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In 2014, Barbara Piperata wanted to start a new major. Piperata, associate professor of anthropology, had been teaching medical anthropology classes at Ohio State, such as Women’s Health in Global Perspectives and Introduction to Medical Anthropology, and saw students developing interest in learning how to understand the health dilemmas people face today. After four years of creating a curriculum, writing proposals and making revisions, medical anthropology became one of five new majors this semester, in addition to an integrated major in Math and English; Italian studies; Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and Statistics. While it’s simple for students to enroll in these new majors, their creation process
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was difficult for faculty. Randy Smith, vice provost of academic affairs at Ohio State, said the process to create a new major begins at the departmental level, where faculty build upon the curriculum of a new or revised major. “It may be because the field is changing; it may be because these faculty have come here wanting to do something a little differently than what’s been done before,” Smith said. Smith said some majors might overlap with other majors at the university, which is called concurrence, and it’s something he talks to the department faculty about when they are building the curriculum. Eric MacGilvray, chair of the PPE steering committee and professor of political science, said concurrence wasn’t an issue for a major like PPE, where the department chairs in the political science, philosophy and economics departments worked together.
“It literally never came up,” MacGilvray said. After it leaves the departmental level, Smith said the proposal moves to the college, where it will receive another round of revisions. From the college level, it goes to the Office of Academic Affairs, which provides faculty with a template of guidelines they should follow when creating a new major. Smith said he brings those templates and the proposals to the Council of Academic Affairs, where they will add addendums fixing the proposals. “It’s essentially looking at this template and saying, ‘Did they do what they were asked to do, why are you doing this, what’s the program actually look like, who’s going to be teaching it, do you have the resources to get it up and going and keep it going?’” Smith said. Finally, once the proposal for a new major MAJORS CONTINUES ON 2
Last weekend, a group of Ohio State graduate students and their faculty adviser were awarded $40,000 in funding in the Smart Campus Challenge, a sustainability competition hosted by the Ohio State Energy Partners. Their concept: to install Ecosia — a search engine where 80 percent of ad revenue generated by internet searches is used to fund organizations that plant trees around the world — as the default search engine onto 30,000 Ohio State campus computers. The team, named Search for Trees, is composed of captain and MBA student Wende Oslock, her husband and M.D./MPH student Austin Oslock, and medical student Mark McIntyre and are advised by Aparna Dial, director of Energy Services at Ohio State. “Ecosia was developed in Germany, and from there it spread — most schools that use Ecosia are in Europe, as well as a few other schools across the world,” Wende Oslock said. “We will be the first school in America really promoting this as a widespread university initiative.” The team plans to spend the $40,000 on different marketing initiatives, starting by partnering with other sustainability organizations at Ohio State and promoting Ecosia during the Time for Change events held the first week of April. Time for Change is a week of events that focuses on supporting sustainability initiatives and increasing environmental stewardship in the Ohio State community and around the world. Their plans also include widespread advertisement campaigns on campus and through social media channels such as Facebook. The team plans to hire some support staff to manage programming and development, track usage, and handle public relations and social media.
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MOMINA TASHFEEN Lantern reporter tashfeen.6@osu.edu A former neo-Nazi talking to college students about tolerance sounds like it comes straight from an episode of “The Twilight Zone,” but that was the scene on campus Tuesday night. The Schottenstein Chabad House, a nonprofit Jewish student organization that aims to increase knowledge and awareness regarding Jewish topics, hosted “Stories of Tolerance” — an event preaching tolerance of diversity — with TM Garret, a former neo-Nazi, as the main speaker. Cassie Edelstein, student president of Schottenstein Chabad House, said the event came together in part due to the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in October. “When the Pittsburgh shootings happened, that was the first time I had really seen action against Jewish people in my lifetime,” Edelstein said. “That was when I felt that I had to become part of the movement of human rights and to make sure everyone was treated with respect and tolerance.” She said Garret’s story was the perfect fit in terms of the message they wanted to promote. Garret began by briefly describing his efforts in exit programs, which are passion-based, rather than profit-oriented, he said. The campaign, “Erase the Hate,” where former gang and racist group members can cover up hateful tattoos for free, is an example of such a program. “It hasn’t always been like that,” Garret said. “There has been a time 20 years ago when I was a very different man, a time when there was no compassion and my business was hating people.” Some people were born into hate groups, while others are recruited, he said. For him it started in southern Germany, where he was born and raised. His parents had just moved there two years before he was born, and both had a drinking problem, making them unpopular in the small community. “I wasn’t a very popular kid either, not only because of the dysfunctional family I had, but it was also just me — I didn’t fit in,” Garret said. Besides speaking in a different dialect,
he also felt isolated for not having a father. His father died when he was 8 years old, and he recalled feeling jealous of his friend for having a dad. He said he didn’t understand his emotions at the time and said it didn’t help that his parents’ relationship was strained and his mother seldom spoke of his dad. While in school, Garret said he used taboo topics to bring attention to himself, such as Hitler, the Third Reich, Nazis and the Holocaust, which he said were “skeletons in the closet” in Germany. “They had a problem talking about it. It was just shock, so you could provoke with it,” Garret said. While the other kids in his class grew up and learned not to make those jokes, he became addicted to the shock value. He enjoyed drawing back then and made racist comics, one of which was turned into the principal of the school. From then on, he was known as the “neo-Nazi” in his school. “I didn’t like the label at all because I didn’t feel like it. But all of a sudden, something changed. I wasn’t a nobody anymore. I felt like I had an identity,” Garret
“I felt so ashamed, wrong and little that I was so judgmental and didn’t even expect that he could be just nice. I realized I was so wrong, not just in the last six months, but the last 15 years.” TM GARRET Former neo-Nazi
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TM Garret, an former neo-Nazi delivers a talk about tolerance and diversity Tuesday night at the Ohio Union.
said. “The bullying stopped because nobody wanted to pick a fight with the Nazi.” He interpreted this as respect, when he said in reality, it was probably fear. It was something that was easy for him to overlook considering he wasn’t the same kid being pushed around, which was important to him. He found his calling at age 15 through a certain genre of music that masqueraded as nationalist music but was actually promoting hatred and intolerance. It was through music that he climbed the ranks, and by age 23, he joined the Ku Klux Klan. He wasn’t just a follower at this point, but a leader in the group. Garret began doubting his beliefs in 2000 when he came to the realization that the KKK worshipped Jesus, who was a Jew. “They’re anti-Semites, but then they’re praying to a Jew?” Garret said. By 2002, he had been researching on his own and concluded that things didn’t add up. The government had the group on their
radar at this point, and he reasoned that it wasn’t anything worth being thrown in jail over. He finally left the clan despite his fear of starting over. Because of his sudden move, he and his wife resorted to the first place far enough that he could find and afford. It just so happened that his new landlord was a Turkish Muslim. “A couple of months prior to that, I probably wouldn’t have even put a foot in there, but I was desperate,” Garret said. “When we moved in, he didn’t even care. He realized we were running from something, but he didn’t ask.” During his stay there, he developed a friendship with his Muslim landlord. It was then that he realized how wrong he was about the people he once hated. “I felt so ashamed, wrong and little that I was so judgmental and didn’t even expect that he could be just nice,” Garret said. “I realized I was so wrong, not just in the last six months, but the last 15 years.”
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leaves the council, it goes to the Ohio Department of Higher Education for approval. The process comes with some challenges, however. For PPE, MacGilvray said that while there were no concurrence issues, having multiple departments involved created a challenge. “Nobody [was] really an expert in all of the areas and components of the major,” MacGilvray said. “We really had to learn from each other as we went through the process.” Janice Aski, professor and director of the Italian language program, said the challenge for the Italian studies major was determining if faculty across campus were interested in contributing existing courses to the curriculum. “It’s going around and making sure everybody’s on board, and it’s OK and that I crossed my t’s and dotted my i’s,” Aski said. Smith said creating new majors is important for the growth of the university. “2019 is not 1999 or 1980,” Smith said. “Fields are changing, and students have different interests, and so there’s been a growing interest by students for interdisciplinary majors.”
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Medical Center introduces new leadership SAM RAUDINS Social Media Editor raudins.3@osu.edu The Wexner Medical Center Board of Trustees convened Wednesday, when it formally introduced a new leader and voted on projects to expand the medical center. The Board announced that Dr. Harold Paz will serve as the executive vice president and chancellor for health affairs beginning in the spring, and it voted to approve the purchase of land in Dublin for a new facility, as well as create a centralized sterile supply center off campus. “This is a momentous day for Ohio State and its medical center,” Les Wexner, chair of the Wexner Medical Center Board, said. The Board began its meeting by introducing Paz, who previously worked as the executive vice president and chief health officer at health insurance company Aetna, according to an email that University President Michael Drake sent following the meeting. Paz said that in his new role, he plans to help prepare students for
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a rapidly changing medical landscape. “We owe this to our students, who must be prepared for a very different work environment, which will require new skill sets
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Aparna Dial, Mark McIntyre, Austin Oslack and Wendy Oslack won $40,000 to introduce the Ecosia search engine to Ohio State Computers. ECOSIA FROM 1
“Ohio State will be the largest university [to adopt Ecosia] and due to the $40,000 in funding, it will be the most [organized] campaign,” Austin Oslock said. “The other universities that use Ecosia have been kind of grassroots-focused, but we’re really working with the medical center and the university to make some big changes.” Ecosia’s background-search algorithm is based on Bing’s format, but that is basically where the similarities end. In fact, Ecosia offers the benefit of privacy features that today’s widely used
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search engines lack. “I’m sure you’re familiar with using Google, and when you search for something, you might see that same thing advertised on your Facebook feed,” McIntyre said. “What’s happening there is essentially Google is selling your search information to companies. That’s one thing that Ecosia specifically doesn’t do. They don’t track your searches or location.” Wende Oslock said one of the biggest pros to Ecosia is the protection of privacy because a lot of pertinent and sensitive information is stored on campus servers. Noting recent privacy concerns in Editor in Chief Edward Sutelan Managing Editor for Content Rachel Bules Managing Editor for Design Jack Westerheide Managing Editor for Multimedia Jake Rahe Copy Chief Kaylin Hynes Campus Editor Zach Varda Assistant Campus Editor Amanda Parrish Campus News Director Joe Matts Sports Editor Colin Gay Assistant Sports Editor Wyatt Crosher Sports Director Aliyyah Jackson Assistant Sports Director Ryan Velazquez Arts & Life Editor Chase-Anthony Ray Assistant Arts & Life Editor Sydney Riddle Arts & Life Director Katie Hamilton Photo Editor Casey Cascaldo Assistant Photo Editor Amal Saeed Design Editor Kelly Meaden Assistant Design Editor Claire Kudika
to be successful in the future,” Paz said. The search committee created to fill the position has been looking at a small pool of candidates for approximately a year and a
half, President Michael Drake said at the meeting. Paz will make $1.45 million in base salary. In terms of property, Gail Marsh, chief strategy officer for Ohio State University and Wexner Medical Center, said that expanding medical facilities is a key part of the medical center’s strategic plan. “We’re growing, and we need facilities to grow, and so lots of work this last year on new inpatient hospitals and new ambulatory facilities around the city,” Marsh said. The Board voted to purchase about 34 acres in Dublin next to Route 33. The purchase cost $8.3 million, Jay Kasey, senior vice president of the Office of Administration and Planning, said. This facility will be the second of three outpatient centers outlined in the Wexner Center strategic plan, Kasey said. The Board also voted to fund the construction of a sterile supply facility at a free-standing off-campus location to serve the growing number of facilities and create more space for the supplies. Kasey said the project will cost $45.7 million.
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the news, she said the privacy fea- tricably linked to the health of tures with the search engine are “a the planet. We recognize that we step up” from Google “from a se- can’t have healthy people without curity standpoint, while aligning a healthy environment, so we are with our sustainability habits.” really looking at how we can use Because Ecosia does not track our resources to reduce our footlocation, Wende Oslock said print,” Dial said. “To make that a searches might have to be more reality for more people, this really specific to capture the results fits in with our mission.” the user is looking for. She said Wende Oslock explained that this can be most of the easily rectitrees are fied by adding “The human health is planted in the name of countries near so inextricably linked to the city to the the equator the health of the planet. search terms. because that But even We recognize that we is where they more importare most efcan’t have healthy ant is the enfective at v i r o n m e n t a l people without a healthy pulling carimpact that the environment, so we are bon emissions application of the air. really looking at how we from Ecosia at Ohio A u s t i n State hopes can use our resources Oslock also to have on the to reduce our footprint.” said they adworld. dressed any The group doubts about DIAL estimated that APARNA the effectiveDirector of Energy Services at with more Ohio State ness of Ecosia than 30,000 by researchdesktop coming and vetputers and many other personal ting all of the tree-planting orgadevices with Ecosia installed, nizations that Ecosia financially one search a day can help plant supports. around 300,000 trees in a year, “We went through and reWende Oslock said. searched all the different orgaDial expressed how much it has nizations they donate to, just to meant to her to support these stu- make sure all these tree-planting dents through this campaign. organizations are legitimate and “The human health is so inex- they’re doing all the work they
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Reformed convict to share story at TEDx talk TRISTAN RELET-WERKMEISTER Lantern reporter relet-werkmeister.1@osu.edu
By the time Harley Tanner Blakeman was 18 years old, he was a convicted drug dealer. He spent his 19th birthday incarcerated in the Treutlen Probation Detention Center in Soperton, Georgia, known only by a prison number he no longer remembers. For many, the experience would have been the start of a lifetime of crime. For Blakeman, it was the beginning of a new life, one where he would strive to use his hardships to help others who face similar challenges. Blakeman will bring his message of redemption to Ohio State on Saturday as part of the TEDxOhioStateUniversity conference, showing how he has used self-confidence — sometimes to a fault — to make his progression from drug dealer to a 2017 Ohio State graduate, published author, speaker and CEO of Honest Jobs, a company that helps ex-convicts find employment. “I want to have an enormous impact,” Blakeman said. “I want to be the person who changes the narrative around [the likelihood of people] going back to prison in America.” Born in Dallas, Blakeman moved to Keystone Heights, Florida, when he was 8. He said he had a fairly normal childhood until his parents divorced when he was 14 — he decided to live with his father. Soon, life as he knew it fell apart. His father died in a motorcycle accident when Blakeman was 15, sending him and his older brother Greg to live with their mother, who suffered from alcohol and drug addiction.
“One day I was working, looking at this stainless steel wall, and I was like, ‘There’s gotta be more than this. I’m working … just to pay bills. I’m smarter than this.” HARLEY TANNER BLAKEMAN TEDxOhioStateUniversity Speaker
Blakeman stayed at his friends’ houses, sleeping in a different place almost every night and living what he called a “backpack lifestyle.” To cope, he turned to drugs — first Xanax and then Roxicodone, an opioid. Blakeman started dealing drugs and dropped out of high school at 16. When he noticed Roxicodone pills were sold three times as more in Georgia than in Florida, Blakeman started dealing them between the two states. In March 2010, the Georgia police pulled him over for no signal on a right turn. They found 800 pills and half a pound of marijuana in his car. He was found violating the conditions of his bail by traveling between Georgia and Florida and charged with shoplifting and theft along the way. The judge sent him to a detention center in Soperton. Blakeman describes it as a work camp that looked like an elementary school. But Blakeman now considers himself lucky. He met people in Soperton who encouraged him to read the Bible and other books, get his GED, work out and come up with a plan to get into college once he was released. On March 12, 2012, after 14 months of incarceration, his aunt and grandmother came to pick him up and brought him to Reynoldsburg, Ohio, where he lived in his aunt’s basement. He worked as a dishwasher at a Japanese steakhouse and got his own apartment within two months and car the following year.
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Harley Tanner Blakeman gives a talk at a Driven Foundation conference in February 2018.
But he knew he wanted more and felt he deserved more. “One day I was working, looking at this stainless steel wall, and I was like, ‘There’s gotta be more than this. I’m working … just to pay bills. I’m smarter than this,’” he said. There is a consistent theme in Blakeman’s life: acknowledging his challenges but displaying an extraordinary — even abrasive — self-confidence that he will persevere. “I’ve been blessed like most people aren’t,” he said. Blakeman applied to Columbus State Community College. After a special meeting required for applicants with criminal records, he was accepted. He got straight A’s for two semesters. After a year, he applied to transfer to Ohio State and was admitted in 2013. Blakeman said his motivation to go to college was “to prove everything wrong: the system, the fact that I didn’t have money [or] parents, the fact that I went to prison, the fact that I was a high school dropout, all of it.” To pay for college, he worked whenever he wasn’t in class — usually 30 hours a week on top of his 16-18 credit hours a semester — while he pursued his degree in operations management in the Fisher College of Business. In April 2017, he self-published his book, “GRIT: How to Get a Job and Build a Career with a Criminal Record.” A month later, he graduated with honors and a 3.6 GPA. “It was surreal … the best day of my life. I felt like I had really done something,” he said. Ahead of his graduation, Blakeman was job hunting, but knew he was at a disadvantage because he would have to tell prospective employers about his past. Of the 38 companies with which he interviewed, only two were willing to give him a chance. A manufacturing company offered him a position for $65,000 a year that Blakeman accepted. But he always set higher goals for himself. Because he wanted to surmount his past mistakes and run his own business, Blakeman created an online learning platform to help ex-convicts. A monthly subscription gave users access to videos with advice on how to get a job or get into college. At a Rev1 Ventures workshop, a Columbus-based venture capital company, he met Josh Watters, a web brand strategist, who wanted to help him in any way he could. “He had built a social enterprise … and I fell in love with his idea,” Watters said. Blakeman quit his job in June 2018. In October, he launched an online job board where companies could pay to publish job opportunities open to people with criminal records. The up-to-$9,000 tax credit incentive for each hire of formerly incarcerated individuals promised by the IRS would play in his favor. Honest Jobs was born. So far, the company has two paying customers and has
helped 50 people find a job. Because his company has yet to make a profit, he lives by paying credit cards with other credit cards. Once again, Blakeman refuses to be dissuaded by challenges and decidedly believes he will prevail. “I kind of put myself in a situation where my only option is to win,” he said. Blakeman, now 27, is focused on getting more customers and isn’t afraid to annoy people while he does it. He reaches out to CEOs by “spamming” them on LinkedIn with popular memes that he modified to promote Honest Jobs. He has faith the company will soon gain traction because he believes everything he does will be successful.
“I’ll start the talk by saying, ‘When you look at me, what do you see? Male? White? College graduate? Good credit? What you don’t see is that I’m a convicted felon.’” HARLEY TANNER BLAKEMAN TEDxOhioStateUniversity Speaker
“I know that I’m gonna be filthy rich … Everyone will use this site,” he said. Last November, Blakeman applied as a speaker candidate to the TEDx conference at Ohio State and was one of 13 selected out of 130 applicants. He was trained regularly by Olivia Haimerl, a first-year in security and intelligence and a TEDx speaker coach. “The impact of his story is inspiring to others, and that makes him a good speaker,” she said. Despite the rehearsals, Blakeman is still nervous to be in front of the biggest crowd he has ever talked to. He hopes — and almost expects — the video to go viral, with how much he believes in his story and himself. “I’ll start the talk by saying, ‘When you look at me, what do you see? Male? White? College graduate? Good credit?’” he said. “‘What you don’t see is that I’m a convicted felon.’”
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Backburner Sketch Comedy to host first musical show in club’s history ASHLEY KIMMEL Lantern reporter kimmel.103@osu.edu Backburner Sketch Comedy is mixing sex and song this weekend in the club’s premiere of “Spit in My Mouth: The Musical,” an original piece written by one of its club members. The musical tells the story of Greg and Amy, a young couple who lose their virginity together, and the journey they take in discovering sex, Quinn Wright, the composer of the musical and a fourth-year in film studies, said. Wright said his goal for the musical is to promote sex positivity and nonjudgmental attitudes toward others’ sex lives. “It’s definitely got a message everyone should hear,” Wright said. Backburner hosts at least three shows each year that all follow the same format: the presentation of the show’s theme — a musical in this case — with a stand-up performance from the host and a few unrelated comedic sketches from club members in between each piece of the theme’s plot, Wright said. Although the club has done individual musical sketches in the past, making a show’s entire theme a musical is something new for the group and has made this the most rehearsed show the group has done, Wright said. “Even though I can’t sing at all, I just love musicals,” Wright said. “I’ve always wanted to do one.” Wright added that because he does not know how to write music or play an instrument, writing a musical proved to be a challenge, so he started just by writing lyrics. He then worked with other group members to help translate his work and the vision he had for the show in his head. “I’m not a musician, but it’s something I enjoy, so I think it was a nice challenge for me in a way that making
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Backburner Sketch Comedy during rehearsal on Feb. 19 at Enarson Classroom Building.
sketches usually isn’t,” Wright said. “Our goal is to make people laugh and just be vaguely musically talented.” RG Barton, a fourth-year in psychology and president of Backburner, said the group likes to choose a student outside of Backburner to host each show. This show’s host will be Ella Hickman, a third-year in marketing and a member of Buckeye Standup Comedy Club. This is the first time Backburner has worked with Hickman. Not only does Barton play Greg in the story, but he will
also appear in some of the unrelated sketches in between the musical. Barton said he played an important role in working with Wright to make the music for the show as well. Backburner’s “Spit in My Mouth: The Musical” will premiere at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Ohio Union in the Cartoon Room. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free for all.
Ohio State student hosts weekly dance lessons for people with disabilities NAOMI BAKER Lantern reporter baker.2517@osu.edu For her senior project, an Ohio State dance student is teaching adults with disabilities to not let their limits hold them back from expressing themselves. This past summer, Kyla Makovsky, a fourth-year in dance, traveled to Vienna, Austria, to become a certified teacher for DanceAbility, an integrated dance organization that emphasizes the use of improvisational dance to promote artistic expression and exploration between people with and without disabilities, according to its website. Makovsky’s interest in the organization stemmed from a past class with dancers with disabilities. “When I first started with my dance partner, I approached him as a fragile being and underestimated his strength and abilities, but in the end, this experience showed me the potential of a population that is neglected,” Makovsky said. Seeing the ability in this often overlooked group, Makovsky contacted ARC Industries, a local organization that provides services for adults with developmental disabilities. This led to an opportunity for Makovsky to complete her senior project by having the ARC adults travel to Sullivant Hall weekly for training in dance improvisation. The collaboration between Makovsky and the ARC is helping the organization fulfill one of its purposes. “One of the goals of the [ARC] is to in-
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ARC Industries adults hold hands with Kyla Makovsky, a fourth-year in dance, (right) during their weekly dance improvisation class.
tegrate the clients into the community and see different parts of the world outside of the center they see every day,” David Covey, dance department professor and Makovsky’s project adviser, said. “It’s good for them to be on campus, see all the students and also dance.”
Makovsky’s approach to the class utilizes ideas she learned during her certification process. “In the DanceAbility Method, we encompass all ranges of movement to accommodate all the people in the class because we’re not trying to exclude or isolate any-
one,” Makovsky said. “Even the smallest movement is beautiful.” Makovsky said the emphasis on improvisation is important for this group due to their physical and mental barriers. She said she believes improvisation is a great learning tool for the ARC dancers because it allows them to discover new things about their own body since they are not forced to mimic steps that may not be natural to them. This dance process challenges the ARC adults on more than a physical level. “[Dancing] really helps with their social skills and any anxieties they may feel because it gets them out of their heads and gets their bodies moving through space,” Covey said. Makovsky said she makes it a point to get other dance students involved with these lessons, but it’s important that they don’t reduce themselves in this setting. “When trained dancers get into situations like this, they feel they have to limit their abilities, but it will only benefit the ARC students if the dancers release their entire selves,” Makovsky said. For Makovsky, this project has no ending guidelines or requirements. “There’s not a final result in this. It’s about the progress,” Makovsky said. While the goal is to impact the ARC dancers, Ohio State dancers are impacted as well. “There’s so much we learn when working with these dancers,” Covey said. “When you reach out to different populations in the community, you realize they have a lot they can teach you.”
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No. 6 Ohio State travels to take on rival Michigan MICHAEL BENZINGER Lantern reporter benzinger.3@osu.edu Following two consecutive losses to Minnesota, the No. 6 Ohio State men’s hockey team (19-7-4, 12-5-3 Big Ten) is hoping to get back on its feet as it travels to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to play Michigan (12-12-6, 8-8-4 Big Ten). Ohio State fell in the USCHO polls from No. 2 to No. 6 this week after back-to-back 4-3 losses to Minnesota. Michigan, meanwhile, has lacked consistency this season. Since Jan. 5, it has not won or lost more than two games in a row in any stretch. Junior defenseman Matt Miller said Ohio State’s first set of consecutive losses on the season will change the mindset moving forward. “I think we might’ve gotten a little bit complacent and thinking about the future too much,” he said. “I think this week we kind of woke up and realized that we have to go one challenge at a time.” The Buckeyes lead Michigan, which is ranked No. 4 in the Big Ten standings, in offense, defense and win percentage this year. Ohio State has played Michigan
Buckeyes. Ohio State senior forward and team captain Mason Jobst said the team is looking forward to the upcoming away game, considering Ohio State has won three of the past four meetings against Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Junior defenseman Matt Miller controls the puck during the first period of Ohio State’s men’s hockey game vs. Michigan on Jan. 11. Ohio State lost 2-1.
twice at home this season, splitting the series where the Buckeyes outscored the Wolverines 5-4 overall despite being outshot in both contests. Head coach Steve Rohlik said the team knows what to expect from the Wolverines this weekend. “We know who they are,” Rohlik said. “We’ve played them. We’ve watched video; they’re a very good hockey team. We know
what to expect. We know we’ve got to be at our best. I sound redundant by saying that but it’s the truth.” Michigan is led by freshman defenseman Quinn Hughes, who has tallied four goals and 25 assists so far this year. Hughes was the No. 7 overall pick in the 2018 NHL Draft, and was selected by the Vancouver Canucks. He scored two assists in the previous series against the
“I think we might’ve gotten a little bit complacent and thinking about the future too much. I think this week we kind of woke up and realized that we have to go one challenge at a time.” MATT MILLER Ohio State junior defenseman
“I think historically we’ve been pretty good when we go up there,” Jobst said. “The rivalry just adds that much more intensity.” Ohio State will clinch the Big Ten in the regular season with one win against the Wolverines. No. 6 Ohio State takes on Michigan in Ann Arbor at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and 6 p.m. on Saturday.
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catcher is one of the most important positions in the sport, DeLucia said. However, Dingler, who played in the opening game for the Buckeyes against Seton Hall, has since been sidelined with a fractured hamate bone. Beals said his timetable to return is uncertain. DeLucia noted that Dingler always provides a good example for the other players, attacking every play with a steady mindset. “Some of the greatest baseball players ever have just that evenkeel mindset and mannerisms, and that’s what he brings every day,” DeLucia said. Dingler enjoys watching catchers in the MLB in order to gather information, admiring how smooth and diligent the big-leaguers are. Yadier Molina, catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, is a player he especially admires. “I like watching what he does behind the plate and how he helps his team,” Dingler said. But before he tries to realize his dream of playing professionally, Dingler is living out his dream of putting on the scarlet and gray. “Just knowing that I had always wanted to come here and had always been a huge Ohio State fan and actually getting the opportunity to represent Ohio State and being able to put on the jersey was a tremendous honor,” Dingler said.
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OSU travels to MSU with winning mindset
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Ohio State freshman guard Dorka Juhasz (14) attempts a layup in the first half of the game against Indiana on Jan. 10. Ohio State won 55-50.
COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu After two wins against Rutgers and Wisconsin, Ohio State heads into the final three games of the season with an opportunity to have a record over .500 for the third time this season. Despite earning a 65-55 win against Michigan State on Jan. 14 and having won its past two matchups with the Spartans, Ohio State has failed to beat Michigan State in its past three matchups in East Lansing, Michigan. Ohio State is tied for fifth with four other teams in the Big Ten conference, with Michigan State a half game behind the Buckeyes in the conference standings. The Buckeyes will get another shot at Michigan State on Thursday. In the Buckeyes’ 10-point win against the Spartans on Jan. 14, the Ohio State offense started off hot, shooting 44 percent from the field in the first half. However, freshman forward Dorka Juhasz struggled mightily, making only 1-of-6 attempts from the field with five rebounds. Despite her performance against the Spartans, Juhasz has shined in the middle for Ohio State. She has a team-high nine double-doubles this season, leading the Buckeyes in both scoring and rebounding. In her previous performance against Wisconsin, the freshman forward scored 21 points and 15 rebounds, earning her a Big Ten Freshman of the Week
award. But Juhasz will go against senior center Jenna Allen, who has recorded at least seven rebounds in four of her past six games, recording a season-high five offensive boards in Michigan State’s 82-71 loss to Nebraska on Sunday. Redshirt junior guard Shay Colley, who scored a team-high 18 points against the Buckeyes in their first matchup this season, has led the Spartans in scoring all season, averaging 15.6 points per game and shooting 40.7 percent from the field. While Juhasz has been consistent in the post, freshman guard Janai Crooms has continued to step up as a scorer in Big Ten play, recording nine points or more in nine of her past 10 games, making 5-of-9 from the field against the Badgers. As a team, Michigan State averages 77.6 points per game, second-best in the conference, while shooting 45.2 percent from the field. From 3, the Spartans have been the best in the Big Ten, shooting 38.6 percent from deep. However, the Spartans have struggled defensively, finishing in the bottom half in scoring defense, defensive field goal percentage and 3-point defensive field goal percentage. In their past two games, both losses to Nebraska and Wisconsin, the Spartans have allowed 79 and 82 points respectively. Ohio State will take on Michigan State in East Lansing at 6 p.m. Thursday.
me at Ohio State,” Dahlquist said. “She got in contact with me and Nadine and showed me what the coaches don’t tell you. Having her there, knowing she really loves it was a huge thing for me.” Dahlquist has blossomed offensively in her senior season, earning WCHA Forward of the Week on Oct. 30, scoring a hat trick against Mercyhurst on Dec. 16 and putting away St. Cloud State with two senior night goals in front of her father on Feb. 9. Muzerall said Dahlquist’s statistical accomplishments have been surprising, but added that her improved numbers are indicative of the work she’s put into her game since arriving in Columbus. “Last year she was a liability because she got so many penalties,” Muzerall said. “Now she’s been a force. She’s being rewarded by having her head up and seeing opportunities in front of the net to score.” For Dahlquist, though, nothing has made her prouder than being a part of Ohio State’s first-ever Frozen Four run last season. “It was something that was so special, especially with how we were the underdogs and people underestimated us,” Dahlquist said. “We have a team that’s so talented, and I think we can overcome anything we put our mind to.” That talent includes sophomore forward Emma Maltais, the Buckeyes’ leading scorer, who has shared the front line with Dahlquist for the past two seasons. “She’s an amazing player and an amazing person,” Maltais said. “She’s definitely a character to be around, and she’s always there for you on and off the ice.” For Dahlquist, off the ice is where she said her future lies past this season. As a WCHA All-Academic Team selection last year, the communication major said she has a job lined up with Tech Systems in Columbus after graduation. Both Muzerall and Maltais said that Dahlquist’s ferocity and loyalty will be characteristics sorely missed in the locker room next season. From contemplating an early end to her career to becoming a key contributor on a Frozen Four hockey program, Dahlquist’s perseverance is a testament to her passion for hockey. “It’s the love of the game that matters the most,” Dahlquist said. “If you stop loving the game, what’s the point? You always have to make it fun and light-hearted. I hope that I do that for my teammates, and I hope they can remember me in that way.”
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Charly Dahlquist finds new home and heights at OSU GRIFFIN STROM Lantern reporter strom.35@osu.edu As the daughter of an 11-year NHL veteran, Ohio State senior forward Charly Dahlquist was destined to don hockey pads and skates. However, just two years ago she considered giving up the sport she has played since age 3. Dahlquist has become an essential element of Ohio State’s offense, playing with an edge that defines the Buckeyes’ identity, but not before facing a scholarship termination at the University of North Dakota when its women’s hockey program was defunded after her second year.
“If you stop loving the game, what’s the point? You always have to make it fun and light-hearted. I hope that I do that for my teammates, and I hope they can remember me in that way.” CHARLY DAHLQUIST Ohio State senior forward
“I honestly didn’t know if I wanted to play hockey at that point,” Dahlquist said. “We had four weeks to find a new home. It
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Ohio State senior forward Charly Dahlquist (5) fights off a Bemidgi State player for the puck on Feb 8. Ohio State lost 3-2.
was super awesome that [Ohio State head coach Nadine Muzerall] took me in and was willing to lay a lot on the line for me.” Dahlquist scored 15 total goals in her first two seasons at North Dakota. Muzerall said she teetered between filling the open roster slot with a forward or a defenseman that was more highly touted at the time. “There was just something about Char-
ly,” Muzerall said. “She was just energy and tenacious and had that chip on her shoulder, which was a style that I liked and felt like we needed to have that grit and attitude.” Toughness and physical play are not all Dahlquist has brought to the Buckeyes. She ranks second on the team in points and is top 10 in the WCHA in goals and points
this season, with 12 and 25 respectively, both career highs. For Dahlquist, hockey pedigree is a family affair. Her father, Chris, played in the NHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Minnesota North Stars, Calgary Flames and Ottawa Senators from 1985 to 1996. “I wanted to be just like him,” Dahlquist said. “I always say I’m bad luck because he got hurt the year I was born.” The injury that ended his NHL career also afforded him time to coach his daughter, who spent her adolescence in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, competing with boys on the ice rink at an early age. In high school, Dahlquist and Ohio State senior defenseman Lauren Boyle, who was her neighbor in Eden Prairie, garnered a slew of accolades on the ice. Dahlquist was named All-Conference in each of her four seasons and made All-State second team in 2013-14. The USA National Camp selected Dahlquist in both 2012 and 2013, which she said was instrumental for her development as a player. “Growing up in Minnesota and playing with some of the best girls in college hockey, I think it’s super beneficial, and you learn a lot in those camps,” Dahlquist said. The decision to attend North Dakota hinged largely on her older brother being there, but Dahlquist said it was her friendship with Boyle that allowed her to find a new home at Ohio State starting her junior season. “Lauren was a huge foot in the door for DAHLQUIST CONTINUES ON 7
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Dillon Dingler on pace to make Ohio State history KEATON MAISANO Lantern reporter maisano.2@osu.edu In 2006, Dillon Dingler was playing 7U travel baseball with his local Little League team in northeast Ohio. That same year, then-junior pitcher and current volunteer coach Dan DeLucia, the only three-time captain in the history of the Ohio State baseball program, was beginning his first year as captain. After being named captain for the 2019 season, the now-Ohio State sophomore catcher Dingler is on track to become the second player to accomplish the feat of being named captain three times. His fearless performance as a freshman made him a captain, junior right fielder and fellow captain Dominic Canzone said. “Just the fact that he can go out as a freshman and produce the way he did and be vocal like the way he did,” Canzone said. “He wasn’t scared of the moment at all.” Dingler posted a .244 batting average in 53 games a season ago. Adding 31 runs scored and 17 RBIs, Dingler was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman team at the end of the season. In 29 of his 44 starts in 2018,
than anything.” This leadership, Dingler said, was developed under his head coach Bill Gamble at Jackson High School in Massillon, Ohio.
“Just knowing that I had always wanted to come here and had always been a huge Ohio State fan and actually getting the opportunity to represent Ohio State and being able to put on the jersey was a tremendous honor.” COURTESY OF OHIO STATE ATHLETICS
Ohio State sophomore catcher Dillon Dingler has been named captain for the 2019 season, giving him the opportunity to be the second three-time captain in Ohio State history.
Dingler had to start in center field, an unnatural position for him. This selflessness is a quality that did not go unnoticed, DeLucia said. “You have to make sacrifices and do things for other guys, and that’s why he is a captain as a sophomore,” DeLucia said. “He is a guy that is willing to do other things others aren’t necessarily willing to do for his team.”
Although they play different positions and are separated by over a decade, Dingler and DeLucia are not so different. “I see a lot of similarities [between us]. He comes to the park every day just wanting to get better,” DeLucia said. “He’s the type of guy other guys want to be around.” Head coach Greg Beals emphasized Dingler’s natural ability to
earn respect from his teammates. During the first day of conditioning last season Beals noticed how the team was breathing heavily from their drills. He noted, however, that Dingler was “walking back with a bowed-up chest.” “Just his presence is so strong, and it’s easy to be drawn to it,” Beals said. “He has developed leadership from his example and how he goes about his work more
DILLON DINGLER Ohio State sophomore catcher
“He kind of had me step into that role, too,” Dingler said. “As I was getting older, he told me to lead by example and be more vocal as well.” For an Ohio State team that will be leaning on a young pitching staff, leadership behind the plate is invaluable. The position of BASEBALL CONTINUES ON 6