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In honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, The Lantern looks at cases of anorexia nostalgia around campus and Columbus.

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E-cigarettes are becoming more prevalent around campus, and some people are even considering them a hobby as they spend more time vaping and tinkering with vaporizers.

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The Ohio State baseball team is gearing up for the Coastal Carolina Tournament in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to continue working off last week’s hot start.

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Hoch named marching band director MICHAEL HUSON Campus Editor huson.4@osu.edu Christopher Hoch will step into the position of director of Ohio State Marching and Athletic Bands after serving as interim director since May. The university announced Wednesday Hoch had been officially named to the position in a release.

Hoch is also expected duct research, as well as to fulfill an appointment perform public service, as assistant professor according to the release. within the School of Bruce McPheron, inMusic, according to the terim executive vice OSU release. This appresident and provost, pointment, which is exsaid in the release that pected to run June 1 to Hoch has proven himCOURTESY OF OSU May 31, 2020, is pending self “on and off the field” approval by the Board of Christopher Hoch. during his career at OSU. Trustees.

“He has shown focus toward putIn this position, he will be ex- ting our students first and as direcpected to teach courses and con- tor, will be expected to continue to

instill in students the highest standard for their personal conduct, on and off the field,” McPheron said.

OSU announced last May Hoch MUYAO SHEN | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR would serve as the interim Marching and Athletic Bands director for A new Afroduck appeared by Mirror Lake on Feb. 22. the upcoming season.

Zack Joseph, a baritone who played under Hoch’s direction, said he was excited to hear the news of Hoch being named to the position.

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President Drake tours Wexner Medical Center JAY PANANDIKER Engagement Editor panandiker.1@osu.edu Before Ohio State President Michael Drake was a university administrator, he was an opthamologist specializing in glaucoma.

Drake donned the white coat again on Wednesday morning to meet with doctors from various fields at the Wexner Medical Center and to discuss their work. Drake met with doctors from the cardiovascular surgery, transplant and human genetics teams.

Drake first met with Dr. Laxmi Metha, whose work focuses on how coronary diseases and heart attacks are undertreated and underdiagnosed in women. Metha recently published a scientific statement about cardiovascular diseases in women, where she examined the discrepancy in mortality rate between men and women.

In the presentation for Drake, Metha outlined some of the reasons doctors believe the discrepancy exists — such as young women

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OSU President Michael Drake speaks during a tour of the Wexner Medical Center on Feb. 24. having plaque buildup on smooth muscle as opposed to traditional buildup on lipids. Additionally, these women do not receive stents, so they might walk out not believing they had a heart attack, but are frequently the same women that suffer recurring heart attacks.

She said that doctors now know more about the discrepancy in

treatment because new technology allows them to know information that they would otherwise only be able to learn from an autopsy.

Drake asked about the number of incidents of heart attacks in women, as well as prevention. Metha said that because of smoking rates, the number of incidents is down overall, with the exception of

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young women, which she classifies as being younger than 45 years old.

Metha said the group has also focused on heart attack prevention. “(For) prevention, the most important measure is checking blood pressure and cholesterol levels, as well as weight,” Metha said.

Drake said he is meeting with Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Columbus, later this week to discuss the Women’s Heart Alliance, to discuss prevention as well. He said OSU is one of the first universities to be involved in the project, which will aim to raise awareness about signs and symptoms.

“A lot of people grew up in the ‘Mad Men’ generation of what a heart attack was and who got one.

That was men who were oversmoking and under stress,” Drake said. He added that as times have changed, acknowledging the importance of women’s heart health has become more prevalent. Drake said prevention is important — while it is great to have miracle recoveries happen at the heart hospi-

On Jan. 27, a day that will live in infamy at Ohio State, students learned that the beloved resident of Mirror Lake, Afroduck, had been found dead.

In the past 26 days, the OSU community began the healing process. The rubber ducks set out in remembrance were soon disposed of, and the roses laid out were swept away. Alas, Mirror Lake still had a vacant spot. That is, until Monday morning.

As dawn broke over Mirror Lake on Monday, a familiar tuft of feathers floated across the water, seemingly indifferent to the distress its previous absence had caused.

Word of Afroduck’s “resurrection” spread. Social media was flooded with student reactions, some questioning whether this was a new duck or if the beloved original had risen from the dead.

Katy Scruppi, a third-year in political science, was one student who posted about the duck on so-

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Buckeyes to take cross-country bike ride for cancer SHANGQUAN SHI Lantern reporter shi.719@osu.edu

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The 2013 Team San Francisco presenting a scholarship to a young adult whose mother, pictured, was a breast cancer survivor.

When Valerie Rasicci was 3 years old, her mother passed away from ovarian cancer at the age of 38. When she was in high school, her grandfather was diagnosed with lung cancer and passed away. In her freshman year of college, tragic news reached her again that her uncle was diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer.

Rasicci said that in her life, her family members were diagnosed with cancer when it was too late for help. They went through treatment and tried to get better, but the cancer was just too advanced to be

cured, she said.

Rasicci and another Ohio State student will bike across the country with 4K for Cancer, an independent nonprofit organization, this summer to support young adults whose lives have been affected by the disease.

Rasicci, a fourth-year in social work, and Jeffrey Crock, a second-year in actuarial science and math education, will begin their journey on June 5 from Baltimore and cycle to Portland, Oregon, where they will arrive on Aug. 13.

Each day, they will ride to a new city, raising money along the way for young cancer patients.

“Nearly 70,000 young adults are diagnosed with cancer in the Unit-

ed States each year,” Rasicci said.

“It’s a very prevalent issue. A lot of people at our age just didn’t realize that.”

Started in 2001, 4K for Cancer is a 15-year-old program run by the Ulman Cancer Fund, which is an organization that makes connections and raises funds for young adults with cancer, according to 4K for Cancer’s website.

The college students who apply for the program will be part of either one of the four 70-day, 4,000mile rides or one of the two 49-day, 4,000-mile runs across the United States, Crock said.

Before they begin the trip, participants must raise at least $4,500 in

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Addressing eating disorders during awareness week HANNAH ROTH Lantern reporter roth.514@osu.edu Shelby Jean Ross first became anorexic in her freshman year of high school after she was injured and could not continue playing soccer.

“I thought I was going to get fat, so I started dieting,” she said in an email. “Everything went downhill from there. I knew it wasn’t the right thing to do, but nothing else in life seemed right either.”

Ross, a fifth-year year in social work at Ohio State, is one of up to 30 million people in the U.S. to suffer from an eating disorder, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders’ website.

This week is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and while many people have heard of anorexia nervosa, they might not have heard about the condition anorexia nostalgia, which sometimes occurs when a person is recovering from anorexia and he or she starts to miss the feelings he or she had while anorexic.

“When people are in recovery from anorexia nervosa, what happens is the noisy brain can get reactivated. Food is medicine,

but food can also increase the anxious brain,” said Nichole Wood-Barcalow, a licensed psychologist and the Director of Outpatient Services at The Center For Balanced Living in Columbus.

Wood-Barcalow said that one reason why some people become anorexic is because the lack of food allows their brain to quiet, which allows them to relax, so when they feel that their brain is being too noisy, they just stop eating and the problem goes away.

She also said that those recovering from an eating disorder might feel nostalgic about the way that people treated them while they were anorexic, such as compliments for the way that they looked and the attention received when they were going through recovery. Once a person has recovered, anorexia nostalgia can manifest in missing that attention.

Some people miss the simplicity of their life while they were anorexic, Wood-Barcalow said — all they had to think about was not eating. Wood-Barcalow said she most often sees anorexia nostalgia in adolescents because they look back on those simple times and want to go back to that.

While Ross said she had never heard of anorexia nostalgia, she described eating disorders as a secret friendship that’s difficult

to end.

“They become your most faithful, accessible, secret pal, which makes it so hard to give up,” Ross said.

She said that there were days during her recovery where she could not manage her feelings of guilt and emptiness and she felt unworthy of everything, despite her ability to eat again.

“It took me by surprise because nobody ever warned me about this in treatment,” Ross said. “They just wanted me to stop starving myself. I longed for my eating disorder. Like I said earlier, giving up ED means losing your best friend. I spent a lot of time in counseling focused on self-affirmations and self-esteem building, because I felt lost without ED. I hadn’t seen Shelby in years, at least without ED holding my hand. I had to relearn who Shelby really was.”

Ross has recovered from her disorder. She said she recovered in college, though she suffered a short relapse at the age of 20.

“Everything in life seemed too good to give up for ED and all the misery that goes along with it,” she said. “My eating disorder is so far gone from my identity now, it shocks me when I reminisce the way in which I lived, if you want to call it living.”

Holly Davis, a psychologist who works in

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tal, it’s even better to not require the miracles in the first place.

Drake also met with members of the transplant team who work with lung, liver and heart transplants. The lung transplant program began in the late 1990s but was briefly on hiatus from 2009 until 2013. Since the program was revived, the team has performed 59 lung transplants. Drake met with Bryan Whitson and Sylvester Black, who are doctors in the transplant team. Whitson’s work has focused on lung transplants while Black’s work deals primarily with livers.

Drake asked whether Ohio was a net importer or exporter of organs. Black explained that it depends on the organ — for lungs, Ohio is a net importer, and for livers, the state is a net exporter.

“A majority of our livers are going outside (the state), but we are working hard to change that,” Black said.

Black said there are currently discussions about how to better allocate organs between states around the country — perhaps dividing the country into groups of states. Drake agreed that it is important to have more programs that share organs across states and regions to help those on the transplant list.

“The requirements for people to be in good standing on the list may be difficult, especially for low income people,” Drake said.

“They may not have a car, so they would have to take a bus to a different state — they just wouldn’t do that.”

He also discussed organ perfusion rates, which range from two to three days with lungs but up to three days with livers.

“Bryan and I hope with our laboratory research can bring that up to two or three weeks,” Black said. “Once you get to two or three weeks, there’s a lot of interesting things that you can do. You can modify the organ in such a way that there may not be immunosuppression. You can take organs that are significantly damaged organs and make them transplantable.”

To end his tour of the medical center, the president met with Dr. Ray Hershberger, whose work focuses on the genetic basis for dilated cardiomyopathy. The condition results in an enlarged ventricle, which prevents

cial media.

“Afro Duck suffered, died, and was buried. On the 7th week of the semester, he rose again in fulfillment of the scriptures,” read Scruppi’s tweet.

Afroduck’s death has been confirmed, with the body currently in the care of a taxidermist in Lima, Ohio, said Chelsea Hothem, a research assistant at the OSU’s Museum of Biological Diversity, in an email.

The new duck most likely appeared as a result of someone purchasing a duck and placing it in the lake, Hothem, a third-year in evolution, ecology and organismal biology, who retrieved the original Afroduck’s body for the museum, said.

Hothem said that this particular type of duck is not found in the wild and said placing a domestic duck in a new environment can have ramifications.

“While I understand that we all loved Afroduck and we want to have another one, it probably wasn’t a good idea to release a domestic duck into the lake,” she said. “That is a lot like letting your unwanted pet rabbit or turtle go free in the woods. Domestic animals typically don’t have the skills they need to survive in the wild since they were raised by humans.”

Hothem followed up by providing some information on how to better care for the new Afroduck, seeing as the last one was found to be severely emaciated upon examination by the taxidermist.

“I have read that oats, corn or peas are better healthy alternatives (than white bread) to feed ducks,” she said. “Since there are so many students passing Mirror Lake, it is probably inevitable that they get fed less than optimal foods, but I think we should all try and take care of our beloved ducks as much as possible.”

Students gathered to mourn the fallen Afroduck back in January.

“Our community lost a hero. Someone who floated tall against tyranny and communism with the extraordinary power to brighten anyone’s day. A visionary. A leader of a generation,” read the description of the Afroduck Remembrance Ceremony, an event created via Facebook to commemorate

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Dr. Ray Hershberger, director of Human Genetics and professor in Internal Medicine, speaks during a tour of the Wexner Medical Center on Feb. 24.

the heart from pumping blood efficiently.

Hershberger said DCM is often considered idiopathic, or random, when there is no evidence of a direct familial connection to another family member. However, Hershberger has hypothesized that the condition is genetic, regardless of a direct familial connection. Hershberger and his team conducted a study of 1,300 individuals who have DCM and also recruited family members to test to determine if the DCM is familial. He said the research is important because of the mortality associated with the disease.

“We spend enormous amount of time and effort developing drugs and devices and mechanical supports and transplants,” he said.

“But it is a late phase disease so it is enormous strain on health care finances in addition to the morbidity and mortality.”

Hershberger said that while he is a transplant cardiologist, he believes there has to be a better way than transplants — which is why he is doing the research. The research is shifting the concept of health and disease to include genetic information to understand risk in more ways, he said.

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Shelby Jean Ross, a fifth-year in social work, has recovered from an eating disorder.

the Office of Student Life Counseling and Consultation Services, said that resources about eating disorders can be found on the Counseling and Consultation Services website.

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A new Afroduck can be found at Mirror Lake after the death of the previous one in January.

the icon. According to the page, 3,200 people RSVP’d to the ceremony.

Afroduck’s final resting place, upon completion of the taxidermy process, will be at the Ohio State Museum of Biological Diversity and will be available for viewing at the annual open house on April 23.

Hothem helped to raise the funds necessary to immortalize Afroduck through taxidermy with a GoFundMe page that raised $1,000, double the initial goal of $500. The museum has since been tweeting updates on Afroduck as its body undergoes the taxidermy process. These updates can be viewed on its account @osum-tetrapods.

Despite the evidence to the contrary, some individuals still believe that Afroduck has returned from the dead.

Alexandra Goss, a first-year in global politics, said she is a believer.

“The stone was rolled away from Afroduck’s grave, and the new Afroduck emerged into the sunlight, more radiant than ever,” Goss said.

Pavan Peketi, a second-year in neuroscience, shared his own theory about the new duck that appeared on the lake.

“I think new Afroduck is actually Afroduck’s evil twin brother who murdered Afroduck in order to take his place at Mirror Lake to instill a new world order,” Peketi said.

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for the job, very deserving,” he said. “The entire band, myself especially, (is) very excited about the news, very optimistic about next season.”

Joseph, a second-year in accounting, met Hoch two years ago during his first season playing in the band, and he said, even serving as the associate director, Hoch made an immediate impression on him.

“I could tell he had a really good grasp on the band — the way everything was organized — he was clearly one of the leaders of the band,” he said. “I really felt really comfortable under his leadership. As a first-year member, I felt very safe and very comfortable around him and the rest of the band, especially.”

Hoch began his career at OSU as an assistant director of Marching and Athletic Bands. He has 16 years of experience teaching music in high school and college band and musical ensemble programs.

Hoch orchestrated the popular “Tribute to the Classic Video Games” halftime show, which was performed during the 2012 homecoming game versus Nebraska, while serving as associate director.

Joseph said he believes Hoch is ready for next season, citing his leadership during the marching band’s “tremendous success” last season, including its first performance abroad at Wembley Stadium in London and an appearance at the Fiesta Bowl.

“Throughout the entire year, I felt, clearly, this is the guy that we need, the guy we all trust,” he said. “And it ended up, luckily, turning out the way that we all hoped it would.”

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Crock said that all of the money raised goes to the Ulman Cancer Fund, where it is used to provide scholarships for cancer survivors, as well as fund programs like Cancer to 5K, that helps young adults with cancer start a training program to run a 5K road race while they are going through their treatment.

“The Cancer to 5K helps young adults with cancer start a training program to run a 5K while they are going through their treatment, which is really hard, but it’s cool,” he said.

Rasicci said that during the trip, the team will stop at local churches, YMCAs and community centers in order to build a connection with members of the community who have been affected by cancer.

Rasicci said they will speak one-on-one with the cancer survivors and present several scholarships to applicants who earn them during the 4K. They will also volunteer at cancer centers and hospitals during their journey.

“I want to raise the awareness that if something doesn’t feel right, people should go get checked at once because early detection really saves lives,” Rasicci said. “I also want to give people hope and show them that not

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Crock said his family, too, has been affected by cancer.

He said when his mother was younger, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Though she overcame the disease, Crock said the repercussions of cancer still affected her afterward. His aunt is also a cancer survivor.

Crock said that last year his family watched his uncle lose a very painful two-year battle with colon cancer. And now, another uncle is fighting chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

“Sometimes I feel that I need to be thankful that my parents, my sisters and myself have not been diagnosed with cancer,” Crock said.

“When I think that way, I just feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.”

Crock said it is hard to say how this project could make a difference to those affected by cancer in addition to the money they are raising, but considering how many people will go to connect with the young adults they’re helping, it is powerful.

“I feel that through an undertaking such as the 4K, I am connected to the whole community as someone who is joining the battle against the cancer,” Crock said.

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VAPING: HOBBY OR LIFESTYLE? HANNAH HERNER Assistant Arts&Life Editor herner.12@osu.edu In 2014, Ohio State initiated its tobacco-free policy on campus.

According to a press release, the goal of the policy is “to support individuals to be tobacco free (and) achieve their highest state of health.” The trend of vaping is included in the ban, but some see it as a better alternative.

Vaping involves using a vaporizer, which can take multiple shapes and is sometimes referred to as an e-cigarette. The device converts a liquid containing varying nicotine and flavoring levels into vapor. Students are turning to vaping to curb their cravings for traditional tobacco products, and it can become a hobby or even a lifestyle for some.

Mark Bardford, manager at Crawford & Masters boutique vapors at 1177 N. High St., said that the majority of the customers he sees have the intention of quitting smoking through vaping, a sentiment that was echoed by Amanda Verbsky, district manager for Vaporfi, which has a location at 2471 N. High St. Verbsky used vaping to help her quit smoking, and about 80 percent of her customers are trying to do

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Cody Byrd, a third-year in business and marketing, vapes at Vaporfi, 2471 N. High St., his place of employment. the same. She said it started as a years prior, and he now vapes with casual cigarette here and there and no nicotine just so he can try the grew into a pack-a-day addiction. flavors. He added that he believes “When I got the job with Va- vaping is less harmful than cigaporfi, I did not think I would quit rettes in cutting out some of the smoking,” Verbsky said. “Within harmful tars and ingredients, but it three weeks of me working here, I can be counter-intuitive if the user had completely quit smoking.” smokes with the vaporizer more Steven Workman, a third-year often than he or she would a tradiin strategic communication, said tional cigarette. that vaping helped him quit using “A lot of people will get on these smokeless tobacco. and they’ll start hitting these even “It was pretty much just to help more than they did a cigarette beme to quit using smokeless tobac- cause you have the flavor aspect, co, and it’s done that. I pretty much too,” Bardford said. just vape now,” he said.

Bardford emphasized that while Bardford had quit smoking 20 vaping can help make the quitting

process easier, the user still needs willpower to be successful.

“These aren’t a total cure to it; they take away the need for nicotine and allow you to come down slowly off of it, but you have to want to quit,” he said.

Furthermore, Bardford said he would not recommend vaping to people who have never smoked.

“We get a lot of young people in that want to get into it and they’ve never smoked or anything. I tell them right up front, ‘Hey if you haven’t been smoking, don’t start.’

They don’t understand how addictive nicotine can be, so we try to discourage them,” he said.

In reality, not all vaporizer users have the goal of quitting smoking.

“I even have customers that just use it for anxiety. The deep breathing just helps them calm down,” Verbsky said.

In building vaping devices and

experimenting with liquids, it can also be considered a hobby, or even more than that.

“Is it a lifestyle? Is OSU football a lifestyle? Same thing. It’s become a hobby with a lot of people,” Bardford said.

Verbsky said there is a community that has formed around vaping, and people enjoy experimenting with the mechanical aspects of the vaporizers, changing up the coils that heat up the liquid, turning it to vapor.

“You’ll see whole friendships formed on people building coils and trying out different wires and that. It’s really taken on this whole new subculture,” she said.

But the newly formed community comes with its share of criticism.

Bardford said he believes that stigma lies in the nicotine in the vape because it is a derivative of tobacco.

“People see it, they equate it with a cigarette immediately,” he said.

Verbsky emphasized the importance of asking the owners of an establishment before vaping inside, and Bardford echoed the sentiment.

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Studio Ghibli film series invades Gateway ZAK KOLESAR Lantern reporter kolesar.25@osu.edu The Gateway Film Center has become known for presenting films that normally wouldn’t be found in larger theatre chains.

Since the start of the year, GFC has been displaying the complete collection of films from Studio Ghibli (pronounced jee-blee), a prominent Japanese animation film company. All 22 Studio Ghibli films will be shown in subsequent, chronological order before the end of May. “It really has been one of the most successful series that we have done here,” said Johnny DiLoretto, director of communications at GFC. “This is really exciting for me because I didn’t realize how passionate and devoted the fan base was for these films.”

Studio Ghibli draws a lot of cross-cultural comparisons to Pixar Animation Studios because of the impact and successes of the two

animation companies, but there are two very significant differences: Studio Ghibli was founded almost a year before Pixar and, while Pixar’s films are mostly computer-animated, Ghibli films are meticulously hand-drawn.

“They are emotionally complex, psychologically rich and the artwork is untouched,” DiLoretto said. “They’re really beautifully hand-crafted films, and it’s the complexity of them that I think elevates them sometimes above your basic computer-animated film from America.”

GFC’s display of Ghibli films also comes at a tumultuous time for the Japanese film company, which now sits at a crossroad.

Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki retired from his head position in 2014, which resulted in the company taking a brief hiatus from film production to discuss its future.

However, a Ghibli film has still not been produced since Miyazaki’s departure.

For now, GFC can play all of

the films made before Miyazaki’s departure to fill the void. Eight of the films have already been shown, leaving 14 more for fans to enjoy.

Ghibli films are presented weekly, with different showtime options for both dubbed and subtitled versions.

“Initially we were planning on doing a couple screenings per week, and right away the audience said, ‘We want more shows,’” DiLoretto said, “so we’ve been trying to accommodate those demands as best we can.”

DiLoretto also commented that families typically attend the dubbed showings of Ghibli films, while the subtitled movies attract a more mature audience.

The Ghibli series is not just attracting nearby Ohio State students. Moviegoers are coming from Worthington, Grandview and all over Columbus to experience the showcase, DiLoretto said.

“I think it’s very valuable for the entire Columbus community as well as for the Ohio State com-

munity that we have the opportunity to watch the films in the order which they were made, and thereby to see the arc,” said Kerim Yasar, assistant professor in Japanese in OSU’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.

The precision that Miyazaki and other Ghibli producers use to craft their animated stories conveys a high level of respect for the brand and Ghibli fans. Yasar mentioned that, at times, they have taken extreme measures to make sure the seemingly sacred films are protected and displayed as they were made to be.

When noted Hollywood producer and aggressive movie manipulator Harvey Weinstein tried to commercialize Miyazaki’s film, “Princess Mononoke,” by cutting it shorter, an unnamed producer reportedly sent a samurai sword with a note warning Weinstein not to cut parts of the film.

The effort shown toward protecting the namesake of Studio Ghibli’s style could explain why it has

Alumnus produces, performs in ‘The Shadow Box’ MARIA MARTELLO Lantern reporter martello.14@osu.edu Last year, an Ohio State theater alumnus named Audrey Rush became so enthralled by the play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”

by Edward Albee that she created her own theater company in order to have complete artistic control of the project.

Rush’s company, Adrenaline Theatre Group, is now preparing to open their second show, “The Shadow Box,” running from Wednesday until March 5 at MadLab theater downtown. The 1977 Tony award-winning play by Michael Cristofer addresses family dynamics involving terminally ill parents.

Four OSU alumni are cast in the play, including Rush; John Connor, a 2013 economics graduate; Annie McAlphine, a 2015 theater graduate; and Scott Douglas Wilson, a 2009 graduate with a master’s degree in acting. Rush plays the role of Maggie in addition to her production functions within her company. “‘The Shadow Box’ is a play about three different family units as they deal with the oncoming

The cast of “The Shadow Box.” passing of a family member,” Rush said. “I am the wife of someone who is dying and trying to come to terms with the reality of the situation as well as raise their son.”

Rush and longtime friend Chad Hewitt complement each other as associate producers of the Adrenaline Theatre Group, often playing multiple roles in the production and performance aspects of their endeavors.

The theater company keeps costs low by renting inexpensive venues and equipment from MadLab, which offers the lowest rates, Rush said. In addition to cheap rentals, Adrenaline also keeps set designs

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abstract and minimal to keep costs down.

“A great thing about it is we are able to put on productions that have quality and personal connection that we truly love without having the pressure of having a four- or five-show season,” Rush said.

Rush accredits Hewitt with selecting “The Shadow Box” and gives him full creative liberties within their minimal set choices.

While the first project was inspired and directed by Rush, Hewitt claims responsibility for the production of Adrenaline’s second play. This is Hewitt’s debut as a director.

“As an actor, the focus is on your

role; as a director you are responsible for all roles. It is just a lot more work, to put it simply,” Hewitt said.

Rush and Hewitt collaborate on fundraising and promotional efforts. Adrenaline Theatre Group makes short videos as an incentive for donors.

Donors select from five video challenges, including a Britney Spears video remake, a Kirk vs.

Spock death battle, and a milk gallon-chugging challenge. One vote is equivalent to $1 in donations.

“We thought for this year we wanted to drive the fundraising a little harder. The whole point is people like that two- to three-minute funny video,” Rush said.

Hewitt and Rush designed a website, adrenalinetheatre.squarespace. com, highlighting their upcoming cast and productions. Ticket sales and participation in the viral video donation challenges are also accessible through the group’s website.

“The Shadow Box” will be performed at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday as well as March 4-5 at the MadLab theater located on 227 N. 3rd St. Ticket are $15.

been able to attract a cult-like following.

“I think what makes it different is the tremendous amount of creative control that the directors and producers at Ghibli can exercise, and that’s a result of the early success that they had,” Yasar said.

Aside from the awe-inspiring animation that Ghibli films put on display, the films also delve into morality values and issues deeper than American animation, Yasar said. Ghibli films are designed to let one’s imagination run wild, which is what makes the series so iconic in Japan.

A Ghibli membership can be purchased at GFC for $199. The package gives perks including unlimited access to all Ghibli films, advanced screenings and free popcorn.

This week’s featured film in the series is “Only Yesterday.” The dubbed version will be playing at 2 and 4:40 p.m. on Friday and the subtitled version will be shown at 7:20 and 10 p.m.

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they’re being rude about it,” Bardford said.

That is the reason why Workman said he does not use his vaporizer on campus.

“I try not to blow it in people’s faces, and that’s the reason I don’t do it on campus. It’s kind of a politeness thing, too. I guess I wouldn’t want cigarette smokers to smoke around me, so I just try to respect that,” he said.

But Verbsky insisted that the vapor exhaled does not have an adverse affect on people nearby.

“There is no second-hand absorption of even the nicotine. By the time you exhale the water vapor, it dissipates into the air and it’s gone,” she said.

She added that she believes a lot of the criticism comes from people not being familiar with vaping, and its position as an alternative to smoking is most important.

“A lot of people just don’t know what it is,” Verbsky said.

“At the end of the day, I really see it as a better alternative to cigarettes or chewing or any of those other things that people have started on.”

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strikeouts.

Niemeyer had a rough outing in his first start of the year. He was pulled after 4.1 innings of work, leaving him with an ERA of 6.23.

Beals said he remains very confident in Niemeyer, and he expects the righty from Minster, Ohio, to bounce back with a solid start.

“I’m not worried about Adam Niemeyer,” Beals said.

Familiar foe Another Buckeye who got off to a hot start was senior third baseman and co-captain Nick Sergakis. The Columbus native hit .412 during the Historic Dodgertown Classic.

This weekend he will be facing a familiar team in Coastal Carolina. Sergakis was on the roster for Coastal Carolina for his freshman season, but he didn’t play much, prompting him to transfer back home to Columbus to suit up for the Buckeyes.

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and disciplined. We can’t take too many risks because they are very good at capitalizing on opportunities,” Duggan said. “So you just have to play very good defensive hockey and be patient and wait for your opportunities and then execute when you get them. We can’t get too excited. Patience and discipline are the big things.”

Two Minnesota forwards, Dani Cameranesi and Hannah Brandt, lead the conference in goals scored this season with 28 and 24, respectively.

happened at Coastal, but over the years I’ve grown, I’ve matured and I realized it happened for the right reasons,” he said. “And it brought me back here, which is more than anything I could ask for. To play for Ohio State was always a dream, and it was really the right thing for me and the right thing for my family.”

Sergakis said he doesn’t feel any animosity toward Coastal Carolina and is looking at the upcoming matchup as just another game.

The Buckeyes are lined up to play Games 2 and 4 against the Chanticleers. The first is set for Saturday at 2 p.m., while the second one is slated for 4 p.m. two days later.

“I’ll be honest, it’ll be nice to go and take two from those guys,” Sergakis said.

The other two contests, against Duke on Friday and Liberty on Sunday, are each scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.

“In the D-zone, I think just making sure we’re staying tight to our coverage and make sure they don’t have any space to work,” Curtis said. “If you give any player space in this league, they’re going to make something pretty happen with the puck. Just shutting them down and taking away their space.”

Blueprint for the upset Minnesota swept OSU in each of the two series this season, as the Buckeyes were outscored 30-5 over the four games. Still, Duggan said OSU is looking forward to an-

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man.

OSU senior midfielder and co-captain Kacy Kapinos stressed the importance of the defense playing together in order to stop the UMBC attack.

“We have a great, close (defensive) unit in Robby Haus, Chris Mahoney and Erik Evans. It’s just playing team defense,” Kapinos said. “It’s not two guys shutting them down –— it’s everybody talking, communicating (and) making sure we’re all on the same page.”

The game is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. on Friday at the ‘Shoe.

Man-up opportunity One thing the Buckeyes will look to improve on this week is the man-up. The man-up, or extra-man opportunity, is akin to the power play in hockey. In these situations, the offense has a one-man advantage because a penalty on the other team forces a player to stay off the field for a duration of time.

OSU has struggled in capitaliz-

ing on these opportunities so far this year. The team went 0-4 in man-up opportunities last week against UMass, including failing to score on one occasion when the Minutemen were two players down after a succession of penalties.

“We have to give it to UMass,” Kapinos said. “They did a good job in man-down and picked off a couple of our passes.”

The Buckeyes have struggled in this area the whole season, only capitalizing on two of their 12 man-up opportunities, which ranks them tied for 47th nationally.

“We’re trying to find the right pieces and the right fit, but that’s a fine line,” Myers said of the man-up unit. “We’re going to keep chipping away at it. I’ve got a lot of confidence in that group.”

National showcase Friday’s game against UMBC will be OSU’s first time this year playing in front of a nationally televised audience, as the game is scheduled to be aired on ESPNU.

“Playing in the ‘Shoe too is something that guys are really looking forward to, and I think is going to be a motivator for us going into it,” Pfister said.

Myers said he knows his team is excited to play in front of viewers across the country, but he wants the team to stay focused on the task at hand.

“I think the opportunity, anytime you’re on national TV, to not only play well but to just showcase what Buckeye lacrosse is all about is a responsibility,” Myers said.

“But at the end of the day, it’s the next game on our schedule.”

What’s next After Friday’s game against UMBC, the Buckeyes are set to host the Midwest Lacrosse Classic. OSU is scheduled play Marquette on March 4 and Bellarmine on March 6. The games are slated for 6 p.m. and 3 p.m., respectively, at the ‘Shoe.

other rematch and is going into the series eager for the challenge.

“With the playoffs upon us, everyone has that excitement in them. Realizing that for seniors it could be the end of their career, so there’s always that little bit of nervousness and excitement,” Duggan said. “I think the big piece is that there is a big opportunity to go in and prove a lot of people wrong and show what they’ve done since we played them last.”

The team went into the week of practice with the same approach it

had all season.

“I think we try to come in with the same drive and will to get better each and every day at practice,” Curtis said. “I think that’ll help us going into the weekend by not making it into something more than it is. I think just having that same even keel in practice that we’ve had for the whole year is going to help us.”

Minnesota swept its last regular-season series against formerly No. 2-ranked Wisconsin.

The Golden Gophers have now

replaced the Badgers as the No. 2-ranked team in the country in the latest USCHO.com poll.

The Buckeyes and Golden Gophers are scheduled to square off in Minneapolis at 8:07 p.m. on Friday and 5:07 p.m. on Saturday.

A deciding third game would be played on Sunday at 3:07 p.m. if necessary to decide the quarterfinal winner.

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‘Keep moving forward’ GIUSTINO BOVENZI Lantern reporter bovenzi.3@osu.edu After last weekend’s undefeated start, the Ohio State baseball team (3-0-1) is now turning its attention to the Coastal Carolina Tournament in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. OSU is set to play four games from Friday to Monday, facing off against Duke (3-1), Coastal Carolina (2-1) and Liberty (2-2).

The Buckeyes are hoping to carry over the momentum from last weekend’s offensive explosion, which included three players batting over .400.

One of those Buckeyes was redshirt junior right fielder Jacob Bosiokovic, who hit .412 with three home runs and eight RBIs. The Delaware, Ohio, native’s performance was good enough to win two awards: Big Ten Player of the Week and Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week.

Bosiokovic said it was huge for the Buckeyes to come out and perform at such a high level to start the season, and winning the two awards was a nice feather in his cap. But the 6-foot-5 outfielder said he can’t focus on the past.

“It was cool to have that happen, but really, it’s over now, and really what I’m focused on is translating that to the next weekend,” Bosiokovic said. “You just got to keep moving forward.”

OSU coach Greg Beals said he expects the four games to be a big test for his team.

“This weekend coming up is going to be a good weekend,” Beals said. “The competition level is going to go up a little bit. It’s going to be a very good challenge for us.”

Continuing the hot start Being able to continue the mo-

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OSU then-redshirt sophomore pitcher Adam Niemeyer (43) pitches during a game on April 14 at Bill Davis Stadium. mentum the Buckeyes built up last weekend will be something the team will try to do this weekend in Myrtle Beach, Beals said. Winning two games last Saturday over the course of 12 hours of baseball was a big confidence builder for the team.

“What that does more than anything is that just solidifies that idea of belief that we can win games,” Beals said. “We were behind in both games, came back and found ways to win late. So what I told the guys is there is no reason to ever not believe, because we just proved it to ourselves.”

OSU leads the Big Ten thus far in home runs, with six. The Scarlet and Gray’s 38 hits tied them with Minnesota for third place. Replicating that red-hot start offensively will be key for the Buckeyes if they want to preserve their undefeated record. This is especially true

“So what I told the guys is there is no reason to ever not believe, because we just proved it to ourselves.”

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against Liberty, which averages just under six runs per game.

To do so, Bosiokovic said OSU is preserving its mentality from last weekend, which was just taking everything one pitch at a time.

“It’s going to be really important, as we’ve got some really good teams this weekend and a lot of good pitching this weekend,” Bosiokovic said. “It’s just important that we’re focusing on the moment, and each pitch and each at-bat. Just

stay in the moment and really focus on that.”

Pitching recovery Last weekend, only one OSU starting pitcher picked up a win for the Scarlet and Gray: Tanner Tully.

The junior lefty from Elkhart, Indiana, threw six scoreless innings in the season-opening game against Toledo, striking out three batters and allowing six hits.

To adjust to the opposing hitters, Beals made a switch in the rotation, putting redshirt sophomore righthander Adam Niemeyer against Duke’s ace, Bailey Clark.

“We’re going to see frontline national-caliber pitching this weekend,” Beals said. “It’ll be a great test. I’m billing it as a preseason regional.”

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OSU to play first 2016 game at the ‘Shoe ZACHARY KONNO Lantern reporter konno.8@osu.edu The Ohio State men’s lacrosse team is gearing up to host the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the Buckeyes’ first game in Ohio Stadium of the 2016 season on Friday.

OSU (2-1) is coming off its first loss of the season last week against Massachusetts. The team looked disorganized in the second half, which led to a 16-9 defeat at the hands of the Minutemen.

“I think guys are really taking it on themselves as more a personal thing and something that we need to fix within ourselves,” redshirt junior midfielder and co-captain Tyler Pfister said. “We’re definitely learning from it but not dwelling on it.”

OSU coach Nick Myers said the team is evaluating last week’s per-

formance, but he does not want his guys to get hung up on it.

“There’s been some reflection off of what we thought was a really disappointing loss,” Myers said.

“We’re trying to put that behind us now and focus on us and prepare for a very good team that’s coming into Columbus on Friday night.”

UMBC is arriving in Columbus on the heels of a loss to Richmond in its first game of the season by a score of 7-5. The team had a disappointing campaign last year, going 5-8. Still, Myers said he fully expects the program to have a bounceback year.

“I just think, top to bottom, it’s a team that’s very disciplined,” he said. “We’re going to have to really work hard as a collective group to have success on Friday night.”

UMBC is led by its pair of senior captains: attacker Nate Lewnes and defender Zach Esser.

Esser guides a defense that al-

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OSU sophomore defender Erik Evans (43) controls the ball during a scrimmage against The Hill Academy on Jan. 30. lowed seven goals in the team’s first game. Last year, he became the first defender in the history of UMBC to earn back-to-back America East first-team honors.

One of the focuses heading into Friday’s game for the Buckeyes will be stopping the Retrievers’ pair of experienced attackers: Lewnes and junior Max Maxwell.

Lewnes saw his 18-game

goal-scoring streak, which was sixth in the country at the time, end in the team’s loss to Richmond. A co-captain, Lewnes is the leader of the offense and has been a model of consistency over his first three years at UMBC. Maxwell, who scored a goal last week against Richmond, earned all-rookie team honors as a fresh-

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MICHELLE MCDONNELL Lantern reporter mcdonnell.60@osu.edu Postseason play has arrived for the Ohio State women’s ice hockey team, as the seventh-seeded Buckeyes (10-23-1, 6-21-1) are preparing to head northwest to Minneapolis. There, a best-of-three series with No. 2 seed Minnesota (29-31, 24-3-1) awaits OSU in the first round of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association tournament.

The Buckeyes come into the playoffs having split their final regular-season series against No. 10 North Dakota the weekend prior.

Both games were close contests throughout, and the Buckeyes are looking to continue that competitive drive as they look to extend their season against the Golden Gophers.

“We didn’t go out there and let them set the tone and have us try to race to catch up. We gave them a strong game,” senior forward Kendall Curtis said on the series against North Dakota. “We were in their zone from the drop of the puck. I think that’s one of the best things we can take into a game like Minnesota. That’s a great team, so when you can bring the pace to them, I think that’s going to offer us our best start.”

Impeding the Gopher offense Minnesota’s offense ranks as the second best in the country, averaging nearly five goals per game.

Curtis said she has faith that the team will be able to match Minnesota’s agility, but it will need to play aggressively.

“I think our team has quite a bit of speed, and I think we can counter what they offer with that,” Curtis said. “So I think definitely getting pucks deep and really attacking and going after their D and getting in there with our speed will be the best way to slow them down.”

Assistant coach Carson Duggan said she believes the team’s mental strength will be tested and it will have to rely on its composure to slow down the high-powered Gophers.

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