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Wexner Medical Center offers free health screenings, resources to community.

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American Idol holds auditions in Columbus.

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The College of Veterinary Medicine opens new skill center.

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Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer answers questions during his first press conference after suspension.

Repeatedly throughout the 56-minute press conference, Meyer made it clear that his suspension was not about turning his

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hear that — that’s why I’m hoping that something like this, for clarity, I wanted to go through everything.”

back to the domestic violence allegations made against a former employee. It was, he said, giving that former employee a chance at

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QUESTIONS Urban Meyer does not describe himself as “a social media guy.”

But, after Ohio State gave its head coach a three-game suspension in response to how he handled domestic violence allegations made against a former employee, he had to clear some things up about perceptions made about him and the situation.

Meyer said he took to Twitter on the advice of his daughter, posting a statement defending himself, saying that he was not suspended because of domestic violence.

In his first press conference back, knowing he would have to go in-depth regarding the suspension and domestic violence allegations made against former wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator Zach Smith, Meyer was visibly shaken when asked about his credibility.

“It’s tough to take,” Meyer said. “I’ve spent 30-plus years in coaching. Never been perfect.

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redemption, as he had done in the past for many others.

He added that if he ever learned Zach Smith had committed domestic violence, Meyer would have fired him immediately.

“My error was, and I have been accused of this before, was giving second and third chances and I saw a guy with work-related issues that had two children and an ex-wife he needed to support a way a man is supposed to support them,” Meyer said. “I was suspended for the fact that I went too far in trying to help a guy with his work-related issues.”

When he was hired in 2012 as the head coach at Ohio State, Meyer said Zach Smith had “glowing reviews” by both his previous coaching staffs, Temple and

As the Bird and Lime scooters face new regulations from the city of Columbus, a Columbus man is running a grassroots movement to help fight for dockless rideshare companies.

Donovan O’Neil, founder of Scooter Customers Organized to Oppose Temporary, Excessive Regulation, or SCOOTERCbus, knew that he had to get involved in the city’s conversation about scooters when Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther announced upcoming regulations.

“I felt that it was important to start a grassroots movement that would talk about holding back against regulations, educate on safe ridership and help promote the great places around our town that you can get to because of this increased mobility,” O’Neil said.

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SYDNEY RIDDLE Assistant Arts & Life Editor riddle.136@osu.edu D.P. Dough has found a way to combine two things college students love — video games and free food.

The CEO of the college town-based calzone franchise, Matt Crumpton, said his company has created “Calzone Run,” the first video game app in the world where players can win free food simply by playing the game.

“The way it works is you log in with your online ordering ID that you’d use to order a calzone online,” Crumpton said.

“Whenever you score points you can convert your points in the game to D.P. Hearts, which are our loyalty points.”

In the game, players take on the role of a D.P. Dough delivery driver in a college town and have to avoid obstacles such as

rolling kegs, burning couches, bikers and pedestrians crossing the street while delivering food.

“It’s kind of like the old-school paperboy game,” Crumpton said. “[You’ve] got houses on each side of the street and the places you have to deliver to have a red sidewalk in front of them, that’s how you know you tap on the screen, and it throws the calzone and the red sidewalk becomes green.”

Crumpton said each heart is worth 7,500 points, which translate to approximately 10 cents. Players can only redeem points once a day, creating an incentive to practice and play often for the 75 hearts that equal a calzone.

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First annual Healthy Community Day offers free screenings, resources ERIC STONEMAN Lantern reporter stoneman.15@osu.edu Darrell Gray, a gastroenterologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, spent his Sunday next to a 20-footlong colon.

Gray guided people through a large, inflatable organ for about four hours, teaching them about colon health and the types of tests available to them.

“It’s really an innovative way to teach and engage people,” Gray said.

Normally an arena for sports and musicians,the Schottenstein Center was converted into a festival-like medical expo for the medical center’s first annual Healthy Community Day. Healthy Community Day is an event hosted by the medical center with the primary goal of engaging local Columbus residents with health care and the people who provide that care. And as Gray pointed out, the doctors there are in T-shirts instead of the typical white coat.

“We’ve had a similar event out at the Near East Side community for 18 years, and so we really wanted to see how we could grow the event and have a second location,” said Beth NeCamp, chief marketing and communications officer for the medical center.

Throughout the event area, there were booths with resources related to various health issues, ranging from infant health care to how to quit smoking; from dietary consultation to battling addiction.

“We really tried to align what we offer with the six problem areas of Central Ohio … what the most prevalent challenges are in our community,” NeCamp said.

One of the most prominently advertised aspects of Healthy Community Day, Gray said, was the opportunity for free health screenings, so people who attend the event

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The Schottenstein Center was converted into a festival-like expo for the medical center’s first annual Healthy Community Day.

“By them coming in here, we hope to engage them, to spark something in them so they’ll come and seek us for care” DARRELL GRAY Gastroenterologist Wexner Medical Center

can have different aspects of their health — such as blood pressure or body mass index — measured to make more informed health care decisions based on official evaluations.

Doctors try to engage people about their health, but Gray said people might not go to clinics.

“This really provides a venue, a comfortable environment, for people to talk about important health issues,” Gray said.

There were stations for kids to get balloon animals and face paint. Several special events took place during the day, such as a visit from Brutus and a brief fitness

class led by instructors from Divine Impact Fitness in Gahanna, Ohio.

Healthy Community Day sets out to engage Columbus residents by showing them the health-care resources that they have available.

“By them coming in here, we hope to engage them, to spark something in them so they’ll come and seek us for care,” Gray said.

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College of Veterinary Medicine opens new hands-on skills center ADREYN YATES Lantern reporter yates.242@osu.edu Ohio State veterinary students are practicing their hands-on skills with the help of a new clinic equipped with sophisticated simulators and realistic models of patients.

The College of Veterinary Medicine’s new Veterinary Clinical and Professional Skills Center provides students with field experience before entering the workforce.

Students are able to familiarize themselves with the anatomy of animals, such as cats, dogs and horses. They can also prep procedure areas, practice mock surgeries and act out possible scenarios that focus on communicating with owners about their animal.

Dr. Emma Read, associate dean for professional programs, said it gives students a chance to hone their skills.

“They have the chance to learn those

things and to practice them over and over on simulator models before they have the chance to do them on a live patient in the hospital environment,” Read said.

The skills center includes almost 9,000 square feet of educational space with a large, open lab equipped with several overhead cameras for demonstrations, which can hold up to 80 students at a time. It also has seven smaller labs with models to train students in various specialities, such as surgery, 3D printing, bandaging, ultrasound, dental work and more.

There are many models throughout the center that allow students to practice critical skills needed to perform surgery without actually operating on patients.

For instance, a lifelike spaying station offers students the chance to practice sterilizing animals, and another station guides students through prepping stuffed dogs for surgery by cleaning and draping surgical cloths on the dog’s stomach.

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The skills center unveiled to the public on Sept. 13 with an open house where students could get a closer look at their new realistic training environment.

This hands-on practice allows students like Courtney Huck, a second-year in veterinary medicine, to take her education one step further.

“It’s one thing to watch a video of a skill.

You can watch a video over and over and you can get a lot of information from it,” Huck said. “But it’s a whole other thing to come and put your hands on it and actually go through the motions.”

While this kind of experience helps students prepare for veterinary duties, it also allows students like Michael Botros and Breanna Lincoski — both second-year veterinary students — to build confidence in the medicine they are practicing.

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College of Arts and Sciences restructures mock interview program EMILY DERIKITO Lantern reporter derikito.3@osu.edu The College of Arts and Sciences Center for Career and Professional Success has restructuredrebranded the way it provides mock interview opportunities for students with, and Interview with a Buckeye. Tthe first event took place in the Interview Suite in Denney Hall 050 on Thursday and Friday.

Randy Dineen, assistant director for industry connections, said instead of offering mock interviews as a regular service that students could schedule at any time, the new structure allows students in ASC to sign up through the new Handshake system — Ohio State’s system for posting job and internship opportunities — for the interviews.

“We thought that instead of doing just one-off mock interviews, it would be just a much more positive experience for the students if alumni and employer partners were doing them,” Dineen said.

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to think through it or know how to act because there are different ways to communicate with clients that will help us get the information we need and help them feel comfortable with the setting,” Botros said.

For second- and third-year students, Lincoski said the skills center is a major upgrade because it helps them practice skills before performing it on live animals.

“I think it’ll not only help the student feel more confident, but you’re gonna decrease the stress on your patient because you know what you’re doing,” Lincoski said.

The skills center is one of many programs made possible by the Stanton Foundation. A gift of $39 million donated to the college in 2016 helped fund the $9.3 million center. Frank Stanton, an Ohio State alumnus and former CBS president, created the foundation to support canine health and welfare and other efforts.

This gift allows the college to prepare more competent, practice-ready veterinary graduates who will be equipped to provide a wide range of care to animals, Read said.

“No doubt that there may be

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in giving back to the university by helping students with mock interviews.

Brittany Savko, an alumna who now works as a program manager in the Student Athlete Support Services Office, saw the opportunity posted earlier in the summer on the Alumni Association’s volunteer website.

Savko said while this was her first time volunteering with a mock interview, she felt prepared because of her experience conducting interviews within her office, as well as the sample materials that ASC Career Success provided.

“Randy and his team gave us some really helpful mock interview sample questions and some mock interview evaluation sheets just so all of the volunteers today were really prepared,” Savko said.

ASC Career Success made the decision to stop offering mock interviews because of a decrease in student attendance, but lack of interest was not an issue for “Interview with a Buckeye.” Over the two days the event was held, all 60 spots available to schedule a mock interview were filled within a couple of weeks of promoting the event, Dineen said.

Students who were not able to times where they feel intimidated, but the idea behind the lab is to give them a chance to feel less that way, to work with the faculty one on one and to really practice their skills,” Read said. “At the moment, I think they’re just really excited to have the kind of space and opportunities it’s going to provide.”

Andrea Bessler, a second-year in veterinary medicine, said she agreed with Read in how beneficial the skills center is for veterinary students, especially now that they have the opportunity to practice their skills earlier in the program.

“It’s very nice to have the practical skills because if it wasn’t for Stanton or the skills lab, if neither of those things existed, we wouldn’t get to do a lot of those things until third or fourth year.

Having access to it as first years gives us an advantage,” Bessler said. “We’ll be first-day-ready veterinarians.”

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Brittany Savko used her previous experience conducting interviews within her office to give feedback to students.

sign up could fill out a survey to be included on a waitlist and later be notified when spots were made available to sign up on Handshake.

“With any event that we do, we have students RSVP and then need to back out because of some sort of schedule conflict or some other situation, so we did have some students cancel within the past week or so when we started to send out some reminders,” Dineen said. “As someone needed to back out, we were able to just pull someone off the waitlist.”

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week, including banning scooters from being ridden on sidewalks.

O’Neil said he agrees with these types of regulations because he believes scooter legislation should match other two-wheel devices, such as bicycles. However, he said he doesn’t want the city to

“What [fees] do is ... they inhibit future innovation and growth.”

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charge excessive fees to operate a rideshare company in Columbus.

“What we want to see happen is the city of Columbus become an innovation center, where people want to bring new disruptive technologies like dockless rideshare scooters to our city,” O’Neil said.

“What [fees] do is ... they inhibit future innovation and growth.”

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Each interview spot is scheduled to last an hour, Dineen said, with the first 35 to 40 minutes consisting of the practice interview. The remaining time is then dedicated to going over the interviewer’s evaluation of the student.

“It will be exciting to give students feedback. I feel like that’s always a great part of the mock interview process,” Savko said.

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The stated mission of this movement according to its website: “[It] exists to recruit, educate, and mobilize citizens in support of the policies and goals of a free society at the local, state, and federal level, helping every American live their dream — especially the least fortunate.”

The limited government goals of AFP line up with the mission of SCOOTERCbus. However, O’Neil said he wants to make it clear that SCOOTERCbus is paid for out of his own pocket and that it is not associated with AFP. SCOOTERCbus exists mostly online on Twitter and Facebook.

O’Neil also has attended area commission meetings and held meet-ups to promote safe scooter use in Columbus.

“So far it’s been great. It’s an example that all politics are local.

All issues are local,” O’Neil said.

“You’d be surprised how polarizing these rideshare scooters can be.”

The battle for scooters in Columbus will continue on Tuesday at Columbus City Hall when a public hearing on dockless scooters will be held.

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students answer and then being able to share with them the ways that they answer the questions really well and ways to improve for the future.”

While this event is available only to students in the ASC, Dineen said that students in other colleges are encouraged to talk to their own career services offices to see if they put on similar events or to schedule a mock interview through the Younkin Success Center.

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Hopeful contestants stand in line to audition for American Idol in Genoa Park on Sept. 12.

COURTNEY VOISARD Lantern reporter voisard.19@osu.edu Could the next American idol be found in Columbus?

That’s what many hoped for as they lined up at Genoa Park to audition in front of “American Idol” producers last Wednesday.

Columbus was one of the program’s final stops along its 2018 cross-country summer tour on Wednesday, as show producers held auditions near the bank of the Scioto River in search of the next American Idol.

Daylong auditions for the 17th season of “American Idol” were scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., but some of the eager talent began claiming their spots in line as early as 5 a.m.

As the sun rose over the Columbus skyline, a long line of hopeful musicians could be seen — and heard — winding down Washington Boulevard, passing the time by singing for each other as they waited for their chance to audition in front of one of

five producers.

“We have had a pretty huge turnout,” Patrick Lynn, senior supervising producer, said. “Everybody seems to be super positive — this is a great town.”

“Music is my feeling, my purpose and my pasion. It is what I want to pursue.”

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“We have been here since five this morning,” said Jeff Miller, father of 18-year-old self-taught musician Kylie Miller.

Kylie Miller, who traveled from her hometown of Hamilton, Ohio, to audition with her original song “Dear Indigo,” said her lifelong passion for music and inspiring others to pursue creativity is what compelled her to stand in front of the producer on Wednesday.

“Music is my feeling, my purpose and my passion,” Kylie said. “It is what I want to pursue. I am studying engineering, but music has always been what I wanted to do.”

“Amazing” is the word that Adam Vanhoose of Dayton used to describe the feeling of earning his “golden ticket” and entering the next round of auditions.

“They actually made me go from one judge to the next judge — they had my heart racing and I didn’t think I was going to make it, but I made it,” Vanhoose said.

Vanhoose, who auditioned for “X-Factor” in 2013, will join Kylie and several other golden ticket holders in traveling to a currently undisclosed location in either Denver or Atlanta to perform in front of

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Contestant talks to security while waiting to audition for American Idol in Genoa Park on Sept. 12.

celebrity judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan.

Those who make it through secondary auditions will then travel to compete in Hollywood before the live show begins.

“Emotions today were mostly up, mostly high. It has generally been pretty positive.

But, not everyone is going to walk away happy,” Lynn said. “But whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

That is the insight that Lynea Diller, a third year in agricultural systems management at Ohio State, gained from her “Idol” audition.

Though Diller did not move on to the next round, she walked away from the judge’s table in good spirits, grateful for the experience. Diller said she saw the audition as a way to focus on bettering herself rather than considering it a loss.

“Don’t give up if you get one ‘no,’” Diller said. “Don’t give up if you get turned down for the first time.”

Season 17 of American Idol is set to premiere on ABC in 2019.

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Kylie Miller poses with her guitar making it to the next round of auditions for American Idol in Genoa Park on Sept. 12.

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Columbus Caribbean Festival brings the islands to central Ohio ISABEL HALL Lantern reporter hall.2220@osu.edu

dance group Socalistas Worldwide performing throughout the day.

A family fun day wrapped A stretch of the Scioto Mile up the festival on Sunday downtown was converted into a with a kid’s conga line. Other tour of the Caribbean islands last performers throughout the weekend, where visitors could weekend included All Star experience the smells, sounds Jammerz, The Flex Crew and and sights of the Caribbean.

Sunshade.

The second annual First-time attendees Jaret Columbus Caribbean Festival, Waters and Erica Carlson a three-day event, offered a said they enjoyed having the chance for Columbus residents opportunity to experience and to experience and learn more learn about Caribbean culture about the culture and heritage through visiting the festival. of the islands through food, “We really enjoy the performances and shopping. music,” Waters said. “We “It’s celebrating the culture haven’t tried any food yet, but and heritage of Caribbean it smells absolutely amazing. islands right here in Columbus,” And the weather is perfect said Trish Drake, one of and almost feels like we are in the event producers. “The the Caribbean.”

Caribbean islands are a top The Columbus Caribbean vacation spot, so now people Festival started in 2017 after can celebrate here in Ohio.” event producers Celebrity Festival attendees shopped at Style Events and Abba Music a variety of vendor stands and Group noticed that among food trucks during the festival. the different cultural events Vendors sold items such as and festivals occurring in COURTESEY OF KARL FRANCIS Caribbean-made clothing and Festival attendees stroll through the Columbus Caribbean Festival last weekend, located at the Scioto central Ohio, there wasn’t artisan goods, flags and jewelry. Mile in downtown Columbus. one celebrating Caribbean Food trucks also supplied a taste culture. of the Caribbean with jerk chicken, tropical Caribbean Festival. the other ones around the country.”

“A lot of times you would see the fruit smoothies, Haitian food and more.

“We do Caribbean fests [at] a lot of Each night of the festival was filled with carnivals that are in Miami, California and Clive Donovan, a first-time vendor places, and we heard this one is getting cultural entertainment and performances. Toronto, so we just wanted to bring a taste selling items branded with the flags of started,” Donovan said. “So we decided On Friday, there was a Bob Marley tribute of the Caribbean to Columbus,” Drake Caribbean countries, said he was excited we’d come check it out, be a part and see if concert featuring The Ark Band. Saturday said. to be part of the growing Columbus we can make it grow to be as big as some of was a carnival experience day, with carnival

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So far, the game has two levels: Athens, Ohio, and Colorado.

“Everything in the Athens level is an actual house from Athens, Ohio. I took photos of houses and sent them to our designer so they’re all actual places,” Crumpton said.

“And then the other level is Colorado because we have five stores [there] so we have all these random Colorado landmarks.”

Crumpton said more levels will be added if the company reaches its goal of 10,000 downloads by the end of the year.

“Calzone Run” was created in partnership with the Department of Video Game Development at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs through a class called “Teams,” a program in which real-world clients apply to receive a team of students to complete their pitched projects.

Marty Moravec, head designer of the app, said he was assigned to Crumpton’s team two and a half years ago during the second semester of his third year. After he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in innovations and game design and development, Moravec continued to spearhead the project until its release.

“Matt came to us and was like, ‘This is sort of the idea we have. What can we do?’ And then it was just a lot of brainstorming and coming up with the concept — the minimal viable product is what we call it — that kind of shows how it would work,” Moravec said. “That way you can see, ‘Is this really fun? Is it entertaining? Will people like it?’ And you just get into your stride and keep running with these ideas.”

Moravec said it was then a matter of continuing to come up with more ideas, polishing the game, getting rid of bugs and a lot of coding.

“It takes a lot of glue to stick all the art assets in and the music,” Moravec said. “The code is just kind of what sticks all of these cool things together, but if I were to take a guess it’s got to be more than a few thousand lines of code.”

Crumpton said after nearly three years of work it’s still hard to believe his was the first restaurant to implement this idea and that he is thankful to everyone who helped make it a reality.

“I just assumed that somebody beat us to that, but we did it. We’re the first ones ever to do it,” Crumpton said.

“To be a small company and be able to be the first to do that — that’s still the thing that’s surprising to me and I’m grateful we were able to get in there and meet the right people.”

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Marshall, about his family life and his recruiting. Meyer also said his knowledge of the Ohio State offense was a factor in his hiring, something that he showed off in his first two seasons with the team.

In 2015, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith went up to Meyer during a practice and told him about domestic violence allegations made against Zach Smith.

“We were both furious,” Meyer said. “I remember getting ahold of Zach and telling him if this is domestic violence, you are fired immediately.”

Along with Zach Smith denying the allegations, law enforcement told Meyer that it was not domestic violence, but that “this was a very nasty divorce, child custody issues involved,” and that there were no arrests made or charges filed.

Meyer and Gene Smith said they decided to keep Zach Smith on staff, but made him complete “intense counseling,” something Meyer said would help “stabilize” his life.

However, just prior to the 2018 Big Ten Media Days, Meyer said he found out about Zach Smith’s trespassing charge from an outside source and had to alert Gene Smith.

Meyer said he found out about the charge two months after it had occurred.

“I was so angry I had to hear about it from somewhere else,” Meyer said. “I made it clear to keep me posted on everything. I made it clear from all our coaches, I need to know before I’m told from you.”

On July 23, prior to his appearance at Media Days, Meyer found out about the protection order filed against Zach Smith, another event the head coach had not been told about. Zach Smith was fired immediately from the football program.

In his past, Meyer has been known to give players multiple chances in off-the-

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“I have been accused of helping players too much, giving them too many opportunities. That’s an accusation I accept. And I’m very careful about that,” Meyer said.

“But I also — I’ve been that way my entire life, even outside of football. When I see someone in need, you help the person in need. How far do you go? That’s that fine line.”

Even after firing Zach Smith, Meyer, when asked about whether he believes Courtney Smith was a victim of domestic violence, said neither yes nor no.

“I can only rely on what information I received from the experts,” Meyer said.

Also in the press conference, Meyer addressed the investigative findings that said the Board of Trustees could not determine

whether he deleted text messages from his phone with information regarding the investigation and past events involving Zach Smith.

“I’ve never deleted a text message,” Meyer said. “I’ve never changed a setting on my phone.”

Meyer said an unnamed IT person in the Ohio State football program changed a setting on his phone to help increase his storage capacity. He said, with the changed settings, any text messages over a year old would be deleted, something he said he would not know how to do.

He also said he had nothing to hide in the text messages that were erased with the changed setting.

As he returns to the football program after serving his three-game suspension, Meyer said there were actions n response

to the Zach Smith allegations that he would do better if he were to do it again.

“I’m here to tell you, three years later, six weeks after going through this, I need help,” Meyer said.

Meyer said when problems like that come up in the future, he hopes to receive help from experts, professionals and law enforcement to properly handle the situation.

“You have the right to go investigate the situation, report back to us, and we respond, and there’s never a charge, never an arrest, how do I respond?” Meyer said.

“And I want to once again say that what I have learned is ask more questions.”

After receiving his suspension, Meyer said he sat in his house, staring at a wall for two weeks. He said he was exhausted and emotional.

Even with those feelings, he wanted to make something clear: he was not suspended for turning a blind eye to domestic violence allegations made by Zach Smith. In his opinion, he was just trying to do something he had done too many times before: help.

Looking back, Meyer believes, even with the success that Zach Smith had as a coach at Ohio State, through all of the successful recruiting, the wide receiver room culture he began and molding NFL-level talent, he kept Smith on staff too long.

“When I was hiring him, I believed I hired the right guy,” Meyer said. “In hindsight, now I look back with all these other issues that took place during that time period, I did not hire the right guy.”

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Answer Key for Sept. 13: Down 1. How did Romeo kill himself? (poison) 2. Romeo belongs to what family? (montague) 3. Juliet belongs to what family? (capulet) 5. Who is Juliet supposed to marry? (paris) Across 6. Juliet’s cousin. (tybalt) 2. Romeo’s best friend. (mercutio) 7. Where did the party take place? (2 4. The Prince said that both families were words) (capulet mansion) what? (punished) 10. Who was Romeo in love with before 8. How did Juliet kill herself? (dagger) he met Juliet? (rosaline) 9. Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?

11. What did Mercutio say would be on (shakespeare) both families? (2 words) (acurse) 15. Where does the story take place?

12. Who told Ro meo that Juliet was (verona) ‘dead’? (balthazar) 17. Who married Romeo and Juliet? (2 13. Who was Juliet’s confidant? (2 words) (friarlawrence) 18. Ultimately, Why did Romeo and Juliet kill words) (thenurse) 14. Where did Romeo and Juliet meet? themselves? (love) (3 words) (ataparty) 19. Who was the authority figure? (prince) 16. Who is Romeo’s cousin? (benvolio)

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4. An animal that makes calamari 7. An animal that can rip you in half 11. Some of these animals are very poisoness 12. An insect that looks like a branch of a tree 16. A blue animal that lives in the sea and can give bad rashes 17. An animal that produces milk to drink 18. An animal with wings 20. A man’s best friend 21. Hairy eight-legged animals that can kill you 23. Small creature that can bite you very hard 24. An animal that pulls carriages 25. An animal that has big ears

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1. An animal you fish for 2. An animal that’s a cross with a horse and a donkey 3. An animal that can have lop ears 4. A slithery animal that can be poisonous 5. A kind gentle animal that lives in the water 6. They chirp on rainy day and nights 8. These animals hide in mossy creeks 9. A green animal that lives in the grass 10. An animal that hunts on farms 13. An animal with a sharp poisonous arrow on its tail 14. An animal that lays eggs you can eat 15. Grizzly and soft 18. An animal like a bird but comes out at night 19. An animal that pulls a sleigh 21. A fluffy animal that you find on a farm 22. An animal that’s like a horse only smaller

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Jeremy Hoy focuses on preparation in first season with OSU BRADEN MOLES Lantern reporter moles.13@osu.edu Associate strength and conditioning coach Jeremy Hoy joined the Ohio State men’s hockey team in early August. Long before, the Buckeyes had seen his work firsthand, even if they didn’t know his name.

“When I was at Robert Morris, we played Ohio State,” Hoy said. “In talking to these guys, they’re just like ‘Man, every time we turn around you guys were there. You never got tired, you were always hitting us.’”

Before joining Ohio State, Hoy worked as a strength and conditioning coach all over the country. He’s coached at his own gym in Pittsburgh, with the gold medal-winning 2018 US Under-18 Women’s National Team and most recently at Robert Morris University, where the Colonials faced off against Ohio State multiple times during Hoy’s career.

“I’m going to recondition them, making sure they’re ready to go and they’re game ready all the time.”

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Hoy said he prides himself on the way he prepares his teams for the ice. He spends his time working out players, evaluating them during practice to identify their needs

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Ohio State players celebrate after a goal by then-junior forward Kevin Miller. and, above all, making sure the team is game ready.

“I’m responsible for a lot of aspects of physical preparation,” he said. “I’m making sure the guys are ready to go, I’m working with the athletic training staff to make sure they’re healthy … I’m going to recondition them, making sure they’re ready to go and they’re game ready all the time.”

One aspect of the job Hoy focuses on is the relationship he forms with the team and each individual player. He works with each player to assess where they are and ensure they are in the best possible condition

when they hit the ice.

With the science behind strength and conditioning improving since Hoy entered the field nearly 20 years ago, there is a greater focus on each individual player rather than assuming a strength and conditioning routine works for everyone.

The lessons from Hoy and the athletic training staff, however, don’t end in the weight room, or even on the ice.

“What I feel like we’re doing is not preparing them to possibly play hockey at the next level … but we want them to be able to contribute to society in a positive way

beyond college,” Hoy said. “When they’re done we want them to be able to enter the real world and have a positive impact from what they do.”

Once the preparation is finalized for each game, Hoy said he holds a different perspective when his team enters the rink.

Coaches and players focus on running plays and optimizing their strategy on the ice to win. Hoy still wants the team to win, but he has a different set of expectations for his players than most going into their games.

“I feel like I haven’t done a good enough job if our team is being out-skated, out-conditioned, even out-hustled,” Hoy said. “I want to get the guys going. I want to be the one winning in all those areas every time. I also feel like I’m not doing my job if guys aren’t game ready.”

While Hoy has only been at Ohio State for about a month, head coach Steve Rohlik believes he’s already left an impression on the team.

“In the small sample we’ve had, he’s made a big impact,” Rohlik said. “No. 1 because he wants to be here … his energy, his knowledge and what he brings, his history, and the work he’s done for almost 20 years. Our guys have bought into his tremendous work ethic.”

As Hoy prepares for his first season with Ohio State, his message to the team is clear.

“I want to be the team that we’re talented and we’re going to outwork you. We’re going to bring both those together,” he said.

“That starts here on the ice. Everything we do, it’s a mentality, a mindset that were going to work hard, give 100 percent effort and we’re engaged in doing everything we do.”

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lowing the authorities to investigate the claims. And when the police came back with no charges against Zach Smith, Meyer decided that was convincing enough to allow Zach to remain on the team.

Meyer said he now understands he should have done more than just taken the word of the police. But is he sincere about that?

His truthfulness with that sentiment was tested when he was asked directly if he believed Courtney Smith was ever a victim of domestic violence.

“I can only rely on what information I received from the experts,” Meyer said, providing what was one of his shortest answers to any question asked to him during the 56-minute long press conference.

That answer could have many interpretations. It could be said he’s being careful not to prove someone guilty without a trial. It could be said he’s not trusting the word of a domestic abuse victim.

But if he’s not going to believe Courtney Smith by now, why should anyone believe he’ll look beyond police reports in

the future?

Meyer tried to paint himself as a character deserving of sympathy, someone who is sad he missed the first three games of the season and whose reputation might be tarnished. Someone who has learned his lessons and is ready to move on.

“It’s tough to take,” Meyer said about how his credibility might be shattered.

He said he did not do a very good job at Big Ten Media Days, and that he has learned from it and feels sorry for all that happened. He will now retake the reins of a vaunted football program.

Meyer is trying to move on. He answered the questions he felt he needed to answer. Now, it’s back to football for him.

Everything else is up to the public.

“Now everybody has a decision to make and a choice to make,” Meyer said. “I was very clear about why I was doing, why I said what I said. And I apologize for that.

If that destroys a guy’s credibility, then I apologize for that. Also, did I turn my back to domestic abuse? Not one bit. I never would do that.”

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Tarnished reputation

For nearly an hour, Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer fielded question after question about the events leading up to his suspension and the results of the investigation.

He talked about all he learned, or claimed he learned. He spoke about how many people he’s helped over the years. All the former coaches under him who have moved on to become successful head coaches.

“When I see someone in need, you help the person in need,” Meyer said in his first press conference since his suspension on Aug. 22.

“How far do you go? That’s the fine line.”

Still, what was unclear by the end of the press conference was how much Meyer had helped the one person who seems to have gotten lost in this ongoing drama: Courtney Smith.

Urban Meyer faces public backlash in return from suspension WYATT CROSHER Assistant Sports Editor crosher.1@osu.edu Going into Big Ten Media Days, Urban Meyer’s name meant many things.

One of the winningest coaches of all-time, threetime national champion and the Ohio State head coach that brought the program back up following a 6-7 season in 2011.

Now, less than two months later, Meyer’s name brings mostly one thing: controversy.

“This is a window of time that I made an error,” Meyer said. “I’ll keep saying it, really, for the rest of my life — this was about trying to help a troubled employee with work-related issues.”

That troubled employee is Zach Smith, the former wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator who was fired on July 23 following allegations of domestic violence involving his ex-wife, Courtney Smith.

Meyer, who also had Smith on staff during his tenure in Florida, hired Smith at Ohio State in 2012, keeping him on staff despite knowing about the allegations from 2009 and 2015.

The lack of action Meyer took back then, along with his words at Big Ten Media Days, caused him to miss the first three games of the season from suspension.

“This is a window of time that I made an error. I’ll keep saying it, really, for the rest of my life — this was about trying to help a troubled employee with workrelated issues.”

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Meyer apologized for his answers at Media Days, and said that he had no intent of lying, that he misspoke after being ill-prepared for the questions on July 24.

“I want to be really clear that there is zero intent to mislead,” Meyer said. “I did not answer questions with the accuracy that I should have.”

But after eight weeks of allegations, statements on Twitter and a 12-hour meeting involving the fate of the coach that has led the Buckeyes to a 73-8 record in his tenure, Meyer’s record on the field has vanished from relevancy.

Meyer said this is something with which he is struggling.

“It’s tough to take. I’ve spent 30-plus years in coaching. Never been perfect. Tried extremely hard,” Meyer said. “I did not lie to the media. I did not do a very good job. Now everybody has a decision to make and a choice to make. I was very clear

about why I was doing, why I said what I said. And I apologize for that. If that destroys a guy’s credibility, then I apologize for that.”

At the press conference on Monday, Meyer’s first appearance since his suspension on Aug. 22, the head coach answered questions for 56 minutes, with the focus rarely reaching the subject of football.

The topics Meyer discussed went from his knowledge of the Zach Smith case, to if he lied at Media Days, to if he regrets his decisions from the past and to what he can do to avoid this happening again.

Now, after a coaching career with more acclaim than almost any before him, Meyer’s reputation remains tarnished, and could continue to be tarnished for the foreseeable future.

“I’m hoping that people listen. And I can only say the truth. I can only let you know. I’d like to say over 30 years that I — I have been accused of helping players too much, giving them too many opportunities. That’s an accusation I accept,” Meyer said. “I understand that this will take time. Maybe never. But that’s my job in a press conference like this.”

Meyer takes back the role from acting head coach and offensive coordinator Ryan Day, and he returns to an Ohio State team that is 3-0 with a win against a ranked opponent.

But, much like the press conference, the focus won’t be on football for Tulane. Instead, it will be on the 56 minutes Meyer used answering questions on everything that has diminished his reputation that was once focused on a team striving for a championship a mere two months before.

“I was very clear about why I was doing, why I said what I said. And I apologize for that. If that destroys a guy’s credibility, then I apologize for that. Also, did I turn my back to domestic abuse? Not one bit. I never would do that.”

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Courtney Smith, who brought forward claims of domestic abuse against her ex-husband and Meyer’s longtime assistant coach Zach Smith, finally had her name uttered by Meyer after he failed to do it in his first press conference when his suspension was announced. But the help he claimed to have provided, the sympathy he attempted to give, seemed more directed toward himself than to her.

In the aforementioned quote, Meyer is not referring to Courtney Smith. He is not suggesting he needed to go far to help her. He is referring to Zach Smith, the troubled employee who visited a strip club, dealt with addiction and cheated on his spouse, whom he allegedly abused.

With all that happening around Zach Smith, every new problem that emerged about the assistant coach, Meyer still retained him. Meyer spun that in such a way to make himself appear thoughtful of Courtney Smith and her children.

“Fire Zach Smith? Can he support that family? And what happens next?” Meyer asked, later adding that Zach Smith “has an obligation to raise those kids. He has an obligation to support that family.”

Meyer sought counseling for Zach Smith to treat his addiction. He instituted a new rule in the employee manual to ensure no coaches go on future strip club visits. He threatened termination when he heard about the alleged abuse.

But Meyer did not go any further than al-

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