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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

‘The Post’ reflects on the past year

LAUREN FISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Congratulations! You’ve nearly made it to the end of Fall Semester. Finals week may be looming, but soon students can look forward to a little bit of R&R at home, while Athens residents can perhaps look forward to a few weeks of relative peace and quiet.

This is the first time we are doing this “year in review” issue. Since we made the transition to a weekly print publication in 2016, we’ve been closing out the semester with “Post Picks,” a special “best-of” issue that showcased a few of Athens’ favorite people, places and things.

This time around, however, we chose to reflect on the year 2018 as a whole, highlighting both the moments that brought us together and the times that tested the forces that hold us together.

I’m not surprising anyone by saying the national headlines have been bleak this year.

Between school shootings, devastating natural disasters, tumultuous politics and horrible acts of violence, we all might be feeling a

bit too much of the anxiety-inducing weight of the world we’re living in. However, in the midst of the chaos, we may be able to find a few glimmers of hope.

The aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland bought the March for Our Lives movement, prompting young people across the nation to advocate for stronger gun control laws. The midterm elections, while extremely divisive, yielded the most diverse set of representatives in American history.

In the months leading up to the election, students from both poles of the political spectrum sacrificed their time and sleep to knock on doors, work the phone lines and ensure that their classmates were registered to vote.

Voter turnout in Athens County increased by 13 percent this year, and students took to social media to showcase their “I Voted” stickers with pride.

On campus, when police began receiving reports of sexual assault at an alarming

rate, students decided that this time around, enough was enough. They started GroupMe chats to make sure classmates had a safe way to walk home at night, and they took to the streets to passionately protest in droves.

We promise this issue isn’t all about the heavy stuff. Our blogs team, for instance, took a second look at the best movies, albums, songs, memes, concerts and more that 2018 had to offer. Our culture staff chatted with local artists about how they’ve seen their work evolve over the year and checked in with local farmers about this year’s harvest.

We’re glad we could bring you the headlines that mattered this year, and we hope that you’ll stick with The Post next year, no matter what it may bring.

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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ODDS AND ENDS

Don’t get hung up on year-end lists Now that we’ve hit December, the flood of each media outlet’s “Top 10 whatevers of 2018” are rapidly approaching. These are always fun to look at, true. Seeing what albums, movies, shows, songs and trends are generally agreed upon by everyone is what solidifies this year in our minds, culturally. However, as you skim these lists, it’s really important to not get too caught up in them.

Sure, there may be a general consensus of which pieces of art throughout the year were the best, but it is hard to really ever find one piece that truly is

CHUCK GREENLEE is a senior studying communication studies at Ohio University.

the best. Why? Because something being the best, in regard to artistry, is near impossible to achieve. Everything speaks to someone differently.

So while you may think Mitski’s Be the Cowboy is just the best music happening to come out of this year, your close pal may think that Snail Mail’s Lush is and that you should get out of here with that Mitski nonsense. Note that these two albums are both popping up on ‘Best of’ lists – give them a listen.

And remember who you are reading the list from. Shea Serrano and Rob Harvilla of The Ringer put out their best albums of 2018 list in a collaborative effort. As someone who

likes The Ringer, I disagreed with their list at points. Just shows that the taste in what I thought was the best widely differs from that. These lists are great for harboring discussion, and in a way that makes people revisit things or go and take in things that they may have skipped over. From The Ringer, I finally took the time to listen Vince Staples’ FM, and it was phenomenal.

Sure, I would have probably gotten to listening to it sooner than later, but the fact that it was put in a list in a publication I read often made it “OK, you need to listen to it pronto.”

So while you may have an itching for certain things to be within the top

10, they may not be there. That’s OK. Whatever was defining for you this year, whatever you found solace in, roll with that and have your own top 10 of all these things. Think on them and compare them to others, and have fun reading them. But let your 2018 be defined by what made a difference to you. And just have fun while reading, please.

Please note that the views and opinions of the columnists do not reflect those of The Post. Do you have any thoughts? Let Chuck know by tweeting him @chuck_greenlee.

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OU should adopt ‘Food for fines’ program NICK SHOOK is a senior studying political science pre-law at Ohio University.

Athens County, and particularly Ohio University, has long took a stand as a sanctuary for eco-friendly and sustainable minds. The university was first awarded the STARS Silver rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) in 2015. 2018 was the second year that Ohio University was awarded a STARS Silver rating.

The eco-friendly community of Athens county was the poorest county in the entire state of Ohio in 2016 based on poverty rate. This seems unlikely because of the growing nature of the university presence and campus here in town. Additionally, Hocking College is a growing institution that is also located within the boundaries of the county.

With tens of thousands of students living or commuting to these locations each year, you would assume that a different rural county in Ohio would take the poverty cake. But, it is Athens that is stricken the worse by the ravishing nature of poverty. Walking down Court Street to class, it is not unlikely to walk past a homeless man begging for change on the sidewalk. This obvious lack of access

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to free or reduced-cost meals is something that could be handled by the many college students located within our county.

“Food for Fines” is a term for a policy that has been variously adapted by universities around the nation over the last decade. Large scale prominent universities like Notre Dame, University of Florida, Colorado Boulder, University of Texas San Antonio, Northern Michigan and University of Cincinnati here in Ohio have all adopted “food for fines” programs.

The policy allows for parking violation tickets issued on campuses to be forgiven with the donation of something like 10 canned food items per ticket.

The policies vary from campus to campus, but overall provide a great opportunity for students who are generally fed up with paying parking tickets to donate their own food goods to the needy. In response the city can appropriate less funding to feeding the homeless if they could be fed exclusively from donations.

This practice of “food for fines” has taken root and proved its efficiency at the county level as well.

In Lexington and Fayette Counties in Kentucky, a

“food for fines” program was enacted prior to the holiday season to incentivize giving back to the local community. Gary Means, the parking authority director indicated that over 8,000 people in Lexington county had outstanding parking violations during the policy enactment period.

It is evident that the county of Athens has had a history of struggling with poverty in the local community. An extremely plausible and ethical solution to this issue is a policy like “food for fines.” If Ohio University cares about its community and sustainability as much as they say they do, then adopting a policy like this is a no-brainer in the current day and age. I believe that if the university successfully adopted a policy like this, the entire county could also adopt a similarly working proposal that would take effect across the entire county instead of harnessing donations from just campus parking violations.

Please note that the views and opinions of the columnists do not reflect those of The Post. Do you agree? Let Nick know by emailing him at ns258814@ ohio.edu.

Best Albums (So far) MOLLY SCHRAMM ASST. BLOGS EDITOR The holidays have rolled around and while you and your families may be blaring the likes of Michael Buble’s and Mariah Carey’s Christmas albums, it’s easy to forget 2018 produced some extraordinary album releases. Artists and bands from a variety of genres checked all the boxes on what makes an album great.

As a preface — to make my life and yours easier — the list excludes soundtracks such as A Star Is Born and the Black Panther album, as well as anything released after the publishing of this article — obviously. So, without further ado, here are the best albums of 2018 (so far): 11. BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS POST MALONE If we’re all being honest, Post Malone isn’t the most critically-acclaimed rapper nowadays, but it would be ridiculous to say that he hasn’t impacted the music of Top 40s radio. From hit after hit (“Psycho” and “Better Now” are bops) on his sophomore album Beerbongs & Bentleys, Post has solidified himself as an artist who’s here for the long run — or at least as long as the radio stations play his music.

10. GOOD THING - LEON BRIDGES Different than the doo-wop and ’50s vibes of his debut Coming Home, Leon Bridges showcases his silky smooth vocals on his second LP Good Thing. From the first moments of the album, Bridges takes the listener on an R&B-filled trip. Infusing bold backing beats and even brass riffs, which was something ever so apparent on his first album, Bridges experiments with his sound — and it pays off well. Good Thing is no where close to the breathtaking experience that is Coming Home, but it’s foolish to say Bridges isn’t a monumental voice in today’s music. He’s different, he’s brings in a wide demographic of listeners, and overall, he’s just damn good at what he does.

9. TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL & CASINO - ARCTIC MONKEYS Coming off the high and commercial success of its fifth studio album, AM, resident-rockers Arctic Monkeys got funky with Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. Not nearly as mainstream, and containing a different vibe, Tranquility Base isn’t bad by any means, it just simply doesn’t compare to their earlier albums. Lead singer Alex Turner daringly took a left and along with the other members created a concept album that establishes a wonky, futuristic world. It’s weird and funky, but it’s enjoyable.

8. VOICENOTES - CHARLIE PUTH Due to mass radio play and an overall pop feel, Charlie Puth often doesn’t get the musical credit he deserves. With his sophomore album Voicenotes, Puth delved a bit into the world of R&B — he even has a feature from Boyz II Men. Overall, the singer achieved a pop album filled with multiple bops and tunes that incite dancing.

From the sex-infused “Empty Cups” to the opening riffs from the first track “The Way I Am,” Puth holds no punches back, and it definitely pays off.

7. HIGH AS HOPE FLORENCE + THE MACHINE If there was anyone in the modern day that most closely resembles an angel or goddess, it would be Florence Welch. With vocals that could clear skin and cure diseases, Welch stripped down any possible antics and honed in on vulnerability and raw vocals with High As Hope. From the radio hit “Hunger” and the powerful opening track “June,” Welch and her band succeeded. Through mixed reviews, it’s obvious that the album may not necessarily reach the standards of its predecessors, but you’d be lying to yourself if you said listening to Welch’s vocals weren’t a religious experience.

6. HIVE MIND - THE INTERNET If there was a list of influential and domineering R&B/hip-hop groups of today, it would be impossible to exclude The Internet. With its fourth studio album, Hive Mind, the five-piece showcases its best qualities. From frontperson Syd Tha Kyd’s exquisite vocals to the funky bass lines to backing beats that seem to come straight from late ’80s hip-hop, The Internet triumph. Every piece of the album blends together and seems effortless, showing just how good the R&B collective are. Listen to the album, bask in the sickly sweet vocals and vibe.

5. BY THE WAY, I FORGIVE YOU BRANDI CARLILE Blending folk, Americana and all the best bits of roots-country, Brandi Carlile delves into personal struggle and torment on her sixth studio album, By The Way, I Forgive You. With production help from Nashville bigwigs Shooter Jennings and Dave Cobb, Carlile takes the role of storyteller with the album. Singing about sexuality, religion and the everyday ups-anddowns of life, Carlile created an album that speaks to people. By The Way is delicate, poetic and close, but still not close enough, to being a masterpiece.

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4. LOST & FOUND - JORJA SMITH At the young age of 21, it’s easy to see her age through Jorja Smith’s music. The listener can see her growing up and maturing. With her debut album, Lost & Found, the R&B-infused singer blends funky basslines with her smooth vocals, which mirror those of a young Alicia Keys or Ms. Lauryn Hill. From the opening line of title track “Lost & Found” to the raw, piano ballad of the closing “Don’t Watch Me Cry,” Smith evokes emotion and allows the listener to grow along with her. Though the albums shows her youth (“Teenage Fantasy” was written at the ripe age of 16), it also shows Smith chiming in on societal issues (“Lifeboats (Freestyle)” and “Blue Lights”). She’s a virtuoso, a poet and at the center of an album that is poignant and beautifully crafted.

how the pop diva has evolved from her previous album — both in her sound and outlook on life. Explaining how her marriage to fellow country singer Ruston Kelly influenced her songwriting, Musgraves delved into love songs, mixed them with electronic disco-inspired sounds and created a 13-track album that goes beyond expectations.

Golden Hour is overall light and airy but doesn’t shy away from the tougher subjects in life. It’s an ambitious album, but it’s also Musgraves’ best to date. Though her debut Same Trailer Different Park catapulted her into the mainstream, and its follower Pageant Material continued her growth as an artist, overall Golden Hour solidifies her as a dominating force in both pop and country music.

3. MALIBU NIGHTS - LANY Everyone loves a break-up song, and Los Angeles-based LANY gave an entire album full of them. Coming off of his breakup with pop singer Dua Lipa, lead singer Paul Jason Klein shoved all of his emotions into nine tracks, all together creating a pop-infused, exquisitely crafted love fest of an album. With its second studio album, LANY categorize the five stages of grief.

First, Klein faces denial on “Thick and Thin,” moves to anger with “I Don’t Wanna Love You Anymore” and “Run,” and then bargaining with “Taking Me Back” and “Let Me Know” begins the second half of the process. Klein finishes up with the depression phase on “Valentine’s Day” and finally comes to terms and accepts the end of the relationship with “Thru These Tears” and “Malibu Nights.” It seems lengthy, but Klein and the gang pull it off, creating one of the best albums 2018 has seen thus far.

1. A BRIEF INQUIRY INTO ONLINE RELATIONSHIPS - THE 1975 Blending R&B, Britpop, synth-heavy electronics and everything else in between, resident alt-pop band The 1975 created an album that surpasses normal standards. The British band’s third album conceptualizes modern society while also examining frontman Matty Healy’s battle with drugs, overall maturation and even a bit of romance. With brass features from the late Roy Hargrove and an overall R&B feel to the album, The 1975 transpire into a realm unlike most musicians nowadays.

The album is poetic, heavy, comical at times but overall self-aware — ­ it’s simply The 1975’s world and we’re all just living in it. It seemed that NME was being rash when comparing writing duo Healy and George Daniels to the likes of a modern-day McCartney and Lennon, but honestly, they’re not too far off.

2. GOLDEN HOUR KACEY MUSGRAVES Simple, eloquent but effective, Kacey Musgraves’ third album Golden Hour shows

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NEWS BRIEFS

Potential Board of Elections move prompts concern; OU senior’s death was fentanyl, alcohol-related SARAH M. PENIX NEWS EDITOR OUPD RECEIVES EIGHTH REPORT OF RAPE SINCE START OF FALL SEMESTER Ohio University Police Department received a rape report kit from Athens Police Department on Sunday.

APD received the SANE rape kit from OhioHealth O’Bleness Hospital on Nov. 29.

It was determined on Nov. 30 that the case is in OUPD’s jurisdiction, according to the OUPD report.

There have been 24 reports of sexual assault to OUPD and APD since Aug. 25.

This is the eighth report of sexual assault to OUPD since Fall Semester began.

There have been seven reports of rape and one report of gross sexual imposition to OUPD. APD has received 16 reports of sexual assault — 12 reports of rape and four reports of sexual imposition or assault.

OU SENIOR DIED OF ALCOHOL AND FENTANYL INTOXICATION IN AUGUST According to a death certificate obtained by The Post, a senior who died in August died of fentanyl and alcohol intoxication.

Aaron Freund, 23, from Anderson Township, died Aug. 25. His death was an accident due to self-inflicted intoxication at 74 E. State St., according to the certificate. Freund was transported to OhioHealth O’Bleness Hospital, where he died.

Freund was a senior in the College of Business and a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

Freund is one of two OU students who died this semester. Collin Wiant, 18, a freshman from Dublin, died Nov. 12.

ATHENS RESIDENTS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER POTENTIAL BOARD OF ELECTIONS MOVE The Athens County Board of Coun-

ty Commissioners held a public forum on Tuesday morning to hear from Athens residents about the possibility of moving the Board of Elections office to Campbell Street.

The move was proposed because of the lack of space in the current office located on South Court Street. Another reason the building might move is because there is new equipment for voting that needs to be kept in a temperature-controlled room.

“The county commissioners have known for two years that (Advocacy, Training, Careers, Opportunities) would be closing its services on Campbell Street, because you own the building,” Roxanne Groff, an Athens resident, said. “There was a federal mandate for those services to be closed.”

A lack of access for students could be an issue, and OU faculty and local business owners could be impacted as well said Ben Lachman, the owner of a startup company in Athens. If the building were to be used by an incoming industrial company, it will

create jobs that are necessary to the local economy, he said.

“The Elliot Street Industrial Park has had some recent positive building development,” Lachman said, “The active building is well-situated to be a part of that expansion, and unfortunately, the Board of Elections is not an industrial manufacturing activity.”

The most prominent complaint from residents was that the move would be a form of voter suppression because it would not be as accessible to students.

Voter suppression is not the intention, it is the effect, which would make this move unconstitutional, said Heather Cantino, a previous precinct judge.

“The ATCO building near the river is not easily accessible to most students’ residences or classes,” Cantino said. “It’s a full mile from Baker Center.”

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POLICE BLOTTER

Dogs stop break-in; man passes out near dining hall KAITLYN MCGARVEY SLOT EDITOR In case anyone wants to get drunk food at Nelson Dining Hall on the weekend, it closes at 8 p.m., which one man learned.

An Ohio University Police Department officer found a man passed out near the entrance to the garage underneath Nelson Dining Hall on Saturday.

The student had bloodshot eyes, was unsteady on his feet and his breath smelled of alcohol.

He was issued a citation for disorderly conduct by intoxication and was taken to the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail pending his sobriety.

GOOD DOGS Last Wednesday, the Athens County Sheriff’s Office responded to New Marshfield Road for an attempted burglary report.

The caller said their family had returned home and noticed someone had tampered with a bedroom window. The caller believed their pitbulls deterred the 6 / DEC. 6, 2018

suspect from entering the residence.

Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact the sheriff’s office.

LOST On Sunday, the sheriff’s office responded to Vanderhoof Road for a suspicious person complaint.

Deputies made contact at a residence with a man who claimed to have been lost in the woods for several days, according to the report. The suspect had an injury on his foot that needed medical attention. He also complained of suffering from exposure to the elements.

The subject was transported to OhioHealth O’Bleness Hospital by Athens EMS for medical treatment.

KNOCK KNOCK On Friday, the sheriff’s office responded to Smith Road for a patrol request.

Hunters from out of town said someone had pounded on the front door of their Airbnb. The hunters checked the area but did not find anyone.

Deputies patrolled the area thoroughly but did not locate anyone. Deputies stayed in the area but did not receive any additional calls regarding the matter.

REV IT UP The sheriff’s office responded to Brimstone Road for a loud noise complaint on Sunday.

The anonymous caller reported that their neighbor was revving his motorcycle late at night. Deputies patrolled the area on the road but “observed no person out revving up a motorcycle,” according to the report.

Deputies received no additional calls about the noise. It was determined to be unfounded and deputies resumed regular patrol.

ANNOYING RELATIVES On Sunday, the sheriff’s office responded to a suspicious person report on Vanderhoof Road.

The man said a woman knocked on his door asking for help. Upon arrival, the woman said she was riding with her sister and

her sister’s boyfriend when there was a verbal dispute, and she was dropped off on the side of the road, according to the report.

The woman said she was fine and just needed a ride to a nearby relative’s house.

Deputies transported her without incident, and no further assistance was requested.

WHAT PERCENT ARE YOU AT? The sheriff’s office responded to Vore Ridge Road for a suspicious person report on Sunday.

The caller said a man had knocked on their door asking to come inside to charge his phone. The caller felt the man was acting suspicious and told him to leave, according to the report.

The man finally left their porch, but the caller was not sure if he was still in the area.

Deputies searched the property on foot and patrolled the area for the man. There was no additional contact, and the caller was advised to call back if the man returns.

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Flooding Histories Ohio University has a deep history of flooding occurring on its campus

TAYLOR JOHNSTON FOR THE POST Ohio University’s campus is not new to flooding from the nearby Hocking River.

The original settlers came up the Hocking River to the land the university sits on in 1797, and they built houses and established a town, according to the 18042004 edition of Ohio University Press. During those days, the river provided a means of transportation and the start of a milling industry.

The community continued to grow and the Hocking Canal was opened in 1843, but it soon began losing business to railroads. Its use came to an end in 1873 when the canal bed and its towpath were ruined by a flood.

Various floods happened throughout the 1900s, however, it wasn’t until later in the 1960s when the campus endured its more devastating floods.

A flood, said to be Athens’ worst in 35 years, hit nearby areas along the Hocking River and the Ohio River Valley in March of 1963, according to a previous Post article. The flood overtook four residence hall’s electricity on East Green, and the entire West Green landscape was also flooded.

About 700 West Green residents and 200 Athens residents were evacuated for eight days, and the flood caused $1 million dollars in damages, according to a previous Post article.

Water flooded the basements of McCracken Hall, Grover Center, Peden Stadium and others, according to the April 1963 edition of The Ohio Alumnus. The 8 / DEC. 6, 2018

Hocking River reached a crest of approximately 24 feet.

Again in March of 1964, the campus saw its second record-breaking flood, according to a previous Post article.

The flood caused $14,000 in damages in Grover Center alone, according to the article.

In March 1966, a Post headline read “‘Harvard’ slides into the Hocking.”

A third flood, equal in wreckage from the floods that occurred in 1963 and 1964, embraced the campus once again. Attention became focused on the need for a flood protection system.

A previous Post article states the Army Corps of Engineers were working on a plan to control the current of the river and planned to have it finalized by the summer, which would then be presented to Congress for approval in the fall.

“The fun will soon be gone,” a May 1969 Post article read.

“Ohio University students will no longer be able to dive out third floor windows into swirling flood waters. There will be no more floating around campus in homemade rafts, no more wading through waist-high water to attend parties.”

According to the article, the university rid themselves of an average of $800,000 in flood damage costs from the new flood protection project which re-routed the Hocking River.

Groundbreaking for the project, which had an estimated cost of $10 million, began April 12, 1969 and was expected to be complete in the spring of 1976. The project would move 5.5 miles of the river south of its location at that time.

Aerial view of Hocking River flooding West Green in 1963. (PROVIDED via Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections)

One of the first floods documented on OU’s campus from 1873. (PROVIDED via Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections)

While there have not been any major floods at OU since the 1960s with the help from the relocation of the Hocking River, floods are still possible.

In a previous Post article, it was noted that Ohio receives the most rain in the months of March, April and May which increases the risk of flooding. In

Outside of Grover Center during the 1964 flood.

(PROVIDED via Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections)

2008, the Hocking River rose to 22 feet, which led to road closures.

“Although campus hasn’t seen any major flooding in recent years, Emergency Programs Coordinator Jill Harris said OU does have certain measures it has to take,” read A Post article from 2008.

The river is monitored constantly, according to the article.

During the last academic year, OU anticipated potential flooding to its campus. Students had a three day weekend due to the anticipation of the severe weather.

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Making headlines In the past year, students at OU have debated “Freedom of Expression” policies and rallied against sexual assault MADDIE CAPRON MANAGING EDITOR LAUREN FISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ohio University has made local and national headlines over the course of 2018. Here’s a look at some of the defining events from the year: RECORD NUMBER OF SEXUAL ASSAULTS There have been 24 reports of sexual assault reported to area police since the beginning of the Fall Semester.

The Athens Police Department has received 16 reports of sexual assault — 12 reports of rape and four reports of sexual imposition or assault. Eight cases of sexual assault have been reported to the Ohio University Police Department, seven of which were reports of rape and one of which was a report of gross sexual imposition.

Students on campus have responded to the large number of reports of sexual assault in unprecedented ways.

Sorority and fraternity houses across campus put up banners in support of survivors and to stand against rape culture.

Some of the messages included “Stand with survivors” and “Yes means yes, no means no. Whatever we wear, wherever we go.”

In addition to the banners, about 500 students gathered on College Green in September for the “It’s on Us, Bobcats” march and rally to call for an end to sexual assault on campus and express their support for sexual assault survivors.

The rally was held in response to the, at the time, 15 reports of rape and sexual imposition that had been reported to OUPD and APD since Aug. 25.

Women’s Panhellenic Association President Mallory Golski, a senior studying journalism, said in a previous Post report that she was inspired by all the students who have been willing to speak out, share their stories and stand with survivors.

Golski also helped organize the rally.

“I just wanted to keep this momentum moving forward and keep the focus on the actions students can take as students and not how we can direct our anger toward some higher power,” Golski said. “Whether that’s the university, the police station ... it’s on us as students.”

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I just wanted to keep this momentum moving forward and keep the focus on the actions students can take as students and not how we can direct our anger toward some higher power. Whether that’s the university, the police station ... it’s on us as students.”

Mallory Golski embraces another protester during the “It’s On Us, Bobcats” rally against sexual abuse on Sept. 27, 2018 outside Cutler Hall. (HANNAH RUHOFF / FILE)

- Mallory Golski, Women’s Panhellenic Association president OU ESTABLISHES POLICIES GOVERNING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION In the wake of the February 2017 arrests of 70 Ohio University students during a Baker Center demonstration, the campus has seen a substantial evolution of its policies on free expression.

Following the arrests and subsequent dropping of the charges against the students, the university established a special presidential policy group to provide recommendations for future policies and procedures regarding free speech and expression on campus.

The original policies, signed by Nellis, banned “demonstrations, rallies, public speech-making, picketing, sit-ins, marches, protests, and similar assemblies” inside university buildings and gave individualized guidelines for outdoor spaces on campus.

In response to the interim policies, more than 100 students and local residents marched across campus during the October 2017 “Y{OU} Can’t Silence Dissent” demonstration, calling for the abolishment of the interim policies.

“We are here for something much greater than freedom of speech,” Ziad Abu-Rish, an assistant professor of history, told the crowd during the demonstration.

“We are not alone — the campus has spoken unanimously.”

The interim policies, however, were not rescinded, and after months of deliberation and public feedback, permanent policies later took their place.

The latest set of policies defines reservation requirements for gatherings, which

Protesters hold banners during the open forum on the interim ‘Freedom of Expression’ policy in Baker Ballroom on March 21. (KELSEY BOEING / FILE)

must follow certain guidelines to ensure that “everyday university functions can be accomplished.” The policies also define “disruptions” and lay out guidelines for the use of certain amplification equipment, as well as the distribution of literature.

“I think if we have a policy, there are going to be some groups that are upset with that, period,” Nellis said in a previous Post report. “But I think we need to have some kinds of guiding principles relative to free speech, but recognizing that in no way do we want to harbor free speech. We

want to encourage the opportunities for free speech. We’re a public university, and that’s across the spectrum.”

Sarah Penix and Ellen Wagner contributed to this report.

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New restaurants help Athens grow ABBY MILLER FOR THE POST Three new Athens establishments, Lady B’s Fried Chicken, Starbucks and Town’s End Coffee, are experiencing sales increases during their first year of business.

Lady B’s and Town’s End are local, independent businesses in the Athens area.

Lady B’s can be found at 19 S. Court St., and Town’s End is along the Hocking River at 9133 Rock Riffle Road.

A new Starbucks was built this summer at 16 W. Union St. The location officially opened on August 17 in time for the new school year.

Co-owner of Town’s End Coffee, Charlotte Norris, said the coffee bar gets a lot of positive feedback and that sales have been steadily increasing over the course of the year. The coffee bar opened its doors in March. Norris attributes this sales increase to multiple factors.

“It’s word of mouth I think is getting out,” Norris said. “People are driving by and seeing that we’re here. They’ve heard from other people.”

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Norris said. The coffee shop has a presence on Instagram as well.

Lady B’s Fried Chicken took over the former OMG! Rotisserie location on Sept.

28. Since then, Sheldon Andrus, co-owner of Lady B’s, has been pleased with the establishment’s success. “(The sales have) been awesome,” Andus said. “I think we’ve gotten off to a really good start.”

The new Starbucks location is also off to a “really good” start, assistant manager Tim Clingan said.

“I think that there was a lot of people who were excited that Starbucks came here,” Clingan said.

Among early successes, Lady B’s and Town’s End are both trying to give back to the community. Town’s End has a payit-forward program for coffee.

“We have our customers either buy or pay for a small cup of coffee,” Norris said.

“And then if somebody is in and wants a cup of coffee, right now we have 33 payit-forward coffees.”

Lady B’s donates 5 percent of its daily gross revenue back to charity. All the charities that Lady B’s has donated to have been local, Andus said.

“I don’t want to donate to national charities just because they’re easier to access,” Andus said. “I want to work with actual local charities that people don’t know because they’re the ones that actually need help.”

Donations by Lady B’s have included gift cards, food and other incentives. Lady B’s owners want to increase how much the restaurant donates to local charities in the future. Over winter break, an increase in donations from Lady B’s may be discussed, Andus said.

More customers have been coming to both Town’s End and Lady B’s. For Town’s End, the customer demographic is typically parents, according to a previous Post report.

Lillie Throckmorton, a sophomore studying middle childhood education, had never heard of or been to Town’s End. “I’m not a big coffee drinker,” Throckmorton said. “But it sounds interesting.”

Lady B’s, however, has gotten more of the student demographic due to its Court Street location. Andus thinks that students are responding to Lady B’s well.

Chris Smith, an undecided freshman, has been to Lady B’s since its opening and enjoyed his experience.

“I really liked it,” Smith said. “I liked

the chicken. The breading just fell off the chicken which was really nice.”

For Starbucks, the demographic is widely students as well. This demographic heavily influences when the store is busy.

“In between classes, we get those really busy half hours of students rushing to class,” Clingan said.

Town’s End and Lady B’s are both hoping to expand in the future. Town’s End would like to add a deck or expand the back of the building, according to a previous Post report. Lady B’s is planning on renovating the basement of their restaurant.

“Over Christmas break, we’re actually going to renovate the basement of Lady B’s,” Andus said.

The space would host open mic nights, parties and community events, Andus hopes.

Norris wants Town’s End to better be promoted on the highway. She also wishes it was safer for those on campus to get to the coffee shop.

Town’s End hopes to host a grand opening event before the coffee shop’s first year ends, Norris said.

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A look into faculty and staff diversity at OU IAN MCKENZIE FOR THE POST The Ohio University Salary Report provides insight into faculty and staff diversity, focusing on gender, age and ethnicity.

Of the 6,151 faculty members, only 1,491 have their ethnicity disclosed in the salary report. The university faculty is made up of 3,336 women and 2,815 men, according to the report. The entire faculty answered either male or female.

The salary of the faculty members and their ethnic origin is reported in the OU Salary Report as of September 2018. On average of all female faculty, women make $29,595, while men earn about $43,360.

In 2017, OU had 3432 female employees and 2923 male employees.

When compared to 2017, the average salary for female faculty members was $28,286, while men earned an average of $41,380.

Asian men, who make up about 4 percent of the faculty, make the most money out of all the faculty members who identified their ethnicity in the report. On average, they earn a salary of $83,584.

Women who identify as Hispanic/ Latina make the most on average for women and the third highest average salary overall, which is $70,792. They make up .2 percent of faculty members overall.

In 2017, men who identified as Asian earned $82,251 on average. The lowest earning group identified were white women, who earned $37,147 on average.

Of the faculty members who identified their ethnicity, the group that makes the least amount of money are white women, who earn about $38,266 on average. That puts them slightly above the average for the faculty as a whole, which earn about $36,276 annually.

Of the top 10 highest-grossing university employees, 9 of them are men. Their combined salary is $3,521,889.

About 86 percent of faculty members identify as white. The estimated population of Ohio in 2017 was about 82 percent white. The next highest percentage of faculty members at OU identify as Asian, making up 6 percent of the faculty’s population. In 2017, about two percent of Ohioans identified as Asian.

On average, those who did not list their ethnicity earn $23,984.

When looking at salaried administra-

tors, those who identify as women earn $63,074 on average while administrators who identify as male earn $73,778 on average. The average age of salaried administrators is about 43 years old.

The average age of faculty members is about 49. The average age for men is about 51, while the average for women is about 48.

From 2012 to 2016, the number of “underrepresented” faculty members increased 133 percent, according to a previous Post report.

Diversity has been an area of focus for the university this year. In January, Michelle Ferrier, former associate dean of the Scripps College of Communication, said that she felt that her position was removed because of her sex and race, according to a previous Post report.

OU President Duane Nellis and Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Gigi Secuban recently started the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, which began meeting in November, Jim Sabin, a university spokesman, said in an email.

The goal of the commission is to develop new strategies to identify key issues and solutions concerning women. The commission will also be cataloging work that has already been completed at the university.

“The commission will ensure that gender diversity and women’s issues remain at the forefront of Ohio University’s mission and awareness,” Sabin said in an email.

In September 2018, OU was given the 2018 INSIGHT Into Diversity Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award. The award is given to universities that have shown commitment to broadening diversity and inclusion on campus, Sabin said in an email.

Colleges are judged on their student recruitment, retention and programs and hiring practices for faculty.

The university is also looking into increasing staffing in the Women’s Center, LGBT Center, the Office for Multicultural Student Access and Retention (OSMAR) and the Multicultural Center.

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TOP: (From left) Cody Shanklin, Hannah Burke and Mallory Golski stand in front of the crowd of demonstrators during the “It’s On Us, Bobcats” rally against sexual assault on Thursday, Sept. 27 on College Green. (EMILEE CHINN / PHOTO EDITOR) BOTTOM LEFT: Students and alumni come together while Ohio University alumna Allison DeWitt speaks to the crowd gathered on College Green for the F--k Rape Culture rally on Friday, October 19, 2018. (NICOLE HARVEL / FOR THE POST) BOTTOM RIGHT: Ohio University alumna Allison DeWitt speaks at the F--k Rape Culture rally on College Green. The rally took place on Oct. 19, 2018. (ANTHONY WARNER / FOR THE POST)

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Taking a Stand This year, Athens residents and OU students have come together and taken to the streets in protest and in solidarity

ABOVE: Bailey Stein, a student studying plant biology, chants during the F--k Rape Culture rally on Oct. 19, 2018. (MEAGAN HALL / FILE) TOP RIGHT: A mom and her son participate in the March For Our Lives on Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Athens. (KELSEY BOEING/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) BOTTOM RIGHT: Protesters march the “It’s On Us, Bobcats“ march against sexual abuse down Court Street on Sept. 27, 2018. (HANNAH RUHOFF / PHOTO EDITOR) THEPOSTATHENS.COM / 13

Expectations for winter growing season high after poor year for area farmers BAYLEE DEMUTH STAFF WRITER To Becky Rondy, 2018 was Green Edge Organic Gardens’ worst year of growing to date.

“My husband is fond of the saying, ‘A dry year will scare a man to death, but a wet one will make him go hungry,’” Rondy said.

Many Athens County farms experienced an overall poor year for growing their produce. The immense amounts of rain and flooding made the job of tending to farms more challenging, keeping farmers from growing as much as in past years.

Green Edge Organic Gardens primarily grows year-round salad mix, microgreens, mushrooms and assorted seasonal produce.

At Rondy’s farm in Amesville, produce is grown in 10 high tunnels during the summer and winter seasons. A special building houses the micrograins and another room has been converted for mushrooms.

Unfortunately for Rondy, her farm did not produce as well as it has in the past.

“The year was bad mainly because of the weather. It was too wet, too cold, and there was tons of flooding,” Rondy said. “Each farm is different, but it has been a challenging year for all of us.”

Since the weather has been so poor, Green Edge Organic Gardens’ sales at the Athens Farmers Market have been weaker, but Rondy has started preparations for the winter season and has higher hopes for the crop that will be produced.

“High tunnels are planted with winter greens and vegetables, and they’re coming along nicely,” Rondy said. “The winter quite possibly will be better than what the year has brought so far because everything is grown under cover.”

In the winter, Rondy is able to better control the elements that might otherwise damage the produce.

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Neil Cherry, owner of Cherry Orchards, sells his produce at the Athens County Farmer’s Market on Wednesday. (MCKINLEY LAW / PHOTO EDITOR)

sonal creation where we grow and harvest in the winter without heat,” Rondy said. “We have fullsized greenhouses that capture quite a lot of geothermal heat throughout the day.”

Ronda Clark and her farm had just about the same amount of luck as Rondy’s did this past year.

Blackberry Sage Farm grows all sorts of produce on at least half of its 59-acre farm, including blackberries, rhubarb, gooseberries, green beans, tomatoes and squash.

“It was a hard year with too much rain and flooding,” Clark said. “I also got sick, which didn’t help with all the crop loss either.”

Clark doesn’t do much farming during the spring and fall because she homeschools her children, but she gets a lot done during the winter.

“I’ve planted everything for the winter season and won’t start again until April,” Clark said. “I

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Even in hard years we’re still producing a lot, and customers should expect to go to the market and find what they’re after.”

- John Wood,

Homecoming Farm owner think the expectations for the winter season are better, partly because I’m also feeling better, but also because we’ve transformed our garden into tree crops, like mulberries and apples, so hopefully we won’t get flooded

and lose our annual crops again.”

Despite the hardships the growing year brought on Clark and her farm, Blackberry Sage Farm has still been able to sell its produce at the Athens Farmers Market without much problem.

“We always sell. People come out regardless of weather and buy our food,” Clark said.

“I don’t really feel in competition with other vegetable growers either because most or all of our stuff sells really well.”

The poor weather also affected Homecoming Farm, another Athens Farmers Market vendor.

Homecoming Farm produces fresh fruits and vegetables, mainly berries that John Wood plants himself in the farm’s small field.

Wood acknowledges that every farmer’s growing year is different depending on what the product is and where one’s farm is located.

“If you’re down in the river bottoms and had sandy soils, all the rain we got might have not been a problem, but if you’re up in the hills in all the clay, you probably had water-logged soils,” Wood said.

Wood’s farm also had a very challenging year due to the excessive amount of rainfall, causing a 20 percent reduction in the farm’s productivity for the year.

“I believe we had 10 inches over the average of rain we usually get, which I think is 35 inches,” Wood said. “We lost a lot of crops to wet soil, rot and weeds.”

Homecoming Farm may be done planting for the year, but Wood expects the weather patterns to remain unpredictable as he gets ready for the next year.

“The last five years have been some of the wettest and most dry years, making it hard for someone in agriculture to prepare for the upcoming growing seasons,” Wood said. “We’re limiting our scope to more perennial plants that tend to hold up better to some of the conditions we’re seeing, as well as removed some of our vegetable gardens where we planted some more hardy perennials.”

Although Homecoming Farm’s sales have been lower than usual at the Athens Farmers Market, customers are still able to find everything they need.

“I don’t want to give the impression there’s a significant shortage and that people should be going to Kroger first, because there’s still an abundance of food produced here.”

Wood finds the food systems around this area to be quite amazing, no matter what type of year it was for growing.

“Even in hard years we’re still producing a lot, and customers should expect to go to the market and find what they’re after,” Wood said.

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Artists’ Evolution Best friends Eve and Jaime have watched their artwork and friendship evolve during the school year RILEY RUNNELLS FOR THE POST One aspect of art is constant: evolution.

Artists are always changing and evolving for the better. For two best friends, their companionship not only pushes them to better their work in graphic design, but it was initially formed through art.

Senior Eve Gustwiller didn’t always want to pursue graphic design. At first, she was set on interior design, but when she decided that wasn’t the right field for her, she began exploring other mediums until she found her love of graphic design.

Senior Jaime North knew she wanted to be in the creative field and do something profitable, and she felt graphic design accomplished those two things. She loved the flexibility of the medium and the fact that every type of business needs a graphic designer.

Gustwiller and North met at Ohio University through graphic design their freshman year, but didn’t become best friends until junior year. They had a lot of classes together through the years as they studied imagery, poster design, icon development and branding, and the two are now working on their individual thesis projects.

Gustwiller’s thesis focuses on the personal growth of OU seniors on the Athens campus and the relationship of college culture to an individual’s respective college.

She plans on creating a large-scale screen print of the words that the seniors give to her and will focus on projection and color to relate to the emotion of one’s experience.

The most important aspects to her are the composition, the typography and the color.

“The biggest part of any graphic design project is how I show my work when it’s done,” Gustwiller said. “Showcasing your work properly not only does the project justice, but it puts the work into a realistic space and environment for people to understand the purpose.”

North’s thesis deals with Alzheimer’s disease awareness and designing a related campaign. She plans to showcase it through a digital collage of posters and brochures with statistics. She also has personal family experience with Alzheimer’s disease that she wants to bring into the project. The most important parts of the project to her are typography and the collage aspect.

“I want to make it more of an awareness thing instead of a negative view of the disease,” North said. “Everyone knows some-

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Through these two projects I learned that a brand needs to be cohesive. It’s all about finding the balance between cohesiveness and the idea of branching out and being adventurous.”

An outdoor advertisment from North’s senior branding project, “Away Adventure Company.”

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- Jaime North, a senior studying graphic design one who is affected by Alzheimer’s, so I think it’s an important project to put together.”

Gustwiller has watched her work get progressively better over the years, but she saw the biggest evolution through her rebranding project during her junior year and her branding project her senior year.

The rebranding project focused on rebranding a product to make it her own, so she decided to rebrand face wash. She downloaded an online background, photographed the product and branded the face wash with her own label. She tried to place the image of the face wash into the background to make it realistic, but she found it looked fake and she wasn’t as pleased with the project as she could’ve been.

Her frustration with the rebranding project gave her the drive to perfect her senior year branding project, where she created a fictional company. She found the perfect way to showcase it by using Adobe Photoshop and created an identity system of branding.

She focused on the typefaces, the colors and found redemption in the branding project that she searched for her junior year.

“Though it’s graphic design with business cards and stationary, it’s also getting us to think about it in a large-scale way on an easier platform for people to understand,” Gustwiller said.

North has also loved watching her work progress over the years and, similarly to Gustwiller, saw her work improve in a big way from her rebranding assignment her junior year to her branding project her senior year.

For her rebranding product, she rebranded Kroger oatmeal. One of North’s favorite elements of creative design is collages, so she found a way to combine col-

North’s senior branding project was “Away Adventure Company” where she designed multiple ways to market the product, including business cards. (PROVIDED via Jaime North)

lages with typography. She used sandpaper on letters to create texture, scanned them into the computer and then pieced them together. Though she worked diligently, she didn’t like where the project was going and felt like the project was absorbing her.

North used her knowledge from the rebranding project to fuel the creativity in her branding project. Her fictional company, which went much more in-depth than the last project. She was able to really focus on creating the cohesiveness of her fake company “Away Adventure Company.”

“Through these two projects I learned that a brand needs to be cohesive,” North said. “It’s all about finding the balance between cohesiveness and the idea of branching out and being adventurous.”

Outside of the classroom, Gustwiller and North both had ample design experience. Gustwiller designed the Athena Yearbook her junior year and created some website imagery and in-office graphics at her internship with footwear retailer DSW,

Inc. North spent her junior year as a graphic design intern at the OU Career and Leadership Development Center, and this year she is focusing on her graphic design internship at the College of Business.

It’s clear that the women both stay busy in and out of the classroom. However, through their hectic graphic design careers, they find that their friendship has gotten them through the workload and has helped them to evolve into the artists they are today.

“I’m so happy Jaime and I became so close,” Gustwiller said. “We always work really well together and we have similar work ethics. She’s such a great friend.”

North agreed, saying that the two help keep each other grounded.

“It’s really nice to have Eve in my major because we can talk to each other and go through the same things together,” North said.

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Bowling in Frisco SPENCER HOLBROOK SPORTS EDITOR PETE NAKOS ASST. SPORTS EDITOR Ohio will play San Diego State in the DXL Frisco Bowl in Frisco, Texas, on Dec. 19, the Mid-American Conference announced Sunday afternoon.

The bowl berth is Ohio’s 10th under coach Frank Solich. The Bobcats had been to just two bowl games in program history prior to Solich’s arrival in Athens.

They’re 3-6 in bowl games under Solich.

This will be the Bobcats’ first appearance in the Frisco Bowl, which began last year and is played at Toyota Stadium. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. and will be televised on ESPN. The Frisco Bowl is owned and operated by ESPN Events, a division of ESPN. San Diego State finished the regular season 7-5 and 4-4 in the Mountain West’s West Division. The Aztecs were 7-2 to start the season but are riding a threegame losing streak heading into the bowl game. They have notable wins over Arizona State, Boise State and Air Force. The Aztecs are coached by Rocky Long.

Long and Solich have both been in the business for quite some time, but their paths haven’t crossed before. That will change this bowl season.

“We really don’t have any kind of ongoing relationship. We’ve been limited to really no communication between us,” Solich said of Long. “I’ve got a lot of respect for (Long), what he’s done, how long he’s been in the business, how well he’s operated and his ability to put together staffs and mold football teams to be very, very successful.

It’ll be great to get to know him a little better and visit with him some.”

The Aztecs are known nationally for two things: tough defense and running the football. Solich can relate — that’s what he’s built at Ohio.

San Diego State will look to run the ball any way it can, and the Aztecs want to make the game ugly.

“They’re a very, very physical football team throughout the course of it.

Their linemen, fullbacks, running backs — they’ve all got the ability to play downhill on you,” Solich said. “There can be a weardown effect if you’re not careful. We need to make sure we’re smart in what we’re doing, substitute the way we have been all year long and we’ve been able to do that to keep the guys somewhat fresh on the 16 / DEC. 6, 2018

Ohio’s Nathan Rourke (#12) runs the winning touchdown against Kent State, making the score 27-26, on Oct. 6, 2018.

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field. When you play a physical football team, guess what you’ve got to do: You better play physical football back.”

The Bobcats finished the regular season with an 8-4 record, including wins over MAC East Division winner Buffalo and on the road against Western Michigan. Ohio was 6-2 in the MAC but lost to Virginia and Cincinnati during the nonconference portion of the schedule.

Ohio started the season 1-2, then 3-3, before rallying to win five of its final six games. The Bobcats scored at least 49 points in each of those five wins. Their lone loss during that stretch — to archrival Miami — kept them out of the MAC Championship Game. Winning that championship game has escaped them every year since 1968.

The Bobcats’ rushing attack is led by junior quarterback Nathan Rourke and redshirt senior running back A.J. Ouellette. Ouellette was named to the FirstTeam All-MAC list after finishing the regular season with 1,142 yards and 12

touchdowns, surpassing the 1,000-yard mark for the second consecutive season.

Defensively, the Bobcats have struggled this season but surged as of late.

That includes the front seven improving to finish the season second in the conference in rushing defense, allowing just 135.8 yards per game. Ohio also finished the season +13 in turnover margin, the fifth-best mark in the nation.

Even without a MAC title, the Bobcats are happy to be in the position they are: in the Frisco Bowl.

“I just appreciate every (bowl game) that comes along,” Solich said. “They’re not easy to get to and you’ve got to have good coaches who are good on the field and good recruiters to get done what we’ve got done. You’ve got to have players that grow in your system and really understand what it takes to be a good football player over the course of time at a university.”

Ohio and San Diego State have never played each other.

Last year, the Bobcats defeated UAB

41-6 in the Bahamas Bowl. Rourke was 12 of 18 for 185 yards and two touchdowns.

Then-redshirt senior Dorian Brown rushed for 152 yards and four touchdowns, while Ouellette surpassed the 1,000-yard rushing mark for the season.

Other bowl matchups including Eastern Michigan, who will face Georgia Southern in the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama.

Toledo will head to the Bahamas Bowl for a matchup with Florida International.

Western Michigan will play BYU in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise.

MAC champion Northern Illinois will play UAB in the Boca Raton Bowl in Florida.

Buffalo will head to Mobile, Alabama, for a matchup with Troy in the Dollar General Bowl.

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Best moments from sports at Ohio in 2018 SPENCER HOLBROOK SPORTS EDITOR The calendar year has brought plenty of successful stories to the Ohio Athletic Department. As 2018 comes to a close, we wanted to look back at some of the brightest sports moments of the past year in Athens.

Ohio’s men’s and women’s basketball teams both found wins when things looked bleak. The softball team did something no team had ever done before it. The football program notched a signature win and a cross country runner sprinted into the history books. There were many moments for the Bobcats in the Mid-American Conference, so we boiled them down to the top five.

Here are the five best moments from Ohio’s 2018 athletic year:

AGLER’S HEROICS AGAINST AKRON Just a few days into the calendar year, Taylor Agler and the Bobcats found themselves in a close game with Akron. But she delivered a memorable moment during her redshirt senior campaign. Agler hit a layup, and she was fouled. Her 3-point play with under 10 seconds remaining doomed Akron, as the Bobcats won 70-67 in The Convo.

The Bobcats went on to the MAC Tournament, but they ultimately fell to rival Miami by three in the quarterfinals.

MEN’S BASKETBALL BESTS MIAMI Ohio won its sixth straight Battle of the Bricks in an overtime thriller over Miami, 92-87, in The Convo on Feb. 17. Miami had a 3-point shot miss with eight seconds remaining, and Jordan Dartis knocked in two clutch free throws in the final seconds to clinch a big Bobcats’ win over their rival.

They went on to beat Miami again in the regular season finale, but lose to the RedHawks in the MAC Tournament first round.

OHIO SOFTBALL LEAVES MARK IN NCAA TOURNEY Winning the MAC — no matter the sport — is an impressive feat. But what’s more impressive is taking that success and translat-

ing it to wins in the NCAA Tournament. Ohio softball did just that in Knoxville, Tennessee, in May. The Bobcats followed up their MAC Championship with their first two NCAA Tournament wins in program history. They defeated Monmouth, 4-0, and James Madison, 7-3, to capture the college softball world’s attention. Ohio ultimately fell to host Tennessee, who advanced to the NCAA Super Regional, where it eventually lost.

Following the tournament run, coach Jodi Hermanek left Ohio to take the head coaching position at Pittsburgh. Kenzie Roark was hired from South Carolina Upstate in Hermanek’s place.

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OHIO FOOTBALL STAMPEDES BUFFALO Ohio seemed destined to meet Buffalo on Nov. 14 with the MAC East Division on the line, and a spot in Detroit for the MAC Championship Game up for grabs. But the Bobcats lost the week before to Miami, all but clinching the East for Buffalo.

That didn’t stop the Bobcats from steamrolling the Bulls on national television. The Bobcats destroyed the Bulls in a 52-17 beatdown. A.J. Ouellette was battling a cold, but he had a career-high 196 rushing yards and three total touchdowns in the win. The Bobcats’ defense held MAC Player of the Year, Tyree Jackson — and his favorite wide receiver Anthony Johnson — in check, and they made sure the Bulls knew who was the class of the MAC. But the Bobcats couldn’t find a way into the MAC Championship Game, and they’ll face San Diego State in the Frisco Bowl on Dec. 19.

PARK’S RECORD RUN Again, MAC Championships aren’t easy to win in any sports. Josh Park is the most recent Bobcat to win one, winning the MAC individual title with a time of 24:08.8. He is the first Ohio runner to win the MAC since Josh Ritchie in 1996, and he is only the fourth since 1965. The sophomore from Amherst, Ohio, will have more chances to defend his title.

As a team, the Bobcats finished fifth in the MAC, but Park was definitely the story of the season for Ohio’s cross country team.

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Looking back at Ohio’s promising, but disappointing season ANTHONY POISAL STAFF WRITER Ohio’s season wasn’t supposed to end like this.

It wasn’t supposed to end with one final short, depressing huddle of Bobcats in the middle of Millett Hall’s floor in Oxford. They briefly wrapped their arms around each other after Meredith Howe couldn’t corral a serve from Ball State’s Kate Avila. The ball bounced off Howe’s arm. Then it bounced off Simone Miller’s head. Then it slowly bounced away.

It was the Cardinals’ winning point in the fifth set of the second-round match of the Mid-American Conference Tournament. It was also the final depressing play the Bobcats suffered this season, one that ended far sooner than anyone imagined four months earlier.

Ohio was selected to win the regular season of the conference, East Division and championship titles in August in the MAC coaches’ preseason poll. The Bobcats weren’t thinking that far ahead yet — they had several key players returning from injuries sustained in 2017, a season also filled with potential never met because some of Ohio’s best players were hurt.

But the Bobcats had every reason to believe this season would be different. Coach Deane Webb installed stricter jump limits for players in practice and took measures to ensure that his team would be healthy when Ohio was in the thick of the postseason.

“I think we're a good enough team this year to play for a while to go into the postseason,” Webb said in August. “If we're in that situation, then we're going to make sure that we still have quite a bit left in the tank that time of year.”

Webb’s plan worked. All of Ohio’s starters were healthy when it entered the MAC Tournament, and it only had one key player, Tia Jimerson, miss multiple games with an injury. The core of the Bobcats’ 18 / DEC. 6, 2018

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Santa Clara Ohio University setter Kyra Slavik pulling a ball away from the net to her outside hitter on Sept. 7, 2018.

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offensive attack — Lizzie Stephens, Jaime Kosiorek and Vera Giacomazzi — played in every set in 2018.

But it still felt like the Bobcats limped into the postseason.

It started back in September when Ohio ground through a difficult nonconference schedule it hoped would callous itself for the rest of the season. The schedule included Nebraska, reigning NCAA Tournament champions, and four other Power 5 conference schools.

The Bobcats entered MAC play with a 5-8 record, respectable for a team that played more matches in flyover states than The Convo and faced some of the top volleyball schools in the country.

Ohio was calloused up, but it didn’t work as it may have hoped.

After a 3-1 start to begin the easiest part of its conference schedule, Ohio crumbled. It won just three matches, lost three five-set matches and could only beat one team, Eastern Michigan, with a conference record over .500 in October.

The Bobcats were nowhere near the team MAC coaches predicted when they filled out their preseason ballots. They were arguably the most mediocre team in the conference and finished the regular season 1-8 against teams with a MAC record over .500.

Ohio’s offense was supposed to be dominant. It had Stephens, a member of the 2017 All-MAC First Team; Jimerson, who won 2017 MAC Freshman of the Year; and Kosiorek, who was on pace to smash Ohio’s all-time career service ace record.

Kosiorek broke the record on Oct. 19, but that was arguably Ohio’s highest offensive moment of the season. The Bobcats finished seventh in the conference in hitting percentage (.199) and averaged a .164 hitting percentage against MAC teams with a record over .500.

Webb always wanted his offense to be aggressive — and it was — but it always seemed to falter in the biggest moments. The Bobcats were only 1-6 in five-set matches

in 2018, and the lone win came in Ohio’s first five-set match on Sept.

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“You don’t want to be a scaredto-hit-the-ball type of team,” Webb said on Oct. 27. “You want to still go for it, but you have to earn the right to be aggressive with your feet.”

So when the Bobcats entered the MAC Tournament in Oxford, they didn’t have either of the two regular season awards many thought they would earn. All they had were seven conference wins, a disappointing seventh seed and a long road toward attaining the final award that was supposed to be theirs to lose.

There was hope, albeit a small amount, that they could still string three more wins together after sweeping Northern Illinois in the first round, but anyone who followed Ohio’s regular season could see what was next: a disheartening end to the season.

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Taylor Saxton throws the ball to Mikayla Cooper after an out during Ohio’s game against Buffalo on April 27. The Bobcats beat the Bulls 9-1. (EMILEE CHINN / PHOTO EDITOR)

Looking back at the 2018 seasons of the Ohio baseball and softball teams TREVOR COLGAN SLOT EDITOR SOFTBALL Ohio reached heights the program hadn’t seen before in 2018. The Bobcats didn’t just earn their first win in NCAA Tournament play, but also won twice while they were at the Knoxville Regional.

After losing the first game in Knoxville to James Madison, 2-1, in a rain-lengthened affair, Ohio came back on Saturday with its back against the wall in the double-elimination bracket.

In the second game of three at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium on May 20, the Bobcats won their first NCAA Tournament game. Ohio shut out Monmouth, 4-0. In the nightcap, Ohio came back from a tworun deficit with a wild six-run inning to avenge the previous loss to James Madison, 7-3.

The next day, Ohio played host Tennessee in the championship series of the Regional, where the Bobcats had to win two games, compared to Lady Vols only having to win one game.

Ohio lost to Tennessee 5-1, ending its magical season.

That magical season contained a Mid-American Conference Championship,

the second time the Bobcats won the conference tournament. They also won the MAC regular season title for the second time ever, too.

Danielle Stiene cemented herself in the Ohio record books. She was the MAC Pitcher of the Year and also won MAC Tournament MVP. She threw a no-hitter in the semifinal of the tournament.

She was strong all season, going 29-6.

The 29 wins set a program record, and she finished second all-time in strikeouts in program history.

At the plate, Ohio was led by then-seniors Mikayla Cooper and Taylor Saxton.

Cooper led the team with a .335 average, also chipping in 11 home runs. It was bolstered by the juniors, including first-team all-MAC infielder Alex Day, who led the team with 12 homers.

That junior class also holds players that will lead the team in this upcoming season, with Natalie Alvarez returning behind the plate, Morgan Geno will hold down the designated hitter spot, and Mackenzie Brunswick and Michaela Dorsey anchor the outfield.

With all the success, coach Jodi Hermanek was hired away to coach at an Atlantic Coast Conference school in Pittsburgh. Hermanek coached the Bobcats for ten seasons, going 289-252.

Kenzie Roark was hired to take Hermanek’s place. Roark played her college softball at Virginia Tech and was most recently an assistant coach at South Carolina Upstate for the past five seasons.

BASEBALL Ohio failed to make the Mid-American Conference Tournament, but still had the conference player of the year in Rudy Rott.

Rott was the third player in program history to earn MAC Player of the Year honors, following Mitch Longo in 2015 and Marc Krauss in 2009.

He led the Bobcats in average, hits, home runs and RBIs. He was the conference leader in hits and was tied for the lead in home runs.

Rott also had a .996 fielding percentage, committing only two errors on the season at first base. He will look to improve on those numbers in his senior season.

Ohio’s senior class of hitters included Tony Giannini, two-way player Michael Klein, Nick Bredeson and Evan Bourn.

Giannini and then-sophomore Tanner Piechnick were the only two hitters other than Rott to have more than 50 hits. With Rott as the exception, the Bobcat offense struggled. They hit .254 as a team, with Rott’s 15 home runs contributing almost a

third of the team’s 47.

Ohio graduated a lot from its pitching staff from a year ago. The Bobcats’ Friday starter last year, Gerry Salisbury, is the headliner. They also graduated Josh Petersen, Logan Jacik, Jake Roehn, Butch Baird, Cory Blessing and Klein, the twoway player.

Pitchers such as Eddie Kutt, Derek Carr, Nick Kamrada, Chace Harris, among others, will likely be carrying the load for Ohio this season.

Ohio’s pitching, kind of like its hitting, struggled for parts of the season. As a team, the Bobcats pitched to a 4.45 ERA. Salisbury led the team in innings, with 82, and had a 4.94 ERA. Roehn, who holds the Ohio record for career saves, struggled at times, too. He had a 4.65 ERA in 31 innings. He also almost gave up a hit per inning, with 30 hits allowed over the season.

With the Bobcats’ struggles, they missed the MAC tournament, finishing eighth. The top six teams make the tournament in Avon. They finished five losses worse than the No. 6 team, Eastern Michigan.

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LITTLE THINGS, BIG WINS Coach Sean Hogan during the Bobcats’ game against Illinois on Feb. 9, 2018.

Ohio Hockey coach Sean Hogan has had many stops before Athens, and they’ve all seen success MATT PARKER / FOR THE POST PHOTOS BY BLAKE NISSEN Sean Hogan sat in his office with his eyes stuck on the two monitors on his desk.

The sounds of an instrumental version of “Silent Night” whispered throughout the chilly room in Bird Arena.

On one screen was a laundry list of unopened emails, on the other, a Google search of daycares for his newborn son, Mack.

As he rubbed his eyes back and forth a few times, after all, he exhaled and smiled as he looked at the Ohio promotional poster.

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Hogan has reached the midway point in his fifth year at Ohio with a team that yet again holds national championship potential.

In his 12th year as a head coach in the American Collegiate Hockey Association, the 40-year-old from Waterford, Michigan, has brought and created a championship culture at each of the teams he’s coached.

There is no secret formula for Hogan.

While he was behind the bench, he’s always quick to say it was never him that won those games; it was the players.

Part of his plan for success and creating a championship culture is having player-led teams. He strives to have guys want to be there and want to do the work, not view it as a chore.

That’s what he’s had with every single team he took to a national championship.

Whether it was in Michigan or Arizona and now Ohio, a championship pedigree has followed Hogan, and his name lies in

lore among the modern day ACHA greats.

This success, however, didn’t occur just overnight. But it didn’t take too long either.

OAKLAND The date is March 4, 2007. Players dressed in black and gold hop onto the ice and begin to go through standard pregame warmups: simple passing drills, getting shots on goal — the same stuff every hockey team goes through prior to puck drop.

While it was the same warmup that Sean Hogan’s teams have gone through, this wasn’t just for any old game. This was for an ACHA Division I national championship and a historic one at that.

Hogan had been an assistant at Oakland starting in 2003 and helped guide the team to back-to-back DII titles. Promoted to the head coach spot of the Golden Grizzlies in the 2005-06 season, he took them back to their third consecutive final and won.

Hogan, after he won the Division II title in 2005, believed that his team and the program as a whole could make the leap into the higher division. His belief paid off.

The Grizzlies in their first season as an ACHA DI program went 22-12-2 and capped it off with a 4-1 national title win over perennial power Penn State. The Nittany Lions, who had a 10-year streak of making the national championship, were halted in their tracks by the up-and-coming Hogan.

The potential for Oakland, which now sits at 9-8-1 in this current season, under Hogan was truly endless. After a run that featured three national championships in four appearances, the Michigan man found his rhythm in the coaching world.

Only he couldn’t stay at Oakland forever.

Following a sour season at Oakland, Hogan had the opportunity to move out west.

He took the reigns of the Yellowstone Quake, a junior hockey league team. A brief stop in

his coaching career, however, as he had an opportunity to volunteer coach at Western Michigan, an NCAA Division I program.

He found himself back in the head coach’s seat at the start of the 2011-12 season at the University of Arizona. While it was never considered one of the strongest programs in the country, under his direction, he turned the Wildcats around and in his last season, he took them to the ACHA National Tournament.

A NEW HOME Leaving the desert behind him after an up-and-down stint, Hogan wanted the opportunity to return some place closer to home. He never imagined it would be at the helm of the Bobcats program.

Hailed as one of the most storied programs in all of club hockey, Ohio won four national championships, including the unprecedented three-peat from 1995-97. When he heard about an open coach position, Hogan knew he had to throw his name in the hat.

Luckily for him, members of the Blue Line Boosters Club and players at the time knew that he was the guy for the job, and so the move to Athens from Tucson happened.

“Honestly, there was so much green,” Hogan said, remembering when he got to Athens for the first time. “There’s so much brown out there, it was nice to see some green.”

He knew what he was inheriting when he accepted the job at Ohio. It was more than just a coaching position. He had inherited a storied program, one that hadn’t been to a national championship since the 2003-04 season when it defeated Penn State.

With the three aforementioned national titles to his name, it’s been Hogan’s personal duty to deliver another one — not for himself, but for Ohio.

In the going-on-five years he’s been at Ohio, he’s put the program back where it belongs. Finishing no lower than No. 6 in the final computer rankings, with a swift hand he’s guided Ohio into national prominence, most notably in his third season.

At the conclusion of the 2015-16 season, he had an opportunity to break into the NCAA Division III coaching club. As he weighed on the decision, the pros and the cons, he knew that he belonged in Athens.

“I knew what kind of team we had coming back,” he said. “It was something that I knew could be special and I wanted to be here.”

Special is putting it lightly. The 2016-17 Bobcats took the ACHA by storm. The winners of 27 games, a third-place finish in the Central States Collegiate Hockey League regular season standings and a national tournament berth, Ohio was on a path toward its potential fifth championship.

Fresh off a 4-2 win over Adrian in the semi-final, Hogan was electric. It’s a moment that current junior forward Gianni Evangelisti looks back on and dubs as his favorite memory of him and his coach.

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“He came in the locker room and was so Harkins isn’t the only current Bobcat to excited I think he blacked out,” Evangelisti Coach Sean share that sentiment. Players frequently go to said in a text message. “I don’t think he even Hogan talks their coach whether it’s to ask how to improve knew what he was saying, he was jumping to the bench shifts or for a letter of recommendation. during the around the room in excitement. It was pretIn post-game interviews, Hogan freBobcats game ty funny and encouraging.” against Illinois quently mentions that they win or lose That light-hearted demeanor was only on Feb. 9, 2018 based on if they do the minute things cortemporary, however, as the last and most rectly. In practice, he preaches habits to his difficult task lied ahead. players and that by having good ones, it sets March 14, 2017. It’s a scene that Hogan is you up for success. all too familiar with, but in a good way. Wear“He’s great,” junior goalie Jimmy Thomas ing their white jerseys clad with green pants, said. “Hockey’s a game of little things and the Bobcats took to pregame warmups at mistakes, so you have to make sure you do the Ice Haus in downtown Columbus. the little things right.”

Ohio was in the final moments of prepaThomas said the little things and habits ration ahead of its seventh national chamthey practice on the ice have carried over pionship appearance. In a game where the into his academic and soon-to-be profesBobcats did everything right, they still sional life. Ultimately, both in and out of Bird, came up short and ultimately lost 3-0, a Hogan has made an impact on the lives of his gut-wrenching way to end a season that players and the community as a whole. was filled with more highs than lows. It And so as he stretches back on final time served as a reminder, however, that Ohio before he heads down the stairs and into wasn’t going anywhere in terms of national the locker room at Bird Arena prior to Monattention. day’s practice, Hogan locks his fingers and places them behind his head.

A COACH’S PUSH With a reflective look, he says he’s proud Despite the loss on the biggest stage, it of where he’s come from and that he never more closely detailed that Hogan is one of expected to be in coaching for as long as he the country’s better coaches. It took him has been. It’s taken him all over the place. three years to take Ohio to place it had He’s thankful for the lessons he’s learned, been accustomed to in the program’s 61the players he’s coached, and in some ways, year history. the players who have taught him lessons.

His players say playing for him is one of It’s another season with the chance to the best things they’ve ever done both in win a title. Ohio’s players know it. Its fans terms of hockey and in life as well. know it. But above all, Hogan knows.

“He’s a guy that really cares about his In the coming months, the little things team and players,” Tyler Harkins, a junior he preaches could help them achieve what forward, said. “He tries to teach us life leseveryone is working toward. sons throughout the course so it’s not just hockey, it’s about showing up prepared. He’s @MPARKER_5 really preparing us for life beyond hockey.”

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the weekender Special screening of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ to feature live improvised score performance JORDAN ELLIS FOR THE POST 2001: A Space Odyssey is a classic film beloved by many.

It is a movie that many consider to be the late Stanley Kubrick’s greatest film, and it inspired many directing greats like George Lucas and James Cameron. One of, if not the most important aspects of the film, is the musical score. To many, the sound of “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” playing over the rising of a celestial sun is one of the greatest moments in cinematic history. The collection of classical pieces present in the movie has cemented it as having one of the greatest musical scores of all time.

So to many, changing one of the most important aspects of the movie might seem insane, and yet Ohio University professor of piano, composition and general studies Andre Gribou and professor of percussion Roger Braun are doing just that. They’re even improvising the score, no less, as part of the OU Performing Arts series.

Gribou and Braun have been doing productions under the name Duo Unprepared since 2000 and have taken their talents across the nation and to Europe. Their knack for improvisational music has allowed them to perform improvisations of the scores of many movies. 2001: A Space Odyssey will be their most recent endeavor, and they will perform it at The Athena Cinema this weekend.

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IF YOU GO WHAT: 2001: A Space Odyssey with improvised score by Duo Unprepared WHEN: 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday WHERE: The Athena Cinema, 20 S. Court St. ADMISSION: $6.50 for adults; $5.50 for children and seniors Modern Times earlier this year,” Alex Kamody, director of the Athena Cinema, said.

The films they score generally have long sections with little dialogue that allow an opportunity for the music to enter the scene.

Modern Times is a movie in which the music’s reaction to the actions of the main character are important. For 2001: A Space Odyssey, the score itself can be viewed as a character.

“We chose 2001 for a couple of reasons,” Gridou said. “It is a film without a whole lot of dialogue. It is also a very musical movie, in the sense that the visual imagery and music affect each other.”

With 2001: A Space Odyssey, the visuals and atmosphere are more important than what is actually spoken between characters. The movie is remembered not for any sort of witty dialogue, but instead for its visual metaphors and the music that accompanies them.

Because of the score, the two-

During the screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey this weekend, two musicians will perform its musical score.

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hour-and-forty-one-minute movie is an act of endurance as well as skill. It requires precise timing and rehearsal to get a feel for how the movie flows. The two musicians have watched the movie multiple times and listened to the soundtrack to help them understand the tone of the film.

“We might find ourselves adding music where there is none and improvising in the moment,” Braun said. “All the instruments, everything we’re doing is acoustic. We could have used keyboards and everything that was electronic. Some things are going to be amplified to

give them an otherworldly sound.”

The number of instruments is very large. The musicians have to react to the film on a moment’s notice, and having a large variety of tools to do so is very important.

“It’s a lot,” Braun said. “I use a lot of small things that are more portable. In the 60 instruments kind of zone.”

The instruments are set up in front of the screen in a long, narrow theater on the ground floor of the Athena Cinema. The small space permitted for the instruments is taken up by a large grand piano and a series of percussion instruments.

For those who have not seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, the event will be an excellent opportunity to see a classic that has influenced a large part of cinematic history.

“For those who haven’t seen it, it will be a really great way to see the movie,” Braun said. “The performance will make it fresh for those who have seen it before.”

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FRIDAY Crafternoon at noon at the Ohio University LGBT Center. Join the center to celebrate the end of the fall semester with crafts, cookies and cocoa. Admission: Free First Friday Hot Power Yoga with Marci Ryt-200 at 5:30 p.m. at the

Bohdi Tree Guesthouse and Studio, 8950 Lavelle Road. The combination of hot yoga and power yoga will be set to motivational music. It is sure to be a strengthening and soothing experience.

Admission: $10

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at 6 p.m. at Athens Uncorked, 14 Station St. Ten wines will be available, from whites to reds.

The full food menu will also be available during this time.

Admission: $10

Acoustic Show at 7:30 p.m. at Donkey Coffee and Espresso, 17½ W. Washington St. The Tailwinds, a rock group from Athens, will play. Grab a cup of Donkey coffee and listen to some live music.

Admission: Free

OU Hockey vs. Illinois at 7:30 p.m. at

Midnight Meltdown Ugly Sweater Party at 10:30 p.m. at Bird Arena.

Athens 10 For $10 Holiday Wine Tasting

Bird Arena. Watch the Bobcats take on their next opponent.

Admission: $5 for students; $6 for children; $8 for adults.

SATURDAY Bottle Release from 10 a.m. to 6

p.m. at Jackie O’s Taproom, 25 Campbell St. The brewery will be releasing its greatest hits line-up of bourbon barrel aged bottles. Most of the bottles will cost $11.99 a bottle, while supplies last. Admission: Free

Don your best holiday attire and enjoy ice skating with friends with a festive twist. Admission: Free for students; $4 for children; $5 for adults

SUNDAY Holiday Shopping Day at 1 p.m. at the Athens Country Club, 7606 Country Club Road. There will be several local venders selling items that can’t be found just anywhere. The festive event will also be offering soup and sandwich specials. Admission: Free

Little Fish Trivia Night at 5 p.m. at

Little Fish Brewing Company, 8675 Armitage Road. The night will consist of eight rounds of eight trivia questions. There may be up to eight people on each team. The winning team will receive a voucher for a $4.50 beer for each team member. Admission: Free White Christmas at 7 p.m. at the

Athena Grand, 1008 E. State St. See the classic Christmas film full of singing, dancing and a group of people who team up one winter to try to make it in show business. Admission: $12

MOVIE TIMES

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Beautiful Boy (rated R) - Friday, 9:35 p.m.; Saturday, 12:30 p.m., 9:35 p.m.; Sunday, 9:35 p.m.

Border (rated R): - Friday, 5:10, 7:20 and 9:40 p.m.; Saturday, 2:50, 5:10 and 7:20 p.m.; Sunday, 2:50, 5:10 and 7:20 p.m.

Boy Erased (rated R) - Friday, 9:40 p.m.; Saturday, 5:05 and 7:25 p.m.; Sunday, 2:40, 5:05, 7:25 and 9:40 p.m.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (rated R) Friday, 4:55 p.m.; Saturday, 2:45 and 9:45 p.m.; Sunday, 2:45, 4:55, 7:35 and 9:45 p.m.

Home Alone (rated PG) - Friday, 7 p.m.

The Muppet Christmas Carol (rated G) - Saturday, 1 and 3 p.m.

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NEWS SPORTS CULTURE OPINION BLOGS MULTIMEDIA VISUALS PROJECTS Basketball’s star center P18

Dave Jamerson’s journey to God 20

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Healing the scars

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T H W B H E Post-grad possibilities P10

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A love for cult classics P20

Sibs Weekend events P22

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2018

Pipe bursts in residence hall P8

It’s Women’s History Month. ‘The Post’ compiled a collection of stories to celebrate women in Athens and Ohio University.

Cultural problems with ‘Friends’ P19

Hockey works on power plays P21 Businesses in action P10

THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018

UNEARTHING A SECRET

She walks

THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2018

by faith P12

The story behind a patch of farmland, a man and his reputation P12

THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2018 THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018

FOOD ISSUE

UNCERTAIN FREEDOMS P14

ATHENS CULTIVATES RESTAURANTS AND DISHES THAT STUDENTS AND LOCALS HAVE COME TO KNOW AND LOVE. THIS ISSUE IS DEDICATED TO THOSE FAMILIAR FLAVORS.

The turnover rate of businesses P9

One team, one video game P19

Caligraphy in the digital age P20

Brunch life in Athens P6 Carriage Hill one year later P9

Donkey’s most regular regular P19

From junior college to Ohio P20

Athletes’ diets in season P17

Cover story: family kitchens P18 Updates on Union explosion P9

Land of opportunity P12

A dazzling history P20

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2018

Fridging in comic book culture P18

REFLECTING ON THE YEAR Take a look at the different faces, places and events that highlighted the 2017-18 academic year through the lens of ‘Post’ photographers