The Lantern - April 19 2018

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Students organize walkout from class to recognize gun violence and remember students of Columbine.

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Ohio residents account for smaller portion of freshman enrollment OWEN DAUGHERTY Assistant Campus Editor daugherty.260@osu.edu MATT DORSEY Engagement Editor dorsey.215@osu.edu “Congratulations for getting out.”

That’s the phrase Alex Brumfield has grown accustomed to hearing when she visits her hometown of Gallipolis, Ohio, a community of less than 4,000 on the West Virginia border.

The soon-to-be Ohio State graduate certainly deserves some form of congratulations for being accepted to a university that is enrolling fewer and fewer students from her area of the state.

She graduated as Gallia Academy High School’s valedictorian in 2014 with a 4.3 GPA. But Brumfield doesn’t quite know what to make of the congratulatory phrase she keeps hearing. She isn’t comfortable with the notion that her hometown is an undesirable place to live.

“I think a lot of people, they

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Alex Brumfield, center, is one of a decreasing amount of students from the Appalachian region of Ohio to attend the university. She created a student organization at Ohio State to help students from the region transition to college. feel like they’re stuck in Gallia County. They feel like they can’t leave and it’s almost like a failure if you don’t leave,” she said. “I don’t think it’s a bad thing if you don’t leave Gallia, but they all say it’s a big success if you get up and do something else.”

For the record, Brumfield — who is the president of the Community of Appalachian Student

Leaders at Ohio State — did want to leave. It made absolute sense to pursue an education in a university with high admissions standards.

But Ohio State’s high admission standards, rising attendance costs, and increased selectivity are keeping talented high school students from Brumfield’s region and other areas across Ohio from

attending the state’s flagship university.

Ohio State enrolls fewer students from Ohio’s Appalachian counties than it did a decade ago.

It also enrolls fewer students from the 10 most populous counties combined.

The university’s in-state enrollment has remained stagnant in the past 10 years as Ohio State takes

in a growing amount of out-ofstate and international students.

A Lantern analysis of Ohio State’s past 10 years of enrollment data shows Ohio high school graduates represent nearly 12 percent fewer incoming firstyear students in 2017 than they did a decade before. In 2008, almost 82 percent of freshmen came from the Buckeye State, but in 2017 that number dropped to 70 percent.

Over the same period, this dip is paired with first-years from outside the U.S. doubling from 4 percent to more than 8 percent in the same time frame. Out-of-state freshmen jumped from 14.5 percent to almost 22 percent.

Keith Gehres, Ohio State’s director for outreach and recruitment, joined the university as an in-state recruiter in 2003, and while he said he has noticed several changes in the student body, none of them particularly alarm him.

He was instructed in 2015 by Ohio State’s Board of Trustees and University President Michael ENROLLMENT CONTINUES ON 3

CCS fails to meet international standards SHERIDAN HENDRIX John R. Oller Reporter hendrix.87@osu.edu University President Michael Drake sent students an email Friday outlining Ohio State’s new mental health task force, namely its purpose in determining what university services are doing well and what services can improve.

Drake included in his message that in the past two years, Counseling and Consultation Service has increased its staff by onethird.

Despite these increases, a review by The Lantern found CCS fails to meet the minimum international standard for recommended professional staff members providing campus mental health services.

The International Association of Counseling Services Inc., an accreditation association for higher education counseling services, recommends campus mental health centers maintain a ratio of one professional full-time staff member to every 1,000 to 1,500 students for overall campus well-being. This excludes interns and trainees, as well as psychiatrists, who primarily fill prescriptions rather than perform counsel-

ing, according to IACS. Ohio State has 36 full-time staff members who fall in line with IACS standards, meaning its staff-to-student ratio is one mental health professional for every 1,662 students.

The university had 59,837 students enrolled at the Columbus campus in Autumn Semester of 2017. By IACS standards, the university should have between 40 and 60 full-time senior staff members.

Darryl Brush, outpatient medical director at Harding Hospital, said the staff deficiencies at CCS is ultimately hurting students who are unable to access the care they need.

“We don’t have enough people.

There are not enough people at CCS to manage that number of students,” he said. “There’s an epidemic of depression on all college campuses. The suicide rate is increasing every year. The rate of depression is increasing every year. CCS did hire some counselors over the last few years, and created a new office in Lincoln Tower, but it’s still not anywhere near meeting the need.”

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Concerns over the quality of campus mental health resources have been at the forefront of many students’ minds as the percentage of young people seeking help for mental illness grows. er large, public universities, said Dave Isaacs, a spokesman for the Office of Student Life.

Although Ohio State currently falls short of this ratio, IACS guidelines state, “Most centers approach this ratio to some degree but many accredited centers do not.” IACS considers a number of variables with these accredited centers, including how closely a site is to meeting a ratio, budgetary constraints and the existence of other campus mental health agencies.

As of Tuesday, CCS has 40 full-time professional staffers, according to Shonali Raney, associ-

ate director of clinical services at CCS. Four of those staffers, however, are psychiatrists and therefore don’t count toward IACS standards.

CCS employed 28 full-time professional staffers during the 2015-16 academic year to serve Ohio State’s campus’ student population of 58,663. The university’s ratio that year was one mental health professional for every 2,095 students, more than twice the recommended IACS ratio.

Three clinicians were recently hired and three positions are currently open, making a total of 43 full-time positions, Raney said.

Ohio State’s job posting website confirmed the openings, all for clinical therapists.

Appointments at CCS more than doubled across a 10-year period. In the 2016-17 academic year alone, there were more than 35,000 appointments scheduled, compared to a little more than 15,000 in 2006-07.

To meet an increase in demand for mental health services, the university has added 15 additional CCS staff members in the past two years, as well as expanded the counseling locations to include Lincoln Tower and the North Residential District, Isaacs said.

Additionally, Ohio State has been working to improve its mental health services for years.

Concerns over the quality of campus mental health resources, both at Ohio State and nationally, have been at the forefront of many students’ minds in recent years as the percentage of young people across the country seeking help for mental illness rapidly increases.

Julia Parker, outgoing president with Peers Reaching Out, a student-run group that runs suicide prevention trainings, said she thinks the increased attention on CCS CONTINUES ON 2

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Participants of a March 14 walkout gather on Ohio State’s South Oval. Another walkout is planned for Friday on the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting.

OSU students, staff plan to participate in national walkout MARA MASON Lantern reporter mason.816@osu.edu On Friday at 10 a.m., students will leave their lecture halls, classrooms and study tables to gather on The Oval to speak out against gun violence in America.

In conjunction with the National School Walkout movement, Ohio State’s walkout falls on the 19th anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting that left 15 dead.

The intention of the event is to provide a public venue for people to voice their thoughts and opinions on gun violence, said Brandon Wong, a first-year in political science who is helping organize the walkout.

“The whole point of this event is more to provide unity as a campus; it’s not to be divisive,” he said. “For me, it’s more creating discussion and dialogue, and understanding surrounding problems in the United States.”

Wong said he hopes students are not deterred by possibly losing attendance points for missing class in pursuit of exercising their “civic duty.”

Growing up 30 minutes from Newtown, Connecticut, where the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred, Wong said he personally has seen the effects gun violence has on a community.

“Even if we can’t all agree on the solution to a problem, we can all agree that there is a problem,” he said. “College is all about the pursuit of knowledge. I think that participating in events is a really good way to expand your horizons, and that’s what we hope to do.”

Caitlin Baer, the current systems manager in the College of Arts and Sciences, also is organizing the walkout and has registered the event with the national movement to help spread the word.

While planning the upcoming walkout at Ohio State, Baer and Wong noticed they were each planning a similar event with the same goal, so they decided to join forces.

Baer was the leader of a campus walkout March 14, which fell during spring break. She said it was a small but mighty gathering of the community, where someone read the names of the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which occurred in February and help reignite the national gun debate.

She also wants to make sure people of all political affiliations feel welcome to attend the event.

“I would say that I think most people on this campus identify more as liberal, or they lean more towards the liberal side, but this transcends that,” she said. “It’s not a liberal or conservative issue. People are dying, that’s a really big deal.

“Even if it has not directly affected you, this is an issue that is affecting our brothers and sisters around the country. Please stand in solidarity with them to show them that they are not alone.”

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mental health needs of students has posed a challenge for the university to keep up.

She said it’s great to see more inclusivity and conversation around these issues, but coming up with solutions takes time.

“The hard part is things happen so slowly at the institutional levels at a place this big, there are so many people that have a say in what happens, that nothing happens quickly,” Parker said. “I really think it comes down to a lack of awareness, that when we started realizing we needed more mental health services, we started moving towards it, but never knew how deep we needed to go.”

There are a number of different resources on campus that students can access for mental health care, including CCS, Harding Hospital, the John W. Wilce Student Health Center and the Department of Psychology. Brush said these different entities are essentially operating separately from one another.

He said the lack of communication between mental health providers on campus is frustrating for a number of reasons. For one, each department uses a different electronic medical record, so staff at different locations can’t reference lab results or counseling notes for an individual student who is referred.

Parker agrees that communication is an issue, namely that students don’t know all of the resources available to them.

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“They really only see [CCS] as a oneon-one counseling kind of center, whereas they have a lot of other stuff they offer that can be beneficial whether or not you’re suffering from a mental illness but just for your personal well-being,” she said.

Parker said group therapy sessions offered by CCS might be a better option for some students instead of individual counseling, but many students aren’t aware of this option.

Brush said another issue is staffing –– both the number of staff members and how

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they’re hired. “[CCS] actually hire their own psychiatrists, they’re not employees of the medical center,” he said. “They have their own counselors completely separate from us, whereas we’re all employees of the medical center. It’s very separate, which is unfortunate.”

Brush said the university has a responsibility to students and their families to provide comprehensive mental health services. In an interview with The Lantern in February, Drake said CCS is not meant to be a comprehensive mental health resource for students, but rather “a pathway to assistance and support.”

“It’s not a substitute for long-term mental health care,” Drake said. “We’re not ramped up to do that. We have our health system to do that. So our job is to try to do what we can to make the services available.”

The counseling service currently includes one-on-one appointments for those in crisis with emergency needs, as well as daily drop-in workshops and weekly group counseling sessions, Isaacs said.

“This is not intended to take the place of a person’s primary mental health care; it is intended to supplement or enhance what they may already be getting,” Isaacs said.

Brush said the problems the university is facing in providing sufficient mental health services is similar to issues seen at colleges

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across the country. But for the amount of resources that the university boasts in construction projects and student incentives, he called the number of mental health professionals at Ohio State “shameful.”

“Every day, students are getting turned away from services on campus, being told they’re too complicated and they don’t have the resources but here are names of people in the community,” Brush said. “That just shouldn’t be happening. We have the money to do these things. I think it’s an issue of priority and the university just doesn’t want to spend that money.”

Brush said Drake’s mental health task force can –– and should –– be the thing that connects these different entities together. With Eileen Ryan, interim chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, working with Javaune Adams-Gaston, senior vice president for Student Life, Brush said he believes there is room for improvement and the opportunity to help more students.

“We all have the same mission of helping students, but we really don’t work together. That really needs to change,” Brush said. “I think people throw around the ‘one university’ thing, but I really don’t see it in this one particular issue. We can do better.”

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Drake to follow a strategic enrollment plan, which he called “the North Star in our recruitment efforts.” That “North Star” is guiding his office farther and farther from the state of Ohio.

“As the flagship institution and also with being charged with meeting all the various university enrollment goals, there’s a balance where we can’t only focus on in-state students,” Gehres said. “We’re focusing on out-ofstate and students from around the world.”

The goal is for out-of-state and international students to account for 35 percent of the university’s incoming first-year class by 2020, Gehres said. In 2017, nonOhio residents comprised 29.9 percent of the freshman class.

The shift in enrollment by the state’s land-grant university highlights the limited social mobility of young adults who grow up poor.

The Appalachian region of Ohio, which is composed of 32 counties primarily in the southeastern quadrant of the state, represents less than 7 percent of Ohio State’s undergraduate enrollment — and that number continues to shrink each year. A decade prior, that number was nearly 11 percent.

Additionally, the decreasing representation of students from Ohio’s most populated areas underscores the transformation of Ohio State’s student body.

Appalachia Brumfield is one of the few from her high school and county who attend Ohio State. In 2014, the year she graduated from Gallia Academy High School, she was one of seven freshmen from her county to enroll at the university.

Brumfield said she never had an Ohio State recruiter come to her high school, something that her Community of Appalachian Student Leaders staff adviser Tiffany Halsell feels is representative of the university’s involvement, or lack thereof, in the region as a whole.

“No one wants to go to these Appalachia counties because in their minds I think we still have that bias about the population and the students and their capability about performing well at Ohio State,” said Halsell, who works as the graduate student services coordinator for human sciences.

The problems plaguing Gallia County impact large swaths of the region and limit the ability for talented high school graduates from the area to make their way to any college, let alone Ohio State.

Gallia County ranks in the bottom third of the state along with a majority of Appalachian counties for median household income and other economic indicators, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Coming from southern Ohio’s Pike County, the underrepresentation and lack of recruitment of Appalachian students at Ohio State was personal for Lynaya Elliott, who created and now advises the Appalachian student organization. She said bridging the gap for students coming from

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lower-income counties or school districts is the role of the university, something she feels is not being done.

“We are a land-grant institution. Thirty-two of your counties, beyond an extension center, [Ohio State] might want to invest in the populations and be a part of the solution for an economic upturn,” said Elliott, who also serves as the department manager for women’s gender and sexuality studies at Ohio State.

Both Brumfield and Elliott said the more than 50 students they work with have not seen significant recruitment effort from Ohio State.

“I haven’t heard many [students] say that they were recruited or anything,” Brumfield said.

“I think it’s kind of the same story. Ohio State’s that great school that everyone wants to go to, but … I haven’t really heard much about recruitment and that kind of thing.”

businesses started closing,” she said. “Princeton started bringing in less and less money, cuts were made. A significant number of teachers were cut in the district.”

Those cuts included the counseling department, effectively reducing it by half, leaving Grabel scrambling to meet the counseling needs of 388 seniors on her own. She said it has led to being constantly flagged down by students in hallways before school and maintaining correspondence with them on her own time through email.

Princeton High School sophomore Sevara Djurakulova said she sees what Grabel speaks of among her classmates, noting that many lack two-parent households.

“They work at night and they come to school, so it’s really hard to get homework done,” she said of her fellow students.

Djurakulova came to Ohio with her family from Uzbekistan

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Lynaya Elliott, left, and Tiffany Halsell, right, advise the the Community of Appalachian Student Leaders student group at Ohio State.

Population centers Of Ohio’s 10 most populous counties, six have recorded decreases of more than 10 percent in the number of graduating high school students who enrolled at Ohio State in the past decade.

There are fewer Ohio State students from these counties combined and they represent a smaller portion of the undergraduate student body than a decade prior.

One county with a substantial decrease is Hamilton, Ohio’s third largest. Bordering the Ohio River in the southwest quadrant of the state and encompassing Cincinnati, the county is represented at Ohio State by 300 fewer students now than it was in 2007, and 168 fewer than in 2010, despite having recorded a population increase from 2010 to 2017.

In particular, school districts in areas facing economic distress have seen declines in the number of students who enroll at Ohio State. One such example is the Princeton City School District, which, in the early 2000s, regularly enrolled two dozen graduates as first-year Buckeyes each year. In the past decade, however, an average of 11 Princeton High School graduates have enrolled each year.

The trend follows changes in the area that Christina Grabel, a guidance counselor for seniors at Princeton High School, has observed in her decades living and working in the area.

“For many years there were a lot of more affluent families and homes in the Princeton area.

Like with everything else, a lot of

four years ago. With her permanent resident status, she would be considered an in-state student were she to enroll at Ohio State — her current first-choice for a college — but is grateful for one of the things contributing to the drop in the percentage of students coming from Ohio: the growing international student population.

“I like the community on campus. I like how it’s international,” she said. “All people go there from different places.”

Djurakulova, who attended the Day in the Life of a Buckeye event in March, said Ohio State is similar to Princeton in terms of having a diversity-rich population and is hoping a Russian friend of hers who also lives in her town will attend Ohio State.

Shifts in where Ohio State students come from have occurred not just county-to-county, but also among school districts within each county. Ohio State’s own backyard, Franklin County, is an example of such changes.

Of the six Franklin County school districts which consistently send the largest numbers of graduates to Ohio State, only two — Dublin and Hilliard — have increased the number of students sent between 2007 and 2017.

Dublin City Schools has nearly doubled its presence on Ohio State’s campus, with 118 graduates enrolled in 2007 and 221 by 2017.

Columbus, Worthington and Upper Arlington’s school districts all had a smaller presence in 2017 on campus than they did

in 2007, while Westerville’s enrollment has remained relatively steady across that time frame.

Columbus City Schools’ enrollment of first-years from the district fluctuated from 2007 to 2011, then declined sharply — from 130 students in 2011 to 57 in 2015, before steadily growing the past three years.

What Ohio State is doing Ohio State is among dozens of selective colleges grappling with how to better serve underrepresented and low-income populations.

Amanda Janice Roberson, a senior research analyst at the Institute for Higher Education Policy, said colleges that have resources and support in place alleviate concerns for students when they arrive on campus and set themselves apart as institutions that show they are committed to educating all students.

“A strong institutional commitment to economic diversity and equitable outcomes and the availability of support systems on campus can attract these low-income students to colleges and universities,” Roberson said in an email.

While the numbers show decreases in many of the communities that Roberson alluded to, Ohio State has reiterated its support for in-state students by doubling down on the Land Grant Opportunity Scholarship, which now covers the full cost of attendance for two students from each of Ohio’s 88 counties. The scholarship previously was awarded to one student from each county each year and only covered tuition, not room and board.

Brumfield’s enrollment at Ohio State was made possible when she was awarded her county’s only land-grant scholarship.

Ohio State also has increased its funding for the Young Scholars program, which is one of Drake’s primary focuses in unison with his 2020 vision.

His vision calls for an additional $100 million invested in need-based aid.

The Young Scholars Program has provided scholarships to more than 3,000 first-generation college students from the nine largest urban school districts in Ohio in the past 30 years who demonstrate a high financial need.

The university also froze instate tuition and expanded Pell Grant coverage for aid recipients, a move that costs the university more than $11 million each year.

The impact those increased commitments will have on the university’s shrinking share of in-state students will be revealed over time.

While the university is working to expand resources to help students like Brumfield find their way to Ohio State, she said communication of those resources to high school students is key.

“I just think that the idea that you could get in— just [Ohio State] reaching out and saying ‘yeah, you guys can do it’ would be great, having someone come and talk and say ‘yeah, we would love to have you,’” Brumfield said.

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Linden Hollow features Emily Ng (left) Rebecca McCusker (center) and Paige Vandiver (right). The band gains much of its inspiration from nature.

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“Now, we depend on each other a little more than we used to,” Vandiver said.

The group’s six-song debut album incorporated songs that McCusker had written throughout various stages of her life, but were revamped to incorporate more rhythm with the help of Ng and Vandiver.

The group hopes to get back in the studio soon, but whether its next release will be a full-length album, an EP or a few singles is uncertain.

“Right now we have some little baby songs in the works,” McCusker said.

Linden Hollow will perform at 9 p.m. on April 26 at Big Room Bar. Admission is free.

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diver and bassist Emily Ng. Ng and Vandiver had been playing together in local Americana band The Salty Caramels when Ng responded to McCusker’s Facebook post searching for a drummer and a bassist in 2016. McCusker had specifically been looking for female artists.

“Being in a band is very intimate. It is a relationship. It is hopefully sustaining, ongoing… Guys can be so weird about some stuff and I didn’t wanna deal with that entire thing,” McCusker said. “I wanted it to be simple and I wanted it to be about the music.”

Though the group started out playing live shows, Linden Hollow’s sound evolved while recording “Luna,” its debut EP.

Abby Pence and Jenna Bresnahan met last year on Facebook in hopes of becoming roommates.

Now one year later, they’re sharing more than just a dorm room.

Pence, a second-year in health sciences, and Bresnahan, a second-year in nursing, created a food blog, “fitandfoodiess,” on Instagram and has steadily gained a following with more than 800 followers in just two months.The roommates post pictures of their food creations, share recipes with their online following and even try new recipes from other food bloggers.

“We like to try healthy restaurants but we always saw recipes on Instagram and we would come to each other and say we need to make this,” Pence said. “Randomly one day we said, ‘Let’s make an Instagram account.’”

Echosmith 6:30 p.m. at Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St. After rescheduling its canceled show from last November, the Indie pop band will perform alongside opening acts The Score & Jena Rose.

Tickets are $47 via SeatGeek.

Shabazz Palaces 8 p.m. at Ace of Cups, 2619 N. High St. The Seattle-based hiphop duo will perform with openers Dom Deshawn and Effee & Pat Stacks. The event is 21 and up and admission is free.

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For a folksy rock group that gains much of its inspiration from nature, Linden Hollow is a fitting name — linden trees live hundreds of years, hollowing out as they age.

“We kind of fancy ourselves forest witches,” said Rebecca McCusker, the group’s frontwoman.

The group’s self-described haunting, earthy folk sounds are influenced by a range of artists from Regina Spektor to the Avett Brothers to The Beatles. When it comes to her songwriting, McCusker is inspired by piano-pop artists like Elton John and Billy Joel.

For McCusker, songwriting works as an outlet to help her relax and focus in times of anger and anxiety, which often stem from personal relationships.

“I would love to write a song that’s like ‘Walkin’ on Sunshine,’ but that’s just not me I guess — maybe someday,” McCusker said, adding: “Maybe that’s because I’m an introvert, maybe it’s because I live in the forest but either way it’s very much a normal theme that I’m seeing emerge, is like, ‘These people are either making me mad or stressing me out or making me anxious so I’m gonna go enjoy solitude in nature.’”

Despite McCusker’s “need to get away from people,” the members of Linden Hollow enjoy each other’s company, eating pizza and drinking wine throughout much of their designated practice time.

“It was seriously luck of the draw with these two,” McCusker said of drummer Paige Van-

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LOUD: Mind and Music Festival 4 p.m. at Trism, 1636 N. High St. LOUD is a student-run arts and music festival centered around mental health awareness that aims to educate the community and end the stigmas surrounding mental health. Admission is free, but donations are encouraged.

Big Spring Concert 6 p.m. at Coffey Rd. Park.

OUAB’s annual show will feature headliner Young the Giant alongside openers Aminé and Clubhouse. Tickets are available at the Ohio Union info desk. A BuckID is required.

Saturday, April 21

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The Maine 7 p.m. at Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St. The Tempe, Arizona-based rock band will perform alongside opening act The Wrecks. Tickets are $20 plus fees via SeatGeek.

Monster Jam Triple Threat Series 1 p.m. at the Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Dr. The live motorsport event will challenge its drivers to handle Monster Jam trucks, ATVs and speedsters.

Tickets are $15 via Ticketmaster.

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2018 Earth Day Celebration 12 p.m. at Genoa Park, 303 W Broad St. Green Columbus will host its annual Earth Day celebration this weekend featuring local bands, family friendly activities and numerous food trucks.

Hoodoo Soul Band 10 p.m. at Rumba Cafe, 2507 Summit St. The funk and R&B soul band will be performing this weekend. This event is 21 and up, and tickets are $8 via TicketWeb.

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Short North development leaves galleries behind KAYLEE HARTER Lantern reporter harter.830@osu.edu SHANTI LERNER Lantern reporter lerner.66@osu.edu Twenty-year-old Maria Galloway had an epiphany: she wanted to open an art gallery. She was walking her dog in Tuttle Park when she met a man who owned a building on High Street.

It was a hole-in-the-wall and the neighborhood was scary, derelict and seedy — mostly consisting of strip clubs and dive bars — but Galloway decided to take a chance. After six months of hard work fixing up the space, she and her husband Michael Galloway opened PM Gallery in 1980.

Now located at 5th Avenue and High Street, PM Gallery will be closing its doors this summer.

For the last 38 years, Galloway has watched the Short North transform through her gallery window.

Today, restaurants, trendy bars, specialty beauty salons and luxury apartments call the Short North home. With a population that is expected to grow significantly in coming years and no measures currently in place to preserve the area’s character, the neighborhood could be at risk of losing the art galleries and small businesses that drove its transformation.

“Artists love cheap rent,” Gal-

loway said. “And there was critical mass here. Enough of an infrastructure, there was lots of buildings and they were close together. So there was lots of spaces that were close together and you could have an event like the gallery hop.”

Beginning in 1984, Gallery Hop, a monthly event where Short North galleries open to showcase their latest artwork, encouraged people to visit the neighborhood.

Pioneered by the first few galleries, Gallery Hop eventually made the Short North a local destination of choice.

“We had no idea how much it was going to change everything.”

Maria Galloway Co-owner of PM Gallery

“Gallery Hop is what changed everything,” Galloway said. “It was phenomenal. We had no idea how much it was going to change everything. It was that safety factor. If you could come down here at night and not get killed, it was a big deal. Then you could come down during the day. You got familiar with the neighborhood. It was safety in numbers.”

Not only were shifts happening in commercial spaces, they also were happening in the residen-

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Jenna Bresnahan (left) and Abby Pence (right) run an Instagram food blog out of their dorm room.

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Within days, the bloggers said their account had already garnered interest from followers in the types of recipes they were going to share next. Their newfound fandom encouraged the pair to continue posting pictures of their creations along with healthy recipes.

It’s no surprise that most of Pence and Bresnahan’s followers happen to be fellow students. Because of limited space and kitchen facilities while living on campus, Pence and Bresnahan have mainly featured easy-to-make breakfast and brunch recipes on their page to encourage other college students that healthy eating is still possible while living in dorms.

“We make energy bars and bites that people can make in their dorm or something easy and we will post it and someone will ask for the recipe,” Pence said.

Other recipes on their page include smoothie bowls, almond butter cacao bars, banana oat muffins, whole grain chocolate

tial areas of the neighborhood.

Maria Conroy, member of the city of Columbus’ Development Commission, said more people started buying old, historic houses in Victorian Village –– many of which had been neglected and run down. The sudden influx of new residents resulted in a need for more amenities to accommodate them.

“There was a demographic shift, people started seeing some value in buying up in Victorian Village,” said Conroy, who also is an associate professor and graduate studies chair in city and regional planning at Ohio State.

“There was more attention to services for these new residents who had some more disposable income.”

In this period of rapid change, the city began putting money back into the neighborhood. Over time, there was a conscious effort to invest in humanizing the landscape, including the reinstallation of the now-famous seven steel arches and street trees.

As Galloway watched the neighborhood evolve, one of the most disconcerting changes in the neighborhood were the types of businesses that now called the area home. She slowly watched more and more restaurants move into the area, often taking over spaces that once housed galleries.

That was the turning point. Galloway said the influx of restau-

pancakes and avocado pesto toast with hemp seeds.

Next year, Pence and Bresnahan will be moving out of the dorms and into an apartment where they will have their own kitchen to make even more dishes with a variety of tastes and flavors. They plan to extend their food blogging to lunch and dinner recipes as well.

“We just want to have a website so we can post our recipes,” Pence said. “Because right now everybody will be like, ‘What’s your recipe?’ and we have to individually send it to people or post it on the Instagram post whereas if we had a website, we could go to it and start a blog.”

In a world of endless food blogs and websites, the pair seems to have found a niche among a demographic usually not associated with proper eating habits. Encouraged by the responses they have received already, Pence and Bresnahan hope to keep growing and inspiring college students to eat healthy and enjoy it at the same time.

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In 2016, 15 galleries were open in the Short North, and in 2017 the number went down to 12 as real estate prices have more than doubled in various parts of the neighborhood. rants signified that the Short North was becoming more attractive for other types of businesses and gave landlords the ability to increase their rents, making it more difficult for small businesses to afford to stay.

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“We have also had a lot of direct messages from people saying that they have been going through a tough time or a couple have said they have had eating disorders or that they are having trouble in college, and then saying how our page has inspired them,” Bresnahan said. “I think that is really heart-warming to know that we can make that happen.”

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OSU rides offense to 12-3 victory against Youngstown State ANDY ANDERS Lantern reporter anders.83@osu.edu The combined pitching staffs of Ohio State and Youngstown State dragged on a Wednesday night matchup for three hours and 26 minutes, struggling to find the strike zone while issuing a combined 17 walks.

The difference for Ohio State (25-10, 6-3 Big Ten) was its ability to strike out batters, 15 in total, as it cruised to a 12-3 victory against Youngstown State. after fanning a total of 15 Youngstown State (10-23, 7-7 Horizon)., striking out 15 Penguins on Wednesday afternoon.

“We can’t create that type of help for our opponent if we’re gonna beat a really good team,” head coach Greg Beals said.

Youngstown State’s control issues began early. Junior starter Kip DeShields walked four batters, threw a wild pitch and surrendered three runs on one hit while recording just one out before being pulled.

The Penguins’ pitching struggles continued in the third, when the Buckeyes strung together five straight hits to extend their lead to 6-2.

Youngstown State’s pitching staff finished with 10 walks, a hit batter, four wild pitches and a balk.

tion from the dugout tonight, that tells you what type of teammate he is,” Beals said. “Speaks to the talent that’s up and down the lineup and throughout that locker room. There’s guys that aren’t getting regular playing time that can play.”

Redshirt senior Austin Woodby pitched a pair of innings for the Buckeyes and received his first win of the season.

Even with the 12-run performance on Wednesday, Ohio State had the opportunity to do more damage against Youngstown State. The Buckeyes left 12 runners on base while the Penguins left 14 runners on base and scored only three runs.

After scoring 31 runs in their past two games, the Buckeyes will begin a three-game set with Indiana on Friday.

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Ohio State sophomore pitcher Jake Vance (3) winds up for a pitch in the third inning of the game against Ohio University in April 10. Ohio State won 4-0.

Ohio State sophomore first baseman Conner Pohl extended his hitting streak to 15 games, swatting a three-run home run in the fourth. He finished the day 2-for-4. “[I’m] not chasing any offspeed, just playing my game honestly,” Pohl said. “I’m a fastball

hitter and just seeing fastballs to hit.”

Youngstown State trailed the game by seven runs late in the game and had back-to-back innings with the bases loaded, but both times failed to capitalize.

Ohio State sophomore Jake Vance got off to a rocky start on

the mound with a 43-pitch first inning, but smoothed things out in the second and finished with one earned run and five strikeouts in three innings.

Redshirt sophomore second baseman Matt Carpenter recorded his first career hit in the victory.

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Answer Key for April 17: Across 6. ____ is made of chemical building blocks (protein) 7. Is build from iron (hemoglobin) 9. Fat in foods are made up of ____ types of fat (four) 10. Proteins help this thing fight diseases and regulating the body (immunesystem) 11. Absorbs water like Spongebob (insolublefiber) 13. Red wine, coffee, and tea all have in common that they ____ iron (inhibitors) 16. Plants include this type of iron (nonhemeiron) 17. A condition from iron deficiency (anemia) 18. Sugars are also called (simplecarbohydrates) 19. Increase LDL levels and are found in fatty meats and high fat products (saturatedfats)

Down 1. HDL stands for (highdensitylipoprotein) 2. Fiber that dissolves in water (solublefiber) 3. The most common animal source of protein (meat) 4. Carbohydrates are a great source of (energy) 5. It is not a fat, but acts like a fat (cholesterol) 7. ____ is found in animal sources (hemeiron) 8. Chemical grouping in the blood stream (lipoprotein) 12. Proteins are used to make _____, enzymes, and antibodies (hormones) 14. There are____ essential amino acids (nine) 15. Great source of them carbohydrates (plants)

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2. The name for the sound that people dance to 3. The person who uses his/her voice as an instrument 5. The instrument with many parts which keeps the rhythm of band 11. The thing that musicians play 12. The most common kind of music. You can hear it on the radio very easily 13. Someone who writes music 14. This is a popular kind of music that uses guitars and lots of singing 18. Someone who plays music 19. The ‘sexy’ instrument that is more common in older kinds of music 20. The kind of music you hear in a nightclub 21. The main instrument in many kinds of music, with six strings 22. Music from America that comes from the countryside, popular with farmers

Down

1. A big group of musicians who play Classical Music together 2. The low, deep sound that comes from nightclubs. This is also an instrument 4. A collection of songs 6. The time of music. It describes when notes happen 7. An instrument that has white and black keys 8. This is a common instrument that has a high sound, which can be heard in Ska music 9. A kind of music which has distorted sounds and angry yelling 10. A traditional style of music from the people of a country, usually from the mountains or farms 15. An event where music is played 16. The primary instrument in Classical Music 17. Complicated music that is played in small groups with special rules 23. A style of music where the singer speaks words to a strong beat

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Eddie George, Lee Corso & Kirk Herbstreit make their game predictions on the ESPN College GameDay broadcast during the 2017 Ohio StateOklahoma game on Sep. 9.

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ineligible, requiring Ohio State to apply for reinstatement for the student-athletes involved in the violation from the NCAA Student-Athlete Reinstatement staff. This specific sanction matches what Ohio State self-imposed in its punishment of the football program.

The NCAA also issued a reduction of “two recruiting person days” and forced Penn to sit out one game.

The Lantern reached out to the NCAA for comment about the current eligibility status of the basketball recruits, but did not receive a response in time for publication.

David Ridpath, an Ohio University professor and former compliance director at Marshall, said he expects the two players to be reinstated quickly and that the process is more of a formality than anything else. He cited his own personal experience, where at Marshall, the program self-reported a violation in the morning, had the player ineligible, contacted the NCAA and had the player reinstated before the end of the day.

“If it’s something very minor and I look at this as pretty innocuous with the basketball players, it can happen relatively quick,” Ridpath said. “But I’d be stunned if it’s not done in a little while, but certainly it would be done by the season and they don’t really have anything to worry about.”

The main difference between the punishment for the football program and that of the men’s basketball program is neither the university’s compliance department nor the NCAA told the program it could not recruit any of the three basketball players. This calls into question how Ohio State decided to determine the self-imposed punishments and why they differed so drastically.

Ohio State did not comment on the discrepancy in the the self-imposed punishments.

After learning of the self-imposed punishment on Ohio State’s football program, Parsons’ father, Terrance, told The Lantern that he believed the recruitment of his son ended because of a tweet his son had sent out after the Oklahoma game that then-redshirt freshman quarterback Dwayne Haskins should replace then-redshirt senior J.T. Barrett.

Parsons said he and his son were supposed to meet head coach Urban Meyer the next day, but did not see him and were not contacted by Ohio State after the Oklahoma game except for a brief exchange with Meyer. He said no one ever notified him of the violation, which Ohio State reported on Sept. 26.

The idea of Ohio State using this to smoothen the ending of the recruitment is not far-fetched to Ridpath.

He said that if a program decided it no longer wanted to pursue a player, an NCAA violation would be a convenient excuse to tell the recruit that they can’t be recruited anymore because of a violation.

“I think Mr. Parsons is spot-on correct,” Ridpath said. “Is that nefarious of Ohio State? Not really. They’re playing the game and they’re playing it pretty effectively to be honest with you.”

In both instances, the same three NCAA bylaws were broken.

Though it was not a violation to meet with the former Buckeyes, it was a violation for all recruits to meet with other members of the media during an official visit. The contact broke two NCAA bylaws that state members of the media may not be present during a school’s recruiting contact with the prospect. In both cases, the prospects entered the stage and set area, which is not accessible to the general public, which broke the third NCAA bylaw.

Both Ridpath and Don Jackson — an attorney from Montgomery, Alabama, with experience representing college athletes — said they believe the punishment for Micah Parsons was excessive, given the type of violation. Brown called it an “awful serious sanction for this violation.”

Ohio State reported the football program’s violations in September, but did not report the basketball program’s violations until November.

Brown said because Ohio State self-imposed a much more severe punishment on the football program before and set a precedent for a harsh penalty, the sanctions self-imposed by the basketball program did not appear to be enough in the eyes of the NCAA. “Had they self-reported the offenses or the violations and self-imposed the less-severe sanctions, it’s quite possible that the NCAA might have accepted that,” Brown said. “Unless there was some degree of intentional conduct or a past history of compliance issues in a particular program, this was not a significant violation.”

Terrance Parsons declined to comment on the matter, saying he just wanted to put the whole incident behind him and his family.

“Well I think it’s important to say, I don’t think Ohio State’s done anything bad or wrong here,” Ridpath said. “They’ve done the reporting and there’s two different results really because of the way they reported it and I think they have to be honest that Micah Parsons wasn’t part of their plans anymore. These three basketball players — even though one wasn’t — obviously [were].”

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Discrepancy in penalty for OSU football and basketball violations COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu

of the three basketball players and did not suspend the staff member — director of player development Scoonie Penn — who allowed the prospects to walk onto the stage and set area.

EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu One football recruit and a group of three men’s basketball recruits went on their official visits to Ohio State and took trips to the set of College GameDay before the football team’s game against Oklahoma on Sept. 9.

Both parties walked onto the stage of College GameDay and met with former Ohio State quarterback and ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit, former Ohio State running back and celebrity guest picker Eddie George and two other ESPN analysts. The visits, it turns out, weren’t permitted, and Ohio State ended up self-reporting three NCAA violations for reach program.

But the Ohio State football program issued a much harsher self-imposed punishment from the university than the basketball program, despite the exact same violations occurring at the same location on the same day.

As part of its self-imposed punishment, the football program agreed to end its recruitment of former five-star defensive end and now-Penn State freshman Micah

“Is that nefarious of Ohio State? Not really.

They’re playing the game and they’re playing it pretty effectively to be honest with you.”

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Former five-star prospect and now-Penn State defensive end Micah Parsons (left) poses for a photo with former Ohio State running back Eddie George (right) at the set of College GameDay on Sept. 9.

Parsons, who was declared ineligible to compete for Ohio State, while issuing a one-game suspension to the football recruiting assistant — Ed Terwilliger — who brought Parsons to the stage. The NCAA agreed with the action and decided no further action should be taken.

However, Ohio State did not give its men’s basketball program nearly as harsh of a punishment.

In fact, it’s possible two of the prospects have already signed with the Buckeyes for next season.

The self-imposed punishments were not harsh enough for the NCAA, which added three additional sanctions including one that made the three recruits temporarily ineligible and required Ohio State to apply for reinstatement in order them to play for the Buckeyes.

Both Cleveland.com and 247Sports reported three basketball prospects visited Ohio State that weekend: Elijah Weaver, Luther Muhammad and Jaedon LeDee. Muhammad and Ledee have since signed letters of com-

mitment with Ohio State and will join the program in the fall. The two were seen at St. John Arena that day and tweeted about their visits during that weekend.

LeDee committed on Sept. 19 while Muhammad joined him on Sept. 22. The violation was not reported until Nov. 16. Ohio State was unwilling to confirm whether Weaver, Muhammad and LeDee were the three prospects in the violation.

Despite committing the same NCAA infractions, the basketball program continued its recruitment

Instead, the program was forbidden from returning to the set of any future College GameDay sets over the remainder of the 2017-18 school year and letters of education regarding the violation of the bylaws were sent to both the basketball program and the producers and analysts of GameDay, according to the report obtained by The Lantern.

As noted, the NCAA did not agree with Ohio State’s action and decided to impose three additional penalties, according to Ohio State’s compliance department.

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Ohio State remains open to movement on offensive line WYATT CROSHER Senior Lantern reporter crosher.1@osu.edu Following a Spring Game headlined by a trio of quarterbacks fighting for a single spot, there are still plenty of questions about who the five players will be in front of him.

Center Billy Price and left tackle Jamarco Jones graduated Ohio State and left for the NFL draft, leaving the Buckeyes trying to maintain the performance of an offensive line that allowed the ninth-fewest tackles for loss per game in the country last season.

The first hole that needs addressing in the offensive line is a key battle up the middle: center.

Though head coach Urban Meyer said redshirt senior Brady Taylor left spring practice as the starting center ahead of redshirt freshman Josh Myers, offensive line coach Greg Studrawa instead said the battle is still ongoing heading to the summer.

“Josh Myers, really the last two weeks, was outstanding. He struggled the first two but the last two weeks, including in the Spring Game, he was outstanding,” Studrawa said. “And Brady’s been steady, so those two guys are going to go right in through the summer and right into camp

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Ohio State then-junior right tackle Isaiah Prince (59) embraces Branden Bowen prior to the Buckeyes’ 62-14 victory against Maryland on Oct. 7. battling it out for that spot.”

Studrawa is less worried about the uncertainty of the position than Meyer, who earlier in the spring called the position a major priority.

“There’s no concern about that because I see how those kids are progressing, and I see how they’re improving, and I know the one thing to get the best out of guys is competition,” Studrawa said. “You’re going to strive and

grind and work every single day to solidify the position.”

Sophomore Thayer Munford started the Spring Game at left tackle and played the majority of the first-team reps at the position despite senior tackle Isaiah Prince seemingly moving from right tackle to left tackle in the offseason. Studrawa did not declare Munford the starter on the left side, but said it’s “pretty close” to being the case.

The tackle positions remain open after the spring, with Prince looking likely to stay at right tackle. But, as Studrawa said, it is more about figuring out where to put everyone else than it is to place Prince.

“It’s not as much as Isaiah doing it, because he can play both [sides],” Studrawa said. “Isaiah obviously has got 2,000 reps on the right side, so he’s more comfortable there ... and I like Isaiah

working next to Demetrius, too. I think that combination is really, really good.”

The battle for left tackle is more than just where Prince and Munford will play.

Studrawa said redshirt junior Joshua Alabi has entered the conversation because of his performance in spring practice.

“Josh Alabi had a tremendous spring — I mean a tremendous spring — probably as good as anybody had in his improvement and fundamentals and his improvement of knowledge,” Studrawa said. “He’s working at that left tackle spot just like Thayer is.”

The starting guards look more certain, with returning starters at left and right guard, junior Michael Jordan and redshirt senior Demetrius Knox, respectively, both returning.

Though Ohio State will into the summer with empty spots, Studrawa is happy with how this spring went for his unit.

“I think we set out just like any other spring, we set out to do two things: develop guys fundamentally, and then get some depth, build some depth, and I think we accomplished both of those things,” Studrawa said.