October 6, 2022 - The Lantern

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College of Medicine implements manikins and sutures for all sizes and skin tones

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To better represent different patient types, manikins and suture pads used for medical training have been diversified in skin color shades and body types.

AMANI BAYO Lantern reporter bayo.6@osu.edu

College of Medicine students can now train as doctors using manikins and suture pads that better resemble patients with different skin colors and body types.

Sheryl Pfeil, medical director of the Clinical Skills Education and Assessment

Center, said manikins often used in medical simulations at Ohio State only represented a single demographic, which is why using diverse equipment can help prepare students to treat real patients of all sizes and skin tones.

“One is making sure that the experiences that we bring to our students are authentic, and they represent the experiences they will have and care for patients from the population wherever they practice,” Pfeil said.

Jordan Haber, a second-year in the Col lege of Medicine, said he recognized this disparity and participated in bringing this issue to the administration to acquire a diverse selection of training equipment for students.

Haber said it’s important for medical students to have training equipment that looks like them.

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Residence hall compost program to help Ohio State reach 2025 zero-waste goal

NATHAN MADER Lantern reporter mader.55@osu.edu

One person’s trash is Ohio State’s trea sure as the university expands its compost ing program to students living in residence halls.

Students can now sign up for the com posting program by signing a roommate agreement to collect their own residence hall compost bucket, participating in a new initiative aimed at helping Ohio State reach its goal of achieving zero waste by 2025, Tom Reeves, director of sustainability for the Office of Student Life, said.

program.

“A lot of the earlier efforts focused more on back-of-house and not very student-facing operations where a lot of food was being generated,” Kathleen said. “A lot of the earlier efforts were more on kitchen areas.”

fills, which otherwise would decompose in the anaerobic conditions — without oxy gen — and produce methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. So far, she said Ohio State has diverted 114 tons of organic material from landfills since July, thanks to efforts from the onand off-campus composting programs.

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Molly Kathleen, zero waste coordinator in Facilities Operations and Development, said the goal of achieving zero waste by 2025 was one of eight sustainability goals pledged by Ohio State in 2015 when only 29 percent of the university’s waste was be ing diverted away from landfills.

Compost buckets can be filled with food scraps, paper towels, napkins, animal prod ucts, organic matter and other compostable materials, Kathleen said. She said contain ers should be emptied at least once a week in one of the over 100 green drop-off bins found in the common areas of residence halls.

Kathleen said the waste is then taken to a registered compost facility where the ma terial is processed and turned into a nutri ent-rich soil amendment.

“If you, kind of, mix compost in with just regular soil, it just really enhances the soil as well as helps protect water,” Kathleen said. “It has the ability to improve the bio logical, chemical and physical characteris tics of soil, so it reduces our need for her bicides, pesticides and artificial fertilizers.”

Kathleen said the program allows students to compost organic material in their own dorms, and it expands on existing compost ing efforts already seen in dining halls, the Ohio Stadium and the off-campus drop-off

Reeves said bringing the program to res idence halls is important because it gets students more exposed to and engaged in Ohio State’s sustainability goals. He said the program’s goal is to get at least 1,000 students signed up by the end of the semes ter.

“We basically want to see composting in much more visible locations besides just the dining locations,” Reeves said. “If you work there, yeah, you know that we’re composting, but while they hire, you know, a couple thousand students, that’s nothing compared to the 60,000 we have.”

Reeves said Ohio State produces 20,000 tons of solid waste in a year, of which about a third can be composted. He said in the 2021 fiscal year, Ohio State’s diversion rate — waste diverted away from landfills — had grown to roughly 36 percent.

Kathleen said Ohio State is currently at a record 40 percent diversion rate, and if the expanded composting program goes well, it is projected to grow to 45 percent next year.

“Composting will definitely make a big difference on campus and making progress toward the waste diversion goal of zero waste,” Kathleen said.

Kathleen said another benefit to compost ing is keeping organic matter out of land

“The third-leading human-related cause of methane emissions in the U.S. is food waste and organics that has been disposed of in landfills,” Kathleen said.

Kathleen also said off-campus students and faculty interested in composting can sign up for Ohio State’s free drop-off program to receive a welcome kit with a small coun tertop compost bin, liners and a guide. She said those buckets can then be taken to one of the seven drop-off locations on campus every week, providing a more environmen tally friendly outlet many in Columbus have previously lacked access to.

“For people who are living in multifamily housing units like apartments, they don’t always have access to even recycling,” Kathleen said. “We thought if everybody’s coming here anyway, they could just bring their food waste, drop it off on their way to, you know, class or work, and then, you know, take their tote with them at the end of the day.”

According to a news release, about onethird of Ohio State’s waste is organic matter like food scraps and animal bedding from research labs, which is sent to landfills.

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He said he participated in producing the suture pads of color as an undergraduate at Michigan State because of the lack of medical equipment that resembled him as an Afro-Caribbean student.

“It’s been an incredible experience to be able to not only see them firsthand but to hear about them being used by other groups and then relaying to me how nice it was to have the same experience that I had,” Haber said.

James Read, associate director of the CSEAC, said his role in administration has allowed him to work with manufactur ers to bring new manikins to students in training that accurately represent a diverse patient population.

“Historically, manufacturers have made predominantly white male appearing devices, with one notable exception, and that is that there were female manikins for the purpose of labor and delivery simula tion,” Read said. “There wasn’t any real pressure for the past couple of decades on the manufacturers to really provide more than that.”

Read said incoming students will now have the opportunity to constantly work with diverse equipment as one of the College of Medicine’s efforts to promote inclusivity.

“We want to make sure that we are a sell ing point for the university and for the stu dents, in that they come in, and they say ‘I’m having experiences where I can see people like me as part of this experience where I can reflect on the fact that I’m serving a community that includes myself, my family, my friends,’” Read said.

Pfeil said this initiative also addresses the hidden curriculum — lessons not often learned but practiced — in the medical field where there is a disconnect in the goals and what is actually exercised.

“If we speak to caring for all patients and then all we present is a very uniform set of manikins, or even the arm where they place the IVs or the torsos where they perform intubation, if all we present is something that is not what we’re saying, there’s a disconnect there,” Pfeil said.

Haber said he is optimistic the inclusivity the manikins and suture pads of color will bring to medical training will soon become the normal practice.

“I can only imagine how I would have felt if I got to Ohio State and I went to the clinical skills center and saw suture pads and manikins that looked like me,” Haber said. “I’m really happy that moving forward, students, hopefully, will be able to not go through those hardships.”

Students practice stitching manikins of different skin tones and body types that better resemble patients.

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Sonam Rustagi, a fourth-year in econom ics, said the waste has an environmental impact and is bad financially for the uni versity. She said composting “is the most environmentally sensitive way to approach leftover food waste, post-consumer.”

Rustagi was one of 18 students accepted into the “Pathways to Net Zero Carbon Emissions” class taught by University President Kristina M. Johnson and Senior Vice President of the Office of Adminis tration and Planning Jay Kasey. Rustagi said the class focused on conducting re search and creating strategic energy plans to reduce carbon emissions, some of which might have influenced faculty to do more for the environment.

“A couple of different project groups in Dr. Johnson’s class focused on compost ing and different things that we could do in this area, and I think it may have engaged the staff members and administrators in the conversation more,” Rustagi said.

The new residence hall composting pro gram is a great indicator of Ohio State as a model for sustainability and the grow ing interest of students wanting to engage in environmentally conscious lifestyles, Rustagi said.

“I think it’s a great step forward, and I think it’s definitely a model that other uni versities could look at, too,” Rustagi said.

“Being such a large institution, I feel like we carry some of the responsibility in set ting the standard.”

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ARTS&LIFE

Ohio State’s School of Music refects on move to Timashev

Family Music Building, new director gets to work

$17 million to the College of Arts and Sciences’s construction project, according to Ohio State News.

Laura Portune, graduate and assistant pro fessor of practice in voice for the School of Music, said the new space is more accom modating than Hughes Hall because of its community-oriented design and variety of practice and performance spaces.

“We have really large ensemble rooms that are made for opera scenes or for opera re hearsals,” Portune said. “We have rooms built for the orchestra, we have jazz rooms, we have multimedia rooms and I believe about 88 individual practice rooms, each one with a piano and opportunities for a variety of instruments to meet together and practice.”

trict project, will replace the Drake Perfor mance and Event Center and will open in fall 2023. The School of Music will work to collaborate with its soon-to-be neigh bors, Portune said.

“I think that theater and music have so much to offer each other and to aid each other,” Portune said. “Having theater right next door, I’m really hoping that we will be able to take advantage of these great col laborations that have kind of been talked about, but were difficult to pull off because we were so far away from each other.”

Ibrahim said collaboration is encouraged between music and non-music majors, and the School of Music has plans to make double-majoring with a music major an easier process.

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After over two years of construction and more than a decade of planning, Ohio State’s Timashev Family Music Building is now home to the School of Music, former ly located in Hughes Hall.

Located at 1900 College Road N., the 96,000 square-foot Timashev Family Mu sic Building was completed in April and opened for classes for the fall 2022 semes ter. As part of the $165.3 million Arts Dis trict project, renovations were also made to the School of Music’s Weigel Hall, univer sity spokesperson Dan Hedman said in an email.

Micahel Ibrahim, director of the School of Music, said the construction provides new spaces for students to produce music.

“We do a lot in music school,” Ibrahim said. “We perform, we rehearse, we record, we study, we teach lectures and we now have spaces that are truly state of the art to accompany all those various different activities.”

Ibrahim, who’s a saxophonist and former West Virginia School of Music director, started his position on July 1, just after the Timashev Family Music Building’s con struction was completed, he said.

“Over the course of these 10 years, funds and community support have developed, and just over the past couple of years, it re ally took off in terms of the building, the creation of it and the project. I couldn’t be more thrilled and humbled to be here at the tail end of it,” Ibrahim said.

Ratmir Timashev, a 1996 Ohio State alum nus and CEO of Veeam Software, provided

In addition, the five-floor Timashev Family Music Building houses a 195-seat recital hall, accompanying the School of Music’s existing 720-seat Weigel Auditorium, ac cording to the College of Arts and Scienc es’ Arts District page.

Jonathan Mitchell, a third-year in music education, said he feels a different energy this year in the new building compared to his time spent in Hughes Hall.

“Hughes was one of those buildings that, it was kind of difficult to collaborate, simply because of the limited space, and it always seemed like you were fighting for a room,” Mitchell said. “With the new building be ing so massive, there are plenty of spaces for collaboration, plenty of spaces for you to do individual practice and more oppor tunities.”

The Department of Theatre, Film, and Me dia Arts building, also part of the Arts Dis

With the Arts District having a large pres ence in central campus, Ibrahim said the School of Music can differentiate itself from other music schools. Mitchell said the building will also help spark connec tion among peers through music.

“Community, to me, represents a group of people coming together as a collective whole, working for the greater good. That’s very apparent now that we are all in this space,” Mitchell said. “You have a better opportunity to not only celebrate each dis tinctive individual, but also you can see how we work together, and it’s much more apparent that we are one people that are here because we love music.”

The School of Music will host the Tima shev Family Music Building Dedication and Celebration on Oct. 23 from 1-4:30 p.m. — including an open house and con cert by students, according to the School of Music.

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Timashev Family Music Building at the Wexner Center for the Arts is now open for classes.

Kenny Mason blends rock and rap ferociously on “RUFFS”

However, the second verse will be sure to reel the listener back in, as Mason’s con stant flow switch brings a new energy to the track.

“RX (feat. Amindi)” is a slow, dull track that feels out of place as it precedes the en ergetic “SPIN N FLIP (feat. Young Nudy),” which features Mason gliding over the synth-heavy instrumental and Nudy add ing his unique, laid-back sound to the song.

melodic chorus, Mason serves with an im pressive verse before switching up the beat and delivering a memorable second half.

The most ethereal, spacey hook on the project appears in “BOA.” The simple in strumental paves the way for some of Ma son’s most complete verses on the entire mixtape.

Kenny Mason performed on the second day of Lollapalooza, July 30, 2021.

JOEY PERKINS Lantern reporter perkins.696@osu.edu

Kenny Mason, an Atlanta-native rap art ist, released his new mixtape, “RUFFS,” Sept. 28.

This mixtape comes about a year and a half after his previous project, “Angelic Hoodrat: Supercut,” in April 2021. “Super cut” is the sequel to his debut album, “An gelic Hoodrat,” which was released almost exactly a year prior in April 2020.

Mason has been on a consistent upward trajectory since bursting onto the scene two years ago. “Supercut” features popular artists, such as Freddie Gibbs, Denzel Cur ry and Ambar Lucid as Mason continues to make his name more prevalent.

Not only is Mason featured on Dreamville’s 2022 song, “Stick,” which has amassed over 25 million plays on Spotify, but he is also included on two tracks on fellow Atlanta-rapper JID’s newest album, “The Forever Story,” released in August.

The ability to successfully blend grunge with hip-hop is no easy feat, but Mason has proved time and time again that he is more than capable of doing so.

After kicking off the mixtape with a riff heavy track in “ZOOMIES,” Mason show cases his rapping ability over demand ing drums and a soulful instrumental on “HALOS.” Mason lets his vocals ride the beat smoothly, allowing the background to jump to the front.

“HALLOWEEN,” one of the three tracks previously released via his “PUP PACK EP” in August, has nonchalant melodies on the chorus that perfectly meet his short, tothe-point verses.

Mason didn’t include the star track on “PUP PACK EP” in “Get An Idea,” which is not only a highlight of the EP, but one of the most well-rounded, emotional tracks in his discography.

Following a lowkey, catchy track in “DIP! (feat. DavidTheTragic),” one also fea tured on Mason’s “PUP PACK EP,” comes “MINUTE FOREVER.” The song is an other guitar-heavy track drawing influence from contemporary rock music. Despite a lackluster chorus, Mason delivers a confi dent verse.

Conversely, “DOUBLE UP” has an ear-catching hook, but the first verse fails to capitalize.

Up next comes the start of an incredi ble four-track run with “MAMA DON’T KNOW.” Mason’s gloomy delivery meshes perfectly with the dark, gritty instrumen tal. “NOSEDIVE (feat. Jean Dawson)” is an intense, fiery track that features a loud, strong performance from Mason and an equally powerful one from Dawson over a cut-back instrumental before returning to Mason’s infectious chorus to end the track.

“333 / ATOM” is yet another track that shows Mason’s versatility. Starting with a

“GIVENCHY” is a hard-hitting track that contains boastful lyrics and a captivating chorus. “BLACK HEART” is an eerie, borderline dreary track that contains an unconcerned delivery with a carefully in corporated lack of energy that adds to the track’s thematics.

“SHELL” is Mason’s most complete rap ping performance on the mixtape.

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The instrumental is one of many high lights of the track, as it samples The Ed wards Generation’s “You’re The One For Me.” Mason’s flow is top tier and clearly well thought out.

The closing track, “WESTSIDE,” serves as a beautiful outro to the mixtape. Mason focuses more on his singing ability in this song and succeeds as his voice glides over the acoustic guitar-centered instrumental.

“RUFFS,” is yet another win for Mason, as he seems to create music and carve out his unique sound. Although labeled as a mixtape, “RUFFS” mostly plays through like an album. Despite occasional hiccups and a few generic instrumentals, “RUFFS” is a strong outing for Mason.

Mixtapes tend to be less thorough than al bums, a trait “RUFFS” possesses. Regard less, Mason released a project that will be sure to turn heads as he continues to build upon his discography.

Field Hockey: Danson’s success not a surprise to team

GREG WILSON Lantern reporter wilson.3400@osu.edu

Abby Danson is in her first season as the starting goaltender on the Ohio State field hockey team, but to her coaches and team mates, her success was not a shock.

The junior from Clifton Park, New York, is setting career-best numbers across the stat sheet for Ohio State in 2022, including four shutouts and a current saves percentage of over 84 percent.

Head coach Jarred Martin said he recog nizes the effort Danson puts in off the field to get to this point.

“People don’t see all that work,” Martin said. “The time she puts in, the energy she puts in. She’s constantly watching video, scouting the opponents, things that they do, tendencies. She’s always trying to get

extra reps.”

Danson started the season strong with three straight shutouts, marking the first time any player has done so in a Buckeye uniform.

Her performances put her near the top of statistical rankings among Big Ten field hockey goalkeepers.

Danson leads behind an 0.842 save per centage and is tied for most shutouts with four. She is second in goals allowed per game with only 0.931 and third in saves per game with 4.80.

Danson said many things got her to this point, such as playing for the Los Angeles team in the Senior Nexus Championship over the summer with some of the top current and former collegiate field hockey players in the country.

“I wanted to play against really good com-

petition and get ready to see those types of shots,” Danson said. “A lot of the girls out there are in the Big Ten, so it was nice to see some of their shots and play alongside them for a little bit.”

Associate head coach Kate Lipton is also playing a part in the goaltender’s success. Danson said Lipton takes her and freshman goalie Kelly Davis out to the field early once a week to work on anything they feel is necessary.

The Buckeyes defensive backs believe Danson’s improvements this season have helped them throughout the year, senior back Delaney Lawler said. Lawler said she credits Danson for much of the success the defense is having this season.

“This year, if not every year that we’ve had her and that she’s been in a Buckeye uni form, Abby has consistently been our rock on the field,” Lawler said. “She’s so steady,

so persistent with her play and her commu nication. The biggest thing I’ve seen her change this year is that she is demanding.”

Lawler said her communication is “on an other level,” and she expects a lot out of the defense because of the experience they have.

Danson said even with her success, she isn’t satisfied. She said she wants to contin ue to improve and win as many games as the team can, and Martin said he admires the drive that she has shown during her time at Ohio State.

“Where she is now, she’s not going to settle for anything,” Martin said. “She wants to keep pushing her abilities to be better and better. That’s why she’s had success. I think that’s why the shutouts are coming. I know it’s only going to get better and better.”

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With four shutouts and a save percentage of over 84, junior goalkeeper Abby Danson (75) has emerged as a star in her first season starting for Ohio State.

Men’s Basketball: Buckeyes seeing an ‘uptick’ along star-studded recruiting trail

JACOB BENGE Sports Editor benge.30@osu.edu

Ohio State men’s basketball rolled out the red carpet for its recruits in recent weeks.

Since Aug. 3, the Buckeyes received three verbal commitments from the class of 2023 in forwards Scotty Middleton and Devin Royal as well as guard Taison Chatman, who officially visited Sept. 2 before verbal ly agreeing to join the Buckeyes next year.

The attention Ohio State garnered is a re sult of those within the program participat ing with all hands on deck, and head coach Chris Holtmann said to look no further than the coaching staff.

“I think the uptick in recruiting has been really a collaborative work,” Holtmann said. “I think we have a tremendous staff, and I would begin with that. I think we have a staff that has really worked at it.”

NBA players Andre Iguodala and Jayson Tatum attended the Ohio State football game Sept. 3 when the Buckeyes played then-No. 5 Notre Dame, and several re cruits were on the sidelines at Ohio Stadi um.

Among the visitors included four-time NBA Most Valuable Player LeBron James, who’s involved on the recruiting trail him self as his son LeBron James Jr. is a 2023 recruit. Nicknamed “Bronny,” the younger James ranks as a four-star recruit within the 2023 Rivals150, and posted a photo of himself in a Buckeye uniform on Instagram after unofficially visiting during the first

weekend of September.

Although recruiting rules limit the extent to which Holtmann can discuss specific recruits, such as the prospects of Bronny James’s recruitment to Ohio State, Holt mann said he’s had pleasant interactions with LeBron James in the past.

“I would just tell you, my experiences in the past with LeBron has been phenome nal,” Holtmann said. “He’s just been such an incredibly impressive person.”

LeBron James has even teased his own col lege eligibility in a tweet Sept. 24, leading to a tweeted response from athletic director Gene Smith.

“If you never enrolled full-time in col lege and didn’t compete in the sport that you want to play after HS graduation, you could have eligibility remaining,” Smith said in the tweet. “If you professionalize in one sport, you can still be considered an amateur in another. Would love to help you!”

Ohio State’s boost in recruiting activity comes before the early signing period Nov. 9. In the lead up to signing day, the Buck eyes received the verbal commitment of Chatman just over two weeks after George Washington III, a 2023 four-star forward from Kentucky, committed according to Rivals.

Holtmann said different factors have a hand in Ohio State’s latest recruiting cycle, from high-profile visits to conversations surrounding name, image and likeness in addition to how the Buckeyes program can help players move on to professional bas ketball.

“You’re always going to get that question from recruits: Who have you as a head coach and as a staff produced in terms of draft picks or first-round draft picks?” Holtmann said.

Former Buckeyes guard Malaki Branham and forward E.J. Liddell represent Ohio State’s most recent NBA draft picks as both heard their names called in June. For mer guard Duane Washington Jr. is a recent undrafted free agent who earned playing time with the Indiana Pacers after depart ing Ohio State after the 2020-21 season.

Holtmann said the Buckeyes coaching staff have noticed the program’s recent NBA history has allowed them to show recruits there can be a path from Ohio State to the NBA.

“I’d be lying if I said that the NBA’s suc cess of two guys being drafted, Duane also

being in the NBA right now, didn’t play a role,” Holtmann said. “It’s played a major role.”

The Buckeyes finished with the No. 7 re cruiting class nationally, according to Ri vals, during the 2022 cycle, featuring five players and four of whom are four-star re cruits.

Ohio State’s 2023 recruiting class current ly ranks No. 7 on the Rivals team rankings as well. The Buckeyes currently have four verbal commitments and remain navigat ing the recruiting trail, and Holtmann said the efforts from the coaching staff have led to a promising outlook.

“It’s clear that this class on campus and the one we hope to sign here in a few weeks, is the best it’s been,” Holtmann said. “It’s exciting.”

CASEY SMITH LTV SPORTS PRODUCER LeBron James and his son LeBron James Jr. during No. 3 Ohio State’s 21-10 win over then-No. 5 Notre Dame on Sept. 3.