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OSU Greek life has history of hazing culture OWEN DAUGHERTY Assistant Campus Editor daugherty.260@osu.edu At least three Greek organizations at Ohio State have been, or are currently being, investigated for possible violations of the code of student conduct in the 10 weeks since Autumn Semester began. While it remains unclear what the violations might be, one thing is known: All three of the fraternities recently, or currently, under university pressure — Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Tau Kappa Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Mu —
have been suspended from campus before, in the early 2000s. One similarity between Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Tau Kappa Epsilon is that both have been suspended from campus for hazing in the past. Hazing is nothing new, both nationally and at Ohio State. The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority made headlines in 2015 when a 19-year-old new member was hit by a car soon after joining the organization. The accident resulted in the student being hospitalized and the incident subsequently landed the sorority a two-year
suspension after an investigation of the chapter found a culture of hazing. KKG was reinstated to Ohio State campus last spring following its two-year suspension. The sorority will begin recruiting new members in January. From 2011 to 2015, Ohio State suspended or disciplined 10 fraternities for hazing. Seven sororities were suspended or sanctioned for hazing in that same time period, according to a WBNS-10TV report. Only four organizations disciplined in the time period were found guilty of something
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You step into the voting booth on Nov. 7 to cast your ballot. You go down the list voting, likely, for the candidate representing your preferred party. Then you get to the judges. No party is listed next to the names. What do you do? The judges ran in primaries, but there is no party affiliation on the ballot. Were you supposed to go to the clerk of courts and research their past decisions and legal philosophy? How do you make an informed judicial vote? This is a dilemma many voters face. “In 2017, voters in most of the state (including Columbus) will be choosing municipal court judges, and information about municipal court candidates is scarce,” Lawrence Baum, a professor emeritus in political science at Ohio State, said in an email. “The ballot provides only the names of the candidates; the campaigns are
“We want students to feel more connected to each other, to the infrastructure, to the buildings and to the vehicles.” Danny Freudiger Smart Columbus organization member
small in scale and the news media doesn’t provide much coverage.” The judges whom voters elect differs year to year, and this year’s ballots will be cast to elect municipal court judges. Jill Snitcher McQuain, executive director at the Columbus Bar Association, said everyone should be concerned with who is elected to municipal courts, not just the people appearing in those courts, because there are many different kinds of legal matters that come through it. “Even if it isn’t something that you [partake in], you can be impacted by the case law that comes out of that decision,” she said. Voting for a judge is a difficult process as there is little to no information available on the candidates, and most voters don’t know where to go or what information to look for. The United States is nearly alone internationally in having its citizens elect judges, according to
“The goal of this organization is to improve students’ lives,” said Danny Freudiger, a graduate student in mechanical engineering who leads the organization. “We want students to feel more connected to each other, to the infrastructure, to the buildings and to the vehicles.” The organization uses campus as a test bed, where solutions developed there can be applied to a larger scale, said Maryn Weimer, the senior associate director of CAR and adviser to the student group. “Campus is humongous. There is so much that goes on within this tight, confined space,” Weimer said. “It’s almost a city within a city.” One ongoing project in the organization is creating a mobile app to increase efficiency of the patient courtesy shuttle — a campus service that transports patients between Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center and other campus locations. Different from the courtesy shuttle operations, the app would send a signal to the shuttles immediately after a request, which shortens the process, Freudiger said.
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A new Ohio State student organization created to enhance connectivity and mobility of transportation is now on campus. The organization, called Smart Columbus, shares the vision of the Smart City challenge — an initiative to improve transportation and sustainability. While collaborating with Ohio State’s Center for Automotive Research, Transportation and Traffic Management, the student group strives to make campus transportation cleaner, safer and more efficient by incorporating smart technologies.
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Your daily brew: A story in every cup SHANTI LERNER For The Lantern lerner.66@osu.edu “The most important thing is the jobs we are creating,” Leonicio Guillen said in Spanish. I heard him, but got distracted from the view behind him. As I stood beneath the powdery blue sky stretching far beyond the vast expanse of green mountains and rolling valleys in the distance, I couldn’t help but fall in love with the beauty of El Salvador. It was my second day in La Palma, El Salvador, and I had the wide eyes of a tourist. But as Guillen overlooked his coffee farm with admiration and hope, I realized he had more pressing everyday concerns. We weren’t there to admire a pristine view. We were there to do work for Guillen. Guillen smiled at the group, thanking us in his soft spoken voice for what we were about to build for him. His 103-acre coffee farm is situated in the mountains of La Palma. It’s his livelihood, as well as the community’s. Although Guillen and his farm are worlds away from the Ohio State community, a few adjustments to the quality of his coffee might bring him a little closer. Like many other students at Ohio State, I am one of more than 4,000 people across the Columbus campus who drink Hubbard and Cravens coffee each day. Drinking coffee has been part of my daily routine yet I have never known where it actually comes from. Over fall break, I went on a Buck-I-Serv trip to La Palma, El Salvador and visited Guillen, a potential Ohio State coffee source. I traveled with several Ohio State staff, five other students and two
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Ohio State staff and students put the final touches on Leonicio’s new coffee drying bed with help from the Hubbard and Cravens staff in La Palma, El Salvador. staff members from Hubbard and Cravens, an Indianapolis-based company that sells coffee for the university and is focused on direct trade coffee. My group and I worked to help Guillen improve his cup score requirement, which would allow for him to sell his product on Ohio State’s Columbus campus. The Specialty Coffee Association of America scores coffee from 1-100. The cup score breaks down the different aspects of coffee such as acidity, aroma, sweetness, and body and gives consumers and farmers a basis of measure in knowing what a higher quality cup of coffee is. This past year, Guillen’s cup score was not able to meet Ohio State’s 85 cup score requirement. So much goes into growing coffee: the nutrients in the soil, the amount of shade present around coffee trees, the kind of fertilizer being used and even the way cof-
fee is dried after harvest.
“Direct trade means not only paying farmers fair wages, but also eliminating the middlemen in the supply chain and allowing the university and even a student like me to create direct relationships with farmers.” The five-day trip was part of university initiatives to partner and create direct relationships with farmers and vendors locally and around the world, and putting a face to a popular product served on campus. The university sells coffee it sources from all over the
world, including countries in Africa, South America and Central America. We flew early-morning from Columbus to Atlanta, then took a second flight straight to San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. The trip was about 12 hours of traveling. Once we arrived in the blistering heat of San Salvador we wasted no time. We got into two separate trucks and set forth on a two-hour journey to La Palma. La Palma has a population of just over 24,000 and is known for its coffee agriculture, handicrafts and colorful murals that cover building facades, houses and even vehicles. The following day was our first full day of work. Once we arrived at the farm, Hugo Valle and Carlos Garcia, an agronomist and environmental engineer who work for a coffee exporting company called Caravela, welcomed us and gave us a short tour of the
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The New York Times. Switzerland and Japan have judicial voting, but on a very limited basis. Organizations have recognized the lack of information available to voters and have created some meaningful information sources, such as one provided by the CBA. The CBA created Judge the Candidates, which provides information on candidates running for judge, because it realized voters were having a hard time getting informed, Snitcher McQuain said. “A few years ago the chief justice [of the Ohio Supreme Court, Maureen O’Connor,] had initiated some kind of study … basically the results of which evidenced that there seems to be not enough ways for people to get information about voting for judicial candidates,” Snitcher McQuain said. “We had created the site — five or six years ago — to share all the information we capture regarding the candidates so people can at least make an informed decision.” In addition to CBA’s informational website, the University of Akron and League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Columbus offer similar resources, each offering two pieces of crucial information.
farm. Both Valle and Garcia work closely with Guillen to improve his coffee. After our tour we went straight to work on our project: building a coffee-drying bed for Guillen’s coffee farm. He, like many other coffee farmers in his region, dries his coffee beans directly on the concrete ground. This practice often reflects harsh heat on the coffee and hinders it from drying properly, which, in turn, contributes to a lower cup score. The drying bed is a wooden structure that looks like a bunk bed. It stands about 10 feet tall and is shaped like a house, comprised of six wooden surfaces covered in Malla or wire mesh. We split up into teams and worked on different parts of the drying bed, we ate food together, chatted, had some laughs, and most importantly learned about coffee together. Direct trade means not only paying farmers fair wages, but also eliminating the middlemen in the supply chain and allowing the university and even a student like me to create direct relationships with farmers. “If our supply chain is based on a relationship, then it’s more than just a transaction,” Zia Ahmed, senior director of Dining Services at Ohio State and a staff trip leader, told me. Although Guillen has yet to reach the ideal cup score of 85, his new coffee drying bed will hopefully help him achieve a higher cup score come harvest time in the spring. Then, the university might just be serving coffee straight from his farm. With this to look forward to, I and other Ohio State students will soon share a connection with Guillen in a single cup of coffee, making our favorite daily beverage more than just a tasty drink. SMARTCITY FROM 1
“In Ohio, judicial candidates are nominated in partisan primary elections, but their party affiliations aren’t listed in the November ballot. For voters who think that the candidates’ parties are relevant to their choice, it can be difficult to find out which party nominated a candidate” Lawrence Baum Ohio State professor emeritus in political science
“You get two pieces of information about the candidates: from the candidates themselves and the lawyers that appear before the candidates,” Snitcher McQuain said. “It should be pretty easy for someone to make an informed decision from that.” She added the CBA has never had any issues getting judicial candidates to respond to its surveys. For those that want to vote along partisan
lines, Snitcher McQuain said Judge the Candidates is a strictly nonpartisan, a political endeavor that seeks to inform voters. However, Baum said voters can look to official party ballots for guidance if they prefer. “In Ohio, judicial candidates are nominated in partisan primary elections, but their party affiliations aren’t listed in the November ballot. For voters who think that the candidates’ parties are relevant to their choice, it can be difficult to find out which party nominated a candidate,” Baum said. “The local political parties usually send out slates of candidates that they recommend to voters who are registered with their party, and those slates will indicate which candidates are affiliated with the party that sends out the slate.”
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Smart Columbus also is developing electric bikes and a charging hub on campus, as well as a parking area for the bicycles. The group’s goal is to promote bike sharing on campus and promote it as an alternative form of transportation. The biggest advantage of e-bikes is that they are fast, energy saving and environmentally friendly, Freudiger said. “One of the concepts of the Smart City is to take cars off the road,” Freudiger said. “That reduces emissions, traffic congestion and accidents.” In the future, the organization will work with industry partners to develop and implement autonomous vehicles and communication technology on campus. “We are figuring out how we can utilize the expertise at Ohio State to support these different initiatives,” Weimer said. “All of that really shapes and changes the landscape of mobility.”
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other than hazing, the report adds. But with an event like the hazing-related death of Tim Piazza in February at Penn State making national headlines and raising the societal awareness of hazing, universities are taking notice and cracking down on hazing, said Norm Pollard, an expert on campus hazing and the Dean of Students at Alfred University in New York. “I think that we are getting better as a nation of taking it more seriously,” he said. “Unfortunately, it is often times due to tragic events, like a death. I do think there is a higher level of awareness.” The Beta Theta Pi fraternity was suspended in 2012 for two years from Ohio State’s campus, following confirmed incidents of hazing and an “on-again, offagain cycle of unacceptable behavior,” according to a letter from the national organization announcing the suspension. The fraternity chapter returned to Ohio State’s campus at East 15th and Indianola avenues a few years later with a brand new $5 million house funded by the chapter’s alumni. Eighty percent of fraternity members have experienced hazing, according to the most recent comprehensive research study done by Elizabeth Allan, a sociology professor at the University of Maine. At Ohio State, Student Conduct’s office within Student Life covers violations of the university’s code of student conduct. In addition, the Interfraternity Council, or IFC, has its own guidelines and policies that fraternities must abide by, Dave Isaacs, a university spokesman said. “They cooperate and work together and there is some intersection, but basically they are both holding individuals accountable to their specific jurisdictions,” Isaacs said. Ryan Lovell, director of Parent and Family Relations and Greek Life for the Office of Student Life, said depending on the nature of the allegation and specific violation, Student Conduct determines whether IFC or Ohio State should move forward with a disciplinary process. He said that often it could be a violation of both entities’ policies. Lovell said IFC typically allows the university to move forward with a disciplinary process when it comes to hazing because it is a violation of the code of student conduct. When the university handles a hazing allegation, Student Conduct meets with a chapter or group president and notifies them of the possible violation, Lovell
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said. Until the investigation is finished, little else is publicly known. Even though Student Conduct keeps a tight lid on information during investigations, that doesn’t prevent the rumors of hazing allegations from spreading, especially on internet forums. Take greekrank.com for instance, the forum and discussion board where anonymous users can rank and comment on fraternities and sororities at different campuses across the country. The page on hazing at Ohio State is filled with comments such as, “a frat that doesn’t make you earn your stripes shouldn’t be a frat. It’s not barbaric, it’s tradition and fun.” “Yeah there was hazing, as there should be,” the most-liked comment, from March, reads. “It’s pathetic how [politically correct] this society has become. Hazing during pledging is beneficial and even fun. Gives you the best memories honestly.” The commonly accepted language demonstrated on the web-
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The Ohio State Omicron chapter of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
site is used to sugarcoat what hazing actually is, Allan said. She said hazing is abuse and should be treated as such. One problem that many hazing experts, including Allan, point out is that colleges and universities are not always consistent or transparent with their policies for student organizations. Allan said one way of making the community aware of hazing on campus is for the school to post who is being investigated — and what the outcome is — for all to see. She said some schools have created their own webpages to post when an organization is being investigated, what the violation is and what the end result is. Ohio State does not currently present any such information on any of its student organization web pages, nor its sorority and Editor in Chief Kevin Stankiewicz Managing Editor for Content Jacob Myers Managing Editor for Design JL Lacar Copy Chief Rachel Bules Campus Editor Summer Cartwright Assistant Campus Editor Owen Daugherty Sports Editor Colin Hass-Hill Assistant Sports Editor Edward Sutelan Arts&Life Editor Ghezal Barghouty Assistant Arts&Life Editor Sara Stacy Photo Editor Jack Westerheide Assistant Photo Editor Ris Twigg Design Editor Chandler Gerstenslager Assistant Design Editor Kelly Meaden Multimedia Editor Hailey Stangebye Social Media Editor Nick Clarkson Engagement Editor Matt Dorsey Oller Reporter Sheridan Hendrix Miller Projects Reporter Erin Gottsacker
fraternity life page. “One of the recommendations related to hazing policy is first be sure you have one,” Allan said. Ohio State does have an upto-date hazing policy from 2016 displayed within the reports and policies page of its Student Life site. Its language is similar to the state of Ohio’s anti-hazing law, one of 44 such state-level laws in the country. “Second, be sure [hazing] is clearly articulated and communicated,” Allan said. “And be sure everyone knows where to go and how to report it. And then, make sure there is transparency in communicating what the outcomes were.” Ohio State’s hazing compliance form, buried at the bottom of the reports and policies page on the sorority and fraternity life website, has not been updated since 2006 to include the addition of many new chapters on campus. The form gives a description of what Ohio State’s hazing policy is and includes an agreement between Ohio State’s Greek organizations and the university stating the groups understand the policy and agree to comply with it. Additionally, many Greek organizations on campus have hazing compliance forms they sign through their national office. Ohio State has an up-to-date hazing reporting page on its student conduct page. The site has an online portal to anonymously report hazing and lists a phone number for both Student Conduct and University Police. IFC also requires all potential new members to attend an info session which provides recommendations on how a student can respond should they feel they are being hazed, Andrew Cooper, the IFC president and fourth-year in public management, leadership and policy, said in an email. “The Interfraternity Council takes allegations of hazing extremely seriously,” he said. Pollard said hazing is often underreported because of the hierarchy associated with Greek organizations and the “code of secrecy” many new members agree to when trying to join a group. “There are many that view the often times illegal activity as being fun, being positive, being ben-
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The Ohio State Theta chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. eficial even though that behavior is something that anyone of us would look at from the outside as being humiliating or degrading,” he said. Pollard said students are willing to compromise their principles for a chance to be in a group that is highly regarded, such as a fraternity or sorority. “You have individuals who are so desirous to be a part of that organization that they are literally willing to do anything, even engage in behavior that they otherwise wouldn’t normally pursue,” Pollard said. The amount of hazing in Greek communities might be growing due to the increase in membership nationally, said Dr. Susan Lipkins, a psychologist who has studied hazing and its effects for more than 25 years. Ohio State has seen a growth in Greek life involvement as well, although it makes up only about 12 percent of the total student body. Greek life membership has increased from 4,172 in 2013 to 5,600 in 2016. “There are more kids joining Greek organizations and therefore there is more hazing going on,” Lipkins said. But Lipkins and many other experts don’t see an increase in numbers as the only factor play-
ing into how universities are now handling hazing. “More importantly than noticing a few more in one semester, it’s more about the university taking seriously versus the previous stance of wink-wink and look the other way,” she said.
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Harrison Belew said the band has found that reinventing old songs and jamming in live performances has had a massive impact on how the it approaches writing original songs.
“We want them to have a great time, we want to enjoy ourselves onstage and we want them to enjoy watching us.”
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Funk Worthy will be touring over the month of November, including three dates in Columbus. EMILY REAL Lantern reporter real.6@osu.edu Funk Worthy, a former jazz quartet turned funk band, has broken out of its jazz roots and dived into groovier territory, adapting a sound inspired by artists such as Marvin Gaye, Sly and the Family Stone and Vulfpeck. Funk Worthy began in 2015 at Capital University in Bexley, when six music students got together to work on a music project outside of coursework and their respective school ensembles. Bandleader and saxophonist Chuck Worthy said for the first
year or so, the band played jazz standards, but eventually wanted to expand the band’s appeal to a broader range of people. So, Funk Worthy began to reimagine funk, gospel and rock songs. “Part of our developing phase [in 2016] was the fact that we wanted to play original music but … we hadn’t sat down and came up with a writing process,” Worthy said. “So we started out in the vein of, I wouldn’t call it a cover band, but we took covers and took a spin on them and made them extremely unique.” For most of its existence, Funk Worthy’s main focus has been to
get themselves in front of people, Worthy said. “Our first goal always was to get the music to the audience.” Worthy said. “We want them to have a great time, we want to enjoy ourselves onstage and we want them to enjoy watching us.” Even though a debut album is still in the works, Funk Worthy has made its way around Columbus and the surrounding area, playing in places like Notes, Woodlands Tavern, the late Scarlet and Grey Café and ComFest, which the band played earlier this year. As far as original music writing and recording goes, guitarist
“We learn a lot through what kinds of things we do with those songs,” Belew said. “[We developed] our own language through doing that.” Worthy said playing live is essential to Funk Worthy’s songwriting process, where the band will both test out songs they have written to an audience, and stumble upon new ideas when jamming together onstage. “We’ll practice and then we’ll perform and somebody [in the band] will do something that’s really cool that we didn’t practice.” Worthy said. “That definitely is related to the original writing process because a song can be written and sound one way in the beginning, but at the end, we’ll be like, ‘This isn’t what we started with.’” At the start of 2018, Funk Worthy hopes to solidify plans to record and release its debut album. The band is also currently on tour, where it will play The Walrus on Saturday, as well as shows at Woodlands Tavern on Nov. 14 and Musica in Akron, Ohio on Nov. 18.
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Medals, ribbons and other awards sit atop a black cloth at Melanie Mahaffey’s antique shop located in the Short North. ISAAC KANE Lantern reporter kane.244@osu.edu
Henry S. Beidler was a member of the Union Army during the Civil War, and as a lieutenant, led a group of black soldiers from the 51st U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment in the fight against the Confederacy. Beidler’s possessions have been passed down through his family for generations, and they have now found their way to Melaine Mahaffey’s antique store in the Short North. Mahaffey, an Ohio State alumna who has owned and operated the antique store Mary Catherine’s for more than 30 years, said coming across memorabilia like CIVIL WAR CONTINUES ON 5
Halloween or not, Costume Specialists creates handmade designs LYDIA FREUDENBERG Lantern reporter freudenberg.7@osu.edu According to the calendar, it is socially allowed for adults to wear costumes in public Tuesday. But for Wendy Goldstein, an assistant professor in fashion and retail studies, costumes are a daily part of life. Combining her lifelong love for theater
“I like the creative environment, being able to come in every day and do something you love.” Lovierèe Simmons Costume Specialists production buyer
with her sewing ability, Goldstein created Costume Specialists in 1981, right after she graduated from Ohio State with a master’s in fashion and retail studies, which at the time was called textiles and clothing. Located in downtown Columbus in a three-story renovated warehouse, the company is the world’s only character and mascot company to produce both inflatable and foam handmade custom and rentable
designs. Goldstein said the inspiration for starting the company camewhile trying to create her own undergraduate major at Ohio State. The college denied her request to combine theater, fashion and art courses, claiming it could never make her a living. “That was sort of the inspiration for me, it was sort of like, ‘Oh yeah? Watch me’,” Goldstein said laughing. “So afterward, … my husband and I decided to open a costume store together. He was going to be the business part and I was going to be the creative and do theatrical work, and that’s pretty much how we started.” And she made a living. Costume Specialists creates designs and prototypes of the costumes, forms the molds for mascot heads, cuts fabric electronically on a 35-foot table and hand-stitches small details like buttons and bows. Even maintenance, washing and shipping trunks are provided. Lovierèe Simmons, the company’s production buyer and an Ohio State alumna, purchases all the materials needed to make the costume, from foam to a particle shade or texturized fabric. She said it can be stressful, but the work environment helps. “When I first started, I didn’t believe there is that much that goes into a costume, but there are so many little things,” she
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Liz Mragacz creates hand-drawn stencils to be used for a future costume design. said. “I like the creative environment, being able to come in every day and do something you love.” The 35-employee team has created Peter Rabbit for The White House, designs for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Elmo for the touring “Sesame Street”
show. And for the past few decades, the Brutus Buckeye head comes to life thanks to this local business. Going beyond the United States, the company’s costumes have shipped to countries such as England, France, Turkey, COSTUMES CONTINUES ON 5
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this is extremely uncommon. “This is a crazy find, I’ve never had anything like this,” she said. “If I didn’t know the family I probably would have never been able to get my hands on it.”
“It’s just been a trip, a historic treasure just going back and finding all of this.” Mary Schwartz Henry S. Beidler’s great-great-granddaughter
While helping her friend Mary Schwartz, Beidler’s great-great granddaughter, organize her parents’ estate, Mahaffey stumbled across a bunch of Beidler’s things and immediately real-
ized she had found some very unordinary and historically relevant items. Mahaffey said what makes this collection particularly impressive is how rare it is to see one soldier’s collection all in one place. “We have the whole collection because you don’t very often get to see that many items in one spot from one soldier,” Mahaffey said. “We want to show it to the public and then sell it privately.” Since this collection is such a rarity, Mahaffey and Schwartz want to keep it all together. None of the items that will be displayed are currently for sale on an individual basis. The showing is a chance for people to see the collection, not make purchases. The women said they are hoping to sell the collection in its entirety to a collector who will keep all the items
together and preserve Beidler’s legacy. Beidler was a decorated soldier who fought with the Union Army from 1861 to 1866, starting as a private and ending up as a lieutenant toward the end of the war. After uncovering Beidler’s belongings, Schwartz said she has a newfound appreciation for her family’s history. “It’s just been a trip, a historic treasure just going back and finding all of this,” she said. “The fact that we had all this, we didn’t know. Just three weeks ago we went out in my father’s barn and we just kept finding more and more stuff.” After years of not knowing much about her family’s history, Schwartz’s eyes have been opened. “Out of honor and respect I’m noticing there is a lot to look at and be aware of,” she said.
Mexico, China and Japan. Greg Manger, Costume Specialists’ vice president and an Ohio State alumnus, said working internationally with license holders like Michelin and Kool-Aid to create ethical mascots helps strengthen their brand recognition and customer loyalty. “We typically don’t compete on price, we compete on quality and that is how we have carved out our niche in the industry by providing quality costumes and developing a relationship with these license-holders,” Manger said. Manger personally delivered costumes to foreign countries to ensure the design arrives safe and in proper condition. After 15 years with the company, Manger now oversees a lot of the daily work since Goldstein switched to long-range planning. Manger said he’s enjoyed working with Goldstein through the years. “Wendy is very creative, she has that creative mindset, and has a good eye for business and opportunities,” he said. Even though Goldstein might not be highly involved with the design aspect anymore, she still looks forward to adding her creative touch when possible. “I love the creative process, without a doubt, and collaborating with the people I work with to create something from nothing,” Goldstein said.
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The Angry Baker finds new happy place ISAAC KANE Lantern reporter kane.244@osu.edu Local bakery and pastry shop The Angry Baker recently opened its third location on High Street in the Short North. In addition to its university district restaurant on King Avenue and flagship location in Olde Towne East, The Angry Baker’s newest location was designed to keep up with the expanding business.
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A cactus cake from The Angry Baker.
“People who visit our bakery can expect to find a little bit of everything.” Erin Hall Angry Baker manager
As the business has grown over the years, owner Victoria Hink said she decided it was time to have a location designated for wholesale. Although you can still walk in for a treat at the new location, there is no seating area. Erin Hall has worked as a bakery manager at The Angry Baker’s other locations and teamed up with Hink as co-owner of the new shop, an easy decision for Hink to make. “Erin has been the bakery manager for a long time and has been running that side of the business on her own,” she said. “So, it just made sense to partner with her on opening the retail bakery.” Hall said the Short North was a great next step for The Angry Baker’s expan-
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Vegan macarons from The Angry Baker. sion, though the space itself was the pair’s deciding factor. “We have a great amount of walking traffic being on High Street with some great neighborhoods and apartments in the area as well,” Hall said. “We are also fortunate to be around a ton of great businesses and of course the Short North gallery scene. We even stay open late for the monthly gallery hops.” Elaina’s Specialty Cakes was previously in The Angry Baker’s current location, which eased the transition into the new space. The Short North location’s menu is sim-
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ilar to other locations but Hall ran through some noteworthy items to check out, including favorites like croissants, cookies, donuts and brownies. Hall said the bakery prides itself on having an option for every visitor, including vegan and gluten-free options. “People who visit our bakery can expect to find a little bit of everything,” she said. Over time, the new location will also add in sugar-free items, as well as some bakery-centered lunch options. The Angry Baker’s Short North location is open from Tuesday to Sunday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
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A pizza from The Angry Baker.
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Terrific trio pushes for more history at Ohio State JEFF HELFRICH Lantern reporter helfrich.36@osu.edu No three teammates in NCAA wrestling history have become four-time All-Americans together. This season, Ohio State seniors Kyle Snyder, Bo Jordan and Nathan Tomasello will attempt to do just that. The season-opening Princeton Open in Princeton, New Jersey, on Nov. 4 marks the beginning of the end for Snyder, Jordan and Tomasello. Even with a campaign still left to go, their legacy might already be carved out in Ohio State wrestling lore, head coach Tom Ryan said. “Those three have really taken the program to a level of commitment that is pretty sky-high,” Ryan said. “They’ve set an incredible culture here.” Snyder, a heavyweight, is the most decorated of the three. Outside of being a threetime All-American, he owns two individual national championships and two Big Ten individual championships. The senior also won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Tomasello, a redshirt senior at 125 pounds, also won a 2015 individual national championship at 125 pounds and is a three-time individual Big Ten champion. While Tomasello suffered a right-knee injury earlier this month and is currently out of action, he will begin his quest to become a four-time All-American when he returns in January. An individual national championship is the only accolade that has eluded Jordan, who wrestles at 174 pounds. The redshirt senior has finished in the top three at the BUCKEYE BRIEF FROM 8
erage — as running back Saquon Barkley returned the opening kick 97 yards to give the Nittany Lions an early six-point lead. After the game, Meyer called the kickoff unit, which he said has historically been near the best in the conference, “comical.” Monday afternoon, he said it was “a joke right now.” “We’re the only school in the America that can’t kick it out of the end zone, even with the wind at our back,” Meyer said. “I’m not a kicking expert but kick the ball out of the end zone and we don’t do that. It’s not because of not telling them to kick the ball out of the end zone.”
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Then-junior Kyle Snyder lifts Penn State’s Nick Nevills for a takedown on Feb. 3, 2017 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU lost, 32-12. NCAA tournament three times and became a Big Ten champion in 2017. Another plot of common ground for the trio is the experience of bringing a team national championship to Columbus in 2015. Ryan said there has been a culture shift during the trio’s tenure with the Buckeyes as the Columbus program is now seen as a wrestling powerhouse. Just last week, two top-10 recruits at their respective weight classes committed to Ohio State on the same day. “You can have a great team and have your culture be average,” Ryan said. “But Former Ohio State punter Cameron Johnston disputed the claim. He took to Twitter to say he does not believe Meyer’s claim about not being able to kick the ball out of the end zone, as he said he has seen both kickers do so firsthand. Regardless of how the Buckeyes fix the unit, they cannot afford to continue to send out the same unit expecting different results. If something doesn’t change, the number in Ohio State’s loss column will.
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engaged student body inside the Schott. Holtmann mentioned that he would like to incorporate the singing of “Carmen Ohio” with the players and staff after every game — just as the football team does. Holtmann said nearly every team in the Big Ten provides teams with tough environments to play in on the road. His goal is to make the Schott one of those. “When I first took the job and I was on the road in July, [I] had someone, a Big Ten coach, come in and say, ‘Hey, you’ve got to get the Schottenstein Center rocking again because it hadn’t been rocking the past few years,’” Holtmann said. “And we’ve got a responsibility as a team to play in a way that would engage our fanbases — certainly our students, which is incredibly important.” That coach actually told him, “Hey, you have to get the students back involved.” Creating the raucous home environment ties right back into getting the students interested and involved. Holtmann said he knows the arena with 19,049 seats can be a challenging environment for opponents to play in should the student section make a strong showing at the games. “Students bring a different energy,”
said. “We’re good friends and it’ll be really exciting to achieve that with them come March. It’ll be just a great experience I think just to cap off our college wrestling careers.” The curtain call will not be without nostalgia, especially for Jordan. He called the chance to train and be alongside Snyder and Tomasello a privilege while expressing that teammates like them are not common. Most of all, Jordan has already started to reflect on his time at Ohio State and harkened back to one of his first memories at the Steelwood Training Facility. “I remember, the first preseason I had here I was like, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to do four more of these, this is so hard,’” Jordan said. “And now, all of the sudden I’m a senior and I’m like, ‘Wow. This is my last one, last of these that I’m ever going to do, last practices, more practices down to my last one.’”
Holtmann said. “There’s no question about it. And our students, I believe that I’ve watched games, bring a different energy.” The product on the court will in all likelihood not be much better than last season. Holtmann admitted as much. But what he hopes to do is make sure that, even if the team isn’t winning a lot of games, it is involved and engaged with the fanbase. If the Schott can be “rocking again,” the first year in the Holtmann era could get off to a better start than the record will show. In his pitch to students as to why they should show up to the games, the message was clear. “Well, we need you,” Holtmann said. “I don’t know if that’s a pitch or not, but we certainly need them. The games feel differently when you have students there … We need them to be successful.”
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you can also have a great team and have your culture be through the roof. And this culture is through the roof right now. And really the foundational pieces of it were those three.” Though the trio has had its fair share of individual success over the group’s collective three years at Ohio State, Snyder said he likes to focus on the impact his teammates have made on him. Tomasello was roommates with Jordan during his freshman year and has lived with Snyder the past three years. “I know them really well,” Tomasello
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Urban Meyer’s Penn State debriefing: Dobbins, kickoffs and team growth COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu Despite a 15-point fourth-quarter deficit, No. 3 Ohio State (7-1, 5-0 Big Ten) rode a stupendous performance from quarterback J.T. Barrett to a 39-38 victory against No. 7 Penn State (7-1, 4-1 Big Ten) in a battle of Big Ten powers. Head coach Urban Meyer addressed the media Monday afternoon following the victory. Here are three takeaways from the press conference. Improved offensive line led to comeback win Just a year ago, then-No. 2 Ohio State played a close game against the Nittany Lions, but crumbled on the final drive and fell 24-21 to unranked Penn State. Meyer believes this season, the Buckeyes’ resilience in tough situations did not exist a year ago. “The team last year would not have won that game,” Meyer said. “They would have dropped their head. Offensive line would have dropped their head.” Right tackle Isaiah Prince struggled in last season’s loss to Penn State. He looked overmatched the entire game and allowed multiple sacks as the clock ticked closer to zero on what would be Ohio State’s final drive. But Prince has matured after a
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Ohio State redshirt senior quarterback J.T. Barrett (16) hands the ball off to freshman running back J.K. Dobbins (2) in the second quarter in the game against Penn State on Oct. 28. Ohio State won 39-38. year of experience and coaching, Meyer said. The head coach was incredulous when asked whether he was worried about Prince heading into last Saturday’s game. “He’s unbelievable now,” Meyer said. “Isaiah, not worried about him at all. He’s a grown man that’s handling his stuff the way a right offensive tackle at Ohio State should.”
All five starting offensive linemen graded as successful on between 82 and 86 percent of their plays. Meyer deemed them all to have “champion” effort. Meyer does not want to “micromanage” running back carries In the first quarter, freshman running back J.K. Dobbins exploded, taking four carries for 50 yards, including a 21-yard
rush. But he did not touch the ball again until the third quarter as redshirt sophomore running back Mike Weber took all seven second-quarter carries. Dobbins finished with 13 rushes for 88 yards while Weber had 21 yards and a touchdown on seven carries. Meyer said he does not, and would not want to, involve himself in divvying up the
carries. “[Dobbins] still had 88 yards and however many carries,” Meyer said. “So we’re throwing the ball so darn well right now, too. So there’s no, once again I don’t micromanage. That’s Kevin Wilson, and that’s Tony Alford to determine. And they’re both practicing very hard. You’d like to get them more carries.” Meyer said he trusts good coaches to make playing-time decisions when the players are “1A” and “1-B.” “[Running backs coach] Tony Alford is an excellent football coach,” Meyer said. “The last thing he needs is me worrying about that stuff.” Meyer said Weber has “really done a nice job” this season despite an injury which hampered him and made possible Dobbins’ surge, but also mentioned the 2016 starter was humbled. Meyer said Weber’s goal is to reach close to 2,000 rushing yards in a season. But with Dobbins accompanying him in the backfield for the foreseeable future, his path to reaching 2,000 yards is unclear. Search remains for a solution to kickoffs It took just 15 seconds into Saturday’s game for Penn State to take advantage of Ohio State’s biggest weakness — kickoff covBUCKEYE BRIEF CONTINUES ON 7
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How Chris Holtmann plans to bring excitement to Ohio State EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu
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To say excitement surrounding Ohio State’s men’s basketball team last season was dim would be an understatement. Despite playing in the 10th-largest home arena in college basketball, Ohio State averaged the 24th-most fans per game last season (12,324) and was only at 64.7 percent capacity throughout the season (106th out of 351). The Schottenstein Center also failed to exceed 70 percent capacity in the 2015-16 season after finishing with 76.9, 86.5 and 86.7 percent in the 2014-15, 2013-14 and 2012-13 seasons, respectively. First-year head coach Chris Holtmann hopes to return to the years of a packed Schottenstein Center. Though Butler maintained consistent success before Holtmann arrived, the head coach brought a new level of excitement around the program, steadily increasing arena capacity from 81.0 percent his first year to 89.7 percent his second and 91.8 percent his final season. The question for Holtmann becomes: How does he bring excitement back to an Ohio State program that has lacked it over the
past two seasons? “Well I’m not going to be doing cartwheels on the sidelines or anything. That’s for sure,” Holtmann said jokingly in an interview with The Lantern Wednesday. “I think how we play is really important.” The success of the team will no doubt play a role in the enthusiasm in the fanbase and in the students. The reduced attendance over the past two seasons goes hand-in-hand with the struggles the team faced as Thad Matta’s squad posted two of the three worst records over his tenure, including his worst record last year. The two down seasons came after a long run of success in which the Buckeyes reached seven consecutive NCAA Tournaments. The new personnel — both on the court and the sidelines — will more than likely not result in a drastically improved season. A best-case scenario for the team could be a place in the NIT or a high seed in the NCAA Tournament. The excitement generated by the new personnel could produce early season increases in attendance, but the new staff and players will have to do more to maintain that level throughout the season. In his first full season as Butler head coach, Holtmann found a
way to interact with the students and drive interest in the team. On Dec. 15, 2015, Holtmann went to a local Starbucks at Butler and bought coffee for every student at the coffee shop. Now at Ohio State, Holtmann has already begun his campaign to get students excited for men’s basketball. He gave donuts to students and parents on move-in day at the Schottenstein Center. If he has his way, that won’t be the last appearance he makes with the student body. “I had some ideas that I tossed around with our staff and our marketing people yesterday about me getting back out with the students and kind of surprising the students in some different places on campus,” Holtmann said. “Because the reality is, we just arrived here. They don’t know me. They don’t know who I am. I get to walk around on campus right now and not many people know who I am and I’m looking forward just to spending some time getting to know them.” It is not only important for Holtmann to get people in seats. Those people need to be energized while they are in them. Beyond interacting with students on campus, Holtmann has ideas for recreating a more HOLTMANN CONTINUES ON 7