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Pay gap persists Little progress made in last decade to bridge gender inequity in employee pay
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While that’s less than the $9,390 disparity in 2006, it confirms that Ohio State is not exempt from a problem that exists in nearly all industries across the United States: the gender pay gap. “Higher education is supposed to be the vanguard of equality and equal opportunity. That’s not being reflected in the way [universities] treat their female employees,” said
In an effort to provide resources for students affected by opioid abuse, Ohio State is selling naloxone kits at the Wilce Student Health Center pharmacy. Naloxone is an opioid antidote used to counteract overdoses in either injection or nasal spray form. The university began selling the overdose reversal kits in September 2016 when Ohio approved them to be sold over the counter. The kits include the antidote and supporting supplies, and typically cost about $90, depending on a student’s insurance plan. “Once that started we joined the other pharmacies in Ohio. We feel part of the solution, so we definitely do that for students, faculty and staff,” said Phillip Anderson, the Wilce Student Health Center pharmacy manager. Anderson said selling the kits has made a positive impact on the Ohio State community, adding that the pharmacy has sold five or six within the past year. “I think maybe the biggest im-
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The gender pay gap has persisted across the last decade at Ohio State, with male university employees earning about $7,811 more than female employees in 2016. ERIN GOTTSACKER Patricia B. Miller Special Projects Reporter gottsacker.2@osu.edu They’re doctors and teachers, food service workers and groundskeepers, artists and scientists, office assistants and child care workers. In nearly every profession and job category at Ohio State, women work side by side with
men. But they’re not paid equally. An analysis of Ohio State payroll data covering thousands of employees and hundreds of job classifications found that men have consistently earned more than women in the past decade. Last year alone, male Ohio State employees earned $7,811 more than females, when comparing all median salary values.
USG leaders say they’re not here to ‘play politics’ TERESA CARDENAS Lantern reporter cardenas.53@osu.edu
ferent areas of campus, has been plagued by the contentious political atmosphere.
Andrew Jackson and Sophie Chang are nearly finished with their first semester serving Ohio State as its Undergraduate Student Government leaders. Following their campaign platform of affordability, inclusion and sustainability, Jackson and Chang said they have strengthened connections with administrators, supported students following the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and created a future pilot program for free tampons and pads in the Ohio Union and the RPAC. However, a few major speed bumps during Jackson and Chang’s first semester as president and vice president, respectively, have inhibited more progress. Notably, this semester’s general assembly, a group of student senators that represent dif-
“I think it’s absurd that people think that we sit in our meetings and play politics. What is actually happening in our meetings is research on projects that are happening and updates on what’s happening around the university.” Andrew Jackson USG president
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Dancing into the future with AR technology JAKE RAHE Lantern reporter rahe.21@osu.edu The Ohio State Dance department is bringing a new partner to the dance floor. With the help of augmented reality software from Microsoft’s HoloLens device, a dancer can read and write Laban movement notation in their own environment. The notation is a way to record and represent choreography throughout a dance, used similarly to a musician reading a score to learn a song. Hannah Kosstrin, an assistant professor and researcher in the Department of Dance at Ohio State, led the project and has lofty aspirations for what AR can bring to dance. “One of the things I am really excited for with the AR app is hopefully it will project, and you will be able to see the score, and you are in it,” Kosstrin said. The HoloLens is like a headband with a visor that comes down over the eyes while a powerful computer inside eliminates the need for wires and provides a mobile AR experience. Kosstrin said the AR headset allows users to take a “trip” to a virtual world while maintaining a sense of reality. It differs from virtual reality in that it gives the experience of our everyday world, like Snapchat holograms, rather than portraying an entirely different atmosphere.
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With the help of augmented reality software through the Microsoft HoloLens device, a dancer can read and write Laban movement notation in their own environment. The software uses a drag-anddrop system to write a score by taking a symbol from a queue of Laban symbols, she said. The software allows a dancer to easily make notes on the score when practicing in order to correct bad habits and avoid repeating mistakes. “Students, in the classroom while they are in it, can pick the symbols and lay them in front of you so you are also making the score, and dance right into it,” Kosstrin said. One day, Kosstrin hopes voice commands will be implemented to speed up the notation system
and writing process. Christopher Summers, an instructional technologist at Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences service, ASCTech, said the potential of this AR software could easily teach people the notation system. “I think it would help someone learn because you are using it in tandem with scores and it gives you a playground to play with it like a Laban playground,” Summers said. “The ability to manipulate and mess around and play essentially makes it user-friendly.” Summers has experience work-
ing on virtual reality projects, and this app is the first AR project he has been a part of. “[In AR] you have to keep in the front of your mind real space and how that is going to interact with the application,” Summers said. “Compared to VR, you are creating the entire space.” One issue in creating software for HoloLens is that there is a learning curve for the new technology, he said. However, Summers said he finds it manageable with the team at ASCTech. Reading and writing a score is only a small part of what the app will one day be able to do, Koss-
trin said, adding the possibility to bring other dancers into the AR space with you is real. “I think there is a lot of interesting work to be done to not really dance with objects, but being able to dance with virtual dancers,” she said. “Really being able to figure out if there is a way to feed existing notation’s scores into the software, have it spit out a virtual dancer, and then take that dancer feed it into as an AR option so that you as a single person can be dancing with other dancers so you have a sense of what that dance feels like.” This also will be able to give a sense of how a previous dance group performed based on the score from that year, she said. This can give a dancer a sense of the “historical embodiment” of a dance. “It is really cool to think about what it felt like to be a person at that point in history,” Kosstrin said. “Also, being able to make digital people when you are making a dance by yourself, but it is a dance for a group. You can also approximate with the other people that you create.” Kosstrin hopes to have a prototype available in the classroom sometime next fall.
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pact we’ve had is the OSU police department carries it,” Anderson said. “I also know that we’ve sold it to people with family members who are addicted and having [naloxone] probably gives some peace of mind.”
“It’s going to encourage people not to allow the addiction to cause them to live in the shadows.” Ahmed Hosni Ohio State Collegiate Recovery Community program manager
Anderson said awareness and the cost of naloxone kits are currently the largest battles with the initiative, but the student pharmacy is actively working to address the concerns and make the kits more accessible. “Insurance doesn’t always cover it, so cost could be a problem. We’re looking to see if we can get discounts from the manufacturers and offer a lower cost,” he said. The pharmacy team also has hung up signs raising awareness about the naloxone kits at the student health center. Ahmed Hosni is the program manager as Ohio State’s Col-
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A vial of naloxone and a university-issued injector kit of the drug that is used as an antidote to prescription painkiller overdoses. legiate Recovery Community, which helps students struggling with drug and alcohol abuse. He said the impact of naloxone kits, although not tangible, has had a noticeably positive impact on campus. “The impact that I see is that students who have a substance-use disorder are much more willing to ask for help and to be vulnerable when they know their university is there to support them and that
they’re not going to be punished for having a disease,” he said. The exact effects of the naloxone kits might not necessarily be measurable, meaning there is no data on whether someone was directly saved from a kit sold on campus, but Hosni said their presence on campus could allow for those struggling with addiction to seek help. “It’s going to encourage people not to allow the addiction to cause
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The Wilce Student Health Center, where the pharmacy now sells naloxone. them to live in the shadows,” he said. Hosni and Anderson both encourage struggling students to not be afraid to get help by utilizing the university’s resources. “OSU is forward-thinking. We try to judge [opioid abuse] as a medical issue, not a crime and avoid stigma,” Anderson said.
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our meetings is research on projects that are happening and updates on what’s happening around the university.” Jackson, a fourth-year in political science and Spanish, and Chang, a third-year in environment, economy, development and sustainability, both agreed there is “nothing political about USG.” Despite this claim, the most contentious resolutions passed this semester dealt with political topics. This includes a resolution supporting an Ohio bill about free speech on campus and a resolution passed to add a holiday celebrating indigenous people on the same day as Columbus Day. Chang said calling something “political” in USG is taboo because of the organization’s historical nonpartisan belief. She said when the student government, or a resolution they produce, is partisan, it deters members from wanting to progress further in issues. Other obstacles the pair has faced are the recent change in the director of the diversity and inclusion committee, as well as internal USG pushback from creating a university-wide scholarship reg-
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Council of Graduate Students President Alex Wesaw, a graduate student in city and regional planning and also a Native American, discusses the council’s proposal to recognize Indigenous People’s Day on Columbus Day during the USG general assembly Oct. 25. istry. A scholarship registry — which would allow potential students to access all available scholarships at Ohio State — has slowed down due to increased oversight by individual colleges and offices, Jackson said. Beyond these roadblocks, Jack-
son said the work they do will benefit the students even beyond his time at Ohio State. “The more work we do in here, the less work the students have to do out there,” Jackson said. Jackson, who said USG is not political, said he was “most proud” of supporting DACA
students. At one point in the semester, he and Chang promised to travel to Washington, D.C., to lobby on behalf of these students to push representatives to vote for the Dream Act, a replacement that could help protect DACA students currently in the United States.
“I think one of the best things we’ve done this year is working with our DACA students and really making sure that they have all the resources that they need to be safe and succeed on campus no matter what,” Jackson said. However, the trip was canceled because they believe the act will pass. The relationship with university leaders has grown more than past administrations, Chang said. The pair kept existing relationships with University President Michael Drake, while adding relationships such as a connection with the Office of the Chief Information Officer. This gave way to the free tampons and pads pilot program, spearheaded by Chang. Though the pair said they are excited for next semester and the work still to be done, Chang is looking forward to a long break following Autumn semester final exams. “It’s been a definitely interesting year, but I’ve been quite lucky to have the team that I have around me to help with everything,” Jackson said.
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Rob Portman speaking at commencement is ‘insulting’ With much respect and gratitude to Ohio State, having been a student here for the past four and a half years, I must speak out against this fall’s commencement speaker. By allowing Sen. Rob Portman the honor of holding a platform at Ohio State, disrespect is cast upon more than half of the graduating class. Portman has been extremely vocal about his lack of respect for women’s and minority rights. He has worked avidly against the Equal Rights Act, the Paycheck Fairness Act, the Affordable Care Act, Planned Parenthood and a number of others to further oppress women and minorities who are already marginalized in the United States. As Ohio State is a historically accepting and progressive university, women have been included in the university since its’ inception in 1870. The decision to allow a man with these views to speak is, frankly, hypocritical, insulting and insincere. Maureen Flanagan Fifth-year in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
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Jacqueline Bichsel, the director of research for the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. While the overall gap between men and women’s earnings appears to be narrowing, a deeper delve into the data reveals that in some job categories, wide disparities in pay haven’t only persisted across the decade — they have worsened. The Lantern’s analysis of a decade of employee payroll information indicates that the difference in pay widens at higher rungs of the professional ladder, where, in addition to being paid less, women also are less represented. At the Wexner Medical Center, for example, the pay gap among physicians is substantially wider than the pay gap among patient-care associates. In academia, the wage discrepancy between male and female professors is greater compared with that of male and female assistant or associate professors. Additionally, of the university’s 24 deans in 2016, five were women. That’s the same number of female deans as there were in 1999. As the pay gap narrowed among full-time employees over the course of the decade, the gap in pay among part-time workers was three times higher in 2016 than it was in 2006. Ohio State in April pledged to support a city of Columbus initiative to address pay inequality, “The Columbus Commitment: Achieving Pay Equity.” It is designed to encourage Columbus employers to collaborate in their efforts to empower women. Before then, Ohio State did not have a system in place to track the gender pay gap across the university’s various colleges and departments. “We are very committed at Ohio State to addressing equity and to ensuring that we have a work environment where people are compensated fairly,” said Chris Davey, an Ohio State spokesman. “When it comes to gender, we recognize that there is a gap. We also know that, unfortunately, this is a phenomenon that exists in broader society. We’re a part of that and we’re committed to addressing it.” The extent of the gender pay gap Several months ago, The Lantern received salary data through a public-records request for every nonstudent university employee from 2006 to 2016, including information for employees of the Wexner Medical Center and branch campuses. The data set included only information for regular employees, meaning it excluded 3,387 term employees, such as lecturers or post-doctoral researchers, and temporary employees, both of which are hired on a less-permanent basis. In 2016, that data comprised 28,969 employees who earned vastly different annual salaries. For example, Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer’s 2016 base salary was $818,640. That figure does not include incentives for his players’ athletic or aca-
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demic performance or perks like a country club membership and car allowances. Unsurprisingly, Meyer’s salary is not comparable to the salaries of most professors and medical center employees. In 2016, only 12 of the university’s 100 highest-paid employees were women, while they made up 63 of the 100 lowest-paid employees. A decade earlier, 16 of the 100 highest-paid employees were women, while 81 of the lowest-paid employees were women. To account for these outliers, The Lantern used the median — the salary point where half of employees earn more and half earn less — to calculate the gap in pay between male and female employees. Additionally, the gender pay gap of full-time employees and the gender pay gap of part-time employees were separately analyzed, accounting for the impact that the number of hours worked has on pay. The pay gap, which was adjusted for inflation in the analysis, narrowed among full-time workers, from $10,109 in 2006 to $7,188 in 2016.
Among part-time workers, however, the gender pay gap widened from about $2,134 in 2006 to $6,608 in 2016, with a spike in men’s earnings in 2011.
“I’ve been told, ‘You need more education.’ So I went and got that. I was told, ‘You need more experience.’ I went and did that. So everything you’re being told to do, you go and do. But yet you still don’t see the increase in your salary.” Shelly Martin Assistant director of patient transport services
These findings mirror pay gaps in different professions across the country, with full-time working men earning about 20 percent more than full-time working women, according to the American Association of University
Women. However, Kevin Miller, an AAUW senior researcher, said the gender pay gap as a percentage tends to be highest among well-compensated fields that require a significant amount of education. Fields like medicine and academia, therefore, reflect a greater pay disparity than low-wage occupations, Miller said. This observation holds true at Ohio State. At the Wexner Medical Center Last year at the Wexner Medical Center, 651 of the university’s 1,036 physicians were men, earning about $38,942 more than female physicians, which translates to male physicians making 24 percent more than their female counterparts. That difference increases to $46,013 when comparing only physicians who work 20 hours each week. That accounts for 76 percent of the physicians at Ohio State. A number of reasons contribute to this disparity, said Joanne McGoldrick, the associate vice president for total rewards within Ohio State’s Office of Human
Resources. Pay varies widely across different fields of medicine, she said, and physicians are paid differently depending on the amount of time they spend doing clinical work compared with conducting research or teaching. However, the pay gap persists even when comparing male and female physicians who started working on the same day in the same area of medicine. For example, two physicians in internal medicine, a man and a woman, both started working in July 1990. The woman is listed as a professor, while the man is listed as an associate professor. Despite the woman being of higher rank, the man earns about $20,000 more than the woman. “There are a lot of factors that typically go into the pay aside from just their title,” McGoldrick said. “It’s also dependent on their years of experience and their curriculum vitae and the research grants they bring with them.” This is not an isolated example, however. It occurs repeatedly among physicians who have been working with the university for several decades. Among more recent hires, that disparity is less prevalent. “It’s very case by case. We do find some discrepancies [in pay], but I see them both ways,” said Brian Newcomb, the director of technology, process, and data solutions within Ohio State’s Office of Human Resources. “But why? We would need to dig into data that we don’t centrally hold today to see why that is. But we’re able to see a number of areas where that would be the next step.” The gender pay gap also is less prevalent when examining jobs at lower levels of the medical center’s hierarchy. For example, patient-care associates are charged with assisting nurses and tending to patients. Women make up 77 percent of employees in this position at Ohio State, with a median annual salary of $22,932 in 2016. Last year, those women earned slightly more than men in the same position. Shelly Martin started working for the Wexner Medical Center as a patient-care associate in 1998 and has worked her way up to her current position as the assistant director of patient-transport services. Working in a field that is predominantly female, Martin said she’s frustrated by the lack of women in leadership and management positions. Throughout her own career progression, she’s had to fight for equity in the workplace. Several years ago Martin interviewed a male candidate for a position directly beneath hers. The candidate was stellar, Martin said, but he was asking for a salary higher than what she herself was earning. One of Martin’s superiors, who was male, sat in on the interview. He pushed to give the candidate the high salary. “I said, ‘You know what, I don’t make that much money and you never fought for me to get
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any advancement,’ ” Martin said. “ ‘But you’re willing to bring somebody in that works under me, and you’re willing to fight for them to get a salary that’s above mine?’ That was an eye-opening experience for me.” Since beginning her career at Ohio State, Martin has earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the university. Even so, she said her paycheck doesn’t always reflect her hard work. “I’ve been told, ‘You need more education.’ So I went and got that. I was told, ‘You need more experience.’ I went and did that. So everything you’re being told to do, you go and do,” she said, “But yet you still don’t see the increase in your salary.” In Academia Aside from the medical center, the gender pay gap also is apparent among professors and administrators in higher education, where not only do women tend to work in lower-paying fields, but they also are less represented in senior positions. The number of women decreases through the progression from assistant professor to associate professor to professor. With nearly equal numbers of male and female assistant professors, the two earned about the same median wage in 2016 ($82,012 and $79,580, respectively). However, in the same year, there were roughly 1.4 times as many male associate professors as there were female associate professors, with men earning about $6,500 more than women.
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Of the university’s professors in 2016, 73 percent were men. The gender pay gap at this level was higher than the previous two positions, with men earning about $11,000 more than their female counterparts. Despite the disproportionate representation of women across all levels of professorship, women were better represented in 2016 than they were in 2006. In those 10 years, the proportion of female assistant professors grew by 3 percent, associate professors by 7 percent and professors by 10 percent. The disproportionate representation of women in senior positions is not limited to professors.
Women are not equally represented in many leadership positions across the university. The Women’s Place at Ohio State works to educate female employees and provide them with opportunities for growth and leadership positions. As part of these efforts, it produces an annual progress report detailing the comprehensive status of women at Ohio State and tracking the number of women in positions of leadership, such as department chairs, deans and senior administrators. Its data shows that in 2016 women made up 26 percent of the university’s department chairs. However, the Women’s Place
data does show improvements over time in the representation of women as vice presidents and in senior administrative positions. McGoldrick, the university HR representative, said that’s important because as more women fill vice president positions, it’s more likely for them to be promoted to even more senior positions in the future. “You have to look at pipeline talent and I think we’re making tremendous progress with regard to associate and assistant VPs,” she said. “And I think [Ohio State is] making tremendous progress with the director level and that’s the pipeline for future talent to the top.”
Why does the gender pay gap persist? The existence of the gender pay gap is a multifaceted issue, with experts pointing to several causes. One is that women tend to work in fields that pay less than fields dominated by men. This is especially relevant to academic institutions like Ohio State, where employees from a wide array of fields are represented, from the fine arts to engineering to the social sciences. Last year, for instance, 18 of the 71 employees who worked in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering were women, while in the College of Social Work, 61 of 74 employees were women. The median salary of employees in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is $99,837; the median salary of employees in the College of Social Work is $72,000. Miller said this is called “occupational segregation,” and it reflects societal views that devalue the work traditionally performed by women. “As men enter a field that used to be predominantly female, wages increase for the field, but when women enter a field that used to be predominantly male, we see a decrease for the field,” Miller said. “So there’s a lot of evidence that men and women’s labor is valued differently even when the job requires similar amounts of education or training.” Another reason the pay gap exists is that women are more likely PAY GAP CONTINUES ON 6
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than men to work fewer hours or to take time out of the workforce to raise children or care for family members. “This has resulted in disrupting their salary history and work history, which reduces their wages when they return to the workforce,” Miller said. And even if women do continue to work while raising children, Miller said they often work fewer hours. That can be at least partly attributed to societal expectations, which place child care and housework responsibilities primarily on women. Those expectations are beginning to change, Miller said, but slowly. At Ohio State, 70 percent of the university’s part-time workers are women. While this is down from an 80-percent female majority in 2006, the number of part-time workers at the university is increasing. In 2006, part-time workers made up about 18.5 percent of the university’s employees. A decade later, that portion of the workforce increased to 26.9 percent. Finally, the gender pay gap can also be partially explained by discrimination and bias. “Even when you control for all of the other factors, we still see that there’s a difference and we generally attribute that to bias and discrimination,” Miller said. “There is still lots of anecdotal evidence and some statistical evidence showing that women are still being treated less because they’re women.” Although the pay gap is much narrower when controlling for variables such as field, rank or time employed, it still exists on a national level, according to research from AAUW. “That’s still thousands of dollars a year for most people,” Miller said. “And even if (the gender pay gap) can be partially explained by hours or things like occupational choice, it’s still a 20 percent gap in their paycheck. That number is a real paycheck number.” The impact of the pay gap For Martin, those thousands of dollars could play a large factor in paying for daily living expenses.
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“Do you know how much it costs to dry-clean your clothes?” she asked. “You’re expected to be a certain way, look a certain way, but where does all that money come from?” The impacts extend well beyond dry-cleaning. For many women, having a higher salary would allow them to better provide for their children. “Women’s wages are increasingly a primary source of income for a family,” Miller said. “It has become much less common for men to be the sole breadwinners in the current era, so the fact that women’s paychecks are smaller is increasing poverty rates.” In Columbus, one in four women are economically insecure, according to the city’s website. Females in the city earn 78 cents per every $1 a male earns. The pay gap also has an impact on women trying to pay off student loans, Miller said, with women on average taking about two years longer to pay back those loans than men. “That’s two years when women could be saving for retirement,” Miller said. Despite the impacts of the gender pay gap, change for women is slow to come. While Miller said the pay gap has narrowed in the past 20 years, the rate of this nar-
rowing is slowing down. “I think it affects us so much that it just becomes our norm and we just accept it,” Martin said. “That doesn’t make it fair, doesn’t make it right, but that’s just how it is.” Moving Forward To address the issue of pay inequality, Ohio State’s Office of HR is redesigning its compensation and classification system, with the hope that standardizing job descriptions across departments will allow the university to compare employees’ wages on a more level playing field. Currently, job descriptions and titles are determined by individual colleges and departments, meaning a program coordinator in one department could be doing an entirely different job than a program coordinator in another department. Standardizing job descriptions and centralizing compensation information is an important step toward ensuring all Ohio State employees are paid fairly, Newcomb, HR’s director of technology, process and data solutions, said. “That gives us the quality level of data and the consistency in the data to be worth driving top-level decision-making,” he said. “It would be difficult to do a lot of decision-making on the data we
have today because we’re missing so much of what we really need to do the analysis properly.” Once this redesign is completed, Davey said it should be easier and more effective to address specific disparities in pay among university employees. “In the past, what we’ve done regularly is, to the best of our ability, take a look at gender pay and other aspects of our compensation system at that university, but we’ve had to do that in these silos, and we’ve done that consistently for years,” he said. “What’s more recent is a universitywide effort to consolidate all of the data across the various enterprises of the university, and that’s a large undertaking at a place like Ohio State.” The project is expected to be completed in four years, and is part of the Columbus Commitment initiative to reduce the gender pay gap. Ohio State pledged to support this commitment in April. As part of the initiative, introduced by the Columbus Women’s Commission, the university is not required to submit any pay or employment information to the city, but is encouraged “to share best practices and experiences with other signatories in order to improve our community’s overall gender and
big deterrent for a lot of the guys to go.” The environments of open meets are less formal, which can allow for a looser attitude for competitors. However, less formality often comes with less regulation. An entrance fee is the only requirement to compete at most meets. As a result, the Ohio State wrestlers have seen some interesting things. Redshirt freshman heavyweight Kevin Snyder saw a wrestler he estimated to be in his late 20s earlier this month. Snyder also added he’s seen a lot of heavyweights pushing the 285-pound limit. Sophomore Brendan Fitzgerald watched a wrestler lose a match, then slam his head on the ground. “I feel like I wouldn’t see that at one of our meets or at a tournament that we’d go to,” he said. “I don’t think a coach would allow that.”
Traub recalled a weekend where a couple of his friends from high school found out that he would be competing in an open. “They wanted to wrestle me so they literally just signed up for it and wrestled unattached, which was pretty funny,” Traub said. “That’s probably the weirdest thing I’ve seen, but it was a lot of fun.” The stories that come from the unattached trips seem to be more memorable for the Buckeye wrestlers than the matches themselves. Snyder reflected fondly on packing into redshirt junior Anthony DiCarlo’s dad’s RV and traveling to meets. Traub remembers saving money by staying at redshirt freshman Clay Ragon’s house when entering meets up north. For every high-profile Ohio State wrestling match at a Big Ten tournament or at the NCAA championships, there is an open
race-based wage gap and achieve pay equity,” according to the initiative’s web page. In addition to this, Ohio State has created several entities to advocate for female university employees. In addition to the work done by The Women’s Place, the President and Provost’s Council on Women provides recommendations to the university’s leadership to promote gender equity in the workplace. Women like Martin are taking a stand to advocate for other females, too. Martin created a luncheon series called “Women Moving Forward,” designed to encourage women to continue their education. Through that program, Martin shared her story. Before she reached the age of 21, Martin had five children and no high-school diploma. Since then, with the help of mentors and friends, she’s fought to overcome obstacles to reach the management position she’s in today. “I knew there were a lot of women like me who felt that going to college was not an option,” Martin said. “They heard my story, and I’m someone that looks like them, that’s worked just like them, so they hear how you can go to school and work at the same time, and realize that it is a possibility.” She said she hoped that by hearing from women who successfully overcame challenges, others would be inspired to further pursue their education and advance their careers. The luncheon series was successful, with several women registering for classes at Ohio State or Columbus State after participating. Others pursued resources to obtain their GED or sought career advice. Even so, she said she’s not expecting equality in women’s pay at Ohio State in the near future. “Do I think there’s going to be a change soon?” Martin said. “You know, I don’t know. I don’t know. Because if the facts don’t promote change, I don’t know what will.”
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and coach each other from the corner while wrestling. Redshirt freshman heavyweight Gary Traub has competed at multiple opens in his first two seasons, and has found that his best friendships on the team were forged on those trips. “When I first got here, I didn’t know anybody,” Traub said. “So my first open, I’m like, ‘I want these guys to know that I belong here.’ I’m trying to do all this fancy stuff and these fancy moves and stuff like that just to show them that I belong because at first I really didn’t think I did.” Open events bring much-needed experience to Ohio State wrestlers, but can pose a challenge for those who must pay their own way. Ryan estimates the cost of competing unattached for a season at around $900, accounting for food, travel and entrance expenses.
“More often than not, you need a year in a college room to be hardened and it’s like driving on the interstate versus driving on the autobahn.” Tom Ryan Ohio State wrestling head coach
“That was tough,” Traub said. “I wanted to go to as many as I could, but there were a lot of times where [I said], ‘Damn, if I go I have to pay $40 for the entrance fee, I have to buy my own gas up there, I have to buy my own hotel.’ The cost of it was a
match or a story from the journey to compete unattached on the other side of the spectrum. This is the side of collegiate wrestling that isn’t seen on the surface. “I can see it makes sense from an outsider’s perspective,” Ryan said. “What do you mean he’s wrestling here and he’s not in an Ohio State singlet? It’s a little different, but in the wrestling world for recruits, prospects coming in, it’s the norm.”
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Local instrumental progressive-metal band, Matter of Planets, is set to release its second album in April 2018, continuing the sci-fi narrative started in its debut album, “The Ballad of Baberaham.” EMILY REAL Lantern reporter real.6@osu.edu During the week, the four men who make up Matter of Planets, a local progressive-metal band, look like pretty regular guys. Aside from a few piercings and gaping holes left behind from ear gauges, they work day jobs, have families and live normal lives. But once Friday rolls around, the men of Matter of Planets transform into a touring metal band, making music and playing shows not just in Columbus, but also up and down the East Coast
and Midwest. “It’s been a fun adventure,” drummer Joel Chastain said. “There’s nobody I’d rather get in a van and drive with for 15 hours to Boston … and play a balls-tothe-wall, half-hour set with songs that never end [and] just melt together for 35 minutes … it’s really special.” Although the group released its first album just last year, the band has been kicking around Columbus for many years, going through a series of fluctuations in the group’s members and sound, until finally landing on its current lineup, under which Matter of
Planets released its debut, “The Ballad of Baberaham.”
“We started playing with different formats and really investigating the music that we were interested in … and it really started to grow.” Joel Chastain Matter of Planets drummer
“The music started to change, it started to become more so-
phisticated [and] we started to step away from very formulaic songwriting,” Chastain said. “We started playing with different formats and really investigating the music that we were interested in … and it really started to grow.” “The Ballad of Baberaham” follows a narrative featuring a protagonist, named Baberaham, through an instrumental album with songs that all blend together into one piece of music. It makes the album sound less like a collection of songs and more like a story. Chastain said Matter of Planets’ 2018 album will build off
Baberaham’s musical narrative on their first EP, and push the boundaries of the instrumental music featured on its debut. “We wrote this one to be instrumental on purpose so it was a little bit better than the first one I think,” guitarist Joe Rosenblum said. Chastain said that in addition to learning from the experience of recording their first EP, the amount of different instruments available for anyone to pick up while recording at Columbus’ Oranjudio recording studio really helped broaden the sonic scope of BAND CONTINUES ON 9
Local alumna keeps art close to home SARA STACY Assistant Arts & Life Editor stacy.118@osu.edu When Stephanie Rond came to Ohio State in 1992 –– unlike many Buckeye freshmen throughout the years –– she wasn’t intimidated by the massive campus.
“I want women and girls to see themselves as active people in an environment, so empowered rather than ‘you have to look like this or you have to be this.” Stephanie Rond Artist
Rond was born and raised in Columbus, with the Ohio State campus as her stomping ground for much of her life. She saw her brothers attend a university that she eventually chose by virtue of its size –– a plethora of course options allowed her to explore areas of study she would not have found
at a smaller school. “It was more of a well-rounded degree, because I took entomology classes and what was called Women’s Studies classes at the time and I could really be informed about things that helped inform my artwork,” Rond said. After graduating in 1997 with a degree in fine arts, Rond created art while cooking for Cameron Mitchell restaurants. She decided to stay in her hometown, while letting her travels to places like New York and California inspire her art. Now, two decades after leaving the university, Rond has left her mark close to campus with a mural on the outside of the Student Book Exchange Bookstore that was installed earlier this year. The piece features a painting of a woman speaking while books “fly” around her like birds. The woman in the painting is Dionne Custer Edwards, a local artist, writer and educator at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Custer Edwards and Rond have worked together on non-artistic projects in the past and have been friends for several years, but this is the first time the two have col-
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One of Stephanie Rond’s paintings outside her home in Clintonville. laborated as artists. “She had a project she was thinking about and she thought it would be a great opportunity for us to do a project together and I signed on immediately,” said Custer Edwards, a 1992 alumna. “What an honor, what an opportunity to have the chance to work with a friend, to work with another creative in this way, or with
another woman creative in this way.” The idea for the project was formed after Rond was inspired by Custer Edwards’ poetry. Together they chose three of Custer Edwards’ pieces they thought would be good for the project, and the University District Organization decided on the one that was used.
“That piece really comes out of the climate,” Custer Edwards said. “You know the climate over the past years has been really difficult and I think we’re becoming more and more isolated and we’re becoming more and more distant.” While Custer Edwards was revising her writing to be used in ROND CONTINUES ON 9
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Artist pioneer blurs lines between art and science CHASE-ANTHONY RAY Lantern reporter ray.461@osu.edu For poet and artist Jen Bervin, helping change the way people conceptualize the divides between art and science has always felt like a duty. This week, Bervin will bring her experiences to the Wexner Center for the Arts, where she will hold a guest lecture Friday. Bervin will speak as a part of the Wexner Center’s “Artist’s Talks” series, during which artists like Adam Pendleton, Chris Ware, and Marc Pally have graced the stage. “If I had to offer a reason for [students] to come, I’d say my work makes connections between disciplines in a way that’s pretty unusual,” Bervin said. “It may offer new possibilities to students who have a desire to think more expansively, more deeply, about combining their own interests in ways that are unexpected and vibrant.” Bervin has published 10 books and won numerous awards for her work. Her work also has been featured in publications like The New York Times, The Nation and the New Yorker.
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Poet and artist Jen Bervin will speak on her integration of science and art as a part of the Wexner Center’s “Artist’s Talks” series on Friday. Despite all her success, there were points in her career — just like every creative — where she questioned her own confidence in her work and artistry. “I was completely lost and felt like I had no center … I was a part of something and walked away from it because I was uncomfortable with the work I was making — not necessarily the quality of
the work itself, but how I felt after making it,” Bervin said. “It was something akin to disgust; I didn’t think the work was garbage, but I felt like I was making garbage.” During this time, Bervin shifted from art to poetry. It was a frightening shift, but a change she knew she had to make. “If it was something I didn’t want to live with after making it,
it was hugely problematic to ask the world to live with it,” Bervin said. “My desire to slow down and shift into another field entirely was a response to my frustration.” Bervin explains that in the early phase of her creative life where she stopped making visual art entirely, she immersed herself in the works of people like Paul Celan,
Gertrude Stein and Hélène Cixous. The goal was to acclimate herself in the unfamiliar world of poetry. “I remember requesting a list of small literary magazines and their postal addresses, although now every small magazine has a website,” Bervin said. “I was living in Bisbee, Arizona, about five minutes from Mexico — really beautiful Sonoran high desert; and I moved there because I could rent a house, work at the library, carry a studio and house rent with ease, and have ample time to read and make work.” Bervin’s resiliency and courage in her field seems to inspire anyone she meets, as well. “I know from being an inherently shy person myself, that there’s a certain jolt in saying yes to an idea that makes me uncomfortable,” said Darren Higgins, a Vermont-based journalist and writer. “[It’s inspiring how Jen] didn’t seem to panic, or at least not outwardly, about having doubts and collecting endless amounts of information without a sense of where it’ll lead. It’s frightening but thrilling, and there’s productive energy in that discomfort.” The lecture takes place Friday at 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.
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Across 1. This Minnesota boy made history with his solo flight over the Atlantic. 5. This hate-group runs around in white sheets and white wizard hats. 7. The Great _______ portrays the rampant materialism of the 20s. 8. A nickname for secretive clubs that sold alcohol during Prohibition. 12. This St. Paul man coined the phrase ‘the Jazz age’ and is its most famous novelist. 16. An _______ pandemic swept the world in 1918-1919. 18. Purchasing something and promising to pay later is buying on ________. 19. Louis ________ was a jazz trumpeter. 20. A nickname for young women in the 20s who wore short hair and skirts and loved to dance. 21. These laws in the South kept blacks segregated and impoverished.
Down 2. A famous pianist and band leader of the Harlem Renaissance era. 3. The most famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance: Langston ________. 4. W.E.B. _____ spoke out for black rights and opportunities. 6. French term that means ‘hands-off’ or ‘let it be’. 9. The ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol is called. 10. The U.S. president whose reputation was soiled by his corrupt associates. 11. The _____ Renaissance was a flourishing of black culture. 13. Probably the most famous Chicago _______ of the 20s was Al Capone. 14. The trial of John ________ had to do with teaching evolution in schools. 15. The Great ___________ was a mass movement of people from South to North. 17. Vast numbers of Americans invested in these pieces of businesses in the 20s.
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1. Scientist builds an animated human but dies before he can finish leaving him with scissors for hands.
meet a girl that sneaks in.
3. After her father is taken she goes after him and falls in love with the beast. 6. Follow the yellow brick road! 7. Young girl discovers her talent for spelling and looks to further with it. 9. Overweight man goes from loser to hero when he saves the mall from robbers. 11. After selling their zoo they board a freighter until a storm sinks the ship. 13. Huge musical following a group of high school students. 3 movie series 14. Community of fish and when a father looses his son he ventures out to bring him home.
Down 2. Bullied by peers Max escapes into fantasy creating action packed lives and it becomes real. 4. Man with a group of minions to help him carry out his evil plans. 5. Ogre whose precious solitude is shattered by an invasion of other characters that were banished. 6. Toy most kids play with and hurts to step on. 8. Human raised by elves at the north pole but feels like he doesn’t fit in. 10. Disney animated feature follows the adventures of the young lion, the heir of his father. 12. ‘Let It Go!’
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Headed by president Grayson Kelly and vice president Joe Henson, the Amateur Radio Organization for Undergraduate Student Entertainment is a student-run campus station. PARIS MCGEE Lantern reporter mcgee.247@osu.edu Live from the Buckeye Donuts basement, two Ohio State students are working to make radio great again. Headed by Grayson Kelly, president and second-year in strategic communications, and Joe Henson, vice president and a fourth-year in marketing, the Amateur Radio Orga-
nization for Undergraduate Student Entertainment is a student-run campus station. The student radio club is organized to retain freedom of expression as a necessary function of quality entertainment and maintain a respectful meta-discourse within an increasingly polarized world, according to the AROUSE mission statement. During the school year, the programming holds as many as 10 DJs per day, each with a one-hour time slot. Pro-
gramming ranges from alternative, metal, politics, comedy and electronic exposés. The radio station holds 75 shows and an online magazine updated monthly with more than 90 Ohio State students involved and growing, Kelly said. “As the station grows in size and content grows with that, we are being taken more seriously by the week it seems,” Kelly said. “Throughout the entire semester, people are still coming to us or sending emails about AROUSE for feature purposes or for the interest in working with us.” Chris Tomson, the lead drummer from the indie rock band Vampire Weekend, was one artist who specifically requested to work with AROUSE after following the work it has done. Of the many shows AROUSE hosts, two popular shows come from Kelly and Henson. Every Monday at 7 p.m., Kelly hosts Fireside Chats. Kelly said he got inspiration for his show from former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who originated “Fireside Chats” as a way to provide the public with updates on the state of the nation. Kelly uses his show to give updates on Columbus. “Every college radio station needs a fireside chat,” he said. “I take on a new guest every week to change things up and keep my show unique with fresh information.” Henson is the host of Capricious Cacophony, airing every Tuesday from 7 to 8 p.m. Previously, Henson’s show was known for taking popular hit songs and playing different cover versions by different artist. This year, however, Henson changed the format artists by having a new guest every week to host the show. “Episode by episode I just bring in a friend and just made them host the show, while I just oversee,” Henson said. “Since we are just a free-form internet radio station, we are not bound to any FCC regulations, and we are given the platform to have freedom with any show at AROUSE.
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their latest album. “Our EP was us really just learning how to become an instrumental band,” Chastain said. “This [upcoming] record, its us full-tilt and … really pushing the boundaries of what we think we can do what we want to do and try to accomplish as much as possible, and it’s been a very gratifying experience.” After the release of the new album in the spring, Matter of Planets plans to tour in-state and eventually write and release a comic book for listeners to read and follow along as they listen to the music. “The whole [album] follows [Baberaham’s] adventures and when we’re writing songs, we’re like … what happens next in the story, and we match riffs up to song ideas to story [ideas],” Chastain said. “Eventually there will hopefully be a comic book to accompany the music COURTESY OF MATTER OF PLANETS that you can look at and listen to, so Matter of Planets has gone through a series of fluctuations in the group’s members and sound since the release of you can look at it and be like ‘oh, so their first album last year. that’s what they’re talking about!” ROND FROM 7
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Paint, canvasses as well as artwork line the walls of Stephanie Rond’s studio in her Clintonville home.
the mural, Rond was working on the painting that would be paired with the poem. Rond took photographs of Custer Edwards performing her poetry to create the image of Custer Edwards featured on the mural. The flying books pay homage to the bookstore where the mural resides. “It did take me quite a while to get to that idea, and a lot of times for walls it’s about visiting the space, so I went to that space I’d say three or four times,” Rond said. “But that’s how I kind of work, I will keep pushing myself, like ‘no this isn’t right, no this isn’t right,’ until I get to what I think is the perfect fit.” Collaboration has played a key
role in Rond’s art for some time, and she has also been incorporating models into her work for the past five years. Rond said she’s been drawn to street art because of its accessibility, allowing her to reach people in a way she otherwise would not have. “I’m a huge advocate for public art; I think it should be in every single neighborhood,” Rond said. “People that may not have time or feel comfortable going into galleries still deserve the opportunity to see themselves and see artwork and experience those things, so the more outdoor work we can have the better.” Additionally, Rond has long had an interest in advertising, and said that street art is a way for her
to place strong images of women in male-dominant outdoor spaces and to counter outdoor advertisements that objectify women. Rond said her goal with the SBX mural, and much of her other work, is to create a space where women and girls can feel secure. “I want women and girls to see themselves as active people in an environment, so empowered rather than ‘you have to look like this or you have to be this,’” Rond said. “I want specifically women and girls to maybe feel a little less alone on the streets, not that I can protect them with my art, but that they see positive images of themselves, and that’s empowering.”
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MEN’S HOCKEY ANALYSIS
Why can’t Ohio State win at home? WYATT CROSHER Lantern reporter crosher.1@osu.edu Ohio State’s men’s hockey team has gotten off to a hot start this season, sitting at 8-4-4 as the No. 15 team in USCHO’s rankings. Despite the hot start, a glaring fault has plagued the team. It can’t seem to win at home. Ohio State boasts a strong 7-1-1 record away from home, second-best in the nation behind only No. 4 Notre Dame, which is a perfect 6-0-0. At the Schottenstein Center, however, the Buckeyes are 1-3-3, which is the sixthworst home win percentage in the NCAA. Three of the five teams with a worse home win percentage than them are in the bottom two of their conferences, and none of them are ranked, with only Army (1-5-1 at home) receiving a vote to be included in the rankings. The Buckeyes’ record is good, maybe even great for a team many counted out of a deep Big Ten conference after losing star captain Nick Schilkey and all three goalies to graduation. But, much like the season before, when splitting the record between home and away games, the numbers are startling. There are reasonable explanations for the Buckeyes’ poor record at home. For example, two
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Ohio State sophomore forward Tanner Laczynski controls the puck during a 4-0 loss to Penn State on Dec. 2. of the three losses come from Notre Dame, which is undefeated on the road and in Big Ten play this season. However, the other draws and losses are much harder to understand. For a team hoping to remain in the hunt for one of 16 NCAA tournament bids, a pair of 1-1 draws to RPI, which 3-10-3 overall this year, as well as a 5-5 draw
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phenomenal. “He has grown to the point now where he makes things happen for himself,” McCollum said. “He pushes himself to be the best he can be, whether in shooting, school work or his personal life.”
ter team playing themselves out of the playoff. But that allowed players, coaches and fans to regain hope, only to have it crushed again despite finishing the season with wins against Michigan State, Michigan and Wisconsin. Head coach Urban Meyer was far from pleased at a press conference less than three hours after the announcement that his team would not be competing in the playoff in back-to-back seasons. He said he sunk into his chair while watching on TV because he thought his team would make the cut. But Meyer also was not devastated, as Worley said he felt. The weight of uncertainty seemed to have been lifted off him. Meyer said the younger version of himself would struggle to eat and sleep, but he has learned to move on from such disappointments. For Ohio State, moving on means redirecting its focus winning the Big Ten — a goal which it completed on Saturday — to a game against USC in the Cotton Bowl, a consolation prize for a team that expects to be in the playoff each and every year. The Trojans present an intriguing matchup, one that will include quarterback Sam Darnold, who is a projected early first-round NFL draft pick; running back Ronald Jones, who has 1,486 yards on a 6.1-yards-per-carry average, and four defenders who each has at least six sacks. The Buckeyes have not beaten the Trojans in the past seven matchups, dating back
“I feel like Ohio State is giving me a good path to that and so I’m going to keep working and take everything I’ve learned here and run with it.” Anthony McCollum Ohio State pistol shooter
In the near future, McCollum hopes to bring another national championship to Ohio State. Looking a bit further ahead, he continues to work toward his goal of competing in the Olympics and still believes what he’s learning at Ohio State will get him there. “I feel like Ohio State is giving me a good path to that and so I’m going to keep working and take everything I’ve learned here and run with it,” McCollum said. “And absolutely keep shooting and hopefully make it to the Olympics someday.” JOIN THE CONVERSATION
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and 4-0 loss to No. 18 Penn State — only ranked because of the statement it made in that series — does not look great. The 5-5 draw, and eventual shootout loss, only looks worse given the Nittany Lions stole two points with a goal with less than a second remaining in regulation to force overtime. This could be chalked up to a coincidence, and maybe there just haven’t been enough games
this season to determine this as a trend. Yet this trend is alarming for the Buckeyes since it has seemed to linger from last season, when they also struggled at home. During the 2016-17 season, Ohio State had an NCAA-best 13-2-3 road record, but was a subpar 7-7-2 in its own arena. The home struggles aren’t to suggest there’s no hope for this Ohio State team. The Buckeyes
have proved their worth on the road, earning a statement win in their season opener against No. 12 Wisconsin, and just last weekend Ohio State played its best series of the season, taking two wins rather easily against thenNo. 17 Michigan. Ohio State also has completely flipped its identity from a high-powered scoring team lacking defense to a more well-rounded, defensive team that gives up the eighth-least goals per game and is tied for first on the penalty kill. Sophomore forward Tanner Laczynski has shined this year, leading the team with 20 points, and redshirt junior goalie Sean Romeo has filled some big skates in the net. Still, nearing the halfway point in the season with more home games left than road ones, the Buckeyes will need to figure out a way to succeed in the Schott, or their tournament chances will dissolve.
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to 1974 when Meyer was just 9 years old. “That’s a traditionally rich program right there. Just like Ohio State,” Worley said. “They’ve had some crazy guys come through there. And I actually remember the battles when I was younger and just watching them play, watching some of the guys that I know playing in those games and things like that. It’s going to be fun.” The playoff was always an attainable goal and, given how veteran this group of players is, not reaching it could be viewed as a failure. The Buckeyes obviously had bigger plans, which Meyer understands. “You have to understand they’re not kind of disappointed,” Meyer said. “They’re probably devastated.” He thought his team was in the playoff. But he said he stared at the TV and stopped thinking about what could have been, and turned his attention to the bowl game. “There’s a group of players now that really deserve that opportunity,” Meyer said. “And that’s what I thought about.” They won’t get the ultimate prize of a national championship, but Meyer wants Ohio State’s 19 seniors to be sent off with a win and trophies. That began with winning a Big Ten championship Saturday night and will continue with a chance to end the streak and defeat Darnold and the Trojans in Dallas on Dec. 29.
in the second half and tied the game with his first free throw, then dropped in the second one to give Ohio State its first lead of the game at 47-46. Bates-Diop ended the game with 18 points and nine rebounds. Michigan later retook a 57-56 lead with 5:48 left on a free throw by Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman and extended it to two points with the second make. The game was tied again on a baseline jumper from Williams at 60-60 with 3:38 left in the game. Guard C.J. Jackson made the first freethrow try with 2:59 remaining to give Ohio State a 61-60 lead. The Buckeyes pulled away to a 67-60 advantage with four more free throws by Jackson and two from Bates-Diop. It was clear early that the Michigan offense was able to spread the Ohio State defense out with passes from baseline to baseline and screens to shake pursuing defenders, opening up lanes for easy points in the paint and finding chances for its guards to shoot from beyond the arc. By halftime, Michigan had run up a 43-30 lead and led in both 3-pointers (7-5) and points in the paint (20-10). With 14:18 left in the first half, the Buckeye defense switched to a 2-3 zone, but found little success against the Michigan offense that continued to exploit the zone. The Wolverines went on a 22-11 run to push their lead out to 36-17. Wagner led Michigan players with 14 points and nine rebounds. Abdur-Rahkman and Simpson
were tied for the second-most points with 11 points each. Bates-Diop said between the 83-59 road win against Wisconsin and the second-half comeback against Michigan, the Buckeyes are starting to get an idea of what the ceiling could be if they continue their success. “If we play like we did in the second half all game, the game’s really not even that close and Michigan’s a good team,” Bates-Diop said. “It’s hard to win in Wisconsin no matter what year it is. So if we carry these things as the rest of non-conference and into the regular season Big Ten, I think sky’s the limit for us. We can be really good.” Ohio State stays home for a matchup at noon Saturday against William and Mary.
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Anthony McCollum shoots for success on pistol team HANNAH SMITH Lantern reporter smith.10123@osu.edu When it comes to the sport of pistol, Ohio State’s Anthony McCollum has always been a goal-setter. Whether it’s a shooting goal for a competition a week away or a career goal set 10 years into the future, McCollum has his eye on his targets. His father, Bob McCollum, learned this quickly after his then-15-year-old son set the goal of shooting pistol in the Olympics, along with all the necessary competitions and procedures he would have to go through. “For him to come out and say that, it floored us,” Bob McCollum said. “Thinking back, the way
“He pushes himself to be the best he can be, whether in shooting, school work or his personal life.” Bob McCollum Father of Anthony McCollum
he’s done everything [in pistol], it’s above anything we could’ve expected for him.” Years later, Anthony McCollum’s heart is still set on making the Olympic team. For the Ohio State junior and first team All-American, being able to com-
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pete for the Buckeyes has been an integral part of that dream. Ohio State is the only NCAA school outside of the military academies that considers pistol as a varsity sport, an aspect that was very appealing to McCollum. However, the perks of being a varsity athlete didn’t shield McCollum from the culture shock he experienced when he stepped on campus. Coming from rural
Purdin, Missouri, a town in with less than 200 residents, to a campus with more than 60,000 people was not easy. Although he is now one of Ohio State’s top shooters, McCollum was essentially home-schooled until he stepped foot on campus. Despite living in a hunting community, he could not find a certified pistol instructor. Even though he had no knowledge of the sport,
McCollum’s father became a certified instructor and led the team through the nonprofit, 4-H. Together, they learned the practices of the sport through reading and by networking at competitions. McCollum also took advantage of living in a rural community and routinely practiced in his own backyard. McCollum competes in both individual and open, or mixed
gender group, trials. He also competes in all three variations of competitive shooting: air, standard and free. Each discipline varies based on the distance from the target and the size of the target. McCollum has proved himself to be a main contributor to Ohio State’s success, frequently breaking personal records and leading the team in open events. In his inaugural season with the Buckeyes, he helped lead the team to its third consecutive national championship. Since his first season, he has increased his average competition scores by 300 points, becoming a force on the team. Despite Ohio State ending last season with a fourth-place finish at the national championship in the open-team competitions, the Buckeyes have returned this season with determination, remaining undefeated in the regular season, with McCollum consistently leading the pack. McCollum doesn’t see his leading scores as something warranting praise. “I’m just trying to do the best I can in whatever I’m doing, and right now I’m doing this and putting everything I have into it,” McCollum said. “I just try to keep my head down and work on what I need to.” McCollum’s father is quick to attest to his son’s strong work ethic, saying that watching him progress in the sport has been McCOLLUM CONTINUES ON 10
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Out with the uncertainty for Ohio State, in with disappointment and opportunity COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu On Nov. 4, Ohio State seemed to have been eliminated from College Football Playoff contention. No two-loss team had ever made the playoff and the Buckeyes didn’t just lose their second game of the year — they were demolished 55-24 by Iowa. But chaos reigned. Notre Dame, Alabama, TCU, Miami (Fla.), Washington and Georgia lost in the following weeks. In a wild twist of fate, Ohio State re-entered the discussion for a playoff spot. Last week, playoff committee chair Kirby Hocutt said there was “very little separation” between then-No. 5 Alabama and then-No. 8 Ohio State. The Buckeyes made their final statement Saturday by handing No. 4 Wisconsin its only loss of the season, defeating the Badgers 27-21 in the Big Ten championship game. But less than 24 hours after the team celebrated amid confetti and thousands of scarletand-gray-clad fans, the joy turned to despair. After a painfully long lead-up to the reveal on the playoff se-
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Head coach Urban Meyer paces during a Buckeye offensive possession from the sideline in the third quarter of the Ohio State-Iowa game on Nov. 4. Ohio State lost 55-24. lection show, the Crimson Tide logo popped up in the No. 4 spot, leaving Ohio State on the outside looking in. “You’re definitely devastated,” redshirt senior linebacker Chris Worley said. “Whenever you have so many guys, internally, as a man, that you know, that you put
so much work in, you’re so invested. If you’re not devastated then you probably didn’t put the work in.” The loss will sting, redshirt senior quarterback J.T. Barrett said, especially since he believes his team is one of the best four in the country. But he said the Buckeyes
did what they could down the stretch; it just turned out it did not impress the committee enough to pick them instead of Alabama. Ohio State’s dreams of a playoff never would have existed without other teams’ help. They were resuscitated due to team afFOOTBALL CONTINUES ON 10
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Competing independently as an OSU wrestler JEFF HELFRICH Lantern reporter helfrich.36@osu.edu On most weekends, a large part of the Ohio State wrestling roster can be found competing on their own, with no coaches, not wearing Buckeye singlets in a small gym in front of minimal crowds. These wrestlers are competing unattached in open tournaments. NCAA wrestling allows 16 dates of competition for Division I teams. Any event that has more than six competitors on a team counts as a full event. As a result, Ohio State pays for six or fewer nonstarters to compete at open events nearly every weekend. The wrestlers do not wear Ohio State-affiliated clothing and coaches rarely attend since it is not an official team event. The true value of unattached events for a wrestling team might come from the athletes that attend but do not have their expenses paid for by the university. Wrestlers in their redshirt year compete in opens as well, but must pay their own way. They find a way to compete while redshirting, unlike a football redshirt who must watch from the sidelines. “There’s a formula that made these guys Ohio State recruitable, and part of that formula is you
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Sophomore Brendan Fitzgerald has competed in many unattached matches during his tenure as an Ohio State wrestler. have to compete,” head coach Tom Ryan said. “We don’t make it mandatory but I think winners and guys that want to eventually be starters and have a really successful redshirt year just have to compete.” Ryan encourages his unattached wrestlers to attend any competition that takes place within a five-hour drive from Columbus.
Ohio State wrestlers have competed in events like the Michigan State Open, the Eastern Michigan Open and the Purple Raider Open in Alliance, Ohio. Competing unattached is a right of passage in the Buckeye wrestling room. “More often than not, you need a year in a college room to be hardened and it’s like driving on
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For the first time all season, Ohio State (7-3, 2-0 Big Ten) came back from a daunting double-digit second-half deficit, defeating Michigan (7-3, 1-1 Big Ten) 71-62 at the Schottenstein Center on Monday. Ohio State lost to both Butler and Clemson after miserable second halfs that ruined first-half leads, but outscored the Wolverines 41-19 in the second half after falling behind 43-30 at the end of the first half to come away with the win. The Buckeyes finished the game on a 15-2 run. Michigan went 5-for-29 in the second half, including just 1-for-12 from beyond the arc. The Buckeyes trailed by as much as 43-23, but carried a 7-0 run at the end of the first half into a 17-3 run to open the second half, then took the lead with 12:29 left in the game. Junior forward Jae’Sean Tate capped off the first-half run with a thundering, one-handed slam over Michigan forward Moritz Wagner to send the 12,546 fans in the Schott to their feet for the first time the entire game. Tate finished with 14 points and four rebounds in the game. “It was pretty loud in there. I haven’t really heard the Schott that loud. [Tate’s] dunk set it off,” redshirt senior guard Kam Williams said. “ Bates-Diop was fouled on his way up with 12:29 remaining BASKETBALL CONTINUES ON 10