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Designing the print edition of ‘The Post’

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fter going through an entire academic year with a weekly tabloid as the new norm, Post staffers had the chance to look back and see what we can do differently.

Many people reached out about having photos displayed prominently on the cover, and this year, that is something we have been working on.

This week, we are switching it up. We have a talented design team eager to fill the paper with illustrations. The cover — and a few other stories — are feeling design’s love this week. Our main spread about women using alternative medicine is illustrated as the cover.

A few other stories throughout the tabloid have illustrations, including a story about Counseling and Psychological Services’ increase in staff members, another about diversity in video games and one other story about The Athens Cannabis Ordinance, or TACO. Using illustrations gives us the ELIZABETH BACKO / chance to tell the story in a different way. The visual can tell a story of EDITOR-IN-CHIEF its own and supplement the writer’s words. It is a chance for reporters to delve into the world of design and learn a little more about what goes into it. It also gives our designers a chance to be extra creative with their page designs.

And of course, we are not skipping over new photos either. Throughout the tabloid, readers will find a few dog photos — including Tumbles, the twolegged dog — and photos of horses at Ohio University Southern.

Typically, we have not had many in-depth stories focusing on a branch campus, but we ventured outside of Athens to OU Southern in Ironton. The campus has a program to certify instructors in therapeutic riding. It is a program that brings in people from a wide range of places.

Again, we do not always have the chance to explore regional campuses as much as we would like, but this story helped to bridge that gap. OU Southern is about 80 miles away, but in publishing the story, we are able to open our readers to other aspects of OU they may have not known much about before.

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Tumbles playing outside near his dog wheelchair. Having been born with just his two hind legs, the Ohio University Innovation Center made a wheelchair for Tumbles nearly two years ago. Soon after, a video of Tumbles wheeling around went viral on the internet. (ABBEY MARSHALL / STAFF WRITER)

Viral two-legged dog Tumbles thrives ABBEY MARSHALL STAFF WRITER A local two-legged puppy tumbled his way into the hearts of millions two years ago after garnering international media attention. Nearly two years later, he no longer uses the wheels the Ohio University Innovation Center 3-D printed for him.

Tumbles was born without his front legs. Because of his disability, he would get pushed out of the way by his brother and sister when he was trying to nurse, forcing his owner to give him up to a foster home.

Karen Pilcher, who was on the board

of the Athens Friends of Shelter Dogs, has been by Tumbles’ side since he was four weeks old.

Pilcher officially adopted Tumbles last December. He’ll be two years old soon.

Pilcher and some other members of the Athens Friends of Shelter Dogs created a Facebook page for Tumbles in November 2015, when he was six weeks old.

An engineer saw the page and designed wheels to help Tumbles’ mobility.

He brought his idea to the OU Innovation Center, which agreed to create the wheels using 3-D printing.

“OU was wonderful,” Pilcher said.

“They only charged us for the materials

for the wheels, not the labor. It only cost around $250, whereas other wheels are much more expensive.”

A video of Tumbles wheeling around began circulating the internet; before Pilcher knew it, she was the mother to a viral star.

“He was everywhere,” she said. “We got messages on Facebook and friends from all over the world. He was in the papers in England, Brazil, Germany, Ireland.”

Even though the wheels are adjustable and will last his lifetime, Pilcher said Tumbles doesn’t like to use them very much anymore. They inhibit his mobility, she said, and he much prefers hopping and pushing himself on his stomach. In the

past few months, he also began walking on his back paws.

“He doesn’t know any different,” Pilcher said. “The thing that makes him great is his personality. There’s a lot of two legged dogs, and they all have great personality. They’re fighters.”

Tumbles now lives with three other dogs and 19 cats.

“They all get along great,” Pilcher said.

“He’s just so happy about everything.”

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QUERY A QUEER

The origins of the gender-inclusive term Latinx; a look at famous queer Hispanic people, both past and present DELFIN BAUTISTA is the director of the LGBT Center.

In honor of Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month, Ohio University’s LGBT Center responded to questions at the intersections of queerness and latinxness.

WHY DO WE USE THE TERM LATINX INSTEAD OF LATINO OR LATINA? For anyone who has ever taken Spanish, they will know that most words are gendered.

For those who have not, the majority of the time you can tell the gender of a word by it ending in either the letter a, feminine, or o, masculine. In the past, someone of Latin American descent was either called Latino or Latina, with Latino being considered the gender-inclusive term, similar

to saying, “Hey, guys,” in English. When you think about it, saying Latino is really not inclusive of everyone. There are many people who do not identify as male or female. That is where Latinx comes in: It provides an inclusive way to express an identity, as well as a way to talk about people and their heritage.

WHO ARE SOME FAMOUS QUEER HISPANIC INDIVIDUALS FROM THE PAST AND PRESENT? There are many queer Latinx and Hispanic individuals from both the past and present. Here is a list of four noteworthy ones with a little about them: Frida Kahlo was an artist born in Mexico in 1907. Kahlo was famous for her paintings that often had very feminist and queer inclusive themes and undertones.

Kahlo was married to another Mexican

painter for many years, and Kahlo had female partners throughout her life.

Federico Garcia Lorca was a Spanish poet born in 1898. Given the time period and the lack of acceptance of homosexuality, Lorca used writing to talk about his identity, as well as the politics of Spain at the time. He was killed during the Spanish Civil War for his political beliefs, but it was also rumored to have been because he was gay.

Sylvia Rivera was a transgender activist born in 1951. One could call her a professional activist. She was involved with many of the fights over social issues occurring during the time. LGBT issues were her main focus, as she was present at the Stonewall Riots and one of the cofounders of STAR, a home that was started for young homeless drag queens and transgender women.

Jennicet Gutiérrez is a transgender

activist who was born in 1986. She is a co-founder of La Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement. Gutiérrez is most famous for calling out President Barack Obama during a speech he gave in June 2015. Gutiérrez called Obama out for the alarmingly high rate of discrimination that transgender women of color face.

Have questions? We have answers!

Send your questions via email to lgbt@ ohio.edu or oulgbtcenter@gmail.com, via Tumblr (oulgbtcenter), via Twitter @ oulgbtcenter using the hashtag #qaqueer or via Facebook (oulgbtcenter). So bring it on, do it to it and query a queer. delfin bautista is the director of Ohio University’s LGBT Center, faculty adviser to the Latino Student Union and adjunct lecturer for the Social Work Program and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

AMPLIFIED OBSERVATIONS

Drift into the heavens with shoegaze, dream pop Five weeks into the semester, with assignments, exams and personal upkeep taking their respective tolls, college might feel like LUKE the farthest place from FURMAN paradise — at least on is a senior the weekdays. studying But if you need help journalism at Ohio in falling into a tranceUniversity. like state evocative of clouds and angels, shoegaze, a subgenre of indie rock, delivers, only with electric guitars instead of harps.

Last week, I compared rock ‘n’ roll to the devil, and, because I think purgatory is boring and nearly impossible to musically write about, I am taking a stairway straight to heaven. And what type of bands are more infatuated with producing a heavenly sound than shoegaze?

Shoegaze — a type of spaced-out, reverberated rock and pop music created 4 / SEPT. 28, 2017

in England in the ‘90s — often calls upon imagery of Elysian Fields to create an atmosphere of peace and comfort.

Although the guitars wail and the drums crash, nothing about shoegaze feels either sinister or foreboding. For the most part, shoegaze bands focus more on the light and dreamlike rather than the heavy and realistic. Singers explore surrealistic themes and tend to create choruses from short phrases and advice to listeners.

On Beach House’s “Used to Be,” Victoria Legrand sings, “Don’t forget the nights/When it all felt right.” Many lyrics whispered by shoegaze singers evoke sadness but also some kind of underlying hope. The struggle to remain optimistic in the climate of being drowned out by noise creates a sense of perseverance, a subtle replication of daily life.

Titles like “Heaven or Las Vegas,” “More Stars Than There Are in Heaven,” “Ninety Ninety Heaven” and A Storm in Heaven make it clear there is some ethereal energy going on. And it makes

total sense.

The echoing and swirling guitars in shoegaze meet the ears with encompassing emotion. If done right, the mix ends up akin to Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound” technique and becomes as dense as it is beautiful.

The lyrics of the recently released “Shadow” by Chromatics delve into hometown angst and suppressed wanderlust.

But one could almost forget they were stuck in a small town with the celestial tone and optimism. It is a song that moves past good and evil and searches for some heavenly plane to exist. At least, that is how I think the band intended it.

The negative feelings in shoegaze — depression, heartache, death — are depicted more as mystical obstacles than representations of evil. Whereas rock ‘n’ roll feels very Western, shoegaze manages to feel exceedingly Eastern. Perhaps, the ambiguous lyrics about love, life and happiness ask more questions than they answer. And nothing ever feels truly lost or complete.

Initially, shoegaze bands might have adopted the angelic imagery from their alternative and goth rock predecessors like The Cure with “Just Like Heaven” and Echo & the Bunnymen with “Heaven Up Here.” The only separation between the three genres rests on how high the guitarist sets their reverb knob. The Jesus and Mary Chain bridges the qualities of these two approaches well.

But the morality of shoegazing songwriters extends far beyond the complexity of most rock songs. Shoegaze transcends the rules of music and progresses forward with lush viscerality and dream-logic.

So if you ever come home from class or work feeling like the world is a living hell, you know where to go to climb the ladder out. At least, I do.

Please note that the views and opinions of the columnists do not reflect those of The Post. Do you listen to shoegaze? Let Luke know by tweeting him @LukeFurmanLog or emailing him at lf491413@ohio.edu.

THINKIN’ ABOUT SPACE

As far as light goes ETHAN GOWER FOR THE POST I was talking with Chuck Greenlee the other day — he’s my roommate when he’s not editing columns for The Post — and he asked what happened to light that gets shined into the sky. That’s easy, I replied, as light travels infinitely far until it comes into contact with something that absorbs it. It effectively propagates forever.

But then I got to thinking, and that’s not quite accurate — light travels forever, until it doesn’t.

Extragalactic astronomers peer as deeply into the cosmos as science allows, though the deeper they look, the younger the universe appears. All electromagnetic waves, light included, travel at a velocity of exactly 299,792,458 meters every second — though most people are familiar with 3 x 108 meters per second (a value that actually breaks the laws of physics, but I digress). The speed is specifically how quickly a photon, or a discrete “packet” of light, moves in a vacuum.

The most readily available vacuum is that of space, and light moves the same there as in laboratories on Earth.

Space is unimaginably vast — it’s about 2.5 trillion quadrillion cubic miles. To make this number a little less unwieldy, astronomers decided upon a standard which is the distance light travels in one year: 5.88 trillion miles.

While this doesn’t help much with the total observable volume of universe, it does help with much nearer distances. The Alpha Centauri system, the closest star system to ours, goes from 25 trillion miles to 4.37 light years. Since Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light years away, the light took 4.37 years to travel to us, and, thus, we see Alpha Centauri 4.37 years in the past.

Closer to home, sunlight covers the 93 million miles to Earth in 8 minutes, so we are always seeing the sun as it was 8 minutes ago.

Taking the speed of light to its limits brings us near to the edge of the universe.

As it is now, the observable universe is 46.5 billion light years in radius. It would appear then that light from a galaxy on the very edge would have taken 46.5 billion years to travel to us, but that’s not so.

The Cosmic Microwave Background, the first light to be released after the Big Bang, shows a universe as it was 13.7 bil-

lion years ago, and its light took 13.7 billion years to reach us. In the intervening time, the universe has expanded as the light moved across it to more than three times its observed radius.

Everything you can interact with is normal, or baryonic, matter, which comprises just less than 5 percent of the observable universe. Another 27 percent is dark matter, which as the name implies doesn’t react with electromagnetic waves though it is detectable via gravitational analysis. The remaining 68 percent of the universe is comprised of something called dark energy.

Scientists know little about dark energy, but they do agree on one thing: The universe is expanding, and dark energy is the cause.

Edwin Hubble, the telescope’s namesake, spent much of his life studying — as he called them in the 1920s — extragalactic nebulae. In his research, Hubble found the further galaxies are from us, the quicker they recede.

More than that, the universe’s expansion is accelerating, which poses some problems.

Most notably is eventually the galaxies at the edge of the universe will move away so quickly, their photons will be unable to reach us. The cosmological horizon will slowly

begin to shrink as more and more galaxies move away. Eventually, galaxies in our local group will recede away, then the stars in our galaxy, then even the atoms that make up Earth and smaller.

There will come a time when a single particle is all that exists in the universe. For the universe to exist, there must be observation of it, and all the rest of the universe will have expanded away.

Now, back to the main point. If Chuck had a strong enough light source to not be scattered within our atmosphere, the photons would propagate in space forever. However, at a certain point, the universe will have so expanded to make the cosmological horizon just large enough for the remaining photons.

As the photons will make up the entirety of the universe, they can’t move any further because there is no more distance to travel.

For non-relativistic movers like you or I, this whole propagation and expansion process took trillions and trillions of years. However, to a photon moving at the speed of light, the whole trip is instantaneous.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Diversity Committee troubled by new policy The Diversity Committee of the Scripps College of Communication is deeply troubled by the misguided and fundamentally flawed interim policy on “Freedom of Expression.” While the policy’s prohibition on constitutionally protected speech is reprehensible on its face, it is much more likely to trample on the rights of underrepresented and minority populations.

The interim policy bans “demonstrations, rallies, public speech-making, picketing, sit-ins, marches, protests and similar assemblies” in the interior spaces of Ohio University buildings. These activities, while utilized by all citizens at various times, have been critical to the advancement of the

cause of social justice and have been tools for those pursuing the goals of equality and freedom.

We find inspiration in the philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, who reminds us that in the quest for social justice, “We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.” Unfortunately, this policy would even stand in the way of Dr. King’s vision of peaceful protest.

Rescinding the deeply flawed interim policy will send a clear message that OU is a place where diverse points of view are welcome. Rescinding the policy will provide a superior starting point for relationships between the administration and other stakeholders in the university

community — one of trust.

Rather than continuing this process in the shadow of the highly objectionable interim policy, the Diversity Committee of the Scripps College of Communication urges President Duane Nellis and interim Executive Vice President and Provost David Descutner to start afresh on this issue and to seek input from all interested stakeholders.

The Scripps College of Communication Diversity Committee is Atish Baidya, Laura Black, Patrick Evans, Franklyn Charles, Zamzam Jama, Gary Kirksey, Jenny Nelson and Trevor Roycroft.

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POLICE BLOTTER

Football stolen; ‘suspicious package’ found to be Taco Bell box ELLEN WAGNER FOR THE POST

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n Ohio University Police Department officer found a woman lying in the grass beside the volleyball courts on South Green on Sunday at 2 a.m.

As the officer talked to the woman, he smelled alcohol on her breath, according to an OUPD report. He believed she was too intoxicated to take care of herself, so she was transported to OhioHealth O’Bleness Hospital.

The woman, 19, was also charged with underage drinking.

The woman was one of two people charged with underage drinking over the weekend. OUPD officers also wrote nine citations for possession of marijuana or marijuana paraphernalia.

Other reports included vandalization to the stall doors in the fifth floor women’s bathroom at Alden Library.

A HEADS-UP MOVE At about 1 a.m. Friday, OUPD received a report of an intoxicated student in Jefferson Hall.

When an officer arrived, she saw the 18-year-old student slumped unconscious and drooling in a chair. A friend was holding his head up, according to the report.

He smelled strongly of alcohol, and Athens County EMS transported him to OhioHealth O’Bleness Hospital. He was charged with underage drinking.

TOUCHDOWN THIEF On Monday, Athens County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to Cline Alley for the reported theft of a football. The owner said “a male came into his backyard and took a football and ran off.” The man was seen running into a nearby apartment.

When approached by deputies, the man admitted he had the football and returned it. The owner of the football did not wish to press charges, and the football thief was given a verbal warning.

LEAVE YOUR GUN AT HOME On Monday, a man was reportedly walking from house to house in Coolville and asking to use the phone. The man appeared to be intoxicated and was reportedly carrying a pistol.

When sheriff’s deputies approached the man, he was determined not to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and his pistol turned out to be a pellet gun.

The man was not found to have violated any laws, and deputies told him “if he needed to use a phone of persons he didn’t know, then he should leave the firearm at home.”

BURRITO BOMB The sheriff’s office received a call Thursday about a suspicious package on the road in Rome Township.

The “suspicious package” turned out to be a discarded Taco Bell box. The box was “placed in a recycling bin,” and the deputies returned to patrol.

Police cruisers parked outside the Athens Police Department headquarters Sept. 18.

(HANNAH RUHOFF / FILE)

A RUDE AWAKENING The sheriff’s office received a call Friday that an intoxicated woman had been found in the caller’s home. The caller did not know the woman or why she was in the house.

Deputies discovered the woman lived next door and was dropped off at the wrong house after a night out with her friends. The caller didn’t want to press charges and the woman was returned to her sober roommate.

GOOD DOGS ONLY On Sunday, a cyclist called complaining about two dogs. The cyclist claimed he was

chased by the dogs while riding his bike and “had to stop to defend himself.” An assistant dog warden and sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene.

When deputies approached the driveway, the dogs appeared to be aggressive but turned out to be friendly once they got out of their vehicles. Deputies told the owners to keep their dogs away from the road so they wouldn’t bother cyclists.

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NEWS BRIEFS

Search committee announced; Pina discusses budget changes MADDIE CAPRON NEWS EDITOR Google turned 19 years old Wednesday, and the Beatles released Abbey Road 48 years ago Tuesday. Here’s a look at some of the headlines from the week: NELLIS REVEALS SEARCH COMMITTEE Ohio University President Duane Nellis announced the formation of a 22-member search committee in a news release Monday.

“As the search processes get underway, there will be opportunities for the University community to interact with finalists whom the committee invites to Athens for campus visits,” Nellis wrote in the release.

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“I urge you to participate in this important part of the process.”

The committee will be co-chaired by University College Dean Elizabeth Sayrs and Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine professor Susan Williams.

Nellis said he hopes to select a permanent executive vice president and provost by July 1.

BUDGET CHANGES DISCUSSED OU Vice President for Student Affairs Jason Pina spoke with Graduate Student Senate on Tuesday about budget changes for The Office of Diversity and Inclusion, as well as the hiring of a legal consultant for international, immigrant and undocumented students.

The idea was pitched to Pina, who said his

knowledge on the subject is limited. Pina said he wants to work with GSS and Student Senate moving forward.

Students had opposing views on the subject. Bahman Shahri, the leading sponsor of the resolution, also spoke about the challenges some international students face.

“International students naturally face different kinds of challenges when they go to universities, from the national visas to having working limits. But this one is different,” Shahri said. “There’s this anxiety amongst them, not just members coming from these eight countries, but other international students that I’m sure the same things are going to happen.”

CITY TO INCREASE BEAUTIFICATION The City of Athens plans to create a special improvement district to continue beautification projects within the city.

Athens Mayor Steve Patterson said the special improvement district creates a self-imposed tax, or fee, a property owner pays annually. “(Special improvement districts) bring money into a designated area (and) that money can be used only for beautification projects in that area,” he said.

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CLASSIFIEDS

The Center for International Studies Global Professional Development Series

Keynote and Panel Discussion Friday, October 6, 2017 12:00-2:30 PM, Baker Center 240/242 Dr. David Crane Keynote Speaker International Leader in Justice and Law

Dr. Ghirmai Negash Panel Moderator CIS African Studies Program Director

OHIO Alumni Panelists Bethany George, Omar Kurdi, and Judi Crane

Center for International Studies

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Union Street stores regain popularity, profits W

est Union Street is back and rebuilt nearly three years after a fire broke out, destroying and damaging businesses along the street.

All but one property on West Union Street have been rebuilt and filled by business owners after the fire, according to a previous Post report.

Guy Phillips, managing partner at Athens Housing HotLink, which owns the empty building, said he may have a prospective business to fill the empty building, which is near the Ohio University Credit Union.

“I’ve got a business that’s interested in us, (but) nothing has been finalized as of yet,” Phillips said. “They will want to make their announcement when it’s finalized.

It’s a business I’ve heard a lot of people asking for, so I think it will be good.”

A prospective tenant backed out earlier this year, which caused a delay in filling the empty space, according to a previous Post report.

Phillips also said there is an empty space leading to the elevator in one of the buildings, which he hopes to add a small business to, such as a tarot card reader on weekends.

“I thought it would be a fun business for someone to have on the weekends,” Phillips said.

Businesses on West Union Street are now starting to regain popularity and traffic throughout the street.

Mary Cheadle, owner of Uptown Dog T-Shirts, 9 W. Union St., and 10 West Clothing Company, 10 W. Union St., said she has already seen an increase in sales from the time construction was happening on the street.

“We’re noticing that we’re not only getting our traffic back of students making it their route to get to class, but additionally, people … are taking advantage of enjoying the benches out there and the beauty of it all,” Cheadle said.

The construction took nearly three years to complete, and Cheadle said she lost a large amount of business and profits due to the reconstruction of the surrounding buildings and sidewalk repairs.

“Being on a street with construction for three years was incredibly damaging for sales,” Cheadle said. “It’s those things you can’t foresee. When they shut (part of the street) down, Uptown Dog found a new location, but what we hadn’t anticipated was those almost three years of having really affected our sales.”

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We’re noticing that we’re not only getting our traffic back of students making it their route to get to class, but additionally, people … are taking advantage of enjoying the benches out there and the beauty of it all.

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- Mary Cheadle, owner of Uptown Dog T-Shirts

to attract customers.

“That was a hard time to get through, because you just completely lose those sales,” Cheadle said. “There’s no coming back. We just hope we will get more people back here, and additional people.”

Kaylee Perkins, manager at Uptown Grill, 11 W. Union St., disagreed with Cheadle and said the street closings hardly affected the eatery’s sales.

“It didn’t affect (business) at all,” Perkins said. “Our business has been picking up slowly every year since I’ve worked here. It didn’t affect our numbers, but it did affect the way that people would come. We’d have a lot more people toward dinner time, then a lot more people toward bar closing instead of it being a little more drawn out.”

Perkins said she’s relieved the construction is over and glad to see more movement throughout the street.

“Now it’s nice,” Perkins said. “It’s nice to have places to park. Business is better this year than it ever has been, which is awesome.”

Abigail Swintek, Cheadle’s daughter and a junior studying communication, has worked at Uptown Dog for three years and said it has been nice to see an increase in traffic on West Union Street.

“It’s nice to just see the city give this section that we’ve always known a little bit of attention,” Swintek said. “It makes us feel like it is important because for a long time I’ve felt like this is one of the streets that no one ever knew about. It’s really nice to see people over here now like it’s part of the main strip.”

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The sole remaining empty tenant building on West Union Street.

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Marijuana depenalization cannot change citations on campus BAILEY GALLION NEWS EDITOR

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he Athens Cannabis Ordinance, or TACO, would remove fines from misdemeanor marijuana offenses in Athens, but student supporters might be disappointed to learn the ordinance will not affect citations on campus.

Ohio University Police officers write citations based on the Ohio Revised Code, not Athens ordinances. Therefore, the ordinance will not apply to citations OUPD writes.

“So all these people who are thinking it’s going to do something on campus: It’s not,” Athens Law Director Lisa Eliason said.

People convicted of misdemeanor marijuana possession can face up to 30 days in jail and be fined up to $250 for 100-200 grams or be fined up to $150 with no jail time for 100 grams or fewer.

Athens resident Caleb Brown, one of the leaders of the petition, said the ordinance would reduce the incentive for Athens police officers to enforce marijuana laws.

“Law enforcement is a business just like any other one,” Brown said in an email.

“With no fines or court costs to be paid from local citations, the justice system will quickly recognize that enforcing misdemeanor marijuana offenses in town is not a profitable venture.”

While drug fines do not go directly to APD, they do enter the city’s general fund.

Pyle said the department does not profit from marijuana citations and he would not expect depenalization to change the number of citations officers write.

Marijuana is already a low priority for Athens police officers. When the marijuana smell from a particular house becomes too intense at a fest, Athens Police Chief Tom Pyle said officers sometimes tell the homeowners to shut the windows to contain the smoke.

“I’ve been at fests in such close proximity to secondary smoke that I got the munchies,” Pyle said.

As of press time, APD officers had written 11 citations for marijuana possession in 2017.

OUPD Lt. Tim Ryan said his department does not prioritize marijuana citations, either.

But OUPD’s marijuana citations dwarf APD’s citations. During opening weekend,

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OUPD officers wrote 13 marijuana possession citations — as many as APD officers wrote in all of 2016.

TACO would not apply to those citations. It also cannot address the other penalties that accompany a marijuana citation. Students convicted of marijuana offenses risk losing federal financial aid.

That is why the City of Athens has a standing plea deal for people charged with marijuana possession. In exchange for a guilty plea, the city prosecutor will mend a minor misdemeanor marijuana citation to minor misdemeanor disorderly conduct, Eliason said.

The plea deal comes with a $50 fine and court costs. If the ordinance passes in

November, some students will choose between paying nothing and losing financial aid or paying the fee and keeping their aid.

Eliason said she does not plan to reduce the fees for the plea deal.

“So that doesn’t really do much,” Eliason said. “Now, we could still amend it to a disorderly conduct, but we’ll amend it to something that has a fine. I’m not going to amend it to zero.”

Eliason also said she does not think the ordinance can remove the associated court costs.

“But that would be another court case,” Eliason said. “If we pursue it.”

Brown said he does not expect marijuana citations to go down. He sees the or-

dinance as more of a symbolic statement that Athens residents do not want marijuana enforcement to be a priority.

More importantly, he thinks the ordinance would increase marijuana users’ sense of freedom.

“If we changed the ordinance … then it would allow people to be able to step out of their hiding space in their house and hang out outside on their porch and their lawn and not fear repercussions for something they know is not bad,” Brown said.

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CPS adds new staff, seeks expansion to address record demand for counseling LAUREN FISHER ASST. NEWS EDITOR

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ith the demand for mental health care on campus reaching record heights, Ohio University Counseling and Psychological Services increased its staff by more than 50 percent over the summer and added an annex location to meet the growing need.

In years past, the center was “woefully understaffed,” CPS Director Fred Weiner said — an issue that left many students waiting weeks to receive care.

CPS saw a 47.3 percent increase in students seeking counseling from Fall Semester 2014 to Fall Semester 2016, according to a previous Post report. Within the first three weeks of Fall Semester this year, Weiner said the center is likely seeing 30 percent more students seeking services than two years ago.

This year, the center has taken steps to prepare for the influx of patients. Over the summer, CPS filled six new positions: two psychologists, two counselors, a certified medical assistant and the center’s first independently licensed social worker.

“We’re hoping to get them up to speed pretty quickly,” Weiner said. “It’s really an exciting time to be with us. It’s like a whole new chapter in the life of the center.”

During the 2016-17 academic year, 1,310 students sought ongoing individual therapy, 461 students saw psychiatrists regarding medication and about 700 students attended drop-in sessions. Having lost a number of staff members throughout the year, however, the center was illequipped to address the need.

“Last year, I would say that if a student was coming over here seeking services, say, midway into the Fall Semester, they might have to wait a few weeks to get a second appointment,” Weiner said. “That was for counseling. Psychiatry? Forget it.”

By the middle of Fall Semester 2016, students seeking to meet with a psychiatrist “might be lucky” to make an appointment for January, Weiner said. But now, with a second full-time psychiatrist on hand, CPS hopes to see more students and cut down on wait times.

CPS, which has been located on the third floor of Hudson Health Center for about 40 years, was recently renovated to address infrastructure problems. The renovations, however, failed to address the needs of a growing staff.

It’s really an exciting time to be with (Counseling and Psychological Services). It’s like a whole new chapter in the life of the center.

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“It was obsolete the minute we walked in, because there were just enough offices for the size staff we had at the time,” Weiner said. “So then, over the past cou-

ple of years, we’ve had more staff and more part-time people, and interns, and graduate trainees — and we’ve had no place to put them.”

For now, the center’s psychiatric operation has joined three other staff members in relocating to a satellite office in Lindley Hall. Although CPS hopes to be back under one roof in the near future, the university is still exploring options for a new space.

“My vision is that they will be co-located together, and we’ll have one space,” Jason Pina, vice president for Student Affairs and interim chief diversity officer, said. “And that’s something that the university is aware of from a planning perspective, but there are a lot of folks who have desires for new and renovated spaces across campus.”

Initial appointments and drop-in con-

sultations will still take place in Hudson for the foreseeable future. The center is also experimenting with online self-help services, as well as walk-in hours at the Living Learning Center for students who don’t necessarily require ongoing treatment with CPS. “My understanding is that they’ve been as busy as they’ve ever been,” Pina said. “So you end up being successful with expanding and folks who are … choosing, maybe in the past, not to come to Hudson, now are coming. So on one hand, it’s making it busier traffic-wise, but on the other hand, we are actually able to help more people when we have more staff to do it.”

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Pups get pampered by local dog groomers

LEFT: Savannah Dullock gets a loving nudge from goldendoodle Burlin on Tuesday.

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urlin waited patiently for the snips to start. After a few hours — and with a new ‘do and a bandana — Burlin strutted out the front door of the pet groomer’s, tail wagging.

Dog owners in Athens can choose either to get their pets professionally groomed or to do it themselves and be more economical.

One of the larger businesses that dog grooms dogs is PetSmart, 743 E. State St. “We offer special shampoos and, with certain packages, the dog gets a bow or a bandana,” Christian Hicks, an associate lead at PetSmart, said.

Customers can also choose from eight different scents that change every once in a while, he said. Some of the scents include clean cotton, honey al-

mond and ocean breeze.

Many people bring their dogs every week to get groomed, Hicks said. People also are sometimes protective of their pets.

“If they do not have kids, (people) tend to treat their dogs like their kids,” Hicks said. “Not having kids also means people have more money to pamper their dogs.”

Savannah Dullock, a groomer at Friendly Paws Pet Supplies & Grooming, 940 E. State St., said she noticed the same thing as Hicks.

“The dogs tend to let us do more here than at home because their owners are mommy and daddy, so they will cry a little bit and get out of it,” said Dullock, who has been grooming household animals for almost six years.

Dullock also grooms cats and sometimes trims nails on other animals, such as sugar gliders and rabbits. She is also experienced in different kinds of haircuts, like a

lion cut that features a mane and an Asian fusion cut that features longer leg hair.

She chose to work with animals because she prefers them to humans, Dullock said.

Every once in a while, an animal will be hard to work with, despite her love for them.

“I’ve never had my skin punctured by an animal,” Dullock said. “But I have had a cat actually attack me.”

Some owners have come in to have their dogs’ hair dyed, but it doesn’t happen often, Dullock said.

PetSmart’s regular grooming prices range from $29 to $131. The grooming and “Top Dog” package ranges from $46 to $148. Prices at Friendly Paws Pet Supplies & Grooming vary per dog, with smaller dogs costing approximately $40 and larger dogs costing approximately $60.

With few options for professional dog groomers in the Athens area and the cost of grooming prices, some people resort to

washing and trimming their own dogs.

“I groom (my dog) myself because I can’t afford to take her to the groomer all the time,” Reann Lung, a senior studying mechanical engineering, said. Lung owns a six-month-old miniature goldendoodle named Honey.

Lung chose a miniature goldendoodle because it’s hypoallergenic and does not shed — that typically means less maintenance.

“I shampoo and conditioner (Honey) once a month and give her a haircut once a month,” Lung said. “I will let her hair go a little longer when it’s cooler.”

Many dogs come out of their grooming appointments feeling fresh and clean. “(The dogs) enjoy being groomed, and they will strut their stuff after,” Dullock said.

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A home on the range ABBEY MARSHALL | STAFF WRITER

ust 80 miles south of Athens, a veteran who suffered a stroke was riding horseback, led by Ohio University students. His wife, watching her husband ride from afar, had not heard his voice in two years.

He had been riding at OU Southern’s horse park for several sessions — ­ and he began to burst into song.

“Home, home on the range,” he belted. “Where the deer and the antelope play.”

Everyone stared in disbelief as a man who hadn’t spoken a word in years began to sing.

That is just one of the miracles that happens every day at OU Southern’s horse park, said Kelly Hall, the director of the equine studies program.

OU Southern Campus’s equine program is one of five accredited international schools to certify instructors in therapeutic riding, attracting dozens of students to enroll in hopes of pursuing a career that could change someone’s life.

A PROGRAM RUN BY STUDENTS Only two full-time faculty members staff the program, leaving the rest of the work up to students and volunteers to keep the rates for riding low. OU Southern charges $45 for a private community riding lesson and $35 for private therapeutic lessons.

“It takes a lot,” Hall said. “If you have one person in a wheelchair, you’re going to have to have two side walkers — one on each side — and somebody to lead the horse.

You’re going to have to have an instructor. … It takes a lot of volunteers to make this program happen.”

To earn their associate degrees, students are required to participate in 25 hours of instruction with a minimum of two riders with disabilities at a time.

“The community therapeutic horsemanship center serves the purpose of allowing our students to earn their hours, but it also serves the tri-state community for people with challenges,” Hall said.

Unlike many other equine programs, OU Southern has its own horse park and barns for convenience of completing lab hours and maintaining control over curriculum, attracting students from places as far as Hawaii to participate in the therapeutic riding program.

Students also teach, care for the horses and assume other responsibilities alongside volunteers and part-time employees.

“I’ve always liked helping people, and I love horses,” Julia Glebins, a first-year student, said. “I’ve been obsessed with them my entire life. It just seemed like a natural fit.”

A HORSE’S STRENGTH Horseback riding provides many benefits for people with physical disabilities. Riding develops a person’s sense of coordination and balance and strengthens the same muscles used to walk, which can be especially useful for someone in a wheelchair.

“We have a couple riders who are paraplegic and in a wheelchair,” Hall said. “By putting someone on a horse and the horse walks for them, they’re exercising those muscles to help them hopefully gain some mobility.”

Glebins said she was touched when she was serving as a volunteer last year and saw significant progress in a boy she was assisting.

“One of our participants started out in a wheelchair and couldn’t hardly walk, and now he’s up walking on his own and doesn’t need very much assistance,” she said.

“He rides on his own, too. … It’s pretty incredible.”

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OU’s Southern Campus offers an equine studies program that certifies instructors in therapeutic riding. Dozens of students have enrolled in the program. (PHOTOS BY EMILY GAYTON)

A HORSE’S LOVE The benefits of therapeutic riding go beyond what can be seen on the surface. Hall said emotional and mental therapy is a lot of what the program tries to provide through its lessons.

The park works with agencies for weekly lessons and has served foster care industries, regional mental health industries and more.

“It benefits them to learn a different or better way of living,” said Tabatha McKinney, who works at STAR Community Justice Center. STAR serves as an alternative to prison with the intent of rehabilitating nonviolent felony offenders and frequently works with the horse park.

OU Southern is partnered with Safe Harbor, a domestic violence shelter in northern Kentucky. The two secured a grant to bring children to the park weekly for riding lessons.

“It’s fun,” Jacob Bowman, 11, said. “I learn stuff about horses. They’re fun to play with and cute. I like it here.”

Hall said OU Southern tailors programs to specific needs. In the case of Safe Harbor, a main goal is teaching children to positively identify and cope with emotions.

“I love riding (the horses),” Keagan Thornton, 8, said. “I’ve learned about leading and riding and about my emotions.”

Horses have unique personalities just like humans, Hall said. People might be drawn to a particular horse and learn a lot about their feelings from interacting with the animal.

“The horses show what we don’t want to face,” McKinney said. “The horses can sense your emotions. … It gives us a therapeutic moment to talk about those emotions instead of stuffing it.”

EXPANSION OF THE PROGRAM Since OU Southern’s equine program began offering online courses in spring 2016, adjunct professor Mark Abell said he has seen an increase in enrollment. He said this semester he has his largest class size of 26 people in introduction to equine studies, with students from the Athens campus and high school students enrolling.

“It’s really caught on,” he said. “It’s interesting because in the online program, you have a wide variety of experiences. … It’s a really good way for us to go beyond just the campus.”

Online classes, which are heavy on economics and technology, focus on the commercial side of the horse industry,

Hall said. She said the staff rewrote the entire curriculum to accommodate online courses.

“Technology is really important in the horse world, too,” she said. “The horse industry is very large. There’s about a million full-time jobs in the horse industry.”

Many students are interested in starting nonprofits related to horses, so Hall said the program created online courses on equine nonprofit development and management.

Hall said OU is also adding a degree to the eCampus. There will be a soft launch in January and a full launch in fall 2018.

“That’s a big deal for us,” Abell said. “I think it’s going to get bigger and bigger and bigger.”

Abell said he was excited for the program to grow and continue to flourish because of all the good he sees come out of it every day.

“It’s an absolutely wonderful program,” Abell said. “Miracles come from it. … When you watch their expressions and the light bulb comes on, and they see all of that because of the interaction with the horses, it’s really powerful.”

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he Athens City School District Board of Education has been discussing how to address issues with schools in the district over the past few months.

The school district’s Facilities Steering Committee has proposed three options for the board to consider regarding how to repair the high school, middle school and elementary school buildings. Each option has the sixth grade joining the middle school, but they all differ in their approaches to elementary level buildings, including an option to have the elementary school as a single campus with three buildings.

“We’re trying to get across the idea that some of our main buildings would need so much repair that it’s better to build new buildings,” Roger Brown, the president of the board, said in a previous Post report.

“We’re going to catch a lot of flak no matter what we do, but we are all working for the best of the kids.”

According to the committee, there is a rule called “the two-thirds rule” imposed by the state, which says “if a building renovation cost more than two-thirds the cost of new construction, the building would be recommended for replacement.”

Currently, three of the four elementary schools and Athens High School are above the two-thirds threshold, meaning the only way the state would fund construction is if the district completely rebuilt those school buildings.

At the Sept. 21 school board meeting, Thomas Gibbs, the superintendent of Athens City School District, and Kara Bolin, principal of Athens Middle School, told the board the answer to moving the sixth grade to the middle school is not an unequivocal yes.

Gibbs shared concerns about the quality of the building, transportation issues and student safety if the board decides to move the sixth grade into the current middle school building.

Bolin said her main focus is what would be best for all students involved.

“If I’m looking for what’s ideal, I’m championing my students,” Bolin said. “I want what’s best for my kids that are in front of me, the sixth grade, and I can’t say that would be a quality experience. “ OU has offered to donate 8 acres of The Ridges behind Carriage Hill Apartments to the district to use for the single-campus solution for elementary schools.

Tony Schorr, an architect from Schorr Architects Inc. hired by the district, shared a plan for a single campus with the board

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- Roger Brown, the president of the Athens City School District Board of Education

at its meeting. His plan was designed for 20 acres, and he said he would not suggest building a single campus on the 8 acres the university has offered.

Gibbs said the board is now considering building three new elementary buildings in three new locations, assuming OU would not give the district 20 acres or more, according to a previous Post report. The options the board could consider for those new buildings would be to build grade-level buildings or build two buildings for pre-K to grade five students, Gibbs said.

Kim Goldsberry was the first member of the board to suggest those options and vote to build three new elementary buildings in three new locations.

“I feel like if we can get the kids together before seventh grade that would have the best outcome,” Goldsberry said in a previous Post report.

The board has seemed to pretty much agree on tearing down part of the high school and rebuilding, Brown said in a previous Post report.

He also said he believes the board is going to try to get the consolidation issue on the earliest ballot possible.

“A lot depends on how things are going,” Brown said in a previous Post report. “Right now, we’re trying to get something decided

by October so that it can be on either the November or March ballot.”

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Postal problems

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o some Ohio University students, the new process of sorting mail by residential green instead of residence hall is confusing and frustrating.

This year, instead of walking downstairs to pick up mail, many students living in residence halls must walk to one of three central locations, one on each green. Students have reported problems with long lines and delayed sorting.

“All the mailrooms are behind by two to three days at least,” Tori Bishop, a sophomore studying middle childhood education, said. “I have to wait 20-plus minutes for my mail.”

Patrick Crago, a sophomore studying accounting, said his package took six days upon delivery to be sorted.

“It’s honestly inconsiderate to the students,” Crago said. “Mail takes longer to get

ANASTASIA NICHOLAS | FOR THE POST processed now since it’s getting sorted by a few people for an entire green.”

The new system was created to accommodate a request from the U.S. Postal Service, according to a university news release. The change will also increase safety by limiting access to residence halls, Executive Director of Housing and Residence Life Pete Trentacoste said in the release.

The front desks of residence halls found it difficult to store numerous packages at once, according to the release. Before the new system, mail was sorted in each residence hall by resident assistants.

Now employees at each mailroom seem to struggle to quickly process packages.

Within the first 10 days of operation, the OU Mail Services team logged nearly 20,000 packages.

Mail Services hired 35 students at the start of the year. It hired 15 more students

based on the volume of packages being received and it lengthened hours of operation, Director of Business and Conference Services Jneanne Hacker said.

“We are always looking at our services with the goal of continuous improvement,” Hacker said in email. “We have increased the number of staff working the service counter to provide quality and timely service.”

Mailrooms will remain open until 8 p.m.

Monday through Thursday for the remainder of Fall Semester. Previously, the mailrooms opened at noon and closed at 6 p.m. on those days. The mailrooms will be open from noon-6 p.m. Friday and noon-4 p.m. on Saturday, and closed on Sunday.

Emily Betley, a sophomore studying child and family studies, said she began working in the mailrooms in late August and enjoys working there.

“We have a decent-sized staff,” Betley said. “It was just hard to judge how many people we truly were going to need, since every green is centralized now and ... the influx of textbooks. I feel like, by the end of September, it’ll be a more smoothly running system.”

The mailrooms will offer additional services like selling stamps and shipping supplies in Fall Semester 2018, Mail Services Manager Adam Bower said.

Betley said students should take it easy on workers in the mailrooms.

“It’s not necessarily our fault your package isn’t here yet,” Betley said. “Try and cope with us, because a ton of us are new.

We’re working with the situation, too.”

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FOOTBALL

A.J. Ouellette returns from injury, carves up competition JORDAN HORROBIN STAFF WRITER

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A.J. Ouellette carries the ball during Ohio’s game against Eastern Michigan on Saturday.

The Bobcats won 27-20 in double overtime. (BLAKE NISSEN / PHOTO EDITOR)

POSITION: Running back

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n his 19th carry against Eastern Michigan on Saturday, in low90 degree heat, running back A.J. Ouellette leapt over a lunging defensive back on his way to a 10-yard gain and a first down.

Ouellette knows in matchups between a ball carrier and a tackler, the low man usually wins. That’s why he often crouches forward or lowers his shoulder, bowling his 5-foot-9-inch, 205-pound frame ahead more effectively than taller running backs could.

The hurdle wasn’t random or instinctual. It was a move he’d premeditated in a film session several days before.

“None of us were expecting that on that long drive,” center Jake Pruehs said.

“It’s just little things like that that he takes into account that no other backs would do.”

After tearing three ligaments in his left foot in the first quarter of Ohio’s first game of 2016, Ouellette, a redshirt junior, is slicing through opposing defenses at full health through four games this year.

He took all but five of Ohio’s running back touches in the second half against EMU, evidence that he can be called upon as the workhorse in the Bobcat backfield.

“I believe that’s something I thrive on,” Ouellette said. “As the game goes on, the more touches I get, the better I get.”

Ouellette recorded 187 all-purpose yards, including 145 yards rushing, against the Eagles. He grabbed Mid-American Conference East Offensive Player of the Week honors for the second week in a row. He's averaged close to seven yards per carry in that span.

His physical running style wears de-

fenses down. And though he takes his share of bumps and bruises, initiating contact with defenders will always be part of his game.

“It got me here,” he said. “It got me my starting spot. And I can’t change anything that I’m good at, so I’m staying with that style.”

He called his Lisfranc tear last season “a freak accident.” Taking a handoff out of the backfield, he made a simple cut, and his foot gave out.

The injury isn’t something he thinks about now, as he continues to make cuts just like that fateful one last fall.

“It could happen to anyone,” he said.

“Basically, the way I think of it is my time was due, I already had mine, so it’s not gonna happen again.”

No longer the fresh-faced walk-on from 2014, Ouellette — who, in three years, rose from fifth on the depth chart to a team captain — now sports a full, dirty blond beard and a boatload of experience.

The Bobcats have two other running backs, redshirt senior Dorian Brown and freshman Julian Ross, who have played consistently alongside Ouellette so far this year. But he is expected to see his role increase as conference play enters full swing in two weeks.

Combining size, athleticism and preparation with a clean bill of health, Ouellette figures to be up for the task.

“He is special in a lot of ways,” coach Frank Solich said. “He's coming off a year that was difficult for him and difficult for us, and it's hard to come off a year like that and play well, but that's exactly what he's doing.”

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‘Ready Player Two’ class assesses diversity and culture in video games MAE YEN YAP CULTURE EDITOR

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iversity is a subject widely discussed among video gamers in online forums — and now the conversation continues in an Ohio University classroom.

This semester, OU started offering “Ready Player Two” in the English department. The course is taught by new faculty member Edmond Chang, an assistant professor of English, and is dedicated to using an intersectional lens to analyze and criticize social culture through literature and video games.

The image of the typical gamer as a white, college-age man is one that is falsely perpetuated, Chang said. Video games have been found to be enjoyed by individuals across the board, regardless of aspects like race, gender and class.

“For some reason, we keep advertising

and saying that video games are only for adolescent young white men who hang out in their parents’ basement,” Chang said.

“But the reality is that’s obviously not true.”

The stereotype has led video game companies to produce games mainly featuring protagonists solely intended for that audience, effectively alienating other gamers.

Video game developers will create video games that reflect their inclinations and, as such, the level of diversity varies in each video game, Daniel Pinto, a sophomore studying psychology, said.

“If you don’t like it, don’t play the game (and) don’t buy it,” Pinto said. “That’s the best way of letting them know.”

All forms of media are constantly evolving, Chang said, but many video games have yet to properly represent “the realities of the way our world is diverse.”

Eli Karkowski, a sophomore studying astrophysics, has a different viewpoint.

Video games like Horizon Zero Dawn and the latest installment to the Uncharted series, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, were released this year and were well-received by video game critics for featuring strong female protagonists, he said.

“Video games have always gave people of every race, every gender a way to be a hero,” Karkowski said. “No matter who you are, there’s someone to look up to.”

Representation is not usually on the top of Pinto’s priority list when he searches for a new video game to enjoy.

“It doesn’t seem like it should be a big deal, to me personally,” Pinto said. “If you feel like you want to be represented in a video game, then you should voice your opinion … but I don’t think it’s something that should be necessary.”

Although some video games have made progress in terms of inclusivity over the years, Chang said it is important to con-

tinue analyzing video games and the messages they send to gamers.

“This isn’t about saying all games are bad, all games are racist or all games are sexist,” Chang said. “There (are) nuances in the games I played that I really, really love.

But I still see and I still am critical about the things that they do that are troubling to me.”

Throughout the media-based courses he has taught over the years, Chang said there is only one simple question that needs to be asked in regard to representation.

“When you look around in the world, do you see yourself in it? It’s not necessarily you, but do you see people like you that talk and speak and act like you?”

Chang said. “If you don’t, there’s something going on, and that’s something that needs to be figured out and addressed.”

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A 4,537-mile journey A FRESHMAN SETTER TRANSITIONS FROM ITALY TO THE U.S. SPENCER HOLBROOK | ASST. SPORTS EDITOR PHOTO BY HANNAH RUHOFF

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BEING HERSELF, ON AND OFF THE COURT If there’s one person Giacomazzi can be herself around in Athens, it’s Tia Jimerson.

A freshman middle blocker from Sugar Hill, Georgia, Jimerson has an interesting relationship with Giacomazzi, her setter.

Giacomazzi is from northern Italy; Jimerson is from a suburb of one of the largest cities in the Bible Belt. Giacomazzi sets for Jimerson on the floor, both trying to navigate the defenses opposite them.

Off the floor, they’re roommates trying to navigate the struggles of the first-year college experience.

But Giacomazzi is easygoing with her roommate, always carrying a bubbly personality off the floor.

“She’s very giggly,” Jimerson said. “But on the floor, don’t take her for granted. She can get down.”

That down-to-business attitude was displayed in a recent practice. When Jimerson killed a ball during a drill, a loud shout was heard.

“There you go, Tia!” That’s Giacomazzi, just cheering on her teammate and roommate.

Whether it’s downtime just to hang out or whispering cues on the floor, the two always have a good time when they’re together.

“We have a rotation when we’re stacked right next to each other,” Jimerson said. “Vera will always whisper in my ear like, ‘Go get this ball,’ and I’m like, ‘OK, we’re about to slam this.’ ” While the people around Giacomazzi have helped ease her transition to the U.S., playing volleyball at a high level helps as well.

Giacomazzi played volleyball at the club level with four teams from 2007 until earlier this year. Her teams had success in Italy, winning four different provincial championships with Giacomazzi as a team captain.

So when Giacomazzi committed to Ohio, coach Deane Webb was excited to add her to the program, citing her volleyball experience and intelligence on the floor.

“When I watched her play, I saw someone that appeared to think and see the game at an advanced level,” Webb told Mike Ashcraft, Ohio’s assistant sports information director, after she committed. “After spending significant time with her on her visit watching and talking volleyball, that was confirmed. She will be working hard in the next few

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When we have scrimmages and I’m on a separate side of her as a middle blocker, it’s easy to read the setter for me, but Vera’s a whole different type of player. Where you think she’s going back, she’s going forward. It’s just fun to see her open up the court like that.

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era Giacomazzi walked off the volleyball court after a hard practice, ready to watch film with her team inside The Convo.

As she and her teammates walked toward the locker room, they were joking, laughing, giggling — a typical sight for the Bobcats’ volleyball team.

The volleyball team has become Giacomazzi’s family away from home, as it has for many of Ohio’s players, while she wades through her freshman year of college. But for her, that family aspect is different. It’s a family far away from home — further than any other female athlete at Ohio.

That’s because home is 4,537 miles from Athens in San Vendemiano, Italy, a small town of about 10,000 people in the province of Treviso.

So how does a then-18-year-old transition from life in northern Italy playing club volleyball to college volleyball in the Appalachian region of the U.S.?

- Tia Jimerson, freshman middle blocker and Vera Giacomazzi’s roommate

#6 VERA GIACOMAZZI HEIGHT: 5 feet 8 inches POSITION: Setter HIGH SCHOOL: Liceo Scientifico G. Marconi MAJOR: Undecided PAST CLUB TEAMS: Codogne, A.P.C. Chions, Volley Mareno, Volley San Vendemiano ASSISTS: 583 ASSISTS PER SET: 9.88

months on increasing her jump so that her block height is at the level it needs to be. Once that happens, she will be in position to compete for playing time."

But Giacomazzi wasn’t interested in competing for playing time. She was ready to start.

When the Bobcats traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, for their first invitational of the season, it was apparent Giacomazzi would be the starting setter. She was honored as the most valuable player of the Courtyard by Marriott Invitational and was named to the invitational’s all-tournament team.

But Giacomazzi didn’t stop there. Through Ohio’s first 16 games of the season, she has 583 assists, good for 32nd nationally, and is averaging 9.88 assists per set. She has also solidified herself as the Bobcats’ starting setter.

Webb knows there’s plenty of room for improvement in Giacomazzi’s game, especially in blocking at the net.

But the calmness she brings to the floor is reassuring to Webb as the Bobcats find their way through injuries and everyday struggles of the 4-month-long season.

That calmness allows Giacomazzi to do what she loves: open the floor for everyone else.

“She is at her best when she is orchestrating the offense,” Webb said.

But Giacomazzi credits her teammates, saying it’s easy to open the floor when she is surrounded by talent.

While that’s true, she still makes it look easy.

Her style of play has shown to be quite favorable for the entire team. She’s not just effective with offense, but also with confusing the defense on what will happen as plays develop.

“When we have scrimmages and I’m on a separate side of her as a middle blocker, it’s easy to read the setter for me, but Vera’s a whole different type of player,” Jimerson said. “Where you think she’s going back, she’s going forward. It’s just fun to see her open up the court like that.”

COMFORTABLE FAR FROM HOME As Giacomazzi and the Bobcats leave the practice floor, they continue to laugh and make jokes.

Coach Webb follows behind them, ready to go break down game film.

And Giacomazzi is right there in the middle of the jokes and laughter with her bubbling personality. She continues to grow and transition with her teammates — her family.

She’s still 4,537 miles from her home in the Italian countryside. But home doesn’t feel as far away now that she has her volleyball family in Athens.

So how has Giacomazzi transitioned from life in northern Italy playing club volleyball to college volleyball in the Appalachian region of the United States?

A relationship with her team, especially her roommate. Success on the floor. Her upbeat personality.

“I love this place,” Giacomazzi said. “I love the people here. They are very welcoming, so, yeah, I’m feeling the difference between Italy and here with the different culture, but I like it.”

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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE BECOMING A STABLE MARKET, ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN ALEXIS EICHELBERGER

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very day is an exploration of holistic, natural medicine for Ashley Eastman.

She eats a natural, healthy, mostly plant-based diet. She takes herbal supplements. She practices yoga and meditates daily. She spends her workdays at the Farmacy on Stimson Avenue, where she helps others find natural remedies for their own ailments by referencing extensive manuals on nutrition and herbal supplements.

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I find that natural health ... often will take longer to fully heal, but the result is often longer lasting health. Usually when you’re addressing the root issues like a lot of natural health practitioners do, then all sorts of aspects of your health improve.

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astman immerses herself fully into a natural, healthy lifestyle – moreso even than most people who practice similar holistic medicine methods. Her interest in natural remedies was first sparked in the early 2000s when she came to Ohio University for her freshman year of college. She eased herself into diet changes, giving up soda first, then adopting a vegan diet for health and ethical reasons like animal rights. At the end of her academic career, she was hired at the Farmacy, where she met customers each day who were searching for natural medicines for everything from the common cold to serious chronic illnesses.

Over time, she adopted those natural methods herself and slowly moved away from treatment by doctors trained in modern medicine. Even now, she chooses to treat a thyroid condition with visits to complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, practitioners rather than be treated by an endocrinologist with surgery. To Eastman, simply removing the problem is not truly solving it because it fails to address what caused the problem in the first place.

“I would go to a Western doctor as a last resort,” Eastman said. “Even if I had something life threatening, I think I would still try to do the natural way because I find that it’s the most thorough and deepest healing.”

CAM and holistic medicine use is undeniably on the rise in the U.S. The number of adults who used CAM practices increased by more than 2 percent between 2002 and 2007, according to the National Institute for Complementary and Integrative Health. A study done by the School of Pharmacy at West Virginia University found women specifically were much more likely to practice or to have ever practiced CAM. Studies also show women are turning to holistic methods for an array of reasons, from treatment of menopause symptoms to improving overall physical and mental well-being during treatment for breast cancer. Their motivations for seeking treatment outside the realm of modern medicine are as diverse as the treatments themselves.

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very good at taking drastic measures to create drastic change. It works well for first aid and car crashes — the kinds of conditions that need fixed immediately. But when it comes to overall health, modern medicine falls short of creating lasting results.

“I find that natural health ... often will take longer to fully heal, but the result is often longer-lasting health,” she said.

“Not just one part of you is better. Usually, when you’re addressing the root issues like a lot of natural health practitioners do, then all sorts of aspects of your health improve.”

People should not, however, make the overarching assumption that CAM modalities are always safer than modern practices, Dr. Jane Balbo, a doctor of osteopathic medicine at Hudson Health Center and an expert on women’s health, said. Holistic practitioners and even herbal supplements mostly go unregulated in the U.S., and there have been instances where people have tried natural remedies and caused damage to their bodies.

“I think that while people may be frustrated or fed up with Western medicine at times, it can be a little bit of a slippery slope to just make the assumption that all CAM therapies are safe or that they’ll be super helpful without any risk of harm,” Balbo said.

Jen Jones, a staff member at the Athens Wellness Cooperative, has worked as a licensed massage therapist for almost 20 years. She was also recently certified to work as a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner, a kind of health coach.

Jones sees a balance of men and women clients for her massage services, but,

in her recent ventures in nutritional coaching, she has found that more women are interested. She primarily treats clients for what she calls the impact of a stressful life.

When utilizing natural medicine, Jones thinks along the same lines as Eastman, seeing Western doctors only for serious injuries that need immediate attention.

“Personally, for me, it’s a way of life,” she said. “I feel like owning that responsibility of my own health care is not only empowering, but more fruitful.”

Rebecca Wood, a long-time holistic health practitioner with a wide range of expertise, sees CAM methods as more of a supplement to the work of medical doctors.

Wood owns and operates Hopewood Holistic Health, through which she offers a range of services from private yoga and massage therapy to herbalism and nutrition consulting. She is a certified natural health professional, has 500 hours of yoga teacher training under her belt and is a reiki master. She calls herself a teacher or a coach, guiding her clients through practices and lifestyle changes to achieve a comprehensive form of health.

For several of her services, Wood sees more female clients than male. Her body work practices, like massage therapy, are utilized fairly equally between the sexes, but her yoga classes and “wellness journeys” to Central America are composed mostly of women.

Regardless of gender, most of Wood’s clients see her because modern medicine isn’t meeting their needs fully. For whatever reason, be it a lack of a solid doctor/patient relationship or a particular problem simply has not been solved, people come to Wood looking for a new solution to an old health problem.

But Wood doesn’t see her services as replacements of doctors visits. Rather, she hopes people will consult both Western doctors and holistic practitioners to get the most out of both kinds of treatment.

“They all are important, and you might need all of them at one time,” she said. “Finding support, finding your own voice — that’s a pretty powerful step towards wellness, too.”

A WOMEN’S ISSUE art of the driving force behind the influx of alternative medicine for women is the claim of sexist practices in the modern medicine world.

Patty Stokes, an assistant professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies, said the rebellion of women against a patriarchal medical system has been present since the 1970s and continues today.

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It was sparked as a result of feminist critiques of medicine, which acknowledged a slew of sexist practices, including a lack of discussion of the prevalence of breast cancer, little attention given to heart attacks in women and the reluctance to treat women’s pain, particularly women of color.

The procedures involved in childbirth have particularly received plenty of criticism and consequential change since the ’70s. More often than not, women are turning to midwives and lamaze classes to get them through labor instead of hospital beds.

Stokes said in addition to changing their own habits, women could also be leading others to try holistic and natural health practices through their caregiving. Most caregiving, whether it be for children, spouses and the elderly, is done by women. That gives them a special influence in what kind of methods will be used to provide care.

“Women have a real gatekeeping role in their caregiving capacity in terms of what kind of remedies are going to be tried,” Stokes said. “So, if you’ve got women on board with trying something alternative, you’ve also got potentially a lot of kids, a lot of elderly folks, male and female, who might try these things.”

Balbo is reluctant to blame sexism in modern medicine for the increase in women seeking treatment elsewhere.

Rather, she sees the seeking of medical care overall as a gendered experience.

She also thinks the trend of women being the majority of CAM utilizers can be explained through other data.

“If you look at utilization of medical services in general, they are more utilized by women than men, so to me, I don’t know that we can say (CAM) therapies appeal more to women,” she said.

“Medical services are sought more by women, so it makes sense that women would select those in higher numbers than men ... because they’re going to the doctor more.”

Whatever the reason behind the spike in women turning to natural medicine, it has been a clear trend for decades now, and it’s catching the eye of Western doctors and potentially sparking change.

“I think that over the past 40 years, you’ve had a women’s health movement and an alternative movement, which overlaps, but they’re not identical,” Stokes said. “I think there’s been a big change among younger doctors, and even some of the older ones, who are often open to patients trying things.”

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the weekender

Screaming for a female voice in punk rock music NEW JERSEY-BASED PUNK BAND WILL SHOW HOW IT CHANGED ITS SONGWRITING PROCESS ON NEWEST ALBUM ‘ROSE MOUNTAIN’ MEGHAN MORRIS FOR THE POST Punk music lovers will scream in excitement this weekend.

Screaming Females will make its first appearance in Athens at The Union Bar & Grill on Friday. The punk band from New Jersey has recorded eight albums throughout its time together, most recently 2015’s Rose Mountain, and is still going strong.

Emersynn McGuire, a freshman studying creative writing, said she discovered Screaming Females several years ago when she was attending Athens Rock Camp for Girls. She said she used to be really into punk bands and listened to the band often.

At the time, she thought it was cool to find a band in the punk genre that had a female lead singer because there weren’t many in the mainstream music scene. McGuire said she felt empowered by this female-led band that was popular enough to play at a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR. “Punk music has always been populated by women and queers, but media outlets with a lot of clout and power didn't want to give them voices,” Marissa Paternoster, the band’s lead singer, said in an email.

Mike Abbate, the band’s bassist, said in an email that finding success has never been the band’s priority. He said not finding mainstream success helped them keep their “cool, calm, well-rounded and grounded demeanor.”

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McGuire has relistened to many of Screaming Females’ songs in anticipation for the show. She’s most excited to see Paternoster in real life because she’s someone McGuire respects.

“I really admire her vocal style and the fact that she’s the only guitar player,” she said. “That’s really hard to do, play guitar and sing at the same time like she does.”

There were a few key changes to the band’s creative approach on its latest album.

Rose Mountain was the first work in which a producer was involved. It also saw a change in the band’s songwriting process. The members would create instrumentals first, and then Paternoster would work out lyrics and melodies.

“For Rose Mountain, we really tried to focus on creating instrumentation that complimented the vocal melody rather than the other way around,” Jarrett Dougherty, the band’s drummer, said in an email.

Screaming Females created that album during Paternoster’s battle with chronic mononucleosis, or mono, and the experience influenced her lyrical themes.

“It was honestly difficult to think of much else beyond how bad I felt,” Paternoster said in an email. “I always try to take the listener into account, though … so I tried to process those thoughts and feelings through more universal and relatable metaphors.”

At The Union show, Street Eaters and Dana will open for Screaming Females.

Scott Winland, a promoter at The Union

Screaming Females will perform at The Union Bar & Grill, 18 W. Union St., on Friday at 9 p.m. (PROVIDED via Screaming Females)

and owner of Blackout Booking, said in an email the two bands always perform well at the bar, and Dana is a personal favorite for Ohio bands.

McGuire said she saw Street Eaters at a house show when she was a teenager. She owns one of the group’s CDs and said the duo defies expectations because its music sounds cool and different, even with an odd instrumental combination.

“They only have a bass player who sings and then they have a drummer,” she said. “(The bass player) distorts it in a way that it sounds like a guitar and then he sings.”

Screaming Females was formed in 2005 and, throughout all its years together, its essence has remained the same.

“I grew up playing in this band, and much of my persona is anchored in the music we play, the people we've met and

IF YOU GO WHAT: Screaming Females with Street Eaters and Dana WHEN: 9 p.m., Friday WHERE: The Union Bar & Grill, 18 W. Union St ADMISSION: $12

the adventures we've been on together,” Paternoster said. “(Abbate) and (Dougherty) are much more than bandmates — they are my family.”

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Friday Oktoberfest at 5 p.m. at ARTS/

West Performing Arts Facility, 132 W. State St. The second round of Oktoberfest will take place Friday.

Breweries include West End Cider House, Jackie O’s Brewery, Little Fish Brewing Company and many more. The event is family friendly.

Admission is free.

Acrylic Grooves and Vanishing Apollo

at 9 p.m. at Casa Nueva, 6 W. State St. Bang your head to Acrylic Grooves and Vanishing Apollo while they deliver fresh tunes and showstopping beats. Admission is $5-$7.

Saturday Habitat for Humanity 5k Fun Run/Walk

at 9 a.m. at Athens Community Center, 710 E. State St. Habitat for Humanity is holding a run/walk event around the bike path. Adult registration is $25 and registration for kids 13 and under is $10.

Lowes Annual Kids Safety Day at 10

a.m. at Lowes, 983 E. State St. Local police, military, fire department and medical professionals will be at Lowes with their vehicles and equipment. This event is free and open to the public.

Athens Food & Fall Ride at 10 a.m.

Hockhocking Adena Bikeway. Join other cycling enthusiasts on a bike ride from Athens Community Center to Nelsonville and back. The ride will be on 37 miles of smooth, paved and flat bike trail.

Tay Greenwood, then a freshman studying retail merchandising, fills a bag with popcorn during the Athens International Film and Video Festival at the Athena Cinema on April 4. (BLAKE NISSEN / FILE)

An Intimate Evening with J.W. Smith

at 8 p.m. at Athens Uncorked, 14 Station St. Have a relaxing Saturday night listening to J.W. Smith, aka “Dr. FeelGood,” who will sing and play the keyboard to his own albums that mix rhythm and blues with gospel. Admission is free.

Winter Wilson at Donkey Coffee at 8 p.m. at Donkey Coffee, 17 ½ W. Washington St. Winter Wilson will perform an acoustic set. Wilson’s performance will be followed by Columbus-based singer-songwriter Dustin Vincent. Admission is $3.

Songwriters Circle at 7 p.m. at Little Fish Brewing Company, 8675 Armitage Road. Enjoy a night of music listening to Jeff Weaver, Jeremiah Payne, Megan Wren and more while they perform their songs in a roundtable experience.

Free Early Show with The Randys at 6 p.m. at Casa Nueva, 6 W. State St. The Randys will be returning to Casa to give Athens a free early show.

Sunday Yoga at 11 a.m. at Little Fish Brew-

ing Company, 8675 Armitage Road.

Have a relaxing start to your morning while enjoying yoga with instructor Lydia McCall. Attendees should bring their own mat and are welcome to stick around after to socialize with others. Admission is free.

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Masters Mix Tape Series: The Decline of Western Civilization at 7 p.m. at

The Athena Cinema, 20 S. Court St. Come see ‘The Decline of Western Civilization’ featuring Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Fear and many others in this late ‘70s/’80s punk-rock documentary. Admission is $5. @JPRINTUP1 JP583215@OHIO.EDU

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