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OSU moves forward on $200M renovation of arts district Daniel Bendtsen Arts editor bendtsen.1@osu.edu Ohio State is moving forward on a major renovation of its arts district that would expand the Wexner Center for the Arts, Weigel Hall and move the Department of Theatre closer to High Street.

The university is also looking to remove the prominence of the large concrete planters outside of the Wex, opening up the area from the Oval to High Street.

OSU Executive Vice President and Provost Joseph Steinmetz told The Lantern on Thursday that new construction would aim to update facilities for current academic needs.

“It’s been a while since we’ve addressed facilities for these departments, meaning that there’s some upgrades and

changes and improvements that need to be made to match the great programs that we have,” he said.

The university put out a request for qualifications in late February for a $400,000 design contract.

OSU spokesman Gary Lewis said university officials will not publicly comment on specifics of that RFQ until its Thursday deadline has passed.

Plans for this project were first articulated under former President E. Gordon Gee’s administration in a university framework that envisioned concentrating different academic pursuits into geographical “gateways” around campus, with health sciences being further consolidated to the southwest section of main campus, engineering consolidated to the northwest, and the arts focused to the east, around the intersection of High Street and 15th Avenue.

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Provost is happy where he is

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A rendering of what the renovated arts district could eventually look like

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Steinmetz aims to keep OSU growing despite Texas opening JEREMY SAVITZ Lantern reporter savitz.3@osu.edu It’s going to take a lot more than interest from the University of Texas to get Joseph Steinmetz, Ohio State’s provost and executive vice president, to leave Columbus.

Steinmetz was recently named as a candidate for Joseph Steinmetz the position of president of the University of Texas, but withdrew his name from consideration.

“It was a huge decision,” Steinmetz said.

“First of all, I was flattered that the University of Texas thought I could be a candidate. It’s a great American university just like this one is, but in my mind, I’m really happy with the position I have here.”

At face value, it might seem to some that becoming the president at the University of Texas would be an upgrade, but Steinmetz said he doesn’t see it that way.

“I believe I am making a difference in what I do,” Steinmetz said. “I don’t want to take any position anywhere unless I know I can make a difference in that particular position.”

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Students help Columbus rank in top-30 green power cities NICK ROLL Senior Lantern reporter roll.66@osu.edu Thirteen might be an unlucky number for some, but for city officials, university professors and some students, it’s an accomplishment.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Top 30 Local Government list, a list measuring the top city governments using green power across the country, Columbus ranks No. 13 in terms of green energy use. The list is updated quarterly, and measures energy usage in kilowatt-hours, according to the EPA’s website.

This quarter’s report, released Jan. 26, is the first time Columbus has ranked on the list, according to a city of Columbus press release.

In Columbus, 14 percent of electricity came from green sources, and the city has an annual usage of 42.4 million kilowatt hours from green energy. Green energy sources are “electricity produced from solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, eligible biomass and low-impact small hydroelectric sources,” the release said.

The point of the list is to recognize top users of green energy and inspire other cities and municipalities, said Anthony Amato, a renewable energy consultant at Eastern Research Group, a contract firm of the EPA. City officials said they were pleased with ranking.

“This ranking shows that the city of Columbus is looking to reduce the environmental impact

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Wisconsin senior forward Frank Kaminsky (44) goes up for a shot over OSU freshman forward Jae’Sean Tate (left) during a March 8 game at the Schottenstein Center. OSU lost, 72-48.

OSU falls in last home game, 72-48 tim moody Sports editor moody.178@osu.edu Five Ohio State men’s basketball seniors will leave Columbus with at least 107 wins to their class’s name, but that won’t include a victory on senior day.

Guard Shannon Scott, forwards Sam Thompson and Anthony Lee, and centers Amir Williams and Trey McDonald each played their final games at the Schottenstein

Center on Sunday, but No. 23 OSU fell, 72-48, to No. 6 Wisconsin.

OSU coach Thad Matta said he wants the seniors to put the loss behind them in order to end their collegiate careers on a high note because “crazy things happen” in March.

“The biggest things I want from those guys are to value the time they have remaining and to know that this team has played some great basketball,” Matta said. “We have

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200-match streak comes to an end tim moody Sports editor moody.178@osu.edu More than 700 people were on hand when the Ohio State men’s tennis team saw its 200-match home winning streak snapped by No. 1 Oklahoma.

But despite the loss, coach Ty Tucker said he’d expect those fans to be back to watch the man who fell just short in the final match Friday night at the Varsity Tennis Center.

“If you’re a Buckeye fan, it doesn’t matter if you’re basketball, football, baseball, whatever your taste in sports is,” Tucker said. “If you watched that match tonight, you’ll be back to watch Kevin Metka.”

Metka is a redshirt-senior from Worthington, Ohio, who Tucker said carries a 3.7 GPA in mechanical engineering. Before he lost, 7-5, in a third-set tiebreaker, Metka had staved off multiple match points against Oklahoma sophomore Florin Bragusi.

By the third set, Metka had a few match-point chances of his own and fought through cramps just to keep playing. But in the end, just as he did in OSU’s first loss of the season against Texas A&M, Metka came up just short.

“Kevin Metka is what Ohio State wants in their athletes,” Tucker said. “He started to cramp out there and he fought through the cramps.”

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Buckeyes lose at home for the first time since 2003

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OSU redshirt-senior Kevin Metka (right) lost (6-7, 7-6, 6-7) in the final match of the Buckeyes’ 4-3 loss to Oklahoma on March 6 in Columbus.

record for consecutive home wins in any sport — behind them, Tucker stressed that it’s important for the Buckeyes to move forward.

“We never even thought about it until year eight or nine when someone brought it up,” he said. “And then you don’t think about it and all of a sudden you hit some milestones with 100, 150 or 200 wins or 10 years and you talk about it. But everybody in the world knew that the streak would end at some point.”

The loss, which was OSU’s first in Columbus since April 2003, moves the No. 8 Buckeyes to 12-4 this season ahead of a four-match road trip set to begin Tuesday against Florida in Gainesville, Fla. Despite those four losses and the end of the streak, Tucker said he’s hopeful his team can continue to improve and contend going forward, even though the talent on the roster might not be what it was in years past. “(We’re) a little down maybe this year compared to the last couple years with some horses, but guys are getting better, and as a coach if every match you’re getting better and guys are coming to fight and compete, what else can you ask for?” Tucker said.

After the Buckeyes take on Florida, they’re scheduled to travel to Tulsa, Okla., Texas and Michigan before returning to Columbus on March 22 with an opportunity to start a whole new streak when they play Michigan State.

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campus Renovation from 1A Since taking over as president, Michael Drake has also expressed support for the proposal.

“We want to do things that make sense and make good sense and make good judgements and good decisions, but with that, having the arts be more concentrated on one part of the campus makes perfect sense to me,” he told The Lantern in January.

Steinmetz said the university’s arts community is also experiencing a cultural change as there is a growing tendency toward integration between traditional and contemporary arts.

After the RFQ deadline passes, the university will interview top candidates and expects planning on the overhaul — totaling $200 million — to run from May through November.

OSU plans to hire an architecture and design firm, as well as firms pertaining to mechanical, electrical, plumbing and civil engineering, landscape architecture and construction management.

In anticipation of construction, Steinmetz commissioned a steering committee in October for the district, chaired by arts and humanities divisional dean Mark Shanda. The committee submitted its proposals Feb. 25.

The committee echoed calls for a more open plaza on the front step of the Wexner Center, ideally a “pulsing public gathering spot on par with Millennium Park in Chicago, the Pompidou Plaza in Paris, the Tate’s Turbine Hall in London or the steps of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.”

Department of Theatre The Drake Performance and Event Center was built in 1972 and currently houses the Department of Theatre. That’s now set to change with plans to move the department to the arts district on High Street.

The steering committee has recommended four new performance spaces to facilitate the move: A 600-seat proscenium theater, a 250-seat thrust stage theater, a 125-seat black box theater and a 60-seat experimental venue. Dressing rooms, lighting and sound labs, five rehearsal spaces, more than 50 offices and storage are also proposed.

Placement of those theater facilities has not been publicly mapped out, and Steinmetz said the design process will give a clearer indication of plans.

“We can sit and, ourselves, speculate over what’s the best arrangement for performance spaces. What we’re looking for in that RFQ that went out is experts to come in and tell us that,

Green power from 1A that electricity production can have. It also shows that green power can be economically feasible, and at 14 percent, it shows the city of Columbus is off to a good start,” said Erin Miller, Columbus’s environmental steward.

Though the ranking measures the city government’s usage of green power, OSU students in the environment, economy, development and sustainability major have found a way to be involved.

“This year, we have 45 students in the capstone class, and our relationship is really good with the city. We’ve put together this arrangement where we take certain actions from the Green Memo III, and package those into projects,” said Neil Drobny, program director of EEDS.

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A map showing where the arts district renovation could take place ‘Given this is the mix of arts department you have currently, this is our best guess of how you can maximize the use … between departments.’ That’s precisely what we’re trying to get the RFQ process to address,” he said.

Mershon Auditorium The future of Mershon Auditorium is uncertain. The university is considering remodeling it, although demolition was a leading plan as recently as 2010, when the framework suggested that “the possible removal of Mershon Auditorium would allow for significant expansion of the Wexner Center. The expansion would provide an active edge along the forum with a café, bookstore, gallery and the relocated cinema.”

Steinmetz said that while Mershon Auditorium is one of the few venues on campus that allows for large lectures, similar venues elsewhere reduce its necessity.

“We have a pretty vibrant performance scene downtown where we have places like the Ohio Theatre, the Palace Theatre, the Southern Theatre, just to name a few, that are getting increase use as things come into Columbus,” he said.

Depending on expectations of its future use in the new arts district, Steinmetz said the planning phase will “take a hard look” at Mershon to make a determination on the question of “should it stay or should it go.”

In the steering committee proposal, Shanda wrote that OSU should “bring the facility up to contemporary standards providing an additional 50 years of useful life.”

Steinmetz said part of the debate over Mershon is whether it serves the university’s academic purposes.

“These are academic departments, and not Broadway theater. In a dedication performance venue like the Palace and

Green Memo III is the city’s five-year strategic outline for becoming more energy efficient. The first Green Memo was launched

by Mayor Michael Coleman in 2000.

The Memo outlines its goals in nine categories, ranging from local food access and security to waste reduction. This year’s student capstone projects are focused on the climate change category, specifically on greenhouse gas emissions, Drobny said.

“The goal will be for the students to figure out, in a little more detail, how these different actions (in the Memo) can be executed, what it’s going to take in the way of information, money, cooperation, and what it’s going to yield in benefits,” he said.

However, this isn’t the first time the

Southern theaters, shows come in and shows go out,” he said.

“Academic performance spaces aren’t like that at all. What we need are performance space where students that are learning the craft of theater can have a production that is in its working phase and practice phase and rehearsal phase for several weeks.”

School of Music The university will look to add a recital hall, and the steering committee recommended a venue that seats 280 people.

Two large rehearsal studios for orchestral and large choral groups are also being considered. The university also plans to improve the acoustics and lighting of Weigel Auditorium and looks to renovate Hughes Hall with new teaching studios and offices.

Wexner Center for the Arts OSU is also considering adding a new 70-to-100-seat screening space and relocating the current Film/Video Theater to pave the way for a plaza renovation that would create a pedestrian square outside the building.

The steering committee has recommended a new 600-seat black box theater with a standing capacity of 1,200 people. An additional 10,000-to-12,000-square feet of gallery space is also on the table.

It’s possible that the Heirloom Café and the bookstore will be relocated to increase their visibility, too. A 2012 strategic plan for the College of Arts and Sciences noted a need to “improve the working relationship with the Wexner Center to include: improved access to Mershon Auditorium, access and integration of the Wexner Media Arts.”

university and the city have teamed up for the environment. The dam at 5th Avenue, which was removed in 2012, was a project both the university and the city worked on with joint jurisdiction, said Greg Hitzhusen, a lecturer at the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Studies.

The university subsequently has started to work around the Olentangy River, not only to increase campus green space, but also to work toward ecological restoration, Hitzhusen said.

“There’s a lot of influence coming from Ohio State,” Hitzhusen said, in reference to Columbus and OSU working together on environmental tasks.

Scott Semroc is one of the EEDS students working with the city on its Green Memo,

specifically on energy management for city buildings.

“I think government is really starting to see that they owe it to the people that they represent to make (the environment) more of a priority than they have in the past,” said Semroc, a fourth-year in EEDS. Additionally, citizens are starting to take notice of government work related to the environment, Semroc said. He added that he thinks people will be looking to live in a city known to be sustainable.

“It’s a big focus nowadays, and hitting a list like that is a really big deal because (Columbus) is getting compared to some of the really big cities like New York and L.A.,” he said.

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To submit a letter to Scott said OSU knew the the editor, either mail Badgers were “fighting for or email it. Please put a No. 1 seed in the NCAA your name, address, tournament,” but noted the phone number and loss was discouraging either email address on the way. letter. If the editor “We just wanted to come decides to publish it, in tonight and play our he or she will contact best basketball tonight and you to confirm your we didn’t, so that’s what identity. happened,” Scott said after the game.

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Columbus, OH 43210 Scott said the Buckeyes will have to forget the loss as soon as possible with the conference tournament around the corner.

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Wisconsin senior forward Frank Kaminsky and OSU freshman guard D’Angelo Russell are among 15 finalists for the Wooden Award, given annually to the nation’s top player. The 7-foot Kaminsky got the better of the head-to-head matchup, though, with 20 points, five rebounds and three assists.

Matta chose to have 6-foot-4 freshman forward Jae’Sean Tate guard Kaminsky for most of the game, and noted he was comfortable with Tate even though it wasn’t an opportune matchup for OSU. “If I had to choose a freshman, I would want it to be Jae’Sean Tate to do that (guard Kaminsky),” Matta said.

“There’s no doubt about that.”

Russell, who is one of three underclassmen in the running for the award, made just two of his first eight shot attempts and turned the ball over three times in the first half. He finished the game with 17 points on 1-of-7 shooting from 3-point range.

The Louisville, Ky., native said the defensive play from Wisconsin redshirt-senior guard Josh Gasser made it difficult for him to find success on offense.

“He did a great job as you can see from my stats and whatnot,” Russell said. “(He’s a) tough defender, great defender, so give a lot of credit to him.”

Russell came out of the locker room on a roll, scoring eight of the Buckeyes’ first 13 points in the second half. The run included five straight points to cut the Badgers’ lead down to 10.

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Provost from 1A chief academic officer — on July 1, 2013. Previously, Steinmetz was dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas and was a faculty member at Indiana University for 19 years. He also served as vice provost for arts and sciences and executive dean of OSU’s College of Arts and Sciences from 2009 to 2013.

“Dr. Steinmetz is one of the reasons I came here,” said David Manderscheid, the College of Arts and Sciences executive dean and vice provost. “I had known Joe for many years, as he was dean at Kansas and I was dean at Nebraska, and I have always had a very high opinion of him.”

Manderscheid was hired in July 2013 to replace Steinmetz as College of Arts and Sciences executive dean and vice provost, after Steinmetz was announced as thenProvost and Executive Vice President Joseph Alutto’s replacement.

Prior to coming to OSU, Manderscheid was the dean of University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Arts and Sciences, as well as a professor of mathematics.

After taking the position as provost at OSU, Steinmetz said he knew enhancing the lives of OSU students and faculty was a priority.

“To achieve this, the leadership, the Office of Academic Affairs and myself worked on six initiatives that we created to achieve this goal of enhancing the student experience and facilitating the work the faculty does,” he said.

Those initiatives include enhancing the student experience as a whole through the creation of the STEP program for second-year students, developing the Discovery Themes initiative, improving e-learning, enhancing the arts on campus, increasing “access and affordability” for students, and ensuring the faculty on campus is being evaluated fairly for the 21st century, Steinmetz said.

Steinmetz said he looks back on and is proud of the development of the Discovery Themes. The Discovery Themes initiative focuses on three major areas — health and wellness, energy of the environment, and food production and security.

“As it turns out, these are areas that we are really good at,” Steinmetz said. “With additional investments, we were able to move to the next level. We launched a series of discussions about what health and wellness means here and what we should be working on.”

OSU President Michael Drake said he commends Steinmetz’s dedication to furthering research initiatives at the university.

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Tate converted a three-point play to cut the deficit to single digits for the first time since 10:30 mark in the first half, but Wisconsin responded with back-to-back 3-pointers from sophomore guard Bronson Koenig.

Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said Koenig’s play in the second half was “huge” for the Badgers.

“That’s Bronson,” Ryan said after the game. “He’s a gamer, there’s no question about that.”

Those jumpers sparked the Badgers’ 16-0 run, putting them ahead, 62-39, with less than eight minutes on the clock.

Scott said the Badgers “never really got rattled,” making it hard for the Buckeyes to sustain their early run in the second half.

“They’re a great team,” he said. “They knew we were excited to come back, but they don’t really panic, don’t really worry or anything.”

The Wisconsin lead ballooned to 25 just over a minute later, putting the game well out of reach for the Buckeyes.

OSU out-rebounded Wisconsin, 18-17 in the first half, but the Badgers flipped the script, finishing with 41 rebounds to the Buckeyes’ 27.

Tate finished the game with 13 points and six rebounds on 4-of-6 shooting from the field.

Scott was the only OSU senior to score in double digits, finishing with 10 points. Thompson shot 0-for-7 from the field, while Williams totaled four points and McDonald failed to score.

Lee sat out with a groin injury.

Koenig and junior forward Sam Dekker tallied 15 and 10 points for Wisconsin, respectively.

As the No. 6 seed, OSU has a first-round bye for the Big Ten Tournament. The Buckeyes are scheduled to play their first game Thursday night in Chicago.

Russell said he doesn’t “know anything about March,” but added that anything can happen once postseason play begins.

“Under Provost Steinmetz’s leadership of our academic and research engine, Ohio State will continue to find solutions to the world’s most complex problems,” Drake said in an email. “I look to him to advance our Discovery Themes initiative aggressively and to support our faculty as they provide outstanding academic experiences for our students.”

Steinmetz said he feels this is being accomplished in part through his work with the Undergraduate Student Government.

“One of the best things about this position is being able to work directly with faculty and with students,” Steinmetz said. “I’ve had a great time this year working with the leadership of USG on several issues and actually getting to know, through them, the student body.”

The conversations he has with students and being able to accomplish things for them is what the job is all about, and why Steinmetz said he became a professor 30 years ago.

USG president Celia Wright said she and the rest of the USG organization have had the opportunity to speak with Steinmetz on several occasions.

“Throughout the year, we’ve talked with Steinmetz about a number of things,” said Wright, a fourth-year in public affairs. “Everything from academic affairs, quality advising and intellectual property protections for students.

We’ve really appreciated his time and also his mutual focus on affordability and the increased importance on affordability as the cost of tuition rises across the country and in Ohio.”

Steinmetz said he continues to enjoy his time in Columbus.

“This is just a fantastic city to live in,” Steinmetz said.

“We have discussions all the time about how we need to spend more time for incoming students and faculty letting them know what Columbus is actually like. My wife and I are totally absorbed into Columbus. We live in a condo downtown right on High Street in the middle of everything, and we love living down there.”

When asked where he saw himself in five years, Steinmetz said he couldn’t see himself anywhere else.

“My wife is in the process of retiring this year, so she might have an answer pretty different than mine,” Steinmetz said with a chuckle. “I can see myself still doing this job. It’s a wonderful position and I enjoy going home at the end of the night thinking that the Office of Academic Affairs leadership made a difference today. As long as I can say that day after day, I will keep doing this.”

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opinion Cbus, OSU Muslim communities receive chilling threats SARAH MIKATI Lantern reporter mikati.2@osu.edu Jana al-Akhras, a first-year law student, grew up going to Masjid Omar Ibn El-Khattab, a mosque less than a mile north of Ohio State’s campus. It was where her mom had weekly Islamic discussions, where she learned and developed her faith and where she and her friends would play on the monkey bars at the jungle gym.

In fact, as the first mosque in Columbus — built in 1984 — Masjid Omar is where many Muslim families grew up and built a community. The idea of the mosque’s origin began in 1979, when nine students met and agreed on praying at an apartment on Harley Drive, according to its website.

Today, it sees about 500 people each Friday for prayers, almost half of whom are students, said Basil Mohamed Gohar, president of the board of directors of Masjid Omar.

Now, the Muslim communities of Columbus and Ohio State are reacting to threatening phone calls that Masjid Omar and another anonymous Columbus mosque received on Feb. 20. Many members of the Muslim community said they are determined to live their lives as usual while tearing down the walls between Muslims and non-Muslims in America.

“For me, it’s just shocking,” said

al-Akhras, who is a Columbus native. “I keep telling myself this isn’t Columbus. Columbus values diversity, Columbus values people with different faiths.”

As I listened to the voicemails that had been left at the mosques, chills ran down my spine. I had never heard so much hate in my life.

The caller aggressively spat out words of profanity, insults and threats, referring to Muslims as “Nazis,” “garbage” and “trash,” saying, “Lose your religion or lose everything.” He used racial slurs and threatened to bomb the mosques, saying people would be “scalded.”

Abdulrahman Alwattar, co-president of the Muslim Students’ Association at OSU and a fourth-year in public relations, echoed al-Akhras’ concerns.

“It’s pretty alarming and disappointing,” he said. “I feel like Columbus is a pretty open-minded place and a very great place to call my hometown. It’s disappointing to see people in the area to make a cowardly decision like calling a place of worship and threatening them.”

Columbus police have identified the caller, and Masjid Omar is pressing charges, Gohar said.

Romin Iqbal, staff attorney at the Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, identified the calls as a hate crime and ethnic intimidation.

“We feel that these two threatening calls

“As I listened to the voicemails that had been left at the mosques, chills ran down my spine.

I had never heard so much hate in my life.” in Central Ohio were a part of the larger problem that we’ve been seeing for the past couple of weeks across the country,” Iqbal said.

When talking about the larger problem, Iqbal referenced the fatal shooting of three young Muslims in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Feb. 10, an Islamic center that was burned down in Houston on Feb. 13, and the vandalization of mosques and Islamic centers nationwide.

“If it weren’t for the current climate where there has been a lot of actual violence against Muslims, I would have found it to a degree comical, because it wasn’t a very coherent statement,” Gohar said.

Gohar said Masjid Omar has responded to the threats with increased security measures, including an additional police officer, patrol car and new surveillance system.

Despite the tense climate, though, Alwattar and the others said they will continue to worship as usual.

“We’re not going to stop practicing our religion because of a few cowards that get on the phone and try to intimidate us,” Alwattar said. “This is our country, this is our

home. We have the same rights as anybody else does, and we are going to worship and live our lives as normal citizens would otherwise.”

According to a 2014 Pew Research Center poll, Muslims are viewed as the most-disliked religious following by 41 percent of Americans.

It is no coincidence that the recent hate crimes toward American Muslims are increasing with the Islamic State group’s expansion and violence in the Middle East.

“Our hope is that once we educate people that (Muslims) have nothing to do whatsoever with the act of violence being committed by these terror groups across the world, Muslims in America will not face any backlash,” Iqbal said.

Al-Akhras, Alwattar and Gohar said they encourage open interfaith dialogue moving forward.

“Many people’s hatred is because of the unknown,” Gohar said. “Our responsibility is to make sure we interact with our neighbors, make sure we don’t seclude ourselves and let them know we have far more similarities than we have differences.”

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Masjid Omar Ibn El-Khattab, located at 580 Riverview Drive, was 1 of 2 Columbus-area mosques that received threatening phone calls in late February.

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Columbus org aims to inspire youth with short films AMANDA ETCHISON Campus editor etchison.4@osu.edu

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The Arnold Sports Festival brings in 170K people for 4-day festival YANN SCREIBER / Lantern reporter

Roelly Winklaar shows off his muscles on stage during the Arnold Classic competition at the Battelle Ballroom in the Greater Columbus Convention Center on March 7.

TAYLOR FERRELL Lantern reporter ferrell.178@osu.edu The 26th annual Arnold Sports Festival hosted about 18,000 athletes from 80 nations to compete in more than 50 sports and events, varying from bodybuilding and powerlifting to table tennis and pole fitness.

Events were held in nine different locations around the Columbus area this past weekend, with most taking place at the Greater

Columbus Convention Center. More than 900 fitness companies and organizations set up tables in the convention center as part of the largest health and fitness expo in the country.

The Ohio Expo Center was home to a new addition to the Arnold this year, the Arnold Kids Fitness Expo, which gave demonstrations on sports like pickleball and disc golf.

More than 175,000 people attended the festival.

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YANN SCHREIBER / Lantern reporter

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays table tennis at the Ohio Expo Center on March 7.

YANN SCHREIBER / Lantern reporter

Wren Watson performs at the 2015 pole championship series, a part of The Arnold Sports Festival, in the Battelle Ballroom in the Greater Columbus Convention Center on March 6.

MCKENZIE MERRIMAN / Lantern reporter

On a large plastic tarp that stretches more than 2,000 sq. ft., up to 50 painters, illustrators and sculptors have their personal art studios set up at the Arnold Sports Festival. Artists, primarily from Central Ohio, spent 3 days participating in a variety of artistic challenges, from creating pieces from live fitness models and athletes, to finding reference material for the all-day studio session.

The event culminated with a full gallery and awards ceremony featuring all the pieces made during The Arnold’s 3-day span. Married couple Kevin Buckland and Pertain Gillespie have been working with the festival as graphic designers for 14 years, and decided to bring their passion for fine art to the event as well. “It took us a couple years to come up with a format that worked,” Buckland said. “But the artists love it, the athletes love it, and the general public gets to see it as well.”

KAT NIU / Senior Lantern reporter

Beard model Garey Faulkner attended The Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus March 6-7 to support his supplement sponsor, TigerFitness.com.

“I do all kinds of events all over the world,” Faulkner said. “I’m a world-famous beard model. I create ideas from my sponsors and they send me to all different kinds of venues.” Faulkner said he lucked into the beard modeling world when he first won a modeling contract with the NFL. He described the paint covering his beard and head as “movie-star quality.”

YANN SCHREIBER / Lantern reporter

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays chess against Emma Cheng, an 8-year-old described as a “chess phenomenon,” at the Arnold Kids Fitness Expo, part of the Arnold Sports Festival, at the Ohio Expo Center on March 7.

Monday March 9, 2015

The roaring chorus of Sia’s “Chandelier” filled the upper balcony of Gateway Film Center’s second-floor event space and laughter resonated from all directions. Amid this bustling scene, Quartez Harris, sitting comfortably at a cocktail table toward the back of the room, talked about how he became involved in a project aimed at encouraging youth and young adults to embrace and fulfill their personal goals.

“I think that it takes a lot of courage to inspire someone and I feel like as an artist, it is my moral obligation to inspire and the Get Out Project gives me that form to do that,” said Harris, an awardwinning spoken-word artist who graduated from Ohio State with a degree in social work in 2013.

Harris is one of six individuals featured in a series of documentary-style short videos that are produced by an organization called the Get Out Network.

The Get Out Network is an enrichment organization that aims to help youth recognize and develop their professional, social and artistic goals, according to its website. The group has been working on a series of short documentary films, called “The Get Out Project,” which debuted at a viewing party Saturday evening.

Harris said he got involved with “The Get Out Project” after filming a video with LenSight Productions, a filmmaking team composed of OSU graduates David Goodwin and Michael Mullen II. “I worked with the Lensight Productions for my own personal project titled ‘My Imperfect Brain,’ which is a poem about me dealing with the stigma associated with having a learning disability,” he said.

Harris had an Individualized Education Plan throughout much of his schooling because of disabilities with reading comprehension and writing expression, and learned to channel the emotions associated with these experiences into his spoken-word performance and also into his book “Nothing, But Skin.”

Harris said he hopes audiences who view “The Get Out Project” videos will take inspiration from his story and will be empowered to embrace their talents.

“I personally hope that everyone takes away a purpose,” he said. “I hope that this event helps them to convey their own gifts and talents to realize that anything is possible.”

James Drakeford, who graduated from OSU in 2011 with a degree in physical education, said he has learned a lot from his experience as one of “The Get Out Project”’s featured subjects.

“I learned that there are a lot of different options. Everyone who is involved in the project does something completely different and it is just kind of cool to see people being successful in different avenues because a lot of times, we get kind of narrow-minded and think that we can only do few different things, but really options are limitless,” said Drakeford, a freelance photographer and social activist who works as a manager at a Columbus-based streetwear store called Sole Classics.

In addition to Harris and Drakeford, the Get Out Project featured interviews with Terry “Tertiary” Robertson, a musician; Jasmine Smith, a teacher and artist; Sydney Steward, a hair and makeup stylist at Girl and Guy Republic Hair Salon; and Earl Barron, also known as “DJ Bandcamp,” the official disc jockey for the Indiana Pacers.

Like Harris, Drakeford said he wants to use his role in “The Get Out Project” to inspire others to reach their full potential — two things he tries to convey through his personal philosophy of “like it, do it.” His social movement TIOBS, which stands for “The Idea of Being Somebody” encourages others, “to find self and live a life that results in success and happiness,” according to its website.

“I guess I just tried to encourage and inspire others in any type of way, maybe through something that they get through something I say in the video,” he said.

“I hope that they leave inspired in some type of way. Either reminded of their purpose or reminded of their capabilities. Just get inspired to get out and do something on their own, get out and do something like something that they are good at, something that they can enjoy for a long time.”

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Bucks aim to regroup after blowout JAMES GREGA, JR. Asst. sports editor grega.9@osu.edu This wasn’t how the regular season was supposed to end.

It wasn’t how the Ohio State men’s basketball team wanted to send out its five seniors.

But when the clock hit zero on Sunday at the Schottenstein Center, the Buckeyes were on the wrong end of a 72-48 blowout against the No. 6 Wisconsin Badgers on senior day.

“You don’t want to go out this way,” senior guard Shannon Scott said. “But we have got to put it behind us now. We know they’re a great team, we knew they were going to come here ready to play, but it’s a new season now.”

OSU coach Thad Matta said the loss came as a slight shock to him, as he thought the Buckeyes had perhaps the best practice he had seen in his 11 years as a coach in Columbus the day before the game.

“Honest to God, we had maybe the greatest practice I have ever had in March,” Matta said. “I actually went home and slept pretty well. For whatever reason, it didn’t happen.”

Scott, who finished his final game at the Schottenstein Center with 10 points, four rebounds and three assists, said the Buckeyes need to put the loss behind them and set their sights on the Big Ten Tournament, scheduled to start in Chicago on Wednesday.

“We have no choice but to shake it off,” he said. “If we don’t shake it off right now, we’re gonna lose our very next game.”

Despite the shellacking handed down by the Badgers, the Buckeyes earned a first-round bye in the conference tournament, and are set to take on the winner of Minnesota vs. Rutgers in the final Thursday night matchup.

OSU, which holds a perfect 2-0 record against those teams, would face Michigan State if it could pull out a victory in its first game.

With the conference table set, OSU coach Thad Matta said he hopes to get better production from his seniors, who shot just 6-of-24 collectively from the field in their final home game.

“I think that experience is huge in March,” Matta said. “I want to get those guys playing their best basketball down this stretch and playing with a chip on their shoulder.”

Not only will Matta need better production from his seniors, but also from his freshman guard D’Angelo Russell, who said after the loss that he is not sure what to expect now that tournament play is here.

“I don’t know anything about March, but I know anything can happen,” Russell said. “So I know just keeping the right attitude as a team and as a unit and a collective group, just keeping it free and an open mind that anything can happen, I feel like we’ll be successful.”

Matta said although Russell hasn’t appeared in a post-season game

Women’s basketball falls in final JACKIE HOBSON Lantern reporter hobson.66@osu.edu

MARK BATKE / Photo editor

Senior guard Shannon Scott (3) tallied 10 points in his home finale, but OSU fell to Wisconsin, 72-48, on March 8 at the Schottenstein Center. in college, the Louisville, Ky., native has plenty of experience playing in big games.

“I think he will be fine,” Matta said. “The guy has won two high school national championships before he got here. He knows what’s at stake and he will be ready to go.”

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The Ohio State women’s basketball team came up just a make away from Big Ten glory.

The No. 4 Maryland Terrapins edged out OSU, 77-74, after a late comeback by the Buckeyes fell just short in the Big Ten Tournament final on Sunday night.

A win would have given OSU its first conference tournament win since 2011.

Down by as many as 15 in the second half, OSU kept the game close late behind 31 points from freshman guard Kelsey Mitchell.

Big play after big play by both teams allowed the game to go back and forth for the final 10 minutes.

Junior guard Cait Craft partnered with Mitchell to fuel the Buckeyes’ offense with red-hot shooting from behind the arc. OSU finished the game 7-of-18 from 3-point range, with Mitchell and Craft combining to go 7-of-14.

Despite the early deficit, with 18 seconds to go and Maryland up by one point, OSU was in a position to win the game.

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Men’s lax edges Hofstra at the ‘Shoe MOLLY TAVOLETTI Lantern reporter tavoletti.1@osu.edu

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The OSU wrestling team tied Iowa, 120-120, to earn a share of the Big Ten Tournament Championship for the first time in 64 years.

Wrestling splits B1G title with Iowa Buckeyes seal first conference championship since 1951; Stieber wins 4th OSU coach Tom Ryan, who was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year, had been talking about ending the long streak without a conference title to his team for weeks. He said he’s now ready to change the code to the locker room, which is the year in which the last title was achieved in 1951.

“I can’t wait to change that code,” Ryan said. “It’s been too long and this team deserves this.”

The Ohio State wrestling team clinched a share of the Big Ten TournaRyan said the Buckeyes now have something to be excited about as ment Championship for the first time since 1951 on Sunday. The 64-year a team after fighting through injuries and the death of teammate Kosta drought ended when the Buckeyes and Iowa Hawkeyes finished with 120 Karageorge. points apiece.

“This team has been through a lot of adversity, injuries, losing a The Buckeyes found themselves in a battle with Iowa after being ahead teammate,” Ryan said. “It was the cohesiveness, an attitude, we said we 102.5-101 going into Sunday. Things stayed fairly even throughout as the are going to get it done, we are going to find a way, lead changed a total of four times. When OSU and that really carried us through the second day of needed a win the most, however, it wasn’t a Buckeye competition.” earning it.

“It’s been a long 64-year drought Redshirt-freshman Nathan Tomasello, a Mike McMullan, a senior heavyweight from and I’m glad it’s over. It feels good co-captain for the Buckeyes, won the title at 125 Northwestern, defeated Iowa senior Bobby Telford in pounds and had to defeat the No. 2 and No. 1 seeds the final match of the tournament to secure the tie for to be a part of it. Now let’s go get a in his weight class. the host Buckeyes. national championship.”

Tomasello defeated the returning Big Ten and OSU redshirt-senior Logan Stieber won his fourth individual Big Ten Title, becoming the 14th ever to - Coach Tom Ryan National Champion, senior Jesse Delgado of Illinois, in the semifinals on Saturday night before topping do so. A 16-1 second period technical fall over Iowa Iowa senior Thomas Gilman in the finals. senior Josh Dziewa gave the Buckeyes their final win “Being here as a freshman and the third-seeded guy, I had a lot of people of the tournament and an extra 1.5 points that ultimately gave the team a who doubted me, but I wanted to take it one match at a time,” Tomasello chance to be co-champions. said. “Being confident in my ability and knowing I that I can beat anyone in “I couldn’t have written it any better than this for the Big Ten’s,” Stieber the country really pushed me through.” said. “It felt good. I got on a roll tonight and kept racking up points and that Tomasello said the team can use its momentum from the conference was fun.” tournament heading into the NCAA Championships.

The 141-pounder said he was excited to pick up his fourth Big Ten crown “As a team, we need to build on this and keep the ball rolling in a week in in front of a home crowd. (and) a half at nationals,” he said.

“The crowd was amazing, to win it all in front of them was a dream come This is third conference title overall for OSU, and was just the sixth tie in true,” Stieber said. conference history, the first since 1932. The other two championship victories Stieber was named the Big Ten Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Year, as came in 1923 and 1951. well as the Outstanding Wrestler of the Championships. He will now look to “It’s been a long 64-year drought and I’m glad it’s over,” Ryan said. “It win his fourth NCAA Title, a feat that has been accomplished just three times feels good to be a part of it. Now let’s go get a national championship.” before.

PATRICK KALISTA Lantern reporter kalista.4@osu.edu

Monday March 9, 2015

The Ohio State men’s lacrosse team picked up a one-goal win against Hofstra after losing by the same margin against Marquette six days earlier.

Though the first three quarters ended in a draw, the final whistle blew on Saturday at Ohio Stadium with the Buckeyes ahead, 9-8.

“I’m just really proud of this team to persevere and to get that one-goal win,” coach Nick Myers said. “It was a back and forth game, but it’s what we expected … It meant a lot to get the ‘W,’ especially over such a quality opponent.”

Senior midfielder David Planning struck first for OSU, scoring about 30 seconds into the game. But despite the quick start, the Buckeyes had to hang tight for a win, which senior midfielder Jesse King credited to the team’s strength.

“Physically, we’re stronger, but this year especially, we’re being challenged mentally on the field,” King said. “Taking us to those points where you either push through or you stop. And maybe in past years we would’ve stopped, but now we’re pushing through that wall.”

King scored four goals, extending his point streak to 43 games, but was hardly the only one raking in points for the Buckeyes, as freshman and junior attackmen Colin Chell and Carter Brown each tallied two.

“Colin Chell played the entire game pretty much at attack in his first real start,” Myers said.

“We challenged him all week … All the guys played their butts off.”

OSU, now 5-2, lost to Detroit by one goal to open the season on Feb. 7, in addition to the close loss to Marquette on March 1. But after weeks of practice, the Buckeyes brought a quick offense and what senior defenseman Evan Mulchrone said was a balanced defense to the field against Hofstra.

“We just wanted to get back to playing Buckeye lacrosse and focusing on the fundamentals,” Mulchrone said. “Our mentality on defense was to just help each other out. They have some really talented players so we knew we had our hands full, and it worked out really well for us.”

While even King admits his team played far from perfect, he said determination often outweighs skill.

“As Buckeyes, we pride ourselves on working hard, making the effort plays,” King said. “When we get those goals. they may not be the most skillful plays, but it’s stuff we work hard on during the week.”

King said pride comes from the players on the bench as much as the ones on the field.

“Our energy from the bench is nothing short of the best in the country,” King said. “When you score a goal and you can hear the fans, especially your teammates on the sidelines, just going absolutely insane … it’s something that really hits home for you.”

The Buckeyes aim to continue their 4-0 home streak when they return to the Horseshoe on Saturday to take on Denver at 1 p.m.

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sports Men’s hockey wins home finale against No. 15 Gophers KALEY RENTZ Lantern reporter rentz.21@osu.edu In the final home game of their collegiate careers, OSU’s eight seniors were the stars on the ice one last time.

The senior class helped lead the team to a 5-2 victory over the No. 15 Golden Gophers on Saturday.

“Led by our seniors, no question,” coach Steve Rohlik said.

“We talked a lot about it today and in video session, you can’t script a book any better than what happened tonight, but again, you’re led by eight pretty quality young men. But I credit the team because it takes all 27 guys to get it done, and all 27 guys jumped on board and everybody wanted to do it for the seniors, but more importantly for the program.”

Sophomore forward Nick Schilkey’s backhander off a rebound from senior forward Darik Angeli put the Buckeyes in a 1-0 lead.

The Gophers notched two tallies in the second period, but senior forward Matt Johnson tied the score at 2-2. OSU then added three goals in the third to take the win.

This weekend proved to be a big one for junior defenseman Craig Dalrymple as he scored his first two goals of the season in back-to-back nights against the Gophers.

“Two goals in two games, it’s pretty special,” Dalrymple said.

OSU’s defense held the game for the Buckeyes by not allowing one of the best power-play units in college hockey to score on its four power-play chances.

“That’s a scary team on the power play when you’re clicking at the right percent. They have so many weapons,” Rohlik said.

“I think our guys decided it just doesn’t matter, you have to go out and kill a penalty and our guys just jumped the boards and got the job done.”

After Minnesota coach Don Lucia decided to pull his goalie late in the final period Saturday to allow the Gophers to add an extra attacker, the Buckeyes took advantage.

Led by the stick skills of senior forward Tanner Fritz, the Buckeyes scored twice on an empty net. Fritz assisted junior forward Anthony Greco on the first, and scored the second himself, marking his last home goal as a Buckeye.

Bucks from 7A What’s at stake for the Buckeyes is not only an opportunity to impress the voters for seeding in the NCAA Tournament, but also a chance at Big Ten supremacy. OSU has not won the Big Ten regular season title outright since 2011, and has not won a share since 2012.

The Buckeyes did, however, take home the Big Ten Tournament hardware in 2013, the last time the conference

MARK BATKE / Photo editor

The OSU men’s hockey team split its series against Minnesota on March 6 and 7, but sent its seniors out on a high note. The Buckeyes beat the Golden Gophers, 5-2, in the series finale, marking the final home game for 8 seniors.

“I think the hockey gods were shining down on me a little, but definitely nice to go out that way,” Fritz said.

Fritz, who leads the Buckeyes with 26 points and has had a point in each of his last six games, said this win was one to remember.

“It’s an awesome feeling, something that I’ll remember and cherish down the road. I can look back on this and be proud of what I’ve done,” Fritz said.

But the Buckeye captain’s hockey career isn’t over yet, as

tournament was played in Chicago.

Four of OSU’s current five seniors were on that championship team, and three contributed to the title win two years ago.

Matta said because of that experience, he still has faith in the Buckeyes and the senior class.

“We’ve had great success in the Big Ten Tournament over our years here,” he said. “We have had great success in the NCAA Tournament. We need them.”

OSU is set to travel to Madison, Wis., to take on the Wisconsin Badgers in its final series of the regular season.

“We enjoy this win. We played a very good hockey team,” Rohlik said. “We are going into their senior weekend and we have to become a better team starting on Monday and that’s our focus. If we can continue to do that, hopefully we can cause some success.”

Puck drop in Madison is set for 8 p.m. on Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday.

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OSU honored its 5 seniors before falling to Wisconsin, 72-48, on March 8 at the Schottenstein Center.

A timeout by OSU coach Kevin McGuff set the Buckeyes up for success with the ability to design a final play to go for the tournament victory.

An aggressive doubleteam from the Terrapin defense forced Mitchell to travel as the clock ticked down and the Buckeyes’ championship dreams slipped away.

McGuff and company left

the Big Ten Tournament with a loss for the second-straight year after losing to Iowa in last season’s semifinal.

Maryland, in its first year as part of the Big Ten, successfully ran through the conference without a loss and picked up both regularseason and tournament titles.

OSU will have a week of practice ahead of it before the Buckeyes find out their fate for the NCAA Tournament. The selections are set to be announced March 16.

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