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Hello fellow Buckeyes, and welcome to the beginning of a new semester at Ohio State! ¶ It’s that time of year again.

The hot days of summer will eventually cool to fall’s leaf-rustling chill and the brick walkways that snake throughout campus are once again populated by bustling bodies hurrying to science labs and residence halls. Ready or not, school WELCOME CONTINUES ON 2 has begun.

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University President Michael Drake aimed to increase college affordability on tour of Ohio this summer.

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New years are filled with new beginnings and goals, and The Lantern is not exempt from these annual changes. This issue marks the first print publication produced by the new staff of The Lantern, and we are very excited to share this special “Welcome Back” issue with all of you.

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Family hopes service will inspire Torres House residents MICHAEL HUSON Campus Editor huson.4@osu.edu

After incoming students were met by rows of cheering student volunteers outside their residence halls on move-in day, students stepped into their new home at Torres House.

They were then met with the inspirational words of a fellow Buckeye.

“Never stop,” reads a portion of an essay written by Omar Ernesto Torres that hangs within a shadowbox frame in the lobby, along with his Army uniform.

Torres was killed at age 20 during combat operations in Iraq on Aug. 22, 2007 – exactly eight years to the day of Ohio State’s official move-in date.

The new residence hall at 187 W. Lane Ave is named in his memory.

Oralia Torres, Omar’s sister, arrived early to the house opening on Saturday with her husband, three-month old son, Torres’ older brother Oscar, and his wife and two sons.

“It’s amazing and it’s bittersweet at the same time,” she said of the residence hall’s opening falling on the anniversary of her younger brother’s passing.

The Torres family welcomed students as they arrived to the dorm, greeting them as they mingled with one another and wheeled overstuffed move-in carts toward their dorm rooms.

“He moved in just like they’re moving in today; he studied here just like they’re going to,” Oralia said. “I think (the naming) is going to have a very positive influence.”

Torres was born the youngest of three children on May 18, 1987 in Chicago. He came to OSU with hopes of becoming a politician and studied political science and Chinese.

He attended OSU on full scholarship and tried out for the football team.

In the OSU Army ROTC, Torres became an Ohio resident and joined the Ohio National Guard. He then promptly joined the Army his sophomore year with the belief that he should start his ascent to officer from the bottom of the ranks.

He shipped out to Iraq the following year, in May of 2007. Torres, private first class, died in Iraq when an improvised explosive device exploded near his unit on Aug. 22, 2007.

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CAMPUS CRIME

A male student reported a bicycle theft at Morrill Tower Tuesday at 1:23 p.m. Two more bicycle thefts were reported at the same location on Sunday and Monday.

A female staff member reported Monday at 11:36 a.m. a theft from her car at the Neil Avenue Parking Garage.

There were three reports of bicycle thefts at Lincoln Tower on Sunday between 9:49 a.m. and 7:42 p.m.

An individual under the age of 21 was found with an open container at 11:40 p.m. on Saturday. The individual was given a summons and released.

A man stated he was assaulted near the corner of East 16th Avenue and North 4th Street Wednesday at 1:40 a.m., but refused treatment when a Columbus medical unit arrived on scene.

Drake brings college affordability into focus on summer tour

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Prevention program launches new, more accessible website ROBERT SCARPINITO Copy Chief scarpinito.1@osu.edu

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University President Michael Drake and Senate President Keith Faber attend a forum on August 13 in Urbana, Ohio.

MICHAEL HUSON Campus Editor huson.4@osu.edu As Ohio State students took their leave of campus last summer, some might have envisioned relaxing by a swimming pool, starting a new internship, or simply a nice, blank assignment calendar.

University President Michael Drake, however, departed from the capital city with his own vision: one to increase access, affordability and excellence at OSU. Drake’s summer tour of affordability summits took him out of Columbus and into southern and western Ohio to speak with local community and business leaders about college affordability aspects of OSU’s “2020 Vision.”

The president’s first trip on the affordability tour was to the south, where he spoke at the Wilmington

Municipal Building on July 23. The second stop was in Urbana on Aug. 13, where he spoke on a panel with Ohio Senate President Keith Faber and Clark State Community College President Jo Alice Blondin.

Drake began his portion of the Urbana discussion by stating his views on the importance of an affordable college education.

“We all agree that college education is a great expense for many, many families,” Drake said. “Very few families have that much of disposable income in one year. That’s a tiny fraction of the population, so we are very concerned with doing everything we can to make college accessible and affordable. We think college education is more important than it’s ever been.

We want a greater percentage of our citizens to be able to have a college education.”

The Board of Trustees approved

OSU’s third consecutive tuition freeze during a meeting on June 5. The approval held this academic year’s tuition at $10,037 for in-state students, who make up about 79 percent of OSU undergraduates.

However, out-of-state tuition was approved to increase 3.1 percent at that meeting, raising tuition to $27,362 for the 2015-16 academic year.

Drake identified two university goals: increasing the university’s fiscal efficiency and effectiveness and continuing to invest in faculty, facilities and research.

He added financial support from the state of Ohio increases resources and, in turn, aids the university with balancing those two goals, not forcing one to compromise the other.

Drake cited the increase of the Ohio College Opportunity Grant as an example of financial aid increasing col-

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The Ohio State University Suicide Prevention program redesigned its website and launched it at the beginning of August in the hopes of being more accessible to a wider audience. Buttons are laid out across the top for easy navigation and to get readers the information they need.

The prevention program is entering its ninth year, but this month marked the first time the website had undergone any design changes, said Darcy Granello, principal investigator of the program.

The previous version of the website was very factual, but not very approachable, Granello said. The changes aim to make information more presentable to visitors.

“We wanted to make sure it met the needs of our own campus and also provided information about the program to other audiences now that our program has gotten so much attention,” she said.

Granello, who recently returned from Australia after speaking at the Suicide and Self-harm Prevention Conference, said that 4 percent of OSU students attempt suicide every year, and 7 percent seriously consider it every year.

“Suicide is one of those things that nobody talks about,” she said. “Part of the campaign and part of all the work we do is to help people start the conversation, to help people who are suicidal to not feel so isolated.”

REACH is a training program that the OSU Suicide Prevention program uses to help faculty, staff and students prevent suicide. Training request forms are available on their website mainly for organizations, departments, colleges and programs, but individuals may also apply.

“The goal is not to make everybody — all faculty, staff and students — therapists, but the goal is to make everybody able to recognize signs of distress and know what the resources are and how to refer people to those resources,” said Micky Sharma, who sits on the prevention program’s advisory board and is a REACH trainer.

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18th Avenue construction set to continue through fall

MICHAEL HUSON | CAMPUS EDITOR

Eighteenth Avenue undergoes construction on August 22 in Columbus, Ohio.

MICHAEL HUSON Campus Editor huson.4@osu.edu Students may find themselves having to use some strategy this semester while traveling through central campus.

Construction on West 18th Avenue, which began last spring, is expected to continue through December, Justin Moss, spokesman for Administration and Planning, said in an email.

The fenced-off construction zone stretches from College Road to Magruder Road.

That zone will continue to be closed to vehicular traffic, but existing walkways, running along portions of 18th Avenue, will be open to pedestrians, as will two walkways near the 18th Avenue Library, which allow pedestrians to cross the road.

The construction on 18th Avenue began in May 2015.

Construction on College Road, Magruder Road and the Stillman Hall parking lot has been completed, and all three sites are now open.

The 18th Avenue construction, part of an $8.2 million project to extend chilled water lines from the East Regional Chilled Water Plant, will allow underground tun-

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nels to reach from College Road to Celeste Laboratory.

The tunnels will provide chilled water for air conditioning to Celeste, McPherson, Newman Wolfrom and Evans laboratories, Moss said.

Extending the flow of chilled water through the ERCWP is a step in stride with aspects of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan concerning energy use.

The plant aims to increase sustainability and reduce energy consumption on campus by providing redundant cooling capacity, according to a 2012 document from OSU Facilities Operations and Development.

Sean Whitehurst, a second-year in computer science and engineering, said he feels the construction on 18th Avenue is bearable, and the existing and temporary walkways should handle student foot traffic as fall semester gets underway.

“I think it’s kind of a good thing,” he said. “It can’t really hurt that they’re improving things, but it does kind of stink that there’s always construction going on.”

Whitehurst said he made a wrong turn on his first trip toward the construction after summer break, but doesn’t think the project will be a great inconvenience for most students.

“They’re doing construction for a reason, so it will be worth it in the end,” he said.

lege affordability for lower- and middle-income families.

He said that the university is doing its part, too, in the effort to increase overall affordability.

Drake said OSU has challenged itself to cut $200 million of general expenditures university wide over the next five years while simultaneously increasing revenue by $200 million.

In an effort to reach that $400 million total by 2020, Drake said $15 million was taken from university savings and devoted to need-based aid in the form of affordability grants for students.

“We granted the $15 million to the students before we had realized the savings that were going to pay for that,” he said. “It was a bit like being a cliff diver. But we thought we could find it, so we ran and jumped. Our job is to be able to find the money to cover that, and we’ve made great progress since the spring.”

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campus resource for students considering self-harm is the OSU Counseling and Consultation Service, of which Sharma is the director. The CCS offers all enrolled students 10 free counseling sessions per academic year.

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Collaborative, was advice given to him as a seven yearold boy. Oralia said she hopes Torres’ drive can continue through the encouragement of students residing in Torres House.

“I hope that he’s here with them in spirit,” Oralia said.

“And I hope that they’re inspired because my ultimate goal of keeping his memory alive is just to have young people inspired and to be the good in this world that we need.”

Eric Jaburek, hall director at the Torres House, said he thinks the house will stand out because of its connection with Torres.

“It puts some things in context,” he said regarding students. “To appreciate what they have, and to work hard for the privilege that it is to be here at Ohio State.”

As some of the new residents began moving in, looks of excitement and anticipation turned to intrigue as they noticed the Torres display and family members gathered by photographs of him serving in Iraq.

Keaton Joosten, a first-year in aerospace engineering living in Torres House, said he felt staying there was a point of pride and could serve as a reminder of the diversity of paths available to students.

“I think it will give (students) insight,” he said. “You might be in engineering and you might be super hard at work with books, but then there are other people, like the ROTC people, who have different lifestyles.”

Joosten said he considered joining the Air Force Academy, but decided to pursue engineering at OSU. Torres House is the largest of four new residence halls on North Campus, all named in memory of OSU war veterans. The eight-story hall can accommodate 532 students, has a recreational area on the first floor and community lounging and studying areas on each floor, according to the Office of Student Life website.

Scott House is named in memory of Robert R. Scott, who was born in Massillon, Ohio, and died manning his battle station aboard the U.S.S. California on Dec. 7, 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

Raney House is named in memory of Alice Rebecca Raney, the first woman from OSU to die during World War II. She graduated in 1939 and was serving in the Army Nurse Corps in England when she became ill and died in 1944.

Bowen House is named in memory of Dr. Clotilde Dent Bowen, a 1947 graduate who became the first female graduate of OSU’s medical school. She served during the Vietnam War and was the first African-American female physician in the U.S. Army. She died on March 3, 2011.

Curl Hall, although not university housing, is also a new addition named in memory of OSU veteran James Curl, a 1940 graduate who served as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Forces. He was shot down over Germany in 1945. The building houses a market on the first floor and event space on the second floor.

The naming of the new North Campus buildings was approved at a Jan. 30 Board of Trustees meeting, after names of OSU veteran alumni were chosen by a committee within Student Life.

The Omar E. Torres Charter School on West 47th Street in Chicago is also named in Torres’ memory, as is Private First Class Omar E. Torres Way, near the neighborhood where he grew up.

Qualifying low-income students were awarded $1,500 affordability grants, and $1,000 affordability grants are awarded to qualifying middle-income students. The grants reach about 12,400 students.

The $15 million Affordability Grant program was announced by Drake during the June 5 Board of Trustees meeting.

Blondin noted several Clark State initiatives and plans to increase affordability, including partial tuition discount opportunities and transfer agreements with fouryear institutions, including agreements with OSU, an “aspiration school” for her students. She also praised the Clark State Board of Trustees for freezing tuition at about $4,070 in early spring.

“The definition of affordability can be a challenge when you’re talking to students because they don’t necessarily perceive that as affordable,” she said. “We want to make sure that we’re working with them and that they understand that higher education is an investment, and

In the previous academic year, 7 percent of all students on the Columbus campus visited the CCS, which helps not only students contemplating suicide but also students with other mental health issues, including anxiety and depression, Sharma said. The service is

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we see that investment in how they transfer to four-year institutions … or that they go into the workforce, so that investment in their tuition pays off.”

Drake told The Lantern that an important aspect of the forum is that the guests have shared goals.

“We’re really all in the same business — each playing a little bit of a different position on the team, but all having the same objective at the end of the day,” Drake said of providing Ohioans with an opportunity to receive higher education.

Drake said he felt meetings like the one held in Urbana serve as good opportunities to discuss with university leaders the current state of Ohio colleges and possibilities for future.

“I think it’s important that we reiterate publicly our commitment to making higher education affordable, both from the university perspective and from the state legislative perspective,” he said. “And that’s what events like today do.”

featured under the “Get Help” section of the OSU Suicide Prevention program’s website.

“The website is a good starting point because many of our students are very web friendly in this day and age,” Sharma said.

“The focus of our website is all about prevention, all about getting people to the help they need, all about … resources on campus,” Granello said. “We are a resource-rich environment here, so it really is about connecting people to resources.”

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Idina Menzel makes a big splash at the Palace Theatre SAMANTHA HOLLINGSHEAD Photo Editor hollingshead.34@osu.edu

Palace Theater had a bit different crowd than Idina Menzel’s last concert in Columbus.

For starters, the last time I sat amongst five year olds dressed as Disney princesses at a concert, I was one of them.

Palace Theatre isn’t your typical venue. The elegant setting doesn’t give the rock n’ roll, mosh pit vibe. Walking into Palace Theater, you suddenly feel as though anything could happen.

Like maybe a concert starting on time.

Surprise, surprise! Menzel, like every performer, was late for her grand opening. Unlike every other performer though, Menzel wasn’t backstage doing drugs, drinking alcohol or just trying to make a big entrance. She had bigger problems. Specifically a five-year old son who kept her delayed. Menzel later apologized for the late arrival.

In 2012, people watched a brunette Menzel rush the stage and begin her performance. This time a blonde dressed in a black and gold gown entered and sud-

denly the room came alive.

The song “Defying Gravity” allowed Menzel to introduce herself as the high-belting, Broadway legend everyone knows her to be. Applause filled, and the show began.

For 20 years, Menzel has worked in everything from stage, television, movies and more, but after John Travolta butchered her name at the Oscars, she became the entertainment world’s (not so) new “It Girl”.

Jumping from fast to slow, high to low, fun to serious, MenPHOTOS BY: MUYAO SHEN | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR zel showcased a wide variety Idina Menzel performs on August 19 at Palace IDINA CONTINUES ON 9 Theatre in Columbus, Ohio.

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REGINA SQUERI Lantern Reporter Squeri.7@osu.edu

Hello, and welcome to “Sex Talk” with yours truly, Regina Squeri.

As literate human beings with access to the Internet, I am well aware that my audience more than likely has a good grasp on what sex is. I promise that I will not simply give out dry sexually transmitted infection statistics every week.

The problem is, there are way too many barriers when talking about the subject.

Why is it that so many peo-

ple only feel safe discussing sex with close friends at 1 a.m.? How is it that many hundreds of sexually active couples are afraid to bring it up? My ultimate goal with this column is to take away the mystery, to lift the taboo and to open up safe conversations about sex. Let’s talk about it.

That being said, I want to hear from you, my readers.

Please feel free to comment and post suggestions for future topics. Very important!

This is an LGBTQIA inclusive column and no topic for discussion is off limits! So hopefully I will be covering everything. We’re talking

birth control, sexuality in mainstream media, proper anal technique — you name it! If it has to do with sex, I want to include it.

Also, considering that I am a 20-year-old undergrad, I am by no means an expert.

Which is why I intend to feature experts such as sexuality professors, doctors and other professionals from right here at Ohio State. It’s about to get super sexy up in here.

Stay tuned for next week’s piece, running online on Monday. It’s a special feature for the freshmen — as well as those new to being sexually active.

The importance of cooking while at school COOKING AT COLLEGE

ROBERT SCARPINITO Copy Chief Scarpinito.1@osu.edu

The alluring scent of sautéed onions coats the thin cut of meat known as the Chaliapin steak, and each tender bite explodes with a juicy, meaty savor that’s accentuated by a light hint of salt and pepper.

When it comes to producing food in a college student’s kitchen, meals like the Chaliapin steak are rare to see. Instead, instant meals are typical, and they range from frozen dinners to instant noodles to boxed macaroni and cheese.

But why? Cooking isn’t a difficult skill to start learning. Literally millions of recipes are just a simple Google search away, and many recipes are variations of others, providing almost too many choices to suit any and all palates.

I started my cooking journey by writing down recipes I was interested in, one of the first being the instructions to make a creamy alfredo sauce with pasta — a dish so easy to make that it takes me about 20 minutes to prepare.

That’s how easy cooking can be, but, of course, many other recipes will likely be more complex and call for more of a time commitment, which is one of the biggest setbacks when it comes to cooking in college.

But here’s the thing: the meals that cost me a lot of time and effort never tasted awful.

Homemade meals have a sort of endearing quality to them; they were the product of my own effort, even if they don’t exactly look as appealing as almost anything on the Food Network.

To be fair, not every homemade meal should be expected to look as glorious as it does on a nationally-known channel solely about food. The food on TV is made for appearances, but the food most people make is made for practicality.

And let’s be honest, the more time you spend in college, the harder it is to be picky about food.

So even if a meal takes longer to make, just know that it will most likely be worth the result. Furthermore, consider that as cooking becomes more routine, meals that were hard-

er to make before become easier and can be made more quickly.

For now, just do yourself a favor and set aside some time in your week to cook a meal, either on your own or with friends. Try something you’ve never made before and let your taste buds explore. If you’re feeling up to the task, look up a Chaliapin steak recipe and try making it yourself.

Alternatively, you can start easy using the creamy alfredo sauce recipe I mentioned earlier.

Learning how to take ingredients and make them into a delicious and filling dish is a skill that’s useful during college and beyond, and like many other skills, it gets easier through practice. College is a time and place of learning, and most people arguably learn more life lessons outside of the classroom rather than within one. Why can’t cooking be one of those life lessons?

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A new year means a renewed Arts section LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

SALLEE ANN RUIBAL and TAYLOR FERRELL Arts&Life Editor and Assistant Arts&Life Editor Ruibal.1@osu.edu and Ferrell.178@osu.edu

Welcome to a new school year, and a newly improved Arts & Life section of The Lantern. You might have known us in years past as the A+E section. In an effort to modernize ourselves — and distance us from a certain “Duck Dynasty” network — we have rebranded.

With the new name comes a renewed commitment to tap into the multi-faceted lives of Ohio State students. In order to best do so, this summer we started a calendar feature titled “What’s Up.” It is your go to place to find out what’s up around campus and Columbus — concerts, plays, festivals, exhibits, everything. What’s Up will run Wednesdays in print, but a constantly updated list of events can be found at thelantern.com/events.

In addition, regular columnists will be featured in our section. Ogonna Ononye will continue with her Beyonce-inspired advice column, “Ask Ogonna.” We have a new sex education columnist, Regina Squeri, who will be tackling all that goes on under the sheets in “Sex Talk.” Both “Ask Ogonna” and “Sex Talk” will regu-

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larly run online on Mondays.

Copy Chief Robert Scarpinito will be covering kitchen basics and beyond in “Cooking in College,” running in print on Tuesdays.

Our “Columbus’ Own” series, which profiles local bands, will continue to run in print on Wednesdays. We have a new campus fashion columnist, Harry Xu, whose columns will run in print on Thursdays. My pop culture column, covering the hard news of celebrities and gossip, will run online on Fridays.

By having these scheduled columns, you — our readers — know what to expect from us. This section, this newspaper, is for you. We’re your student voice and we look forward to being heard.

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“I have been changed for good,” the lyrics to the last song, “For Good,” from “Wicked,” sum up the night for so many that it’s almost poetic.

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Torrance Gibson’s move to receiver could bolster Ohio State offense OPINION

KYLE MCKINNON Lantern reporter mckinnon.99@osu.edu

On Aug. 18, freshman Torrance Gibson announced that he’d be changing positions from quarterback to wide receiver.

With redshirt junior Cardale Jones and redshirt sophomore J.T. Barrett duking it out for the starting quarterback job for Ohio State, Gibson figured that it only makes sense that he switch positions.

His future under center is unknown at this point, but nothing has been ruled out quite yet.

“If I have a great season, who knows? But it’s not a worry right now,” Gibson said in an interview with ESPN. “I just have to take it one day at a time, and I’m working at receiver right now, and I haven’t done any quarterback things since I changed po-

sition. I’m just going to focus on playing receiver now, then I’ll focus on quarterback.”

Given the Week One suspensions to junior Dontre Wilson and redshirt sophomore Jalin Marshall, both H-backs, as well as redshirt senior wideout Corey Smith, the door is wide open for Gibson to come in and make a substantial impact on the Buckeyes’ offense.

However, it may just be his willingness to contribute in whatever way possible that sets Gibson apart from the crowd.

“Well, I just want to play. I don’t want to sit on the bench for a whole year, just wasting a whole school year. It just doesn’t make any sense,” Gibson said.

“Just helping the team out, that’s basically what I am doing. Because if I sat on the bench for a whole year (just to play quarterback), that would be selfish.”

Aside from the invaluable selflessness that he’s putting on full display, Gibson is as versatile as they come and possesses rare athletic abilities, among other traits.

Originally a highly touted dual-threat quarterback coming out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Gibson wowed scouts with his 4.4-second 40-yard dash speed. Considering his incredible leaping ability, coupled with a 6-foot-4, 205-pound frame, it’s easy to see why OSU’s coaches believe Gibson can thrive at receiver.

The former five-star recruit is capable of snaring tough, jumpball catches away from opposing defenders, while putting his breakaway speed to use in reaching paydirt.

As of right now, there’s no real deep-threat like Gibson in the Buckeyes’ crowded receiv-

ing corps. Gone is Devin Smith, who filled that role beautifully last season. Over the course of his senior year, Smith averaged a gaudy 28.2 yards per catch, which was the best in the country by a whole four yards.

Coach Urban Meyer recognizes the special type of player Gibson can be in OSU’s spread offense.

“Torrance is a guy — we still haven’t found our ‘Inside Nine’ guy — he’s the Devin Smith,” Meyer said of the talented freshman in the ESPN report. “(Gibson) came to me, he realizes it’s going to take at least a year to play quarterback here, especially with what’s in front of him.

He said, ‘I want to play.’ I said, ‘Well, here are your options: wildcat quarterback, we’ll see what your skill set is at receiver, catching the ball a little bit,’ and we put him back there returning

kicks.”

There’s seemingly no limit as to what Gibson can become. At OSU, he fits the bill as Smith’s replacement and would add instant offense. The suspensions to the many offensive contributors have provided Gibson with a perfect window of opportunity to see significant playing time.

If one day the hyped-up true freshman does indeed decide to return to his natural position of quarterback, that’d obviously be his decision to make. For now, Gibson has a chance to considerably impact the Buckeyes’ offense and help his team repeat as College Football Playoff national champions.

Gibson and the rest of the Scarlet and Gray are set to begin their title defense against the Virginia Tech Hokies on Sept. 7 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m.

Ohio State women’s soccer sweeps opening weekend, including top-10 foe KALEY RENTZ Lantern TV Assistant Sports Director rentz.21@osu.edu

“Failure happens all the time.

What makes you better is how you react to it.”

It might seem cliché to quote four-time NCAA champion and two-time gold medalist Mia Hamm, but the Ohio State women’s soccer team proved in their opening weekend that last season’s disappointments wouldn’t hold them back.

The Buckeyes opened their 2015 season taking on two new opponents: the Illinois State University Redbirds and the eighth-ranked University of Florida Gators. This was OSU’s first time in its 23-year history taking on either team, but in both matchups the Buckeyes came out victorious.

After finishing 6-10-3 last season, ending their 2014 campaign with a 2-0 loss to Rutgers, the Buckeyes have been on the hunt for redemption.

In Friday night’s match against ISU, the Buckeyes were quick to take charge, scoring twice in the first five minutes of action. OSU would post a 6-2 victory against the four-time defending Missouri Valley Conference Champions to gain its first win of the season.

In her 19th year as head coach for OSU, Lori Walker was proud of her team’s performance but looks for it to improve as the season continues.

“We were strong and saw improvement on a lot of the things we were working on in the preseason,” Walker said. “On the critical side, we need to play faster. There were multiple times I saw us slow down tonight, so we need to correct that.”

And the Buckeyes would correct themselves as they headed back to the home field for a matchup against No. 8 Florida, a team that throughout its history has been successful, and which is coming off a trip to the NCAA quarterfinals last season.

The teams clashed through 90 minutes, with a scoreless regulation finish sending the game into overtime.

That’s when the Buckeyes took control, as junior forward and assistant captain Lindsay Agnew slotted a through ball to fellow junior forward Nichelle Prince, who would tally her seventh career game-winner to grant OSU its upset against the Gators.

“We knew we had to be strong on the ball to get inside their defense and it was that way all day,” Prince said. “All we needed was one chance to go our way and luckily I was able to find the back of the net.”

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Then-freshman Nichelle Prince (7) avoids a defender during a game against Pittsburgh Aug. 28, 2013. OSU won 2-0.

Prince and the Buckeyes will look to continually battle the odds this season, as OSU was ranked ninth in the Big Ten women’s soccer preseason coaches poll.

“We’re working for one another. We’re coming into this year looked at as the underdog in the NCAA,” Prince said. “But we are really just coming into each game knowing we have

confidence in our team and we know we can do this. That’s giving us a bit of an edge right now.”

Walker also stressed the importance of team unity in the upcoming matches, emphasizing that it will be the team’s strength.

“We focused on the strength of our defending and the block of our defending,” Walker said.

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“Making sure that we are playing for one another and in overtime, that’s what you have to lean on.”

The Buckeyes look to continue to fight through their nonconference schedule, with scheduled trips to the University of Dayton on Aug. 27 before traveling again to Austin, Texas, to take on the University of Texas Longhorns on Aug. 30.

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The Columbus Crew SC is one of Major League Soccer’s 10 original franchises, beginning to play in Ohio’s capital city in 1996. The Crew play their home games at Mapfre Stadium, which is the first soccer specific stadium built for a professional club in the United States.

Mapfre Stadium has also been a regular site for the U.S. men’s soccer team, hosting 10 games since 2000, including World Cup qualifier matches for each of the four World Cups since the stadium opened in 1999.

The stadium is located roughly 2 miles from OSU’s campus, right next to the Ohio Expo Center and State Fairgrounds.

The MLS season begins in early March and extends through the summer into autumn. When classes begin on Aug. 25, the Crew still have three more home games on their 2015 schedule, with their final match of the season being played on Oct. 25 in Columbus.

Tickets are available to OSU students through D-Tix, Ohio State’s Discount Ticket Program. They are $13 and include a courtesy $5 food voucher to be used inside the stadium. Due to demand for such tickets, they are awarded via a lottery process. Students can register for the lottery approximately three weeks prior to the match on D-tix website.

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A reserves crew that could start for almost any team Much is published about OSU’s starters; award contenders at pretty much every position and dynamic playmakers on both sides of the ball. But the guys who are coming in to give those starters a breather — or possibly not coming into most games at all — are good enough to still contend for the best team in the conference.

Backing up Elliott is a five-star talent in redshirt junior running back Bri’onte Dunn. Filling in for the suspended junior Joey Bosa on the defensive line in the opener will likely be redshirt freshman Sam Hubbard, who OSU coach Urban Meyer has raved about since the spring game.

Senior defensive lineman Tommy Schutt brings three years of experience into limited action.

A pair of true freshmen in linebacker Nick Conner and running back Mike Weber stand to make their names known somewhat, especially in blowouts. A third true freshman, Torrance Gibson, was recruited as a quarterback but is making a temporary switch to wide receiver so he can get in on the act, as well. Gibson is considered one of the top athletes in

The Columbus Blue Jackets, of the National Hockey League, are one of two top-flight professional sports teams that call Ohio’s most-populated city home.

The Jackets play their 41 home games at Nationwide Arena, which is located in Downtown Columbus in an area of the city appropriately named “The Arena District.”

The 2015-16 NHL regular season begins on Oct. 7 and ends on April 9, 2016, which means while class is in session, there is plenty of hockey for students to watch.

The Jackets sport two 2014-15 All-Stars in forwards Ryan Johansen and Nick Foligno, as well as the 2014 Vezina Trophy winner for the league’s top goalie in Sergei Bobrovsky.

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As with the Columbus Crew SC, OSU students can get discounted admission into Blue Jackets games with their BuckID through D-Tix. Tickets go on sale at the box office outside the arena one hour before the start of the game and can be purchased for $15 for an upper-bowl ticket or $25 for lower-bowl.

the country and could be a secret weapon for Meyer’s offense.

And then, of course, unless the Buckeyes find a way to play two quarterbacks on the field simultaneously, one of Jones or Barrett will be standing on the sideline.

Each of the quarterbacks have already proven they can fill in spectacularly in an emergency situation, which will give the Buckeyes a great deal of comfort no matter which of the two Meyer ends up giving the job to.

That mentality should carry over to just about every position, with the Buckeye faithful feeling good about pretty much any player who steps on the field.

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A constant criticism about OSU since Meyer arrived in Columbus for the 2012 season is the lowly competition the Buckeyes have seen themselves up against.

Some say the quality of OSU’s non-conference and Big Ten opponents is a major reason for Meyer’s 38-3 record in Columbus.

While many of the critics were silenced after OSU’s thumping of three of the top teams in the nation to finish the 2014 season, they will likely be able to dig up the same complaints in the 2015

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Huntington Park can be accessed on the same Nos. 2, 5 and 18 COTA bus lines as Nationwide Arena.

D-Tix offers tickets for select Clippers games for $8, which includes a $5 food and beverage voucher. Tickets can also be purchased at the stadium box office for $7 for a bleacher seat to $15 for a box seat.

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regular season.

OSU’s four non-conference opponents — Virginia Tech, Hawaii, Northern Illinois and Western Michigan — combined to go 30-23 last year, with only Virginia Tech playing in a power conference.

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Coach Urban Meyer lifts the 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy following a 42-20 win against Oregon on Jan. 12 in Arlington, Texas. OSU won, 42-20.

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Offensive line, depth, schedule could lift Buckeyes to another Championship RYAN COOPER Sports Editor cooper.487@osu.edu

Coming off a championship in the inaugural College Football Playoff, the Ohio State football team justifiably has large expectations ahead of the 2015 season.

After all, the team returns all but seven starters from a unit that won 13 straight games to close out the season and beat Wisconsin, Alabama and Oregon by a combined 88 points in its final three.

The Buckeyes come into the 2015 season not just ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press poll, but No. 1 unanimously — the first team to ever receive every first-place vote in the preseason poll. An elite offense and elite defense are expected to come together as it did late in the 2014 season from the start and make OSU the title favorites coming in.

Here are three reasons why the OSU faithful might start thinking about making the trip to Glendale, Arizona, on Jan. 11 for the national championship game.

An offensive line that makes very good players elite The 2014 OSU team showed both the benefit and disaster that stems directly from the good or bad performance of an offensive line. In OSU’s home loss to Virginia Tech last season — the same team that the

Buckeyes open the 2015 season against — then-redshirt freshman quarterback J.T. Barrett was sacked seven times and pressured countless others.

After that, however, “The Slobs,” as they’re known, came together to create a shield in front of the quarterback. In the three postseason games, new starting quarterback Cardale Jones was only brought down five times.

Jones used the abundance of time to throw for 742 yards in his three starts and run for 90 more. Maybe even more beneficial from the protection of the line than the quarterback, however, was then-sophomore running back Ezekiel Elliott, who exploded for 696 rushing yards in the three postseason games, adding eight touchdowns.

In 2015, four of the five “Slobs” are back, with only redshirt senior Chase Farris slotting in at right tackle for the now-Baltimore Raven Darryl Baldwin.

Senior tackle Taylor Decker and junior guard Pat Elflein were named to the preseason watch list for the Outland Trophy, given to the top interior lineman in the country, while senior Jacoby Boren was added to the Rimington Trophy watch list for the top center. Sophomore Billy Price rounds out the line that could vault Elliott and whoever starts at quarterback — Barrett or Jones — to the top of the Heisman Trophy contention.

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Fans looking to purchase new Ohio State football jerseys for the upcoming season will have two jersey options to choose from at Nike apparel-approved retailers: No. 1 and No. 15.

Rick Van Brimmer, assistant vice president for Affinity Trademark Management, said that it is merely a coincidence that two team standouts in redshirt senior quarterback/H-back Braxton Miller (1) and junior running back Ezekiel Elliott (15) sport the two number choices that are represented.

According to Van Brimmer, the decision to make those two numbers available to fans is because annually No. 1 is the most popular jersey number and No. 15 represents the upcoming 2015 football season.

Van Brimmer said the decision came about after an internal meeting from peer institutions.

“Given the current climate around use of players’ names and likeness, this seemed to fit philosophically with where we want to be,” Van Brimmer said. “Fans can still get any number they choose through our custom jersey program at the stadium and online at our official team shop, as long as they include their (own) name on the jersey.”

Carter Marsch, a second-year in communication, said he approves of the decision to represent the year and the potential national championship awaiting the team at the end of the season, but he also realizes the problem with teams using players’ jersey numbers for profit.

“There’s always been problems with representing students and making money off of them, and what the football team can bring in, compared to what the students make,” Marsch said. “I think that this is a good way to kind of cancel that out, almost.”

Van Brimmer said some stores may have carryover stock from last year still available for a limited time.

Kathy Smith, general manager at the Barnes & Noble in the South Campus Gateway, said her store was already clearing out last year’s inventory before the announcement came out.

Smith said her store still has some of last year’s No. 5 jerseys — the number formerly worn by Miller — on clearance right now.

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