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Living in your skin Black Student Association celebrates black students

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New study shows preference for revenge over forgiveness

COURTESY OF BSA The Black Student Association, a student organization on campus for more than 20 years, celebrates black heritage beyond Black History Month.

MADDIE GEHRING Lantern reporter gehring.80@osu.edu

Although Black History Month is drawing to a close, one Ohio State student organization focuses on loving one’s blackness year-round. The Black Student Association is the umbrella organization for all the black organizations on Ohio State’s campus, Kaelyn Sanders, a thirdyear in criminology and sociology and the community outreach coordinator for BSA, said. The organization has been on Ohio State’s campus for more than 20 years, putting on events once a week to give students an opportunity to celebrate their heritage.

Sanders said BSA is an involved living organization funded by University Housing, so the organization gets more money than other black organizations on campus and receives many requests from other student organizations asking for donations.

However, BSA provides more than financial assistance. Ocean Coldren, a second-year in business marketing and special initiative ambassador for BSA, said the organization seeks to provide social support and community for black students.

“BSA’s main goal is to create a safe space for students of color — especially black students of color,” Coldren said.

Coldren said that she felt alienated during her freshman year on campus.

“I was like, ‘Where’s all the black people at?’” Coldren said. “And whenever I came to BSA, I was like, ‘Oh here they all are.’”

Sanders said it’s important to be surrounded by other students with whom she can relate and feel comfortable. Coldren agreed.

“We go to a [predominantly white institution] and we are only 6 percent black in our undergrad, and it’s really important to look around and see people that look like you,” Coldren said.

Coldren said college is a struggle for anyone, making it important to be surrounded by people of the same race as it’s likely they might experience similar issues.

Sanders said BSA’s goal is for students to live their blackness to the fullest, which is different for everyone.

“Living in your blackness is essentially being who you are, being black and not being sorry about being black — whatever that means to you,” Sanders said.

Coldren said there isn’t a right way or a wrong way to experience one’s blackness, and everyone is welcome to join BSA, not just black students.

“Everybody has a place here, and everybody is important,” Coldren said.

BSA holds meetings from 7 to 9 p.m. every Thursday in the Hale Hall MLK Lounge.

MARY KIDWELL For The Lantern kidwell.118@osu.edu

An eye for an eye might be easier than turning the other cheek, according to new Ohio State research on human cognitive processing.

Research published in Sage Journals in December by Ohio State professor Matthew Grizzard and graduate student C. Joseph Francemone found that humans have a gut-level instinct to respond with retribution, but forgiveness in humans is learned. Grizzard and Francemone collaborated with the State University of New York at Buffalo, Texas A&M University-Texarkana and Culture by Numbers, a computer software development company.

Grizzard, the study’s leading researcher, said participants read different scenarios and assessed whether they liked or disliked varying retribution endings — underretribution, equitable retribution or overretribution. The researchers then measured the participants’ response rates between reading the scenario and narrative ending to decide whether they liked or disliked the ending.

“It just measures response rates … and so we are just asking them to press like or dislike as quick — basically as soon as they’ve made a decision,” Grizzard said.

After choosing whether they liked or disliked an ending to the given scenario, Grizzard said participants were asked When we see those meaningful, thought-provoking stories, we generally kind of let go of our innate desire to see this punishment or vengeance kind of idea. C. JOSEPH FRANCEMONE Graduate student “

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MARY KIDWELL | FOR THE LANTERN Ohio State professor Matthew Grizzard is the lead researcher on a study examining human responses to retribution and forgiveness.

to rate more complex emotional responses using Likert scales from strongly agree to strongly disagree to note their fondness of aspects of the story, such as the fun or enjoyment of a story and its thought-provoking nature.

After collecting data, Francemone said it was challenging to determine how to display the data.

“It’s definitely interpretation and figuring out the easiest way to convey what we found,” Francemone said.

Grizzard said the idea for the study began a year prior to data collection in spring 2017, when he was leading a graduate class at the University at Buffalo that explored research regarding media entertainment and the narratives humans enjoy. “We were curious about whether or not that original study — they just measured liking. They didn’t measure pleasure versus appreciation and things like that, so we were curious if that would hold up, and if we could kinda separate this liking response into more pleasurable responses or these more contemplative, meaningful, thought-provoking responses,” Grizzard said.

Francemone said the study has the potential to impact society as a whole.

“I think that it demonstrates how different stories are perceived by different people in society and what that kind of means,” Francemone said. “When we see those meaningful, thought-provoking stories, we generally kind of let go of our innate desire to see this punishment or vengeance kind of idea.”

Grizzard said the research could help understand the human preference for emotions such as punishment and reconciliation.

“There’s a couple of things that I think it could help us understand better and so one is just kind of people’s innate preferences for vengeance versus forgiveness,” Grizzard said. “That could be important for criminal justice reform, helping us understand the extent to which we like punishment, we like vengeance, we like — and how do we foster a liking for forgiveness or reconciliation?”

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COURTESY OF SOPHIE RUTTENBERG

Ruttenberg, a third-year in public management and current senator in USG’s General Assembly, and Wolf, a second-year in public management and a governmental relations committee representative in USG, said they have focused their campaign on doing things differently than how they have been done in years past, making outreach a top priority, which is embodied in their slogan, “Branching out, building us.”

“I think the structure of our campaign is inherently one that is meant for the introduction of new voices, different people and different perspectives,” Wolf said. “We’ve done things a little bit differently in the sense of the creation of the way that we have structured it … We have an engagement side and a strategy side.”

Wolf said the engagement side has been put together with more than 10 people who are experienced in particular areas on campus to help reach different students.

“Our engagement side doesn’t just have like three people that are meant to go collect votes. We have an engagement director and underneath that, we have 15 to 16 different chairs and these 15 to 16 chairs represent about the 15 to 16 communities that exist on this campus,” Wolf said.

Ruttenberg and Wolf said one of their campaign goals is to change the way USG interacts with students, particularly by meeting students in their spaces instead of asking students to come to them. RUTTENBERG & WOLF

“Students come up, and they say, ‘You know, I feel like you didn’t hear me. You didn’t listen to me. You didn’t recognize my concerns — my student experience,’” Ruttenberg said. “And that’s because as an organization, for years, USG has put on an approach where they put on programming and they reach out to student orgs and students and say, ‘You come to us. We have this really incredible program,’ but it needs to be flipped.”

Making people feel supported at Ohio State is a campaign priority and why Ruttenberg and Wolf said they feel confident in their approach.

“This idea, this plan that we have, it is so much bigger than the two of us,” Wolf said. “It is not about the two of us, and it’s about finding ways that we can make people comfortable — make people feel at home inside this campus.”

COURTESY OF ROAYA HIGAZI

There are three main themes for the Higazi and Hineman campaign: Access and affordability, excellence and equity, and student empowerment, Higazi, a third-year in city and regional planning and current vice chair of diversity and inclusion in Shared Governance as a party of USG’s Collaborative Leadership team, said, which inspired their slogan, “#PowerOfStudents.”

“Those three themes really come from things that me and Caleb are personally passionate about, not just within USG, but the other things that we are involved in on campus,” Higazi said.

Transparency is another important piece of the campaign in making sure everyone is aware of how they can use USG to best support them, Higazi said.

“Right now, USG has really strong relationships with specific organizations on campus, but there are some organizations that don’t know USG can fund them and fund them regularly,” Higazi said. “So making sure we’re transparent in what USG as a service can be for other student orgs so that they can further their missions in a way that they feel is efficient and true to the work that they do.”

Transparency within the financial side of college is also something this administration will pursue, Higazi said.

“One of our last points is on the financial side, so we realize that there is a lack of transparency within our financial aid system at Ohio State,” Higazi said. “Oftentimes with verification selection, and just the nuances of the FAFSA, students are put in stressful situations where they are at risk of being dropped from their classes or they are not receiving the proper amount of aid that they are supposed to — especially a lot of low-income and first-generation students.”

Like Ruttenberg and Wolf, Hineman, a third-year in natural

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resource management and current parliamentarian for GA, noted outreach as something that should be a priority within USG.

“I think one of the main things we do right now is we have forums and we also have office hours,” Hineman said. “Office hours, I think I can be very critical of the way that they are ran and that they are just held in the USG office, so you have to first know that you trust USG, that you can go to USG, that you have any clue who those people are.”

Within diversity and inclusion, expanding the current administration’s efforts is something Higazi and Hineman look to do in office, Hineman said.

“I think expanding what we are doing in diversity and inclusion is something that — you’re right — it is being evoked more, especially after the most recent show up for public forum, but I think a huge piece of that is just going to continue to work with students on any level,” Hineman said.

COURTESY OF NICOLE ESPINOZA DE MONTREUIL Next week, as a part of their campaign, Espinoza De Montreuil, a third-year in marketing and former president of USG at Ohio State’s Newark campus, and Donis Madison, a second-year in science, technology and environment exploration, will be wearing different colors to represent different themes of their campaign, Espinoza De Montreuil said.

They will kick off the campaign wearing green Monday to promote their goal of an environmentally friendly campus, Espinoza De Montreuil said. To bring awareness to Buckeye Food Alliance’s food pantries on campus, they will wear yellow Tuesday. On Wednesday, they’ll wear black, representing the campaign’s goal to make parking on campus more affordable for both students and faculty. Blue, signifying campus safety, and red, for the inclusion of transfer students, will finish out the week Thursday and Friday, respectively. Environmental issues and more affordability within Ohio State were highlighted most by Espinoza De Montreuil and Donis Madison as issues they would tackle if selected to be president and vice president of USG.

“Some of the more pressing matters would probably be our parking and an environmentally friendly campus because obviously we care about the environment a lot. It’s a big issue,” Donis Madison said.

Trying to make campus plastic free is something Espinoza De Montreuil said she would like to bring over from her job at Nationwide Children’s Hospital to Ohio State.

“What Nationwide does is the stuff that they use is not plastic. So basically what we are trying to do is trying to get a meeting with the people that oversee all of that to see the problems they went through so we can do something like that at OSU,” she said. To improve the affordability of parking, the campaign aims to include it in tuition.

“We were thinking something that maybe could be included in tuition kind of thing — a flat rate for everyone,” Donis Madison said. ESPINOZA DE MONTREUIL & DONIS MADISON

Voting for the USG election opens March 2 and closes March 4.

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