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Reports allege druggings at campus bars and off-campus house JACK LONG For The Lantern long.1684@osu.edu MAEVE WALSH Lantern reporter walsh.607@osu.edu Ohio State received multiple reports of possible criminal drugging at off-campus parties and bars in recent weeks, according to the university.

Through a public records request, The Lantern reviewed three separate reports detailing suspected druggings at area b and a party hosted by the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, that has been suspended by the university since May 2018.

University spokesman Ben Johnson stated in an email that the university has received 17 reports, but some of these reports overlap, so there are not a total of 17 incidents under investigation. Johnson said this means, in at least some incidents, one person’s alleged

WYATT CROSHER Assistant Sports Editor crosher.1@osu.edu The Jobst family was not known for its talent on the ice.

One uncle played some adult hockey, and the family members were Chicago Blackhawks’ fans who played pond hockey from time to time, but no one had played in a professional setting.

Because of his aunt, Mason Jobst wanted to change that.

Alissa Prather, called Aunt Sissy by Jobst, bought him a hockey stick and ball when he was 18 months old.

The quality of the stick was low: a plastic, blue-and-yellow stick that was bought at Toys R Us. But to Jobst, the stick was everything.

When he was a toddler, Jobst woke up from a nap while his mom was still asleep and his dad was at work. With his beloved hockey stick and the Blackhawks on his mind, Jobst emptied a large tub of baby powder onto the hardwood floors throughout his house, creating a white surface that resembled an ice rink.

“He said, ‘Look Mom! I made a skating rink!’ and he had socks and a diaper on and was skating around the house, hitting with a stick and a puck,” John Jobst, Mason Jobst’s father, said. “We got the video camera out, and he was like showing me what he’d done, and he’d bounce himself into the walls acting like he was being checked.”

The gift from his aunt and a pair of Size 2 hockey skates his mother bought him from Play It Again Sports changed Jobst’s life forever.

Before becoming a second-team All Big Ten member, a captain for a Frozen Four team and the highest scorer for Ohio State in 30 years, senior forward Mason Jobst was just a kid who didn’t want to take his skates off.

In his final season for the Buckeyes, Jobst is the active collegiate leader with 164 career points in his four seasons with Ohio State, the 13th-most points in school history.

Before making his way to Columbus, Jobst went to Muskegon, Michigan, to play for the Lumberjacks in the United States Hockey League. On the surface, Jobst finished with 88 points in 155 games and did enough to earn a scholarship at Ohio State.

But his time at Muskegon wasn’t that

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easy. In his second year with the Lumberjacks, Jobst tore the labrums in his left and right shoulders, both of which required surgery.

The strategy for the surgeries and recoveries was simple: a procedure on one shoulder each year for the next two offseasons.

This was not as easy as Jobst hoped.

After fixing his left shoulder during the first offseason, Jobst was unable to work out while the season approached, leaving him at around 140 pounds.

Jobst’s second season was his hardest for Muskegon, playing despite his right shoulder popping out of place every game.

Despite being named a team captain the next season, Jobst didn’t read too much into the title.

“I’d been in the league for so long that it was like, who else were they gonna pick at that point?” Jobst said.

The following offseason, Jobst had the surgery on his right shoulder, which the doctor promised would be his last, John Jobst said.

After a 45-point season in 49 games, his best season with the Lumberjacks, the stitches came

out, and a third surgery — the second on his left shoulder — was required, forcing the then-20year-old to miss the majority of another season.

“It was a pretty dark time in my life. Hockey had been taken away from me for so long,” Jobst said. “It really sucked.”

During his time with the Lumberjacks, Jobst did not receive many Division I offers.

His dream of playing at a Big Ten school nearly got him to walk on at Penn State, but without the money to do so, Jobst waited, eventually committing to the Buckeyes over Nebraska Omaha and Western Michigan.

“Through juniors he had three shoulder surgeries that made me think that he was about done,” John Jobst said. “I didn’t think he could make it through four years of college and … miss a game because of injury. It’s pretty amazing.”

Hardships did not end for Jobst when he came to Ohio State. The Buckeyes lost their first seven games to start the 2015-16 season.

Senior defenseman Sasha Larocque said his

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drugging was reported multiple times.

In response to the reports, the Ohio State Department of Public Safety released a Neighborhood Safety Notice Feb. 14 which acknowledged “possible occurrences of criminal drugging at off-campus parties and bars.” It warned students to drink and party responsibly and to “report suspicious activity to the police.”

A safety reminder to “Party Smart” was sent to students Friday by Javaune Adams-Gaston, senior vice president of the Office of Student Life, and Monica Moll, director of the Department of Public Safety,

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OSU discusses future air conditioning in dorms MAEVE WALSH Lantern reporter walsh.607@osu.edu The reality for some Ohio State students in August is returning from class to a 90-degree dorm room.

According to the Office of Student Life, that might soon be coming to an end.

Dave Isaacs, a spokesman for the Office of Student Life, said that Ohio State is currently working with ENGIE, the university’s energy provider, to look into both short- and long-term solutions to address the lack of air conditioning in some residence halls on campus.

Although no definitive plan has been approved, Student Life and ENGIE are actively looking at the details regarding the logistics of installing air conditioning in residence halls that currently are without it, Isaacs said.

“It would have to come down to a variety of factors, including the facilities, the buildings themselves, what’s feasible, what isn’t and the overall cost of the project,” Isaacs said.

According to Ohio State’s housing website, residence halls without air conditioning include Baker Hall East and West, Bradley Hall, Canfield Hall, Fechko House, Mack Hall, Mendoza Hall and Paterson Hall.

A proposal to introduce air conditioning to these buildings has not yet been approved, but a resolution in Undergraduate Student Government was recently passed that will offer a short-term solution to the high temperatures experienced in the first weeks of school.

The approved resolution will provide box fans or similar products to students living in one of the aforementioned residence halls beginning on the first day of the fall 2019 semester.

Cade Santha, a second-year in informa-

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Student Life and ENGIE will soon develop plans regarding the installation of air conditioning in on-campus dorms currently without it.

tion systems and USG senator, introduced the legislation to General Assembly, but the idea originated with Elyse Schemenauer, a first-year in international business and member of the Student Affairs committee in USG. “The reality is some students are having a really amazing experience in brand new buildings that have air conditioning, and some others are really struggling during the first few weeks of classes with no air conditioning, where sometimes in a room it can reach up to almost 90 to 100 degrees,” Santha said. “And that can really hinder performance.”

According to a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health study cited in the resolution, researchers found that students living in air-conditioned buildings performed better on various cognitive tests than their peers who were living in nonair-conditioned buildings.

“The lack of AC in the summer was unbearable at times, and my roommate and I would take turns putting our heads in the freezer.”

SARAH PARKER Second-year in fashion and retail studies

Sarah Parker, a second-year in fashion and retail studies and former Mack Hall resident, said that living in a dorm without air conditioning was brutal, and she often found it difficult to concentrate.

“The lack of AC in the summer was unbearable at times, and my roommate and I would take turns putting our heads in the freezer,” Parker said. “Guantanamo Bay has AC.” The problems due to a lack of air conditioning became a serious problem when Ohio State switched from quarters to semesters in 2012, Isaacs said. When the school was on a quarter system, the first day of classes started later in the fall, so students were not living on campus during the extreme August temperatures.

Isaacs also said that Ohio State has struggled with finding a solution to incorporate air conditioning into dorms due to limitations of previous energy partners and the inability of the university to shut down a residence hall for the installation process.

“ENGIE, as our energy partner, may be able to do some of that work in such a way that we would not have to take a building offline, but until ENGIE became our energy partner [in 2017], there really wasn’t a good option for air conditioning the buildings without taking them offline to do the sort of work that needs to be done,” Isaacs said.

Once Student Life and ENGIE develop more concrete plans regarding the installation of air conditioning, Isaacs said they will be able to submit the proposal to the Board of Trustees to determine whether funding will be allocated.

In the meantime, the box fans will provide a short-term solution to improving the living situation for thousands of students on campus until a more permanent plan can be established.

MSA event aims to preserve the black Muslim narrative DEBORAH ESHUN Lantern reporter eshun.8@osu.edu REGGIE THOMAS Lantern reporter thomas.3769@osu.edu Amid the larger scope of Black History Month, the Muslim Student Association hosted three events focusing on the contributions of black Muslims.

The third event took place Friday: MSA hosted an event featuring original poetry and storytelling from Tariq Toure.

Salma Shire, a third-year in nutritional sciences and MSA female co-chair who helped plan the event, said black Muslim history events are important because they highlight the achievements of black Muslims who do not receive nearly enough recognition from the media and the community as a whole.

“I feel like a lot of times, even in our society today, we like to focus a lot on ourselves and our stories and our histories, and we don’t take the time to recognize someone else’s,” Shire said.

“Even if you can’t relate to it, I

think it takes a grand person to be able to connect with someone even though your experiences are different.”

Toure recited poems from his book, “2 Parts Oxygen: How I Learned to Breathe,” a book that addressed black Muslim identity and social justice with a mission of preserving the black Muslim narrative.

“We are at a 500-year deficit of our stories because we were not able to read and write, and many of our stories died in the Atlantic Ocean when we were brought over in slave ships.”

TARIQ TOURE Poet and storyteller

“We are at a 500-year deficit of our stories because we were not able to read and write, and many of our stories died in the Atlantic Ocean when we were brought over in slave ships,” Toure said in

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Tariq Toure read his poems that addressed black Muslim identity and social justice at Muslim Student Association’s event on March 1.

an interview with The Lantern.

Toure’s fascination with poetry started when he was 7 years old.

It wasn’t until he was 23 years old that he knew he could turn his writing into a profession.

His work has led him to perform at Ohio State as well as other universities such as Howard, Princeton and Georgetown.

In his writing, Toure made the deliberate choice to avoid the

trauma-based narrative that he said is expected of artists like him.

Instead, Toure integrated his childhood stories of growing up in West Baltimore with nine poems that praised black motherhood and addressed a variety of topics like his father’s journey to Islam, playing football in college, the joys of becoming a father and navigating relationships.

When addressing an audience of students, Toure stressed the importance of young black Muslim voices.

“We need to work as hard as possible to get our stories down on paper, books and out into the world,” Toure said. “Our stories have value, and we need to share it and do our best to craft it and develop it into a way for people to digest it.”

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The dangers of Dr. Google

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Riza Conroy, clinical assistant professor of family medicine at Ohio State, encourages people not to use Google as their doctor.

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it was medically necessary to not shower for two weeks after giving birth, which she said is actually dangerous for the mother and baby.

Conroy said consulting a doctor about symptoms People rely on Google for everything from direc- is always the best choice, but she said there are sevtions to medical advice, but medical professionals eral quality resources for people who do not want warn users that a search engine does not replace a to leave their home. diagnosis by a medical professional.

She added that many insurance companies offer a Riza Conroy, clinical assistant professor of fam- 24-hour nurse phone line for customers to call and ily medicine at Ohio State, said in her recent blog discuss any medical concerns and that many docpost, “What your doctor wants you to know about tors’ offices offer a similar service.

‘Dr. Google,’” that there are several factors to conConroy recommended that if a patient does sider when looking to Google for a diagnosis. choose to go online to research their symptoms, “Google is a vast resource of information, and sticking with .org and .gov websites is usually safbecause of that, the credibility varies widely,” Con- est. A full list of recommended sites can be found roy said. in her blog post.

Conroy said there is a lot of great information onThe Wilce Student Health Center at Ohio State line, but the trouble often offers an exhaustive range comes with interpretation. of medical professionals at Her biggest concern Ohio State students’ diswith patients looking to posal, Will Garner, operathe internet for a diagnosis tions excellence manager at is that it often leads peoWilce Student Health Serple to presume the worst, vices at Ohio State, said.

Conroy said, and this can “At Student Health Services, “At Student Health Serlead to anxiety that could we like to consider vices, we like to consider be avoided by seeing a ourselves a one-stop shop ourselves a one-stop shop doctor who can put sympfor all of our student’s for all of our student’s health health care needs,” Garner toms into context.

“It causes [people] to care needs.” said. lose sleep, especially paThe health center offers tients with anxiety,” Con- WILL GARNER primary care as well as gyroy said. “I tell them not to Operations excellence manager at Wilce necological, dental, radiolStudent Health Services search [online].” ogy, nutritional, laboratory, Another fault with conallergy, physical therapy, sulting Google is websites optometry and preventive that promote home remeservices, Garner said. dies as treatment, she said.

“All students at Ohio While home remedies State are required to have can be effective in some health insurance,” Garscenarios, Conroy suggests checking with a doctor ner said, and the health center accepts most major before making any moves toward an in-home cure. health plans, as well as the university-provided inConroy said that she has seen patients go to ex- surance, making the health center a resource most treme, unnecessary and sometimes harmful mea- students can access. sures to cure themselves all because of “medical The health center accepts appointments and reasons” they read about online. walk-ins, Garner said. It is located at 1875 Millikin Once, she had a patient with a minor rash who Road, and appointments can be made on its webpoured bleach on herself to stop the itching, and site or by calling 614-292-4321. The health center when that failed, she took it a step further with also offers a nurse phone line open from 8 a.m. to 6 gasoline. Conroy said the patient’s rash turned into p.m. Monday through Friday at the same number, burns and the skin became extremely discolored, where students can discuss any medical concerns all the while, remaining itchy. they may have.

She also once encountered a patient who believed

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Ohio State received 17 reports of suspected druggings in recent weeks.

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warning about drugged drinks and providing additional information on precautions at parties.

“You should also always protect and monitor any type of beverage you have at a party or event, not just alcoholic ones,” Adams-Gaston and Moll stated in the email.

Of the 17 reports, three were provided to The Lantern. Names, floor numbers and residence hall names were redacted from the reports, citing federal student privacy laws as the reason. Twelve of the 17 reports were made through Ohio State’s Title IX office and are exempt from The Lantern’s original public records request. Two of the five remaining reports are still being processed and will be released afterward, Johnson said.

According to one report, University Police officer Trey Duplessie was dispatched to Smith-Steeb Hall on Feb. 10 after a resident adviser reported the possible sexual assault of a female student.

The student said she suspected she had been drugged at a party hosted by AEPi on Feb. 9. Duplessie said the student did not believe she was sexually assaulted. She was later transported to the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center to be evaluated.

AEPi was suspended in May 2018 for hazing, endangering behavior and violating sections of the Code of Student Conduct. The university placed AEPi under a disciplinary suspension until Aug. 6, 2023. The reported incident took place at an off-campus house.

A second female student reported she had been drugged at Bullwinkle’s, a night club on North High Street. The student attended “Date Night” at the club on Feb. 15. She told OSUPD she suspected a male bartender had drugged her second beer, according to the police report.

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The student said in the report she did not have any memory after the second beer and later learned from an Uber receipt, social media and text messages that she had visited other bars with individuals unknown to her.

The report said the female student was taken to Riverside Methodist Hospital after she began showing signs of memory loss, “slurred speech and physical weakness” and strokelike symptoms.

It is unclear whether the student was examined for signs of sexual assault, but she told police she had reason to believe she was not sexually assaulted.

Ted Lawson, a manager at Bullwinkle’s, said the bar was aware of the incident, and the police officers mentioned in the report who had been stationed outside Bullwinkle’s on the “Date Night” were not approached by anyone who indicated they had been drugged.

The Columbus Division of Police had previously notified the club of off-campus druggings taking place at fraternities, Lawson said.

Lawson added that each employee at Bullwinkle’s has been trained to handle possible drugging incidents, and the description of the bartender provided to police by the student was vague. A total of six bartenders were working that night.

A third report was made by a man not affiliated with the university. He contacted OSUPD after becoming aware of the Feb. 14 safety notice. In the report, the man said he had been “dosed” three or four times over the past year while drinking at two campus-area bars.

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Food science student creates allergen-free peanut butter alternative AJA MIYAMOTO Lantern reporter miyamoto.20@osu.edu Sarah Steinbrunner, a fourth-year in food science and technology, created a solution for those with a peanut allergy who still want to enjoy the taste and health benefits of peanut butter: BeanNut Butter, an allergen-free, garbanzo bean-based spread.

Free of the eight most common food allergens, accounting for 90 percent of food-related allergic reactions, BeanNut Butter is a solution for those who cannot eat peanut butter and Nutella.

“I took the challenge of taking the staple snack of peanut butter and making it something that I enjoy because it tastes good, but my friends with food allergies can [also] eat it because it’s something safe,” Steinbrunner said.

In March 2018, Steinbrunner started Banzo Foods with her boyfriend, Taylor Crooks, an Ohio University alumnus, to offer delicious and healthy alternatives to those with food restrictive diets and allergies.

“We would like this brand to be the first artisanal spread brand for the allergen-free food segment,” Crooks said.

Steinbrunner created the formula for BeanNut Butter, and the pair began to sell the product at the North Market Farmers’ Market to get consumer feedback.

“It’s such a unique, weird kind of product; we wanted to see how the market would respond to it first,” Steinbrunner said.

BeanNut Butter is also available for purchase through Amazon and is made in three

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BeanNut Butter, an allergen-free peanut butter-like spread was created by Sarah Steinbrunner, a fourth year in food science.

flavors including original, chocolate and spiced cookie.

The team won the Ohio Signature Foods contest in July, which helped in bringing the product to market. In October, Banzo Foods won the Best of Students Startups competition at Ohio State.

Steinbrunner said being a student and running a business has its challenges. Currently, BeanNut Butter is made by hand at a pilot plant at the Food Industries Center at Ohio State, which limits the amount of product that can be produced. She said she is currently working on finding a co-packer to help create larger quantities.

“It’s been difficult balancing time being a full-time student and running a business,” Steinbrunner said. “You have free time that

you don’t think you have until you’re pushed to fit everything in, but at the same time, the value of still having free time and running the business and not letting it run you is stressful.”

The past year has been a learning process for the team, and they are seeing the results of their efforts. Crooks recently left his day job to focus on the business development of Banzo Foods, while Steinbrunner looks toward graduation in May. “I would love to do this full time,” Steinbrunner said. “The reason I went into food science was because I wanted to change the food people are eating, either if it had some function to make them healthier or to help those with eating restrictions to improve their way of life.”

Ohio State visual communication student’s illustrations published in children’s book AMBAR JAVIER Lantern reporter javier.11@osu.edu Samantha Hanna, a fourthyear in visual communication design, knew art was her calling since she was a little girl. However, it wasn’t until she enrolled in a graphic design course at her high school in Cleveland that she knew graphic design would be in her future.

On July 16, 2018, Hanna’s passion became a career when her illustrations were published in the children’s book, “In Your Tummy.”

“Growing up I always loved painting, drawing and all types of art,” she said.

The book teaches children ages 3-5 to be healthy in a fun and interactive way, with recipes and activities at the end to help instill its concepts. It is filled with vibrant characters and fruits and vegetables for children to explore and learn about.

Hanna’s illustration journey began when she received an email from the author, Courtney Sexton, a graduate student in nursing, who was in search of someone to help bring her words to life.

“Sam saw an opportunity to

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Samantha Hanna, a fourth-year in visual communication, holding “In Your Tummy,” a children’s book she illustrated.

amplify her illustrating abilities present itself, and she took it,” R. Brian Stone, an associate professor in the Department of Design, said.

He explained that the visual communication program at Ohio State does not have a course dedicated to illustration, yet Hanna found a way to showcase her capabilities.

After meeting with Sexton in November 2017, the six-month exchange of edits and revisions

for the children’s book began.

Hanna acknowledged that because she is a freelance artist, and this was her first project, she learned a lot along the way.

“I set three rounds of revisions instead of just fixing each edit individually,” Hanna said.

“These things help me so that edits aren’t as time consuming and are small ways to be more efficient.”

The publishing of “In Your Tummy” later led to another

illustrating opportunity for Hanna, who said she would love to illustrate books for a living if the opportunity keeps presenting itself. For now, she is looking for job opportunities at graphic design agencies in Columbus and Cleveland after graduation in May. Stone explained the pressure visual communication students face when they apply to the program, as there are only 16 students accepted each year. An advantage to this is that the students who do gain entry are extremely dedicated and versatile in their work.

“The students here have a lot of demand placed on them and Sam just smiles and starts working,” Stone said. “She is very optimistic and diligent in her work.”

Hanna said that Motion Design class with Stone gave her the fundamentals she needed to start her illustrations. She reached out to Stone for his opinion on her drafts of the project, which he responded to with advice and edits that helped steer her in the right direction.

“In Your Tummy” is available on Amazon with the options of purchasing a paperback or an ebook.

Ruby Tuesday, a regular, day-to-day bar and music venue transforms into a home for soccer fans every Saturday of the Major League Soccer season whenever the Columbus Crew has a home game.

On Crewsmas, which took place on Saturday, everything is taken a step further.

Crewsmas is an annual event that celebrates the home-opening Columbus Crew game, Dustin Lasko, assistant general manager of Ruby Tuesday, said. It is preceded by an event called Crewsmas Eve Bash, and both of these events are a way of getting all Crew fans together to enjoy live music and celebrate their love for the team.

The bands that performed Friday and Saturday were Glory Days, Joey74 and The Last Ones. Lasko said even the band names are references to the Crew, like “Glory Days” being a reference to the “Glory to Columbus.”

The music is mostly punk-rock, and all the bands that perform have a very specific reason for being selected: They are all made up of Crew supporters, Scott Fotheringham, general manager of the venue, said.

Lasko said the supporters have been waiting and planning for months since the end of the 2018 season. Everyone’s excited because, “OK, it’s Crew season again.”

The event this year was especially special as the Crew is finally under new leadership, one that isn’t “actively trying to move us to a different state,” Lasko said.

He said the soccer team means a lot to the people of Columbus who played a part in saving the Crew, as there might not have been a team left to celebrate.

“These are all the people that went out and spent their extra time and effort and money to save this team,” Lasko said.

“So now, this is finally their payoff.”

Along with the music, Crewsmas Eve Bash also had two donation drives. The first was a canned food drive held by the venue where patrons could donate nonperishable canned food and get $2 off of their cover charge. According to a flyer on Facebook, the drive benefited the Mid-Ohio Food Bank.

The other event was a more general donation drive, initiated by the Crew, accepting donations for things like blankets, toothbrushes and feminine hygiene products, Fotheringham said. This drive benefitted Gladden House and Van Buren Shelter, with Ruby Tuesday being one of the five venues to participate.

The venue has become more involved with soccer after Fotheringham started working there, Lasko said.

He said Fotheringham loves soccer and wanted to support his local team.

He ended up having a big part to play in the formation of one of the biggest Crew

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Columbus tech start-up to host fashion event on campus

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FITNXTDOOR will host a clothing rental pop-up shop on March 5 at Trism.

NAOMI BAKER Lantern reporter baker.2517@osu.edu A new Columbus tech startup is bringing fashion innovation to Ohio State through a clothing rental pop-up shop.

FITNXTDOOR will host its first popup Tuesday at Trism from 5 to 7 p.m. The event will be an opportunity for the public to see the clothing rental services the brand will provide through a style experience.

The brand aims to bring the concept of a sharing economy, similar to services like Uber and Airbnb, only now with clothes, according to the press release. The inspiration came from the co-founders’ own experiences with sharing clothes.

“My friends would constantly borrow my clothes which made me realize I had a lot of pieces in my closet I didn’t wear,” Ryan Shaw, co-founder of FITNXTDOOR, said. “I knew I didn’t want to get rid of my clothes completely, but I thought, ‘What about renting them?’”

This idea turned into a concrete concept after the group noticed the broader impact this could have with current trends happening in the fashion industry.

“Fashion is kind of working into this place where renting an outfit isn’t that strange of a concept,” Leigha Anthony, another co-founder, said. She said that people are starting to establish “closets in the clouds,” meaning they don’t own all of the clothes in their closets, and they rotate their wardrobe based on different moods.

Instead of taking FITNXTDOOR immediately online, the team wanted to attract people to the brand through in-person, ex-

periential events.

“We wanted to launch our brand with an activated pop-up tour to first create brand awareness and get more people comfortable with the idea of renting clothes,” Audrey Anthony, another co-founder, said.

To bring the idea to life, the team brought together stylists and influencers in the community who will share their pieces and make them available to rent.

“We’ve partnered with local influencers and asked them to curate closets of about 15 to 20 pieces, and their racks will be on display for people to look at and shop around in,” Shaw said.

This is much more than a shopping experience, though, as Shaw said there will be a live DJ, food truck, cocktail bar, runway and photography stations set up throughout the venue for people to experience as well.

The event will give Columbus fashion enthusiasts the opportunity to experience a fashion event similar to those they see in other large cities.

“Columbus is a fashion-forward city, and we want people to know that the kind of events they see that are happening in LA and other cities are happening here in Columbus, too,” Anthony said.

While the pop-ups are centered on creating an in-person style atmosphere, the brand hopes to take the concept to the next level by creating a social media platform to allow users to post their clothes for rental.

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supporter groups, the Hudson Street Hooligans, which was formed in the basement of the venue.

Now, more than 10 years later, Ruby Tuesday has become a regular haunt for a lot of the city’s major Crew supporter groups like Crew Union, Hudson Street Hooligans, Gate 5 Collective and La Turbina Amarilla, Lasko said.

The two-day celebration of the Crew culminates with a march to MAPFRE Stadium, Fotheringham said.

Lasko said it is usually someone from the Gate 5 Collective who gives the order for everyone marching to start getting ready for it. This year, it was AJ Hutchison,

lead guitarist for Glory Days.

Around 1 p.m. on Saturday, a wave of black and gold took over the streets as the horde of supporters made its way to the stadium, blowing up yellow smoke and filling the air with chants such as “Glory to Columbus” and “Columbus ‘Til I Die.” For Lasko, soccer is more than just a game. He said that it is a medium that connects people everywhere, and Crewsmas does a great job in getting people together under one roof.

“You see all ages, all different kinds of backgrounds; they all come together for one specific thing, and that’s soccer,” he said.

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“That day gets really interesting because of [the potential of] rain,” Brent Packer, Ohio State athletic grounds specialist, said. “We’re trying to keep softball dry. Meanwhile, we’re trying to get lacrosse set up and baseball — we’re communicating with coaches.”

With spring sports, a challenge for the grounds crew is getting the grass ready shortly after winter.

To do this, the fields are painted green.

“The real reason we’re doing it is to make that surface darker, so it attracts more solar heat,” Brian Gimbel, superintendent of athletic grounds, said. “To heat the ground up underneath there and get the roots growing sooner than they would by nature.”

Bending to the will of scheduling and mother nature, Ohio State’s grounds crew’s work looks different day to day. In April, the crew may be working the fields for four sports each day.

In July, it could be maintaining Bill Davis Stadium for external tournaments.

The job is always changing, and the crew is always on its toes.

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Ohio State senior thrower Sade Olatoye goes through her motions during a weight throw.

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cords in both the shot put and weight throw at the Big Ten Championships, she earned herself the No. 1 spot in the nation in both events.

Because of her performance, Olatoye earned a spot on the Bowerman watch list and is the first Buckeye to ever receive this honor.

The Bowerman Award is presented annually by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association to the most outstanding male and female NCAA track and

field athletes in the nation.

She is also the first athlete at Ohio State to win the Great Lakes Women’s Field Athlete of the Year award.

Looking forward to the NCAA Championships, Olatoye said she hopes to get over the standard and break 18 meters in the shot put and qualify for the World Championship, which takes place in the fall.

Olatoye also said she hopes to break 24 me-

ters in the weight throw.

“I think that Sade can go as far as she wants to go in the sport,” Kovacs said. “There are no limits for what Sade could do.”

Olatoye said all the awards she has received are humbling, but she reminds herself to not let it go to her head.

“Don’t get blindsided by all the shiny things that are in front of you — you just have to focus at the task at hand,” Olatoye said.

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Ohio State senior forward Mason Jobst (26) gets ready for a faceoff during the game against Michigan on Jan. 11. Ohio State lost 2-1.

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first impression of Jobst was “small,” but that the now 5-foot-8-inch forward made an impression on him as well as the rest of the team despite the team’s overall struggles.

“The first time I met him, I wasn’t sure, and I knew he had a lot of injury problems and tough shoulders,” Larocque said. “But from his first time being here, he was always so positive, and you could tell he was gonna be a leader on this team from the day we got here.”

Through the first seven games, Jobst had one goal to his name. In his final 28 games for the Buckeyes during the 2015-16 season, Jobst had 11 goals and 29 points, leading the team with nine goals in Big Ten play.

“I really just told myself that in my college career, I have to produce so much that people can’t turn their backs on me.”

MASON JOBST Ohio State senior forward

The significant rise in points was a surprise to everyone, even his dad.

“I thought he would be a role player at best; I mean we used to talk a lot about where he’d be as a freshman — he’d play and hopefully get some fourth-line stuff,” John Jobst said. “I definitely was underestimating him.”

Jobst followed up his first season with a dominant sophomore year, finishing at the top of his team and tying for No. 1 in the Big Ten with 55 points.

After two seasons in the USHL of missing out on workouts, dealing with a pair of bad shoulders and failing to deliver as much as he hoped to, Jobst was finally bringing as much production on the ice as

he had as a leader in the locker room.

“I mean, as an undersized guy, I’d always kind of been someone that had to produce,” he said. “I really just told myself that in my college career, I have to produce so much that people can’t turn their backs on me.”

Jobst’s junior season saw the newly named captain lead Ohio State with 21 goals on its way to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament and the second-ever Frozen Four trip in program history.

But Jobst didn’t lose the chip on his shoulder.

“Even though we were a No. 1 seed, people still were like always doubting us, and people were never really giving us credit,” he said. “People were still like disrespecting us almost and like never giving us really a chance.

“It was kind of a f**k you mentality.”

In Jobst’s final season with the Buckeyes, no one is doubting him or his team.

Ohio State was ranked No. 1 in the preseason USCHO.com poll, and the Buckeyes have just won the program’s first Big Ten regular season title, clinching the conference after Jobst scored a goal against Michigan in overtime.

“A moment like that is the reason why you stay here, get your degree and then have a chance to win championships, and he won a championship by scoring a game-winning goal,” Ohio State head coach Steve Rohlik said.

Jobst is leading the team in goals and points and is on the ballot for the Hobey Baker award for the best player in college hockey.

But the 25-year-old has no confirmed NHL career after this season. The Pittsburgh Penguins, Boston Bruins and Minnesota Wild have all hosted Jobst for NHL development camps, but his future still remains unknown.

“I’d be lying if I said I don’t look forward a little bit,” he said. “I really am trying to take it day by day. But your dream your whole life is to play in the NHL, and I feel that I’m so close to that right now.”

For all the accolades and statistics Jobst, or anyone at Ohio State, has accomplished, none have amounted to a title for the Buckeyes.

When Jobst thinks about leaving Ohio

State, he wants to cement his legacy with the program’s first national championship.

“It’s not like anyone has better facilities or anything than Ohio State. The only thing that they have is the history of winning,

and that’s gotta start somewhere for this school,” Jobst said. “I want it so bad.”

Jobst has the scoring numbers to go down in Ohio State history, but his legacy goes past the statistics.

Rohlik and Larocque said Jobst’s leadership has been a driving point for the team, coming from doing the right things and working extremely hard, Rohlik said.

The result is an Ohio State men’s hockey team that has nine more wins in its past two seasons than in the two seasons before it, and one that has the expectations that Jobst has had from the beginning.

“He left it on the line every day,” Rohlik said. “His work ethic and his passion for the game of hockey will go down as one of the all-time greats here at Ohio State.”

Looking back, Jobst said he returns to his time at Muskegon, where he wasn’t a player getting dozens of offers, where he was looked at as undersized and over-injured.

“No one really gave me a chance to do what I’ve done,” he said.

With a pair of tournaments to go, Jobst’s time at Ohio State is not quite finished.

But when it is, his impact, from the stats to the leadership to the change in direction for the program, will be felt.

That didn’t seem like a reality for Jobst a few years ago. It didn’t feel like a possibility for a kid from Speedway, Indiana, who wore skates through the house until his ankles bled.

“I knew we had a hockey player when we took them off for bed and all four ankle bones were rubbed raw and were bleeding, and he never said a word, never bothered him,” John Jobst said.

Maybe it never bothered him because he knew what walking around in those Size 2 skates would mean for him in the future.

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Olatoye throws herself into Ohio State record books ARI HORTON Lantern reporter horton.291@osu.edu Breaking record after record, Sade Olatoye has carved out a space for herself in the school’s history books.

Olatoye wasn’t always a track athlete. In third grade, she started playing basketball, which became her main sport. In seventh grade, she joined track as a way to stay busy.

“I thought I was definitely going to be a sprinter,” Olatoye said. “That turned out not to be the case.”

Instead, she participated in shot put, discus and high jump.

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While attending Dublin Coffman High School, Olatoye continued playing basketball and running track, still as just a hobby.

That would all change.

Olatoye tore her ACL after a contact injury on the basketball court before her se-

nior year of high school.

Her high school track and field coach, David Woodmansee, said he remembers her being devastated.

But the injury proved to be much more critical to her future than she knew at the time. “[The injury] pushed me more to the track side, and the bigger offers I was getting [were] for track and field,” Olatoye said.

Olatoye knew she would have to focus on track and field after her commitment to Ohio State her senior year of high school, preparing for events she might not be used to: the hammer throw and the weight throw.

Before starting her fall semester at Ohio State, Olatoye took summer classes and trained with Ashley Kovacs, the assistant throws coach at Ohio State, when she was introduced to the collegiate field events.

With no experience in either the hammer or the weight throw, Olatoye was off to a slow start. But she did not let that get to her.

Olatoye said the summer training helped her to get the repetition and practice she needed to establish the fundamentals to excel in the two events during her freshman year.

During the summer of her freshman year, Olatoye represented the United States at the U-20 World Junior Olympics.

“Being able to represent the United States as one of the top two throwers my freshman year was really amazing,” Olatoye said.

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competitors she’s ever seen.

“She has all the physical tools she needs to be at the absolute highest levels,” Kovacs said.

Olatoye’s success didn’t stop after her freshman year.

Throughout her sophomore year, she won a total of 10 titles during the outdoor season.

It was also the year Olatoye made a place for herself in the record books as the first woman in program history to win both the shot put and weight throw at the same conference meet. She also became the first woman in program history to be named Big Ten Indoor Field Athlete of the Year.

But Olatoye still had larger goals on her mind. She did not compete during the outdoor season of her junior year, strategically redshirting to get an opportunity to get an Olympic qualifying mark during the 2020 season.

During her senior indoor season Olatoye has begun that process.

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GROUNDS CREW GAME DAY COLLIN GINNAN For The Lantern ginnan.10@osu.edu The snow had just started to fall on the cold February morning when the carts began traveling across the athletic campus to lay down a layer of salt.

Later that day, a women’s lacrosse match would be played at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, and walking paths needed to be clear.

The softball team might not have a home game, but the batting cages needed to be cared for. And something had to be done about the new cryotherapy chambers blocking the path of the lacrosse nets.

It’s just another gameday at Ohio State University.

Behind the sports people love is a different kind of team.

The grounds crew at Ohio State works year-round to ensure that the university’s athletic facilities are in peak condition for competition.

Monday’s team consisted of four student assistants: River Wicker, a recent graduate in sustainable plant systems; Nick Gauthier, a fourth-year in mechanical engineering; Nate Grady, a fourth-year in accounting; and Kacey

Browning, a third-year in sustainable plant systems.

The noon shift began with a trip to Buckeye Field, the home of Ohio State softball. First up was to tend to the indoor batting cages. Embedded in the turf are rubber pellets that fill the playing surface. With repeated wear and tear such as pivoting in the batter’s box, the pellets are displaced, and divots are created. Once per week, the crew has to fill these spots to create a level surface.

“It just depends on softball and how much the [women] are out here,” Wicker said. “We do mounds every day though.”

Next up was Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. There, the team worked on cleaning up trash and dirt from the locker rooms to prepare for the impending women’s lacrosse season.

On the way to the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, the crew took a pit stop at the fences surrounding the football practice fields. The tarps covering the fence had taken a beating in the recent winter storms, and the team had to repair them. It was a quick job, but was just another addition to an ever-changing to-do list.

Once they reached the WHAC, it was finally time to prep the field for women’s lacrosse. For the indoor game,

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the traditional football field was painted with standard lacrosse lines two days prior. To set up for the match, the grounds crew worked in a rather choppy process — fastpaced and relentless at times, and slower with moments of anticipation while the crew waits for instructions.

The main objectives were to set up practice goals, game nets and protective screens for the sandwiched crowd, while also checking goals for tears and grooming the turf.

Of course, there are often hiccups along the way, such as unexplained wooden pallets, which held new cryotherapy chambers. Not exactly part of the typical description for a grounds crew, but these units were in the way of their setup process. So, the answer was naturally a forklift.

Keep in mind, this was only February. With baseball and softball on the road, the brunt of spring sports has yet to hit.

In February, the crew is caught between caring for winter facilities and preparing for the spring season.

When spring sports are in full stride, the process is even more hectic. The day of the 2019 football spring game, the grounds crew is also responsible for baseball, softball and women’s lacrosse.

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