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University Hall hosts a variety of Arts and Sciences courses every semester. The college has lost 26,175 credit hours since 2015, which follows a national trend showing declining arts and sciences enrollment.

RACHEL BULES Managing Editor for Content bules.7@osu.edu Last month, the Ohio State College of Arts and Sciences Interim Executive Dean and Vice Provost Janet Box-Steffensmeier gathered the chairs and directors of all 38 departments within the college for a meeting.

The issue at hand: The college has lost nearly $10.5 million due to a steady decline in enrollment, measured by credit hours, since 2015.

While other colleges saw an increase in enrolled credit hours and related revenues, Arts and Sciences has lost 26,175 credit hours since 2015. According to Box-Steffensmeier, this follows a national trend that shows arts and sciences majors are becoming less popular compared with other disciplines, such as engineering and business majors.

As a result, the college will strategize, restructure and rebrand, Box-Steffensmeier said. It is restructuring its general education curriculum. She announced a “hiring hold” for some vacant faculty positions and said that the college will look for ways to consolidate jobs.

Unclear is how long the hiring hold will last, and how many positions could be affected. Box-Steffensmeier said, however, that

there will be no layoffs.

“I do think Arts and Sciences are at a crossroads right now, for a number of reasons,” Box-Steffensmeier said. “We’re redoing our [general education] curriculum, so we have to make some decisions about where we’re going as a university and as Arts and Sciences.”

Making revisions to the GE curriculum is a start to how the college plans to increase enrollment and, in theory, revenues.

“More and more students at Ohio State, because of our access and affordability initiatives, are coming in with one or two years of college already done,” Box-Steffensmeier said. “That’s not going to decrease; that’s going to increase. In many ways, the large GE courses help pay for smaller, upper-division courses and one-on-one instruction in music or small language instructors and writing instructors, and has subsidized our research agenda.”

At the heart of the GE curriculum changes is Richard Fletcher, associate professor in the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy, chair of the ASC Faculty Senate and member of the Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee.

He said in an email that while the planning committee focused on the vision for teaching and structure of the curriculum, it did not provide an analysis of costs or consequences or

examine how to implement the solutions that needed approval.

“While we are working towards the best possible GE curriculum for every student at OSU, and hope that the proposal will lead to positive impacts for the College of Arts and Sciences, in order to do our work, we have to ensure that, at a minimum, it does not result in a negative impact for the college,” Fletcher said.

Fletcher said the ASC Senate needs a “clear written description of expected impacts” as they would affect financial and human resources, teaching resources and infrastructure, so the Senate can make a responsible and educated decision to create a unified GE structure for the university.

“I am both hopeful, but also wary given that we cannot at this time know the impact on the college if we proceed with this GE proposal as it currently stands,” Fletcher said.

Another concern Fletcher said he has with the GE proposal in its present form is that it omits a world language requirement from the university GE, which Fletcher said has come up many times in ASC Senate meetings but still does not appear in the proposal.

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Amid campuswide discussions about mental health, Ohio State’s fifth-annual Suicide Prevention Conference took place Friday, addressing suicide risk in young adults on campus.

The event, titled “Suicide Prevention at Ohio Schools and Campuses,” took place at the Ohio Union and featured presentations from leading researchers and advocates, as well as University President Michael Drake, and was hosted by the Wexner Medical Center, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.

The stated goal of the conference was to help attendees “apply principles of an evidence-based model of effective suicide risk assessment and intervention.”

Focused primarily on the state of Ohio and young adults at risk for suicide, the conference hosted 375 people, ranging from primary, secondary and higher educators and counselors to mental health professionals and students.

One of the breakout sessions at the conference was “Responding to Campus Suicide,” led by Eileen Ryan, interim chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, and Javaune Adams-Gaston, vice president of student life at Ohio State. Both served as chairs of President Drake’s mental health and suicide task force.

The presentation looked at Ohio State and Drake’s mental health task force that was created last April following two deaths that resulted from falls from campus parking garages.

“The president was very clear when he was charging the group that we should not start with any preconceived notions about solutions, that we should really be as open as possible,” Adams-Gaston said.

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OSU doctor helps with Hurricane Florence relief efforts ADREYN YATES Lantern reporter yates.242@osu.edu Daniel Bachmann arrived on the scene of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 12 and worked to keep his team healthy over the following days as they aided North Carolina locals.

In an effort to provide disaster relief, the Federal Emergency Management Agency deployed two Ohio Task Force 1 search-and-rescue teams to the Carolinas.

Bachmann is an emergency medicine doctor and director of emergency preparedness for the Wexner Medical Center and member of the task force who has seen hurricane relief efforts firsthand.

Bachmann’s first task force deployment to Hurricane Matthew in October 2016 combined with multiple training sessions helped him prepare for the water rescue and other relief he provided during Florence.

The task force is one of 28 urban search-and-rescue teams in the United States, totaling about 230 members.

FEMA deployed two teams from Ohio, consisting of 16 members each, specifically trained in swift-water rescue.

The first team left for the Carolinas on Sept. 11, and Bachmann’s team left on Sept. 12 for Lenoir County in southeast North Carolina.

Phil Sinewe, Ohio Task Force 1 public information officer, said the team members come from many walks of life, including firefighters, canine search specialists, engineers, nurses and doctors, like Bachmann.

In the two weeks Bachmann’s team was in North Carolina, it conducted about 35 water rescues and evacuations and about the same number of domestic animal rescues.

Bachmann said he also performed about 60 wellness checks for people who could not evacuate and provided bottled water to those who were isolated due to flash flooding and storm surge.

“When we arrived, [the Neuse River] was at about 9 feet, and by the time it crested, it hit about 25 feet,” Bachmann said. “It cut off a large part of the county to just about everything because roads and bridges were flooded and washed out.”

Bachmann said flooding caused extensive damage and health risk concerns throughout Lenoir County, including the volunteer fire department where the team stayed.

“We were fortunate enough to have a roof over our heads, at least. We were sleeping on cots, and we lost ability to have a bathroom and showers for most of it because the septic tank was flooded, in addition to everything else being flooded,” Bachmann said.

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prominent challenges the task force faced when charged with creating recommendations for addressing campus suicide and mental health.

“Breaking that stigma and promoting awareness for [mental health] is what will start the process of intervention.”

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“Something that we felt was a major challenge was the inaccurate conflation of mental health access with completed suicide,” Ryan said. “We had no indication that mental health access, or a lack thereof, was related to completed suicide on campus.”

Adams-Gaston said the task force met with campus experts from areas such as the counseling center, health center and residence life to identify solutions.

“We spent time with our campus experts to gauge a stronger understanding of what is and what is not available on our campus,” Adams-Gaston said.

Between 2017 and 2018, three students and one graduate fell from on-campus parking garages. The incidents sparked mental health advocates to look to Ohio State for adequate resources.

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The impact from the flooding should not get any worse, but the lost infrastructure remains, Bachmann said. He said he thinks problems in communities hit by Florence will be facing a prolonged recovery period.

“Unfortunately, disasters are inevitable, so to a certain degree, we’re not able to prevent these things from happening, but what you can do is mitigate the impact they do have,” Bachmann said. “Even here in Ohio, have a plan for yourself and your family.”

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vices is a prominent resource for on-campus access to mental health screening and counseling. Though CCS is not new to campus, the task force included recommendations for revamping CCS. “I definitely know that CCS has done a bit of expanding about every year, but it still isn’t enough,” Anwar Hussein, Ohio State alumnus and volunteer at Suicide Prevention Hotline, said. “There aren’t necessarily that many counselors or psychiatrists especially within CCS that are representative of the diverse background of OSU’s student population.”

Other student advocates look toward more preliminary methods.

“I like to focus more on the initial steps of prevention, so for example with CCS not having enough counselors, who’s to say that if they had 1,000 more counselors, then all the students would go there,” Fatima Masood, president of Peers Reaching Out and a fifth-year in microbiology, said.

Masood, also an advisory board member for Ohio State’s Suicide Prevention Program, noted the importance of raising awareness for mental health issues.

“Breaking that stigma and promoting awareness for [mental health] is what will start the process of intervention,” Masood said.

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creation of the new GE,” Fletcher said. “So, even beyond the budgetary impact & other practical issues of implementation & impact, there are still many questions that we as a college need to work through before the proposal can live up to its vision for a GE for the whole university and for current and future students as global citizens.”

Another issue the college must deal with is the attrition of faculty and staff members in the past decade. The only group of employees that has increased is associate faculty members, which are not permanent positions, although they are important in the functioning of the college and its research.

“The term staff that is going up is actually considered a good thing because it reflects research growth,” Box-Steffensmeier said.

“Most of the staff that are in term and temporary positions are on grants.”

Term and temporary faculty have increased by 20 people, from 304 in fall 2011 to 324 in fall 2018.

Kevin Leonardi, senior director of communications and marketing at ASC, said the increase in staff as it relates to research funding could consist of faculty principal investigators getting an outside funding award for a project to hire someone for help. Last year was record-setting for research funding awarded to the college, which was $105 million.

Meanwhile, tenure-track faculty — professors, assistant professors and associate professors — has decreased from 991 in fall 2011 to 919 this year.

other faculty members, are concerned about bearing the extra workload these absences create, especially since it is unclear if there will be additional compensation.

“That’s just a natural question, right?” Squires said. “You have the same amount of work and fewer people to do it, so how exactly will that work out?”

Box-Steffensmeier said one strategy being implemented to help consolidate jobs is the creation of “career pathways,” which provide room for growth among faculty and staff in the college.

For example, if the fiscal human resource person in the Department of Mathematics hit their career top with no more room for promotion within their department, a career pathway will be created to absorb the same roles in the Department of Statistics as well, which would ultimately save money in both departments.

“What we are doing is trying to create better career pathways so we can give a pay increase to do the job now for two departments,” Box-Steffensmeier said.

While leaving positions unfulfilled is a method for saving money in the short term, Box-Steffensmeier said the department leadership must consider how this affects students — particularly those in the graduate programs.

Trevon Logan, a faculty fellow for special projects and professor in the Department of Economics, is working closely with developing the initiatives that the ASC hopes to bring about in the coming years.

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Leonardi said that in some cases, faculty members retire and their positions are not replaced.

Lauren Squires, a tenured associate professor in the Department of English, said that in the six years she’s worked at Ohio State, she has watched her department shrink due to retirements and people leaving for teaching opportunities at other universities.

Squires said she, along with

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retires and are not replaced, because that saves us money,” Logan said. “If people want raises, then that’s where they come from.

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lege. We have to also think about being strategic.”

Part of this strategy, Logan said, is to carefully look at the current market for Ph.D.s and use this information to decide how many to produce in the college’s graduate programs.

Box-Steffensmeier confirmed that admission numbers in graduate programs will be shrinking, but she does not yet know by how much. She said current graduate students will not be affected.

Another issue facing the college is that its financial commitments are overwhelming the total cash balances of the college, Box-Steffensmeier said. As a result, she said the college will examine future commitments without going back on any previous commitments or money promised in previous budgets to different programs and initiatives. In the long run, she said she believes this strategy should save some money.

Box-Steffensmeier said another goal of the college is to get all of the departments on the same page and evolve as a single unit moving forward. To do this, it needs to find a way to stay in the black in their departmental financial operations.

“Some departments are deficit spending, and we’ve got to keep that from happening,” Box-Steffensmeier said. “Frankly, we need to balance it at all the unit levels to make it work at the top.”

Additionally, the humanities centers underwent a consolidation and restructuring this summer as six formerly autonomous bodies were combined into one body governed by the Humanities Institute.

Peter Hahn, professor and divisional dean of Arts and Humanities, said in an email that the new structure preserved the intellectual identities of all six centers, but placed them in a more collaborative environment, which led to higher efficiency in management.

“This change followed two

years of study of budgets, academic enrollments patterns, research productivity and public programs, as well as extensive conversations with stakeholders,” Hahn said.

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Despite the recent downturn in enrollment — and therefore revenue — in the eight years since the ASC’s inception, both Box-Steffensmeier and Leonardi said they are confident some of the plans developed by the ASC’s leadership will boost involvement and enrollment.

These plans include offering more summer courses, online courses, cross-college partnerships and options for students to earn certificates in order to make them more marketable and competitive employees.

“Certificates are something that most of the other colleges have been very nimble on but we haven’t, and we are hoping to soon launch two,” Box-Steffensmeier said. “The two that are closest [to launching] are sports media and diversity. These are considered micro-credentials, which seem very hot when I talk to the student advisory board. I think the sky is the limit with these.”

The advantage of offering certificates is twofold, Logan said.

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Logan said an example could be a nurse deciding that to be more helpful to and involved with her patients, she could earn a certificate in Somali language and literature in order to better connect with the patients she treats from the large Somali community in Columbus.

“Those are the sorts of really practical things that we can do to increase our reach outside of the existing student population here, or for existing students,” Logan said. “It allows them to show employers and others that they have a specialization in a certain area.”

Logan emphasized that one of the most important things the college can do is inform people of the data that suggests the value of a liberal arts education in today’s job market.

“What we know from the job market that you’ll pursue over the course of your career is it’s not that you just are going to hold six or seven jobs, you’re going to have six or seven careers,” Logan said. “Nothing prepares you better for that than a liberal arts education. We have not been at the forefront of telling that story.”

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AEG Presents acquires PromoWest CHASE RAY Arts & Life Editor ray.461@osu.edu

AEG Presents, a Los Angeles-based company that promotes concerts and manages music venues, announced on Thursday that it had acquired PromoWest Productions to expand its presence in the Midwest.

PromoWest, a prominent live music promoter in Central Ohio, owns and operates Express Live, Newport Music Hall, The Basement and A&R Music Bar, as well as Stage AE in Pittsburgh.

PromoWest Productions is also the largest independently owned and operated entertainment company in the Midwest.

The company will celebrate its 34th anniversary this year and states on its website that it takes pride in booking some of the biggest names in music featured in an intimate setting, while also showcasing up-and-coming artists.

In a statement to Business Wire, Scott Stienecker, founder and CEO of PromoWest Productions, said he will continue to oversee the growth of the company as it operates under AEG Presents.

“After getting to know AEG Presents and their senior management, it became more and more clear to me that both of our organizations were built from a common entrepreneurial spirit and culture,” Stienecker said. “I believe our partnership

with AEG Presents will provide us an additional collection of resources and assets that will allow us to continue to build on our achievements and take our company to an even higher level.”

Stienecker will continue to run the venues and the name PromoWest Productions will remain.

Marissa Luther, marketing director for PromoWest Productions, said there will be only minor changes in its internal operations.

She said this new development will positively affect Columbus’ ability to bring more frequent, high-profile concerts to the city — something local concertgoers will appreciate.

“I think that our partnership with AEG Presents will offer us tours and booking opportunities that would have possibly passed Columbus up before the acquisition,” Luther said. “We will have many more resources available to us now.”

Ultimately, this acquisition is a sign of the ever-expanding music scene in the city of Columbus. As one of the busiest live music hubs in Ohio, it is a given that there is a concert going on somewhere in the city on a daily basis.

“I think it’s an exciting time for both companies and for Columbus,” Luther said. “Columbus is a music city and the fact that one of the nation’s largest concert promoters is backing one of the largest independent promoters in the Midwest can only mean great things.”

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Interpol performs a song during their concert at Express LIVE! on Sept. 17, 2018.

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Barnett Symposium discusses art sector future TRISTAN RELET-WERKMEISTER Lantern reporter relet-werkmeister.1@osu.edu The 2018 Barnett Symposium on Public Policy and the Arts brought together more than 125 students, alumni and art leaders to discuss the future of art through keynote speakers and panel discussions.

The symposium celebrated

“It’s an opportunity to produce a real product because, often, [our classes are] very theoretical or academic and you don’t get to actually execute something.”

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the 50th anniversary of the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy; the 25th anniversary of the Barnett Symposium; and the fifth anniversary of the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise Thursday.

“It’s an opportunity to produce a real product because, often, [our classes are] very theoretical

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Iuka Productions student group posing behind the $1,000 check they won at the STARTUP competition at the Barnett Center on Sept. 28.

or academic and you don’t get to actually execute something,” said Clara Davison, the head student organizer and a fourth-year in arts management and business.

On Friday, JiaJia Fei, director of digital at The Jewish Museum in New York, opened with a keynote address on the digital identities of museums and arts institutions.

Davison said Fei is considered to be one of the founders of the movement to incorporate social media in art museums.

Following Fei’s speech were two panel discussions

entitled “Illuminating Social Responsibility: Community Action & Impact” and “Illuminating Connections: Globalization through the Arts.”

The closing address was offered by Joseph Conyers, co-founder of Project 440, an organization dedicated to educating and guiding young musicians. He spoke about the intersection of artistic and social entrepreneurship.

The Barnett Symposium ended with STARTUP, Ohio State’s first arts entrepreneurship

competition.

Three artistic, student-led enterprises pitched their initiative projects to judges who are experts in their respective fields — design, social entrepreneurship and law.

Iuka Productions won the competition and received $1,000 to make its project a reality.

The student group aims to represent diverse stories through filmmaking, said producer of the enterprise Sonia Rayka, a fourthyear in comparative studies and Spanish. The small company already has a documentary and

two short films lined up.

“Other than motivation, it’s showing that people believe in us,” said Zane Abraham, cinematographer for Iuka Productions and a fourth-year in marketing and film production.

Visitors enjoyed popcorn and drinks during a viewing of “Twenty Years of Arts Policy & Administration,” a documentary on the history of the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy. Guests were invited to take pictures on the “Scarlet Carpet” before the screening.

The viewing was followed by a reception where students, alumni and local arts leaders gathered for the exhibition “Illumination,” which displayed student works of self-portraiture.

Between panels, participants also enjoyed music performances from CELLOHIO, an Ohio State cello ensemble, and Chamber Brews, an orchestra that combines its love for chamber music and beer by serving drinks to the audience, creating a relaxed environment that encourages conversation between the musicians and attendees.

“Looking back, I would be less scared to try new things, it’s the whole point of this entire symposium: curiosity and sharing ideas,” Davison said.

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The Water Lantern Festival celebrates life in Columbus PARADISE THOMAS Lantern reporter thomas.3889@osu.edu When the sky darkened, the launching of the lanterns into the water began. The music switched from lively and uplifting to serene and tranquil as festival-goers cast their lanterns into the water.

On Saturday, the Water Lantern Festival gave locals the chance to enjoy a relaxing night, encouraging unity in the community at the Scioto Mile for the event’s stop in Columbus.

The organization One World takes the festival across the country to bring together people of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate life by releasing water lanterns into nearby bodies of water. The event is a one-night experience that features games, music and lanterns to decorate for the big launch.

The festivities included a hula hooping contest for children, cornhole, music, food trucks and vendor stands that sold items ranging from necklaces to color-changing nail polish and even self-defense items for women.

The main event of the night was the lantern lighting and launch.

Every attendee received an LED light and lantern kit they were able to decorate with words of encouragement and creative designs.

The festival workers encouraged attendees to write positive messages on the lanterns before they released them into the water.

There were even banners with some examples such as, “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection,” and “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

Attendee Amber Skinner usually creates her own lanterns, but was able to use the festival to

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share with others her own experience of how she celebrates life.

“Paper lanterns and water lanterns are really important to me. My first husband passed away in 2010, and he’s Vietnamese and it’s a traditional thing,” Skinner said.

“People light these and they let them on the water and they let their wishes go. I’ve been doing this for a long time, since he has been gone. I’ve been doing this by myself.”

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OSU players attend NHL development camps during summer BRADEN MOLES Lantern reporter moles.13@osu.edu Fresh off an NCAA tournament run that took Ohio State to the Frozen Four, members of the men’s hockey team were invited to attend NHL development camps over the offseason.

“It was cool to kind of be around some of the top players in the country, a lot of players we play against in college, and kind of learn from them and got great coaching for a week. I learned a lot and I’m excited to implement that stuff this year.”

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Ohio State then-redshirt junior goalie Sean Romeo (30) prepares for a Badger shot in the first period of the game against Wisconsin on Feb. 23 in the Schottenstein Center.

Eight players received invites to these camps, including senior forward Mason Jobst, junior defenseman Tanner Laczynski, redshirt junior defenseman Wyatt Ege and redshirt senior goalie Sean Romeo.

These camps allow players to gain experience skating with professional players and working with NHL coaches.

Mason Jobst This is the third time Jobst, the NCAA’s active leading scorer, has participated in an NHL development camp. Last offseason,

he attended camps as a free agent invitee with the Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins. This year, he joined the Minnesota Wild.

“It was very cool,” Jobst said. “We’d go on the ice and we’d do either a skills session with one of their skills coaches or a skating lesson with the skating guy. So, it was pretty cool. The NHL coaches would come out and talk to us a little bit. It was a lot of fun.”

Tanner Laczynski Laczynski, who notched a career-high 47 points and earned First Team All Big-Ten

honors last season, was taken with pick No. 169 by the Philadelphia Flyers in the sixth round of the 2016 NHL Draft and has attended their camp the past two offseasons..

“It’s definitely something special and definitely something I look forward to every summer, especially just to learn from those coaches and scouts and just to hear what they have to say about each individual’s game and how you can improve your game,” Laczynski said.

Wyatt Ege Ege has attended camp with the Vegas Golden Knights the past two years.

This past season, the redshirt junior was fourth on the team in assists, while tying for the lead among defensemen on Ohio State with 18 points.

“It was nice to see the guys, just because it was my second time back there. It was nice to see some familiar faces,” Ege said.

“At [my] first development camp I was kind of a little nervous, seeing all these guys, you know, all these draft picks and now, going back for a second year, I already knew them.”

Sean Romeo Coming off a season during which he ranked No. 2 in the Big Ten in both goals against average and win percentage, Romeo was invited to his first development camp with the Columbus Blue Jackets.

“It was cool to kind of be around some of the top players in the country, a lot of players we play against in college, and kind of learn from them and got great coaching for a week. [I] learned a lot and I’m excited to implement that stuff this year,” Romeo said.

In addition, freshman forward Quinn Preston attended camp with the Winnipeg Jets, and freshman forward Gustaf Westlund joined the Florida Panthers. Freshman defenseman Ryan O’Connell, drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2017 NHL Draft, attended their camp. Senior defenseman Sasha Larocque also worked with the Anaheim Ducks at their camp over the summer.

The Buckeyes will look to take the lessons from these camps into their season-opening series against Arizona State on Oct. 12 and 13.

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Answer Key for Sept. 25: Across 3. banana 5. gravy 8. potatoes 11. chocolate 13. tomatoes 15. milk 16. blueberries 19. grapes 21. pumpkin

Down 1. cake 2. cabbage 4. carrot 6. strawberry 7. cucumber 9. tea 10. pears 12. cheese 14. mushroom 17. eggs 18. salmon 20. apple

1. Roberto’s House 5. “Mamma Mia!” group 9. Emerald, e.g.

12. Starting from (2 words) 13. Strict 14. Finest 15. Table Insert 16. Hulk 17. Modern Persia 18. United States ____ Corps 20. Law & Order: ____ 21. Greek God 22. Cut Grain 24. Lingerie Brand 26. Kodaks 29. Gushes 33. Rotter 34. Casual Friday Material 36. ____ or Consequences 37. Support 39. Sandwich shops

41. Nature’s instant replay?

42. Share an opinion 44. Jousting weapon 46. Mouse’s foe 47. Shakespeare’s 14-liner 49. Choice steak 51. Sandy material 53. Just okay (hyph.)

54. Ecuador’s neighbor 57. Congressman (abbr.)

59. Hook’s Partner 63. Jai ____ 64. Internet correspondence (hyph.)

66. Word on a lo-cal label 67. Check 68. October birthstones 69. “____ Almighty” 70. Knockout count 71. Golf shout 72. Boutique event

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13. Used scissors 14. Weird 19. Something essential 23. Jury group 25. Kind of feeling 26. Ship’s freight 27. Trim 28. “____ Marner” 30. Farmed fashion designer

31. Actor Hawke 32. Gun Sound 33. Accountant’s initials 35. Extra-short skirts 38. Bird that swims 40. Parchment rolls 43. Always, in poems 45. “Born Free” feline 48. Become bored with (2 words) 50. Gobs 52. Music’s speed 54. Piece 55. C.S.A.’s Robert (2 words) 56. Weather word 58. TV host Jack ____ 60. Hard-to-please celeb 61. And others (2 words) 62. Russo of “Big Trouble” 65. ____ de France

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Juhasz and Grande bring overseas experience to Ohio State

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Ohio State freshman forward Dorka Juhasz (14) attempts a free throw during practice.

DANIEL MCNATT Lantern reporter mcnatt.3@osu.edu While experience in Big Ten play might be limited for the Ohio State women’s basketball team this season, a few additions to the roster could use its overseas experience to help push the team further.

Freshman forward Dorka Juhasz, a first-year player from Hungary, and redshirt senior guard Carmen Grande, a graduate transfer from Ball State who is originally from Spain, look to use their international experience as a means to help their new team.

The team is returning only four players from last year — junior guard Jensen Caretti, redshirt se-

nior forward Makayla Waterman, senior guard Karlie Cronin and sophomore forward Savitha Jayaraman.

But Juhasz and Grande look to bring something new to the table.

Juhasz is the No. 12 international player and No. 5 forward in the 2018 recruiting class, according to Prospects Nation. Juhasz also played for the Hungarian

national team beginning in 2015 before coming to Ohio State. She averaged 11.7 points and 9.4 rebounds in seven games at the FIBA U19 Women’s Basketball World Cup in 2017.

“I would like to be a leader here,” Juhasz said. “I feel like I got some professional experiences because I played at home [Hungary] in a professional team. I had a chance to play against WNBA players, so I think that can be an advantage.”

Head coach Kevin McGuff and the Ohio State coaching staff could certainly use a player to step up into a leadership role as the season begins. The roster features more questions than answers right now, and with a healthy level of competition for starting spots, someone with professional experience who is willing to take on a leadership role early could bode well for the Buckeyes.

Another player who could be bringing something new to the table is Grande, the graduate transfer point guard by way of Madrid.

Grande had the second-most assists in the country in the past three years with 697. She started in all 96 games in three seasons and was No. 2 in the nation in 2017 with 9.2 assists per game.

Grande was also a member of the U16 Spanish national team and played for two top professional clubs, Estudiantes and Rivas.

Having had professional experience at such a young age, Grande

is looking to use that experience to her advantage as a Buckeye.

“I was able to train and play with and against professional players, professional point guards,” Grande said. “That just gives you more toughness, more relentlessness. You just gotta keep going and you just have to figure it out regardless of the situation. I think being in those situations has helped me just grow as a player.”

“I would like to be a leader here... I had a chance to play against WNBA players, so I think that can be an advantage.”

DORKA JUHASZ Ohio State freshman forward

While women’s basketball faces some questions, Duhasz and Grande hope to bring some added experience to this new roster.

Bringing in players who pride themselves on leadership, toughness and relentlessness isn’t a bad way to start in Ohio State’s first season without former three-time Big Ten Player of the Year Kelsey Mitchell.

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second half, he completed 15-of-23 pass attempts for 208 yards and two touchdowns, both coming off screens.

After leading Ohio State to a 27-26 win over then-No. 9 Penn State, Haskins earned his second-straight Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week award and his third of the season.

Haskins found his niche for moving the ball downfield when playing from behind: getting the ball into the hands of playmakers as quickly and as often as he could.

“I know one thing that seems very comfortable is seeing those screens coming out of his hands so fast and seeing his pinpoint accuracy,” head coach Urban Meyer said.

Day said Haskins’ confidence returned as skill players on the outside, like junior receiver Binjimen Victor and redshirt junior receiver K.J. Hill, got the ball, taking advantage of the open space and blockers down field to score.

Victor and Hill both scored touchdowns for the Buckeyes in the fourth quarter to

give Ohio State the win.

Ohio State will not be facing as consistent of a pass rush on Saturday. Haskins will face an Indiana defense that has averaged two sacks per game, ranked No. 9 in the Big Ten. However, when playing from behind and under pressure, Haskins did not rely on himself. He brought in his supporting cast, involving everyone in what Meyer considered “the greatest drive in Ohio State history.”

Moving forward, this is the formula that Meyer sees Haskins using when facing adversity.

“We are throwing for 340 a game or something like that and we are winning games. That’s our job,” Meyer said. “We are taking care of the football and we are throwing the ball. We are utilizing some very good players and he’s a very good player.”

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sive Player of the Week award of the season with his performance in Happy Valley on Saturday.

Haskins is up to 1,464 yards and 19 passing touchdowns with only two interceptions, completing 70.8 percent of his throws.

But for the first three quarters against Penn State, Haskins was something he had not been in any game this season: flustered.

Haskins completed 15-of-29 passes for 132 yards, a touchdown and an interception before erupting for 138 yards and two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to come back and defeat the Nittany Lions.

Meyer complimented the offense’s performance in the final quarter, and said, after the game on Saturday, the first-half performance was “awful.”

“The fourth quarter on offense was perfect. Not perfect, but well done,” Meyer said. “They did a very good job with what they were doing, which was basically pressuring us 80 percent of the time, and we didn’t handle it well. We ended handling it well the second half.”

With Indiana and Minnesota home games coming up, followed by a trip to Purdue before a bye week, Ohio State has an opportunity to fix the mistakes the Nittany Lions exploited.

But, as Meyer said, the important thing is the record.

“We’re 5-0,” Meyer said. “And we haven’t played close to our best game.”

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Haskins learns how to respond to adversity COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu Dwayne Haskins walked into Beaver Stadium like a heavyweight boxer walking into a ring.

With a camera in front of his face, Ohio State’s redshirt sophomore quarterback threw punches, hyping himself up, displaying confidence. Ohio State hadn’t really seen this before from its starter, as Haskins carried himself in the same way Penn State redshirt senior quarterback Trace McSorley has done his entire career, and did against the Buckeyes on Saturday.

“I know one thing that seems very comfortable is seeing those screens coming out of his hands so fast and seeing his pinpoint accuracy.”

URBAN MEYER Ohio State head football coach

After lining up for the first time in a shotgun set, Haskins showed that confidence, rolling out to the right and finding junior wide receiver Austin Mack on an outside curl route, giving him a quick first down and, seemingly, momentum.

Haskins sped up the pace, getting to the 30-yard line for the second play. The ball was snapped and he quickly fired one to-

wards redshirt senior Parris Campbell on the left side for a screen pass.

The ball was dropped. The momentum was gone. Haskins started to slump.

For the first time in his Ohio State career, Haskins faced adversity. He had the opportunity to define what his response to that adversity would be, what play-calling he would lean to in those times of high pressure.

Against Penn State, the adversity did not begin because of Haskins.

Reminiscent of Mack’s performance against TCU, Ohio State receivers dropped three passes in the first quarter, including a ball off the hands of redshirt junior tight end Rashod Berry that ended up being Haskins’ second interception of the season.

With the combination of mistakes from Ohio State receivers and a consistent pass rush by the Penn State defensive line, a unit averaging 3.2 sacks per game, the confidence that Haskins came into the stadium with was not there.

From there, Ohio State recorded five three-and-outs on its first eight drives.

Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Ryan Day said he had to encourage Haskins as he struggled in the first half.

“It’s his first time going through it.

Just talking to him, ‘Hey, you are playing good.’ I thought the ball to Rashod [Berry] was a good throw,” Day said. “I thought he was managing the game well even though it didn’t feel like it at the time.”

Going into his final drive of the first half, Haskins completed 6-of-13 pass attempts for 36 yards and an interception.

With a deficit to make up, Haskins was

CASEY CASCALDO | PHOTO EDITOR

Ohio State redshirt sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins (7) looks for options as the Buckeyes attempt a two-point conversion in the fourth quarter of the game against Penn State on Sept. 29. Ohio State won 27-26. not going to go the route of former Ohio This was the major part of the offenState quarterback J.T. Barrett: running the sive adjustments made in the locker room ball for an average of 5.6 yards per carry in during halftime. Haskins’ goal, Day said, last year’s win over the Nittany Lions. was to take advantage of the blitzing front Instead, with what Day described as and use his accuracy and blockers, either poise and maturity, Haskins threw a screen from the offensive line or the wide receivpass to J.K. Dobbins, watching as the soph- ers on the outside, to continue to move the omore running back ran 26 yards into the ball downfield. end zone for Ohio State’s first score of the That’s exactly what Haskins did. In the game.

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Ohio State shows highs and lows through first five games WYATT CROSHER Assistant Sports Editor crosher.1@osu.edu At nearly the halfway point in the season, Ohio State has proved itself to be one of the best teams in the country, coming in third overall in the most recent Associated Press Top 25 Poll with a 5-0 record.

The Buckeyes have wins against two teams that were ranked at the time of defeat, including a road win against No. 9 Penn State that took a 12-point comeback with eight minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.

But even after the comeback victory, a win in Arlington, Texas, against TCU and dominant victories at home, head coach Urban Meyer said on Monday that it still feels like Ohio State hasn’t reached its full potential.

“Not even close to where we are,” Meyer said. “There is a tremendous ceiling on this, and we haven’t gotten close to it.”

Regardless of whether Meyer thinks Ohio State has not peaked as a team, the team finds itself in the driver’s seat of the Big Ten East, with the supposed toughest matchup on the schedule out of the way.

With five teams coming up in the next four weeks that the Buck-

ons: a 51-yard run by McSorley and a 93-yard touchdown from McSorley to redshirt freshman wide receiver KJ Hamler.

“Not even close to where we are. There is a tremendous ceiling on this, and we haven’t gotten close to it.”

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Ohio State junior safety Jordan Fuller (4) sprints downfield in the second quarter of the game against Penn State on Sept. 29. Ohio State won 27-26. eyes are expected to defeat, there are areas of the field that they will need to fix before heading to East Lansing, Michigan, to play No. 20 Michigan State.

Against the Nittany Lions, redshirt senior quarterback Trace McSorley had the best game of his career, tallying 461 yards — the program record for all-pur-

pose yards in a game. A Penn State record for a quarterback, 175 of those yards were on the ground.

“We had the quarterback that was performing one of his best games in his career, some was scramble, some was direct run,” Meyer said. “When you have that kind of player, that’s a hard thing

to defend.”

The Penn State matchup also highlighted a problem that has plagued the Buckeyes all season: big plays.

Ohio State has given up six plays of more than 50 yards through the first five games, four of which have been running plays.

Two came against the Nittany Li-

The 93-yard play tied the longest play Ohio State has given up in program history: a 93-yard run from two weeks ago by TCU junior running back Darius Anderson.

Meyer said some of the big plays can be attributed to new players on the defensive side, but improvements still need to be made.

“The answer is you have to play better,” Meyer said. “We have some new players, but it’s Week 6.”

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