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Erasing the stigma of suicide ALEX DRUMMER Managing Editor of Content drummer.18@osu.edu AMANDA ETCHISON Editor in Chief etchison.4@osu.edu When Kayla Higginbotham walked by the Buckeye Campaign Against Suicide table at the involvement fair her freshman year, she had no idea that four years later, she would be helping her peers cope with the issues of mental health and suicide. “I saw ‘suicide’ written really big, and I know my initial reaction was to be like, ‘Eh? I don’t know about this,’” said Higginbotham, a fourth-year in psychology and women’s studies and the president of Buckeye Campaign Against Suicide. “I definitely think there’s a huge stigma attached to suicide and talking about that, especially on a college campus.” Despite the tendency of young adults to shy away from conversations regarding these issues, suicide is the second leading cause of death for persons aged 15-34 years. But Dr. John Campo, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Ohio State, said he sees this as preventable. “Suicide from our perspective is absolutely preventable, and I don’t think there is any way to approach it without what I would call a ‘zero tolerance mindset.’ How many suicides a year is acceptable? From my perspective, it should be zero,” Campo said. In 2013, there were 41,149 suicides in the United States, which

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According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, more than 90 percent of people who complete suicide have been diagnosed with a mental illness. equates to about 113 suicides each day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Suicide Facts at a Glance 2015. This problem hits close to home for some at OSU, as many college students experience large amounts of stress, which can be harmful to their mental health. Within a representative year at OSU, “one in three students reported prolonged periods of depression” and “one in four students had suicidal thoughts or feelings,” Matthew Fullen, program manager of the OSU Suicide Prevention

Program, said in an email. Furthermore, about 7 percent of OSU students actively considered suicide. More than 1 percent attempted suicide — approximately 850 attempts, Fullen said. Higgenbotham said simply talking about the subject could help those who are at risk of suicide get the care they need. “The more I started talking about it, the more I realized that the more you talk about it the easier it becomes to talk about it,” she said. “Now I talk about it so much that it’s such a normal thing for me to

talk about ... I kind of try to engage a lot of my friends in conversations about it just to kind of show them that suicide is not that scary of a topic to talk about.” Campo agreed that talking about suicide and mental health can be an effective way to show support and offer assistance. “The important thing for all of us to know about suicide is that people who struggle with suicidal impulses, that that impulse, it can kind of come over (them) like a wave,” Campo said. He added that it is helpful to understand how much of an impact access to resources can have on suicidal individuals during these overwhelming periods. SUICIDE CONTINUES ON 4

Ohio State is approaching the two-year anniversary of when it enacted the tobacco-free policy, which occurred in January 2014. The policy means no form of tobacco can be consumed, smoked or chewed, by any of its faculty, staff, students, vendors, volunteers or visitors while on campus. While OSU approaches the twoyear mark, the university is included among 1,130 tobacco-free universities, as of Oct. 2, according to Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights. “The idea was, let’s send a message to everybody that tobacco use is not okay and it should be denormalized,” said Dr. Peter Shields, a professor of internal medicine at the College of Medicine and deputy director of the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center. “For me, the greatest impact would actually be around the students.” Shields said that as most smokers start in adolescence, the habit and addiction is cemented in early adulthood and while in college. The university’s tobacco free policy makes it harder for smokers to use tobacco on campus, forcing them off campus, and Shields said the hope is that this results in a continuing drop to on-campus use. However, some Buckeyes might TOBACCO CONTINUES ON 3

Vet hospital set to open in 2017 WILLIAM KOSILESKI Lantern reporter kosileski.2@osu.edu The Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center is renovating 57,000 square feet in a four-phase enhancement and expansion project in order to improve patient care. The construction at the OSU veterinary hospital’s existing building, located across Olentangy River at 601 Vernon L. Tharp St., has renovated its intensive-care unit, is constructing a new building for faculty offices and will revamp several other areas of the hospital, including the lobby and patient and multipurpose rooms. “The project basically will increase our capacity to accommodate the cases that need our care,

provide an improved teaching and learning experience for the clinical year of learning for the students, and also provide more optimal facilities for the actual care of the animals,” said Dr. Rustin Moore, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Ruth Stanton Chair. The project began construction in early 2015 and is set to be completed in fall 2017, Moore said. The OSU Board of Trustees recently approved an overall budget of $32.8 million, which will be paid with development and university funds, Dan Hedman, OSU Administration and Planning spokesman, said in an email. “It was originally about a $30 million budget, but with construction booming and costs ... for labor and supplies and materials escalat-

ing, we had to get an increase to be able to deliver the project without cutting something important out of it,” Moore said. The project’s main focus is on the Hospital for Companion Animals, which is for cats and dogs, as Moore said that about 70 percent of people in Ohio own a pet, making the project important not just for the hospital but for pet owners as well. In the past six years, the hospital saw a 45 percent growth, starting with about 19,500 patients per year. Now the hospital serves about 27,500 patients per year, Moore said. In addition to expanding the space in order to provide proper care for the animals, the project is looking to provide for students as

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A look at the conceptual art of the renovated lobby. well. “We are an academic veterinary medical center, which means in addition to serving the public with advanced veterinary care, we also teach veterinary students, and we also prepare and teach residents who become specialists. So we need the space for that reason,” Moore said. Moore said the renovations are

also necessary because the faculty, staff and students have outgrown the current building. The medical center is raising the money for the project, as it has raised about $22 million of the $32.8 million to date, said Melissa Weber, the director of communications and marketing. Because the money is being raised as the

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Transportation options grow on campus CLAYTON EBERLY Lantern reporter eberly.72@osu.edu Public transportation is used in and around Ohio State’s campus, and there are plenty of ways for students to get where they need to be. These modes of transportation provide students with ways to get to class, home and any other areas around campus they need to go. They all operate differently, whether it be a traditional bus route, picking up a bike from a bike rack or taking a Car2Go from one spot to another. Brandon Nehrkorn, the community marketing manager for Car2Go Columbus, said that the flexibility of the rent-a-car type of service has contributed to Car2Go’s popularity. “Car2Go offers that flexibility for an impromptu trip whether you are late for class or forgot a book at home,” Nehrkorn said. “I think flexibility is the biggest reason for student use because you can go wherever you want whenever you want.” According to data supplied by the external communications manager of Car2Go, Bradley Ducey, there are 200 Car2Go’s in Columbus and 7,536 OSU students signed up as members. During the first full week of Autumn 2015, there were 611 Car2Go trips on or near the OSU campus. Ducey also provided data about Car2Go’s “smartest car.” This was the Car2Go that spent the most time on or near campus during the first week of school. The car was rented 11 times by nine different members, traveling a total of 36 miles by the end of the week. Nehrkorn said that instead of competing against other transportation services like the CABS

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During the first full week of Autumn 2015, there were 611 Car2Go trips on or near the OSU campus. buses, Car2Go has actually been co-existing very well with other modes of travel — people just have more options. Nehrkorn said that Car2Go prides itself on helping people by being there whenever someone needs a planned or spontaneous ride. There are 24 CABS buses that run every weekday, according to Nicole Holman, assistant director of marketing and communications for the Office of Transportation and Traffic Management for OSU. “Bus service operations are re-

viewed on an annual basis,” Holman said. “Once a review has been completed, changes may be made to the alignment of routes, schedule and frequency of service.” CABS usage has stayed relatively the same the past few years, and in fiscal year 2015, the service gave around 4.9 million rides, she said. Students who want to use CABS can get real-time bus arrival information on the OSU app and the Transportation Route Information Program website, Holman said. Holman also said that OSU’s bike-sharing program — which

began in August 2015 — has been very popular with students. “Right now, 88 percent of the annual memberships are held by students,” Holman said. “We anticipate that this number will increase once the warmer weather returns in the spring.” The bike-sharing locations receiving the highest usage so far have been river residential, north residential district, Neil and Woodruff avenues, College Road and the Ohio Union, she said. Kathryn Wrightsman, a thirdyear in business, was a first-year when Car2Go first started at OSU and said she has noticed the increase in use. “During freshman year, I knew one or two people that actually used Car2Go,” Wrightsman said. “Now I can’t walk to class without

seeing one parked on the street or someone driving one around.” Wrightsman also said that each kind of student transportation at OSU has its own time and place. “If I needed to get to class from my house off campus, I could take the CABS bus,” Wrightsman said. “But if I was going to the grocery store, I could take a Car2Go. If I had to be different places on campus all day, I could rent a bike.”

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Welding bonds engineering, innovation SHIYUN WANG Lantern reporter wang.6973@osu.edu LAUREN HOLLEY Lantern reporter holley.93@osu.edu A team of engineers from Ohio State has developed a new welding technique that has the potential to change the automobile industry. Anupam Vivek, the senior research associate working on the project, said the new type of welding used for the project is called solid-state welding, which uses electricity to weld materials using a very high-speed impact between two or more sheets of metal. This is different than the traditional welding technique, fusion-state welding, which uses heat to melt the materials. The new welding technique uses 80 percent less energy with bonds created 50 percent stronger. Materials that usually cannot be welded in the traditional way are now

“Very few materials are nonweldable for us; almost everything we have tried, including ultra-high strength steels, have welded together.” Anupam Vivek Senior research associate

weldable. “Very few materials are nonweldable for us; almost everything we have tried, including ultra-high strength steels, have welded together, which traditionally is not possible,” Vivek said. He said lighter materials will replace steel, which is used to make 90 percent of cars today, making their new welding technique important because the new technique is more capable of welding these lighter materials. Vivek said the auto industry is hoping to reduce the weight of cars because of the new Environmental

Protection Agency requirements, which state that by 2025, cars need to get 54 miles per gallon, about double what the average automobile gets now. Bert Liu, a graduate research assistant working on the project, said an advantage of solid-state welding compared to fusion-state is that the bonds formed are much stronger. “The heat used in fusion-based welding can actually weaken the material surrounding the weld,” Liu said. “This is something we can avoid by using solid-state welding.” Vivek also said he understands that it will be challenging to commercialize the final outcome because of the high cost to replace the old technique with the new one. “To make a change, the auto industry believes in this pyramid of cost, performance and time,” he said. “It has to be cost-neutral or cost-down, performance has to improve and it has to take less time.” Vivek added that he is confident that they can make all three

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Scott Wright, fifth-year in materials science engineering, demonstrates how the new welding technique is made. of those factors better to meet the needs of the auto industry. The team is now working with I-Corp@Ohio, a training program under the Fisher College of Business, to help commercialize their research outcomes, actively seeking collaborations with major auto manufacturers and providers like Honda, Ford and General Motors. Michael Camp, the program director of I-Corp@Ohio, said that the new welding technique has tre-

mendous advantages from a technological standpoint. “They’ve got a technology that is so advanced that the market is not even ready for it yet. It can do things the market is not even thinking about it yet … It’s that exciting,” Camp said. Camp also said that it would be a challenge because their technology is too new to be commercialized. “It’s hard to get people to do WELDING CONTINUES ON 4

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Kirwan Institute encourages equitable growth JAY PANANDIKER Engagement Editor panandiker.1@osu.edu In the past several years, the Columbus Southside neighborhood has experienced tremendous growth and reinvestment. Yet, for many years prior, the neighborhood was one with high rates of infant mortality and unemployment, where there were limited opportunities for residents. As redevelopment of the neighborhood began, several community leaders, most notably Rev. John Edgar, called on the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Moritz College of Law to help ensure that the redevelopment was equitable, said Kip Holley, a research associate from the institute who worked on the project. The institute received a grant from the Office of Outreach and Engagement in 2014. “They were concerned that people who have lived there a long time but may not make a lot of money, may be pushed out and they didn’t want that to happen,” Holley said. “They wanted to preserve the diversity and culture of the Southside.” After meeting with hundreds of residents, the institute made a list of four areas that needed to be examined: housing, social capital — meaning relationships and trust — a neighborhood leadership program, and “third places” — meaning community places that are not home or work, Holley said. The institute focused on what are considered opportunities to succeed, such as good housing, healthy food and quality schools, he said. Holley said the group worked to ensure that all people, regardless of income, had access to these opportunities. Jillian Olinger, a research associate at the Kirwan Institute, said the housing strategic plan, developed along with community partners, identified different principles about finding the right balance of housing for all people and obtained preliminary commitments for putting

those principles into action. The seven-month process for creating the housing plan concluded in September. The institute acted as a data provider and also engaged with the community to gather information. The plan has seven goals, which include developing more affordable housing and providing residents with a path to homeownership. The leadership academy was the result of a partnership between the institute and United Way, which already had a broader leadership program in place for central Ohio. The academy, which graduated its first class in November, focused more on the situation in the Southside, Olinger said. The Kirwan Institute helped plan the curriculum of the academy, which includes lectures by community leaders, as well as collaborative projects for student leaders at the academy. Several projects developed at the leadership academy are now being implemented in the community, Holley said. Olinger said the coalition that works in the Southside initially began when Edgar, who had seen work the institute had done about neighborhood building, reached out to the institute. As work began, the group grew to also include organizations like Nationwide Children’s Hospital and United Way. The institute made an effort to engage with as many voices in the community as possible, and met with young mothers, civic associations and high school students. Olinger said in order to get input from everyone, the institute tried to reach out to residents in their dayto-day lives instead of asking residents to participate in a traditional forum. This kept the engagement less top-down and more organic, Olinger said. “We didn’t want to be viewed as coming in and imposing an idea and we didn’t want to be replicating efforts,” Olinger said. “We wanted to be a value-add. There are a lot of organizations already doing projects — how can we assist and add to them?”

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be surprised to hear this policy also includes the use of electronic cigarettes. Though e-cigarettes have helped certain patients quit smoking, Shields said he believes that there isn’t enough evidence to suggest that e-cigarette users would not become regular smokers later. “Electronic cigarettes are glorifying the smoking act,” Shields said. “It’s against our culture of what we’re trying to promote. If it turns out that there’s some benefit or lack of harm, then we’ll take it off the policy.” The tobacco-free status has led Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights to add OSU to its list of over 1,000 tobacco-free campus. Micah Berman, an assistant professor at the College of Public Health who also holds a joint appointment with the Moritz College of Law, said that OSU’s addition to the list is significant because it sets an example for smaller schools to follow suit and make their campuses tobacco-free.

“We’re not getting fistfights, and we’re seeing the usage rates go down.” Dr. Peter Shields Professor of internal medicine at the Ohio State College of Medicine

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The Kirwan Institute, along with community partners, developed a housing plan to provide affordable housing in the Southside.

“Now people are able to begin to coalesce around a vision of the greater Southside.” Jillian Olinger Research associate at the Kirwan Institute

Holley said the university and the institute benefited most from the wealth of new information learned. The institute evolved from an organization that provided data and information to one that could partner with members of the community, he said. This forced the institute researchers to be more flexible about timelines and to visit new places and try new things. “We learned about how to engage with diverse communities in an authentic way, in order to partner with them for different types of projects,” Holley said. This knowledge can be shared with other OSU organizations, such as the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Holley said. A lot of different members of the university partner with the community, and the lessons of how to engage can be powerful for the campus at OSU has implemented. Columbus State Community College, Miami University and Ohio Dominican University have tobacco-free campuses. Since the policy was enacted, the university has used signs around campus about the ban and created student ambassadors that help promote the culture of a tobacco-free campus. There is still a lot more work to be done, Shields said, like setting appropriate benchmarks for the university to figure out how well the policy is being followed. Ways of doing this include removing ashtrays from campus, holding cigarette butt cleanups and conducting anonymous surveys. “We’re not getting pushback on this,” Shields said. “We’re not getting people who are upset. We’re not getting fist-fights, and we’re seeing the usage rates go down.”

“Ohio State was not the trailblazer,” Berman said. “That being said, Ohio State (being added to the list) was big news because of how big (the school is).” Berman said that because of OSU’s admission to the ANR’s list, it has continued a chain reaction of other Big Ten schools starting the process of becoming tobacco-free. Not only does this set a good example for schools across the country, but it encourages Ohio schools to revisit their own tobacco policies, said Tessie Pollock, the director of external relations at the Amanda Etchison and Michael College of Public Health. Huson contributed to this story. Pollock noted that Ohio schools have begun to follow the policies

large, he said. The institute learned how to examine a community outside of traditional assets, such as relationship building and informal leadership. Holley said in addition to the leadership academy and housing plan, the community also benefits from a more prolific sense of pride in the community. Opportunity for ownership over the larger process of community development is also a benefit to the community, Olinger said. “Now people are able to begin to coalesce around a vision of the greater Southside,” Olinger said. “What is it that we value as a community and how do we want to move forward together.” Olinger said oftentimes community development plans are not successful because they focus too much on physical assets and eco-

nomic development and neglect things like social capital and engagement. All of the initial goals, which were developed when the project began in 2014, have come to fruition, Olinger said. “All of the different plans and activities and investments really have a greater chance of taking root and growing because there is community buy in — there’s a commitment,” she said. “And we have an example where we can say it works.” The Engaged Scholars logo accompanies stories that feature and examine research and teaching partnerships formed between The Ohio State University and the community (local, state, national and global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources. These stories spring from a partnership with OSU’s Office of Outreach and Engagement. The Lantern retains sole editorial control over the selection, writing and editing of these stories.

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“The wave kind of crests and recedes, and a lot of times the most important thing is to have somebody who is compassionate and caring who can help that individual cope when they are at that time of maximum distress and then getting them to the good services that they deserve,” Campo said. Mental health concerns for college students There are a number of stresses on students that could lead to mental health issues. “Students within university settings are under a huge amount of stress,” Campo said. “And it is sometimes academic stress, oftentimes it is relational stress.” Campo said the stress of being an adolescent often has to do with balancing becoming your own person while staying “connected to the people that you love and who love you.” Furthermore, the tendency of students to worry about invading each other’s privacy during the transitional life stage of college might dissuade them from asking each other about their mental well-being, Campo said. “I think that one thing that I want to emphasize that I know young people struggle with is this whole issue of privacy and confidentiality,” he said. “What I would say to young people is I think they are often worried that, ‘Gee, my friend will be offended if I express my concern’ ... I think that this is something that folks need to just confront, and sometimes there is a

time for having some courage and this is what friends do. Friends have courage, and they have the courage to reach out and take risks, and that is what we need to do sometimes when somebody is really struggling.” Higginbotham said serving as an active and empathetic listener is something that she learned her junior year, when she helped connect a friend who was having suicidal thoughts to campus resources. “I was able to get him into (Counseling and Consultation Service) and after, you know, a couple months of that, he was feeling a million times better,” she said. “I was just really thankful that he was able to get help.” College students versus nonstudents Though college students are presumably under a great deal of stress, statistically they are not worse off than people of the same age range who are not enrolled in college. “The absolute risk of suicide is greater for those young people who don’t attend university,” Campo said. Although data from the CDC fact sheet showed similar percentages of full-time college students and other adults 18-22 years old having suicidal thoughts, there was a disparity when it came to actual attempts. Full-time college students were less likely to attempt suicide compared to their nonstudent 18-22 year old counterparts. Full-time college students were also less like-

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ly to receive medical attention as a result of an attempted suicide compared to their nonstudent peers, according to the CDC fact sheet. Campo said there are a variety of “underlying vulnerabilities”

“Suicide is a multidetermined, multifaceted problem, so all of these different things are important and related.” Dr. John Campo Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health

that contribute to an individual’s ultimate decision to complete suicide. He added that although stress can impact an individual’s mental health, other risk factors include pre-existing mental illnesses and addictions. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, more than 90 percent of people who complete suicide have been diagnosed with a mental illness. Additionally, substance abuse and addiction have been associated with increased risk of suicide, according to the NAMI Suicide Fact Sheet. “Oftentimes what you see is if you look at completed suicides, more often than not, the individual who has completed suicide has been using alcohol or some other drug, which may lower inhibitions, which may make people more likely to act impulsively and in ways that they otherwise would not if

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things so differently when they are not even aware that they need what you are providing,” he said. “It is going to take a while to find early adopters who want to work with them to get it to the point where the big companies can pick it up.” Vivek said the effect on the auto industry could be huge because it solves an important, yet difficult, situation in the industry, which is still looking for a cost-effective answer. Liu said this was just a small technology idea that started out in their lab, and he’s impressed with what they have been able to create, adding that he’s excited to have continued conversations and engagement with people within industry. Assisted by I-Corp@Ohio, the team is interviewing hundreds of manufacturers in the industry, making a business plan that could better meet the needs of the auto industry as well as to maximize the market potential of the new technology. Camp said that he believes making the research outcomes accessible to the industry is vital because research conducted in public research institutions like OSU are predominantly supported by public funding and tax money. “We have a moral obligation to make sure that what we developed and invented is maximized to the value they add back to the society,” Camp said.

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hospital remains open and running, Weber said that the project has been split into four phases. Phase one of the project was approved in June 2014 and created the new intensive-care unit, which allows the faculty to provide care for 25-40 patients at a time through a centralized observation and workstation, Weber said. This phase also is currently constructing a new building for the hospital to use. “(The new building) will be finished in February and will be mostly faculty and administration offices, as well as conference rooms,” Moore said. “So when that’s finished, all the faculty and staff that are in offices in the current hospital will move into that building.” Phases two and three were approved in June 2015. Phase two will create more exam rooms to give the hospital a total of 26, instead of the former 10 with five consult rooms, and it will create a new, larger lobby, Moore said. “Phase two, which starts March 1, is really going in where those old offices are located — which is actually in the front of the hospital — and basically demolishing all of that internally, and then creating an expansive lobby across the entire front of the building with double seating capacity,” he said. The final phase of the project, which was approved by the Board of Trustees this

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they weren’t using a substance,” Campo said. “Suicide is a multidetermined, multifaceted problem, so all of these different things are important and related.” Access to care Campo said one of the biggest aspects of suicide recently studied by the Wexner Medical Center has been the impact access to care has on the suicide rates observed in young people. In a study conducted by several researchers from the Wexner Medical Center published in JAMA pediatrics in March, Campo and Cynthia Fontanella, the lead author of the study, found that the youth suicide rate in rural areas was nearly double that of urban areas from 1996 to 2010. Campo said one of the reasons for this difference between rural and urban areas has to do with access to care. “If you look at regions that have 24/7 crisis assessment services available, regions that have better access not just to mental health services but to primary care services in general, that better access to care does seem to be associated with reductions in the suicide rate,” he said. “So one of the issues is how do we improve services? ... How do we make sure that those folks actually get the good care that they deserve?” Campo said steps have been taken at OSU to provide access to services, and he added that he hopes further collaboration will occur between medical center resources and those offered by the university on campus.

November is a renovation and expansion of the “small animal surgery area” and surrounding support areas, Moore said. This hospital houses faculty veterinarians, specialists, graduate and undergraduate students, interns and 150 to 160 staff members, including registered veterinary technicians, technologists and more. All these people are dedicated to providing the best care possible not just to dogs and cats but to all animals, such as horses, cattle, sheep and pigs, Moore said. While many OSU students might not be very familiar with the veterinary hospital, dog owner Wyson Kong, a second-year in biochemistry, said he thinks that the renovations will benefit both the university and pet owners. “OSU already has one of the best veterinary programs, and now that our facilities are improving, they will continue to perform at a high level,” he said. “It will be a good place for students and people in the community to bring their pets if they were to need medical assistance.” The College of Veterinary Medicine is the largest in the U.S., in terms of students and alumni, and ranked No. 5 among all U.S. colleges of veterinary medicine, Moore said. “We are very excited about the hospital renovation expansion, and I think it will be a great thing for the community, as well as our faculty, staff and students,” Moore said.

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“We have been working very closely with the counseling center here at Ohio State to bridge that transition. To make sure that folks connect to the good services that are available in our counseling center,” he said. “What I would like to see on our campus is really an integrated system of care for students, both undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty who struggle with emotional behavior or addiction-related problems ... So what we see our role is, is being able to provide those higher levels of care in collaboration with our colleagues on campus.” Higginbotham stressed the importance of having a support system when reaching out for care. “A lot of times people have a hard time getting help on their own. Sometimes they just need someone go with them or just support them through it,” she said. More information about suicide-related services is available at suicideprevention.osu.edu. The Franklin County Suicide Prevention Coalition hotline is 614-2215445. This is part one of a two-part series on mental health and college students. Part two will focus on resources available to Ohio State students struggling with thoughts of suicide. This series was made possible by the generosity of The Lantern and Ohio State alumna Patty Miller.

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President Drake on the Stones, music and memory SALLEE ANN RUIBAL Arts&Life Editor ruibal.1@osu.edu

“My musical tastes would be like my tastes in food: If you said, ‘Do you like Mexican or Italian or whatever?’ I’d say, ‘Absolutely.’”

MICHAEL HUSON Campus Editor huson.4@osu.edu On Dec. 5, 1969, three friends left their homes in the middle of the night for Alameda, California. They wanted to get to Altamont Speedway early to camp out and stake their spot for the free Rolling Stones concert the next day. The trio slept on the grassy hillside in roughly 30-degree weather. There was Jimmy, who lived down the street, high-school friend Pete and a young man by the name of Michael Drake. Ohio State University President Drake said he has been a fan of the Rolling Stones for most of his life. “It’s more the whole performance that I find interesting about them. Who they’ve been, and their persona,” Drake said. “I think ‘Gimme Shelter’ is a fascinating song, and I particularly like the the little Mary Clayton vocal.” The Rolling Stones’ free Altamont show is notorious for its tragic end into debauchery and four deaths, often symbolic as an end to

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University President Michael Drake performs. the 1960s. “We watched the day unfold,” he said. “It was disorganized always, and the violence and disruptions began in the afternoon. There was an uncomfortable vibe about it.” Drake and his friends left the concert midway through the Stones’ set. “I’d never left a concert before it was over before,” he said. Drake said his musical tastes aren’t specific; they instead resemble more of a smorgasboard.

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“My musical tastes would be like my tastes in food: If you said, ‘Do you like Mexican or Italian or whatever?’ I’d say, ‘Absolutely,’” he said. “The Rolling Stones I listen to all the time.” In the late 1960s, during summer and winter breaks from Stanford University, Drake would work at Tower Records in Sacramento, California. He had frequently seen the building, as it was located a mile from his high school and two miles from his house.

“Working there was great because the people behind the counter went to my high school,” he said. “I felt privileged to be able to have that job. It was like a reunion, a perfect place to work.” Drake would explore the record collection, sampling new records for himself and patrons and then resealing them for sale. While many of his friends were into rock ‘n’ roll, he gravitated more toward jazz and the beginning of fusion, funk-influenced jazz. Some of his favorites were Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, he said. After medical school, Drake set the guitar down to focus on his career and family. He said he recently picked it back up as something to keep him company when watching games on Saturday. His favorite guitars are his Les Paul,

Telecaster and Taylor acoustic guitars. He noted that the first person he saw play a Les Paul was Keith Richards, guitarist for the Stones. Drake has played guitar in a few fundraisers, but he insists that most everyone is better at it than him. “It’s really just a hobby for me, and I like it a lot,” he said. Drake will, however, be turning the hobby into a course next semester. “(The course) looks at music and how the lyrics and the timbre of music reflect changing social conditions in society,” he said. “One of the things we talk about is how we can communicate with time and people and place with music and song. I think that’s true for all of us. We can hear songs that remind us of those times and places.” From Alameda to The Oval, Drake will continue to carry a tune.

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2015 an impactful year for many music genres SAM KAYUHA For The Lantern kayuha.2@osu.edu 2014 ended with the release of Kanye West’s sparse, heartfelt ballad of “Only One” on New Year’s Eve. The song was an inauguration of sorts for what has been a fantastic 12 months for music. 2015 saw pop turn a sonic corner, rap had one of its most prolific years ever and new bands continue to dispute the idiom that rock is dead. Below are 10 of the best songs released in 2015, a mixtape of sorts for the year that was. “REALiTi” by Grimes While Claire Elise Boucher, known by her stage name of Grimes, may never be a pop star on the level of Ariana Grande, she pushed the genre more than anyone on this year’s album “Art Angels.” “REALiTi,” first released in March and later included on “Art Angels,” expands on Boucher’s previous sound: diverse in melody while remaining trance-like. The rest of the record is more straightforward in its poptimism, but “REALiTi” shows a time when Grimes had only begun to set out in that direction. “‘Cause I’m a Man” by Tame Impala Tame Impala’s impish psychedelia was fully indulged on the group’s first two albums, interspersing instrumental exploration with moments of songwriting and sonic genius. “Currents,” the band’s album released this year, saw the songwriting move to the forefront, featuring a much more prominent taste. Groovy bass and drums, piercing gui-

10 of the best songs released in 2015 — a mixtape of sorts for the year that was tar and singer Kevin Park’s faraway vocals come together on “‘Cause I’m a Man,” one of Tame Impala’s most neatly packed tracks and one of the year’s best. “Hotline Bling” by Drake Although it may have seemed impossible last year, Drake’s star somehow continued to rise in 2015. He unexpectedly released a mixtape of sorts in February (“If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late”), put out a collaborative album with the only rapper challenging him for hip-hop’s biggest figure (Future on “What a Time to be Alive”) and brushed off ghostwriting accusations without ever really denying it. “Hotline Bling” was a one-off release, its instrumental based on D.R.A.M.’s viral hit “Cha Cha.” Drake does his Drake thing, bemoaning an old booty call companion. This is still what the man does best — finding space somewhere between rapping and singing, continuing to reach new avenues and paths for his sound. He found a great one in “Hotline Bling.” “Trying” by Bully The main strip in Nashville, Tennessee, might be the center of the industry for TOP TEN CONTINUES ON 8

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“The intermediate ceramics students will be showing off their skills in the basement of Hopkins Hall; we’ll be running the 3-D Undergraduate students have printers in the Fabrication Lab, and spent the semester developing their there will be glassblowing going on portfolio of art. Now, it’s time to at Sherman Center,” she said. take the next step and put them on display. “Sharing artwork The Department of Art Open House will bring more than 300 makes a very private students’ artworks to the public. experience public. The exhibition will showcase stu- Creating work that dent work across seven emphasis areas that include art and technol- strikes up a very ogy, ceramics, glass, painting and sensitive conversation drawing, photography, printmaking can be challenging.” and sculpture, according to ProfesMaria DiFranco sor Rebecca Harvey, chair of the Graduate student in painting and department. drawing “The purpose is to celebrate and showcase the amazing work that The open house is not only about has been made over the course of exhibiting student work, but it also the semester by the students in the sparks conversation between art art department,” Harvey said in an students. email. “It is a big party for family, “The open house has been a way friends and anyone that is inter- for all areas in the Department of ested in coming over and taking a Art to mingle and see the work that look and seeing what it is we do everyone is making,” said Alana over here.” Yon, a graduate student in painting The open house will feature live and drawing who teaches an introdemonstrations as well, Harvey ductory course in drawing. “It’s said. been great to work with my (under-

graduate) class on the open-house preparation because they have to consider their work and decide on a drawing for the open house. By having other people view their work, there is a different level of accountability for my students.” Yon also said having the experience at the open house helps students to consider the presentation and installation of their work. Maria DiFranco, a graduate student in painting and drawing, said showing artwork can be a big step for students who had never been a part of an exhibition. By inviting the campus community to view each student’s work, the open house can boost confidence. DiFranco said students might face certain challenges by showing their works at an open house. “Sharing artwork makes a very private experience public. Creating work that strikes up a very sensitive conversation can be challenging,” she said. “I believe many students feel vulnerable when sharing their artwork for this reason.” Attending the open house provides mutual benefits between participants and audiences, Harvey said.

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Banner: “Natural Affliction” is the combination of a four-by-four-foot topographic map, hand-constructed from birch plywood and displayed flat on the ground, with an animated map of urban growth projected on top of the modeled landscape. COURTESY OF ALANA YON

Left: Alana Yon’s current project “Mushroom Tent,” which contains straw and oyster mushrooms surrounded by diaphanous, soft plastic.

“The faculty loves it too. We are here to foster that engagement and help the students succeed,” Harvey said. “As far as the audience, it is a great chance to come on over and see what we are up to. And it is a nice way to explore a bit of the campus and make some new connections.”

The exhibition will be held Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Hopkins Hall, Sherman Studios and Hayes Hall. Food and karaoke will be provided as well.

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HANNAH HERNER Lantern reporter herner.12@osu.edu String bass player Victoria “Tonic Tori” Woods considered herself the “rebel of the family” when she chose to play a string instrument. Her father was Jon Woods, the director of the Ohio State Marching Band for 28 years. “I played in orchestra, so I was kind of the rebel because I didn’t want to play in band. But I do love marching band,” Victoria Woods said. She said her father loved to hear her practice every day, and she fondly remembers playing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” with her: he on trombone and she on the string bass. But now she has new bandmates. Now with Jessica “Jessijem” Minshall and Yoko Miyakawa, the trio makes up Jemntonic. Minshall — lead vocalist, guitarist and accordion player — said she’s wanted to be a musician for 10 years. She was inspired to play accordion by her grandmother, who also played the instrument. She said she hopes to “bring it back” and make it popular again in the music scene. Miyakawa, a viola player and

Columbus band Jemntonic. The band describes itself as a “jamband” that plays “pretty front porch punk folk.”

percussionist, started playing viola in middle school and picked up some percussion for the group by fashioning a drum out of an old suitcase last year. Jemntonic’s instrumentation has gotten it mistaken for a polka band a couple of times, but the band makes “pretty front porch punk folk,” and calls itself a “jamband.” Minshall described a “jamband” as the type of band that would play 10-minute leads, something groovy that appeals to music festival audiences.

“I kind of want to push ‘girlband’ into the jamband scene because there’s no solid girl jambands out there, and I kind of want to get that audience,” Minshall said. “Anybody that would like a jamband would probably like Jemntonics.” The band began to form in the summer of 2013 when Victoria Woods and Minshall met at a music festival where they were both stilt walking. The song “Hippy Dippy” features a dialogue section where they both talk about meeting each other

for the first time. They said they don’t consider their nicknames, “Jessijem” and “Tonic Tori,” to be alter egos but a part of their daily identity. Both are entertainers for a living, employed by a circus company that Minshall started. In addition to stilt walking, they also breathe fire and do tricks on the trapeze, among other talents. “Pretty much we get high for a living on stilts,” Minshall said. Not long after the duo met, they met Miyakawa at a Lotus concert through mutual friends. Minshall

said that after she learned Miyakawa was a viola player, she had to have her in the band. Miyakawa is known as the leader of the band, the “n” in the middle of “Jem” and “tonic.” “I guess I’m technically the leader, but I like to look at Yoko as the leader,” Minshall said. Miyakawa is also referred to as the “Rockstar Scientist” because she is set to graduate with a degree in earth science and chemistry from OSU in May. Miyakawa said she lives somewhat of a double life and doesn’t think that many of the students she teaches as a teaching associate know that she’s in a band. Music is an important escape from school stress for her. “It’s a necessity, it’s very stress-relieving. Music helps me express things that I can’t really say,” Miyakawa said. In the future, the band plans to focus its energy on music videos to get its name out while releasing music for free via Soundcloud.

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Columbus Skyline MUYAO SHEN | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

As the semester approaches its end, some students will be seeing the Columbus skyline for the last time for this year. Safe travels to those leaving the city for the holidays.

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RICE KRISPIE TREATS Prep time: 10 minutes Total time: 30 minutes Servings: 24 3 tablespoons of unsalted butter 2 10-ounce bags of mini marshmallows 1 box of Rice Krispies cereal Splash of vanilla Mini M&Ms, sorted into holiday colors by roommate (optional) Melt the butter in a pot on the stove at low heat. Once melted, add the marshmallows. Stir every couple of minutes until melted. Add a splash of vanilla, mix marshmallow goop to combine. Fold in the cereal until completely coated. Press mixture into pans or muffin tins. If using M&Ms, sprinkle on top, gently pressing into treats to set. A trick is to roll a glass over a tray of M&M coated treats, so as to lay them flat without marshmallow goop sticking to your fingers indefinitely. Let cool and then enjoy.

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A plate of no-bake desserts. SALLEE ANN RUIBAL Arts&Life Editor ruibal.1@osu.edu Sunday afternoon, my roommate and I founded a new holiday — read: finals procrastination — tradition. We wanted to make cookies, but just the thought of measuring out flour and knowing the difference between baking soda and powder sent our heads spinning. Plus, our

oven can’t even close all the way when a cookie sheet is inside it. To solve our multiple hot mess dilemmas, we engineered a lazy solution. We decided to make sweet treats that rely on just dumping bags and boxes of stuff together, then waiting for them to harden — also known as, “no-bake desserts.” I’ve never made Rice Krispie treats or these “haystacks” — chocolate-and-butterscotch-covered chow mein noodles — but it’s

never too late to start a tradition. My roommate and I prefer to spend the inactive cooking time watching DJ Khaled’s Snapchat story and then eating our masterpieces while watching Ice Cube’s “Friday” trilogy, but you do you. All that matters is that you indulge a little with no risk of setting off the fire alarm.

HAYSTACKS Prep time: 10 minutes Total time: 30 minutes Servings: 36 1 bag of butterscotch chips 1 bag of semisweet chocolate chips 1 bag of chow mein noodles Melt the chips together in a pot on the stove at low heat. Stir often so the bottom does not burn. Once melted, add in the noodles. Fold to coat completely. Drop by spoonfuls onto parchment paper-lined pan. Let cool and then enjoy with an Ice Cube cinema classic.

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honky-tonk bars and kitschy Johnny Cash gift shops, but elsewhere in the state’s capital lives a thriving rock scene, one that this year introduced us to Bully. Dirty guitars, gritty, yet beautiful, vocals and themes of doubt and isolation are prominent on its debut LP, a modern rock record in its purest form. “Trying” is an anthem of overthought, with singer and guitarist Alicia Bognanno belting that she’s “trying to hide from (her) mind” over fuzzy guitars and pounding drums. Every year needs at least one grunge-ish hit, and Bully can check that off for 2015. “March Madness” by Future Future has been riding a wave since before the first of the year. A trio of three mixtapes, one solo album and one collaborative album, released in a little over a year (with a few more rumored to be on the way), has made him the hottest rapper in the world — TMZ reported that he commands $150,000 per 45-minute set. On the second mixtape, “56 Nights,” the fast-life themes seem to come down more than turn up. “March Madness” is a dark song, touching on police murder and drug use, but is still commonplace in bars and clubs. It’s that dichotomy of Future, during sporting events while still feeling like Lil Wayne did on “I Feel Like Dying.” It’s this complexity that makes Future one of the most interesting voices in rap today. “Loud Places” by Jamie xx ft. Romy This duet — between the producer and singer and the guitarist of The xx for Jamie’s solo record, “In Colour” — sounds like the turn from the darkest time of night to sunrise. Romy’s verses about lost love and loud places are forlorn, the hook subtly rises, and the chorus booms, “I feel music in your heights / I have never seen such heights.” Jamie’s production is airtight, managing to alternate between minimalism and sweeping grandiosity. It’s a technique he has damn near mastered. “Depreston” by Courtney Barnett Barnett’s Bob Dylan-esque stream of consequence on the album “Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit” often touches on the minutiae of daily life — from a conversation with an elevator operator on one track to an open house in the suburbs on “Depreston.”

The scene is set sadly, with a mournful guitar riff in the background, as Barnett notes objects around the house like “a handrail in the shower” or “a picture of a young man in Vietnam.” A young adult who is choosing between planting roots and cutting them off, Barnett seems to decide on the latter, closing the song by singing “If you’ve got a spare half a million / You could knock it down and start rebuilding.” “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar No one made a more important album than Kendrick Lamar in 2015. “To Pimp a Butterfly” is a magnum opus of hip-hop, a social justice protest record with incredibly intricate jazz-influenced instrumentals and brilliant lyrical storytelling. It’s not unreasonable to be pessimistic about the prospects of solving racial injustice, and it’s not the artist’s job to make you feel OK about what is happening in the world. On the contrary, it is probably more important that art makes the audience uncomfortable, forced to swallow certain truths. “To Pimp a Butterfly” is that moment of truth, but “Alright” is the hope that one day, everyone will be just that. “Continental Shelf” by Viet Cong The band formerly known as Viet Cong plays post-punk for a post-industrial world. Its music sounds like rusted out, abandoned factories. There’s a sense of hopelessness and dread, with crunchy guitars and a wall of white noise in the background but beauty in melody. “Continental Shelf” alternates between pulsating verses and soothing choruses, a glimmer of sunlight pushing through a dark cloud, leaving some chance for light at the end of the tunnel. “Where Are Ü Now” by Jack Ü ft. Justin Bieber The Justin Bieber redemption tour is in full swing, with a kinder, reformed public image and his new album receiving surprising critical acclaim. This song came around somewhere near the beginning of the “matured” Bieber. The demo was remade by electro wizards Diplo and Skrillex. The fact something interesting can still be made from a bass drop is in and of itself impressive, but the post drop riff made from a mutilated Bieber vocal line makes this song even more interesting.

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Keep Mirror Lake jump for students FRANCIS PELLICCIARO Assistant Multimedia Editor pellicciaro.1@osu.edu You take a deep breath and feel the bare skin on your chest and shoulders expand against the cold November air as the skin on your arms tightens and the goosebumps rise. It is midnight and you are standing in a crowd of thousands of college students. There are people yelling, drunkenly singing school songs and carrying school banners. An old friend slaps you on the shoulder and together you jog forward to the edge of the water and jump in. This isn’t the first Mirror Lake jump and it won’t be the last, but for you this night is a memory in the making. In the wake of the tragedy that struck at this year’s Mirror Lake jump, it is likely that there will be a crackdown on the jump as university leadership looks to end the

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Students take part in the annual Mirror Lake Jump on Nov. 22. tradition. The death of Austin Singletary was more than tragic — it was the avoidable death of a young person, and all the condolences of the OSU community should be given to his family and friends. But his death does not make the entire student body accountable, and university officials are wrong

when they try to make it a reason to end the Mirror Lake jump. College is a time meant for perfecting your ability to make decisions on your own and becoming comfortable with taking responsibility for yourself. Jumping into cold water on a November night should be seen by any rational person as a risk, and Sin-

gletary is a reminder that there are sometimes consequences of taking such a risk. To ban good-natured risk-taking behavior is to ban the spirit of going to college and the spirit of that grand crescendo of the end of one’s youth. University leaders have received complaints from parents who believe that not enough is done to keep their children safe. Thus, OSU leaders might have an impetus to take those parents’ voices a step further and make OSU a nanny to its students. This is contradictory to the reasons why students go away to college and an insult to any OSU student who is comfortable taking care of his or herself. Undergraduate Student Government’s support of ending the jump shows that the body is out of touch with the demands of the student population. The student body is the life of the yearly jump, as OSU students con-

tinue the tradition every year. Are there any signs that love for the jump has gone away since 2013 when there was a fence put up around Mirror Lake and students took down the fence in order to make an early jump? The USG resolution for ending the jump, Resolution 48-R-21: A Resolution to Advocate for Student Safety by Ending the Mirror Lake Jump says “(USG) will make every effort to support a new tradition created by the students that celebrates our university while respecting the safety of its students.” This does not make any sense. Traditions are not delegated. Traditions begin naturally and organically out of the feelings of a community. People will still want the Mirror Lake jump to continue, whether university leadership believes it is a good idea and whether USG is capable of stepping up to the plate for the student body.

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An open letter to President Drake We, the brothers of Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity Inc. along with other members of the Latino community and our non-Latino allies, believe that The Ohio State University must put forth a more concerted and discernable effort to represent us. We feel that the Latino population is unappreciated and underrepresented. We were grateful for the Latino Center, which was established earlier this year by the university, but were deeply disheartened that after only one semester the center has lost all of its support. With no resource center geared toward the advancement of Latino students on campus and with a student population of only 4 percent, it is difficult to feel as though The Ohio State University is working for its Latino student body. It is for these reasons and many other motives that we have taken the initiative to reach out to you with a list of demands, a response to which is vital to the advancement of a healthy Latino community here at The Ohio State University. 1. Services for current and prospective Latino students, both documented and undoc-

umented, must be improved to increase student access to resources and scholarships. This will help the retention of Latino students through graduation and will lead to continuation on to higher education programs. 2. Revise admissions strategies to actively target Latino students for graduate and undergraduate programs, nationally and internationally. 3. DACA support. To help these efforts, we demand that The Ohio State University support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. To create a simplified admissions process where students may select ‘DACA’ as an option when applying. To create an academic adviser position for these students with institutional support from an existing advising unit. To create an institutional scholarship for DACA students. 4. Space for Latino Students on campus that’s staffed and open at any moment. The lack of any dedicated space for Latino students sends a strong signal to the Latino student body that we do not matter. The creation of such a space on campus for Latinos is an overdue necessity; the

Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity Inc. advocates for Ohio State Latino community lack of a Latino-geared resource center diminishes the importance of our community on campus. This resource center — provided proper support from the university — would help manage some of the demands that we are bringing forward. 5. Funding of Latino groups and organizations. These funds should be increased to help programming events that will expand cultural awareness in an enriched global institution. 6. Latino Arrival Program. The brothers of the Psi Delta chapter of Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity Inc. are interested in organizing, planning and implementing Ohio State’s first incoming Latino First-Year student event (Latinos Unidos). This arrival event would give incoming Latino students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with campus while creating a strong Latino community with each other. We envision this

“Latinos Unidos” event as a singular day or possibly as a weeklong event consisting of a series of orienting activities, field games and workshops that will contribute to the level of involvement of Latinos on campus. 7. Hiring and retaining Latino staff and faculty leaders who will enrich the cultural community on campus. Continuing to diversify the university’s faculty population with Latino members will lead to a greater integration between faculty and student body. 8. Establish a Latino alumni network that is backed by the university. This network would provide resources and contact information, through a university-managed website, to facilitate the formation and maintenance of a worldwide Latino alumni community. This will allow for networking during the undergraduate and postgraduate facets of life. 9. A short meeting with you, President Drake, in which we

may discuss these matters in person. During these times of discrimination, we ask that the leaders of an innovative and progressive institution such as The Ohio State University put forth marked and notable effort toward meeting the unique needs of its Latino community that is dedicated to finding ways by which to thrive. We’ve seen the pictures of Latinos on the brochures that portray OSU as a Latino-friendly campus, however, we the Latino student body believe that The Ohio State University has a tremendous amount of work to do for its Latino students. Through the accommodation of the demands we have listed, the representation and involvement of the Latino community on campus will be greatly improved. We understand that you are a busy man, but if you would like to show your support for our community then we would welcome a response and a chance to meet with you to discuss these matters. Respectfully submitted, The Brothers of Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity Inc.

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two matches took the minimum of six sets to complete. “At this point, we feel like we’re on a little bit of a run, too,” OSU coach Geoff Carlston said. “We played with a lot of confidence this weekend. They really believe in each other. They believe in what we’re doing.” The Buckeyes have seen their fair share of top teams during conference play this season, something Carlston said they feel will go a long way against Washington. “Our group is tough and the Big Ten makes you that way,” Carlston said. Playing the underdog role is nothing new to the Buckeyes, who were picked to finish eighth in the Big Ten before the season. For much of the early part of the season, the team talked about playing with a chip on its shoulder after the conference rankings came out, which helped fuel its early-season success. OSU is looking to embrace that mindset once again as it heads into the coming weekend. “We’re always looking to upset somebody, we don’t want to get upset,” senior outside hitter Katie Mitchell said. “Half the time we’re the underdog and people are slamming Ohio State, saying, ‘They’re hot and cold,’ and this and that. But we’re pretty hot right now.” Against one of the top teams in the country — and one that many felt was deserving of a top-four seed — Carlston said he wants to see his team play aggressive but smart. “You’d love to swing for the bleachers every time you get the chance and go for it every single time, but there’s an IQ level that has to be taking place,” he said. “Pretty much every team in this, I guarantee you if you look at their error percentages, they’re going to be around 12 to 14 percent. That is the one stat that is so solid across elite teams.” Aside from the excitement brought about by playing in the tournament, the Buckeyes are also eager to play a team from the Pac12, which stands right with the Big Ten as one of the best conferences in the country. “Other than Oregon, I haven’t played a Pac-12 team in my four years here,” Mitchell said. “I’m really excited to play some Pac-12

kids.” Scouting Washington If OSU is going to beat the Huskies, it will have to continue to play the lockdown defense it did against Robert Morris and American. Washington is one of the most dangerous offensive teams in the country, leading the nation in hitting percentage (.316) while ranking eighth in kills per set (14.58) and ninth in assists per set (13.66). Senior middle blocker Lianna Sybeldon has been the most efficient hitter for the Huskies, with an NCAA-leading .465 hitting percentage. At the center of slowing down the Huskies will be junior libero Valeria León, who currently holds the OSU single-season record in digs per set (4.54). “Passing is going to be a huge part, so just talk to my teammates early,” León said will be a key to defensive success. “Just be the general back there, and just let my teammates know what to do.” Although Washington has impressive numbers as a team, its offensive production comes from across the board. Five players average more than two kills per set for Washington, though none are above three. “They’re not loaded on one person or one thing, so I think for us we’re just going to have to play really strong defense and be disciplined in our own right,” Carlston said. Offensively, freshman setter Taylor Hughes believes the Buckeyes can keep the Huskies off balance by playing fast-paced. “Their middles are pretty big (and) they read a lot, so I feel like we can beat them with tempo and our fast offense,” she said. “That will definitely be a big weapon of ours.” OSU is 2-2 in the all-time series with Washington, but the two teams haven’t met since 2006 when the Huskies were victorious in a Sweet 16 matchup. What’s next? If OSU defeats the Huskies, it will advance to the Elite Eight to face the winner of No. 4-seed Nebraska and No. 13-seed BYU at 4 p.m. on Saturday in Lexington.

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in, made a lot of plays, gained confidence. As his confidence grew, we were able to add more to his plate. Really proud of the way he handled himself.” Though the Fighting Irish lost a pair of games by two points to Clemson and Stanford, teams that ended up being ranked No. 1 and No. 6, respectively, Kelly said he is very happy with how the season turned out, especially coming off an 8-5 campaign in 2014 that ended with a trip to the Motor City Bowl. The coach credited some of the sustained success after losing his starting quarterback to borrowing the model OSU set the year before, when it went on to win the national championship despite losing its first- and second-string quarterbacks in Braxton Miller and J.T. Barrett to injuries. “Urban had a similar situation last year. We kind of stole a little bit of what they did last year: not making any excuses, just going and playing,” Kelly said. “The kids really responded to that, in particular DeShone did and was able to lead our football team to some big wins.” Staff connections The coaching staff of OSU is deep with Notre Dame connections, starting all the way at the top. Meyer was hired away from Col-

orado State before the 1996 season to become Notre Dame’s wide receivers coach. He stayed there until before the 2001 season, when he received his first head coaching job at Bowling Green. “That was a dream come true,” Meyer said during the teleconference. “That was my first exposure

“Urban had a similar situation last year. We kind of stole a little bit of what they did last year: not making any excuses, just going and playing.” Brian Kelly Notre Dame football coach

as a full-time coach to that level of football.” Kelly arrived at Notre Dame in 2010 by way of Cincinnati — the same school that Meyer graduated from in 1986. In addition, Meyer has been active in recruiting his coaches out of Kelly’s program. Of the nine coordinators and position coaches on Meyer’s staff, three were hired away from Kelly. For the first five years of Kelly’s tenure in South Bend, Indiana, his wide receivers coach — and later

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OSU senior outside hitter Katie Mitchell (17) during a game against Robert Morris in the NCAA tournament on Dec. 4 at St. John Arena.

running backs coach — was Tony Alford. Before this season, Meyer hired Alford away from Kelly as OSU’s running backs coach, ending his six-year stint with the Fighting Irish. OSU offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Ed Warinner also worked under Kelly at Notre Dame in 2010 and 2011 as the Fighting Irish’s offensive line coach. He then took a job at OSU upon Meyer’s arrival in 2012. Following the same path as Warinner was Tim Hinton, who also left his two-year stint under Kelly when Meyer assembled his coaching staff at OSU. Hinton was Notre Dame’s running backs coach, and is now OSU’s tight ends and fullbacks coach.