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If you live on campus, lock your doors — there’s been a rash of burglaries in residence halls.

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Professional producers and musicians collaborate with middle schoolers to create radio-ready songs.

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Easing the transition Nonprofit helps immigrant students adjust to U.S.

AKAYLA GARDNER Lantern reporter gardner.1199@osu.edu Deepanshu Singh said he didn’t have a program like Refuge when he moved to the United States from India in 2012 as a high school freshman.

Singh, a third-year in biology, said he was lucky enough to have guidance counselors and friends to help him learn about the U.S. college experience and application process. However, many immigrants and refugees are not as fortunate as Singh was.

Refuge, a nonprofit organization, was founded on Ohio State’s campus in 2016 to provide guidance to high school-aged refugees and immigrants in their pursuit of higher education. “[Refugee and immigrant] kids that are younger, they have time to really adjust here and get through school,” Priyanka Jain, president of the Ohio State chapter of Refuge, said. “But there are a lot of people that come between the ages of 14 and 20, and they lose a lot.”

Refuge’s program combines technology-based mentorship and informational curriculum to prepare participants for their transition to the U.S. higher education system.

The online curriculum is organized into modules with lessons on ACT and SAT prep, resumes, interviews, college applications, savings accounts and several oth-

A new student-run cell phone recycling campaign on campus can help save the ecosystem, as well as the gorillas.

Two students at Ohio State have set up recycling boxes for cell phones across campus that will be sent to the Cincinnati Zoo, which hosts a contest called “Go Bananas.”

Bennett Heyn, a first-year in management information systems, and Matthew Ibla, a firstyear in finance, began this recycling campaign at their high

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Refuge was founded in 2016 to help ease the transition into college for immigrant students.

er resources crucial for transitioning into adulthood.

Jain, a third-year in marketing, said that while Ohio State is the only chapter of Refuge to date, the University of Cincinnati is in the process of establishing a chapter of the nonprofit, with other universities also expressing interest.

Ohio State alumnus Abd Al-Rahman Traboulsi said himself, Jackson Frazier and Nima Dahir recognized a lack of resources in Columbus for foreign-born adolescents, which prompted them to found the nonprofit.

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school in Cincinnati and are continuing their work on campus.

The Go Bananas project challenges groups across the country to find creative ways to foster cell phone recycling and offers prizes for the top groups. According to the zoo’s website, recycling cell phones directly helps save gorilla habitats by preserving the ore called coltan — which is mainly mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the middle of gorilla habitats.

The goal of Go Bananas is to see who can collect the most used phones by April. This student challenge offers $1,000 to the

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Traboulsi said after months of planning and collecting funding, the organization launched the pilot program in January 2017.

Jain said when the program began in 2017, half of the mentees dropped out when President Donald Trump announced an executive order that suspended refugees from entering the U.S. and prohibited travelers from seven other Middle Eastern countries.

“They were very scared. Some of them, they didn’t trust our organization,” Jain said. “It’s hard.

If you have been placed in a number of different locations, and

you’re finally somewhere you’re supposed to feel safe and all of a sudden that’s taken out from under you, it makes sense. That’s something that is difficult, making sure these families know they can trust us.”

After numerous court challenges, the executive order — also labeled the travel ban or Muslim ban — was revised twice and upheld in the Supreme Court in June 2018.

Singh, media and marketing chair of the Ohio State chapter of Refuge, said awareness of the

Never having left the confines of his small hometown in Plain City, Ohio, Alec Koppes decided to do something about his lack of perspective. His solution: submitting an application to join Ohio State’s Global Leadership Initiative.

Global Leadership Initiative is a one-year program at Ohio State that focuses on increasing awareness of cultural diversity and eliminating the barriers between various cultural communities both on and off campus.

“I realized how big the world was in one sense and how many vastly different perspectives and experiences people bring, but also how interconnected and how small it is as well,” Koppes, a fourth-year in finance and world politics, as well as vice president of external communications for GLI, said. “You have these dual pictures of a really big world, yet we have so much in common.”

“When you learn from other people’s experiences and see their perspectives, you grow.”

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The cell phone recycling bins are located at the Union, RPAC and Drackett Tower.

The program was founded in 2013 to bridge the gap between international and domestic students, along with the gap between campus and the Columbus community. Members attend weekly meetings and are divided into different project groups, such as feminism, environment, or culture and religion to organize events to raise awareness surrounding each topic.

Kusha Ansari, a fourth-year in mechanical engineering as well as vice president of internal communications for GLI, said that with a campus as large as Ohio State, it’s not always easy to branch out of your comfort zone and interact with students from different backgrounds.

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JASMINE HILTON Lantern reporter hilton.93@osu.edu As Chelsea Mishan walked down her residence hallway in Houston House on Feb. 18, leaving her door unlocked to go chat with a floormate, she noticed a man she’d never seen before emerge from the stairway. Without giving it a second thought, she went back to her conversation.

Mishan never would’ve imagined what happened next.

“I look down the hall and the man is leaving my room, that same man,” Mishan, a first-year in Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife, said. “I check my room, and all of my cash is gone and all of my roommate’s cash is gone.”

With the recent string of burglaries occurring in North Campus residence halls, Nevian Brown, Houston House resident adviser, said everyone ranging from office assistants to resident advisers and students are on guard for the suspect.

“As a resident adviser, we’re warned that anyone can come in at any moment in time, and we need to make sure we can protect our home as much as possible,” Brown, a second-year in health sciences, said.

After Mishan saw the man leave her room she confronted him about what he was doing in her room.

“He was like, ‘Oh, there was a dollar outside of your room,’ and he took a dollar out of his pocket and said, ‘I thought it was yours, so I wanted to go see if it was yours,’’’ Mishan said.

Mishan said she did not believe him and felt that something wasn’t quite right. She said her suspicions were confirmed when the man called the elevator but continued down the hallway instead of boarding.

After checking that all of her valuables were still safe, including her phone, iPad and both her and her roommates’ computers, Mishan said she didn’t think twice about anything else being stolen and alerted Brown, her res-

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Ohio State students are reminded to lock their doors after a string of burglaries on North Campus residence halls.

ident adviser. a spokesman for the university, engineering.

Brown said she followed pro- said, “even if they’ve only walked Crock said that while napping cedure by informing all other down the hall to a friend’s room in his room after his physics resident advisers of the incident or are using the restroom or study exam, his roommate stepped out and notifying the hall director, space.” of the room to go to the bathroom, who advised her to call the senior Just a floor below Mishan, flipping the latch to prop the door staff on call — the person open. who responds to all of the His roommate came emergency events in the back to Crock’s wallet on complexes. the floor in the hallway It wasn’t until one outside their door, where “It could be someone’s of Mishan’s friends inhe thought Crock had just parent, it could be formed her of a similar dropped it on his way in burglary happening in from the exam. someone’s sibling, it could the same building around “I knew I hadn’t, so I be a total random stranger the same time of 5 p.m., immediately checked, and like this man, or it could be in which all of his credit all my cash, credit and cards were stolen, that debit cards had been stosomeone off the street who Mishan felt triggered to len,” Crock said. was just waiting for someone check her wallet, where Both Mishan and Crock to walk into the building at she was shocked to disfiled police reports, and cover that all of her and ultimately a public safety the right time.” her roommates’ cash was notice was issued by the stolen — a total of roughOhio State Department of CHELSEA MISHAN ly $60.

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First-year in Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife She said that if she Dave Isaacs, a spokeshadn’t seen the suspect man for the Office of leave her room, there’s a Student Life, said that in possibility she would’ve addition to encouraging never known he was there students to file police at all, writing off the missing cash around the same time, police reports, they follow up with stuas if misplaced or spent. were handling the burglary in- dents involved to make sure they Ohio State reminds all students cident of another student, Adam are “properly supported and conto lock their doors, Dan Hedman, Crock, a first-year in electrical nected with appropriate campus RECYCLING FROM 1

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Bennett Heyn and Matthew Ibla organized up the cell phone recycling campaign.

most creative project and $4,000 to the students who collect the most cell phones.

Heyn and Ibla brought this project to Ohio State in fall 2018 by contacting organizations such as Undergraduate Student Government and New Impacts, along with receiving help from Tom Reeves, director of sustainability.

“I like Bennett’s project a lot because it was an idea by a student, being implemented by a student,” Reeves said.

Heyn and Ibla are looking to collect flip phones or any phones that people would throw away to later send to the Go Bananas project.

Last year, Heyn and Ibla recycled 200 phones and were the winners of the most creative campaign.

In addition to saving gorilla habitats, Heyn said the project also helps save the environment.

Heyn said when phones get thrown away instead of being recycled, they are sent to the landfills. The

resources.”

As a resident adviser, Brown said she supports students who have been a victim of theft by performing wellness checks to see if they’re handling the situation well, “whether that means helping them file their police report or checking on them after the incident has been dealt with.”

Mishan said she was worried about how someone could get in so easily, and raised the possibility of “tailgating,” where someone follows an individual with access into the building.

“It could be someone’s parent, it could be someone’s sibling, it could be a total random stranger like this man, or it could be someone off the street who was just waiting for someone to walk into the building at the right time,” Mishan said.

Isaacs said that office assistants are trained to be aware of individuals as they enter the building, and he strongly encourages residents to avoid allowing anyone to enter a residence hall without swiping in.

Office assistants, such as Meghan Yaeger, a second-year in chemical engineering, said that OA’s have been made aware of all security breaches that take place in residence halls and the front desk is on high alert for the suspect.

Yaeger said she understands how students’ friendly natures could lead to tailgating but encourages them to put safety first.

“I understand that students don’t want to be that person that just closes the door in someone else’s face, but it is a security risk,” Yaeger said.

Both Mishan and Crock recognized that their common error was leaving the door unlocked, which they each said they’ll never do again.

“Listen to your orientation leaders and resident advisers when they tell you not to deadbolt your doors as a way to keep them propped open. Lock your doors,” Brown said. “That’s just the best way to make sure everything’s safe.”

toxic materials in phones then leak into the groundwater, causing pollution. This is a problem the two want to prevent in the community as much as possible.

Three bins are in place already at the RPAC, Ohio Union and Drackett Tower. Heyn is looking to implement more next semester as well as potentially start a club.

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“I think, naturally, it’s human tendency to try to gravitate toward what’s familiar,” Ansari said.

In order to foster an inclusive environment where a diverse group of people are comfortable discussing their experiences and backgrounds, GLI admits only 24 students every year. Ansari said this small community provides a level of intimacy that Ohio State as a whole might not.

Ansari said that GLI holds events throughout the year that encourage students to be courageous and engage in dialogue with people from different cultural backgrounds.

“Perhaps we do want to learn about other cultures, but when you go to those other cultural events such as the Malaysian culture show or the Korean culture

“I think, naturally, it’s human tendency to try to gravitate toward what’s familiar.”

KUSHA ANSARI Vice President of internal communications for GLI

show, you can feel immediately out of place,” Ansari said. “So we want to encourage people that it’s OK to be adventurous and put yourself out there and get out of your comfort zone.”

To ensure that students are more connected with the off-campus world, GLI requires that all of its events be held at a community site in Columbus.

Speakers from various Columbus organizations who are committed to furthering cultural diversity are often invited to share the missions of their organiza-

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Refuge president Priyanka Jain says the group helps mentees overcome obstacles like language barriers.

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tions and raise awareness about topics that might otherwise not be discussed in an everyday setting.

Hadhirah Tahir, a third-year in finance as well as vice president of public relations for GLI, said that at a GLI event, she was able to see past the issues that impact her as a Malaysian student.

“Coming from Malaysia, the whole Mexico issue with the U.S. is definitely not something I’ve been aware of, and it was really interesting and eye-opening for me,” Tahir said.

Additionally, Ansari said that GLI hosts networking events where students can speak with members of the Columbus community to understand there are no limits to what they can do despite the barriers they may face as a minority.

“The networking aspect of being able to see these individuals within a mile radius on campus from the Columbus community that have achieved success despite different types of adversity — that’s been very inspiring,” Ansari said.

By providing Ohio State students with the opportunity to learn about the experiences of other students who might come from different countries, Koppes said GLI is ultimately encouraging students to become global citizens.

“We’re a globally connected world,” Koppes said. “One of the key aspects of our program is developing global citizens — so people not just thinking as an American, as a Chinese student, as a Malaysian — but more broadly as a global citizen.”

Diverging from the narrow perspective of his hometown, Koppes said being a part of GLI has strengthened his emotional intelligence and ability to empathize with different groups of people.

“When you learn from other people’s experiences and see their perspectives, you grow,” Koppes said.

organization increased on campus when refugees were a hot topic, but the conversation died down, and people don’t recognize that the crisis continues.

The majority of the program’s mentees have lived in the U.S. for two to eight years and are between the ages of 14 and 19. Jain said that some of the mentees that have been here for two years have unstable lives and don’t have a full grasp on English, causing them to have that additional stress of getting through school.

“There is a lot of stress for them to have a better life and for them to get a college education,” Jain said. “Some of [the mentees] say, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to get there, but I’m going to do it.’

They have the biggest goals and dreams; it’s so inspirational, but getting there is very tricky.”

Jain said language barriers and security issues are two of the major challenges the organization faces when working with mentees and organizing on-campus events.

Most of the mentorship occurs through messaging apps and video calling, but the Ohio State chapter plans events on campus throughout the academic year.

Singh said he can see the friendships that have formed between the mentors and mentees when Refuge holds events, especially with pairs that have been in the program for three years.

“It’s just good to have that when you come to a different country. It can make you feel isolated and just knowing you have a friend out there who’s willing to help you with that,” Singh said.

Singh said he didn’t know what the SAT and ACT were in high school, but during his sophomore year of college he helped his mentee study for both tests.

“It’s something that’s really personal to me, and I’m so glad I got to help a person out in this really prime time in their life,” Singh said.

Some mentees, like 15-year-old

Azhaar Yasin, are U.S. citizens but join the program because they are first-generation Americans and may not know anyone familiar with the college application process.

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“It’s hard. If you have been placed in a number of different locations, and you’re finally somewhere you’re supposed to feel safe and all of a sudden that’s taken out from under you, it makes sense. That’s something that is difficult, making sure these families know they can trust us.”

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Yasin and Carmen Moesle, a second-year in policy analysis and information systems, have been a mentee and mentor pair since August 2017.

Moesle said being a mentor was an eye-opening experience, and she learned a lot from being involved in the chapter.

“It’s a big learning curve for me, but then also for my roommates and people I know and people I talk to about the organization. The information spreads from [Refuge] through me to peo-

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ple I know,” Moesle said.

Yasin said she didn’t know anything about college and adult life before participating in the program.

“I feel like [Refuge] connects people to not only university but the younger generation to the people in college,” Yasin said.

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Dick and Jane Project gives middle schoolers a musical platform for self-expression ABHIGYAAN BARARIA Lantern reporter bararia.1@osu.edu

In 2010, Ben Shinaberry, founder of The Dick and Jane Project, had a theory that kids are capable of writing good song lyrics. To test this idea, he created after-school programs and workshops with young students, which resulted in the conception of the Dick and Jane Project.

In the past eight years, the nonprofit, which gets its name from the Dick and Jane book series, has evolved into a rigorous program where professional producers and musicians collaborate with middle-school students from schools with limited arts funding and schools for those with special needs to create radio-ready songs, Nick D’Andrea, operations director of DJP, said.

The process starts by talking about what music the kids enjoy. Because the students have different preferences, the most challenging point is to find common ground, whether it’s the theme or the genre of the song, Glenn Davis, a producer at DJP, said.

The workshops are driven by the students, and the artists and producers provide guidance. D’Andrea said that the kids need to feel that they are steering the ship as far as what the song sounds like.

“We are trying to do everything we can to keep the kids in the producer’s chair the whole time,” D’Andrea said.

The kids get to experience recording when they spend time in a studio with the producers and local musicians, who have been commissioned to work on the written

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Ben Shinaberry, founder of the Dick and Jane project, teaches middle schoolers how to make radio-ready songs.

songs, D’Andrea said.

Keeping the sound of the songs in mind, the diversity of the Columbus music scene helps cater to the needs of each song, as the organization can invite various artists from across Columbus that fit the specific sound the kids are looking for, D’Andrea said.

The kids and musicians both inspire each other, and as a result, many of the songs will end up using multiple musicians, leading to collaborations that no one thought of before and creating fun, unexpected results, D’Andrea said.

“It’s just a rare opportunity to pass along their love of music and see the younger generations grow into that,” Davis said.

Once the song is completed, it is aired on WCBE 90.5 radio, which has a partnership with DJP, at 11:55 a.m. Fridays and 8:01 p.m. Tuesdays. The program also incorporates interviews with the kids, explaining the song’s meaning.

“The best moments are when you really see those kids, you see that switch flip on for the first time where they feel proud of something that they’ve made,” Davis said.

Most of the time, the songs will be about emotional topics, which is not something one expects from a middle-school student, D’Andrea said.

D’Andrea said the workshops aim to empower kids to express the emotions they have and give them a platform to do it.

“The best case scenario gives them an opportunity to express themselves and learn that they have a voice,” Davis said.

The workshops act as group therapy sessions. Kids who previously might not have had a lot of friends find themselves having candid and honest conversations with each other, D’Andrea said.

“It’s like the language of music is able to break those walls down,” he said. “Music is one of those rare things that means something to everybody.”

D’Andrea said the workshops are also a way of telling the kids that they are being heard and taken seriously.

Davis said the idea is to nudge the kids in the right direction and give them confidence to create something good in whatever field they choose.

“It’s just a rare opportunity to pass along their love of music and see the younger generations grow into that,” Davis said.

DJP strives to inspire the students to want to write and be creative, far beyond the purview of the workshops, according to its website.

“It’s just a really powerful thing to sit down with the kids and say, ‘Hey, you can make something awesome. Let’s do it together,’” Davis said.

Columbus Black International Film Festival to showcase importance of black film in 1990s CEIONE PAFFORD Lantern reporter pafford.5@osu.edu When looking at the most influential decades of film, the ‘90s stands out as one that helped shape today’s film industry.

Throughout the 1990s, black films influenced not only African-American culture, Cristyn Steward, founder and CEO of the Columbus Black International Film Festival said, but also impacted the film industry in general. The Columbus Black International Film Festival will hold a panel event Wednesday to discuss these pivotal films in honor of Black History Month.

“Ohio State is one of the largest universities, so I’m glad we can have the discussion here. I think it’s also relevant to talk about AfricanAmerican film [and] culture during Black History Month.”

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“It was a time where the movies didn’t just have black characters, but the cast and crew were black, and they were telling stories about being black,” she said.

Films such as “New Jack City,” “Crooklyn” and “Blade” are more than just black films because the star is African-American. These films talk about the lives of black people but have also influenced film today, Chris Bournea, a Columbus-based filmmaker and one of the event’s pan-

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The ‘90s Black Film Renaissance Panel on Wednesday will feature Keya Crenshaw, Michael Artis and Chris Bournea.

elists, said.

“A lot of millennials and Generation X grew up on ‘90s film, and it would influence guys like Ryan Coogler to make a great film like ‘Black Panther,’” Bournea, who graduated from Ohio State in 1998, said.

There have been many notable decades of black film, such as the 1970s or 2010s, but for Steward and Bournea, the ‘90s reign above all.

“After the success of Melvin Van Peebles’ ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song’ in 1971, many white directors tried to tell the African-American story through the blaxploitation genre,” Steward said. “It wasn’t until his son, Mario Van Peebles, came out with ‘New Jack City’ did African-Americans get to tell their story again.”

Bournea said the ‘90s paved the way for more great

black films to be made.

Both Bournea and Steward said they were excited to discuss these influential films at Ohio State because of its broad student population and the high caliber of intellectuals it produces.

“Ohio State is one of the largest universities, so I’m glad we can have the discussion here,” Bournea said. “I think it’s also relevant to talk about African-American film [and] culture during Black History Month.”

Steward said Columbus brings innovation to culture, and many great thinkers have come from the city and Ohio State.

The ‘90s Black Film Renaissance Panel will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, in room 006 of the Psychology Building.

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Ohio State student seeks to improve prescription drug pick-up process AJA MIYAMOTO Lantern reporter miyamoto.20@osu.edu After noticing the struggles many patients experienced when picking up prescriptions at the pharmacy he worked at, Paul Oyefesobi, a fourth-year in pharmacy, was determined to find a solution that would give providers a way of knowing whether a prescription is covered, prior to prescribing it to a patient.

As a result, Oyefesobi created RXMedAccess, a website on which doctors and providers can search for information about a drug and health care coverage and prices.

Moreover, the website makes it easier to limit the time and resources spent in the back-and-forth communication between doctors, pharmacies and patients.

“I thought, ‘Let’s aggregate all of these health care plan data sets and create a high-level technical tool where providers can simply type in the patient’s drug they want to prescribe, type in the health care plan of the patient and select the coverage,’” Oyefesobi said.

Some people do not know whether their medication is covered by health insurance, Oyefesobi said. As a result, patients are obligated to pay high medication costs or abandon their prescription because they cannot afford it.

The database of health solves this problem by allowing providers information on whether a drug is covered by the patients’ health care. It also provides approved alternatives to patients whose prescribed drug isn’t included in their health care plan.

“We’re targeting specific disease states that are focused on drugs that are typically not covered by health care plans, which includes a lot of asthma and insulin drugs,” Oyefesobi said.

The RXMedAccess team has spent the past year building an infrastructure for the business. In fall 2018, Oyefesobi competed in the Best of Student Startups competition where he and his team placed third and won a $500 prize.

As a pharmacy student and business owner, Oyefesobi

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Paul Oyefesobi created RXMedAccess to make it easier for patients to get their needed prescriptions.

found a mentor in the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Jake Cohen, assistant director of student programs at the center, has worked with Oyefesobi to brainstorm ideas together.

“He’s a content expert in terms of pharmacy,” Cohen said. “As a pharmacy student he really has an in-depth knowledge and background info about that industry, which is important for any entrepreneur.”

Oyefesobi said he looks forward to graduating from pharmacy school and hopes to make a difference in the healthcare system.

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Hanson has served as an assistant coach for various U.S. national team events from 1986-89 and 1994-95, including the National Sports Festival, the Olympic Sports Festival and the National Elite Junior Training Camp.

He also was head coach for the U.S. in the Olympic Sports Festival in 1989, the Junior Continental Championships in 2012 and the Men’s U-21 World Championship in 2013.

Hanson said he puts a lot of value in learning from coaches and players around the world.

“There’s good volleyball played around the world,” Hanson said. “Being exposed to other countries and other training methods and how they’re playing the game and the fact that they might train it differently, but they might train it very successfully, clearly expanded my vision and the way I looked at the game.”

Hanson said this award, his third Hall of Fame induction, says more about the players and the teams he’s had at Ohio State than anything he’s accomplished himself. He praised the success of the program and what’s been achieved over the course of his tenure, but he avoids connecting himself to that success.

Sanil Thomas does the opposite.

“Being in the Hall of Fame once obviously is a feat in and of itself. To do it three times is something just surreal and something crazy,” Thomas said. “I think what you wouldn’t expect is the same — I would imagine, the same amount of passion he brought day one he brings that passion day — a lot; it’s a lot of days. That’s why he deserves this more than anyone.”

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“Strong as Steel - Visceral Affliction” by Kara Zimmerman dominates the entrance to the exhibition.

NICHOLAS YOUNGBLOOD Lantern reporter youngblood.27@osu.edu Thirty Ohio State BA and BFA art students were awarded scholarships of various amounts in addition to a spot in the campus art gallery this week at the Undergraduate Art Scholarship Exhibition, which opened Monday in the Hopkins Hall Gallery.

The featured artists were picked from a total of 70 who applied. The students submitted work from many disciplines, includ-

ing paintings, sculptures, digital art and video. The exhibition represents a major accomplishment for undergraduates just getting their start in the art world.

Area coordinators from all seven areas of art helped select the strongest applicants based on a submission of three works and a personal statement. Those areas include art and technology, ceramics, glass, painting and drawing, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

Laura Lisbon, a professor in the painting and drawing program, said the scholarship

money can help with supplies, but the confidence boost from the exhibition is just as valuable. Lisbon was one of the faculty members responsible for selecting pieces to feature in the gallery.

“If it’s a student that just got into the major, I think it’s an added incentive or a feeling that they’ve accomplished something that gives them some confidence,” Lisbon said.

One new art student at the university agrees. Serena Yoakum, a first-year in studio art, had her sculpture selected for the exhibition.

“It is very encouraging because in high school … I applied to certain contests and competitions and I never really won something, let alone a scholarship,” Yoakum said. “So, it feels very rewarding to be recognized and have my work shown.”

Yoakum’s sculpture represented one of her first attempts at three-dimensional art, made during her Introduction to 3D art course. Encouraging artistic growth is a focus of the exhibition, as Lisbon said that applicants are judged not only on quality, but also range of work and ambition.

This focus seems to be paying off. Yoakum said the recognition has encouraged her to keep exploring her artistic direction at the university.

“I’m not actually that experienced with 3D art — I’m very new to it,” she said. “I’m finding that maybe I can make very strong work with that because it was a very foreign thing to me until my class last semester. So maybe I’ll explore that more.”

The exhibition runs through March 29 with a reception in Hopkins Hall at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday.

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A 1,000-mile adjustment Tavonte Mott copes with loss of home and family in move to Ohio State ARI HORTON Lantern reporter horton.291@osu.edu After Tavonte Mott stepped out of the airport, he was in shock and thought to himself, “What did I get myself into?”

Mott came to Ohio State from Nassau, Bahamas, and since then has had success as part of the men’s track and field team. But his success comes with a lot of adjustment.

Mott is a sophomore sprinter on the men’s track and field team who has had to overcome obstacles as an international student-athlete.

He started running track in ninth grade but after a death in his family, Mott has seen a lot of success in the track-and-field world.

Tevaughn Mott, Tavonte’s younger brother, wanted to run track but was unable to because of sickle cell disease.

Although his brother was unable to run, he would brag to all his friends about how Mott would be one of the best, Mott said.

Tevaughn died in 2013 at the age of 10.

“The last time I saw him, I basically made [the promise to be one of the best] to myself,” Mott said. “[His death] motivated me to be where I am today.”

Mott has run on eight different national teams for the Bahamas, which has taken him to track meets in China, Colombia and London.

After a visit to Ohio State, Mott said it felt like a home away from home, and that track and field assistant coach Joel Brown reminded him of his coach from the Bahamas.

“Recruiting internationally is a bit different than here in the U.S. because in an international kid, you have to look for kids at a certain kind of level who can come in and contribute to the team earlier in their career,” Brown said.

“But the transition sometimes doesn’t happen that way, and for [Mott] the transition was a big adjustment.”

Mott has traveled alone many times before, but he said the time he traveled to Ohio State he felt

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Tavonte Mott is a sophomore sprinter on the men’s track and field team from Nassau, Bahamas.

excited, nervous and scared.

“I didn’t know what to expect,” Mott said.

The 85-degree weather is one of the things Mott vividly remembers as he was preparing to leave Nassau.

He came to Ohio State in January 2018, the middle of winter in Ohio when most students were starting their second semesters.

“He’s coming to a place where it’s already cold. There may have been some snow on the ground, and it’s gray here during that time of the year,” Brown said.

The weather was one thing that made the transition difficult for Mott, and after three months at Ohio State, Mott was homesick.

“I couldn’t sleep; I just wanted to go home,” Mott said. “I didn’t want to be here anymore.”

Mott said the first couple of months at Ohio State were mentally draining, and he felt like he was alone.

“Sometimes you just feel like

there is no one who can relate to you,” Mott said.

“The last time I saw him, I basically made [the promise to be one of the best] to myself. [His death] motivated me to be where I am today.”

TAVONTE MOTT Ohio State sophomore sprinter

Although the first couple of months were tough for Mott, he finally found one thing that was refreshing: a fellow international athlete on the track and field

team.

Bliss Soleyn, a senior sprinter, is the only other international athlete on the team.

Soleyn said that being from St. John’s, Antigua, and Mott being from Nassau, Bahamas, made it easy to relate to each other.

“It’s pretty cool having him around, having that one person that I can have that downtime and talk in my natural accent [with], and he fully understands,” Soleyn said.

Mott said he has enjoyed traveling to different states and building friendships with his teammates.

But after a year at Ohio State, Mott said there are still times when he misses home and wishes he was back in the warm weather.

“I wouldn’t say the transition was the smoothest of transitions, but with some perseverance as a young person, he was able to get himself together, and now he’s transitioning well,” Brown said.

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touches in the paint.

Holtmann said the reason why both forwards have put up the numbers they have is because of the shooting ability of the rest of the starting lineup. The Hawkeyes are No. 3 in the Big Ten in 3-point field goal percentage.

In his first year with the Buckeyes, Holtmann knew of Cook, the player who leads Iowa this season with 16 points per game.

But Garza was the one who made the lasting impact.

“I was so impressed with Garza last year when we played them,” Holtmann said. “And he has proven to be as good of a player as he is.”

Garza made 6-of-7 shot attempts against the Buckeyes Jan. 12, leading the team with 16 points.

On the outside, Holtmann said senior guard C.J. Jackson will return to the starting lineup after being sidelined with a shoulder injury Saturday against Maryland.

After earning his first career start against the Terrapins Saturday, freshman forward Justin Ahrens will continue to have opportunities in an increased role, Holtmann said. He added that the starting spot is still “fluid,” though.

In five games against ranked opponents this season, Ohio State is winless. Its past two losses to ranked teams have been by double digits.

However, Holtmann said he senses a level of urgency heading into Tuesday’s matchup with the Hawkeyes, saying, “You’ve got to be living in a cave if you don’t have that feeling.”

But the number attached to Iowa does not change the mentality of Wesson ahead of Tuesday’s game.

“Every game from now [on] is the biggest game of the season,” Wesson said. “We have to go into practice and think our biggest game is Tuesday.”

Ohio State will take on No. 22 Iowa at the Schottenstein Center at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

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Passion for volleyball, legacy of success leads Pete Hanson to USA Volleyball Hall of Fame induction CALEB EWING Lantern reporter ewing.279@osu.edu After four years playing under Ohio State head men’s volleyball coach Pete Hanson, one memory sticks out in Sanil Thomas’ mind: the pregame speech before the 2016 National Championship.

A freshman at the time, Thomas had spent most of his first season as a Buckeye backing up star junior setter Christy Blough, who had totalled 1,232 assists during the 2016 season and would finish his career with 4,280 assists, ranking him No. 5 in program history for the category.

In the biggest match for the Buckeyes since the 2011 National Championship, it was unlikely Thomas would see the floor, except for the occasional substitution to serve.

Nevertheless, Hanson’s pregame speech was special for Thomas.

“Honestly, I don’t even remember the exact theme of the speech or whatever it was, but I just know I was ready to play,” Thomas said.

“And I wasn’t even playing. I was on the bench, and I was just fired up.”

Hanson is known for his passion for the game of volleyball.

This summer, he’ll be recognized for that dedication in front of a hometown crowd.

On May 22, Hanson will be inducted into the USA Volleyball Hall of Fame in Columbus, among a group of 25 other volleyball legends. He’ll be honored with the Donald S. Shondell AllTime Great Coach Award in the contemporary division.

Hanson is already a two-time

volleyball after his father got him and a few other boys at their local church to start a middle-school league in his hometown of Flint, Michigan.

“It just was a sport that resonated with me for some reason. I had played other sports,” Hanson said. “We formed a group of kids that stayed together, and it just grew from there, and three of us went to college together and just started playing, and so, lo and behold, here I am.”

“Being in the Hall of Fame once obviously is a feat in and of itself. To do it three times is something just surreal and something crazy.”

SANIL THOMAS Ohio State senior setter COURTESY OF OSU ATHLETICS

Ohio State head men’s volleyball coach Pete Hanson will be inducted into the USA Volleyball Hall of Fame in Columbus on May 22.

Hall of Fame inductee — the American Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2015 and the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017.

He’s served as the head coach for the men’s volleyball team at Ohio State for 35 seasons starting in 1985, winning three national championships and accruing only five losing seasons during that span.

His teams have won 702 of their 1,042 matches for a .674 winning percentage, including

a 63-5 stretch over the 2016 and 2017 seasons, which featured the longest winning streak in Ohio State history for a head-to-head sport.

Prior to his coaching career, which includes five years at the University of Wyoming and a year at Ball State, Hanson played at Kellogg Community College under head coach Mick Haley.

Hanson said Haley was one of his earliest influences as both a player and a future coach. “[He] influenced me a lot about

how to compete,” Hanson said.

“You just needed to compete hard. You needed to get in there and grind for points and challenge the guys across the net ... Mick was a very competitive individual, and I think I had that in me, but he kind of kept challenging us to bring that out.”

In college, Haley was a setter under Ball State coach Donald Shondell, the legendary coach, who the award Hanson is being given is associated with.

Hanson first got his start in

Tim Embaugh, who has been

by Hanson’s side for the past 28 seasons as an assistant coach, said Hanson’s coaching influence extends beyond the collegiate level.

Embaugh said Hanson has participated with multiple USA programs, including volunteering during the Atlanta Olympics, coaching the World University Games teams and participating with the youth and junior national teams.

“He’s got a long history of not just college volleyball, but also USA Volleyball,” Embaugh said.

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Ohio State sophomore forward Kaleb Wesson (34) dribbles the ball during the second half of the game against Northwestern on Feb. 20. Ohio State won 63-49.

Tuesday will begin a closing stretch of games head coach Chris Holtmann views as one of the toughest of the season for Ohio State.

The Buckeyes will face three Big Ten teams currently ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 in the final four games of the regular season: No. 22 Iowa, No. 14 Purdue and No. 19 Wisconsin.

With an Ohio State team on the bubble for a spot in the NCAA Tournament, and with this stretch of games heading into the Big Ten tournament, Holtmann said his team is in a position not many teams have the opportunity to be in.

“We all know what was said about this group earlier in the year, before the season got started, and we’ve got an opportunity here to see how we can finish,” Holtmann said. “We get what we earn.”

As the No. 6 team in the Big Ten, the Hawkeyes have won five of their past six games, taking a 76-70 overtime win against

Indiana Friday.

Iowa will bring the No. 1 scoring offense in the conference to Columbus Tuesday, averaging 80.4 points per game and shooting 46.6 percent from the field, which is second-best behind Michigan State.

Ohio State already has an idea of what the Iowa offense looks like, having lost to the Hawkeyes 72-62 Jan. 12. Despite the Buckeyes leading 26-24 at halftime, Iowa exploded to make 15-of-27 from the field in the second half.

“We thought that it was a win,” sophomore forward Kaleb Wesson said. “I feel like going into the second half, we didn’t have the same intensity and came out with the same toughness that we had the first time in the first half.”

Much of the Hawkeyes’ success was due to the play of its two starting forwards: junior Tyler Cook and sophomore Luka Garza. Against Ohio State, they combined for 31 points, converting on 11-of-17 attempts from the field with 12 rebounds.

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