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Ex-Title IX chief: OSU mishandled band probe Jon Waters vying to get OSU job back

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Former OSU Title IX coordinator Andrea Goldblum said the investigation into the marching band’s culture could have been avoided had she been given proper support from the university to fulfill her Title IX duties.

LOGAN HICKMAN Campus editor Hickman.201@osu.edu Roughly a month after Ohio State’s marching band director was fired for not doing enough to change a “sexualized culture”

within the band, a former OSU Title IX coordinator came forward to say that the university has fallen short on its end as well.

Andrea Goldblum served as OSU’s Title IX coordinator from April 2013 until resigning in December. She came to OSU in 2005 as the director of student conduct.

She said she chose to leave because of internal problems with the Office of Compliance and Integrity, where her position was based. Goldblum said she felt the office wasn’t doing enough to support her in a way that fulfilled the university’s obligations to Title IX. Title IX says schools that receive federal funding can’t discriminate based on sex.

Former marching band director Jonathan Waters was fired July 24 after a two-month investigation into the marching band found a culture conducive to sexual harassment. It was determined Waters was aware or reasonably should have been aware of that culture but didn’t do enough to change it.

Goldblum spoke with The Lantern about the office’s handling of that investigation as well as a meeting with her, Waters and vice president and chief compliance officer of the Office of Compliance and Integrity, Gates Garrity-Rokous. She said things could have ended differently if Garrity-Rokous had let her do her job during that meeting.

“If somebody doesn’t stand up and say something, nothing’s going to change,” Goldblum said. “My interactions with the university thus far, it’s been about protecting people in power.”

In particular, Goldblum recalled a meeting with Waters that the former director said Tuesday he also remembers. But while Goldblum saw it as an opportunity to tackle

LOGAN HICKMAN Campus editor hickman.201@osu.edu Former Ohio State Marching Band director Jonathan Waters said he still hasn’t decided whether he’ll sue OSU during a Tuesday interview with The Lantern.

He was fired July 24 after a two-month investigation into the band found a culture conducive to sexual harassment. It was determined Waters was aware or reasonably should have been aware of that culture and did not do enough to change it.

His attorney David Axelrod said Waters has acknowledged that he needs to start looking for a new job, but said he hasn’t started yet because he wants his position at OSU back.

Since his termination, many OSU Marching Band members, alumni and others have showed support for the ousted director with numerous letters to the editor, letters to university administration and rallies, among other things. Most call for Waters’ reinstatement.

The student squad leadership of the band from 2012 and 2013 released a statement Tuesday through Axelrod’s office that called the report’s findings “false and misleading” and said the investigation was “severely flawed.”

Another display of support for Waters surfaced Tuesday when a 10-page document of Waters’ attempts to change the band culture was found on the marching band alumni club website. One instance in the report describes how Waters looked down upon mistreatment of new band members.

“We could not publicly (or in front of Jon Waters or any staff) refer to first-year band members as ‘rookies.’ We were required to refer to them as first-years in order to reinforce equality among ranks. Jon stressed that even a reference such as first-years was a form of hazing, and not something that was supported by the OSUMB,” it reads.

Waters said Tuesday afternoon he hadn’t read that report and couldn’t provide direct comment on it. “Without reading it, I’m sure I stand by what they’re saying,” Waters said.

Although Waters has asked the university for his job back, both President Michael Drake and OSU Board of Trustees Chair Jeffrey Wadsworth denied further consideration. If Waters does sue, however, Drake has said the university will be prepared.

Recently, the former OSU Title IX coordinator came out saying the band culture investigation could have been avoided if the Office of Compliance and Integrity had allowed her to intervene sooner. Before his dismissal,

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Students flock to Frenzy Students gather around the many booths participating in Welcome Week’s annual Buck-i-Frenzy Aug. 26 at the RPAC. Read the story on 2A.

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Student band OSU ticket prices, demand drop post-Miller injury Braxton Miller’s injury drives down ticket prices to play at Welcome Week TIM MOODY Sports editor moody.178@osu.edu

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Some of Ohio State’s students will be looking at the crowd instead of standing in it for the Welcome Week Concert.

Fourth-years Nate Baumgard (studying geographic information sciences), Eric Blaha (studying marketing), Nick Samson (studying English), Stew Weinland (studying mechanical engineering) and secondyear Andrew Gutierrez (studying English) will be playing in their band, Captain Kidd, at Friday night’s show, opening for GRiZ and Captial Cities.

The group started with Baumgard and Blaha, who wanted to keep making music when they came to OSU after they started playing together in high school. They gained popularity with their single “Freaky Love” last fall and a self-titled EP in the spring.

“The progression has been amazing.

It’s been the most shocking and surprising sequence of events. We recorded ‘Freaky Love,’ and that kind of changed everything. That got the attention of our manager, and (playing music) became more than a hobby,” Blaha said.

The Welcome Week concert isn’t Captain Kidd’s only performance Friday night, though.

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In a sport with 22 starters, it’s rare for just one to swing a fan’s interest in attending a game.

While the university hiked up the face value of OSU football tickets in 2013, the actual price to get into games this season has taken a hit since senior quarterback Braxton Miller went down with a shoulder injury.

Miller tore the labrum in his throwing shoulder at practice Aug. 18. Just two days later, the average price to get into an OSU home or neutral site game in 2014 had already dropped about 10 percent, according to the website SeatGeek.

The website is a place to search for tickets that compiles prices for different events across major secondary ticket-selling websites.

A spokesman for StubHub, a major secondary ticketing website, said on Monday the website did not see a change in prices after the injury, but did see about a 10 percent drop in traffic going to the OSU ticketing page on the website compared to the week before the injury.

On Tuesday, the StubHub spokesman said single game ticket prices hadn’t changed, but the website had seen about a 9 percent drop in season ticket prices since before Miller’s injury. He said StubHub has about 300 season-ticket listings from outside sellers.

OSU assistant athletic director for ticketing and premium seating Brett Scarbrough said Tuesday he hadn’t had a chance to “scour the secondary market,” but added his office had not experienced a decrease in phone calls looking for tickets since Miller was injured.

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“As far as requests that come through my office, for both home and away games, I have not seen a dip in those at all,” he said.

Scarbrough went on to say that he had never experienced a situation where one player drove down either prices or demand for OSU football tickets.

The average price to get into the Buckeyes’ season opener against Navy, set to take place at the Baltimore Ravens’ M&T Bank Stadium on Saturday, dropped 15 percent in the first two days after the injury. Originally averaging $109 before his injury, the prices were coming in at $93 on the week of the injury.

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night, a SeatGeek search showed the price had dropped 52 percent to as low as $37 with the game less than a week away.

Even OSU’s annual matchup with archrival Michigan — better known as The Game — saw an initial drop in prices. According to SeatGeek, the average price for the Nov. 29 matchup at Ohio Stadium was $408 during the week of Aug. 11, but dropped down to $380 — or approximately a 7 percent decrease — after the injury.

Regardless of secondary vendors, Scarbrough said OSU’s single-game ticket sales have been successful heading into the season, especially when it comes to Michigan.

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campus Buck-i-Frenzy welcome event draws thousands

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Lauren Biales Wise, a second-year in engineering, rides down a zipline provided by SuperGames with Brandon Lundeen, a second-year in engineering, at Buck-i-Frenzy on Aug. 26 at the RPAC.

HAYLEY BECK Lantern reporter beck.521@osu.edu It was hot and muggy, but thousands of students and dozens of businesses gathered together and got a little frenzied.

The annual Buck-i-Frenzy festival was held Tuesday in and around the RPAC, giving students an opportunity to check out vendors from the campus area and beyond.

There were 70 vendors at this year’s event, including 14 food and beverage vendors and almost all of them gave out a free product or had some kind of incentive to entice students to check out their booth.

The theme this year was superheroes, and some took it to heart. A fully outfitted

Captain America strode around and some students handed out shirts studded with superhero motifs.

“We encourage students to dress up or get into the spirit and join the fun,” OSU Student Life spokesman Dave Isaacs said.

Vendors were also encouraged to incorporate the theme into their displays and some of them even sported Superman-themed shirts.

Of the 70 businesses at the event, food vendors paid $1,500 for a booth and general vendors paid $1,700, Isaacs said.

“The Buck-i-Frenzy is self-funded and pays for itself through vendors and sponsors,” Isaacs said.

Emily Kotyuk, a third-year in human development and family sciences, said she has worked this event for three years with the Mount Leadership Society Scholars.

“Vendors have upped their game and have started offering more free stuff,” she said.

She added that every year there are more students who attend and more students who start arriving early.

Isaacs said about 20,000 students attended this year’s event.

New to Buck-i-Frenzy this year were displays from Yonanas and Dasani, which displayed Dasani Drops.

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Members of the OSU Marching Band take the field before a game against Buffalo on Aug. 31, 2013 at Ohio Stadium. OSU won, 40-20.

Summer recap: Band director fired, Braxton Miller injured LOGAN HICKMAN Campus editor hickman.201@osu.edu Even if it seemed like life slowed down at Ohio State as some students departed during the summer, the university was alive with changes in administration, renovations and sports. A new president took over and that president fired the band director. A star quarterback was injured and is out for the season and a redshirt-freshman who has never played in a collegiate game is taking over. If you missed any of it, The Lantern is recapping some of OSU’s notable summer stories.

Michael Drake begins presidency President Michael Drake became OSU’s 15th president on June 30.

Before coming to OSU, Drake was chancellor of University of California, Irvine.

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Drake is set to earn an annual base salary of $800,000 during his five-year term and is also eligible for a $200,000 bonus each year, alongside an annual credit of $200,000 under a deferred compensation agreement.

Drake’s presidency follows that of E. Gordon Gee, who retired more than a year ago after controversial remarks he made at an OSU Athletic Council meeting became public.

Gee is currently serving as the West Virginia University president.

Former marching band director Jonathan Waters’ dismissal The July 24 firing of former OSU Marching Band director Jonathan Waters drew a significant amount of attention this summer.

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Tickets from 1A “What I can tell you is … we went on sale with our single games a few weeks ago,” he said. “We’re very successful with that. With the exception of Michigan, which is sold out, all of the other (home) games are down to scattered single seats.”

With The Game sold out through OSU’s ticketing service, the prices have fluctuated multiple times since the injury.

On Aug. 20, the low price for the Michigan game on SeatGeek was $210, just a $2 drop from two days earlier, but on Monday, the tickets started at $203. That was more than a 4 percent decrease for the price to watch arguably OSU’s most anticipated game of the season.

As of Tuesday night, that get-in price was back to $214 after the initial plunge.

OSU’s homecoming matchup with Rutgers took the most significant hit for average ticket prices, falling about 18 percent from the week of Aug. 11 to the week of Aug. 18. Those tickets were still averaging about $144, but had come in at $175 before the injury.

On Tuesday night, a SeatGeek search showed a low price of $93 for an Ohio Stadium ticket for the Rutgers game, which is about a 16 percent drop from the $111 get-in price on Aug. 17.

Instead of focusing on which individual players are on the field, Scarbrough said his office works with OSU’s fan experience and marketing teams to keep the game atmosphere at a desirable level.

“Regardless of who’s throwing the pass on the field, we want to make sure the (OSU) football experience is all that it can be for our fans,” he said. “We don’t really tend to … focus a whole lot on individual injuries and that sort of thing.”

Even though Scarbrough said his office hasn’t experienced a situation where the star

quarterback went down with an injury before the season, he said there are no plans to change the strategy going forward.

“Like I said, we’ve never experienced a situation like this before,” he said. “But it certainly doesn’t change our focus toward making an (OSU) football game an experience, and that in and of itself is going to drive ticket sales.”

In some situations, that plan seems to have held true as not every game has seen ticket prices continue to drop since Miller was injured, even at secondary vendors.

The get-in price on SeatGeek for the Buckeyes’ Sept. 6 prime-time matchup with Virginia Tech came in at $136 Tuesday evening. On Aug. 17, that price was $140 and on Aug. 20 — after the injury — it was $129.

Since Aug. 20, the price has gone up a net of about 5 percent.

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27 game against Cincinnati also saw a rise after an initial 15 percent drop after Miller tore his labrum. The price was listed at $90 on SeatGeek Tuesday night, while it came in at $76 on Aug. 20.

According to SeatGeek, tickets to get into OSU home games were still some of the most expensive in all of college football, second only to Notre Dame, as of Aug. 20.

“Lots of other schools are not in the situation that we’re in with the success of their public ticket sales, or their student ticket sales or other categories for that matter,” Scarbrough said. “So, we’re constantly talking about game-atmosphere-type issues.”

While still high in comparison to most of the nation, prices for every OSU home game — outside of Illinois and Michigan — and the neutral-site game against Navy are lower than they were when it was announced Miller would be out for the season. Two of those games have seen the get-in price continue to drop since Aug. 20.

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Summer from 2A environment conducive to sexual harassment within the Marching Band,” according to an OSU statement. It was found that Waters was either aware of, or reasonably should have been aware of, that culture, but didn’t do enough to address it.

Waters has since said he wants his job back in a letter to the OSU Board of Trustees Chair Jeffrey Wadsworth, though Wadsworth said in a released response that a possible reinstatement of Waters will not be discussed at any upcoming board meetings.

Currently Waters’ camp has not yet said whether it plans to sue. If Waters does, however, Drake said the university is ready.

Mirror Lake renovations It remains unclear if recent renovations to the OSU landmark will affect the annual Mirror Lake jump, which traditionally takes place the Tuesday before the OSU-Michigan game.

The lake was drained after last year’s jump to allow for work on a sustainability study aiming to prevent water loss because of leaks in the lake’s structure. The study was also set to address maintenance issues related to deterioration of the lake’s walls, and it ultimately determined that groundwater is a viable option for sustaining the lake. The study was budgeted to cost about $28,000.

The lake was refilled in early August using a well that cost an additional $30,000, Administration and Planning spokeswoman Alison Hinkle said earlier this month.

A final design plan is set to be selected in early November.

The lake could be drained again, though, depending on the plan, according to Aparna Dial, OSU director of energy services and sustainability.

Braxton Miller out for the season Senior quarterback Braxton Miller will miss the entire 2014 football season after re-injuring his shoulder during a preseason practice in August.

He originally injured the shoulder last season in OSU’s loss

to Clemson in the Orange Bowl. After undergoing offseason shoulder surgery, Miller was held out of spring practice and limited through the first portion of fall practice.

OSU coach Urban Meyer said redshirt-freshman J.T. Barrett had moved ahead of redshirt-sophomore Cardale Jones in the team’s backup quarterback battle as of Aug. 20.

Barrett is slated to start OSU’s Courtesy of OSU season opener Saturday against Navy in Baltimore. Kickoff is set for noon.

Changes to the NCAA rules With a 16-2 vote, the NCAA Board of Directors passed a resolution Aug. 7 that restructured the NCAA’s governing body.

Under the current model, athletic directors and student athletes do not have a voice in the legislative process, but under the new model they will.

Instead of an 18-member board composed of 11 university presidents from the Football Bowl subdivision and seven presidents from the Football Championships Subdivision, as well as Division I schools without football, the new board will be comprised of 24 members.

Those 24 members will be comprised of 10 presidents from the football bowl subdivision, five presidents from the football championships subdivision, five presidents from Division I schools without football, one student-athlete, one athletics director, one faculty athletics representative and one senior female representative.

The NCAA’s restructuring is expected to streamline the process in approving new legislation concerning studentathlete safety and well-being. Among the issues are extending healthcare coverage for student-athletes beyond graduation and athletic scholarships past eligibility.

Autonomy was also granted to the “Power 5” conferences: the Big Ten, Southeastern Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 12 Conference and Pacific-12.

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Waters said his interaction with the office was “minimal” with little guidance.

“If I wanted training for the band, I sought it. If I wanted training for the leaders, I sought it. If I wanted to know who to report an issue to, I sought it. No one from compliance taught me how to do these things,” Waters said. “We were left to fend for ourselves with the rules and regulations the compliance office had.”

The search process for a new director is currently underway. A search committee of students, faculty, staff and alumni will look for a new director, with that individual expected to be named within four to six months. In the meantime, OSU named two interim directors for the 2014-15 season. University Bands director Russel Mikkelson and associate director Scott Jones will lead the band until a permanent director is chosen.

But for Waters, life isn’t the same without his former students. “I know that every day that goes by, I miss them more and more,” he said.

Currently, a second investigation into the band’s culture is also under way.

That investigation, which is planned to be completed by early October, is being led by former Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery and is reporting to Drake and the Board.

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OSU prepared for chance of bed bug infestation KRISTA MCCOMB Lantern reporter McComb.28@osu.edu A Resurgence of Bed Bugs Could Affect Your Stay at OSU As Ohio State welcomes students back to school, there might be unexpected and unwanted guests tagging along – bed bugs.

To make matters worse, Columbus is a bed bug hot spot, OSU entomology professor Susan Jones said.

However, an Student Life spokesman Dave Isaacs said bed bugs aren’t usually a problem at OSU- the last reported case was in spring.

Still, on average OSU handles 10 to 12 cases of bed bugs per year, Isaacs said.

For the last fiscal year, Student Life spent $124,055 on pest control. The funds covered preventable programs, regular treatment, and the monitoring of all types of pests, said Isaacs.

“Humans are bed bugs primary hosts, although they will feed on other warm-blooded animals, only if humans aren’t around,” Jones said.

The bad news is, bed bugs don’t go away on their own, Jones said.

“When they start breeding you will only have more and more and more and then they will start hitchhiking with you will spread bed bugs to your friends, to people who come visit in your room- this is the bug that keeps giving,” Jones said. “You will share the wealth.”

If you have unexplained red, itchy welts,

you might have a bed bug problem, Jones said.

Don’t expect to actually see the bugs because they are very elusive, only coming out about every six days to feed at night, Jones said.

“The bugs hide at night time, they come out when you’re sleeping. They are only in contact with your body for many 10 to 12 minutes at the most then they get off of you and then they go and hide somewhere in your room.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, in recent years there has been a resurgence of bed bug infestations in the United States. They can be found in homes, hotels and in college dorms.

“Right now is when you’re getting the biggest influx of students and when bed bugs are most likely to appear,” said Mike Bernava, training and service supervisor for Rose Pest Solutions in Columbus.

Rose Pest Solutions is a Michigan-based pest control service that serves six states including Ohio.

In the past year Rose Pest Solutions has performed roughly 877 treatments for bed bugs in the Central Ohio area, Bernava said.

This number also includes precautionary treatments for surrounding areas of the main infestation.

The resurgence of bed bugs is a result of increased international travel and a change in public perspective on chemicals, Bernava said.

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Title IX issues, Waters said it was essentially a formality.

Later, Garrity-Rokous was not named among those who supervised the report that led to Waters’ dismissal, despite the fact that it was conducted by his office. When asked what role he played in the investigation, he said he “oversaw it” in responses emailed to The Lantern on Tuesday through OSU spokesman Chris Davey.

Garrity-Rokous oversees all compliance activity across the university and reports to senior management and the OSU Board of Trustees, according to the compliance office’s website. His experience in Title IX mostly comes from experience in general civil rights law, he said, as Title IX was an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“I have worked fairly extensively with these non-discrimination statutes, as a compliance officer, as a compliance attorney, and as a federal prosecutor,” Garrity-Rokous said in the responses through Davey.

Goldblum said she filed a complaint with the university about Garrity-Rokous earlier this year. The Lantern did not immediately receive that report after filing a public records request for it Monday. It has also not received GarrityRokous’ employment file after initially requesting it on Aug. 14 or Goldblum’s employment file after requesting it Friday.

Goldblum was not part of the investigation that led to the termination of Waters. The investigation took place after she resigned.

She said, however, the probe could have been avoided if Garrity-Rokous had let her intervene earlier.

Still, she said the investigation’s conclusion that the band contained a sexualized culture was accurate based on what she had experienced and heard.

Goldblum said the investigation could have been conducted in a more “defensible” way.

Goldblum also said Garrity-Rokous stood in the way of starting real progress on Title IX issues within the band, as he sometimes criticized her for being “too aggressive” with sexual harassment issues, including those within the marching band, she said.

In one instance, Goldblum said she and Garrity-Rokous met with Waters to discuss sexual harassment issues and the marching band shortly after she started as the Title IX coordinator in 2013. She said Garrity-Rokous dominated the conversation.

Waters said Tuesday he remembered that meeting, which was the only time he ever interacted with Garrity-Rokous, as more of a meet-and-greet with Garrity-Rokous and Goldblum.

“The meeting with Gates, it was like, ‘We’re here, we have a compliance office, let us know if you need anything,’” Waters said. “There were no directives given in that meeting, there was no training offer, there was no anything.

It was more of just a formal introductory meeting.”

Waters said his interaction with the OSU’s Office of Compliance and Integrity prior to his firing was “minimal” with little guidance.

“If I wanted training for the band, I sought it. If I wanted training for the leaders, I sought it. If I wanted to know who to report an issue to, I sought it. No one from compliance taught me how to do these things,” Waters said. “We were left to fend for ourselves with the rules and regulations the compliance office had.”

But despite her complaints about the compliance office, Goldblum said there are people doing quality work on Title IX issues across campus.

“There are some really, really good people on the ground working on sexual violence issues and they’re really good and they are really caring and they do it because it’s right for the students and because it’s right for the community,” she said.

This is part one of a two-part series The Lantern is running about how the band investigation was handled and how the Office of Compliance and Integrity operates.

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OSU position battles ongoing JAMES GREGA, JR. Asst. sports editor grega.9@osu.edu With just days until the Ohio State football team is scheduled to kick off its season against Navy, several starting positions remain up for grabs.

Among the open spots are the starting center and left guard positions along the offensive line, the cornerback position opposite senior Doran Grant and playing time in the logjam that is the running back and wide receiver positions.

The offensive line has three established starters in junior Taylor Decker at left tackle, redshirt-sophomore Pat Elflein at right guard and redshirt-senior Darryl Baldwin at right tackle.

Coach Urban Meyer said the open left guard position has three players who could fill the spot.

“Left guard is not named yet, and it’s not because of ability,” Meyer said Monday. “It’s just, one, the guy hasn’t separated himself, so in the hunt are (senior) Joel Hale, (redshirt-freshman) Billy Price, (redshirt-junior Antonio) Underwood.”

The open center spot is a bit closer, Meyer said, as he named two players who are candidates to fill the void left by Corey Linsley, now with the Green Bay Packers.

“Center is going to be, probably be (junior Jacoby Boren) and (redshirt-senior) Chad Lindsay. We haven’t named the starter on that either,” Meyer said. “But once again, its still because the battles are going on.”

The cornerback position opposite Grant is also a two-man race, Meyer said, as redshirt-freshmen Eli Apple and Gareon Conley battle for a spot on the Buckeye defense.

“They haven’t separated themselves yet either, which is a good sign. They’ll both play,” Meyer said.

Junior cornerback Armani Reeves said he believes both players bring a special skill set to the table for OSU. “They both bring a different type of style to their game but that’s what makes them special,” Reeves said Monday.

“Gareon has really fluid hips, and he reads routes really well, and Eli is a really strong and physical guy so they both play a little bit different.”

The battle to replace former Buckeye star running back Carlos Hyde was originally led by sophomore running back Ezekiel Elliott, however, Meyer said, multiple running backs proved they are worthy of touches during fall camp.

When Elliott missed multiple practices because of a minor wrist surgery during fall camp, it opened the door for redshirtsophomore Bri’onte Dunn and redshirt-senior Rod Smith to earn reps, something Meyer said they accomplished.

“Both Bri’onte and Rod Smith have made every practice and done really well,” he said. “I give credit to (Dunn) and Rod Smith, every day they have shown up and they have worked their tails off so they are in the mix.”

Meyer also mentioned freshman Curtis Samuel as a player who could see touches at running back this season.

At wide receiver, Meyer mentioned six players who are in the mix, only three of whom played last season.

The three who played last season — senior Devin Smith, senior Evan Spencer and sophomore H-back Dontre Wilson — combined for 88 catches for 1,086 yards and 13 touchdowns.

Meyer also named redshirt-sophomore Mike Thomas, redshirt-junior Corey Smith and redshirt-freshman Jalin Marshall as players who will likely see the field for the OSU offense.

TIM MOODY / Sports editor

Senior wide receiver Evan Spencer (6) and senior cornerback Doran Grant take part in the circle drill at practice Aug. 6 at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.

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Barrett: Buckeyes’ most important player JAMES GREGA, JR. Asst. sports editor grega.9@osu.edu The Lantern originally selected Braxton Miller as the No. 1 most important Buckeye before he suffered a season-ending injury on Aug. 18.

Now, just days away from the start of the 2014 football season, The Lantern’s countdown of the top 10 most important players on this year’s Ohio State roster has reached its final stage as we reveal our most important player for the 2014 Buckeyes.

No. 1: J.T. Barrett, redshirt-freshman quarterback Anytime a Heisman Trophy candidate goes down to injury, the team’s backup instantly goes under the microscope.

That’s been true with J.T. Barrett.

The Wichita Falls, Texas, native was thrust into the spotlight when senior quarterback and two-time Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year Miller went down with a torn labrum in his throwing shoulder.

Just two weeks ago, Barrett was the third-string quarterback behind Miller and redshirt-sophomore Cardale Jones. Then coach Urban Meyer announced he had gained a slight edge over Jones in fall camp.

Two days later, Barrett was OSU’s starting quarterback.

Barrett, who has yet to see playing time in an actual game since his senior year of high school when he tore his ACL, will be making his first start as a Buckeye in an NFL stadium.

As if that wasn’t pressure enough, the Buckeyes were Lantern file photo picked by many as a favorite to participate in the first ever College Football Playoff before Miller’s injury. Now, some Then-junior quarterback Braxton Miller have gone as far as to bump the Buckeyes out of Big Ten carries the ball during the Orange Bowl title contention. against Clemson Jan. 3 in Miami, Fla. OSU With all that, Barrett must be a manager of the OSU lost, 40-35.

offense, while Miller was more of a playmaker who could keep plays alive when the pocket broke down.

His job in the Buckeye offense will be getting the ball to the many playmakers around him, something he has done well in practice, according to players and coaches who have even nicknamed Barrett “the Distributor.”

While the young quarterback has other young talent around him, he — along with the rest of the offense — will have to make up for a lot of lost yardage as the Buckeyes only return about 12 percent of its total offensive yards from last season.

Among the players Barrett is expected to distribute to are sophomore H-back Dontre Wilson, sophomore running back Ezekiel Elliott and senior wide receiver Devin Smith.

Wilson leads all returning players from last season in all-purpose yards with 983, 523 of those yards coming on kickoff returns.

The only glimpse Buckeye fans have seen of Barrett in a Scarlet and Gray (well, technically black) uniform was in the 2014 OSU Spring Game, when Barrett completed 17 of his 33 pass attempts for 151 yards, including a 15-play, 80-yard scoring drive.

Barrett, along with Jones, has also taken the majority of the practice snaps in spring and fall camp as Miller sat out because of soreness in his shoulder. Meyer said he’s attempted more than 300 competitive throws in camp.

Although he has been named the starter for week one, Barrett will have to perform in order to keep the job because Meyer did not rule out the possibility of playing Jones as well in the opener.

Barrett and the Buckeyes are scheduled to open their season Saturday against MARK BATKE / Photo editor Navy at the Baltimore Ravens’ M&T Bank Redshirt-freshman quarterback J.T. Barrett waits for the snap Stadium in Baltimore. Kickoff is set for during OSU’s Spring Game on April 12 at Ohio Stadium. Gray beat noon.

Scarlet, 17-7.

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5 OSU defenders set to make big impact TIM MOODY Sports editor moody.178@osu.edu Last season, the Ohio State football defense left a lot to be desired, and it might have to turn that around in a big way to support an offense that will be playing without senior quarterback Braxton Miller.

The Buckeye defense gave up a total of 5,284 yards in 2013, including 3,752 yards through the air. If the team wants to have more success in 2014, some players will have to step up with only seven starters returning from last season.

The following five players — not all of whom were starters last season — will have to take their games to the next level to help keep the Buckeyes’ championship hopes alive.

1. Senior cornerback Doran Grant Let’s be frank: OSU’s pass defense was awful last season.

Former Buckeye Bradley Roby had all the talent in the world, but he never seemed to be able to put it all together after an early-season suspension. Enter Grant, who showed some flashes of athleticism and talent, but still spent a fair amount of time getting beaten in the flats — along with the entire defense.

Grant has big-play ability and has received a lot of praise from coach Urban Meyer this offseason, but will need to build on his 58 tackles and three interceptions from 2013 if the Buckeyes want to see a big jump forward in pass defense.

Meyer went so far as to say Grant was playing to the caliber of an All-Big Ten cornerback in fall camp.

He’s the only returning starter in the defensive backfield, and is by far the most senior player

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against Wisconsin to end his Buckeye career, and the safeties were left without someone who was arguably their best player. C.J. Barnett was the other starter and he finished second on the team with 84 tackles, but Barnett has since graduated as well.

In 2014, Bell and Powell look set to take their spots, hoping to do better than former OSU safety Corey “Pitt” Brown did filling in for Bryant last season.

Both are extremely talented players, as Bell is one of the highest-rated recruits Meyer has brought to OSU and Powell played extensively last season. They even each had trademark moments last year: Bell had an incredible one-handed interception in the Orange Bowl while Powell sealed a win against Michigan with an interception on the Wolverines last ditch two-point attempt.

Along with Grant, Bell and Powell have a chance to live up to expectations this season and transform the OSU pass defense into one of the best in the Big Ten.

Then-junior defensive lineman Michael Bennett (63) and then-redshirt-freshman safety Tyvis Powell (23) celebrate after Bennett recovered a fumble during a game against San Diego State Sept. 7 at Ohio Stadium. OSU won, 42-7.

of them all. As a leader and as a player, if Grant turns a corner this season, it will be a completely new OSU defense.

2. Sophomore defensive lineman Joey Bosa Bosa played in all 14 games last season as a true freshman and did more than flash his potential as a dominating lineman.

He arrived on campus already looking like an NFL-ready player and his production — especially later in the season — proved he has the potential to be one of the best ever at OSU.

After tallying 7.5 sacks last season — second only to junior defensive lineman Noah Spence — Bosa has a chance to make a statement on a Big Ten and national level this year.

The defensive line is the Buckeyes’ best position group, and Bosa just might be the best of the bunch.

3. (tie) Sophomore safety Vonn Bell and redshirt-sophomore safety Tyvis Powell The OSU safeties had a pretty rough go throughout 2013.

Then-senior Christian Bryant broke his ankle

4. Senior defensive lineman Michael Bennett Bennett brings a lot to the table on and off the field. Meyer announced Monday that Bennett, along with Grant and three others, was voted a team captain by his teammates.

As a leader, he’ll be the go-to guy on the defensive line, but as a player, he’ll still need to be dominant for the unit to live up to their best-inthe-nation potential.

Last season the Centerville, Ohio, native totaled 11.5 tackles for loss and seven sacks

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As he sat a front an assortment of reporters at Big Ten Media Days in Chicago, Ohio State senior tight end Jeff Heuerman nonchalantly answered a hypothetical question with a hypothetical question of his own.

“How important is it for Braxton Miller to stay healthy?” a reporter inquired.

HAYDEN GROVE “How important is it for Lantern TV Cleveland to keep LeBron Sports director (James) healthy?” Heuerman grove.157@osu.edu retorted.

While the answer lead to laughs, little did Heuerman, or anyone else standing in that room at the Hilton Chicago, understand just how important that seemingly insignificant back-and-forth would become.

As the news of Miller’s torn labrum in his throwing shoulder spread through the Internet like wildfire a week ago, I couldn’t help but refer back to Heuerman’s words.

When he said that, he was trying to hide the truth of his words in the excitement regarding James’ return to Ohio and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

It was almost as if Heuerman didn’t want to believe Miller could get injured and miss the season, just as many didn’t believe James would ever return home to Northeast Ohio.

As it turns out, both circumstances, one more desired than the other, have come to fruition, and my mind continually wandered back Heuerman’s statement.

Is there a way to tell if Heuerman was right? Is the loss of Miller like losing the best basketball player on the planet? Is it worse than losing the best basketball player on the planet for a season?

Battles from 5A “All of them could march in, and they all deserve playing time,” Meyer said.

So it’s just a matter of who breaks the huddle first.”

Spencer, who has scored four touchdowns in his OSU career, said he is looking forward to seeing how the skillposition players will play during Saturday’s game.

“We have so much depth this year.

We have so many playmakers at so many positions, from A to Z,” Spencer said.

“It’ll be really cool and exciting to see everybody get out there and be able to make plays because we’ve got the depth to keep everybody fresh in order to do it.”

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How is it even comparable? Football is football, basketball is basketball. A football team employs eleven players on each play. Basketball teams employ only five. Wouldn’t that simple fact, the lesser numbers on a basketball court, mean that their production, or lack thereof, is more highlighted than any production of a football player?

But eventually, I found there is a constant through which I could compare the impact of each Ohio-born athlete on their respective teams: numbers.

Be it baseball, basketball, football or soccer, numbers are the measure of success in any sport.

While baseball has been the proving ground for analytics in sports, with statisticians popping up in Major League Baseball’s front offices left and right, there’s no reason other sports can’t follow suit.

Without further ado, I pulled out the calculator … app on my iPhone and went to work.

The results are as follows.

In 2013, Miller accounted for 3,162 of the Buckeyes 7,167 total yards, good for about 44 percent of OSU’s offensive output. He also scored about 41 percent of OSU’s total touchdowns in 2013 as he accounted for 36 of OSU’s 87 six-pointers.

Almost half of OSU’s offense was the result of the Miller.

The other half, essentially, was the result of former OSU running back Carlos Hyde, another Buckeye who won’t be suiting up for the Scarlet and Gray for the 2014 season.

In other words, it’s quickly apparent that Heuerman was statistically accurate in his statement that Miller meant a lot to the Buckeyes.

Heuerman’s assertion of Miller’s impact might have been correct, but would his other assertion, that losing Miller would be like the Cavaliers losing James, follow suit?

I checked.

James’ former team, the Miami Heat, scored 8,380 total points last season, 2,089 of which belonged to James.

a torn labrum in his throwing shoulder, Spencer said he is not worried about the conversion to a new starting quarterback.

“It’s definitely a change. But I mean, at the same time, all throughout camp (redshirt-freshman J.T. Barrett) and (redshirt-sophomore Cardale Jones) have been getting so many reps with the ones,” Spencer said. “They’ve been throwing the ball so much all throughout camp, and really all throughout the offseason that it’s not that much of a transition for us, just because that’s what we’ve been going through.”

The Buckeyes are scheduled to take on Navy Saturday at noon at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

Crunch the numbers and James accounted for about 25 percent of the Miami Heat’s offensive output.

The Heat also grabbed 3,024 rebounds as a collective unit in 2013, 533 of which were picked by James. Again, plug in the numbers and you’ll find that James grabbed roughly 18 percent of the Heat’s rebounds a year ago.

Finally, James dished out 488 of the 1,847 assists of the Miami Heat a year ago, good for 26 percent of Miami’s total dimes.

Overall, Miller accounted for about 44 percent of OSU’s offensive output, while James accounted for about 25 percent of his. Miller scored about 41 percent of OSU’s touchdowns, James grabbed 18 percent of his team’s boards and 26 percent of his team’s dishes.

Miller, in a statistical sense, meant a lot more to the Buckeyes than Heuerman estimated. Not even James, who many consider to be the best athlete on the planet, was more valuable to the Miami Heat than Miller was to the Scarlet and Gray.

Again, comparing basketball and football may be apples to oranges, but numbers are numbers, no matter the arena of origin.

With that all being said, I’ve seen a lot of tweets from OSU football fans in the days following Miller’s seasonending injury, most of which are centered around the Buckeyes being “OK” or “better” with redshirt-freshman J.T. Barrett under center this season.

If that’s to be the case, as the numbers indicate, Barrett is going to need to transform himself from a backup quarterback without a significant snap at the collegiate level into a more productive player than James.

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Defenders from 5A while fighting through minor injuries throughout the season. If he’s fully healthy in 2014, Bennett could put together an even better season and be looking toward the first round of the NFL Draft next spring.

5. Freshman linebacker Raekwon McMillan Junior Joshua Perry and senior Curtis Grant are the familiar returning names on the OSU linebacker’s depth chart, but McMillan could eventually leave Columbus as the best of the bunch.

He was a five-star recruit coming out of high school as one of the best prep linebackers in the nation. That comes with a lot of lofty expectations as a freshman, especially at a school known for producing standout linebackers like A.J. Hawk and Chris Spielman.

There’s almost nothing to go off of outside of high school footage and his performance in the Spring Game, but McMillan is going to see the field early and often if OSU coaches are to be believed.

Regardless of whether he starts a single game this season, McMillan will be tasked with doing more than your average freshman, and all signs point toward him being up for the challenge.

OSU’s season-opener is scheduled for Saturday against Navy at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

Kickoff is set for noon.

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The painting ‘Black Bird and Honeysuckle’ by Dan Jian — a portion of which is shown above — is part of the MFA second-year exhibition ‘The Instant Now.’ The artists’ works are dispersed in different areas around OSU’s campus and the city of Columbus.

DANIEL BENDTSEN Asst. arts editor bendtsen.1@osu.edu Often, artwork can be isolated inside, bound to galleries and museums. That tendency was one the master’s of fine arts candidates at Ohio State fought to break this year.

Contributing artist Lillianna Marie said this is the first time the MFA second-years diffused their works around campus and the city.

Typically, all the works are clumped together in one gallery.

The title of the exhibition, “The Instant Now,” reflects the one thing all artists share, contributor Bill Randall said.

“As artists, we all work in really different disciplines, so there’s not necessarily a theme you can draw out of the work. But there’s one thing we all share, and that’s a moment,” he said. “For painters, it’s the moment before you touch the canvas and you don’t know what you’re going to do yet. At that moment, theoretically, anything is possible. Once you’ve made a mark, that determines everything else. So, really, this project is a snapshot of where we are now.

It’s a cross-section of our practice.”

Having the work of 14 artists in different locations will help the art department become more connected with the rest of campus, Randall said.

“Geographically, this has to be one of the biggest universities in the world, and (it) has so many different departments,” he said. “We are here for such a short period of time. It’s a threeyear program, so we just wanted to reach out and make some connections.”

The students also developed a new student organization called Mirage Gallery, which aims to continue on the practice of using unusual exhibition locations in the future.

Randall’s work entailed creating dozens of clear acrylic objects and placing them in various locations around the city of Columbus.

“It’s kind of like litter. I’ve crafted these objects and placing them around in places where they aren’t necessarily wanted, but, of course, they’re all perfectly harmless,” he said.

He said he hopes that placing foreign objects in uncommon locations will give him information about how people interact with them.

“I have an interest in mapping, and I’m interested in site-specific works where a person responds to a space. I’m hoping to have about 50 locations, and I can go back at the end of the

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A cappella quintet Pentatonix is set to perform at OSU on Sept. 29.

The work by Julie Rae Powers came from her hometown experience in West Virginia.

Her photo gallery on High Street shows the complexities of the day-to-day work ethic of coal miners in West Virginia, she said.

“My family has three or four generations of coal miners, and I was interested in their allegiance to that field, especially because it’s such a politically hot topic,” she said. “It’s such a daunting task to get up each day and work in a mine. It’s hard work and risky work, yet the economics of the area make it one of the higher paying jobs. A lot of people risk their lives to provide for their family.”

Not all artists took on such a serious topic.

Jessica Ann took a lighter tone and filled a large studio space with used lingerie floating from helium balloons.

“It’s kind of a funny piece and is next to a video piece by Kyle Downs that’s equally as playful,” she said. “Mine took a lot of work. It takes 15 balloons to float one piece of lingerie, so we’ll see how my bank account looks at the end of this. I might have to take out a student loan for floating lingerie.”

“The Instant Now” is on display in various locations until Sept. 12.

piece and try to recollect to see if any are still there,” he said.

The placement of works in public locations can also come with risks. Marie said her projection piece — located inside of an on-campus storage shed — has already been vandalized, even though the display only opened Tuesday.

Another artist, Jonathan Capps, took a cast-iron bathtub and placed it in the Chadwick Arboretum Lake. He filled it with hand-blown glass spheres, creating the illusion of a bubble bath.

Maria DiFranco’s work, located in the Fine Arts Library, came from an accidental inspiration.

She traveled through several European countries over the summer, including Italy, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. She collected postcards along the way with the intent of sending them to friends and family back home. Once she found out it would cost 2 euros each to send them back, she brought the postcards home to turn them into an exhibit.

“Each day, I’ll take one down and do a drawing on the back with one of my stories from Europe, and eventually then mail them out domestically to the different people,” she said.

“It’s fun because it’s this archive of Europe but also so tied to the American experience there.”

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Emmys amusing despite tedious laughs

KHALID MOALIM Asst. multimedia editor moalim.2@osu.edu

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DANIEL BENDSTEN / Asst. arts editor

Portions of paintings by Boryana Rusenova, a second-year MFA candidate whose work is displayed in ‘The Instant Now.’

The 66th annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday night was long — very long.

Despite its length, there were some funny moments and some cringe-worthy bits I thought were plain weird.

Unlike actress Sarah Silverman, who told “E! News” host Giuliana Rancic that she brought liquid marijuana to the event, I didn’t have anything to ease the pain of watching the award show.

However, host Seth Meyers made some of the dreadful moments easier to watch with his sense of humor.

Here are my thoughts from television’s so-called big night.

The real star of the night Pretty boy and HBO’s “True Detective” star Matthew McConaughey did his thing Monday night by just being in attendance. Before announcing the winner for Outstanding Supporting Actress, comedian Jimmy Kimmel took some time to rip McConaughey for being a movie star at a TV event.

Then there was “Modern Family” director Gail Mancuso, who said her acceptance speech for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series was dedicated to McConaughey.

Here is my theory on why

McConaughey’s face was on screen so much during the award show: The actor was placed strategically in the front row so that he would be shown on screen as much as possible to gain more viewers for the Emmys. I think it worked.

This might never be scientifically proven, however, I was the only one in a household of five watching the award show — then, all of a sudden, McConaughey shows up on screen, and — boom — I got one of my roommates in the living room watching the Emmys.

So, in the words of Kimmel, “I mean all right, all right, all right already.”

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DANIELLE SEAMON Arts editor seamon.17@osu.edu Voices will rise at the end of September.

The Ohio Union Activities Board and Ohio State’s Acappella Alliance are slated to bring a cappella group Pentatonix for a performance Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. in the Archie Griffin Grand Ballroom.

The quintet took the spotlight after winning Season 3 of NBC’s a cappella singing competition “The Sing-Off.” Since the 2011 win, Pentatonix — its name derived from a musical scale of five notes per octave — has released two albums filled with the group’s covers of Top 40 hits of past and present, as well as a Christmas album and several singles. Popular covers by Pentatonix include Ariana Grande’s “Problem,” a medley of Daft Punk hits and Christmas carol “Little Drummer Boy.” The group, consisting of Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi, Kirstie Maldonado, Avi Kaplan and Kevin Olusola, is set to drop its third album on Sept. 23.

Ticket information for the concert had not yet been announced Tuesday evening.

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The cast of ‘Breaking Bad’ and Vince Gilligan (right) backstage at the 2014 Primetime Emmys in Los Angeles on Aug. 25.

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Sarah Silverman backstage at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live in Los Angeles on Aug. 25.

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Singer Sara Bareilles sang beautifully as Paul Walker and Philip Seymour Hoffman, among others, were shown on screen.

Actor Billy Crystal took the stage to say a few words about his late friend comedian Robin Williams, who died in early August.

Crystal’s words touched my heart, and the segment ended with a clip from Williams’ stand-up comedy followed by a photo of Williams’ palms placed on his cheeks.

Things I hate about award shows Can all the award shows please let awardwinners have as much time as they want to be on stage to give their sentimental acceptance speech?

Why interrupt them with the funeral music? They won an award for the work they all worked so hard for, well, not all of them — cough, cough: Sofia Vergara — but some, definitely.

All about ‘Breaking Bad’ AMC’s critically acclaimed series “Breaking Bad” swept the Emmys with six awards. Bryan Cranston took home an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and fellow actors Aaron Paul and Anna Gunn were awarded best supporting actor and actress in their respective categories.

Who doesn’t love the idea of a struggling high

school chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer who turns to drug dealing to support his family? I certainly do.

Awkward Sarah Silverman. Enough said.

The comedian and “Masters of Sex” actress opted to run on stage barefoot to accept her second Emmy award for “Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles” and gave a bizarre acceptance speech that I’m still trying to comprehend.

Silverman showed Rancic her liquid pot in a vaporizing pen from her purse on the red carpet, but don’t get all crazy, folks. The drug is legal in California (where the Emmys were held) for medical usage.

However, if by any chance anyone understood what Silverman said during her speech, please contact me.

LOL The moment you have two hosts of a late night comedy show on stage at the Emmys, you know it’s time to laugh.

“Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon went “Kanyestyle” by rushing on stage after comedian Stephen Colbert’s crew won for Outstanding Variety Series — only after Gwen Stefani had a tongue twister moment with Colbert’s name.

This does foreshadow the competition that these two comedians will go through as Colbert takes over for David Letterman on CBS when Letterman retires in 2015.

All in all, though, I was impressed with the 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards.

The band will be playing at Skully’s Music Diner in the Short North afterward, going on at 10:45 for the Fashion Meets Music Festival’s After Party. The group is set to play again the next day for FMMF at McFerson Commons in the Arena District.

Although its Facebook page only had about 1,850 likes as of Tuesday evening, the band has experience playing large shows.

“These (Columbus) shows will be some of the bigger shows we’ve played, but not the biggest. We played at 12 Fest at Ohio University last year,” Blaha said. “I just can’t wait to throw down with the Ohio State students out there this year.”

Some OSU students are excited to see their classmates on stage.

“I really do like them. They’re very energetic. It’s very danceable. It’s refreshing compared to radio now.

Hopefully (Welcome Week) is their first big step to make a name for themselves and the university,” said Evan Brown, a second-year in finance.

Other students hadn’t heard of the band but liked the idea that the university was supporting it.

“It’s a great opportunity for them to get their name out there, so they can get that local support,” said Danielle Baker, a third-year in French.

Blaha isn’t against the idea of making a name for the band, either.

“This is something we want to do

and be full-time musicians. We want to be a popular band. We want to, like, party with (President) Barack (Obama).

He’ll be able to chief down with us like he did in high school,” he said.

Between recording a new EP and being full-time students with majors ranging from computer science engineering to marketing, Captain Kidd has more shows throughout the fall, including another in the University District.

“We’re going to be hitting the studio in October again. We’re playing the Independents’ festival in late September, and Sept. 4, we’re playing the Local Love show at Fourth Street Bar. And we’re recording, and, hopefully, I’ll get around a 3.0 (grade point average) and have enough money to keep my clothes clean and feed myself. I can’t tell you the end results, but that’s the plan,” Blaha said.

Captain Kidd is made up of Baumgard on guitar and lead vocals, Blaha on guitar, Samson on drums, Weinland on synthesizer and Gutierrez playing bass.

The Welcome Week concert is set for Friday at 7 p.m. on the South Oval and is open to all Columbus campus students with a valid BuckID. FMMF After Party packages start at $35 for Captain Kidd’s other Friday performance at Skully’s. On Saturday, the show at McFerson Commons is free, and Captain Kidd goes on at 5:15 p.m.

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OSU-based band Captain Kidd is set to play at the OUAB Welcome Week Concert Aug. 29 on the South Oval.

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MUYAO SHEN / For The Lantern 1. Cloud cover provides shade as attendees of the 2014 Ohio State Fair take a ride on a spinning swing Aug. 3. The fair ran from July 23 to Aug. 3 at the Ohio Expo Center.

2. Former ‘American Idol’ winner Phillip Phillips performs for an audience at the LC Pavilion on June 17.

3. Panic! At The Disco lead vocalist Brendon Urie performs for an audience at the LC Pavilion on July 29.

4. Runners are doused with colored pigment July 19 during Columbus’ 5K Color Run. 5. A marcher waves a rainbow flag in the annual Pride parade, part of Stonewall Columbus Pride Festival. The parade took place June 21 on High Street.

6. Pelotonia riders make their way out of the starting gate at Columbus Commons in downtown Columbus on Aug. 9. About 7,270 riders participated in the annual bike tour, which raises money to help fund cancer research at OSU’s Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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MARK BATKE / Photo editor 1. Katy Perry finishes a song on her setlist as the lights dim during a Prismatic World Tour performance at Nationwide Arena on Aug. 13.

2. President Michael Drake talks to the media and members of the OSU community June 30.

3. A note from fellow Bob Evan’s patrons who picked up former marching band director Jonathan Waters’ bill during an interview with The Lantern on Aug 7. It reads, “Jon: We stand with you! Breakfast on us.”

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studentvoice

Welcome to a new year at OSU from The Lantern LANTERN Columnist

LIZ YOUNG Editor-in-chief young.1693@osu.edu

Whether you’re a brand-new student, a recent alumnus or alumna, a parent of a fourth-year or a professor, welcome to a new year at Ohio State.

With each fall comes a wave of anticipation for what the year will bring, and at least for me, there’s always a little bit of worry that I’m going to miss out on something everyone else is talking about.

That’s where we at The Lantern, OSU’s student newspaper, come in.

We cover football games and concerts for when you want to relive the moment, or for when you can’t make it because of an exam. We keep an eye on the university administration

to help make sure your tuition dollars aren’t being wasted. We run commentaries about what to check out around campus and students’ reactions to national news.

We’ve broken news about the OSU Marching Band and football injuries, and even broke the story of Dr. Michael Drake’s selection as OSU president before it was officially announced. I’m certain we’ll break significant news this year as well.

Picking up a copy of the paper or visiting our website, thelantern.com, will help you learn about what’s going on around campus. It’ll give you more ways to

connect with new friends and start conversations.

You’re at OSU during a time of major transition, and The Lantern has been reporting on it all, every step of the way.

The Lantern will typically be printed Mondays and Thursdays this year, with occasional Friday editions as well. Copies are available around the campus and off-campus area, including in residence halls and academic buildings.

Sign up for our email blast on our website, too, because we’ll be sending out a full edition’s worth of stories each day of classes. Follow our main Twitter account at @TheLantern, and

like us on Facebook. If you want to get involved with The Lantern, email us from our contact page on our website or stop by our newsroom in the Journalism Building. We welcome you and can’t wait to hear your ideas.

BuckeyeTV was rebranded this summer as Lantern TV, and our newsroom was renovated this summer to include a new TV studio for their work. Look for our TV broadcasts and online videos throughout the year on our website and YouTube pages. And if you’re interested in broadcast, stop by to check out the new space.

We’re here to make sure you don’t miss any news. Stick with us.

OSU Marching Band investigation report a farce and the due process it guarantees.

Letter to the editor: If your only source of information is taking this report at Beginning two weeks ago, the university administration face value, then please consider the foundation on which you began to publicly state that it “stands behind” the marching have built your opinion. At best, you have read a twisted interband culture report released by Ohio State compliance official pretation of someone else’s firsthand account. If you honestly Chris Glaros and his team. The chairman of the Board of desire truth, and not just righteous posturing, consider Trustees, Jeffrey Wadsworth, specifically wrote, “We consider communicating with the thousands of current and former band the matter closed and we are moving forward as a univermembers who will happily share their firsthand experience. sity.” Unfortunately for Wadsworth, OSU is not exclusively If you are interested in specific ways to stand with us, you composed of a board of trustees and a president — it is a can start at westandwithjonwaters.com. Even if you don’t vibrant community of students, researchers and educators. personally know Waters, you might be dissatisfied with the As a current OSU student, researcher and educator myself, mishandling of this situation. Please share these feelings with I write to make it clear that Wadsworth does not speak for me. the administration and those in your community. If you are a To be clear — if the Glaros report was accurate, I would donor, consider redirecting funds from OSU to other important not disagree with the administration’s recent actions. I do causes. Many worthy foundations directly support cuttingnot support sexual harassment or assault (though neither do edge research or student scholarships without going to the former marching band director Jon Waters nor the members OSU general fund. If you make this choice, be sure to let the of TBDBITL). I have no issue with our fledgling president’s university know exactly why. response to the dishonest report handed to him so early in his I invite the administration and OSU community to commutenure. However, the administration has lost the moral high ground with its condescending, tone-deaf response to the Lantern file photo nicate with me regarding these issues. Let me describe the true culture of TBDBITL. Let me share the ways I have personsignificant and deserved backlash.

The OSU Marching Band performs during halftime at the OSU game against Penn State Oct. 26 ally seen OSU fail to protect and serve students — including The Glaros report is a farce. Among the report’s significant at Ohio Stadium. survivors of sexual assault. The time has come to stop posturfailures, which a lack of space prevents me from detailing and to treat students with respect. The process of “moving is a tacit admission that the first was flawed). Given that this ing, several of those interviewed have publicly stated their forward” will begin when the administration takes the necessary report directly accuses me and thousands more of facilitating testimony was ignored or misrepresented. OSU has a term for steps to do so, beginning with an apology and an open dialogue. sexual harassment and assault, such a flippant dismissal of truth this. If I received such a report from a student, or if I attempted to is unacceptable. publish a manuscript with this type of data manipulation, it would Jonathan W. Picking If the administration truly desires to protect and serve be considered academic misconduct. In undergraduate science, Graduate teaching associate, Ohio State students, the firing of Waters and the continued slander of we teach students to critically examine data and we warn against B.S., M.S., Ohio State current and former band members directly oppose this outcome. making unsupported claims. Students intuitively grasp these TBDBITL, T-row 2005-08 Perhaps the underlying motivation for this charade is to convince concepts even before they are taught. This makes it all the more Assistant and head squad leader, 2007 and 2008, the world (and federal government) that OSU takes sexual embarrassing that the so-called leaders of our great research respectively assault seriously — without the inconvenience of making real institution would accept the unsubstantiated conclusions of the picking.2@osu.edu university-wide improvements. Sadly, in specific cases of alleged Glaros report at face value. In spite of overwhelming evidence, sexual assault, the administration has prevented true justice both the administration refuses to acknowledge even a single flaw in for the accused and accuser by circumventing the legal system the Glaros report (though the formation of a second investigation

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