TUESDAY
OPINION
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A fellow Buckeye responds to President Drake’s assertion that his administration listens to students.
THURSDAY
THEATRE ARTS GROUP
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A group of students who use theater to help local high-school students become an official OSU organization.
FOOTBALL
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H-back Curtis Samuel and running back Mike Weber keep OSU atop the Big Ten in rushing yards.
MEYER
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After a big Week 3 win at Oklahoma, OSU coach Urban Meyer said the team is not inexperienced anymore.
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Proposed bicycle lane divides Columbus residents
PATRICK WILEY | LANTERN REPORTER
A northern, four-lane section Indianola Avenue is set to be condensed into two lanes with bicycle lanes being installed on either side of the roadway. PATRICK WILEY Lantern reporter wiley.221@osu.edu
North Fourth Street, though it’s only one lane. The 2-mile stretch on Indianola, which currently has four vehicle lanes, will be converted into a two-lane roadway, with 5-meter-wide bicycle lanes on either side. The project also will incorporate a center turn lane. Construction is scheduled to begin early 2017, with the project likely to be completed shortly thereafter. “The goal is to address both traffic and environmental concerns,” said Samuel Runta, a member of
While motorists are preparing for Indianola Avenue to slim down, cyclists can expect things to get a little easier. Similar to the lanes that opened on Summit Street in December, a large portion of Indianola Avenue will be dedicated to two bicycle lanes — one in each direction — between Morse Road and East North Broadway Street. A bike lane also was recently built on
the University Area Commission. According to the Columbus Public Services Department, motorist speeds on Indianola are too high, creating an unsafe environment for the frequent cyclists along the roadway. Scott Ulrich, who works as the city of Columbus bicycle coordinator, said he has observed the traffic patterns of Summit Street since its lane reduction, and said he believes Indianola will exhibit similar characteristics. “Traffic seems to be moving BIKE CONTINUES ON 2
Year 136, Issue No. 46
On-campus conference to address inequality MARIA FERNANDEZ Senior Lantern reporter fernandez.198@osu.edu From Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem to the Black Lives Matter movement to the All Lives Matter rebuttal, racial inequality is at the forefront of the American media and social and political consciousness. Students will have the opportunity this week to learn and discuss with faculty the subject of inequality, in its variety of facets. The two-day conference is part of the Conversations on Morality, Politics and Society (COMPAS) program run by Ohio State’s Center for Ethics and Human Values. COMPAS is a yearlong program dedicated to a single theme that is relevant to morality, politics and society. It has two major conferences each year and several smaller events scattered throughout. The theme of this year is inequality. Professor Don Hubin, director of COMPAS, said the program is supposed to focus on how inequality affects society as a whole. “We want to engage people to think about (the question) ‘When do we care about inequality?’” Hubin said. “Is it inequality itself that matters, or is it the fact that some people don’t have enough? What forms matter? And when is it just a concern?” Over the weekend, there will be several speakers from disciplines ranging from economics to women’s, gender and sexuality stud-
“It can make you appreciate some issues that you normally don’t see if you’ve grown up in a fairly comfortable environment.” Don Hubin COMPAS director
ies, set to sit on panels and have cross-disciplinary conversations. Hubin said the conversational tone will make it more accessible to the audience, because the language will not consist of highly technical terms. Christa Johnson, a graduate student in philosophy and the logistical coordinator for COMPAS, said she thinks it is great to see so many people, particularly students, being passionate about this issue. However, she also said she thinks some inequalities are being forgotten, which is what COMPAS is trying to address. “We latch onto one inequality, and forget about the rest,” she said. The conference will address different types of inequality, relating to economics, politics, law, health and education. “People give this (millennial) generation a hard time about caring,” Johnson said. “But it’s clear there is a big passion about these issues. And it’s important to COMPAS CONTINUES ON 2
Pages turns education into ‘experience’ SHERIDAN HENDRIX Lantern reporter hendrix.87@osu.edu Eleven years ago, Dionne Custer Edwards was inspired to reimagine arts education. With a number of public schools in Columbus facing budget cuts, it was expected that many districts would cut their arts programs in an effort to save money. At the same time, standardized test preparation was becoming more prominent in the classroom, pushing out avenues for creativity. Custer Edwards, a professional writer and arts educator working in education programming at The Wexner Center for the Arts, wanted to design a program that wouldn’t just have students write, but have them engage with their writing.
“I was a full-time writer, and I became really interested in arts education. But I met so many students who really struggled with writing, and, by the time they got to high school, they really loathed writing,” Edwards said. “It was tough because writing had this formulaic kind of way to it. I wasn’t encountering a lot of students who were thinking, being really thoughtful of their process, and even understanding that writing is a process.” Pages is a yearlong arts, literacy and writing program created by Custer Edwards designed to help high-school students develop writing skills through engaging with visual art, film and performing arts. The program partners with local high schools, where the Wexner Center for the Arts connect with both teachers and stu-
SHERIDAN HENDRIX | LANTERN REPORTER
The Pages organization at the Wexner Center for the Arts aims to help high school students improve their creative writing through an immersive, year-long experience. dents to explore how writing and the arts are entwined. Over the course of the year, Pages takes students through three different sessions, called “experiences,” sessions focusing on a
different discipline of the arts and how it relates to writing. Experiences can last up to six weeks, during which Pages educators meet with students in the classroom and at the Wexner Center.
Custer Edwards said that the experiences encourage students to consider how they can improve their writing. “Pages gives students a new perspective of looking at writing as a form of art,” Edwards said. “We say, ‘What can we learn from this filmmaker about writing a persuasive essay? What can we learn from that technique?’ You have to place yourself in the moment, get yourself outside of the classroom, and have some encounters that get you applying the things you’re learning in the classroom.” Students are given a journal at the beginning of the year to record any thoughts or ideas they have during Pages. Students also produce a number of creative-writing and art pieces inspired by each of the experiences.
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