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US nuclear waste storage model incomplete, Ohio State researchers suggest
Professor’s use of racial slur in class prompts student letter, university review
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Winner of Best Picture has potential to inspire reflection on worldwide policies and diplomacy ON PAGE 6
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A nuclear waste canister, made from copper, will be used at Finland’s nuclear waste repository at the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant.
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JACK LONG Special Projects Director long.1684@osu.edu Over the next several decades, the amount of United States nuclear waste is expected to be more than 150,000 tons, and the proposed containers to hold some of the waste might corrode. Ohio State researchers suggest the canisters proposed to be used to store nuclear waste will corrode faster than originally thought, releasing highly toxic radioactive material into the environment, according to a study published Jan. 27 in Nature Materials. Xiaolei Guo, a research asso-
ciate in the materials science and engineering department, said previous models for predicting corrosion were incomplete because they didn’t take into account how the rusting canisters would interact with high-level nuclear waste. “None of the previous studies considered this kind of corrosion interactions,” Guo said. “They have not considered the waste package as an entire system.” High-level waste is the most toxic radioactive waste and the byproduct of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, according to the websites of the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the Department of Energy.
The U.S. has more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste that need to be disposed of safely, and about 15,000 tons are high level. Most of the waste — including spent nuclear fuel used at power plants — is stored where it was generated, according to the GAO website. In 1987, the U.S. began looking at a mountain 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as a place to store the country’s nuclear waste, but a facility has not been completed. Stainless steel canisters containing the waste would be mined
into tunnels 1,000 feet below the Yucca Mountain top, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s website. The nuclear waste would be processed and mixed with glass or ceramics to make “waste forms” before being placed into the canisters, Guo said. The corrosion-resistant glass and ceramic materials would prevent the release of radioactive elements into the environment. When the packages go into the ground, heat from the waste NUCLEAR WASTE CONTINUES ON 4
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Racial slur by professor prompts letter, review
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The Office of Institutional Equity, located in Bricker Hall, is reviewing Paul Granello’s position at Ohio State.
KAYLEE HARTER Editor-in-Chief harter.830@osu.edu An Ohio State professor and suicide prevention expert is under university review after his use of a racial slur in class prompted a letter from students. Paul Granello, an associate professor of counselor education, apologized in a letter this past semester for his use of offensive language in class. The university is now reviewing the incident and other issues raised by the incident, university spokesperson Ben Johnson said in an email. Granello and his wife Darcy Haag Granello, professor of counselor education and director of the Ohio State Campus Suicide
Prevention Program, were originally scheduled to teach classes during the spring semester. Instead, they are both “developing curriculum, conducting research and handling other responsibilities as university faculty,” Johnson said in the statement. Both are under review by the Office of Institutional Equity, but it is unclear why Darcy Granello is under review. Paul Granello’s annual salary from Ohio State is $84,127.68 and Darcy Granello’s is $118,574.64, according to Ohio State’s salaries and earnings database. The Oct. 16, 2019, letter from second-year graduate students in the school counseling program raised concerns about Granello’s comparison of slurs for people of
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PAUL GRANELLO Associate professor of counselor
color and with intellectual disabilities with the impact of saying “committed suicide” instead of “completed suicide.” “Changing and evolving terms to address stigma is very import-
ant for suicide prevention and none of us want to minimize that, but we don’t believe that this is an equal comparison, given the historical context and the power dynamics inherent in who can use what terms and when,” the letter reads. The discussion, part of a graduate-level course with 12 students, was about the power of language, Granello said in an email to The Lantern. “I gave examples of how certain words carry so much power that they have become damaging to use. I never used the word in a pejorative context,” he said in the email. “I was teaching about the power of language. I became aware later that some students were offended by the words used
even in that context.” The students’ letter said they were uncomfortable with Granello using the word outright instead of alluding to it and questioned whether he would have made the same decision had there been black students present. Granello said in his apology letter to the class dated Nov. 17, 2019, that he “messed up” and his use of the word was inappropriate regardless of the context. “The use of that type of language is not who I want to be as a person or as an educator,” he said in the letter. Granello said in the email that in future discussions he will use “euphemisms such as the ‘N-word.’”
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Possibilities in Postle Hall New College of Dentistry facility increases admissions MACKENZIE SHANKLIN Lantern reporter shanklin.32@osu.edu
The construction will provide the college with amenities such as eight With having the new Beginning this summer, Col- small-group practechnology in there, I think lege of Dentistry students will tice clinics and four have a new place to call home af- new surgery units, that everyone, all the ter four years of development. Hedman said. students, will be able to learn The $95-million project, which The practice and apply new skills. was approved by the Board clinics will provide of Trustees in 2016, will add an area for dental MARY LALLY 130,000 square feet to Postle and dental hygiene Fourth-year in dental hygiene Hall, increasing the number of students to collabcollege admissions by 10 percent, orate on patient Dan Hedman, university spokes- care and treatment person, said in an email. planning under the guidance of ter will house four surgery units Ohio State is the only state den- faculty dentists while also provid- and four recovery rooms where tal school in Ohio, educating 63 ing dental services for patients, a patients undergo surgical procepercent of the state’s dentists, Pat- spokesperson from the College of dures from Ohio State dentistry rick Lloyd, dean of the College of Dentistry said in an email. faculty in the practice and resiDentistry, said. The ambulatory surgery cen- dents, the spokesperson said. Ohio State will be the first dental school in the United States to have operating rooms that provide general anesthesia for patients, Lloyd said. “With the construction of an updated facility, we will be able to exploit new technologies and proven operational systems to enhance efficiencies in patient care and student education,” Lloyd said in the building announcement. Additionally, there will be an expanded radiology clinic for oral imaging, a dental faculty practice, a central equipment sterilization facility and a two-story atrium to help foster a place for students, faculty and staff to come together, COURTESY OF TAMMARRA R. PACE Hedman said. College of Dentistry students use newly remodeled classrooms for lectures. Mary Lally, a fourth-year in
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Postle Hall construction will be completed in summer 2020, and it will allow the College of Dentistry to increase the number of dental students admitted each year.
dental hygiene, said the new facilities will improve the programs. “With having the new technology in there, I think that everyone, all the students, will be able to learn and apply new skills,” Lally said. Lloyd said the expansion will also offer more space for different types of simulated experiences for students. “These are laboratories where students work in an environment — it’s very much like the practice environment with this chair, the light, the drills, the water spray, the air spray and all the positions — is very much like treating a person,” Lloyd said. Dental students use the simulation labs for procedural situations, and dental hygiene students use the simulated experience for cleaning teeth, Lally said. The new space will better facilitate collaborations between dental students and dental hygiene students to best prepare them for higher education or for the transition into a practice, Lloyd said. “The dental hygiene and dental
students work together, caring for patients and treating them together as a team and learning about each other’s scope of practice, and how to best benefit from the different skills they have,” Lloyd said.
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forms would dry the water up around the tunnels, but thousands of years later, the water will return when the forms cool down, Guo said. Each part of the waste package, by itself, would take hundreds of thousands of years to corrode; however, when these parts are pressed against each other, corrosion accelerates. The water will corrode the canister first, releasing metal ions and protons that create an acidic environment between the stainless steel and the waste forms. Guo said because the space between the forms and the canister is so small, the concentration of ions and protons “can increase very fast.” The waste forms will begin to
corrode more rapidly than normal conditions when exposed to this environment, and Guo said this corrosion will release the embedded radioactive nuclear waste into the surrounding area. Over a month, the research team, which included scientists at Ohio State, Penn State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of North Texas, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory simulated the corrosion of the materials together and used computers to project expected corrosion over thousands of years, according to a press release from PNNL. “We can’t just do a test on a
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which indicated the simulation caused higher rates of corrosion. Aside from Finland, no country has begun to build a storage site for high-level nuclear waste. The Finnish site will use canisters made from copper and cast iron, according to the website of Posiva Oy, the company tasked with building the storage facility under the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in Finland. Guo said the current U.S. model for storing nuclear waste is not totally insufficient, but incomplete. “The final plan for the disposal has not been finalized yet,” Guo said. “We still have time — have [the] capability to improve it to ensure safety.”
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Editor in Chief Kaylee Harter Managing Editor for Content Abhigyaan Bararia Managing Editor for Design Kelly Meaden Managing Editor for Multimedia Casey Cascaldo Copy Chief Anna Ripken Campus Editor Sam Raudins Assistant Campus Editor Lydia Weyrich LTV Campus Director Akayla Gardner Sports Editor Griffin Strom Assistant Sports Editor Andy Anders LTV Sports Director Brian Nelson Assistant Sports Director Khalid Hashi Arts & Life Editor Nicholas Youngblood Assistant Arts & Life Editor Ashley Kimmel LTV Arts & Life Director Oliver Boch Photo Editor Amal Saeed Assistant Photo Editor Cori Wade Design Editor Victoria Grayson Assistant Design Editor Richard Giang Social Media Editor Shelby Metzger Engagement Editor Lily Maslia LTV Special Projects Director Jack Long Oller Reporter Jasmine Hilton Miller Reporter Emma Scott Moran Director of Student Media General Sales Manager Lantern TV Production
LILY MASLIA Outreach & Engagement Editor maslia.2@osu.edu A motor vehicle theft was reported to Columbus Police as having occurred between 11 p.m. Feb. 2 and 3 p.m. Feb. 3 on Summit Street near East Ninth Avenue. According to the online police log, the complainant parked his vehicle overnight it was missing when he returned. An assault was reported to Columbus Police as having occurred at 8 a.m. Feb. 4 on East 14th Avenue near North Fourth Street. According to the online police log, the victim flagged down an officer and stated that the suspect slapped her across the face and took her cellphone.
A rape was reported to University Police as having occurred at 3 p.m. Feb. 4 at East Hospital.
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THE LANTERN A felony assault was reported to Columbus Police as having occurred at 7:40 p.m. Thursday on East Long Street. According to the online police log, the victim approached the witness on East Eighth Avenue near Summit Street and said he was stabbed on East Long Street. The assault squad was contacted, and the victim was transported to a nearby hospital.
A motor vehicle theft was reported to Columbus Police as having occurred between 2:30 p.m. Thursday and 5:15 p.m. Friday on East 13th Avenue near Indianola Avenue. According to the online police log, the victim’s vehicle was taken from the listed location, and the keys were not with the vehicle. A theft was reported to University Police as having occurred between 11 p.m. Wednesday and 7:55 a.m. Thursday at Morrill Tower. An incident of criminal endangering and theft was reported to University Police as having occurred between 4:45 and 9:30 p.m. Thursday at Taylor Tower. A burglary was reported to Columbus Police as having oc-
curred at midnight Saturday on East 15th Avenue near Indianola Avenue. According to the online police log, an unknown suspect(s) forced entry by breaking the door and stole $1,370 of property, including a laptop and Apple accessories. An assault was reported to Columbus Police as having occurred between 2:30 and 8 a.m. Saturday on East 14th Avenue near North Fourth Street. According to the online police log, the suspect struck the two victims in their faces and hit them with glass bottles. The suspect stated that she threw glass bottles at a wall but not at the victims.
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2020 OSCARS
Professors reflect on bigger picture of Best Picture
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ASHLEY KIMMEL Assistant Arts&Life Editor kimmel.103@osu.edu
hat viewers of the 92nd Academy Awards witnessed Sunday was more significant than the obligatory sappy speeches, wardrobe mishaps, red carpet gossip and uncomfortable wrapup music that often accompany award shows. “Parasite” made history at the Oscars as it became the first non-English language film to win Best Picture, and Ohio State professors said this marks a major turn. Directed by Bong Joon-ho, the dark comedy follows a working class South Korean family and their relationship with a wealthy household that quickly turns sour. The film also won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film, an award formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film. In his acceptance of Best Internation-
al Feature Film, Bong said he is proud of the change and what it symbolizes, something Pil Ho Kim, an assistant professor in East Asian languages and literature, can agree with. “The name change from ‘foreign language’ to ‘international’ suggests a more open attitude toward international films by the Academy. Moving forward, I expect that non-English language films would get a better chance to be nominated and win most prestigious prizes in American film award shows,” Kim said in an email. Kim said the film’s success could be the beginning of an increased interest in international cinema among students, as the awards “Parasite” won have created a heightened attraction to the movie. Typically, he said, Korean films that come to the Gateway
Film Center might run for a week, whereas “Parasite” has been running since November. This increase in student interest is something Chan Park, a professor in East Asian languages and literature, said she hopes will open conversation about the film’s depiction of Korean politics — a topic viewers might not seek out on their own. “Most of the blockbuster-success movies in the contemporary time are pretty simple in that sense that people can kind of immediately know that, ‘Ah! That bad
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Moving forward, I expect that nonEnglish language films would get a better chance to be nominated and win most prestigious prizes in American film award shows. Pil Ho Kim
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Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won, winners of the Best Original Screenplay award for “Parasite,” posing in the press room at the 92nd Annual Academy Awards Feb. 9.
127 total film awards earned worldwide sources: Indiewire, BBC, Rotten Tomatoes
“I really think that a movie like this will be a great beginning and momentum to have more serious conversation about Korea.” —Chan Park
guy in that conservative people or the good guy is a progressive,’ you know that kind of thing … But this movie is intriguing, that ‘I don’t know what — where this is really going.’ It almost seems like it sort of, you know, each the character has a little bit of both,” Park said. Park said the film might inspire audiences to reflect on the ways in which countries across the world
impact one another through policy and diplomatic relations.
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really think that a movie like this will be a great beginning and momentum to have more serious conversation about Korea, because what happens today is that the whole globe is so connected together,” Park said.
Cast and crew of “Parasite” attend the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland Feb. 9.
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Student environmental group looks to better future
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n a political landscape where environmental issues are a dire topic, a club whose roots date back to 1892 is fighting for a better future on campus. The Ohio State Sierra Club Student Coalition is a university chapter of the national environmental organization. The student organization is looking forward to opportunities for environmental activism in the coming months, including its spring installment of Voices on Sustainability, a semesterly public program in which the
club invites a guest speaker to talk about environmental issues, Luke Bobay, a third-year in environmental science and evolution and ecology and the club’s president, said. The club works to combat environmental issues through three main areas: education, service and advocacy, Bobay said. Voices on Sustainability falls under the club’s education efforts. This semester, the club will host a conference call with Vincent Stanley, chief philosophy officer of clothing company Patagonia, to discuss how businesses can adopt sustainable, environmentally conscious practices. Callia Tellez, a
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Sierra Club members during their Oct. 2019 visit to Kayford Mountain to learn about mountaintop removal.
fourth-year in environmental policy and decision-making and the club’s advocacy chair, said the club is hoping to involve business students in the discussion. For its service work, the club works on projects such as Olen-
tangy River trash cleanups and invasive species removal, Bobay said. The club’s advocacy work primarily consists of working with local and national organizations, including Appalachians Against
Pipelines and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, as well as helping students connect with their local government representatives to talk about environmental issues, Tellez said. SIERRA CLUB CONTINUES ON 7
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“It’s really exciting to help students — for the first time — look up who their local representative is and call them or have a meeting with them, because people need to remember that it is their right as citizens to be able to communicate to your representatives,” Tellez said. Brian Bush, a third-year in environmental science and the club’s vice president, said the fourth component of the club’s activities is recreation. “A big part of it, and in the Sierra Club’s founding, too, is not
only preserving these things and advocating for these things, but enjoying them, so we try to periodically do some group outings,” Bush said. In April, the club will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Tellez said. While the club plans to look back on the progress made in the past half-century, she said they will also discuss what needs to be done in the future. “The Cuyahoga may not be on fire anymore, but we are losing our mountains in West Virginia due to mountaintop removal, and we’re losing our regulations
due to the current administration, so 50 years into this celebration of Earth Day, what is our attention going to be on in the next 50 years?” Bush said the club also advocates at the university level — most recently in October 2019, when it sent a letter to the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences expressing concern about the hiring of former Trump EPA administrator Clint Woods, who left his position at Ohio State Jan. 31. Tellez said one of the major roadblocks when working with
the university is how easy it is for the administration to brush students off due to the quick turnover of the student body compared to the slow process of structural change. She said that in the future, the club would like to be more included in university discussion on environmental issues. “It’s been a challenge in the past for us to communicate with the administration, and so we’re hoping that we can open that dialogue more, especially in problematic relationships such as investments in fossil fuel companies
and our dependent relationship on Coca-Cola funding,” she said. Voices on Sustainability will be held at 7:30 p.m. March 18 in the Busch House Valor Room. Sierra Club meetings are at 7:30 p.m. every other Wednesday in Enarson Classroom Building Room 245.
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How Short North does Galentine’s Day JULIANNE KERVER Lantern reporter kerver.3@osu.edu
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nce a fictitious holiday from a popular sitcom, Galentine’s Day has become a widely celebrated pre-Valentine’s celebration for women everywhere. Thursday is Galentine’s Day, a holiday founded by Amy Poehler’s character, Leslie Knope, in an episode of “Parks and Recreation” as a day for “ladies celebrating ladies.” The Feb. 13 event has taken off in real life since the episode’s original airing in 2010. This year, both the Young Executives for Success and Pinot’s Palette in the Short North Arts District will join in the fun. “Galentine’s Day, to me, is a celebration of the special women that you have in your life,” Stephanie Noel, owner of Pinot’s Palette, said. “That could be friends, family, people who have made a difference in your life.” Pinot’s Palette is a national chain of paint and sip studios, where guests can take a painting class with friends and enjoy a glass of wine. The Short North location opened its doors Thursday. “One of the goals that I’ve had in Pinot’s Palette as a whole is creating an environment where
Pinot’s Palette will host “Paris in the Moonlight” Feb. 13.
people can connect, where they can put their phones down for a little bit and unwind and do something together, create some memories together,” Noel said. “And so just like all of our other events, Galentine’s Day allows people to come together and celebrate each other and just spend time together
in the moment.” Young Executives for Success, like Pinot’s Palette, will give Galentine’s Day guests a place to connect with other women, but with a chance to give back. YES, a local nonprofit organization, holds events year-round in support of Dress for Success, an
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international not-for-profit organization that aims to encourage women in the workplace and on job quests by providing professional attire and career advice. YES will be hosting a Galentine’s Day celebration at Dress for Success. “At this event, we’re gonna
be creating little cards to give to them with their outfits that they pick out at the boutique, and they’re just designed to be little motivational, empowerment cards that they can take with them to kind of build confidence as they get out and endeavor in their new careers,” Erin Hackett, president of YES Columbus, said. Hackett said she hopes those attending leave the event one step closer to finding their dream career. “One connection might be the connection that you need to build your business or to get your dream job or whatever it is, and so if we can make one meaningful connection at this event, that would be a good takeaway from us,” Hackett said. Pinot’s Palette is located at 691 N. High St. Its Galentine’s event, “Paris in the Moonlight,” begins at 6:30 p.m. and costs $35 to attend. Guests can register at pinotspalette.com/shortnorth. Young Executives for Success’ event begins at 6 p.m. at 1204 N. High St., and a donation of $10 is suggested. Registration is available at yes.dfscmh.org/event/ galentines-day, and light refreshments will be available.
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Ohio State sophomore Kolie Allen stands with her father, Maurice Allen, following a tennis meet. Maurice Allen travels from Lombard, Illinois, to nearly each of his daughter’s matches.
watch all her matches is only a natural thing for me.” Kolie Allen finished her freshman season 21-7 and led the team in dual meets with a 19-6 record. She recently assisted the Buck-
eyes against Oklahoma State with a singles win in three sets against freshman Alana Wolfberg. She is not the only Allen impacting the team, however. “We are all a part of the team.
When they suit up, we suit up, and we hit the road,” Maurice Allen said. “We have been to some hostile territories.” Maurice Allen is a commercial market development manager for Comcast Chicago and lives in Chicago suburb Lombard, Illinois. Regardless of the distance, he can be seen — and heard — at almost every home and away match. He and wife Jody Allen have traveled the country to see the Buckeyes play in Nashville, Seattle and recently Stillwater, Oklahoma, where Ohio State clinched a berth to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Indoor Championship with a 4-3 win against Oklahoma State. “It’s always nice to have a crowd, and [Maurice Allen] always contributes a ton with the Buckeyes chants. It makes you laugh a bit and helps take that stress away,” redshirt senior Danielle Wolf said. But his cheers aren’t one size fits all. Allen can be heard shouting specific chants for other individual players aside from his daughter, such as “Allez Buckeyes!” for French junior Luna
Dormet and “IC!” for freshman Irina Cantos Siemers. “His supportive nature of everyone on the team –– not just specifically me –– has had a big impact on our team,” Kolie Allen said. “It lightens the mood. Everyone knows he’s my dad, and he’s goofy. If you’re in a bad spot, he helps you get out of it.”
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However, Maurice Allen isn’t a one-man band. He said his wife Jody handles all the travel plans and drives on long road trips. While Jody Allen isn’t as vocal as her husband during their daughter’s matches, she exchanges a
fist-bump with Kolie prior to each of her contests. Maurice Allen can also be a burden on opposing athletes. Kolie Allen said that this past spring, Minnesota senior Tina Kreinis looked up constantly during the match at Maurice Allen after hearing him cheer for his daughter. “My dad is very good at annoying my opponents. It’s helpful because they obviously get rattled,” Kolie Allen said. Maurice Allen didn’t have to travel as far to see his daughter compete in this past weekend’s ITA Indoor Championship, though. In Chicago, the tournament took place just 35 minutes from the Allen residence. The Buckeyes lost two of three matchups –– the opener against Georgia Tech and another to Texas –– but one bright spot was Kolie Allen. She won two of three singles matches, including an upset of No. 125 Texas junior Fernanda Labrana. In victory and defeat, though, the vocal support of Maurice Allen is one thing his daughter won’t have to worry about changing.
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–– but Coombs said that wasn’t something he asked for. “I don’t make conditions,” he said. While Coombs said he improved as a coach in the professional ranks, developing players is one of the reasons he was thrilled to rejoin the college game. “I love recruiting. I love going into high schools and talking with high school coaches,” Coombs said. “I love meeting players when they’re 16, 17, 18 years old and seeing that transition from a boy to a man. I love being behind the stage on a draft night and seeing a kid realize his dreams. I love coming out of that tunnel on a Saturday afternoon.” Coombs helped recruit seven of the returning Ohio State defen-
sive backs on the roster, and his addition to the coaching staff solidified Martinez’s commitment. He was the lone Buckeye to sign on this past week’s National Signing Day. “A place like Ohio State, you’re going to have great coaches here. And I told [Martinez] it’s my job to make sure he has the best coach he can possibly have and that’s what we’re going to do,” Day said. Coombs’ return was a plus for other incoming Buckeyes in the secondary as well. “I was definitely really excited because — knowing that I met him my freshman year — he was the first person to originally offer me from here,” incoming fourstar safety Lejond Cavazos said.
“Knowing that he was coming back, it was definitely a big blessing.” Day said Coombs’ personality has already been felt around the facility, joking that he drinks “four pots of coffee a day” and can be heard coming down the hallways. As for the fear that Coombs may leave again, Day said he thinks his new defensive coordinator wanted a taste of NFL experience, but hopes he’s back in Columbus for the long haul. Back home once again, Coombs doesn’t sound opposed to the idea either. “I love Ohio State. I don’t want to understate this, and I missed it,” he said.
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anymore, but I grew up here,” Coombs said. “And so for me to be part of such a special place and to have that connection with realEach NFL football Sunday for ly everybody. There’s nowhere I the past two years in Nashville, can go where somebody doesn’t Tennessee, –– all 16 occasions say, ‘O-H.’ Nowhere.” –– Kerry Coombs saw the same He wasn’t gone long, though. fan sitting by the gate when he The Colerain, Ohio, native and prepared to enter Nissan Stadium. Dayton alum has spent all but two Coombs said the woman, an years of his life in his home state avid Titans enthusiast, never and has seven grandchildren in failed to greet her team’s sec- Cincinnati, where he spent five ondary coach with the same two years coaching the Bearcats. letters; a familiar pairing for a He spent six years as the Buckformer Buckeye, though for two eyes’ cornerbacks coach from seasons, they had little to do with 2012 to ’17, capturing a nationhis task at hand. al title and sending each of his But a self-proclaimed “Ohio starters to the NFL. From 2014 to guy” doesn’t shun the call of “O- ’18, Coombs helped develop five H,” even if it’s defensive backs into first-round beckoned NFL Draft several selections. hundred With all miles from I’m an Ohio kid. Not a kid that success the source in Columanymore, but I grew up of its oribus, why here. And so for me to gin. leave in the Coombs first place? be part of such a special answered Coombs place and to have that the call in said that connection with really a time of in his two need for seasons everybody – There’s Ohio State coaching nowhere I can go where head coach with former somebody doesn’t say, Ryan Day Ohio State and the linebacker ‘O-H.’ Nowhere. Buckeyes, and assisretur ning tant coach KERRY COOMBS Ohio State football defensive coordinator to his old Mike Vraoffice of bel, the two six years would often with a joke that shiny new title and fatter wallet when one was eventually hired as –– but those are far from the first a head coach, they would hire the reasons he’d give for returning to other. That opportunity came for Columbus. Vrabel when he was named the “I’m an Ohio kid. Not a kid head coach of the Tennessee Ti-
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Allen gives Ohio State dadvantage ERIC AMERINE Senior Lantern reporter amerine.21@osu.edu The Varsity Tennis Center was packed but quiet as Ohio State battled No. 5 Duke on the final day of January. Sophomore Kolie Allen was down three games to two in the first set of her singles match against senior Meible Chi. Her father, Maurice Allen, broke the silence with loud chants of “Let’s go Buckeyes.”
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tans in 2018. “If you’re my friend, you’re my friend for life. And so he called and he asked, and for whatever reason, at that time, it felt like the right thing to do,” Coombs said. “And it did, and I am telling you, it was not a mistake for me to go. I don’t regret a single day being down there because I’m better for the experience.” The two-year stint taught Coombs lessons that he said have made him “infinitely better” than he was in his previous Buckeye tenure. He attributed that fact to the volume of defensive schemes he had to learn in the NFL, as well as the leadership style Vrabel imparted upon him. Day said Coombs was his No. 1 pick to replace former secondary coach and co-defensive coordi-
nator Jeff Hafley, but the Titans’ deep run to the AFC Championship in the NFL Playoffs delayed the process. The Buckeyes’ 2020 recruiting class had the potential to lose a second defensive back commit in Cameron Martinez after top 5 cornerback Clark Phillips flipped to Utah in December following the news that Hafley would become the new head coach at Boston College. Given the tight spot for Ohio State, it wouldn’t be hard to imagine Coombs might leverage the situation for more money and a promotion to return. He got both of those things, as Day clarified that Coombs is the sole owner of the defensive coordinator position –– a change from a season ago COOMBS CONTINUES ON 9
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With every swing of Kolie Allen’s racket, the game’s intensity grew. Kolie Allen fed off her dad’s support, won a crucial long rally and fist-pumped in his direction. She won the set but lost the match. Still, Maurice Allen was proud of his daughter, whom he drove 5 1/2 hours to see play. “How could I not come to all the matches to watch my daughter?” Maurice Allen said. “She’s the former 33-0 state champion and a blue chipper coming out of the United States Tennis Association, so coming to Ohio State to
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Sochor’s impact on Yost dates imagine it was probably not super til one day at a meet in Minnesota back to 1995. safe. So when I was 8, my mom when the Cleveland native was It was that year that, as a se- said, ‘All right, we’re gonna put 12. He performed an easier dive nior at Cleveland State, Sochor you over water to do this. That but zeroed in on his technique, coached the Beachwood High way, you won’t break your neck.’” earning consistent eights from the School diving team in BeachEarly returns for the eventual judges to finish fourth in the comwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleve- three-time Ohio high school state petition. land. He doubled the size of the champion weren’t promising. “That’s when, I think, the light squad in one year. “I could see potential in his came on, and he learned that if he “After that first season, I just hits the dives the way started getting phone calls he knows how, everything from parents of the divers will take care of itself,” Cathat I coached,” Sochor halane said. said. “[They were] begging The weight room, where to continue diving because Anybody can draw a picture Yost arrived at 10 a.m., was their grades went up, they a touch more serious. in their head of a dive that’s were happier, they had Rap tracks blared over gone horribly wrong, but to more friends.” the sound system while Thus, Sochor created draw the picture that you’re both the male and female American Flyers Diving, divers worked through extrying to follow, the correct a club that allowed him to ercises designed to increase continue coaching his ath- visuals, even though it’s scary their power. letes beyond the high school — that’s applied all the time in Yost is a naturally high season, going full time with jumper — which allows your life. it in 2001. for larger, more spectacuIn 2007, he sold the club lar tricks — with plenty of to his assistant coach Marc JUSTIN SOCHOR room still to grow in his Cahalane to accept a coach- Ohio State diving coach mechanics and strength, ing job with the U.S. Elite Sochor said. Diving Academy in Columbus, body, his movements. He was But physical ability isn’t what Ohio — the job that led him to very flexible,” Cahalane said. separates wheat from chaff during Ohio State. “But in many ways, he was all flipping, twisting cliff jumps from One year later, Yost joined the over the place and had flat feet, 3, 5 or 10 meters. Flyers with Cahalane as his head and [his] legs weren’t together. “Fear. That’s the biggest roadcoach. He wasn’t always the most daring block for divers for sure,” Sochor “I was on YouTube teaching diver out there as well.” said. myself how to do backflips in the Yost was often happy with a Divers handle fear in different backyard,” Yost said. “You can five out of 10, Cahalane said, un- ways.
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Pre-dive rituals aren’t uncommon; many divers have a specific routine involving their “shammy,” a small drying towel, Sochor said. “What helps is to take two or three deep breaths, focus on a cue or one thing about the dive,” junior diver Joseph Canova said. “Getting the hurdle right, getting your arms stretched out, and just going for it so you’re not thinking about the dive itself. Just one part of it.” Yost owns a blue hat he’s brought to almost every event from a young age. He used to wear it on the diving board despite one head judge at an International Swimming Federation competition telling him it was “kind of unprofessional.” He eventually stopped wearing it on the board but still brought it to competitions. The hat is currently on hiatus while his mother fixes a rusted buckle on the back. With or without head apparel, divers have gargantuan mental hurdles to clear at competition — where Sochor said the goofing around stops and your “job interview” with the judges begins. “Very good divers, who I know can do all their dives really, really well, will absolutely flop in a meet because they were in their head,” Yost said. “They were thinking about too much. They weren’t
trusting their training. For me it’s about physically being ready and just having those one or two key points in your head.” The end of training means the beginning of schoolwork. Yost attended three classes from 11:30 a.m to 3:40 p.m. In the space between his second and third classes, Yost grabbed a Chef Salad from the Fuel Zone, a supply of food for Ohio State athletes. “It’s healthy, but not too healthy,” Yost said. He ate that and a bag of trail mix during his sociology lecture, quietly so as not to interrupt the class. The mental fortitude required to make dives in competition seeps into a diver’s day-to-day. “Total self-awareness,” Sochor said. “Who you are, what you’re capable of. And then reasonable thoughts. Anybody can draw a picture in their head of a dive that’s gone horribly wrong, but to draw the picture that you’re trying to follow, the correct visuals, even though it’s scary — that’s applied all the time in your life.” Following the Ohio State season, Sochor said Yost will drop 1-meter springboard and focus strictly on one or two Olympic events: 3-meter springboard, 10-meter platform or synchronized 3-meter springboard. Sochor said he believes Yost will make it in 2024 and compete well with the nation’s best in 2020. “He’s doing an Olympic list of dives,” Sochor said. “Now he’s gotta polish them. Jump higher than everybody else. Have better form than everybody else.” Yost, Fielding, junior Jacob Siler and possibly Canova, Yost said, will all take a shot at the 2020 U.S. Olympic trials starting June 14 in Indianapolis.
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To a casual observer, national- and Olympic-caliber diving is an incredibly physical sport. But spending a day with a diver who is trying to make it to the games in Tokyo or Paris makes one realize just how cerebral the event is. Diving at that level requires a special mentality, self-awareness and ability to overcome fear that transcends the sport and bleeds into other elements of the athlete’s life. Ohio State freshman diver Lyle Yost, a former junior national champion with Olympic dreams for 2020 and goals for 2024, said the payoff for those who can bottle up their fear for the 10 seconds it takes to walk down a board and somersault from it is incredible. “You hit the water and the fear — it’s not necessarily gone, because it might still be a scary dive,” Yost said. “And you might be scared to go up and do it again. But you hit the water, and it’s a fantastic feeling.” It was 8 a.m. Most Ohio State students would be hitting the snooze button one last time or sleeping through an early morning lecture, but the Buckeye diving team warmed up with a few basic techniques. Yost leapt skyward from a 1-meter-high springboard, tucked and flipped forward three
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times in the air before slipping into the swirling blue pool below without a splash. Practice was a blend of jokes and skill. Mixed in among technique breakdowns and film review were exaggerated cries of pain when divers over- or under-rotated and playful jabs of “this guy sucks.” “When you’re doing what you love, you’re able to have a good time, and we’re all with our brothers out there,” sophomore diver Jacob Fielding said. “We’re just trying to have fun to get through the practice.” Fielding and Yost were synchronized partners for junior competitions while the former was still a freshman with the Buckeyes and the latter was
in high school, which allowed Yost to build a relationship with Ohio State diving coach Justin Sochor. Originally, Yost said he wanted to leave the state for college, but he meshed well with Sochor’s fun, visual teaching style. The manner in which practice operates sets Ohio State diving apart, Sochor said, adding that most divers come from gymnastics, skateboarding or snowboarding backgrounds and have an affinity for taking risks. “If you take all that away and just run it like an army, you’re taking some of that personality out of them,” Sochor said. “That personality is part of what made them so good at it.” YOST CONTINUES ON 11
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Ohio State freshman diver Lyle Yost completes a set of pull-ups during his workout with the rest of the Ohio State diving team in French Field House Jan. 28.