The Lantern - December 6 2016

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The application to be the undergraduate member of the OSU Board of Trustees is now available.

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GUN LAW PROTESTS

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An OSU staff member raises concerns about the Monday’s open carry protest on campus.

A new documentary that documents the fight for marriage equality will be screened at The Wex.

COMPARING QUARTERBACKS

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Key similarities between JT Barrett and Clemson’s Deshaun Watson might be seen in the Fiesta Bowl.

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OSU trails peers in ratio of police officers to students AMANDA ETCHISON Patricia Boyer Miller Editor etchison.4@osu.edu In the hours following an attack on Ohio State students and faculty on Nov. 28, University Police received praise from state, local and national officials for its quick response.

Officer Alan Horujko, hired in January 2015, was nearby and fatally shot Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a third-year in logistics management who attacked campus with a car and a knife, which resulted in 11 people being sent to the hospital.

But as university officials continue to work with investigators and with the community to restore a sense of security on campus, some have been questioning the number of officers on campus, determining that it’s too few to adequately protect the student population.

A staffing analysis published in May 2013 by the OSU Police Division expressed a need to hire “10 to 13 full-time police officers to balance the amount of time required for response calls.”

At the time, the report states, OSU’s Columbus campus employed 47 sworn police officers, which is a decrease from 53 officers in previous years.

About two and a half years later, OSU has added three more sworn

USG moves to approve new voting system SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Lantern reporter cartwright.117@osu.edu

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A University Police officer stands on West 19th Avenue after the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry building was evacuated because of a chemical spill. police officers to its force, bring- ly higher than the ratio reported Instead, she emphasized the ing its total number of full-time by The Lantern in a March 2014 partnerships University Police sworn officers to 50. article, which stated that the num- have with other law enforcement A Lantern analysis of cam- ber was about 0.80 sworn officers divisions in the Columbus area, pus police divisions on the main per 1,000 students. which she said were shown when campuses of Big Ten universiThe Big Ten average ratio based several agencies aided in respondties shows that, despite these ad- on Autumn 2016 data is 1.30 ing to the violence that unfolded ditions to the staff, OSU has the sworn officers per 1,000 students. on campus last week. lowest ratio of police officers to In an email, Department of “As you witnessed (on Nov. students when compared with oth- Public Safety Director Monica 28), we have the ability through er schools in the conference that Moll declined to comment on “the our mutual aid agreement to resubmitted data for this story. practices or safety and security ceive immediate assistance from OSU currently has 0.84 sworn needs of other campuses or uni- Columbus police and other nearofficers per 1,000 students on its versities,” or how OSU compared by agencies in emergency situaPOLICE CONTINUES ON 2 Columbus campus. This is slight- to other Big Ten schools.

Undergraduate Student Government has proposed a resolution to change the way Ohio State students can elect their representatives to ensure that a candidate receiving the majority vote wins.

Currently, students vote through a plurality system, known as “firstpast-the-post,” meaning each student has one vote to cast on one candidate, and the candidate with the most votes wins. The resolution is recommending that the system be changed to a ranked-choice voting system, allowing students to order each candidate by preference. As of right now, the new voting system is only being used in the USG presidential race.

“With our current system, you only get one vote and one voice,” said Joseph Warnimont, a thirdyear in aerospace engineering and the senator sponsoring the resolution. “By allowing you to rank your other candidates in order of preference, you can cast a much more nuanced ballot and cast votes for people who may not have as good of a chance at winning as other candidates.”

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Protesting for gun rights, Athletics overshadow academic group walks through incentives in coaching contracts campus carrying openly ANALYSIS: BIG TEN

KEVIN STANKIEWICZ Oller Reporter stankiewicz.16@osu.edu When the Buckeyes beat the Oregon Ducks in the 2015 National Championship game, head coach Urban Meyer hoisted a trophy — and later pocketed $250,000.

For the second time in three seasons, the Ohio State football team is going to the College Football Playoff. And for the second time in three seasons, Meyer will receive a hefty bonus to recognize that achievement, win or lose, once again to the tune of $250,000.

Paul Chryst, head football coach at Wisconsin, will receive a $16,000 bonus after his Badgers

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OSU coach Urban Meyer sounds his whistle before the first game of the 2016 season against Bowling Green on Sept. 3 at Ohio Stadium. The Buckeyes won 77-10. appeared, but lost, in the Big Ten bonus this year after his Scarlet Championship Game on Saturday. Knights qualified for the NCAA At Rutgers, women’s soccer coach tournament.

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Protesters engage in a discussion with Merrill Kaplan, an OSU professor, who came outside Denney Hall on Dec. 5 to confront them. Although an agreement was not reached, the parties shook hands before the protesters left campus. | PAGE 3

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Halie Vilagi is the first undergraduate Board of Trustees member with voting privileges.

SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Lantern reporter cartwright.117@osu.edu At 11 and 12 years old, respectively, Halie and Hannah Vilagi were saving up their chore money to buy two things they couldn’t stop thinking about.

Hannah saved up her money to buy a sparkly new bracelet.

Her younger sister, Halie, however, now a fourth-year in public affairs, had a much different product in mind: Apple stock.

In 2008, the sixth-grader bought stock in one of the world’s largest tech companies, just one year after the first iPhone came out.

Halie’s interests in investing did not stop at 11. At 15, just as she began high school, a new item had her attention.

“In high school Halie asked for a subscription to The Economist,” said Hannah Vilagi, a fifth-year in civil engineering. “She’s been getting a subscription to The Economist every week since she’s been in high school.”

Since then, Halie’s interests in economics led her to Ohio State’s John Glenn College of Public Af-

fairs, and from there, to the university’s Board of Trustees.

Halie Vilagi is the first undergraduate student Board of Trustees member with voting privileges in OSU history, and her term is set to come to an end as she prepares to graduate in the spring.

The application for the student trustee position is now available online for undergraduate students who live in Ohio to apply.

The position requires a twoyear commitment, attendance at board executive sessions, and voting at the committee and board level. If chosen, the student would represent the entire class of undergraduates at OSU, work with the 19 other trustees in enrollment planning, development, investments and other responsibilities that directly affect all who make up the university population.

For Halie Vilagi, the process took about six months and included studying relevant materials, multiple interviews and figuring out how to buy a burner phone abroad in Berlin.

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THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY is seeking comments from the public about the University in preparation for its periodic evaluation by its regional accrediting agency. The university will host a visit March 20 – 21, 2017, with a team representing the Higher Learning Commission. The Ohio State University has been accredited by HLC since 1913. The team will review the university’s ongoing ability to meet HLC’s Criteria for Accreditation.

The public is invited to submit comments regarding the university to the following address: Public Comment on Ohio State University Higher Learning Commission 230 South LaSalle Street, Suite 7-500 Chicago, IL 60604-1411 The public may also submit comments on HLC’s website at www.hlcommission.org/comment.

Comments must address substantive matters related to the quality of the university or its academic programs.

Comments must be in writing.

All comments must be received

by February 17, 2017.

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vote, going as far as holding multiple elimination steps for opponents in the election if one official does not get more than 50 percent after the first voting ranks are in.

Of the 50 elections USG has held since 1967, 36 candidates have won without receiving the majority vote, instead having received the largest plurality.

“If after counting first-place votes, no candidate receives a majority of votes, the candidate receiving the least votes is eliminated,” Warnimont said of the proposal. “Ballots cast to that candidate then go to their second-highest ranked choice.”

He said that if no candidate has the majority after this step, then the process will continue until one person wins.

“It’s not that I think plurality voting doesn’t represent the student body,” Sophie Chang, a thirdyear in environment, economy, development and sustainability, and the director of USG’s health and safety committee said. “It’s based on the fact that one team should be able to get the majority, so that way the student body is adequately represented.”

The resolution states that under the current system, “Even if a voter supports multiple candidates’ views, they may only cast a single vote,” which the resolution’s sponsors said discourages candidates with similar views from running, resulting in a limited choice for voters.

Some USG constituents don’t see this new system as a more inclusive approach, however.

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A student campaigns on the Oval during Spring Semester 2016 for the Undergraduate Student Government election.

Tony Buss, a fourth-year in English and director of diversity and inclusion for USG, voted “no” on the resolution in general assembly because he did not think it would represent everyone.

“I think there are a lot of situations where the true majority could get ousted based on how students rank their vote, and, because of those scenarios, I didn’t want to risk it,” Buss said. “But, if people think this is more inclusive approach, then I’m willing to see how it goes.”

The resolution must first go through two more steps before being considered a concrete change in USG voting.

Gerard Basalla, president of USG and a fourth-year in political science and strategic communications, said that the resolution will now be reviewed by the organization’s judicial panel after receiving a positive majority in the general assembly. If the panel agreed to the resolution’s recommendation of a new voting system, the

panel will make those changes in the election rules and regulations.

Warnimont does not see this step as an issue.

“The legislative branch has strongly voiced support for ranked-choice voting, and I look forward to sharing that opinion with the judicial panel and working with them on an implementation,” he said.

This is not the last step of the process, however. If the judicial panel were to make these changes, the new system would be brought back to the general assembly to review and approve. With this, the ranked system might be used in the Spring 2017 elections.

If the resolution is passed, OSU students would be educated on this new process via explanatory videos, tweets, posters and other teaching tools.

“This is definitely a huge change, it’s a huge change in the model and hopefully it will be more fair for students,” Basalla said.

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tions,” she said.

Moll added that other on-campus resources should be considered beyond the number of sworn officers when looking at campus safety.

“Like Ohio State, all universities have their own safety considerations which include, but are not limited to, population, location or proximity to a major city, total public safety (personnel) and actual crime rates,” she said. “At Ohio State, our comprehensive safety approach includes police, security, technology and surveillance as well as important partnerships with local, state and federal law enforcement.”

Columbus Division of Police Sgt. Shaun Laird, a national trustee for Ohio for the Fraternal Order of Police, said the violent event on campus reiterates the importance of assessing how many sworn police officers are present on OSU’s force.

“In a violent situation … the officer is the one who has to defuse the violent person,” said Laird, who represents several local police agencies, one of which is OSU’s University Police. “I would ask people that when that situation happened, where were the cameras, where were the Student Safety (Services) people?”

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This isn’t the first time that OSU has had the lowest officer-to-student ratio in the Big Ten. The 2014 Lantern article featured a study conducted by Capt.

Eric Chin of the Purdue University Police Department, which showed that OSU had the lowest ratio compared with 15 Midwestern and Big Ten universities.

Chin’s original study included all Big Ten universities, as well as the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

Laird said he and the OSU officers he represents were disappointed with the staffing numbers at OSU when they compared them to the other schools.

“A couple of years ago, when we did this story, when we looked

at the numbers, we were discouraged at the time to find that OSU was at the bottom of the pile in the Big Ten,” he said. “We were looking at that officer-to-student ratio, and we felt that that number really needed to be increased.”

The number of sworn officers did increase from 47 to 50, but the number of students on campus also increased.

According to data listed on OSU’s website, there are 59,482 undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled on the Columbus campus for Autumn Semester 2016. The student population was listed as 56,387 in Chin’s original study.

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pus student population among the Big Ten schools included in The Lantern’s analysis, with approximately 8,000 more students than the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus, the school with the second-largest student population.

Minnesota’s officer-to-student ratio is approximately 1.05 sworn officers per 1,000 students.

Northwestern University, the school with the highest officer-to-student ratio, had 30 sworn police officers on its force but has a main campus population of about 14,000 students. Its ratio was 2.14 officers per 1,000 students.

The school with the second-highest officer-to-student ratio, Michigan State, also had one of the largest student populations.

With 51,189 students and 86 sworn police officers on its East Lansing campus, its ratio was 1.68 officers per 1,000 students.

Three schools — the University of Maryland, Purdue University and Rutgers University — failed to provide the data necessary for the autumn 2016 ratio calculations and were thus excluded from The Lantern’s comparison.

Safety services, security and other considerations Moll said an analysis of campus safety should extend beyond just the sworn-officer-to-student ratio in order to “take into account the holistic approach of each university.”

She added that, in addition to the 50 sworn police officers on OSU’s campus, the division also employs 35 non-sworn security officers who serve the academic campus and 71 non-sworn officers who serve the Wexner Medical Center.

Although these non-sworn officers are uniformed and trained,

they are not armed like the sworn officers, she said.

These non-sworn officers do not have arrest power nor do they possess police badges like those carried by sworn officers, OSU Administration and Planning spokesman Dan Hedman added in a follow-up email.

“These personnel are also supplemented by part-time security officers and Student Safety Service officers,” Moll said.

She added that “significant technology,” such as the more than 2,500 surveillance cameras used by the Department of Public Safety, should be taken into account as well.

Yet Laird said these resources, while helpful, should not be considered a replacement for sworn police officers.

“I do think it is important that we have those things, but it does not replace a police officer when a violent situation occurs,” he said.

Laird also pointed out that OSU is not alone in offering these security resources in addition to a police department.

“It is not like at the University of Wisconsin they don’t provide that … Every university has those same things,” he said. “So we get back to the root question of, if every university has those prevention programs and cameras and student safety, how do you still have a lower number of officers per thousand?”

Ratio revisions among a changing campus population The University Police staffing report was based on data collected throughout 2012 from the division’s computer-aided dispatch system, which tracks calls received and the actions taken by the department for each call.

Based on the data, the report

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she needed a phone number to reach if Ohio Gov. John Kasich were to call her with any questions or news on the student-trustee position.

She found a phone that would do the job.

“It was not even a flip phone — it was the generation before the flip phone,” she said. “It was an oval.”

The phone cost 50 euros and had 60 minutes to service a few phone calls. She gave the number to two people: the governor’s office and her boyfriend, but instructed her boyfriend not to call.

“I said ‘I’ll give you this number. I only have 60 minutes on this phone, so don’t call me unless it’s Gov. Kasich with you calling,’” Halie said.

Halie spent the month abroad looking at the screen, charging it every night and awaiting the call that could change her life.

The phone didn’t ring. The call came when she was back the United States.

“The governor was incredibly busy, so we didn’t have much sense of when he would call,” Halie said. “I was at work one day and I was in a meeting, and I came back to my desk and had a voice mail from the deputy director of boards and commissions saying ‘Hey Halie can you give us a call back we have something to

tell you.’”

When she called back, she was offered the position of student trustee.

“I hung up the phone and just sobbed. I had waited and waited and dreamed and imagined what it would be like to get this opportunity and to just get it was such a relief,” Halie said.

Trevor Brown, the dean of the College of Public Affairs, said Halie’s poise, thoughtfulness and understanding made her the ultimate choice for the position.

“She’s amazing,” Brown said.

“She’s an incredible combination of smarts and intelligence, but she’s a warm, people-first person, so she’s very committed to students and the issues of students here on campus.”

Halie accepted her position on June 29, 2015. House Bill 64, which allowed for student trustees in Ohio to have voting rights, passed the next day.

After graduating this year, Halie plans to attend law school, and then perhaps pursue a career in politics or the nonprofit sector.

Her family also has an idea for her future. “The running joke in our family is Halie Vilagi 2020,” Hannah said.

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A Columbus police officer stands with a University Police officer outside of the police cordon near the CBEC Building and Koffolt Labs on Nov. 28. states that the analysis “supports though. New officer positions are the need for hiring” 10 to 13 ad- set to be added to the University ditional full-time officers, which Police force, funded by money would “balance the amount of generated by alcohol sales in Ohio time required for response calls Stadium during game days. from our community.”

In September, it was announced The report’s conclusion also that University Police would notes that the study did not take be hiring four full-time officers into account how the mandatory at an estimated annual cost of on-campus living requirement for $600,000. This was an increase second-year students or a hospital from the initial estimate, which expansion project would impact planned to add two new full-time the suggested staffing increases. officers to the force.

Laird said changes like these The addition of four officers should be taken into consideration would increase OSU’s ratio to when looking at the number of of- 0.91 officers per 1,000 students ficers on the campus force. when calculated with current en“I think (OSU is) going to need rollment numbers for Autumn to continue to evaluate with every 2016. step of expansion to be able to proThis would still be the lowest vide for those people,” he said. “If ratio among the Big Ten schools. we are expanding the student pop- The second-lowest ratio is Indiulation … especially in those who ana University’s 0.926 officers per are living on campus, because 1,000 students on its Bloomingnow you are going from when ton, Indiana, campus. you (were) providing services for Laird said he sees this as a step maybe a few hours of the day, now in the right direction, but again you are providing services for a emphasized the need to continuwhole sophomore population for ously evaluate the ratio between basically 24 hours a day.” officers and students as the camThere is expansion happening pus population grows. beyond the student population, “The overall view to me was we

Methodology For this story, The Lantern analyzed data collected from 11 of the 14 universities in the Big Ten conference.

Several attempts were made to obtain data from all of the schools, but three universities — the University of Maryland, Purdue University and Rutgers University — failed to provide the data necessary for the ratio calculations and were thus excluded from comparison.

Information requested of each school was kept the same for each inquiry. The Lantern asked the universities to provide the number of students of all levels enrolled for Autumn Semester 2016 on the main campus of each institution, as well as the number of sworn police officers serving that campus.

A ratio was then calculated to determine the number of police officers per 1,000 students on the main campuses of Big Ten universities. said something to them a couple of years ago, we said they needed more (officers), and they are moving that way,” he said. “They may look at it and say, ‘Oh, we added four,’ but our needs have really grown and we may need to add more. At every step of expansion, you are going to have to stop and look at where you are at and then see if the number is working or if you need to add some more people.”

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Open-carrying protesters campaign for gun rights NICK ROLL Campus Editor roll.66@osu.edu One week after an attack which left 11 people in the hospital and the attacker shot dead, a group of protesters came to Ohio State, quietly walking through campus with guns strapped across their chests.

The protesters were in favor of Ohio House Bill 48, pending legislation which could allow for concealed carry on public college campuses in Ohio, among other places where concealed carry is currently restricted. The bill wouldn’t allow concealed carry outright, but would allow colleges to opt in. University President Michael Drake recently spoke out against the bill during a segment on WOSU. Ohio State’s code of student conduct prohibits students from open carrying on campus, but the protesters, none of whom were students, were in the clear under state law.

Some students expressed concerns with the policing of the event, while others congratulated the protesters.

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Jeffry Smith, the organizer of the protest, speaks with a student about Ohio gun laws on Dec. 5 in front of the RPAC. The protesters spent much of their time trying to engage with passersby, asking them if they had any questions about gun laws in Ohio, and why the protesters came to campus.

What seemed to emerge from those discussions were two competing feelings of safety — one that would require citizens to carry guns, and one that would require those guns to be gone.

“Here is my point of view, I find you frightening, I find this very frightening,” said Merrill Kaplan, a professor in the English and Germanic departments who met

the protesters with a sign reading “I feel unsafe.” Kaplan and the protesters discussed their differing interpretations of gun rights on the sidewalk outside of Denney Hall.

Kaplan and the protesters debated the safety of having more guns on campus, and though they didn’t reach an agreement, shook hands before the protesters departed just before 3 p.m.

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Path to same-sex marriage hits the screen ELIZABETH TZAGOURNIS Lantern reporter tzagournis.24@osu.edu On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage legal in Obergefell v. Hodges, but the movement had started much earlier. Director Eddie Rosenstein documented the push for legal same-sex marriage in the months leading up to the ruling in his film “The Freedom to Marry.”

On Wednesday at 7 p.m., Rosenstein will screen the documentary at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

The director and producer said he loves to share stories of everyday people who accomplish great things. He said his optimistic viewpoint has encouraged a love of storytelling through documentary filmmaking.

“Whether it’s a musician or a cabdriver or a miner or a teacher or a kid, we all have the ability to achieve something really extraordinary,” Rosenstein said. “(‘The Freedom to Marry’) happens to be a film set in an LGBT world, but it’s a film about people achieving amazing things against incredible odds.”

“The Freedom to Marry” follows attorney and LGBT-rights advocate Evan Wolfson. As the founder and former president of

“Nobody ever would have thought it possible in the ‘70s for gay people to be treated with any sort of equal rights.”

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A still from “The Freedom to Marry,” which is set to screen at The Wexner Center for the Arts on Dec. 7. the now-defunct Freedom to Marry organization, Wolfson dedicated his life to fighting for marriage equality within the legal system.

Rosenstein said that while growing up in Pittsburgh, his family was close friends with the Wolfson family. The director called Wolfson a “civil-rights leader,” and said he hoped to share the “audacious” story of how this group of people was able to go from a despised minority to a legally protected part of America.

“Nobody ever would have

thought it possible in the ‘70s for gay people to be treated with any sort of equal rights,” he said. “But through strategy, perseverance and just crazy tenacity, and a lot of people getting involved, they were able to change the ideology of a nation.”

Melissa Starker, the creative content and public relations manager at the Wex, said it was a good time to show the movie given the recent presidential election. With the country’s change in leadership, she said, there may be ques-

organize an exhibition for students taking courses in art and technology each semester. They came up with the name of this exhibition when Youngs was reading “The People’s Platform,” a book by Astra Taylor which discusses the filter bubble.

“The art and technology program is very much focused on how we use technology in pro-social ways,” Rinaldo said. “In ways that would amplify the experiences of those who generally don’t have a voice on campus. We felt that the filter bubble would be a

really appropriate theme.”

More than 300 artists from classes in 3-D animation, 3-D modeling, internet art and new media and robotics have submitted their work for the exhibition, Rinaldo said.

The exhibition provides students an opportunity to think about issues and the potential for media communication to be biased towards a person’s own views, but ultimately it’s about keeping an open mind and being aware of the bubbles, Rinaldo said.

Jordan Reynolds, a third-year

tions over the future of marriage equality.

“There’s a lot of concern right now that some people thought that this was a closed argument and there are some people that feel, given the current state of things politically, maybe it isn’t,” Starker said. “I think that getting a sense of all that went behind this struggle and this particular battle is a useful thing as we move into perhaps a more uncertain time.”

Rosenstein followed Wolfson and another Freedom to Marry member to the 2015 court case that would determine whether same-sex marriage became the law of the land. Although the film focuses on the fight for marriage equality, Rosenstein said that it is also a blueprint on how to achieve

any type of social change. He said he made the film to encourage everyone, but especially young people, that social change can actually happen and it is their job to get involved in the process.

“It was just beautiful to have a seat (and) to be there riding along as history was made and to be able to show to the world yeah, this can happen,” he said. “A movement can take millions of people. It’s not just Evan’s story — it isn’t one guy that did this.”

At the Wex screening, Rosenstein will introduce the film and then speak with audience members during a Q-and-A session following. Tickets are $6 for students and $8 for the general public.

“This is one of the predominant civil-rights issues of our time and it’s been a long time coming,” Starker said. “In terms of current events and 20th century American history and just basic human rights, this is a pretty important story.”

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Students explore media filtering KATHLEEN SENGE Lantern reporter senge.1@osu.edu Sometimes people are guilty of listening to only the things they want to hear. They block out dissenting opinions and seek out those they agree with, putting themselves in what is known as a filter bubble.

Ohio State students studying art and technology explore this concept in a new exhibition, “Filter Bubble.”

Ken Rinaldo and Amy Youngs

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An image from “Oppression,” the film played inside Jordan Reynolds’ “Reflection.”

“The art and technology program is very much focused on how we use technology in prosocial ways.”

Ken Rinaldo Exhibit organizer

in art and technology, created “Reflection,” an interactive sculpture. The piece can be worn like a helmet, and causes the users to dissociate from their current situation and immerse themselves into another environment. While inside the helmet, the user watches a film on loop and listens to a recording, Reynolds said. There is one screen playing the video in the helmet, and the screen is surrounded by four mirrors so that it feels like the user is watching an infinite number of screens.

The helmet simulates the way that media can be so overwhelming and constant that it can end up desensitizing people to issues, Reynolds said.

“You’re detached from the environment around you, and you kind of become overstimulated by the visuals,” Reynolds said. “What’s interesting is when a user is inside it for a long period of time, the stimulation from the video and the actual subject matter become overwhelming to the point of cog-

nitive disassociation.”

Reynolds has made several films that can be swapped out depending on the exhibition. For “Filter Bubble,” he uses a film called “Oppression,” which deals with the issue of racial inequality.

“Filter Bubble” will be on display Wednesday through Friday at Hopkins Hall. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free.

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Students to compete in national poetry competition LAURIE HAMAME Lantern reporter hamame.3@osu.edu Some poetry is written to be read, but some is meant to be read aloud. Spoken word poems, also called performance or slam poetry, are crafted to be brought alive in front of an audience. Since 2001, the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) has presented a platform for young poets to be heard.

Five Ohio State students recently won a preliminary competition, giving them the opportunity to represent OSU against other universities at the competition Chicago in the spring.

Xavier Smith A fifth-year in marketing, Xavier Smith said he never thought he’d write a metaphor — but once he started, he couldn’t stop.

“It was the first time that I really started to express and start to process through a lot of the racism and prejudice that I experienced as a kid,” Smith said.

It wasn’t long before Smith threw caution to the wind and snatched a spot on OSU’s 2015 CUPSI team, which competed at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He said his passion for racial issues and his experience of being biracial in America provoked his work to become more self-expressive, which landed him on the 2016 CUPSI team in Austin, Texas and the 2017 spring competition team.

Leonna Bell Imagine a collection of poems rapped to a jazz beat. This is how Leonna Bell said she believes her words should be experienced. Bell, a second-year in criminology, combines music and poetry to create catchy work that she said is more receptive to her audience.

She found poetry — or as she said, poetry found her — when she needed an outlet to discuss critical issues happening in the world. When she needs a platform to challenge oppression, she uses her words to “speak about things that make people uncomfortable,” such as racism and inequality.

Bell is the youngest and newest addition to Ohio State’s CUPSI team.

Anna Wiese This may be Anna Wiese’s third and final CUPSI, but what she’s most looking forward to is Chicago-style deep dish pizza.

Wiese, a fourth-year in psychology, said she has always been shy about her poetry, but Never Let Your Pen Dry (NLYPD), a student poetry organization on campus, coaxed her into sharing an original piece.

Inspired by the outward encouragement, she said she thought, “Maybe I’ll do more of this.”

“I want my poetic voice to be jarring. I naturally have a really loud and attentionseeking voice, and I easily take that to my poetry.”

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First time audience members may be shocked when Wiese takes the stage and swaps her bubbly and giggly persona for one of “anger and vulgarity.” Wiese said much of her poetry is rooted in feminism, and because it’s something she is inherently angry about, that emotion is conveyed

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The 2017 CUPSI team from left to right: Leonna Bell, Anna Wiese, Anna Voelker, Christina Szuch and Xavier Smith. through a loud, heated voice.

“Poetry has taught me to unapologetically share my voice. Specifically as a woman, you’re not supposed to be opinionated and if you are, you’re supposed to be polite and quiet about it,” Wiese said. “Loudly sharing my thoughts and emotions … has also become a part of my life outside of poetry. In my everyday life, I’m more outspoken and more opinionated; poetry has really helped me with that.”

Christina Szuch Even as a fourth-year in English, Christina Szuch has a beef with traditional poetry.

“There is this pressure not to talk about yourself where as with slam poetry, it’s kind of the opposite. You talk about your own life experiences and I think that can be kind of cathartic” Szuch said. “Me personally, I would rather hear about somebody’s life experience than read about descriptions of nature.”

Her recent work has explored topics such as mental illness, relationship abuse and sexual assault. While many poems exist about these sensitive topics, Szuch said she believes that when more poems are written, stigma is diminished.

“I really like poems that give me chills because I can relate to them and somebody else is feeling what I’ve felt before,” Szuch said. “I want to have that effect, even if it’s just on one person in the audience.”

Anna Voelker Anna Voelker’s passion for words paired with her enthusiasm for astrophysics lends itself to her writing and performance. As a secretly competitive person, she said spoken word is something she has always found to be thrilling.

“I’ve only ever competed through sports; I never knew you could do it with art also,” said Voelker, a fourth-year in astronomy.

Since then, she’s been a three-time veteran of CUPSI, a four-year member of NLYPD and now, the current president.

Voelker said the community that forms around slam poetry makes her feel like she’s a part of something bigger than herself.

“Poetry draws a lot of beautiful, open-minded people because it’s a very expressive art form and a lot of people are looking for something that is exactly that,” she said.

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Theatre Lab Series finale is a one-man show LINDSEY CAPRITTA Lantern reporter capritta.3@osu.edu The Ohio State Department of Theatre’s Lab Series will finish out the year with “Goodbye Blue Monday,” presented as a one-man show performed by student Tommy Clabby.

The Lab Series offers students a chance to develop and present their own work, with support from the theatre department. “Goodbye Blue Monday” will be the final show of the semester. The story follows a writer who is confronted by the characters he has created as he deals with ideas on creativity and life.

Clabby, a fourth-year in theatre and communications technology, wrote the play with Tom Murdock, a 2015 OSU theatre graduate. The two took inspiration on the play’s characters from the works of author Kurt Vonnegut, specifically the 1973 novel “Breakfast of Champions,” which is also known as “Goodbye Blue Monday.”

The play purposefully tries to make the audience feel as unsettled as Clabby, the protagonist.

Loud, jarring music plays as the audience enters, the lighting surreal and off-color and the set is unconventionally staged, with audience members having to grab their own chairs and find a seat before the show begins.

“My concept was cognitive dissonance,” said Alexandra Davis, director of the performance. “I feel the script is very uncomfortable to listen to. The main character says

“I feel like it’s a lot more my project. I helped write it and I saw it from the ground up.”

Tommy Clabby Fourth-year in theatre and communications technology Writer and sole actor in “Goodbye Blue Monday”

a lot things purposefully to make the listener uncomfortable. I was trying to mirror discomfort in the script in design.”

Clabby said he had participated in other student’s lab performances in the past, but had never produced his own work before.

“From the management standpoint it has been a lot more interesting,” Clabby said. “I feel like it’s a lot more my project. I helped write it and I saw it from the ground up.”

After preparing the script, Clabby and Murdock asked their friend Davis to direct Clabby in the piece. Davis had worked with both Clabby and Murdock in the past, including directing the two in a short play.

Davis said she enjoyed the opportunity to experiment with new aspects of theater.

“Lab allows for students to test how much you can create,” said Davis, a fourth-year in theatre and strategic communication. “So often as theatre majors we kind of have to pick and choose and oftentimes that pigeonholes artists into

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Tommy Clabby co-wrote and stars in the one-man show “Goodbye Blue Monday.” a one track thing. The cool thing about lab is it’s given both of us new experiences, like producing.”

Both Clabby and Davis spoke positively about their experiences with the Lab Series, with Davis

“My concept was cognitive dissonance.

I feel the script is very uncomfortable to listen to.”

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“My freshman year I saw someone do a solo show and I thought there’s absolutely no way I’d ever do a solo show,” Clabby said.

“But because of my experience with the lab series over last 4 years I’ve seen people take risks.

I’ve taken risks myself. I see this as a very safe space to test limits of creativity.”

“Goodbye Blue Monday” will be performed at 7 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday in the New Works Lab, Room 2060 in The Drake Performance and Event Center. Admission is free, with

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Today at about 2:45 p.m., I left my graduate student office in Derby Hall to get lunch. As I left my building, I saw a few men with long-arm assault rifles walk past the building. Feeling genuinely

skittish after last week’s act of violence, I ducked away from the group and went back to my building. I immediately sent a message on social media warning of the incident. From a distance, I real-

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ized that the men were not acting in a hostile fashion and must have been part of some demonstration.

I looked around and did not see any police in the area. I called University Police and reported the incident. Then later, as the men surrounded a woman holding a sign, I approached, took several photographs to report the incident to friends and colleagues. I eventually did find two police officers parked nearly a full campus block away in either direction. During your administration, I have seen far more active police presence for small groups of unarmed, non-violent protestors calling for racial justice than for these 15 heavily armed men.

The most improtant thing I can say, no matter what the law is, that I felt very unsafe for myself and my colleagues.

The policy on open carry on campus seems conflicting, and I am not a legal expert. The most important thing I can say, no matter what the law is, is that I felt very unsafe for myself and my colleagues. After last week’s incident, we know that campus can become a dangerous place in a matter of seconds. As a veteran with extensive firearms training who served our country during 9/11, I am fully aware of what responsible gun safety looks like.

But this is not a war zone: this is a university. It was my understanding that our campus is a weapon-free zone, and that our administration takes campus safety seriously. Moreover, I believe that our University Police did a disservice both by failing to provide an adequately visible escort to the heavily armed group, and also by not using the law within their discretion to remove the group from campus grounds.

You have a responsibility to keep everyone safe while they are on campus. You let me down. Not

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only did I feel extremely unsafe today under your watch, but based on your administration’s lack of initiative to reduce access to weapons on campus, I do not believe that you are taking my safety seriously.

To rebuild trust, I am asking that you make a clear statement about today’s events and about the steps your administration is taking to make sure that assault weapons have no place on campus. Moreover, I’d like your assurances that the police are being assigned in ways that reflect the actual and potential threat to life on campus, and not based on race, immigration status, political ideology or other criteria that have no place in how campus resources are assigned.

I look forward to hearing back from you personally, and to seeing evidence of your leadership in this matter.

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Michigan student body president: Upholding my word Less than a week before The Game (or, as you would say, The GaXe), I made a bet with my good friend and your Student Body President Gerard Basalla, in which the president of the school that lost would have to write a friendly article in the opposing school’s student newspaper. I am a man of my word, and here is my

article.

While Michigan and Ohio State might be the fiercest of rivals on the field, there is an undeniable mutual respect that exists between the Big Ten schools off the field.

OSU is among the finest institutions of higher learning in the country, having produced scores of Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize

winners, statesmen and women, and major company CEOs. We must also acknowledge that some things transcend sports rivalries. On Monday, Nov. 28, the world watched with horror as an OSU student carried out a knife attack on campus, injuring 11 people in the process. On that Monday, all of us were Ohio State

fans, praying for the safety and security of your university. That day, Buckeyes, you impressed everyone by the way in which you handled this atrocity — by your grace, courage and strength under the most unimaginable circumstance. Thank you for setting an example for the rest of us. And thank you for allowing me to write

Serious questions for President Drake I understand the state law allows open-carry — but I can’t reconcile you allowing a group of people on campus with guns when students themselves cannot have any guns, on campus, in any context or capacity. Explain?

What do I do as a student and instructor when I’m walking to the library to make copies and there is a large group of people with AK-47s?

Do you remember last week when one person was killed on campus, and it was by a gun?

Can we get an update on the victims of the knife attack? Or should we just take comfort knowing people are going to arm themselves to the teeth in our defense?

Whom do I call when I feel

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unsafe because people have guns while I’m reading a book in the quad?

I ask because I called the University Police and it turns out they are escorting the gunmen and women. Whom do they serve?

Whom do they protect?

What if the University Police suggest I’m having a mental-health issue rather than a personal safety issue?

Is it not mentally sound to be frightened when I am walking to a yoga class at the RPAC and, suddenly, GUNS? If I see other people with guns, and I feel scared or threatened, should I just call a therapist?

Do you have the number for a good therapist?

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Can I open carry my books or should I put them in my backpack?

Students are still very shaken from the violence of last Monday.

What do they do if shaken from the implied violence of this Monday?

Do you have the number for a good therapist?

What should I tell students and peers of color, LGBT, immigrants and refugees, students of so many religions and beliefs and backgrounds, when they are victims of hate crimes on campus? Do I tell them, “Don’t worry, there are white people with guns everywhere”?

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Do I get a free gun upon graduating?

Do the gun people get a discount at Sloopy’s? What do they do with their guns when they are eating cheeseburgers? Do they lean them against a column? Do they want fries with that?

I’m scared, because of guns — can I get a note for an extension on my finals?

Did you know the people with guns are telling students “We are protecting you from the terrorists”?

Do you recognize terrorism when you see it, President Drake?

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of the Year, first FBS player with 4,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing in a season — the pressure to win it all still looms for Watson.

Barrett, hungry for a chance to finally have his time to shine and lead his team, was asked about his accomplishments on Sunday, including being named first team all-Big Ten and Big Ten Quarterback of the Year, and how they might affect his play against Clemson.

The low-voiced quarterback

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kept his same calm composure he’s known for when he answered, and gave an answer in his trademark blunt style.

“I guess I don’t really think about it like that,” he said. “I think my main thing is to go out there and play my best. I think my best is pretty good — puts us in a place to win games.”yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing in a season — is impressive, the pressure to win it all has been present for Watson since he stepped onto campus.

Barrett, hungry for a chance to

finally have his time to shine and lead his team, was asked about his accomplishments on Sunday, including being named first team all-Big Ten and Big Ten quarterback of the year, and how they might affect his play against Clemson.

The low-voiced quarterback kept his same calm composure he’s known for when he answered, and gave an answer in his trademark style: blunty.

“I guess I don’t really think about it like that,” he said. “I think

ty’s “Performance Incentive Policy,” said Lyla Clerry, associate athletics director for compliance at Iowa. During their first five seasons, she said, coaches can earn up to 5 percent of their base salary if their team meets or exceeds a predetermined APR score. That score is calculated by taking the national and conference average for each sport.

After five years, when a coach’s contract is renegotiated, the opportunity to earn a bonus for APR or six-year graduation rate is added, Clerry said. There are, however, two exceptions to this policy.

For his only academic incentive, Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz, who has held his position since 1999, would receive $100,000 if the student-athletes achieve a graduation success rate of at least 80 percent, without the six-year time constraint. By contrast, if the Hawkeyes win eight games, which they did this season, Ferentz receives a $500,000 bonus.

The other exception is Iowa baseball coach Rick Heller, who, in addition to APR incentives, can earn $5,000 if his team has a federal graduation rate ranking in the top four for Big Ten baseball teams. Heller would receive a $50,000 bonus and 20 percent increase to his base salary of $155,000 if the Hawkeyes won the national championship.

Of the 18 contracts reviewed from Minnesota, 12 are under the athletic department’s standard incentive program for both academics and athletics. That academic bonus, according to a copy of the program provided to The Lantern, is $500 if the team has a “cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher at the conclusion of the academic year.”

In addition to the $500 for GPA achievements, Minnesota baseball coach John Anderson can earn up to $5,000 in APR bonuses if his team’s score is 990 or above.

Women’s basketball coach Marlene Stollings has GPA bonuses and APR bonuses, as well, but

her compensation ceiling is higher. She could earn a maximum of $30,000 in academic bonuses.

Even higher is the ceiling for Don Lucia, the men’s hockey coach. Lucia can earn up to $32,500 annually in APR and cumulative GPA bonuses. The case of Lucia reinforces a point Matt Wilson made about school-toschool and sport-to-sport variation.

“Some schools will have a basic template, and then they’ll fit numbers into it,” he said. “But in some cases, they may have a wrestling program that is considered on par with their football program, and that coach might have a different structure from the standpoint of added incentives compared to another wrestling coach in the same conference where the school doesn’t view that program at the same level.”

A little more than one in three coaches with academic incentives are linked to graduation rates, making it the least common of the in-class bonuses. Matt Wilson said some schools removed it from their “cache of academic incentives” after a 2010 decision from the Department of Education, which strengthened prohibitions against incentivizing certain academic feats.

The prohibitions, first instituted in 1992, had never been applied to athletics personnel, but there still was longstanding ambiguity.

The 2010 ruling only exacerbated it, Matt Wilson said. He and his research colleagues soon noticed a decline in academic incentives nationally, he explained. In November 2015, however, the prohibitions were lifted after two federal appeals court rulings found the Department of Education did not provide satisfactory reasoning for having them in place.

For some, no academic bonuses Wisconsin, Michigan State and Nebraska are the three Big Ten schools with no academic incentives included in the contracts reviewed by The Lantern.

Michigan State and Nebraska used to include some form of academic incentive, Matt Wilson recalled. When talking about the Department of Education’s 2010 ruling, he specifically mentioned those two programs as ones that removed incentives around the time of its announcement. He didn’t say for sure if the strengthened prohibitions were the impetus, and when asked for comment, Michigan State did not respond.

Nebraska provided the following statement: “We expect coaches to create a culture of academic and social success in his or her

my main thing is to go out there and play my best. I think my best is pretty good. Puts us in a place to win games.”

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If Meyer knows Clemson well, he knows the possibility of his defense creating key turnovers against Watson.

“It’s going to be a good matchup. Our secondary is very good,” Meyer said. “From everything I’m hearing, these are the three or four best receivers we’ll ever face …

That side of the ball is going to be a great matchup with their skill against ours.”

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with one of the most distinct incentive structures in the conference.

Though four of the 16 Maryland contracts reviewed have monetary academic bonuses — wrestling coach Kerry McCoy, women’s tennis coach Daria Panova, men’s lacrosse coach John Tillman and men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon — every coach will forfeit athletic bonuses if his or her team does not meet the NCAA’s APR “cut score,” which is currently 930.

Matt Wilson said he has seen this kind of structure in a few contracts at non-Big Ten schools, like Connecticut and San Diego.

“And what does that do? It allows the school to be able sit there and say, ‘We hold academics at a certain standard,’” he said. “‘It’s not just about athletics at our place, because our coaches can’t get their athletic bonuses unless their kids are doing the job in the classroom, which is the reason why they’re here.’”

How academics vary Each of the four schools offering academic incentives to every coach — Minnesota, Rutgers, Purdue and Iowa — does it slightly differently. The common theme is a uniform policy that every coach is subjected to, with a couple exceptions for particular sports.

At Purdue, each of the 13 of the 15 contracts reviewed incentivizes coaches for reaching graduation success rates and team cumulative GPA benchmarks. When The Lantern contacted the university for an interview request about its incentive policy, a Purdue spokesman declined to make its athletic director, Mike Bobinski, available because he was hired in August.

Purdue’s two outlier contracts — for women’s golf coach Devon Brouse and men’s swimming and diving coach Daniel Ross, who is in his 31st year — were signed in 1998 and 1999, respectively.

When a coach is hired at Iowa, he or she is subject to the universi-

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Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio, right, during his post-game handshake with Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz after Iowa’s 37-6 win at Kinnick Stadium Oct. 30, 2010.

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Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh looks on after the last touchdown during the game on Nov. 26 at Ohio Stadium. The Buckeyes won 30-27. role as coach at Nebraska, and have hired talented support staffs to guide student-athletes in their journey. Incentivizing non-athletic aspects could encourage coaches to direct a student to a path that is not in the overall best interest of the student-athlete. For these reasons we have chosen to focus bonus opportunities on athletic achievement, and empower student-athletes to dictate their own academic and social goals.”

Wisconsin did not respond to a request for comment regarding its policy.

The only contract at Michigan with an academic incentive was Jim Harbaugh’s, the football coach. Hired in December 2014, Harbaugh will receive “an amount not to exceed $150,000” if his team’s APR score is above 960.

Matt Wilson pointed to Michigan as a possible example of the differing expectations across universities. To explain, he also brought up the contract of Geno Auriemma, the women’s basketball coach at Connecticut, which is in the American Athletic Conference. Under Auriemma’s leadership, the Huskies have advanced to the Final Four nine straight seasons, winning the title six times.

Auriemma doesn’t get a bonus for making the NCAA tournament, Matt Wilson said. It’s the expectation there. By contrast, each of the 12 women’s basketball contracts reviewed by The Lantern included a monetary bonus for making the tournament.

And so Michigan, widely considered one of the top academic schools in the Big Ten, might not feel the need to incentivize academics, Matt Wilson conjectured.

“They might sit there and say, ‘We’re an academic institution to begin with and so we don’t give bonuses for academics,’” he said. “ ‘It’s what the kids are supposed to do.’”

Contracts built for winning There is, of course, no right conclusion to draw from the way

universities should craft coaching incentives. The distinct nature of each contract negotiation, each university’s expectations and each particular team’s track record make a blanket policy unrealistic.

Despite his continued research on the topic, Matt Wilson does recognize the reality of the situation at hand.

“Obviously in today’s day and age, coaches have to win,” he said. “The alumni base, university, they want a winning program.

The glamour comes from getting bowl eligible for a football team.

The glamour comes from winning games. The glamour isn’t coming from, and it’s not publicized, from a student getting a 3.8 in the classroom.”

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OSU focused on preparedness and intensity versus FAU “The easiest thing to do is lose. That’s simple. The hard thing is winning, and getting yourself ready to play.”

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MAX MILLER Lantern reporter miller.8000@osu.edu Ohio State, coming off of a win over Fairleigh Dickinson, is off to a hot 7-1 start this season. Jae’Sean Tate and Trevor Thompson both recorded a double-double in the victory. Tuesday night they take on the Florida Atlantic Owls at home, who will surely come to play.

Even with a win after a tough road loss, OSU coach Thad Matta was not overly pleased with his team’s play as a whole.

“It was obviously a learning moment in terms of not maybe being completely ready to go and ready to sustain the type of effort you need not only physically, but mentally,” he said. “Those are things that as we talked about after the game and we talked about yesterday, you have a certain job to do as a basketball player, and that’s getting yourself ready to

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OSU senior forward Marc Loving (left), junior Trevor Thompson (middle) and sophomore guard C.J. Jackson defend Fairleigh Dickinson junior guard Darian Anderson in the Buckeyes win over the Knights. play.”

FAU is currently 2-5 on the season and will be hungry to upset the Buckeyes in Columbus.

Though they are off to a slow start, the Owls have some talented players who could make the Buckeyes pay if they are sleeping on the job.

Solid guard play and selflessness are two key characteristics FAU brings to the table.

FAU redshirt junior center Ronald Delph is off to a great start

this year, leading the Owls in points and rebounds. His consistent play could cause problems for the Buckeyes after giving up large quantities of points to the leading scorers of their respective opponents on multiple occasions.

The Buckeyes will need big contributions from freshman center Micah Potter and junior center Trevor Thompson in order to limit Delph. Thompson, the team’s leader in blocks, has been a force

in an off-the-bench role, and registered five blocks, while consistently causing opposing players to alter their shots under the hoop.

Thompson said it’s been the guidance of new OSU student assistant coach Greg Oden that has helped him defend in the paint with such prowess. Oden, a former center for the Buckeyes, helped lead OSU to the NCAA finals were the team lost to Florida, and was a No. 1 overall pick in the

2007 NBA draft.

“It’s been a blessing, honestly,” he said. “I don’t think he realizes how much of an impact he has on me.”

Guard play is one of the best assets for FAU, starting with their number one facilitator Nick Rutherford. His 6.3 assists per game are the most amongst both teams and surely could pose a problem for the Buckeyes Tuesday night.

OSU junior forward Jae’Sean Tate is shooting an outstanding 60 percent from the field. The leading scorer so far for the Buckeyes in 2016, Tate has recording multiple double-doubles, including a 12 point, 12 rebound performance against Fairleigh Dickinson.

JaQuan Lyle is the go-to point guard for the Buckeyes, with just under 6 assists per game. Lyle has struggled in terms of turnovers this season, a problem that the Buckeyes have been trying to limit this year. Keeping the ball away from FAU could be a key, but post play could be the more important aspect for the Buckeyes.

Matta, on the other hand, is more concerned with his team’s will power to recover from the loss to Virginia last week.

“The easiest thing to do is lose,” he said. “That’s simple. The hard thing is winning, and getting yourself ready to play.”

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as well as swimming and diving, one contract was provided for the overseer of the broader program.

At the University of Michigan, for example, only the contract of Michael Bottom, the head coach for men’s and women’s swimming and diving, was reviewed.

The types of academic incentives The most common types of academic incentives generally are based on three measures: grade point average, graduation rates and the Academic Progress Report.

The APR calculation was created by the NCAA in 2003 to measure athlete retention and eligibility. A score of 1,000 would signal every athlete remained eligible and came back to school.

To be eligible to participate in NCAA championships, “teams must earn a 930 four-year average APR or a 940 average over the most recent two years,” according to the NCAA’s website.

OSU’s academic incentives are based on annual cumulative team GPA. The three coaches have the same benchmarks and compensation.

An average between 3.0 to 3.29 would result in the coach receiving $50,000. The bonus becomes $100,000 if the figure falls between 3.3 and 3.49, while the payment is $150,000 for an average of 3.5 or above.

The uniformity was purposeful, Vannatta said.

“We looked at that intentionally and critically,” she said. “It was important to us that it was the same.”

The schools with the most simi-

“Incentivizing non-athletic aspects could encourage coaches to direct a student to a path that is not in the overall best interest of the student-athlete.”

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lar academic-to-athletic-incentive ratio to OSU are Indiana, Illinois and and Maryland. Though they have substantially fewer varsity sports compared with OSU, they offer academic incentives to comparable teams, both in the number of coaches who have those incentives and the sports which have them.

At Indiana, the only difference is, in addition to football and both basketball teams, baseball coach Chris Lemonis has both academic and athletic incentives. His academic incentive is for annual cumulative team GPA. The most Lemonis can earn is $25,000 if the team’s GPA is 3.3 or above. The smallest bonus he could earn is $13,000 for a 2.7 GPA. Indiana women’s basketball coach Teri Moren’s academic incentive is also based on GPA, but there are differences for Tom Crean and the recently fired Kevin Wilson, Indianan’s men’s basketball coach and the football coach, respectively. In addition to cumulative GPA, Kevin Wilson and Crean were eligible for bonuses if their teams obtain certain APR scores and graduation success rates.

If each team were to meet the highest listed benchmark for the three incentive categories —

GPA, graduation success rate and APR — the maximum Kevin Wilson and Crean could each earn is $55,000. If the Hoosiers won the Big Ten Tournament, for comparison, Crean would earn $50,000.

Winning Big Ten Coach of the Year would equal a $50,000 payout for Kevin Wilson.

Minnesota football coach Tracy Claeys and men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino are the only other coaches who have incentives for all three academic incentives: GPA, APR and graduation success rates.

The programs at Illinois with academic and athletic incentives match OSU. Like Meyer, football coach Lovie Smith, who is in his first season at Illinois, is compensated for cumulative team GPA. Smith’s maximum academic bonus is $50,000 per semester for a 3.0 or above, while a team average of 2.75 to 2.99 would result in a $25,000 payout and $12,500 for an average between 2.5 to 2.74.

Underscoring the points about the distinct nature of individual contracts made by Matt Wilson, the sports researcher at Stetson University, and Vannatta, OSU’s athletics lawyer, Smith’s predecessor, Tim Beckman, did not have any academic incentives in his contract at Illinois, according

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The reverse happened when Maryland recently made a coaching change. Current head coach and former Michigan assistant D.J. Durkin does not have a monetary academic incentive in his contract, but Randy Edsall, who Durkin replaced in December

2015, did have a compensation package that included such bonuses.

“It’s a living document,” Matt Wilson said. “So it’s all about the particular circumstances of that hire at a particular time.”

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“When you’re calling them student-athletes, but incentivizing the coaches for athletestudent, that’s kind of a shift in the paradigm.”

Matt Wilson Associate professor of sport business

letic incentives, but not everybody gives academic incentives, and that brings up a big question: ‘Why?’” Matt Wilson, an associate professor of sport business at Stetson University, in Florida, and a leading researcher of collegiate coaching incentives, told The Lantern. “When you’re calling them student-athletes, but incentivizing the coaches for athlete-student, that’s kind of a shift in the paradigm.”

The reasoning behind the way each school creates compensation packages is far from simple, said Julie Vannatta, senior associate general counsel for athletics at OSU. “A lot of things go into the compensation packages for coaches, and there are a lot of factors that go into that,” she said. “Bonuses and incentives are one element of a coach’s compensation package.”

Wilson agreed and cited some

3 schools offer no monetary academic incentives.

4 schools offer monetary academic incentives to all coaches.

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5 schools offer monetary academic incentives to a handful of their coaches.

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of the factors that could play a part in crafting compensation packages, such as what individual coaches negotiate for, the past success of a team — both academically and athletically — and, in some cases, interpretation of laws.

“No two contracts will be the same,” said Wilson, who has published two papers on coaching incentives since 2011, with a third currently in the peer-review process. “It’s a school-by-school thing, and it drills all the way down to a sport-by-sport thing.”

The contracts examined for this article were obtained from the 12 universities using public-records requests. Since Northwestern and Penn State are exempt from freedom of information laws, their compensation packages are not included in the comparative anal-

All 234 have athletic incentives

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This additional compensation was earned by the coaches for the on-field performance of their student-athletes. But, as the label applies, the athletes are students first.

Contract-guaranteed bonuses for athletic performance are the norm across the Big Ten, and college athletics in general. However, a months-long Lantern analysis of 234 head-coaching contracts from 12 Big Ten universities showed academic bonuses are largely absent. Depending on the way academic bonuses are structured, athletic bonuses often can be worth more.

Some coaches do get bonuses for in-class performance. Though it’s less than the national-championship bonus, Meyer can make $150,000 if his team earns at least a cumulative 3.5 grade-point average.

Nearly two out of every three obtained contracts do not contain academic incentives for student-athletes’ in-class achievements.

Meyer and O’Neill are two of 86 coaches whose contracts include both incentives.

Chryst’s agreement is one of 148 that include only athletic bonuses.

These findings — that coaches’ contracts are far more likely to have bonuses for on-field performance than for in-class performance — mirror the findings of similar academic studies of coaching incentives and, in the age of commercialization in collegiate sports, further complicate the use of the term “student-athlete.”

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At OSU, three of the 26 contracts reviewed have both academic and athletic incentives: Meyer’s, men’s basketball coach Thad Matta’s and women’s basketball coach Kevin McGuff’s.

Vannatta said the sports at OSU that have academic incentives “developed years ago.” Though she said she cannot recall specifically how those three were decided upon, Vannatta offered likely reasons.

“I do know that those sports are under a lot of scrutiny, and there’s a lot of pressure on those sports,” she said. “There are some teams where we’re trying to raise the academic achievement of student-athletes on that team, and some teams have very high GPAs and don’t need any incentive. Those were teams that were decided years ago that academic incentives made sense for them.”

Three schools — Michigan State, Nebraska and Wisconsin — have no monetary academic incentives in reviewed contracts.

Minnesota, Rutgers, Purdue and Iowa, on the other hand, offer monetary academic incentives to every head coach.

The remaining five schools — Ohio State, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Maryland — offer them to only a select few coaches. All 234 contracts include athletic bonuses.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Jincy Dunne, a head above competition HANNAH SMITH Lantern reporter smith.10123@osu.edu When redshirt freshman defenseman Jincy Dunne signed to play for Ohio State women’s hockey in 2015, she had a resume brimming with on-ice accomplishments and was looking ahead to a promising future at OSU. A member of the U.S. Women’s National Hockey team for multiple years, Dunne was set to represent the U.S. at the U18 Women’s World Championships that same year. There was nowhere to go but up, until Dunne encountered the biggest roadblock of her career.

Shortly after scoring the winning goal for the U.S. in the gold medal game of the world championships, Dunne skated head-on into boards, resulting in the worst concussion of her career. The injury forced her to sit out for the 2015-16 season, putting her time with OSU women’s hockey on hold.

“It was hard. Obviously, I wanted to be a part of the team, just be with the girls and everything they were going through,” Dunne said.

“But in the same breath, I was trying to look at it as a chance. I’m a big believer that everything happens for a reason, so I was just really trying to take a step back and

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Ohio State women’s hockey defenseman Jincy Dunne surveys the ice trying to find an open skater against Minnesota on Oct. 21, 2016. learn about where I was and what position I was in.”

After a challenging offseason, Dunne, who is often referred to as the Jack Eichel of women’s college hockey, has returned to the ice at full strength, and is looking to prove herself as a tough competitor and dedicated teammate.

“I know coming back from an injury … it’s just frustrating at first,” Dunne said. “So really (I’m) just focusing on trying to be a

good teammate and trying to stay positive through all of it.”

Dunne has been quick to make an impact on OSU women’s hockey, playing in every game so far in the 2016-17 season. She is tied for second in points on the team, with two goals and seven assists.

OSU coach Nadine Muzerall said that Dunne’s work ethic both on and off the ice has helped elevate the Buckeyes’ overall intensity .

“She is an outstanding, solid defenseman,” Muzerall said.

“Her vision on the ice is always two steps ahead of everyone else, so her playmaking is sensational.

She also has incredible hands in tight areas.”

Despite being ranked near the top of the roster, Dunne remains humbled and focused on her one true goal: playing the sport that she loves.

“I really try to go out there and

just be fearless and not worry about making mistakes or being as good as I once was, but instead to really just enjoy it, have fun, live in the moment and do my best,” Dunne said.

Her dedication to hockey and OSU doesn’t go unnoticed by her teammates, especially sophomore forward Maddy Field, who said Dunne’s encouragement and leadership keep the team going through tough times “She knows that she’s a very big player on our team,” Field said.

“She’s very calm and collected on the ice and she knows that she’s kind of like the quarterback back there. She knows how to calm us down and get us pumped up right.”

Even with all the praise and accomplishments, Dunne isn’t too caught up in becoming a decorated player while at OSU. She said she’s more concerned with enjoying her time here and be the best teammate she can be.

“I just want to be a part of it,” Dunne said. “I just want people to remember me as someone who really helped build something and who really cared and put her heart and soul into the program and her teammates, and really just tried to leave this program better than she found it.”

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Barrett and Watson: Different paths, same goal NICK MCWILLIAMS Sports Editor mcwilliams.66@osu.edu Ohio State and Clemson fans have known how dynamic the starting quarterback for their favorite teams has been since they first suited up. On Dec. 31, the nation will get to watch the playmaking ability of both OSU redshirt junior J.T. Barrett and Clemson junior Deshaun Watson.

Both players have a similar skill set behind them. While Barrett and Watson have the ability to tuck it and run when the pocket collapses or carry an offense with their arms, each has their own background and past that drives them forward.

Barrett was a young Longhorns fan, who had aspirations of one day playing under then-Texas coach Mack Brown in the burnt orange uniforms beloved by Austin natives. Watson, hailing from Gainesville, Georgia, is a former five-star recruit who drew interest from the likes of Alabama, Auburn, Florida State, Clemson and even Ohio State.

Barrett was thrust into the starting role during his redshirt freshman year with the Buckeyes after then-quarterback Braxton Miller injured his shoulder before the start of the 2014 season. Watson, on the other hand, received playing time in his freshman season and was named the starter late in

September 2014.

Both have been discussed as possible Heisman Trophy winners in the past, and even drew some eyes this season as the best player in the nation. While Barrett has seemingly dropped out of the race following a few disappointing performances, Watson is still very much in the running.

“I don’t have a vote, but if I had one, it’d be the easiest vote ever,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said on Sunday. “He represents everything you could possibly want in a Heisman. He’s made college football better in his three years.”

Barrett was a front-runner for the 2014 Heisman Trophy, but broke his ankle against Michigan, which ended his season. He was forced to watch from the sideline, as Cardale Jones and Ezekiel Elliott led OSU to an improbable national championship.

Barrett had his chance to finish the game against the Wolverines this season, and capitalized for a 30-27 double overtime win. He ran for 125 yards and a score, and threw for 124 yards and an interception. Although he is just a two years removed from his injury, he said he tries not to dwell on it too often.

“I don’t go back to it often, if at all,” Barrett said prior to the Michigan game. “It’s one of those things, it happened, I grew from it, learned from it, got better from it, mentally more than anything. So

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OSU redshirt junior quarterback J.T. Barrett (16) runs into the endzone for a touchdown during the first overtime of the Buckeyes’ 30-27 win over Michigan on Nov. 26.

I guess I don’t revisit that time.”

For both players, their roads to starting in the Fiesta Bowl have been different. However, both have the ultimate goal of bringing home the hardware to their respective school, but each has a different reason for wanting to win.

Watson has been the answer for Clemson since Tajh Boyd left for the NFL draft, but the 6-foot-3 signal caller has yet to win it all, or bring home college football’s biggest individual award. Although his long list of achievements is impressive — All-American, Atlantic Coast Conference Player FOOTBALL CONTINUES ON 9

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Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) scrambles a for 4-yard touchdown run during the second half against North Carolina State on Oct. 15.

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Meyer knows challenge Clemson presents JACOB MYERS Assistant Sports Editor myers.1669@osu.edu Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer watched the College Football Playoff show on Sunday afternoon from the comforts of a maternity ward at Riverside Methodist Hospital just north of campus, surrounded by family, including daughter Nicki, son-inlaw Corey Dennis, and newly born grandson, Troy.

When Meyer saw the graphic of his team at No. 3 in the final College Football Playoff rankings, the team that matched up with the Buckeyes caught his eye. The No. 2 Clemson Tigers, a team Meyer knows a lot about, will play OSU in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, on New Year’s Eve. In his fifth year as the head coach of the Scarlet and Gray, Meyer has lost only five times in 66 games. Clemson and coach Dabo Swinney are responsible for one of those losses.

“I know their team very well because I know their coach,” Meyer said. “Excellent staff, excellent head coach, and they’re loaded …

We know them, have a lot of re-

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The Tigers defeated the Buckeyes in the Discover Orange Bowl in 2014, handing Meyer only his second loss at the time with OSU. Swinney has won at least 10 games each of the past six seasons at Clemson for the first time in school history. Last season, the Tigers were 14-0 before losing to the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2016 CFP National Championship game. This season, Clemson returns to the playoff as Atlantic Coast Conference champions still

led by arguably the most talented group of playmakers on offense.

“The skill set on offense is over the top. They’re all NFL players,” Meyer said. “They have one of the top, maybe the top or top two or three players in America in Deshaun Watson. They go fast.

They’re creative on offense.”

Watson, the junior quarterback from Gainesville, Georgia, has been the Tigers’ starting signal caller for three seasons and is at the heart of the Heisman Trophy race. Watson completed more

than 67 percent of his passes and has thrown for 3,914 yards and 37 touchdowns. He has also run for six scores and 529 yards.

Once recruited by Meyer, Watson is also good friends with redshirt junior quarterback J.T. Barrett. The two exchanged text messages on Sunday when they saw they would be playing each other. Barrett said he told Watson, “I’ll see you in Arizona,” and Watson replied “All right, let’s get it.”

First team All-Big Ten defensive lineman, redshirt junior Tyquan Lewis and the rest of the defensive front will likely key on Watson and try to prevent big plays through the air and on the ground. “(He has) great composure.

Very good quarterback,” Lewis said. “(He) can run on the ground, throw the ball, get in the air, tight ends and stuff like that. That’s just from what I saw (Saturday) night.”

But if there’s one knock on Watson, it’s his inability to avoid costly turnovers.

OSU’s defense has been a world-beaters in the passing game in 2016. The Silver Bullets are responsible for 19 interceptions, including a school record seven

interceptions returned for touchdowns. Redshirt sophomore safety Malik Hooker is responsible for three by himself.

Along with Watson, the defense will be facing possibly the most dominant and talented receiving corps in the country. Redshirt junior wide receiver Mike Williams, junior Artavis Scott and senior tight end Jordan Leggett are three of the many targets in the passing game that make the Clemson offense so intimidating. Williams is currently rated as the No. 1 wide receiver prospect for the 2017 NFL draft by CBS Sports. Scott is also in the top 10 receivers and Leggett checks in at No. 4 on the list.

In several points this season, OSU has relied on its defense to spark a less-than-stellar offensive performance. Against Michigan, a touchdown by Hooker and an interception in deep Michigan territory by sophomore linebacker Jerome Baker kept OSU in a game that eventually ended up being the reason the Buckeyes will face the Tigers in the Valley of the Sun on Dec. 31 for a spot in the College Football Playoff National Championship.

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