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The Vietnamese Student Association hosted its 17th culture show, giving students another taste of Vietnamese history, ethnicity and culture.

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Jill Magid, an international artist who specializes in incorporating and working with surveillance systems, is set to come to Ohio State on Tuesday to hold a lecture about her work.

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Lots of questions remain as the OSU women’s basketball team waits for its tournament seed to be announced.

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New alumni leader looks forward WILLIAM KOSILESKI Senior Lantern reporter kosileski.2@osu.edu Ohio State alumnus and sports-marketing industry expert Jim Smith will return to his alma mater to serve as senior vice president of alumni relations, as well as president and CEO of the Ohio State University Alumni Association.

After earning his master’s degree in sports management at OSU in 1991, Smith worked for more than 20 years in the sports-marketing industry. He will step down from his most recent role as the executive vice president and chief marketing

and revenue officer of stepped down from the the Atlanta Falcons NFL role last year after servteam. His appointment ing in the position for will be effective March a decade to take on the 21. new role of senior ad“I am so excited to viser within the Office of begin my new position Advancement. as president and CEO of “No one replaces a COURTESY OF OSU The Ohio State Universilegend, but I am honored ty Alumni Association,” Jim Smith. to be succeeding him,” Smith said. “It’s truly a dream job, Smith said. “An organization with which allows me to come back to Archie is a high-achieving and campus to serve the university and high-integrity organization.” alumni, to help work on all the As the president and CEO of successes already achieved and to the OSUAA, Smith will serve as work with the students as they go the campus leader in engagement through their education.” and will be tasked with helping Smith will succeed the OSU continue OSU traditions, as well football legend Archie Griffin, who as creating new opportunities for

engagement by alumni. He is set to earn $375,000 per year, said Benjamin Johnson, the director of media and public relations for University Communications.

Smith is now the leader of an organization that has more than 50 societies and 200 clubs across the globe and more than half a million living OSU alumni, according to a recent OSU press release.

“There are a large number of programs that the Alumni Association coordinates, but really it’s a continuing engaging role. We are really trying to keep the pride of the OSU alumni alive, and we want to keep our alumni connected,” Smith ALUMNI CONTINUES ON 3

Business 101: Fisher enters 101st year SAM KAYUHA | LANTERN REPORTER

2016 marks the 100th anniversary of Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business, which officially celebrated its birthday with an event on Monday. The event, which took place at the Blackwell Inn, was hosted by the college’s dean, Anil K. Makhija, and featured remarks by Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Bruce McPheron. “One item we celebrate most of all is the legacy of our 75,000 alumni,” Makhija said in an interview before the event.

“It will be a year of purposeful celebration.”

Middle East Studies Center reaches out CARLEE FRANK Lantern reporter frank.442@osu.edu

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Alam Payind and Melinda McClimans lead the Middle East Studies Center, which works to educate the community about the region.

As the landscape of the Middle East continually evolves, the region is the subject of news coverage and public attention. Founded in 1969, the Middle East Studies Center provides expertise on the Middle East and promotes Middle Eastern education to OSU students, as well as to the Columbus and national communities, through seminars, courses and outreach work.

Alam Payind, director of the Middle East Studies Center, said it are constantly working to promote Middle Eastern studies, be that learning Turkish, specializing in

Middle Eastern politics, and learning about Middle Eastern religion, among other avenues that students can take. Payind said that the center looks for ways to help fund students in these areas of studies through grants, scholarships and waiving course fees.

“As terrorism grows and words like ISIL and ISIS are thrown around, there is a need for people to be educated about the Middle East,” Payind said.

The center also looks for ways to connect with community colleges, local teachers and other community members. Melinda McClimans, assistant director of the Middle East Studies Center, said she reachOUTREACH CONTINUES ON 2

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The Gusteau Group showcases its third-placewinning project to the judges on March 6.

Makeathon makes a comeback TINAE BLUITT Lantern reporter bluitt.2@osu.edu

Ohio State students spent 24 consecutive hours this past weekend designing and constructing new technical inventions during the second annual OHI/O Makeathon 2016.

The event, held at Knowlton Hall, was open to all undergraduate and graduate students, specifically in the Midwest region, interested in participating.This year’s makeathon had 115 participants while last year’s event had 67, Eric Bauer, a fourth-year in electrical and computer engineering and president of the Electronics Club, said.

“It’s not limited to just Ohio students,” said Patrick McCarthy, a third-year in electrical engineering and the social media chair for the makeathon. “Anybody who wants to come can come.”

The projects that placed in first, second and third in the competition were the American Sign Language Translator Glove, the Full-scale Remote Control Vehicle and the Pasta-Making Robot, respectively. The winners received different technological kits as prizes.

Priyanka Ganesh, a graduate student in electrical engineering, was part of the winning team, M4C, which Ganesh said was composed of five first-time makeathon participants. They created the American Sign Language Translator Glove.

“People who don’t know sign language can use the glove. In the future, we would like to have two gloves that communicate wirelessly,” Ganesh said. “Right now, the system is programmed to detect any hand gesture. Essentially, the glove translates the hand gesture into text on the computer.”

Ganesh said the team was surprised when they won first place as first-time participants.

“I kind of did not know what to expect initially. I was a little daunted about the fact it was going on for MAKEATHON CONTINUES ON 3

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Vietnamese group presents culture show ASHLEY WILKINSON For The Lantern wilkinson.178@osu.edu The Vietnamese Student Association will give more than $1,000 to Kids Without Borders after holding an event Saturday to give students a taste of Vietnamese culture.

The group raised $1,300 for the nonprofit organization from tickets sales to the group’s show, themed “Back to the Roots,” which displayed aspects of Vietnamese culture through different activities, including dances and skits.

Jeff Stewart, a fourth-year in welding engineering and a board member of VSA, said he was proud of the production.

“My favorite part was seeing how many people from local and out-of-state communities came to watch the show,” Stewart said.

“We were excited with the amount of interest people had and are grateful to have had such a great audience to perform for.”

He said that although he was only featured in part of the production during a fashion show, he, as well as other board members and volunteers, worked to make the experience the best it could be and to successfully spread the message of VSA’s philanthropy.

VSA sold 150 presale tickets before the event and about 100 more tickets at the door.

“Preparing for the show has definitely been a rollercoaster,” said Tiffany To, a co-director for the show and a second-year in biology. “But what I love is that we nev-

The Vietnamese Student Association celebrates Vietnamese culture through performance during “Back to the Roots.” er gave up. It sounds so cheesy, but I think we have something amazing in VSA that so many of us are willing to practice hours a week for months for our biggest events of the year.”

To also commented on her love for this year’s theme because of her father, who traveled to America from Vietnam as a refugee after the fall of Saigon.

“So many times we get caught up in life and forget about our roots and the hardships our parents went through to get us to where we are now,” To said.

One performance was the shadow dance, a dance done behind a white sheet so that the audience could only see the shadows of the performers. To stated that the dance was choreographed around a love story during the Vietnam War, depicting a soldier and his wife struggling with the emotional toll, as well as danger the war put on their community. ”The show is a reminder that our culture needs to be passed down through generations,” To said.

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es out to Columbus-area teachers in order to educate them about the Middle East.

Every summer the center hosts a twoweek program called the Summer Institute for Teachers, during which McClimans teaches K-12 teachers about the Middle East, as well as how to properly instruct their students about it.

McClimans said that she has encountered many people who think that the Middle East is a place that is “backward, barbaric and without technology.”

“It is so important that we start to learn how to look at the Middle East relatively and from different angles so we are not just being biased,” McClimans said.

Payind said he believes students are the world’s future leaders, so it is important that they not only understand what the Middle East is, but why it is the way it is.

“How can we sign economic and political agreements with other countries if we do not know who these countries are and why they are that way?” Payind said.

In order to inform the public about the region, Payind and the Middle East Studies Center also travel out into the community.

Payind said that he, McClimans and their colleagues in the center have given talks to local kindergarten classes, schools for the deaf, military bases and prisons.

When community members reach out about a topic that the Middles East Studies Center is not an expert on, they arrange for specialists from around the country and world to speak to them. For example, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday in the Mershon Center, Amr Al-Azm, an associate professor at Shawnee State University, will be giving a talk on extremist jihadi groups.

Payind said Islamophobia is a popular topic, and the center receives requests daily to discuss it.

“In my 30 years here, I have never been contacted by anyone in West Virginia, but today I was, and it is, I’m sure, because of

“It is so important that we start to learn how to look at the Middle East relatively and from different angles so we are not just being biased.”

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the way the world is changing,” Payind said.

McClimans said an OSU anthropology class is currently connecting with a social studies class at Istanbul University in Turkey. She said that the students have a chance to learn about each other and that while there is a language barrier, it hasn’t stopped their enthusiasm.

Payind said because of the technology the center has access to, it can put OSU students in direct communication with students in countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Israel and Egypt.

As the world continues to change, there will always be something happening in the Middle East, good or bad, Payind said.

“I want the Middle East Studies Center to be ready to disseminate information and educate America as its questions continue to rise,” Payind said.

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Tiffany To (left) and Jenny Huynh at the annual Vietnamese Student Association culture show on March 5, 2016.

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said. “It can be a bit overwhelming when you’re looking at the number of people you’re representing, but it’s a critical mission for the university, and I’m ready to begin this great opportunity and get started.”

One aspect of the OSUAA that attracted Smith to the position is the inclusion of current and former students, he said.

“The student involvement is a really unique part of the of the Alumni Association,” Smith said.

“The students are the alumni, so they shouldn’t have to wait until they graduate to get them involved in the Alumni Association.”

Although the two have never met, Smith praised Chris Page for his work as the student representative of the OSUAA. Page returned the praise when asked about Smith, adding that Smith’s experience in the marketing and communication makes him a great successor to Griffin. “(Smith) definitely has some big shoes to fill, but I think he’ll be great,” Page said. “I’ve heard nothing but great things about him. He has a great mix of professional experience, not just in sports, but in marketing and in communication as well.”

Before working with the Atlanta Falcons, Smith served as the president and general manager of the Columbus Crew from 2000 to

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1. An assault was reported at the intersection of East 18th Avenue and North Pearl Street just after 2 a.m. on Friday. The suspect reportedly struck the victim in the face after the victim attempted to break up a fight. The suspect fled the scene and the victim was treated by a medic for swelling.

2. A victim reported that a suspect grabbed him by the throat on the first block of Frambes Avenue just after 1 a.m. on Friday.

3. Police were dispatched to the East Village Market on Chittenden Avenue on Wednesday just before 1 a.m. after a suspect wearing all black busted a window at the store.

The police were unable to find the suspect, and the owner of the store reported the value of the window to be $1,500.

4. A pistol, ammunition and a magazine were stolen from a house at the 1300 block of Summit Street.

The victim believes that the robber was able to enter his home through an unlocked bedroom window. The incident took place between 4:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday afternoon.

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2004, where he earned the MLS Executive of the Year Award in 2001. From 1995 to 2000, Smith was the associate athletic director in OSU’s Department of Athletics, and from 1994 to 1995, he served as director of live event programming for the World Wrestling Federation, according to an OSU press release.

“In each of my jobs, I have been the chief engagement officer. The reason I have had success is because I have been able to connect with people. Sharing that passion and engaging with people is the big strength I bring to the table,” Smith said. “That’s how you build the passion for the property you are working for, and in this case it is just furthering the passion for OSU.” Smith is returning to work for the university where he met his wife Polly, who is also an alumna of the class of 1991. In addition, three of their four children were born at the OSU Wexner Medical Center, Smith said.

“Ohio State is where I became an adult and a professional. It’s where my career started and where I came back to,” Smith said. “I am incredibly thankful and indebted to Ohio State for what they gave me and equally indebted for being able to come back and serve in this role.”

24 hours,” Ganesh said. “But it was extremely well organized, and the volunteers were super helpful making sure we had everything we needed.”

Not only was there time to network with companies in attendance like Harris Corporation and Battelle, McCarthy said there were other advantages for participants in the event as well, such as exercising creativity, along with career and academic advantages.

“Our main goal with OHI/O is to try to spread technology culture at Ohio State. A lot of engineers tend to not get involved,” McCarthy said.

Bauer said the Electronics Club put on last year’s makeathon, but the event came back bigger and better for the second time around.

“We got a seed investment (for last year’s makeathon) from the organization called OHI/O, (who sponsored) the first makeathon,” Bauer said.

OSU organizations, including the Electronics Club, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Undergraduate chapter at OSU, the Amateur Radio Club, the Maker Club and company sponsors helped make the daylong competition happen.

“We come together and we plan these events because we all together have the resources to make awesome things like this happen for the students at Ohio State, regardless of whether they are in a STEM major,” Bauer said.

McCarthy and Bauer said one of the only guidelines was to build a physical project to get that hands-on experience, but they also said the event was supposed to be relaxed and fun.

“We want to show off and kind of celebrate the making skills of the students here. We want to get them physically building stuff with hardware,” Bauer said.

Ganesh said that participating in the makeathon was a “wonderful experience.”

“The environment was conducive, and the mentors at the event answered any questions we had. Overall, it was a really good learning experience,” Ganesh said.

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5. An incident of criminal damaging was filed after a resident reported two incidents in which fruit was thrown at the resident’s dwelling on East Lane Avenue.

The police were notified after one of the reporting party’s housemates witnessed a person throw an orange from the roof of a nearby house.

6. An assault reportedly took place between 11:15 and 11:30 p.m. March 1 between Schoenbaum Hall, Gerlach Hall and Norton House. The victim reported that the suspect grabbed her by the arm before pushing her against the wall and grabbing her by the throat. The student kicked and hit the suspect before she fled the scene.

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VINCE STAPLES Long Beach, California, rapper Vince Staples has released an LP about his teenage years on the West Coast, and he is coming to Columbus on Wednesday. ON PAGE 5

Surveillance artist to speak, present work MARIA FERNANDEZ Lantern reporter fernandez.198@osu.edu Jessica Ann, a graduate student in arts and technology, knew it was a long shot when she sent an email to acclaimed international artist Jill Magid asking her if she would be willing to come lecture at Ohio State.

“It was kind of just a fangirl email,” Ann said. “Usually these types of things happen because someone knows someone else.”

The long shot worked. Magid is set to come to OSU on Tuesday to lecture on her work, engage in a question-and-answer session and visit four graduate students’ art studios.

Ann said that it is difficult to put Magid into an artistic box because she does work across all kinds of mediums and platforms, including photographs, videos and novellas.

“Her exhibitions generally include the material outcome of extensive research in different subjects and topics,” Ann said. “She’s really fascinating in that she’s able to do this research and then find material, objects that she creates and then her own commentary.”

Magid’s main focus topic is sys-

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Jill Magid’s “I Can Burn Your Face” on display in the Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris in 2009. tems of surveillance. She has collaborated with many surveillance institutions, including police departments, the Dutch secret service and the Liverpool City Watch in the U.K. This is a topic of great interest to Jeffrey Hazelton, a graduate student in arts and technology, whose artwork also deals with surveillance, specifically the consequences of losing privacy. He said he believes that conversations regarding

the current systems of power are important, which is why he said he is excited to hear Magid speak about her approach of embedding herself within these systems while exposing some of their issues and ways to potentially reverse them.

Ann said that Magid is known for embedding herself into her work, and an example of this is her piece, “Lobby 7.” In 1998, in an attempt to show the weak spots in surveillance and how far she can exploit

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it before the university caught on, Magid hacked into the informational monitors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She had a live feed of her videotaping herself with a lipstick camera. It took the police seven minutes to find her and stop her.

Since then, Ann said Magid has done a lot of work with authorities, including her video “Trust,” in which she closes her eyes and navigates Liverpool solely using

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the instructions of police-operated closed-circuit television cameras.

She also cited a shooting in Texas in which Magid worked with police and used cop-camera footage in part of her artwork depicting the events.

Ann said that while Magid’s themes are about surveillance, she is not trying to make one encapsulating political statement. Rather, each institution is judged on an individual basis.

“It’s about how they are constructed and their effects on us,” Ann said. “For her she’s going into those places and what they’re doing without any overarching prerogative.”

Ann added that she hopes students can walk away from the lecture with the idea that art and life can blur.

The lecture is set to take place on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. at the Film & Video Theater in the Wexner Center for the Arts. The event is free and open to the public.

People can be a fan of just about anything, and students at Ohio State are looking to figure out why.

The Fan Studies Student Association at OSU is a student organization dedicated to studying and discussing fandom. Fandom is a subculture composed of fans that feel a passion and common interest toward a movie, book or book series, television show, celebrity or other subjects. This passion is commonly expressed through fan fiction, role-playing, fan videos, languages and other mediums.

The organization is only a few months old, going hand in hand with the topic of fan studies, an area of research that has only recently been explored.

“It’s still so new. As far as being able to point to an existing discipline called ‘fan

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studies,’ that’s only been possible for a couple of decades,” said Marisa Wieneke, a fourthyear in comparative studies and a member of the organization.

Members come from different majors and backgrounds, some interested in studying fandom but all with the common thread of being fans themselves.

“We try to do activities that are specifically geared toward researchers in fan studies and also stuff that is of interest to people that may consider themselves more fans than fan studies scholars, but are interested in talking about fan culture,” said Caroline Toy, a graduate student in comparative studies and president of the organization.

Currently, the group is preparing for an upcoming reading group facilitated via Skype

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ZAK KOLESAR Lantern reporter kolesar.25@osu.edu Vince Staples was born in 1993, a birth year belonging to many fourth-year Ohio State students.

His debut studio album, “Summertime ‘06,” arrived this past June, nine years removed from the time period the LP is centered around.

On Wednesday he will be coming to the A&R Music Bar at 391 Neil Ave. to share his experiences live.

During 2006, Staples was 13 years old but living a lifestyle unimaginable to most middle-school students. Like the majority of teenagers residing in the Long Beach, California, area, he became a product of an environment riddled with gang culture.

The desensitizing atmosphere accelerated Staples’ maturing process, something that he said made him wise beyond his years. “(Thirteen) was the age I came to a certain realization of what the world really was and what it really could be,” Staples said.

The profound awareness that Staples spoke of was most likely nowhere close to being on the

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Vince Staples is set to perform at A&R Music Bar on March 9.

brains of OSU seniors in ‘06. His understanding of the world around him was fueled by violence, limited opportunities and, most importantly, survival.

The LBC rapper cited unfair treatment by his education system as something that pushed area teenagers to participate in gang-related activities. Staples added that cost is still the biggest burden today on

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Local band Hello Emerson performs on March 5 at the Garden Theater during Live at the Garden 5. Proceeds from the show went to help refugees in a French camp. equal-chance schooling.

“Especially where I come from, if you don’t have college experience or college education, you’re not going to go anywhere,” Staples said. “It’s unfortunate, but you’re most likely to get a fair shake in life if you go have that experience.”

Staples found an alternate route away from gang life through rapping. Coincidentally, his first inter-

action with the genre has roots in Columbus. The first rap he remembers hearing is Columbus native Lil Bow Wow’s (now Bow Wow) first single, “Bounce With Me” in 2000.

Ironically, Lil Bow Wow was 13 years old when he was rapping about rocking an iced-out Mickey Mouse around his neck, the same age Staples was when he hooked up

with gangs to survive. “Summertime ‘06” is a collection of personal anecdotes that informs the masses more than any news report on gang violence.

However, that was never his initial intention.

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lated readings, Toy said.

Wieneke’s research will be featured in an upcoming fan foods event on April 9, where the club will discuss and sample foods from certain fandoms. An example of this would be butterbeer from Harry Potter.

“We’re kind of using my thesis work to explore fandom and food and how people create foods, whether they exist in their (fan) universe or just remind them of the universe that they really like; really how they make them and interact with them and using food to interact with their fandom,” Wieneke said.

Looking ahead, the organization has set goals for what it would like to accomplish in the future.

“We would like to do more low-key events, like eventually getting together to watch a movie and then discuss reaction to it,” Toy said. “We won’t be a movie-watching club per se, but we watch the movie and then we talk about all the stuff that’s been going on around social media about the movie.”

The organization plans to reach out to

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other groups with similar interests.

“We’ve also talked about the potential to co-sponsor events with or reach out in various ways to other fan-ish student organizations,” said Sarah Dunlap, a graduate student in English and the organization’s treasurer. “There’s a bunch of different student organizations, like the anime club, the board games club, the sci fi club; there’s all these different groups that we think it would be really cool to connect with.”

The organization also hopes to compile a list of courses offered by the university that relate to fandom, along with a list of professors that consider themselves fans, Dunlap said.

“There wasn’t anything like a home base for fan studies here, so we started this group to try and provide something like that,” Dunlap said.

More information on the Fan Studies Student Association can be found on its Tumblr and Facebook page.

Since this is the last “Listen Up” before spring break, I thought I would include the best songs to play during the week off. I started researching the topic, but before long I had stumbled upon a website called FratMusic.com and its list of top 10 spring break anthems. It must have been the “dark web” I had heard so much about. I abandoned the idea and listened to the new Kendrick Lamar instead. “untitled 05 9.21.2014” by Kendrick Lamar LeBron James might not be able to bring an NBA Championship to the city of Cleveland this year, but he did bring a new Lamar project to the rap fans of Earth. And though, as a Cavs fan it pains me to say this, the latter might be for a greater good.

James tweeted at the CEO of Top Dawg Entertainment a week back, pleading for the release of the untitled tracks Lamar had been performing on late-night television and the Grammys. A week later, “untitled unmastered.” was released, a nameless collection of tracks from the past year and a half.

It is in the same sonic realm as “To Pimp a Butterfly,” with as much attention paid to the jazzy instrumentation and backing vocals as the raps. Lamar still dives into racial politics and self-consideration, and he maintains an overarching sense of narrative.

This track features an extended intro, with what sounds like a Thundercat bassline.

Horns and keys weave in and out, and the song veers from a soothing voice singing discomforting words to Lamar’s lyrics about justice not being free, adding “therefore justice ain’t me.”

The cymbals-heavy percussion and seemingly improvised trumpets and saxophones are reminiscent of the jazzy turn David Bowie took with “Lazarus.” That album took an approach to the genre closer to left field than what Lamar did on “TPAB,” but this song, and album, feels like “TPAB” before they

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got all their notes down on paper. It is experimental and complex and exactly what we hoped to come next from Lamar.

“Do It, Try It” by M83 M83 did that heavy-synth pop thing before bands like Passion Pit and MGMT, but it was usually too weird to really play with a big audience— until “Midnight City” came out, and could be heard anywhere from football stadiums to Victoria’s Secret commercials.

Based on its newest release, the group is keeping up with that. A cover featuring a dog’s face and some clip art lettering might be a joke, it might be trolling, or it might be an artistic statement. I have no idea.

But the song is great. It’s a throwback to the ‘80s with the glitchy-ness of modern electronic music. The whole thing seems a bit tongue-in-cheek, but if its sarcastic music sounds like this, then I have no qualms. We will find out for sure when its seventh album, “Junk,” is released in August.

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do that or say that,” Staples said. “I just try to tell the truth without my opinion … and sometimes it comes off in that matter.”

Following a brief 30-second eerie intro consisting of seagull cries and crashing waves, the California MC introduces his subject matter for “Summertime ‘06” on “Lift Me Up,” a frightening reality that few of his peers live to tell. He uses the metaphor of a terrified Jeffrey Dahmer-looking Uber driver pulling up to the projects to set the tone for a reality unknown to many.

While it might seem that Staples is solely cataloging his observations to bring awareness and a stop to gang violence, listeners get a succinct profile of the California rapper from a spin of the double-sided LP. On “Señorita,” Staples is bold enough to alert his rivals of his exact location.

“Summertime ‘06” also contains important interpretations of love by Staples throughout the album. On “Summertime,” the bridge between the front and the back side of the album, he apologizes to a recurring female character. “Hope you understand, they never taught me how to be a man / Only how to be a shooter, I only need the time to prove it” are some of the most introspective lyrics Staples lays down on this song and the album.

“My idea was me trying to tell my side of that story because I’ve seen it and they haven’t, so no one can tell me what that life

is like or what that experience is like,” Staples said.

He is able to tell a thoroughly fluid story throughout with the hands-on aid of executive producer and hip-hop legend No I.D. This is the case on most of his projects, as Staples said he often chooses to stick with the same producer because it makes it easier for him to control the types of conversations he wants to hold.

Whatever stories he has to share on Wednesday in Columbus are sure to attract the ears of those gathered for one of rap’s most extensive storytellers.

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She ended up finishing off the night strong with 14 points in the garbage-time fourth quarter, hitting all six shot attempts. But Cooper has been one of the Buckeyes’ most valuable players all season long, and the need for her to step up inflated with Alston physically unable to shoot. Instead, she was nowhere to be found.

After the Michigan State game, McGuff didn’t have an explanation or assessment for the sorry performance. He simply didn’t have an answer.

“It didn’t have anything to do with effort or competitiveness,” McGuff said. “We have to learn from tonight that we’re going to hit some adversity again. I don’t know what it will be. Maybe it will be

foul trouble, something. And how we react to it is going to determine everything.”

Two weeks ago, OSU was a team that many were pegging as a Final Four contender. It had already beaten Maryland twice — the only two in-conference losses the Terrapins have had since joining the Big Ten — and had lost to powerhouses South Carolina and Notre Dame on the road by a combined 11 points.

But now, the Buckeyes are trying to rebuild from the ground up with the NCAA tournament a week and a half away — trying to understand when it all turned around.

“That’s the great thing about college basketball, you get a chance to tip it up again here before too long,” McGuff said. “And I think

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we have a great opportunity ahead of us. We just have to get back to the gym and kind of get back to being who we are.”

The Buckeyes will learn their tournament seeding and opponent on Monday, and whether their first-round game will be set for March 18 or 19.

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OSU sophomore guard Asia Doss (20) during the Big Ten tournament semifinal on March 5 in Indianapolis.

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OSU redshirt junior outfielder Alex Bayne (left).

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“My close friends last year were the leaders, and I just followed in their footsteps and communicated with my coaches about what they and my team need out of me,” Bayne said.

Bayne, who studies strategic communication, was given the OSU Sportsmanship Award in 2015, in addition to being named a scholar-athlete. Because of her natural leadership skills, her teammates nominated her to be a captain despite having just a lone season donning the scarlet and gray.

Senior teammate Maddy McIntyre, who ultimately earned the captain role, indicated her enthusiasm about what Bayne continues to bring to the team.

“Bayne has kind of taken it to a new level this year. She’s really stepped up into a leadership role,” McIntyre said. “She’s just the embodiment of empathy and so mature beyond her years.”

Like McIntyre, Schoenly also described Bayne as lighthearted and commended her incessant dedication to the team.

“She’s never going to leave anybody out. She’s a part of every group on the team,” Schoenly said, mentioning how Bayne will offer to give teammates rides or help the pitchers out at any chance she gets.

Schoenly also recalled a game against Nebraska last season when Bayne’s commitment first started to show.

“I put her in to pinch hit and she hit a double. I said, ‘You know

what? I’m going to keep her in,’ and then she hit another double,” Schoenly said.

“She’s never going to leave anybody out.

She’s a part of every group on the team.”

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Within two weeks, Bayne had earned a starting position, and by the end of the season, she was hitting .375 with 17 RBIs. “A few games after Nebraska, she hit two home runs against Ohio University,” Schoenly said.

“Because of her commitment to the process, she was more than ready for the opportunity.”

Those two home runs were just the beginning of the slugger’s ascension to being one of the Buckeyes’ most dominant and consistent hitters. As she takes on a starting role, Bayne said she wants to focus on what her team needs rather than being only a big hitter.

“Hopefully, I can continue to keep doing what I’ve been doing, but I’m not trying to think too big,” Bayne said. “Just bat on ball.”

McIntyre laughed when asked what she expects from Bayne as the season moves forward.

“If she could hit three home runs every weekend, we would love that,” she joked.

Regardless of whether Bayne

actually hits three home runs per weekend, she said she plans to keep supporting her teammates no matter what happens.

“I just want to be there for my team through the ups and downs of it all,” she said.

Bayne is planning to use her fifth year of eligibility on the diamond to attend OSU for graduate school, where she hopes to prepare for a career in either a communication program at a university or an athletics public relations firm.

To Schoenly, who praised her player’s outlook on life, Bayne is the precedent for the younger players when it comes to making the most out of any opportunity.

“She has this ‘I’m not taking anything for granted’ attitude,” Schoenly said. “She is really competitive, though.”

Right now, Bayne’s competitive edge is the epicenter of the Buckeyes’ dynamic start to the season. The Scarlet and Gray are 9-4 with a chance to bolster that mark during a four-game stint in Tempe, Arizona, beginning Friday.

When asked about whether her choice to come to OSU was the right one, Bayne’s eyes lit up as she started to grin.

“It’s been one of the best decisions of my life,” she said.

felt like I might not perform well during Big Tens,” Li said. “I was so concerned about that, but my teammates and the coaching staff encouraged me, and they believed in me that I could do a good job.”

Li won the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 21.80 seconds and is the second seed in the event at the NCAA championships. This was the first time that a Buckeye had won the Big Ten 50-yard freestyle title since 1982.

Not being the top-ranked swimmer in the event isn’t necessarily a bad thing, Li said.

“I feel like maybe that’s a great opportunity for me to improve myself, because I love people in front of me who are faster than me to lead me to my best,” she said.

The sophomore also captured the conference title in the 100yard butterfly and will be the No. 12 seed heading into the national championships. In her third event at the conference meet, she was out-touched in the 100-yard freestyle and had to settle for second place, but she will have another shot as the eighth seed in Atlanta.

Clary said she thinks the team’s resurgence is because of a change within the team atmosphere, which has been a focus for the Buckeyes this season.

“We’ve brought in a lot of outside aspects to help our culture and just team building and bonding with each other,” Clary said.

“We’ve made that more of a priority, and I think the team has really bought into the program and the process.”

OSU coach Bill Dorenkott credited good personnel and individual discipline outside of practice and competitions as the reason for the

team’s success this postseason.

“It took a while to get the culture where we want it, and that’s an everyday process,” Dorenkott said. “The decisions that the girls are making away from the pool, there’s a cumulative effect there, and you’re seeing the results of that. It just took a while to get the right people in the program and fit them into the proper roles.”

The season doesn’t end for the Buckeyes in Atlanta. Seventeen members of the team are planning to compete in their respective Olympic trials for the chance to swim in Rio de Janeiro in August.

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Buckeyes packed with question marks OSU losers of three of final four games with NCAA tournament up next RYAN COOPER Sports editor cooper.487@osu.edu Not too long ago, the Ohio State women’s basketball team was a unit with all the answers.

OSU had won 11 straight games, the outright Big Ten regular-season title was within its grip and at least a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament was nearly a lock, with a top seed a realistic proposal.

Now, just a couple of weeks after those extremely positive outcomes of coach Kevin McGuff’s third season in Columbus seemed inevitable, all of those achievements have been entirely wiped out.

With the Buckeyes losing three of their last four games, including an embarrassing 82-63 loss to Michigan State in the semifinals of the Big Ten tournament, the one thing OSU needs before the NCAA tournament begins is what it had an abundance of when it last played in Columbus: an answer.

OSU doesn’t have an answer as to what seed it will be when the NCAA tournament begins. It doesn’t have an answer as to how it came up empty-handed in the Big Ten regular-season title despite having a one-game lead with two games left to play. And it doesn’t have an answer as to what happened to one of the best offenses in the nation.

The Buckeyes, who average 86.7 points per game, the third most in the country, had a season-low 20 points at the half against Michigan State in a game they trailed in by as many as 36 points.

After the game, senior guard Cait Craft chalked much of that up to the ineffectiveness of fellow senior guard Ameryst Alston, who was held back by a sprained right

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“We just have to get back to the gym and kind of get back to being who we are.”

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wrist and didn’t score, but said there were still concerns about the way the team played as a whole.

“Not having Ameryst hurt a little bit, but at the end of the day, we as a team didn’t come ready to play really until the last quarter,” Craft said. “Not having her does hurt, but it shouldn’t have been that detrimental to us. And I think we let that get in the way more than it should have, obviously.”

McGuff said he doesn’t know what Alston’s status will be moving forward after the game, noting

only the diagnosis of her injury and that he “hopes” she will be able to accelerate through her rehab and be good to go for the NCAA tournament.

But missing Alston’s first-team All-Big Ten production was only a steep section of the mountain the Buckeyes were sliding down, not the point of departure from the top.

The night before against Rutgers, in which Alston was perfectly healthy until the closing minutes, the Buckeyes only put up 26 points on the scoreboard at the half. They

ended up winning the game 73-58 behind sophomore guard Kelsey Mitchell’s tournament-record 43 points, but, especially after losing their previous two games, the concerns were already in the air before the seismic semifinal debacle.

A lot of the Buckeyes’ issues in the tournament were inexplicable, such as junior Shayla Cooper, a steady contributor off the bench throughout the year, suddenly being largely absent from the offense.

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“Small but mighty” might be the most fitting adage to describe Ohio State softball player Alex Bayne.

Despite standing a mere 5-foot5, the redshirt junior is currently leading her team in home runs and RBIs after three weekends of play.

“She’s a monster in the weight room,” said OSU coach Kelly Kovach Schoenly.

Bayne, a Texas native, played her freshman year at Marshall University in West Virginia but said she did not find her fit in the team and culture. After visiting a friend at OSU, she fell in love with the community and decided to transfer.

“I saw the team was having open tryouts, and I was lucky enough for them to want me to come on,” Bayne said.

Schoenly already envisioned Bayne, who took a year off from playing in 2014, as a great addition to the team prior to tryouts.

“She pestered me over email for seven months, saying, ‘Coach, I want to try out for the team,’” Schoenly said. “After, she came into my office and had zero expectations. She was willing to do whatever we needed her to do.”

This conversation showed Schoenly the type of selfless player the outfielder was — and continues to be — as she steps into a larger leadership role this season.

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Ohio State swimmers take success into NCAA championships MICHELLE MCDONNELL Lantern reporter mcdonnell.60@osu.edu The last time the Ohio State women’s swimming and diving team had a better performance at the conference championships than it did last month, no members on the current roster were born.

Thanks in large part to two standout meets from junior Lindsey Clary and sophomore Liz Li, who secured two individual titles each, the Buckeyes took fourth place as a team at the Big Ten championships. Now they’re looking to repeat that success as they compete at the NCAA championships in Atlanta from March 16 to 19.

Overall, the Buckeyes took home five titles, including one relay win — the first time since 1991 that the Buckeyes won a Big Ten relay event. Li, along with classmate

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Macie McNichols and seniors Annie Jongekrijg and Rachael Dzierzak, won the 200-yard freestyle relay, beating their own school record, while setting a pool record in the process. To add the icing on the cake, the relay team’s winning time also qualified it for the national

championships.

Clary had qualified for nationals at the Ohio State Invitational in November, so her training program was adjusted to have her be at her peak in Atlanta. As such, she went into the conference meet at a disadvantage relative to the other swim-

mers. Even though she didn’t have much to gain personally, Clary said she used the opportunity to accumulate points for her team as a catalyst to drive her.

“Going into Big Tens I knew that I was in spots to score for my team,” Clary said. “I kind of used that as motivation, I knew I was in a good spot rested or not, I knew that I could get the job done.”

She broke the pool record on her way to the Big Ten title in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:03.64. She now enters the NCAA championships as the second seed.

“My coach and I have talked a lot about how I’m going to be in the mix for the (national) title for the 400 (individual medley),” Clary said. “It’s definitely never even been a thought for me, so when my coach said that in the fall in one of my goal meetings I was like,

‘(Wow), he’s crazy.’ But I guess seeing the psych sheet and seeing what I did at Big Tens with little to no rest, it really pumps me up, so I’m pretty excited to see how that plays out, as well as my mile and 500.”

Clary also won the 1,650-yard freestyle — the mile — and is seeded third in the event heading into the national championships. She took third in the conference in the 500-yard freestyle, which results in her qualifying for the NCAAs in that race, as well.

As for the other Buckeye who won two individual titles, Li said she fell ill while resting for the conference championships, but she used inspiration from her teammates and coaches to gain confidence heading into the meet.

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