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Snow covers campus Jan. 3. OSU Columbus campus and all branch campus are set to be closed Jan. 6.

liz Young Campus editor young.1693@osu.edu All Ohio State campuses are set to be closed Monday to various degrees because of “extreme cold conditions” and “extreme temperatures.”

An OSU athletics HR director said in an email OSU has made the decision to close the main campus based on the severe temperatures and weather expected. The Lantern obtained a copy of the email, which was received by a student involved in the athletic department at about 8:20 p.m.

As of Sunday evening, there was a predicted high of 11 degrees and a 20 percent chance of snow in Columbus for Monday, according to The Weather Channel.

The OSU Twitter account, @OhioState, tweeted at about 9:30 p.m. that the Columbus campus would be closed Monday, but some dining halls and health services would be open. OSU Emergency Management also sent an email with similar information. It is the first time OSU’s main campus has closed because of weather conditions since February 2011.

According to a university notice sent to The Lantern by OSU spokesman Gary Lewis, the university is set to be closed because “the safety of our students, faculty, staff and visitors is of the utmost importance.” “The closing of the Columbus campus is to minimize the amount of time faculty, staff and students are outside because extremely low temperatures and wind chill can cause frostbite and hypothermia. The university strongly urges all faculty, staff and students to take proactive measures to protect themselves and others from the cold, including not going outside unless it is absolutely necessary,” the statement said.

All recreational sports facilities, including the RPAC, Jesse Owens North and Jesse Owens South are set to be closed Monday, as well as the Ohio Union, Younkin Success Center and Counseling and Consultation Service.

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‘Good football players, even better people’ Eric Seger Sports editor seger.25@osu.edu MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — This wasn’t how it was supposed to end.

As Clemson redshirt-senior quarterback Tajh Boyd took a knee to run out the clock in the 2014 Discover Orange Bowl — signaling his team’s 40-35 victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes (12-2, 8-1) — a harsh reality was setting in for OSU seniors.

Despite winning 24 straight games under coach Urban Meyer, the 2013 senior class members have no postseason victories to their name, unless they redshirted during their Buckeye career and were thus a part of the team of 2010 Rose Bowl champions.

Between a loss in the Orange Bowl this season, a bowl ban in 2012-13 season, falling short in the 2012 Gator Bowl and getting the 2011 Sugar Bowl win vacated, something will always be missing from a group that had championship expectations.

“It’s always going to be hard. My college career did not end the way I thought it would or I wanted it to,” redshirt-senior left tackle Jack Mewhort said following the loss to the Tigers (11-2, 7-1).

Regardless of the team’s postseason shortcomings in recent years, that’s not how Mewhort and company want to be remembered.

“I think we’re very resilient. I think we’re hard workers, good people. Good football players, even better people,” Mewhort said. “I’d like to take that to be the legacy.

Obviously we dropped a few tough ones here at the end. We would have liked to go out on top, but I think we set a standard for these younger guys.”

From the depths of a 6-7 season in 2011 capped with the Gator Bowl loss to Florida, this year’s class of seniors will be remembered fondly by its head coach even though the group fell short in this season’s biggest games.

“Senior class, we just said an emotional goodbye to them,” OSU coach Urban Meyer said after the Orange Bowl loss. “It’s not because they’re seniors, it’s because of what they’ve done. I tried to make that perfectly clear. Just because you stay some place for a couple years doesn’t mean you deserve that respect. It’s what you did, and how you did it.”

The seniors on the offensive side of the ball turned in a record-setting season in their last year at OSU, setting school records for

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OSU players return to the field after halftime in the Orange Bowl against Clemson at Sun Life Stadium Jan. 3.

OSU lost 40-35. points (637), points per game (45.5), yards per game (512.0), passing touchdowns (38), first downs (361) and rushing yards (4,321).

The Buckeyes had chances to win both the Big Ten Championship Game against No. 7 Michigan State in addition to the Orange Bowl late, but ultimately fell short. It is that unwillingness to give up that sets them apart, senior wide receiver Corey “Philly” Brown said after the loss to the Tigers. “(We have) great leadership, especially the senior class. It’s a tough football team. A team that will never give up,” Brown said.

When Meyer’s reign began in 2012, a change in the culture came along with it, something Mewhort said was not an easy adjustment.

“I know it looks like immediately the next season after going 6-7 we came back and go 12-0, but it was not immediate — at all,” Mewhort said. “It started at 5 a.m. in January of last year. Every day we came to work and we grinded hard.”

Aside for junior linebacker Ryan Shazier — who declared for the NFL Draft Saturday — OSU will be leaning on juniors like

quarterback Braxton Miller, tight end Jeff Heuerman, defensive lineman Michael Bennett and wide receivers Devin Smith and Evan Spencer in 2014 to follow in the footsteps of a class that Meyer thinks has a bright future.

“It will be great. A student-athlete at Ohio State University, (will) get a great degree and go on and build for the future,” Meyer said.

“It’s going to sting for a while, probably a long while, because we just didn’t finish, and it was right there to finish.

“This year’s senior class … When I looked around the room, every one of them could impact that play. And that’s the sign of a decent senior class.”

No matter how it ended, Mewhort said being remembered for getting the program “back to where Ohio State should be” is the most important thing.

“Talking about the last two games, obviously we would have liked to come out on top of those but I think our seniors did a good job of setting the template of how to come to work every day,” Mewhort said. “Do things the right way on and off the field. Hopefully we’ll be remembered for that.”

Free Orange Bowl trip for some at OSU $12M OSU apparel

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Kathleen Martini Lantern reporter martini.35@osu.edu Some Buckeyes watched the Ohio State football team fall to Clemson in the 2014 Discover Orange Bowl on the university’s dollar.

The Athletic Council, a committee consisting of 15 students, faculty, staff and alumni, went to Florida to cheer on the Buckeyes all expenses paid, university spokesman Gary Lewis said in an email.

“Athletic Council members traveling as part of the official party receive roundtrip airfare, hotel, game tickets, daily breakfast and events,” Lewis said. “The funds that cover these events are provided by the Big Ten as part of the Orange Bowl budget.”

Though OSU’s Orange Bowl budget was not available as of Sunday night, the Big Ten Conference covers up to $2.15 million in travel expenses for the Orange Bowl, Scott Chipman, assistant commissioner for communications for Big Ten, said in an email.

“The Big Ten covers travel costs up to a set limit for each Big Ten team traveling to a bowl game,” Chipman said.

Face value price for a student ticket was $110, compared to $165 for the general public, senior director

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of ticketing and preferred seats Brett Scarbrough told The Lantern in an email last month.

OSU was required to purchase 17,500 tickets for the game against Clemson, and as of Dec. 26, there were “approximately 7,500 committed,” according to the email.

According to the email, the Orange Bowl distributes any unsold inventory to military personnel and youth groups in South Florida, and OSU had already given back 9,000 tickets from its allotment at the time for that purpose.

The Athletic Council is a sector of the University Senate that makes decisions regarding intercollegiate athletics, but does not act as an administrative body, according to university rules. Members “develop, subject to the general authority of the president and the Board of Trustees, policies governing intercollegiate athletics, as the agent of the senate,” according to the Athletic Council rules.

The council helps with matters including deciding schedules for season and post-season games, providing financial aid for athletes and helping with public relations of the athletics program.

Of the 15 members of the Athletics Council, eight are regular tenure-track faculty, and of those, four faculty members are selected by the University Senate and four faculty members are selected by the president, alumni

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Ohio State announced an exclusive apparel contract with two private companies more than a year ago, but the university only completed a deal with one firm and has been quietly considering other vendors for the other.

It was announced in November 2012 that OSU had entered a 10-year, $97 million agreement with two apparel and retail businesses, J. America Sportswear and Fanatics Inc., to exclusively produce and sell university apparel. According to a Dec. 31 email from OSU spokesman Gary Lewis, however, “no agreement has been finalized” with Fanatics Inc. Lewis also said “over the past six months, other vendors have been considered to fill this role and it remains pending.”

The names of the considered vendors however, were not disclosed. Representatives from J. America Sportswear and Fanatics Inc. did not return multiple requests for comment.

“We continue to work towards finalizing the terms of the contract and as in past practices, upon its completion those potential bidders who expressed an interest will be disclosed at that time,” Lewis said.

Lewis also said a separate license agreement was signed with J. America in December and had an effective date of Jan. 1.

The J. America contract is valued at $85 million which Lewis said “is consistent with the previous announcement” of $97 million for the two companies. The 10-year time frame originally announced is still being finalized, Lewis said, but is consistent with the November 2012 announcement as well.

Fanatics opened a distribution center in Frazeysburg, Ohio, in 2013 that, according to previous Lantern articles, would employ about 300 full-time workers and more seasonal employees.

In November 2012, OSU announced a 10-year, $97M agreement with J. America Sportswear and Fanatics Inc. Over the past six months other vendors have been considered for part of the apparel contract valued at $12M. According to a November 2012 press release, Jeff Kaplan, former senior vice president and executive officer to the president at OSU, said the university chose J. America, which is based out of Webberville, Mich., and Fanatics, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based company, from three finalists and about 40 bids, according to previous Lantern articles.

Kaplan confirmed that Dallas Cowboys’ Silver Star Merchandising, which has come under fire in the past from organizations like United Students Against Sweatshops for mistreating employees, was also a finalist at that time.

The deal with J. America is just one of the private contracts the university holds, which add up to more than $660 million altogether, including deals with Coca-Cola Co., Nike Inc., Huntington National Bank and QIC Global Infrastructure.

Kaplan said in 2012 the apparel deal was expected to stabilize funding for hundreds of student scholarships, about 1,000 student organizations and invest in library collections.

In 1998, OSU and Coca-Cola agreed to a more than $32 million, 10-year contract that made the company the university’s exclusive beverage vendor. The contract was renewed in 2008 for an additional 10

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campus OSU sustainability coordinator to leave for Arizona LIZ YOUNG Campus editor young.1693@osu.edu

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Corey Hawkey, who has been OSU’s sustainability coordinator since Feb. 2010, is leaving for Arizona State University.

Ohio State’s sustainability coordinator is leaving the state for higher pay and a warmer climate.

Corey Hawkey, who has been at OSU since February 2010, is set to start as the manager of the Zero Waste at Arizona State University initiative Jan. 13. He will earn $55,000 as his starting salary, and his position is a new one at the university, Arizona State spokeswoman Iti Agnihotri said in an email.

Hawkey made $47,844 as his base salary in 2013 at OSU, up 3.1 percent from about $46,404 the year before, according to the Columbus Business First Columbus DataCenter.

As OSU’s sustainability coordinator of the Energy Services and Sustainability office, Hawkey led the Zero Waste initiative at Ohio Stadium. The recycling program, which began in fall 2011, diverted 90.5 percent of the stadium’s waste from landfills during

the 2013 football season, its first official “zero waste” season, according to the OSU Buckeye Footprint website.

Zero waste means at least 90 percent of waste is diverted from landfills by being recycled or composted.

The program’s highest individual game diversion rate to date was reached during the OSU football game against Wisconsin Sept. 28, when the initiative diverted 98.5 percent of stadium waste from landfills, according to the website.

OSU spokeswoman for Administration and Planning Lindsay Komlanc said Hawkey’s last day at OSU is Tuesday and his time at the university has been valued.

“It takes many people working together from all areas of the university to make programs such as zero waste or our other sustainability initiatives a success, but Corey has been particularly dedicated in his efforts and we appreciate the commitment he has shown to our sustainability goals and initiatives,” Komlanc said in an email Tuesday.

Hawkey is slated to serve several roles at Arizona State — he will develop university-wide sustainability programs, help “serve as a liaison” with community and business partners and Arizona State students, faculty and staff in implementing those programs and will manage various budgets, among other responsibilities, according to an Arizona State press release.

Prior to his position at OSU, Hawkey was sustainability coordinator for the Ohio Board of Regents.

Hawkey said he’s moving on from OSU with a sense of accomplishment.

“It’s been an honor and a great pleasure being a part of the team at Ohio State,” Hawkey said in an email. “I am very proud of what the university has accomplished in sustainability and know greater things are still to come.”

Some students resolve to care for animals, study more in 2014 Isabella Giannetto Lantern reporter giannetto.5@osu.edu For many Ohio State students, a new year means a new goal.

In 2014, resolutions to get fit and healthy are a popular goal for many students, but Heather Scott, a second-year in business, plans to work harder in school and get better grades than she did in 2013.

“With all the changes on campus … I think this year I’ll have more options of places to study and do my school work,” Scott said.

For others, volunteering is on the radar instead of a personal goal.

Sam Cochran, a third-year in marketing, wants to rescue and raise stray animals he sees wandering around campus.

Since he moved out of a multiple person house and into an apartment by himself, he said he would like the company of a pet to greet him when he comes home.

“If I rescue a cat or dog, I’d be helping them and I’d be satisfying myself with a pet so everyone would win,” Cochran said.

After failing to stick to his resolution last year, quitting smoking cigarettes, Cochran decided to

make a new goal to help someone or something else other than himself.

According to “Forbes,” more than 40 percent of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, but only 8 percent achieve them.

Fixing relationships and being more strict about their religion are on the agendas of some students for the upcoming year.

Meghan Helton, a second-year in education, plans to make an additional effort to stay in touch with her family members who live in another city.

After transferring from Ohio University before Fall Semester, Helton said she wants to be better at talking to her parents, who live in Cleveland, and staying close with them.

“For some reason, I really struggled with that while at OU, so it’s definitely at the top of my list this year,” Helton said. “Last year, I pretty much kept up with my goal of working out five days a week, so I’m confident in my goal for this year.”

Allie Dahlhausen, a Catholic and a third-year in psychology, is aiming to attend church every Sunday.

With multiple churches in close proximity to her house, Dahlhausen said she has many options of where to go.

According to a U.S. government website, losing weight, quitting smoking, volunteering more and managing debt are among the top New Year’s resolutions.

Lantern file photo A puppy rolls on the Oval. Sam Cochran, a third-year in marketing, wants to rescue and raise stray animals he sees wandering around campus in 2014.

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Roughly a decade after renewing with Coca-Cola, OSU and Nike signed three separate seven-year contracts that went into effect Aug. 1, 2007. Recently, Nike exercised a contract option to extend all three agreements until July 31, 2018. Over 11 years, the contract is expected to yield $46 million for OSU, much of which is set to go to the Department of Athletics, Lewis said.

The deal with Fanatics was set to cover the production, marketing and design aspects as well as the distribution of all apparel categories with the exception of officially licensed OSU apparel made by Nike. Fanatics’ guarantee for retail was $12 million over 10 years.

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The closures of the OSU Newark, Mansfield, Marion, Lima and ATI Wooster campuses were announced on the OSU Emergency Management Twitter account, @OSU_EMFP, Sunday afternoon.

Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and ATI Wooster campuses are closed from 6 a.m. Monday until 6 a.m. Tuesday, though “all essential personnel are to report as scheduled,” according to OSU Emergency Management. The OSU-Newark and Central Ohio Technical College campuses will be closed from Monday 6 a.m. until Tuesday 6 a.m. as well, but “essential personnel” are expected to report to work at those campuses as well.

Wooster’s forecast predicted a high of 18 degrees and a 40 percent chance of snow for Monday as of Sunday evening, while Newark’s forecast predicted a high of 17 degrees and a 20 percent chance of snow, according to The Weather Channel.

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The contract money is set to go toward “scholarships, education and alumni giving,” according to the Huntington website.

Also in 2012, the university agreed to a 50-year lease on its parking assets for the upfront price of $483 million. QIC Global Infrastructure, an Australian investment firm, placed the bid and created CampusParc to operate the parking facilities. The deal was finalized and approved by the Board of Trustees in June 2012. The money from the contract was put into OSU’s endowment fund, which is being used for student scholarships, increased staff grants, adding tenure-track faculty and to support the Campus Area Bus Service.

According to Lewis, OSU recently received $20 million in guarantees from J. America Sportswear, which was an “advance against royalties,” and the remainder of the contract is still being finalized.

Classes at OSU-Mansfield and North Central State are canceled Monday, though “campus will be open for employees to report to work,” the Twitter account said. According to the OSU Emergency Management website, classes at the OSU-Lima campus are canceled Monday as well, though “essential personnel” are expected to report to work.

Temperatures in Mansfield for Monday were predicted to hit a high of 13 degrees with a 30 percent chance of snow as of Sunday evening, while in Lima, temperatures were predicted to hit a high of 1 degree and 30 percent chance of snow, according to The Weather Channel.

At the OSU-Marion campus, classes are canceled. According to The Weather Channel, the temperature is set to hit a high of 6 degrees and there was a 30 percent chance of snow as of Sunday evening.

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studentvoice Find motivation, challenge yourself to be better in 2014 Managing editor, content

Let’s get one thing straight — I hate New Year’s resolutions.

Most people won’t lose those pesky 20 pounds, learn a new language, start doing yoga every day or keep a journal.

New Year’s caitlin essig resolutions essig.21@osu.edu are, by name, doomed to fail.

But let’s get another thing straight — I’m an optimist.

And so, yes, I believe this year can be great. But I don’t think we need to slap a big label on the changes we want to make in our lives, nor do we need the gleaming gateway of a new year to make them.

What we need, is motivation.

In college, motivation can be hard to come by.

Ohio State is crawling with procrastinators, and I know this because I’ve sat through enough “study

sessions” in various campus locations that were really just an excuse for my friends and I to explore topics such as “American Horror Story,” Facebook creeping, Eminem’s best music videos and the optimal time to order a pizza.

I will likely never know why we procrastinate on studying, writing papers and finishing class projects, but perhaps more importantly, I think it’s time we stop procrastinating on another aspect of our lives that will follow us far past college: making changes to become better people.

The best way to decide it’s time to make big changes in your life is to have a devastating, earthshattering, rock-bottom moment. It’s easier to wait until our lives feel so irreparable that we must do something about it. However, whether we hit that point or not, there is always room for improvement.

So my challenge for the year — I’m going with challenge rather than resolution, because I will not destine myself for failure — is to do a simple thing: be better. Perhaps that sounds a bit rude. It’s not. It means simply, to improve every aspect of myself and my life that I have control over. Because who I am as a human being is too important to procrastinate on evaluating and improving.

This year, if we just go out of our way to challenge

Make 2014 the year you begin to commit to being better.

And then never stop.

ourselves a little more, we can be better. So pick a few areas of your life that you’re unhappy with, and run with the possibilities of improvement.

I’m challenging myself to be more present wherever I am — to put down my phone, put away social media and just pay attention to what’s around me. I’m challenging myself to meet new people and develop deeper bonds with everyone in my life. I want to think a little longer before I react, worry a little less about others’ negativity and take better care of myself.

I want to be more fit, and I know that takes work.

But my challenge is to remember each day that I’m not just deciding whether or not to go for a run. I’m

deciding whether or not to be better in a certain part of my life.

So immerse yourself in something new, become distracted by nature, talk to strangers, be more spontaneous and less negative. Don’t just ignore the parts of your life you wish were different. You’re young and malleable. Make some changes.

Whatever your challenge or resolution this year, make it count. And don’t just make them now, challenge yourself every month, every week, every day. Adopt a mantra and repeat it to yourself daily, or post gentle reminders around your room so you can’t avoid the changes you want to make. Don’t just carry on about how 2014 will be “your year.” Put your money where your mouth is and be the best version of yourself every day.

Simply put, make 2014 the year you begin to commit to being better. And then never stop.

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Ke$ha among many Americans who struggle with eating disorders Editor-in-chief Kristen Mitchell mitchell.935@osu.edu

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Ke$ha performs at the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion Aug. 27. Ke$ha checked into a rehab center Jan. 3 for an eating disorder.

First OSU semester comes with stress

learn to love herself again.

The 26-year-old artist is hardly the first celeb to come out with an eating disorder, which are fairly common among the general population. However despite their prevalence, I was shocked by the reaction I saw online.

After hate-creeping in online comment sections, I was horrified to see what some people were saying and the general misconceptions about eating disorders.

Eating disorders are very real and very harmful diseases — they aren’t glamorous or a “white girl problem.” They can affect anyone of any gender, body type or social standing. Telling someone with an eating disorder to “just eat” is about as effective as telling someone with the flu to “just stop being sick” or someone with depression to “be happy.” It doesn’t work like that.

And no, you definitely don’t wish you had one. It’s not a diet — it’s an uncontrollable and extremely dangerous behavior.

According to the National Eating Disorders Association, 20 million women and 10 million men in the U.S. at some point in their lives suffer with eating disorders.

It isn’t just celebrities who suffer from eating disorders, it’s your best friend, your sister, the guy you sit next to in class and your neighbor. Often times, you might not even be aware someone close to you has one. Eating disorders aren’t talked about because they carry a social stigma and it’s a source of shame and embarrassment.

The No. 1 contributor to eating disorders is widely believed to be body dissatisfaction, because unfortunately many women feel pressure to be super skinny. All bodies are made differently, but all bodies aren’t walking down the red carpet in Hollywood or the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway. When images of skinny, airbrushed women are on the cover of every magazine and star in every movie, it’s hard not to look at them and say “I wish I looked like that.”

I can admit that I have struggled with my body image. When I look in the mirror, I can always find something I wish looked just a little different. I’ve yearned for a smaller stomach, thinner thighs, moretoned arms.

It’s been found that girls as young as six are concerned with their weight and in elementary school, about half are worried about becoming too fat, according to NEDA. That’s a heart-breaking statistic, why should any child need to worry about their weight?

On the exterior Ke$ha might be a woman who brushes her teeth with a bottle of Jack and makes it rain with glitter, but she’s a real woman with a real problem faced by other real women and men. Eating disorders aren’t a joke — and Ke$ha opening up about hers is a brave sign of strength.

So Kesha Sebert, good luck in your recovery, I hope you can find peace.

Hack reveals Snapchat not so safe after all

Campus columnist

It’s strange to think that one-eighth of my time at Ohio State is behind me.

A large part of this first semester felt like a sudden submergence into a new lifestyle with new struggles and triumphs. And now that I reminisce over the not-so-distant past, it seems that these crests and troughs were a product of this sudden submergence.

It’s all rather mind-numbing, too.

The main reason, arguably, most of us are here (although it is often matthew miles forgotten) is to be able to successmiles.217@osu.edu fully comprehend class material. It is safe to say that my classwork and studying for this first semester have required more effort than I have ever put into any previous schoolwork, or really anything at all.

Quickly following this increase of work, unfortunately, were heaps of intermittent stress, which usually sprung up around midterms and major deadlines that were difficult to meet. But this is all just what college is, and I’m sure every upperclassman would agree it’s just a part of the experience, and with more experience comes composure.

My ability to handle these overwhelming moments, however, has noticeably improved thus far, so I’m actually feeling much more positive about my capability to handle the Spring Semester’s workload better.

While I might have found this simple, day-to-day, week-to-week, routine of assignment completion and review of in-class notes as a stressful experience, it actually seemed trivial at the end of the semester. As an undecided first-year student, I value the ideas of self-discovery and personal evaluation and how they relate to “big picture” questions and concerns.

Yes, it is stressful to study for midterms, write papers, and to stay up late doing so, but the concern that looms over my shoulders, underlying all of the struggles and joys of the semester, is the task of mapping out my future.

It feels like one day I was sitting in a high school class, and the next day I was expected to know what I “wanted to do with my life,” a question that I have yet to answer.

It might seem like I find this all very unfair, this system of (relatively) quick decision-making, but I actually think it’s quite all right. It has forced me to actually question, think about and develop every angle and aspect of my life.

That’s enough talk about work and seriousness for my liking.

While I enjoyed and appreciated the academic side of my first semester, specifically the expertise and wisdom I have see in my professors, there have been many more meaningful experiences that made me keep my head above water.

It has truly been a pleasure to meet the people I have met thus far, and an even greater pleasure to start and develop relationships that will surely be long lasting. I think this is the facet of the experience that I value most, and will be what I value most when I look back after graduation. It is this part of my first semester that makes knowing I have seven more an absolute treasure of mine.

After years in the spotlight, I’m finally convinced Ke$ha is a real human.

Kesha Rose Sebert, better known as “Ke$ha,” checked into a rehab center Friday to receive treatment for an eating disorder, and said in a statement she was taking time

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brandon merriman Lantern reporter merriman.65@osu.edu On a surface level, Snapchat is perfect at what it does: It sends and receives self-destructing photos and video messages. It’s reassuring to send a message that could be embarrassing, knowing it won’t last.

But Snapchat doesn’t bill itself as a secure service.

Even the app’s description on the Google Play store claims: “… even though snaps are deleted from our servers after they are viewed, we cannot prevent the recipient(s) from capturing and saving the message by taking a screenshot or using an image capture device.”

So, Snapchat isn’t the safe or responsible an app it’s hyped up to be.

At least it’s focused on privacy, right? Snapchat has settings that limit who can view your public snaps.

Well, it’s a shallow offering in relief of their recent issue.

An Australian computer security group, Gibson Security, released what they called their full disclosure of the Snapchat API, the guts of Snapchat, Dec. 24.

The full disclosure included a few tricks GibSec developed, including sniffing out any Snapchat user’s phone number based on their name and location. It was possible because Snapchat didn’t limit the number of search requests one can make to their server. Through brute-force searching, a database of names and numbers could be assembled over time.

Snapchat said in a blog post that the exploit is closed, but a database has already been published at snapchatdb.info.

The database was published with good intentions, but it has actually made matters worse. Although it doesn’t include the last two digits of any phone number, it only takes a little patience to test numbers inside the app.

Anybody, not just a skilled hacker, can do that.

Still, you might not really care about your personal info being collected, and that’s OK. I figure Google already knows everything.

In light of what’s happened, it’s a bit ironic that Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel is on a soapbox about deleting data, yet has said publicly he most admires Google as a company.

Google’s famous motto, though, is “Don’t be evil.” If Snapchat has a motto, it’s not in line with the typical use of their app or their user’s expectations. Its software is just not up to the same standard of security as we expect.

Your gut reaction might be to set your Snapchat to private, and that would usually be appropriate. But, even private users can be found via phone numbers. A phone number can’t be removed either. At this point, securing yourself means creating a new account.

Maybe if Snapchat combined their novel messaging platform with better security, or removed phone number entry entirely, it could earn back the trust of its users. For now … what’s the point of using it?

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Artists explore masculinity, survival in January art exhibit DANIELLE SEAMON Arts editor seamon.17@osu.edu Although no intended parallel exists between Kyle Franklin’s and Greg Ponchak’s work, the two artists are set to express personal ideologies and break norms under the same roof throughout January.

After the exhibition’s opening Saturday, ROY G BIV Gallery is set to house Franklin’s and Ponchak’s individual exhibits this month. Both hailing from the Columbus College of Art and Design, the artists are slated to show their interdisciplinary artwork challenging traditional societal ideas side by side.

In using what he describes as a mix of traditional and non-traditional materials, including glitter and towels, as his chosen medium, Franklin said he questions the meaning of the word “traditional” itself in tackling the classical connotations of masculinity in his exhibit.

“People throw around that term,” Franklin said. “Like in this day, what is that? Everything is sort of contemporary enough where traditional isn’t really anything.”

Franklin said his work is about blurring the line dividing the conventional notions of what is means to be a man with his own thoughts on masculinity.

He attributes his inspiration to his own childhood growing up in a small town in Illinois.

“When I was younger, I used to take dance classes, but I also raced motocross at the same time,” Franklin said. “There was this weird moment when, (there was) a line between, ‘Was I considered feminine, was I considered masculine?’ And so this (show) is just saying that I think it’s all kind of the same thing and … femininity is a part of masculinity and vice versa.”

This “line” in Franklin’s exhibit is often displayed in the literal sense, whether through a physical drawing of one or represented through the shape of objects used to construct a sculpture.

One of Franklin’s sculptures features a piece of wood based on marble, leaning against the wall with a towel pinned between the wall and the end of the plank.

“Greek bathhouses were a place where men used to congregate, and it used to be the very typical view of masculinity and the very typical hero,” Franklin said. “So the more that I went about high school culture, like sports culture, (I thought) about the shower room as being the kind of contemporary version of the Greek bathhouse.”

The showing of Ponchak’s exhibit alongside Franklin’s had Ponchak

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thinking largely about similarities between their shows, he said. He finds their similarities in the nature of the artists’ chosen mediums.

“Most of the pieces that I’ve made for the show, I guess I’ve been working at the sewing machine, I don’t know, gardening, and maybe in some way, the things that are traditionally associated with female gender roles,” Ponchak said.

Same to Franklin’s use of sculpture in his exhibit, Ponchak’s exhibit uses this as well. Additionally, Ponchak uses digital art and photography to build upon his theme of survival within the context of capitalism. He said his inspiration is drawn from reading the works of Italian Marxist author Franco Berardi as well as stories he has recently seen on the news.

“There’s obviously the physiological survival that happens in nature,” Ponchak said. “I mean, there’s this set of primary conditions that need to be met, like food and shelter, but it gets more complex in that our existence is virtual.”

Ponchak’s exhibit includes a variety of common objects accented by his own take, including planter boxes with live vegetation and sculptural pieces that look similar to coffee tables, he said. Ponchak also created wearable items for the exhibit, including a scarf designed to free the eyes but cover the rest of the face.

These items of survival are based largely on Ponchak’s own current state of survival.

“My current situation, the one that I find myself in, is one of sort of economic austerity, and all the objects I’ve made for the show kind of develop out of a necessity,” Ponchak said.

“I could buy a pair of pants for $40 or I could make one for $10 and there’s sort of the distance that’s removed in that I’m making the object.”

ROY G BIV Gallery is located at 997 N. High St. The gallery is open Wednesday to Friday, 3-6 p.m. and Saturday, 1-5 p.m.

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Mei Xiang, a female giant panda at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. The panda is featured in the National Zoo’s Giant Panda Cam.

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Singer Miley Cyrus performs during the celebration for the new year at Times Square Dec. 31.

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E-cigarettes, twerking, ‘The Fox’ among things that shouldn’t be acceptable in 2014 SHELBY LUM Photo editor lum.13@osu.edu “Zooming In” is a weekly series in which Photo editor Shelby Lum provides her insight on pop culture.

As people, we have come to love and adore lists. They are nice and easy ways to organize life, and, really, BuzzFeed has probably done wonders for the obsessives out there who love lists almost as much as they love hand sanitizer.

But January is a month with too many lists. It’s January, and I’m bombarded with about a million and a half “bests of 2013.” The best photos, the best stories, the best trends, the best foods, the best whatever. It seems appropriate to combat this excess with one more list: things the world shouldn’t be okay with in 2014. Let’s be serious — not everything about 2013 was all that great.

The government shutdown and the infamous panda cam The debt ceiling, the budget, government spending. A lot of words were thrown around when the government shut down Oct. 1, and most people quite frankly didn’t understand most of it (because the mass majority of us don’t have time to read through thousands of pages of government documents on the budget). Here’s the net of it: The government literally shut down for 16 days. It was a media heyday and the soap opera drama that was C-SPAN probably had more viewers than it ever will again. Amidst the serious implications of the shutdown, including more than 800,000 furloughed workers and other doomsday preachers, one serious atrocity stood alone: the panda cam.

Yes, because the Smithsonian National Zoo was closed during the shutdown, its panda cam went out. Gasp. Millions of people couldn’t watch giant panda Mei Xiang eat bamboo at any hour of the day. Let’s not let this happen again. Clearly, the people need their panda fix. And

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oh, those workers who were temporarily out of work, that was also probably an inconvenience as well as the bickering politicians. But seriously, the panda cam. #StopBlackGirls2013 Let’s all hope that the Twitter gods won’t allow this to happen in the fresh and innocent 2014. Racism isn’t cool. It wasn’t cool last year and it’s not cool now. When #StopBlackGirls2013 began trending on Twitter with obscene comparisons of black women to things like gorillas, couches, baked turkeys, hippos and more, one would like to think there would’ve been massive social outcry. Pictures were included with these comparisons, and yet somehow quite a few jumped onto the racist bandwagon of the year. The women in the pictures were mocked for a myriad of apparently socially unacceptable hair styles, body types, clothing and more.

To whoever started #StopBlackGirls2013, that’s just ignorant.

E-cigarettes Just because it dispenses harmless vapor does not mean you can smoke it in my house. E-cigarettes aren’t this profoundly healthy alternative. Are they marginally less destructive than actual cigarettes?

Sure. But it’s not like they are meant to be a bridge toward quitting.

A lot of experts are saying that smokers will simply get hooked on “vaping” rather than smoking, because who knew it, but nicotine is addictive. Really, all e-cigs have done is widen the number companies who can deliver ridiculously addictive nicotine straight to your lungs and allowing annoying know-it-alls a way to “smoke” indoors.

Miley Cyrus/ twerking/ The Twerk Team I don’t have a problem with Miley, her short hair or even her excessive tongue wagging. Do I find it odd? Sure. Entertaining? You bet. But the time has come to put an end to the Miley obsession. It’s enough.

If she wants to shed her innocent tween roots and put to rest the “Hannah Montana” image, then so be it. I just don’t feel the need to endlessly discuss her style choices, her strange love of Arizona tea, that foam finger, or why she likes licking hammers.

Annoying viral videos What did the fox say? Ylvis, I am nearly certain that isn’t what the fox said.

My qualm with viral videos is in the name: They go viral. As much as I didn’t want to see “The Fox (What Does The Fox Say),” I did. I know the words, and I know the silly little dance, and I know how creepy his fox mask looks.

In 2014, I feel like there is better (and more entertaining) YouTube content than these awkward and annoying viral videos. “Malala Yousafzai leaves Jon Stewart speechless” when she talked about women’s rights, education, and spoke out against the Taliban rule should have over 300 million views like Ylvis, but somehow we are still infatuated with what that fox said.

Keep wasting time on YouTube, people, but let’s watch something with at least slightly more worth.

Part II, III, and more movies The makers of “The Hangover,” “Grownups,” “GI Joe,” “Red” and “Kick Ass” all felt the need to continue a franchise that probably should have ended with the first. Please stop. The world needs original content, not slightly redos. 2013 was lousy with sequels, and bad ones at that. I don’t want to watch more awkward moments with Zach Galifianakis, as funny as the first ones were.

Steroids 2013 was quite possibly the worst year in regard to steroid use because of one key man: Lance Armstrong. In a telling interview with Oprah Winfrey last January, the cycling legend admitted to doping.

Sigh. Of all people Lance, why you? You were the face of cycling, you were the hope to those suffering with cancer to carry on, you lived strong — except you didn’t. While the allegations had been slung at him for years, he defended his honor and glory, until his interview with Oprah opened everything up. He didn’t even seem sorry (with the exception of how he was going to tell his kids).

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Aiken should be ‘Invisible’ on Congressional ballot thy thy Nguyen Lantern reporter nguyen.1070@osu.edu Clay Aiken’s next performance — not a musical one, I might add — might be in a congressional office.

According to several recent reports, Aiken has considered running for office in North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Reports indicate the 2003 American Idol runnerup has been working with political strategist Betsy Conti, who has also been employed by former Democratic Vice President Al Gore and former Democratic North Carolina Gov. Bev Purdue.

As much as I love Aiken and his songs “Invisible” and “A Thousand Days,” I think it’s best that he stays invisible in regards to the game of politics.

As an openly gay music star, I think Aiken is a great representative and spokesperson for LGBT rights.

For example, he spoke at a 2010 briefing on behalf of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, an organization dedicated to improving safety in schools for LGBT students against bullying and discrimination in Capital Hill. His appearance and the briefing were in support of laws for the ratification of anti-bullying legislation that helps LGBT students.

He has a lot of other social and activist experience, having co-founded the National Inclusion Project, which helps foster the inclusion of children with disabilities in social activities with non-disabled children, according to the foundation’s website.

But other than Aiken’s work in LGBT activism, his social activism for kids and his ambassador status for UNICEF, I’m just not sure what his platforms are when it comes to other issues in politics.

For example, I’m not sure how he feels out about health care. I don’t know if he is in favor of requiring all Americans to have mandatory health insurance.

I don’t know what his plans are as to how to help fix the economy and to help lower the national unemployment rate. I don’t know how he feels about war. I don’t know if he’s an isolationist or whether he prefers having less or more troops in the Middle East. I don’t know how he feels about pollution or vehicle emission testing. I don’t know anything about his stances on immigration.

In other words, there’s just not a lot out there about him from a political standpoint.

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Singer Clay Aiken. Several recent reports indicate Aiken has considered running for office in North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District. federal representative, he or she should be knowledgable in all issues facing the country. They should have political experience working for constituents, interacting with think tanks and talking to majority and minority groups.

Compared to seasoned representatives, Aiken lacks experience in interacting with and reaching out to the American people aside from his music.

Because of his lack of political experience, Aiken’s next move from a musical star to a congressional position might not be the wisest choice. Aiken instead reminds me of a long list of other celebrities who tried to take their places in political office, such as sitcom star Roseanne Barr, who ran in the 2012 Presidential Election, and Gary Coleman who had run for governor of California in 2003.

As much as I love Aiken, I hope he plans on sticking to his status as a musical celebrity instead of a political one. He didn’t win “American Idol,” and he wouldn’t win in an election.

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‘Zeitgeist’ illustrates 2013 Google searches in elaborate, interactive infographic Jacob Hollar Lantern reporter hollar.38@osu.edu What a year 2013 was.

It brought us BatDad, twerking and an end to Bieber Fever. It asked us what the fox says and taught us to shake it like they (allegedly) do in Harlem.

We said hello to a royal baby and a new pope.

We said goodbye to Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Paul Walker and an unfortunate number of others.

And whatever happened, Internet search giant Google tracked and memorialized our interest in all of it.

Around the end of the year, Google releases its annual “Google Zeitgeist,” an interactive recap of what happened and what the world searched for in the preceding 12 months.

Say what you will of Google, but there’s no denying its thoroughness.

I love infographics and can spend (and have spent) countless hours pouring over even the most trivial sets of data, especially when presented in an aesthetically pleasing way. I’m the guy who tracks his Twitter followers not out of concern for how many he has but because the graphs are exciting to look at.

Perhaps needless to say, when Google wraps up this much data in its iconic minimalist style, I can disappear for days.

My 2013 Google Zeitgeist experience began with an advertisement.

Technically a “year in review” video, the

90-second short film was reminiscent of the Google ads many of us have seen on television.

In answer to the question “What did the world search for in 2013?” the video spins a narrative made from clips of pop culture, the Google logo and Google searches.

After the video ends, the chaos begins. Don’t misunderstand me — the archive is elegantly designed and easy to navigate. The chaos comes from its size. This thing is massive.

If you’re anything like me, you’ll be unsure where to begin and hopelessly committed to exploring it all.

I clicked through a seemingly infinite wall of photos, each showing one of the top 100 searches in 2013.

I viewed list after list of trending topics in eight categories and was able to organize those lists based on total search volume or increase in search volume since the previous year.

Options allow you to do all of that for the globe as a whole, or narrow your search down to the United States or any other country on the planet.

You can view an interactive globe and see on a day-by-day basis what a given city’s searches were.

Unsurprisingly, Columbus had a lot of Ohio State football searches.

If that’s not enough, you can compare any two or more search terms and their performances in 2013, regardless of how tenuous (or nonexistent) their relationship. For fun, I compared Miley Cyrus and mustard seeds.

And on every page, the Google logo is inescapable — even on the page where I compared Kanye West and gefilte fish recipes.

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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Visibly exhausted, battered and bruised, Ohio State junior quarterback Braxton Miller stood covered in grass stains in front of his locker at Sun Life Stadium with a forlorn look on his face. He and his team had just come up short against No. 12 Clemson in the 2014 Discover Orange Bowl, falling to the Tigers (11-2, 7-1) 40-35.

After the loss, Miller said he planned to discuss with coach Urban Meyer and strength coach Mickey Marotti about whether he would forgo his senior season and enter the 2014 NFL Draft. “(I have to) just think it out throughout the whole process and how it will go,” Miller said after the loss about his upcoming decision. “I don’t want to make no decision I really didn’t do my research on.”

It looks as if the Buckeye signal caller will come back for one more year, though, according to reports by both ESPN and SI.com. No official announcement has been made by OSU. An OSU spokesman had no information about Miller’s decision when asked.

Miller was sacked five times in potentially his last game as a Buckeye, taking plenty of hits and scrambling for control as he tried to rally OSU (12-2, 8-1) to its first postseason win in four years. The first sack of the game did the most damage, Miller said, injuring his shoulder.

“On the first sack they had against me, I injured my shoulder. I know I landed on my elbow, but it shot right up to my shoulder, and it was hurting real bad,” Miller said.

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Junior quarterback braxton miller (5) runs away from a Clemson defender during the 2014 Discover orange bowl Jan. 3 at sun life stadium. osu lost, 40-35.

Miller said the injury nagged him all game and his pain level was “about like a nine and a half” on a scale of one to 10, but the last thing he wanted to do was come out.

“You fight through it, because you’re a competitor,” said Miller, who did come out for a two-point conversion play after finding senior running back Carlos Hyde for a 14-yard touchdown that gave OSU the lead in the fourth quarter, 35-34.

Meyer said he asked Miller if he could go after injuring the shoulder, getting a brief response from the junior: “I’m fine.”

“He’s a soldier,” Meyer said during a postgame press conference. “I think on the two-point play he had to come out, but he said he was ready to go.”

Miller’s toughness did not go unnoticed by his opponent either.

“You tip your hat to a guy like (Miller),” Clemson redshirt-sophomore linebacker Kellen Jones said after the game. “You have to anticipate his move before he makes it, because

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Junior linebacker Ryan shazier (right) tackles Clemson junior wide receiver sammy Watkins during the 2014 Discover orange bowl Jan. 3 at sun life stadium. osu lost, 40-35.

“Playing in the NFL is something that I have been dreaming about since my days in pee-wee football,” Shazier said in the release. “I just feel that now is the perfect time for me.”

With Shazier’s departure, OSU will need to replace four starters on the defensive side of the ball, with Shazier and Roby leaving early and redshirt-senior safeties C.J. Barnett and Corey “Pitt” Brown graduating.

The Buckeyes also will lose senior safety Christian Bryant, who missed the final nine games of the season with a broken ankle and had his appeal for a medical redshirt denied.

Shazier honored Bryant by wearing his number for every game after Bryant was hurt against Wisconsin Sept. 28.

Shazier said the team was like a family and that he will always remember his time at OSU. “I feel like my three years at Ohio State were about great relationships with coaches, my teammates and Buckeye Nation,” Shazier said.

“Playing here was an amazing experience.

“And it is really hard to explain the brotherhood I have with my teammates … with Braxton (Miller), Curtis Grant and Doran Grant …

Christian Bryant … Chase Farris … all the guys. They took care of me and were always there for me and I feel like we will be brothers for the rest of our lives. And I want to thank them for what they’ve done and for always being there for me. They know I’ll always be there for them.”

Bryant said Nov. 18 that Shazier asking to wear his number meant a

lot because it meant that he was on the field even when he couldn’t be.

“That means the world to me,” Bryant said. “Just when Ryan came up to me about a week later asking me, can he wear the number? I didn’t really hesitate (in) telling him (yes), because it was one thing for a teammate just to want to remember you like that on the field like that.”

Earlier this season during a Nov. 23 game against Indiana, Shazier became the first Buckeye to record 20 tackles in a game since A.J. Hawk did it in 2004.

After that game, Meyer said Shazier’s emotion on the field is what sets him apart from other players.

“A very emotional guy … his heart is everything,” Meyer said. “He’s very, like I said, he wears his feelings on his sleeve and the players love him for it. And so do I. Very emotional that players that plays that way too.”

Shazier said he owes a lot of his development to his coaches at OSU. “The coaches have really helped me to grow into the player I am today,” Shazier said. “Coach Meyer, (defensive coordinator Luke) Fickell and all of the coaches at Ohio State have been amazing. I have great relationships with them and I feel as if all of them have been there for me.

I am so blessed to have had them as my coaches.”

Shazier is set to find out where his NFL future lies May 8-10 during the 2014 NFL Draft. He is projected to be a first round selection by CBS Sports.

NFL blackout threats dangerous, unfair to fans The NFL is the most popular sport in the United States. Millions of people tune in week in and week out to watch their favorite teams play or participate in the phenomenon Daniel RogeRs that is fantasy rogers.746@osu.edu football.

Professional football has a stranglehold on the United States, one that in recent years it has been exploiting to its fullest.

The most recent exploitation has come on a weekend that is usually celebrated by teams starting their potential runs at the Super Bowl.

Wild Card weekend has come and gone seemingly without a hitch, unless you’re a fan of the losing teams. But if it weren’t for an 11th hour push for ticket sales by the NFL, many fans

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Heading into the Orange Bowl, the Buckeyes knew they were going to lose six of the 10 players that were named to the All-Big Ten teams at the end of the season, with five graduating seniors and redshirtjunior cornerback Bradley Roby leaving early for the 2014 NFL Draft.

Replacing that talent was going to be difficult, but things got even harder for the Buckeyes the day after the game.

Junior linebacker Ryan Shazier, named first team AP All-American as well as two-time first team All-Big Ten, decided to forgo his senior season and take a shot at the NFL. The Big Ten’s leading tackler in 2013, as well as OSU’s leading tackler each of the last two seasons, Shazier has started 29 consecutive games for the Buckeyes at linebacker including every game under coach Urban Meyer.

Shazier said in a press release Saturday that playing in the NFL has been his goal since he was young.

wouldn’t have been able to watch their teams play.

The NFL threatened to black out the local television markets in the cities hosting wild card games unless their stadiums were completely sold out.

While you wouldn’t expect for it to be difficult to sell out an NFL playoff game, there are two variables that made this task so hard.

Weather and money.

Temperatures in the host cities this time of year aren’t for the faint of heart.

Places like Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Boston, all cities that are scheduled to host playoff games, have below freezing temperatures this time of year. But nothing quite like the legendary Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where wind chill at kickoff of the Packers game against the 49ers Sunday was below zero.

If these unappealing, borderline unsafe temperatures, weren’t enough to turn off the fans from wanting to come out to the games, the outrageous ticket prices could very well have been.

According to a report by “Forbes,” the average ticket prices at Lambeau Field were $349

for Sunday’s game. Not exactly a cheap price for a blue collar town like Green Bay, especially if you want to bring your family or a couple of friends.

By forcing people to purchase tickets to these games just so they aren’t subject to a blackout, the NFL is essentially requiring some fans to put themselves in harm’s way just so their neighbors don’t have to suffer.

In a day and age where the NFL is enforcing rules left and right to protect the players, it seems ironic that they would willingly participate in putting the fans in danger.

A small part of me hoped the NFL would have blacked out one of the games because it could have motivated someone to stand up the big bad NFL. If a corporate sponsor did not buy up the unsold tickets and the blackout had gone into effect fans would not have stood for it. Outcry against the NFL likely would have erupted.

Boycotts, riots, who knows what would have happened.

But as it stands, the NFL still has all the power, something that can’t lead to much good in the future.

sports Poor shooting dooms women’s basketball against Michigan Daniel Rogers Asst. sports editor rogers.746@osu.edu Coming off its biggest win of the season against then-No. 17 Purdue at home Thursday, the Ohio State women’s basketball team failed to build on the momentum, falling to Michigan 64-49.

As things got underway at the Schottenstein Center, OSU (11-7, 1-1) struggled to shoot the ball, only shooting 6-32 from the field in the first half. The Buckeyes headed into the break trailing 25-13 and were unable to recover in the second half.

OSU coach Kevin McGuff said it was tough to lose after the game, especially to rival Michigan, on the heels of a big win.

“It’s tough. It’s disappointing because all the things we were so good at on Thursday, all the things we can control we didn’t today,” McGuff said.

“And that’s not to give Michigan credit because they played well and they deserved to win the game based on their effort and execution, but I was very disappointed in how we responded to a great win on Thursday.”

The 13 points were a season low in a half for OSU, who also shot eight percent from beyond the arc in the game’s first 20 minutes.

Despite starting the second half with a bucket on the team’s first possession, things did not improve for OSU as the game progressed.

It was tied for the lowest total OSU has put up this season, only scoring 49 three times against Georgia Nov. 17, Connecticut Dec. 1 and Cincinnati Dec. 15.

Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico said the key to holding OSU’s offense in check was stopping the guards from penetrating the basket.

“We spoke all week about trying to slow them down and trying to really zone up and gap and take away their penetration, take away their ability to get to the free throw line ... that was something we really focused on,” Arico said. “Make them have to beat us from the outside.”

OSU finished the day shooting 20-64, including only hitting six of 25 shots from beyond the arc. The Buckeyes also struggled turning the ball over, giving it away to Michigan 14 times in the game.

Arico said she was content with letting the Buckeyes take a lot of 3-pointers as long as they weren’t getting the easy shot.

“Their guards off the bounce, we didn’t think we were going to be able to contain them,” Arico said.

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The Buckeye signal caller finished with 234 yards passing, completing 16 of 24 passes for two touchdowns, and running for two more scores. The second of his two interceptions all but sealed the win for the Tigers, though, as he was picked off by junior linebacker Stephone Anthony while trying to hit senior wide receiver Corey “Philly” Brown over the middle with less than 90 seconds left.

“I didn’t see (Anthony). It was good coverage, I’ll give him props,” Miller said about the interception. “That’s why he’s on the field too, he got a scholarship as well. He made a good play on the ball and I thought I had a man wide open, and he jumped right in front of it.

“I thought I had Philly on a bender, and it was my mistake,” Miller said. “I’m not going to complain about anything, I’ve just gotta fix it.”

It appears that Miller is planning to fix those

mistakes in Columbus as he prepares for his senior season, despite alluding to the possibility of leaving early over the past month.

“Oh, yeah. Of course. Definitely,” Miller said Dec. 18 when asked if he felt like his skills translated to the professional ranks. “Just like I came from high school. Coaches going to get you prepared, get you mentally ready for everything that you need to get ready for. It’s another step in life.”

If he does stay, Miller knows one man will play a huge part in getting ready for the next stage of his life.

“I’ve got to think hard about it. I will talk to coach Meyer and see what he thinks,” Miller said.

“He’s been through the process many times, so that’s the guy to go to. He never steers you wrong and ever since I got here, he took me under his wing and taught me a lot of things.”

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Redshirt-junior guard Amy Scullion (25) looks for a shot during a game against Michigan Jan. 5 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU lost, 64-49. outside and see what happened and tonight they didn’t make as many shots.”

Sophomore guard Ameryst Alston led the Buckeyes with 15 points, but was one of only two Buckeyes to reach double figures.

OSU’s second leading scorer, sophomore guard Cait Craft, came into the night averaging 9.9 points per contest, but only managed two points against the Wolverines.

The Wolverines (10-4, 1-0) were paced by freshman guard Siera Thompson and junior guard Shannon Smith, who scored 18 and 17 points, respectively.

Thompson said the team executed its game plan well, which allowed them to pull away from OSU. “We just executed the game plan and my teammates found me and I was trying to be aggressive and attack the bigs and get them into foul trouble,” Thompson said. “Our game plan just worked out today.”

It was McGuff’s first Big Ten loss as coach of the Buckeyes, and the loss ends a four game win streak for OSU. The Buckeyes will look to bounce back as they head to Bloomington, Ind., to take on the Hoosiers in their first Big Ten road match, scheduled for Saturday at 4:30 p.m.

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