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Weather creates Family hopes to learn more about son’s death after two years uncertainty over canceling JASMINE HILTON Lantern reporter classes hilton.93@osu.edu

Tarak Underiner’s family had just bid him farewell shortly after Christmas as he headed back to Ohio State to ring in the new year with a couple of his roommates.

It was the last Christmas they’d spend with their only son.

At 12:31 a.m. on Jan. 5, 2017, Columbus Police officers found the 20-year-old unresponsive and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in his off-campus home on East Northwood Avenue.

“You never know when that is the last time you have — some experience is going to be the last time,” Todd Underiner, Tarak’s father, said.

At 12:41 a.m., he was pronounced dead.

Two years after his death, the family of Tarak Underiner is now offering a $2,500 reward through Central Ohio Crime Stoppers for any information leading to the arrest or indictment of the person responsible for this crime.

“It was unimaginable at the time, and that’s why it was such a hard thing to deal with because it didn’t seem real,” Tyler Pistor, one of Tarak’s close friends from his home in Cincinnati, said.

Underiner’s family is asking the community and the Ohio State student population to provide relevant information about the people Tarak was involved with that hasn’t been brought to the police’s

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Underiner saying goodbye to his dog Ace after moving into an apartment in 2015.

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The Fisher College of Business awarded Tarak Underiner (left) a posthumous degree based on his completed credits and grades (top).

Tarak takes a photo with his mother, Angeli, and his father, Todd while on spring break in 2016 (above).

attention.

“With the benefit of time and a little bit more maturity, maybe they think that they could share and help out the case,” Underiner said.

Underiner also noted that the reward might increase over time to generate additional interest or pub-

licity, but he said providing this incentive is one of the hardest things to do as a parent.

“You can’t really put a price on your child’s life,” Underiner said.

With few leads and very little information to go on, lead detective Glen Siniff also sees the need for

more help, saying that any assistance, “no matter how minor,” will be welcomed by law enforcement.

Although investigators confirmed that the shooting was drug-related, there have been no other key details revealed about the case.

Siniff said police would like to talk to all of Tarak’s roommates, but few have come forward. He also believes there are individuals who were not Tarak’s roommates who might have some insight into his murder.

Based on interviews from the investigation, Siniff said it appears that some individuals fear retaliatory acts. However, he said with so much time UNDERINER CONTINUES ON 3

Student orgs volunteer to ‘Clean Up Columbus’ AKAYLA GARDNER Lantern reporter gardner.1199@osu.edu On Sunday morning, over 200 students in 30 different organizations attended Clean Up Columbus to pick up litter on the streets surrounding campus.

Clean Up Columbus is an event organized by Undergraduate Student Government and held monthly throughout the academic year.

This past week, student groups left check-in at the Ohio Union wearing gloves and carrying trash bags in search for aluminum cans, plastic cups and other trash.

They were assigned to different off-campus streets including Eighth, Ninth and 14th avenues.

Andrew Mulach, a fourth-year in communications and member relations director of the Ohio

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Sydney Kimble picks up an aluminum soda can while working one of the Clean Up Columbus events.

State chapter of Public Relations Student Society of America, said that the event shows how students care for the school and area around it.

“[People] appreciate seeing the students giving back to the community because it shows what our university and what our students stand for,” Mulach, who partic-

ipated with PRSSA in Clean Up Columbus, said.

Miles Sibley, a third-year in international studies, organized the Clean Up Columbus project as the USG deputy director of annual projects. “[College students] can be messy and the campus is not always the cleanest place,” Sibley said. “We are able to clean up and make sure campus is still a beautiful part of Columbus.”

A City of Columbus initiative, Keep Columbus Beautiful, partners with USG to provide supplies on a monthly basis to ensure the city does not become polluted with litter.

“We are really thankful for Keep Columbus Beautiful because they are able to give us a lot of supplies that we would otherwise have to purchase on our

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The National Weather Service is warning Ohio State faculty and students: do not be outside for long on Wednesday.

John Franks, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Wilmington, Ohio, said with wind chills reaching a high of 19 degrees below zero and low of minus 24, it could take only 15 to 20 minutes for frostbite to occur.

“Basically you just want to have any exposed skin covered so that doesn’t happen,” Franks said.

“Don’t be the person wearing shorts and sandals.”

When the middle of the week hits, Columbus will experience what the National Weather Service is forecasting as the coldest weather of the season.

Franks said the high on Wednesday will be 1 degree.

However, when factoring in wind chill, Ohio State students can expect the real feel to be minus 19 at its warmest Wednesday morning and afternoon. It will reach as cold as minus 24 late Wednesday and early Thursday.

Franks said gusts of wind will reach 30 to 35 mph early in the day and will calm to between 20 and 25 mph in the afternoon. He noted a prevailing wind of 15 mph will be constant throughout the day.

Despite the forecast predicting extreme cold, Ohio State has not made decisions regarding the cancellation of classes. A press release Monday said there is no temperature, snowfall or hazard that will trigger a closure.

The release said university leaders discuss the weather conditions and the necessity of a closure with medical experts, student health services, the Department of Public Safety, other university groups and National Weather Service forecasts to determine if a cancellation is necessary.

“The safety of students, faculty and staff is the university’s top priority,” the release said.

“The obligation to provide the full measure of instruction to tuition-paying students is also a critical factor.”

The release noted that the Columbus campus has closed or canceled classes for just 13 WEATHER CONTINUES ON 3

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Ohio State celebrates 150th anniversary through $2,500 scholarship program MAEVE WALSH Lantern reporter walsh.607@osu.edu Founded in 1870 as a land-grant university, 25 students studying agricultural and mechanical studies became Ohio State’s first student body, according to the University Archives.

150 years later, Ohio State has become the third-largest university in the U.S., home to over 45,000 students who make up the undergraduate student body and represent over 200 diverse majors.

To celebrate the university’s 150th anniversary of furthering its mission as a landgrant institution — meaning the land was publicly provided by the state — a new $2,500 scholarship opportunity, the sesquicentennial student scholar leadership program, is being offered to Ohio State students.

Accepted students will be trained to serve as ambassadors for the university during the 2019-20 school year and will embody Ohio State’s motto of “education for citizenship.”

“As a land-grant university, we feel the vision of these universities are to, as it says in education for citizenship, prepare our students to help better the community and the world that they’re in,” Todd Avery, sesquicentennial project coordinator, said.

Avery said the 150 accepted students will participate in leadership development trainings led by faculty members and may serve a variety of roles including representative, spokesperson or social media advocate for the university.

“At the event or program where [students are] representing the sesquicentennial, they get a chance to actually display some of

Avery said. “We’re also looking for those serving as ambassadors and being representatives of all the values that Ohio State has and what that means to them specifically in their Ohio State story.”

In addition to the scholarship, the sesquicentennial team is launching other projects and events to celebrate the history of the university and its progress since being founded.

“As a land-grant university, we feel the vision of these universities are to prepare our students to help better the community and the world that they’re in.”

TODD AVERY Sesquicentennial project coordinator

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To celebrate the university’s sesquicentennial, Ohio State is offering a $2,500 scholarship opportunity to 150 students.

those leadership qualities and also learn some of the great qualities that help make citizens be able to help in the community and the world after their time at a university,” Avery said.

Anne Montalto, sesquicentennial project coordinator, said that accepted applicants must be enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate or professional program at any of Ohio State’s campuses for the 2019-20 school year.

“This scholarship program reaches all Ohio State students just like our land-grant

mission serves all people in the state of Ohio and beyond,” Montalto said in an email. “This is truly an inclusive effort, and I look forward to seeing the success of this program and the impact it has on our students.”

Avery said the diverse representation of students in the scholarship program will allow selected applicants to better exhibit the values and cultural diversity at Ohio State.

“We’re looking for those passionate about Ohio State and those passionate about the sesquicentennial celebration,”

Avery said that a History of Ohio State course will be open to enrolled students faculty, alumni or any Buckeye fan in the community.

The team is working with WOSU Public Media to create a documentary series to illustrate the “depth and breadth” of the university, highlighting both its mission as a land-grant institution and the student experience at Ohio State.

The sesquicentennial scholarship application is due Friday, Feb. 1. The application along with additional information regarding the 150th anniversary celebration can be found on 150.osu.edu.

Study finds conveying happiness is easier through nonverbal cues TATYANA WOODALL Lantern reporter woodall.52@osu.edu From joy to sadness, there are thousands of ways we express emotion, but a new study found that many emotions are understood through fewer facial expressions than previously thought.

Recently published in the Journal of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Affective Computing, the study conducted by Aleix Martinez, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State, found that about half of those expressions turned out to be some variation of happiness.

“We identified 17 different facial expressions of positive emotions,“ Martinez said.

“The amount of facial expressions that convey happiness is astounding.”

Martinez, who has been working with facial research for the past 20 years, said this study was different because of the powerful computers with which he had access, as well as the amount of images they gathered compared to his previous research. After studying millions of faces from around the world, they only found 35.

“We were expecting to identify a few dozen [facial expressions], maybe even a hundred,” Martinez said.

Along with Ramprakash Srinivasan, journal co-author and doctoral student

in the college of engineering, the team worked to group together and define words to describe those 35 different feelings.

Their research found that there were almost no facial expressions that were exclusive to a single culture.

“Further research will need to study which of these effects are cross-culture and which [are] cultural-specific in the production and perception of emotion in the wild,” Srinivasan said in the paper’s conclusion.

The number of universal expressions that exist cross-culturally has plagued researchers and philosophers since the days of an-

“Non-verbal communication signals are extremely important ... It’s a sort of glue, so to speak, in our society to interact with each other.”

RAMPRAKASH SRINIVASAN Journal co-author and doctoral student in the college of engineering

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Dr. Aleix Martinez, professor of electrical engineering, has been working with facial expression research for the past 20 years.

cient Greece according to the paper. Even scientist Charles Darwin hypothesized that there are only six universal emotions that humans are capable of displaying.

Alternately to happiness, the feeling of disgust had only one expression. Distinct emotions like pain or pleasure are understood universally, such as a frown is considered to be a bad sign all over the world.

The study also found almost no facial difference between reacting to a funny joke or experiencing road rage.

According to the group’s research, people don’t need to be able to understand another’s culture to communicate effectively through universal nonverbal cues, which is a different factor for humans.

“Non-verbal communication signals are extremely important,” Srinivasan said.

“It’s a sort of glue, so to speak, in our society to interact with each other.”

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having passed, the possibility of a suspect retaliating is unlikely.

“After two years, it would appear that nobody had any idea of who would want to murder this fine young man,” Siniff said.

The family is still grieving. Underiner said he hopes for a different answer soon, one leading to a trial and those responsible behind bars.

“Regardless of what he may have been involved in, none of that deserves being shot and murdered over,” Underiner said.

As time continues to pass, Tarak’s friends and family are more desperate than ever for answers.

“It’s upsetting to think that there are people out there that do know what happened that aren’t saying anything about it,” Pistor said.

“Regardless of what he may have been involved in, none of that deserves being shot and murdered over.”

TODD UNDERINER Tarak Underiner’s father

In the midst of loss, Underiner said his family gained “something quite unexpected and touching” — a support system of Tarak’s closest friends.

“They might’ve lost a son, but they gained a whole new family out of that,” Kristopher Kirker, one of Tarak’s best friends from Cincinnati, said.

Underiner said he couldn’t express enough gratitude for the support.

“We have been so grateful for the friends both at Ohio State and his friends here in Cincinnati who have continued to stand WEATHER FROM 1

days since 1978. The last time Ohio State closed its campus was Jan. 6 and 7 in 2014, when temperatures dipped to minus 7, with windchill bringing the real feel down to minus 35.

One student at Ohio State started a petition Monday afternoon to cancel classes Wednesday. By the time of publication, the petition had more than 13,000 signatures.

Other schools in Columbus have not made a decision on classes. Franklin University, Columbus State Community College and Columbus College of Art and Design spokespersons said decisions have yet to be made at their respective schools.

David Wayne, communications coordinator at Columbus State Community College, noted administrators were discussing whether to cancel classes, but they want to be extra cautious to avoid making a decision too early.

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by us and walk with us on this journey. It makes it a little bit easier,” Underiner said.

For James Vinson, who’s known Tarak for as long as he could remember, said his death made him think about how life can be gone in an instant.

Through his grief, Vinson said he was even more motivated to pursue his master’s degree in sports management at Indiana State University. Vinson said Tarak was one of the “smartest guys” he knew, who would’ve graduated and certainly gone on to get his master’s degree in marketing.

“I could do this for Tarak; I could go get my master’s degree — that was probably something he would’ve done,” Vinson said. “His passion just inspired us even more.”

Two years have passed since Tarak’s death, and for family and friends, closure has come slowly.

“The bullets that tore into him killed him pretty quickly. I’d say the ramifications for our family and for his friends have been much slower, and it changes everything,” Underiner said.

Pistor described the feeling of living COURTESY OF TODD UNDERINER with such uncertainty as “something that Tarak Underiner in Barcelona during a summer eats” at him every day, adding that there vacation in 2016. is “not a day that goes by that I don’t think about him.”

Vinson said that his friend will never get to celebrate his 21st birthday or have the opportunity to graduate college.

“He would’ve done such amazing things, and it’s so heartbreaking that he didn’t get the chance to do those things,” Vinson said. “It’s just so heartbreaking to lose a friend that you know is that special of a person, and he could’ve made such an impact on the world and in other people’s lives.”

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Alum makes mark in the professional poker scene AJA MIYAMOTO Lantern reporter miaymoto.20@osu.edu Working the 9-5 lifestyle was never in the cards for Ohio State alum Greg Himmelbrand.

After graduating from Ohio State in 2005 with a degree in psychology, Himmelbrand began playing poker on the side while working at a restaurant. Fourteen years later, Himmelbrand plays poker professionally and has acquired more than $1.6 million in winnings.

Today, Himmelbrand calls Queens, New York, his home, where he is the 70th-ranked poker player in the state. Himmelbrand travels across the country, entering poker opens and competitions.

He said his favorite thing about what he does is the freedom.

“I can pick and choose what I want to set up, and I have the ultimate flexibility,” Himmelbrand said.

Much of his interest in poker was sparked in 2003 after the “moneymaker effect,” when Chris Moneymaker, an accountant from Tennessee, entered the online World Series of Poker Main Event with $86 and won $2.5 million.

The win exploded on ESPN, and it inspired Himmelbrand.

Himmelbrand said one of his favorite competitions was the 2015 World Series of Poker Baltimore Circuit, where he scored first place and made $82,864 against tough competition.

Recently, Himmelbrand won the $125,968 first-place prize at the 2018 Mid-States Poker Tour and his second MSPT title.

Chad Holloway, head of live reporting at PokerNews, has worked in the poker media industry since 2010. Holloway said his favorite thing about poker is that the game appeals to many different people, regardless of race, nationality and gender.

Holloway said the best professional poker players know how to manage defeat.

“One has to be mentally strong, disciplined, and have the ability to not let poker become intertwined with their self-worth,” Holloway said. “Most everyone can handle winning, but the true professionals are determined by how they deal with losing.”

Currently, Himmelbrand is participating in a big series in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He encourages students today to find a career in something they are passionate about.

“Do something you love that doesn’t feel like work,” Himmelbrand said.

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Professional poker player Greg Himmelbrand keeps a poker face during one of his matches.

The Shrunken Head builds Columbus music community ABHIGYAAN BARARIA Lantern reporter bararia.1@osu.edu “Eccentric, cozy, laid back, with that little hint of aggression.”

This is how Nick Magoteaux, event booker and sound engineer for The Shrunken Head, described the live music and open-mic venue. That is as close as one can get to defining the very core of this place.

What used to be a local watering hole known as Victorians Midnight Cafe transformed into The Shrunken Head when husband and wife Andreas Kleinert and Kristy Venrick bought the place about “10 to 12 years ago,” according to Magoteaux.

Located on the corner of Neil and West Fifth avenues, The Shrunken Head has come a long way since its inception, Magoteaux said.

“When we first came here, the place was a mess,” Manfred Haertel, an open-mic regular at the venue, said. “The sound system was crap [and] the speakers were behind the audience.”

The stage was just half the size it is now and the decor was very mismatched. The place did not have a “super identity,” Magoteaux said. Since then, the space has expanded and replaced the old audio system.

Ken Pardee, an open-mic regular, said the audio system is one worth boasting about.

“That is one of the most impressive things about the place,” Pardee said. “Even though the artwork is kind of neat, the sound is perfect.”

Magoteaux said The Shrunken Head is different from other live music venues, because it’s a place where all variety of works are accepted.

“There aren’t usually places that are willing to do death

“I’ve been to most of the open-mics around town, but this one right now is the best. Other times there are ones that might rival with it, but right now, talent-wise, it’s the best.”

MANFRED HAERTEL Open-mic regular

metal and black metal compared to ‘80s rock cover bands or something a little more listenable to the general public,” Magoteaux said.

Musical open-mic nights are one of the main attractions of The Shrunken Head, and Magoteaux stressed how important they are for the musical community.

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Event booker and sound engineer Nick Magoteaux poses in front of the flyer wall at The Shrunken Head on Jan. 25.

Magoteaux said an open-mic is like a gateway to exThere is something going on every night at the club. pressing one’s musical abilities and gives others an op- Monday is comedy open mic, Tuesday has trivia, Wednesportunity to hear their music. He said it also helps people day is the musical open mic, Thursday has themed trivia, discover new talent, as the musical world should never be- and Friday and Saturday have happy hour and night shows, come stagnant.

Magoteaux said.

Haertel said he believes there is an extraordinary The Shrunken Head has been integral in the progression amount of talent housed inside the venue whenever there of the Columbus music scene, as it was the first venue to is an open-mic night. host Columbus Covers Columbus in 2018, an event that “I’ve been to most of the open-mics around town,” supports local bands.

Haertel said. “But this one right now is the best. Other Magoteaux said the progression has been a teamtimes there are ones that might rival with it, but right now, work-oriented process. talent-wise, it’s the best.”

“Music should bring people together and so should The Shrunken Head has no one genre fixed to its name. shows,” he said. “It’s where you all come together and It serves to give musicians from different backgrounds a have a good time.” chance to showcase their talent.

The Shrunken Head also creates an atmosphere condu“We are definitely the chameleon of bars,” Magoteaux cive to learning from each other because most of the ausaid. “So we might have country one night, and then we dience members are musicians themselves, Haertel said. might have deathcore the next night, and then we might For regulars like Haertel and Pardee, who have been vishave pop rock the next night.” iting and performing at the venue since its inception, it is There is no one particular demographic of people that much more than just a music venue or a bar.

The Shrunken Head attracts; it all depends on the shows “It’s a listening room.” Haertel said. “It’s mostly musithat are going on and the kind of crowd that appreciates cians who come out here, and so they tend to listen to other that show. Magoteaux said people of all ages are attracted musicians and watch what they’re doing.” to this bar because of the diversity of music that it offers.

Although he spends a lot of time at The Shrunken Head, Once a month on a Saturday, there is an event called Magoteaux urges everyone to explore all Columbus ven“Electric Goes Acoustic,” where high-energy rock bands ues because music is about exploration and finding new strip their set down and go acoustic. There are two bands things and helping the community grow as a whole. that perform, each playing 40-minute sets.

“It’s important to experience what everything has to ofThe next show is going to be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on fer because ultimately, we’re all in it together,” Magoteaux Saturday and will feature Something Else and The 40. said.

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Alumna’s boutique relocates and grows AJA MIYAMOTO Lantern reporter miyamoto.20@osu.edu Nearly two years after opening its doors to the Short North, Vamp Official, a boutique clothing store owned by Ohio State alumna Ellen Shirk, has officially relocated to The Castle building on High Street, just one block away from the first store.

Shirk quit her full-time architecture job to make her passion project a reality.

“I knew going in that I couldn’t stay and that if it didn’t work out, I could go back to my old job,” Shirk said. “But I knew that if it did work out that I would have to move.”

Starting as a hobby, Shirk and two friends started an online fashion store, which turned into a pop-up tent at the Sunlight and Moonlight market downtown. While driving to the market, Shirk began looking for retail space and found the perfect location with a short-term lease on High Street.

Open since summer 2017, the boutique has provided trendy clothing pieces and accessories to young professionals at an accessible price point. Boutique fashion has a history of being a staple of the Short North. Today, the arts district is home to more than 300 businesses.

Betsy Pandora, executive director of Short North Alliance, said it’s exciting to see so many new retailers coming into the Short North Arts District.

“Vamp has been in the Short North for a little over a year, and we’re excited for Ellen and for Vamp that she was able to grow her business,” Pandora said.

The new location brings expansion to Vamp, including more clothing pieces and accessories. Shirk said her previous experience with an architecture firm helped her come up with the design of the retail space.

She said her favorite parts of working in the store include meeting interesting people, helping others find new

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Nearly two years after opening its doors to the Short North, Vamp Official, a boutique clothing store, has relocated.

edgy trends and watching shoppers leave full of excitement to wear a new piece from the store.

Shirk said she advises Ohio State students with big goals to start now in order to gain momentum toward achieving them.

“Take the first step because I think once you get start you won’t stop,” Shirk said. “If you really want to do it, you won’t stop.”

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The new location brings expansion to Vamp, including more clothing pieces and accessories.

Campus Area Crime Map Jan. 21-27 BY: MICHAEL LEE

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More than 200 students attended Clean Up Columbus on Jan. 27 in search for aluminum cans, plastic cups and other trash.

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A theft from a motor vehicle was reported to the Columbus Division of Police as having occurred between 7 and 8 p.m.

Jan. 22 on West Lane Avenue near Tuttle Park Place. According to the online police log, an unknown person broke the right rear window of the victim’s vehicle, stealing his backpack with $1,530 of property, including a laptop, textbooks and a hat.

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An arson was reported to University Police as having occurred at 2:10 a.m.

Wednesday at Mack Hall.

3. An assault was reported to Universi-

ty Police as having occurred at 4:46 p.m.

Wednesday on West 11th Avenue near North High Street.

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A rape was reported to University Police as having occurred at 8:41 p.m. Thursday at Morrison Tower.

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An incidence of criminal damaging was reported to the Columbus Police as having occurred at 2:31 a.m. Friday at The Highline at Nine. According to the online police log, a person damaged water plumbing in the apartment building, causing flooding.

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An incident of soliciting another person for sexual activity for hire was reported to University Police as having occurred at 5:38 p.m. Sunday at Thompson Library.

own,” Sibley said.

Although there was not much trash to collect this time of year, the cleanup is especially helpful during the autumn semester and football season when there is more litter outside.

USG will reward student organizations that participate by adding $75 to their accounts. Groups can also choose to receive community service hours for their work.

“We signed up to have a bonding experience and we also get funding for it, and it makes the campus a little prettier,” Priyanka Jain, a third-year in marketing and president of Refuge a student organization aimed at helping refugee and immigrant students become contributing members of their societies, said. “It’s a win-win situation.”

Sibley said the cleanup consistently draws large numbers of interested students and often reaches capacity at 30 organizations.

Many students said the cleanup gave members of their organization a chance to get to know each other better.

“I think it’s a good way for student orga-

nizations, no matter what you do, for your members to get closer together and get to know each other better and also do something worthwhile and something good for the community at the same time,” Mulach said.

The next Clean Up Columbus event is Feb. 19. Student organizations can sign up through USG at http://go.osu.edu/cleanupcolumbus.

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Lauren Boyle becomes first Buckeye drafted to NWHL GRIFFIN STROM Lantern reporter strom.25@osu.edu As the saying goes: one must learn how to walk before they can run. For Ohio State women’s hockey senior defender Lauren Boyle, however, walking on land and skating on ice were abilities she acquired simultaneously.

“My parents always joke ‘No wonder you can skate so well, you did 1,000 laps before you could even walk.’”

LAUREN BOYLE Ohio State senior defenseman

Boyle has taken quite a few steps in her career on the ice rink since then. On Dec. 21, she became the first Buckeye ever drafted to play professionally for the National Women’s Hockey League when she was selected by the Minnesota Whitecaps.

Boyle said her objectives on the ice have always centered on the task at hand. But her selection in the NWHL draft afforded her the opportunity to reflect on how far she’s come.

“You kind of have to take a step back and realize what’s really going on,” Boyle said.

“That’s a big deal if you can play professionally in your sport.”

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Senior defenseman Lauren Boyle (6) looks down the ice during the women’s ice hockey game against Minnesota on Jan 26. Ohio State lost 7-2.

Firsts are nothing new in Boyle’s accomplished tenure at Ohio State. A year ago, the Toronto native scored the program’s first-ever goal in the NCAA tournament with a game-winner against No. 4 Boston College that propelled Ohio State to its first trip to the Frozen Four.

Her acclimation to the ice began early.

Boyle said her father, Scott, a lifelong hockey fan who served as her coach throughout her youth, made a habit of pushing his

daughter around a local Toronto ice rink in a stroller as a baby.

“My parents always joke ‘No wonder you can skate so well, you did 1,000 laps before you could even walk,’” Boyle said.

Figure skating, however, was Boyle’s first choice as to how to put her standout skating skills to use.

“It only lasted six months before I decided to trade in my white skates for black ones,” Boyle said.

Playing for the Whitecaps would be a full-circle experience for Boyle, who, at 6 years old, moved from Toronto to Eden Prairie, Minnesota, where she became an All-American high school player and three-time All-State performer.

In Eden Prairie, Boyle was neighbors with current Ohio State senior forward Charly Dahlquist, whose father, Chris, drew on his 11-year NHL career experience to further develop the future college teammates’ prowess on the ice.

Boyle said a key component to her decision to become a Buckeye was the hockey program’s inclusion in the WCHA conference, which has produced 18 of the past 21 national championship winners.

“The second I got here, I fell in love with the atmosphere,” Boyle said. “I fell in love with the tradition, the entire athletic department and all the opportunities it has to offer.”

After kicking off her Ohio State career with a WCHA All-Rookie Team nod, Boyle has continued to accumulate accolades. Amid racking up 63 career points, she has been named both WCHA Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week, received NCAA No. 2 Star of the Week honors and made Academic All-Big Ten in each of the past two seasons.

Ohio State head coach Nadine Muzerall said Boyle’s physicality and confidence set her apart as one of the elite defenseman in the country.

“She has incredible explosive speed down the ice,” Muzerall said. “She’s just like a pitbull. She just goes.”

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Young Ohio State takes on challenge in veteran-laden No. 5 Michigan

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Ohio State junior forward Andre Wesson (24) shoots a 3-pointer in the second half of the game against Purdue on Jan. 23. Ohio State lost 79-67.

WYATT CROSHER Assistant Sports Editor crosher.1@osu.edu For the first time in six games, Ohio State is preparing for its next opponent with a win after defeating Nebraska 70-60 on the road behind a career-best performance from freshman guard Luther Muhammad.

But the Cornhuskers were losers of four of their past six. Michigan, the Buckeyes’ next opponent, has three fewer losses throughout the entirety of the season, and comes in as the No. 3 scoring defense in the country, allowing 56.5 points per game.

For Muhammad and redshirt senior guard Keyshawn Woods, both of whom are not from Ohio, the rivalry between Ohio State and the Wolverines is new.

Woods, a Gastonia, North Carolina, native, said it took seeing the football team defeat Michigan 62-39 on the football field to really let the rivalry sink in.

“Being at that football game, you really understand,” Woods said. “You really

understand that Ohio State and Michigan don’t like each other, and you know how serious it is for both ends, so this game is serious for us to get this win.”

“You really understand that Ohio State and Michigan don’t like each other, and you know how serious it is for both ends, so this game is serious for us to get this win.”

KEYSHAWN WOODS Ohio State redshirt senior guard

The Wolverines hold teams to the third-fewest points per game in the nation, and do so by forcing opponents to shoot 39.4 percent from the field and 29.7

percent from 3, No. 20 and No. 26 in the NCAA, respectively.

Head coach Chris Holtmann said the defensive success comes from the talent Michigan holds in its starting five.

“Great individual defenders, they’ve got a great system, but any elite defensive team, you’re gonna look and you’re gonna find great individual, versatile defenders,” Holtmann said.

Holtmann complimented junior guard Zavier Simpson, calling him “as good of an on-ball defender as I can remember seeing in college basketball.”

In Michigan’s most recent game against Indiana, the Wolverines trusted senior guard Charles Matthews to cover Indiana freshman guard Romeo Langford, the Hoosier’s leading scorer. In Michigan’s 23-point victory, Langford scored nine points on 3-of-12 shooting, and was a minus-24 for the game.

Wolverines head coach John Beilein mainly avoids using depth, with the top seven in the rotation each clocking more than 300 minutes. The lowest eight players in minutes do not combine for more than 250 minutes between them.

Freshman forward Ignas Brazdeikis leads Michigan with 15.2 points per game, and shoots 46.4 percent from the field.

Holtmann said his opponent’s success comes from the combination of added youth with the veteran presence that sent Michigan to the NCAA Tournament final a season ago, notably with the return of players like Poole, Matthews, Teske and Simpson.

“They’ve got great versatility,” Holtmann said. “Those four guys won a lot, played in a lot of games that have been very important, and then you add some depth, and obviously a freshman in Brazdeikis, who can create some real matchup issues, so obviously a great challenge.”

Michigan comes in winners of 33 of its past 35 games dating back to the past season, and Ohio State comes in winners of one of its past six.

The Wolverines haven’t lost a game at home in more than a year, losing to then-

PROJECTED STARTERS Ohio State G - C.J. Jackson - Senior 12.6 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 3.7 apg

G - Musa Jallow - Sophomore 3.4 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 0.3 apg

G - Luther Muhammad - Freshman 9.9 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 2.1 apg

F - Andre Wesson - Junior 8.5 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 1.6 apg

F - Kaleb Wesson - Sophomore 14.9 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 1.6 apg

Michigan G - Zavier Simpson - Junior 8.8 ppg, 4.9 rpg, 5.6 apg

G - Charles Matthews - Senior 13.1 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 1.2 apg

G - Jordan Poole - Sophomore 12.6 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 2.2 apg

F - Ignas Brazdeikis - Freshman 15.2 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 1.1 apg

F - Jon Teske - Junior 9.2 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 0.9 apg

No. 5 Purdue 70-69 on Jan. 9, 2018.

For Muhammad, none of that matters.

The rivalry, the recent games, it’s all just background to the game that’s ahead.

“I don’t really try to pay too much attention to the rivalry; it’s next game; they’re a great team, they’re a top 10 in the country right now,” Muhammad said. “We’re just focused on trying to come together and get another win.”

Ohio State takes on No. 5 Michigan on the road at 9 p.m. Tuesday.

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NFL-level offense to Ohio State.

Martell said it would be difficult for Fields to pick up in one offseason.

“It’s not something that you can just walk in and three months in, you think that, ‘I’m rolling now,’” Martell said. “It’s not that easy, I promise you.”

But Dickmann knows Day, who has recruited his players since he was a coach at Temple and Boston College. The newly named Ohio State head coach even went to Kennesaw to recruit Fields after the quarterback had committed to Georgia.

To the Harrison head coach, many of the concepts for Fields will be the same as it was when he was in high school.

“A lot of the stuff Ohio State does, zone read, we did, power read, we did, crossing routes, all the crossing routes and down the field because Justin has such a strong arm, play action, we did all that stuff,” Dickmann said. “The only difference is he is going to have to learn the terminology.”

Dickmann said according to Fields’ father, the quarterback is already doing well at picking up the nuances of the Ohio State offense and is spending a lot of time learning the playbook.

Reuse believes Fields is a dream for a first-year head coach, saying that Day has the opportunity to be creative and to utilize his new quarterback’s skill sets.

“I think he will be free to do the things he does best, which, like I said, [is] extending plays. But also the chance to get out there and whip it around, scramble away from a guy and really uncork a ball,” Reuse said. “It’s not exactly how Georgia does things, but I could see an offensive mind like Ryan Day putting that to good use.”

To Dickmann, Fields is more than just a quarterback or the No. 2 player in the 2018 recruiting class.

According to his high school head coach, Fields was a leader at Harrison, calling him a coach on the field. Fields was humble, always viewed as having a team-first mentality.

Dickmann said this was something that Ohio State can expect from its newest quarterback.

“He is a great person, he is a tremendous athlete, and he will do everything he can do for him and his teammates to be suc-

Muzerall said Boyle’s selection in the draft is a testament to a culture change for Ohio State women’s hockey and shows how much the program is evolving to foster pro-level talent.

For Boyle, however, the value of the individual praise she received pales in comparison to the bonds she’s made with teammates and coaches at Ohio State.

“It’s all about the girls; it’s all about the culture,” Boyle said. “At the end of the day, that’s what matters is the relationships you build here and the team within the team.”

One teammate Boyle has had an impact on is sophomore forward Emma Maltais, who said the senior defenseman has been a role model for her ever since she stayed at Boyle’s house during her first visit to Ohio State.

“Boyle is so awesome,” Maltais said. “On the ice, especially, she’s so fast and such a good defense and always reliable back there.

On and off the ice, she’s just a really good leader and a good person.”

Boyle said playing in the NWHL is not necessarily an automatic decision due to the small size of the league, which was founded in 2015.

Before she looks that far ahead, Boyle said she has business to finish with the Buckeyes who will try and snap a five-game losing streak and make a run at a second straight Frozen Four appearance.

Boyle said she hopes her legacy at Ohio State doesn’t hinge on wins, losses or awards.

Rather, the senior star emphasized her desire to be remembered for her intangible qualities.

“It’s great to succeed, but leaving a personal impact on other players and your teammates is most important to me,” Boyle said.

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Then-Georgia quarterback Justin Fields (1) completes a first-down pass in the G-Day spring football game on April 21 at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga.

cessful,” Dickmann said. “I think they are going to enjoy watching Justin Fields, and I think they are going to enjoy watching him as a person.”

As Fields prepares for the 2019 season at Ohio State, Dickmann can look forward to watching his favorite college football team and former star quarterback in one game as opposed to two.

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Ohio State’s newest quarterback brings dynamic potential to offense COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu Matt Dickmann, the head coach at Harrison High School in Kennesaw, Georgia, had a routine each Saturday during football season. An Ohio native and graduate of the University of Toledo, Dickmann watched Ohio State football, making the Buckeyes his No. 1 priority each game day.

But that was one of two football teams Dickmann followed each Saturday. While he watched Ohio State live, the head coach recorded the Georgia football game to watch his former starting quarterback.

Justin Fields’ time on the field at Georgia was consistent. The freshman played at least one snap in each of the Bulldogs’ games, giving Dickmann at least a few plays to watch each week.

Each snap the Kennesaw native took, his high school head coach had the same response.

“When he was in the game, he always moved the offense,” Dickmann said.

“When he was in the game, he always excelled.”

It was typical Fields. And it was the Fields who decided to transfer to Ohio State after the 2018 season, becoming the highest-rated recruit in the history of the football program and, if eligible, the likely starting quarterback for the Buckeyes in 2019.

The expectation for Fields has been always extremely high, ever since his father, Pablo, sent his son’s middle-school highlights to the head coach at Harrison High School.

“I remember watching and saying, ‘Wow, this young man has a lot of potential to be a star,’” Dickmann said.

Potential is one thing. Dickmann said his priority with Fields was his development: growing him intellectually and physically,

checking all of the boxes for him to become a Division I quarterback.

“That’s the thing about Justin,” Dickmann said. “He continued to grow each year and to the point where there really weren’t any weaknesses that he had by his junior. He was pretty special.”

The head coach said there are three things that each quarterback needs to have to be successful: intelligence, poise and articulation.

He found all three in Fields saying the quarterback made good decisions on the football field, learning from the few mistakes he made.

“I think they are going to enjoy watching Justin Fields, and I think they are going to enjoy watching him as a person.”

MATT DICKMANN Harrison High School head football coach

Physically, Fields also checked the necessary boxes as a strong, accurate dual-threat quarterback.

“He’s definitely a bruising runner, so I feel like he is one of those guys where, he is not like a Kyler Murray where he has to slide or anything like that ... I have seen him lower his shoulder on a run when he didn’t even have to lower his shoulder,” Michael Hebert, the football beat reporter at the Red and Black, Georgia’s student newspaper, said. “He doesn’t avoid contact. He’s got a crazy good arm.”

Despite not playing for what Jake Reuse, a recruiting writer for UGASports.

com, considered as a Georgia powerhouse in high school, Fields had a level of talent that Harrison High School had rarely seen.

And it was a talent Dickmann was eager to utilize.

Starting in Fields’ junior season, the Harrison High School head coach integrated a run-pass option into the team’s offense. He said it helped the quarterback and the rest of the offense become more explosive.

However, for Dickmann, this integration was more of a gamble than he would usually make with a high school quarterback. “[Fields] made all the decisions,” Dickmann said. “I never told him when to throw it, when he wouldn’t throw it, when he would pull it, when he would give it.

So those were decisions that we basically trained him from Day One that he was going to make.”

During the 2016 season, Fields threw for 2,770 yards and 23 touchdowns, completing 66.7 percent of his passes for the Hoyas, according to MaxPreps. He added 1,176 yards on the ground, averaging 6.2 yards per carry and 15 touchdowns.

This was the point where Fields’ recruitment became national, developing his ability as a passer and not just as a dual-threat athlete, something Reuse said would not have set him apart.

“That’s why he was so highly recruited is because you will get a lot of quarterbacks sometimes that may have this, that or the other,” Dickmann said. “But very rarely do they have all like he does.”

Fields committed to Penn State after the 2016 season, but later decommitted, setting his sights on Georgia, where he committed in December 2017.

However, Fields and his family did not want the recruitment of the No. 2 player in the 2018 class to become a spectacle. They decided to only do interviews with reporters about high school football and not his college decision prior to his senior season.

“If you want to write a book on how to handle recruiting and not to let it go to your head, Justin would have a great chapter in that book,” Dickmann said.

The Harrison head coach said Fields was humble, never letting the national attention get to his head and did not become haughty toward the coaching staff or his teammates.

He said all Fields wanted to do was go out and compete.

Entering Georgia as an early enrollee in January 2018, there was a bit of change for Fields.

“It was obviously a transition from being the most talked about high school player in the country to just another freshman,” Hebert said. “Obviously, the fan base and everyone else didn’t view him as another freshman. They viewed him as a guy that could eventually win the Heisman at some point for Georgia.”

In his first season with the Bulldogs, Fields completed 27-of-39 pass attempts for 328 passing yards and four touchdowns.

On the ground, he added 266 yards, averaging 6.3 yards per carry and four touchdowns.

Without a direct path to the starting quarterback job at Georgia sitting behind Jake Fromm — the Georgia sophomore quarterback still had another year before he could enter the NFL Draft — Fields announced his intention to transfer, something Reuse said was not surprising after talking to the freshman quarterback after the SEC Championship.

“I think that people left that interview and left that SEC Championship game feeling like it was moving away from rumor and probably more into fact sooner rather than later,” Reuse said.

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