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Duo adjusting to role atop police department ZACH VARDA Campus Editor varda.6@osu.edu Taking the helm of the Ohio State University Police Department doesn’t allow much time to breathe.

The number of events and people on campus week-to-week keeps the department on its toes and busy at all times.

New police chief Kimberly Spears-McNatt and deputy Tracy Hahn are excited about their new jobs and love the work, even if they haven’t had the time to sit back and enjoy it.

“Really, we’ve been extremely busy,” Spears-McNatt said. “I don’t think anything has had a chance to sink in because I’m still going, going, going.”

Just getting a taste of the hectic schedule for University Police, one might expect the pair to have time to finally take a deep breath and enjoy their appointments when students left for spring break. That assumption would be wrong.

Instead of a relaxing, empty campus, the week of spring break is packed full of high school sporting events on campus that call for the department’s attention.

The duo has no complaints, though, and Spears-McNatt and Hahn are eager to tackle all the challenges of policing a large, active cam-

pus while also leaving their own mark in the process.

“I want to make sure that our agency continues to move forward being just as diverse as the community we serve,” Spears-McNatt said.

“Then community engagement, making sure, one, that our officers are accountable and two, transparency.”

Spears-McNatt said she will focus on a stronger relationship between officers and the student population.

Having been an Ohio State student herself, Spears-McNatt said she understands the spirit of campus and how beneficial a strong relationship with students can be for her department.

“We can have these one-on-one conversations and dialogue with the community,” she said. “When they see maybe Tracy or me, or any officer on campus, that there is no stigma associated with the uniform.”

Spears-McNatt said her responsibility for students doesn’t end at campus borders.

“Just because they live off campus, they’re still our students,” Spears-McNatt said. “We’re still responsible for them.”

She said that the duty to protect off-campus students is mainly achieved through the joint patrol that University Police performs with the Columbus Division of Police, where officers from University Police and CPD patrol the off-campus area

together. However, the department also strives to make strong connections with off-campus students through various events where students can meet and speak with officers.

Spears-McNatt might understand the department’s role on campus better than anyone. Not only was she a student, but she started her career with University Police and has spent her entire career in the department, someOSUPD CONTINUES ON 3

Ohio State is helping women with heart conditions experience motherhood LYDIA WEYRICH Lantern reporter weyrich.4@osu.edu After a lifetime of being told having a baby would kill her, Crystal Harris experienced a successful pregnancy because of a program at Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center.

Seven years ago, Harris, who was born with a complex congenital heart defect, gave birth to her son, Camden, through the one-of-a-kind adult congenital heart disease program at Ohio State. Dr. Curt Daniels, the director of the program, was the first doctor to give Harris hope when it came to motherhood.

“There’s something about being a woman and wanting to experience pregnancy,” Harris said. “[Dr. Daniels] was the first doctor that even entertained the idea.”

Daniels explained that doctors typically tell women with congenital heart defects to avoid pregnancy because of the strain carrying and delivering a baby puts on their heart, but Harris was determined.

Harris said Daniels explained the risks and advised against a pregnancy, but said if she did become pregnant, he would be there every step of the way.

Without Daniels and the adult congenital heart disease program at Ohio State, Harris said she would have never attempted to be a mother.

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With a mortality rate of less than 1 percent, Daniels said the program has cared for more than 800 women with congenital heart disease in the past 15 years.

“We have a plan going in. Everybody knows the patients, and this has really helped to create tremendous success,” Daniels said. “This is a unique program.”

Though there are similar programs, Daniels said Ohio State has the longest-standing program in the country.

“There’s never going to be a ‘thank you’ big enough for [Ohio State],” Harris said. “‘Thank you’ will never be enough.”

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Human trafficking survivor shares story at fashion show MAEVE WALSH Lantern reporter walsh.607@osu.edu Four years ago, Hollie Daniels was prosecuted in the Franklin County courts for prostitution. Today, she works for the prosecutor’s office as a domestic violence advocate.

Daniels, a 36-year-old human trafficking survivor and current student at Columbus State, told her story Saturday in Curl Hall at the third-annual fashion show hosted by Unchained OSU, an undergraduate student organization that seeks to spread awareness of human trafficking.

With more than 150 audience members, Unchained OSU raised about $800 from donations that will contribute to the Unchained Overcomer Scholarship. The scholarship is given to human trafficking survivors like Daniels to help fund their higher education, Rebecca Kuhr, a thirdyear in fashion and retail studies, as well as treasurer of Unchained OSU, said.

“A big part of us raising awareness is prevention because some people don’t even know that they’re being trafficked or see the red flags of where it’s heading,” Kuhr said. “Hopefully it can prevent trafficking in some way.”

Serena Kaul, a third-year in neuroscience and vice president of Unchained OSU, said that through a series of dresses and makeup worn by 15 models, the show portrayed three stages in the life of a human trafficking survivor: innocence, violation and restoration.

Kaul said innocence is the stage of a survivor’s life before being trafficked; violation is the stage when a survivor meets his or her trafficker; and restoration is the stage when a survivor can hopefully escape the system of abuse.

“In this process of being out there for 17 long years, there were so many nights I would pray for death ... I would pray for God to take my life because I didn’t want to keep going on like this.

I didn’t have a mind of my own; it was either the drugs or the trafficker controlling me.”

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“For innocence, we have tutus and more playful looks and pigtails and pretty makeup. But as you go on and progress throughout it, we get dark makeup, messy hair and dark colors,” Kaul said. “And at the end, it’s more bright colors for restoration and pretty makeup — back to the beginning.”

In addition to the fashion show, there

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Through varying styles of dresses and makeup, models from the Unchained OSU fashion show portray the three stages in the life of a human trafficking survivor: innocence, violation and restoration.

was a musical performance by Dust and Light, as well as several speakers affiliated with human trafficking prevention.

While the models walked the runway, a slideshow was presented that provided facts and statistics regarding human trafficking, and Kuhr said many are surprised to learn that Ohio ranks fourth in the United States for reports of human trafficking.

“It’s happening all around us even if you don’t really realize it,” Kuhr said.

As someone who experienced the stages of human trafficking represented during the show, Daniels said she was moved by the performances and the models themselves.

“It was intense,” Daniels said. “I really enjoyed seeing some for the portrayals of how the costumes could relate to some of the situations we face while we’re in that lifestyle.”

During her speech, Daniels, who financed her education at Columbus State through the Unchained Overcomer Scholarship she received two years ago, described the abuse she suffered as a child while living with drug-addicted grandparents and explained how her own mother catalyzed her exposure to sex traffickers.

She said she started using drugs at a young age in order to escape the reality she faced and after one month of moving in with her mother at the age of 15, she was addicted to crack cocaine while prostituting on the streets of Columbus.

Daniels said that 3 percent of women who are trafficked in the U.S. are abducted, while the other 97 percent, including herself, are coerced, convinced or lied to through fraud.

“In this process of being out there for 17 long years, there were so many nights I would pray for death,” Daniels said. “I would pray for God to take my life because I didn’t want to keep going on like this. I didn’t have a mind of my own; it was either the drugs or the trafficker controlling me.”

She said that no one, in the 17 years of being in and out of the criminal justice system, children’s services and foster care, asked her if she needed help.

Daniels encouraged Ohio State students in the audience to prevent her story from happening to others.

“A lot of you are students here at OSU —

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With more than 150 audience members, Unchained OSU raised about $800 from donations that will contribute to the Unchained Overcomer Scholarship.

maybe service providers, medical professionals or doing some type of education — you’re going to be the one to intervene for people like me,” Daniels said. “If one of you intervened for me at a young age, my story would be completely different standing up here today. So be that person for that little girl because that’s what she needs.”

Despite years of abuse, Daniels said she eventually escaped the system after a mental health professional encouraged her to attend a human trafficking counseling program.

Four years later, Daniels works as an advocate for the Franklin County prosecutor’s office, where she guides domestic violence victims through the process of court proceedings.

She also said she volunteers for an organization called Reaching for the Falling Stars, where she does street outreach to help women and girls currently being trafficked to get the resources they need.

“I go back out to the same streets that held me captive for 17 years,” Daniels said.

“But I also get to tell my story to these women that you can, too. You don’t have to do this; you are worth so much more.”

Daniels applied for the Unchained Overcomer Scholarship a second time this year,

and if she receives the scholarship, she said she will use the money to continue her education at Ohio State.

Although she was accepted into Ohio State, she said she is still waiting for a university committee to finalize her admission due to her past criminal record.

“What I’m doing today, there’s no way [the committee] can deny me, and if they do say no, I will just keep continuing because I will not take no for an answer because that’s where I want to be, and I want to be an OSU graduate,” Daniels said. “I deserve that; that’s my dream. Why can’t I have that?”

With the large turnout and success of the fashion show, Kaul and Kuhr said they hope to continue with their efforts to prevent human trafficking in the future and support survivors like Daniels.

“The more people who know about the message, the more people who can take action against the issue,” Kaul said.

Daniels said that if she could give her younger self a piece of advice, it would be to never give up hope.

“Continue,” Daniels said. “Continue to hold on because it does get better.”

The national human trafficking hotline number is 1-888-373-7888.

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Kimberly Spears-McNatt was sworn in as Ohio State University Police Chief on January 10. SpearsMcNatt is the first woman to hold the position.

thing she said is rare in the profession.

In addition, Spears-McNatt has an emotional connection to the very building out of which University Police operates, Blankenship Hall.

The building is named in honor of officer Michael Blankenship, who was a University Police officer killed in the line of duty in 1997. Blankenship was also the officer who trained Spears-McNatt on how to ride a police bike.

“To be able to know that I am responsible for an agency that is named after him, I take that very personally, and I am honored by that,” Spears-McNatt said. “Each year when we have the memorial, his family comes back, and I know them personally, so realizing although Mike is gone, he’s never forgotten.”

Hahn has her own Ohio State roots as well, as she is an Ohio State alumna and also served three years with University Police beginning in 1990 before moving to the Upper Arlington Police Department.

Since her graduation, Hahn has enjoyed a 28-year career in law enforcement, most recently as police chief for

the Upper Arlington Police Department.

She said serving on a campus will be different from serving a residential area, from working with students to learning laws unique to campuses, such as Title IX. But the change was exactly what she was looking for.

“Everything is real fresh, and that’s one of the reasons why I came over here, to freshen up my career and start learning new things and challenge myself a bit,” Hahn said. “I like working with the younger population versus the municipality.”

Hahn said she shares in Spears-McNatt’s conviction to build a strong relationship between officers and students, something she will have to do herself for the first time.

One of the ways the duo said they have been able to make a strong connection to the student body is through Undergraduate Student Government president and vice president Shamina Merchant and Shawn Semmler, respectively.

And the sentiment is certainly mutual. Merchant said that she and Semmler have enjoyed working with Spears-McNatt over the past sever-

al years and feel that she has been a strong ally in USG’s efforts to protect student safety and well-being.

“Even through one conversation, it is so easy to see how much she genuinely cares for students and their safety,” Merchant said. “At the start of our term, the chief told us that she felt students should be focused on their education and shouldn’t have to worry about their safety. That was her job.”

Spears-McNatt and Hahn brim with confidence and excitement as they talk about driving the department in the years to come, but for now the daily grind still beckons.

Spears-McNatt said preparing for commencement is already on her mind, and Hahn has the football team’s spring game to focus on — it will be her first time working a football game, something she’ll need to be familiar with come fall.

“I am learning football. I know the game of football, but to work football,” Hahn said. “Spring game is coming up and it’s gonna be, they’re guessing about 75,000 people, so it’s almost like a big, real game.”

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ing to adulthood, and many of those women want to have children.

It quickly became clear there needed to be a “coordinated effort” between the highrisk obstetricians and the adult congenital heart disease program in order for at-risk women similar to Harris to receive the highest level of care, Daniels said.

“We found that many of these women were becoming or wanted to become pregnant,” Daniels said. “This led to us developing a program aimed at how to care for them.”

The program consists of obstetricians, both at Ohio State and local to the patient, anesthesiologists and several cardiovascular doctors, Daniels said. Using the expertise of all the doctors involved, the team develops a plan that is best for each patient.

Harris said her prenatal care at Ohio State was extensive, and she had an ultrasound every week to make sure her baby was healthy.

“All [the doctors] kept a very close watch on me,” Harris said. “It was very in-depth.”

At 25 weeks, Harris was admitted to the Wexner Medical Center where doctors began preparing her heart for delivery using IV medications. Three weeks later, during one of her weekly ultrasounds, Harris’ doctors realized the baby was not receiving enough oxygen to continue to grow.

Harris said she was told that she had to deliver via C-section the next day. After Harris had her C-section, the rest of the surgery became intense, fast.

“I woke up in recovery, and everything was fine. I just didn’t feel right, something wasn’t right,” Harris said. “I remember the nurses bringing in a lot of blood.”

Harris soon learned she had suffered massive internal bleeding.

Daniels explained that with Harris’ condition, blood clotting issues were expected, and though doctors did not expect it to be Harris’ biggest issue, they were prepared.

She was taken back into surgery to try to locate the bleeding. Daniels, along with many other doctors, could not determine the source of the bleeding, and Harris was put into a medically induced coma for the following 12 days as the doctors continued their search.

On day 10, Harris’ bleeding stopped for reasons still unexplained, and on Day 12, she was woken up.

Harris said the days following her coma were excruciating, but she experienced some of the most memorable moments of her life.

“I looked at my nurse and said, ‘Why did they let me live?’” Harris said. “She looked

into my eyes and said ‘Honey, when you see your baby, you’ll know exactly why we fought so hard for you.’”

Despite the amount of pain Harris experienced due to back-to-back surgeries, she said she will remember that moment forever. “[The medical team] literally fought and fought and fought so I could meet my baby,” she said.

Harris said she received one-on-one care at Ohio State, and her nurses were almost as excited as she was when she finally got

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to meet her son. The neonatal intensive care unit at the Wexner Center accommodated her in ways she did not expect, Harris said.

The nurses in the NICU were eager to meet the mother of the baby for whom they had been caring for weeks, and they made special arrangements for Harris and her hospital bed when she finally got to visit.

“There were tons of babies in there,” Harris said. “And here [Ohio State] was making room and going out of [its] way for a special moment like this.”

Harris described her first moments with

her son as surreal.

“I was scared to love him,” she said. “I was told my entire life I was never going to be a mother.”

Harris’ son Camden is now 7 years old, completely healthy and loves playing Minecraft.

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Ohio State alumni association sells wine to support student scholarship fund AJA MIYAMOTO Lantern reporter miyamoto.20@osu.edu For Ohio State students and alumni, purchasing a bottle of a red blend or sauvignon blanc can potentially aid in financially supporting a future Buckeye’s college career.

The Ohio State University Alumni Association launched an alumni wine program in 2017 called “The Oval Collection” to support current students with the Ohio State Alumni Association Scholarship fund.

“In thinking through life’s big moments, such as buying a house, holiday gatherings, a new job, marriage and children, wine is often part of those celebrations,” Dan Caterinicchia, spokesman for the alumni association, said. “We found that wine programs serve as a connection point for alumni and friends across every life stage and celebration.”

In the second year of the wine program, the collection features the following wines: a 2015 Goldschmidt Cabernet Sauvignon, a 2012 Nimble Red Blend, a 2017 Rancheria Chardonnay, a 2017 Versailles Buckeye Blush, a 2013 Mayacamas Red Blend and a 2016 Brutocao Sauvignon Blanc.

The deciding factor of which wines would be showcased in this year’s collection, according to the alumni association, was based on taste, price point and connections to the Buckeye community.

Located in Versailles, Ohio, The Winery of Versailles bottled the Buckeye Blush, a local blend of Vidal Blanc and Chambourcin. The goal is to continue expanding partnerships with Ohio wineries and alumni-owned wineries in the years to come, Caterinicchia said.

Tess Green, Ohio State alumna, purchased the Buckeye Blush and the Sauvignon Blanc this year to share the wine with others and to display the bottle as a memento of her time on campus.

“One of the featured buildings on a bottle was Orton Hall where I spent a lot of time while I was in school, and I loved having something that combined my love for Ohio State and Orton Hall with a wine bottle,” Green said.

This year’s bottles include labels of campus landmarks such as Thompson Library, Mirror Lake, University Hall and the Armory, formerly a campus activity building located in the current home of the Wexner Center for the Arts.

“The Oval Collection is a thoughtful reminder of our extended Buckeye community,” Caternicchia said. “While this is only our second year of the program, we will continue to create collector labels for alumni and friends to save as keepsakes and add to in the coming years.”

Individual bottles range in price from $10 to $50.

With a collaboration with VinoShipper, bottles are available for purchase at the program website, theovalcollection.com/.

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BuckeyeCon unites Ohio State fans of Why Us? gaming and comic culture on campus aiming to

raise sex trafficking awareness after state grant MICHAEL CARMODY Lantern reporter carmody.36@osu.edu

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Ohio State’s spin on Comic-Con, BuckeyeCon, was held in collaboration with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum this past weekend.

NINA PIERI gineering and member of the Specials com- our favorite games is the team deathmatch – Lantern reporter mittee of OUAB, said. “I thought it would be straight unlimited respawns where [combatpieri.7@osu.edu really cool to have all of the aspects of a nor- ants] just go at each other,” Chris Vasquez of mal comic book convention, so we decided to Convention Foam Fighting, said. “We travel Students passionate about all things comics try and make that happen.” all around the Midwest at a lot of anime conand online gaming culture came together last Morgan Schultz, a third-year in anthropol- ventions.” weekend to take part in the first-ever Buck- ogy, is the treasurer of Dagorhir Club at The The event was the brainchild of two OUAB eyeCon, Ohio State’s spin on Comic-Con. Ohio State University, a full-action, full con- committees, Lectures and Specials. Ryan BuckeyeCon, hosted by the Ohio Union tact live-action role play organization. She Miller, a first-year in marketing and member Activities Board in Sullivant Hall on Satur- said it’s difficult to get students involved in of the Lectures committee of OUAB, said day, presented students with everything from the club.

Lectures had an idea of inviting someone convention foam fighting to virtual reality “At the student involvement fair, everyone from the esports world, and Specials wanted rigs to presentations from famed personas in is really happy that we exist, but people ar- to do something with comics. the online gaming and comic world. en’t necessarily interested,” Schultz said. “At “As soon as our exec board saw the two In collaboration with the Billy Ireland Car- BuckeyeCon, I’m hoping to get some of the ideas, they just made a really cool combinatoon Library and Museum, OUAB welcomed people that don’t find us at involvement fairs tion of the two, and here we are,” Miller said. guest appearances from Twitch streamer or don’t see us out on campus and get them Both Miller and Hasselbach are interested DrLupo, cosplay artist Riddle and Marvel interested.” in this realm themselves, an interest that ascomic writer Gabby Rivera.

The event also featured convention foam sisted them in bringing this comic-con event “[Ohio State] has the biggest cartoon li- fighting, a half-contact, live-action combat to life. brary in the country, and OUAB hasn’t really game where players battle each other with “Just the fact that we’re able to bring all planned events to market towards that kind shields and foam-padded weapons such as these pieces together and construct this multiof culture or those kinds of people,” Alex swords, clubs and glaives. layered event is really cool,” Hasselbach said.

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An Ohio State student organization is working to educate the public about the human trafficking crisis shortly after an Ohio grant put the issue more in the public eye.

Why Us? Is a group founded to spread awareness of the severity of trafficking and its impact on college campuses.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced earlier this month that Ohio will receive a $10,000 grant from his office of Crime Victim Services division, which will be used to remove the tattoos and markings from human trafficking victims. The removal of these markings or “brands” will dispel the idea that these victims were once considered someone’s property.

Ray’chel Wilson, a fourth-year in public health and vice president of Why Us?, said the grant will be the first step in helping people realize that not only is human trafficking an issue, but also that people are not objects.

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“We think that [the grant] is going to help people realize that humans are not for sale because those tattoos are placed there to show that these women and men are property,” Wilson said.

Wilson added that it will not only be freeing for the person, but that it will send a message to both the national and local communities that people cannot be marked as property.

“We are human, we have dignity, we are not for sale,” Wilson said.

Shaye Murray, a third-year in sociology and president of the organization, said the grant is also evidence of the realization that human trafficking is growing continuously.

“Ohio is noticing that the epidemic is getting higher in our city,” Murray said.

Murray said people who hear about the grant or meet survivors will have questions about trafficking and that that could spark more research about the topic.

Wilson said that sex trafficking affects mostly women, while labor-related trafficking affects mostly men, but aside from that, human trafficking affects everybody.

“Now, when we look at different types of trafficking, that’s when we see different possibilities,” Wilson said. “Ninety-eight percent of sexual exploitation when it comes to trafficking is leading to women, whereas 2 percent is men. When we are looking at labor exploitation, it’s about 60 percent men, 40 percent women.”

Murray said human trafficking is the harmful nature that pimps force upon their involuntary victims, calling it “the force, fraud or coercion of sex involuntarily.”

“So usually we have these johns or pimps who are requesting these things from these individuals or female victims, and they are not getting anything in return, and they are not volunteering to do this, so they are obviously being forced,” Murray said.

Wilson shared a story from a member of the Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force

who witnessed a fake massage parlor that had potential sex trafficking activity.

While attending a movie in the early evening, the witness noticed that in the massage parlor, there were a lot of men coming in and out. In addition, the business was open late hours longer than the usual 9-5.

These, along with many other social cues are signs of trafficking, Wilson said.

“You always want to look out for those signs of someone being unable to speak on what their situation is. We always say ‘If you see something, say something,’” Wilson said.

Why Us? takes part in educating the Ohio State community about human trafficking not only through their many events and rallies, but also through social media.

They discuss current events that are related while sharing facts and statistics, Wilson said.

Wilson said that through social media, the group will dispel myths about human trafficking on Mondays. On Fridays, the pages will share facts and statistics about trafficking.

Murray’s advice to start making a change in the world of sex trafficking is to become educated on the topic and then talk about it with friends, family and loved ones.

“Start having those uncomfortable, difficult conversations that everybody does not like having,” Murray said. “Those conversations are very important and critical in reducing this epidemic, and as much as we don’t talk about it, we need to educate the people we are around. We have to learn how to be more comfortable with those situations.”

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Wikipedia edit-a-thon increases gender representation in the arts NICHOLAS YOUNGBLOOD Lantern reporter youngblood.27@osu.edu

A group of volunteer Wikipedia editors joined forces with the Wexner Center for the Arts on Saturday for an editing workshop to increase the online encyclopedia’s coverage of female and nonbinary artists.

Wikipedia Connection, a student organization dedicated to increasing awareness of how anybody can contribute to Wikipedia, hosted the “Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon” event for the second year in a row. The event was held in the Wexner Center thanks to a collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts Student Engagement Group.

The edit-a-thon — one of many hosted around the world in honor of Women’s History Month — is intended to improve content on feminism, gender and the arts on Wikipedia by adding information and citations to existing articles, in addition to creating entirely new articles, according to the event page.

Many of the attendees were female artists and first-time editors, and with the help of a mobile reference desk provided by Courtney Hunt from the university library, they strengthened the site’s coverage of female and non-binary expression.

“Knowing more about women artists is knowing more about women’s stories and women’s perspectives on the world,” Genevieve Wagner, a second-year in fine arts, said.

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Students gather in the Heirloom Cafe to edit and create Wikipedia articles about women and non-binary artists.

To date, fewer than 18 percent of all biographies on Wikipedia are about women, according to Women in Red, a feminist Wikipedia project.

“People edit what they like, and Wikipedia’s user base is largely white, straight males from the Western Hemisphere. So that means that there’s a lot of topics that

— for various reasons — don’t get covered,” Emery Dalesio, a third-year in aerospace engineering and the vice president and treasurer of Wikipedia Connection, said. “The more people we can engage, the more topics we can cover, the better.”

The exclusion of women is not intentional, Dalesio said, but is a result of the insu-

lar nature of the Wikipedia community. In recent years, Wikipedia has started several initiatives, such as Women in Red, to combat that.

Still, Alexandra Adcock, a second-year in arts management and the president of the Wexner Center for the Arts Student Engagement Group, said only 10 percent of editors are female-identifying. This contributes to male dominance in art and other fields, she said.

To this end, Dalesio said another goal is to encourage inexperienced editors and give them the tools to become regular Wikipedia contributors.

He touted the democratic nature of the online encyclopedia as its strongest feature.

Almost all contributors are volunteers, and no account is required to start adding information. If everyone contributes, Dalesio said, the biases in coverage will start to disappear.

“By doing an event like this, we can show people that you can edit; your contributions are valid; your contributions are valued. Beyond valued: necessary,” Dalesio said.

A look at their Wikimedia profile shows that in the past year, Wikipedia Connection has edited 755 articles and created five new articles. These edits have been viewed 1.74 million times.

“People can make a difference,” Dalesio said. “By thinking about what we edit and making an effort, we can really change the culture of Wikipedia.”

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HomeMade 30. DaySpa 34. Arid 35. Elms 37. Eaten 38. Inn 39. Clicker 41. Apt 42. Local 44. Bein 45. Sisi 46. Stereo 48. Electric

50. Moos 52. LMNO 53. Waif 56. Dun 58. InPart 62. Alou 63. Lease 65. Plie 66. Saul 67. Ednas 68. Epps 69. Pis 70. Seal 71. Poss

Down 1. Sems 2. Earp 3. Evel 4. Pedaled 5. Ada 6. Lang 7. Their 8. Sorted 9. Peso 10. Ital 11. Pens 13. Ishmael

14. Papaya 19. Sam 23. Adlib 25. Baer 26. Hails 27. Ornot 28. Mince 29. Emcee 31. Stair 32. Pepsi 33. Antic 36. Skill 39. Cleo

40. Enemies 43. Armfull 45. Stopper 47. Oodles 49. CNN 51. Suede 53. Wasp 54. Alai 55. IOUs 57. Nana 59. Alpo 60. Rips 61. Tess 64. Sal

Across

1. Like some fine wine 5. Wooly one 9. Identical 13. Decoy 14. Magna ____ 15. Baseball’s Slaughter 16. High 17. Shaq’s surname 18. Marryin’ Sam’s creator 19. Captain Hook’s pirate 20. Toothpaste-accepting gp.

21. Secure the hatch 23. Sailors 25. Boxing King 26. Evaluate 29. More candid 33. Vacation resort 34. “Hi there!”

36. Greased 38. Is sick

40. Evergreen tree 41. To shelter 42. Basil-based pasta sauce 44. Panama, for one 47. Social or journal suffix 48. Quick runners 50. Lobs 52. Arms-defending gp.

53. Envelop 54. Actress Marilyn 58. ____ Lanka 59. Corrupt 63. CSA’s Robert ___ (2 wds.)

64. Bakery products 66. Great ____ 67. College divisions (abbr.)

68. Ruse 69. Division 70. A ____ and a holler 71. ____ or swim 72. Animal rights gp.

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53. Destroy 54. Net fabric 55. Butter’s rival 56. “Finding ____” (2003 film) 57. Breather 58. Peel 60. Rooftop item 61. Monogram part (abbr.)

62. “____ Woman in Your Life” (2 wds.)

65. Onassis, informally

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Ohio State earns No. 3 seed in NCAA Tournament BRADEN MOLES Lantern reporter moles.13@osu.edu The Ohio State men’s hockey team is dancing for the third consecutive year, entering the NCAA tournament as the No. 3 seed in the West Region.

The Buckeyes finished the season with a 20-10-5 record overall and went 13-7-4 in conference play to finish atop the Big Ten standings for the first time in program history.

While the roster contains a large supply of experience, with 21 players returning from the previous season’s Frozen Four team, momentum is something Ohio State doesn’t have on its side heading into the tournament.

The first half of the season went smoothly for the Buckeyes, who fought to an 11-4-3 record with three of their four losses coming against fellow tournament teams in Massachusetts, Bowling Green and Notre Dame. Ohio State scored 49 goals and only allowed 37 goals in the first half and looked primed to return to the tournament as a No. 1 seed with its veteran squad leading the way.

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Members of the men’s hockey team celebrates senior forward Freddy Gerard’s (15) goal in the second period of Game 1 during Ohio State’s hockey game vs. Michigan State on March 1. Ohio State won 5-1.

Late in the season, however, things began to go off the rails.

After ripping off a seven-game winning streak stretching over

“We are not here just to play one game in the tournament,” Jackson said. “We are here to actually win some games and make a run.”

Ohio State is not built like a team that can make a run in the NCAA Tournament. The team’s defense is strong, but the offense is strictly mediocre. The Buckeyes were undersized, inconsistent and lacking in terms of momentum.

Iowa State, on the other hand, had one of the best offenses in the country, preferred to play up-tempo and was playing its best basketball of the season on the way to winning the Big 12 tournament.

It didn’t matter. Holtmann and Ohio State found a way to get it done.

In the 62-59 win, the Buckeyes held the Cyclones to the second-fewest points they have scored all season, while Wesson and redshirt senior guard Keyshawn Woods combined for 40 of the 62 points.

The win made Holtmann 5-0 in Round of 64 games, all in consecutive seasons for Ohio State and Butler, but the 11-seeded Buckeyes are the lowest-ranked team Holtmann has worked his magic on thus far.

The Ohio State head coach does have something he can improve on: with the loss to Houston, Holtmann moved to 1-4 in the Round of 32, but this Ohio State team had no real business being in the second round to begin with.

Nothing about the Buckeyes, from the lack of scoring options to the unimpressive offensive numbers and streaky tendencies, made them seem like a team ready to win an NCAA Tournament game this season.

Yet here they are, and Ohio State is only going to get better, much better, in the upcoming season.

“Ohio State is back,” Jackson said.

“And it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon.”

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due to its goaltending decline.

The duo of redshirt senior Sean Romeo and sophomore Tommy Nappier had an incredible start to the season, including five shutouts and a combined goals allowed average of only 2.05 on 37 goals allowed.

In the final 16 games, however, they allowed 44 goals, and their combined goals against average fell to 2.58.

Though the Buckeyes may not be the hottest team heading into the tournament, they can still count on the consistent play of their veterans to help lead them.

Senior forward Mason Jobst led the team this season with 17 goals, 36 points and 8 power play goals, while junior forward Tanner Laczynski had a team-high 20 assists.

Ohio State will take on Denver at 4 p.m. Friday in Fargo, North Dakota.

four series, Ohio State lost five of its last seven games of the regular season, including a 5-1 loss at home to Penn State in the Buck-

eyes’ opening round of the Big Ten tournament.

Part of the reason the Buckeyes struggled in the second half was

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cut. Instead, the running back should have kept his foot in the ground, making the cut without jumping.

And after that play, that’s what he worked on continuously.

“We really replicated the same play for him in practice and he made that change of direction, stuck his foot in the ground without getting in the air and then broke it for a big play,” Day said.

Day said he has not seen that kind of mentality from a lot of guys with the ceiling Dobbins has: to seek critiques in his game as a former freshman All-American.

“He’s listening, he’s working, he wants to get better, and he has that mentality,” Day said.

It’s something Dobbins wants to do. Alford said Dobbins went to him, wanting to practice with that same humility, to be broken down to lead to success.

“He’s practicing like he did when he was a true freshman,” Alford said.

“This is exactly what I wanted.”

That drive is not new for Dobbins.

It’s just getting back to the mindset he had before his freshman year, when he had to play for a spot on the depth chart.

Even though it’s a given what his role will be in the upcoming 2019 season, one of only a few questions for the Ohio State offense that has been answered, Dobbins is working for more than the No. 1 spot on the depth chart.

He is working for a place in the Ohio State history books.

“I just want to be legendary,” Dobbins said. “I want to be like Ezekiel Elliott and Archie Griffin, guys like that. Write my name in stone.”

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Chris Holtmann pulls off unthinkable with leading Ohio State to Round of 64 win WYATT CROSHER Assistant Sports Editor crosher.1@osu.edu There was a lot to be excited about with where Ohio State men’s basketball was headed after the 2017-18 season.

Following a 25-9 record, including a 15-3 record in the Big Ten, the Buckeyes won in the Round of 64 against South Dakota State, then put up a fight in a second-half comeback before falling to Gonzaga.

The future looked bright for this program after exceeding expectations in head coach Chris Holtmann’s first year.

The future, as in the 2019-20 team that will be led by a trio of four-star prospects: guard DJ Carton, forward EJ Liddell and forward Alonzo Gaffney.

But not the 2018-19 season.

Not with a team lacking Keita Bates-Diop, Jae-Sean Tate and Kam Williams, who combined for 55.3 percent of the team’s points and 45.9 percent of the rebounds in 2017-18.

Yet somehow, someway, Holtmann brought this Ohio State team to the NCAA Tournament.

Beyond that, the Buckeyes won a game, stunning six-seeded Iowa

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Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann motions onto the court in the second half of the game against Cleveland State on Nov. 23. Ohio State won 89-61.

State before falling to Houston in the Round of 32.

But it didn’t go as smoothly as it did a season ago.

After hearing his team’s name called on Selection Sunday, Holtmann said he thought if Ohio State played well, that it would be

“very close” on if it would make the tournament.

To start the season, Holtmann’s team did play well, with the Buckeyes winning 12 of their first 13 games behind dominant play from sophomore forward Kaleb Wesson.

That success didn’t last into conference play. Ohio State dropped its next five games, and 12 of its last 18 games to end the regular season, playing much more like the team that many counted out before the season began.

A year removed from Bates-Diop, Tate and Williams had Ohio State drop from No. 4 in points per game and No. 1 in points allowed per game during conference games to No. 13 and No. 7, respectively.

And yet the Buckeyes were a Big Ten tournament win away from going dancing for back-toback years.

That win would be no easy task: Indiana had won four straight games, two of which came against ranked opponents, and was finally playing to the potential many thought the team had all season long.

But Holtmann got his team to do what Holtmann’s teams do the best: lock up.

The Hoosiers shot 30 percent in the first half, taking until desperation time to get their offense working. By that time, Ohio State did just enough to get the 79-75 win, ultimately securing its bid to the tournament.

A seven-point loss to the top team in the Big Ten later, and the Buckeyes got their No. 11 seed, a win that surpassed most of the wildest expectations for this team.

But senior guard C.J. Jackson’s expectations were even wilder.

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Dobbins sets sights on becoming Ohio State legend COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu Tony Alford likes to describe the relationship he has with his running backs as one a father has with his son: You have to love them, but you don’t have to like them.

J.K. Dobbins knows this. When Alford called out to the junior running back, asking if he knew his coach didn’t like him, Dobbins’ response was quick.

“I know,” Dobbins said. “You love me.”

For Alford, that’s parenthood. That relationship with Dobbins has not changed.

One thing has changed for the running back heading into his third season: he will be the No. 1 running back for the Buckeyes, not splitting carries with a 1A, 1B on the depth chart. He will be the guy.

That is something Dobbins for which is prepared.

“If you give me the ball 30 times, I’m a still be all right,” Dobbins said. “I’m going to make sure I find a way to be all right.”

Dobbins plans to be the same running back with the same goals and running with the same confidence he has always had in the backfield.

But his approach is different. It’s one he developed with the humility he had to learn this past season when he split carries with running back Mike Weber.

Moving into his freshman season, Dobbins, according to Alford, was hungry, excelling in every single rep he took, working

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Ohio State then-sophomore running back J.K. Dobbins (2) runs the ball in for a touchdown in the second half of the Rose Bowl featuring Ohio State and Washington. Ohio State won 28-23.

hard to be the best running back he could be.

Then, Dobbins found success. In the words of his running back coach, he had arrived.

In his sophomore season, sharing carries

with Weber when he was healthy, Alford said Dobbins was always trying to take advantage of the number of touches he received, trying to make a huge play on every opportunity he was given.

Alford said Dobbins was worried about

what he could not control, leading to frustration on the football field. Heading into the offseason, Alford’s goal was to not let his No. 1 running back overthink.

“Your plate is very full. Worry about what is on your plate, and let me and us worry about what we are doing over here,” Alford said. “You just do what you are supposed to do.”

As he watched film, looking at what went wrong in his second season, Dobbins said he did not see the explosiveness that he showed his freshman season.

Despite receiving more touches than in his first year, Dobbins’ running totals declined, averaging 4.6 yards per carry compared with the 7.2 yards per carry he averaged in 2017.

Heading into the 2019 season, Dobbins’ main goal is to get back to the 7.2.

“Last year, it was a down year for me,” Dobbins said. “Going back and looking at my freshman year, I want to be back that way.”

So Dobbins began what Ohio State head coach Ryan Day coined as the white belt mentality: starting over and asking to be practiced as if he were a freshman running back in his first collegiate practices.

Day said, with this mentality taken from martial arts, aspects of his game can be cleaned up and corrected.

The head coach said that in practice Dobbins was running with a cornerback oneon-one and jumped up in the air to make a

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