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THE STUDENT VOICE OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY The Lantern is a student publication which is part of the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. It publishes issues Tuesday and Thursday, and online editions every day. The Lanternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daily operations are funded through advertising and its academic pursuits are supported by the School of Communication. Some of the advertising is sold by students. The School of Communication is committed to the highest professional standards for the newspaper in order to guarantee the fullest educational benefits from The Lantern experience.

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BUCKEYE BOUND (ISSN 1) Issue Date: August 02, 2017 Published Annually The Lantern 207 Journalism Building 242 West 18th Ave Columbus, OH 43210 ISSUE NO. 01 Free of Charge

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Dear incoming Buckeyes, College is going to be the best four years — kidding. It quite probably could be, but I’m not going there. I’ll share my one piece of college advice for incoming freshmen and then move on to telling you why it’s 2017 and you’re reading — get this — a print newspaper. Who knows, maybe you’re not reading this and I’m writing into an abyss. Either way, here is my recommendation: Do something each day that challenges you, that expands your comfort zone. It can be small. It can be large. It will be different for each person. College is supposed to help us grow, and when faced with the daunting unknown, it’s easy and natural to cling to what we already know. To some extent, you should do that to help ease the transition. Familiarity isn’t inherently bad. But just don’t get comfortable. Growth — spiritual, personal, intellectual — comes only when we do things that challenge us. Alright. Now onto why you’re reading a newspaper. These pages were created specifically for you. Our goal at The Lantern, both in this issue and throughout the year, is to help inform you about the Ohio State community, of which you’re now a key part. Some of the articles in here were published earlier in the year. Others were written specifically for this edition. Regardless, they contain information — about places to study on campus, the local food scene, Buckeye sports, student organizations, safety and much else — that we hope makes you well-prepared and excited to immerse yourself in the Buckeye community for the next four years, and for life. Welcome to Ohio State. We’re glad you’re here. Kevin Stankiewicz Editor-in-Chief, The Lantern

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A welcome letter from USG Incoming Buckeyes, Welcome to the greatest four years of your life! My name is Andrew Jackson, and I get the pleasure of serving as your Student Body President for your freshman year at THE best university in the world! During your time here, be sure to try new things, experience different cultures and explore our beautiful city of Columbus. Ohio State will offer you so many extraordinary opportunities to grow as a person, and I encourage you to take part in as many as possible, without becoming overwhelmed of course! Whether you’re from a small farm town in the Midwest, from New York City or from China, there is a place for you at Ohio State. Joining one of the more than 1,300 student organizations here is a great way to find your community and make amazing friends that will last a lifetime. I have found my best friends here, and I am so thankful for all

they have done for me while we’ve been in school together. College is full of ups and downs, hopefully more of the ups than the downs. But even if that isn’t true, make sure you are taking time for yourself while here. Self-care is something that is necessary while in college, and I encourage you to take full advantage of all the services provided to students by Counseling and Consultation Services (CCS). From drop-in workshops to private sessions, CCS has really helped me during my time here at Ohio State, and I am so thankful for everything that their team has done for me and all students here. While you’re here in Columbus, be sure to check out all the city provides to its residents! Just up High Street is the Short North which has a Gallery Hop the first Saturday night of every month! Gallery Hops are nights when many of the area’s art galleries and boutiques stay open late, and are

a great way to see all the amazing art produced in Columbus and taste some of the great local food here! The festivals here are amazing as well! Most happen during the summer, but you can find some still happening when you are here on campus during the fall. The Ohio State University will be your home for the next four years. During those four years, you will find the friends that will be with you for the rest of your life. You will make memories that you will never forget. And most importantly, Ohio State will prepare you for your life after graduation with the resources to find amazing jobs all over the world! Congrats on joining the Buckeye Family and may your years at Ohio State be as amazing as mine have been! Andrew Jackson

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Silent study spots found around campus MASON SWIRES Former Assistant Photo Editor Originally published Dec. 1, 2015 Finding your perfect study spot can be just as difficult as adjusting to life in college –– especially on a campus as large as Ohio State. Even if it doesn’t seem like it, silent and comforting study spaces do exist here, in more than just the warm corners of Thompson Library. Orton Hall Orton Hall, the university’s geological sciences and history building, holds not only the department, but also a silent, rustic and small library with Hogwarts-like architecture. While walking toward the obscure Orton Geological Museum that also exists in the building, you can find the door to the vintage room that opens up to the library, which is made entirely of wooden book shelves and long tables. Students can find solace here among the old dinosaur bones of Orton Hall. Knowlton’s fourth-floor and roof garden The architecture department’s building, Knowlton Hall, is itself a testament to creativity. The building’s library is built in a soundproof classroom with windows that look out upon the building’s roof garden –– a campus secret that’s kept by few students. The library is divided into two floors, both containing spaces to sit and relax or to sit down at a table and get to work. There are also reclined chairs overlooking the garden through the windows that wrap around half

of the floor of the library, letting in a lot of natural light and contributing to the cozy environment. Fine Arts Library This library is for the true abstract studier. Its entrance is a staircase that goes under the Wexner Center for the Arts and wraps around the majority of the building’s sublevel. It is absolutely silent in the stacks of large, bound books, and there are a few tables among them. But the majority of the workspace available to students is in the main foyer of the underground art exhibit and library. Computers are also available if you don’t feel like carrying your own. As far as sound level, this library is a champion in silence. 18th Avenue Library’s quiet floor Commonly referred to as the SEL, an abbreviation for its former name, this relatively well-known library is nestled between Scott Hall and Denney Hall. There’s the Terra Byte Café that serves hundreds of students on the ground floor and adjoins the computer lab and other floors that have available workspaces and bookshelves. But the fourth floor of the library is actually dubbed the “quiet floor,” and there is a sign to prove it. No noise is permitted there, and the entirety of the space is dedicated to tables, desks, cubicles and glassed-in study rooms that provide a place that is open 24 hours for students who are looking to cram or find some peace.

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Tuition Guarantee Program includes increased fees for incoming Ohio State students OWEN DAUGHERTY Assistant Campus Editor Originally published July 11, 2017 The Ohio State Board of Trustees unanimously approved the Tuition Guarantee Program and locked in an increased cost of attendance for all incoming Ohio State students for the first time in five years. The tuition and fee structure now in place will raise the cost of tuition for all new students by varying rates, breaking the fiveyear tuition freeze Ohio State previously had. In addition to the tuition hike, the Board voted to approve that housing fees increase 6 percent for all students — both incoming and returning — as opposed to the 3 percent increase that would have only impacted new students laid out in the plan initially presented to The Lantern. Dining plans will also see a 3 percent swell, which will apply to all meal plans for both new and currently enrolled students. The increases to housing and dining plans will be a part of the price guarantee for incoming students as well, which was not the case in the first proposal. The room and board price increases follow a two-year freeze. The freshly approved price hike comes weeks before new students arrive on campus for the Autumn Semester. University Provost Bruce McPheron said in the Board meeting on July 11th that the new plan will help families better predict their costs now that they have a four-year fixed price tag. McPheron and Geoff Chatas, the university’s chief financial officer and the primary architect of the Tuition Guarantee Program, stressed it is designed to create “predictability” for families The new costs for incoming in-state students will be reflected in a 6 percent increase to the instructional fee, bringing the yearly total of tuition and fees to $10,591. For non-residents, which includes both outof-state and international students, a 5 percent increase will now take effect. On top of the 5 percent increase, incoming international students will be subject to a $996 increase to the flat yearly fee, bringing the cost of tuition and fees for new international students to $32,623.

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According to financial projections provided to the Board, tuition and fees make up about 40 percent of costs, with housing and dining making up 45 percent of total costs. That leaves roughly 16 percent going toward books and miscellaneous expenses such as travel and clothing. For incoming students, Ohio State now controls 84 percent of the cost of college, locking in prices for families to see in advance and help plan for, said Geoff Chatas, Ohio State’s Chief Financial Officer and the primary architect of the new tuition plan. University officials pointed to the state budget being officially approved this month as the timing of the recently developed Tuition Guarantee Program. “We have reached a point where we think it prudent to work our way through the opportunities that are made available to us under state law,” McPheron said. “For us, the attractiveness of thinking about the guarantee and being able to add that level of predictability was really the tipping point for us making this recommendation.” The law McPheron referred to is the twoyear price freeze on state college tuition for

Ohio residents that is now in effect as part of the state budget. The budget allowed for a maximum 6 percent increase in tuition if it was accompanied by a four-year tuition freeze, something that Ohio State decided to take advantage of. Ohio State now joins Ohio University and Miami University as the only public schools in the state to have a guaranteed tuition plan. John Zeiger, the newest addition to the Board, said the magnitude of the upfront price tag first was bigger than he would have liked, but that the long-term guarantee of a fixed tuition price was enough to ease any lingering concerns. Room and Board The increase in room-and-board fees follows the first full year in which sophomores were required to live, and in turn, eat on campus. The new on-campus living requirement resulted in a $25 million increase in revenue for the Office of Student Life when compared to the previous year in March, according to financial documents provided at the most recent Board of Trustees meeting. University officials attributed the 3 percent increases in housing and dining to covering

increased operational costs and continued general upkeep. Full revenue numbers, including complete housing and dining numbers, are not made available until the end of Ohio State’s fiscal year in July. Scholarships and Grants In addition to price increases, the Board approved increasing financial aid as part of the President’s Affordability Grant and the doubling of the Land Grant Scholarship, now given to two students from each of Ohio’s 88 counties. Ohio State spokesmen have not yet provided The Lantern with information on whether or not the tuition increases will result in larger merit-based scholarships given to incoming freshmen students, to match the higher cost of attendance. Student Health Insurance The Board also unanimously approved an increase to the cost of all student health insurance packages by 8.7 percent. The health insurance plan for a single student now goes from $2,754 to $2,994 under the new plan. Students at all OSU campuses are required to have health insurance if they are enrolled in at least six credit hours as an undergraduate, and four credit hours as a graduate or professional. They are also required to have health insurance if they are in a degree program, according to the office of student life website. A majority of students are covered under health care provided by employers or by their parents plan, university officials said.

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Need-based aid to adjust for in-state Tuition Guaranteed students, merit scholarship values remain SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor Ohio State is looking to increase some of its need-based aid to help students pay for fees it recently increased. The increases — 6 percent to the instructional fee, 6 percent to the housing fee and 3 percent to the dining fee — are part of the university’s newly instituted Tuition Guarantee Program, which freezes incoming instate students’ tuition until the 2020-21 academic year, but raises fees in order to do so. As a result, the university is adjusting need-based aid for in-state middle- and lower-income students eligible for grants and scholarships. The money used to create more generous need-based aid packages is coming from increased revenue in Ohio State’s aid budgets. A $5 million boost for the President’s Affordability Grant will take place during the 2017-18 academic year, providing aid to middle- and lower-income students. The grants are funneled through Ohio State’s administrative efficiency program, Ben Johnson, an Ohio State spokesman, said in an email. The Land Grant Scholarship, which covers full tuition from students in every county, increased its reach for students as well, by doubling the number of scholarships from 88 to 176. Two students from each county will receive this scholarship under the guarantee.

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Thousands of students gathered on the Oval for the student involvement fair on Aug. 23, 2015. Out-of-state and international students are not included in the Tuition Guarantee Program, and will potentially see their tuition increase over the years. The reason for this being Ohio residents pay taxes to support the university and its aid and scholarship programs, other students do not, hence their exclusion from the guarantee. However, the base fee these students pay, which is the in-state tuition cost, will remain, Johnson said, adding that with the

stable base costs comes a more predictable tuition price throughout the incoming student’s four years at the university. Although newly enrolled out-of-state students are not part of the Tuition Guarantee program, they are to pay the increased fees associated with tuition-freeze given to instate students such as the housing and dining fee increases. In addition to paying those increases, incoming out-of-state students at all campus-

es are to pay a 5 percent non-resident fee increase, which equates to roughly $1,500 over the course of an academic year, and international students will have a flat $996 international fee increase, as opposed to a fixed percentage. The 2,200 undergraduate students the university has committed to cover full tuition will receive this value, regardless of the fee increase or whether or not they are Ohio residents. This fee increase for in-state students will not be reflected in any sort of merit-based scholarships, however, as they are at a fixedcost. In total, 3,672 incoming first-year students are receiving these scholarships for their academic success in high school — based on GPA, ACT and SAT scores — ranging from $1,500 to covering tuition and cost of attendance in full. Of those students, 415 are receiving full tuition merit-based aid. Returning students living on campus who are not part of the Tuition Guarantee Program, but will see a fee increase in their room-and-board, will be given increased need-based aid reflective of the fee increase as well, if they qualify for the the Pell Grant — a subsidy the federal government provides for students with financial need — or President’s Affordability Grant.

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A vegan & vegetarian guide to campus eats SARA STACY Assistant Arts&Life Editor Coming to college on a meatless or plantbased diet can be daunting. Many “classic” college eats –– pepperoni pizza, wings and ramen noodles –– will never fit into a vegetarian or vegan diet. Even if it sounds impossible, I promise both these diets are completely doable on a meal plan. I lived on campus with a meal plan for three years and haven’t touched meat for two and a half of them. Here’s my take on everything you need to know about eating vegetarian or vegan on campus. Know the symbols Anywhere food is sold on campus, each item is accompanied by a symbol on the menu to indicate dietary restrictions. If it has a “V,” it’s vegan. If it has a “VG,” it’s vegetarian. If it has a “!” symbol, it hasn’t been evaluated for dietary restrictions, but a dining services employee can provide more information about the particular item. These symbols are useful in evaluating if a particular item will cater to a particular diet without having to ask an employee. Look for Solutions “Solutions Stations” are located in all of the traditional dining halls –– Scott, Morrill and Kennedy –– and offer options for vegan,

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Sarah Matthiesen, member of the student organization Best Food Forward, cooks sweet potatoes using the Res on 10th kitchen. vegetarian, gluten free and a variety of other common dietary restrictions. If you’re stuck with a traditional meal plan and interested in a buffet-style meal, there are plenty of options here that make eating vegetarian or vegan quick, easy and tasty. Ask for substitutions At locations where food is made to order, like Sloopy’s Diner or Oxley’s By The Numbers, don’t be afraid to ask for ingredi-

ents to be omitted or for substitutions where available. The southwest wrap at Oxley’s, for example, can be made vegan if made without cheddar cheese. To beef (or veggie) it up a little bit, add extra guacamole or salsa instead. Use NetNutrition Ohio State has a handy website called NetNutrition that contains all of the nutritional information of every food item offered on

campus. Detailed nutritional information for foods can be found by finding the location of the food you’re looking for on the website then just hovering on the item in question. A nutrition label for that item will pop up with all ingredients listed. There is also an option to filter by allergies or diet preference in a sidebar, and the website will only show foods that adhere to the options selected. This can be helpful for finding ingredients to any food item and finding options that are mostly vegan or vegetarian, but just needs a substitution or two. Use the kitchens Almost every residence hall has a kitchen, and residents of ones that don’t have kitchens can still access the kitchens of neighboring residence halls. Grocery items can be found at the C-Store or at grocery stores near campus. For grocery store options, a short ride on the No. 2 COTA bus line stops by Kroger, Giant Eagle or Lucky’s Market. Just don’t forget to turn on the smoke screen, even tofu burns if you cook it for too long –– which is how I managed to get Torres House evacuated my sophomore year.

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THOUGHTS

Where’s your favorite place to study around campus? Nick Clarkson Social Media Editor

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The Oval on a 70 degree day. There is nothing better.

The Grand Reading Room at Thompson Library. Easily the place I feel most collegiate.

Any of the Digital Unions on campus, always quiet and any technology your heart desires.

Knowlton Hall all day every day. Best cafe on campus, too.

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Fine Arts Library. Come for the entrance, stay for the silence.

Hagerty Hall. I love listening to everyone speaking different languages.

Orton Library. Best place to be productive.

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Puppy playdates lead to creation of student organization FALLON PERL Lantern reporter Originally published April 20, 2017 The swarm of dogs that takes over the Oval on sunny, spring days does far more than simply entertain groups of students on their way to class. What began as a simple way to convene and organize playdates for the group’s energetic dogs has turned into the creation of the student organization, Oval Dogs. “Coincidentally, there was a group message that was started through GroupMe about four years ago. We all just met up on the Oval one day with our dogs and realized that the dogs liked each other, so why not meet up at the same times,” said Tanvi Kumar, the group’s president. “We also wanted to do activities like hikes and make this more legitimate, so we created the student organization.” Kumar, a fourth-year in biology and Spanish, said the organization was just formed

in early March, so the group’s leadership is working on several plans it is passionate about fulfilling. These include volunteering at animal shelters, fighting breed-specific legislation and supporting fellow dog owners. “We’ve set up some volunteering opportunities with the Franklin County Dog Shelter … which I believe is going to involve spending a day with a dog, walking them and showing them what it’s like to be owned,” Kumar said. “We’re going to feature that on our Instagram and put it out there to then have people try and adopt these dogs.” Aside from the other goals of the group, members’ primary goal is to provide a support system for one another through dog sitting and giving training and care advice, Kumar said. “Owning a dog is like having a kid,” Kumar said. “It’s really hard. From having a busy class schedule and having to run back home in between classes to let them out, to football Saturdays where everyone is outside

and your dog is either crated or at home. It’s rough, it really is.” Kumar said caring for a pet might be challenging, especially during the academic year, but that is what Oval Dogs is all about. “I met all of these people who told me you don’t have to sacrifice everything for your dog, and told me that there are other people that will help you do what you need to do,” she said. “Meeting those people made my life a lot easier and made me a lot happier.” Miele said he wishes he had a resource like OSU Oval Dogs when he got his first dog. “Everybody knows something that you don’t, and everybody has something that they’ve gone through that can help a lot of other members,” he said. “I think that’s one of the biggest reasons that I wanted to get involved. It’s more than just reaching out to shelters, because it’s hard owning a dog, and COURTESY OF CATHERINE AYRES especially a puppy.” Two dogs enjoy the sights and sounds of the Oval.

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Project Heal provides funding, support for eating disorder recovery KAYLEEN PETROVIA Senior Lantern reporter Originally published March 7, 2017 For those who are either struggling with or recovering from eating disorders, fellow survivors are lending a helping hand. Project Heal at Ohio State is a chapter of the national organization that raises scholarship money for people to receive eating-disorder treatment. Erica Magier, an Ohio State alumnus and former co-president of Project Heal, said breaking down the stereotypes that surround eating disorders and mental health is the core mission of the organization. “Project Heal does a really great job of spreading the word and making it known that it’s OK. People have eating disorders, people have mental-health disorders, and these things happen, but it doesn’t define you,” Magier said. “I think that’s their biggest message, like this is part of your life, but you are a person with an eating disorder, you are not the eating disorder.” Inpatient treatment for eating disorders costs an average of $30,000 a month, Magier said, and typically lasts between six and 12 months. Although the timeline for full recovery can last up to three years, she said health insurance providers rarely cover the cost of treatment for eating disorders.

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Members of Project Heal pose for a photo at their second annual gala on Feb. 18. Madison Swart, an Ohio State alumnus and former co-president of Project Heal, said she struggled with an eating disorder throughout high school and during her first year of college. Although her family was able to afford her treatment, she said she met many others who struggled financially because they had to pay for treatment out of pocket. “So much of recovery is that mental mind-

set of getting to the point of actually wanting to recover and having the will and desire to recover, but it just didn’t make sense to me that people who had that (mindset) didn’t have the same opportunities,” Swart said. Project Heal at Ohio State holds multiple events throughout the year that raise money to create scholarships for eating disorder treatment. The money goes to the national chapter, and individuals can apply for funds

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online. She said the organization hosted fundraising nights at local restaurants leading up to its annual gala, which took place in February. The event featured raffles, food, performances and speakers, including Laura Hill, president and CEO of The Center for Balanced Living, and Kirsten Haglund, Miss America 2008 and founder of a namesake foundation that raises awareness for eating-disorder treatment. The gala raised about $12,000 this year, Swart said. “We wanted to make (the gala) a fun thing, which I think is really important when you’re talking about something like eating disorders, because the topic in itself deters people from getting involved,” Swart said. Beyond fundraising, Swart said the organization provides a supportive community at biweekly meetings. Magier said all students are welcome to the meetings, as the topic of mental wellness and self-confidence is not limited to people who have suffered from an eating disorder. “I’ve never had a diagnosed eating disorder,” Magier said. “But, I have certainly struggled with body positivity and body image in general, and I say that to anyone and everyone, because it’s certainly better to normalize it than to just not talk about it.”

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Mirror Lake’s history steeped in construction, costliness KEVIN STANKIEWICZ Editor-in-Chief AMANDA ETCHISON Former Patricia Boyer Miller Editor Originally published Nov. 15, 2016 A look at various news articles and records shows that the Mirror Lake that OSU knows today is a campus landmark with a long, complicated history pocketed with tragedy, transformation and tradition. When November 2016 came around, chain-link fences walled off the drained lake, the lack of water leaving stone banks dry and exposed. Construction, once again, had begun on Mirror Lake, 142 years after the first project. This latest renovation is the most sweeping, costly and transformative. After a recent spate of small changes to the lake, the university hopes to end its near-annual tinkering with a nearly $8.4 million, 18-month project set to extend the pond eastward and add a shallow wetland on its edges. “The university recognizes the iconic nature of this lake and that it is part of the heart and soul of this campus,” said OSU spokesman Chris Davey. “We are very excited about the opportunity to … restore the lake and to continue to make it into a vital part of campus life at Ohio State for decades to come.” But the scope and timing of the restoration efforts has upset swaths of the campus community. Many view it as a convenient way for the university to end the Mirror Lake Jump, the tradition occurring during the lead up to the OSU-Michigan football game each year that came under increased scrutiny in 2015 after a student died from injuries sustained while participating. Ohio State has said although the renovations essentially accomplish the university goal of ending the jump, the purpose of the renovations is to restore the lake to its historic likeness, as well as to make the lake more sustainable. For Taylor Hollis, the main source of frustration is that the lake and the surrounding areas will become an 18-month-long eyesore that started in November. “The fact that it’s construction and jackhammers and all that nonsense, it kind of takes away from the aesthetic of what we’re used to,” Hollis said, who often sets up her

“I feel like Mirror Lake has been under construction more than it has not been under construction in my four years.” Nick Rodgers Then-fourth year in earth sciences

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Aerial view of Mirror Lake construction on July 19, 2017.

purple-and-pink hammock nearby. But Davey said the renovations were going to happen sooner or later because the university has been discussing plans to renovate the lake for several years. Planning for the restoration of the lake began in November 2013, he said. “Mirror Lake is one of the most iconic features of our campus,” he said. “We are excited that after years of careful planning, the university is embarking on this project to really restore Mirror Lake to a state that is more in keeping with its historical roots, its natural environment.” A history of ecological woes Mirror Lake, despite serving as the backdrop for marriage proposals, graduation photos and outdoor studying, has historically been a source of problems and subject to criticism. Major renovations occurred in 1977 when a fountain was installed to control the lake’s algae problem, which once again began to accumulate earlier in the decade. A large pump for the fountain was installed a year later, which sprayed water 52 feet to keep water circulating. Despite these efforts to keep the lake functioning as a sustainable ecosystem, its problems have never been fully mitigated. This has led to several sustainability stud-

ies, including the most recent one, which occurred in 2014 after it was found that the lake was leaking and overflowing into the local sewer system. The current renovation plans, given the lake’s history, aren’t unusual. But they might be among the most transformative, and perhaps the most significant, since the original bogs were cleared and the lake was created in 1874. Custodial costs add up over the years The lake’s existence has always been an expensive undertaking for the university. The installation of another fountain in 1971 cost $1,000, but failed to successfully eliminate the pollution that plagued the lake. A little more than a decade later, more money was spent on lake renovations when $4,000 was used to fund labor and equipment for the annual draining, repairing and refilling of the lake in 1984. In 2002, Mirror Lake got another facelift when the lake’s foundation and sidewalks were replaced and new benches, trash cans and concrete steps were added to “give the lake a cleaner appearance,” according to an August 2003 Lantern article. That project cost $500,000. According to data provided by OSU spokesman Ben Johnson, a 2013-14 en-

hancement study of Mirror Lake cost about $28,000, and a well sustainability study completed in 2013-14 cost $56,000. The well, which was installed in 2014 to provide water for the lake, cost $141,000, and its annual maintenance costs approximately $9,000 a year. Additionally, according to the data provided by Johnson, the annual Mirror Lake Jump tradition cost the university a total of $448,171 from 2010 through 2015. These annual totals include costs tallied by the Office of Student Life, OSU Facilities Operations and Development, and the Department of Public Safety. The latest plan for the lake was approved by the Board of Trustees at a cost of $5.9 million, and is part of a larger project that will renovate the lake, Browning Amphitheater, Pomerene and Oxley halls and Baker Commons. The building renovations are set to cost $59 million and will be funded through auxiliary and state funds, Davey said. The updates to Browning Amphitheater are estimated to cost $800,000, he added. Together, the projects form the university’s vision of a renovated “Historic Mirror Lake District.” Considering its history of pricey fixes and constant maintenance work, some students hope the current changes will be the final ones. “I feel like Mirror Lake has been under construction more than it has not been under construction in my four years … If this one is like the last one, I guess that’s fine,” said Nick Rodgers, then a fourth-year in earth sciences. “But if they do this and then they’re like, ‘Oh wait, we need to do another sustainability study’ and then it just continues, that’s just a waste of money.”

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A historical photo of Mirror Lake in 1879. When tradition meets tragedy The 2015 Mirror Lake Jump began on the night of Nov. 24 in unremarkable fashion. Temperatures sat a few degrees above freezing, students hollered, jumped and then shivered. But as Tuesday night turned to Wednesday morning, tradition turned to tragedy. Around 12:20 a.m., students who continued to take the plunge into the chilly water were redirected by law enforcement officers to the perimeter of the lake because of a medical emergency. The crowd watched as emergency responders rushed through the crowd with a stretcher toward a waiting ambulance. It was announced the following morning that Austin Singletary, then a third-year in human nutrition, had been hurt during the jump and later died as a result of injuries he sustained. Ohio State later shared a message with the university community stating it would work to end the Mirror Lake Jump. This decision was met with a mix of reactions from students and alumni, some who agreed with the decision to stop the jump and some who decried the turning away from the tradition, which arose during the 1990s. Luke McLelland, a fourth-year in marketing and logistics management, said he is thankful to have had the opportunity to participate in the Mirror Lake Jump, as it is a both a school and family tradition. “My older sister also went here and I remember after I jumped in the lake my

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freshman year, she commented on my picture and said, ‘Congratulations! You are a baptized Buckeye,’” McLelland said. He added, though, that he understands and respects the decision to prevent future jumps. “I definitely understand that safety and lives are most important,” he said. “We can definitely be creative enough to come up with or adapt to a new tradition for something that is so important and historical.” The future of Mirror Lake On Dec. 3, 2015, the Undergraduate Student Government overwhelmingly passed a resolution that voiced support for ending the Mirror Lake Jump. It said USG would support the development of a new tradition “that celebrates our university while respecting the safety of its students.” To date, a new tradition has not been created. Before the lake was drained for the current round of renovations, it seemed that students might still try to jump into the lake come November. Indeed, a tradition so enmeshed in the campus culture likely would not end because the administration and USG said it should. “It definitely crossed my mind, like, ‘Oh, they just happened to start it a month before the Michigan game,’’ said Kalyn Swihart, then a second-year in agricultural communication and public affairs. “I kind of assumed that the university would find a way to make sure there was no way that anyone was going to jump … But then again, it is like, they have also had this planned for

years, so it doesn’t really matter when they start it.” “There’s no doubt that an advantage of the timeline which we are working on is that there will not be a jump this year,” Davey, the university spokesman, said. “But, remember, last year, we decided as a community together, including the student body, and it was communicated very broadly, that a jump not happen again — that we would not be having a jump this year or anytime in the future.” As of now, it’s impossible to say what might happen in a few years when the fences are down and another Tuesday in late November rolls around, even if there is 8 to 10 feet of marshy shores. Hollis, the student who frequently sets up her hammock by the lake, said it would be “disrespectful” to jump after Singletary’s death. But that’s one voice in a campus with tens of thousands of undergraduates. In November 2016, for the first time in a while, there was no jump. There were fences.

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Getting to know your student government leaders MATT DORSEY Engagement Editor In March of 2014, East Brunswick, New Jersey, high school senior Sophie Chang and her mother arose early to make an eight-anda-half hour drive to Ohio for one main purpose: so Chang could interview over three days for a prestigious eminence fellowship scholarship at Ohio State. While the interview proved unsuccessful, the trip did convince her that Ohio State — which she had at one time placed at No. 17 on a list of 18 possible schools to attend — was where she wanted to spend her next four years. Almost exactly three years later, Chang was elected Undergraduate Student Government vice president with one of her closest friends since freshman year, Andrew Jackson, by her side as president. Jackson, a fourth-year in political science and Spanish, and Chang, a fourth-year in environment, economy, development and sustainability, were sworn in April 4. Their election to the executive roles in USG is of particular significance due to the minority communities to which they each belong: Jackson is an openly gay man — only the second Ohio State USG president known to identify as such — while Chang, whose parents are Taiwanese, is an Asian-American woman. The more diverse leadership puts a cap on a year which saw USG’s diversity profile improve over previous years, according to its internal demographic report, which tracks representation of different groups within USG compared to the student body it represents. Jackson and Chang never made their identities a campaign cornerstone, but they both feel a responsibility to represent their respective minority communities. Jackson said having an openly gay man as USG is positive, especially for incoming LGTBQ students. “And even my friends that are part of the community say, ‘Oh, we’re so happy that there’s one of us that’s in the office, that’s finally in office,’” he said. While Chang said giving a voice to Asian-Americans who may feel they lack public representation is part of her job, she said she wants to be clear that she represents all students regardless of background and that her own ethnicity shouldn’t factor into

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Andrew Jackson and Sophie Chang were elected as president and vice president of Undergraduate Student Government for the 2017-18 school year. every decision she makes. “It is my job to represent 53,000 students, but I don’t think that I represent every single Asian-American voice,” she said. “Yes, I think about the fact that I’m an Asian-American female and that’s part of my identity, but that’s not something I think about every time I’m dealing with an issue. Because not everything is about privilege and your identity.” Life before college At a glance, Jackson and Chang’s upbringings are marked by striking similarities: both as fifth-graders had their parents divorce, both were raised by their mothers with maternal grandparents as major figures in their upbringings and neither has maintained contact with their respective father. With a closer look, however, their stories diverge drastically. Jackson was born in Virginia but moved to his grandparents’ family farm in Mount Gilead, Ohio, with his mother and older sister when he was 5 years old. There, he learned to raise livestock — primarily poultry, rabbits, swine and cattle — joined the 4-H Club, of which he remained a member for a decade, and called the community home until he left for Ohio State in 2014. Political engagement ran through the family, with his grandmother being a Morrow

County Clerk of Courts and his grandfather and stepfather each serving as township trustees. While Jackson said his own household on the farm was quite liberal, the Mount Gilead community and that of Highland — his high school, in the neighboring village of Marengo — was staunchly conservative, something he increasingly felt the weight of as he began to realize he was attracted to men. Dealing with that attraction to the same sex, he said, involved trying to “hold onto some kind of normalcy to like girls, or women,” before coming out during his senior year of high school. After coming out, he said while it was easier for him to talk with his friends, he often caught others whispering and staring at him in hallways, and sometimes feared getting beaten up. While he was never harmed physically, Jackson said he does recall verbal abuse. “I do remember one day I was running on my road … and there was a truck that was coming towards (me), but I didn’t really think anything about it because we (saw) trucks all the time,” he said. “Somebody that I was in high school with just yelled out the window ‘faggot’ at me as I was running.” That word was something he said he’d become numb to, but he does remember the in-

cident clearly years later and said he worries that other young men in his shoes might not possess his thick skin. In contrast to Jackson’s one home, which increasingly felt different to him as he discovered himself, Chang’s home physically changed often. “We moved 21 times, total, from when I was little,” she said. The oldest of three siblings, Chang has fond childhood memories of countless hours spent in the Ocean City, New Jersey, restaurant her maternal grandparents owned and operated. Some of the moves were big though, including two separate moves from the U.S. to Taiwan, as well as brief moves to Indonesia and Hong Kong in the ‘90s when tensions were high between China and Taiwan. Chang’s second move to Taiwan — the first which she has memories of — resulted in one of the hardest study sessions she has experienced in her life: though fully fluent in speaking Mandarin, she had never written it, and entered Taiwanese fourth grade expected to know how to write thousands of alphabet characters, an expectation she was able to mostly meet. “I don’t know (how), but I did it, I somehow did it,” she said. Still, she struggled with math homework, sometimes even crying while trying to decipher word problems. “I would know how to do the math because it was math that I knew how to do already, but I just didn’t know how to read the word problems,” Chang said. “So, I would be up until midnight doing homework.” The days in Taiwan were grueling, with class running from 6 a.m. until 5 p.m., with gymnastics lessons afterwards. Still, Chang shone academically, achieving all A’s through school with a small handful of B’s, though she said she was never really pressured by her family. “I think it was an expectation I just set for myself,” she said. “I just didn’t like not getting As.” Once back in New Jersey for middle school and high school, Chang took up sports, ultimately playing eight, and began a lifelong love of reading, though it often limited her social interactions outside of school. “When I was little, I preferred to not hang out with people my age and I just preferred to read,” she said. “So when I was in high school, I just did homework a lot. I would

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hang out with some of my friends, but honestly most of my hang-out time came during school and lunch time and whatever.” All this reading and focus on academics would serve her well, resulting in her graduating in the top 3 percent of her class and scoring well enough on the ACT exam to earn the interest of scholarship programs like the eminence fellowship which, while not selected for, led to the experience that brought her to Ohio State. Flourishing in college Jackson and Chang are both similar in two facets of college life: involvement in all the university has to offer, and in building as many relationships with their fellow students as they can. As part of that involvement, they both joined USG freshman year and met each other while running on the same slate. Chang — a first-generation college student — has continued her love of reading and studious quiet time, but managed to squeeze in more social activity than in high school. “I think that from an outside perspective, everyone really thinks that she’s a social butterfly because she will go to three parties a night just to make an appearance and wish somebody a happy birthday or whatever celebration, she wants to be a part of it,” said Becca Martin, close friend of Chang and fourth-year in geography and international studies. “But a lot of times she has hours on end that she just locks herself in her room and just works, or works out a problem or does some really hardcore life planning for the future.” Jackson, on the other hand, uses running to escape the stresses of life as a student. He said he uses the time to reflect and prioritize responsibilities. “He’s super passionate about helping people,” said Matt Stark, fourth-year in accounting and Jackson’s “Little” — meaning Jackson’s mentee in Greek life — in their fraternity Alpha Kappa Lambda. “He’s the kind of person who will make sure that the absolute best is happening for everyone. He’s very protective and caring.” Jackson’s empathy is also informed by the lack of it he sometimes felt in his hometown, something he said is better in Columbus. “It’s not that big of a deal to be openly gay in Columbus,” Jackson said. “In small towns, yes, very much so. Columbus, not so much, where you can be open, you can be who you want to be for the most part.” Students close to Chang said her greatest asset she will bring to her role as vice presi-

“At the end of the day, Sophie and I are not accountable to the parents, we’re accountable to the students and what the students want and need.” Andrew Jackson USG President

dent is her strong connections to others and her focus. “Her best quality is definitely loyalty, and COURTESY OF ANDREW JACKSON AND SOPHIE CHANG not to just people, but also to causes,” said Andrew Jackson and Sophie Chang. her friend Molly Duncan, a fourth-year in biology and French. “And so when she sets her mind to see a task through, she locks Jackson are aware might be controversial onto it, she sees it through to its completion. with some parents. And so if there’s a cause that she believes “At the end of the day, Sophie and I are in, you can be sure that she’s going to see it not accountable to the parents, we’re acthrough to the best of her ability.” countable to the students and what the stuAs long-term USG members, Jackson dents want and need,” Jackson said. “And so and Chang each have considerable lists of we will do our best to make sure that the accomplishments, but each points to the students feel most comfortable using the EndHateOSU campaign as a point of pride. bathrooms that they desire and living with FOLLOW US The campaign was designed to counter ste- who they want to.” reotypes and end the use of slurs and other unkind behavior toward minority students. @MattTDorsey Heading into their year leading USG, Chang said she and Jackson have made a point of scheduling one non-USG event together each week for morale. The Jackson-Chang agenda Jackson and Chang campaigned on the three bullet points of affordability, sustainability and inclusion, and as the 2017-18 academic year nears, those remain their priorities, they said. Chang said increasing transparency of where campus food is sourced from is important in promoting sustainability due to the size of the student body. Jackson said he wants to continue the previous USG administration’s work to make textbooks more affordable, noting that an open-source e-book program is piloting in a small handful of classes fall semester. He also said strengthening relationships between USG and student organizations was Get the daily email edition! a top priority in the inclusion category. www.thelantern.com/email Chang said another inclusion priority is honoring student requests to have some bathrooms in a handful of residence halls be marked as gender neutral, a change she and

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LGBTQ services on campus SHERIDAN HENDRIX Oller Reporter College can be a confusing transition for many incoming students. With new people, a new home and a new environment you’re probably not too familiar with yet, getting settled into the Ohio State community can be a challenge. For LGBTQ students and allies, the university offers a variety of resources to help make the transition to college life a bit easier. Located in the Ohio Union, the Student Life Multicultural Center is a hub dedicated to providing educational and academic resources and social events for all Buckeyes while also supporting and celebrating different minority groups. For Welcome Week, Appy Frykenberg, Ohio State’s Intercultural Specialist and LGBTQ liaison, said the Multicultural Center has two events planned for new and returning students: a Welcome Back Social and a Queer Compass event. The Welcome Back Social will give LGBTQ and allied students a chance to meet and mingle in a laid-back atmosphere. The Queer Compass event, Frykenberg said, “is more focused on getting to know the campus and learning about resources available to LGBTQ, allied and questioning students at Ohio State.” Both events will take place at the Alonso Family Room at the Ohio Union. The Welcome Back Social will be on Aug. 22 from 4 to 6 p.m. and the Queer Compass event will be on Aug. 26 from 3 to 5 p.m. New to Ohio State’s LGBTQ initiatives this year is OSQ*, a one-on-one peer mentoring program the university is piloting. As an extension of First Year Q*mmunity, a social support group for LGBTQ first-year and transfer students, Frykenberg said the program hopes to build community and provide both emotional and academic support to newer students. Applications to become a mentor are open to returning students and can be found on the Multicultural Center’s website. In addition to these new programs, the Multicultural Center also offers a number of Q*mmunity Groups for students. These intersectional groups provide students with

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CORE: Coming Out for Racial Equity Bi-monthly meetings at 6 p.m. the first and third Monday of each month at the Multicultural Center This initiative aims to help to build a cohesive community connecting racial justice issues with the struggles for LGBTQ equality. Meetings will be spent “establishing a shared understanding of terminology, discussing the tactics that have been used to divide LGBTQ communities and communities of color, planning for anti-racist organizational transformation and building alliances across race, gender and sexuality,” according to the Multicultural Center’s website. Q*mmunity of LGBTQ Students and Allies Meetings at 7 p.m. the first Monday of each month at the Multicultural Center This group is open to LGBTQ and allied students to connect, find support and discuss passions and interests regarding social justice and the LGBTQ community. Through education, social events and service learning, this group hopes to foster an ethos of respect, understanding and unity on campus. The university also provides students with different counseling programs for students seeking support and a listening ear.

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How Ohio State will replace departing NFL draft picks COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor Last year, Ohio State was tasked with replacing 12 players – including five first-rounders – who were selected in the 2016 NFL draft. Though the Buckeyes won’t have to deal with the large quantity of losses this year, they will once again be forced to identify new starters at seven different positions. Here is how Ohio State will replace its seven 2017 NFL draft picks. Players Lost to NFL: Cornerbacks Marshon Lattimore (New Orleans Saints, first round) and Gareon Conley (Oakland Raiders, first round) Candidate(s) to replace: Denzel Ward, Damon Arnette, Kendall Sheffield, Shaun Wade and Jeffrey Okudah Situation: Ohio State’s recent track record of sending defensive backs to the NFL is unparalleled. Marshon Lattimore and Gareon Conley, who each had four interceptions in 2016, joined Eli Apple, Vonn Bell, Doran Grant and Bradley Roby, whom were all drafted in the last four years. The loss of Lattimore and Conley will hurt, but Ohio State has been in this position before. Last spring, Lattimore had to fight to win his job, and a season later he developed into a firstround draft pick. Junior Denzel Ward will step into a starting role. Cornerbacks coach Kerry Coombs, who believes Ward is due for a breakout season, repeatedly said in the spring the Macedonia, Ohio, native played as much as Lattimore and Ward last season. Ward had 23 tackles and nine pass breakups in 2016. An extremely skilled group of cornerbacks will battle to start opposite Ward. Redshirt junior Damon Arnette experienced some struggles last year, but he earned praise for his improvement in the spring. Junior-college transfer and former five-star prospect Kendall Sheffield’s elite physical tools make him a strong candidate to start. Freshmen five-star prospects Shaun Wade and Jeffrey Okudah will be in the mix as they were the No. 1 (Okudah) and No. 2 (Wade) cornerback prospects in the 2017 recruiting cycle, according to 247Sports’ composite rankings. Player Lost to NFL: Safety Malik Hooker (Indianapolis Colts, first round)

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OSU redshirt senior center Billy Price (54) waits for the Gray offensive line during the 2017 Spring Game at Ohio Stadium on April 15, 2017.

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OSU junior linebacker Chris Worley (35) during the Buckeyes game against the Wisconsin Badgers on Oct. 15. Candidate(s) to replace: Erick Smith and Jordan Fuller Situation: Entering the 2016 season, no one expected former three-star recruit Malik Hooker to become a first-team All-American and first-round NFL draft pick in less than a year. But that’s exactly what the ball-hawking safety did. Hooker snagged seven interceptions, returning three for touchdowns, including one during the Buckeyes’ 30-27 double-overtime win against Michigan. In Hooker’s place, either a veteran (senior Erick Smith) or a young up-and-comer (sophomore Jordan Fuller) with likely start next to senior safety Damon Webb, the only returning starting defensive back. Fuller seems to have the edge on Smith as he played with the first-team defense

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OSU redshirt freshman running back Demario McCall (30) rushes during the 2017 Spring Game at Ohio Stadium on April 15, 2017.

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OSU then-redshirt freshman wide receiver K.J. Hill (14) during the second half of the Buckeyes game against Nebraska on Nov. 5.

during the spring game. Last season, the Old Tappan, New Jersey, product played 71 defensive snaps and finished with 11 tackles. Smith, who suffered a torn ACL in November 2015, has played in 33 career games while at Ohio State. Last season, the backup played in all 13 games and picked up 16 tackles, one tackle for loss and a pass break-up. Player Lost to NFL: H-back Curtis Samuel (second round, Carolina Panthers) Candidate(s) to replace: Parris Campbell, Demario McCall and K.J. Hill Situation: The loss of the best and, at times last year, only playmaker on the Buckeyes in Curtis Samuel leaves a massive void that must be filled by relatively inexperienced players. In 2016, Samuel led Ohio State

with 74 catches for 865 yards and seven touchdowns. On the ground, he gained 771 yards on 97 rushing attempts, an average of 7.9 yards per carry. In 2017, Ohio State is relying on redshirt junior Parris Campbell, sophomore Demario McCall or redshirt sophomore K.J. Hill to shoulder the loss of Samuel and his production. The problem for the Buckeyes is that none of the three have been particularly impactful with the ball in their hands since arriving on campus. Campbell was named to the Paul Hornung Award watch list in July since he’s expected to get the first shot as starting H-back. But last year, the speedy Akron St. Vincent St. Mary product reeled in just 13 passes for 121 yards and rushed the ball four times. McCall offers the best running ability of the trio as he took 49 carries for 273 yards as a freshman. Hill caught 18 passes following 262 yards, but he might be needed as an outside receiver. Player Lost to NFL: Middle linebacker Raekwon McMillan (second round, Miami Dolphins) Candidate(s) to replace: Chris Worley Situation: A stalwart in the middle of Ohio State’s defense for the past two seasons, Raekwon McMillan’s loss as a leader and a defensive stopper will be felt. He led the Buckeyes in tackles last season, with 102, and he added seven tackles for loss, two sacks and two forced fumbles. McMillan was twice named to the All-Big Ten first team. In his place, redshirt senior Chris Worley will move from strongside outside linebacker to middle linebacker. In 2016, Worley finished with 70 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and four pass break-ups. The vocal linebacker must transition smoothly to quarterbacking the defense as McMillan set a high bar. On the outside, redshirt junior Dante Booker will start at Worley’s former strongside linebacker position. Booker began the 2016 season as the starting weakside linebacker, but injured his knee and sat out the season, using a redshirt. Worley and Booker will be joined on the second level of the defense by junior Jerome Baker, who finished second on the team in tackles (83) and tackles for loss (9.5). Player Lost to NFL: Center Pat Elflein (third round, Minnesota Vikings)

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Candidate(s) to replace: Billy Price Situation: Prior to the 2016 season, the Buckeyes decided to move Pat Elflein, who was playing right guard, to center. There, he won the Rimington Trophy – given to the best interior lineman in the nation – and was a first-team All-American. Redshirt senior Billy Price will follow in Elflein’s footsteps by sliding from right guard to center for his final season in scarlet and gray. Price,who was also named a first-team All-American in 2016, is a leading candidate to win the 2017 Rimington Trophy. In his place at right guard, redshirt junior Malcolm Pridgeon, redshirt junior Demetrius Knox and redshirt sophomore Matthew Burrell will compete during fall camp to start next to Price and junior right tackle Isaiah Prince. Burrell exited the spring seemingly holding a slight lead in the position battle as he started the spring game with the first-team offense. However, the competition is far from over. Pridgeon, who missed last season after a knee injury forced him to redshirt, and Knox, a former top recruit from Texas, will have an opportunity to win the job during fall camp. A fourth option to start at right guard, incoming freshman and five-star recruit Wyatt Davis, seems like an unlikely option, but the top guard in the 2017 recruiting cycle, according to 247Sports’ composite rankings, shouldn’t be counted out. Player Lost to NFL: Wide receiver Noah Brown (seventh round, Dallas Cowboys) Candidate(s) to replace: K.J. Hill, Bin-

jimen Victor, Johnnie Dixon, Terry McLaurin, Austin Mack, Trevon Grimes and Jaylen Harris Situation: Though Noah Brown was not the consistent threat as an outside receiver that he was expected to be, he played a key role in a certain game for the Buckeyes’ offense. Notably, Brown gathered four touchdown receptions in Ohio State’s 45-24 win over Oklahoma. He finished the season second on the team with 32 catches for 402 yards and tied with Samuel for team lead with seven touchdowns. A large group of receivers, led by Hill, sophomore Binjimen Victor, redshirt junior Johnnie Dixon and redshirt junior Terry McLaurin, battled in the spring for starting reps. Hill finished with the most receptions (18) of any starting receiver candidate. The 6-foot-4, 195-pound Victor is the most physically gifted receiver on Ohio State’s roster, but his route-running is raw and he wasn’t able to break through in a relatively weak receiver group last year. Dixon exploded in the spring game, catching six passes for 108 yards and two touchdowns, but he as dealt with numerous knee and leg injuries since arriving in Columbus. McLaurin caught 11 passes for 114 yards last season. Sophomore Austin Mack and freshmen Trevon Grimes and Jaylen Harris could earn some playing time, but their youth hurts their potential to be relied upon in 2017.

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OSU senior center Pat Elflein takes questions during media day on Dec. 29.

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Clemson junior running back Wayne Gallman (9) is tackled by OSU junior linebacker Raekwon McMillan (5) during the Buckeyes’ 31-0 loss in the Fiesta Bowl on Dec. 31.

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Analyzing Kevin Wilson’s past offenses at Indiana EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor It is no secret that Ohio State’s offense over the past several years has been heavily scrutinized by the fanbase. Now that Ohio State has hired a new offensive coordinator, all eyes will be on Kevin Wilson in his debut season as he tries to appease those cries for an improved offense. But with Wilson leaving Indiana for Columbus, many are probably wondering how this new offense will look. Quarterbacks Calling the plays for redshirt senior J.T. Barrett, Wilson will be presented with a new style of quarterback to work with. Over his six seasons at the helm of the Hoosiers, Wilson has coached 15 different quarterbacks, who have amassed a total of 1,820 rushing yards. Barrett has 2,465 rushing yards in three seasons. While mobile quarterbacks have never

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been a major part of Wilson’s offensive arsenal at Indiana, his signal-callers have always seemed to find success in the passing game. Since 2011, Wilson’s offense has led the Big Ten in passing yards three of the six seasons (2012, 2013, 2015) and finished second in 2016. In four of Wilson’s six seasons at Indiana, the Hoosiers’ aerial attack tallied at least 3,000 yards, a feat the Buckeyes have accomplished only once in the Urban Meyer era (2014). Twice, that milestone was reached by just one quarterback (Richard Lagow with 3,362 in 2016; Nate Sudfeld with 3,573 in 2015), without the assistance of a backup quarterback. While Wilson will likely conform a little to Barrett’s game and coach a more mobile quarterback, his track record indicates that Barrett might be counted on for a little more production in the passing game. Wide Receivers Since 2011 Wilson’s first season as a head

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coach, 80.6 percent of Indiana’s receiving yards have been tallied by wide receivers. With wideouts like now-Denver Broncos wide receiver Cody Latimer and now-Jacksonville Jaguars pass-catcher Shane Wynn, the Hoosiers had for several seasons one of the more potent receiving corps in the Big Ten. This provided their quarterbacks — including Sudfeld, who now plays for the Washington Redskins — plenty of opportunities to air it out. During Wilson’s tenure, wide receivers averaged 13.6 yards per catch. Wideouts totaled at least 2,600 receiving yards, twice surpassing the milestone of 3,000, in four of Wilson’s six years. In Meyer’s first five seasons at Ohio State, wideouts have only accounted for 69.7 percent of all receiving yards, and just 64.4 percent of all receptions. With a wide array of wide receiving options available next season, including redshirt junior Johnnie Dixon, sophomore Binjimen Victor, redshirt sophomore K.J. Hill and redshirt junior Terry McLaurin at his disposal, Wilson can be counted on to make the Buckeye wideouts more heavily

involved than in past offensive schemes. Tight Ends This season, Meyer and Wilson will feature four former four-star recruits at tight end, including trusted senior Marcus Baugh, who will have to shoulder much of the burden with redshirt sophomore A.J. Alexander out for the season with a knee injury. And Buckeye fans should expect to see Wilson target those tight ends frequently when his offense gets near the end zone. Though Indiana tight ends tallied only 9 percent of total receiving yards during Wilson’s tenure, they accounted for 15.2 percent of the program’s receiving touchdowns over the past six seasons. The biggest season for Hoosier tight ends came in 2015, when they were on the receiving end of 18.5 percent of the team’s passing touchdowns that season and 13 percent of all receptions. Wilson’s tendency to distribute the ball to his tight ends might turn around a trend of reduced tight end usage by the Buckeyes over the past two seasons. After a 2014 season when the position was heavily involved, accounting for 19 percent of all touchdown

receptions and 11 percent of all total yards, Barrett has not been targeting tight ends over the past two seasons, as they have only caught 4.4 percent of passing touchdowns and 9.4 percent of receiving yards. Running Backs Since Wilson took over the Hoosiers, no position has been drafted as frequently as the running back position at Indiana, with Jordan Howard going in the fifth round of the 2016 draft and Tevin Coleman going in the third round of the 2015 draft. Despite the individual success of Howard and Coleman, a rush-based offense was never something Wilson ran on. Still, the Hoosiers twice finished in the top three for total rushing yards in the Big Ten (second place in 2015, third in 2014). However, the ground game for Indiana dropped off a bit in 2016 as it finished 11th in the conference with only 1,979 yards (3.7 yards per carry). Running backs have also not proven to be a featured part of the passing game at Indiana, like they have at Ohio State. The position accounted for only 15.8 percent of all receptions, 10.5 percent of all receiv-

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ing yards and just 7.2 percent of receiving touchdowns over the past six seasons. Wilson’s reluctance to fully utilize the ground game stands in stark contrast to Meyer’s track record of keeping the backs busy in both the rushing and passing game. Since 2012, 16.3 percent of all receiving yards, 21.9 percent of all receptions and 12.0 percent of all touchdown catches have come from Meyer’s running backs. Part of the reason for this has been Meyer’s consistent inclusion of an H-back, with Curtis Samuel being the most prominent example of this role. Samuel led the Buckeyes with 865 receiving yards a season ago, and finished fourth in 2015. It awaits to be seen exactly how Wilson features the running backs in 2017 and beyond, but Meyer’s past track record of keeping running backs heavily involved could mean Wilson will need to work on utilizing them in his offensive schemes a little bit more than in past years.

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Chris Holtmann focuses on recruiting and program tradition in opening press conference EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor JACOB MYERS Managing Editor for Content Originally published June 12, 2017 Dressed in a gray suit, white dress shirt and scarlet-striped tie, holding the hands of his wife, Lori, and his daughter, Nora; Chris Holtmann, alongside athletic director Gene Smith, was formally introduced as Ohio State men’s basketball’s 14th head coach in program history in a press conference June 12 on the court of the Schottenstein Center. Rumored to be a candidate at several job openings such as North Carolina State, Missouri, Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech and Tennessee over the past three offseasons, Holtmann said the Big Ten program in Columbus was the only one he seriously considered. “This was a decision I had to work through,” Holtmann said. “Gene was aggressive and persistent in his approach and I really appreciated that.” Holtmann, 45, spent the past three seasons at Butler and made the NCAA Tournament each year, reaching the Sweet 16 this past season. After that run, Holtmann signed a contract extension with Butler through the 2024-25 season. But when the Ohio State job became available and he was offered an eight-year deal worth $3 million annually, he couldn’t let that opportunity slip by him. Holtmann said the combination of a university with world-class education, a thriving athletic department with some of the best programs in their respective sports in the country, the tradition of the program, a talent-rich recruiting area and a passionate fan base sold him on the position. “I had left a special program and special guys,” he said. “That was emotional for me. But I’m telling you, it was the vision that (Smith) had and what he was looking for and this place. I’m extremely excited.” The search for the replacement to 13-year coach Thad Matta began the afternoon of June 5, when Matta was fired. Smith met with former college basketball coach Eddie Fogler to begin the process of searching

“We found a proven winner who’s a community engager bottom line fits our culture.” Gene Smith Director of Athletics

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Chris Holtmann being introduced at a press conference on June 12.

for candidates and conducting background checks on any names that arose in the discussions. Smith said the search for a new head coach began and ended with the same name at the top of their list. “(Holtmann) was my target from the beginning,” Smith said. Though Holtmann was offered the job Tuesday, Smith said Holtmann was reluctant at first to sign on the dotted line. The contract originally put on the table was a seven-year offer, but Smith said he tacked on an additional year to create a more enticing offer. Then, on Thursday morning, Smith said he and his wife traveled to meet the Holtmanns in Dayton and get to know one another. By the time the discussion had ended, Ohio State had its next head coach. Smith called Fogler and told him the search was over. They got their guy. “We sought a high-intensity individual with an emphasis on academics, someone who is relentless in recruiting with great ties to the great state of Ohio and the contigu-

ous states,” Smith said. “We found a proven winner who’s a community engager and bottom line fits our culture.” During Holtmann’s introductory speech, he emphasized the importance of recruiting the state of Ohio, highlighting his 20 years of experience recruiting the Buckeye state. He said locking down the state’s best prospects would be paramount to the program’s long-term success. “This region … is a tremendous area for talented, smart and tough players,” Holtmann said. “We’re going to work extremely hard as a staff to close the borders and dominate the state of Ohio in recruiting. It will be an every-day focus for us.” The past four seasons, the Ohio State program has been on the decline, which has been exemplified in scoring struggles and defensive letdowns. Holtmann gave an indication of how that play might change under his leadership. “Aggressive, attacking. We want to be physical and tough and tough minded,” he said. “But we want to play aggressive, attacking style and we want our guys to play

with freedom. We want them to go out there and cut loose and play. I think that’s what people will see when they watch our team.” Since his hiring, Holtmann has brought on his entire assistant coaching staff from Butler and his former Butler commit Kyle Young is joining the Buckeye program for his freshman season in 2017-18.

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Men’s volleyball sweeps BYU, wins NCAA championship

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Redshirt sophomore Blake Leeson and senior libero Gabriel Domecus celebrate the game winning point alongside their teammates during the NCAA national championship game on Saturday.

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The OSU men’s volleyball team pose with their second consecutive national title trophy alongside James DeSantis, nine-year-old super fan.

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The Ohio State men’s volleyball team lifts their second consecutive national title trophy as confetti filled St. John Arena on Saturday during the NCAA national championship game.

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Junior outside hitter Nicolas Szerszen bumps the ball during the NCAA national championship game on Saturday.

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Fresh-faced Buckeyes look ahead to inaugural season under Chris Holtmann EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor The Ohio State men’s basketball team is going to enter the 2017-18 season with new looks all around. Not only has the coaching staff been shuffled, with coach Chris Holtmann and his staff taking the reigns from former coach Thad Matta after 13 seasons, but the program will also see a trio of four-star recruits get their first chance to make an impact on a team that finished last season a disappointing 17-15. Though Holtmann was not officially hired until June 9, he got off to a fast start by securing commitments from two fourstar prospects — forward Kyle Young and guard Musa Jallow (who reclassified from the 2018 class to the 2017 class) — and retaining the commitment of four-star forward Kaleb Wesson. By adding those two players and keeping Wesson committed, Holtmann now has a collection of players that he is familiar with

“I don’t think this team is going to win 26 games, but I think they will be able to surprise people like that.” Zach Fleer Co-founder of 270hoops.com

(given that he recruited all three while at Butler) and who all could be ready to see playing time in their inaugural season. Kaleb Wesson Though admitting he is a tad biased toward his own players, Ed Calo, Westerville South’s former coach, said he believes Wesson will be ready to contribute to the 201718 Ohio State team.

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Freshman forward Kaleb Wesson goes against sophomore center Micah Potter in practice.

“(Kaleb)’s of the highest caliber,” Calo said. “He’s a kid that I think you can build around, he’s a kid that’s a very unselfish kid, he’s a team-first kid. I think he makes other players better. I think the other players will like playing with him. He’s got a great touch, he’s got great footwork, he’s really solid and he works hard.” And after losing Trevor Thompson in the middle, a player with the interior presence of Kaleb Wesson could be crucial to the success of the Buckeyes. Though Ohio State has other forwards at its disposal, Zach Fleer, the co-founder of 270Hoops.com, said the 6-foot-9, 280-pound forward isn’t just a long-term building block for the team, but the best post player they currently have on the squad and a guy who could eat up plenty of minutes for Ohio State. “His inside touch and inside skill level is elite,” Fleer said. “He’s a kid that if Trevor Thompson stayed, I still think he would have challenged Thompson for minutes, but I think with Thompson leaving and (sophomore forward) Micah Potter not being much

of a low-post guy, (Potter’s) kind of more of a stretch forward that stands on the perimeter and shoots 3s.” Kyle Young Though Young, who switched his commitment from Butler to Ohio State this summer after Holtmann switched jobs, is not quite the interior big man that Wesson could prove to be, he could provide the Buckeyes with a utility forward capable of scoring from all over the court and defending anyone he is assigned to. “He shoots mid-range jumpers, he could post up, he could shoot the 3— he had eight 3s in one game his junior year — so he’s a versatile type of shooter,” Tim Debevec, Young’s high school coach, said, adding he thinks Young will shoot about 40 percent from deep. And that ability to shoot 3-pointers could pay huge dividends for an Ohio State team that has not only fired from beyond the arc with less frequency, but has been doing it with less success over the past two seasons. Young always stood out as a well-above-av-

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Freshman forward Kyle Young hoists a shot over junior guard Joey Lane in practice.

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erage offensive player at Massillon Jackson, but Debevec said his defensive abilities should not be overlooked either. He said he demonstrated an ability to defend all five positions in the team’s switch-heavy scheme. Musa Jallow Starring for three years at Bloomington North High School, Jallow was asked by his coach to play all five positions, and found success at every one. The 6-foot-5, 185-pound, four-star prospect was not only capable of playing every position, but he did it while playing against older competition nearly everywhere he went. According to his former coach and now-Bloomington North athletic director Andy Hodson, Jallow will not only be a young player joining OSU after having reclassified for the 2017 class, but the former team captain was already young in his class of 2018. “He’s not going to turn 18 until almost when his first college season’s done,” Hodson said. Jallow had worked hard not only on the

court to better himself as a player, but also off the court in the classroom. In order to graduate high school a year early, he had to excel at his classes. He finished school with an above-4.0, Hodson said. Though some might believe it will be a challenge for someone as young as Jallow to compete against an older level of competition, Hodson believes Jallow’s high basketball IQ, physicality and experience playing older competition will pay dividends for him as he begins his Ohio State career. Fleer, who has seen Jallow play at several AAU events, believes Jallow to be a big pickup for Holtmann, and that he could be a real contributor right away for the Buckeyes. “That was a rock-star, home run-type commitment from Ohio State,” Fleer said. “I just see him coming in and getting a lot of playing time at the two-guard spot. Because on this roster, (redshirt senior) Kam Williams is really the only two-guard that they have, so they’re going to need him to come in and provide valuable minutes off the bench.”

Another major aspect of Jallow’s game that could provide Holtmann’s team with a boost is his ability to pass. The Buckeyes ranked 10th in the conference averaging just 13.6 assists per game, but Fleer called Jallow “one of the best passers that I’ve seen.” With three talented young prospects joining Holtmann in Columbus, the team could see an improvement from the 2016-17 season heading into the next year. And while the team is not quite ready to compete for a Big Ten title and have a limited roster of only 10 names, Fleer said it is definitely going to surprise some people. “They’re short-handed, but it kind of reminds me of Thad Matta’s team back in ‘06 that really wasn’t expected to win 26 games, but they did,” Fleer said. “I don’t think this team is going to win 26 games, but I think they will be able to surprise people like that.”

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11 Ohio State Athletes to know COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor Since football is the lifeblood of Ohio State, nearly everyone knows quarterback J.T. Barrett and defensive end Tyquan Lewis. How could you not? But if the best college men’s volleyball player in the country — Nicolas Szerszen — walked into the room, would you even recognize him? Some of the best athletes in the country walk through the campus of Ohio State on a daily basis, unrecognized for their accomplishments. Let’s change that. These are 11 Ohio State athletes that you should know. Irina Andrianova (Pistol) A four-time individual champion, Andrianova has won the women’s sport pistol championship in each of her three years at Ohio State. In her first two seasons, she helped lead Ohio State to two team aggregate national championships. Last year, with Adrianova leading the way, the Buckeyes won the women’s team aggregate championship for the fourth time in program history. Francesca Di Lorenzo (Women’s Tennis) In the spring, Di Lorenzo partnered with then-senior Miho Kowase to captured the first doubles championship in Ohio State women’s tennis history. The 2016-17 Ohio State Female Athlete of the Year has won three Intercollegiate Tennis Association titles during her two years in Columbus. Though she was upset in the round of 32 at the 2017 NCAA singles championships, Di Lorenzo was ranked No. 1 throughout the spring and entered the tournament as the top seed. The junior enters next season with a 74-7 record and the highest singles winning percentage in program history (.914) as well as the highest doubles win percentage in Ohio State history (.887). Maddy Humphrey (Field Hockey) Though her team hasn’t finished with more wins than losses in a season since she arrived, Humphrey has thrived. As a freshman in 2014, she led her team and finished second in the Big Ten with 32 points (12 goals and eight assists). Humphrey finished second on the team in points (10 goals and four assists) as a sophomore and led the Buckeyes with 33 points (12 goals and nine assists) last season. The senior forward/midfielder finished on the second team All-Big

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Irina Andrianova, who has led Ohio State to back-to-back team pistol titles, takes aim during a competition.

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Ohio State forward Mason Jobst during a Big Ten tournament semifinal game at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.

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Ohio State junior guard Kelsey Mitchell (3) at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on March 4.

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OSU sophomore forward/midfielder Maddy Humphrey (23) runs with the ball during a game against St. Louis on Aug. 2015. OSU won 5-0.

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Ohio State freshman attackman/ midfielder Tre Leclaire rips a shot on frame against Furman on Feb. 5 at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.

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Ohio State sophomore Francesca Di Lorenzo prepares to return a serve.

Ten in 2015 and 2016. Humphrey’s team opens the season Aug. 27 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where it’ll take on Lehigh. Mason Jobst (Men’s Hockey) Jobst, a junior forward, earned second-team All-American honors after last season’s record-breaking performance. The electric first-team All-Big Ten scorer recorded 55 points (19 goals and 36 assists), which tied for most in the Big Ten and was the most by an Ohio State player since 1998. Jobst’s 36 assists were the most by a Buckeye since 1992. Jobst and the Buckeyes are scheduled to get back on the ice Oct. 6 in Madison, Wisconsin, when Ohio State opens its season against the Badgers. Tre Leclaire (Men’s Lacrosse) The youngest Buckeye on this list, Leclaire exploded onto the scene last season as a freshman. He came off the bench for the first five games of the season before stepping into the starting lineup and leading his team with 49 goals, accumulating 65 points, just one point shy of team lead. The Big Ten Freshman of the Year helped lead his team to the best finish in Ohio State men’s lacrosse history. The Buckeyes reached the NCAA championship for the first time in the program’s existence, but fell 9-6 to Maryland. Leclaire will take an even bigger offensive role in 2017 as Ohio State’s second- and third-leading goal-scorers – Eric Fannell and Johnny Pearson – graduated in the spring. Kelsey Mitchell (Women’s Basketball) Through three seasons, Mitchell is already arguably the best player in Ohio State women’s basketball history. Since she was a freshman – when she averaged a nation-leading 24.9 points per game – Mitchell has dominated the offensive end of the court. The 5-foot-8 guard has scored 2,552 point in scarlet and gray, the third-highest total in program history and the fifth-most in the Big Ten. Last season, the three-time firstteam All-Big Ten offensive force averaged 22.6 points per game. Mitchell was named the Big Ten Player of the Year in 2015 and 2017. She was a first-team AP All-American in 2016 and made the second team in 2015 and 2017. Mitchell holds the school and conference record for most 3-pointers made (368). Her team finished 28-7 and was eliminated by Notre Dame in the Sweet 16 ATHLETES CONTINUES ON 38

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last season. Lilli Piper (Softball) A unanimous first-team All-Big Ten selection and her team’s leader in most batting categories, Piper returns to help her team rebound from a disappointing early elimination in the Knoxville Regional of the NCAA tournament . The junior slugger led Ohio State in batting average (.421), hits (75), home runs (18), RBIs (53), on-base percentage (.436) and slugging percentage (.787). Though she didn’t lead the Big Ten in any category, she was among the top five finishers in each of those categories, except on-base percentage. At the end of the season, Piper was honored as a third-team All-American. Kassidy Sauve (Women’s Hockey) Sauve, a redshirt junior, earned second-team All-American honors for her performance last year, becoming the first goaltender in program history to be placed on an All-American team. Ohio State finished just 14-18-5, but Sauve’s steady play kept the overmatched Buckeyes in games. She set single-season records for saves (1,135) and save percentage (.942) in 2016-17. Sauve saved 129 more shots than anyone in the country. That was largely due to the fact that she faced 108 more shot attempts than any other goaltender. With her first shutout in 2017-18, Sauve will become the career

record-holder for most shutouts in program history. Kyle Snyder (Wrestling) One of the most dominant athletes in the history of Ohio State athletics, the school’s 2015-16 and 2016-17 Male Athlete of the Year has little left to prove or accomplish at the collegiate level. The heavyweight has not lost a match in college since his freshman year and won the national championship in his weight class the past two years. Snyder’s most impressive victories, however, came at the 2016 Summer Olympics when he took home the gold medal to become the youngest Olympic wrestling champion in American history. Snyder will look to cement his college legacy and become the first-ever three-time Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year. Nicolas Szerszen (Men’s Volleyball) A three-time Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association first-team honoree, Szerszen has helped Ohio State win backto-back NCAA titles the past two seasons. The outside hitter was named the American Volleyball Coaches Association National Player of the Year in 2016 and the Volleyball Magazine National Player of the Year in 2017. Szerszen holds the school record for most career service aces (178) and aces per set (0.52). The senior has a chance to lead the Buckeyes to their first-ever three-

peat and will climb into the upper echelon of school records in multiple categories in the spring. Mikael Torpegaard (Men’s Tennis) Torpegaard, a two-time singles (2016 and 2017) and one-time doubles (2017) All-American, completed his junior year with a 38-5 singles record and a dominant 29-2 doubles record. The rising senior fin-

ished last season as the No. 2-ranked singles player in the country, but was ranked No. 1 at multiple points in the season. Torpegaard was named the Big Ten Player of the Year in 2016 when he was the runner-up in the NCAA singles championship.

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Dishing out superlatives for Ohio State teams COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor Nearly every year, the Ohio State athletics program sends several teams out to compete for national championships. And just as often it seems those teams come home with those titles. Last season, both the men’s volleyball team and synchronized swimming team proved to be the best in their respective sport, and each secured a championship. But with so many teams out there to keep track of, it can often be challenging for students to know which teams to keep an eye on throughout the year. So The Lantern created a list of eight superlatives that match Ohio State teams to help students know which to follow in 2017-18. The juggernaut: Synchronized Swimming No school has dominated the sport of synchronized swimming over its history quite like the Buckeyes have. The sport has been in existence since 1977, when it was hosted by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women until it was taken over by the NCAA in 1983. And over that 40-year stretch, Ohio State has come away with 30 national championships, followed by Stanford, which has won only eight. That trend continued into 2017 when the Buckeyes won the national title again — their 30th — with 100 points over Stanford’s 88 points in the overall team standings. The only match the Buckeyes were outscored in was the Trio Finals, where they lost to Stanford by 0.5 (84.1667 to 83.6667). The Scarlet and Gray will lose Solo Finals champion Emma Baranski and Elizabeth Davidson, who was Baranski’s partner on the Duo Finals, but two members of the Trio Finals group will be returning (seniors Alyssa Hoying and Monica Velazquez-Stiak). Eleven members from last season’s national championship team might be leaving, but there is nothing to indicate the Buckeyes won’t be title contenders again in 2018. Team at its peak: Women’s Basketball The Buckeyes return four of their top five scorers, including two-time conference player of the year senior guard Kelsey Mitchell.

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Senior setter Christy Blough sets the ball during the 2017 NCAA Men’s Volleyball National Championship on Saturday.

In her three years at Ohio State, her team has failed to advance past the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament despite being seeded No. 3 (in 2016) and No. 5 twice (in 2015 and 2017) This upcoming season will be her final opportunity to advance far in the tournament, and it might be her team’s last chance for a couple seasons. The Buckeyes have just nine players on the roster and five will be seniors, including four projected starters. To make matters worse, two promising freshmen – forward Tori McCoy and guard Kiara Lewis – decided to transfer away from Ohio State in the spring. The Buckeyes do not have any incoming freshman or transfers. Mitchell, a ball-dominant, fast-break-happy guard, will be complemented by redshirt

senior forward Stephanie Mavunga (11.4 points, 10.8 rebounds per game last season) and redshirt junior guard Sierra Calhoun (9.5 points per game, 38.6 percent 3-point shooter last season) this season. Team on the rebound: Men’s Basketball Ohio State endured its worst season under the guidance of Thad Matta in 2016-17, finishing with a 17-15 record. But with Chris Holtmann now taking the reigns of the team after he took Butler to a Sweet 16, things are looking up for the Buckeyes. Not only will the Buckeyes be bringing in a new head coach, but they are also bringing in three four-star recruits: forwards Kaleb Wesson and Kyle Young and guard Musa Jallow. They will also return a healthy redshirt junior forward Keita Bates-Diop, who

played in just nine games for the Scarlet and Gray a season ago. And though the team saw Trevor Thompson, Jaquan Lyle and Marc Loving depart after the end of the 2016-17 season, the team’s leading scorer from a year ago, senior forward Jae’Sean Tate, will be returning, as will the team’s second best threepoint shooter, redshirt senior guard Kam Williams. Youngest team: Baseball The Ohio State baseball team lost five seniors and a junior at the end of the 2017 season, but the team will be retaining a promising young core of players, including its two leading hitters from a season ago, sophomore outfielder Dominic Canzone and sophomore infielder Conner Pohl. It is expected that the starting rotation will feature just one senior, and the field will be comprised mostly of sophomores and juniors with only three seniors on the offensive side of the team. Joining the Buckeyes as incoming freshmen will also be several of Ohio’s top recruits, including No. 8 catcher Dillon Dingler (Massillon Jackson), No. 15 pitcher Alex Theis (New Riegel) and No. 26 outfielder Jake Ruby (Bishop Hartley). But there may be no bigger addition to the team than southpaw Seth Lonsway. Not only was Lonsway ranked as the top recruit in Ohio by Perfect Game, but he appeared on MLB Pipeline’s top 200 draft prospects as the 148th best player. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 19th round of the MLB Draft with the 557th overall pick, but opted not to sign Team on the rise: Women’s Lacrosse Last season, Ohio State’s women’s lacrosse team endured an uncharacteristic down year, finishing 6-11. Since coach Alexis Venechanos arrived in Columbus seven years ago, the Buckeyes had only finished below .500 once. But there is reason for optimism. The Buckeyes retain much of their talent for 2017-18, including their top seven point-scorers. Senior attack Molly Wood led the team in points (48), goals (42), shots (97) and shots on goal (70). She will be joined by sophomore midfielder Liza Hernandez, who likely would have led Ohio State in points had she not suffered a knee injury nine games into the season.

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Must-watch team: Men’s Volleyball The Ohio State men’s volleyball doesn’t just win, it dominates. Last season, Ohio State finished 32-2 and won the NCAA championship for the second year in a row. It carried a win streak into the season and extended it to 42 wins – the third-longest in NCAA history – before dropping a match to UC Irvine. When the team reached the NCAA tournament, it swept its semifinal match against Hawaii and its title match against BYU. Though Ohio State will have to deal with losses to key players such as setter Christy Blough, middle blocker Driss Guessous and opposite hitter Miles Johnson, it returns 2017 Volleyball Magazine Player of the Year senior outside hitter Nicolas Szerszen, senior outside hitter Maxime Hervoir and redshirt junior middle blocker Blake Leeson. The Buckeyes will attempt a rare threepeat in the spring.

Most well-rounded team: Wrestling The conference-champion wrestling team features a talented mix of upperclassmen – led by senior heavyweight NCAA champion and Olympic gold medalist Kyle Snyder – with the help of select underclassmen. All four individual Big Ten champions – redshirt senior Nathan Tomasello (133 pounds), redshirt senior Bo Jordan (174 pounds), redshirt sophomore Kollin Moore (197 pounds) and Snyder – return for another season and will be favorites both in their conference and in the country. That quartet will be joined on the mats by junior 184-pounder Myles Martin, who won the national championship at 174 pounds his freshman year, All-American 149-pounder Micah Jordan, who is a redshirt junior, and sophomore 141-pounder Luke Pletcher. Just a season removed from winning the 2016 NCAA championship, Ohio State possesses a deep, talented roster capable of

making a run at the 2018 title. Biggest Sleeper: Men’s Golf The Ohio State men’s golf team did not have the season it had hoped for, finishing ninth in the Stanford Regional. On a promising note, however, a pair of then-sophomores Will Grimmer and Daniel Wetterich placed 12th and 27th, respectively, overall out of 75 total golfers. Both golfers would be recognized after the season with All-Midwest honors by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Each of the team’s top four golfers — Grimmer, Wetterich, sophomore Jeg Coughlin III and junior Caleb Ramirez — will return to to compete for a title in 2017-18. The Buckeyes also have two golfers — Grimmer and sophomore Caden Orewiler — who qualified to play in the 2017 U.S. Amateur Championship. So while the team did not end 2017 at the top, it still returns all of its top performers and are well-positioned for the 2017-18 season.

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Husband and father first, All-American wrestler second for Bo Jordan WILLIAM KOSILESKI Former Lantern reporter A version of this story was previously published on Oct. 26, 2016 Most mornings, Bo Jordan is awake bright and early to head to a morning workout or practice. As a student in athletic training, he attends his classes until about 2 p.m. only to return to the weight room for another lift and another practice until around 5 p.m. The wrestler then takes an ice bath, showers and cleans himself up before he returns home for the night. But instead of hanging out with his teammates or heading to a bar, the rising redshirt senior comes home to dinner and playtime with his wife and 11-month-old daughter. This is not the typical day for most student athletes, let alone average college students. While the 22-year-old holds the responsibilities of being a student at Ohio State and an All-American wrestler on his broad shoulders, he also has the responsibility of being a husband and father in his home life. “Honestly, everyone always asks me, ‘How do you do it?’ Or they will tell me, ‘It seems so hard.’ But it’s easier. It’s honestly easier,” Jordan said. “I’m not out partying or doing anything stupid. I’m in, spending time with my wife and daughter, getting my homework done and I’m living a real clean life, and it’s easy.” Bo isn’t the only Jordan on the Ohio State wrestling team, as his younger brother Micah is a rising redshirt junior. Micah is just one of Bo’s many teammates who wonders how he balances all of his responsibilities in his life. “Sometimes I’m like, ‘How does he do it.’ But he’s really strong and he is really mentally tough,” Micah said. “He still puts time in with his family, with his wife and his daughter, and also he still spends a lot of time in the wrestling room.” For Bo, living with his wife Ashley and their daughter Keira meant he had to change his lifestyle. At first, he said it was different for him because he had to prioritize his motivations and let go of some things he was used to, such as playing video games for several hours a day. But he drifted away from those activities and now is accustomed to life with his family. “Now it’s like I can’t wait to get out of

“I’m not out partying or doing anything stupid. I’m in, spending time with my wife and daughter, getting my homework done and I’m living a real clean life, and it’s easy.” Bo Jordan OSU Wrestler

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Ohio State redshirt junior wrestler Bo Jordan moved on in the championships bracket at the NCAA championships. practice and to go home and see my daughter. I can’t wait to get out of practice to just go hang out with my wife and watch some Netflix. I can’t believe I’m saying that, but it’s awesome,” Jordan said. “I love my life and it’s very, very different.” Ohio State wrestling assistant coach J Jaggers said Jordan is able to balance being a wrestler, a student, a husband and a father because of his maturity. “One of the adjectives that comes to mind when you think of Bo is that he is a mature kid,” Jaggers said, “He knows what he values, and that is evident in his relationship with his wife, the kind of father he is and the teammate and brother he is.” Head coach Tom Ryan said Jordan recognizes what it takes to be able to manage and maintain his lifestyle. “He understands what a real man acts like in society, and real men uphold their responsibilities,” Ryan said. “He has done a great

job at managing his home life … because he was raised in a way that you take care of your own stuff. We call it flying your own plane. You take a hold of the wheel and you fly, so he has been a great example of that.” When he and his then-girlfriend, now wife, found out they were going to be parents, it was in the middle of the team’s 2015 national championship run. Jordan waited about two months to say anything to the coaches because he was concerned they would be upset with him. But Jordan couldn’t have been more wrong. A few days after the team won the national championship, Jordan called Ryan to tell him about the news. “I was kind of tearing up and didn’t know what to say,” Jordan said. “He went, ‘Holy crap. Holy crap.’ He said that three times, and then he started dying laughing, and I didn’t know whether to start laughing or

crying because I didn’t know what was going on. But then he goes, ‘Hey man, that’s life. I love ya. What can I do to help?’” Ryan said he knows Jordan has a great circle of people around him whom he can go to for advice and counseling, but he was happy Jordan decided to give him a call. “I was excited. I was like, ‘Look, can you imagine how many loving people are going to be in your daughter’s life,’” Ryan said. “It was a good, healthy conversation and it was about faith, God and the meaning of life.” Jordan knew the coaches didn’t recruit him expecting he would be married and have a child by his junior year, so the support from his coaching staff was everything to him and his wife, Jordan said. “When you say when you are recruiting somebody that ‘I’ll be there for you through the thick and thin,’ it sounds good, but it’s not so easy to apply sometimes,” Ryan said. “I think he has seen firsthand that we love him not only as a wrestler, but as a human being. Not only as someone that can score points for us and win national titles for us, but as a man and as a person.” The couple was married before Keira was born. Along with getting married, Jordan said becoming a dad was the proudest moment of his life. “Before that, it was always the wrestling that was the proudest moment. I won four state championships in high school and came in third twice in the national tournament at Ohio State. But now, what means the most to me is just my wife and our little girl,” Jordan said. “That’s crazy because

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I’ve been wrestling since I was 6 years old, and I have had my daughter for a year. Nothing compares to that.” Not only did the coaches of the wrestling team support Jordan and his wife when they were going through the process of getting married and having their child, but so did his teammates. “When Bo’s daughter was born, a lot of the team went over to the hospital and got to see Bo, his wife and Keira,” Micah Jordan said. “The whole team just embraced Bo’s relationship with his wife and his daughter. It was amazing.” The 2016-17 season was his second season as a married man and a father, but it also marked a few more changes for the wrestler. The first change is that the four-time time state champion at St. Paris Graham High School moved up to a higher weight class. In his first two seasons wrestling at OSU, Jordan wrestled at the weight of 165 pounds. He finished twice as the runner-up at the Big Ten championships and third at the NCAA championships. Last year, he competed at 174 pounds, winning a Big Ten championship and was NCAA runner-up to Penn State’s Mark Hall.

The other change in Jordan’s life his third season came away from the mat. His wife Ashley gave birth to their second child, a daughter named June. While Jordan’s education and wrestling career are both very important to him, he said that being married and being a father helps him deal with the stress that wrestling and school can bring. “I feel like when I wasn’t married and I didn’t have a kid, it was all business. I really didn’t relax as much, and I didn’t really take my mind off wrestling,” Jordan said. “But now when I go home, I have a little girl that will run up to me and give me hugs and kisses. It’s just a whole different world, and I wouldn’t want it any other way. If I could do it all over again, I would do it the exact same way 10 times.”

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RPAC offers other solutions to the scale, students’ weight obsession TIA WILLIAMS Senior Lantern reporter Originally published April 3, 2017 The number on the scale can’t define a person if there isn’t a number at all. Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, removed the scale from its fitness center in March because scales are “not considered a good health marker,” Bruce Marshall, manager of wellness programs at the university, said in a statement, according to Today.com. In the university’s campus newspaper, The Charlatan, a student defended the decision, saying scales can be “triggering” for those who struggle with eating disorders. While other universities’ fitness centers are following suit — a gym at California State, Chico removed its scales for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, for example — one Ohio State eating disorder expert said Ohio State and the RPAC offer other solutions for those who might be triggered by the scale. Dr. Kate Adkins, senior staff therapist and chair of the Eating Disorder Treatment Team on campus, said she and her team encourage those with eating disorders to control weighing behaviors by working with a team of professionals to construct individualized plans. “That might involve avoiding scales,” Adkins said. “Some of our students with eating disorders know where the scales are in the RPAC and they have individualized plans with their therapist to take a different route in the RPAC to avoid them because they have really strong urges to weigh.” In the RPAC, there is one scale in each of the locker rooms on the bottom floor and one in the hallway on the way into the main weight room, said Bailey Socha, sport shop attendant in member services at the RPAC and third-year in strategic communications. Frequent weighing is often a compulsive eating disorder behavior, Adkins said. College students often have unhealthy perceptions of what their appropriate weights are, holding on to their high school or teenage weight. “There are a lot of strategies that people with eating disorders use to reduce anxiety,” Adkins said. “It might be things like body checking, like touching parts of their bodies such as their stomach, their thighs or their arms as a way of constant reassurance, and

“Weight is only one indicator of health. There is an obsession on weight as a health indicator in a really unhealthy way.” Dr. Kate Adkins Chair, OSU’s Eating Disorder Treatment Team

weighing is another strategy.” Carleton University came under fire on social media for removing the scale with students using the hashtag #bringbackthescale on Twitter. The university responded saying it removed them to hopefully encourage students to look at other indicators of health, besides weight, according to Today.com. “It’s not a simple issue,” Adkins said. “There are benefits and limitations to both having access and not having access to a scale. Weight is only one indicator of health. There is an obsession on weight as a health indicator in a really unhealthy way.” Body mass index and body fat percentage can be used as more complete measurements of health than just weight, because they take height and muscle into consideration as well, Socha said. “The RPAC offers a skin caliper which can be used to calculate body fat percentage and BMI,” Socha said. “The Physical Activity and Education Services building, connected to the RPAC, has additional scales that can be used to calculate BMI and body fat percentage as well.” The BMI and body fat percentage tests are great resources even for people who don’t have eating disorders, Adkins said. Regardless, even with these tests, individuals with eating disorders often have unhealthy perceptions of what their appropriate weight and measurements should be. “I think if you have an eating disorder, the best resource for what a healthy weight is should come from a professional team of a medical provider, a therapist and a dietician that are very individualized,” Adkins said. Eating disorder resources and consultation services can be found on the Office of Student Life Counseling and Consultation Service website.

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Blink-182, 6:30 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $45 plus fees via Ticketmaster. Cole Swindell, 7:30 p.m. in the Celeste Center at the Ohio Expo Center and State Fair, 717 E. 17th Ave. Tickets start at $27 plus fees via Ticketmaster. “The Poseidon Adventure,” 1:30 p.m. at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Admission is free.

Maddie and Tae, 6 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $25 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

Rascal Flatts, 7 p.m. in the Celeste Center at the Ohio Expo Center and State Fair, 717 E. 17th Ave. Tickets start at $45 plus fees via Ticketmaster. NBA Youngboy, 7 p.m. at Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St. Tickets are $35 plus fees via Ticketmaster. “The New Leaf Fortune,” 7 p.m. and 8:55 p.m. at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Tickets are $6 for students. Think like an Artist, 5 p.m. at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St. Admission is pay-what-you-want.

The Columbus Black International Film Festival, 7 p.m. at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Tickets are available at ColumbusBIFF.com. Dublin Irish Festival, 4 p.m. at Coffman Park, 5200 Emerald Parkway, Dublin, Ohio. Admission is free. Wizard World Comic Con, 4 p.m. at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, 500 N. High St. Tickets start at $39.95 plus fees via Front Gate Tickets.

Gallery Hop, 4-10 p.m in the Short North Arts District. No charge for participation. “The Death of Louis XIV,” 7 p.m. at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Tickets are $6 for students. Halestorm, 3 p.m. at Express Live,

405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $29.97 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

$30 plus fees via Ticketmaster. Day of DIY Gala, 6 p.m. at Wild Goose Creative, 2491 Summit St. Tickets are $40 via craftinoutlaws.com

“Nocturama,” 7 p.m. at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Tickets are $6 for students.

First day of classes Kendrick Lamar, 7:30 p.m. at the Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Dr. Tickets start at $39.50 plus fees via Ticketmaster. Gov’t Mule and Blackberry Smoke, 6 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $38 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

Alter Bridge, 6:30 p.m. at Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St. Tickets are $27.50 plus fees via Ticketmaster. “Inferno,” 1:30 p.m. at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Admission is free.

Goodale Park Music Series, 12:30 p.m. at Goodale Park, 1230 Goodale St. Admission is free.

“Two Weeks Notice” Comedy Showcase, 6:30 p.m. at Four String Brewing Company, 985 W. 6th Ave. Admission is free.

My Morning Jacket, 6 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $40.50 plus fees via Ticketmaster. The Rocket Summer, 7 p.m. at Skully’s Music Diner, 1151 N. High St. Tickets are $17 plus fees via Ticketweb. Chamber Orchestra’s: Summer Music Series, 8 p.m. at the Franklin Park Conservatory, 1777 E. Broad St. Admission is free. Get Weird: Alternative Comedy Open Mic, 8 p.m. at Kafe Kerouac, 2250 N. High St. Admission is free.

Summer in the City ft. Jon Bellion, Kyle, AJR and Hey Violet, 5:45 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $35 plus fees via Ticketmaster. “Kill, Baby… Kill,” 7 p.m. at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Tickets are $6 for students.

Moonlight Market, 6 p.m. on Gay Street. Admission is free. Festival Latino, 11 a.m. at Genoa Park, 303 W. Broad St. Admission is free. 90s Fest II, 4 p.m. at the Columbus Commons, 160 S. High St. Tickets are

Die Antwoord, 7 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $37.50 plus fees via Ticketmaster. “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” 9 p.m. at the Wexner Center for the Arts Drive-In at the Wexner Plaza. Admission is free. Fashion Meets Music Festival, 3:30 p.m. at Fortress Obetz, 1841 Williams Rd. One-day tickets start at $50 plus fees via Front Gate Tickets. Columbus Food Truck Festival, 12 p.m. at Bicentennial Park, 233 Civic Center Dr. Admission is free.

Residence hall move-in, 8 a.m. all over campus Fashion Meets Music Festival, 1 p.m. at Fortress Obetz, 1841 Williams Rd. One-day tickets start at $50 plus fees via Front Gate Tickets. Columbus Gin and Vodka Fest, 4 p.m. at the Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St. Tickets are $45 plus fees via Eventbrite.

OUAB Movies on the Oval featuring “Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2,” 8 p.m. on the Oval. Admission is free. Lil Uzi Vert, 7 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $45 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

Bobaflex, 6 p.m. at Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St. Tickets are $25 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

Columbus VegFest, 10 a.m. at Whetstone Community Center, 3923 N. High St. Admission is free. Grandview Hop, 5 p.m. on Grandview Avenue. Admission is free.

OUAB Flicks for Free, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the Ohio Union US Bank Conference Theater. Admission is free.

Student Involvement Fair, 4 p.m. on the Oval.

First-year student Columbus welcome event, 11:30 a.m. at the Schottenstein Center Buck-I-Frenzy, 12 p.m. at the RPAC

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10 must-do activities for a first-year buckeye GHEZAL BARGHOUTY Arts&Life Editor SARA STACY Assistant Arts&Life Editor Here at Ohio State, we’re lucky enough to be right in the heart of a city with so much to offer. There’s never a dull moment here in Columbus, especially if you take the time to explore the city’s best spots. The Lantern’s Arts and Life Editors are sharing our bucket list of must-do activities here in Ohio’s capital. Explore Columbus’ Neighborhoods Many students don’t realize what Columbus has to offer beyond the Short North and Downtown areas. But the city is made up of a variety of neighborhoods that only add to its charm. For one, German Village, which dates back to the mid-19th century, is a center of history in the city. It’s home to the one of the nation’s largest independent bookstores, the Book Loft, a top-rated burger joint called Thurman Cafe, Schiller Park, and more. Similarly, areas like Italian Village, Victorian Village and Clintonville are also hubs for hole-in-the-wall, family restaurants, quirky shops and hipster cafes. Discover Columbus’ Museums For fans of science, art, history or culture, Columbus has many museums to offer. The

most well known are the Center for Science and Industry, more commonly known as COSI, and the Columbus Museum of Art. Both are a great way to spend an afternoon, and Ohio State students can get discounted COSI tickets through D-Tix. Additionally, the National Veterans Museum and Memorial will be opening on West Broad Street in the summer of 2018, and will have a permanent exhibit that will present a narrative journey of the veteran experience. Have lunch at the North Market For me, the North Market is one of the most magical places in the city, offering foods and desserts from all over the world. With so many options to choose from, including Indian, Mediterranean, Thai and Italian foods, just to name a few, it’s difficult to choose just one meal. Even if you’re not going with a full appetite, the North Market offers all kinds of desserts, like macarons and Jeni’s ice cream, or wholesome snacks, like Bavarian pretzels and homemade salsas. The market even houses local shops selling hand-crafted foods and home goods. See an outdoor concert The first outdoor concert I attended in Columbus was Alabama Shakes. Since it’s Ohio, it inevitably rained, and, since we took the bus, we also walked home in the rain. Although the weather was bad, the show was incredible. Braving the wind, rain, heat

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and snow is all a part of the outdoor concert experience. Express Live has an outdoor venue that hosts acts frequently and even Ohio Stadium has occasionally transformed into a concert venue in the past for big acts like One Direction and the Rolling Stones. Watch a local band perform If you’re looking for something to do on a Saturday night, skip the house parties and catch a local band at a house show. Also check out venues that regularly host local artists, like The Basement, Rumba Cafe and Ace of Cups. The setting is always much more intimate than watching a bigger act at a larger venue, and it’s always exciting to discover new talent residing right here in Columbus. Don’t forget to bring a donation to support. Visit the Columbus Zoo The Columbus Zoo is regularly considered one the best zoos in the United States, for good reason. It’s host to more than 7,000 animals that represent over 800 different species, and it houses an aquarium and a waterpark, Zoombezi Bay, to top it all off. In the winter, Wildlights kicks off, illuminating the whole zoo with thousands of Christmas lights, and making for a great date idea or night with friends. As a nonprofit, all of the proceeds from the zoo go back into the community and they also support conservation efforts around the world.

Gallery Hop On the first Saturday of every month, thousands of people come together to celebrate art on High Street in the Short North Arts District. Visitors enjoy a variety of new gallery exhibitions, street performances, special events, foods and drinks throughout the evening. Gallery Hop showcases Ohiobased artists in more than 20 galleries and hundreds of non-traditional art exhibitions every month, according to its website. Bike along the Scioto Mile If you’re not familiar, the Scioto Mile boasts one of the most breathtaking views of the city. Located in the heart of Downtown and made up of more than 175 acres of parkland, the area stretches from the Scioto River to Columbus’ arts district. Within the area lies a plethora of walkways, trails and, most importantly, bike paths. In 2013, the city of Columbus launched CoGo bikeshare, a network that allows visitors to borrow bike’s at any station in the city and simply return them to their destination when they’re finished. I definitely recommend taking a few hours to explore the bike paths along the Scioto Mile and visit the area’s parks along the way. Visit a Metropark For a taste of the outdoors in the middle of the city, check out one of the 19 metroparks in and around Columbus. My personal fa-

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vorite is the Scioto Audubon Metro Park, as it’s home to a 35-foot rock climbing wall, a 9-part obstacle course, hiking and biking trails and an 18,000-square-foot nature center where events and programs are often held. Late Night Donut Run Last, but definitely not least, what’s a Columbus bucket list without ending a great night with Buckeye Donuts? The campus staple has been around since 1969 and is known for it’s hand-cut fresh doughnuts, which come in 32 varieties to fit any taste. The doughnut shop prides itself on offering fresh doughnuts and piping hot coffee 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so it’s always a good time to head over. Buckeye Donuts isn’t just limited to doughnuts though. The shop offers everything from bagels and

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A look at where musicians perform An abundance of music venues makes Columbus a music city

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Chance the Rapper performs at Nationwide Arena on May 16. HANNAH HERNER Former Arts & Life Editor Originally published Aug. 25, 2016 On any given night, one can almost guarantee there is at least one concert to see in Columbus. The presence of strong, local radio stations and a dedicated music scene bring in all types of acts. Everyone from chart-topping artists to up-and-coming local acts call Columbus home, even if only for one night. Nationwide Arena 200 W. Nationwide Blvd. The centerpiece of the Arena District in Downtown Columbus is home to the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets and some of the biggest national acts to come to town. Ed Sheeran is set to take the Nationwide Arena stage for two nights this fall. Schottenstein Center 555 Borror Dr. Located on North Campus, the Schott is home to Ohio State’s Men’s Basketball team and books acts on a similar level as Nationwide Arena. The giant arena seats 18,809 people. This fall, award-winning acts like Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd and Bruno

Mars are set to perform there. Express Live, Indoor and Outdoor 405 Neil Ave. Previously known as the LC Pavillion, Express Live is the name for both an outdoor and indoor venue located southwest of campus. The 2,200 indoor-capacity venue offers three levels for viewing and some reserve upper-level seating. The outdoor venue can house up to 5,200 concertgoers divided between the pit and the lawn, which invites fans to BYOB –– bring your own blanket. Express Live is set to host Glass Animals and Modest Mouse this fall. Newport Music Hall 1722 N. High St. Across the street from the Ohio Union, the Newport has been around since 1923, when it was originally built as a movie theater, but it now belongs to PromoWest Productions. Hosting national acts with a substantial following, it also offers plenty of good viewing spots. An upper-level balcony wraps around the venue with some seating in the very back. The large pit pleases the hardcore fans, with a slightly raise area bordering for those wanting to be slightly removed. It will host acts such as Timeflies and Echosmith

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John Mayer performs at the Schottenstein Center on April 12. this fall. Bicentennial Pavilion at Columbus Commons 160 S. High St. The newly-established outdoor venue offers a large grassy lawn area for concertgoers in the evening and apartment-livers during the day. It is a center-piece for festivals and over the summer, the grand stange hosts the Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s Picnic with the Pops Series and popular cover bands. Kafe Kerouac 2250 N. High St. Located right across the street on the edge of North Campus, Kafe Kerouac is home to plenty of books and zines, teas and coffee drinks. During the day, it’s a popular study spot, but at night, it often plays host to poetry slams, songwriters’ rounds and small live acts. The Basement and A&R Music Bar 391 Neil Ave. Aptly-named, The Basement lies underneath the A&R Music Bar. Both host national acts the majority of the time, booked by PromoWest Productions. The Basement is somewhat smaller, a narrow oblong ven-

ture with a sunken pit that allows fans to get close. A&R offers a slightly bigger viewing space and a smaller outdoor patio, but fewer peak viewing spots. The focus here is on the atmosphere rather than screaming along to every song. The Basement is set to host Middle Kids and Max Frost with A&R set to host Jake Miller and Wild Club. Skully’s Music Diner 1151 N. High St. Skully’s is a great place to see a local act or hear a DJ. The club-like atmosphere is dark, loud and has plenty of flashing lights. The upper-level and restaurant style seating in the front offers space to relax, while the main floor encourages dancing. Donato’s Basement 2084 N. High St. The underground location of Donato’s Basement suits the underground quality of the acts who play there. Local and touring DIY bands perform at eye-level with the audience, often for a suggested donation rather than a hard admission price.

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What is one activity to do off-campus before you graduate? Ghezal Barghouty Arts&Life Editor

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Go to a concert at Express Live!

Visit North Market.

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Go to Dime-A-Dog Night at a Columbus Clippers game.

Groundhog Day Marathon at the Gateway Film Center.

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Go to a Columbus Crew game.

Go to Gallery Hop one Saturday in the Short North.

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Visit all of the Columbus metroparks!

Walk around the Ohio Statehouse.

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Visit the Franklin Park Conservatory.

Go an entire year without a parking ticket.

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Eden Burger serves up vegan American fare SARA STACY Assistant Arts&Life Editor Originally published May 30, 2017 A new restaurant brings a vegan alternative to American staples like burgers and milkshakes to Columbus. Eden Burger, which opened in June and is located at 1437 N. High St., serves burgers, milkshakes and fries made from all organic, plant-based ingredients. “A lot of people think that when you go on a plant-based diet you just have to give up some of your favorite things,” said Chad Goodwin, one of the restaurant’s co-founders. “The driving factor behind the concept was to offer something that’s so fundamentally American: burgers, fries and milkshakes.” Burgers are crafted using ingredients such as beans, rice, pumpkin seeds and a variety of spices. Eden Burger’s owners have also been trying out several milkshake recipes using vegan-friendly items, such as coconut milk, bananas and avocados. Sebastian Kovach, one of the restaurant’s co-founders, said Eden Burger’s recipes are the result of trial and error after modifying online recipes. “We’re pretty proud to say we’ve gotten a nice burger feel, consistency, and burger bite that will keep together,” he said. “You’ll find a lot of black bean burgers, vegan burgers, don’t keep together. (Burgers) should be something you can hold in one hand with something in the other.” The owners of Eden Burger started out by serving from their home in December 2016. Later on, they had the opportunity to bring their concept to restaurants and bars around

“A lot of people think that when you go on a plant-based diet you just have to give up some of your favorite things.” Chad Goodwin Eden Burger Co-founder

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The owners of Eden Burger hold a sign displaying the restaurant’s logo and name. the city. Co-founder Alex Raabe said their first foray into the Columbus restaurant scene was by hosting pop-up events at Barrel on High. “(Barrel on High) gave us our first nod,” he said. “They were the first ones to believe in us and give us an opportunity to feed the people.” After just a couple of months holding pop-ups, they were able to secure a space on High Street to test out their concept on a larger scale. The fast-casual restaurant is located directly between campus and the Short North, occupying the space of the former DareDevil Dogs, which closed earlier this year. With several new apartments and busi-

nesses moving into that area, Goodwin said they believe they’ll be getting more traffic than the previous tenants. “We have people from campus coming this way, and we’ll have people coming from the Short North.” said Goodwin. “We can be a quick, easy option for them to fill their bellies and be on their way for a relatively affordable price.” Currently, Eden Burger offers typical burger fare at about $10 for burgers and $6 for milkshakes. Since securing their own restaurant space, however, Goodwin said they plan to lower their prices. Goodwin said they also plan to collaborate with The Village Idiot bar, which is located next door to Eden Burger. The establishments will share a patio space and will

have a window connecting the bar to Eden Burger’s kitchen for direct service. With more and more plant-based menus popping up around Columbus, the owners of Eden Burger said they aim to stand out by being a quick, cheap option for not just vegans. “We definitely want to be a vegan restaurant that can appeal to the non-vegans, something for people that maybe just want to eat lighter one day, or maybe want to experiment or try something plant-based,” Kovach said. Goodwin also said he hopes to bring the restaurant to the acclaim of well-known fast food restaurant chains. “From the onset, our vision has been that we want to franchise this, we want to make this like the vegan McDonald’s or In-NOut,” he said. “We don’t want to just have one restaurant in Columbus for the rest of our life.”

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TOO’S SAVED: Bar finds new High Street home SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor Originally published May 9, 2017 Too’s Spirits Under High will be in a new location and under a new name coming this summer, said Too’s owner, Scott Ellsworth. Ellsworth said it will reopen as Three’s Above High in late July or early August at the now closed Scarlet & Grey cafe concert venue and bar, which is located at the corner of West Norwich Avenue and High Street. “We’re going to end up closing down (the Scarlet & Grey cafe location) for a couple of months for renovation of sorts, ” Ellsworth said. “Obviously I own Too’s so the dive bar idea is what appealed most to me about Scarlet & Grey. So, you know, that already had a good bones to what we’re looking to do.” Ellsworth said he credits the “Save Too’s” movement that started when he announced its closing, which has been going strong for a year and a half, for Three’s opening. “The thing about the Save Too’s movement is it worked,” Ellsworth said. “What I mean by that is when I found out Too’s was closing I was like, when Too’s is done, Too’s is done, but then in a year, year and a half, there was just a push to save Too’s.” He said the conversations he has had with Too’s patrons and the efforts they’ve put forth into saving the bar helped him see how much people appreciated the bar and the staff. “Three’s is going to be equally as amazing. I think people are going to love it just as much,” Ellsworth said. Ellsworth officially bought the Scarlet & Grey cafe on early this summer, he said, which led to the venue’s abrupt closing and announcement that night. Too’s tweeted that day that there was a closed deal for Three’s, but did not say where. The closing was a shock to many frequenters of the bar, and left some uneasy on the future of the music scene that grew around the venue. Too’s has had live music since its opening, and will continue to at its new location, Ellsworth said, but the type of music to be performed is pending. “We’re going to keep doing live music like we did at Too’s,” he said. “We’re not sure on

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Three’s Above High, formerly Too’s Spirits Under High, on the corner of West Norwich and High Street. what type of music we’re going to do. We’re not sure on if we’re going to stick with what we did at Too’s with just doing local bands to campus and Columbus or if we’re going to try to get national acts or not.” There is also potential for Too’s and Three’s to be open at the same time, said Ellsworth. Because of the fluid nature of the 15th and High redevelopment plan, it’s hard to predict when construction will force Too’s closure, but Ellsworth said he “heard whispers” it might be able to stay open through football season. “We’re going to take as much time at Too’s as we possibly can so we might have Too’s and Three’s going this football season which will be extremely busy, but an extremely good thing for campus,” Ellsworth said. Though Three’s is going to have the same staff and same live music as before, Ellsworth said the closing of Too’s is hard to bear. “It’s heartbreaking to think about. It’s my first bar — that’s like your first kid. So it’s something that we’ve been dealing with for a couple of years so it’s not a surprise that it’s happening,” Ellsworth said. “We’re not being sucker punched by any means, but it’s hard. It sucks.” He, along with his co-owners of Three’s: John White, Too’s musician, and Cory Har-

mon, general manager, will continue to give college kids what they loved in Too’s — “no bullshit,” Ellsworth said. “They do need something like our bar offers and that has to do with our staff and music and us being real,” Ellsworth said. “College kids especially can see that and they can see when people try to bullshit them and we’re not a bullshit type of company.” He said the partnership with White and Harmon grew over the years they worked at Too’s. White has been with Too’s since the week after Ellsworth bought it and Harmon has the longest tenure at the bar. Though Ellsworth said Three’s will be “equally as amazing” as Too’s, the exact same experience and atmosphere will be impossible to replicate. “It can’t be Too’s,” Ellsworth said. “The name will be buried in the rubble there but the spirit does live on through Three’s.”

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A LOOK AT SEPTEMBER 1

Gallery Hop, 4 p.m. in the Short North Arts District. Admission is free.

OUAB Flicks for Free, “Wonder Woman,” 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the Ohio Union US Bank Conference Theater. Admission is free with a BuckID.

Breakaway Music Festival, 3 p.m. at Mapfre Stadium, One Black and Gold Blvd. One-day tickets are $50 plus fees and two-day tickets are $95 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

OUAB Flicks for Free, “All Eyez on Me,” 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the Ohio Union US Bank Conference Theater. Admission is free with a BuckID. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, 7:30 p.m. at Nationwide Arena, 200 W. Nationwide Blvd. Tickets start at $69.50 plus fees via Ticketmaster. 2 Chainz, 7 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are on sale July 24 via Ticketmaster. Katy Perry, 7 p.m. at the Schottenstein Arena, 555 Borror Dr. Tickets start at $50.50 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

Queens of the Stone Age, 6:30 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $39.50 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

Alison Wonderland, 7 p.m. at Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St. Tickets are $20 plus fees via Ticketmaster. Fall Exhibition Preview, 5 p.m. at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Admission is free. OUAB Flicks for Free, “Wonder Woman,” 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the Ohio Union US Bank Conference Theater. Admission is free with a BuckID.

Sykosis, 5 p.m. at Park Street Saloon, 525 Park St. Tickets are $15 plus fees via Ticketweb.

Com Truise and Nosaj Thing, 7 p.m. at A&R Music Bar, 391 Neil Ave. Tickets are $18 plus fees via Ticketmaster. Boyce Avenue, 6:30 p.m. at Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St. Tickets are $25 plus fees via Ticketmaster. Father John Misty, 8 p.m. a the Palace Theatre, 34 W. Broad St. Tickets start at $35 plus fees via Ticketmaster. Steve Miller Band, 6 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $45 plus fees via Ticketmaster. September 26 Manchester Orchestra 6:30 p.m. at Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St. Tickets are $22 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

CD102.5 Trust Us Series, 7 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $10.25 plus fees via Ticketmaster. Ohio Bacon Fest, 5 p.m. at Columbus Commons, 160 S. High St. Tickets are $5 plus fees via Eventbrite. Night Nation Run, 7 p.m. at Mapfre Stadium, One Black & Gold Blvd. Early-bird tickets start at $29.99 on the event’s website.

Sublime with Rome, 7 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $28 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

Wild Club, 7 p.m. at A&R Music Bar, 391 Neil Ave. Tickets are $10.25 plus fees via Ticketmaster. OUAB Flicks for Free, “Despicable Me 3,” 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the Ohio Union US Bank Conference Theater. Admission is free with a BuckID.

Moonlight Market, 6 p.m. on Gay Street. Admission is free. Columbus Caribbean Festival, 12 p.m. at Genoa Park, 303 W. Broad St. Admission is free.

Young the Giant with Cold War Kids, 6 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $37.50 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

The Weeknd, 7:30 p.m. at the Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Dr. Tickets start at $39.75 plus fees via Ticketmaster. Bruno Mars, 8 p.m. at the Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Dr. The show is sold out but verified resale tickets are available via Ticketmaster. Jake Miller, 7 p.m. at A&R Music Bar, 391 Neil Ave. Tickets are $18 plus fees via Ticketmaster. OUAB Flicks for Free, “The Beguiled,” 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the Ohio Union US Bank Conference Theater. Admission is free with a BuckID.

Zoso, 7 p.m. at Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St. Tickets are $15 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

North Market Festival For Good, 6 p.m. at the North Market, 59 Spruce St. Admission is free.

Glass Animals, 6:30 p.m. at Express Live, 405 Neil Ave. Tickets are $36 plus fees via Ticketmaster. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, 8 p.m. at Nationwide Arena, 200 W. Nationwide Blvd. Tickets start at $58 plus fees via Ticketmaster.

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What is the best off-campus restaurant? Summer Cartwright Campus Editor

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Brassica.

Condado. Also, Chipotle.

Pinthouse, The Pearl.

Schmidt’s.

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If I’m hungry: Melt. Before class: Buckeye Donuts.

Bareburger.

Hudson 29 in Upper Arlington.

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Katalina’s.

Harvest Bar + Kitchen.

When it’s payday: Lindy’s. Any other day: BD’s Mongolian Grill.

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Hangover Easy.

Inexpensive: Sweet Carrot. Expensive: Martini’s.

Lemongrass.

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TRISM debuts as an off-campus hot spot GHEZAL BARGHOUTY Arts&Life Editor

“It’s for a lot of different people, not just people who like to watch sports or go out dancing late at night.”

SARA STACY Assistant Arts&Life Editor After it’s announcement in late January, North High Street’s newest restaurant and bar, TRISM, opened its doors in June. The Lantern’s Arts & Life desk was able to get an inside look at TRISM and the progress it made as the new-age eatery got closer to its opening. Abed Al Shahal, a 2012 OSU alumnus and co-owner of A&R Creative Group, opened TRISM with his brother, Ali. He said the goal of creating TRISM was to focus on what Columbus needed, rather than what was already working. “We pulled from a lot of different things,” he said. “We pulled inspiration from Alchemy –– that’s one of our own concepts that we built –– but mainly, it came out of not inspiration from seeing something, but what’s missing in the city.” Apart from TRISM, A&R Creative Group already owns eight other establishments around Columbus, including campus favorites like Ethyl & Tank, Midway on High and Fourth Street Bar & Grill. Unlike its fellow A&R Creative Group counterparts, TRISM will be a concept of its own kind. Al Shahal said he envisions TRISM adapting throughout the day from a healthy breakfast joint into a fast-casual lunch spot, then into a nighttime event space and bar. “TRISM is a transformative space. It’s an eatery, event space and bar,” he said. “The whole concept of the place is that it changes based on the time of day people are gathering here.” In the mornings, TRISM works as a healthy option for breakfast, serving staples like smoothies, avocado toast, smoothie and acai bowls, donuts and pastries. However, what separates TRISM is its focus on “superfood inspiration,” Al Shahal said. Superfoods, which are nutrient-rich foods considered to be especially nutritious, include options like acai and dragonfruit. One item that particularly stood out was the “superfood poptart,” which to the delight of many came in a variety of flavors –– turmeric and mango; hibiscus and cacao; and strawberry-chia.

Abed Al Shahal TRISM founder

Seating inside TRISM on North High Street. Everything on TRISM’s menu will be made in-house. According to Al Shahal, their food can’t be placed in any particular category, especially when it comes to lunch, which draws inspiration from cuisines across the globe. “We’ll have worldly inspired bowls, kind of like the essence of the quick-service restaurants,” Al Shahal said. “We’ll have a mediterranean bowl with black forbidden rice, hummus, house-made falafel; we have a Vietnamese banh mi sandwich, a banh mi bowl, a southwest bowl. Borders don’t really define our food.” During the evening hours, TRISM transforms into a late-night campus bar unlike anything most students are familiar with. Like a lot of the menu, the bar will feature specialty, superfood-inspired cocktails, putting tropical fruits like acai and dragon fruit in the mix. Apart from the daily menus, TRISM will also feature a weekend brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. Al Shahal said brunch at TRISM is it’s own category, but will feature options cold-pressed juices and mimosa flights. Alexis Joseph, who leads the team at Alchemy and is heavily involved with the TRISM project, said TRISM draws a lot from Alchemy, which is located in German Village, but at the same time, provides a

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more dynamic space that changes minute by minute. “TRISM will have an entirely new menu addition of world-inspired, savory mealstyle bowls in addition to a brunch menu that isn’t available at Alchemy,” she said, Pricing wise, menu items can range anywhere between $3 and $11, which will be similar to prices at Alchemy. Food options aren’t the only thing that separate TRISM. The eatery, bar and event space also offers a new seating style. The front of TRISM features a novel seating area, based on “seating surfaces,” as Al Shahal coined them. For the owners, the concept was a way of providing “very social seating,” he said. TRISM will feature stadium-style seating steps akin to the popular space inside Knowlton Hall. The big changes at TRISM happen in the evening, as the space transforms into a venue open to all. Though TRISM is open to hosting private events, Al Shahal said their main focus is on the public. “We’re gonna do things like poetry slams or improv theater, we’ll have a pop-up flea market, farmer’s markets,” he said. “Just kind of a very flexible space.” “There will definitely be a music component, but how often is to be determined,” he added.

Though their main focus will be on a variety of public events, in terms of music, they are shooting to bring big-name national acts to the space on a monthly basis. “We don’t want music to define the space,” Al Shahal said. “So that’s gonna be the push and pull for us, that’s why you really gotta hit on more artsy, more boutique type events.” Al Shahal said they already have events signed up to take over the new venue, though bigger events won’t start kicking off until July or August when classes are about to start again. At the same time, TRISM isn’t interested in becoming just another sticky-floor campus bar, Al Shahal added, and they hope to provide a Short North-like vibe to students, mostly graduates and upperclassmen. “We want to bridge the gap from other neighborhoods to campus,” Al Shahal said. “We don’t want to just service the student population, we want to bring in people from the Short North and bring in people from Italian Village.” As a student here, Al Shahal said there wasn’t a place on campus that had this type of versatility, or sense of balance, and it’s his hope that TRISM brings just that to the campus area. “It’s for a lot of different people, not just people who like to watch sports or go out dancing late at night, “ he said “It (was) like, what’s something that could fill that void that you go to two (or) three times a week and just hang out, take your first date, just study or dance.”

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New campus breakfast spot debuts at Gateway GHEZAL BARGHOUTY Arts&Life Editor Originally published July 11, 2017 First Watch, a Florida-based breakfast and brunch restaurant, expanded its Columbus footprint into the Gateway Retail Center in July, further expanding the campus area’s food options. The popular eatery is located down the street from campus at 1567 N. High St. and is the Florida-based breakfast chain’s ninth Columbus restaurant. With fast-casual restaurants like Blaze Pizza and Bibibop dominating High Street, Christiana Moffa, property manager at Gateway, said the options for casual eateries were restricted. “A lot of the comments we received were from OSU staff working in nearby offices, and of course we get a lot of customers from both the medical center and main campus who have expressed interest in more diverse dining experiences,” she said in an email. After seeing the chain’s creative menu appeal to younger audiences, Eleni Kou-

vatsos, public relations and communication manager for First Watch Restaurants, said its opened First Watch in a few college towns with outstanding response from students, faculty and community members alike. The restaurant features best-seller menu items including avocado toast, lemon ricotta pancakes and quinoa power bowls, and Kouvatsos said in an email it will also introduce five seasonal menus throughout the year in addition to the menu’s core items. “One of the great things about First Watch is that our menu is diverse enough to satisfy the healthiest eater, right alongside someone who’s craving a sweet treat or a hangover-curing breakfast sandwich.” The chain’s menu prices vary by location, but prices at the Gateway First Watch typically range from $7 to $11. First Watch joined Panera Bread on the corner of 11th Avenue and High Street and TRISM on the corner of High Street and Chittenden Avenue as a South Campus spot RIS TWIGG | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR offering breakfast and brunch, though it will First Watch on the corner of 11th Avenue and High Street. be the only eatery of the three that provides table service.

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Your guide to the best off-campus coffee GHEZAL BARGHOUTY Arts&Life Editor For many of us, coffee means early morning motivation and late nights hitting the books, but despite its more routine uses, coffee is a culture in Columbus. Whether it’s in the Short North, Grandview, German Village or downtown, this city offers a wide variety of coffees for any taste. Here’s your guide to the best off-campus coffee, so kick the Starbucks and give it a try. Grab a friend, take an afternoon off and give yourself an excuse to explore the city and its best coffee spots. Stauf’s Coffee Roasters 1277 Grandview Ave. Though Stauf’s will now have three other locations across Columbus — German Village, the North Market and its newest in Franklinton — the original Grandview Avenue shop is by far my favorite. With over 60 coffees to choose from, you’ll want to come back and try something new every time. The cafe also has a number of speciality flavors that you can add to your coffee including

pecan, raspberry, bourbon, chocolate and pumpkin. If you’re a tea-lover, Stauf’s also boasts the largest tea selection in central Ohio, according to Experience Columbus, and even lets customers bag their own tea and create their own flavors. If you’re up for it, Stauf’s also offers breakfast, brunch and lunch options everyday until 3 p.m. Unlike its other shops, the original Stauf’s is just one big room filled with chairs, tables and stools that attempt to make room for every visitor. Whether it’s meeting an old friend, having a first date over good coffee or finishing up a project, Stauf’s is a great place if you don’t mind some background noise. If you want to bring your dog, the coffee shop even has tables lined up on the sidewalks of Grandview Avenue and water bowls set out for your companion. My pick: Iced Chai: though it’s not coffee, it’s the best chai I’ve had in Columbus. Simply milk, ice and chai tea concentrate –– refreshing and energizing. The Roosevelt Coffeehouse 300 E. Long St. My personal favorite of the bunch, Roo-

The Roosevelt Coffeehouse on 300 East Long Street.

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sevelt Coffeehouse is a modern coffee-lover’s heaven. Located on the eastern edge of downtown Columbus, the cafe’s urban feel encapsulates what the Columbus coffee community is all about –– bringing people together. Roosevelt is especially notable because of its non-profit aspect. The cafe uses coffee as a means to help people, so all profits beyond overhead expenses and the cost of goods, along with half the tips that baristas collect, are donated to three main causes: water, human trafficking and hunger. Since its opening two years ago, Roosevelt has donated more than $50,000. Lined with windows on most of the walls, the coffee shop offers some of the best selfie lighting I’ve seen in the city, but it’s also home to a genuine staff and the smoothest coffee I’ve ever had. The baristas play a variety of records from every genre throughout the day, too, making the atmosphere cozy and social. With such delicious coffee and a setting to match, there’s no where else I like to study or waste time at more than Roosevelt. My pick: Vietnamese Iced Coffee: dark

roast, Vietnamese-grown coffee beans slowly steeped in a drip-filter and added to a glass filled with ice and sweetened condensed milk. (It takes a while to make, but it’s totally worth it). Fox in the Snow 1031 N. 4th St. Another coffee spot that’s dear to my heart, Fox in the Snow is home to some of the best breakfast and pastries I’ve ever tasted. The always-busy coffee spot boasts a huge menu of homemade items, so the long lines are no surprise. With that, the coffee is always fast and quality, so it’s a great spot to hit when you’re on the go and not feeling your fifth Starbucks coffee this week. Fox in the Snow will also be expanding into German Village late this summer. The atmosphere at Fox in the Snow is a little different from the rest. With industrial architecture and plants decorating every corner, it’s a hipster’s paradise. Best part is, the cafe doesn’t have wifi, forcing its visitors to socialize and/or cuddle up with a good book and a great cup of coffee. My pick: New Orleans Iced Coffee: a fan-

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Seating inside Kafe Kerouac on 2250 North High Street.

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cy cold brew coffee filled to the brim with ice cold milk. Kafe Kerouac 2250 N. High St. Both a coffeehouse and a bar, Kafe Kerouac delivers solid coffee and espresso choices just steps away from North Campus. Interesting enough, the house specials are all coffee drinks named after famous authors. The living room-esque atmosphere also doubles as a small bar offering a few craft beers and a full-service liquor bar serving liquor-coffee fusions like old fashioned Irish Coffees. The relaxing interior is filled with couches and comfy chairs, along with standard metal chairs and tables for when it’s time for that pre-finals grind.The wall of the main room is accompanied by a little selection of records and artwork that lend to the vintage feel of the cafe. There is even a small stage in the secondary room that hosts poets, comedians and musicians throughout the week. My pick: The Ernest Hemingway, a nottoo-sweet espresso drink made with a fusion of chocolate and almond flavoring. One Line Coffee 745 N. High St. With a tiny sign out front, it’s difficult to notice the small coffee joint when you’re

rushing down High Street to beat Short North traffic. Once you step inside, however, the modern set-up welcomes hipsters and newcomers alike. With so many flavors and beans from across the world, One Line can make a fine coffee to fit any taste, be it the most simple or most exotic. I don’t know how many times I’ve walked in not knowing what I’ve wanted and been surprised by something so rich and caffeinated –– the baristas are magicians in that way. The cafe’s atmosphere is also one of the most laid back of the lot. With soft music playing in the background and the cozy brick feel of the room, it makes a great study spot, too. My pick: Honey Latte. One Line’s coffee is smooth and the espresso is strong. With some milk and a little sweetness, it makes for a perfect pick-me-up.

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One Line Coffee on 745 North High Street.