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Ohio State football kicks off spring ball ERIC SEGER Sports editor seger.25@osu.edu If there was one thing Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer wanted his players to take away from his team’s first spring practice of the year, it was that he wants them to play angry. The Buckeyes are coming off back-to-back losses to finish their 2013-14 season 12-2, falling to Michigan State and Clemson in the Big Ten Championship Game and Orange Bowl, respectively. Those losses came after the team’s second straight 12-0 regular season, and coming into spring ball, Meyer wants his team to have a different outlook on things. “I felt last year (coming into spring practice), I don’t want to say the word ‘entitled’ … but I want an angry, blue collar team (now),” Meyer said Tuesday after wrapping up the first stint of spring drills. “I’m hoping that’s what we have. Last year it was 12-0, you’re preseason this or this. I haven’t had many people ask about our preseason, not that I know what it is. We’re just trying to find out who’s going to play for us in some spots.” Buckeyes’ health OSU announced Monday that Meyer had undergone a procedure this past weekend to alleviate pressure from an arachnoid cyst in his head — which occurs in the brain and skull or in pockets around the brain called ventricles — but he said he’s “good to go,” and just has some simple directions from his doctor. “Just watch how loud I scream. I’m not kidding you,” Meyer said. “And how loud I blow the whistle. So I didn’t end up blowing the whistle today – it didn’t sound very good. But I’ll be back after spring break.” Offensively, the Buckeyes are likely to be without starting quarterback Braxton Miller throughout spring ball after he underwent minor surgery on his throwing shoulder Feb. 21. Miller watched the Buckeyes’ first practice with his arm in a sling, studying plays from behind the line with a camera on his hat. Meyer said Miller calls the plays, and then studies the defense in hopes of him not regressing in the spring. “They got a contraption set up where he actually
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More than 100 USG candidates vie for about 40 seats DANIEL BENDTSEN Senior Lantern reporter bendtsen.1@osu.edu
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OSU football players at the first day of spring practice. calls the play … and he also tells us what he sees in the secondary,” Meyer said. “Every play we’re having him say what he sees in the secondary. It’ll be a productive spring. He’s into it right now.” Meyer said a big thing Miller will miss this spring is a chance at game reps, but it’s on the senior quarterback to keep improving other facets of his game. “If he doesn’t have a good summer, that’ll cost him a lot. He’ll be a very average player,” Meyer said. “He’s got a lot riding on this now. If he doesn’t fix this and this, that’s a much different spot than he wants to be.” Offensive depth Redshirt-sophomore Cardale Jones took the majority of the reps at quarterback with the first
team offensive unit, with redshirt-freshman J.T. Barrett throwing with the second team. True freshman and early enrollee Stephen Collier saw time as well. Sophomore Ezekiel Elliott took the most reps with the first team at running back. Redshirtsophomores Warren Ball and Bri’onte Dunn, as well as redshirt-senior Rod Smith, all split time with the starters. The latter three were all clearly behind Elliott, however. Sophomore wide receiver Dontre Wilson spent time in drills in the slot receiver position, and also returned punts alongside freshman Curtis Samuel and redshirt-junior Corey Smith. At tight end, redshirt-junior Nick Vannett took
Voting for Undergraduate Student Government elections ends Wednesday, but some candidates for the General Assembly said the nature of the election makes it difficult to predict the success of their efforts. “It’s very stressful — you have no way of knowing,” said Matt Shomo, a second-year in public affairs and a candidate for public affairs senator. “You just have to go out and touch base with as many people as you can and trust that they go out and vote.” Still, Shomo, who is running on presidential campaign Vytas Aukstuolis and Nick Macek’s slate, said campaigns make attempts at figuring out the results throughout voting, like monitoring how many people access the voting link on their campaign website. “We know how many people click on that link, but even that doesn’t necessarily translate to votes for us,” he said. Miranda Onnen, a third-year in political science and economics and a candidate for off-campus senator on presidential campaign Celia Wright and Leah Lacure’s slate, said she tries to use social media to judge the effectiveness of her campaign. “Tools like social media help give you a quantifiable number of how many people you’re reaching every day, with ‘likes,’ ‘shares’ and ‘retweets,’ but obviously it’s not an exact science,” Onnen said. Because of the limited access to information, Onnen said victory can be a matter of logistics related to how many people are on a slate. “On campaigns past, I’ve seen candidates frantically recruit whoever they know who’s possibly interested in the role, without regards to that person’s qualification or their level of experience,” she said. Of the current presidential campaigns’ general assembly slates: • Current USG vice president and presidential candidate Josh Ahart, who is running with
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Some students, leaders On-campus counseling can aid mental health disagree on merits of How the scheduling process at OSU CCS works campus construction REGINA BONFIGLIO Lantern reporter bonfiglio.20@osu.edu
8 construction projects on campus
Peasly St.
CONSTRUCTION W. Lane Ave.
N. High St.
North Residential District Transformation
= $370M
There is about 6K feet of construction fence on North Campus. source: osu.edu
Dorm sites Royer Student Actvity Center North Commons
W. Woodruff Ave. Raney Commons Fences
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ALEX DRUMMER Lantern reporter drummer.18@osu.edu Interim President Joseph Alutto said he considers the construction on Ohio State’s campus to be “one of the wonderful tensions in life.” “You can’t improve facilities that are available to you as students unless you have construction, so that means some students, some faculty and some staff are going to have to live through the construction period, and the beneficiaries then are not going to be the people who live through the construction period but the ones who come after, and that’s just life,” Alutto said in a Feb. 11 interview with The Lantern. The inevitable process Alutto spoke of, however, has left some students dissatisfied. Sarah Kasper, a second-year in speech and hearing science and resident of Haverfield House, said living on North Campus during “the construction period” has been frustrating and has made her partially regret her decision to live on campus for a second year. Kasper’s solution: offer a stipend for students who have to deal with the construction.
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When one Ohio State student lost a parent last year and found herself dealing with grief and anxiety, she decided to seek out counseling. At her boss’ suggestion, the fourth-year female business student, who wished to remain anonymous because she wanted her counseling experience to remain private, decided to look into the services available on campus through the Office of Student Life’s Counseling and Consultation Service. So in October, she called CCS to make an appointment. “I was especially nervous for my first meeting,” she said. “It was a situation I have never been in before so I didn’t know how to act, but after first couple (meetings) with my counselor it became more natural.” CCS provides up to 10 free counseling sessions, available in its main office on the fourth floor of the Younkin Success Center. Two of the services students can attend through CCS are weekly drop-in workshops or one-on-one appointments with a therapist. Micky Sharma, director of CCS, said the majority of OSU students who seek counseling meet with their therapist between five to six times. If students need more continuous services outside of the 10 sessions, he said CCS tries to direct students to other therapists in the community who can better meet their long-term needs. In addition to scheduled sessions, Sharma said CCS maintains open urgent appointments for students who have an emergency and need to see someone immediately. Sharma added that over the course of the last academic year, CCS had more than 600 requests for urgent appointments. “All were contacted within less than 24 hours,” he said. In January 2013, CCS switched to a “triage”
A student contacts CCS and CCS schedules an initial triage call.
During the triage call, the student speaks with a therapist on the phone. The therapist “screens” the student’s level of distress to gauge needs.
The therapist makes a determination about the next course of action and establishes a follow-up meeting. source: reporting
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model, which evaluates patients on the phone before scheduling appointments in order to decide how severe a patient’s need for treatment is, which Sharma said has helped. “Sometimes students will call in and will not say when they’re in a state of high distress when they actually are,” Sharma said. “This chat with them gives us a good sense of what they need.” Sharma said the switch to the triage model also helps screen students and arrange their appointments faster. “The time it takes to schedule an appointment varies depending on where we are during the academic year,” he said. “As we get into busier points of the academic year, there would be about a two- or three-week wait.” Sharma said typically CCS isn’t busy at the start of Fall Semester but gets busier after that. Sharma also said CCS is currently looking to fill five positions on staff.
While two of the available positions are considered “generalist,” CCS is specifically looking for therapists with expertise in eating disorders, men’s issues or psychological assessment. For the third position, Sharma said CCS hopes to hire a care manager, which is someone who collaborates with local entities like Harding Hospital or off-campus mental health providers for students to help students who are struggling with mental health issues. Sharma said for the other two positions, CCS hopes to hire therapists who can provide care for two diverse communities of OSU’s campus, namely speakers of Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. “One of the things we aspire to in this center is to be very multiculturally competent and sensitive and we understand that we need to have staff here, clinicians here, who represent our entire student body,” Sharma said. CCS also offers group meetings, workshops and “Let’s Talk” drop-in sessions at the Office of International Affairs in Oxley Hall and the Office of Military and Veterans Services in the Student Academic Services Building, locations that are outside of Younkin Success Center. Carolina Alvarez, a third-year in animal sciences and resident adviser on campus, said she was happy to hear CCS has services outside of Younkin because some students are wary of going into the center. “A lot of students benefit from CCS but as an RA, I’ve noticed that there are many residents that could benefit from (counseling) but don’t because they are scared to,” Alvarez said. Alvarez said some students are intimidated by the process or get discouraged at having to wait for appointments, but she said she’s successfully recommended other CCS resources. “I’ve sent many residents to the group sessions, which they seem to really like. They are always really nervous at first, but the
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