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Students plant trees to increase oxygen levels in Columbus.

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Student theater group donates show proceeds to charity.

Nightmare Film Festival brings horror to Gateway Film Center.

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Ohio State achieves silver bicyclefriendly status

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Maddie Thompson helps students fix their bikes at the new Buckeye Bike Hub outside the RPAC on Sept. 10.

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Hidden treasures and troubles of the Tetrapod Collection JACK LONG Special Projects Director long.1684@osu.edu Riding his bike early in the morning, Grant Terrell keeps his eyes low to the ground, looking for dark silhouettes lying still on the pavement.

Overnight, birds blinded by light crash into buildings across

campus and lie dead, ready for Terrell to collect them.

“They’re often these really pretty, exotic-looking, new tropical warblers,” Terrell said.

Terrell, a fifth-year in evolutionary ecology and history, is a curatorial assistant at Ohio State’s Tetrapod Collection, a museum for four-limbed vertebrates within the university’s Museum of Bio-

logical Diversity located at 1315 Kinnear Road.

The Tetrapod Collection holds tens of thousands of specimens, Terrell said. Preserved in an alcohol solution, amphibians and reptiles line rows of shelves. The skins, skulls and bones of mammals hang on the walls or are kept in metal cabinets. Small birds, such as thrushes and warblers, lie

wing to wing, while storks, vultures and cassowaries fill entire shelves.

Some specimens — not kept in closed cabinets — must be covered in plastic because the roof and sprinkler system leak. Funding for a collection like this is tight, Tamaki Yuri, curator at the museum, said.

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Running free

At the Big Ten Cross Country Championships in 2018, then-junior Ohio State cross country runner Alex Lomong ran the third-fastest outdoor 800-meter time in program history.

“Running was originally something I did out of fear, but when I came to the U.S., it became a sport of joy for me.”

LOPEZ LOMONG U.S. Olympic distance runner

Nearly three decades earlier, his brother Lopez Lomong ran for his life, escaping entrapment as a child soldier in South Sudan during the Second Sudanese Civil War. Alex Lomong didn’t meet his

older brother until age 9, but the notoriety Lopez gained as a competitive distance runner in the United States allowed Alex to follow in his footsteps, coming to the U.S. to avoid a path in Africa the Lomongs are all too familiar with.

“I hate to say this. I’d probably be dead somewhere,” Alex Lomong said. “I’d probably be a soldier, or, you know, we lost like half my family back in Africa.”

Taken to South Sudan as a child soldier, Lopez Lomong escaped to a refugee camp in Kenya on foot at just 6 years old.

The Sudan People’s Liberation Army, a guerilla movement against the Sudanese government with the goal of gaining South Sudan’s independence from the rest of Sudan, forced children to become soldiers during the Second Sudanese Civil War from 1983 to 2005. South Sudan gained its independence in 2011.

“Running was never an option for me,” Lopez Lomong said in an email. “I was running for life and survival throughout my

The scarlet and gray goes scarlet and silver with its new biking status.

After applying two times — once in 2011 and again in 2015 — for bicycle-friendly status, Ohio State has increased its status from a bronze-level campus to a silver-level campus, according to a press release from League of American Bicyclists.

“One of the suggestions from our 2015 feedback report was to create a bike center on campus, and they gave us examples of other universities, and we really took that to heart.”

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Ohio State senior cross country runner Alex Lomong competes in a race.

childhood. Running was originally something I did out of fear, but when I came to the U.S., it became a sport of joy for me.”

He was able to move to the U.S. and attend Northern Arizona with the help of missionaries, and said his goal as a collegiate runner at Northern Arizona was to be an

Olympian. Eventually, he was able to help set up a better life for his family in Kenya.

In 2008, Lopez Lomong was the official flag bearer for Team USA at the Beijing Olympics. He said he’s never forgotten what he runs for.

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The national organization recognizes colleges and universities for promoting and enabling safe, accessible bicycling on campus, according to a release on Thursday. The league measures all applicants on five major categories, including engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation and planning.

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Seeds of Service works on final site JESSICA KLEIN Lantern reporter klein.641@osu.edu This semester’s Seeds of Service event marked the removal of most of the invasive plant species and planting of trees on the final work site, where students continued the tradition in Carmack Woods Saturday morning.

The Undergraduate Student Government at Ohio State and Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed, a nonprofit dedicated to keeping the Olentangy River clean and safe, sponsored the Seeds of Service restoration event along the Olentangy River Trail at Carmack Woods. Seeds of Service seeks to increase ecosystem services to meet Ohio State’s sustainability goals, Alyssa Barbuto, director of sustainability for USG and fourth-year in environment, economy, development and sustainability, said.

Before any trees could be planted, some invasive species, including honeysuckle, had to be eradicated, Alexis Kilbane, deputy director of sustainability for USG and fourth-year in international relations and diplomacy, said.

“Now that the area is clear, people can put down more trees,” Kilbane said, “So we are increasing our canopy level on campus, which is one of our sustainability goals.”

Barbuto said in a text message that this quadrant was the last to be worked on as part of a gradu-

ate capstone project with Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed, and there are plans to work on a large tree garden off Cannon Drive, as well as build up the ecosystem surrounding the Olentangy River.

Barbuto said in terms of sustainability goals, the university has a stake in their projects.

“We need the students’ support to increase trees on campus because if the students do not support our goals, then we have no reason to be out here today.”

ALYSSA BARBUTO USG director of sustainability

“Ohio State is very interested in ecosystem services at the moment,” Barbuto said in a text message.

Students who attended the day of service on behalf of a student organization were able to receive funding for their club, Kilbane said. The 260 attendees could earn up to $120 and use the event toward service hours.

“Through such a small act that is planting one tree, something larger comes together, and we

are able to create something like a forest and participate in a beautiful meaningful act that we can share,” Kilbane said.

Students who attended this year’s event — which Barbuto said in a text message had the largest turnout — received a demonstration on how to properly plant a tree and then were able to do it themselves for a few hours.

“We need the students’ support to increase trees on campus because if the students do not support our goals, then we have no reason to be out here today,” Barbuto said.

Kilbane said the idea, “As Ohio State does, the world follows,” is important to remember as they take action.

“Making it one of our community’s priorities to be healthy and eco-friendly so that the message will be communicated to other people is a good thing,” Kilbane said.

Through planting trees along the river at Ohio State, students are helping to increase the oxygen levels for the entire city of Columbus, Barbuto said.

Kilbane said in the future, she’d like to regulate the bus routes to help facilitate transportation for volunteers as well as expand the project to other locations in order to create a larger leaf canopy.

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program aims to inspire colleges and universities to incorporate bike-share programs, bike co-ops, clubs, bicycling education classes and policies to promote bicycling as a preferred means of transportation.

John Shrader, field logistics coordinator for the Department of Transportation and Traffic Management at Ohio State, said the bicycle-friendly program — which is part of the Bicycle Friendly America program and run by the League of American Bicyclists — started giving out bicycle-friendly awards in 2011. That same year, Ohio State applied for recognition and would receive its first of two bronze awards.

“You apply every four years or sooner if you have significant improvements, so we applied again in 2015 and were also awarded the bronze-level recognition, and in 2019, we applied again, and we are now a silver-level bicycle-friendly university,” Shrader said.

Shrader said the bicycle-friendly awards are platinum, gold, silver and bronze, and currently there are only eight platinum universities; in the Big Ten alone, there are only two — Minnesota and Wisconsin. According to the League of American Bicyclists, 62 universities nationwide have

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Students stand in line at the new Buckeye Bike Hub outside the RPAC waiting to get their bikes fixed on Sept. 10.

silver status.

In addition to the recognition, the university also receives technical assistance, tools and resources to “create a great campus for bicycling” as well as connections to other bicycle-friendly universities, Shrader said in an email.

Shrader added that he and Transportation and Traffic Management worked with the Office

of Administration and Planning; Planning, Architecture and Real Estate; the Office of Student Life; the Department of Public Safety; Facilities Operations and Development; Undergraduate Student Government; and other student groups and classes to gather information and data on how to improve the biking atmosphere.

Shrader said he thinks the new on-campus Buckeye Bike Hub

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Students plant trees at Seeds of Service in Carmack Woods on Oct. 19.

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— a central location on campus where students can bring their bikes to be repaired — had a big impact on the university’s new status.

“One of the suggestions from our 2015 feedback report was to create a bike center on campus, and they gave us examples of other universities, and we really took that to heart,” Shrader said.

One of those examples is the University of Minnesota’s bike center, Shrader said.

He said the university sees the bike hub and the Student Life staff who operate it as a huge advancement for the campus.

The university’s promotion of bicycling also helps meet its sustainability goals, Beth Snoke, director of Transportation and Traffic Management, said in the release. These goals include reducing the carbon footprint of university vehicles by 25 percent by 2025 and creating a park centered around connectivity through public transit that includes buses, bicycles, scooters and pedestrian-friendly pathways, according to the release.

“We have more than 100,000 people on campus each day, and our transit network is designed to allow community members to travel quickly and easily without having to move their vehicle for each class change or new appoint-

ment,” Snoke said.

Snoke said safety and sustainability remain the university’s top priorities, and earning a silver rating speaks to the ongoing enhancements that continue on campus.

“You apply every four years or sooner if you have significant improvements.”

JOHN SHRADER Field logistics coordinator for the Department of Transportation and Traffic Management

According to the release, Ohio State is currently updating its third Comprehensive Transportation and Parking Plan with all modes of travel being considered as part of the long-term planning process.

“As the university campus physically changes, the campus is becoming more dense and more centered east of the Olentangy River between High Street, and as such, we really want to address a lot of transportation issues,” Shrader said.

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Curator Tamaki Yuri looks at Carolina parakeets collected in 1873.

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Grant Terrell, a curatorial assistant at the Tetrapod Collection, holds a platypus.

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“We put in a lot of money to collect all these things and then preserve these things,” she said.

Most specimens are from Ohio and the Midwest, Yuri said. However, the collection has other species from North America and the world, such as the Carolina parakeet and the king penguin.

Bird skins were collected from Europe and Russia and bought by former University President Edward Orton during the 19th century, and several more specimens were collected on an expedition to Alaska, according to the collection’s website.

“I’ve found eggs that were collected while the Titanic was sailing. It’s really cool to have a tangible link to the past.”

GRANT TERRELL Curatorial assistant at Ohio State’s Tetrapod Collection

Some were collected during the Civil War, Terrell said.

“I’ve found eggs that were collected while the Titanic was sailing,” he said. “It’s really cool to have a tangible link to the past.”

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The oldest specimens in the collection are eggs from the mid19th century, Yuri said. They were donated to the collection soon after the university was founded in 1870.

New specimens arrive almost weekly and tend to be roadkill or birds from building strikes, Yuri said.

In a preparation lab, Yuri and Terrell dissect specimens and replace internal organs and eyeballs with cotton. Then, they pin the specimens to styrofoam blocks to dry. It takes a few hours to prepare most specimens for the collection, Terrell said.

“But the beaver, that’s the other end of the spectrum,” Terrell said.

“That’s the first all-nighter that I’ve ever pulled at the museum.

I started at noon and finished at eight the next morning.”

The beaver drowned when it was caught in a fishing net, he said.

“Which is really unfortunate because she was lactating,” Terrell said. “So that probably means there was a whole little beaver massacre.”

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stress a species faced, Yuri said.

Terrell said he began to keep plastic found in the throats and stomachs of the animals he processes to record how human activity affects the natural world.

“I want that to be part of the data we’re recording,” he said.

A natural science archive like this is never complete, Yuri said.

It is important to continue collecting specimens and taking care of them for future research methods.

Terrell said that when scientists collected specimens 100 years ago, they could not have imagined CT scans or DNA sequencing.

He added that the Tetrapod Collection is a library, and every specimen is a book offering a

piece of knowledge.

“By comparing the different books that you have in the archive together is when you get a lot of the value,” he said.

The collection documents habitat and population loss, Bryan Carstens, a professor in the evolution, ecology and organismal biology department, said.

“That’s the single most important reason to have collections like this,” he said.

Green-black spots of mold grow on the ventilation ducts above the collection. Yuri and Terrell have to wipe down the prep labs to prevent the fungi from spreading to the specimens.

“This isn’t a designated mu-

seum space; it’s an OSU warehouse,” Terrell said. “You can see the gigantic cracks in the wall.”

The collection turned to the public to raise money for their Roll It Out campaign in 2016. It raised $6,025 to buy cabinets that can be rolled out of the museum in the event of a fire or flood, according to their fundraising webpage.

But Yuri said it can be difficult to get funding from both university and national grants for historical projects.

“They’re looking for current research, not the potential for research,” she said. “The potential [for this collection] is a future accumulation of data.”

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film festival brings scares to columbus COURTESY OF NIGHTMARES FILM FESTIVAL

The Nightmares Film Festival will take place Oct. 24-27 at Gateway Film Center.

SOPHIA PALUMBO For The Lantern palumbo.67@osu.edu Horror movie fanatics will find blood, gore and more with four nights of cutting-edge horror at the annual Nightmares Film Festival this week.

The festival, held at Gateway Film Center, is a four-day event packed with screenings of carefully curated horror films. Attendees can watch a variety of

feature-length and short films by filmmakers from all over the country. According to a press release, the lineup will include films from new directors and veterans of the genre.

Some of these films are premiering for the first time at Nightmares, Jason Tostevin, co-founder and programmer for Nightmares and an Ohio State alumnus, said.

“We have about two dozen films making their world pre-

miere at Nightmares and a lineup of genre films people have been waiting to see that have never been on our side of the country before,” Tostevin said.

“A Nun’s Curse,” “The Obsessed” and “29 Needles” are among the films making their world premiere at the festival, according to the festival’s website.

A number of screenwriters have also submitted screenplays to be evaluated. From the finalists, a winner will be announced

at the festival, who will receive the coveted Night Mare trophy, according to the press release.

Rachel Thomas-Medwid, a writer whose screenplay “The Squirrels in the Attic” is a finalist in the short screenplay category, said one of the main reasons to submit a screenplay to a film festival is to attract the attention of producers.

“My ultimate goal in submitting is to get something produced,” Thomas-Medwid said.

“There’s a table read planned in New York City next week, along with a meeting with a production company. So I’m really excited about this screenplay and the interest it’s creating.”

The festival has attracted national attention, making it an ideal place for writers and producers to collaborate, Thomas-Medwid said.

Along with the short screenplay category, there is a category for full-length feature films. The feature screenplay winner will also be announced at the festival, according to the press release.

Attendees can also expect several subgenres of horror at the festival. While many of the films fall into the horror genre, you don’t have to be a horror film expert to attend, Tostevin said.

“We play three general categories of genre film,” Tostevin said. “Horror, which is general-

ly speaking about dread; thriller, which is about suspense; and midnight, which is about the absurd.”

Thomas-Medwid’s screenplay falls under thriller. Tostevin said many of the other films being presented at the festival also fall into alternative genres.

“Movies you see with us explore all sorts of nooks and crannies in genre.”

JASON TOSTEVIN Co-founder of Nightmares Film Festival

“Movies you see with us explore all sorts of nooks and crannies in genre,” Tostevin said.

“Nightmares is a terrific place to discover new, surprising films that represent all sorts of genre work and many that are redefining it.”

Nightmares will also feature a block of short films produced by Ohio filmmakers, which are all produced within the state, according to the press release.

The Nightmares Film Festival will take place Oct. 24-27 at Gateway Film Center. Tickets can be purchased from the Gateway website at $12 for individual screenings or $99 for a full festival pass.

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Mistar Anderson spits bars of positivity JACK LONG | SPECIAL PROJECTS DIRECTOR

Mistar Anderson performs for Columbus’ Own on Oct. 11.

EMMA SCOTT MORAN Lantern reporter scottmoran.1@osu.edu Mistar Anderson is a band bound together by a positive message.

The Columbus-based group began by covering hip-hop songs.

Soon, it evolved and began to create its own sounds after band members heard the beats drummer Andre Walker said he had been working on.

Today, the seven-member group produces jazz- and funk-in-

spired hip-hop music with uplifting themes, vocalist Eric Rollin said. He said he wants his lyrics to have a healing component to them and hopes Mistar Anderson’s music will help its listeners feel better about their own situations.

“What I like about how he writes is it’s not anything that, after you listen to it, it’s gonna make you feel negative. Those aren’t the bars you hear,” Walker said. “For me, I get a positive side that I can kind of identify with.”

Rollin said he writes lyrics

based on his own daily experiences to make the songs relatable to listeners. Giving the audience a kind of ownership over a song creates the best music, Walker said.

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“[Our song] ‘Para Mi / Brother B’ was dope because I thought he was talking about me at first, like, ‘Hey man, you talking about me?’

He’s like, ‘No, I wasn’t, but I’m glad you could relate,’” Walker said. “I feel like the best music that I’ve listened to was music that I not only identify with, but something I felt was personally mine. That’s what I would hope people would get from listening to us.”

Keyboardist David Swank said one of the most gratifying parts of their work is having an outlet for

creativity. When producing new music, this creative process all begins with Walker and his beats, guitarist Ryan Sullivan said.

“Everything starts with Andre, and then we just kind of interpret it into a live band,” Sullivan said.

“He makes the beat sampling records together, and then we interpret it into a live setting.”

The original samples get tweaked by each band member until it reaches the final product, Walker said, allowing each musician to get creative and personalize the song.

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Theater group contributes to community SAM MARKEL Lantern reporter markel.43@osu.edu Off the Lake Productions brings more than a performance to the stage.

The club, founded in 1997, is Ohio State’s only student-run service-based theater organization that donates all of its shows’ proceeds to charity, Noel Wallace, a fourth-year in dietetics and the club’s co-Peer Theatre director, said.

Terry Wheeler, a fourth-year in psychology and sociology and the club’s other co-Peer Theatre director, said this year’s Off the Lake’s charity partner is Transit Arts, an organization working in the greater Columbus, Ohio, area to bring arts workshops to underserved communities.

“They try to provide not only a safe space for them, but a reliable center so that people who may be in unsafe environments can get there, and they also do a lot of outreach to schools,” Wallace said.

The club also has a yearly partnership with the Mid-Ohio Foodbank. Admission to Off the Lake’s performances are either $1 or a canned good, which is donat-

“The main focus is charity. We are student-run, service-based, and that’s what we pride ourselves on,” Smith said.

“The main focus is charity. We are student- run, servicebased, and that’s what we pride ourselves on.”

JOELLE SMITH Third-year in psychology and acting president of Off the Lake Productions

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Members of Off the Lake Productions took part in their OTLove Fashion Show on November 30, 2018.

ed to the foodbank, Wheeler said.

Wallace said while the group has two advisers, the shows are completely run by students.

“We have students directing the shows, students choreographing

shows,” Wallace said.

She added that the group has more than 100 members, with roughly 40 being active.

Joelle Smith, a third-year in psychology and acting president

of Off the Lake, said the club’s active members are required to complete a certain number of community service hours. They are provided with opportunities to do so by their community chairs.

Wallace said Off the Lake exclusively performed musicals for the organization’s first 19 years, but has expanded in recent years.

Now the group performs plays and Peer Theatre events.

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“They get it, and then they transpose it into something that makes sense for them,” Walker said. “So you hear the original samples — it sounds a lot like that because that’s where the foundation is — but outside of that, man, they just kind of get creative. I like that they create with it because it makes it their own.”

The final product reflects the musical interests of each band mem-

“I feel like the best music that I’ve listened to was music that I not only identify with, but something I felt was personally mine. That’s what I would hope people would get from listening to us.”

ANDRE WALKER Mistar Anderson drummer

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Off the Lake Productions during rehearsal on Jan. 30 at Short North Stage.

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ships, gender and sexual identity and alcoholism, into small skits to perform in residence halls on campus as a way to facilitate a dialogue with undergraduate students, Wheeler said.

“We pick shows that have a big-

ger meaning to them that we can have a facilitated dialogue about, simply because that’s just what theater is,” Wheeler said.

While the charity partners change over the years, Wallace said the emphasis on giving back does not.

“In the time that we’ve been here and the time that we’ve known about it, it has been entirely service-based,” Wallace said.

For more information about Off the Lake, its charity work and upcoming shows, visit involvedliving.osu.edu/otl/.

ber, which Sullivan said is wide ranging. The members are prolific performers in the Columbus music community, and Sullivan said they each play in other bands that intermingle and perform together. Sullivan plays with Andy Shaw Band, a reggae-infused rock group, while Swank plays with the soulful funk band Topher James and Biscuit Brigade.

Mistar Anderson’s members come from an array of musical backgrounds, bassist Aeneas Reynolds said, which contributes different layers to their music.

“I think the great thing about it is we all come from different areas and different genres, so it makes it kind of cool,” Reynolds said. “We’re all different ages, too — that plays a big part. From a three- to five-year span, we’re all at different time zones with music, so that kind of helps as well.”

Despite their variances, Walker said they are alike in one special way.

“We’re different ages but our souls are all aligned,” Walker said.

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Uche finds new role on the sidelines ERIC AMERINE Lantern reporter amerine.21@osu.edu CC Uche’s final season of collegiate soccer was cut short after four games, but that hasn’t stopped the senior defender from having an impact on the team.

The Buckeyes had two wins and one loss. The defense already had two shutouts under its belt.

Everything seemed to be clicking for Uche and the Buckeyes, but the course of his season drastically changed a couple of minutes into a matchup with Eastern Illinois Sept. 8, when he found himself on the ground.

“My heart goes out to him. A sad thing to deal with your senior year. Credit to him for how he has handled it.

He is still the leader he was before.”

PARKER SIEGFRIED Ohio State redshirt senior goalkeeper

“I went to go strike through the ball, and then I heard a loud pop,” Uche said. “I continued to run after for a couple more minutes. I went to go pass the ball to [redshirt senior goalkeeper Parker Siegfried], and I felt something. I fell to the ground.”

Just like that, a promising start

to the new year ended as quickly as it began. Uche, however, refused to be deterred by the leg injury as he continued to show up for games — albeit in a different capacity. The exact details of the injury have not been disclosed.

While it could have been easy to absolve himself of responsibilities, Uche still mentors players at practices and games, Siegfried said.

“My heart goes out to him,” Siegfried said. “A sad thing to deal with your senior year. Credit to him for how he has handled it.

He is still the leader he was before.”

Starting all 18 matches for the Buckeyes last season after playing for two years at Duke, Uche brought seasoned experience to the Ohio State backline.

Three matches after the injury, with his team down 1-0 against West Virginia at halftime, Uche exemplified that leadership is just as important as on-field play for a team with 14 underclassmen on its roster.

“He came in and gave a little speech and got our heads back into it. We came out and equalized,” Siegfried said. “He’s a good soccer mind. He has a good sense of leadership. It is a real bummer he is not on the field with us, but he has taken the off-thefield leadership role seriously.”

Uche did not originally take the news of his season-ending injury gracefully. After being informed of the severity of the injury, he questioned the expertise of his doctor and later felt guilty, he said.

That initial denial has melted into acceptance, as the Georgia native can now be found not sulking over his plight, but at the side

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Ohio State then-junior defender CC Uche (3) looks for an open man during the first half of the Ohio State-Rutgers game on Sep. 30, 2018. Ohio State lost 3-2.

of head coach Brian Maisonneuve and the coaching staff, putting his trained eye to work to benefit his team.

“It’s great to have another set of eyes. I asked him the other day, anything you see, don’t be afraid to talk,” Maisonneuve said.

The negative situation turned into a positive for Uche and has allowed him to see the game from a different perspective, he said.

“Being on the bench for the first time, I am starting to see the little tendencies I might do and other players, which now I am

like, ‘Wow, I shouldn’t have done that. There are other options.’

You learn a lot from watching,” Uche said. “Observing is just as important as playing.”

Uche has also realized how crucial his teammates are to his journey to recovery.

“I can’t go through this process without them. They have definitely helped me get through this process more than they think they have,” Uche said. “Seeing the players perform and assisting them in their game is benefiting the healing process.”

Despite his influence on the sidelines, Uche’s injury has taken a toll on the team on the field.

After the 2-1 start, the Buckeyes have gone 5-6-1 since he went down. Uche is done looking at it through that lens, though.

“All I want to see is my dogs ball,” Uche said. “I am starting to see things from a different perspective. It’s so cool how that works. You can find a positive in any negative situation. Everything happens for a reason. I am sure this is another lesson that you know will add to my game.”

inson said. “Coming here gave him an opportunity to become himself.”

Alex Lomong hasn’t visited his family since 2009, he said. He and Lopez are both fighting to move whatever family they can to the U.S. “Refugees, soldiers coming in, shooting up villages. It’s just me, Peter, Lopez, my mom, my sister,” Alex Lomong said. “We lost my dad. We’re trying to get them over here. They just got iPhones [in Kenya], so they have WhatsApp on there now.”

Lopez Lomong and his wife are in the process of adopting their niece Angelina, 8, and nephew David, 5, from Kenya. He said family, especially his two brothers, are a driving factor in his life.

“My relationship with my brothers is precious to me,” Lopez Lomong said. “I see so much hope and potential in them, and it is such an inspiration for me to watch them grow into proud young men.”

After his difficult childhood, Alex Lomong has found success running — he was the Buckeyes’ top finisher in the 2018 Big Ten Cross Country Championships, with one of the top 800-meter times in Ohio State track and field history.

This year, he’s ready for an improved senior season.

“I think I’m much fitter this year. I dealt with a lot of injuries [last season], and I was like, ‘You know what? I’m gonna do whatever I can to reach my highest potential,’” Alex Lomong said.

The men’s cross country team is looking to bounce back from a rocky 2018 campaign, during which it finished No. 11 out of 12 teams at the Big Ten championships. Robinson said he is hopeful that this year’s cross country team will be in the top half of the Big Ten. Alex Lomong will be no small part of their redemption, Robinson said.

“For cross, he should be one of our top fives,” Robinson said.

“To be quite honest with you, he should be one of our top three or four.”

As for life after college, Alex Lomong said he plans to run professionally, and the 2020 Olympics are his first goal. He said he’s happy his journey led him to Ohio State, and his roots in Africa have allowed him to reflect on how important family his. “[Lopez] has done a lot for me and my brother,” Alex Lomong said. “I want to do something for myself here. Make my name big at Ohio State.”

LOMONG FROM 1

“I have always run for the kids that I left behind in South Sudan and in the refugee camp in Kenya,” Lopez Lomong said. “It has been a driving force for what I do.”

Born in a small village in South Sudan, Alex Lomong said his family moved to Kenya shortly after Lopez moved to the U.S. He said he cannot understate his brother’s influence on his own success.

Alex Lomong didn’t meet Lopez until he was already an established professional athlete, at which time Lopez made the journey back to his family’s new home in Juja, Kenya.

Their first interaction was filmed for a segment on HBO’s “Real Sports” series.

“Since I met him in 2007, I always dreamed of bringing him to America to have the same opportunity to chase his dreams,” Lopez Lomong said.

Winston Brown, a teacher in Virginia who watched the documentary, took in Alex Lomong and his older brother Peter in 2009.

Alex Lomong said the adjustment to his new home was a big one.

“Culture shock. Absolutely,” Alex Lomong said. “The first

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Ohio State then-junior cross country runner Alex Lomong ran the third-fastest outdoor 800-meter time at the 2018 Big Ten Cross Country Championships.

time we landed in D.C., I mean, we get there, it was one of the coldest things I’ve ever experienced. New environment.”

Both Alex and Peter Lomong attended Fork Union Military Academy for middle and high school and followed in Lopez’s footsteps as distance runners.

“I just grinded,” Alex Lomong said. “I knew that I had to get a scholarship, some way.”

After 13 state titles and two All-America nods, Alex Lomong earned a scholarship to Ohio State.

Both he and cross country head coach Khadevis Robinson said being away from Peter and Lopez gave him the chance to create his own story.

“It’s an interesting dynamic because he has two older brothers who are extremely good,” Rob-

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Actively Adjusting

In-game defensive adjustments proving successful ANDY ANDERS Assistant Sports Editor anders.83@osu.edu Buried in the story of Ohio State’s 52-3 demolition of Northwestern is a drive that encapsulates a major reason why the Buckeyes have gone from No. 72 in total defense in 2018 to No. 2 in 2019.

With Ohio State leading 7-0 in the first quarter, Northwestern came out with a series of quick-hitting runs that moved the ball 40 yards on the ground and set up a 33-yard field goal to cut the lead to 7-3.

Northwestern failed to score again after that, the same quick-hitting runs unable to move the team into scoring position for the remainder of the contest.

Its offense was the latest victim of a trend among opponents of Ohio State’s defense in 2019 — if something works against it one drive, the Buckeyes make the adjustments necessary to ensure it won’t work again.

“In the run game, I thought [Northwestern] did a really good job,” co-defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley said. “They had some extra time with the bye week.

I thought they had some good run plans. I thought we adjusted well.”

Ohio State nearly lost to Maryland, then 5-5, in 2018 after it failed to adjust. Maryland redshirt freshman running back Anthony McFarland broke off two 70-yard-plus touchdown runs on near-identical plays, en route to a 298-yard rushing performance.

It took a 14-point second-half comeback and failed Terrapin two-point conversion in overtime for Ohio State to scratch out a 5251 win, all because the defense couldn’t adapt.

This season, Ohio State allows an average of eight points per game — No. 2 in the nation — and allowed touchdowns on back-to-back drives just once this season, with its backups on the field in the fourth quarter against Florida Atlantic.

Miami (Ohio), Nebraska and Michigan State all found temporary success, scoring a touchdown through the quick passing game, a new power option formation and downfield passing, respectively.

None of them maintained that success, failing to score another touchdown because of the defense’s ability to adjust.

Against Northwestern specifically, junior defensive end Chase Young said adjusting to what its opponent did on the ground was a matter of staying poised and zoning in on their keys as a unit.

“We had to regroup, refocus,

and we had to shut it down,” Young said.

Hafley said the ability to shut an offense down after it finds some success is a product of the communication among himself, defensive backs coach Matt Barnes and graduate assistant Sean Duggan from the press box to co-defensive coordinator Greg Mattison, defensive line coach Larry Johnson and linebackers coach Al Washington on the field.

“Defensively, it’s calm. We look at what happened. We talk about why,” Hafley said. “We see it pretty well from up there. We’re able to get the answers and make some quick adjustments.”

The communication relayed from box to sideline to player is as good as anywhere Hafley has

“When they say halftime adjustments, half the time I’m like, ‘If we wait until halftime, we’re gonna get killed.’”

JEFF HAFLEY Ohio State co-defensive coordinator

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TOP: Ohio State junior defensive end Chase Young (2) and senior tight end Rashod Berry (13) celebrate after the game against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 28. Ohio State won 48-7.

BOTTOM: Ohio State junior defensive end Chase Young (2) peels off a Michigan State offensive lineman during the second half of the game on Oct. 5. Ohio State won 34-10.

been, he said. After changes communicated like lightning between drives, the Buckeyes slow successful offensive schemes.

“When they say halftime adjustments, half the time I’m like, ‘If we wait until halftime, we’re gonna get killed,” Hafley said.

“Every single series, we have to adjust.”

Ohio State successfully flipped the script against Northwestern’s offense when it found success, as it has with so many others in 2019.

Young said he and his teammates aren’t taking time to celebrate that success, however. Their minds are now fully focused on doing the same Saturday against No. 13 Wisconsin. The Badgers average more yards rushing than any opponent Ohio State has played or will play, with junior running back Jonathan Taylor, a former Heisman Trophy finalist, leading the charge.

“My mind is gonna be immediately set on Wisconsin,” Young said. “I feel like that’s what all the leaders on this team are gonna do.

We’re gonna pull the young guys with us.”