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Buckeyes find success, missing pieces 2 businesses set to open at Gateway ERIC SEGER Sports editor seger.25@osu.edu

Toughness. Camaraderie. Leadership.

After a 71-70 overtime loss to Penn State Jan. 29, those were three things Ohio State senior guard Lenzelle Smith Jr. said were missing from his team.

It appears the Buckeyes have found them, just in time to take on their archrival — No. 10 Michigan — Tuesday at the Schottenstein Center.

“Definitely my senior year, this is not what I had in mind,” Smith Jr. said after the loss to the Nittany Lions during an emotional postgame interview. “But I’ll never give up on my team, and I know that when we get a cause and we get hungry for wins, and we stick together and we become a team again, I’ll take us against anybody in the country. But right now we gotta find what we’re missing.”

OSU (19-5, 6-5) seems to have found what it’s been searching for, currently in the midst of a threegame winning streak after beating Purdue (14-10, 4-7), 67-49, Saturday at home.

Since the calendar flipped to February, the Buckeyes haven’t lost, beating both then-No. 14 Wisconsin and No. 17 Iowa on the road before taking care of business against the Boilermakers.

After the win, Smith Jr.’s attitude was quite the opposite of what it had been that night in late January.

“We’ve been winning. Simple as that. When you win, I feel good. When we lose, I feel bad,” Smith Jr. said with a smile.

Smith Jr. had been in a shooting slump as of late, shooting just 32.9 percent in the eight games since OSU’s 15-0 start to the season and before Saturday. That changed Saturday, when he poured in 16 points and shot 4-7 from beyond the arc against the Boilermakers.

“It definitely opens things up for us,” OSU coach Thad Matta said after the win about Smith Jr. making shots. “We want Lenzelle to take those shots when he’s open. He hit a big pull-up in the first half when they ran him off the line (and) he shot faked. But seeing him play like a senior, honestly I expect our seniors to play like that at Ohio State because they usually don’t make it that long.”

The good vibes have spread throughout the team in the last week and a half, and the team seems to be playing some of its best ball of the season heading into a showdown with Michigan.

“Any time you can get wins, it adds confidence to

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SHELBY LUM / Photo editor

Junior center Amir Williams dunks the ball during a game against Purdue Feb. 8 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU won, 67-49.

the team, so that’s a great thing for us,” junior forward LaQuinton Ross — who scored a game-high 17 points against Purdue — said after the win Saturday. “I think we play a lot better when everybody’s got confidence.

It’s good getting a win before we go play Michigan.

“It’s a great feeling. Winning cures all, like I said before, and that’s what I’ve been doing lately. I think everybody’s been feeling a lot better.”

It wasn’t just Smith Jr. who hit outside shots against the Boilermakers, as Ross, junior guard Shannon Scott and junior forward Sam Thompson also combined to hit four 3-pointers. That team effort helped secure the win, and Purdue coach Matt Painter said OSU is still a team to be reckoned with despite the struggles it endured last month.

“They’re a good team, and you’re going to go

through some tough times in this league,” Painter said after the game. “They’ll be there at the end.

They’ll be good in the NCAA Tournament.”

Even with three straight conference victories, OSU still sits fourth in the Big Ten standings, three games behind conference leaders Michigan State and Michigan. The Buckeyes will have a chance to make up more ground against the Wolverines (17-6, 9-2) Tuesday, who — despite losing on the road against Iowa Saturday — are now tied for the conference lead because the Spartans lost a thriller to Wisconsin Sunday.

“Pretty sure my team’s feeling good right now, but tomorrow’s a different day. Everybody’s probably

OSU Dining Services’ waste minimizing efforts challenged

MADISON CURTIS Design editor curtis.399@osu.edu Ohio State Dining Services has ways of repurposing leftover food on campus, but some employees feel more could be done to curb the waste.

Student Life spokesman Dave Isaacs said demand patterns most heavily dictate how much food is produced each day. Food in each dining facility is produced based on what Dining Services feels can be sold.

Not all of the food that is prepared each day is consumed, however.

There are three major ways that the surplus of food in the dining facilities on campus each day is salvaged, Isaacs said.

At the end of each day, uneaten food is donated to food banks, repurposed for use at a later date or pulped.

“We donate a significant amount to the Mid-Ohio Foodbank. We also repurpose the food that we can. If there are ways that are healthy and safe, we can reuse a product that perhaps was not needed on one day but can be used for something else,” Isaacs said.

Pulper machines on campus can also turn uneaten food into pulp by shredding leftover food and removing the liquid from it.

There are currently three pulpers in use on campus: one at Kennedy Commons and two at Ohio Union, with plans to install a fourth pulper in North Commons, Isaacs said.

After the liquid has been extracted from the waste, the pulp travels through pipes into vats that are emptied every 10 to 14 days. The pulp is

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Senior guard Lenzelle Smith Jr. (32) fires a shot over a defender during a game against Purdue Feb. 8 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU won, 67-49.

Two new businesses are slated to join South Campus Gateway’s ranks, even after recent closures have left some storefronts vacant.

After at least four tenants moved out of the area within a span of 10 months, two new businesses have recently signed leases — Devoted and Oxley’s Tavern and Grillery.

Devoted, an apparel store that will sell products from local artisans and is a branch off of the same owners’ Simply Vague stores, is set to move into the space Ohio Art League previously occupied at 1552 N. High St. Oxley’s, meanwhile, is set to move into the spot Kildare’s Irish Pub once filled at 1576 N. High St., Amanda Hoffsis, president of Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment, said in an email Thursday.

Campus Partners is a private nonprofit corporation that works on community planning in the Ohio State campus area alongside OSU and the city of Columbus.

South Campus Gateway LLC is a subtenant of Campus Partners.

Hoffsis added those might not be the only announcements.

“We are working hard on some additional deals,” Hoffsis said.

Hoffsis said in an email Friday Devoted’s lease was signed earlier that week, about two months before it’s set to start moving into the space. “(Devoted) will begin working on the space in early March and we anticipate a quick turnaround since the space is already so functional for them,” Hoffsis said.

Andrea Archibald is an owner of Simply Vague at the Mall at Tuttle Crossing and Polaris Fashion Place. She confirmed the new store, Devoted, is looking to move in soon after it starts work on the space.

“We’re looking at the last week of March or the first week of April, we aren’t quite sure yet,” she said. “We haven’t gotten the date that we’ll be taking possession yet.”

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’Shoe construction to cost additional $500K HANNAH CHENETSKI Lantern reporter chenetski.4@osu.edu The Ohio Stadium is set to receive waterproofing and concrete repairs this summer, a project that has increased in cost by $500,000 since its approval by the Board of Trustees in 2012.

Repairs are set to include removing and replacing the existing waterproofing membrane, expansion joint seals and sealants — which are in place to relieve stress on building materials caused by factors like temperature changes and wind — and repairing some concrete in the stadium.

The project has two parts, athletics spokesman Dan Wallenberg said in an email, and an issue was discovered during the first part.

“During phase one, after removing the existing waterproofing membrane, it was learned that additional work would be required to level the surface of the concrete to ensure the performance and guarantee of the new membrane,” Wallenberg said.

The additional cost of that work brought the new total of the project to $4.8 million from $4.3 million, slated to come from athletics department reserves, Wallenberg said.

A construction project on the stadium during Spring Semester last year moved the 2013 OSU football Spring Game to Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati. That project, which cost $4.3 million, was a routine maintenance project that occurs every 10 to 15 years, involving recoating the concrete in order to waterproof it and repairing the wear and tear on the concrete and construction joints.

Michael Denney, a third-year in chemical engineering, said despite his initial reaction to the cost increase, he thinks the price tag is worth it.

“When I initially saw that the re-evaluation elevated the cost (of) the stadium repairs $500,000 I was shocked,” he said.

“But the more I thought about it, the less stressed I was about it. Actually I’m glad that in their re-evaluation of the stadium that they caught that they would need to

SHELBY LUM / Photo editor

Ohio Stadium during an OSU football game against Indiana Nov. 23. Ohio Stadium is set to receive waterproofing and concrete repairs this summer. make additional repairs. The ‘Shoe has been here forever it seems and we are obligated as a university and student body to take care of it.”

Denney also said it’s “imperative” that the infrastructure is maintained and sound in order to accommodate game attendees.

The current project isn’t the only one in the works at the stadium.

New seating and lighting are also expected to be completed in time for the start of the 2014 football season.

That project is set to cost the Department of Athletics $8.9 million, Wallenberg said.

Construction is expected to be completed by August, Wallenberg said, in time for the first home football game Sept.

6 against Virginia Tech.

Nearly 2,500 student seats are slated be moved from the north end zone C-deck to the south stands. The project’s completion

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’Shoe repairs by the numbers

Total cost:

$4.8M

an increase of

$500K since the Board of Trustees approved the project in 2012.

The project is set to be paid for with money from athletics department reserves.

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campus Professors, students weigh merits of studying music ALEXIS HILL Lantern reporter hill.1241@osu.edu Though studying music and listening to music while taking tests were both recently shown to improve students’ grades, some students and professors at Ohio State said they’d need to know more before they start blasting Beethoven.

Listening to music while taking an exam could help students raise their grades, while those who study music were found to have better grades across the board, according to recent studies published by Behavioural Brain Research.

Four researchers published a study in May 2013 that showed playing music was correlated with students being able to handle tests under stressful conditions longer and perform better. The study looked at 64 fifth-year high school students split into two groups, one of which listened to calm music and the other of which listened to attention-drawing music while answering 12 scientific multiple choice questions.

The same researchers published a study in late 2013 that showed students studying music earned better grades in all subjects. It looked at students in a secondary school and compared those who took

(Playing music is) an easy way to engage students’ brains, wake them up and establish a signal that class is about to begin.

Mark Risser Graduate teaching associate in the Department of Statistics at OSU music classes to those who did not, analyzing their grades in all of their classes over three years.

OSU School of Music director Richard Blatti said musicians tend to excel in their careers and studies for many reasons, but added many musicians proved their academic aptitude before going through any musical training.

“To say that musicians do well in school because they study music is not a conclusion which stands up to scientific scrutiny,” Blatti said.

David Huron, a music professor, said there needs to be more research done on the topic of how much musical training makes a significant difference.

He said there is currently no proof of correlation versus causation in the matter, which can be demonstrated by another example: while there are strong

correlations between death by drowning and eating ice cream, that doesn’t tell the whole story.

“Eating ice cream doesn’t cause people to drown. Instead, they both have a common cause, namely warm summer days. Warm summer days encourage people to go swimming and also to eat ice cream. One doesn’t cause the other,” Huron said.

Huron said similarly, students playing musical instruments won’t necessarily excel grade-wise.

There are other factors studies should examine, such as how much time a student practices an instrument versus how much time a student studies.

As far as encouraging professors to play music during exams, Huron said that could pose a problem because not everyone likes the same kinds of music.

Justin Hanf, a fourth-year in education, plays snare drums for the OSU Athletic Band and said he likes listening to music while walking between classes.

“I feel it helps me relax and focus more before my class,” Hanf said.

Hanf said the study’s findings about students who play a musical instrument performing better in school are accurate in his experience.

“I feel like (playing an instrument) has had an impact on my grades,” he said.

Mark Risser, a graduate teaching associate in the

SMOKING BAN at Ohio State OSU to continue asking dorm residents ‘Do you smoke?’

QING DAI Lantern reporter dai.133@osu.edu Though Ohio State has gone tobaccofree, students planning to live on campus for the 2014-15 academic year will still be asked whether they smoke.

Students who plan to live on campus have to complete a housing contract with OSU, where they can indicate their roommate preferences and answer questions about their own living habits.

One of the questions asks whether a student smokes, which Toni Greenslade-Smith, the director of Housing Administration in the Office of Student Life, said is an attempt to separate smokers from nonsmokers.

“As a rule, we do not assign (a) smoker and nonsmoker to the same room,” GreensladeSmith said in an email. “We have a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ question, ‘Do you smoke?’ which will help us to assign nonsmokers with nonsmokers and smokers with smokers.”

Abi Green, a third-year in political science, said she agrees with that policy.

“It is OK to ask, because it make more sense to put two smokers in a room together as supposed to a smoker and nonsmoker,” Green said.

Dining from 1A then hauled to a facility where it is converted into a renewable energy source for Franklin County, Isaacs said.

OSU Dining Services, which has a yearly budget of $55 million for all OSU campuses, does not receive tax breaks for the food donations, and there is currently no information on how much the pulping process costs, Isaacs said in an email.

Even with the efforts in place to prevent food waste, some Dining Services employees said they feel more could be done to avoid tossing an excess of food at the end of the day.

One Dining Services employee, who wished to remain anonymous because of his employment, said more food could be donated when dining halls close each night.

“More food could definitely be saved. At the end of the day, (the dining halls) will throw away full bins of food like mac and cheese that could definitely be donated to a charity or soup

Others, though, don’t think it makes sense to keep the question when smoking isn’t supposed to be an option on campus anymore.

“If you cannot smoke anywhere, why have the option to pick if you smoke or not?” said Todd Packard, a second-year in engineering.

Kristen Bjerke, a second-year in psychology, said as an occasional smoker, she thinks she marked on her housing request before freshman year that she was a nonsmoker, and as a result, she was assigned to a roommate who was a nonsmoker.

“Usually I go outside (to smoke),” she said.

She added that she used to “run down the stairs to go … have a cigarette” because there was no tobacco-free policy at the time.

The campus-wide tobacco ban went into effect Jan. 1 in order to promote healthier life choices among students, faculty, staff and guests of OSU. The campus-wide ban was announced in 2013, and was set to take effect Aug. 1. In August, however, university officials said the ban would not be enforced until 2014.

The ban includes cigarettes, tobacco chew, snuff and e-cigarettes.

Student Life spokesman Dave Isaacs said in an email that students were not allowed to smoke in the residence halls even before the ban went into place.

“Nothing changes in the housing contract.

Students can still request to be assigned with a smoker, or a nonsmoker, but they aren’t, and haven’t been, allowed to smoke in the building,” Isaacs said. “Now the policy (is) campuswide, but that doesn’t change anything for the residence halls.”

Frank Atkinson, a first-year in business, said he thinks people are still going to smoke on campus.

“I really do not think (the ban) changes anything,” Atkinson said.

Atkinson said it is important for students to have the option to declare if they are a smoker or nonsmoker, because it could help individuals decide if they would be a good match.

Greenslade-Smith agreed that even with the ban, the question is necessary in the housing contract.

“We know that there are students who continue to smoke and while they cannot do it on campus, they may still have the smell of smoke on their clothes,” Greenslade-Smith said.

Bjerke said it’s good to give students the option if they’re strongly against the smell of smoke.

“If it really bothers someone … they should have the option to live with nonsmokers,” Bjerke said.

kitchen,” said the male, first-year finance student, who works at Morrill Traditions.

He also said he doesn’t think demand patterns are always taken into account when food is being produced.

“The bread always gets thrown out at the end of the day because no one eats any of the rolls.

There’s definitely stuff that no one ever eats but (it) continues to be made,” he said.

Other employees disagreed and said the amount of waste isn’t a problem.

“There isn’t really a lot of waste unless there’s a mess up where we made too much of something or made something wrong. When that happens, someone at work usually eats the food.

If no one eats the food, it gets thrown away,” said Ben Wilson, an Oxley’s By the Numbers employee and a first-year in marketing.

OSU’s Undergraduate Student Government works with Dining Services to help diminish waste as well, said DaVonti Haynes, a secondyear in public affairs and USG deputy director for on-campus issues of student affairs. In addition

to the leftover food donated to the Mid-Ohio Foodbank each day, USG sponsors a program called Dare to Care, which lets students use remaining blocks in the last two weeks of each semester to buy non-perishable food from the three convenience stores or Pizza and Delivery, more commonly known as PAD, on campus.

That food is then donated to the food bank at the end of the semester, Haynes said.

The Morrill Traditions employee said he still thinks more could be done to donate food, though.

“The dining halls do a decent job of saving food but I feel like they could do something else with a lot of the food that isn’t used. They could definitely donate more to a charity that needs (the) food,” he said. “I would even eat half the food the next day, but it gets thrown away. I understand them not serving some of the food the next day but a soup kitchen in the area would definitely use the food. And there’s a lot to give.”

Department of Statistics at OSU, plays music for his class before he starts teaching. Risser said he plays the music because he wants to get students ready to learn.

“It’s an easy way to engage students’ brains, wake them up and establish a signal that class is about to begin,” Risser said.

Risser also said he thinks playing music could help improve students’ grades.

“My non-expert reason for saying this would be that music stimulates a unique part of the brain and this stimulation, together with the stimulation provided by other studying, can improve learning,” Risser said.

Risser said, though, he hasn’t ever played music during class and probably wouldn’t play music during an exam.

“I feel that it could be distracting and detrimental to some students,” he said.

Huron said no matter what the effect on grades, it’s worth it to study music.

“Learning to play music is worthwhile, even if it doesn’t improve your math abilities or your golf swing,” Huron said. “Music is simply one of life’s pleasures and ought to be encouraged for the sheer joy of it.”

Buckeyes from 1A going to forget about this one and we gotta get ready,” Smith Jr. said.

“We got a great opponent coming in here now. They’re a great team and they’re playing some really good basketball as of late and we gotta be prepared to play even better basketball if we want to match that and get the win here.”

Matta agreed, adding that one bad stretch of basketball could mean a loss in the Big Ten. “You’d like to feel good, you’d like to feel great. But right now, geez.

One bad segment of a game could cost you the game with what we have left on our schedule in terms of who we’re playing and when we’re playing, where we’re playing,” Matta said. “I hope our guys are feeling better about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it and how we’re doing it. That’s why I want them to be confident. Just in terms of our execution’s better, I think defensively we’ve been a lot more active and communication’s been a lot better.”

Whether it’s communication, energy or more effort, something has changed with the Buckeyes since Smith Jr.’s emotional interview after the Penn State loss — and the team could be peaking at the right time because of it.

“Our maturity as a team has picked up a little bit. Ever since I had that interview and I said we were missing camaraderie and leadership, I think we found a lot of that stuff we were missing,” Smith Jr. said. “And it’s great because this is the time when you want to be playing your best basketball. As long as we can keep this train going like that without any stops like that or any bumps in the road, I think we’re going to be very happy and a very successful basketball team.”

Tuesday’s game is set for 9 p.m.

’Shoe from 1A is set to result in 18,900 total student seats in the south stands and 9,400 at the north end. Permanent light installations on top of the stadium are also to be added.

Jake Bradley, director of football operations for Block “O,” said he’s excited for the stadium seat-expansion project and to see the changes it will bring the stadium.

“This project will enhance the student experience at football games by uniting more students in the south stands and creating an even better atmosphere for college football,” said Bradley, a fourth-year in public affairs and geography.

Denney said he understands some could be miffed by more construction, but he thinks it is worth it.

“Since my freshman year, there has been nothing but construction on campus, what’s a little more going to hurt?” Denney said. “It just shows that we are constantly improving our facilities.”

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She said the store will focus on just one aspect of what the Simply Vague stores sell.

“Devoted is going to be just our apparel line … not all necessarily (all) Ohio-themed but that seems to be the most popular,” she said. “We’re trying to cater it to the campus area.”

Gateway seemed to be the “best fit” for Devoted after looking at several places, Archibald said, but she and her husband did talk about the recent turnover in the area.

“My husband and I both went back and forth about that and had different ideas of what that meant for us.

I look at that like a benefit for us, I don’t think there’s anything that’s been like our store there before,” she said.

Archibald said while there’s no shortage of restaurants in the campus area, making it easy for students to go to places outside of Gateway to eat, that isn’t really the case with apparel stores. She said Devoted’s “stuff is creative, it’s outside the box, it’s different and it’s harder to find.”

While she didn’t give information about the rent the store is set to pay, she said compared to the rent Simply Vague pays at the malls, “it seemed pretty reasonable,” especially given the amount of traffic the area gets.

Polaris Fashion Place marketing director Angela Krumpelman said while the mall doesn’t give out information about a store’s rent publicly, rent prices are determined based on factors including the type of business, the store’s square footage and the type of products the business sells.

Peter Cooper, the manager at the Mall at Tuttle Crossing, said in an email the average rent at that mall is also considered “confidential information.”

Hoffsis said she is excited to see what Devoted brings to the South Campus area.

“They will certainly add some additional local flair to the South Campus Gateway, which is something we are striving for,” she said.

For the store to move in, though, the space’s current tenant must move out. Ohio Art League’s gallery manager Esther Hall said Thursday Ohio Art League is leaving Gateway because “the people who own our lease agreement have decided to terminate early.”

She said Ohio Art League’s lease agreement is owned by South Campus Gateway and managed by Colliers International, a real estate company.

Hall said the gallery, which has been at the Gateway since 2009 and does not pay rent because it was donated, was notified Tuesday.

“We are going to move out of this location in the beginning of March,” Hall said. “It’s unexpected … We knew that this was a donated space to us by the previous landlords, so we knew it was always a possibility.”

Hoffsis said there is a chance Ohio Art League could relocate within the Gateway area.

“We are hopeful that the Ohio Art League can take advantage of another opportunity within South Campus Gateway, but that is still being discussed,” Hoffsis said. “The Ohio Art League is a wonderful organization and brings great life and culture to the center and the broader community. We have a good relationship with them, and they are very good tenants, so we are optimistic we can continue to be a good fit for their mission.”

Meanwhile, the new restaurant set to open at Gateway, Oxley’s, finalized its lease Jan. 15, Hoffsis said.

“They are eager and excited to open, which is planned for early May at the latest,” she said. “We are very excited to have that key space back in operation.

Oxley’s will be a fantastic addition to the South Campus Gateway.”

Chip Franz, an owner of Oxley’s, said he couldn’t give many details about the restaurant, bar and entertainment space yet, but he did have an approximate time frame for when the space will open.

“We are looking to open in April hopefully,” he said.

“We’re going to make some big changes.”

Franz said he and the other owners chose Gateway because of its proximity to campus.

“It’s a great location and we really wanted to be on campus serving the university students,” Franz said. “It just made financial sense … (Gateway wants to) get, I think, more local business in there.”

He said, though, the fact that several other businesses recently closed in the area did come up in talks before signing the lease.

“We definitely took it into consideration. We feel like businesses fail all the time and open and close for different reasons,” he said, adding that he thinks Oxley’s will be successful anyway.

Representatives from Kildare’s did not provide comment by Sunday on the restaurant’s closure in Columbus and its former space being filled.

Hoffsis was not able to provide information about when and why Kildare’s closed or how much the new leases are worth by Sunday.

Charlie Bear: Land of Dance, Gooeyz and Finish Line, the former two of which announced their leaves via Twitter in November, have also closed their doors since the beginning of summer 2013.

Finish Line was located at 1624 N. High St. and closed Jan. 11. Two of the others relocated — Charlie Bear, a dance club, relocated to 2885 Olentangy River Road, and Gooeyz, a restaurant specializing in grilled cheese, reopened at a different location in Woodland’s Backyard at 668 Grandview Ave. A manager at another Gateway business said it’s exciting to see new stores and restaurants moving in.

“It’s great for the Gateway, it’s good for South Campus,” said Will Brakel, general manager at Eddie George’s Grille 27, located at 1636 N. High St. Even though Oxley’s is set to provide Gatewaygoers with a new restaurant option, Brakel said he isn’t concerned.

“I don’t know much about the concept … but what we do here (at Eddie George’s) is unique,” Brakel said.

“We look at businesses around us as partners, not as competitors.”

Nisha Arora, a fourth-year in biology who has lived in Gateway’s apartments since summer 2013, said she’ll be interested to check out the new businesses.

“I think it would be cool, I mean a bunch of us were really upset when Charlie Bear and Gooeyz I guess closed so having something there will help fill that void,” she said.

Arora said she doesn’t think the new stores will have a problem staying open because “Gateway’s such a high traffic area.”

The new spots might take time to win the hearts of some students, though, as Arora said she still hasn’t forgotten the places that once occupied Gateway.

“No one will be able to replace Gooeyz and Charlie Bear,” she said.

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‘Moulin Rouge - La Goulue’ by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which is set to be shown in CMA’s exhibit ‘Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne’ through May 18.

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‘Paris Street Scene’ by Henri Cassiers, which is set to be shown in CMA’s exhibit ‘Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne’ through May 18.

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‘Tournée du Chat Noir (Tour of the Chat Noir)’ by ThéophileAlexandre Steinlen, which is set to be shown in CMA’s exhibit ‘Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne’ through May 18.

The Columbus Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, “Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1880-1910,” comprises a collection of artwork that captures the life in Paris during the turn of the century.

The art is about “enjoying life as you can, right now, taking it for all it’s worth,” said Dominique Vasseur, CMA’s curator of European art.

Vasseur said 90 artists are slated to be showcased in the exhibition, including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a French painter, printmaker and illustrator who is best known for his prints and posters that advertise performers from cabarets, such as the Moulin Rouge.

“This is one of the first times where this kind of advertising really blossoms,” Vasseur said. “Paris at this time was all about modernity.”

The exhibition displays more than 185 works of art including paintings, posters, illustrated theater programs, rare cabaret shadow puppets and more, CMA Executive Director Nannette Maciejunes said.

The works were acquired through distinguished private and public collections, including Ohio State’s Historic Costume and Textile Collection, Vassuer said.

In the 30 years in which these artworks were created, often called la Belle Époque or fin de siècle, the world of entertainment rapidly grew in Paris. Vasseur said artists, writers and intellectuals often gathered in cabarets or theaters and became inspired by the atmosphere and performers.

“Art and popular culture joined forces in a way that I think might be unprecedented,” said Andrew Shelton, Ohio State professor and chair of the Department of the History of Art. “It’s hard to imagine an earlier time in which artists were so enmeshed in the entertainment of their environment.”

Lautrec’s style has been celebrated for portraying his subjects realistically.

“He really tries to capture their unique humanity,” Shelton said.

Lautrec only lived until he was 36 because of deteriorating health and extensive alcoholism, yet managed to complete thousands of drawings, posters and paintings, Vasseur said.

“Despite issues, the artist is able to create an art that in a sense transcends those human level problems,” Vasseur said.

The exhibition opened Friday and is slated to stay through May 18. The CMA is open every week Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays.

The museum is located at 480 E. Broad St. Admission is free Sundays, and $8 all other days for students with valid ID over 18.

“Toulouse-Lautrec is the name that we all know, but there are other artists that are going to be worth discovering … so it should be an extraordinary opportunity,” Shelton said. “I would absolutely encourage students to go.”

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‘Game of Thrones’ conference reigns over Ohio State Andrew Zistler Lantern reporter zistler.4@osu.edu Steel clashed and locally produced mead was gulped down as nearly 100 “Game of Thrones” fans and medieval enthusiasts descended on the Ohio Union for the first Ohio State Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference in more than a decade.

Artisans and performers gave demonstrations over a wide variety of topics during the free event, ranging from falconry to medieval combat at “Game of Thrones” Day Saturday. During these exhibitions, the adjoining rooms were filled as graduate students and professors gave lectures on topics of pop culture within the “Game of Thrones” television series and George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels, the books on which the show is based.

This was the first in a new yearly series of events titled as “Pop Culture and the Deep Past” produced by the CMRS, said Graeme Boone, director of CMRS and professor of music.

Nick Spitulski, the program coordinator for the CMRS, explained that while

medieval reenactments and exhibitions aren’t totally new to the OSU campus, this event was particularly special to the center.

“The center has not hosted a conference of any kind since about 15 years ago,” Spitulski said. “Everyone who’s participating today is doing so because of their interest in the topic. We have some out-of-state speakers, and they were willing to foot the travel bills themselves.”

However, some speakers had a bit of a shorter commute to the conference.

Erik Fenstermacher, manager of campus area coffee shop Boston Stoker, sat quietly next to a tankard of coffee and stainless steel wire. Fenstermacher was bending rings into place in order to complete a chainmail shirt.

“I have sold them before, but it’s mostly a hobby,” Fenstermacher said. “A good chainmail shirt sells for about $200 and takes 150 to 200 hours to finish. It really isn’t cost effective, but it’s fun.”

Across the hallway from Fenstermacher, away from the quiet lecture rooms, a battle raged. Armed with full-size steel swords, Matthew Star and Kelly Parks, members of the Society for Creative Anachronism, demonstrated what a medieval battle would have been like.

“Unlike what you would see at a renaissance fair, we don’t quite put on a show,” Star said. “What we do is not scripted or choreographed at all. Full speed, full contact, non-choreographed.”

Parks explained why they go to such great and somewhat dangerous lengths to recreate medieval fighting.

“We do the re-enactment as part of our historical research and education efforts.

We want people to know about the Middle Ages as they actually were,” Parks said.

Boone said he was very pleased with how the event was going, and described why the CMRS decided to have a “Game of Thrones” Day. “‘Game of Thrones’ is an extremely popular show, and with the third season finished, there are so many people who are waiting for the fourth season,” Boone said. “I thought, why not have a day where pop culture and the deep past can be addressed, both by academics and by people who participate in this kind of thing?”

The CMRS plans to continue to hold the pop culture event annually, and is slated to screen the “Game of Thrones” series every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Hagerty 455B.

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Sam Otter, 5, dawns his shield and armor to battle Elliot Rush, 5, during the Society for Creative Achronism’s Combat Demonstration at OSU’s ‘Game of Thrones’ day, held in the Ohio Union Feb. 8.

Flappy Bird flops, game over for popular iPhone, Android app Amanda etchison Lantern reporter etchison.4@osu.edu

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A screenshot of app Flappy Bird, which was taken down by creator Dong Nguyen Feb. 8.

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Vietnam-based dotGears Studios’ smash-hit mobile game, Flappy Bird, has taken flight, seemingly with no plans to return.

For nearly a month, Flappy Bird has perched at the top of both the Apple and Android app stores, soaring to the position of “No. 1 Free Game” on both online application markets because of its explosive popularity.

Yet following a Tweet from the game’s developer, Dong Nguyen, at 2:02 p.m. from his account @dongatory Saturday, the game was yanked from both the iOS and Android stores, prohibiting all future downloads.

“I am sorry Flappy Bird users, 22 hours from now, I will take Flappy Bird down. I cannot take this anymore,” Nguyen tweeted.

As of Sunday evening, any searches for Flappy Bird in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store resulted in messages stating the application could not be found, or it reveals games that imitate Flappy Bird but are not the original application.

The rationale to remove the game followed a previous Tweet by Nguyen, in which the Flappy Bird developer

condemned the game’s increased presence in popular culture.

“Press people are overrating the success of my games.

It is something I never want. Please give me peace,” he wrote Tuesday at 12:36 p.m.

According to an interview with Nguyen conducted

by The Verge, Flappy Bird was originally launched in May 2013 and developed out of code written by Nguyen after work.

Since then, the game had been downloaded “50 million times, and has accumulated over 47,000 reviews in the App Store,” as reported by The Verge Feb. 5.

The game boasted a simplistic design, featuring a bright yellow bird that navigated through a maze of green pipes of varying heights.

The graphics of Flappy Bird were reminiscent of the “retro pixelated games in (gaming’s) golden age,” according to a description from the dotGears Studios website.

“Everything is pure, extremely hard and incredibly fun to play,” the website says.

Players controlled the bird’s movement by tapping the screen of their mobile phones and tablets. The object of the game was to coax the bird through as many gaps between green pipes as possible. If a player miscalculated the height needed to shoot the gap, the bird would hit the pipes and the game would be over.

The dotGears Studios website shows the logos for four of the developer’s other games, including Shuriken Block and Ninjas Assault.”

Flappy Bird is not mentioned on the website.

Many Ohio State students said that although the Flappy Bird game design was simple, it was hard to master.

“It is really addictive because it’s kind of hard to start playing and get used to what you have to do,” said Emily Rodgers, a first-year student in romance studies and anthropology. “Then you just get so aggravated, like you have to make sure you keep going and keep beating your high score and get as high as you possibly can.”

Rodgers said she spends about 15 minutes per day playing the game and her highest score to date is an 87.

Rachel DeLucia, a third-year in criminology, said Sunday she downloaded Flappy Bird about two weeks ago.

“It’s really addicting, it’s a good way to kill time, but then it kind of starts to kill a lot of time,” she said. “You’re always trying to beat your record, but then it gets frustrating, and it’s kind of just like an endless cycle.”

DeLucia said she thinks the developer’s decision to remove the game might be for the better, as the game might be viewed as a distraction.

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Valentino PR insensitive to PSH SHELBY LUM Photo editor lum.13@osu.edu “Zooming In� is a weekly series in which Photo editor Shelby Lum provides her insight on pop culture.

Glitz and glam have surrounded New York Fashion Week, which began Thursday, but not all fashion houses are having their best week. While Fashion Week might seem like the right time to toot your own horn, Valentino probably could have held off on one announcement. “We are pleased to announce Amy Adams carrying the Valentino Garavani Rockstud Double bag from the Spring/ Summer 2014 collection on Feb. 6 in New York,� Upasna Khosla, a Valentino publicist wrote to journalists Friday.

The publicist named the right celebrity, the right bag and the right time, but was still lacking a key detail. Adams wasn’t sporting the bag at just any old time while getting a coffee. The star had the more than $3,200 bag in hand at Philip Seymour Hoffman’s wake.

Classless move Valentino, classless move.

Adams wasn’t just another celebrity among the plethora of mourners reacting to the early and tragic death of one of Hollywood’s most talented actors. She acted alongside Hoffman in “Doubt,� “The Master� and “Charlie Wilson’s War� and was likely a close friend of the recently deceased actor. She was even set to work in “Ezekiel Moss,� which Hoffman was set to direct, this year. While filming “Inside the Actor’s Studio,� the actress discussed the late Hoffman with tears running down her cheeks.

I understand PR reps have a job to do, but there is a line of respect and decency that should be left alone.

Times of mourning are not times for promotion.

Flappy from 4A “I think it’s honest-to-goodness ruining lives,� she said. “It is taking up a lot of my life. I play it in class and things like that, so the developer should probably get rid of the game. I think that’s a good idea.�

According to The Verge, Flappy Bird was earning an average of $50,000 a day, a profit made from in-app ads.

In the wake of Nguyen’s decision to remove the game from the app stores, many theories have surfaced in an attempt to explain the developer’s actions. “There are a couple different speculations

As would be expected, the Twitterverse saw the breach in decency as unacceptable and took to the Internet to voice their qualms. “Just got a press release naming the handbag Amy Adams was carrying while in NYC for PSH’s funeral. #tasteless #ew� Donna Freydkin of USA TODAY tweeted.

That Valentino rep quickly learned that not all moments are times for forwarding a company. Within the day, the fashion company realized its serious error. “We sincerely regret releasing a photo to the media this morning of Amy Adams with a Valentino bag,� a company statement said Friday. “We were not aware the photograph was taken while she was attending the wake of Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was an innocent mistake, and we apologize to Ms. Adams who was not aware, or a part of, our PR efforts.�

Now I could have believed that it was an honest mistake on Khosla’s part, but the email also included two pictures of Adams stepping out of a black car while holding the bag. It seems reasonable for such a huge company to put together a few facts. An obviously somber-faced Adams, her entirely black dress, black tights and black boots, on the same day as Hoffman’s wake seem like more than enough clues to tip off where she might be going with that Valentino bag.

Valentino’s blatant promotional work is deplorable, and even if the statement is true that the publicist wasn’t aware of Adams’ whereabouts, then the worker wasn’t doing a great job at researching before sending it out to thousands.

It’s frankly embarrassing. Some things should be off limits within the professional world. There is an appropriate time and an inappropriate time for things. Let’s have some respect for our fellow people.

about it,â€? said Mike Letscher, a first-year in computer science and engineering. “One of them being he just can’t handle the publicity. The other reason that I’ve heard is that it could be kind of a PR stunt for his next game ‌ He decided to take it down in order to use this publicity to make his next game a hit instead.â€?

Josh Grile-Nielsen, a first-year in finance, agreed that the game’s removal could be an attempt to drum up publicity. “Personally, I think it is just a big publicity stunt ‌ I mean, this might shine light on his other games,â€? he said.

Grile-Nielsen said he “only plays (Flappy Bird)

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Food tanked stomach at new campus joint MATTHEW LOVETT Asst. arts editor lovett.45@osu.edu Leaving one’s parents’ kitchen is one of the toughest but most gratifying transitions to make in going to college.

Eating independence might lead to poor habits, entailing hitting up the local fried chicken finger eatery and the late-night gyro booth parked right along High Street more often than your body would want. However, we are young, and the bulk of college-aged youths have bodies nimble enough to fight through the grease and overlybreaded snacks with little to no detriment.

After close to four years of such eating, Ethyl & Tank, the newest addition to Ohio State’s off-campus restaurant detail, has finally outdone my body. I write this review more than 24 hours after a Saturday lunch and I have finally learned what indigestion is, or what I presume it to be based on my dad’s reaction to red meat.

It was the Back to Beirut burger that did it — laid on an orange cafeteria tray, following a $5 appetizer of “hot� seasoned waffle fries. Maybe not the best decision, but hey, I’ve done it before. Costing just under $10, the all-beef patty was topped with coleslaw, lettuce, tomato and fries, served with classic gastropub decor — a steak knife — to hold it together. The meal did not “hit the spot,� but, in actuality, was rather bland and forgettable.

For a hamburger joint, I would scurry across the street to the Five Guys for something satisfying of the beef-andbun nature.

The bar-meets-coffee-shop-meets-restaurant did excel in the beverage realm. Ethyl & Tank, alongside Short North’s Mission Coffee Co., is the only other spot in Columbus that serves the superbly roasted Deeper Roots coffee, based in Cincinnati. Before my stomach could handle food, I nabbed a cup of Ethiopia’s Amaro Gayo Natural coffee to settle in to the surroundings. Although the barista seemed to know more about the coffee itself than how to operate a clever (a coffee brewing method, sort of a hybrid between French press and pour over),

a couple times a week,� but the news of the game’s discontinuation was “surprising.� “This is not heartbreaking for me, I’m not destroyed by it,� he said. “(But) he was making so much money and it’s such a popular game, a bunch of people played it.�

Within minutes of the initial Tweet announcing the imminent retirement of Flappy Bird, rumors began circulating saying the decision to remove the game was because of legal issues.

In response to this speculation, Nguyen tweeted, “It is not anything related to legal issues. I just cannot keep it anymore.�

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The Back to Beirut burger at Ethyl & Tank, located at 19 13th Ave. the $3 coffee, a fair price for a hand-crafted cup, was nonetheless exceptional. Ethyl & Tank truly has truly established itself as a new go-to spot on campus for a pick-me-up.

The bar is also something to be reckoned with. It boasts 20-some draft beers, including microbrews and big-name domestics alike. There is even cold-brewed coffee and a house beer with the restaurant’s namesake, Tank Water, on draft (described as “light lager� on the menu, served at $3 a pint — think Pabst Blue Ribbon.)

It is important to stress that Ethyl and Tank is not a failure. The restaurant is still in its embryonic stages — Saturday marked its third day open, its second in serving food. With the backing of The Crest and Fourth Street founders, I expect the food will improve with time.

Meanwhile, it is advisable to take baby steps toward the subsistence menu and go for coffee, or stick to boozing instead.

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studentvoice Keurig needs to brew up solutions for wasteful K-cups aly gordon Lantern reporter gordon.847@osu.edu We’ve all felt it — that sudden, overwhelming panic, that barrage of pins-and-needles through the skin. It’s 8:01 a.m. You’re late. With the speed and purpose of a drone, you sweep through your bedroom, fumbling manically with coat and keys, backpack and books.

Yet even in this helter-skelter state, you manage to click on your Keurig: your heaven-sent hazelnut coffee, your beacon in the night. These compact, single-cup coffee brewers are a staple for countless students, myself included. And yet as I sip, I can’t help but feel a certain tinge of guilt: For with each beverage consumed, so too is one K-cup disposed of, left to fester in a landfill.

The solution seems simple, right? Recycle. And yet to separate the constituent parts of a K-cup — the aluminum top, inner-filter, coffee grounds, and plastic cup — is to invest as much time and energy as would have been spent simply brewing a pot. According to a Keurig representative, this multi-dimensional structure is neither recyclable nor compostable, but is necessary to “maintain coffee freshness.” Yet even so, you can’t help but wonder: Should we really sacrifice sustainability for the sake of freshness and convenience?

“Keurig is currently engaged and aggressively investing in Research & Development to find alternate materials that will be recyclable and/or bio-degradable,” a Keurig spokesperson said in an email Tuesday.

That said, the company’s new “Grounds to Grow On” program turns your K-cup into a useable alternative — for a price. To purchase a Keurig recovery bin, which is essentially a glorified box, you must first pay $50 to $100, depending on the size of the bin you want. They then send you the bins (which you fill with used K-cups and eventually ship back), and abracadabra: your conscience cleared, your guilt absolved, your K-cups recycled. To me, this seems like a glaring inefficiency, like a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. You not only drain your pockets of much-needed cash, but also waste energy and fuel in the sheer transportation of the bins.

In another attempt to curb its waste, Keurig has introduced the Vue — a new brewing system with easyto-separate, “recyclable” cups. But here’s the issue: While yes, you can now separate the Vue cup’s constituent parts, the recyclability of these parts depends on your location. Columbus, for example, is among 47

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Garbage at the American Avenue Landfill, owned and operated by the County of Fresno, Calif. Keurig recently launched a ‘Grounds to Grow On’ program which turns used K-cups into a useable alternative and ‘Vue,’ a new brewing system aimed at reducing landfill waste. percent of American communities able to recycle No. 5 (polypropylene) plastic, the Vue cup’s main ingredient, according to the Keurig representative.

And although Keurig offers a reusable filter, which both eliminates the waste of a K-cup and allows you to hand-select your own coffee, sales of this device pale in comparison to those of single-use K-cups. Green Mountain Coffee (the owner of Keurig) does not disclose the number of K-cups sold per year, though according to The New York Times, the average of six Wall Street analysts stands at 6.9 billion.

In addressing these concerns, a Keurig

representative cited Green Mountain Coffee as “ranked No. 1 on the Business Ethics list … two years in a row” for its investment in fair trade coffee. Additionally, the company’s website outlines a number of initiatives designed to decrease waste and minimize impact.

Yet here’s where I struggle: Given the sheer size of the Keurig brand, its waste and impact will always makes a big splash, despite efforts to reduce and minimize. As I see it, these efforts simply mask and perpetuate a greater problem, which is the shortsighted behavior of you and I, the consumer: We continue to buy and take and discard — to enable

these companies — even with the knowledge that our habits are unsustainable. Americans will not simply cut caffeine from their routines, let alone swear off the everconvenient Keurig. We can, however, reduce our intake and pressure companies like Green Mountain Coffee to redesign their products in an effectively sustainable way. We must demand actual change, not initiatives like “Vue” or “Grounds to Grow On,” which operate under the guise of “sustainability” but are in reality inefficient and unrealistic.

Fall survey class a huge help in adjusting to college life design editor madison curtis curtis.399@osu.edu

I expected to feel overwhelmed by my course load during my first semester of college.

What I didn’t expect to feel overwhelmed by was the complete independence I was faced with when my family gave me their final goodbyes

and drove back home.

Independence slapped me in the face when I realized that I didn’t know the first thing about using Carmen or BuckeyeLink and I still couldn’t log in to my university email.

On the first day of classes, I showed up to my 8 a.m. freshmen survey class half an hour early because I had been so afraid of getting lost and being late. Luckily, the building in which I had survey was easy to find. Also luckily, the first

college class I sat through was a crash course on how to master the basics of college.

I can’t stress enough how beneficial the survey class is to new Ohio State students.

Each week, I learned how to master essential aspects of life as a university student. From informing me of the tutoring and mental health services available, to logging into BuckeyeLink and running my degree audit online — survey class covered everything I could have had a question about.

Furthermore, guest speakers from student research and the Younkin Success Center visited class on occasion to give students information about how to get involved and be successful on campus.

The content of the class was also specialized for students of each major. This made going over specific requirements for different paths of study easy and made me feel as though the class was tailored to my needs for majoring in communication.

I sympathized with the kids who decided to switch majors halfway through the semester, though. They were stuck in a communicationbased survey class. The survey class gave students the tools to reach out to academic

I can’t stress enough how beneficial the survey class is to new Ohio State students. Each week, I learned how to master essential aspects of life as a university student.

advisers of other majors, but it still seemed wasteful for students to learn the ins and outs of being a communication major, while they could spend an hour a week learning about the major they hoped to pursue.

The requirement to attend First Year Success series was also a valuable aspect of the class.

I’m not sure I know any freshman who talked highly of the time commitment tied with attending the survey-mandated sessions, which lasted anywhere from 40 minutes to two hours. Regardless, the sessions had a lot to offer first-year students.

The sessions were separated into six themes: Academic Engagement and Career Exploration,

Buckeye Book Community, Diversity and Global Awareness, Health and Wellness, Finances and Leadership and Civic Engagement.

I found some options to be more beneficial than others. Finances, for example, were especially helpful to me as this is the first year that I am balancing a job with my academics and bearing the weight of some of my own financial responsibilities.

On the other hand, Buckeye Book Community-themed sessions seemed so wasteful when taking into consideration the other sessions’ merit. With most sessions focusing on giving students knowledge about health, finances and getting involved on campus, the Buckeye Book Community sessions seemed like an afterthought to me — something I would attend only if I couldn’t fit any other session into my schedule.

In the future, I see myself continuing to reap the benefits of taking survey. I see myself feeling confident in the major I have chosen, in scheduling classes, in handling my finances and overall in being an independent student at OSU.

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Can we all just agree to uninstall Flappy Bird already campus columnist

Flappy Bird is a bad game.

But, that’s not because it’s the “hardest game ever.”

Flappy Bird is a mobile app where you navigate a bird between as many pipes as possible before Brandon Merriman you run into merriman.65@osu.edu something. I hear my peers whining about it quite often because it’s “rage-inducing.” It takes practice, sure, and luck that it won’t glitch up, but I don’t believe it’s actually difficult; it’s just the zeitgeist for us to commiserate about pointless things, and Flappy Bird is definitely pointless. It’s a meme stacked on another meme.

Talk about first-world problems. I wouldn’t care, normally. Smartphone games, while sometimes shallow, have casual appeal and are budgetpriced. In the case of Flappy Bird, the game is free.

Vietnamese creator Dong Nguyen announced Saturday he was taking the game down because he couldn’t handle its popularity. Nguyen was reportedly making $50,000 a day from the in-game ads.

Who would turn down that income without good reason? Well, I quickly found that reasons abound.

Screenshot of the Flappy Bird app

Flappy Bird is a mobile app where you navigate a bird between as many pipes as possible before you run into something.

Vietnamese game creator Dong Nguyen announced Feb. 8 he was taking the game down.

In fact, Flappy Bird steals art from the classic Super Mario World: the iconic warp pipe. It’s not an exact reproduction, but it’s more than homage. Its inclusion is meant to play on nostalgia, apparently in the absence of the developer’s own creativity. That’s illegal, and it’s not even the end of the story.

Another game, Piou Piou, is uncannily similar.

Piou Piou features a bird with big lips who has to fly around oblong green cacti. I suggest checking both games out side-by-side, because it’s readily apparent Flappy Bird is a retrolooking rip-off. It’s not fair for the developer of Piou Piou, who now has to suffer being second www.thelantern.com

best when they came up with the idea in the first place.

Stealing ideas in the mobile market isn’t unheard of — take a look at game provider Zynga, who built a corporation on the success of others. But in this case, when one man is making a fortune off of theft, there must be scrutiny. The gameplay of Piou Piou is slightly different, but its heart lives on in Flappy Bird.

There’s another issue: How did a game released in May to no fanfare suddenly reach the top of app store charts in December? The developer has said that he used no promotion, and that he’s just lucky.

Others who have looked into its rise suspect foul play. Carter Thomas, an iOS marketer, concluded on his blog that the game bought its initial popularity. Firstly, its download numbers start shooting upward in December, in a pattern typical to popularity manipulation. Nguyen’s other games follow the same pattern, a clue that they might be manipulated as well. Second, the early reviews all share the same wording and themes of despair at the game’s difficulty.

There’s a chance Nguyen is the luckiest, most self-effacing man on the planet. But, it’s much more likely that he’s about to be found out.

Sunday Nguyen held true to his word and the game is no longer available for download. So, let’s all take out our phones and uninstall Flappy Bird. It doesn’t deserve to live on — let it fly awkwardly into the sunset.

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With the introduction of Ohio State’s new co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach Chris Ash, some questions had to be answered.

What is he going to do to fix a pass defense that finished 2013 ranked 112th in the country? How does he feel about the group of young players that will be playing next season?

But perhaps the most important quandary is how cornerbacks coach and special teams coordinator Kerry Coombs and Ash will get along.

“What I would tell you is that Chris and I are going to function as a team in the back end. We will have one voice,” Coombs told the media on National Signing Day Wednesday. “We both may be saying it, but we’ll be saying the same thing so that when we meet together, when we coach together, when we’re practicing together, we’re all using the same terms, the same phrases, the same words, coaching things and I don’t know, the same style.

I haven’t been able to watch Chris coach, I don’t know his style yet, but (we’ll be) using all of the same language and verbiage out there. And I think that’s very important.”

Coombs, who has been with the program for each of the last two seasons, added that there is not a rigid set of rules dictating who coaches what on any given day.

“I believe very strongly that those things, the more you can do things in a group setting, the better off you’re

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can react to your key and there’s only one speed: it’s full speed. And that’s the way we gotta play.”

Coombs agreed, saying the intensity of play is likely to increase in 2014.

“Yeah, I would think you would see a more aggressive style of play across the board from alignment to attack and so forth,” Coombs said.

The secondary is only returning one regular starter in junior cornerback Doran Grant, and Coombs said it’s impossible to predict who is going to win the starting positions because players are battling for them.

“There will be some changes. The competition I would tell you is wide open,” Coombs said. “You’ve got to perform to play. And I think that the expectation on the part of every player on this football team is you gotta show

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OSU cornerbacks coach and special teams coordinator Kerry Coombs talks to the media on National Signing Day Feb. 5 at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. up every day and you’ve got to perform in order to play in the fall. We’re going to work really hard on finding those guys who can compete and who will challenge in tough situations.”

Coach Urban Meyer said Wednesday the defense needed something new after struggling in the latter part of the season.

“We won a lot of games, but there were some holes,” Meyer said. “Holes very easy to blame players or blames coaches. Just overall, we need to freshen up our defense. That’s what’s going to take place over the next few months.”

Ash and Coombs are set to receive their first chance to patrol the Buckeye sidelines together Aug. 30 when OSU is scheduled to take on Navy at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

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going to be,” Coombs said. “And so our approach — Chris and I will work together to make that happen and there will be times when we will be working right half and left half. And at times, we’ll be working corners and safeties and at times we’ll be functioning with four guys doing things together … I would think they would tell you the same thing, that all of that will lead, I think, to great communication, which should be our objective moving forward.”

Ash spent 2013 at Arkansas after spending three seasons with one of OSU’s Big Ten rivals, Wisconsin.

Agreeing with his new coaching partner Coombs, Ash said coaching on the defensive side of the ball will be all about balancing everyone.

“Everything we’re going to do is going to be a team effort,” Ash said.

“You know a lot of people have asked about coach Coombs and I coaching the secondary. It’s going to be a team effort, and the defensive staff is a team, putting this package together. Trying to identify the direction we’re going to go and what we need to get fixed, and gameday, it’ll be a team effort.”

At Wisconsin, Ash was a part of three consecutive Big Ten Championships and led a pass defense that finished an average of 16th in the country during his tenure.

A big part of improving the Buckeyes’ struggles against the pass is changing the mentality, Ash said.

“Well you play fast, you play with reckless abandon, you’re fast, you’re physical, you throw your body around,” Ash said. “There’s no confusion, you know exactly what you’re doing. You

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When the only Big Ten team with an unbeaten shootout record plays in two more sudden death games, the end result might seem like a forgone conclusion.

Not this weekend.

The Ohio State men’s hockey team (14-9-3, 4-5-3) picked up four points over the weekend by handing Michigan State (8-13-6, 2-5-5) its first two shootout losses of the season.

The Buckeyes traveled to East Lansing, Mich., on the heels of a three-game winning streak, and their confidence showed early Saturday afternoon when they took the lead on junior forward Matt Johnson’s fourth goal of the season.

But in the second period, the Spartans took advantage of two OSU penalties and scored a pair of power play goals.

OSU responded in the third period as Johnson scored again to tie the game at 2-2 and send it to overtime.

The Buckeyes had more shots in the extra session, but the best chance to win the game fell to the Spartans when sophomore forward Michael Ferrantino

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Junior forward Chad Niddery (19) attempts to beat his defender during a game against Penn State Jan. 31 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU won, 5-1. directed a one-time shot on net, only for OSU freshman goalie Christian Frey to recover and catch the puck in his glove to force the game into a shootout.

Frey stopped each of the Spartans’ three attempts in the shootout, and a successful try from freshman forward Nick Schilkey was all the Buckeyes needed to clinch the extra point in the conference standings.

The resiliency displayed by the Buckeyes in the third period pleased head coach Steve Rohlik, despite his team’s performance earlier in the game.

“I’m a little disappointed with our second period, a little undisciplined with the penalties which gave (MSU) the momentum back,” Rohlik said in a press release. “But our team righted the ship and played a pretty good third period.”

Friday’s matchup was a similar affair, when the Buckeyes won in a shootout after erasing a two-goal deficit in the final 1:34 of regulation.

OSU was outshooting their opponent well into the middle period when MSU suddenly came down the ice and took the lead when senior forward Lee Reimer

found the net for the fifth time this season. Then in the third, it was another senior forward, Greg Wolfe, who put the Spartans in control with a shot that whistled past Frey.

It was all OSU after that. The Buckeyes kept the puck in the Spartan end for long periods, but MSU’s sophomore goalie Jake Hildebrand stopped everything in front of him.

That was before two late MSU penalties changed the course of the game.

First, freshman forward Joe Cox was called for interference, and on the ensuing power play, OSU junior forward Tanner Fritz got OSU on the board with 1:34 left. Just 55 seconds later, OSU was on the power play again, and after a scramble around the MSU net, the puck was eventually slotted past Hildebrand by senior forward Alex Szczechura with just 1.7 seconds remaining.

After neither team could find the winning tally in overtime, the shootout went to five rounds before Fritz walked in and placed a low wrist shot into the back of the net to clinch the shootout win for the Buckeyes.

The Buckeyes are set to be back on the ice in Columbus this weekend against No. 12 Wisconsin. The puck is set to drop Friday at 7:05 p.m.

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Senior goalie Greg Duttun (3) looks for an open teammate during an exhibition game against Robert Morris Feb. 1 at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. OSU won, 11-7.

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In a back and forth game featuring two future Big Ten opponents, the No. 9 Ohio State men’s lacrosse team dropped a tight contest in triple overtime after senior attackman Brandon Benn scored to give No. 13 Johns Hopkins Blue Jays the victory, 10-9 Sunday.

Playing at Homewood Field in Baltimore, the Buckeyes got off to a quick start when junior midfielder Jesse King stung the top right corner just more than a minute into the game.

Despite turning the ball over on their first three possessions, Johns Hopkins knotted things up midway through the first quarter with sophomore attackman Ryan Brown shoveling in a goal from just outside the crease.

After OSU sophomore attackman Carter Brown scored a minute later to give the Buckeyes the lead back, Johns Hopkins countered early in the second quarter when sophomore midfielder Connor Reed tallied his first career goal to tie the game, 2-2.

The Blue Jays struggled to find the back of the cage in the first 30 minutes, but came out on fire in the second half, scoring two goals in the first two minutes to take their first lead of the game.

King then notched his second goal of the game to cut the lead to 4-3 with 10:51 left in the third, snapping a streak of more than 25 minutes without a goal for the Buckeyes.

However, Johns Hopkins would ride the play of junior attackman Wells Stanwick, who finished the game with one goal and five assists, to take an 8-5 lead into the fourth quarter.

Yet the Buckeyes would not go away as King — who tallied career-high five goals and added an assist — scored three of the first four goals in the final frame, with defensemen draped all over him, to cut the Blue Jays’ lead to 9-8 with 4:49 remaining.

Denver transfer, sophomore attackman Gordie Koerber, tied the game less than two minutes later after Johns Hopkins senior midfielder Rob Guida dropped his stick, leaving Koerber wide open from point blank range.

“We really credit ourselves on doing well in the fourth quarter and on our conditioning and fitness,” King said. “Our defense made some stops which really transitions us into getting fired up and putting the ball into the back of the net.”

Still, the Blue Jays showed toughness as they did not let the Buckeyes’ momentum cost them the game.

Although they relinquished a three goal lead late in the fourth, sophomore midfielder Holden Cattoni and the rest of the Johns Hopkins

players thought they had scored the potential game-winning goal with 1:19 to play before the goal was overturned because Brown was in the crease.

OSU had problems capitalizing on its man-up opportunities all game, and failing to convert on one at the end of double overtime that carried over to the third overtime proved costly.

Once they prevented OSU from scoring on the man-up advantage, the Blue Jays went back to Benn, and the Chesapeake Bayhawks’ draft pick beat OSU senior goaltender Greg Dutton short side to deliver the Blue Jays a thrilling seasonopening victory.

OSU coach Nick Myers said he was proud of the way his team performed in spite of the outcome.

“This is Homewood Field,” Myers said. “This was a tough place to open the season. We knew coming in here how hard this game was going to be and I am real proud of our kids coming in here and fighting the way they did.”

The Buckeyes are slated to be back on the field Sunday to take on Massachusetts in the Moe’s Southwest Grill Classic in Jacksonville, Fla. The game is scheduled for 9 p.m.

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sports Women’s basketball loses 3rd straight, falls to PSU, 74-54 JAMES GREGA JR. Lantern reporter grega.9@osu.edu Sometimes the shots just won’t fall.

That was the case for the Ohio State women’s basketball team Sunday, as poor shooting doomed the Buckeyes against No. 9 Penn State, as they fell 74-54. It was the third straight loss for OSU (14-13, 4-7).

Despite only trailing 38-36 at halftime, the Buckeyes shot just 25 percent from the floor in the second half and were outscored 36-18 in the period.

The Buckeyes’ leading scorers, sophomore guard Ameryst Alston and junior guard Raven Ferguson, combined to shoot just 11-35, each scoring 16 points.

Alston, who leads the Buckeyes in scoring on the season with 17.3 points per game, came off the bench for the first time this season because of what coach Kevin McGuff said was a violation of team rules.

“We aspire to create a winning culture,” McGuff said concerning Alston’s benching.

Ferguson started in place of Alston and shot just 5-19 from the field.

Sunday’s loss to PSU (18-5, 9-2) was the first time this season the Buckeyes outrebounded their opponent and failed to win the game. OSU outrebounded the Nittany Lions 40-38.

“I thought our effort on the glass was as good as it has been in a long time,” McGuff said. “We just weren’t good enough in the other phases of the game to put ourselves in a position to win.”

OSU was able to get to the free throw line early and often in the first half driving the ball effectively and drawing fouls, as they made 12-14 from the free throw stripe in the opening half.

“They were doing a good job of attacking us in the high post,” Penn State coach Coquese Washington said after the game. “We tried to make some adjustments in our zone and try to contain (OSU) and keep the ball out of the paint.”

PSU was able to do just that as Buckeye senior centers Darryce Moore and Ashley Adams only attempted a combined three shots from the field in the game.

The Buckeyes were able to build a seven-point lead with 4:45 left in the first half before the Nittany Lions went on a 12-3 run.

OSU would not take the lead for the remainder of the game.

Buckeye redshirt-junior guard Amy Scullion said if OSU can remain consistent, it can be a dangerous team.

“When we play well, we can play with the best of them, and when we don’t, we will get beat by anybody,” Scullion said following the loss.

The Nittany Lions showed why they are atop the Big Ten standings as they shot 49.1 percent from the floor. PSU was led by the league’s second leading scorer and reigning Big Ten player of the year, senior guard Maggie Lucas, who scored a game high 23 points on 9-14 shooting.

“She is a great player,” McGuff said of Lucas. “She is one of the best scoring guards in the country.”

Moving forward, the Buckeyes need to focus on getting better, McGuff said.

“It is still about showing up every day practicing hard, making sure that we get better and get prepared for our next game,” McGuff said.

“We will continue to focus day-by-day and make sure we get better.”

The Buckeyes will try to end their three-game skid Saturday when they are set to travel to East Lansing, Mich., to take on No. 24 Michigan State (16-8, 8-3) at 5:30 p.m.

RITIKA SHAH / Asst. photo editor

Sophomore guard Ameryst Alston (14) looks for an open teammate during a game against Penn State Feb. 9 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU lost, 74-54.

Men’s tennis takes 2 against ranked opponents, keeps 181-match home win streak intact KANE ANDERSON Lantern reporter anderson.1995@osu.edu

ALICE BACANI / BuckeyeTV News Director

Senior Peter Kobelt serves the ball during a match against Texas A&M Feb. 9 at the Varsity Tennis Center. OSU won, 4-3.

Not even a pair of top 20 programs could solve the riddle that is the Ohio State men’s tennis program when it plays at home.

The No. 5 Buckeyes (9-0) dispatched No. 17 Kentucky 4-0 Friday and No. 8 Texas A&M 4-3 Sunday at the Varsity Indoor Tennis Center over the weekend, making it 181 consecutive home victories for OSU. Coach Ty Tucker said his team could have been a bit overrated entering the season, but after the two wins, they could have proved they belong among the nation’s best.

A big crowd was on hand Sunday as the Aggies came to town. OSU dropped the first doubles match of the day as redshirt-sophomore Chris Diaz and redshirtfreshman Ralf Steinbach fell 6-1 to Aggie juniors Jeremy Efferding and Jordan Szabo. OSU redshirtjunior Hunter Callahan and freshman Herkko Pollanen defeated sophomores Harrison Adams and Shane

Visant 6-3 to even things up, but senior Peter Kobelt and redshirt-junior Kevin Metka lost in a tiebreak 6-5 (7-5) to the Aggie duo of senior Junior Ore and junior Jackson Withrow.

It was the first time OSU had dropped the doubles point all season, but the Buckeyes fought through the adversity in singles play. Needing to win four matches, Kobelt, Metka, Callahan and Steinbach each took the first set of their matches to spark the Buckeyes’ rally.

Kobelt got the Buckeyes on the board first with a 6-4, 6-3 upset over Adams. Metka kept things rolling with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Withrow.

The Aggies then took two straight matches of their own next as Vinsant beat Pollanen 6-2, 6-4 and Efferding downed Diaz 6-1, 6-5 (8-6).

Steinbach won 6-5 (13-11), 6-4 after firing a big serve to force an error from Ore. They quickly shook hands and ran to court six where Callahan was serving for match point against freshman Max Lunkin. After a rally, Callahan smashed an overhead and threw his hands up in celebration as he realized Lunkin’s return was sailing out of play and he clinched the match with a 6-5 (7-3), 6-3 win.

“When you play powerhouses, you have to come to the table,” Tucker said. “It’s frightening out there when you have one chance to hold serve and you’re (team’s) down 3-2, but Steinbach and Callahan did.”

The team stormed onto the court and joined in a big congratulatory hug after their biggest victory of the season.

“It feels amazing, beating a team like this,” Steinbach said after the win. “We didn’t want to be the guys to end the (winning) streak. It’s a great feeling and we’ve all worked hard for this.”

A crowd of more than 100 was on hand to see the Buckeyes take on the Wildcats in the first real test of the season.

In doubles, Diaz and Steinbach dropped their set to Kentucky freshman Nils Ellefsen and senior Ryuji Hirooka, 6-4. Callahan and Pollanen evened things up, though, defeating senior Alejandro Gomez and sophomore Beck Pennington 6-5 (7-5).

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