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11. Ohio: 3,071 10. Virginia: 3,095 9. Alabama: 3,105 8. New York: 3,550 7. Pennsylvania: 4,390 6. North Carolina: 4,453 5. Illinois: 4,781 4. Georgia: 5,162 3. California: 6,892 2. Florida: 7,597 1. Texas: 9,068

3.3% of the nation’s 93,727 total charges were in Ohio. The most common charges were retaliation, race, disability, age and sex charges.

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SAM HARRINGTON Senior Lantern reporter harrington.227@osu.edu Discrimination and harassment charges in Ohio workplaces decreased last year, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 2013 report.

EEOC’s report includes data from businesses with more than 100 employees, excluding federal contractors, to which different standards apply.

Employers must legally provide the information, which is then compiled in the report and used for purposes like enforcement and research, according to the EEOC website.

In Ohio, 3,071 total charges were filed by individual employees with the EEOC in fiscal year 2013, down about 7.67 percent from 2012.

The majority of those discrimination charges dealt with retaliation, race, disability, age and sex, and complaints in Ohio made up 3.3 percent of the nation’s 93,727 total charges. Only 10 other

Mumps cases up to 103 As of Friday afternoon, 103 mumps cases had been reported in Franklin County, 81 of which were linked to the Ohio State outbreak, according to a Columbus Public Health release.

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LIZ YOUNG AND MATT HOMAN Campus editor and Lantern reporter young.1693@osu.edu and homan.94@osu.edu The number of mumps cases in Franklin County has risen to more than 100, and some OSU students said they’re concerned for their health.

As of Friday afternoon, 103 mumps cases had been reported in Franklin County, 81 of which were linked to the Ohio State outbreak, according to a Columbus Public Health release.

That was an increase of 16 cases from Thursday’s 87 total reported cases.

The release said 66 OSU students have mumps, as well as nine OSU staff members, five people with OSU links and one family member of someone with OSU ties.

The Franklin County outbreak has affected people from 4 to 58 years old, with 54 women and 49 men diagnosed. The onset of the first case connected to the outbreak was Jan. 7.

The onset of the first case connected to the OSU outbreak, though, was Feb. 10.

Mumps is a viral infection of the salivary glands, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. It can spread through coughing, sneezing or contact with saliva or mucus. According to the CDC website, the disease can be carried without any symptoms.

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states filed more charges to the EEOC in 2013 than Ohio.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Ohio had the seventh largest state population in 2010 with about 11.54 million residents.

But these 3,000-some cases likely don’t tell the whole story of workplace harassment and discrimination. The EEOC’s numbers only represent federal charges, and people can also file state charges.

Often charges are filed to both the federal and state government, but there can be some discrepancy, said Camille Hébert, a professor at the Ohio State Moritz College of Law. Furthermore, these charges are formal complaints, but harassment and discrimination cases do not always become formal complaints because they’re more often resolved internally, Hébert said.

“The charges are not going to capture the extent of harassment that occurs in the workplace because a relatively small amount of people actually file charges,” said Hébert, who specializes in areas including sexual harassment, employment discrimination and labor and employment. “Empirical

evidence actually shows that most people who are harassed don’t even make an informal complaint.”

While discrimination and harassment in the workplace might not have decreased significantly in recent years, that is not to say that it has not decreased at all. Greater employer awareness has led to less harassment, Hébert said.

“I do think in some sense there is less harassment in the workplace, particularly sexual harassment, but do I think it’s ever going to go away altogether? Probably not,” she said.

Hébert said because the number of charges has been fluctuating since 2009, there does not seem to be any trend in the charges.

“It goes up and down every year. I don’t think there is a trend in particular,” Hébert said. “I don’t view that kind of decrease as significant because if you look at the previous (years), you can see previous years in which it increased, and I don’t think that was significant either.”

Dave Isaacs, Student Life spokesman, declined to make a formal comment on the EEOC data, because it is statewide data and not university related.

Prospective Ohio State students are set to have access to a new, free tool to gauge how well their college credits from high school and other public institutions will transfer to OSU, something at least one current student said would have been helpful.

Transferology, an online network operated by CollegeSource Inc. that is set to begin Monday, allows students to enter their existing coursework, exams and military learning experience into its system and generate a list of colleges and universities in the network best matched for that student.

These matches are ranked by the percentage of coursework the potential universities would accept in the form of transfer credits, said Troy Holaday, president of CollegeSource.

Holaday said the website, a revamped version of its predecessor, u.Select, aims to get information to students more efficiently.

“U.Select gave students information through an eyedropper. You had to pick a specific school and look at transfer scenarios only one school at a time.

Transferology can show you many all in one go, how they rank in terms of credits, what they accept, and you can dive in from there,” Holaday said.

About 300 schools are in the network so far, with a concentration in the Midwest, Holaday said.

Transferology plans to also offer filters for students to focus their results in terms of distance from the student’s current location, cost and population size, Holaday said.

Michael Gable, assistant registrar at OSU’s Transfer Credit Center, said there is a subscription fee for OSU to use the new site just as there was with u.Select, which OSU was using. This fee is funded by the Ohio Board of Regents, he said.

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Matta rebounds from loss of Ross with Temple forward ERIC SEGER Sports editor seger.25@ osu.edu Thad Matta has turned the page — and done so quickly.

After the Ohio State coach learned he was losing his leading scorer and rebounder in forward LaQuinton Ross Friday, he brought in someone who looks to be more than capable than filling the void less than 24 hours later.

Meet redshirt-junior forward and Temple transfer Anthony Lee. Lee can suit up right away for Matta and the Buckeyes because he is set to graduate from Temple in May and as a graduate transfer, can play immediately per NCAA rules. Lee will be looked to bring stability to OSU’s low post presence, which lacked in production this past season.

Lee — who was also being courted by Indiana, Iowa State, Kansas, Louisville and Notre Dame — told Cleveland.com he chose OSU because of Matta, who told him how much the Buckeyes need him to be an important part of their team next year.

“He was talking about how much I could have added,” Lee told Cleveland.com. “That if I were on the team, maybe we’d still be playing (this year).”

Listed at 6-feet-9-inches tall and 230 pounds, the forward averaged 13.6 points per game last season for the Owls while gathering an American Athletic Conference best 8.6 rebounds per game.

OSU’s two primary post players last season, junior centers Amir Williams and Trey McDonald, only averaged 9.8 points per game and 7.5 rebounds per game — combined.

Lee expressed his excitement through social media, tweeting, “Buckeye Nation! Too blessed, been thru 2 much an Coach Matta and the Buckeye family knows what I need for this last year.

Blessed! !!!” from his personal Twitter account, @ AntLee_3, at 2:24 p.m. Saturday after the news of his commitment broke.

Lee had been on a visit to OSU during the end of last week, even posting a video to his Twitter and Instagram accounts of his tour at Ohio Stadium Friday.

The same day Lee posted the video of his visit to the football stadium, Matta and the Buckeyes learned Ross had decided to forego his senior season and pursue a professional basketball career.

“My experience at Ohio State has been incredible,” Ross said, according to an OSU press release. “Coach Matta, my teammates and the staff were amazing to

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work with on a daily basis. My goal has always been to play at the next level and I believe now is the best time.”

The official announcement from OSU confirmed a March 24 report by ESPN College Basketball Insider Jeff Goodman.

Matta said he was happy for Ross and his decision to leave for the pro ranks.

“LaQuinton was an instrumental part of our success over the last three years,” Matta said in the release. “His goal is to compete at the highest level possible. He will have that opportunity because of the work he has put in to prepare for this day. He will be missed at Ohio State and we wish him nothing but the very best.”

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Recyclemania is an 8-week recycling competition each spring. Colleges across the U.S. and Canada report the amount of recyclables and trash they have collected each week.

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Ohio State is getting into a competitive spirit about trash disposal — specifically, recycling.

RecycleMania is an eight-week recycling competition that takes place each spring and involves colleges across the U.S. and Canada reporting the amount of recyclables and trash they collect each week. Last year, OSU collected 517,680 total pounds of recycling material over eight weeks, said Tom Reeves, director of Student Life energy management and sustainability, in an email.

Reeves said OSU is attempting to market the event more this year.

“In the past, we’ve primarily focused on the residence halls and this year we increased our marketing efforts to include the (Ohio) Union, the rec centers, as well as some class buildings,” Reeves said. “We track the amount of recycling in Student Life facilities, which includes residence halls, dining facilities, the Union, the RPAC, for five of the eight weeks, and we then use that data to see how we’re doing each year to track the amount of waste that’s diverted from the landfill.”

OSU has collected 161,991 pounds of recycling material through week seven of the competition this year, putting it at No. 97 out of 330 schools,

according to the Recyclemania website. Rutgers University, which was No. 1 in the category last year, is in first place with more than 1.18 million pounds collected.

Reeves said there is no fee to participate, and many students are participating, regardless of whether they’re aware of it.

“All trash and recycling is collected and measured on campus during the competition,” Reeves said. “So if you’re throwing something away, or even if you’re not but instead choosing to reuse bottles or containers, you’re participating.”

He said Student Life does the measuring.

Aysia Loveless, a second-year in microbiology, said she doesn’t typically recycle and didn’t know OSU was taking part in the competition.

“OSU’s participation in RecycleMania is a good idea if people knew about it because I definitely would have been more conscious of recycling,” Loveless said.

Paula Kelbley, a fourth-year in business, said although she usually recycles on campus, she didn’t know it was being tracked.

“Recycling is really good, but since there’s a lack of knowledge about the competition, I don’t know if it’s really worth us participating if no one knows about (it),” Kelbley said.

Reeves said the easiest way to do more is to think about what is being thrown away and to double-check if it’s being put into the right bin.

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MADISON CURTIS / Design editor recycling bin. If you’re throwing away clean paper, put it in the recycling bin. If you’re throwing away food, it goes in the trash can,” Reeves said.

The primary benefit of the RecycleMania competition, Reeves said, is that it helps to highlight the recycling efforts for OSU. “Most people around campus realize that

we do recycle, but during our busy days, we sometimes forget which container specific items go in and we just toss the trash and go,” Reeves said. “RecycleMania helps people to think twice before pitching their trash, to help make sure only recyclable material ends up in the recycling bin, and everything else goes in the trash can.”

OSU students take to social media to find roommates I tried to use OSU’s roommate finder, but apparently nobody else does. I couldn’t find anyone who fit my description on there so I posted on Reddit.

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Gable said on the phone the site could help OSU track data on what kind of coursework transfer students are taking at other institutions.

If enough students have taken a course that OSU doesn’t already have an equivalency score for, Gable said OSU might consider creating that score.

Vittoria Nikalett, a fourth-year in sociology, transferred to OSU after three semesters at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio. With “about 50 credits that don’t count toward anything,” Nikalett said she might not have enrolled at OSU if she used something like Transferology.

“I had to drop my minor and I’ve had to take so many other classes that I already completed at my other institution. I haven’t had as much time to take classes that I like because I have to take time to fill those requirements. I don’t think I would have transferred if I would have known before because it wasn’t the best use of my time,” Nikalett said.

Transferology could benefit students who want to make the most of each semester’s credits, Nikalett said.

Some students find social media more helpful than Ohio State housing resources when looking for roommates.

Andrew Brennan, a third-year in business, was left with a little more than a month to find a place to live after his roommates asked him to move out.

“I tried to use OSU’s roommate finder, but apparently nobody else does,” Brennan said.

“I couldn’t find anyone who fit my description on there so I posted on Reddit.”

Brennan found three men through Reddit — a social networking website where users post and submit content through links or by text posts — who needed a roommate.

“There are a lot of weird people on the Internet so I suppose I was little nervous about meeting strangers to live with,” Brennan said.

He said he used Reddit because he’s used the site for reading about other topics before.

I don’t think I would have transferred if I would have known before (how many credits would transfer) because it wasn’t the best use of my time.

Vittoria Nikalett Fourth-year in sociology “It will help you better plan what classes you can take before you transfer, so they’re more applicable. Also, find better schools that will use your credit hours if you’re interested in graduating in a certain amount of time,” Nikalett said.

Gable said Transferology is set to have a more “user friendly” site design and interface than u.Select and should be most helpful to students who are looking to transfer but don’t have their sights set on just one school.

“If you really want to go to OSU, you probably don’t care about (if) the score transfers, but if you’re a little more up in the air … this could help,” Gable said.

Last week, Brennan said he had moved in and was happy with his new roommates.

Student Life spokesman Dave Isaacs said it’s important for students to get to know their prospective roommates as much as possible before moving in with them.

“Whenever you’ve got a roommate situation, you’re going to be spending a lot of time with these people and doing a lot of activities that are just a part of everyday life,” Isaacs said. “It’s certainly a good thing to get to know that person and their habits before entering into a contractual relationship.”

Isaacs said OSU doesn’t particularly advise against using the Internet to find roommates.

“It’s not that we discourage the use of social media, we just try to offer alternatives,” he said.

Neighborhood Services and Collaboration and Off-Campus and Commuter Student Engagement, both within OSU’s Student Life, host an online program called Roommate Search where OSU students can make an online profile and create and search ads by other students looking for roommates.

Payton Kantzer, a first-year in forestry,

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Some OSU students said they’re being extra careful because of the outbreak.

“It’s making me a lot more conscious about who I meet and interact with,” said Yaadata Abdalhalim, a first-year in chemical engineering. “I try to be more clean … wash my hands more often.”

Abdalhalim said though he’s a commuter, he often visits his friends who live in the dorms, but that’s changed recently.

“A lot of my friends live in the dorms, and usually I go visit them to hang out on the weekends and during social times. But the dorms are very condensed, so I have been visiting them less often,” he said.

Jack Wilbur, a second-year in chemical engineering, said he’s concerned about the outbreak’s spread.

“I initially overlooked (the first safety release), but I kept getting more emails and then I saw about it on the news, so it’s hard to ignore,” Wilbur said. “I look for hand sanitizer dispensers, I wash my hands more

fisheries and wildlife, posted on the OSU Housing website looking for a roommate.

“I went to the OSU site and created an ad and looked through other people’s ads but there weren’t very many posts on there,” Kantzer said. “I didn’t get a single response to my ad, so I posted on Facebook.”

Kantzer said she and her current roommates have met with 10 to 15 girls who responded to her Facebook posts on an OSU group page.

“I guess it could be dangerous to use social media, but not the way we’re using it,” Kantzer said. “We always have them meet us in a public place.”

Kantzer said students choose to use social media to search for roommates because it is easy to use and is used by a wide range of people.

Brennan said the necessity of finding a roommate outweighed any fears he had about meeting strangers through social media.

“I’m not a very imposing figure, but it’s possible my prospective roommates are discussing the danger of having me as a roommate right now, too,” Brennan said.

often, and I try to avoid using the handrails in busy stairwells, stuff like that.”

The Columbus Public Health releases encouraged anyone who has not received two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to get vaccinations.

Jose Rodriguez, spokesman for Columbus Public Health, said earlier this month those who have received two doses of the MMR vaccine still have a 10 to 20 percent chance of being infected.

OSU students interested in a vaccination are able to receive one through health services after a screening.

OSU Provost and Executive Vice President Joseph Steinmetz sent an email to faculty and staff March 19 asking them to support anyone affected by the outbreak. “(University) precautions include Student Health Services and Columbus Public Health’s urging students who have fallen ill with mumps to stay home and avoid school, work and other public settings for five days after their symptoms appear,” Steinmetz said. “If you have such students in your classes, I ask that you offer them all reasonable accommodation to make up … work they’ve missed while sparing their classmates from possible infection.”

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JACOB HOLLAR Lantern reporter hollar.38@osu.edu Should we cancel Stephen Colbert’s show? In a word, no.

On Thursday, the account for Colbert’s show, “The Colbert Report,” tweeted what has, when removed from the context of the fully developed joke it punchlined, become a rather incendiary remark.

“I am willing to show the #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever,” the now-deleted tweet read from the show’s account, @ ColbertReport.

In context, it was part of a bit satirizing efforts of Dan Snyder, the owner of the Washington Redskins, to eliminate criticism of his team’s name by starting a foundation for Native Americans.

To paraphrase James Poniewozik of “Time,” there are two ways to react to this sort of tweet: We can say, “That was a bad tweet, but surely there’s some sort of explanation. I should investigate further before lighting my torch and sharpening my pitchfork;” or we can say “OFF WITH HIS HEAD, COLBERT IS LITERALLY THE WORST.” I would hope we’d all aspire to the former, but ours is not an ideal world.

Rather, there was a lot of the second option. Of notable mention is Suey Park, who is credited with beginning the now-notorious hashtag, #CancelColbert.

For a time, I hoped her nonsensical vendetta was an elaborate satire of the ridiculous culture of “OMG someone should be fired for that!!” knee-jerk reactions that the update-often ethos of social media has fostered.

And the entire affair wouldn’t be out of place on Colbert’s show: Park seems more a single-note caricature of an overzealous women’s studies major than a serious activist.

Unfortunately, however, it is my understanding that Park is actually as self-serious as she seems.

Thus: Shame on you, Suey Park.

And not just on her, but on all who have behaved as she has Some have called Park’s tweeting “hashtag activism.” Instead, I’ll call it what it is: masturbatory contrarianism.

Prejudice and racism are still salient topics in America. Racists still exist, and discrimination is not dead.

And there is good to be done in campaigning against that sort of bigotry.

But what Park is doing is not helpful. By crying foul at anything that can be construed as remotely against her beliefs, she is parodying her own supposed cause and making a mockery of an ongoing effort to improve our country.

Toddlers have thrown more thoughtful tantrums.

There is a thoughtful dialogue to be had about race and its place in humor, but Park and her hashtag have done nothing to contribute to it.

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Indie rock band The Districts is set to perform April 1 at The Basement.

THY THY NGUYEN Lantern reporter nguyen.1070@osu.edu The members of indie rock crew The Districts all had plans to attend college at some point — but their passion for music led them in a different direction.

Instead, they started looking into labels for a record deal for their band, which formed in 2009 while the members were in high school, said guitarist and vocalist Rob Grote.

“It was definitely really exciting. We talked to a couple of labels. We had to decide which one was going to give us the most creative freedom and support what we want to do. It was kind of weird going into a different direction, but it was all what we wanted. It made sense and we’re happy,” Grote said.

In fall 2013, the band was offered a record deal from Mississippi record label Fat Possum Records, and signed with them that season, Grote said.

Now, Grote and the rest of his band, The Districts, are set to perform at The Basement Tuesday, with doors opening at 7 p.m.

Along with Grote, the band is a four-piece group made up of Mark Larson on guitar, Connor Jacobus on bass and Braden Lawrence with percussion.

Being in a band requires nurturing and compromise, Grote said.

“I’ve heard many people refer to a band as like a marriage because you have to always compromise a lot. Since there are four people involved, you’ve got to make sure everyone’s happy with everything here. You’ve got to try and communicate the best you can because four people, no matter how good of friends they are, you always run into roadblocks,” Grote said.

They also enjoy touring and meeting other people, Grote said.

He describes it as a “cool feeling.”

“It’s just great to meet people of all different places and play music in all different towns. My favorite part is just being in a different place every night,” Grote said.

The members used to hate each others’ taste in music, Grote said, back when they started playing in Lititz, Pa. They were mostly a cover band back then.

“When we started, we were mostly playing cover songs of

classic rock stuff. We slowly started to listen to the same of music and agreed on the same music,” Grote said.

When it comes to writing songs, there is not a set-in-stone process as to how the band composes its music, Grote said.

“There’s not a completely structuralized way of doing it.

Sometimes the lyrics will come first. Sometimes the music will come first. Sometimes it will kind of be simultaneous but usually, it starts with the basic outline of the song that I’ve written myself and then we’ll kind of get together and mess around with it and figure out how to work dynamically and figure out the more technical parts,” Grote said.

Grote’s said his favorite part about performing live is “getting lost into the music a little bit” and having fun in his “own world.”

“Playing live is really easy to get lost in the music and to enter a separate place,” Grote said.

The band is currently recording a new album, Grote said.

“We’re recording right now (and we’re) just (trying to) make a kick a-- of an album as we can,” Grote said.

Some students said they would be interested in seeing The Districts live.

“I would probably see the band in concert. They seem like the type of music that I would listen to, which is pretty laid back. I like indie rock music. It’s really melodic and more about lyrics. I’m big into words,” said Mary McManus, a third-year in English.

Tinisha Brown, a third-year in neuroscience, said she would see the band too.

“I would see them just because they’re different from any other band I’ve seen. I’m always trying to find new sounds,” Brown said.

Haley Duff, a second-year in zoology, said she enjoys indie music and would see The Districts live.

“They seem energetic and fun. I think they would be great live,” Duff said.

Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 on the day of the show. The Basement is located at 391 Neil Ave.

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New evidence in Cobain case sheds new light on rock star’s last days 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.

A brown-sweater clad, greasy blond-haired Washington native took rock 20 years ago, and April will mark two decades since Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994.

Twenty years later and most still haven’t forgotten one of grunge’s most iconic members — not even the police.

Last week, new evidence was released surrounding his death. The material included dozens of new photos that police found from four undeveloped rolls of crime scene film. While the photos weren’t enough to reopen the case, they do provide context on what his final days were like.

They are a pinhole glimpse at what happened to him in his last days. A suicide note with a red pen stabbed straight through it. A cigar box containing heroin paraphernalia. Those were what colored Cobain’s grim last days.

An electrician found Cobain dead with a gunshot wound in his Seattle home April 8, 1994, and it was later concluded he had committed suicide three days prior.

“I love you, I love you,” the last words of his letter read. The case is still closed, but the last moments of the star paints the drug-infused, bleak life Cobain finished. “I can’t stand the thought of Frances becoming the miserable, self-destructive, death rocker that I’ve become,” his note said of his daughter.

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He was an enigma. Behind the guitars and the tours, behind it all, Cobain struggled. He struggled with wife Courtney Love, with music, with it all, and as fans and followers, people wanted to know more. He joined the “27 Club,” the exhausting peak of rock gods who fizzled out long before Cobain. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and others all tapped out at 27.

What is it about 27? From overdoes and other causes, stars have faded out at that magic age. The photos released last week didn’t depict charming and quaint times. His last days consisted of an empty room with a single stool.

Nirvana only released three albums, “Bleach,” “Nevermind” and “In Utero.” That was all Cobain really needed to leave behind a legacy that would warrant police attention two decades later. Really Nirvana could have stopped at “Nevermind” and still created that same legacy.

Cobain stood for rock, for grunge and for what stardom can do to a person. A shotgun to the head is what stardom can do.

We are still infatuated with him, wondering how he did it, what went behind the inner sanctum of Nirvana that set him off. The photos aren’t proof of anything, according to the Seattle Police. Love isn’t being dragged into court anytime soon. The photos are simply a tangible record of what Cobain was, of what he still is. Idolized for shoving grunge into the limelight, Cobain had a lot resting on him.

Twenty years later, he is still idolized and Nirvana is set to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just days after the 20th anniversary of his death.

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Kurt Cobain (left), the former frontman of Nirvana, holds up a kitten to his daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.

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Saturday Women’s Tennis Northwestern 6, OSU 1 Women’s Lacrosse OSU 14, William & Mary 7 Men’s Lacrosse OSU 13, Jacksonville 2 Men’s Volleyball OSU 3, Lindenwood 2

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Buckeyes ‘top dogs’ of B1G tennis, defeat Illinois Kane Anderson Lantern reporter anderson.1995@osu.edu After breaking the NCAA record for most consecutive home wins, the No. 2 Ohio State men’s tennis team didn’t have much time to catch its breath before a tussle with Big Ten rival No. 10 Illinois.

Over the past decade, the Fighting Illini (14-6, 4-1) have played second fiddle to the Buckeyes (21-2, 6-0) in the Big Ten, losing to OSU in the Big Ten Tournament in seven of the last eight seasons, and that tune held true Sunday as the Buckeyes won, 5-2, at the Varsity Tennis Center.

Coach Ty Tucker toyed with the Buckeyes’ doubles lineup and split up his No. 6 ranked duo of senior Peter Kobelt and redshirt-junior Kevin Metka to even up the teams.

“We’ve been doing the same thing over and over again and haven’t seen the improvement,” Tucker said. “We thought it might work well (to split Kobelt and Metka). Sometimes you catch lightning in a bottle and, you know, we did today.”

Redshirt-junior Hunter Callahan and redshirt-sophomore Chris Diaz cruised to an 8-4 victory over Illinois junior Blake Bazarnik and sophomore Alex Jesse.

Metka and freshman Marko

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Senior Peter Kobelt celebrates during a match against Northwestern March 28 at the Varsity Tennis Center. OSU won, 4-3.

Goles-Babic meshed well together, grinding out an 8-7 (7-2) win over junior Farris Gosea and sophomore Jared Hiltzik to claim the doubles point for the Buckeyes.

“I’m really proud of (Goles-Babic),” Metka said afterwards. “He stepped up and made some big returns and served well throughout.”

Moving to singles play, redshirtfreshman Ralf Steinbach beat sophomore Julian Childers 6-1, 7-6

Men’s lacrosse scores early, often to down Jacksonville, 13-2 BRETT AMADON Lantern reporter amadon.2@osu.edu The weather was cold, but the Ohio State men’s lacrosse team was on fire against Jacksonville.

Playing the third of a three-game home stand, the Buckeyes (3-6, 1-0) defeated the Dolphins (1-7, 0-1), 13-2, inside a soggy Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium Saturday.

Getting off to a quick start, junior midfielder Jesse King and sophomore attackman Carter Brown tallied a pair of goals within the game’s first 45 seconds to put the Buckeyes ahead.

After King notched his second goal of the game less than two minutes later, OSU held a man-up advantage for four minutes after Jacksonville senior midfielder Mike McCredie crosschecked junior midfielder Turner Evans in the head.

OSU went on to score twice during the man-advantage.

OSU coach Nick Myers said Evans — who did not return to the game — would be evaluated by the medical staff and the team is expecting to know more on his condition in the coming days.

“Right now we are going to have to wait and see,” Myers said.

“Obviously he took a big shot in the first quarter, you hate to see that.”

Taking a 6-0 lead into the second quarter, the Buckeyes continued their onslaught.

Sophomore attackman Gordie Koerber tallied his second and third goals of the season in the second

quarter before Brown completed a first half hat trick by scoring with 2:30 remaining.

Brown finished the first half with four points (three goals, one assist), and King had seven points (three goals, four assists), as OSU took a 9-0 lead into the break.

Starting the third quarter, the Buckeyes continued to spread the wealth as junior midfielder Rick Lewis tallied his second goal of the season, and sophomore attackman Ryan Hunter managed to register the first two goals of his career.

Hunter said it was important for OSU to move the ball quickly and focus on the fundamentals so the weather wouldn’t be a factor.

“One thing was just moving the ball,” Hunter said. “Our feet were heavy so it was key to keep the ball moving up around the perimeter and make sure our feet were moving and focus on ground balls.”

Lewis said the offense did a good job of drawing double teams and then finding the open teammate which created good looks for the Buckeyes.

“This week we just kept it simple and got back to the basics,” Lewis said. “Just drawing doubles, making singles, and just playing as a team.

I think we did a great job of that. We shared the ball and got a good result for us.”

It wasn’t until the 3:51 mark of the third quarter that Jacksonville got on the board, adding another with 12:52 left in the fourth.

But that was all the Dolphins would get as freshman attackman J.T. Blubaugh put an exclamation point on

the game by scoring with 59 seconds left.

The two goals scored were the fewest OSU’s given up since defeating Bellarmine by the same score of 13-2 in 2012.

Myers said it was important for the defense to bounce back from its disappointing 13-7 loss to Notre Dame earlier in the week, but it took an entire team effort to limit Jacksonville the way they did.

“Defensively, we took it on as a challenge because we understand we haven’t been playing our best lacrosse, coming off 13 goals on Tuesday,” Myers said. “It was really a next play mentality. Our offense did a good job of maintaining possession and I thought we won some faceoffs, so it was a collective effort.”

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Members of the OSU men’s lacrosse team rush to the ball during a game against Jacksonville March 29 at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. OSU won, 13-2.

Freshman midfielder Jake Withers was able to control the faceoff circle once again, winning seven of his 10 draws to help give OSU extra possessions on offense.

“The faceoff guys work their butts off all week so it’s nice to see it pay off,” Lewis said. “All those guys are battling every day in practice so it’s definitely a credit to that.”

Offensively, nine different players registered a point on the day for OSU, including junior attackman Reegan Comeault, whose first quarter goal extended his point streak to nine games.

OSU is scheduled to be back on the road next weekend as the team heads east to take on the Delaware Blue Hens. Game time is set for Sunday at noon.

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(7-3) and Metka defeated junior Ross Guignon 6-3, 6-4 putting the Buckeyes one match away from another win.

The Illini came out with a new fire, though, and took the other four first sets including straight set victories against Diaz and No. 8 Kobelt.

With either Callahan or freshman Herkko Pollanen needing to come back from one set down, the Buckeyes were on their heels.

Both were able to win their second set, though, and use the emotion and enthusiasm of the home crowd to win in three sets.

Callahan clinched the match with a 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over Bazarnik and Pollanen put on the finishing touches with a 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 upset of No. 9 Hiltzik.

The team knew the importance of this match, as the winner would take sole possession of first place in the conference. The win gives the Buckeyes the inside track to the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten tournament, set to begin April 24.

“We’re in the driver’s seat, also because we’ve won the Big Ten the past eight years … that makes us the top dogs.” Callahan said.

Tucker said he’s happy to see steady improvement lately, though, especially after the recent battles they’ve had.

“We’ve always played wars.

Last Sunday we were at war with Michigan State, Friday night we were in a war with Northwestern,” Tucker said. “Today we played a little bit better tennis. Guys rise up a little bit and that’s what I was happy to see … in the past month that’s 15 percent better than we’ve played.”

The Buckeyes are next scheduled to play at Minnesota Friday at 3 p.m.

After five consecutive losses, the Ohio State men’s volleyball team finally got out of its slump, pulling out a pair home wins against Quincy and Lindenwood this weekend.

Junior outside hitter Michael Henchy said the five losses motivated the team to work much harder in practice, which helped them bring home two wins.

“Our most recent practices have been our most successful, and I think that our losses have made us work much harder,” Henchy said.

The Buckeyes (10-13, 6-6) ended their weekend with a second victory this season against Lindenwood in St. Charles, Mo., 3-2.

Henchy led the Buckeyes with a season-high 19 kills and added 12 digs, while redshirt-freshman middle blocker Driss Guessous finished second on the team with 14 kills of his own.

Junior middle blocker Dustan Neary said concentration was a main contributor to the team’s wins this weekend.

“We have had a lot of trouble focusing all of our attention on the match — this weekend I definitely saw a change in that, which I think made a huge impact on the outcome,” Neary said.

The Buckeyes started off their alumni weekend with a 3-1 win against Quincy in Quincy, Ill., Friday.

Nearly notched a career-best seven blocks, while Henchy finished with 11 kills and five block assists. Redshirt-junior opposite Andrew Lutz led the team with 12 kills and added nine digs, and Guessous had five blocks.

With the season winding down and the Men’s Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Championships quickly approaching — it is set to begin April 18 — the Buckeyes need all the wins they can get to help with the seeding of the tournament.

Coach Pete Hanson said if the Buckeyes win their remaining two league matches of the season against Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and Loyola, they have a chance to be placed fourth going into the conference tournament.

He added that the team is not focused on the tournament right now and still has a couple of matches remaining in the season before it can start preparing.

“We are not looking that far ahead, we have to get through these matches one at a time. Thinking ahead to the tournament is a distraction when preparing for the next match,” Hanson said.

OSU is next slated to take on IPFW Friday at 7 p.m.

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studentvoice Programs for international students worth the extra fee International Undergraduate Student Fee

MUYAO SHEN Lantern reporter shen.414@osu.edu

This $500 fee provides additional resources for international students including:

Last semester, I went to the program manager at Office of International Affairs with hostility and suspect asking her what the international undergraduate student surcharge is used for.

Before I went to her, I signed an online petition to accuse Ohio State of wrongfully charging this extra fee to international students.

Six months later, I am sitting in my room writing this article because I was irritated when I saw someone called the surcharge “racism” and God knows how much I want to say thank you to OIA. Exactly two years ago, I was having a hard time trying to talk to my American classmates and I was totally sweating when I was talking to my academic adviser, whom I should not have been scared of at all.

But now I have so many American friends I have little social trouble.

Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Muyao Shen and I’m from China. I am one of the thousands of international students at OSU. I am here not to speak if it is right or reasonable for OSU to charge us an extra fee since we are paying so much already. And I am here not to write about if OSU made the wise choice to give more and more offers to international students to earn more profits. But I am here to tell you the story how I see OIA used the money and changed my life.

To those who don’t know anything about international student surcharge, it is $500 fee paid by international students, which was passed by the Board of Trustees during the summer of 2012.

The funding provides for additional resources for international students and supplements study abroad programs.

And my story started after I had been at OSU for two semesters, when I was doubting if I made the right choice to come to the U.S. At that time, I still couldn’t talk to my American classmates. I thought they were judging me for my accent, my face and frankly, my race.

“What is the difference between me going to a college in China and this?” I asked myself and my Chinese friends.

Things started to change when I began to participate English Conversation Partners Program, which is sponsored by international undergraduate student surcharge.

This program matches U.S. American students with international students who would like to learn more about the American language and culture. We get to hang out with one or two American students weekly and do some big events too.

My American partner is a woman who went to study abroad in China before. Every time when we hung out, we learnt so much about each other.

Though we did not end up being great friends, the key she was holding means everything to me: Americans are just like us. They are not stupid. They are not scary. They are not racists.

This key opened the door and showed me a new world.

I decided to apply to be a Global Ambassador at OIA. I didn’t know much about it but I thought I would give it a try anyway.

•Further strengthening academic support services •Expanding language proficiency offerings through programs including: •English Conversation Partners Program •Global Engagement Nights •Enhancing temporary housing and counseling services •Accelerated planning and delivery of new programs There were more than

6,000

international students enrolled at OSU’s Columbus campus for Fall 2013, representing about

9.5%

of students enrolled at all levels KAYLA BYLER / Managing editor of design

source: OSU student enrollment report As a Global Ambassador, we host something called Global Engagement Night every Tuesday. It involves half domestic and half international students to engage in weekly conversations on a variety of themes. It is the place you really walk out of your comfort zone and start to know people more and more. Every time when you are at Global Engagement Night, you would hear all the weird questions without any judgments.

“Do you have four seasons in your country?”

“Why do you get an English name when you came to America?”

“Do American students treat relationships just like what they do in the movie, ‘Mean Girls?’”

“Are American really not good at calculus?”

I have had the opportunity to see so many times when someone leave Global Engagement Night with more friendships and understandings and fewer stereotypes.

And without the surcharge, we would not have Global Engagement Night.

The use of International Undergraduate Student Surcharge has been the biggest part of my college experience.

Things always get better when you start to talk.

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