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Rallies’ effects on Professors and voters disputed students talk and questioned gender dynamics

‘Daily Show’ reporters dish on this year’s election “Comedy is helpful … to help people keep their sanity through all of this ...

It reminds you that you’re not alone in feeling a certain way.”

Roy Wood Jr. Correspondent, “The Daily Show”

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Delaware, Ohio, on Oct. 20.

ABBY VESOULIS Lantern reporter vesoulis.3@osu.edu Whoever emerges as the victor of the presidential race on Nov. 8, they’ve survived a slew of other candidates, as well as the competing rallies and political stunts that accompanied them. But the effects of hosting those rallies and concerts is disputed.

Ohio State watched as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, among others, held campaign events in Ohio with determined, but ill-fated, efforts to secure their respective party’s nominations.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visited Columbus for rallies in the past 30 days, each bringing in crowds of thousands. In November alone, Donald Trump Jr. and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin visited Ohio on Trump’s behalf.

President Barack Obama visited Capital University on Clinton’s behalf on Nov. 1, and A-list celebrities Beyoncé and Jay Z held a concert for Clinton in Cleveland on Friday.

Tom Wood, a political science professor, questioned the actu-

al effectiveness that those events have on swaying voters.

“In terms of affecting the actual outcome of an election, gosh, where the visit actually is in today’s media environment, it is really hard to say that there’s any effect on local political circumstance,” said Wood, who focuses on elections and vote choice.

Krupa Upadhyay, a third-year in psychology and international studies, disagreed to some extent.

“I started out as a huge Bernie Sanders fan, but the more I listened to Hillary speak (live), I became more of a fan of her as candidate,” she said.

Most rally attendees, however, have already made their decision, Wood said.

“Who is undecided at this point?” he asked. “The campaigns have now been going on in some form or the other for the last two years. We are assailed at every moment — on our phones, on TV, on electronic devices — by competing political considerations.

Parties have never been further apart. Partisanship is almost the most influential identity people have. It competes with race and social class.”

Though the ability of rallies to sway attendees to change their vote is likely small, rallies can afRALLIES CONTINUES ON 2

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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton looks on during her speech to supporters on Oct. 11 at Ohio State.

ABBY VESOULIS Lantern reporter vesoulis.3@osu.edu Tuesday’s election concludes the first campaign cycle in which a presidential nominee’s pantsuits have been at the forefront of media coverage. However, it is also the only time the movements of a candidate during a debate have been critiqued as “lurking.”

Both of these odd subcontexts play into the political gender gap, which is the percentage difference between male and female votes for a given candidate.

The gap has been evident in every presidential election since 1980, according to the Pew Research Center, and this election is no exception.

While the Republican Party has been trying to narrow the gender gap and gain female supporters for the past nine presidential elections, the 2016 gender gap between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is predicted to be higher than historical patterns — 13 percent, according to a recent Pew poll, versus the average margin of 8 percent.

Wendy Smooth, chair of undergraduate studies in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality studies who has studied

“Trump’s personality tends to cater specifically to white males. Men, in general, are becoming emasculated.”

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gender’s effects on politics, said this election’s variance may be especially wide because of a “crisis in white masculinity.” “(Trump) is appealing to a sense of a white masculinity that many have written about as being in crisis and at risk,” Smooth said.

“So the fears of underachievement or the system being against you is also coded language for protecting white masculinity.”

Michael Mosholder, a thirdyear in philosophy and political science and a Trump supporter, disagreed, in part.

“Trump’s personality tends to cater specifically to white males.

Men, in general, are becoming emasculated,” Mosholder said.

“But the fact that he has a lot of women working on his campaign

The future of the Supreme Court, the fate of the Affordable Care Act, free trade, higher education and U.S. foreign policy. This election is no laughing matter — unless you work for “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.”

In a conference call to college reporters, Hasan Minhaj and Roy Wood Jr., correspondents for the satirical news show, dished on what it’s been like trying to make light of what has been by many standards a divisive and rhetorically brutal election season.

“Comedy is helpful … to help people keep their sanity through all of this,” Wood said. “It reminds you that you’re not alone in feeling a certain way.”

Minhaj and Wood discussed everything from millennial voter turnout to third parties, as well as how they find jokes in dark stories and the perspective they to the news bring as minorities.

“Speaking on my perspective as an immigrant … this democracy thing — do not take it for granted,” Minhaj said. “We are very lucky. It is a flawed system, but it’s the best system we have to bring about change in the world.”

Minhaj went on to call America’s ability to change and respond

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College of Public Affairs offers new degree RACHEL BULES Lantern reporter bules.7@osu.edu

As of last week, Ohio State students can enroll in a new Bachelor of Science degree program in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs.

After more than a year of program revisions by the college, the Ohio Department of Higher Education approved the new BS degree in public policy analysis.

“When we designed this program, we wanted it to focus on economics and data analysis, so it’s a little more quantitative-based,” said Chris Adams, programs manager for the John Glenn College of Public Affairs.

“There are more economics requirements, and it requires calculus and extra courses in methods and higher-level data analysis.”

This BS degree differs from the Bachelor of Arts in Manage-

ment, Leadership and Policy that is currently offered in that the latter focuses more on management, politics, program organization and behavior, while the BS focuses more on data analytics and finance.

“It’s important to note that both degrees have elements of public policy, management and finance,” Adams said. “The difference is just in the extent that these things are covered.”

Adams said that a survey was given to students currently in the BA program, and more than 30 students expressed interest in switching to the BS track.

Some have already made the switch.

“I enjoy analytical reasoning, whether it’s economic theory or quantitative problems,” said Alex Rhodes, a third-year in public policy analysis and political science.

“This major allows me to develop more of an analytical background

that will be useful in grad school and in the workforce for a variety of jobs.”

Adams noted that the introduction of this new degree sets OSU apart from other public universities with public-affairs programs.

“We’re really excited about it because it’s pretty rare for undergraduate public-affairs schools across the country to offer two different degrees,” Adams said.

Adams explained that students who graduate with the BA degree might be more interested in campaign work or starting a nonprofit or community action program, while students with the BS degree might be better suited for budget analysis or campaign finance.

“It’s not designed that one is the easy degree and one is the hard degree,” Adams said. “Students are able to explore different interests with each degree.”

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Political signs line the parking lot of the Franklin County Board of Elections on Nov. 7.

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fect the political process in other ways, Wood said.

Wood said rallies from both sides of the political aisle can inspire voters to join canvassing efforts, perhaps by knocking on doors or making phone calls on behalf of their party’s candidate.

Upadhyay said she is a real-world example of that, having joined canvassing efforts for Clinton following the Democratic nominee’s Oct. 10 visit to OSU’s South Oval.

“When I saw (Clinton) speak at Ohio State, I was (moved by) the way she talked about her experiences and the issues in this election cycle,” Upadhyay said. “Listening to her speak solidified (my vote) and actually made me want to campaign for her, instead of just wanting to vote for her.”

Stephen Perri, a fourth-year in finance and a Trump supporter, said there was a distinct motivation he felt to support Trump after attending rallies held by GOP nominee and his oldest son. He said he felt Trump’s ideas were more raw and uncut when seeing them in person.

“It’s the same type of information (communicated at rallies), but without bias and with added excitement to actually hear it live, in person,” Perri said.

He too expressed confidence in his vote prior to attending a Trump-sponsored event.

“I have always voted Republican and I really think Trump was a good fit, regardless. But after hearing his son speak, it gave me a lot more confidence in my vote for Donald Trump,” he said. “Trump sometimes can say the wrong things and kind of deter people (from wanting to vote for him), but his son is a very good speaker and he said all the things his dad planned to do, but said it in a little more politically correct way.”

And while Trump has both hosted small, private events and also

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President Barack Obama waves to the crowd at Capital University on Nov. 1, while campaigning for Hillary Clinton. bragged about the size of some of his public events, Wood said the size of rallies is not always indicative of success at the polls.

“From the perspective of making a TV event in a ballroom or on the Ohio State lawn, the events will get approximately equal (media) coverage. Maybe as long as the TV cameras are there, it doesn’t matter the size of the audience,” Wood said.

Though Clinton’s OSU visit in October attracted 18,500 attendees, according to Secret Service numbers — her largest rally at the time, and a much larger crowd than Trump’s Ohio events — political forecasting from FiveThirtyEight, as of Monday night, predicts a 2 percent margin of victory for Trump in Ohio come Election night.

“Even a candidate that is sure to lose a national popular vote can inspire 20, 30, 40,000 people to go to a rally in a large metropolitan area, like Columbus,” Wood said.

“So it’s sort of this thing in a campaign to say, ‘Point to the amount of people coming to my rally as an indication,’ but that just really reflects how big the United States is and how many people want to be involved in the political process.”

One thing that is affected by rallies is the electorate’s familiar-

ity with visits, Wood said. Voters should be able to remember what politicians have recently been to their area. But voters have better recall of candidates within their respective parties.

“Partisanship is a bigger predictor of who you think has visited your market recently,” Wood said.

“Republicans tend to think Republican candidates have (visited recently), Democrats tend to think Democratic candidates have visited. The actual behavior of the candidates — whether they have visited or not — is less influential.”

Just as Upadhyay communicated increased excitement for casting her vote after attending the rallies of Democrats Elizabeth Warren, President Barack Obama and Clinton, Perri also said he found fervor in observing Trump and Trump Jr. up close.

“To see the passion to come from the entire campaign — and not just Trump, but his son and everyone else there as well — seeing that passion really helped to inspire me even though my vote was pretty much already decided,” Perri said.

Tuesday night, the nation will see which candidate’s efforts, and which rallies, will have been successful and which were in vain.

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to its citizens “pretty dope.”

Wood spent some of his time speaking on the high esteem he held for third parties.

“I think the two-party system is a very narrow-minded way to conduct elections,” he said. “I don’t necessarily buy into the notion that (third parties) throw elections. I do think they bring attention to issues that other parties don’t pay attention to.”

Wood went on to credit Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, for pushing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s platform to the left on issues like the cost of higher education.

“I do think (third parties) should be included in the debates,” Wood said. “I feel bad they don’t have a seat on the table.”

Zach Horn, a third-year in environment, economy development and sustainability, said he keeps up with political news regularly, but still gets a good amount of his news from “The Daily Show.”

“It offers me an outlet to see some of the news I might miss,”

he said. “And then I can … look up The New York Times and Washington Post articles they’ve referenced.”

Horn also said he thought voters would be better served by watching “The Daily Show.”

“It’s a good way to draw people into what’s happening,” he said. “I think it would get more people interested in politics in general.”

Wood also made a point to tell voters that the current state of American politics might not necessarily end on Tuesday. “(Republican presidential nominee) Donald Trump has awakened a lot of people in this country who haven’t been heard in a long time,” he said. “They’re going to be interested in political representation. 2018 will probably hold as much weight (as 2020).”

Minhaj and Wood are set to continue their political coverage when “The Daily Show” hosts its live Election Day special, airing from 11 p.m. to midnight on Comedy Central.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Voting today affects leaders of tomorrow For many Ohio State students, November will mark the first time they cast a ballot in a presidential election. Tomorrow, students will be lined up outside the Ohio Union or the Newman Center, where I proudly cast my first ballot, to pull a lever that will determine the course of our nation. No pressure for you first-time voters.

As a political science and communication major at Ohio State, I spent a lot of time arguing politics at USG meetings, Mock Trial practices and Alpha Chi Omega chapter dinners. I always believed that educational

equity and social equality were possible. In many ways, OSU is a microcosm of the nation’s political beliefs, and I was lucky to have my ideas challenged by Republicans and Democrats alike.

In many other ways, however, the makeup of OSU fails to reflect the nation. On my first day as a team member at Boys & Girls Clubs of Columbus, just a few miles from campus, I saw how the lives of my tutoring students looked so vastly different the lives of those in the student section of Ohio Stadium. Through my undergraduate expe-

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shows he’s not completely blind to the situations women face.”

After the second presidential debate, which aired on Oct. 9, many experts in the respective fields of gender and body language critiqued Trump for physically following behind Clinton as she spoke.

Jill Bystydzienski, a professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies, described this behavior as “lurking.”

“I doubt Trump would have (behaved that way on stage) if he was debating another man,” Bystydzienski said. “Especially if (that man) was about his height.”

But not everyone thought Trump’s body language was gender-driven. “(Trump) didn’t go out of his way to go behind (Clinton) or lurk her, (his patterns around the stage) seemed like organic movements,” Mosholder said.

Though this election is historic in the sense that it is the first time a presidential candidate from a major party has been female, it is not the first time women — and their gender — have been at the forefront of elections.

In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro shared a ticket with Democratic nominee Walter Mondale. Both the treatment of Ferraro and the treatment of 2008 Republican candidate John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, occurred in a “gendered context,” Smooth said.

“What (Palin) was wearing, her level of attractiveness (were evaluated),” she said.

“There was a frame of reading Sarah Palin as the failed mother whose children were

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suffering at the hands of (her ambition).”

But Smooth said the most drastic changes to the outlook of women in politics happened on the heels of Clarence Thomas’ 1991 confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court, during which Thomas was accused of sexual harassment by his former employee and current Oklahoma State law professor, Anita Hill.

Though ultimately confirmed as an associate justice by a 52-48 split, the Senate that approved Thomas was composed of 98 percent men. This catalyzed 1992’s “Year of the Woman,” in which a record number of women ran for public office.

Prior to 1992, there was not an adequate conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace. After the scandal, Americans started to define terminology regarding the subject that was not previously addressed in any systematic way, Smooth said.

“Out of 1992, we started to talk a lot as a nation about what is sexual harassment — in much of the same ways we will now be talking about what constitutes sexual assault,” Smooth said in reference to 2005 hot-mic footage in which Trump said “Grab ‘em by the pussy.”

Though Trump attempted to justify his comments by summing up his rhetoric as “locker-room talk,” Alison Sukys, a second-year studying public affairs, disagreed with his reasoning.

Sukys said she could not vote for Trump, despite her former allegiance to the Republican Party.

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riences, I learned that if I was going to be part of shaping our nation’s political future, I first needed to understand the issues upclose and to make an immediate impact.

Now that I’m a teacher in Providence, Rhode Island, I realize the future of our country lies squarely in my classroom.

The vast majority of my students were not born in the United States, hailing instead from countries like the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Haití, Guatemala, Tanzania and El Salvador. My students are watching the news and political debates, increasingly fearful that the country they love wants them gone. I am constantly fielding anxious questions from students convinced they will be deported, regardless of whether they are legally in the country.

I am not an expert in the struggles my students face or the ways in which this upcoming election will impact them, so I asked one of my most engaged and ambitious students, Francois, for his thoughts on the upcoming election. Although he’s a few years away from voting, I was blown away to hear Francois tell me that he and his friends talk frequently about the issues of the day: the war in Syria, Black Lives Matter protests and, of course, the presidential candidates. When I asked him what he’s looking for in a candidate, his answer came easily: “We need role models we are proud to look up to, and leaders who will keep our he talks about my gender,” she said. “(Female voters) just want someone who will treat them like human beings. Although (Clinton) is not the best candidate, she does believe women are equal.”

In addition, the sports metaphors in politics expand far beyond the coined “locker-room talk,” Smooth and Bystydzienski said. Discussing Clinton as lacking stamina or citing the election as being in its “last inning” or “final stretch” associates politics with masculinity.

“To say that (Clinton) lacks stamina — that makes her unfit to be president — we automatically claim the presidency as having the characteristics of masculinity,” Smooth said.

Sukys said she thinks a win for Clinton on Tuesday could be key in propelling her party into modernity.

“I almost want Clinton to win to give Republicans a kick in the ass. We need to realize that we need to change stances on (certain issues). We need to be pro-choice and pro-marriage equality,” Sukys said before adding, “I guess I’m with her.”

Though Smooth said she was excited for the metaphorical breaking of the glass ceiling that would accompany a win by Clinton, she said a female victory would not be the end of gender-driven issues in society.

“I caution — I highly caution — people who are thinking that this is the last frontier, and that once this accomplishment has happened, it will mean the end of sexism,” Smooth said. “It is only the beginning.”

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best interests in mind.”

As a history teacher, I couldn’t be more proud. And as a citizen, I know the future of our country is in great hands. Lucky for us, Francois might have the opportunity to make change even sooner than expected — he’s currently running for freshman class president.

When I left OSU, I was excited to join a coalition of change agents making an impact in the classroom. Teach For America has given me the opportunity to lead by example and to immediately impact hundreds of students. Every day I’m privileged to work alongside my students and to listen to their beliefs, opinions and brilliant stories.

I plan to dedicate my career to giving my students the power and platform to express those beliefs, whether I’m in a school or the Senate.

So as you head into your polling place, and as you consider how you’ll make your impact after graduation, I ask you to think beyond yourself.

Don’t just be a leader. Let’s create the next generation of leaders.

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Fashion show to raise human trafficking awareness AURORA SONG For the Lantern song.1144@osu.edu A newly-formed student organization looks to raise awareness of human trafficking through fashion.

According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, there have been 5,748 reported cases of human trafficking this year via the organization’s hotline, 292 of them coming from Ohio.

Unchained OSU will hold its first annual fashion show to raise awareness on the issue in the Ohio Union on Tuesday.

“I just want people to realize that (human trafficking) is not just a third-world nation issue, this concerns America.” said Denise Tse Mun Liew, a second-year in marketing and economics and model in the Unchained OSU Fashion Show.

The fashion show portrays the story of an individual who had be trafficked. Leah Mitchell, a graduate student in public health and president of Unchained OSU, said the outfits modeled will portray the story, incorporating statistics on human trafficking projected on the screen to educate audiences.

As a branch of Unchained, a Columbus-based nonprofit organization that does city-wide fashion shows to benefit human trafficking causes, Mitchell has been helping expand the organization since September.

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Unchained OSU is a student organization that aims to raise students’ awareness about human trafficking through fashion shows.

“Human trafficking is a concept that we learn about in public health,” Mitchell said.

“But it’s so much more than textbook material when you interact with women that have been trafficked in our very own community.”

Mitchell got involved with Unchained in July 2015, and modeled in the organization’s fashion show in October.

Being a part of the show, Mitchell said she realized that it was exactly what she wanted to do — educate, raise awareness

and empower other students.

“I would say that the purpose of the organization is to really shine a light into a dark situation,” Mitchell said.

Unchained OSU’s first attempt to raise students’ awareness was an outreach event called “Rose Night.”

“We handed out fresh roses to girls that walked by, the roses had tags on them with human trafficking statistics.” Mitchell said.

“Our job is to be able to share these statistics among the students — the people on

campus.”

In the future, the group plans to hand out care bags to women in need in human trafficking “hot spots” around Columbus.

These outreach events successfully attracted students like Liew.

Liew, a fashion and retail studies minor, considers fashion as the most underrated communication method and said she believes fashion evokes emotion. She joined Unchained OSU and decided to model for this organization.

“To use fashion to raise awareness about human trafficking, to me, that’s very smart,” Liew said, “I think that’s what we should do with fashion these days, because design can easily tell a story.”

Liew said she wants the audience to feel a call to action.

“I want them to feel compelled, to take a stand on this issue, and be aware, be educated,” she said.

The Unchained fashion show is set to take place on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Ohio Union Performance Hall. Tickets are available at the door for $30 general admission and $15 with a BuckID.

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Group focuses on photography as a developing art form

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The Team at UA Creative Photography from left to right: Erica Kay, Ua Chamberlain, Caitlin Elsass Sadler and Katie Hurier.

LAURIE HAMAME Lantern reporter hamame.3@osu.edu Ua Chamberlain stays busy splitting his time between photography, videography, graphic arts teaching at his local photography studio.

Chamberlain, a former Ohio State student, started his full-service photography company UA Creative Photography & Training in Columbus in 2013. He said the company is dedicated to giving clients creative control in their photo shoots.

But the company offers other services beyond capturing clients’ special moments, he said.

More than 50 students stop in the studio on King Avenue in Grandview each week for events such as one-on-one photography classes and group workshops. Chamberlain

said this was inspired by an urge to build a community behind what is done in the studio.

“I didn’t really set out to be an instructor and to teach photography — it just kind of happened,” Chamberlain said. “My excitement, willingness to share and my ability to explain things are what pushed me in the direction of teaching. I’ve always been really excited by teaching people things that I know.”

Previously a sculptor, Chamberlain was introduced to the digital world of art in 2002 when he started using Adobe Photoshop for graphic artwork. In 2004, he purchased his first point-and-shoot digital camera, which led to doing photography part time. In 2008, he began teaching photography and Photoshop to enthusiasts, and also began working in a studio in Ann ArPHOTOGRAPHY CONTINUES ON 6

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Musicians get political

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SAM KAYUHA Senior Lantern reporter kayuha.2@osu.edu Musicians have long played roles in presidential elections, with many performing concerts or releasing songs in support of one candidate or against another, or simply encouraging voter turnout. Last week, Jay Z and Beyonce stumped for Hillary Clinton, while Ted Nugent appeared with Donald Trump — appropriate surrogates for the respective candidates, in terms of quality.

So while a new music column might seem like a place to escape election coverage, there is no such luck.

“Born in the USA” covered by Win Butler Win Butler of Arcade Fire participated in a Jam the Vote event this past weekend in Port Chester, New York, where artists performed with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Blind Boys of Alabama. The show also featured Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, and Questlove from the Roots.

The event was nonpartisan, and livestream viewing was granted by the web site only if the viewer made a pledge to vote. But Butler has always been explicitly liberal.

After an all-star basketball game in which he participated on ESPN in February of this year, he was cut off by an interviewer when he tried to bring up the election and

health care.

During the introduction of his live cover of “Born in the USA,” Butler made some statements that might seem like simple decency, but that in 2016 are decidedly partisan.

“I want to thank all the immigrants. We need more of you,” Butler said. “I want to thank everyone who came to America to make it the country that it is, thank you.”

Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” is an often misunderstood protest song with its bombastic chorus. But the verses are a dark recollection of the Vietnam war era; “Got in a little hometown jam/ So they put a rifle in my hand/ Sent me off to a foreign land/ To go and kill the yellow man.”

Butler started his rendition somber, sitting solo at a piano.

The band and backup singers made their entrance on the first chorus, before leading the crowd on a raucous singalong. Usually, when hundreds of people sing this song together, the mood is overtly nationalistic. With pride in this country hard to retain after the presidential campaigns I witnessed, this version offers a welcome glimpse of optimism that has seemed so far away. The Earth will keep spinning after Tuesday, and listening to this song may have been the first time I realized that. The dreadfulness of the past year’s campaigning is a stain, but it doesn’t have to be permanent.

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“Dog Years” by Maggie Rogers Some things can take attention away from the election, and one of them is Maggie Rogers. Maggie Rogers’ song “Alaska” started gaining attention after Pharrell praised it during an NYU masterclass he was teaching. It was an auspicious start to her career, and a difficult accomplishment to follow up.

“Dog Years” is only the second song Rogers has released, and it sees her sticking with the same ethereal, rhythm-driven style of her first. She sounds like Norah Jones with reverb and layers of electronic instrumentals. The piano keeps the beat along with the drums, but it becomes so trancelike that the guitar breakdown after the second chorus comes as a surprise.

Rogers also shows off her vocal chops on the chorus, when her voice artfully breaks and rides the beat perfectly. It offers a positive yet grim conclusion that “We will be alright in the afterlife.”

Her songs sound simple at first, but close listens reveal how intricate they are. They must be finely tuned, considering she only has two songs out so far. It goes to show that whenever a full-length album comes from her, it will be one of the most anticipated releases of whatever year it is.

MACKENZIE GIGNAC For the Lantern gignac.2@osu.edu With a 16-year old son on the autism spectrum, Chrissy McNair said she has a hard time going to the movies. The visual and auditory stimuli of a regular movie can bother children with autism.

The Gateway Film Center offers a solution in its sensory-friendly film screenings.

On Saturday, the Gateway will be showing “Shrek” for its monthly sensory-friendly film screening.

The movie will be presented with lower volume in a theater with the house lights on.

The Gateway Film Center works with Ohio State’s Nisonger Center, which performs research and provides education on developmental disabilities. The center also provides services to those with developmental disabilities and their families, like the screenings at the Gateway.

“Children with autism have heightened sensitivity to loud noises and light,” said Tamara Hager, manager of outreach and engagement at Nisonger Center.

“Regular movies may be really loud and dark and provide limitations.”

Jason Tostevin, vice president of communications and marketing for the Gateway Film Center, said these aspects of the sensory-friendly films are, “out of respect for the families and to reduce stimulus for those attending.”

Judgment from others is another problem that children with autism face, said Ginny Bryan, a resource specialist for the Autism Society Central Ohio.

“They may get up, sing along with the movie, or make noises which is not appropriate for regular movies,” Bryan said.

Bryan added that the experience of attending a movie at a theater, and just getting out in public in general, is important for children with autism.

“It allows individuals to manage their sensory stimuli and be comfortable in a sensory environment, allowing them to better relate to others,” Bryan said.

The sensory-friendly films provided by the Gateway allow both parents and children to enjoy a movie, free of judgment, said Bryan, who has a son with autism.

“We can be ourselves and no one will judge,” Bryan said. “I can

relax because he can be himself.”

McNair also said sensory-friendly films are comforting.

“It’s so refreshing to go to a movie or other event in public, where you know people will be understanding and accommodating,” McNair said.

Tostevin said he has seen positive reactions from the families that attend the sensory-friendly films.

“We see joy, relief, acceptance and a sense of being welcomed,” he said.

Additionally, the screenings are free, providing families another incentive to attend these movies.

Hager said offering free movies encourages more participation, breaking through another barrier for some families.

“We made them free to make it more inclusive, and that increased attendance,” Tostevin said.

Sensory-friendly films are shown on the second Saturday of the month at 11 a.m., and on Sunday if Ohio State football has a home game.

Gateway will feature “Arthur Christmas” as its sensory screening in December.

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With a mindset of “two is better than one,” Chamberlain partnered with Erica Coffman, a photographer he met at the Small Business Development Center at Columbus State Community College.

Coffman first learned how to develop film in a dark room when she was in fourth grade. She said she enjoyed photography throughout high school, but never invested a lot of time, money or training.

It wasn’t until she obtained her degree from Wright State University that her love for cameras clicked.

“Through the traveling opportunities that I had while studying, I realized that I really love photography and eventually bought a nice camera and just didn’t put it down,” Coffman said. “It went from buying that camera for my travels to shooting friends or family members to shooting weddings and now to this.”

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studies, international politics and historical education — Coffman said she is proud of the name that she has built for herself in photography. Similar to her partner, Coffman’s love for teaching was a process. For private training, the two put together a custom syllabus for the students based on what they are interested in or what they want to improve upon.

Chamberlain said people don’t get the opportunity to be playful and creative very often, and his company seeks to give people more creative opportunities. It’s very much about the “making

experience” at UA Creative, and Chamberlain said he believes this approach is what has led him to succeed in a world of iPhones and Instagram, where everyone and anyone is a photographer.

“At the end of the day, we’re not really selling our work,” Chamberlain said. “We’re selling ourselves. We’re selling the interactions we give people, the way we make treat them and the experiences that they have with us.”

Coffman said she believes although the “everyone can be a photographer” mindset has devalued photography as an art, the

rett said. “I think that’s something great that we have as Americans and I understand that has something to do with your personal life and personal opinions but I don’t think that’s going to interfere with the way we play.”

Some players have taken to social media with politically charged tweets and links to articles, but that has not stopped the team progress and production so far.

Against Nebraska, the team blew away all expectations and showed how well OSU plays together.

Meyer fully understands how easily a group can be separated by

opposing viewpoints, especially in a time when the entire country seems to be two-sided. But, through the maturity and character of his players paired with the effort of his staff to keep things together, OSU is standing tall in a time of national turmoil.

“Yeah, this is a pretty mature team in that regard. That’s something I always watch. I have guys around this program that’s their job, to monitor,” Meyer said.

“When I talk about good guys, now, I have some guys that are like family in this team that they would tell me if something is go-

company can help show its value to people.

“It’s more about continuing to produce art for ourselves and putting it out for people to see and that will slowly help people understand what we are doing and why it’s important,” Coffman said.

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political feelings that differ from other teammates.

But OSU has made a point of keeping feelings towards presidential candidates from dividing the team, while ensuring all members fully comprehend the gravity of a vote. Redshirt junior quarterback J.T. Barrett said he, along with the rest of the team, accepts the choices all team members make today at the polls.

“I think we have a team that understands that that’s part of what makes our country great is that people are ... they have that opinion and that’s perfectly okay,” Bar-

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ing on. And I listen and I hear, and the heartbeat of our team is very solid right now. It’s not always perfect, but it’s very solid, but that’s a great question. And am I concerned about it, you’re damn right. That’s when you start having issues, but I also have great trust in the people that I’m listening to.”

opponents 65-37 at home since the start of the 2013 season.

The Buckeyes really established their home dominance a season ago, breaking a school record with 10 victories at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. Before this year, OSU won at least six games in Columbus for four straight seasons.

All-time, the Scarlet and Gray have played to a 107-44-26 record on their home field. Through the past three seasons, the Buckeyes have garnered a 19-8-7 record at home, while going just 7-18-2 away.

“You always want to protect your house and that’s what we have been doing,” said senior defender Austin Bergstrom. “As far as getting on the road and getting a win I think it starts with just preparing that entire week beforehand and making sure we are ready to go.

That’s on us as players to be ready, especially the day of — having — that focus and mentality that we are going to come out and win.”

In the end, the road struggles for the Buckeyes proved to be too big a hurdle, as they were knocked out of the Big Ten tournament in Madison, bringing their disappointing season to an end.

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OSU men’s basketball still improving NICK MCWILLIAMS Sports Editor mcwilliams.66@osu.edu It’s basketball season once again in Columbus. The Ohio State men’s basketball team took the court for the first time Sunday afternoon as they faced off with the Walsh University Cavaliers.

In the first action of the season, the Buckeyes overpowered the Division II opponent 85-67 off of a 14-point performance by sophomore guard JaQuan Lyle.

Overall, the first-half perfor-

mances on both sides could be called sloppy at best. Both teams combined for 15 turnovers and 28 personal fouls during the opening period, and it seemed like neither team was particular ready to run an offense.

Midway through the second half, OSU got the ball rolling with solid play on both sides of the ball, outscoring Walsh 45-35 after halftime. The Buckeyes had the game wrapped up midway through the second.

Highlighted by players smiling after big plays and laughing off

mistakes, including a missed dunk by sophomore guard C.J. Jackson, OSU rolled to an 18-point victory.

After the game, the transfer student from Eastern Florida State said it would not happen again, but his fellow first-year OSU players at the podium seemed to find humor in his embarrassment.

In the lighthearted contest that ended up going the Buckeyes’ way, here are three takeaways from the first OSU men’s basketball game in Value City Arena this season.

Things are still a bit rusty

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It should have been expected by most that the first action on the court in 2016 was going to be far from pretty. In the first 10 minutes, those expectations came true.

OSU was hesitant running the court in the opening minutes of the scrimmage, struggling to formulate an offense and analyze the defensive sets that Walsh was throwing at it. OSU also committed far too many fouls to slow the Cavaliers’ offensive attack, which caused Buckeyes coach Thad Matta to be slightly displeased with his team’s performance.

“We talked about it at halftime,” he said. “We couldn’t get a run going because of the fouls. They were committable fouls. How many times we fouled shooters … we weren’t as smart as we needed to be in terms of our defense.”

There is still time to make the team regular-season ready, but OSU can’t afford to struggle with the same kind of issues that plagued the team last year.

First-year players will have an impact The lineup is far from certain for OSU after a solid scrimmage performance turned in by freshman center Micah Potter and the rest of the first-time Buckeyes. Potter knocked down a three-pointer en route to a six-point performance with five rebounds and a block.

Jackson picked up five points, but his real contribution was on the defensive side of the ball. Four

steals, three of which came during the second half, paired with a six-assist mark with no turnovers earned high praise from Matta.

“I just tried to make the simple play and not do too much,” Jackson said. “Just hit the open man. Coach Matta has really been pressing us on making the good pass, making the perfect pass and snapping the ball to the right guy.

That’s kind of what I focus on: taking one play at a time and just throw it to the team in white and we’re good to go.”

Jackson could have an extended role very soon, and OSU might be reaping the benefits.

JaQuan Lyle and Keita Bates-Diop a dynamic duo Sophomore guard JaQuan Lyle and junior forward Keita Bates-Diop were key members of the 2015 team, combining for an average of 11.2 and 11.8 points per game, respectively. This year, the story should be no different.

Lyle and Bates-Diop combined for 26 points and 10 rebounds, going 10-for-14 as a duo. Lyle was scrutinized for his play last season, but Matta said during OSU Media Days in September that he has made progress.

It might be too early to say how much of an impact the two will have, but Sunday’s game showed how well the two can work when on the court.

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NICK MCWILLIAMS Sports Editor mcwilliams.66@osu.edu With today’s presidential election being arguably one of the largest ever, even the sports world is talking about politics — even Ohio State’s football team.

On Monday, after a 62-3 drubbing of then No. 10 Nebraska, the questions asked by the media should have been all-encompassing of the way the Buckeyes systematically picked apart the Cornhuskers. Instead, OSU coach Urban Meyer fielded a few political questions near the end of the media availability session.

When asked about the election, Meyer cracked a grin and gave one of his patented short replies.

“What election?” Meyer said.

Granted, it seems fair to assume he knows exactly what election he was asked about. Most of Meyer’s day entails dissecting opposing defenses and analyzing how to attack the offense of other Big Ten teams. Still, it would be hard to ignore the current political undertakings.

With some coaxing, Meyer finally addressed the subject. Refraining from speaking any of his own political standpoints, he said

the team has had discussions towards the process, and even set aside time during the offseason to further educate the team on how important voting is.

“We had Patriot Week where I wanted to educate because it’s such a big and such an important day, in all seriousness, for all of us,” he said. “And so we had zero discussion about it now. Beat Maryland. I’m sure the families will have their conversations. I hope our guys vote, and we move forward. That’s why we did that, because I wanted to make sure when they go they educate themselves — not themselves. We educate them on the process, the job responsibility and how to.”

Players have been discussing how important the brotherhood they share is for team success this season. An election that has driven a divide through the country could be grounds for ripping apart even the most tight-knit teams and locker rooms.

This would seem bizarre for a team that has spoken so strongly towards the criticism of the media when a player has a down game.

Redshirt junior Billy Price is a prime example of standing up for his fellow Buckeyes. When asked about the performance of soph-

omore Isaiah Prince following a loss to Penn State, Price did not hold anything back.

“I’ll go to war for him right now,” Price said. “I have no problem (with that). I will not sit here and allow someone to nit-pick at him.”

Price was not angered by the criticism, but said he felt the issues after Penn State were team

issues, and should not fall on one player. That kind of camaraderie has been a vocal desire of Meyer since his arrival in Columbus.

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OSU sophomore offensive lineman Isaiah Prince (59) embraces redshirt freshman running back Mike Weber (25) during the Buckeyes game against Nebraska on Nov. 5.

McMillan tackles voter registration JACOB MYERS Assistant Sports Editor myers.1669@osu.edu Raekwon McMillan came to Ohio State as one of the most highly rated recruits in the 2014 class. Like any other freshman, McMillan, a Georgia native, was getting acclimated with classes, new teammates and a new scen-

ery. Two years later, McMillan is the face of the OSU defense, the Silver Bullets, and figures to be the next in the lineage of OSU linebackers in the NFL. The junior middle linebacker has been the soul of the defense for the Buckeyes, but also this fall, he began to exercise his political freedom. McMillan became involved in voter registration in

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central Ohio for the 2016 election season as a member of the Ohio State chapter of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

“We had a program of voter registration and really just spread the word, mostly to the African-American people throughout central Columbus,” McMillan said. “That’s what we try to focus on, but we just want to build awareness and teach what this election is about, what each candidate stands for.”

Omega Psi Phi is a historically African-American Greek life organization that is governed by the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

Redshirt sophomore safety Damon Webb also is a member.

McMillan joined the fraternity after his sophomore year. At first, he said he never really saw himself as a fraternity member, however he began to look more into the extracurriculars, which drew him to Omega Psi Phi. McMillan said that, before the 2016 election cycle, he never really into politics, but began to pay more attention to it as the presidential campaign intensified. As an “Omega man,” McMillan felt like it was his duty to encourage others to take political action in an unprecedented election.

OSU coach Urban Meyer hosted Patriot Week throughout the Memorial Day weekend this past spring, bringing in several guest lecturers to talk to the team about their responsibilities as Ameri-

cans — voting being one of them.

On Monday, Meyer expressed how important it is to him that his team understands the civic duties each individual has, and said he hopes each of his players votes on Tuesday.

McMillan, along with redshirt junior quarterback J.T. Barrett, said they will vote on Tuesday.

“It’s something that’s going to impact us not only here in Columbus but also around the country,” McMillan said. “So we want everybody to have awareness to what’s going on around us because you’re exercising your political rights.”

Webb said McMillan’s activism in Omega Psi Phi has a direct correlation with the linebacker’s ability to persevere in intense situations and uplift his teammates.

Webb added that the leadership traits McMillan are not confined to the gridiron.

“I would definitely say he’s gotten better. He’s always been a leadership-type dude, so even outside of the football field — our fraternity brothers, he brought leadership to them,” Webb said.

“It’s like a brotherhood outside of the locker room … we build a bond that is unbreakable.”

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Toward the end of its season, the Ohio State men’s soccer team had one focus leading up to the Big Ten tournament: secure a home quarterfinal match.

For the Buckeyes, playing at home had equated to greater success both this season and historically, with less prosperity away from Columbus. OSU had been almost an entirely different team while on the road.

“Going on the road is very difficult,” OSU coach John Bluem said. “We know that, and we try to prepare for it. It should be easier to win at home. I think we have a really good, strong mentality about making sure we defend our home field.”

With a loss against Wisconsin in the final game of the regular season, OSU fell to the sixth seed in the Big Ten tournament, forcing it to play the quarterfinal match on the road back in Madison.

The quarterfinal match in Madison over the weekend provided a difficult roadblock in the Buckeyes aspirations of taking home the Big Ten title,and the result matched season-long trends of home and away splits.

OSU fell to Wisconsin 3-0 in the quarterfinal match of the Big Ten tournament to end its 2016 campaign.

This year, OSU finished the season with a 4-5-1 record at home.

While that does not seem to be a stellar mark, it is a big upgrade from its away record of 1-8-0.

One of the biggest reasons for this disparity had been the Buckeyes inability to score on the road.

Bluem’s squad found the back of the net 15 times through their 10 games at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium, good for a 1.5 goals per game average on their home turf. On the road, however, they were only able to score six times through nine games, good for only 0.67 goals per game.

Senior forward Danny Jensen, the team’s active career leader in points, scored 14 of his 19 career goals on his home field.

“On the road sometimes we make stupid mistakes,” Jensen said. “We let the pressure get to us a bit. I think we are very confident at home, which helps a lot.”

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