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EDWARD SUTELAN Editor-in-Chief sutelan.1@osu.edu Ohio State’s settlement in the closing of the lawsuit filed by former Buckeye linebacker Chris Spielman against the university cost $140,000, but it was only the latest in the expenses from this case.

According to public records obtained by The Lantern, Ohio State has spent $136,436.09 in payments to Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, the law firm representing the university in court.

The invoices have dates ranging from Sept.

29, 2017, to Aug. 30, 2018, with payment dates between Jan. 19, 2018 and Oct. 12, 2018. Since the lawsuit was not settled until Friday, the final total will likely be more than that $136,436.09 tally.

Spielman sued Ohio State and IMG on July 14, 2017, claiming the two groups used the likeness of Ohio State athletes around Ohio Stadium on the 64 Honda-sponsored banners without permission of the athletes and offering no compensation in return.

Ohio State settled with Spielman for $140,000 in the lawsuit, adding that Spielman

will not make any further disparaging comments against the university. Spielman is still in court against International Management Group, a talent management company more commonly referred to as IMG. Bret Adams, attorney for Spielman, said Spielman will be able to focus more on IMG, which Adams said is at the root of the issue since it was that group that sold the banners to Honda. He noted that the case against IMG has national implications since it sells the names and likenesses of players at other universities as well.

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USG initiative allows students to donate leftover swipes through Tapingo LILY MASLIA Lantern reporter maslia.2@osu.edu Students looking to help those in need can now do so through the comfort of their phones.

Undergraduate Student Government is revamping its Block Out Hunger food donation initiative, allowing students to donate campus food items through the food delivery and pick-up app, Tapingo. In collaboration with Buckeye Food Alliance, Block Out Hunger allows students who are food insecure to receive donations.

Colin Pender, USG student affairs committee representative, said Buckeye Food Alliance is a student organization that works with USG and independently to identify and aid food-insecure students.

“A lot of students tend to focus on academics and how they’re doing in their classes and they tend to forget about food insecurities and that there are students who are food insecure,” Pender, a second-year in political science and psychology, said.

Block Out Hunger is a year-round initiative that USG updates every November in coordination with Battle Against Hunger, a monthlong food insecurity awareness drive.

“This year we just switched over what items we will offer,” Maggie

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It’s hard enough taking an exam at 8 a.m. but it’s even harder when President Michael Drake interrupts it, announcing you will receive the highest recognition given to a student by the university.

That’s precisely what happened to Christian McGhee, a fourthyear in marketing.

McGhee was a few minutes into a marketing research exam when Drake came into the classroom and began explaining the President’s Prize to the entire class.

“When Dr. Drake came into the classroom to give him the award, that’s a special moment … and as Dr. Drake is talking to the rest of the class about what’s even going on, I saw him just kind of look down and start praying,” Ty Shepfer, McGhee’s faculty mentor, said. “After he got the award, he came up [and] gave me a hug.

That’s a special feeling as his faculty adviser for the last two years; you feel like you’re part of it.”

McGhee was chosen as one of two recipients of the President’s Prize. According to the award’s website, the prize will provide him with a $50,000 living stipend and up to $50,000 in funding for his project Getting Ready for Opportunities and Work, which aims to support incarcerated youths.

GROW has already provided support to this population through donation drives for Star House — a local homeless youth shelter — as well as visits and providing curriculum for professional development to the Circleville correctional facility. But McGhee said the goal is to have a transition house that enables incarcerated youth to become “thriving”

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Ready Robotics moves headquarters to Columbus ANNA RIPKEN Lantern reporter ripken.2@osu.edu A new venture-backed startup has come to Columbus ready to change the manufacturing world with robotics.

Ready Robotics is a company that manufactures, builds and leases robots to other companies to benefit their manufacturing processes. Founded in Baltimore in April 2016 — where it will retain a sales and marketing operation — the company opened its second office, now the headquarters, in Columbus earlier this year.

Originally, it consisted of just two employees: co-founders Benjamin Gibbs and Kelleher Guerin, but the company has expanded to 30 full-time and seven part-time employees, most of whom moved to Columbus with the February 2018 establishment of the new headquarters, Gibbs, also the CEO, said.

“You can actually make 50,000 of something with a human in front of a machine in like a week, which means that if they want to capture the value of automation, they need something that they can deploy quickly and easily.”

BENJAMIN GIBBS Ready Robotics co-founder

“Venture capitalists are specifically interested in high-growth, high-risk and therefore high-return investments and are always looking for companies that have the ability to disrupt established industries,” Gibbs said.

Gibbs said that disruption is a goal of Ready Robotics, which is why it made sense for the company to raise money that was largely backed by Drive Capital, a ven-

ture capital firm in Columbus.

“Silicon Valley is in the DNA of Drive Capital,” Gibbs said. “The people that started that company come from Silicon Valley, but their entire investment thesis is investing in companies outside of the valley that are located near their customer base because that’s a competitive advantage.”

Gibbs said there was some pressure to move to Silicon Valley because that is primarily where the investors are, however, the Midwest is where the factories and consumers are located.

“We found Columbus to be a very forward-thinking, innovative city that we fit into quite well,” he said.

Gibbs said the Midwest contains 60 percent of the U.S.’ factories, which makes it easier for the company to work not only with customers, but people who understand manufacturing and industrial automation.

“Manufacturing and industrial automation is a huge, globe-spanning, multibillion-dollar industry that has been around for decades, and there’s opportunities there that a nimble, forward-thinking company can exploit, but only if they have the resources to do so,” he said.

Ready Robotics focuses on robots providing a service and leasing robots to manufacturing companies, such as Stanley Black and Decker and Attwood Marine, the largest marine and boat component manufacturer in the United States, Gibbs said.

“They, like many manufacturers, have struggled with their margins getting squeezed by cheaper overseas competition, and the decision that they had to go through was: Is there a way for us to effectively automate here in the U.S. or do we need to begin to offshore some of that work?” Gibbs said.

He said in order for Attwood Marine to maintain its business, it would need to implement a strategy to capture the true value of automation, which is where Ready Robotics came in.

“We were able to help them because they have — they’re what’s called a low-volume, high-mix production environment, which means they make a lot of stuff but

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The TaskMate is one of Ready Robotics’ most popular products — a robotic arm that can be coded to perform specific, repetitive tasks.

not in huge quantities. And by huge quantities, I mean millions of things,” Gibbs said.

In contrast, Attwood Marine produces at levels ranging from about 5,000 to 100,000, Gibbs said.

“You can actually make 50,000 of something with a human in front of a machine in like a week, which means that if they want to capture the value of automation, they need something that they can deploy quickly and easily,” Gibbs said. “And that’s ultimately what we’re all about is enabling and empowering those manufacturers to be able to do that.”

The company’s leading product is the TaskMate, a robotic arm that attaches to a base that can be wheeled around to perform different tasks. Manufacturers can set the tasks through easy-to-use coding software.

“The big thing that we are really focused on in the long term is the software, what

we call the forge operating system,” Gibbs said. “And the TaskMate is one of the mechanisms by which we’re able to more effectively deploy that. But in the longer term, our focus will be increasingly on the software.”

Gibbs said this sort of system is appealing because of the ease of taking the software out of the box and putting it right on the production line. In addition to leasing, Ready Robotics’ products can be purchased.

The company has sent products to places ranging from Florida to Canada, with plans to expand worldwide. Gibbs said those plans should be executed over the next few years.

Ready Robotics is actively seeking student interns who are interested in working in robotics as programmers, testers and more, Gibbs said.

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Christian McGhee, a fourth-year in marketing, was selected as a recipient of the President’s Prize.

members of society upon their release.

“There’s resources available to them but there’s this thing called fragmentation where you might have job skill training or professional development, but oftentimes they just simply don’t have a home,” McGhee said. “As a result of that they re-enter the environments they came from and get involved in a lot of the bad things they dealt with.”

McGhee said this project originally started as an honors cohort Impact Challenge.

He had prior experience with mentoring middle school students, but had not considered working with incarcerated youth until Susan Colbert at Ohio State Extension — an office at the university that works to connect students with Ohioans — suggested the idea to his cohort group.

Colbert connected the group with Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Terri Jamison, who sat them down in her chambers and explained the struggles these youth face and the help they need.

“It was hard for us to not do anything about it after that,” McGhee said, adding that the group was “compelled to really start making a difference in these kids’ lives.

“And so with that, we just started putting our hands to the plow and working on help-

“It enables me to live out my dream of serving others is really how I describe it.

In terms of everything I really wanted to do in life, it’s really just making other people’s lives better.”

CHRISTIAN MCGHEE Fourth-year in marketing Recipient of the President’s Prize

ing these kids and turned out to become a nonprofit and something far greater than we ever expected.”

The group is working to establish a nonprofit organization and gain 501(c)(3) status, which will allow them to get tax deductions from charitable donations and have a house donated.

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Ash, director of USG student affairs and third-year in English, said. “We only ask for donations for the food that [Buckeye Food Alliance] is most in need of.”

This year, students can use the $5 value of one swipe from their meal plan for C-Store locations to donate fruit and rice.

Through Tapingo, students can donate items under “The C-Store — PAD” option, clicking “Virtual Donation” and indicating what food they would like to donate.

Students can also physically donate their swipe value at any of the three on-campus C-Store locations.

Though Block Out Hunger has been on campus for about five years, Ash said USG is prioritizing its marketing around the holiday season. She said Thanksgiving and winter break are important times to advertise the initiative.

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“The hypocrisy is that while IMG represents players, it’s allowing universities to exploit the name and likeness of former players,” Adams said.

“It is perplexing knowing Ohio State would spend this kind of money on attorney fees, knowing the money was coming back to the university.”

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The Lantern reached out to attorneys at IMG for comment, but had not heard back at the time of publication.

The lawsuit was filed as a class-action, with Spielman noting that he was filing it on behalf of former athletes who cannot represent themselves. Spielman had said when the lawsuit was first filed that any money given to him would be returned to the university, and that this case was more to give money to players who can’t afford the legal fees to sue the university.

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“We try to push the word even more because that’s when students typically have swipes left over,” Ash said. “It’s really just our goal to help serve Buckeye Food Alliance so they can serve the community.”

USG plans to push new initiatives that will assist food-insecure students, and meeting with Zia Ahmed, director of student dining, has made USG representatives such as Ash and Pender more passionate about expanding food insecurity programs.

And for now, those goals can start with students making a difference through the ease of their phones.

“You miss a lot of swipes during your years at Ohio State,” Pender said. “And so if you can donate those missed swipes that you don’t use and that you never see again to somebody who needs them, you’re making a difference regardless or not if you see it and people will be grateful for that.”

The joint statement released by Spielman and Ohio State said Spielman will donate all his proceeds to the William White Family Fund for ALS and the Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research, which are both at Ohio State.

“It is perplexing knowing Ohio State would spend this kind of money on attorney fees, knowing the money was coming back to the university,” Adams said.

Ohio State declined to comment on the legal fees or the statements from Adams.

The university has already had to dig into its pockets to pay for legal fees this year, having spent nearly $1.5 million for the investigation and lawsuits surrounding sexual misconduct allegations of former Ohio State physician Richard Strauss.

Ohio State had to spend money on three different law firms in the Strauss case: Perkins Coie, LLP, the Seattle-based law firm conducting the investigation; Carpenter Lipps & Leland, LLP, which is the legal representative for Ohio State in any lawsuits the university faces; and Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP, which oversees Perkins Coie and the investigation.

Perkins Coie received $1,379,966.30, Carpenter Lipps & Leland received $71,129.90 and Porter Wright Morris & Arthur received $30,806.75, with the most recent payment on the invoice listed as having gone to Perkins Coie on Aug. 17.

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ginning that we were going to be applying [for the President’s Prize],” McGhee said.

Although GROW is a team of individuals, Shepfer said that McGhee applied for the prize as an individual because of his leadership role in the organization.

“I think something in general that distinguishes Christian is he knows how to inspire and motivate others and with this project the aspirations are huge, it’s not going to be just him and he recognizes that,”

Shepfer said. “He recognizes that he needs a team behind him and he’s good at developing that team and getting the best out of his people.”

McGhee’s hope for GROW is that it will be able to be replicated and have multiple homes available to a variety of populations that need more support.

As for personal goals, McGhee said that this experience will help him as he pursues ministry.

“It enables me to live out my dream of serving others is really how I describe it.

In terms of everything I really wanted to do in life, it’s really just making other people’s lives better,” he said. “Expressing love and giving and supporting everyone I can.”

Shepfer said through GROW, McGhee has found a voice and become more culturally aware and sensitive to issues happening in the community.

“When he entered the cohort program, I would say he was someone who was quiet but had a ton of capacity,” he said. “Now he is someone who is confident and more than comfortable sharing his views in a respectful way.”

And if you’re wondering how McGhee did on his exam, no need to worry.

“I was caught off-guard and I could have [retaken] the exam because I couldn’t really think straight, and I decided not to,” McGhee said. “Thankfully I did alright, but I mean, you know it was really cool.”

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In July 2014, Jon Waters was fired as Ohio State marching band director for allegedly being aware of a sexualized culture in the band and failing to make any changes. Waters later filed a pair of lawsuits against the university: one claiming he was fired based on his gender and another for defamation. According to court documents, Waters wanted to be rehired as band director and receive at least $1 million in damages.

After Waters’ reverse gender discrimination case was dismissed in August 2016, Waters continued legal fights until voluntarily dismissing both all claims and appeals against the university in January 2017. University spokesman Ben Johnson said in exchange for voluntarily dismissing the claims, Waters did not have to repay the university for the legal fees it spent fighting him in court.

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According to records obtained by The Lantern and confirmed by the university, Ohio State had spent $1,591,573.25 on legal fees in the pair of lawsuits. Ohio State spent $1,417,553.25 in federal court where Waters claimed the reverse sexual discrimination, while it spent only $174,020 in the Court of Claims where Waters claimed defamation.

Adams noted that with all the cases, Ohio State could spend less on legal fees by settling instead. He believes it comes from an inability to admit wrongdoing by the university.

“It’s arrogance. That’s all it is,” Adams said. “It’s never, ‘Let’s find a resolution that’s the right thing to do and be fiscally responsible instead of defending every case,’ because they can’t admit wrongdoing.”

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‘Mamma Mia!’ comes to Columbus MARIELLA TICORAS For the Lantern ticoras.4@osu.edu Since premiering on Broadway in 1999 and eventually adapting into two feature-length films, the critically acclaimed musical “Mamma Mia!” will debut on the Short North Stage Thursday.

The production tells the tale of Donna, a hotelier in the Greek Isles, who prepares for her daughter’s wedding with the help of two long-time friends. Her daughter, Sophie, dreams of a perfect wedding with her father giving her away.

However, Sophie doesn’t know who her father is. Days before the wedding, she finds her mom’s journal that recounts the months before Donna discovered she was pregnant, and the entries reveal her mom had three lovers during this period. Sophie decides to invite the three men to her wedding because she believes she will know her father when she sees him.

The story is told through the music of internationally famous Swedish pop band ABBA. Katie Davis, an actress from New York, will play the role of Sophie in the musical.

She has held previous roles in productions such as “Newsies” and “Oklahoma.”

This will be her first time on the Short North Stage.

“Sophie’s story is one of second chances. She is a character that reminds people it’s never too late to take ownership of the relationships in your life,” Davis said. “So-

phie gets a chance to redefine her relationship with the father figures in her life, with her fiance, and with her mother — while her mother gets a chance to revisit her past loves.”

Dionysia Williams, director of the production, said she looks forward to Columbus experiencing this fun, high-spirited musical. Williams has previously performed at the Short North Stage in “Follies,” “Marvelous Wonderettes” and “The Performers.”

This, however, will be her full-length musical directorial debut at the Short North Stage.

“There is a touching story of mother and daughter and how their relationship ebbs and flows,” Williams said. ”There is intrigue and mystery as we try to figure out who Sophie’s father may be, there are many comical moments throughout to tickle the funny bone, huge dance numbers to get the heart pumping, and so many ABBA hits you won’t be able to stop yourself from singing and dancing along.”

“Mamma Mia!” falls into the category of feel-good theater. However, the storyline’s power to affect its audience shouldn’t be discounted.

“Whether you’re a die-hard ABBA fan, or will be hearing ABBA’s songs for the first time, this show has an infectious energy that will hopefully leave you smiling and dancing in your seat,” Davis said. “If you’re not singing along and busting a move in the audience, we’re not doing our job.”

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Katie Davis, who plays Sophie, and Jesse Daniel, who plays her fiance, Sky, will both star in “Mamma Mia!”

The play runs from Dec. 6 to Dec. 30.

Performances start at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday with 3 p.m. matinees on Saturdays and Sundays. Student tickets

costing $15 can be purchased two hours before the start of the show. General admission tickets start at $30.

Short North District holds annual Holiday Hop and tree lighting event MICHAEL LEE Engagement Editor lee.7240@osu.edu The rain couldn’t wash away the holiday spirit.

Despite the poor weather, the Short North District held its annual Holiday Hop along with a tree-lighting event in Poplar Park on Saturday.

On the first Saturday of each month, the Short North holds Gallery Hop, where visitors can see new gallery exhibitions, street performers, special events, as well as eat and drink throughout the district.

But in December, the Short North District gets festive. It not only held a Holiday Hop Pop-Up Shop last weekend, but some art galleries in the Short North, such as Studios on High, provide slightly different experiences than they usually do during a normal Gallery Hop. Nancy Nearing, a polymer clay artist who makes art for Studios on High, said normally during Gallery Hop the studio has extra people there to answer visitor questions about the art.

Holiday Hop also includes a special art show called “The Art of Gifting,” where the studio features smaller, more accessible works created by the artists that visitors can purchase as gifts.

“We have some lovely paintings this month by an artist who usually does precious metal jewelry,” Nearing said. “It’s a very special show. It’s exciting to see the artists working outside of their normal realm, and it’s exciting to see the smaller-format pieces.”

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The Short North Arts District held its annual Holiday Hop and Tree Lighting event on Saturday, Dec. 1.

Nearing said whenever she works on a Holiday or Gallery Hop, she enjoys the influx of people who are not necessarily interested in buying a lot of art, but come to

the galleries to learn about the works and see what is going on.

“It’s really lovely to interact with people in Columbus who are interested in seeing

what we do,” Nearing said. “People are always cheerful during Hop, and it’s just fun to be around that many happy people, and it’s fun to be able to share some of the things I love about the art here.”

At 6 p.m., under canopy tents keeping the rain and wind away at Poplar Park, the district held its tree-lighting ceremony.

The ceremony, hosted by renowned local drag queen Nina West and NBC4 anchor Monica Day, included a performance by the Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus, which sang songs such as “Jingle Bells” and “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.”

Betsy Pandora, executive director of the Short North Alliance, said the main purpose of having both the Holiday Hop and the tree-lighting ceremony is to get people down to the Short North to support local businesses.

“We have so many small businesses and in particular small retailers, and the holidays are a big time for them so we always like to make a big deal,” Pandora said.

Pandora said despite the weather earlier that night, the Holiday Hop was still able to “make a big deal” of the small businesses and retailers, and provide a great experience for those who visited the district.

“I think people love enjoying time with friends and family and enjoying the holidays in the Short North, particularly tonight,” she said.

As the Christmas tree was lighted, the weather began to let up, and people gathered around Poplar Park taking photos and celebrating the beginning of the holiday season.

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SETH SHANLEY Lantern reporter shanley.15@osu.edu With Twitter playing a major role in the 24-hour news and entertainment cycle for college students, “crush accounts” have popped up nationally and become a mainstay of campus culture.

Due to a massive student population, it’s only natural that Ohio State has its own thriving crush account.

“Send us your crushes & they will be posted on this twitter, anonymously,” OSU Crush’s Twitter states. This process is similar to most other crush accounts; users send a message and the account posts it.

First created in 2012, OSU Crush now boasts more than 19,000 followers and 43,000 tweets. On a good day, the account receives up to 80 submissions from students, which add to the current total of nearly 51,000 overall crush submissions.

Alongside being a voice for Ohio State students with crushes, the account is a forum for students to talk about campus, Mitch Hooper, Ohio State alumnus and former manager of OSU Crush, said.

“The crush account is so much more than just people [saying] like, ‘Oh I have a crush on this person or I like this person.’ It’s kind of evolved into this thing where it’s like, ‘I don’t like this professor’ or ‘chemistry class

is really hard this semester,” Hooper said. “It’s become a place for people to kind of open up and complain about things, but also profess their love for people.”

“I think people just get pure entertainment value out of it. There’s something about someone just tweeting out a picture of their dog or something funny that happened on campus and just the whole viralness of it.”

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With such a high volume of daily submissions, sorting through them is the hardest part of running the account, TJ Neer, current manager of OSU Crush and a fifth-year in journalism, said.

“It’s like sifting through the worst of

campus and finding things that I think would do well as a Twitter submission,” Neer said.

Due to the promise of anonymity, people will sometimes submit offensive content, both Hooper and Neer said. It’s the job of OSU Crush’s manager to make sure nothing distasteful makes it onto the page.

“For the most part I think it’s pretty reasonable, like it’s ‘I saw this girl with a dog, you’re super cute!’ or a missed connection or something, but sometimes the worst comes out in people,” Neer said. “I won’t post anything overtly racist or overtly sexist or blatantly attacks people.”

Despite these issues, Hooper sees OSU Crush as a valuable asset to Ohio State’s campus culture and student life.

He said the account is made for secret admirers, student discussion and, above all, entertainment.

“I think people just get pure entertainment value out of it. There’s something about someone just tweeting out a picture of their dog or something funny that happened on campus and just the whole viralness of it,” Hooper said.

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Campus Area Crime Map Nov. 26 - Dec. 2 MICHAEL LEE Engagement Editor lee.7240@osu.edu

1. A theft from a motor vehicle was reported to the Columbus Division of Police as having occurred between 9 p.m. Nov. 25 and 9 a.m. Nov. 26 on East 11th Avenue near Indianola Avenue. According to the online police log, an unknown person took $1,605 of property from the vehicle, including paperwork containing private medical information, a laptop and a mobile hotspot device.

2. A burglary was reported to University Police as having occurred between 11 a.m.

Nov. 25 and 5:10 p.m. Nov. 26 at Lincoln Tower.

3. A theft from a motor vehicle was reported to the Columbus Police as having occurred between 1 and 8:50 a.m. Nov. 26 on West Maynard Avenue near Tuttle Park.

According to the online police log, unknown suspect(s) forced entry into the victim’s vehicle, taking $19,950 in property, including wallets, designer bags and purses, shoes, jewelry, iPads, laptops, clothing, electronics, cologne and sunglasses.

4. A theft from a motor vehicle was reported to the Columbus Police as having occurred at 8:25 p.m. on Nov. 27 near Smith Place and North High Street. According to the online police log, the suspect took and damaged $4,100, including a laptop, computer parts, a calculator, a jacket and prescription sunglasses.

5. An assault was reported to University Police as having occurred at 6:45 p.m.

Wednesday at the Baker Systems Engineering building.

6. A theft from a motor vehicle was reported to the Columbus Police as having occurred between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 8:45 a.m. Thursday on East Maynard Avenue near Indianola Avenue. According to the online police log, unknown suspect(s) broke into the vehicle by punching the passenger door lock and took $14,800 of property, including a power generator, air compressor, nail guns, a ladder, hoses and other tools.

7. An incident of fondling was reported to University Police as having occurred at 11:30 p.m. Friday at Morrill Tower.

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8. A robbery was reported to the Columbus Police as having occurred at 8 p.m.

Friday near Pearl Street and Chittenden Avenue, according to the neighborhood safety notice released by the university. According to the notice, an unknown male suspect approached an Ohio State student and displayed a silver handgun, stealing the victim’s backpack and phone.

The notice also stated the suspect as a black male with a light complexion in his early 20s, as well as having short hair or a shaved head. He is also stated to be 6-foot1, weighing 160 pounds. At the time of the incident, he was reported to be wearing a gray-hooded sweatshirt and dark pants.

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Answer Key for Nov. 29 : Across 1. BBC 4. Boar 8. Chap 12. Loo 13. Marvin 15. Hopi 16. Ton 17. Engine 18. Rest 19. Stein 21. SSW 22. Ides 23. Dada

26. Eels 28. Spacing 31. Ritual 35. Col 36. Ernie 38. Since 39. Edam 41. Saved 43. Echo 44. Donor 46. Serum 48. Les 49. Emblem 51. Ribeyes

53. Atom 55. Esau 56. ABCs 59. Das 61. Glare 65. Bros 66. Entire 69. Mon 70. Bike 71. Loader 72. Moo 73. Ames 74. Frog 75. Oks

Down 1. BLTs 2. Boot 3. Cone 4. Ban 5. Org 6. Avis 7. Rinse 8. Christie 9. Hoed 10. Apse 11. Pits 13. Menace 14. Newer

20. IDA 24. Dirs 25. Annas 27. Lis 28. Sodom 29. PlanB 30. Giver 32. Uncle 33. Aches 34. Leos 35. Cede 37. Eerie 40. Molasses 42. Dubs

45. Ret 47. Meager 50. Model 52. Yul 54. Manof 56. Abba 57. Brim 58. Coke 60. Star 62. Ammo 63. Rook 64. Enos 67. Ido 68. Reg

Across 1. Totals 5. Disposable lighter brand 8. Baseball manager Felipe 12. Summer problem 13. Choir member 14. Some tides 16. Controversial rights gp.

17. Worker 18. Kanye West’s daughter 19. Ram’s bleat 20. Annoy 21. Hawaiian dish 23. Tofu bean 24. Certain tests 26. Animal enclosure 28. Pumokin mo.

29. Lamb’s part 31. ____ one’s time 35. Leg part 38. All finished 39. Still snoozing 40. Novelist Fleming

41. Scarlett of Tara 42. Mrs., in Paris 43. Insect eggs 45. Chianti, e.g.

46. Sink 48. Hog’s dinner 49. Thumbs-down votes 50. Drench 51. Large primate 53. Moves on ice 56. Eastern seaboard’s ocean (abbr.)

59. Chile’s neighbor (abbr.)

61. Clever humor 62. High-arced throw 64. “We ____ Overcome” 66. Student’s challenge 68. Verdi masterpiece 69. War hero Murphy 70. Tunes 71. Russian ruler, once 72. Societal newcomers 73. Basketball hoop edge 74. Small job

Down 1. Moby Dick’s nemesis 2. Coffee option 3. ____ Lama 4. R followers 5. Writes an online journal 6. Resident (suffix.)

7. Business abbr.

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13. Mature person 15. Not gregarious 20. Johann Sebastian ____ 22. Verdi creation 25. Eggy Yule drink 27. Basketball gp.

29. Actress Linda 30. Had been 32. Certain PCs 33. Moore of “Ghost”

34. Genesis spot 35. Metal containers 36. Sleet’s kin 37. Division direction 38. Akron’s locale 41. Proprietor 44. Exercise club 46. Scow or barge 47. Clever 50. Scoops off 52. Fades 53. Hive gang 54. Miss Doolittle 55. Fizzy beverages 56. Skinny ____ rail (2 wds.)

57. Book-dropping sound 58. Load freight 60. Reverse, for one 63. Canine comment 65. Book borowing spot (abbr.)

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Martin and Moore represent Team USA overseas NOLAN HARMON Lantern reporter harmon.437@osu.edu Senior 184-pound captain Myles Martin and redshirt junior captain Kollin Moore have both accomplished many feats in their time at Ohio State. But one thing they both happily reflect on is their time spent in Romania battling alongside one another.

Moore and Martin traveled to Romania to compete in the U23 World Championships as two of 400 wrestlers representing 34 nations. Moore, after participating in the event in both 2016 and 2017, earned a silver medal in the tournament.

“I got to wrestle a lot of good guys,” Moore said. “Just to wrestle some Russians and some other guys from countries who are really good at wrestling. It’s an honor and I thought I competed well.”

Both wrestlers said they learned a lot and had a different experience compared with anything they’ve ever had in the states.

And it was something Martin loved, giving him goals for his future.

“I took a lot away from it, but one big thing I learned was that I want to make as many world teams as possible and compete overseas as much as I can,” Martin said. “I’m not used to wrestling foreigners where they have a different mindset towards wrestling. One little mistake and you can get beat. I’m excited to compete in another one.”

In his first trip to the U23 World Championships, Martin said it was good to have Moore there, one who had competed overseas three times before and as a teammate and a familiar place in a foreign country.

Moore was even more excited about having his teammate and friend competing alongside him.

“It was nice to have a good buddy in the

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Ohio State then-redshirt sophomore Kollin Moore wrestles Cash Wilcke in the dual-meet against Iowa on Jan. 21 in the Schottenstein Center.

“I let them know the USA is getting better and we’re coming for them.”

KOLLIN MOORE Ohio State redshirt junior wrestling captain

room to talk to and to work out with. Especially on the travel,” Moore said. “We traveled for 29 hours on the way back, so it was nice to suffer through that with a guy you’re really close with.”

Ohio State head coach Tom Ryan was very proud of both Martin and Moore, saying that what they’ve been able to accomplish is incredible.

“To be at the level they’re at is rare. I think the numbers are .005 percent of high school wrestlers make it to the college level. And then those that make it to world teams are at a whole different level,” Ryan

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quarterback Chris Leak and Cardale Jones instead of Barrett and Tebow, Meyer said Haskins has done an excellent job doing anything he could to move the chains.

“How do you measure a quarterback? Obviously wins. Can he get and will he get a first down for you?” Meyer said. “Because once he gets one first down, he will get the next one.”

There was an element of change in the offense that Meyer acknowledged, giving the credit to offensive coordinator Ryan Day. Haskins said Meyer’s trust in him got to a point where the quarterback could attempt a pass in short-yardage situations, something that, with the quick and veteran receivers he had in his arsenal, became the bread and butter of the Ohio State offense.

Haskins said that level of trust took time, crediting both Day and Meyer for putting him in those offensive situations.

“I’m glad I have been able to give him the confidence this year,” Haskins said about Meyer. “I know he can rely on me in tough moments whether that was with a running play or a passing play.”

But Meyer played another important role for Haskins during the 2018 season. While Day primarily put the quarterback in a position to succeed, the head coach continued to keep him grounded.

Despite the success he had over the course of the 2018 sea-

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Ohio State then-junior Myles Martin wrestles Mitch Bowman in the dual-meet against Iowa on Jan. 21 in the Schottenstein Center.

said. “To see guys like Kollin and Myles who have talent and incredible work ethic and provide great leadership for us.”

But the goal for both Moore and Martin remained the same when they went to Romania as to when they wrestle for Ohio State: to show their ability on the mat.

Moore said that when facing international talent, every positive performance provides a statement for not only him and Ohio State, but also the United States.

“I let them know the USA is getting better and we’re coming for them,” Moore said.

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son, leading the nation with 4,580 passing yards and Ohio State to the No. 2 passing offense in the country, Haskins said Meyer did not want him to become too “big-headed.”

“I feel like I did what I needed to do to give my case to win the Heisman. It’s not my choice for who gets to win the Heisman, but either way, I just wanted to be considered for it. If I win, I win. If I don’t, it’s getting ready for Washington.”

DWAYNE HASKINS Ohio State redshirt sophomore quarterback

“He does a great job of keeping me humble and doesn’t really give me too much praise,” Haskins said. “He really wants me to be the best quarterback in the country, whether he voices that to anybody or not.”

But after Haskins’ 499-yard day against Northwestern in the Big Ten Championship, Meyer and Ohio State began vouching

for their starting quarterback, beginning his Heisman campaign.

Haskins said these were the same players and coaches who helped him to be elite this year.

And that is what Haskins wanted to prove. He feels like he has given enough to be warranted for discussion for Ohio State’s first Heisman winner since Troy Smith in 2006.

“I feel like I did what I needed to do to give my case to win the Heisman,” Haskins said. “It’s not my choice for who gets to win the Heisman, but either way, I just wanted to be considered for it. If I win, I win. If I don’t, it’s getting ready for Washington.”

Meyer said he does have thoughts about what Haskins’ future would look like, saying it would be unfair to him and his family to discuss that at this point.

Haskins might not know either.

The Heisman Trophy and the national championship is where the Road to Glory ends in the NCAA Football video game.

But with Haskins as a Heisman finalist, a quarterback who broke Big Ten and Ohio State records and a quarterback who changed the dynamic of the Ohio State offense, who knows? There might be a 6-foot-4, 220-pound My Player wearing No. 7 in a Madden video game Haskins might be preparing to emulate.

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straight season.

Redshirt junior defensive tackle Dre’Mont Jones said he was surprised to see Ohio State outside of the top four, reminding him of the situation a season ago. But he does not blame the committee for the decision.

“It was a little bit of a deja vu moment,” Jones said. “I felt like we left our destiny in the hands of the committee instead of our own hands.”

On the other hand, Ohio State’s opponent, No. 9 Washington, is excited at the opportunity to take on the Buckeyes, a program that head coach Chris Petersen called “one of the most storied, premier programs in the country.”

“That’s one game that this program has not been in for a long, long time,” Petersen said. “I think there’s a lot of excitement there and, certainly you throw in Ohio State ... I mean all that adds to a lot of excitement.”

But Petersen also understands the disappointment the Buckeyes might be feeling after being 12-1 Big Ten Champions with an impressive resume of wins against two top-12 teams.

Petersen is one of many calling for an expanded College Football Playoff. He said he thinks “everybody wants that thing to get expanded, and hopefully it will soon.”

“I think there’s gonna be a ton of excitement to go down to Pasadena. I mean I think that the Rose Bowl carries that much weight, I

really do,” Petersen said. “I know Ohio State can easily, with their resume, be in that four-team tournament, there’s no doubt about it, and so that’s hard and that’s disappointing to not be able to have an opportunity when it really becomes a subjective beauty pageant from there.”

It might not be the playoff, it might not be Ohio State’s chance to claim its second national title under the new format, but Meyer and his team are still excited.

For Meyer, it is his first opportunity for his team to play in the bowl game he’s said he’s always wanted a chance to coach in.

For players like Jones, who first thinks of watching the Reggie Bush era at USC as a kid when he thinks of the Rose Bowl, it’s something much simpler than that.

It’s his first time in the state of California.

“At the end of the day it is what it is, we play Washington in Pasadena, California, and I’ve never been to California before, so I’m excited,” Jones said.

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Dwayne Haskins finds his ‘Road to Glory’

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Ohio State redshirt sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins (7) puts his hand up to his ear after Terry McLaurin scored a touchdown in the first half of the Big Ten Championship Game vs. Northwestern on Dec. 1. Ohio State won 45-24.

COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu Dwayne Haskins knew how he wanted his future to look — like the Road to Glory mode in the now-extinct NCAA Football video game.

He said he would play the story mode every season, portraying himself as a 6-foot4, 220-pound quarterback donning No. 7 for Ohio State. And with this quarterback,

he won the Heisman Trophy every season he played.

In his first season as the starting quarterback for Ohio State, the numbers the 6-foot-3, 220-pound quarterback has put up have been video game-like, breaking the single-season Big Ten total yards record, the Big Ten single-season touchdowns record, the Big Ten passing yards record and the Big Ten passing touchdowns record.

And now, he has the chance to live the fantasy of the video game he played as a

kid after being invited as one of three finalists for the Heisman Trophy, which will be announced on Dec. 8.

Haskins is joined by Alabama sophomore quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and Oklahoma redshirt junior quarterback Kyler Murray as the three up for the award.

Head coach Urban Meyer, who has traveled to New York for the Heisman ceremony four times, once with former Utah quarterback Alex Smith in 2004 and three times with former Florida quarterback Tim Te-

bow from 2007-09, had no doubt Haskins was worthy to be considered for college football’s top award after the performances he’s had.

“That’s such an incredible experience for those players, to bring them,” Meyer said. “But he’s going one way or the other.

I’ll fly him there myself. With the way he played and the stats against the other quarterbacks, he’s gotta go to New York.”

But in the grand scheme of Haskins’ performance for Ohio State this season, it’s more than just the numbers he recorded, the records he’s broken and the games he’s won. He changed the perception of the Buckeyes’ offense.

Haskins knew who he was as a quarterback. He was never going to be the dual-threat J.T. Barrett was before him, which he told coaches coming into his college career.

“Coming out of high school, I always voiced to coach and whoever the offensive coordinator [was] that I wanted to be in a passing offense,” Haskins said. “Being able to have that change this year and have the blueprint for whoever is playing when I get done playing, just to show that we can throw the ball all over the field.”

That did not seem likely at the beginning of the season, coming into an offense with two former 1,000-yard backs, the typical dream of a coach with a balanced offensive mind such as Meyer.

That thought has not changed for the head coach, saying on Sunday if a particular team can’t run the ball consistently, they will lose at some point.

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Not so grand?

Ohio State misses playoff, travels to Pasadena for first Rose Bowl in Meyer era WYATT CROSHER Assistant Sports Editor crosher.1@osu.edu Ohio State is used to being in the conversation for the College Football Playoff. It is also used to being one of the first teams left out of the top four.

“I know Ohio State can easily, with their resume, be in that four-team tournament, there’s no doubt about it, and so that’s hard and that’s disappointing to not be able to have an opportunity when it really becomes a subjective beauty pageant from there.”

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For the third time in the five years of the playoff’s existence, and the second year in a row, the Buckeyes finished as one of the

three highest-ranked teams to miss out on a chance at the national championship.

In 2017, head coach Urban Meyer said he expected to be in. This year, not so much, as his team finished behind both Big 12 champion Oklahoma and two-loss Georgia.

But the consolation prize is one Meyer is excited about.

“I’ve dreamt of it. I dreamt of it. We came close a couple of times,” Meyer said.

“No disrespect to the other bowl games because they are awesome, but the Rose Bowl is the one we have always looked forward to.”

The Buckeyes will travel to Pasadena, California, to play in the Rose Bowl, the bowl once nicknamed “The Granddaddy of Them All.” It will be Meyer’s first trip to Pasadena in his 27 seasons as a head coach.

He still remembers watching the game as a kid.

“I do remember watching the Rose Bowl, watching the Rose Bowl parade. You know, Woody Hayes and the great players, Buckeyes going out there,” Meyer said. “I just got that visual: Ohio State-USC playing in the Rose Bowl as a kid growing up.”

Even with the excitement to play in what many consider to be the most historic bowl game of any, Ohio State still is playing in a consolation bowl game for the second ROSE BOWL CONTINUES ON 7

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Ohio State redshirt senior wide receiver Terry McLaurin (83) celebrates with Urban Meyer after he scored a touchdown in the first half of the Big Ten Championship Game vs. Northwestern on Dec. 1. Ohio State won 45-24.