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FRANKENSTEINING THE HUMAN HEART

LYDIA WEYRICH Lantern reporter weyrich.4@osu.edu An Ohio State researcher, self-proclaimed “Dr. Frankenstein,” has a unique method of studying the human heart — he revives them in his lab.

Vadim Fedorov, an associate professor of physiology and cell biology at Ohio State, is studying the human heart in unprecedented ways in an attempt to better understand atrial fibrillation, a fast, irregular heart rate in humans.

Fedorov said 5 million people in the United States suffer from atrial fibrillation, and in his lab they are trying to better understand how to target this condition and why it occurs in the first place.

Following a heart transplant or the death of an organ donor whose organs are not viable for transplant, Fedorov’s lab might become the recipient of the unused heart.

“We can simulate [a human heart rate],” Fedorov said. “The heart will beat again.”

Raul Weiss, a cardiac electrophysiologist at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, said atrial fibrillation is the most common heart condition he treats. The condition, which has an unknown cause, comes with several symptoms such as movement limitations and shortness of breath.

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Vadim Fedorov, an associate professor of physiology and cell biology at Ohio State, studies atrial fibrillation in human hearts to establish a more targeted treatment.

However, the biggest concern regarding the condition is the increased risk of stroke, Weiss said.

Weiss explained that the longer atrial fibrillation goes untreated, the weaker the heart muscle becomes. And even though there are treatments for atrial fibrillation,

there is no cure, and some forms of the condition are persistent.

Fedorov said his research is aimed at a permanent solution to this condition, rather than a temporary treatment.

Once Fedorov’s lab receives a heart, he and his team get to

work, no matter the time of day.

Fedorov said that there is a short window in which the atria, the upper part of the heart, is viable for resuscitation.

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Time for Change Week returns during Earth month HANNAH ROSS Lantern reporter ross.1490@osu.edu Ohio State will celebrate the beginning of Earth month with Time for Change Week, a string of events focusing on sustainability efforts in the Ohio State community.

Time for Change Week is a collaboration between student organizations and campus administrations that runs from April 1 to 7 and features both large and small events, as well as different panels.

“The focus is to bring BuckeyeThon-level excitement with these really important serious topics and give attention to awesome sustainability organizations

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that work so hard,” Dominique Hadad, director of sustainability for Undergraduate Student Government and a third-year in industrial and systems engineering, said.

Hadad believes that sometimes it’s hard to market tougher topics, such as climate change and plastic waste, to students. She said it is important to bring in students who think they don’t relate to sustainability and prove to them otherwise.

The week kicked off with the sustainability fair that featured 40 student organizations from on and off campus. The idea of the fair was to bring in different kinds of students and get them involved in the community.

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‘My adviser is the reason I am still a Buckeye’ Within 24 hours of admitting I had a serious mental and physical health issue to my closest friends and family, I ended up in the most obvious place one could imagine: my academic adviser’s office. I showed up to the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Advising Office sleep-deprived and disheveled without an appointment, desperately begging for someone to break the rules and let me see the only person I thought could help me navigate the next few months of my life.

My adviser saw me within minutes, offering moral support, practical suggestions and an entire box of tissues. A situation that seemed like an insurmountable challenge moments before was now being rationally approached. She sat with me while I spoke with Counseling and Consultation Services, sent a preliminary email to my professors informing them that I was experiencing some personal challenges and talked me through my options for finishing the remainder of the semester.

Most importantly, she helped me believe that everything could be OK, even if it definitely was not in that moment.

In the months following this revelation, she frequently checked up on me via email and squeezed me into her schedule whenever I needed her. She made me feel like my problems were important, which is no easy feat on a campus as big as ours. From handling my freshman year freakouts about my future, to helping me conquer bigger and scarier life challenges, my adviser is the reason I am still a Buckeye. No number of great friends and supportive family could have helped me in the way that she did. When I receive my diploma, it will be largely due to the energy and compassion she has given me throughout my college journey.

While my adviser is truly spectacular, I’ve had the privilege to interact with all of the honors advisers in the College of Arts and Sciences as a peer

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WHERE FOOD COMES FROM Ohio State’s goal to get 40 percent of campus food sourced locally

AKAYLA GARDNER Lantern reporter gardner.1199@osu.edu A panel of students and faculty have been working since April 2016 to develop a plan to bring Ohio State’s food sourcing closer to home.

Ohio State’s Food Sustainability Panel is now awaiting a response from university leadership on its final report on how to achieve 40 percent local and/ or sustainable food purchasing on campus by the year 2025.

In April 2016, Provost Bruce McPheron and Vice President of Student Life Javaune Adams-Gaston commissioned the Sustainability Institute, then called the Office of Energy and Environment, to create the food sustainability panel and develop a plan to transition university purchasing to 40 percent local and sustainable sources.

Now, it has been three months since the panel submitted their recommendations to McPheron and Adams-Gaston.

“We believe that we should be a great steward of our food systems,” Zia Ahmed, senior director of dining services, said. “We are very different than traditional dining services. Our primary business is not to serve food; our primary business is student development.”

Ahmed said their work did not stop throughout the process of creating the report or while waiting for feedback. He said the panel needs comments from university leadership to determine next steps.

Brian Snyder, executive director of the Initiative for Food and Agricultural Transformation, said nearly 50 people were involved on the panel over the span of 2 1/2 years.

“More and more people these days are interested in where their food comes from and how it’s produced,” Snyder said. “That’s CHANGE FROM 1

Some events will feature more in-depth topics such as the Environmental Justice and Dinner Dialogue, an event on Monday that talked about capitalism and how different companies relate to environmental justice, Hadad said.

Other events, such as the business exposition, will connect business students for networking purposes, which Hadad said shows that the entire week aims to attract different crowds of students.

“I think this week shows campus as a whole what these students are capable of and what they care about,” Hadad said.

The entire week is student-run and exposes students to a variety of different events. Because some

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The university committed to reaching 40 percent local and/or sustainable food by 2025. Some campus food is produced on-campus from sources like Waterman Farm.

true of students, but it’s also true of faculty and staff here and community members.”

Ahmed, Snyder and Sophie Chang, former Undergraduate Student Government vice president and alumna, led the panel from 2016 until Chang graduated in 2018.

Kaleigh O’Reilly, a third-year in environmental science, joined the panel’s leadership when she was elected deputy director of the USG sustainability committee last year.

“Food is such a central part of everyone’s life — we eat three meals a day — our lives almost revolve around it,” O’Reilly said.

“We will be able to generate better outcomes if we put better food into our bodies.”

Although the report is not public, the panel presented a summary of its findings at the 2019 Community Engagement Confer-

ence in January.

In its presentation, the panel stated the university will use third parties to determine whether a food source meets standards for sustainability.

The food provider must meet

of the smaller events can struggle to draw crowds, many of the organizations will put on their larger events right next to the small ones to help increase attendance, Hadad said.

“Time for Change Week isn’t for sustainability majors,” Karly Britt, a first-year in Spanish, said. ”It’s for people who want to get involved in sustainability but don’t really know how.”

Britt is helping out at the sustainability fair through her work in USG. The week of activities ends with Seeds of Service, a day of service where any student or student organization can come and volunteer.

At the event, students will work alongside Friends of the Lower

Olentangy Watershed — a group that aims to “enhance the health of the Olentangy Watershed,” according to its website — to plant new trees, clean up litter and clear out weeds.

Student organizations that participate can earn $90 and service hours, according to the Time for Change Week website.

“This is our week to acknowledge what really matters to us,” Hadad said.

A complete list of events can be found on its website https://u.osu. edu/timeforchange/.

“We are very different than traditional dining services. Our primary business is not to serve food; our primary business is student development.”

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standards in at least two of the five categories outlined in the report: environmental, economic, workers, animals and communities.

“We are requiring that a product meet the environmental category at least, and then one other category,” Snyder said. “If it’s an animal product, then that other category has to be animal welfare.”

Snyder said that food qualifies as local if it is within 275 miles of Ohio State campuses, including Lima, Mansfield and Newark.

This measurement includes areas outside of Ohio as local.

According to the presentation, 11 percent of campus food came from local food sources in 2018.

“Those numbers could be significantly higher than 11 percent already,” Ahmed said. “I’m confident that we are going to be able to meet our goal based on the

speed that we are going on right now.”

Ahmed said some campus food is already grown on Waterman Agricultural and Natural Resources Laboratory — a 261-acre farm west of campus — at local greenhouses and small boutique farms in the Columbus area.

Attention surrounding food sustainability was heightened in September 2015 when the student organization, Real Food at OSU, protested and occupied Bricker Hall to persuade the university to sign the Real Food Campus Challenge.

The nationwide challenge asked universities to commit 20 percent of their food purchasing to “local, sustainable, fair, and/or humane” farms and food businesses.

“This 40-percent goal was set before the big discussion or movement about the Real Food Challenge because the university was looking for an overall sustainability goal,” Ahmed said.

“The university assigned mutliple project teams to come up with very ambitious and aggressive sustainability goals for all aspects of the university, whether it’s zero-waste, reduces fuel uses, tree canopy usage, you name it,” Ahmed said.

Ahmed said he does not have the current percentage of local/ sustainable purchasing, but he is confident the numbers are close to 20 percent.

“This is a very exciting time for Ohio State and for the community because we’re really doing a lot of planning behind the scenes … the entire community can look forward to some transformation in the food system in the years to come,” Snyder said.

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In the Letter to the Editor, one student thanks her academic adviser and believes this is one way to reward advisers for their often unrecognized helpfulness.

mentor. They are some of the most passionate, dedicated and helpful people I have come across at this university. Each has made me feel important and welcomed. They are always willing to help students, even when it is not their advisee or when they had planned on leaving work five minutes earlier. From streamlining scheduling to making you feel like the enormity of planning your future can be managed, they can and will do anything to make our lives easier — even if it makes their jobs harder.

I understand that most people might not have an experience like mine. However, I like to think that my adviser is more the rule than the exception at Ohio State. Advisers are a truly resilient group of human beings, with an often thankless job.

I’m not recommending we all run off to have emotional breakdowns in our advisers’ offices, but I would encourage you to appreciate their expertise and experience when it comes to navigating this huge place we call home for some amount of time.

And, while you are at it, go ahead and thank them for spending this part of their lives shaping ours.

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Vadim Fedorov puts on gloves before demonstrating the research he does on hearts.

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resuscitation, which include temperature regulation and pH balance to mimic the conditions of the human body. Once the conditions have been met, Fedorov revives the heart and monitors it using various systems.

Fedorov said he is able to observe how the different atria in the heart are performing by using fluorescent dyes, which he compared to the chemicals that give jellyfish their glow. When the heart is illuminated, Fedorov and his team work in total darkness to observe the pathways of the heart while a camera captures thousands of images.

The aim of Fedorov’s research is to more precisely locate where atrial fibrillation might occur so that doctors can plan better treatment and have a more accurate understanding of the underlying cause, Weiss said.

Clinics are currently using his research to find issues within their patients’ hearts, Fedorov said. He said the impact will likely increase as more clinical trials are done using his research.

Fedorov said he often meets with cardiac electrophysiologists who see patients, and the care and research behind atrial fibrillation is collaborative.

Weiss said that despite atrial fibrillation being a common condition, there is not much research on the topic.

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“We still don’t know the mechanism behind why atrial fibrillations happen,” Weiss said. “[Fedorov is] doing really innovative and really very good research.”

Fedorov said his motivation behind studying atrial fibrillation is his family.

“My grandma and my father both died from sudden cardiac deaths,” Fedorov said. “That is one of the reasons why I decided to study human hearts.”

Fedorov said this research is one of a kind. Many hospitals have the ability to get a human heart, but none is able to view it the way he is able to in his lab, Fedorov said.

“Human atria imaging can be done currently only in this [lab] across the world,” Fedorov said.

Weiss said with Fedorov’s research, doctors might be able to cure atrial fibrillation, and someday there will be more than just a “good” treatment, but one that is “100 percent” effective.

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ARTS Visible Invisible hosts fourth annual arts show featuring young artists experiencing homelessness.| ON PAGE 5

Alumnus channels writing passion in work and play AJA MIYAMOTO Lantern reporter miyamoto.20@osu.edu

When Ryan Horns, 2000 Ohio State alumnus, began his undergraduate career, he was certain he loved music and writing, but uncertain of what his future would look like. Since then, Horns has created one in which he could do both.

By day, Horns is the communications specialist at the Ohio State Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and by night he writes and performs shows with his band, Paper Airplane.

“I don’t think you could ever stop Ryan from writing new songs, that’s just kind of what he does.”

ANTONIO GARZA Drummer of Paper Airplanes

“From an early age, I spent most of my time writing stories and songs in my room, thinking I wouldn’t do anything with creative writing,” Horns said.

The beginning of Horn’s career was focused on journalism, writing stories for notable media outlets such as MTV, Co-

lumbus Alive and the Marysville Journal-Tribune. He became fascinated with the mixed media aspects of communication, and writing stories transitioned into writing songs and creating videos, Horns said.

“Everybody needs writers and artists to turn the story of their work into something the reader can understand,” Horns said.

In 1997, he formed his first band, The Last Hotel, which allowed Horns the freedom and opportunity to intermix music and writing as a vocalist. Horns said being in the group taught him how to juggle multiple projects while managing a band.

The Last Hotel changed its name to Paper Airplane in 2008. The group took a break from performing music and recorded two albums, “Who You Know” and “Othello,” Horn said. They performed at festivals and filmed two self-made videos, most recently releasing a music video for their single “Too Many Words” in August 2018.

Antonio Garza, drummer of Paper Airplane, describes the band as melody-driven indie rock.

“One thing about Ryan is he is always, always writing music, at least since the time I’ve known him,” Garza said. “I don’t think you could ever stop Ryan from writing new songs, that’s just kind of what he does.”

When he’s not writing music, Horns manages the online content for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His role is to share the stories and work of current students and alumni through articles and multimedia pieces.

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Ryan Horns is a communications specialist at Ohio State and performs with his band, Paper Airplane, on the side.

In 2018, Horns was awarded the Outstanding Service “Above and Beyond Award” by the Engineering Staff Advisory Committee.

Betty Anderson, associate chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, said Horns has brought great and positive change to the public relations of the department.

“All of a sudden as soon as Ryan arrived, we started seeing our department featured in articles everywhere, all the time,” Anderson said. “I learned more about the department from reading Ryan’s articles than

I learned from being in the department.”

As an undergraduate student, Horns feared the possible reality of being a broke artist or writer, but asked himself, “Why don’t I do what I love and write?” So, he declared a major in creative writing.

“It took understanding that what I was doing is what I enjoyed, and at some point, you have to look at yourself and say, ‘This is what I want to do,’” Horns said.

Paper Airplane’s music, as well as its newest single, “Sidewalks Falling from My Feet” can be streamed via Spotify.

Group eyes grants as means to help music-loving students ABHIGYAAN BARARIA Lantern reporter bararia.1@osu.edu Music Loves Ohio was born in 2009 when Matt Crumpton and his former roommate Tony Castricone wanted to volunteer and do something similar to VH1’s Save The Music program, which aims to support public school music programs by donating instruments and other relevant equipment.

The pair found that there were no organizations in Columbus where they could make a positive impact through music, so they started their own, Crumpton, founder and president of MLO, said.

The first couple of years MLO focused on fundraising, with MLO organizing free and educational events such as songwriting workshops, Crumpton said. Once it started to raise money, it focused on instrument grant programs typically aimed at talented students who are in need of instruments but don’t have the financial means to procure one.

The organization also provides classroom grants where teachers with underserved kids can apply for classroom equipment relating to music.

“We generally fulfill 100 percent of those [grants] that we can afford,” he said.

“To date we have never turned down a classroom grant request.”

The organization, which serves Columbus and surrounding counties, also provides tuition and scholarships to students for summer camps where they have the opportunity to learn more about music and the program and audition for scholarships to music institutes, Crumpton said.

Parker Norvell, a board member of MLO, said the organization has managed to send five students to Berklee College of Music’s summer camp program, which he

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Board members of Music Loves Ohio at its casino night fundraiser in Sept.

2018. said is basically an audition to get into the word to teachers and other schools that are institute. in need of funds for their music curricuThree students managed to get a full-ride lums, he said. scholarship to the school, one of whom Crumpton said that MLO is trying to now plays with the Chamber Orchestra of “grow organically” rather than push for New York, he said. awareness because if it starts getting a lot Norvell said that in his opinion, the stu- of applications without a corresponding dents who managed to get a full ride to increase in funds, then it can’t really help Berklee are MLO’s biggest accomplish- much. ments to date. Putting the means in the stuMusic Loves Ohio is not for everybody, dents’ hands to achieve amazing feats and Crumpton said. However, it is for students make a career out of music is the reason the extremely passionate about pursuing music organization exists, he said. as a career and the only thing holding them The organization has some music teach- back from getting there is their financial ers on its board who help refer people to status.

MLO. Norvell also uses his background “Our role is to find those people and as a first-grade teacher to help spread the knock down their financial barriers,” he

said. “That’s why we exist.”

For individual grants, the organization mainly looks at high school students who have already exhibited a basic talent and understanding of an instrument and are looking to further their education, Norvell said. For classroom grants, the ages can range anywhere from pre-K to high school.

Norvell, through his work at MLO, is trying to expose students to the world of music and careers in the music industry through various events and after-school programs, he said. “[We are] trying to show [the kids] that yeah, there’s doctors, lawyers, those are jobs, but musicians are jobs too, and that’s something that you can do,” Norvell said.

Fundraising is the main challenge for the organization, Norvell said. It applies for grants from the government and other organizations that provide such assistance.

Besides that, it is working on a series of happy-hour fundraising events beginning in May, which will take place the last Thursday of every month at Little Rock Bar, located in the Italian Village.

It will be a live performance where a portion of the sales from the bar would go to the organization, Norvell said. This series will run from May to August, and on Sept.

21, MLO will have its casino night, which, according to both Crumpton and Norvell, is its biggest fundraising event of the year.

Crumpton said he is driven by knowing the impact the organization can have on the children and the positive outcomes it can achieve. He said that seeing the joy on someone’s face when they realize that there isn’t a financial barrier to their dreams is the reason he does what he does.

“Just seeing their face when we go and we deliver instruments to these kiddos ... it’s more than Christmas to them,” Norvell said.

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Youth experiencing homelessness express themselves through art NICHOLAS YOUNGBLOOD Lantern reporter youngblood.27@osu.edu Homelessness is an issue that Ohio State students witness with tragic regularity around campus. If they feel inclined to help out, some might volunteer at a soup kitchen or give canned goods to a shelter. Few would think to pick up a paintbrush.

Saturday, a student organization called the Visible Invisible hosted “Metamorphosis,” its fourth annual art show in the Ohio Union, featuring young artists experiencing homelessness.

The organization’s members volunteer to supervise the art room at Star House, a drop-in center for youth between the ages of 14 and 24 without a permanent home.

Here, the youth are provided with not only food, clothing and showers, but also counseling and outlets for expression. In the art room, they are given the space and resources to create whatever they’d like.

This yearly art show presents an opportunity for them to showcase their skills and get their name out as budding artists.

“I’m always surprised how in this one small space we get all these crazy talented artists,” Jillian Davis, third-year in art history and vice president of The Visible Invisible, said. “And I think being in situations where you’re experiencing a wide range of emotions … you need a way to deal with that. And I just feel like art can be a really good outlet for that, and so I think it lends itself to producing art that is very emotional or very vulnerable.”

Star House started out as a unique pro-

gram funded by the university to provide resources for young people experiencing homelessness, while conducting best practice research on how to assist them, Kyra Drakulich, the manager for the Star Works transitional employment program at Star House, said.

It spun off as its own entity and is funded in part by events such as this art show. Art from the show was sold via a silent auction, with 80 percent of the money going to the artists and 20 percent going back to Star House.

Drakulich is a former recipient herself, having started receiving Star House’s services in 2014. She also has work displayed in the art show.

“My art is a reflection of two different things: the way I view the world and how I think other people should view the world — emotions that are felt through my life or through my past,” Drakulich said.

While there is no doubt that many of the artists’ work is influenced by their experiences with homelessness, the themes reach far beyond that. The paintings and drawings featured in the show spoke to glamor, identity, despair and everything in between.

One of the young artists at the show, identifying herself only as Kale, had a lot more to say about her future than her past.

Looking at her paintings, it is hard to believe she has never had an art lesson, let alone that she had given up art entirely after becoming homeless. Kale has been homeless for six months, but thanks to support from Star House she already has plans to attend school at the Columbus College of Art and Design.

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Kale poses in front of some of her paintings on sale at the Visible Invisible fourth annual art show “Metamorphosis.”

Some of Kale’s pieces show impossibly perfect women in surreal scenarios, which she said accentuates the unachievable beauty standards to which many women are pressured to adhere. She wanted to address the universal struggles that women face.

“I want it to be relatable; I want [the audience] to say, ‘I’ve felt that, too.’ When you read a book or you look at a piece of art and it ignites that feeling, just for a moment, that’s the point of creating the [art],” Kale said. “It’s like a snapshot of your life at that moment, and if someone else feels that thing too, you’re connected.”

Kale said she wants to pursue a career in art, and shows like this are the first step to getting her name out. The event represents one of many services intended to

give young people the tools to create a better life for themselves. Drakulich, who has found housing, said the art program is an essential outlet during dark times.

The sense of community among the youth was evident — while it looked like an art show, there was a deeper connection between the attendees and participants.

The atmosphere in the room glowed with the warmth of a family reunion.

“I feel blessed to be here, to be able to even have art to send in,” Kale said. “There didn’t have to be a place with an art room that let me use it, and let me use free canvasses and free paint, and I feel immensely blessed.”

For more information on Star House and how to help out, visit www.StarHouseColumbus.org.

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OLIVER BOCH Lantern reporter boch.15@osu.edu The Short North is home to Columbus’ longest running artist-owned-and-operated gallery, and its success can be attributed, in part, to its uncommon mode of operation.

Studios on High began in 1987 as the separate studio spaces of three individual artists. More than 32 years later, with renovations and a newfound sense of direction, the studio has transformed into the gallery that visitors know today. One of the original artists, Judy Hoberg, has been with the gallery since it opened to the public.

The layout of the gallery is unlike many others in the area. While various other gallery spaces are open and minimalistic in design, Studios on High has incorporated a transformable layout for displaying the works of their member artists. There are sections of wall that usually reside in the center of the room, but can be moved to accommodate the ever-changing needs of the displays.

While the gallery has been successful, it

has also had its share of struggles.

“It was more like a craft show at the beginning, and every year we have improved and become more standardized,” Hoberg said about the beginning.

The evolution of the space was largely credited to member artist Teda Theis.

Hoberg said that Theis was the one in charge of design that allowed them to generate “a more sophisticated look and presentation.”

Theis had her work cut out for her due to the number of pieces that Studios on High showcases. The volume of art that it displays requires ingenuity of the presentation to avoid overwhelming visitors. “[Other galleries] have half of the amount of pieces that are on display,” Theis said.

The gallery has also benefited from the artist-operated aspect of its approach. Part of being a member artist at Studios on High is the commitment to the space. Twenty-two member artists rotate staffing and upkeep of the gallery, so they are able to remain open every day of the week, while other galleries might be open only a few days a few days per week.

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Ryan Day says still no timeline on QB decision COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu Nine practices into his first spring, Ohio State head coach Ryan Day seems to be getting closer to naming his starting quarterback for the fall.

He said Monday that, based on the amount of playing time he has seen from redshirt freshman Matthew Baldwin and sophomore Justin Fields behind center, he wants to start looking at their respective completion percentages and who is moving the ball down the field more through the first practices of the spring.

“We are starting to get to the point where I think there is enough snaps of film where we can start to get an idea of where guys are at.”

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“Later today, actually, I kind of want to see the numbers and kind of see where we are at with that,” Day said. “We are starting to get to the point where I think there is enough snaps of film where we can start to get an idea of where guys are at.”

This past Monday, Fields, a transfer from

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Ohio State then-acting head coach Ryan Day paces the sidelines in the third quarter of the game against TCU on Sept. 15. Ohio State won 40-28.

Georgia, lost his black stripe, representing his official initiation into the Ohio State football program.

Day said that with this ceremony, Fields has come out with a good understanding of what it takes to be a quarterback in terms of preparing and making plays.

“He’s only been in the offense I guess for eight practices, nine practices and has picked it up pretty quickly overall,” Day

said. “The fact that he is able to run the offense right now with not a lot of reps under his belt is pretty significant.”

In terms of which quarterback is in the lead for the job currently, Day said he has no timeline to determine who will be the starter out of spring, saying “we will see how it shakes out.”

On the offensive line, Day seems satisfied with the way redshirt sophomore Josh

Myers has adjusted to the center position.

The head coach said Myers, through the first few practices, has picked up where he left off from Rose Bowl practices this past season.

“This is where guys really make moves,” Day said. “Middle of spring, we have seen the same plays, they’ve seen the same defense, and now guys get a real edge on each other. Interested to see how this week goes for him, but he’s done a good job when he’s been in there so far.”

But Day still doesn’t have a full idea of who will be on the starting line next season. With the acquisition of four-star guard Enokk Vimahi, three-star tackle Dawand Jones and five-star center Harry Miller in the 2019 recruiting class, each of whom has not arrived yet, Day said Ohio State has worked with the concept of “two lines” with the amount of guys set to arrive.

Ohio State also is waiting for Jonah Jackson, who will finish his career with the Buckeyes as a graduate transfer from Rutgers.

Jackson brings a level of flexibility similar to what Michael Jordan, who declared for the NFL Draft, brought a season ago.

“He can do both; he can play guard and play center, which gives us a lot of flexibility there moving him,” Day said. “Not really sure, coming in, where exactly where we are going to start him, based on where things start this spring and who wins the positions inside. We will kind of move from there.”

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Ohio State returns home to face Cincinnati

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Ohio State redshirt freshman pitcher Seth Lonsway (11) throws a pitch in the Buckeyes’ game against Hawaii on March 23. Ohio State won 7-5.

KEATON MAISANO Lantern reporter maisano.2@osu.edu The Ohio State baseball team will return to Bill Davis Stadium, the place where the Buckeyes have won seven of nine games in 2019, after beginning its Big Ten season OFFENSIVE LINE FROM 8

came an All-American guard for the Buckeyes.

He pointed to Isaiah Prince, who could seamlessly switch from the right to the left tackle position. He pointed to Price and Elflein, the two All-American guards-turned-Rimington Award winners at center.

“The ability to go do that, allows you to get the best five players on the field, and it develops versatility in those guys,” Studrawa said.

Even if players have not made a position switch on the offensive line, Studrawa expects each player in his room to know what each position does on every specific play.

“When we are watching film, he goes through, you could be a guard answering questions on what the tackle does, just because it is a valuable thing to know,” redshirt sophomore offensive lineman Wyatt Davis said. “Makes the game easier if you know what the guy next to you is doing and what the guys on the other side, they’re doing. It makes the game a lot slower.”

Davis said he sees this in Myers, saying he knows where the running back is going, how to approach each defensive line front and responding to blitzes before they even come.

Davis described it as Myers’ football IQ skyrocketing.

At this point, Ohio State does not have its full offensive line. Miller, Jackson, three-star offensive guard Dawand Jones, four-star tackle Enokk Vimahi and junior offensive lineman Thayer Munford, who is sitting out the spring with an injury, will change the dynamic of the line in the fall.

But Studrawa knows what the focus is for the line as a whole.

“The cohesiveness of the group that is playing, obviously with Thayer out, it’s not there,” Studrawa said. “So what we have to focus on is the development and building some depth.”

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against Rutgers on the road.

On Wednesday, Cincinnati (10-16, 3-3 American Athletic) will take its struggling offense up against an Ohio State (16-12, 2-1 Big Ten) pitching staff that has been in a groove.

The Bearcats are coming off a series loss to Tulane at home, in which Cincinnati was outscored 33-12 through-

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Artists are also encouraged to create art onsite in addition to staffing the gallery. Hoberg refers to the gallery as a “portable studio” of sorts, harkening back to the days when the building was only studio space.

“We’re demonstrating the creative process, so it becomes a bit of a field trip as well as just looking at completed art,” Hoberg said about the unusual operation.

Studios on High has been around long enough to see the Short North evolve into a thriving arts destination. One aspect that has kept the area on the map is the city’s dedication to upholding a platform for artists. The gallery operators collaborate through monthly meetings.

However, it hasn’t always been this way.

“There was a time when there weren’t as many galleries where they saw each other as competition rather than realizing that if the boat goes up and we’re all on board, it’s good for everybody,” Hoberg said. “Because no gallery represents everybody’s taste.”

Studios on High is open from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 1 to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Its current exhibition, “Going with the Grain” by member artist Deb Davis-Livaich, is available to view until April 4, and the gallery is currently taking submissions for its yearly Hit the Hop event through April 6.

out the three-game series.

Averaging 3.96 runs per game, the Bearcats have had trouble keeping up with opponents.

The low run average can partially be explained by the team’s low batting average. Cincinnati has hit .227 as a team, with only one player hitting above .265.

Cincinnati junior shortstop Joey Bellini leads the team with a .292 batting average. Bellini has started 17 games for the Bearcats, and is tied for sixth on the team with seven RBI. Cincinnati does not have the power to make up for its insufficient hitting. With only 11 home runs on the season, the Bearcats struggle to tally runs in quick fashion.

The Bearcats do excel, however, in their ability to steal bases. With 48 stolen bags on the season, the Bearcats rank in the top 50 in the nation.

Cincinnati redshirt junior center fielder Jeremy Johnson and junior second baseman Jace Mercer have combined for 25 stolen bases. Mercer also leads the team with 21 walks on the year.

The Buckeyes have caught only seven of the 30 baserunners that have attempted stealing this season.

Junior pitcher Jake Vance will likely receive the start Wednesday. Vance has allowed four steals on the season, the most of any Ohio State starter.

Ohio State sophomore catcher Dillon Dingler has the arm to keep the Bearcats honest. The co-captain has thrown out 3 of 4 runners who have tried to steal on him.

After allowing 15 runs in a loss to Hawaii, Ohio State has allowed only 12 runs in the past four games. In this same stretch, the pitchers have combined to strike out 40 batters.

Cincinnati’s pitching has not been as successful, allowing 5.77 runs a game. Despite striking out more than eight batters a game, the Bearcats walk an average of 5.69 batters per contest.

Ohio State will take on Cincinnati at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday at Bill Davis Stadium.

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Versatile Ohio State offensive line prepares for future COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu Josh Myers initially thought he was going to be a tackle, something he said all high school offensive lineman strive to be at the collegiate level. Coming in as a 6-foot-6, 307-pound lineman, Ohio State offensive line coach Greg Studrawa made it clear to the Miamisburg, Ohio, native that guard was a more natural fit.

Myers’ move to guard was not one that would define him for the rest of his collegiate career. The now-redshirt sophomore knew that. He just wanted to get on the field as quickly as possible.

“I had the mindset of, ‘I just want to play. It doesn’t matter where I am at,’” Myers said. “I’ll be at tight end if they want me there.”

Instead of tight end, Myers was one of four players in a three-year span that made the move from guard to center: Pat Elflein, Billy Price and Michael Jordan. Now, with Jordan off to the NFL, Myers heads into spring camp as the favorite for a starting job on the line at a position he had to learn in college.

Jordan has that level of versatility, as well as the confidence to tell coaches that could take a chance on him in the draft that he

In those meetings, Studrawa told his players that NFL teams only have a limited amount of spots for offensive lineman. To be able to play both sides, guard and tackle, is something he strived to implement.

“I had the mindset of, ‘I just want to play. It doesn’t matter where I am at.’ I’ll be at tight end if they want me there.”

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Ohio State then-freshman offensive lineman Wyatt Davis (52) looks to block a Husky in the first half of the Rose Bowl featuring Ohio State and Washington in Pasadena, Calif. on Jan. 1. Ohio State won 28-23.

can play anywhere, that whatever the team needs, he can do it.

“I think that that’s good because coaches are going to make a team out of the best players they have,” Jordan said. “If the player can’t play right tackle, but you have a player that can play left tackle, they are going to do whatever can

make the team gel better.”

That’s the mindset Studrawa has for his team heading into the 2019 season. As the line prepares for a spring game without a few pieces that could prove to be valuable next season, like five-star center Harry Miller and graduate transfer guard Jonah Jackson, the

Ohio State offensive line coach wants his best five players on the field at one time, no matter the position.

That’s where versatility comes in, something Studrawa has been preaching to his position group from the moment he took the job prior to the 2016 season.

For him, it started in the recruiting process, getting that mindset ingrained into high school players’ minds early.

“A lot of the recruits ask me, ‘Where am I going to play?’ I don’t know,” Studrawa said. “You can play at this level, I know that.”

Studrawa never wants to earmark a player, to pigeonhole them into one specific position for the rest of his career.

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Tight end depth gives Ohio State potential to shift offense WYATT CROSHER Assistant Sports Editor crosher.1@osu.edu It has been 16 years since Ohio State has had a single tight end record 30 receptions, when Ben Hartsock recorded 33 catches for 209 yards and two touchdowns in 2003.

A season ago, that pattern continued, with then-redshirt junior Rashod Berry, then-sophomore Luke Farrell and then-freshman Jeremy Ruckert combining for 30 catches, 296 yards and three touchdowns between them.

Ohio State has not been known for its production at the tight end position.

But the trio of tight ends, as well as junior Jake Hausmann, are all returning for the Buckeyes, combining to make one of the most experienced positions on the roster.

Ohio State head coach Ryan Day said he can see a future for the offense that relies much more on the tight end than it has in recent memory.

“They’re getting there. I mean they’re a strength because we got everybody back, and they’ve had a good offseason,” Day said. “The strength of a college football coach is being able to adapt and being able to figure out what your strengths are, who the best personnel is, and then putting the right package together on the field and not just putting a system in.”

Day has no absolute answer for what package would best benefit the tight end offensively, and the same is true for offensive coordinator and tight ends coach Kevin Wilson.

But Wilson sees the strength in the tight end room returning from a season ago, and

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Ohio State then-redshirt sophomore tight end Luke Farrell (89) runs the ball in the third quarter of the game against Nebraska on Nov 3. Ohio State won 36-31.

he said the battle won’t come down strictly to choosing the top player at the position.

“If the tight end position is better, and their skill set says they can do a lot of jobs, now we change formations, but they get on the field,” Wilson said. “It’s not like we’re trying to have more tight ends because the receiver position is not gonna be strong. The receiver position is gonna be strong. It’s just our tight end position is get-

ting stronger that they can get on the field more.”

The wide receiver room lost its veteran trio of Parris Campbell, Terry McLaurin and Johnnie Dixon, but held on to a new senior group of Austin Mack, K.J. Hill and Binjimen Victor, a sophomore receiver who made a impact at the end of this past season in Chris Olave as well as a new addition in freshman Garrett Wilson, a five-

star recruit.

There’s still depth, but the tight end position has a chance to adapt, specifically through Ruckert.

Ruckert has been taking some snaps at H-back during spring practices, a position that was majorly held by Campbell in 2018 and has been used with Hill and junior running back Demario McCall.

The freshman tight end had one catch for 13 yards after seeing action in 12 games for the Buckeyes this past season.

“We’re just trying new things, new offense, and I’m not gonna say I expected it, but we’ve talked about it before, and I’m excited to keep it going,” Ruckert said.

“I’m just trying to go play, so whatever they want me to do, I’ll just go play.”

Wilson described Ruckert as the tight end with the most upside of the group, saying Farrell is the most consistent but “not flashy,” while Berry is the strongest and most dynamic in the room.

Having this type of depth at the position could open up the opportunity for production at tight end that Ohio State has not seen since well before the Urban Meyer era.

But with uncertainty at quarterback, depth at wide receiver and an offense that is yet to cement its identity, only time will tell if the added year of experience will be enough to make all the difference.

“You end up not only competing by your position, but you end up competing by personnel groupings,” Day said. “If the second tight end is better than the third receiver, then we’re gonna see two tight ends in the game, and we’ve been messing around with some of that this spring, and some of it has looked pretty good.”