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Why OSU didn’t issue a public safety notice this semester

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What led to a major budget deficit for the College of Arts and Sciences Liz Young Editor-in-chief young.1693@osu.edu Two years after Ohio State’s conversion from quarters to semesters, the university’s largest college might be feeling impacts beyond academic calendars in the form of a projected $10 million budget deficit.

The College of Arts and Sciences — which encompasses nearly 80 majors, 38 departments and more than 2,000 faculty and staff members — has a fiscal year 2015 deficit of $4.6 million. The amount is projected to grow in fiscal year 2016 by $5.4 million.

That will mean budget cuts, the exact effects of which remain uncertain.

David Manderscheid, who took over as Arts and Sciences dean in 2013 from now-Provost Joseph Steinmetz, told The Lantern that he sees two causes of the budget deficit: an unanticipated decline in the college’s credit hours this past year, and the college’s reliance on a tuition increase that didn’t happen.

He said in an April 9 meeting with faculty in Independence Hall, where the college’s chief administrative officer John Nisbet also spoke, that the lack of a tuition increase was a major factor.

“We’re in a position now in the college where if we (had) gotten the 2 percent tuition increase, we wouldn’t have been having these serious discussions, but what happened was we were skating too close to the edge,” Manderscheid said. “What happened was, when we

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The last time Ohio State students received an OSU Public Safety Notice was before Christmas, a period spanning longer than four months.

From Dec. 20 to last week, there have been more than 900 reports filed with University Police, according to the daily log found on the OSU Department of Public Safety website — none of which has prompted an alert.

University Police Chief Paul Denton said that isn’t necessarily a bad thing and could be a telling factor that the University Police have been containing and resolving incidents quickly and effectively.

“I like to cite good police work, giving credit to our officers for resolving incidents in a safe and effective manner,” Denton said.

Denton highlighted the work his officers did in finding and arresting Wayne Miller in a matter of hours after a crime was reported to police on the morning of April 16.

Miller, 32, was arrested by University Police April 16 and charged with kidnapping and aggravated robbery after he allegedly forced a female faculty member off campus. Miller has been indicted on charges including kidnapping and aggravated robbery and remains in jail in downtown Columbus until court proceedings are completed, according to Franklin County Municipal Court records.

Two other crimes, a shooting near Summit Street and 11th Avenue on April 6, and a fatal stabbing near Summit Street and Northwood Avenue on March 1, have also caused some members of the student population to

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What’s next for the College of Arts and Sciences and its department heads chelsea spears and michele theodore Multimedia Editor and Managing Editor for Content spears.116@osu.edu and theodore.13@osu.edu Susan Olesik, chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is worried about the College of Arts and Sciences.

“It’s been a high-anxiety time,” she said. “But what are you going to do?”

Olesik, along with several other department heads at Ohio State, is worried about what 2015 holds for her program.

Ongoing budget challenges have left the College of Arts and Sciences with a deficit that could reach $10 million by fiscal year 2016. And with the college also facing more retirements than usual at the end of this academic school year, that same deficit could potentially impact whether those positions are filled.

“We’ve had some significant losses, retirements,” Olesik said. “We’re getting there, but it takes a while.”

But time might not be on her side.

Pension reform legislation, passed in 2012, changes retirement eligibility and the benefits that come with it. The biggest of those changes are set to hit in 2015, and there’s a benefit offered to people who retire by July 1, so some professors have been leaving the university.

On top of the expected wave of retirements, Olesik also fears the possibility of cuts coming from the college.

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School of Public Affairs lifts off to become college MICHAEL HUSON Lantern Reporter huson.4@osu.edu

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Brutus attempts a backflip during the drum major and Brutus Buckeye tryouts on April 25 at the Woody Hates Athletic Center.

Ohio State spirit leaders unite Tryouts for Brutus Buckeye, OSUMB drum major combined for 1st time ROBERT SCARPINITO Lantern Reporter scarpinito.1@osu.edu Through the rain that fell Saturday, four drum major candidates and 15 Brutus Buckeye candidates jumped, twirled and tossed batons as they competed for the chance to perform in front of a packed Ohio Stadium at a home game and at other university events next year.

The candidates vied for their respective positions at a new event

that combined both tryouts for the first time, according to a statement released by Ohio State.

“We’re holding them at the same time of year, and it really made a lot of sense for us to combine those efforts and do it together to show that we are all one team,” said Stewart Kitchen, the drum major instructor.

The new head drum major is Nathan MacMaster, a graduate student in the Glenn College of Public Affairs. He was on the drum

major training squad from 2010 to 2011, and he was the assistant drum major for the past two years.

“Tryouts are terrifying. There’s nothing like it. I’ve been doing this for a long time, but it doesn’t make it any easier,” he said. “The nerves are there, and to go out there and execute what I wanted is the greatest feeling in the world.”

MacMaster said he looks forward to working with what he

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With a crowd of onlookers gathered in anticipation and a clear blue sky affording favorable weather conditions, the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the John Glenn College of Public Affairs was a go for launch.

The ceremony and open house at Page Hall on Friday celebrated the college’s change of status from what was previously the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, making it Ohio State’s 15th and newest college.

The countdown began Jan. 30, after the creation of Glenn College was announced during an Ohio State Board of Trustees meeting.

The college’s undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs “equip students with the skills to become tomorrow’s citizen-leaders or public service professionals,” according to its website.

Trevor Brown, dean of Glenn College, said during the ceremony that the college takes pride in embodying the university’s motto, “disciplina in civitatem,” or “education for citizenship,” as its students, faculty and alumni “work to solve today’s problems and produce tomorrow’s leaders.”

“In honor of the two whose name we are so proud to adorn our college, Sen. John Glenn and Annie Glenn, we pledge to continue their legacy of inspiring citizenship and developing leadership,” he said.

John Glenn served in World War II and the Korean War; he became the first American to orbit Earth,

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Former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn speaks on April 24. piloting Friendship 7 in 1962 and he served as a U.S. senator from Ohio from 1974 to 1999.

Glenn spoke at the ceremony, expressing his views on the importance of leadership.

“All you have to do is look at the front page of the paper or watch TV news to know how badly we need good leadership, not only in Washington but up and down the line: in our communities, our state and our nation,” he said.

Glenn added that the college’s new level of prominence can help foster that development by, over time, attracting new faculty and developing high-school recruiting programs.

“There’s no reason why our college, here, can’t be just as eminent, eventually, in this field of public service and public policy, as the football team is nationally,” he said.

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said during the ceremony that for him,

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campus Budget from 1A didn’t get that 2 percent increase, all of a sudden we get a $4.5 million deficit for this past year, and if we don’t get a 2 percent increase for this coming year — that’s not clear either way — then we have another $5 million.

“I think what we’re really seeing here is we need to do things differently. We need to stop operating on hope that more money will come in and take care of our budget, while at the same time pushing to get increases to our budget.”

The Board of Trustees discussed tuition increases for next academic year in its meeting earlier this month. In-state students are looking at a potential maximum increase in tuition of 2 percent for the 2015-16 school year, but it will ultimately be determined by the support given to state schools in Gov. John Kasich’s proposed budget.

Last year, tuition was frozen for in-state students.

Students are charged instructional fees based on the number of credit hours they take each semester. For fiscal year 2015, credit hours are up across the university, Manderscheid said, but in Arts and Sciences, credit hours are down 1.6 percent.

That decline is not new. Credit hours dropped 13.9 percent for 2013, and only increased 2.39 percent in 2014, according to a presentation from the April 9 meeting.

Libby Eckhardt, Arts and Sciences’ chief communications officer, said that drop happened for several reasons: • changes in generaleducation requirements that were introduced at the semester conversion; • a national trend of students toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors and courses; and • the increasing number of

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students arriving at OSU with some college credits already completed.

Manderscheid told faculty April 9 that the college received a letter from former Provost Joseph Alutto and former chief financial officer William Shkurti that said the college would be held harmless by semester conversion.

“It’s worth the paper it’s printed on to be honest with you,” Manderscheid said. “We have pushed on this issue, we submitted a letter to … Provost (Joseph) Steinmetz in December saying by our best calculations, semester conversion cost the college $3.1 million in permanent budget, and we asked for that and we documented it.

“We have not received a response on that in terms of a dollar amount, but what we have been told is that, ‘Yes … we agree, there is some cost to semester conversion. The college was not (held) harmless.’ In fact, a number of colleges were harmed and a number of colleges did better.”

Manderscheid said the college was told such harm would “be considered as part of the rebasing of budgets” expected for the next fiscal year.

“The answer being, well, if we’re gonna have to take from somebody then we’re gonna need to do this very carefully, because they don’t have … that $3.1 million sitting around,” he said.

“It has to come from someplace else.”

Meanwhile, Arts and Sciences has essentially run out of the cash reserves that it was using in the past five years to make up for its expenses outweighing its revenues. As a result of the projected $10 million fiscal year 2016 deficit, the college is making a 3.75 percent reduction in its present budget allocation — referred to as PBA, the college’s general funds budget allocation — to decrease expenditures. At the same time, it will look for ways to generate $15 million to

$22 million in cash annually.

If successful, the college can reset and create a sustainable path forward, according to a presentation given at the faculty meeting.

Manderscheid said at the meeting that solutions could include hiring faculty more strategically, seeking funding from sources beyond the government, and increasing credit-hour production by various means, such as offering more GEs and distance learning classes.

Manderscheid told The Lantern that faculty will likely not be let go as part of the budget cuts.

“We’re trying to not fire people,” Manderscheid said. “On the other hand, we won’t hire as many lecturers as we have in the past.”

He said the departments in the College of Arts and Sciences have been told to bring in fewer new graduate students. “But we won’t fire graduate students or anything like that,” Manderscheid said.

Some college faculty members, however, said they are significantly concerned about such a large deficit.

Ulrich Heinz, a professor of physics, said the faculty meeting with Manderscheid introduced some answers to questions, but “none of the answers were actually pointing to a solution.”

“I don’t know where this is leading. I’m seriously worried,” Heinz said.

Heinz said the main problem was the drop in credit hours taught in Arts and Sciences.

With every credit hour taught, there comes a state subsidy, Heinz said, so fewer hours mean less money from the state.

“There was nothing done to compensate for that loss,” he said.

In a follow-up email, Heinz explained that students pay tuition for the total number of credit hours they register for, and the state subsidizes the cost of teaching from taxpayer funds

according to the total number of credit hours taught.

Those, he wrote, are the two main income streams from which the colleges pay the salaries of the faculty, staff and lecturers.

The colleges actually keep less than half of the funds — the rest flows back to central administration to fund various programs.

Robert Perry, a physics professor and vice chair for undergraduate studies, said the way scholarships are funded is another main cause of the deficit.

Overall, he said, “it’s an extremely complicated issue.”

Scholarships are credited the same way as tuition money sent to the college, but there is no actual exchange of funds.

Colleges must still pay a 24 percent “central tax” — made up of a university-mandated 19 percent tax that goes to infrastructure and a 5 percent tax that goes to the provost’s reserve — and student-services assessment on scholarships, as if that scholarship money was actual tuition.

“That’s actually just one piece of a much larger problem, but I just don’t understand why anybody has not looked at that and said, ‘Well, there’s one clear problem,’” Perry said.

Harvey Graff, a professor of English and history, said in an email that he has seen previous Arts and Sciences deficits in his 11 years at OSU, but this is “the highest, with the least clear acknowledgement and response.”

“The problem is universitywide but ASC is hit especially hard and is not responding openly and responsibly,” he said. “The budget situation — and the failure to discuss it and deal with it openly and responsibly — worries me greatly.”

Manderscheid told The Lantern he hopes there will be a tuition increase this year.

“I think many people were surprised that there wasn’t a tuition increase. Now … if we think there’s gonna be a tuition increase and there isn’t one, we

shouldn’t be surprised,” Manderscheid said. “I mean, hopefully there will be a tuition increase because I think our costs are going up in the college, but if not, we have to deal with it.”

The plan for now, he said, is to create that “sustainable college budget” this year, so that there won’t be cuts next year or the year after.

“Something that has happened over the past few years (is) one cut this year, one cut the next, and that’s very discouraging,” Manderscheid said.

Because the drop in credit hours was partly related to students trending toward STEM majors, that’s meant an increase in credit hours for one of the three Arts and Sciences divisions — Natural and Mathematical Sciences — while the Arts and Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences divisions have struggled more.

Perry said success in the Natural and Mathematical Sciences division has been used to buoy the other two.

“We haven’t been losing money; we just have money taken out of our budget to cover their budgets,” Perry said.

Manderscheid played down competition between the divisions.

“Just as we’re a bunch of colleges that are part of one university, the three divisions are part of the College of Arts and Sciences and that’s the strength of the college,” he said. “You’ll see enrollments grow in certain sections of the college and you’ll see enrollments decline in certain sections.

“That happens with time, students’ interests and majors change, so we have to adjust our budgets to accommodate that interest so we can educate the students.”

This story was made possible by the generosity of The Lantern and Ohio State alumna Patty Miller.

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demand a change in the current alert system.

Cheyenne Campbell, a third-year in biology, created a Change.org petition titled “Send safety notices about crimes that occur on- and off-campus,” just after the April 6 shooting.

“To protect students of The Ohio State University, I demand that all crimes within the surrounding campus area, on top of the university’s Email letters to: campus, should be reported lanternnewsroom@ to the students through a gmail.com safety alert system,” the petition said.

Mail letters to: Campbell told The Lantern The Lantern she wants OSU to issue Letters to the editor safety notifications for violent Journalism Building crimes in a more timely 242 W. 18th Ave. manner so that students are Columbus, OH 43210 aware of potentially dangerous situations and can act accordingly.

“Students can make sure they’re in a safe place; they The Lantern corrects won’t be walking around any significant error alone, on or off campus, brought to the attenespecially at night,” Campbell tion of the staff. If said. “They’ll just be more you think a correction aware of their surroundings.” is needed, please She said she ramped email Liz Young at up her efforts to share the young.1693@osu.edu petition through social media Corrections will be after the April 16 kidnapping printed in this space. attempt near Postle Hall, adding it was “completely unacceptable we didn’t receive a single alert about that.”

The petition has received more than 400 signatures in the past week.

Campbell added that she plans to present the petition to the university upon reaching her personal goal of 2,000 signatures.

Denton said he understands why students might be concerned when they see or hear of crime happening on campus and in the surrounding areas, but said not every crime warrants an alert.

Dan Hedman, an Administration and Planning spokesman, said in an email that the decision to issue an alert relies on four determining factors. First, it must be determined if a crime occurred. If it occurred, the location must be specified—if it happened on campus property or other reportable property under the Clery Act. Also taken into consideration is if the crime is a Clery-reportable crime, and lastly, if there is a serious or continuing threat to the campus community.

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Finally, the decision to broadcast the alert is ultimately decided by Denton.

The Clery Act was designed to make college campus crime information readily available. As part of that act, colleges and universities are required to publish an annual security report that includes certain crime statistics on campus from the past three calendar years. Those statistics include crimes such as sex offenses, burglaries, murder, robberies and motor vehicle thefts.

“Information about criminal incidents is reviewed on a case-by-case basis by The Ohio State University Police Division upon receiving information,” Hedman said in an email.

Hedman said off-campus crimes are often reported to the Columbus Division of Police, as those cases fall under its jurisdiction.

“Public Safety Notices and Buckeye Alerts are the two main notification systems utilized. The university uses the definitions and requirements spelled out in the Clery Act as the basis for its policy and procedure for sending out Public Safety Notices, which is what helps define when and why notices are sent,” Hedman said in an email.

Denton said he would like to see OSU students and staff seek out information on their own by using Department of Public Safety tools like the online log.

The log shows police reports for specific times and dates, from the current day back to 1999. It doesn’t show complete police reports, but does include key information, including what happened, what time and where the crime occurred. Denton said everyone can benefit from using the resources available online.

“We look at safety as a partnership,” Denton said.

“Becoming an informed and aware and engaged member of the community will only help to enhance safety for everyone.”

Yet some OSU students are not happy with the way things are being handled in regards to the alerts.

Hannah Vaughn, a second-year in health science, said she wished there were more alerts from police to keep students informed about what is going on around the OSU campus and surrounding areas.

“I think it’s a problem that we don’t know, because then we hear rumors from our friends or rumors on social media, and no one really knows what actually happened,” she said.

Vaughn said she often finds out about crimes on campus through word of mouth from classmates or her sorority sisters and roommates, and ranks her safety very highly on her list of priorities. But she knows that a crime can occur anywhere and at anytime.

She added that even if the crime does not happen directly on campus, it still should be relayed to students to help increase their awareness.

“I feel like a lot of the things that do happen, usually they happen off campus, compared to on campus. That’s where a large majority of students do live. We should have the right to know,” Vaughn said.

Ali Iqbal, a first-year in chemical engineering, said he was a victim of a crime that occurred right in his dorm in Morrison Tower.

“Someone went into my room and stole my laptop and my friend’s (PlayStation 4),” Iqbal said.

He said the burglary occurred while he was asleep in the room, and police told him to make sure he locks his doors because the biggest crime they deal with is theft.

“I don’t know if that warrants an alert necessarily, but it is still something I think they should inform the general population, like you know, lock your doors. Because I felt pretty safe in my dorm but then this happened,” Iqbal said.

He said he feels that the system isn’t being used enough because the proximity of where the crime occurred is of high importance to students.

“If a student off-campus gets injured in the Columbus area, they should alert the general student population, because it’s the university’s responsibility to take care of their students,” he said. “It’s a public school and it’s their job to make sure we’re safe. We come here to get educated and we shouldn’t have to fear for our safety.

Even if it’s off campus, it’s still Columbus, the general vicinity.”

Hedman said anyone with information regarding a crime should notify the police by calling 9-1-1 in an emergency or by calling the dispatch center at 614-292-2121 for non-emergency situations.

“This is the best way to make sure that a criminal incident is reviewed for possible issuance of a Public Safety Notice,” he said.

“The dispatch center is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”

Michael Huson contributed to this article.

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campus Next from 1A “For everybody, it’s different. For us, we don’t know yet,” Olesik said. “We won’t be able to prepare until we know what they are.”

Lisa Florman, chair of the Department of History of Art, is also concerned. She said her department has seen significant retirements because of the eligibility and benefit changes.

Data comparing salary information between 2013 and 2014 pointed to a 17 percent drop in History of Art faculty, equating to a total of three less people. But Florman said the situation is actually more drastic than those numbers indicated.

Florman said there were 15 total faculty members in her department in 2011, but since then, seven have retired and only two have been added.

College from 1A the college’s mission “to inspire citizenship, to develop leadership” has never been more important, as the country faces new challenges.

“We need good people who are willing to serve,” Portman said. “And as the Glenn School teaches, addressing these challenges requires leadership, bipartisan cooperation and innovative policy solutions. That’s what these young people are learning.”

Portman, who has taught courses at the former Glenn School, added that during his time at OSU, he observed students eager to engage in public service, despite a government environment that is “not so great these days.”

“People are cynical. People are frustrated.

What they see going on in government, they don’t like. They see the gridlock. They see policy blocking progress,” Portman said.

“And yet, these young people are willing to step forward. Instead of retreating from the challenge, they’re stepping forward with determination and resolve to challenge themselves and find solutions.”

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who also spoke at the ceremony, told The Lantern that, in time, the college will help elevate the quality of leadership in Ohio’s public sector.

“It gets students exposed to government at a young age,” he said. “Going to the Glenn College, as an 18-year-old or a 22-year-old, helps you to chart the path that you’re most interested in and fits you best.”

Sherrod Brown said the college can assist students in finding that path by allowing for exposure to different levels of government and internships.

Portman said his office in Washington, D.C., is expecting an intern from OSU this summer.

Sherrod Brown, who earned his master’s

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“We weren’t granted any hires in 2013/14 — though it is, of course, not the original source of the problem,” Florman said in an email.

That loss in faculty has put a strain on the remaining faculty members who still have to teach all the courses for the undergraduate major, Ph.D. program and general education courses, she said.

Anthony Mughan, director of International Studies, said the number of lecturers in departments often fluctuates because of factors such as demand for courses and normal patterns of turnover. He said he hasn’t seen a significant change in the number of lecturers within International Studies but said there’s still been repercussions.

“This is not to deny that ASC’s budget deficit has affected IS negatively. Its impact, however, has been to make for the cancellation of lowly

enrolled courses and not the dismissal of lecturers,” he said in an email.

For now, it’s impossible to know for sure what will happen next year in terms of cuts. Olesik is still waiting on final confirmation on how much she might need to cut from her budget.

“Whatever (those) numbers are, we will do our best to serve our students,” Olesik said. “I think everybody in the Arts and Sciences is worried but we have to get through this … Cuts are coming next year.”

Despite concern over the budget, Libby Eckhardt, chief communications officer for the College of Arts and Sciences, said the current deficit will not necessarily mean cuts in faculty.

“Because of some of our current budget challenges and goals to increase efficiency, we are closely monitoring hiring throughout the college; however, we are not planning an overall

decrease in faculty,” she said in an email. “In fact, we plan to increase faculty in coming years through the support of the Provost’s Discovery Themes Initiatives.”

The Discovery Themes initiative, which was launched in October 2012, targets health and wellness, energy and environment, food and food security, areas identified by some OSU officials as university priority areas.

The $400 million plan includes expanding research and hiring 500 tenured or tenure-track faculty over the next 10 years, costing about $100 million.

A new Discovery Theme was added in February that also pledges $5 million to the arts and humanities.

degree in public administration at OSU in 1981, said he feels his time at OSU prepared him for the future, even Congress, with courses covering budgeting, federal law and the federal legislative process.

Sherrod Brown and Portman serve on the Board of Advisors at Glenn College.

The former John Glenn School of Public Affairs, from its founding, reported to the Office of Academic Affairs as a free-standing, tenure-initiating and degree granting unit.

Trevor Brown told The Lantern that the creation of the college provides more autonomy, allows for a more direct line of communication from the college to Executive Vice President and Provost Joseph Steinmetz and represents the university’s commitment to public affairs education and research.

He said it also helps continue connecting the college to the public sector, as well as to other colleges through interdisciplinary research, adding that he hopes its dualdegree program will grow.

“We’re a very small college, but we are really good at networking and connecting and integrating,” he said. “Public policy and the problems that face the public sector are everything and they’re multidisciplinary, so the only way you tackle these things is by connecting the knowledge that exists here in the university.”

Lisa Frazier, a doctoral candidate in the college, said she feels the distinction between the school and college is significant, and that the change boosts the stature of OSU’s public affairs education.

“I think it sends a really important signal to policy makers, in our state and nationally, that this is a college that is dedicated to the production and education of public servants,” she said. “And I think it’s a pretty strong signal.”

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18 people, consisted of current and alumni marching band staff members and alumni drum majors.

The drum major for the past two years, David Pettit, who is also a fifth-year in piano performance, could not run again this year because there is a two-year limit on being a drum major, Kitchen said.

For the Brutus tryouts, the 15 candidates built pregame hype before the drum major tryouts and then performed short skits for the audience after the drum major tryouts. The eight Brutus judges were alumni who previously donned the mascot costume.

The candidate or candidates who will be the 50-year-old mascot will be announced at a private event for reasons that could not be disclosed, said Ray Sharp, the assistant spirit coach and mascot coordinator.

“The secret of Brutus is like Santa Claus.

There’s one Santa Claus, and he lives in the North Pole, you never see him when he drops off the presents — ­ same kind of thing,” said Sudzy Steyn, a fourth-year in strategic communication who previously wore the mascot for two years. “Brutus is an ambassador for the university, and it’s not something that’s just Ohio State, it’s like the entire state of Ohio. That secret is just part of the thing that makes him super special.”

The perfect Brutus candidate is a role model both in and out of the costume who can bring the appropriate level of energy to any given situation, Sharp said.

“In a stadium, you want someone with high energy, ready to go, everybody sees him and just feeds off his energy,” he said. “You also want someone who can stand at the podium next to (President Michael Drake) and not take away from Dr. Drake’s speech, but enhance it.”

calls the “greatest band in the entire country” in the next year.

John LaVange, a first-year in accounting, was named the assistant drum major, and he said he is excited to work under MacMaster.

“Nate’s been in the program for many, many years, so it’s going to be an amazing experience to be able to learn everything he knows, getting the experience, getting the knowledge and then hopefully coming back next year and doing better than this year,” LaVange said.

He said becoming the assistant drum major means a lot to him because he started incorporating baton twirling into the drum major program at Howland High School in Howland, Ohio, where he is from. Coming to OSU to become the assistant drum major feels like reaching the next level.

“The ideal candidate is the one who will thrive under pressure,” Kitchen said. “Someone who is a primary leader of the marching band leading the Script Ohio but also a morale officer of the band is really how I see the largest leadership role as the drum major; someone who is going to motivate the band when things aren’t great.”

The two other drum major candidates were Daniel McCullough, a first-year in middle childhood education, and David Williams, a firstyear in architecture. They, along with LaVange, were on the drum major training squad this year, where they practice under the head and assistant drum major throughout the year.

The four prospective drum majors performed for the crowd, starting with the ramp entrance to build excitement. They then showed off their own twirling routine and had five chances to show off their high toss routine with variations between each one.

The drum major judging panel, made of

This story was made possible by the generosity of The Lantern and Ohio State alumna Patty Miller.

Kaley Rentz contributed to this article.

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Baseball makes it 7 straight wins with sweep OSU rolls Northwestern; stays at 3rd in B1G JAMES GREGA, JR. Asst. Sports Editor grega.9@osu.edu

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The OSU football, synchronized swimming and wrestling teams all won national titles during the 2014-15 academic year, while the men’s tennis team saw a national record 200-match home winning streak snapped against top-ranked Oklahoma.

Titles roll in for OSU athletics in 2014-15 TIM MOODY Sports Editor moody.178@osu.edu

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Four teams have already locked up national titles, while four won Big Ten championships as well.

National Champions From the quarterback trio to sophomore running back Ezekiel Elliott’s exposed abs, the OSU football team stole headlines throughout its 2014-15 campaign. That all culminated with the program’s eighth national title in the first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship.

The Buckeyes’ final record was 14-1, with sophomore defensive lineman Joey Bosa leading the way as the team’s only unanimous first team All-American for the year.

Less than three months after OSU locked up an eighth title on the gridiron, the Buckeyes picked up their first national championship on the wrestling mats. Redshirtsenior Logan Stieber led the way with his fourth straight

individual title as the Buckeyes outdueled second-place Iowa with a final score of 102.0.

Along with Stieber, redshirt-freshman Nathan Tomasello picked up an individual title as well, helping OSU to its first title in the program’s 94-year history.

In stark contrast to the wrestling team’s lone championship, the OSU pistol team won its seventh overall and second-straight national title this season. OSU locked up the title on March 26, while freshman Irina Andrianova earned an individual first-place finish as well.

In total, the co-ed pistol team had six free pistol All-Americans, five standard pistol honorees and seven air pistol All-Americans. Andrianova was an honoree for standard and air pistol, while also locking up a first-team finish in sport pistol.

Just two days after the pistol team set the national standard, the OSU synchronized swimming team locked up its 29th national title. The March 28 championship came in Columbus when the Buckeyes defeated defending champion Lindenwood, 93.0-89.0.

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While exams loom, the Ohio State baseball team is passing every test thrown its way.

The Buckeyes (31-10, 12-3) won their sixth and seventh straight games on Sunday, completing a three-game sweep of the Northwestern Wildcats in Evanston, Ill. OSU needed more than nine innings to complete the sweep however, as it won, 5-2, in 11 innings in the second game on Sunday.

Sophomore infielder Jalen Washington hit a one-out single in the top half of the 11th to score sophomore outfielder Troy Montgomery and junior outfielder Jake Brobst to break a 2-2 tie.

After Washington was caught trying to steal second, senior outfielder Pat Porter hit a solo home run off the scoreboard in rightcenter field to conclude the scoring.

Senior pitcher Trace Dempsey picked up the win for OSU, his ninth on the season.

Dempsey proceeded senior starter Ryan Riga who tossed nine innings, giving up just four hits and two runs in the second game on Sunday.

In the first game at Rocky Miller Park on Sunday, the Buckeyes rallied behind sophomore starting pitcher Travis Lakins, who struck out nine Wildcats in just 6.2 innings pitched, to defeat Northwestern, 6-3.

Despite giving up eight hits in the same 6.2 inning span, Northwestern only scratched across two runs on Lakins as the Buckeye bats got going early.

Porter, who put the capper on the second game, started the first inning off with a no-out single to score Montgomery before redshirt-junior infielder Nick Sergakis and junior infielder Craig Nennig each drove in runs for the Buckeyes.

While he was needed for two full innings in the second game, Dempsey picked up his seventh save of the season in game one, striking out Wildcat sophomore outfielder Joe Hoscheit to end the matchup.

As of Sunday night, the Buckeyes are in third place in the Big Ten standings behind the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Illinois Fighting Illini.

The Buckeyes are set to welcome the first place Illini to Columbus on Friday for a three-game series, with first pitch set for 6:35 p.m. First pitch for Saturday’s game is scheduled for 3:05 p.m. with the series finale on Sunday set for 1:05 p.m.

Matta: Buckeyes will miss Russell’s takeovers RYAN COOPER Lantern Reporter cooper.487@osu.edu

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OSU coach Urban Meyer has not yet announced his starter at quarterback for 2015, but The Lantern sports editors decided to take a satirical look at one all-but-impossible scenario.

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D’Angelo Russell officially announced his intentions to leave the Ohio State men’s basketball program for the NBA, leaving after a year in which he earned a first-team All-American honor, the inaugural Jerry West Award for the nation’s top shooting guard and the eternal admiration of OSU coach Thad Matta.

“I got to the point where I just kinda enjoyed the game,” Matta said about watching Russell play. “There were times in the game where I could say to him, ‘take over,’ and he’d look, wink and he’d do it.

I think that’s what I’m going to miss the most.”

In OSU’s regular-season opener, a 92-55 win at home against the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, the freshman scored 16 points to go along with four rebounds, six assists and three steals. This performance inspired UMass-Lowell coach Pat Duquette to call Russell “as good a freshman as I’ve seen” following the game.

It didn’t even take until the regular season for Matta to see that same spark.

“It was probably our preseason scrimmage at West Virginia when he scored 33 and he hit the game-winner,” Matta said.

“I kinda scratched my head and said ‘Uh oh, this kid.’ He was doing things that we hadn’t even talked about yet in terms of drill work.

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D’Angelo Russell “‘If he plays half this well (as the scrimmage), he’s one of the best guards in the country.’ And he only got better from there.”

Not everything was smooth sailing for Russell and the Buckeyes throughout the season, however. In losses to Louisville, in which Russell shot 6-of-20, and Indiana, in which he shot 3-of-15, the guard was

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Russell, who declared for the draft on Thursday, said he never had NBA goals in mind, but rather that he was returning the trust in his coach when Matta trusted him to try to take over the game.

“I didn’t think about ‘I’m trying to be a top-five pick, I’m trying to be a first-team All-American, I’m trying to be this, that,’” Russell said. “I just came in like, ‘Coach, I’ll do whatever you need me to do.’”

According to ESPN, Russell had offers in high school from powerhouse programs such as North Carolina, Virginia and Louisville, which is his hometown.

But it wasn’t the number of Final Four appearances that ultimately was the deciding factor. Nor was it the opportunity to put up flashy numbers or the quality of the rest of the starting lineup.

“The reason we picked this school is he built a great relationship with the head coach … Once we made that bond and that connection, there was no other school,” Antonio Russell, D’Angelo’s father, said.

Matta said he knew from just about the first time he saw D’Angelo Russell in practice that there was a high probability he would leave after his freshman season — despite the guard being brought in on a two-year plan. It was at that point when Matta realized he might need to find D’Angelo Russell’s replacement for next season.

It was also at that point when D’Angelo Russell became a recruiter in addition to a leader on the court, as he was instrumental in landing his likely replacement — guard JaQuan Lyle.

“Getting JaQuan, he and D’Angelo were very close during the process, and D’Angelo helped us get him, which, once again, speaks volumes to how committed he is to our program,” Matta said.

Lyle, originally in D’Angelo Russell’s high school class, committed to Oregon before last season. The Huntington, W.Va., product was denied admission in Eugene, however, after he was found to have not completed enough credit hours.

Lyle ended up playing a post-graduate season at IMG Academy in Florida before he committed to OSU in January.

Although there was nothing he would have liked more than seeing D’Angelo Russell return for another season, Matta said the bond formed between the two over the last year made it impossible to not advise him to do what he felt was best for him and enter the draft.

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Freshman guard D’Angelo Russell (0) declared for the 2015 NBA Draft after leading the Buckeyes with 19.3 points per game in his only collegiate season.

“This is a goal achieved for me, in terms of being a head coach, because I think one thing I’ve always tried to be in situations like these is selfless,” Matta said.

OSU has not had a player leave for the NBA after one year since Byron Mullens in

2009, who at the time was the fifth player in three years to be one-and-done.

While Matta has since put a stronger emphasis on building a program with players who stay for longer, he said he knows D’Angelo Russell is not a typical

talent, but rather one who will excel at the next level.

“He’s one step ahead of the game,” Matta said. “And that’s very, very rare, from the time he was 18 years old, to be thinking that way.”

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“We have a new coaching staff and we’ve fought for a couple of years to find our path. To have it culminate at home in this championship is indescribable.”

Big Ten Champs While the pistol and synchronized swimming teams don’t compete in the Big Ten, both the Buckeye football and wrestling teams locked up conference titles before taking on the best in the nation. The football team defeated Wisconsin in the Big Ten title game, 59-0, before making a run in the College Football Playoff.

The wrestling team was able to beat Iowa at the national championships, but tied the Hawkeyes in Columbus for the conference title. It was OSU’s first Big Ten wrestling championship in 64 years.

OSU’s football and wrestling Big Ten titles were split by a victory by the women’s indoor track and field team. The Buckeyes finished first with 84 points — 15 ahead of second-place Michigan.

The Buckeyes added another Big Ten championship to their links Sunday, and came up just short of two. OSU’s women’s golf team shared the conference title with Northwestern, as both teams shot a one-under at the Big Ten Women’s Golf Championships at the Fort Golf Resort in Indianapolis. The men’s golf team finished tied for fifth in its conference tournament after beginning Sunday tied for second at the Victoria National Golf Club in Newburgh, Ind. The OSU men’s tennis team had a shot at another Big Ten title on Sunday, but the Buckeyes fell to Illinois, 4-0, in the conference tournament final. OSU also saw its record home winning streak snapped at 200 earlier this year.

Ongoing efforts OSU’s men’s and women’s lacrosse teams, the softball team, the women’s rowing team and the baseball team all have ongoing opportunities to push for a Big Ten title.

The Buckeye baseball team is currently third in the Big Ten with a 12-3 conference record, but OSU has nine more conference games to make up ground before the Big Ten Tournament begins May 21.

OSU’s softball team has a steeper hill to climb than its baseball counterparts,

as the Buckeyes hold an 9-11 conference record with just three games to play. The softball tournament is scheduled to be held from May 7 to 9 in Columbus.

Big Ten lacrosse Like the baseball and softball teams, OSU’s lacrosse teams have some time left before they call it a season.

While the men’s team lost a shot at a regular-season title in the first season of Big Ten lacrosse after falling to Maryland and Rutgers in the final two regular season games, the Buckeyes still finished third in the conference with a 3-2 record.

OSU is set to face Maryland on Thursday in College Park, Md., for a chance to play in the first Big Ten men’s lacrosse title game.

The women’s team concluded its regular season on a low note as well, as the Buckeyes fell, 16-6, to Northwestern on Saturday. But a 2-3 Big Ten record was still enough to make the conference tournament, where OSU is scheduled to take on Rutgers on Thursday in Piscataway, N.J. Men’s volleyball While not part of the Big Ten, OSU’s men’s volleyball team still has a shot at a conference title, too. The Buckeyes finished the regular season 22-8 overall and 12-5 in the Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.

OSU topped Ball State in a 3-0 sweep in the MIVA quarterfinals on Friday, and is now set to play in the semifinals on Tuesday against defending national champion Loyola.

Rowing The Buckeye rowing team is ranked No. 1 in the nation after winning each of its six races on Saturday against No. 13 Michigan, No. 17 Syracuse and Michigan State.

In total, the Buckeyes won 43 of their 61 races this season, while the first varsity eight completed its second-straight undefeated run with a perfect 10-0 record.

The second varsity eight lost just once this season, while the first and second varsity fours finished with 8-2 records.

OSU has won two straight Big Ten titles, and is set for a shot at a third in a row on May 16 and 17 in Indianapolis.

The Buckeyes have also won two straight national titles, and will set their sights on a third after the conference championships.

The NCAA Championships are scheduled for May 29 to May 31 in Sacramento, Calif.

Ohio State athletics 2014-15 records Ongoing seasons in italics Sport

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Fencing Football

5th at NCAA Fencing Championships 14-1

Golf Men’s Women’s

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6-8-3 9-8-2

10-5 11-6

3-2 2-3

6-1 6-2

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Rifle

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Soccer Men’s Women’s

9-8-5 6-10-3

5-3-0 3-7-3

5-2-4 4-4-1

3-5-1 1-6-2

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6-5 11-1

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Volleyball Men’s Women’s

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12-5 12-8

15-1 11-2

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During an impromptu Sunday press conference, Meyer announced that redshirt-senior Braxton Miller, redshirt-junior Cardale Jones and redshirt-sophomore J.T. Barrett will all start for the Buckeyes in 2015. In fact, not only will the trio of returning starters all be in the opening lineup, but Meyer said all six scholarship quarterbacks at OSU have earned starting spots — even though two of them have yet to arrive on campus.

“At Ohio State, it doesn’t matter, the best player plays,” Meyer said Sunday. “If our five best players are kickers, then five kickers play. If our best 11 on defense are all linebackers, then we’ll play 11 linebackers. It just so happens that our six quarterbacks are the best six players, so we had to find a way to get them all on the field.

“Those six have earned the right to be called starters at the Ohio State University.”

Meyer explained that Miller — a two-time Big Ten Quarterback of the Year — will line up at slot receiver, Barrett — the reigning conference Quarterback of the Year — will play tailback and Jones will use his 6-foot-5-inch, 250-pound frame to play tight end.

Incoming freshman Torrance Gibson and redshirt-freshman Stephen Collier will be OSU’s outside receivers, Meyer said, and perhaps most shockingly of all, freshman Joe Burrow will be the only one actually taking snaps from senior center Jacoby Boren.

Jones, who led the Buckeyes to wins over Wisconsin, Alabama and Oregon en route to Big Ten and national titles in his first three starts, was visibly confused as he stood alongside Meyer during the press conference.

“I finally figured out that I came here to play school, but I’m still pretty sure I didn’t come here to play tight end,” Jones was heard muttering as he left the room. “At least I’m still allowed to tweet.”

Burrow, who has yet to take a college snap, is reportedly practicing passes to himself,

much like he perfected in his high school playing days.

“I am just so excited to throw passes to all of our quarterbacks, but even more excited to throw to myself,” Burrow said at the press conference. “I can’t thank coach Meyer enough for this opportunity.”

Meyer, who is confident in Burrow’s abilities to lead the offense, reiterated his usual mantra to the press.

“A quarterback is a product of those around him, and in this case they are the products for themselves,” Meyer said. “Zeke was great for us last year, but no one can open up the offense like our quarterbacks.”

Barrett, who won 11 games last season, is coming off of an ankle surgery and said he is excited about his new role in the offense.

“Did you see my run against Minnesota last year? I ran through all over those Gopher holes,” Barrett said. “I loved playing with Zekiel. But I am the better option.”

The Buckeyes will have more than enough options next season, which Meyer said he intends to take full advantage of.

“With six guys who can throw, you can really

open up the playbook,” Meyer said. “I can’t give you an example, but I can tell you that there is a play where all six guys will touch the ball and Dolo Dale will end up throwing the ball further than Uncle Rico when he threw the ball over them mountains.”

Collier, who saw extended action in the 2015 Spring Game said, was thrilled with the announcement.

“I’m just happy to be here,” he said.

As per usual, Miller declined to speak to the press.

Burrow, an Athens, Ohio, native, was the only person at the press conference who didn’t look like he’d recently been hit by a bus. While he was rated as a four-star recruit by ESPN, he was widely expected to be the fifth or sixth option under center this season.

“I know nobody expected it, but I always knew coach Meyer would give me a chance,” Burrow said. “Cordale, Brandon and J.R. are all great players, but none of them can throw touchdown passes to themselves.”

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TOP AND BOTTOM: Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit performs during the Big Spring Concert 2015 at the South Oval on April 25.

MIDDLE, FROM LEFT: Patrick Gemayel and David Macklovitch perform in Chromeo during the Big Spring Concert 2015 at the South Oval on April 25.

Wet campus couldn’t keep students away from OUAB Big Spring Concert RACHEL FEELEY For The Lantern feeley.8@osu.edu Columbus saw a drop in temperatures and a decent amount of rain Saturday, but even with the bad weather, students still came out to experience a great night with some awesome entertainers.

Thankfully, the skies cleared up enough for the Ohio Union Activities Board annual spring concert on the South Oval to still be enjoyable.

Headlined by electronica trio Passion Pit, which released a new album Tuesday, the Big Spring Concert also featured opening acts Chromeo and COIN. The crowd started off pretty small, but as the night went on, students flooded in from different sides of campus.

Passion Pit, which received mixed reactions when it was announced as the headliner, drew an energetic crowd for the night.

When the group played “Take A Walk” from the album “Gossamer,” I was thankful I wore my rain boots. Students were jumping up and down and moving their hands with the beat. Some were so excited and hyped up that at some points I wasn’t sure if I was being splashed by muddy water from the ground or if it had started raining again.

Passion Pit played a few more crowd favorites from “Gossamer,” including “Carried Away,” one of my personal favorites. The upbeat song kept the crowd alive and active, dancing around and singing the chorus as loudly as they could.

Whether they were dancing and singing or simply watching the performers, the crowd seemed to have a good time throughout the entire show. And with Passion Pit, Chromeo, and COIN’s feel-good music, I’m not sure who would have not enjoyed the show, cold and all.

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Truth better than tact TY ANDERSON Lantern Reporter anderson.2273@osu.edu

DANIEL BENDTSEN Arts Editor bendtsen.1@osu.edu

This is part of a weekly series called “Ty Talks” in which The Lantern’s Ty Anderson offers his take on the week’s pop culture news.

As an acoustic singer-songwriter act, Kelly Zullo found it hard to get an audience’s attention in the noisy bars she was playing.

So about seven years ago, she got a gimmick: playing fast and percussive guitar riffs that have her fingers flying up and down her ‘67 Gibson fretboard at 150 beats per minute.

Developing that skill was no easy task — she still works on it nearly every day, often for six-hour chunks of time.

That means she sits still a lot, but she doesn’t like it. She has a poor attention span and has been restless since she was a kid.

Zullo started playing guitar at 12, with great anticipation of getting out of her small town in upstate New York.

“I had a map of L.A. on my wall, because I was going to be a movie star — which was stupid,” she said.

Instead, she rolled into Nashville, Tenn., as an 18-year-old to attend Belmont University.

It was 1994 when she arrived, and while the city was still primarily a hub for country music, it had also gained notoriety for its enormous pool of talent. Zullo said Nashville gave her “a barometer on what ‘good’ is.”

“That city has earned its stripes with art,” she said. “It’s not trying to prove anything.”

In Nashville, she learned how good she wasn’t — and how good she wanted to be.

Two decades later, she’s still not where she wants to be a performer; she’s also not sure where she wants to be geographically.

Within a few years, Zullo grew sick of Nashville. But it took her 15 years to leave the city for good, and since then, she’s toured Europe and lived in Chicago, New York and Cleveland.

She’s also worked dozens of odd jobs.

She has a side business making loft beds, which she started in 2011.

“I was living in a tiny room in Chicago and there was no place for my bed,” she said. “So I bought a bunch of wood and put this thing together … I wasn’t much of a carpenter before that.

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Kelly Zullo came into the Lantern TV studio to play a set on Friday. Scan the QR code above to watch the performance. call and ask, but at one point it was 15 beds a month,” she said, adding that she’s has gotten tired of “eight hours a day out in the sawdust.”

Zullo came to Columbus in October 2013 to visit a friend. When her gig got canceled the next day, someone took her to go down to a qualifying round of Columbus Songwriters Association’s annual contest.

“I won, so then I had to come back,” she said of her return for the finals in December. “And then I won that.”

Zullo said she decided to move because Columbus’ music scene had more vitality than Cleveland’s.

“My lease was up in Cleveland,” Zullo said, “and this seemed like a more fruitful place to hang out.”

As a young city, Columbus has a

“hunger” for a music scene, Zullo said, but too often people are relying on name recognition. She didn’t have that much trouble getting noticed though — (614) Magazine voted her “Best Solo Musician” only four months after she moved here.

Zullo’s now been in Columbus for a year and a half — as long as a stretch anywhere as she’s had since she left Nashville. She’s called herself both a “tumbleweed” and “gypsy,” and she’s itching to leave. But with no plans to relocate, she satisfies herself with mini trips: driving a van out to random towns and showing up at open mics.

Up until this year, she said recognition was a principal force driving her to better herself — a “toxic” motive in her view,

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“I have to poop.”

Those were the words I cried to my third-grade teacher during a field trip to the Toledo Museum of Art, and those were the words for which I was punished. “Tyler, you can’t say that,” she said. Never mind the fact that they were true, and never mind the fact they were necessary.

Speaking the truth cost me a week of recesses, and I couldn’t understand why. I’ve never been one to bite my tongue. I’ve always believed that truth was more important than tact, and I’ve never understood the appeal of beating around the bush. Throughout elementary school, I was the child constantly reprimanded for the words he said.

In this past school year as a columnist at The Lantern, I’ve written on everything from Pope Francis to Kim K’s rear. I’ve touched on topics that were starkly serious, and I’ve touched on topics so ridiculous that they probably didn’t even deserve to be published. I’ve expressed unpopular opinions, I’ve shared borderline-inappropriate anecdotes, and I’ve pissed off a lot of people in the process. But through it all, never once did the people of The Lantern say, “Tyler, you can’t say that.” And for that, I am immeasurably grateful.

This column has always been focused on pop culture, but at its core, I’d like to think that it was something more than that. Behind all the jokes, behind all the snark and the over-exaggerations, I’ve had a goal. That goal was to urge readers to not take life so seriously and to challenge the general consensus.

It’s easy to see Kim Kardashian’s bare butt on the cover of a magazine and think “OK, she’s a whore.” But what if she’s not? What if there’s another side to the story? What if there’s a side to Kim’s booty that is soft and tender and somehow deeply, really human?

(OK, that might have been a bad example.)

My point is that calling Kim Kardashian a whore is the easy route.

Society tells us she’s a whore, the comments on every article ever written about Kim Kardashian tell us that she’s a whore, so it’s easy to come to the conclusion that Kim Kardashian is a whore.

But maybe in the back of your mind, you disagree. Maybe you think it’s cool that she’s proud of her body, or maybe you think it’s cool that she’s marketed herself so well as to become one of the most recognizable faces on the planet. Personally, I think Kim Kardashian is great. I think she has genuine character.

And genuine character is the rarest, yet perhaps most beautiful aspect of human existence. Yet so few people actually let that character show. We allow arbitrary rules, taboo topics and tender feelings to limit what we say and what we think. And in the process, we limit ourselves and our contributions to the world.

It saddens me to say that this is my final column. But before I bow out, I’d like to leave you all with a final thought. A final piece of advice.

That advice is to always be the loud voice — a voice that speaks up and questions the general consensus. The voice that brings light to the unpopular opinions and the controversies, because you just might find that they aren’t so terribly unpopular or controversial. And most importantly, never, ever allow somebody to look at you and say that “you can’t say that.”

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‘Ugly Duckling’ hops from page to stage OLIVIA HAMILTON Lantern Reporter hamilton.889@osu.edu Being different is good. It’s a message we hear frequently, and is one that resonates with people of all ages. CATCO’s production of “HONK!” aims to bring that message to the stage.

“HONK!” is a musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s story “The Ugly Duckling.” Ugly, the main character, is ridiculed for being different from all the other ducklings. He sounds different and looks different, but by the love of his mother and his own personal journey, he begins to see his differences as positive rather than negative.

Jeff Hurst, the director of “HONK!” and an Ohio State alumnus, said this show has something for people of all ages.

“This show is about one character’s journey to find out who he is, which is very similar to everybody in their life. Ugly meets very different people along the way, just like in our own lives, and he’s finding out what truly matters and who is real friends are, and I think this is a message that can ring true for everybody in life,” Hurst said.

CATCO associate producing director Joe Bishara said it was time for “HONK!” to come to the Columbus Performing Arts Center, located at 549 Franklin Ave., as a part of the CATCO is Kids season.

When CATCO began managing the Columbus Performing Arts Center, which houses the Shedd Theater, on behalf of Columbus Recreation and Parks six years ago, Bishara said its first production was a junior version of “HONK!” “I love this show, I have a very long history with this show,” Bishara said. “The first time it was ever produced in Virginia, I was in it. I played the ugly duckling.”

Zullo from 2B and now is more concerned with improving her music.

“I was playing really fast, but it didn’t have a lot of dynamic to it,” she said.

So she’s started working on a new sound — one with more complexity and things like sixth, ninth and 11th chord extensions.

She still plays with a pick, but last year, she also started going to salons to have a bulky acrylic nail put on her index finger to make her pull-offs stand out more.

When she plays live, she’s started

Bishara said this is the first time “HONK!” will be a multi-generational production, with a cast of six adults and children ranging in age from elementary school to high school.

He said he specifically enjoyed getting to work with children.

“It’s neat to watch them put the pieces together,” Bishara said.

Bishara, who is often a director at CATCO, said he wanted Hurst to direct this show rather than doing it himself because he felt it was a good fit.

“Jeff is an exceptional artist. I think it’s really important for young artists to have the opportunity to collaborate with a variety of adult instructors because I think they can learn something different from a different person,” Bishara said.

Ashley Robbe — who plays the mother hen, Ida — said this role is a dream for her.

“Because it’s basically my life at home. I was really, really excited,” Robbe said.

Having two children of her own, Robbe said she has enjoyed getting to play Ida because it’s something she knows very well.

“It’s probably been my most favorite show I’ve been in, in a very long time. All the little ducklings say ‘mommy’ when I come in for the rehearsals,” Robbe said.

Robbe said HONK! has a powerful message for both kids and adults.

“For kids, being different isn’t necessarily so bad and no matter what you’re going through, just keep pushing through and you’ll make it through, everything is going to be OK. Just cling to the ones who love you and look to your family and friends for help,” Robbe said.

Performances are set to take place Friday through Sunday and then May 8 through May 10. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children.

accompanying herself by playing and looping drum parts, and playing bass lines with her foot on MIDI pedals.

She’s still restless, but the labor has gotten easier as she’s gotten older.

“It’s the 11th-hour syndrome,” she said. “Now it’s easy to be in this thing of constant improvement. It makes you seem so heroic and industrious.”

Refining and practicing her technique can be isolating, “It’s like I’m in med school,” she said. “My fingers can move really fast in the things I’m used

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But perfecting the craft is important; she’s the type that believes on making the product and letting the marketing take care of itself.

“That doesn’t take as much elbow grease. McDonald’s has to spend millions and billions of dollars convincing you to eat their food — but good food sells itself.”

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Sallee Ann Ruibal poses with numerous Moe’s burritos delivered through OrderUp.

SALLEE ANN RUIBAL Asst. Arts Editor ruibal.1@osu.edu For Christmas, my mother gave me a cookbook of recipes that require fewer than five ingredients and less than 30 minutes to make. That cookbook sits on my table underneath empty bags and containers of delivery.

I am devoted to ordering delivery. It’s the easiest, fastest way to fit meals into my schedule.

I’m known for being the one that orchestrates orders for either just the Arts desk or the whole newsroom. It’s a special talent. Now, I have weighed all the delivery options to tell you which one is best.

3. EatStreet EatStreet is one of the delivery services that employs drivers to pick up food from restaurants and deliver it to the orderer. An advantage of this is that food that was previously undeliverable, such as Boston’s pizza and Melt Bar & Grilled, is now deliverable. But EatStreet does not give users an estimated delivery time. This could be seen as a pleasant surprise or a hassle in having to guess when you should probably put pants on.

2. GrubHub Out of these three delivery services, GrubHub is the only one that has the food delivered by restaurant employees instead of hired drivers. Therefore, most of the restaurants on GrubHub already have an option for delivery. So why even bother using GrubHub when you could just call the restaurant up or order off their site? Because “Free Grub,” that’s why.

If GrubHub tells you your food should be there by 8:30 p.m. and it’s 8:31, call GrubHub. They will usually deposit $5 dollars of “Free Grub” onto your account for the inconvenience and will contact the restaurant for you to see what’s up. If the restaurant got your order wrong, a cheerful GrubHub rep will reimburse you. The appeal of GrubHub is definitely its customer service.

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opinion A letter from a graduating senior: OSU is a family BLAKE WHITEHOUSE For The Lantern whitehouse.26@osu.edu Have you ever walked into a room of 105,000 strangers completely on your own?

If not, let me tell you a few of the emotions that might run through your mind: sheer and utter fear, discomfort, shock and the sense of feeling smaller than you ever have in your life. These thoughts all ran through my head when, in September 2011, I stepped foot into Ohio Stadium for the first home game of the season.

My first game was probably a different experience than many people’s because when I was a freshman, we were still on the quarter system. Under the quarter system, our classes began in the middle of September, a month later than they do now. This meant that move-in day was mere days before the first game of the season for students. As an out-of-state student from Chicago, who knew next to no one on this campus and whose roommates had not purchased tickets for this game, that meant that from the minute I stepped on campus, I had about a week to find people to go with.

My initial decision was to just not go. To succumb the innate fear of being alone that had limited my experiences for so many years prior to college. I woke up the morning of the game with this mindset, but then something incredible happened: I looked out of my bedroom window in Morrill Tower.

There are certain moments in life that remain etched in our brains in such detail that we can recall them down to the smell of the room at the time they occurred. I lived in a four-person room with three other freshman boys, so I have chosen to bury that smell aspect of this particular memory, but I will never forget what I saw when I looked out of that window, because quite frankly, it changed my life.

I saw people. People everywhere. Of all ages, genders, cultures and walks of life.

These people made up a sea of scarlet and gray so dense that I could not see an inch of sidewalk in my entire plane of view. I immediately went to my closet, put on the single Ohio State T-shirt that I owned at the time, and walked out of the door. As I rode the elevator down with ticket in hand, the nerves began to set in. I realized that I was about to walk into this massive stadium completely alone and watch this game. I had no idea how inaccurate

that thought would sound to me a mere three years later.

Looking back on that day, I realized something important that I could not have known at the time: I was not alone. I was walking into Ohio Stadium and watching this game with family. I sit here and write this now as a senior, and although many underclassmen might roll their eyes at that statement, to me, it is a beautiful truth that I have slowly realized throughout my years at The Ohio State University.

There is something special about this place that I think goes unappreciated far too often. It is very easy to take all of the beauty of the tradition of this school for granted while attending. The casual “O-H” and football games at one of the largest stadiums in the world become second nature to us somewhere along the way. And I admit, I have been guilty of neglecting this beauty many times. I have assisted in preaching the common message that screaming “O-H” or responding “I-O” while out on campus makes you look “like a freshman.” But now that I am mere weeks away from officially graduating, it is truly hitting me. All of these things that we experience every single day do not exist at every university. In fact, I have visited five

Letter from the editor: OSU should require a journalism class for undergraduates LIZ YOUNG Editor-in-chief young.1693@osu.edu At the end of my time here, I’m calling for an addition to Ohio State’s general education requirements: a required journalism class.

I often see my peers turn to Buzzfeed quizzes and Upworthy posts for their entertainment and news needs. I’ve taken my share of Buzzfeed quizzes and watched quite a few Upworthy videos, but those supplement my media diet — they don’t compose its entirety.

It’s also not right to me that some students know nothing about the unbiased news. And I have this feeling

that many in my generation aren’t about to start a subscription to a newspaper even after they graduate.

Ohio State should fix that.

What’s the point of a college education if you don’t know what’s going on in the world, or how politicians side on key issues? How likely are people my age to flip on the local news or to follow a few news organizations on Twitter?

Many of my peers are extremely wellinformed. Others aren’t. They think of newspapers as dying, not as something that needs to be saved.

Either during the freshman survey course or as a course taken during students’ senior years, there should be a set course where OSU students learn about these things. They would learn how to tell if an article has good sourcing.

They would learn what reporters aim to do. They would learn why their favorite sports reporter probably doesn’t show a bias toward their favorite team.

Among all of the other general education requirements, which range from science courses to writing courses in the College of Arts and Sciences, a journalism class is a natural fit. It doesn’t need to be about how to be a journalist, rather, just about how to be an informed citizen and an informed consumer of news.

As journalists, our audience is often what holds us accountable. We welcome constructive criticism. So we need an informed audience to do that, in order to keep the system in checks and balances.

After all, our main goal is to hold people in power accountable to something bigger than themselves.

other Big Ten schools on gamedays and none of them can even compare to the unity that comes with this school.

I guess what I’m trying to say is this: Take all of this in while you can. Four years seems like a long time and it can become easy to let the everyday beauty of this school go unnoticed. But I can personally tell you those years fly by like you would not believe.

It seems as though too many of us don’t realize how rare the tradition of this place is. Most other schools do not aggregate in mass numbers to jump into a near frozen lake in the middle of the winter in the Midwest.

Most other schools do not have their football team come and face the student section while a stadium of 110,000 people puts their arms around each other’s shoulders to sing a school song in unison at the end of every home game. And most schools do not have a simple two-letter proclamation that can be made and met with a response, and most times, a friendly conversation, from the streets of Chicago to the top of the Eiffel Tower (both of which have been experienced by me personally or by close friends).

This is not just a school. These are not just traditions. And we are not just classmates and peers; we are indeed family.

College Republicans should be commended for inviting Horowitz Letter to the editor: Too often we hear about what someone is saying and less often actually hear them say it. One of the services a great university can provide is first-hand exposure to public figures even, or especially, those who are obnoxious. It’s a characteristic of the information age that news comes prefiltered, and filtering, regardless of the best intentions, is bias.

Demagogues like David Horowitz love to play the martyr — they need to be exposed and confronted in daylight to be defeated. I would love nothing better than to stand next to Mr. Horowitz on a stage and eviscerate his “arguments” point by point. But I would need to hear his points first to know how to combat him.

The College Republicans should be commended for having the strength and courage to invite Horowitz on campus to hear his views first-hand. Critics of providing him a forum should realize they are arguing in favor of ignorance in the middle of one of the best universities in the nation. Now that is an argument they are most unlikely to win.

Tom Lillis IV Class of 2015 Fourth-year in Political Science lillis.6@osu.edu

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Since Spring is right around the corner and we have the best patio’s in town, we are ready to hire and start training our servers for the upcoming and much anticipated weather! We do require that all servers train as counterhelp before going on the server oor.Please stop by any of our three locations for an application.

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opinion Campus Partners should focus on Gateway before new project MICHELE THEODORE Managing Editor for Content theodore.13@osu.edu Campus Partners announced a plan that would revamp several acres of the off-campus district. It would eliminate some of our favorite campus places, specifically around 15th Avenue and High Street, in an effort to make a “commercial planned district.”

It’s been several weeks since the plan was announced, and after walking around the area to see where things would change and reading the plans, it’s clear that some parts of the plan are appealing, but the majority of the proposal is unwelcome, poorly thought out and doesn’t take students’ wishes into account.

The appealing parts of the plan include changes that will widen sidewalks and fix traffic patterns. Wider sidewalks would ideally make the area easier to walk around, and 14th Avenue and 16th Avenue would

be connected to High Street again, while a longer stretch of 15th would be a two-way street.

Those plans need to happen. Traffic in that area is always jumbled and hard to navigate, and it would take some of the stress off of High and Pearl streets.

But that’s pretty much where the good parts of the plan stop.

All of those feats could easily be accomplished without changing the face of the off-campus district.

Campus Partners, along with local property owners, aims to tear down the building that currently houses Brenen’s Cafe, Jimmy John’s and The O Patio & Pub, replacing them with a public square.

The only comparable area to a public square is located near Starbucks and SBX on 14th Avenue. That area is often filled with trash and isn’t an appealing place to hang out, especially after dark.

Why would a public square one block north be any different?

Campus Partners President Amanda Hoffsis

said she envisions a “really beautiful public square that you would find anywhere in Europe.”

But this isn’t Europe. And by taking one look at the state of High Street and the trash that accumulates on a normal weekend night, how would it stay beautiful for very long?

The plan also aims to construct a parking garage and a “signature building,” which is currently planned to be a hotel.

In reality, this seems like a way to get people to spend a lot of money on gamedays.

Fans and alumni would love to flock to a nice hotel located right off campus and would probably shell out a significant amount of money to park beside campus, too.

But does Columbus itself really need another hotel? What about the Blackwell, which is right on campus? Would an off-campus hotel be adequately profitable throughout the rest of the year?

The biggest problem with the plan, however, lies with the company that’s organizing it. Campus Partners is in charge of the South Campus Gateway, a place just south of campus that’s generally nice and popular on

the weekends. But its popularity has clearly dipped as what seems to be a little less than half of the Gateway sits empty.

Just a few weeks after Campus Partners announced its new off-campus plans, Pizza Rustica closed. It’s one of a string of business that have closed in the past two years. Kildare’s Irish Pub, Charlie Bear: Land of Dance, Gooeyz and Finish Line have left all left the Gateway.

Some spaces, like Kildare’s, have been replaced. But the gaping holes left from Charlie Bear and Gooeyz, some of the largest spots in the Gateway, have been glaringly empty for more than a year.

When you walk around the Gateway, it’s impossible to not notice the empty spaces.

While questions remain about the entire plan, the biggest questions comes from looking at the Gateway.

If Campus Partners can’t keep businesses in the Gateway, how will it be any different with the spaces they plan to renovate to the north?

Fix the Gateway, then focus on the rest of campus.

Time at Lantern TV was worth it, despite health issues HAYDEN GROVE Lantern TV Sports Director grove.157@osu.edu It was 6 o’clock in the morning.

I was sitting in the dimly lit lobby of a Starbucks in Johnstown, Pa., watching the gray bar inch closer and closer to the YouTube finish line.

The rest of the crew was sound asleep in the unfathomable comfort of a hotel just a few blocks away.

Hours — which seemed more like years — earlier, Ohio State had emerged an overtime victor amidst a sea of white at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa. I spent four hours literally atop the stadium, braving the cold temperatures, slight rain and wind, as I filmed the game.

After recording Urban Meyer and a couple of Buckeyes laud each other following the win, we quickly hopped into a car and drove an hour to Johnstown, Pa., where I immediately started to edit together a combination of highlights, voice-overs and interviews that is known as a postgame package.

As I sat in the Starbucks, watching my three

hours of editing upload to YouTube, little did I know of my deteriorating health.

I weighed 159 pounds at 6-foot-3, and my heart rate was about 32 beats per minute — a rate that doctors would call “alarming” months later.

What was worse than my health was my mental state.

My mind was in a dark place that it had been before, but this time it felt different. It wasn’t so much a sadness this time around, but a hopelessness that was hidden amidst the other issues that had caused my dwindling weight.

Why was my mind darting to the word “quit” every time I saw the Lantern TV logo, when I knew how lucky I was to be working for the Lantern Media Group and covering the eventual National Champions?

— It was now December.

My parents were worried, my friends were worried and I was worried.

I walked into the office of The Lantern’s then-adviser, as thin as ever, with tears in my eyes, ready tell him that I would quit after the College Football Playoffs — that I couldn’t put in this effort any longer.

When I did so, he told me to go home and discuss it with the people I cared about most: my family.

Amidst those dark days, I would call my mother and father incessantly and lean on them for support, which they offered unceasingly each and every step of the way. They would tell me they’d support me no matter the decisions I made.

When I got home, that support continued.

While they feared for my health, sending me to numerous doctors appointments within the first 48 hours of landing back home in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., they offered their love and support, no matter the decision I made.

After much introspection, I knew why I stayed.

— When I first came to Lantern TV (formerly BuckeyeTV), Franz Ross was the sports director and I was the inexperienced assistant with the annoying questions that more than likely drove him up a wall.

If I did annoy Franz, he certainly didn’t show it.

He was gracious and increasingly kind in welcoming me aboard and eventually we established a great relationship, both professionally and personally.

As we were promoted to new positions at Lantern TV for the 2014-15 school year, we were sure that we were going to take the station to never-before-seen heights.

After that first semester at Lantern TV — a semester that saw OSU win a national championship and a semester that saw Lantern TV’s popularity as an OSU sports media outlet grow — I was confident that we had.

It was Franz, knowingly or not, who kept me afloat and kept me on board, despite all of the things that could’ve easily pushed me into the water.

I do regret that I couldn’t give my all to Franz or to Lantern TV over this last semester because of my health and other professional circumstances, but I’ll always be grateful for staying along for the final four months of our incredible, three-semester-long ride.

— There are many memories that I’ll take away from my time at OSU and most, if not all, involve Lantern TV and The Lantern. For that, I have too many people to thank, but if you think you deserve to be mentioned, you most certainly do.

To my family, thank you and I love you with every fiber of my being.

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