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LYDIA WEYRICH Lantern reporter weyrich.4@osu.edu An Ohio State professor has good news for candy lovers: M&Ms are getting a nutritional upgrade.

Monica Giusti, a professor in food science and technology, has been developing and researching natural food colorants for more than 20 years. On Nov. 6, the manufacturing company of M&Ms and many popular candy brands, Mars Inc., patented Giusti’s method of extracting anthocyanins — pigments that give red, purple and blue plants their coloring.

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In the beginning of 2016, Mars Inc. announced in a press release a project described as a “five-year effort” to remove all synthetic dyes from its products. Before research by Giusti’s lab, there was no method of anthocyanin extraction that produced this specific blue pigment, and its research helped Mars Inc. reach its natural dye goal.

Anthocyanins are difficult to work with, Giusti said, and two main problems come with the development of natural blue pigment — the scarcity of blue plants in nature and the difficulty of preserving blue pigment during anthocyanin extraction. When extracting anthocyanins from blue plants, the pigment will often present as a different color.

“Blueberries are kind of blue, but if you were to make a blueberry juice, the juice will not be blue,” Giusti said.

Giusti’s work is allowing companies such

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as Mars Inc. to incorporate real nutritional value into foods that are typically perceived as unhealthy.

“The real beauty is that the pigments that we extract from nature tend to be those phytochemicals that make plants good for us,” Giusti said.

Giusti said the wide use of food colorant makes the industry’s transition to utilizing natural colorant imperative.

“We say that we are what we eat … And we have heard that we should consume more fruits and vegetables [but] this transition is very slow,” she said. “If we could incorporate the benefits from fruits and vegetables into our regular diet, we could move faster towards a healthier population.”

The patent filed with Mars Inc. and Ohio State is likely to infiltrate the food industry as

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Working around the rules: Why students cheat DARBY CLARK For The Lantern clark.3015@osu.edu When it came time for Jordan Miller to take open-book online exams, all he had with him was his laptop — and his classmates.

Miller, who graduated in 2018 with a degree in military history, routinely gathered with others to work through Carmen exams, at the end of which one victim — usually picked by flipping a coin — would submit and check the answers so the rest could correct theirs.

“We were told to use our resources, and I take that very literally,” Miller said. “I never cheated in any of what I would say were crucial-to-my-major classes. I was more lazy about it and I was tired of doing the homework in my senior year and that’s how I got around it.”

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Students dedicate a semester to serving Columbus nonprofits Derek Goodman spent every Saturday morning of fall semester in the Hilltop neighborhood of Columbus, volunteering at a food pantry that predominantly serves Somali refugees. The pantry is one of many services offered by MY Project USA — the largest Muslim social service organization in the state.

Goodman, a second-year in food, agriculture and biological engineering, volunteered alongside members of the Muslim Student Association on campus, many of whom are responsible for running the pantry.

“It was a very different experience at first, because being a white male, I’m not used to being a minority and at the pantry I was a minority,” Goodman said. “I was a little bit uneasy at first, but the people at the pantry were so welcoming, were just an amazing group of students to work alongside.”

Goodman was connected with the pantry through Semester of Service, an initiative offered through the Office of Student Life, which caters to students interested in long-term community service.

“I thought it was something that not a lot of people took advantage of,” Goodman said. “I came to find out that was very true, not a very big program, but a definitely an important one.”

After an application and interview process, Semester of Service places undergraduate students with a nonprofit agency in Columbus to

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“But we see the person. We don’t see the situation ... I think it’s always important to ask ourselves, Where is this behavior coming from? What is the surrounding context?”

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Derek Goodman (right), a second-year in food, agriculture and biological engineering, unpacks produce to distribute to members of the Hilltop community.

He is not the only student who has worked around the rules. Although academic misconduct cases at Ohio State are on the rise — cases increased 31 percent in the past two academic years, from 2016-17 to 2017-18 according to an analysis by The Lantern — students continue to disregard what the Committee on Academic Misconduct considers inappropriate behavior.

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OSU leads research in fighting nerve pain TATYANA WOODALL Lantern reporter woodall.52@osu.edu The Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State and the College of Medicine have partnered to research a new solution for phantom limb pain in amputee patients.

Phantom pain is the perception of pain or feeling in a missing limb after amputation, and is relatively common after patients lose an appendage. It is unknown by researchers if the effect stems from the nervous system or is psychological. In order to improve patient care, the study focuses on stopping phantom pains before they begin.

Dr. Ian Valerio, chief of the Division of Burn, Wound and Trauma at the medical center, has been involved with regenerative targeted muscle reinnervation techniques (TMR) since he was in the military. He works with cancer, trauma and congenital amputee patients to treat the disorganized nerve receptors that cause these sensations.

Since new developments are always being made, implementing techniques like these are still considered to be groundbreaking, Valerio said.

“Right now, it’s not a standard of care, but we think it should be at some point, and that’s what we’re trying to do is educate people on how to do this technique,” he said.

Valerio said the medical center is one of the few centers that use TMR, noting that it’s use of the technique has made it a leader in the industry in terms of the number of cases it has treated.

TMR surgery involves redirecting damaged nerve endings responsible for movement to other parts of the muscle. While previously used only to improve prosthetic control, it was discovered that it helps curb residual pain as

well, according to Valerio.

“When I came to Ohio State back in 2014, I brought [TMR] here and adopted it as a way to treat amputees, rather than wait until long after their amputations to address phantom limb pain,” Valerio said.

While normal amputation leaves nerves behind after cutting them, often leading to pain or scarring, TMR allows nerves to regrow over time. After rehooking neural pathways to the brain, limbs send out new signals and are able to function again.

According to the most recent publication of the Journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, about 95 percent of amputees end up feeling some form of phantom pain. However, more than 70 percent of primary TMR patients find themselves off pain medication soon after treatment.

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The Wexner Medical Center hopes their research leads to new solutions for phantom limb pain.

“This paper provides a blueprint for improving patient outcomes and quality of life following amputation.”

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“We’ve done well over a few hundred [surgeries] now, and with additional follow-up cases, it has been shown to significantly reduce pain in these patients, and it basically more than reduces the pain of over half of amputees that

have had TMR,” Valerio said.

This research also helps to advance prosthetic technology and tolerance, while working toward the reduction of pain medication use and subsequent dependency.

Dr. K. Craig Kent, dean of the College of Medicine, said in a press release that Valerio’s research will play a vital role in the treatment of amputees.

“This paper provides a blueprint for improving patient outcomes and quality of life following amputation,” Kent said.

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Professor Melissa Beers said cheating tends to be a reflection of circumstances and not the person.

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Dr. Ian Valerio, chief of the Division of Burn, Wound and Trauma at the medical center, is involved with regenerative targeted muscle reinnervation techniques.

ic misconduct is “any activity that tends to compromise the academic integrity of the University, or subvert the educational process.” Though there are many forms of misconduct, specific examples of subversion include giving and/or receiving information during an exam, possession and/or use of unauthorized materials during an exam or assignment, plagiarism, and tampering with course grades.

Melissa Beers, program director and course coordinator for Introduction to Psychology, said the reasoning behind students’ actions of misconduct is more nuanced than people might think.

Beers said psychology says that often people will examine behavior and attribute it to the personality of the person in question, when often behavior could stem from “situational pressures and influences.”

“But we see the person. We don’t see the situation,” Beers said. “I think it’s always important to ask ourselves, ‘Where is this behavior coming from?

What is the surrounding context?’”

In general, students aren’t out to purposefully cheat the system, Beers said. Though many might believe cheating is malicious, intentional and planned, she said it is often just a bad decision resulting from desperation or “not giving yourself enough time, feeling pressure, feeling under the gun, feeling like you

don’t have any other options.”

Some students said they choose to cheat but draw the line at what they feel helps prepare them for the real world, as Kenton Steiner, a computer science and engineering graduate, said.

“I have developers when I ask them questions that tell me to just go Google it and find some code online somewhere,” Steiner said. “And I don’t see how that’s any different than me talking to a friend about a lab and saying, ‘I don’t really understand this,’ and them sending me some code and giving me an idea of what I need to do to work on it.”

Beers said that students who consciously and consistently commit academic misconduct are usually in the minority.

“I very rarely have encountered it,” Beers said. “I can’t say that I know for sure what would motivate such a student, but I think they would have a really flawed idea of what they’re getting in college.”

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Campus Area Crime Map Jan. 7-13 BY: MICHAEL LEE

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The MY Project USA food pantry is open every Saturday and run by students from the Muslim Student Association.

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ported to the Columbus Division of Police as having occurred between 2 and 5:34 p.m. on Jan. 8 on East 19th Avenue near North Fourth Street. According to the online police log, the left rear window of the victim’s car was broken and $1,360 of property was stolen, including a laptop and a backpack.

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A theft from a motor vehicle and an incident of criminal damaging was reported to Columbus police as having occurred between 11 p.m. on Jan. 8 and 12:45 a.m. on Jan. 9 near East 14th Avenue and North Fourth Street. According to the online police log, unknown suspect(s) broke the right passenger window of the vehicle, stealing and damaging $27,700 of property, including damage to the car and the theft of designer bags, designer clothing, makeup and a gift card.

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volunteer a minimum of three hours per week.

Since the program began in 2015, more than 350 students have gone through the program, Service and Outreach Coordinator Alyssa Johnson said.

“The whole idea behind Semester of Service is a starting point for people,” Johnson said. “That’s why it is only a semester of service … It’s just to get their THURSDAY TUESDAY feet wet into what volunteering really is like and then from there we can offer them resources.”

Sara Sexton, graduate administrative TUESDAY associate for local serviceTHURSDAY programs, said some applicants are denied because they are overqualified, already having several community service experiences.

“We look to include students who haven’t really had any community service experience at all or they haven’t been able to find an avenue for that here as Ohio State students,” Sexton said.

Johnson said a milestone for the program was seeing a handful of students hired by their placement agencies after graduation.

Goodman, like many students who have completed the program, continues to serve at his site on Saturdays.

Goodman has faced a language barrier at the pantry given the population

3. A theft from a motor vehicle and an

incident of criminal damaging was reported to Columbus police as having occurred between 2:30 and 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday on Chittenden Avenue near North Pearl Street. According to the online police log, unknown suspect(s) damaged and stole $2,840 of property, including damage to the rear windshield and theft of bags, laptops, watches, jewelry and gift cards.

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An assault and incident of criminal trespassing was reported to University Police at 11:47 p.m. on Wednesday at the Wexner Medical Center Emergency Department.

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An incident of criminal damaging and endangering was reported to University Police at 4:26 a.m. on Sunday at the Brain and Spine Hospital.

it serves, but he still has found a way to communicate with the refugees he serves: with a smile. It has been easy for him, after all, for he said the experience during his past semester was “a complete blast” and he enjoyed every minute of it.

“Interacting with the clients with a smile is the most important thing you can do with them,” Goodman said. “It’s the universal language. They definitely see that and built a lot of trust between volunteers.”

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a whole, Giusti said, also noting that replacing synthetic dyes with natural dyes will integrate fruits and vegetables in people’s diets in an entirely new way, and they will not even notice a difference in taste.

Mars Inc. president and CEO Grant F. Reid said in the press release the company’s consumers are the motivation behind its pledge.

“Our consumers are the boss and we hear them. If it’s the right thing to do for them, it’s the right thing to do for Mars,” he said.

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Monica Giusti, a professor in food science and technology, developed a natural blue dye for M&Ms.

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Student’s passion for Chinese culture brought them across the world KIERAN DUHL Lantern reporter duhl.12@osu.edu After studying Chinese language and culture for more than seven years, Ose Arheghan’s studies as a first-year in women’s gender and sexuality studies and political science, culminated in a 10-day trip to China, provided by the Confucius Institute at Cleveland State University.

With funding from the Confucius Institute U.S. Center, a nonprofit organization with a mission to uphold the teaching of Chinese language and culture in the United States and inspire academic and cultural exchanges between students in the two countries, Arheghan was able to travel free of charge.

Following Arheghan’s completion of the program, a pilot program to send the institute’s alumni to China was put into place, making it possible for the students to witness the home they have found in Chinese culture in a physical way.

Arheghan, who identifies as gender non-binary and queer, got the email about the trip right after Halloween, asking if they wanted to travel to China for free. They have used studying Chinese to find an intersection between a culture they love and their dedication to defending the rights of the LGBT community.

“Going to China was really cool because my passions have always been aimed toward diplomacy, with a focus on human rights — LGBT students — making sure that minority students have voices,” Arheghan said. “Chinese was the language I took and was excited about, but I hadn’t really found the tie between my interest in advocacy and my interest in Chinese before my trip.”

Arheghan said their study of Chinese has helped them find a niche within any community.

As a junior in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Arheghan reached the highest level of Chinese language offered at their high school. Through the Confucius Festival, a celebration held by the institute, Arheghan has taken advantage of opportunities to share monologues, dances and other performances with students studying Chinese in the Cleveland area.

“Chinese has felt like the most consistent thing during my transition from high school to college,” Arheghan said.

After traveling, Arheghan developed the idea to work for human rights and diplomacy in China and hopes to work for the United Nations one day.

Arheghan said they would also like to study the LGBT counterculture in China but doesn’t quite have the language proficiency to do so yet.

“I want to look at more of the counterculture and the information that you can’t find in a textbook,” Arheghan said. “I want to bridge the gap between my passions for Chinese language and queer theory.”

Emmy Pascual, a first-year in international studies and Arhegahn’s classmate, said Ohio State is a space that positively supports the potential and progress of its students.

“Chinese classrooms are often tight-knit, creating a space for comfortable failure and growth,” said Emmy Pascual, a first-year in international studies, as well as Arehegan’s classmate and friend.

Arheghan hopes others will be able to recognize and appreciate the beauty in Chinese culture through the documentary footage gathered by the camera crew who accompanied the Confucius Institute alumni on their trip. The documentary is expected to be released within the first few months of this year.

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Ose Arheghan, a first-year in women’s gender and sexuality studies and political science, was awarded a free 10-day trip to China.

Alumna opens female empowerment community space AJA MIYAMOTO Lantern reporter miyamoto.20@osu.edu

In 2009, Krysten Kauder graduated from Ohio State after studying fashion merchandising. She went straight to New York City, and in 2013 started a customizable jewelry business called Ryan Porter. Hitting major success, she was featured on Good Morning America, and even on Taylor Swift’s Instagram page.

Ten years later, Kauder is back in Ohio, where she has created a women-focused social club and community space in the Short North, The Eleanor.

“I knew all of these women and wanted to create a place for [women] to hang out with other like-minded women,” Kauder said.

Even though The Eleanor is female centric, it is a diverse community open to all individuals. With a feminine approach, Kauder said she hopes to expand the Columbus “boss-babe” community by adding a space for people to work, meet, collaborate and socialize.

Kauder discovered the space on Craigslist, and she and her boyfriend completed some major renovations. Located in the Jackson Building on High Street, the space offers books, posters and products focused on female empowerment, wellness and body positivity.

The name “Eleanor” is inspired by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who was known for pushing gender equality and equal pay.

Empowerment and the need for equality are the roots of this community space, where women look to offer support, ideas, and feedback for everyone who feel they “may be marginalized for any reason,” according to The Eleanor’s website.

Rachel Neil, founder of Columbus Girl Boss, a group of local bloggers, business owners and photographers, said it’s a secure and healthy place for women to be supported and heard by their peers. “[It’s] a safe place for women that are entrepreneurs,” Neil said. “It’s community based and you have people who will root for you.”

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Ohio State alumna Krysten Kauder has created a women-focused social club and community space in the Short North called The Eleanor.

In the past year there have been several openings of “co-working” offices in Columbus, which are monthly, rentable offices available for startups, freelancers and students so they don’t have to lease an entire office space.

Co-working continues to expand in Columbus, for it is a monthly rentable solution for work and event spaces. The Eleanor has memberships starting at $39 a month leading up to a private office with potential retail space.

In November, The Eleanor held a launch event offering manicures, a matcha tea bar and pop-up shops. On Friday, it will host poster-making, free drinks and pizza to prepare for the Columbus Women’s March held downtown on Sat-

urday.

For more information about the space and future events, including The Columbus Women’s March night, visit The Eleanor’s Instagram account @theeleanorcolumbus. The Eleanor is located at 1137 N High St.

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Marriage of cultures inspires sculptor’s work ETHAN CLEWELL Senior Lantern reporter clewell.8@osu.edu

Kayla Gifford has interpreted multiple issues from western interference in Iraq in her art by drawing inspiration from her relationship with her husband, Ronnie Khoder, who hails from Mosul, Iraq.

Gifford, a third-year in sculpture at Ohio State, said she doesn’t consider herself an expert on the topics she interprets — everything she creates is influenced by her personal experience of the marriage of American and Iraqi culture.

“I’m so ignorant. I have been born into middle-class privilege,” Gifford said. “The work is coming from a place in me that’s just desperately needing to understand and learn.”

Gifford currently is showing her series called “Memory Boxes,” a visual and auditory representation comparing the couple’s life experiences, at the Urban Arts Space as a part of the 27th Annual Ferguson Scholarship Award, a competition open to all design and studio-based visual art majors at Ohio State.

Gifford said the differences were stark, mainly in their experience with death. For Khoder, growing up surrounded by war, he said death was a normal part of society.

Gifford’s first time encountering death wasn’t until her ETHAN CLEWELL | SENIOR LANTERN REPORTER grandfather’s funeral.

Kayla Gifford, a third-year in sculpture, holds her digital print “Salvation of Nineveh: Compliant Of The Prophet” “It was a way of me trying to understand [Khoder’s] at her house on Jan. 13. experiences and connect them to something that I under- like they were moments from colliding into each other, can flag in the background, surrounded by people weeping stood,” Gifford said. and she focused on the spaces between the collisions. for their city.

Another project based on Gifford’s marriage, “CulturShe said the red strings represent their relationship, and “The whole work is just connected to what’s going on in al Capitals,” consists of two plastered domes connected how they successfully maintain it although their back- Nineveh now,” Khoder said. by red threads and interiors modeled after her and Khod- grounds are so different.

Gifford said their relationship, despite their different uper’s hometowns. One is shaped like the Columbia CapiIn another project for a digital printing class, she was bringings, is stronger together through the artwork. tal building in Columbia, South Carolina, near Gifford’s inspired by the biblical tale of Judah, a man who was told “We are not talking about this concept of peace in the hometown, and the other is modeled after the inside of by God to save the city of Nineveh, which was located Middle East. It’s peace in the Middle East at our dinner Baghdad’s capital building. near current-day Mosul. table,” Gifford said.

Gifford said she wanted to make the two domes look Gifford’s take depicts Judah on a tank with the Ameri-

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Ohio State looks ahead to 2019 after NFL draft deadline COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu With the passing of the Jan. 14 deadline, at least five Ohio State players have decided to end their college careers early to declare for the 2019 NFL Draft.

With redshirt senior wide receivers Terry McLaurin, Parris Campbell and Johnnie Dixon and redshirt senior linebacker Dante Booker also departing Ohio State, the Buckeyes have to do what it has to do at this time every season: Put a plan in to replace those who are leaving.

The Buckeyes have had seven players selected in the draft in each of the past two seasons, as well as at least five players selected in each draft since 2014.

For many of the positions, there seems to be a clear successor.

Redshirt sophomore Dwayne Haskins transformed himself from a backup quarterback behind both J.T. Barrett into a Heisman finalist and one of the top quarterback prospects in the draft after just one season as a starter.

But the team already has a plan in place to replace Haskins behind center. Former five-star recruit and Georgia quarterback Justin Fields transferred to Ohio State, igniting what could be a spring quarterback battle with redshirt freshman Tate Martell.

Martell has placed his name in the NCAA transfer portal, allowing him to talk with other pro-

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Ohio State redshirt sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins (7) celebrates as he leaves the field following the Rose Bowl Game featuring Ohio State and Washington in Pasadena, Calif. on Jan. 1.

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grams about transferring.

Junior offensive lineman Michael Jordan also announced he would leave for the NFL, joining redshirt seniors Demetrius Knox and Malcolm Pridgeon and senior Isaiah Prince on the Ohio State

offensive line.

After starting for Knox in the Big Ten Championship and the Rose Bowl, redshirt freshman Wyatt Davis is likely to take over at right guard while redshirt freshman Josh Myers will likely

start at center. On the outside, with sophomore Thayer Munford returning, Ohio State will likely have an open spot with Prince’s departure, leaving players such as freshman Nicholas Petit-Frere with an opportunity to start.

Even with the loss of Campbell, McLaurin and Dixon, redshirt junior K.J. Hill announced he would stay for a fifth year, playing alongside junior receivers Austin Mack and Binjimen Victor.

Ohio State will also lose redshirt junior running back Mike Weber, who will cede his carries to co-starter and former 1,000yard running back J.K. Dobbins, a sophomore, in the backfield.

Other than redshirt junior defensive tackle Dre’Mont Jones and junior defensive end Nick Bosa, who announced early on their intentions of leaving for the NFL, many members of the Ohio State defense have elected to stay.

Junior safety and team captain Jordan Fuller announced shortly after the Rose Bowl that he would return to the Buckeyes for his final season, along with redshirt junior cornerback Damon Arnette.

By the time of publication, Ohio State redshirt junior cornerback Kendall Sheffield had not announced his decision to either remain with the Buckeyes for his fifth season or declare for the draft.

Even if Sheffield were to leave for the NFL, Ohio State would have depth at the cornerback position, with redshirt freshman Shaun Wade and sophomore Jeffrey Okudah.

And even with the losses in personnel, Ryan Day, much like his transition from offensive coordinator to head coach, seems to have a succession plan in place.

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Holtmann said Wesson leads in part by his consistency during games, showing that he wants to be a leader vocally, and becomes an example especially for the post players, an area the head coach said is a necessary improvement.

But youth is something that sophomore forward Kyle Young prides himself on.

“Some people think that a leader is just the older guys like seniors and stuff like that. I think coaches do a good job of kind of making it a point that leaders are guys who step in and teach others and help to make the team better,” Young said. “I think the earlier the better, you know, that we learn these important values will help our team get better.”

As of late, youth has hurt Ohio State more than it has helped.

In the past three losses, Wesson recorded at least four fouls, leaving the game within the first two minutes of the Iowa game after recording two quick fouls.

After only five turnovers in the Buckeyes’ nine-point loss to then-No. 8 Michigan State, Ohio State has recorded double-digit turnovers in each of its past two games, breaking its season high with 21 against the Hawkeyes Saturday.

Ohio State also has not had consistency in its rotation, playing all 10 eligible scholarship players in the first half of the Iowa loss, with each player ending the game with more than 10 minutes

on the court.

Holtmann knows the expectation for this team. It’s the expectation to perform like Ohio State did during the first 13 games of the season. But he understands the players he is utilizing and what their capabilities are.

“It’s a balance really between that understanding and yet the urgency of wanting it to happen right now, and I think that the reality is we need to learn quickly,” Holtmann said. “I don’t want our relative newness … to be something that we use as an excuse. I also want to have and understand that we have to, as coaches, be committed to teaching it better, reinforcing it more and making sure that our guys are getting it.”

This is not the 2017-18 team.

Ohio State does not have Tate or Bates-Diop to create a rallying cry after a loss.

But Holtmann believes this team has the potential to be that.

It just might take some more time and more leadership by the younger players.

“We’ll go as far as our collective leadership takes us,” Holtmann said. “I really believe that.”

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Ohio State sophomore goalie Tommy Nappier (37) positions himself in the goal during the game against Bowling Green on Oct. 26. Ohio State lost 8-2.

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same page. We were all focused,” Jobst said. “It wasn’t like we’re on a five-game skid or anything like that, it was just let’s nip it in the bud right now before things get out of hand.”

Things haven’t gotten out of hand for the Buckeyes all season, but the team has yet to figure out how to consistently win when in front of Romeo.

Nappier’s stats outshine the redshirt senior goaltender, and Romeo has regressed from his

previous year, in which he ended with 2.06 goals against and a .927 save percentage.

Still, Rohlik doesn’t see it as a problem with the guy in goal.

Ohio State’s head coach is looking to his leaders, to his captains, Jobst and senior defenseman Sasha Larocque.

And for all the struggles the Buckeyes have had in their first games this season, they have not lost consecutive games this season.

“It’s the culture of this group.

No one wants to lose a hockey game and especially doesn’t want to lose two in a row,” Rohlik said.

“We want to turn things around on Fridays. Certainly the resilience of this group, the guys have been around a long time, we’ve got a great leadership group.

They’re just determined not to let it happen back-to-back.”

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Youth shows as OSU struggles in conference play COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu Analyze, then forget.

This is freshman guard Duane Washington’s response to any loss: Look at game tape, analyze what went wrong for him personally and the team as a whole, fix the mistakes and forget; move on to the next game.

This was his approach after Ohio State’s three-point loss to Rutgers on Wednesday, hoping this mentality would help the Buckeyes ahead of its Saturday game on the road against Iowa.

It didn’t.

The same problems persisted: the fouls, the turnovers, the inconsistent offense.

This led to Ohio State’s first three-game losing streak in head coach Chris Holtmann’s tenure and the Buckeyes falling out of the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time since Week 2.

For the second-year head coach, competing solely in Big Ten play is a different animal, facing opponents in games that seem to mean more in the long run, especially for a team without much experience.

The Buckeyes had a taste of conference play early in December, earning wins against Minnesota and Illinois. However, with the shift to 2019 and a permanent conference schedule, Ohio State has not found the same success.

“I think it begins with an awareness that

Ohio State is remarkably young.

Despite players on the roster such as redshirt senior guard Keyshawn Woods and senior guard C.J. Jackson, many of the players Ohio State utilizes the most are either freshmen or sophomores, leaning on sophomore forward Kaleb Wesson as its main offensive contributor and post threat.

“It’s a balance really between that understanding and yet the urgency of wanting it to happen right now, and I think that the reality is we need to learn quickly.”

CHRIS HOLTMANN Ohio State head men’s basketball coach

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Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann argues with a referee’s call during the first half of the game against Cleveland State on Nov. 23. Ohio State won 89-62.

this is life in a power conference. This is life in league play,” Holtmann said. “You are going to go through some serious bumps and bruises.”

Now, as Ohio State moves forward, amid the most serious bumps and bruises Holtmann has ever had to deal with regarding this team, it has to turn to something the

Buckeyes do not have much of: leadership.

The Buckeyes don’t have the Keita Bates-Diop, the Jae’Sean Tate, playing with a fire to make up for what they considered to be a lost 2016-17 season, ending their collegiate careers with winning 13of-17 conference games.

However, what Holtmann realizes is that

Holtmann said plainly he often forgets Wesson, the player who averages 16.2 points and 6.9 rebounds per game, is a sophomore.

“Sometimes I forget that we have other guys that are sophomores and freshmen,” Holtmann said. “That doesn’t change our expectation and our demands on them, but I do need to, at times, remember that we are asking guys that are relatively young to lead our group.”

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Ohio State relies on bounce-back opportunities WYATT CROSHER Assistant Sports Editor crosher.1@osu.edu After splitting its home series against Michigan, Ohio State remained the No. 4 team in the country in the USCHO.com poll released Monday.

The unranked Wolverines stole the first game of the series in a 2-1 win behind 22 saves from Michigan junior goaltender Hayden Lavigne.

The defeat seemed like an upset for Ohio State, who fell to 12-5-4 before coming back and winning the second game of the series 4-2.

This is a pattern the Buckeyes have maintained all season long.

“It’s the culture of this group. No one wants to lose a hockey game and especially doesn’t want to lose two in a row.”

STEVE ROHLIK Ohio State head men’s hockey coach

Ohio State is 5-4-2 in the first game of its series this season, scoring 32 goals while allowing 32 goals in the 11 games.

In the 12 games to close series,

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Ohio State redshirt senior goalie Sean Romeo (30) prepares for a shot in the first period of the game against the University of Massachusetts on Oct. 19 in the Schottenstein Center. Ohio State lost 6-3.

the Buckeyes are 8-1-2, outscoring opponents 35-16.

“We bounced back for sure, like we always do,” junior forward Ronnie Hein said on Wednesday.

“We do a good job of that, we saw that at the very beginning of the season and we did it again against Michigan State.”

Before the series against Michigan, Ohio State gave up a 7-4 lead late in the third period during the first game against Michigan State, leading to a 7-7 tie, which the Buckeyes lost in overtime, costing them a point in the Big Ten standings.

“I don’t think anybody was too

happy about the result on Friday,” head coach Steve Rohlik said about the series against the Spartans. “Certainly wasn’t the prettiest of ties for us, and I think we were just more detailed the next day, but again I attribute that to our seniors and our leadership group.”

The key difference between the first and second games comes at the back end. Redshirt senior goalie Sean Romeo has started the first game of every series, while sophomore goalie Tommy Nappier has started the following night.

Romeo has a .904 save percentage, while allowing 2.63 goals per game.

Nappier, on the other hand, is boasting a .945 save percentage and allowing 1.58 goals per game, both No. 2 in the NCAA. But Rohlik won’t blame his goaltenders. Instead, he said it has to do with the rest of the players in front of him, regardless of the outcome.

“It’s never a goalie’s fault. It’s a team’s fault, and certainly we gotta be five-man connected with our goaltender instead of sometimes leaving him out to dry,” Rohlik said. “I think it has a lot to do with our team and our focus and our detail.”

Senior forward Mason Jobst leads the team with 13 goals and 25 points. Seven of his 13 goals came in the second game of Ohio State’s series.

Jobst said the tie against Michigan State was “unacceptable,” and that the focus in the next game was the reason for success.

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