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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

In the business of facts, here’s how we get it right

LAUREN FISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

In a world that’s quick to toss around the phrase “fake news” and scrutinize anything presented as a fact, it’s more important than ever for news publications to be honest and transparent about their reporting methods.

So today, I’d like to talk about our fact-checking process. Although it’s not the most glamorous part of the job, it is, without a doubt, one of the most necessary.

When a writer brings their finished story to an editor, they are also expected to bring with them copies of all interviews, notes, records, documents, etc. — basically all the ingredients of the story. After reading through the story in its entirety, they embark on the often-grueling process of fact-checking every line in the story.

It’s not uncommon to see a reporter and their editor sitting side-by-side listening to a grainy audio file to make sure they transcribed the right word. We know that if we get that word wrong, it can throw our credibility into question.

And we know full well that there is no room for mistakes when it comes to the news. Our digital managing editor puts it well — we’re in the business of facts.

Sometimes, of course, we slip up. Maybe a name was misspelled on second reference. There have been times when reporters dealing with daunting quantities of data have made mistakes in their math, throwing off statistics in their stories.

The moment we find out we made a factual mistake, we take full accountability and correct it. Any story that has been modified will have a big, bold “correction appended” right below the headline, as well as an explanation at the bottom of the story detailing what went wrong and how we fixed it.

Although we’ve always been proud of our high standards for accuracy, we feel that in this day and age, it’s especially important to be transparent about our process. We’re lucky that as a student publication, we’re rarely attacked with the “fake news” labels

larger publications have been dealt.

We are aware, however, that we sometimes publish stories that make people upset or uncomfortable. And to that end, I’ll refer back to what I mentioned earlier — we’re in the business of facts. We’re not in the business of telling you how to feel, what to think or how to react to information that you disagree with. I’ve always admired the motto of the E.W. Scripps Company: “Give light and the people will find their own way.”

You, as the reader, get to find your own way. You get to decide how to respond to the information we provide. It’s our job to give you the facts of the story.

And it all starts with getting it right.

Lauren Fisher is a senior studying journalism at Ohio University and the editor-in-chief of The Post. Have questions? Email Lauren at lf966614@ohio.edu or tweet her @Lauren__Fisher.

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Oscars by the numbers GEORGIA DAVIS BLOGS EDITOR As with any Oscars, people attach numbers to nominees: a certain film was nominated this many times and here is the diversity in the nominees.

This year is no different. With box office hits dominating almost every category and the remnants of #OscarsSoWhite and #MeToo movements still in the conversation, there is a lot to discuss with the current nominees.

Here is a breakdown of the nominations told through numbers: 52 There are 52 films nominated for Oscars this year, including documentaries, short films and animated features. That is down from last year’s 59 movies nominated. Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite lead the nominees with 10 each, followed by Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born and Adam McKay’s Vice, which picked up eight nominations each.

$1,282,581,038 The 2018 domestic box office numbers for the Best Picture nominees was substantial this year. The box office for the 2018 Oscars was $709,083,433, more than $5 million less than the total for this year’s nominees.

Black Panther, the highest grossing movie of 2018, made up for 55 percent of the Best Picture box office number. The film made more than $700 million in the U.S. alone, and grossed more than $1 billion worldwide. It is also the first superhero film to be nominated for the category.

The box office total for the 2019 Oscar nominees excludes Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, which was a Netflix release and therefore did not have a box office statistic for the U.S. The film had to be shown in a limited release in the U.S., but those numbers were not available. This is the first time a Netflix film has been nominated for Best Picture.

80 percent Of the nominees in the four acting categories, 80 percent of them are white.

There is no person of color nominated for Best Actor. Mexican and black actors make up the other 20 percent, with each owning 10 percent of the nominations. Last year, the nominees were also 80 percent white with the other 20 percent black.

In 2015 and 2016, the acting categories were 100 percent white, sparking the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. A few years later, nothing major has really changed.

Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira are the two Mexican actresses representing the film Roma. There have only been eight different Mexican-born actors nominated in the acting categories, and no Mexican has won an Oscar for a leading role. Shut out of the acting categories are Asian actors, even with the hit Crazy Rich Asians.

inee Lanthimos is the youngest nominee in the category this year at 45.

55 The average age of those nominated for Best Director is 55 years old. The oldest of the bunch is Spike Lee, 61, who is about 6 months older than fellow nominee Paweł Pawlikowski. Three-time nom-

The 91st Academy Awards airs Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. on ABC.

Zero No women were nominated for Best Director this year. It’s not shocking, per say, that no woman was nominated, but that doesn’t mean it’s all right. Only five women have been nominated in the Academy’s 91 years, and Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman to win for The Hurt Locker in 2010.

The lack of nominees presents an underlying issue about female representation in the industry’s top positions.

Women directed 8 percent of the top 250 movies of 2018, which was down 3 percent from 2017, according to The Celluloid Ceiling report conducted by San Diego State University.

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EXISTENTIAL BINGE-WATCHING

‘Glass’ refreshes comic book cinema JACKSON HORVAT is a freshman studying journalism at Ohio University.

M. Night Shyamalan is known for his twists.

Whether the movie ends up a hit or miss, you can always expect to have your mind bent and your emotions played with at least a few times by the end of one of his films.

Split, which hit theaters a couple years ago, was no exception. The thriller kept viewers on their toes with the edge-of-your-seat plot and James McAvoy’s immaculate acting. By the end of it, I was practically out of breath, and as much as I enjoyed the film, the credits hitting the screen triggered a sigh of relief. But Shyamalan had one more rug to pull out from under our feet. In similar fashion to most comic-oriented movies today, he threw in an after-credits scene which revealed Split was actually in the same universe as his other film from much farther back, Unbreakable.

Thus began the anticipation for the end of this unforeseen trilogy: Glass. The wait was definitely worth it.

Now that the initial excitement surrounding Glass has died down and we’ve all moved on from the rather lackluster reviews from critics, this truly was an excellent and fulfilling movie. Shyamalan crafted what was promised, while still managing to exceed expectations and provide some shocks one could only ever expect from such a director.

The cinematography was on point as always, with beautiful, carefully thought-out shots begging to be paid attention to. There were so many callbacks, specifically to Unbreakable — from getting to see David Dunn’s son all grown up, to Shyamalan

doing a cameo in the same role he did so many years ago in the first film.

Unbreakable was ultimately a character study, focusing on a slow plot that built and gave pay off to those that cared enough to pay careful attention. Split was a completely different beast (get it?) and went full thriller on the audience. It was a fastpaced, nail-biter of a movie, and because of that change in pace and tone, it was so surprising to find out these two films would eventually be connected and combined. Glass took the amazing characters we loved from both, the attention to detail of Unbreakable and the mystery and intensity of Split, and came out as a masterful conclusion.

Of course praise must be given to all the actors in the film. The new characters, mainly Sarah Paulson, added new depths and layers to the movie and really committed to their roles. For those who returned, they gave it their all and no one felt like they were phoning it in. My only complaint falls on Bruce Willis, who I felt was at times a bit stiff in his delivery, but for the most part he returned gracefully as David Dunn.

With that said, the utmost applause must again be given to James McAvoy, who managed to top his performance in Split. You’ve never seen good acting until you watch McAvoy play five or more roles at once all having a coherent conversation that you can follow and tell who’s talking just from his facial expressions. It really is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen and McAvoy should most definitely be getting more attention and Academy nods

for what he’s done.

There was one thing that seemed to turn a lot of people away: the ending. While I don’t want to go into too much detail for spoilers sake, I will say the ending was certainly a tragedy, at first.

Many viewers focused on the initial loss and of course, got angry. However, the ending did everything it needed to do to wrap up this trilogy.

Yes, it was sad. Trust me, I felt it. But in the end, it allowed our heroes to achieve the goal they’d been striving for since the beginning. In essence, it’s not a tragic ending so much as a bittersweet one which I think is absolutely perfect for such a series of films.

So while Glass hasn’t garnered much critical acclaim, and the ending has split audiences (get that one?). It was the all-around perfect end to a really breathtaking and refreshing take on the comic book genre in cinema. It gave pay off to Unbreakable and Split, and crafted an entirely new plot with some of Shyamalan’s best twists to boot. McAvoy and the entire ensemble delivered incredible performances and Glass really will shatter any worries you having going in to your first viewing of it. This is a must -see, and really does its job of coming full circle for a truly mind-bending trilogy of movies.

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BUSINESS ONLY

February has but one redeeming quality JADA SONNENBERG is sophomore studying marketing at Ohio University.

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Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and that sucks.

February is already one of the lamest months of the year due to its 29th day. It shows up every four years and then just dips? Sounds like my father: flaky and useless. Disclaimer: the author of this article knows how leap years work. Please don’t @ me on Twitter calling me a dumb again. It hurt my feelings. Valentine’s Day just adds to the horrid month that is February.

The obligatory balloons, chocolates and flowers. Don’t even get me started on those teddy bears that are so big that they could probably kill a toddler.

You’re probably thinking, “Wow, this Jada girl is just a bitter, lonely party pooper who hates fun and the concept of love.” Well, guess what y’all, that is not correct — I actually love love and everything it stands for. I just find the obligation of getting my significant other something in the name of a Hallmark holiday tiring. Also, receiving flowers makes

me uncomfortable. It makes me feel like someone died or that I’m in a pageant (equally horrifying).

Despite February’s flaws, the month has a redeeming quality: Lunar New Year. Where are all of my 1995 babies? It’s your year! Be careful this year, 1995 babies. Your zodiac year is your unluckiest year and you could easily be taken by a demon. But onto other things.

For my entire life, my adoptive mother has emphasized the importance of connecting with my culture. When I was younger, my mother would take me to Lunar New Year celebrations that were hosted by the adoption agency she went through.

We would celebrate with all of the other families and little girls the agency had helped bring together. It was an exciting event where I got to see my friends, receive red envelopes and gifts, and eat a lot of noodles.

As I got older and into middle school and high school, when Lunar New Year would come around, my mother would still give me a festive

red envelope with a few dollars in it and some interesting Chinese snacks from her favorite Asian grocery store. Obviously, as an angsty pre-teen/teenager, I didn’t appreciate these small gifts like I should have. Back then, it was about the gifts themselves and not what they represented.

Now that I’m in college, I find the Lunar New Year just as exciting as I did when I was a kid.

Celebrating with friends and hitting up Ginger for noodles is a must. Even after all of these years, my mom still gives me a little red envelope, but it’s not about the gifts. It’s about connecting with my culture and celebrating something truly amazing.

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CINEMA AND SYNTAX

What will be the genre that defines the decade?

There are only 11 months left in the current decade, which means it’s time to start reflecting on the genre of film that will define GEORGIA this era.

DAVIS For the ‘80s it was the is a senior Brat Pack with films like studying The Breakfast Club and journalism Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. at Ohio In the ‘90s, cheesy but University. almost edgy romantic comedies like 10 Things I Hate About You and You’ve Got Mail pervaded through the early 2000s. Then the 2000s took viewers to fantastical worlds with high-quality visuals in franchises like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.

For the 2010s, many subgenres rose to the forefront. Biopics, feature films following the life of one person or a particular event, seemed to surge for the sake of learning history — or a version of it — in two hours. Then there’s the rise of reboots and live-action films; Ghostbusters and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast come to mind. Sure, those genres left an imprint on cinema in this decade, but that’s not what people will remember 30 years from now.

What they will remember is the domination of superhero films.

Of course, superhero films were not limited to the 2010s. Batman has been played by a slew of people since the ‘40s, and Superman came out in 1978. We can’t forget Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man which

began in 2002 and ended in 2007, a year before the current Marvel Cinematic Universe started with Iron Man in 2008.

Since 2010, 24 superhero films have been in the top 10 highest-grossing films.

Christopher Nolan released the conclusion to his Dark Knight trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, in 2012. DC also launched its own Justice League franchise, which haven’t been successful in terms of critical acclaim.

DC’s one true star was Wonder Woman, which was the first time anyone really saw a female superhero. The film grossed more than $400 million, becoming the third biggest box office hit of 2017 behind Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Beauty and the Beast.

No other genre of film dominated the 2010s in the way superhero movies did, but it’s more than just making the most money. With Black Panther becoming the first superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture, it just goes to show that superhero films are about more than just beating the bad guy. The superhero movies showed they are home to the most genuine and human stories in cinema. The characters are complex, the storylines are developed and almost every person has a hero to look up to.

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POLICE BLOTTER

Student staggers down Smith Street; pans stolen MEGAN CARLSON FOR THE POST Try saying this five times fast: student staggers down Smith Street.

The Ohio University Police Department found a man staggering in the middle of Smith Street on Friday.

The student had glossy eyes, was slurring his speech and smelled of alcohol. He was also unsteady on his feet and could not care for himself. He was arrested for disorderly conduct by intoxication and transported to Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail pending his sobriety.

He was one of six students arrested for underage consumption of alcohol or disorderly conduct by intoxication over the weekend.

WILSON WOES OUPD responded to Wilson Hall on

Friday at about 2 a.m. after Housing and Residence Life staff found a student passed out in the first-floor bathroom.

The woman had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and smelled like alcohol. She also was “very lethargic” in her movement, according to the report. A fake Ohio driver’s license was also found in her wallet and confiscated. The student was arrested for disorderly conduct by intoxication and was taken to Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail pending her sobriety.

On Saturday at about 1 a.m., OUPD responded to Wilson Hall after a resident assistant reported an intoxicated woman near the second-floor bathroom.

The student smelled of alcohol, was slurring her speech and was unable to stand on her own. The student also had fake Connecticut and Illinois IDs in her possession. She was charged with un-

derage consumption by intoxication and transported to Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail pending her sobriety.

UP IN THE AIR The Athens County Sheriff’s Office received a report Saturday of a man with a gun on Third Street in The Plains.

After investigating further, deputies found that the suspect had an airsoft pellet gun. No criminal offenses were committed, and the case was closed.

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The sheriff’s office took a report Saturday of a burglary at a residential camper in Guysville on Saturday.

The man said someone entered his camper through a window and stole a white Xbox 360, a small Samsung flatscreen TV and four cast-iron pans. Ac-

cording to the report, there are “no good leads” to a suspect, and the case is closed.

RUGRATS STRIKE AGAIN The sheriff’s office was dispatched Sunday to Carol Lane in Athens for an open-line 911 call.

Upon arriving on the scene, small children were found to be playing with the phone. There was no actual emergency.

CYCLE-PATH The sheriff’s office was advised Monday of a mountain bike that was located underneath the Route 33 overpass near Eclipse village.

A person on the bike path said the bike had been there for more than a week with no reports of a stolen bike. The case was closed.

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NEWS BRIEFS

Rape report received; professor faces tenure loss SARAH M. PENIX NEWS EDITOR OUPD RECEIVES REPORT OF RAPE The Ohio University Police Department received a report of rape Saturday.

It was the first report of sexual assault the department has received since the beginning of the semester.

According to the OUPD police log, an anonymous SANE kit was collected from hospital staff at OhioHealth O’Bleness Hospital. This is the first report to OUPD since Jan. 13.

There have been no sex offenses reported to the Athens Police Department since Jan. 13.

ENGINEERING PROFESSOR ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT APPEALS An OU engineering professor accused of sexually harassing three students was denied appeal Jan. 22 by OU President Duane Nellis.

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cal and biomolecular engineering department, filed for appeal in December. The policies that were violated include sexual harassment, sexual harassment by hostile environment and retaliatory harassment.

OU’s Equity and Civil Rights Compliance Office investigated and substantiated the claims of harassment and retaliation, but did not substantiate claims regarding harassment by hostile environment.

“With this standard in mind, I have decided that there is sufficient cause to initiate loss of tenure proceedings under Handbook Section II.D.5,” Nellis said in a letter denying Lee’s appeal.

Lee’s case was sent to the engineering department for further proceedings.

The university would not provide details of the allegations due to a recent change in university processing for Title IX records, Carly Leatherwood, OU spokeswoman, said.

The Post requested Lee’s appeal, three reports of student complaints and accusations against Lee, memorandums of find-

ing, a disposition of the case and Lee’s university statement. The university, however, has only supplied summary of the case and not the redacted version of the records.

University officials said in December that the ECRC stopped providing reports regarding Title IX violations reported by a student. The changes came after previously redacted cases alluded more information to the public than intended, Leatherwood said.

SUSPENDED JOURNALISM PROFESSOR TO FACE LOSS OF TENURE A suspended journalism professor is subject to loss of tenure under Ohio University’s Faculty Handbook policies.

Yusuf Kalyango, the former director of the Institute for International Journalism, was suspended from his faculty position in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism last year and is now facing a lawsuit along with OU regarding the sexual harassment case.

Nellis initiated loss of tenure proceedings Jan. 18 after reviewing the University

Professional Ethics Committee report and Kalyango’s appeal.

“We’re doing our best to comply with the Faculty Handbook, which isn’t always as clear as it could be,” Robert Stewart, director of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, said.

The next step, according to the Faculty Handbook, is for Stewart to meet with Kalyango.

“We’re in the process of trying to schedule that meeting,” Stewart said.

“We’re still in the really early stages.”

The Office of Equity and Civil Rights Compliance investigation found Kalyango responsible for sexual harassment by quid pro quo and sexual harassment by hostile work environment toward a graduate student in August, according to a previous Post report.

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Trustees approve Student Senate constitutional change, needs other approval ABBY MILLER STAFF WRITER A proposed Student Senate amendment that was approved by the Board of Trustees in January would allow for Student Senate to have greater autonomy.

During the Board of Trustees’ Governance and Compensation meeting Jan. 8, the amendment was introduced by the Student Senate executives. President Maddie Sloat, Vice President Hannah Burke and Treasurer Lydia Ramlo presented a bill that would cut out the need for Board of Trustees’ approval on amendment changes to Student Senate’s constitution.

Currently, there are three steps in Student Senate’s constitutional change process. The constitutional amendment must be passed by Senate, it must be passed by a campus-wide student vote and then the Board of Trustees must approve the amendment. The change would remove the final step, making students the final say in Senate’s constitutional changes.

That constitutional change would still allow the relationship between Senate and the board to remain close, as it requires a yearly meeting between the two groups.

“Instead of approving constitutional changes, which inherently say little about real concerns of students and the work being done in Senate, the Board will receive updates that reflect the pulse of the student body, which is a better way to bring student voices to the Board and also continues our mission of shared governance,” Sloat said in an email.

Sloat said the idea for the change came from summer research she did with the other Student Senate executives. It was discovered that Ohio University is the only school in the state to require board approval on student government constitutional amendments.

“Additionally, we discovered that the requirement of Board approval came at a time early in Senate’s history when students had no interactions or way of coming before the Board and used this constitutional change process as a way to get that face-to-face time,” Sloat said in an email.

The Governance and Compensation Committee did not object to the proposed constitutional change. The trustees recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the change.

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Board of Trustees member Peggy Viehweger listens Jan. 17 as points are made about undergraduate student enrollment growth.

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some of the language that was put in the bill. GSS President Maria Modayil voiced her concerns in an address she wrote to the Board of Trustees. Graduate students make up 26 percent of the student body at OU, but there is only one voting Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (HCOM) senator and no other voting graduate students in Student Senate.

“Graduate and professional students are diverse in age, professional experiences and life circumstances,” Modayil said in her address. “So, it is implausible that undergraduates or the Student Senate could effectively represent these voices.”

Modayil also said the Student Senate constitution lacks clarity and doesn’t include graduate students in its promise to represent all students on campus.

“I respectfully urge the Board of Trustees to consider the very important fact that the Student Senate action item only represents the voices of the current

undergraduate members of Student Senate,” Modayil said in her address. “It does not adequately represent the voices of the student body at large or graduate and professional students.”

Modayil encouraged there to be an open discussion about the Student Senate change. She also said that there are legal implications of there being an autonomous body of students with no accountability by the board.

Some Governance and Compensation members expressed concern over GSS’ opposition to the constitutional change.

Sloat said out of the five representative senates on campus, only Student Senate will be affected by this bill.

“This simply gives the student body the final voice in Student Senate’s constitutional changes moving forward,” Sloat said in an email. “Graduate Student Senate is able to also pass a bill before the Board similar to this if they so choose, but

that is their prerogative as representatives of that body.”

Getting board approval on the constitutional change was only the first step in the process, Sloat said. The bill still needs to be voted on by multiple other parties.

“Currently, our constitution does not reflect this change and will not until these changes are officially passed through both the Student Senate and student bodies later this semester,” Sloat said in an email.

The amendment was passed by the Board of Trustees as a whole, as mentioned

by Student Trustee Austin McClain during Student Senate’s meeting on Jan. 23.

“You get more autonomy and freedom with your constitution,” McClain said.

“This is good news.”

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ELLEN WAGNER NEWS EDITOR Ohio University and Athens officials are stepping up and saying issues about sexual assault belong to everyone, not just those who have it in their job description.

The Ohio University Police Department received a report of rape Saturday.

It was the first report of sexual assault the department has received since the beginning for the semester.

During the Fall Semester, however, OUPD had eight reports of sexual assault — seven rape reports and one gross sexual imposition report from Aug. 25 to Dec. 2 in 2018.

OUPD Lt. Tim Ryan said it can’t be predicted when a crime will happen, and he knows sexual assaults are under reported. OUPD has worked with different university programs and groups, such as Start By Believing and the Survivor Advocacy Program, to increase the interaction between students and police.

The Athens Police Department has not received reports of rape, sexual imposition or gross sexual imposition since Jan. 13. Last semester, APD had 19 reports of sexual assault — 13 rape reports and six reports of sexual imposition or assault — from Aug. 25 to Dec. 12 in 2018.

APD Chief Tom Pyle said the number of reports is skewed because a lot of sexual assault goes unreported.

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“A lot of people say, ‘What’s law enforcement going to do to stamp out these sexual assaults?’” Pyle said. “I still to this day and to my dying day say, ‘What can the law enforcement community do that we’re aren’t already doing that is acceptable to the community?’ ” Pyle said about 90 percent of cases are not happening in public places with strangers but in private residences with a known person. There is a high demand everywhere for patrol by APD. The department patrols in squad cars around Athens, walking patrols Uptown and doing bar checks to try to increase police visibility and deter crime, if possible.

When APD is involved in a case, it is sometimes limited by the rights of the survivor. If a survivor reports a case, the department wants to empower survivors and let them decide how to move forward. Pyle said that in the majority of cases, survivors choose not to criminally pursue the case for a variety of reasons.

By respecting the wishes of the survivor, officers can’t arrest a suspect or have them prosecuted.

OU Student Senate President Maddie Sloat said Student Senate wants to continue the conversation about sexual assault issues and prevention throughout the entire year. It is one of the three priorities for Student Senate this year, which includes launching a safety app. for students.

Sloat said conversations can be easi-

er to have when it’s about strangers and sexual assault, but people need to have “gray area” conversations. Those include talking about sex with a significant other and how a person doesn’t owe their partner sex just because they are dating. Another example she gave was going home drunk with someone, not wanting to have sex and not knowing how to feel or what to do after.

Sloat said those are the challenging conversations students actually need to be having since they make up a lot more of the experiences than situations with strangers.

“I think that is something that was missing or at least that we were trying to talk about last semester a lot,” Sloat said.

“I think a lot of people want to blame the police or the administration, and there are genuine real criticisms that can be directed at the police and there are real things that we can be doing better.”

Student Senate Vice President Hannah Burke said people should practice bystander intervention, check in on their friends and change the way people speak to each other. She said people need to change the way they use words or let others talk about things around each other.

People should have conversations about sex and rape and stop sexualizing people, specifically women.

“Understanding that each and every one of us are making decisions that dictate the culture around Ohio Universi-

ty,” Burke, who is a member of The Post’s Publishing Board, said. “It takes each of us and all of us to make that change to stand up when we see something that is not good.”

Last semester, a lot of people were talking about ”stranger danger” and the need for a greater police presence, Women’s Center Director Geneva Murray said.

However, there was less conversation coming from people who have been sexually assaulted by people that they know.

“We know that it’s more likely that it’s someone that we know that assaults us,” Murray said. “So it’s incredibly imperative that we not pass the buck in regards to (that) this is someone’s job because feeling safer and being safer are two very different things.”

The Women’s Center is trying to make events that can continue even after it is over, such as the What Were You Wearing event.

“We’ve really tried to do strategically here is to think more expansively in terms of how we can carry threads of the programs that we’ve done throughout the year to other programs so that we’re thinking in terms of scaffolding,” Murray said.

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Carla Consolini, a master’s student studying applied linguistics, poses for a portrait in Baker Center. (ANTHONY WARNER / FOR THE POST)

Raising legal fee to help international students CHLOE MEYERS FOR THE POST The Center for Student Legal Services (CSLS) is planning to raise the student legal fee so the center can assist current Ohio University international students with legal issues.

The fee would increase from $12 per semester to $15 in the renewal contract for the center. CSLS Managing Attorney Pat McGee said the increase is needed because the center is at the point that its expenses are exceeding its income.

Since the renewal contract has already been approved by the budget committee, the OU Board of Trustees voted to approve the increase, but it is contingent on the state budget.

“The main thing right now is that we decided that with the raise of the fee to $15 per student, if we have the ability to do so, what we proposed was to have a fund where we could assist international students in obtaining consultations with immigration law specialists,” McGee said.

OU administrators believe CSLS does a great job representing the overall stu-

dent population. At this time, administrators feel like international students have a particular need for legal representation, McGee said.

The only court system in Ohio that handles immigration law issues is in Cleveland, so it’s difficult to legally represent international students in Athens.

Even if CSLS helps an international student get a case dismissed or solved here in Athens, the student could still be in trouble with immigration authorities elsewhere for the same dismissed issue.

“We hope to be able to find a particular firm or several firms that we could contract with (on issues involving international students),” McGee said.

CSLS would also like to attend more conferences and put more energy into expanding its knowledge on the implications of international students.

“Any of us international students could go to the webpage of the government and try to understand all the laws that they have for when you aren’t a citizen,” Carla Consolini, a master’s student from Argentina studying applied linguistics, said.

“But there is so much information and so

much legal lingo.”

Consolini said it would be good to have someone who could understand her questions in simpler terms and who could help her fully understand the law.

McGee said some of the most common things international students come to the center for is landlord-tenant issues, asking questions about investing, work issues and visa, and/or passport issues.

Consolini said that in Argentina, housing isn’t regulated the way it is in the U.S., and one time she got in a situation where it was difficult for her landlord not to charge her for something she would be unable to pay for.

“I have always paid for it, mainly I am really afraid, and this is probably something I brought from Argentina, of landlords and leases,” Consolini said.

Tim Ryan, a lieutenant at the Ohio University Police Department, said international students don’t get in trouble with law enforcement very often. When they do, it is usually over traffic laws. Ryan said he likes the idea of an educational program for international students.

Consolini said anyone who goes to Ar-

gentina can get a work permit and international ID within a few days as long as they take their birth certificate, passport or state or government ID. “Here it is a little more difficult than that. I am not saying one is better than the other because they both have their pros and cons, but that is something that I didn’t know much about,” Consolini said.

International students studying at OU are not allowed to work outside of the university or work more than 20 hours per week. Consolini said she did not know much about that until traveling to the U.S. She works as a Spanish teaching assistant and is in the English Language Improvement Program Graduate Writing Lab. “The department gave its own orientation on how to be teaching assistants and how to not only be a teaching assistant but how to be one in the U.S., and that was really useful,” Consolini said. “That is something that needs to happen university wide.”

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Former LGBT Center director disputes audit findings delfin bautista said they made no personal purchases and that the expenses advanced the center’s mission BAILEY GALLION INVESTIGATIVE EDITOR

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n internal audit found that former Ohio University LGBT Center Director delfin bautista spent thousands of dollars in violation of university policy, making personal purchases and buying unnecessary staff meals. bautista, who uses they/them pronouns and does not capitalize their name, disputes much of the information in the audit. They say they never intentionally made personal purchases and that all the transactions served to advance the mission of the center.

They also say the university never warned them of any concerns about their spending and did not inform them of the audit results prior to their Jan. 10 removal. bautista first saw the audit findings when The Post obtained them through a public records request. bautista charged more than $35,000 to their university credit card during fiscal year 2018. They may have to reimburse up to $6,380 to the university. The internal audit office found that although bautista cited a business purpose for many of the transactions, many might still constitute waste or abuse of university spending power.

During Fall Semester, Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Gigi Secuban initiated a review of the university credit card spending of seven officials in the diversity and inclusion office, but bautista was responsible for 88 percent of about $7,200 in spending, which was found to violate university policy.

Secuban removed bautista from their position on Jan. 10. In a grievance appealing their removal, bautista said it came without warning and was handled unprofessionally. bautista said Secuban’s only justification for the removal was that the office was “going in a different direction.”

Secuban denied the appeal on Jan. 25. She alluded to expenses in the letter to bautista. “(I) need to ensure that directors make appropriate use of the budgets they have been provided as we have a responsibility to the taxpayers of the state of Ohio as a publicly-funded institution,” Secuban wrote. “My observations since taking my role with the university have led me to conclude that new leadership at the center is necessary to ensure its success going forward.” delfin bautista, former LGBT Center director, speaks at Scripps Amphitheater during the Athens Women’s March on Jan. 19.

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THE EXPENSES

OU allows employees to charge their cards for business meals or entertainment as long as the meals have a business purpose and include two or more people.

In a review of credit card data of all university employees for fiscal year 2018, bautista had the eighth-highest spending on meals in Athens, according to the memo.

“The large volume of meals purchased in FY18, in light of bautista’s personal constraints, have called into question whether those meals were a reasonable and necessary business practice or a misuse of bautista’s authority as a PCard holder,” Davis wrote in the memo.

The audit team identified 20 “self-care meals” and staff meals that did not meet university guidelines for business meals.

The price of the meals totaled $2,105.

One $86 “self-care staff meeting” took place at Shively Dining Hall because “staff (were) feeling burnt out.” Another “selfcare dinner” for a student who had been hospitalized took place at Applebee’s and cost $78. bautista held several meetings and trainings at restaurants including OU’s Latitude 39, Texas Roadhouse and Applebee’s. The most expensive meal, a training event at Ruby Tuesday, cost $245. bautista said those meals were within the mission of the center “in terms of developing and empowering the whole person” by helping LGBT students feel comfortable in spaces other than the office of the LGBT Center. During the meals, bautista and staff planned events and recruitment strategies or held discussions on topics such as coming out.

“I admit perhaps I went a little overboard with feeding folks; as a Latinx person it is a cultural practice for food and communal support / solidarity to be combined,” bautista said in the email to Payne.

“To this end, I felt that I was not abusing my authority or role as director as I was providing needed support to a marginalized population at Ohio University.”

Some meals were related to political events. One $110 meal at El Camino Mexican Restaurant on Jan. 20, 2017, was for “students upset over (President Donald Trump’s) inauguration.” bautista purchased $204 in pizza during the Baker Center rally on Feb. 1, 2017, during which 70 students were arrested. bautista also purchased $887 in “thank you meals” for staff and volunteers. The expenses didn’t meet the criteria for gifts because they were for people within the university, according to the memo. bautista said they rely on student staff members and volunteers to help with programs and events, and that the meals both thanked the volunteers, who received no other compensation for their time and facili-

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This will help us to determine areas of growth and improvement, as well as proper procedures moving forward as staff...”

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tated discussions.

The audit team determined certain transactions were personal purchases, including an iPad case, T-shirts, a My Little Pony coin bank and rainbow tiaras for a drag show. Those purchases totaled $495. bautista said the items remained in the center and were not purchased for personal use.

Davis said in the memo that certain items — although bautista provided a business use for them — might be wasteful.

The memo listed 53 examples purchased from Walmart, including nail polish, Bluetooth speakers, kitchen equipment, decorations, sunscreen, a punching bag and a poop emoji piñata. Those items were present at the center during the audit.

“There was no evidence that these items were converted to personal use or were misappropriated,” Davis wrote.

“However, management should again consider whether these purchases were necessary for programmatic needs or whether there is evidence of waste.” bautista said all the items were used in programming and never for personal use.

BUDGET DISAGREEMENTS

In an Aug. 20 email OU provided to The Post, Secuban informed the diversity and inclusion staff an audit would take place

to improve transparency and set “a strong financial plan.”

“This will help us to determine areas of growth and improvement, as well as proper procedures moving forward as staff, as it relates to our financial health as a department,” Secuban wrote in the email. “I would ask that when you are contacted by email or phone to be as responsive as possible so the process can continue to move forward.”

The audit noted that the LGBT Center went over budget in 2014, 2016 and 2018. bautista said the fiscal year 2014 deficit occurred because the center was charged twice for something by mistake. The fiscal year 2016 deficit occurred because of a vehicle accident the staff was involved in while returning from a conference.

The center was $13,403 over budget for fiscal year 2018, according to the audit memo. bautista said funding transfers for a conference and new furniture were supposed to cover the deficit but that those transfers never happened.

Each of bautista’s transactions were processed by Cutler Business Services.

Davis wrote that Cutler Business Services was not “in the best position” to gauge how reasonable the transactions were or whether the information employees provided was accurate.

“It is (the audit office’s) opinion that while Cutler Business Services is knowl-

edgeable of (university) policy and substantiation requirements, Cutler Business Services was too far removed from (Diversity and Inclusion) to approve transactions for necessity and reasonableness,” Davis wrote.

OU Spokeswoman Carly Leatherwood did not answer whether the Office for Diversity and Inclusion would be changing any of its credit card use or review procedures.

Leatherwood said that although the audit office provided the memo to Secuban on Dec. 14, the findings had to be “routed internally for processing.” In the memo, Davis advised that Secuban consult with finance and human resources. bautista said no one had raised concerns about their spending before the audit and that they found it strange for transactions that had already been approved to be reexamined. The university officially notified them of the audit results on Jan. 25 — 15 days after they were removed from their position.

“I appreciate the university’s efforts to ensure appropriate use and allocation of resources,” bautista said in an email to Payne. “At the same time, it is distressing that I was never given the opportunity to do better as questions or concerns were not raised during my tenure as director.” @BAILEYGALLION BG272614@OHIO.EDU THEPOSTATHENS.COM / 13

Grant Palma, a junior studying political science and president of Study and Application of Spray Paint (SASP), spray paints the graffiti wall on West Mulberry Street. on Tuesday, (EMILEE CHINN / PHOTO EDITOR)

Grant Palma, a junior studying political science and president of SASP, spray paints the graffiti wall on West Mulberry Street while Joseph Showalter, a junior studying biochemistry and vice president of SASP, watches on Tuesday.

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Spray painting organization promotes individuality BAYLEE DEMUTH STAFF WRITER Behind Bentley Hall near Richland Avenue sit three small walls covered in years of painted memories ‑ walls the Study and Application of Spray Paint (SASP) student organization continue to cover with memories of its own.

The graffiti wall has endured perilous weather conditions, gallons of paint and hundreds of intriguing messages. Painting it has become a cherished Ohio University student tradition that many students have gotten to partake, including the members of SASP. SASP prides itself on being an organi‑ zation that can be used as an outlet for expression of both visual displays that evoke passion from its artists and emo‑ tion from its audience. Through spray painting, many of the members have been able to develop their own voice while making friends along the way.

SASP was created only two years ago, but the lasting impact it has made on Xavier Bird and his experiences is one he’ll carry throughout his life.

“It’s always an interesting experience because I’m out here, and it’s a big part of my personality,” Bird, a junior studying psychology, said. “I like doing the paint‑ ing, being able to put up what I want and pushing forward my personal agenda that 14 / FEB. 7, 2019

doesn’t seem combative to other people.”

To Bird, spray painting is making something that appears ordered but it doesn’t feel like that. Putting up a painting might seem quick and chaotic, but at the same time there’s an artistry to it that is understood.

There are also aspects to spray paint‑ ing that are unlike regular painting. Once one finishes a piece of graffiti, they can always go back and add whatever they choose, Bird said.

“There’s always something more you can do because you’re not limited by this idea that it’s a finished product, it’s static,” Bird said. “It’s just always in the public eye so it’s always malleable.

It’s kind of like taking Wikipedia and putting it on a wall, because anybody can come along and change it whenever they want.”

If the weather cooperates, SASP is able to put up three to four of their own walls each semester before they start re‑ ceiving commissions from clients. In the beginning, many of SASP’s commissions were handshake agreements, but they’ve moved on to more of a contract when dealing with clients.

SASP has been hired to paint adver‑ tisements for clients such as Brick City Records and Pita Pit. “You gotta make sure people respect you. They don’t view you as a serious art‑

ist all the time, so you gotta make sure you execute that kind of atmosphere,” Bird said. “It’s something we work really hard on. So if you’re going to come to us, you have to offer us fair compensation for our time.”

Not only does the SASP organization spray paint commissions and their own ideas for walls, they cover up graffiti that antagonizes and terrorizes other people’s murals.

“We try our best to push away stuff that would be seen as profane, so we’ll tear it down,” Bird said. “At least for me, free speech is everybody’s priority, and art is speech. If you’re trying to cover up other people’s artwork to assert domi‑ nance over them, then people will fight back. Not accepting hatred is not a polit‑ ical statement.”

To Grace Scheid, a junior studying in‑ teractive media, graffiti is meant to be an expressionist artwork, something that shows some beauty with some opinion.

“It’s meant to say, ‘This is my opinion, and if you don’t like it that’s OK’,” Scheid said. “(Graffiti) is meant to look beautiful and be an eye-catcher, but also not com‑ pletely offend people at the same time.”

Despite the stigma that may come with graffiti, Scheid has never gotten a negative reaction from her peers when she speaks about being in SASP. The only problem Scheid and her fellow members

run into is keeping members interested.

“I think people don’t stay interest‑ ed because they have other things that would be better time-wise for them,” Scheid said. “It takes awhile for us to get things done, but if they are really inter‑ ested and motivated with our group, they would come to each meeting and try to be active.”

Even if others aren’t as motivated to stick with SASP, spray painting is an art form Scheid has come to appreciate through her own involvement.

“It’s really fun and honestly my favorite group to hang out with each week. We’re just so chill and relaxed, and yet we get things done,” Scheid said. “There really is never a dull moment with this group.”

Kaitlin Owen, a junior studying lin‑ guistics and creative writing, has seen significant improvement in her artistic abilities since helping start up SASP, especially with little to no artistic background in the beginning.

“I feel like I had never touched spray paint before I did this, and I’ve made a couple pieces I’ve been really pleased with,” Owen said. “It has been a growth thing for my artistic skills, and I’ve made some new friends who are now my main group of people.”

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Do award show acceptance speeches provoke social change?

RILEY RUNNELLS FOR THE POST Climate change, politics, women’s rights and AIDS are all prominent issues that are commonly discussed, but there is an uncommon platform where all of those issues have been discussed before — award show acceptance speeches.

Ever since award shows started, actors, musicians and other groups have dedicated their acceptance speeches to focusing on issues that person thinks are important.

Angela Hosek, Ohio University’s public speaking course director and an associate professor, believes acceptance speeches that deviate from simply thanking others make the audiences pay more attention.

“When actors or artists use their platform to do something else other than just thanking their sponsors and loved ones, people take notice,” Hosek said. “It’s become something that people talk about a lot because it deviates from the norm.”

Hosek believes that actors, musicians and artists are just human beings who also live in current society and are seeing issues and negative events unfold daily. Along with the speakers’ humanity and their desire to speak up for what they believe in, celebrity acceptance speeches are about reflecting on experiences that brought the speaker to where they are today.

Oprah Winfrey’s Cecil B. DeMille award acceptance speech at the 2018 Golden Globes, for example, reflected on her experience as a child who watched her mother and other women be sexually assaulted. Those women, however, were still being the strong ones who paid the bills and put food on the table. Winfrey used her platform to discuss the #MeToo movement, which was timely and in viewer’s minds.

Although acceptance speeches are the instigators of thought in the audience, the most important part is the aftermath of the speech. Some speeches are highly talked about on social media and trend for a while, but celebrities don’t give speeches for the social media exposure.

Speeches are meant to inspire change in audience behavior and raise awareness of issues, but the speakers are left wondering if audiences should simply stick to talking about the speech, or if they actu-

ally inspired to make a change.

“I think it depends on if the audience is paying attention to the message,” Hosek said. “Whether you like the actor or not, depending on what they say can impact the audience in a different way that is ultimately decided on how the audience feels.”

Hosek thinks that if someone likes the actor or the character they portray, the audience member will pay attention and listen to what that actor has to say. If the speech aligns with the political views the audience member has, the person is more inclined to step up and make a difference with the issue. However, if the audience member doesn’t agree with the speech, they’ll not only ignore the speech, but they could stop liking the actor altogether.

Maya Loken, a freshman studying strategic communication, thinks actors should use their platforms to raise awareness on social issues, but it is also important for them to understand the risk they take when doing so.

“I really appreciate seeing actors raising awareness of social issues through the platform they have,” Loken said. “What really makes me appreciate it is the risk they take by making some stands. Certain issues that are talked about are controversial among society, and it’s so cool that artists are able to put their own feelings aside to fight for something important.”

Olivia Mayernik, a freshman studying communication, thinks acceptance speeches are a great way for audiences to get some information from someone they look up to.

“I think it’s cool that actors use their platform to educate audiences on social issues,” Mayernik said. “It’s information that the audience didn’t know they were going to get in that setting, and I hope that the audiences listen to the importance of what these actors have to say.”

According to Psychology Today, celebrities tap into powerful motivational systems in their audiences that inspire them to love, admire and copy them. Celebrities have been interwoven so deeply in society that it becomes a big part of the way audiences live their lives. Celebrities then use their platforms to preach about something they’re passionate about and believe they might inspire society to implement their passions through change.

All in all, Hosek hopes if prominent figures use their acceptance speech time as

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a platform for social change, they use it for something positive.

“I think in some ways, actors and artists are granted a platform that the rest of us don’t have,” Hosek said. “It’s so important that they’re mindful of what they choose to stand for. Of course, they have the right to say what they want to say during their speech, but I hope they have

a powerful message that uses language in ways that won’t attack or harm others, and I hope they propose positive changes that puts out good into our society.”

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Facebook celebrates 15 years JOSEPH STANICHAR FOR THE POST Mark Zuckerberg and his roommate launched on Feb. 4, 2004 a social networking service for Harvard students called TheFacebook. In 15 years, the site expanded to other universities and eventually to most of the internet-using world.

The site also dropped the “The” along the way, just to become “Facebook.”

Stephanie Tikkanen is an assistant professor at Ohio University for the School of Communication Studies, and an expert on social media. In college, Tikkanen signed a petition for Facebook to come to her university before the service was available to everyone.

At the beginning, Facebook functioned much like sites such as BlackBoard do now, Tikkanen said. It was a tool university students used to track their classes, work on projects and communicate with their peers.

“It started as college students, and then they let in everybody, and then it sort of exploded,” Tikkanen said. “And as soon 16 / FEB. 7, 2019

as everybody’s moms got on the site, they migrated everywhere else. We’re seeing the same thing with Instagram now.”

Tikkanen described a cycle of social media migrations, in which young people find a new social media platform, parents discover and join the platform, and young people flock away to something new to begin the cycle anew.

“As you are individuating yourself from your parents, you need a space away from your parents,” Tikkanen said. “It started off with diaries, or like going to parties. This is not a new phenomenon. Now there’s just a way to do it online, and now there’s a record that keeps track of all the stupid things that you do.”

Sean Collins, a junior studying games and animation, has a Facebook, Twitter and Reddit account, but uses them to communicate with different audiences.

“I don’t think I have any family on any of those other things except for Facebook,” Collins said.

Julia Leonard is a junior studying journalism. She also uses different types of social media for different purposes.

“I think the way it’s set up is that Snapchat is an instant pick-up and take a picture thing, and Twitter is more of an instant Tweet, you just get your thoughts out and everything,” Leonard said. “Facebook is more for life updates and what you want to do with your life. It’s more serious, not like other platforms.”

According to Tikkanen, that phenomenon of having different social media for different audiences is very common, enough for it to have a name: context collapse.

“Context collapse is the idea that we have multiple audiences, and for all of those audiences, we give different content,” Tikkanen said. “So imagine how you talk to your parents as opposed to how you talk to your friends, or how you talk to somebody in a student organization that you’re in, or a professor. Now put all of those people at a dinner party together and decide what you’re going to talk about. That’s what Facebook is.”

Both students agree that Facebook has less of a prominence in their lives than it used to.

“There are just better websites that have

more things that cater to my liking,” Collins said. “I use Twitter and Reddit and stuff, but Facebook seems out of fashion now. They’re less serious, I like how I can control exactly what I see. I like that part about it.”

Despite Facebook’s waning popularity among younger generations, the site has thrived over the past 15 years by continuing to innovate, and when other social media arise, to either incorporate or emulate those trends. Case in point: Facebook owns Instagram.

“I think if you told me in college if I ever believed that this website was going to eventually be providing entertainment content, I would have been like, ‘the only entertaining thing here is getting to throw a sheep instead of poking my friend,’ ” Tikkanen said. “Facebook is one of those organizations that tends to lead those trends. But they’re also very, very good at making money.”

They will likely continue to make money for some time.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

What Ohio is focusing on in its week off ary for younger players to show a decline in production late in the season.

That’s why Phillips keeps an eye on his underclassmen.

“It’s like the All-Star break,” Phillips said. “We’re at the midway point, so, you’re always looking at your freshman trying to figure out how much they have left in the tank. Hopefully, a week like this allows him to maybe get that tank a little fuller so that we can gun it down the stretch with him. I’m very interested in playing him bigger minutes down the stretch.”

SPENCER HOLBROOK SPORTS EDITOR The Mid-American Conference play has hit its halfway point — at least for the Bobcats, it has.

Nine games in, not much has been figured out in the realm of Ohio basketball. The Bobcats’ offense has been largely inconsistent throughout the season, but it has shown how bad it can be in conference play. Freshmen are beginning to make a true impact, but how much can they help down the stretch?

The elephant in the room has been Saul Phillips’ contract, which expires in May. With only nine games remaining in the regular season and no answers to be found on the contract front, Phillips continues the season as an unknown.

Things may seem bleak in The Convo, but the reality is that the Bobcats maintain an overall winning record and can still turn their season around — under the correct circumstances.

If Ohio can string together wins throughout April, it’ll have some momentum to carry into the MAC Tournament.

The week-long break could not have come at a better time for the Bobcats, and they’re using this week to work on a plethora of things to make February more memorable than January was.

The Bobcats got the day off from any practices Sunday and Monday, but that was it. Ohio has too much to work on to take extensive time off, according to Phillips.

“It gives us a chance to refocus a little bit,” he said. “Really hammer out the offensive issues we’ve been having. Get some more shooting in. Whether we like it or not, (the time off) is needed.”

OFFENSE The Bobcats have shown flashes of being a dominant offensive team; they scored more than 100 points against Marshall

Teyvion Kirk (No. 4) gets trapped between Channel Banks (No. 11) and Daniel Utomi (No. 3).

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in nonconference play. They have also had 40-minute duds at points, including three games in conference during which they scored fewer than 55 points.

Phillips is the first to admit that Ohio isn’t a gifted shooting team. The Bobcats are shooting 29.7 percent from 3-point range.

But Phillips is OK with that, saying as long as the Bobcats can shoot below average from 3, they can win games with defense.

That is true, as long as the other components of the offense are clicking.

Phillips’ offense thrives on ball movement and cuts, but when Ohio gets stagnant offensively, it can go minutes without scoring the basketball. The lulls have to change, and Ohio knows that.

“We can address some of the

things, under a microscope, that we’re deficient in,” Phillips said of the time off.

CONFIDENCE Confidence goes hand-inhand with offense, and the Bobcats lacked confidence as they entered the “bye week.”

Where the Bobcats have lacked in shooting, they’ve made up for it on the defensive end. Defense isn’t an issue because Ohio has been a top-5 team in the MAC on that end all season. Confidence is there with the defense.

Offensively, Ohio has to maximize its possessions. The Bobcats have at times been too reliant on making the extra pass that offers a free shot but denies an easy shot in the process. They’ve also been reluctant to move without

the ball. Simply put: at times, the offense isn’t good.

“It’s a little frustrating,” Gavin Block said of the offense on Jan. 21. “We just have to keep grinding and finding ways.”

One Bobcat who has grown confident on the floor is Jason Preston. The freshman guard from Florida was hesitant to shoot in nonconference play, but once he garnered the confidence needed to play at a high level, he’s taken control of the offense.

If Teyvion Kirk continues to struggle, Preston will be a focal point of the offense and getting it started in particular. The problem? Phillips is wary of a freshman “wall” Preston may run into as conference play enters its final month. It’s custom-

POINT GUARD PRODUCTION As Kirk weaves through his second act of conference play, he’ll play a pivotal role in the Bobcats’ success. His confidence might not have been lower than in the game against Kent State on Jan. 15, when the Bobcats scored only 52 points and lost by 14. In that game, Kirk had 11 points on 4-of-22 shooting, the worst shooting night for any Bobcat this season. After that loss, Phillips didn’t mince words.

“He has got to progress,” Phillips said. “He’s got to get better.”

Even with the struggles he’s had, Kirk has shown flashes of his potential. In the win over Western Michigan a week later, he had 11 points on nearly 50 percent shooting. That is the production Phillips wants from his point guard.

He might be getting that — Phillips even went as far as saying Kirk’s practice Tuesday was his best in a long time.

For now, Kirk and Preston continue to not only share the ball handling duties, but they also command the offense. And they’ll need to be great for the Bobcats to find themselves in the thick of the MAC come March.

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Coach Frank Solich and defensive coordinator Jimmy Burrow walk on the field prior to a game. (PROVIDED via Ohio Athletics)

Jimmy Burrow reflects on 14 years guiding Ohio’s defense PETE NAKOS | ASST. SPORTS EDITOR immy Burrow sits at his desk with play sheets and videotapes scattered around him.

It’s an overcast Tuesday morning in the Peden Stadium Towers. Instead of talking to a recruit on the phone or making small talk with his good friend and offensive coordinator Tim Albin next-door, he’s trying to figure out how he’s going to pack up 14 years of his life.

Because on this Tuesday, he announced his plans to retire from his role as defensive coordinator at Ohio.

He starts talking fast, in his signature twang, when he shows the VCR tape from the 1974 Sugar Bowl of the TV version from ABC, with Keith Jackson and Barry Switzer on the call. Burrow was a defensive back for Nebraska when the Cornhuskers defeated Florida 13-10.

What really makes the 65-year-old happy is when he talks about his son, Joey. Joey’s now the quarterback at LSU, but before that, he rewrote the Southeast Ohio high school record books.

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he’s Joey’s dad. There’s a cut-out of Joey in his Athens jersey that sits to the left of the coach’s computer. A picture on the bookcase shows Joey and his parents at a Nike Elite camp.

For the past month, Burrow has battled with the idea of retirement: Leave a program he’s helped built from the bottom up or not watch one of his sons play college football on the sport’s biggest stage?

On Tuesday, Jimmy Burrow made the decision to transition from being a football coach to a football dad.

“When you leave, you’re leaving family,” he said. “It was hard talking to the safeties last night. It was hard talking to the whole team today. Those are all tough relationships to say, ‘Hey, I’m not going to see you every day.’ It’s based on family. I don’t want to miss out on my family.”

Football has been a part of Burrow’s everyday life for a better half of his own.

He played college football at Nebraska under leg-

endary coach Tom Osborne and graduated in 1976. He was then drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the eighth round of the NFL Draft. After just one season with the Packers, he moved to the Canadian Football League where he was a two-time CFL All-Star and won the 1977 Grey Cup with the Montreal Alouettes.

In 1981, he stopped playing and switched to coaching.

He made stops at Washington State, Iowa State, Nebraska and North Dakota State before he ended up in Athens.

When coach Frank Solich came calling in the winter of 2004, Burrow jumped at the opportunity to be the Bobcats’ defensive coordinator and safeties coach under the former Cornhuskers’ coach and legend.

In Solich’s introductory news conference in December 2004, he said he would assemble a great coaching staff. One maybe not filled with the biggest names, but a group of coaches who are great teachers, great communicators and great recruiters.

He got that with Burrow.

Over the 14 years that Burrow’s been in Athens, he’s helped the coach tally 106 victories, capture four Mid-American Conference East Division titles, make 10 bowl appearances and win the program’s first four bowl games.

As a defensive coordinator, he piloted the Ohio defense that has consistently ranked among the best in the MAC in scoring defense and turnovers. It led the nation in turnovers in both 2009 and 2018. In 2016, he led a defensive unit that ranked 26th in total defense.

On top of that, he’s worked specifically with the safeties, developing some of the best defensive players the Bobcats’ have seen come through Athens. Mike Mitchell, now a defensive back for the Indianapolis Colts, was the cornerstone of Ohio’s defense from the start. As of late, Burrow’s developed talent such as Javon Hagan, who was the 2016 MAC Freshman of the Year, and Kylan Nelson.

In total, he’s coached six NFL Draft picks at Ohio.

“It wasn’t easy,” he said.

“When this has been your whole life and all you’ve known, and then all of a sudden you wonder what you’re going to be doing today or tomorrow. Really, it’s based on being able to go to those games next year and support Joe.” Burrow’s house sits in The Plains and not far from Albin’s house, which also is in The Plains.

While saying goodbye to Solich was emotional, the same goes for Albin. The two are almost synonymous with Ohio football.

They’ve been here all 14 years.

Their families have become one big family, their sons have grown up in the Athens High School football program.

Whether it be talking on the sidelines or grabbing tacos on Tuesdays at Taco John’s, the two are close, and they deserve the same credit as Solich for the turnaround of the Ohio’s football program.

Burrow plans to live in Athens for the future. His wife is the principal at Eastern Elementary, and they’ll make the trip down south next season for all of Joey’s games. But leaving isn’t on

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You don’t lose your friend, but the everyday communication, you lose that. What you go through as coaches. Togetherness. We’ve had a lot of good times, sometimes in this business when you can’t win them all.”

- Frank Solich, Ohio head coach the table, Southeast Ohio has become his home.

He’s not fully shut the door on coaching, either. There’s been talk of doing some freelancing from home.

Most importantly, he doesn’t like the word retirement.

“It never crossed my mind of them stepping down or moving on to something else,” Solich

said. “It surprised me. I understand, when family is involved.

As a head coach you don’t want to step in and persuade a guy to go another direction. It wasn’t easy for me to hear. I’m used to him being here.

“You don’t lose your friend, but the everyday communication, you lose that. What you go through as coaches. To-

getherness. We’ve had a lot of good times, sometimes in this business when you can’t win them all.”

Toward the end of a roundtable conversation Tuesday with Solich and Burrow, Solich was asked if he’d ever envisioned the day where one of his coordinators would retire before him.

He smiled and laughed for a second, then paused in reflection. No, he’d never thought of Albin and Burrow leaving before him. He hasn’t taken the two for granted, but he’s never spent time thinking about his or their retirement.

Burrow found it hard to tell Solich. He sat outside in his car for 30 minutes or so, then drove to the office to tell Solich. Burrow made sure the talk was quick, he didn’t want to get emotional in front of him. Solich

made sure to call him later to talk about it some more, just not face-to-face.

There’s no doubt that the absence of Burrow will take some getting used to, and it hasn’t even begun to be felt yet, but the consistency that Solich has preached will continue to shine through.

There won’t be any highpitched yelling at practice, that will instead be heard at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His competitiveness may not be driven toward game-planning anymore, instead it might be getting a plane ticket to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to see Joey play in the biggest game of the season.

As the conversation Tuesday came to a close, Burrow said he has no regrets after his 14 years at Ohio. He made sure to remind everyone that San Diego State didn’t score a point in the last game he coached in, the DXL Frisco Bowl. He acknowledges that he never won a MAC Championship, but he expects to be part of the celebration next year.

Athens is home, and it will always be.

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For some people in their 20s, reflecting on their early teenage years means remembering angsty music and bad style.

A mix of black and neon-colored clothes and studded accessories purchased at Hot Topic were physical manifestations of a taste for a range of music artists. Summers meant weekends spent at Vans Warped Tour and the general assertion of being “different” and “misunderstood” was amplified through emotionally charged lyrics often validated by internet communities.

The classification of “emo” music can be ambiguous. There seems to be little to connect artists like Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance and Never Shout Never stylistically. Nevertheless, the bands are often lumped together, along with the related unconventional style choices, as the components of the culture of “emo.”

Commentary has arisen on an apparent resurgence of the musical genre, specifically with the aging of those who loved it in their younger days.

Hours-long Spotify playlists featuring bands far past their commercial primes attract thousands of monthly listeners, and it’s hardly uncommon to hear a Fall Out Boy hit circa 2005 played and enthusiastically sung along to in a college bar.

Whether it be because of trends in the music industry and the rise of internet music consumption or a more emotionally resonating nostalgia factor, it seems young adults still feel quite connected to the music that became the soundtrack of their lives during their most teen angst-filled days, leading to a rejuvenation of a genre of the recent past.

A MOVEMENT IS BORN The rise of emo music in the early 2000s and its resurgence in recent years could be attributed to the same thing: the internet.

The advancement of streaming services and the growth of social media has led to new means for sharing music likely contributed significantly to the popularity of emo music during its formative years, Josh Antonuccio, a lecturer in the music production and the recording industry program, said.

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around it and build festivals around it was a huge part of facilitating its growth.”

A timeless element of musical genres is the construction of a culture surrounding them by its most passionate fans. Whether it be a kind of subculture like emo music or a more mainstream pop artists, like Ariana Grande, fans incorporate fashion and other elements into their lifestyle that are relevant to their favorite artists.

“It’s like anything. A group of people feel drawn to something, feel connected to it, and then want to build a culture around it,” Antonuccio said. “Any genre or artist has a fan base that feels very passionate about what they’re putting forward, and they want to feel connected to that.”

Although the exponential growth of social media and internet use has changed the dynamic around music subcultures since emo’s peak, it’s also allowed those early 2000s artists to regain popularity a decade after their commercial prime.

“The internet and streaming services allow things to live more infinitely than ever before,” Antonuccio said.

“So there is no shelf-life. You can build ongoing value on something regardless of what year it’s released.”

Nostalgia for a time gone by, of course, can also play a role in the re-emergence of a musical genre that has since fallen out of popular appeal. Reunions and remasters can allow artists another swing at the market, but emotional appeal also plays an important part.

“Resurgence really comes out of nostalgia for that era,” Antonuccio said. “With specific genres, I think if you feel attached to it in your youth, as you get older, invariably a generation’s going to want to reach back and rekindle memories and share things.”

MORE THAN A PHASE Bobby Fleck’s emo phase left its impression on him. It still influences him today.

Compared to some artists associated with emo culture, he was interested in more hardcore groups. Among his favorites were Suicide Silence, Asking Alexandria and Bring Me the Horizon. He watched them perform at Warped Tour and spent his middle school days enjoying the feeling that his tastes set him and his friends apart from others their age.

“It allowed me to be myself, I guess. Or feel like I was myself,” he said. “Around that time, you’re trying to figure everything out, and you’re very impressionable around there. I had a lot of friends who were into it, too, and we went to a lot of concerts and it all just kind of stayed around and influenced me.”

Fleck still listens to the music he loved in his early teenage years. He’ll spend a few days each month listening solely to the debut album from the band Attack Attack! called “Someday Came Suddenly,” and shuffling through his music library brings up similar songs he may have temporarily forgotten.

Fleck’s career pursuits were also influenced by his early passion for music. A senior studying music production and the recording industry, he remembers wanting to be in a band when he was young, which eventually led him to study music and to become a DJ. “It definitely made me want to get more involved in music, because that was the music I wanted to play,” he said. “Just the energy the shows would have and the music at the time. … It definitely aided in it.”

During DJ gigs, Fleck will occasionally play pop-punk hits from the early 2000s.

Blink-182 and Fall Out Boy remixes appeal to those whose favorite throwback jams are the songs they loved during their own emo phases.

“It’s nostalgia stuff now,” Fleck said.

“We’re at the age where we’re going out, and we’re able to drink and go the bars, and it’s carrying over into our generation.

And that’s our nostalgia or our throwbacks now. Every generation kinda has that.”

Fleck said his affinity for emo culture can still be seen in the way he dresses –– often in all black. It’s a simple way of expressing it, he said, but the influence is clear. The culture surrounding the bands he first started to appreciate in middle school has left its impression on more than his music library.

“That type of music is rebellious-type music. Punk rock and stuff,” he said.

“And I just felt like … not like everyone else. … I think

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That type of music is rebellious-type music. Punk rock and stuff. And I just felt like … not like everyone else. … I think that’s why I stuck with it and some of the styles. I didn’t want to dress like everyone else or be like everyone else.”

- Bobby Fleck, a senior studying music production and the recording industry that’s why I stuck with it and some of the styles. I didn’t want to dress like everyone else or be like everyone else.”

LOOKING THE PART The fashion elements of emo culture made the movement known on a surface level even to those who may not have been familiar with the music associated with it. Dark or bizarre clothing and accessories demarcated people as members of the broadly defined fandom, even if they weren’t wearing an artist’s merchandise.

Maggie Boyle, fashion director for Thread magazine, remembers going through her own emo phase at about age 13. She was one of the few people she knew who wore Doc Martens, and her favorite styles included checkered printed scarves, leggings under denim jeans and zip-up hoodies. She also dyed her hair pink.

“It’s so ugly thinking

back on it,” she said.

Despite its less-appealing elements, emo-associated fashion may have had an influence beyond those who explicitly identified with the subculture. Boyle said the elements of the looks associated with emo culture could be seen in other popular trends of early 2000s, too.

“It was all kind of tied together,” she said. “I think the emo trend was kind of one of the biggest things in fashion back in the 2000s, so there were ways you could incorporate it without being, like, full-on emo.”

Just like the music of the emo era left its impression on those who embraced it, the fashion associated with it did, too.

Music and style often go hand-in-hand, particularly with tastes that may be considered unconventional, Boyle said.

“Your style is a part of your personality, and your music taste is as well,” Boyle said.

“I definitely think that the kind of music you listen to when you’re alone … is distinctive of your personality. I think it shows kind of what you’re into as a whole. So I definitely think the two go hand-in-hand.”

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW Scott Kutil had a bit of a late emo phase. He listened to pop-punk when he was a teenager and had the appropriate shaggy haircut. But it wasn’t until his freshman year of college that a friend sparked a larger interest in the genre and related artists.

Now Kutil, a senior studying music production and the recording industry, sees the resurgence of emo’s popularity as the result of a few phenomenons, one of them being the evolution of genres. The influence of punk music has not only renewed interest in hits of the past but has also brought new genre-bending

sounds to fruition.

Kutil theorizes about the transformation of music historically, from ‘50s rock-nroll, to the psychedelic sounds of the ‘70s, to ‘90s hip hop, to early 2000s pop-punk and beyond. To him, heavy metal’s decline and resurgence in the early 2000s makes sense in the context of pop-punk. Similarly, the influence of pop-punk on modern hip hop artists like Lil Uzi Vert and XXXTentacion is evident and could also speak to the genre’s resurgence in popularity.

The other factor in emo’s rejuvenation is, once again, nostalgia. Kutil also has DJ-ing experience. He’s played at Athens fests and regularly incorporated popular emo hits into his setlists, and he’s seen the reactions the decade-old songs can still elicit from partygoers.

“People go off, lose their s--t, if you play any old Fall Out Boy or Panic! At the Disco,” he said. “They can sing the whole thing. They know it.”

Kutil thinks the music reminds people of a simpler time. Although their emo phase may not have been the best years of someone’s life, it was a time when what mattered was spending time with friends and listening to music with an identity attached to it. Those formative years when memories and moments start leaving their mental marks a little more strongly and sticks with people, and the music they listened to does, too.

“That was the soundtrack of our lives back then,” Kutil said. “So whenever someone hears it, it kinds of brings you back.”

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Three different music performances will take place in Athens this weekend, attracting music listeners from all across the spectrum of genres.

STEMS AT THE UNION BAR AND GRILL The Union Bar and Grill, 18 W. Union St., will host the mixed genre band STEMS on Friday night.

The band consists of rapper Kendall Martin, guitarist Mickey Shuman, drummer Zach Pennington and bassist Devon Buchanan.

Shuman said the band first officially formed when all of the members took a high school rock band class together, where they had to choose band members the first week of school. Martin, Shuman and Pennington were already friends at the time, but the class introduced them to Buchanan.

STEMS played a house show during Halloween weekend in 2017. The group was later asked to play at ACRN’s Lobsterfest and at The Union.

Shuman said he introduced himself to the booking manager at The Union and they set up a date for STEMS to perform at the bar.

“We have so many influences. I wouldn’t give us a label in genre terms,” Shuman said. “If you know us, you probably know why our music is the way it is.”

MOON HOOCH AT MEMAUD Moon Hooch, a band that originated in Brooklyn, will be performing at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium on Saturday. The group started out doing stripped-down performances in New York subway stations.

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WHAT: STEMS WHEN: 9 P.M., FRIDAY WHERE: THE UNION BAR AND GRILL, 18 W. UNION ST. WHAT: MOON HOOCH WHEN: 8 P.M., SATURDAY WHERE: TEMPLETONBLACKBURN ALUMNI MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM ADMISSION: $10 WHAT: CAITLIN KRAUS WHEN: 7 P.M., SATURDAY

The outside of Little Fish Brewing Company in Athens, Ohio, on Dec. 3.

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at the Nelsonville Music Festival a few years ago.

Moon Hooch recreates EDM with brass instruments.

“For me, as a director, bringing Moon Hooch means connecting the two different worlds of instrumental enthusiasts and EDM lovers together,” Marsh said.

There will be two opening acts at the performance, including Akron rock group Perfect Girl and electronic artist Elena Shirin.

The stage of the performance will be built onto the MemAud stage, and the crowd will be able to stand on the remainder of the stage.

“We’re doing more shows that create a collective experience and a sense of community,” Marsh said. “Like at the end of the show, you just want to hug the person next to you.”

CAITLIN KRAUS AT LITTLE FISH BREWING COMPANY Little Fish Brewing Company, 8675 Armitage Road, will hold a musical performance Saturday. Caitlin Kraus will perform her largely lyric-based, folk-influenced music.

“I enjoy her music; it’s very mellow, and gives off a good atmosphere for sitting in a taproom,” Beau Nishimura, taproom man-

WHERE: LITTLE FISH BREWING COMPANY, 8675 ARMITAGE ROAD ADMISSION: FREE ager at Little Fish, said.

Nishimura said the turnout should be a success due to the warmer weather.

Students at OU are grateful for the events administered on campus and by local businesses.

“I think it’s cool that there are opportunities here for students who are interested in live performances rather than the party culture,” Sarah Daniels, a junior studying communication sciences and disorders, said.

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FRIDAY Public Telescope Night 7:30 p.m. at

the Ohio University Observatory at The Ridges. Enjoy incredible views of space, including possible planet sightings and star clusters.

What you see will depend on the sky conditions. This event will also take place on Saturday at the same time.

Admission: Free Presidents Madness at 11 p.m. in the Hahne Theater in Kantner Hall. Presidents Day is just around the corner, so come enjoy a short play about presidential administrations. The “Madness” series features short plays that are written, cast and performed over the course of a single week.

Admission: Free

SATURDAY Coli-built heart-shaped box-making

at 1 p.m. at the Dairy Barn Arts Center, 8000 Dairy Lane. Make an adorable Valentine’s Day treat holder to give as a gift or keep for yourself.

Admission: $5-7, registration required Caitlin Kraus at 7 p.m. at Little Fish Brewing Company, 8675 Armitage Road. Hear Athens singer Caitlin Kraus perform songs of rock and folk genres. Her lyrics focus on

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transformation and emergence.

Admission: Free Patchwork at 7:30 p.m. in the Glid-

den Recital Hall. Duo Noa Even and Stephen Klunk will perform works that have recently been commissioned for the saxophone and the drum set. The pair has performed at college campuses around the region.

Admission: Free Moon Hooch at 8 p.m. in the Tem-

pleton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. The Moon Hooch Trio, comprised of Mike Wilbur, Wenzl McGowen and James Muschler, will bring positivity to life as they perform horn and percussion tunes that will get you up and dancing. Admission: $10

SUNDAY

February Family Dance at 3 p.m.

at ARTS/West, 132 W. State St. Enjoy music from Liz & Lynn Shaw and the Thrashers while you dance the afternoon away with your family. No experience is necessary; all dances will be taught.

Admission: $3 suggested donation Girl Power Panel at 6 p.m. in Schoonover Center. Hosted by the Victoria’s Secret Pink campus crew, come get inspired and empowered by the team. The first 30 attendees who RSVP will get in and receive a goodie bag full of Pink gifts.

Admission: Suggested donation is $10 for adults and $3 for students.

MOVIE TIMES The Athena Cinema movie times

The Favourite (rated R): Friday, 5, 7:25 and 9:50 p.m.; Saturday, 2:40, 5, 7:25 and 9:50 p.m.; Sunday, 2:40, 5, 7:25 and 9:50 p.m.

Green Book (rated PG-13): Friday, 4:45 p.m.; Saturday, 4:45 p.m.; Sunday, 4:45 and 7:15 p.m.

If Beale Street Could Talk (rated R): Friday, 7:20 and 9:45 p.m.; Saturday, 2:30, 7:20 and 9:45 p.m.; Sunday, 2:30 and 9:45 p.m.

Stan & Ollie (rated R): Friday, 7:20 and 9:45 p.m.; Saturday, 2:30, 7:20 and 9:45 p.m.; Sunday, 2:30 and 9:45 p.m. @GORDINMEGAN MG525717@OHIO.EDU THEPOSTATHENS.COM / 23

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