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Drought in Drackett Tower Student illness prompts drinking water shutdown

SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu An Ohio State floor mat marked the apartment where fourth-year psychology major Heather Campbell and her boyfriend, Kyle Lafferty, were found dead from an apparent murder-suicide Sunday morning. The couple of eight months had just moved in together for the first time in August. Campbell always left her front door unlocked. That is what allowed her best friend and neighbor at the Taylor House apartment complex, located at 5001 Olentangy River Road, to come check on her in the couple’s home early Sunday morning after not hearing from Campbell for 24 hours. “I just walked into my best

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Heather Campbell (right) and her mother on Jan. 28. Campbell was found dead from an apparent murder-suicide at the hands of her boyfriend Sunday morning. friend’s apartment and her and her boyfriend are laying on the kitchen floor dead and bleeding,” the panicked best friend said to a Columbus Police dispatcher on her 911 call.

Lafferty, a recent graduate of U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, a prestigious naval engineering school, used a handgun in what Columbus Police are investigating as a murder-suicide. The po-

A student in Drackett Tower is currently being treated for Legionaires’ disease, resulting in a shutdown of water in the residence hall. KAYLIN HYNES Lantern reporter hynes.#@osu.edu

lice incident report listed Lafferty as a “habitual offender.” “I refuse to go back in there,” she said during the call. “I literally walked in their front door

Students living in the Drackett Tower residence hall have had to go beyond their front door for

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Student trustee hopes to ‘lift others with him as he climbs’ SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu Ask any college-aged man what his phone screen background is and the answers will most likely range from sports, stadiums, logos, friends, family and significant others. This spring, however, Jordan Moseley’s was a screenshot of interview questions he took during a months-long interview process. Why? Because the third-year in public management, leadership and policy with a specialization in education policy wanted to keep his mind on what he was working toward: being the second student Board of Trustees member with voting privileges in Ohio State’s history. If you were to look at Moseley now in pictures at Board meetings, he’d look quite different

than “Mose,” known by friends as the guy who wears fake glasses and an attached mustache during “stupid late hours,” said his best friend Callum Henderson, a thirdyear in actuarial science and economics.

“I bring a background and perspective from a part of the state that Ohio State doesn’t have a huge presence in, but I definitely think there is a potential to increase that presence.” Jordan Moseley Board of Trustees member

too cliche. It’s cliche in the way that being humble seems to go along with any successful student’s online biography, but it’s evident his humility is genuine. After an hour-long interview, his accomplishments and accolades were not laid out one-byone in rehearsed lines or summaries. They were found out from friends and mentors. Moseley has been involved in the Buckeye Leadership Fellows program, the Sigma Epsilon Phi fraternity, the Mount Leadership Society Scholars program, Kipp Columbus and was given one of the five Outstanding First Year Advocate awards in 2016. And, as odd as it might seem, the young man in the suit and tie surrounded by Ohio State’s decision-makers at a long, rectangular table in a room with high ceilings and crystal chandeliers every few

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USG adds prayer time to meeting agenda, preferred pronoun to nametags TERESA CARDENAS Lantern reporter cardenas.53@osu.edu

While it is not required in USG, only one of the 39 senators declined to include his pronouns.

Undergraduate Student Government’s 50th General Assembly added new inclusivity measures this year, including a five-minute prayer break in its weekly Wednesday meetings and the addition of each member’s preferred pronouns to their nametags. The break will allow any senator to use the time for prayer of any faith, and the pronouns were added to support students’ gender identities, according to USG’s senior staff. The first change came after general assembly’s second meeting in April, when a group of senators asked Sophie Chang, USG vice president and fourth-year in environment, economy, development and sustainability, to permanently add a break for prayer. Amraha Nadeem, a second-year in neuroscience and the commuter senator who also acts as the secretary, said her prayer time changes every day, but the meetings sometimes interfere. “I think it is important to proactively add it to the agenda because that way everyone knows to expect it,” Nadeem said. “We don’t have to motion to go into a five-minute recess; it’s already there.” The prayer time aligns with the sunset, one of the five times in which Muslims pray each day. Nadeem, who is a Muslim, said she was glad that Chang was accepting of the change. Part of Chang’s role as vice president is to set the weekly agendas. She said she wasn’t aware of the conflict between the prayer time and the meeting prior to the senators’ request.

“While many organizations advocate for diversity and inclusion, USG goes above and beyond to implement it.” Amraha Nadeem Second-year in neuroscience

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Undergraduate Student Government’s 50th General Assembly added new inclusivity measures this year, including a five minute prayer break in their weekly Wednesday meetings and adding their preferred pronouns on their nametags. Chang said she decided a prayer built into the agenda would be more accommodating for all senators. Tony Buss, Chang’s senior counselor and a fifth-year in English, attributed her decision to the changing characteristics of the general assembly. “As our body has diversified, we’ve changed with that so we added [the break for prayer],” Buss said. “It’s worked very well so far.” Chang said the addition of pronouns on nametags also came as a request from USG

senior staff, who noticed that Student Life employees began to include their pronouns in their email signatures and nametags in the 2016-17 academic year. Adding pronouns to nametags helps senators inform others how they identify their gender, said Alex Leeder, the USG director of diversity and inclusion and a fourth-year in theater. “Obviously it’s in efforts to be inclusive and more conscious of asking about people’s pronouns instead of assuming people’s pronouns,” Leeder said.

Following Jackson and Chang’s campaign platform for a student government more representative of the undergraduate student body and more supportive for inclusivity, these changes are a first of its kind for USG. Last year’s General Assembly did not mention a break for prayer during any of the 24 public sessions. Pronouns were not included on members’ nametags, but USG did attempt to allow students to identify their pronouns on class rosters, according to a 2016 newsletter. Ohio State currently has a policy in place that allows students to use their preferred names on class rosters but does not have one for preferred pronouns. University of Michigan and Ohio University introduced policies that allowed for preferred pronouns to be noted on class rosters in 2016 and 2015, respectively. “I think that USG is setting a huge precedent at Ohio State,” Nadeem said. “While many organizations advocate for diversity and inclusion, USG goes above and beyond to implement it.”

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drinking water since the start of the school year as the university examines a health concern with one of its students. Drackett Tower residents have not had functioning water fountains, except for three on the first floor and two on the basement-level floor, after the university became aware that a student in the residence hall had contracted Legionnaires’ disease. The student is currently being treated with antibiotics and is expected to make a full recovery, Dave Isaacs, an Ohio State spokesman, said in an email. “Within days of the line being fixed, the university received notification from a parent that a student in the hall had been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease. There is no evidence that this student contracted Legionnaires’ disease from exposure in Drackett Tower. No other cases have been reported. There is evidence to suggest that the student may have contracted it elsewhere,” Isaacs said. According to residents, they have not received any emails from their resident advisors, hall directors or Ohio State representatives explaining that their water would be turned off or the reasoning behind it. Cam Vaughn, a first-year in

biomedical engineering who lives in Drackett Tower, said students have not been given any explanation of the situation. “They’ve been very hush about it,” Vaughn said. “We’ve seen workers around and most of the information we do get is from the workers in the building.” The residence hall turned off the water lines out of caution, Isaacs said. He said the university will keep the water lines shut off until tests on the water are finished by the Columbus Public Health Department. Legionnaires’ disease is a severe form of pneumonia caused by bacteria known as Legionella that becomes a public-health issue when introduced into large, human-made water systems, according to the Mayo Clinic’s website. Fountains were turned off Aug. 27 after a water line had collapsed and affected the riser, which connects the water fountains from floor to floor. The issue was fixed shortly thereafter, Isaacs said. “The water fountain was the only public on-campus water source the student indicated had been used. Out of an abundance of caution, the university worked with Columbus Public Health and experts at the Wexner Medical Center to once again isolate the

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For almost three weeks, students living in Drackett Tower on North campus have not had working water fountains, except for one on the first floor. riser until testing could be completed,” Isaacs said. While showers and sinks are still functioning in the residence hall, there is no flow of water coming out of the fountains, leaving students out of luck if they rely on them for drinking water. Vaughn said traveling nine floors to the only fountains that occasionally work has been an added hassle as he continues his first semester at Ohio State. “It limits the water I consume per day. I have to, as lazy as this sounds, have to travel nine floors to get water whenever I want,”

Vaughn said. “It’s a little frustrating considering how much I pay to live here” Vaughn is not alone in his frustration. Abby Jans, a first-year in pre-nursing, has been relying on her Brita filter between her and her four roommates, avoiding the 11-story journey to the only working water fountain. “I think it’s kind of disappointing because like, you know we pay to live in the residence halls and we’re not being supplied with one of our basic human needs,” Jans said. Other students have found dif-

ferent ways to get water while the fountains are broken, including traveling to other dorms. Ben Beachy, a first-year in linguistics, travels from his room in Drackett to Norton House, where his friends let him in to get drinking water. “That’s kind of annoying just to drink water you have to go over to Norton,” Beachy said. Although the students have had to deal with the inconvenience since shortly after move-in, some have made the best of the situation, including making “memes” for the elevator,Jans said. “People have been posting pictures up in the elevator of memes and like water deprived signs about it, how they are frustrated that we don’t have water,” Jans said. While some students have tried to remain positive, that might change because there is no set date for when the water will return. “We’re still in the stage of joking about it, making light of it but I do feel as if people are starting to get frustrated especially with the one day having water and then not,” Vaughn said. “I think their frustration is starting to settle in but we’re still in the joking phase of it.”

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months doesn’t like to boast about himself or his role on the Board. In fact, he talks about it in a way that is cautious not to offend those around him. Because to Moseley, it seems making others comfortable and center-staged is how all conversations should go. He’ll shake your hand and ask you everything except what your major is — he said he thinks college students too often get caught up in what their future professional careers and paths could be. He wants to know if you have a best friend, why they’re your best friend, where you grew up, how it shaped you and what your story is. If you aren’t comfortable telling your story first, he’ll tell his. “He helped me come out of my shell and be comfortable opening up to people,” Henderson said. “He doesn’t pressure you to talk about anything, but I think he carries a natural presence where you feel very comfortable around him.” Moseley comes from Albany Village, an Appalachian area in southeast Ohio with a population of around 900 and one K-12 school. Eighteen percent of those living in Appalachia — regions that follow the spine of the Appalachian mountains with poverty rates 1.5 times the U.S. average — have a college degree, according to the Appalachian Regional Commission. The hallways of the school don’t have pods devoted to entire subjects and its gymnasium doesn’t have wrap-around bleachers like many do in the suburbs. His home has an old basketball hoop, a garden with about 30 blueberry bushes and a hill he used to sled down as a child. He didn’t have Wi-Fi until he was a sophomore in high school, which might seem odd to some, but he was the first of his friends back home to get it. Moseley spent his time playing basketball, going to Friday night football games and hanging out with friends. He went to camp every summer starting before his sophomore year of high school. But this camp was specifically targeted 911 FROM 1

and they’re right there. Because she lives in my apartment building and she hasn’t answered my phone calls since yesterday. So I went in there and the door was unlocked and they were right there on the floor.” The call log from the night also shows that police were at the couple’s unit the night before. Katrina Beach, a 911 caller from the night before and resident of the apart-ment above Campbell’s at Taylor House, said she heard three gunshots after “extreme” arguing and banging. One of the three gunshots ended up in the ceiling, according to the call log. “What happened was I heard extreme arguing and I heard loud banging and it was terrifying,” Beach said to the 911 dispatcher Saturday. “And I went downstairs I said to my boyfriend ‘That sounds like domestic violence, we need to go downstairs.’”

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continues to give back to his family and his community.” Moseley is currently working to support a school levy for Albany which would provide additional funding for electives. Currently, Klein said the school has three electives total; band, art and choir.

“A lot of people might think Appalachian and rural means country and back roads, uneducated and those stereotypes sometimes hold true, but it also means communityoriented, hard-working, down-to-earth people.” Jordan Moseley Board of Trustees member

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Moseley attends the Board of Trustees’ Academic Affairs and Student Life meeting on Aug. 24. to Appalachian youths in an effort to give kids the skills necessary for higher education. The camp, through the iBelieve foundation, is a weeklong experiential learning program, started by Ohio State’s women’s basketball associate head coach, Patrick Klein. Klein became Moseley’s mentor after his first time at camp; Moseley spoke at Klein’s benefit dinner for the program and the two speak almost every day, Moseley said. The camp wasn’t just a high-school thing. It became Moseley’s inspiration. The concept of giving back to Appalachian youth, giving back to the community he grew up in and helping the community thrive is what he’s working toward. It’s why he wanted to be on the Board. “A lot of people might think Appalachian and rural means country and back

Beach and her boyfriend, both in wheelchairs, went downstairs toward the early-morning disturbance. “Literally just as I was passing the door I was listening outside to decide whether I should call the police and I heard three loud gunshots right after another,” Beach said. Beach and her boyfriend then went outside to call the police from the parking lot. “I’m outside, I don’t feel safe,” Beach said on the call. “He actually parks near me. I know this. I don’t know his name because he moved in recently and I know he parks near me.” Lafferty’s blue Ford F-150 Raptor was still parked outside Monday afternoon. According to the police log, the calls came in at 2:33 and 2:34 a.m., Sunday and Saturday respectively respectively. Columbus Po-lice arrived at the apartment at Editor in Chief Kevin Stankiewicz Managing Editor for Content Jacob Myers Managing Editor for Design JL Lacar Copy Chief Rachel Bules Summer Cartwright Campus Editor Assistant Campus Editor Owen Daugherty Sports Editor Colin Hass-Hill Assistant Sports Editor Edward Sutelan Arts&Life Editor Ghezal Barghouty Assistant Arts&Life Editor Sara Stacy Photo Editor Jack Westerheide Assistant Photo Editor Ris Twigg Design Editor Chandler Gerstenslager Multimedia Editor Hailey Stangebye Social Media Editor Nick Clarkson Engagement Editor Matt Dorsey Oller Reporter Sheridan Hendrix Miller Projects Reporter Erin Gottsacker

roads, uneducated and those stereotypes sometimes hold true, but it also means community-oriented, hard-working, downto-earth people,” Moseley said. “[iBelieve] has given me the ability and mindset of coming back, which not a lot of people do. So reaching my hand back and lifting people with me as I climb.” Moseley said his perspective might play a role into why he was appointed to be a Board member. “I bring a background and perspective from a part of the state that Ohio State doesn’t have a huge presence in, but I definitely think there is a potential to increase that presence,” he said. “That perspective is just part of who I am. It’s intertwined with how I think and part of how I perceive issues and operations.” That thought process is what makes Moseley so extraordinary, Klein said. “He

2:40 a.m. to find the couple on the kitchen floor. A medic on the scene pronounced the two dead at approxi-mately 3:16 a.m. Campbell’s neighbor across the hall, Hunter Johnson, had just gotten home from work when she saw the crime scene, with police officers blocking the view inside the blood-stained apartment. Johnson said in an interview she immediately knew something was wrong because the golden re-triever puppy the couple had just gotten was not barking. “The dog is always barking,” Johnson said. “But this time the dog wasn’t barking. It was just whimpering as I walked by.”

Klein said the school is struggling to maintain its upkeep, update the building and buy new books, so Moseley is working with the superintendent and principal to form a strategic plan on the matter, as well as educate residents on why the levy must be passed. “A lot of people that do leave, they don’t come back and impact that community anymore. Students leave the region and never come back,” Klein said. “But for him to come back and impact [Albany] this way and really create a force and a strategic plan, it really will help them.” As he sits with the CEOs, the Wexner’s and the administrator’s of Ohio State, his upbringing will be at the back of his mind, he said, especially when making decisions or giving input on possible university initiatives. “I’ve gotten my feet set,” Moseley said. “I’m really ready to continue pushing this university in the direction it should go.”

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Homer gets a hip-hop remix

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Graduate student Brandon Bourgeois has created what he says to be the world’s first hip-hop audio book, “The Trilliad,” a musical translation of Homer’s The Iliad, to streamline Greek poetry into today’s culture. SYDNEY RIDDLE Lantern reporter riddle.136@osu.edu

pursue, but it shouldn’t be that way,” he said.

A man dressed in black stood on the south side of The Oval. A beat played on the speaker stationed beside him as he held a microphone up to the golden mask covering his face. With a stage presence that seemed all too natural, Brandon Bourgeois passionately rapped the first 50 lines of the Iliad as a crowd formed around him. “Second in command to Aries, war-lord God,” he spat. “Come to comp the lovely gift of the rap gods.” Bourgeois, a graduate student in classics, is creating what he said is the world’s first hip-hop audio book, “The Trilliad,” a musical translation of Homer’s The Iliad, to streamline Greek poetry into today’s culture. “Homer was popular culture back then, [and] now it’s the stuff you academically

“Homer was popular culture back then, [and] now it’s the stuff you academically pursue, but it shouldn’t be that way.” Brandon Bourgeois OSU Graduate Student

The project began his second year into his graduate studies during a Greek survey course. Tom Hawkins, an associate professor of classics and director of graduate studies in the Department of Classics, first exposed Bourgeois to the many connections between hip-hop and early Greek poetry.

“Both Homer and hip-hop are verbal art forms,” Hawkins said in an email. “They can exist independent of texts and writing and even the idea of having a fixed and finished version of a story.” Other parallels between the two include meter, rhythm and social register, Hawkins said. “I was really fascinated by it,” Bourgeois said. “I had been thinking about it and tinkering around with it for quite some years.” When Hamilton –– the award-winning, hip-hop musical retelling of Alexander Hamilton’s life –– was released, Bourgeois said he noticed there was an audience for that kind of show. He began translating fragments of Greek lyric. Once he conquered Greek poet Archilochus and an extensive erotic epigram –– a type of Greek literature in the form of a short, satirical poem –– he moved on to the next big thing. “I translated the first 50 lines of the Il-

iad,” Bourgeois said. “It was pretty good, so I put it to some music I composed on GarageBand.” Bourgeois’ friends and professors quickly realized the potential of the project, he said. He then began to plan out the entirety of the Iliad. “That’s what this project is now,” he said. “The world’s first hip-hop audio book, The Trilliad.” Tyrrell Davidson, a member of the Committee of Graduate Students, heard about the project and approached Bourgeois. “We do series of pop-up performances to showcase the creative work of students and further enrich campus by offering brief, public and free encounters with its students’ original art,” Davidson, a graduate student in theater, said. It was the perfect opportunity to advertise Bourgeois’ audiobook to the public, while giving students something to enjoy, she said. With the first two tracks recorded and out, Bourgeois said he is excited to complete the rest of the project. “Once this is done I’m going to sketch out the entire Odyssey,” he said. “I want it to be a completely crazy revamping.” Bourgeois said he hopes to stage the show and find a diverse cast interested in bringing Homer to the masses. “This is one of the great virtues of any project like Brandon’s,” Hawkins said. “It revivifies Homer for us and reminds us that these stories were never intended to be experienced as books that we read silently.”

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Ohio State alumna among Miss America contestants MARA MASON For The Lantern mason.816@osu.edu Ohio State alumna and Miss Ohio 2017 Sarah Clapper competed alongside 50 other state titleholders for the 97th Miss America crown on Sept. 10 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

“Everyone loves the Ohio State name, and it just opens the door for many opportunities.” Mackenzie Bart Miss Ohio 2014

Clapper graduated with an architecture degree in 2016, and in addition to serving as Miss Ohio, she also works for Columbus ar-

chitecture firm Berardi+Partners. Clapper has competed in a number of different qualifying local pageants for Miss Ohio since her freshman year at Ohio State in 2012. This year, she accomplished her lifelong goal when she competed as Miss Clayland and won the title of Miss Ohio on June 17. Before gracing the stage Sunday night in hopes of being crowned Miss America, Clapper and her fellow contestants competed in preliminary rounds the week before the final. From the 51 contestants in the preliminary rounds, 15 are chosen to compete on the final night. Clapper was not chosen to compete in the top 15 but expressed her gratitude just to be there. “I remember sitting and watching the [top-15] competition take place and having a piece inside knowing that it wasn’t my time to MISS OHIO CONTINUES ON 5

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Local professors bring latest short film to Wexner Center CHASE-ANTHONY RAY Lantern reporter ray.461@osu.edu Two local professors are bringing their nationally surveyed short film, “Strangely Ordinary This Devotion,” to the Wexner Center for the Arts Tuesday. Dani Leventhal, an assistant professor of drawing, and Sheilah Wilson, an assistant professor of studio art and queer studies at Denison University, will present an interplay between live performance and short film –– two experimental pieces of art featured in the Wexner Center’s “Visiting Filmmakers” series. Preceding their screening of “Strangely Ordinary This Devotion,” Leventhal and Wilson will perform “Shameless Light,” a reading of inspiring love letters written by women, including the artists themselves. The Wexner Center’s “Visiting Filmmakers” series sheds light on rising stars, acclaimed directors and other film industry experts who screen their own films and hold discussions with audiences each week. “Strangely Ordinary This Devotion” first premiered at the 78th annual Whitney Biennial, the longest running survey of American art in New York that has brought artists like Jackson Pollock and Jeff Koons to prominence.

Leventhal has screened her works at multiple film festivals in the past, and has some of her work on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Columbus Museum of Art. However, she said it took her a few times to receive recognition from the Whitney Biennial. “In 2012 and 2014, curators came to my studio considering [my] work for inclusion in the Biennials, but it didn’t happen,” said Leventhal, director, writer, and star of the film. “When Aily Nash approached us for 2017, we kept our hopes down, but since April, there have been many requests to see [SOTD], so in a way, the biennial was a catapult.” As educators, Leventhal and Wilson echo the sentiment that it’s important for students to show interest in the work of their professors. “I always think it’s healthy to be curious in the work of your professors, to see them outside of their pedagogical roles [and] it’s a good practice to not get too used to being fed everything without having to exert yourself to understand,” Wilson said. “If students want to engage challenging questions around gender, domestic space, queer desire, fantasy, crisis and family, then please come.” Both women said they believe it’s important for students to know that the arts can take them

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Columbus professors Dani Leventhal and Sheilah Wilson (pictured) will present their film “Strangely Ordinary This Devotion” at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Tuesday. further than their ZIP code. “If you stay here and make a thorough body of work, you can have opportunities to pursue it further through residencies and

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be Miss America and that God has plans for me as Miss Ohio ... that was something that I carried with me throughout my entire experience at Miss America,” Clapper said. “If it’s meant to be, it will be, and if it’s not I still have one of the best jobs waiting for me at home [as Miss Ohio].” Clapper is not the only Ohio State alumna that has been a part of the competition for the crown. In the past 10 years, three Ohio State alumnae have competed as Miss Ohio at Miss America — Miss Ohio 2007, Roberta Camp Albert and Miss Ohio 2014, Mackenzie Bart. “Ohio State is such a large organization, so I was very glad to represent them as Miss Ohio, because you then have so many supporters behind your back,” Bart said. “Everyone loves the Ohio State name, and it just opens the door for many opportunities.” Originally from Louisville, Ohio, Clapper was a competitive gymnast growing up, which led to the development of her platform, “Athletics Today, a lifetime of tomorrows.”

After a spinal injury halted her gymnastics career, the goal of Clapper’s platform is to instill emotional resiliency in athletes, and assist them in developing positive habits. “I struggled with figuring out who I was outside ‘the gymnast,’ and unfortunately a lot of athletes transition out of their athletic career and they get lost … everything that described who I was up until that point have been based off my gymnastics,” she said. Because of her intention to pursue a master’s degree in business administration with a focus in marketing, Clapper qualified for the Women in Business scholarship through the Miss America Organization, and was later announced as one of two winners of the $5,000 scholarship. “Receiving the Women in Business award was probably the most fulfilling part (of this experience)...the minute I received the award knowing I was debt free from college,” she said. “Receiving that at Miss America, the pinnacle of what you strive for, and what I was working towards for five years, was the cherry on top.”

shows which expose you to new people and places,” Leventhal said. “The reasonable cost of living in Columbus allows people the time and space to make all of

their art.” The screening will take place Tuesday at 7 p.m. Admission is $6 for students and $8 for the public.

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against Army. The redshirt freshman did not disappoint. Haskins completed all four of his passes for 46 yards, zipping the ball to four separate receivers on each throw and driving the Buckeyes to Army’s 10-yard line. “I thought he performed well when he was in there,” coach Urban Meyer said after the game. “He was 4-for-4. I wanted to throw him more, but you just didn’t want to do something silly.” His big-armed, pocket passing style starkly contrasted with Barrett’s dual-threat approach. In Haskins’ only drive, he completed passes of 14 and 15 yards. In the rest of the game, Barrett completed six passes for at least 14 yards. Meyer praised Haskins’ quick release after the game and said Haskins might have had a chance to score on his only drive, but did not want to score another touchdown and run the score up. After Ohio State’s first loss of the season, a decisive 31-16 defeat to Oklahoma, Meyer said he hoped to find Haskins some reps in regular-season games with the goal being to prepare the quarterback to be “game-ready.” Meyer did not believe Haskins earned that designation last week and believes he still has to work to earn the tag. In Meyer’s mind, a large experience gap exists between practice reps and game reps, and another lies in whether the game reps occur under pressure. At the end of the game against Army, Haskins did not have much to lose.

“I’ve done that before where you put a guy in in the second quarter of a game,” Meyer said. “We’re not at that point yet. But you’d like to do that.” Whether Haskins earns earlier playing time to test his readiness or not, he is likely to remain backup quarterback. Instead of a battle to become the starter, he might re-enter a competition with redshirt sophomore Joe Burrow, who is about ready to return to action. Burrow broke a bone in his throwing hand near the end of fall camp. Before the past two games, he threw passes in pregame warmups, but he has yet to be listed on a depth chart due to the injury. “We’ve got to make some decisions who is the first one in there,” Meyer said. “Last year was very important to get Joe in the game and he did pretty well when he was in there as well. So, that is so important for backup quarterback spot.” In the spring and fall, Burrow and Haskins entrenched themselves in a battle to back up Barrett. In the spring game, Burrow went 14-for-22 for 262 yards with three touchdowns, while Haskins completed 26-of-37 passes and added three touchdowns. The primary backup last season, Burrow played in five games and completed 22-of-28 passes for 226 yards and threw two touchdown passes. A dual threat, similar to Barrett, Burrow rushed 12 times for 58 yards and a touchdown.

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Ohio State redshirt freshman quarterback Dwayne Haskins (7) throws a pass in the fourth quarter of the 2017 Ohio State-Army game on Sep. 16. OSU won 38-7.

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Buckeyes showcase talent for NHL teams WYATT CROSHER Lantern reporter crosher.1@osu.edu After the success the Ohio State men’s hockey team saw last year, reaching the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2009, a handful of players from the team received opportunities to skate for NHL teams during the summer. Five players who are returning from last year’s team — forwards Mason Jobst, Tanner Laczynski, Dakota Joshua and John Wiitala and defender Wyatt Ege — and three players who graduated — forward Nick Schilkey, defender Josh Healey and goalie Matt Tomkins — were invited to development camps for NHL teams across the country. These camps are meant to give teams a chance to check out prospects whom they already drafted, as well as give other young players a chance to gain experience with NHL coaches and staff. “It was really fun,” said Wiitala, who skated with the Minnesota Wild. “My family has been season-ticket holders for [the Wild] for a long time so I’ve seen a lot of games there, but it was cool getting to meet players around the rink that I’ve been watching for a really long time.” This was Wiitala’s first year attending the camp, as it was for Ege, who skated with the Vegas Golden Knights expansion team.

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Ohio State sophomore forward Tanner Laczynski (center) poses for a photo with Cam Lee and Wyatt Kalynuk at Philadelphia Flyers development camp. While this was a new experience for Ege and Wiitala, Laczynski and Joshua went to their second and third NHL camps this past summer, respectively. Joshua was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the sixth round of the 2014 draft, and Laczynski was selected in the fifth round of the 2016 draft by the Philadelphia Flyers. Both players attended their respective teams’ development camps. “I came in this year with a little

bit more confidence, and it was more of a better experience overall, just enjoying my time there and not being so nervous, knowing most of the guys and coaching staff,” Laczynski said. Making his third appearance to an NHL camp, Joshua said he feels more like a veteran, and the camps give him a taste of what he hopes to achieve. “Going there as a young kid obviously I knew it was going to be a long time before I had a chance

of making it somewhere in the organization, but now that I’m getting older, it’s getting closer and closer,” Joshua said. Jobst, whose 55 points led the Big Ten a season ago, was the fifth returning player to attend a camp. He attended camps for both the Boston Bruins and the reigning Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins. “It was pretty surreal to put the jersey on for the first time and just get to meet all of the coaches

and the coaching staff, and seeing the Stanley Cup was an unbelievable feeling, and everyone was so great there,” Jobst said. The Buckeyes have an exhibition game at home against Ryerson on Sept. 30, and then start the regular season on the road at Wisconsin on Oct. 6. Despite losing key contributors like Schilkey and goalie Christian Frey, the hockey team has continued to maintain lofty positions for this upcoming season. “I think that every player has their individual goals, but I think what’s really important is the team goals, getting back to the tournament, and not just making it there, making a dent, and making a little run,” Witala said. To make this run, new players will need to step up — the Buckeyes graduated two of their three leading scorers this offseason — but each player said there are things he learned in development camps, like the importance of nutrition and skating stride, that he can bring back to Columbus. “The biggest thing is the work ethic,” Joshua said. “The ones that you see make it are working really hard, learning how to try and match that and bring that every day I think is a big thing for me to bring back here.”

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that, despite the accolades, he doesn’t change,” Ryan said. “He came in here full of fire, he’s still full of fire. He loves this sport. He loves this program. He loves his teammates.” Ryan suspects that leading the Buckeyes to a team national championship was the main goal in Snyder’s plan to return. “He helped the team win nationals as a freshman and I think there’s certainly an element of him now, he wants to leave leading the team to another national championship,” Ryan said. Snyder said that’s precisely why he’s staying around. “The perfect end? A team title,” Snyder said. “We’re in Cleveland, so a team title at the [Quicken Loans Arena] would be awesome. And when I started my freshman year here we won a team title and then we took third and then second, so finishing off my career here with another team NCAA title would be awesome.” NICHOLAS MCWILLIAMS | FORMER SPORTS EDITOR

Then-junior Kyle Snyder lifts Penn State’s Nick Nevills for a takedown on Feb. 3, 2017 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU lost, 32-12. SNYDER FROM 8

national championship this season. Snyder said the opportunity to compete alongside a striking amount of talent was attractive in his decision to return, and that there is nothing quite like wrestling on a team. “This year, we have a really special team,” Snyder said. “I

think we have the potential to be one of the greatest wrestling teams in the history of NCAA sports, in the history of NCAA wrestling. That’s exciting.” Coach Tom Ryan said Snyder’s dedication to his team has become clear in the past three years. “I mean the thing about Kyle that has always impressed me is

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another spread offense.” Campbell being used more With six wide receivers listed as starters, it could be viewed as a challenge for any one player to stand above the pack. But if anyone in the receiving corps has looked like he could take that next step, it would probably be H-back Parris Campbell. Campbell leads the team in receiving yards with 217, ranks fifth in rushing yards with 32 on three carries and has averaged 36.5 yards on kickoff returns in four attempts. The redshirt junior first flashed his explosion against Indiana in the opening week, when he caught a pass on a short crossing route and bolted through the secondary, taking the ball 74 yards for a touchdown. He used that speed again versus Army, nearly scoring his first rushing touchdown of the season when he broke out past the defense and into the end zone, before it was brought back due to a holding penalty. Meyer said he sees a lot of former Buckeye H-back and current Carolina Panthers wideout Curtis Samuel in Campbell, and added he’d like to get the ball in Campbell’s hands more often. “Everybody can see [the comparison]. I was so upset we had another holding call,” Meyer said. “Parris has that kind of skill set.” Weber could be ‘rewarded’ For the bulk of this season, redshirt sophomore running back Mike Weber has been helplessly watching from the sideline as

freshman running back J.K. Dobbins dominates on the field. Weber has been limited to 42 yards on seven carries due to a lingering hamstring injury that has prevented him from seeing regular playing time. However, Weber is coming off a season as Ohio State’s primary running back in which he rushed for 1,096 yards on 182 carries and added 91 receiving yards on 23 catches. Despite his injury and Dobbins’ success as the No. 1 running back so far, Weber could still return in a major role for Ohio State’s offense once he is fully healthy. “He’ll be rewarded once he gets back full speed,” Meyer said. “It’s not that Mike’s a lost soul around here ... He’s very critical for us as we continue to move forward in conference play coming up in a few weeks.” The third-year running back had just four carries for 13 yards in Saturday’s 38-17 victory over Army.

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