season progressed, the issue became finding enough carries for three capable runners between Barrett, Weber and Dobbins. Weber does not believe that will be an issue in 2018.

“I feel like Coach [Urban Meyer] has a lot of more trust into his running backs and we’ve got less of a running quarterback now and we should get the ball a lot more,” Weber said Monday. “J.T. did a lot of the running. There was a lot of games that he had more carries than both [Dobbins and I] combined.”

Barrett outcarried Weber and Dobbins in just two games: the team’s losses to Oklahoma and Iowa.

Next year, however, that is far less likely to happen. If redshirt sophomore Dwayne Haskins takes the mantle of quarterback as Weber hinted, he will not have the legs to be used on a read-option or be an effective scrambler on a regular basis in the same way Barrett was.

The ball will more frequently be put in the hands of Ohio State’s dynamic duo of running backs.

“It’s the moment I’ve been waiting for since I got here to put the team on my back in the game and just be the workhorse,” Weber said. “That’s one of my goals and I asked for it. And hopefully I get it this year and show a lot of people what I can do.”

But the carries will not all be Weber’s. Last season, he outcarried Dobbins in just two games and averaged exactly 1 yard fewer per carry. Part of Weber’s diminished returns can be attributed to his hamstring injury, but Dobbins showed he will make things happen with the ball in his hands.

Weber looked faster and stronger later in the season, including in a breakout game against Michigan State in which he rushed for 162 yards on just nine carries while Dobbins took 18 carries for 124 yards. Just as it had been for much of the season, there was not a clear strategy for how the backs were used in the game. Both were used in short-yardage situations, early in drives and near the goal line.

More than anything, it just seemed the two alternated based on who was tired and needed a break. Moving into 2018, Alford said there is not really a set plan

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