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Campus community members came together to host Afro-Latino Connection to foster cross-cultural interactions.

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Love Your Melon, a student organization that aims to lift the spirits of child cancer patients, has blossomed to about 160 members.

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As the Big Ten’s second-leading freshman scorer with six goals and 14 assists, Buckeye forward Mason Jobst is leading the way for OSU’s men’s hockey’s freshman class.

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Student safety app debuts USG, Department of Public Safety, Student Life launch free safety application ASHLEY NELSON Social Media Editor nelson.1217@osu.edu The Undergraduate Student Government, in partnership with the Department of Public Safety and the Office of Student Life, is announcing the launch of a new safety application on Tuesday. Students can expect an email around noon with details.

“The Undergraduate Student Government continues to focus on student safety both on and off campus,” reads the USG email. “For this reason, we are excited to announce the launch of the LifeLine Response Enterprise App, a safety app for smartphones available free of charge to Buckeye students.”

Abby Grossman, a fourth-year in math education and president of USG, said that USG’s student activity fee paid for the purchase of the app for the next year for OSU students.

The app can be used in two modes. The first is a “Timer Mode,” which is hands-free. It is activated when the user starts a timer and after the allotted time has passed, they must enter a code to disarm the emergency service. The second mode is a “Thumb Mode,” which requires the user’s thumb to remain on the user’s phone screen. If the code is not entered, upon time expiration or after the user’s thumb is removed, the user’s location will be shared via GPS, and the nearest police department will be notified of the emergency.

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Dining task force raises meal plan concerns DANIEL HERBENER Lantern reporter herbener.4@osu.edu

that allow notifications to be sent out campus-wide, according to the website.

According to both Cahill and the LifeLine website, this app has prevented 25 assaults and eight medical emergencies so far in the eight months it has been available.

“About two years ago, LifeLine Response Enterprises did a trial run at Ohio State, which was very successful,” Grossman said. “So there was a lot of research making sure this was the application (USG) wanted to go with, and it has been a tremendous partnership so far.”

Grossman said after the trial run, 97 percent of students who participated said they would recommend

The Ohio State Undergraduate Student Government’s Dining Task Force released a report that is raising concerns, such as the transparency and cost of the university’s meal plan.

Complexity, affordability and student health were among the biggest areas of trepidation outlined in the report, which was released Jan. 13.

“Students were starting to notice that the value of their plan was not being fulfilled,” said Annie Greer, a third-year in computer science engineering and director of Student Affairs and chair of the Dining Task Force. “The lack of transparency of all costs was really bothering students.”

The report covered the process of gathering student opinions and the main concerns of students, as well as solutions to these concerns.

The task force worked with the Residence Hall Advisory Council to conduct discussions with students about their concerns with Dining Services.

From there, the Dining Task Force created and released a survey that resulted in 864 student responses about the meal plan.

The survey found that 51.3 per-

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“The best place to use it is when somebody doesn’t feel safe.”

Peter Cahill Founder and CEO, LifeLine

The founder and CEO of LifeLine, Peter Cahill, spoke with The Lantern about the genesis of the application and why it is so important. Cahill said the idea came to him after a family member was raped and his niece and her friend were almost abducted in a separate incident in 2012.

“The best place to use it is when somebody doesn’t feel safe,” he said. “We have a call center, so if you don’t disarm (the app), our call

center tries to reach you, but simultaneously we also alert friends and family, and these are called ‘Lifelines.’ We connect them to your location and to 911 as well.”

There are several other features within the app, such as Real-time Suspicious Activity Tracking and Reporting, which allows users who see suspicious activity in the community to anonymously send a report to the LifeLine system, as well as in-app notification services

OSU alumnus, new city councilman begins term COURTESY OF KEVIN MCCAIN

Columbus city councilman Michael Stinziano.

He was elected to Columbus City Council in November and began his term Jan. 1. He previously represented Ohio’s 18th District, which includes OSU’s campus.

ALLISON BUGENSTEIN Lantern reporter bugenstein.4@osu.edu The Columbus City Council has a new face joining them this year.

Michael Stinziano, an Ohio State alumnus, was elected to the council in November and sworn in Jan. 1.

Out of the seven council members, five of them have been elected in the past two years.

Stinziano has been an active part of the council for only the past few weeks, but the councilman said he is already reaching out to the community and trying to make positive changes for the people of Columbus.

“There is a commitment with this group to tackle and recognize the transition ahead and to address

key issues like poverty and transportation,” Stinziano said. “Collectively we are ready to get to work.”

Before he was elected to city council, Stinziano had legislative experience serving as a state representative for the 18th District, which includes several Columbus neighborhoods, including the university community that encompasses OSU. “I worked with Michael on a few projects while he was a representative of OSU,” said Mike Lakomy, a third-year in business and president of the OSU College Democrats.

“He has always been super helpful to the OSU community.”

Stinziano is a graduate of OSU’s Moritz College of Law and a Columbus native. After working in politics in Washington D.C.,

Stinziano decided to come back home to Columbus.

“I was attracted to city council because I would have the opportunity to represent and help more people,” Stinziano said. “My passion is helping people and working with them on solutions that government can help implement.”

Stinziano has joined multiple committees, including the technology and the judiciary and court-administration committees. He also serves as chairman of the council’s public utilities committee, where he is tackling public transportation.

“He is working on a lot of cool things,” Lakomy said. “The things he has done, the list is really long.”

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Student event creates intercultural connections JANAYA GREENE Lantern reporter greene.1052@osu.edu With hopes of fostering an intercultural connection between students of color on Ohio State’s campus, campus community members collaborated for Afro-Latino Connection, a night of food and dance to foster unity between African and Latino students, as well as those who identify as both.

The annual cross-cultural event took place on Thursday in Hale Hall, OSU’s Black Cultural Center, with the Black Student Association, African Youth League, Latino Student Association and Ethiopian and Eritrean Student Organization.

“BSA has their night that tends to conflict with LSA, AYL and other programs that divides the (minority) community here on campus.

We just wanted to have a day where people come together,” said Kellen Milton, treasurer of BSA. Kayla DeVan, a second-year in neuroscience, said she attended Afro-Latino Connection this year because she enjoyed it the previous year.

“This event is significant because it brings out people of different cultures to come together and also learn about the cultures they maybe have never seen before or that they don’t know anything about,” she said.

DeVan, who identifies as black and white, said that hearing about

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Left: Ohio State students do the Shoki when AYL opened the floor to the audience at Afro-Latino Connection on Jan. 21.

Right: Lanae Plaxico, of 3-D Urban Dance Team, teaches a hip hop routine at Afro-Latino Connection on Jan. 21. world,” Milton said. “By seeing faces from all of our organi“By seeing more faces from all of our organizations, more zations, you’ll be able to see that you’ll be able to see that this campus isn’t as big.” this campus isn’t as big.”

Kellen Milton Among the foods served were Treasurer, Black Student Association rice and bean dishes, puff puff, plantain, fried chicken, peach cobLatino culture from her best friend interested in attending Afro-Latino bler and more. LSA taught attendwho is Puerto Rican and about Af- Connection. ees how to dance the Merengue, rican culture from another friend “Everybody coming here thinks AYL taught the Shoki, the Ethiwho is Ethiopian, also made her this is the biggest campus in the opian and Eritrean Organization

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cent of these respondents felt that they were not getting their money’s worth with their current meal plan.

The report cited a lack of understanding in how to use the meal plan.

“The biggest issue is that students need to know how much they are spending,” said Daniel Marchese, a fifth-year in computer science engineering and West Campus senator and member of the Dining Task Force.

Marchese said the administrative fees used to pay employees and operate the dining halls that were not seen upfront contributed immensely to a lack of transparency.

“The problem is that you are betting on students not using their meal plan. The way the plan is structured now, the administrative fees come from the money that you don’t spend,” he said.

In addition to the issues with administrative fees and with students not understanding how to use their plan, the loss of money from unused visits was also a concern. As the unused traditions visits do not roll over, the report found that between week one and 10 of this past semester, students lost a combined $1.72 million.

“I think there is some feeling among students that the university is taking advantage of them,” Greer said. “We just want the description of the meal plan online to be clear about what you are getting.”

Dave Isaacs, a spokesman for

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Traditions at Scott is located at 160 W. Woodruff Ave. the Office of Student Life, said in an email that the university is still in the process of evaluating dining plan options for the next year.

“We have met regularly with USG representatives, and their input, along with the input of a number of students and student organizations, including the Residence Hall Advisory Council, is very important in informing the decision making process,” Isaacs said.

Along with the increase of transparency of costs, Greer explained the long-term hope of establishing a declining balance meal-plan structure outlined in the report, which would allow for all credit for

dining to be given upfront.

“The declining balance option would work similarly to a debit card,” Greer said.

The USG Resolution to Support the Replacement of the Current Meal Plan passed 42-aye, 2-nay on Jan. 13.

As far as immediate solutions are concerned, the report suggests the use of rollover for Traditions location visits, increasing discounts and the transparency of what meal plans are partial.

The next step in the process is for USG to bring a proposal before University Senate.

taught the Shegoya and OSU’s 3D Urban Dance team taught students a hip-hop dance routine.

“We want to reinforce that idea of community, which is something I think all of the orgs here try to uphold,” Milton said. “We try to make this campus as small as possible for all of our students on campus that identify as Black and Latino.”

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it to a friend, and 98 percent said they felt safer using the app.

Acting Police Chief Craig Stone affirmed the choice in LifeLine and explained how it will impact students on and off campus.

“There are over 200 blue light phones on campus, and a few off campus, but with this safety app, not only can students use it on campus, you can use it off campus, almost anywhere with the GPS feature,” Stone said.

Stone added that the partnership did not happen overnight.

“USG has been working on this for quite some time. They evaluated a lot of products, and once the right product was identified, a lot of internal entities got involved to make sure we were getting the best product we could get,” he said.

Both Stone and USG acknowledged the importance of every student’s awareness and dedication to safety.

“While the app has many benefits, it cannot replace your own instincts,” USG wrote in its email. “So please continue to look out for yourself and one another, be aware of your surroundings.”

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JAY PANANDIKER Engagement Editor panandiker.1@osu.edu A sexual assault was reported by a female student on Saturday. The incident reportedly took place between 1:15 and 2 a.m. Two men reportedly raped the student after walking her to her dorm room from a bar on North High Street.

1. A felony assault was reported on Sunday at 2 a.m. After being involved in an altercation, the victim was reportedly found by witnesses on a sidewalk at the corner of East 14th Avenue and North High Street.

2. An assault was reported just after 1 a.m. on Jan. 18. The victim said the suspect, her ex-boyfriend, argued with her in the parking lot of the Kroger at 1350 N. High St. The suspect reportedly pushed STINZIANO FROM 1

sharing and Uber.

“A lot of young people are interested in what we’re doing about transportation. We just updated Uber legislation, and we’re going to address other issues that young people are interested in,” Stinziano said.

Young people have some of the worst

the victim into a wall before leaving with her bag.

3. An officer found a suspect sleeping behind a dumpster near the corner of East 13th Avenue and North Pearl Street just before 8 p.m. on Saturday. The police officer believed the suspect to be intoxicated and in possession of a glass pipe.

The arrestee was taken to the Franklin County Jail for disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia.

4. An incident of criminal damaging was reported on Monday just before 9 a.m. in Denney Hall.

5. A complainant reported a misdemeanor theft from the Barnes & Noble at 1598 N. High St. The suspect, who has since been arrested, reportedly stole a USB cord, a battery and a speaker. The stolen items were valued at approximately $220.The incident reportedly took voter turnout and participation in government, but Stinziano said he encourages young people to get involved with politics and to bring their ideas and issues to the city government.

“Get to know us. If there is a problem you see, talk to us, we want to find ways to help,” Stinziano said. “We know everyone

place on Saturday at about 3:30 p.m.

6. A complainant reported a misdemeanor theft from Bullwinkles Night Club at 1770 N. High St. The suspect reportedly was responsible for more than $100 in drinks before attempting to pay with a credit card he knew was not valid.

The incident took place just after midnight on Jan 18.

7. An incident of criminal trespassing was reported at the Blackwell Inn on Jan. 19 just before 3 a.m.

Note: Crimes featured on map do not represent the full extent of criminal activity in the campus area.

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KEVIN STANKIEWICZ Assistant Sports Editor stankiewicz.16@osu.edu Laura Vanic had some work to do after the Spring Involvement Fair.

In the past three months, Ohio State’s Love Your Melon Campus Crew sold close to 750 hats. In one day, it gained 100 new members.

It was up to Vanic, a third-year in accounting and the ambassador for the Love Your Melon Campus Crew, to add those 100 names and contact information from people who expressed interest in the club, onto the current list of members.

But she welcomed the task with open arms.

“It was a lot of keying in names,” Vanic said, laughing. “But it was awesome to have that many people interested.”

Her student-run organization is relatively new to OSU — she started it in January 2015, and it wasn’t officially recognized by the university until the autumn semester — but it is growing rapidly, just like the company it is affiliated with.

Love Your Melon is a for-profit company out of Minnesota that was founded by two college students in their entrepreneurship class during their sophomore year in 2012. According to its website, it grew out

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The Love Your Melon crew with members of the Columbus Clippers and some of the children that they met at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

of “the simple idea of putting a hat on every child battling cancer in America,” through the “buy one, give one program.”

Vanic is from Minnesota, where the company was founded, and she said sometime last year she noticed her social media timeline filled with posts about Love Your Melon and its mission.

After realizing OSU didn’t have its own umbrella organization, she said she reached out to the headquarters in Minneapolis, expressing her interest. She was given the green light to bring the company’s goals to Columbus in January 2015.

It is one of 500 student-operated

“It’s just a bunch of college kids all devoted to the same mission, for some reason or another.”

Jenna Wilson Second-year in neuroscience

groups at schools throughout the United States that have ”signed on as ambassadors to sell and donate hats,” according to Love Your Melon’s website.

It had just four members at its inception, a far cry from the rough-

ly 160 it has now. The reasons for students signing up are wide-ranging, Vanic said, but the common thread is the desire to help children and their families that are battling cancer.

For Jenna Wilson, a second-year in neuroscience, her cousin’s fight with a brain tumor inspired her to get involved.

“It’s really special to be a part of something like this,” Wilson said, wearing a red Love Your Melon hat, one of the three she owns.

“It’s just a bunch of college kids all devoted to the same mission, for some reason or another.”

Every member is able to partici-

pate in the volunteer opportunities and other events that occur on campus, Vanic said, but the original 20 are a part of the “active” group.

The reason for such classification is derived from the crown jewel of Love Your Melon’s outreach, which are hospital trips where hats, among other things, are distributed to children with cancer, Vanic said.

The entire 160 would not feasibly be able to attend the trips, she said, as with sick children there are strict rules about visits to ensure the patient’s’ health is not compromised further.

To qualify for hospital trips, campus organizations have to earn 250 credits, which are accumulated from purchases, Vanic said. When someone buys a product online, a drop-down menu allows them to indicate affiliation with any of the campus groups. Each time an individual selects OSU, a credit is earned for the club.

As the credits pile up, different outreach opportunities, such as the hospital trips, household visits or adventures, become available to campus affiliates to sponsor, Vanic said.

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Future continues ‘reign’ while artists give back SAM KAYUHA Lantern reporter kayuha.2@osu.edu “Purple Reign” by Future Now seems about the time Future’s wave crests. In August 2014, the Atlanta rapper dropped “Monster,” his first mixtape after a disappointing album and high-profile breakup with Ciara. Since then, with one stellar project after another, he has to be at least the second-biggest rapper alive: ”What a Time to Be Alive” was basically an album of Drake jumping on his tracks. Ruling 2016 like he did ‘15 seemed like an impossible task.

That is, until last weekend. Future announced his latest mixtape, “Purple Reign,” with about an hour warning. Livemixtape.com’s servers wilted under the pressure, and #futurehive took over Twitter for the next 24-48 hours — long enough to endlessly mock Ciara’s current boyfriend, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, when his team fell to the Panthers.

“Purple Reign” isn’t the best of his four latest mixtapes. In fact, it’s probably the worst. That’s an easy distinction, considering the quality of the other three, and far from a knock. There are quite a few gems on “Purple Reign”: “Wicked,” “Inside the Mattress,” “Run Up” and the title track, to name a few. There

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This week Future called “Purple Reign” a “warm up,” and it now seems totally possible that we’re in for another year of the mumble, the codeine and the pills, and the re-

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Manitowoc, Wis. is a fellow Midwestern city, about eight hours northwest of Columbus, that I had never heard of. It wasn’t until I read spews of tweets on my Twitter timeline that mentioned the city — along with huge skepticism of America’s justice system — that Manitowoc entered my radar.

I read an article about how two petitions had gained about 200,000 signatures in hopes of legally pardoning a man named Steven Avery, a man who was wrongly convicted of sexual assault and attempted murder. I also learned that the White House had issued its first official decision-maker response to the petition. So I decided I had to give the “Making a Murderer” docuseries a try.

Now, I’m not a fan of intense spoilers, so I’ll only sum up the first episode of Netflix’s “Making a Murder” in one word: blasphemous.

I say the word pretty loosely, but the law is supposed to be sacred, right? Or it should at least be thought of that way — if you don’t want to be arrested, of course. This is why when Sandra Morris, a cousin of Avery’s, raised her right hand and agreed to “solemnly swear that the testimony (she was) about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help (her) God,” and claimed that Avery had performed sexual acts in front of her without her approval, I was taken aback. Most of the evidence presented in the show suggested that Avery hadn’t done any MELON FROM 4

Clippers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. They distributed the hats, colored pictures with the children and gave families “a couple hours not to think about treatment,” Vanic said.

“We go in with the goal of making (the patients) smile, but we all come out of there with the biggest grin, too,” she said.

One of Love Your Melon’s signatures is dressing up like superheros during outreach events to help create a fun-filled atmosphere for the children they’re visiting.

The events are therapeutic for the families, Vanic said.

“The happiness that this entire organization provides is incredible,” she said. “Just silly college kids dressed up as superheros, and the smiles it creates, it’s just so much fun.”

Like its membership, Vanic said the number of credits stored up for OSU’s group continues to rise. It’s near 820, she said, which means more household visits, superhero adventures and hospital visits are on the horizon in the spring.

When the group isn’t embarking on large-scale events like those, it does smaller projects, like “Cards for Kids,” which is scheduled for Tuesday night at the Union, where it plans on making cards for the patients it will visit on its forthcoming hospital trip. Beyond that, it is planning a pediatric cancer night in partnership with the women’s hockey team on Feb. 5, Vanic said.

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year.”

Two players who many are looking at to step up in an offensive role are junior midfielder and returning starter John Kelly and junior midfielder Austin Shanks, a transfer from Bellarmine University.

Shanks was the top attacker on a Bellarmine team that had a record of 4-8 last year. He finished with 31 goals and 13 assists. In fact, one of his goals a season ago came against OSU in an 8-7 Buckeye victory on Feb. 27 during the Midwest Classic. Now after trading his old colors for the scarlet and gray, he has already taken to impressing his new teammates in their first looks at him in practice.

“Austin Shanks is looking great and doing well in practice,” Kapinos said.

The defensive side of the ball is where the Buckeyes look to be most ready to continue their excellent play from last year and, likely, anPHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SAMANTHA HOLLINGSHEAD | PHOTO EDITOR chor the team. The defense returns Netflix is replacing many forms of digital media across the country including regular four starters, including third-team television.

All-American senior defenseman such thing.

In the ‘70s and ‘80s, many cit- ery was released from jail; current Robby Haus and honorable menIn 1985, at just 23 years old, Av- izens of Manitowoc resented the DNA technology proved that he tion All-American redshirt junior ery was charged with raping a local Avery family because they were had not raped Beerntsen. I thought goalie Tom Carey. woman named Penny Beerntsen, autoworkers who seemed to be everything was going to go well for which resulted in a conviction and more concerned with building Avery after being released. But the a 32-year sentence. Despite multi- their own family’s community than thought vanished just as soon as a “I really like where ple alibis, no physical evidence to merging with their farm-working police car flashed across my com- we are based on the link Avery to Beerntsen’s rape and, neighbors. It turned out that there puter screen and the words “Do few days we’ve had according to Avery’s father, having were loads of funny business hap- we have Steven Avery in custody together. The goal is to 22 witnesses, Avery was still con- pening with police sheriffs, district though?” took its place. victed of the crime. attorneys, judges and other comI’d like to think that Avery has continue to improve.”

To be clear, I am not in the busi- mon people in the city, which led some justice in his future, but see- Nick Myers ness of victim blaming, and it was to a conspiracy of sorts that aimed ing that the series has a whopping OSU lacrosse coach evident that Beerntsen was sexu- to keep Avery locked up, no matter nine more near-hour-length epially assaulted. But while watching the cost. So basically, Manitowoc sodes left, I’m not so hopeful. But The Buckeyes have a tough nonthe first episode, my gut — along was full of hatred, and so much of it I guess we’ll see. The first episode with many holes in the Manitowoc that folks were willing to break the was so jam-packed with drama and conference schedule before Big police chief’s and district attor- law, putting their government jobs mystery that I wouldn’t dare stop Ten play starts, highlighted by back-to-back mid-season matchney’s reasoning for claiming Avery and freedom at risk. When you find watching now. ups against No. 2 Denver and No. 1 as the criminal — said that Avery the logic in all of this, please let me Notre Dame. However, coach Nick was innocent, and the justice sys- know.

Myers does not want the team to tem agreed.

At the end of the episode, Avlook too far ahead.

“Each team presents a unique challenge, starting with Furman,” Myers said. “They’re a team that has gotten better each year . . . so we’re not looking much past that right now.”

Overall, many are looking at this year’s OSU squad to once again reach the NCAA tournament and, if the season plays out the way the team feels it will, compete for the national championship. It is, though, still early in the season, and the team has not had a substantial amount of time together.

“I really like where we are based on the few days we’ve had together,” Myers said. “The goal is to continue to improve.”

OSU’s regular-season schedule is set to begin at noon in Greenville, South Carolina, against Furman on Feb. 6 following an exhibition COURTESY OF LAURA VANIC game against The Hill Academy on The OSU, Dayton and Bowling Green crews at the Cure Search for Children’s Cancer walk Saturday. at the Columbus Zoo.

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Vanic descried the group’s growth as incredible.

“By the time I graduate,” Wilson added, “who knows where it will be.”

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Logan Stieber returning to OSU as a coach NICHOLAS MCWILLIAMS Lantern reporter mcwilliams.66@osu.edu Ohio State wrestling coach Tom Ryan announced that Logan Stieber will be returning to the Steelwood Training Center after the Olympic Trials in April.

Only this time, the most decorated wrestler in OSU history will be setting up residence as a member of the coaching staff.

The addition of Stieber will now give a total of six national titles, seven NCAA finals appearances and 11 All-American honors to the coaching staff for the Buckeyes.

Stieber earned four national championships, 119 victories and a Hodge Trophy as the nation’s most outstanding wrestler during his career with the Scarlet and Gray. All of those marks were firsts by an OSU wrestler.

“I am very excited to be joining the Buckeye staff next year,” Stieber said in a press release. “I love Ohio State, so it’s a dream come true that I can start my coaching career here as well as pursue my Olympic dreams.”

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Nick Schilkey, who also plays at a height disadvantage at 5-foot-10.

“Things are going the right way because he’s playing hard and he is a relentless forward out there and that is what we have to be as smaller guys. You have to pretend that you’re not 5-foot-8 and play like you’re six feet tall. The bounces are going his way and rightfully so.”

After an 0-7 start and a 3-11 record heading into the winter break, Jobst and the Scarlet and Gray are starting to put things together.

OSU is 4-2-2 since the second half started on Dec. 28, and three of those wins have come over top15 ranked opponents.

Jobst had seven points (three goals, four assists) in the 14 games he played in the first half of the season. In the seven games he has played in during the second half, his play mirrors that of his team’s, as he has 13 points (three goals, 10 assists). He also recently garnered the Big Ten’s Third Star of the Week after a seven-point week-

“I love Ohio State, so it’s a dream come true that I can start my coaching career here as well as pursue my Olympic dreams.”

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High School, where he won four state titles, Stieber came to OSU and helped the Buckeyes earn their first team title in the team’s 94-year existence in the 2014-15 season.

Ryan expressed his excitement for the return of Stieber to OSU and what the return means for the team.

“Logan has been a tremendous example here as a student-athlete,” Ryan said in the release. “He completed one of the most illustrious careers in both Ohio high school history and NCAA history by winning four Big Ten and NCAA championships while leading the Buckeyes to our first team title.”

Ryan said Stieber’s contributions to the Buckeyes have been more than anyone else in the program’s end against rival and sixth-ranked Michigan.

“When we went down to Florida and had those two big wins (over then-No. 4 Boston College and then-No. 9 Cornell), I think that was a huge confidence booster for all of us,” Jobst said. “In the locker room, the whole attitude is just like, ‘Wow, we do have it.’”

Time will tell if Jobst and the Buckeyes still “have it” this upcoming weekend as they get set to host Michigan State for a twogame series. Puck drop on Friday is slated for 6:30 p.m., while Saturday’s matchup is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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pion (sophomore Kyle Snyder) and a four-time NCAA champion (Stieber).

Those accolades just so happen to make the wrestling room for the Buckeyes the only one with these kind of credentials in the NCAA. After winning a national championship last year and getting off to a 7-2 start this year, it would appear the Buckeyes are looking to build a collegiate dynasty in wrestling with the addition of Stieber, along with the experience of other coaches.

After finishing second in the 165-pound class at the U.S. Senior Nationals, Stieber will be attending the U.S. Olympic Team Trials from April 8 to 10 in the hopes of joining the Summer Olympic Games in LANTERN FILE PHOTO Rio de Janeiro.

Then-redshirt senior Logan Stieber wrestles against Stieber’s younger brother, HuntMinnesota on Feb. 6 at the Schottenstein Center. er, is also a member of the OSU history, and he expects him to be a house he believes his coaching staff team, but, as he is currently a redgreat influence to the wrestlers he is. shirt senior, he will not be coached will coach. “(Thatcher) had a tremendous in- by his brother.

“I am excited for the current and fluence on bringing our first NCAA future student-athletes that will team title to Ohio State as well as have the opportunity to learn from he mentored our upper weights, esLogan,” Ryan said. pecially Nick Heflin and Kyle SnyRyan also made a note of the der,” Ryan said. importance of volunteer coach The Scarlet and Gray wrestling Get the daily email edition!

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doing so twice as a freshman and twice already in 2015-16 — just three weeks into his sophomore season.

“That’s a guy that takes a lot of pressure off a lot of other people on the floor,” assistant coach Tim Embaugh said of Szerszen. “It’s a lot like having Kobe Bryant on your team.”

In both its losses, OSU attacked at an average of .173. But in their five wins, the Buckeyes haven’t had an attack percentage below .347, which came against Princeton in the second game of the year.

Throughout the four-game win streak, OSU has attacked north of .400 twice — .474 against USC and .429 versus Erskine.

The increased offensive efficiency equaling victories is no coincidence.

The Scarlet and Gray look to continue this improved offensive attack on Friday, as they are set to head on the road to take on Quincy University. The Hawks now sit at 4-4, after dropping their first four

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OSU redshirt sophomore middle blocker Matt Dorn (15) prepares to hit the ball during a game against George Mason at St. John Arena on Jan. 15.

its clash with OSU. After taking on the Hawks, the Buckeyes are scheduled to travel a little further west to St. Charles, Missouri, to square off with Lindenwood.

With back-to-back games looming on the horizon, OSU took necessary steps to make sure the team is near full strength to keep up with improved level of play.

“We are letting a couple of guys rest up over the weekend,” Hanson said. “Right now, the goal is just to manage the bodies, make sure everyone is as healthy as they can be and we will get back in the gym on Monday and start to gameplan for the two upcoming opponents.”

After their two-game road trip, the Buckeyes are slated to return to Columbus to take on Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne on Feb. 4.

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It’s 9:31 p.m. on Friday and the Ohio State men’s hockey team is in overtime with Big Ten rival and 14th-ranked Penn State at the Schottenstein Center.

Buckeye freshman forward Mason Jobst has just blocked a slapshot with his left leg with 2:42 remaining and is visibly in pain.

In stereotypical hockey player fashion, Jobst doesn’t stay down.

Although slow to get up, he musters all the strength he has left in him and frantically tries to help his teammates clear the puck out of the zone so he can get off of the ice.

Fourteen seconds after blocking that shot, just as Jobst returns to the action, Penn State freshman forward Alec Marsh ends the game with his sixth goal of the season.

Questions are immediately raised as to whether the leading scorer in the Buckeyes’ nine-man freshman class would return for Game 2 of the series the next night.

Twenty-four hours later, Jobst dekes Nittany Lions’ junior goaltender Eamon McAdam out of his jockstrap on a breakaway and buries the fourth of his team’s five goals on the night in a 5-1 OSU win.

For Jobst, the Big Ten’s second-leading freshman scorer with six goals and 14 assists, the path to success this season has come through the patience of sitting out most of his final year of junior hockey.

The former captain of the Muskegon Lumberjacks of the United States Hockey League, the top junior hockey league in the country, Jobst, who had already had both of his shoulders repaired, heard an

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OSU freshman forward Mason Jobst (26) waits for a puck drop in a game against Michigan on Jan. 15 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU won in a shootout.

a very big kid in stature,” Rohlik said. “What we saw is a kid that competes all over the ice. He wants the puck. He’s not afraid to have the puck. He’s not afraid to go in tough areas. Sometimes guys get to his team for the Clark Cup Finals, the next level and they are afraid to where he contributed a goal and make mistakes. Mason’s made mistwo assists, but his Lumberjacks takes, but he’s not afraid. Everyone were swept in three games by cur- that has coached him said, ‘Wow, rent teammate and classmate Dako- you are going to get a heck of a ta Joshua’s Sioux Falls Stampede. player here.’”

Jobst’s journey then continued Jobst, who stands at 5-foot-7 and to Ohio’s capital city to join coach 159 pounds, has been exactly that Steve Rohlik’s Buckeyes. through 22 games this season. Not For Rohlik, he was not worried only is he producing on the stat one bit about his somewhat inju- sheet, but in the faceoff circle as ry-prone center. His recruitment well, where he has emerged as the of Jobst told him all that he needed Buckeyes’ top faceoff man, winto know about not just the type of ning 52.5 percent of his draws. player he was getting, but the type His play has more than impressed LANTERN FILE PHOTO of person he is too. the veteran leaders on the team.

OSU then-freshman defender “First and foremost, I saw his “He has the right to be confiBrendan Barger (45) during competitiveness. Everybody would dent out there,” said junior captain a game against Maryland on look at him and say that he’s not JOBST CONTINUES ON 7 April 18 at Ohio Stadium.

“A goal for us each and every day is to just get better as a team.”

After sitting out last year with an injury, redshirt junior midfielder Tyler Pfister also has personal goals for a bounce-back season.

“Coming off an injury, a goal for me would be to come back and contribute to the team in the best way I can,” Pfister said.

The Buckeyes will need players like Pfister to figure out quickly just what the best way to contribute is, as OSU will be without two of its top three goal scorers from last season, including third-team All-American Jesse King.

The team will look to returning players, as well as a few fresh faces, to fill the offensive void left by King, who led the team with 42 goals and 35 assists in 2015.

“Losing a guy like Jesse King, an impact player, definitely affects us,” Pfister said. “I think we have younger guys who are going to step ED MOMOT | FOR THE LANTERN into roles and guys who were mayMembers of the OSU men’s volleyball team celebrate during be under the radar last year but will a game against George Mason at St. John Arena on Jan. 15. definitely come on to the scene this year.”

Ohio State’s freshman forward is second in Big Ten among freshmen with six goals and 14 assists all-too-familiar pop during a home game in October 2014.

“I had a good summer working out and I was hoping to have a good year,” Jobst said. “I can’t really describe how deflating it was mentally that I had been through a full year of rehab and trying to take care of my body and for it to pop out again was devastating.”

After speaking with his future coaches in Columbus, he determined that it was best to shut it down, have yet another surgery, and hope for an elusive healthy season next fall.

However, the true captain and determined player that he is, Jobst battled back through rehab to rejoin

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The Ohio State men’s lacrosse team is less than two weeks away from the start of its season.

OSU, ranked No. 13 in preseason polls, is set to square off against Furman University on Feb. 6 after a scrimmage Saturday with The Hill Academy.

The Scarlet and Gray come into the season with high aspirations after losing last year to Johns Hopkins in the Big Ten championship game and eventual national champion Denver in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.

“As a team, (our goal) is definitely to win the Big Ten championship and national championship,” said senior midfielder Kacy Kapinos.

OSU makes sweeping a habit GENE ROSS For The Lantern ross.1275@osu.edu The Ohio State men’s volleyball team won its fourth straight match Friday night, dispatching Coker College in straight sets (25-11, 2515, 25-23) at St. John Arena. The three-set defeat of the Cobras was no anomaly, as all of the Buckeyes’ wins on their current winning streak have come by way of sweeps.

The stellar play of late from the Buckeyes comes after they dropped two of their first three matches, with losses at McMaster University and against UCLA at a neutral site of State College, Pennsylvania.

“The Canadian team, McMaster, is the No. 1 team in Canada and we schedule those teams for a reason, and that is to challenge our guys

and learn about our team,” OSU coach Pete Hanson said after the win over the Cobras. “We learned a lot of things.”

The Buckeyes’ only other loss came against UCLA, which is now the top-ranked team in the United States.

“When we do the things that we talk about — pass the ball to our setter, let our setter run a basic offense, guys take good swings — we see a high level of success,” Hanson said.

A big factor in the Buckeyes’ resurgence has been the play of sophomore Nicolas Szerszen. Just last week, Szerszen won the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association’s Offensive Player of the Week award.

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