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ext week, The Post will be publishing its print edition for Wednesday morning rather than Thursday. I suppose we hardly have to explain our reasoning, but I thought I might anyway: elections.

Election nights in Athens — and this will be my fourth, but indeed the wildest — are slightly different from the typical ballot-counting activities in a small town. There are several excuses as to why, (Athens is a typically liberal college town in a majority conservative county; our Board of Elections has a furry, adorable mascot) but to The Post, perhaps the most noticeable reason is that the town is absolutely flooded with journalists — particularly of the EMMA OCKERMAN / student variety. That is a wonderful EDITOR-IN-CHIEF occurrence.

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We will have the print edition, of course, and our reporters will be updating our website all night long. They will be live-tweeting, too, and consistently updating social media with the most recent news.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Quality should be first in public universities Fiscal responsibility is a good thing. It is easy to agree that both individuals and state governments should live within their means. But if you needed a life-saving operation, you would focus first on making sure you could get it, and then see what you could do to lower the cost without compromising the outcome.

Making college education in Ohio efficient and affordable is important, but policymakers in Ohio need to bear in mind that the primary goal must be to deliver a high-quality education that genuinely prepares our citizens to meet the pressing economic and cultural needs of our state today and tomorrow.

In early 2015, Gov. Kasich issued an executive order that established the Ohio Task Force on Affordability and Efficiency in Higher Education.

That task force made a set of recommendations about ways that state-sponsored institutions of higher education can be more efficient, offering an education of equal or higher quality while at the same time decreasing their costs.

Each of the public universities in Ohio was

required to submit a report last month that lists the ways they have individually responded to those recommendations. Those reports all go into detail about a wide range of cost saving measures and partnerships, but attention to “quality” is noticeably absent from those reports.

Even though every public four-year university in Ohio took great care in preparing their lengthy affordability and efficiency reports, those reports leave us to question whether the delivery of a high-quality education to our students will continue to be our single highest priority.

Anticipating Gov. Kasich’s Task Force, the Ohio Faculty Council suggested in 2014 that quality in higher education must be assessed with new metrics that look directly at the value added to 21st century students. Those metrics could include: the ratio of full-time to adjunct faculty; course completion; graduate employment/satisfaction; employer satisfaction; experiential learning embedded in real-world contexts and graduation. Employers and society in general should expect that college graduates are

engaged employees and citizens with well-developed problem-solving skills.

A preoccupation with present-day costs can be paralyzing — and ultimately inefficient and counter-productive in the long term. The Governor’s Task Force on Affordability and Efficiency in Higher Education is now reviewing the responses to its recommendations and is expected to make suggestions about ways that future reports could be more helpful. Let’s hope that neither the task force nor our state universities lose sight of the importance of keeping quality our highest priority for public universities in Ohio.

To paraphrase Nicholas Sparks, “Frugality has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.”

Dan E. Krane is chair of the Ohio Faculty Council (which represents the faculty at all 13 of Ohio’s public universities and includes Ohio University representatives Joe McLaughlin and Beth Quitslund, chair and immediate past chair of Faculty Senate).

QUITE CONTRARY

Why you’re wrong about dancing This week’s column is on behalf of all the non-dancers, the non-karaoke singers and the non-party animals: Leave us the heck alone.

I know you think we all seWILLIAM cretly want to unleash, let our T. PERKINS freak flags fly and strut our is a senior stuff. We don’t. I know you think studying we’re all just repressed and insejournalism cure, but with enough nagging at Ohio University you can cure us. We aren’t, and you can’t.

I know you find dancing fun and satisfying, so it’s hard to put yourself inside the mind of a person who doesn’t. You think dancing must be fun for everyone. It isn’t for us.

“Shut up and dance with me,” a popular song says.

“But sitting down is so much more enjoyable,” we say.

But we are in the minority, so when we say “No, I really, honestly, genuinely, wholeheartedly do not want to dance,” it’s hard for our voices to be heard.

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We’ve had to deal with it everywhere: weddings, parties, school functions. Our entire social system is based on these showy activities that, frankly, make us feel like orca whales walking on telephone lines. It’s not just that we feel utterly conspicuous (which we do), we also feel physically uneasy. It’s like wearing a shirt that doesn’t quite fit right — even if there’s no one around to see it, it’s still tangibly uncomfortable.

It wouldn’t be so bad, but for some reason you dancers are never quite satisfied unless we’re dancing, too.

Maybe you think we don’t like having fun at all, that we’re just perpetual curmudgeons.

Come on now. We aren’t monsters. We find pleasure in a lot of things. Like movies. Movies are fun. Or cake. Or, you know … checkers.

Maybe you think we’re silently judging you, that we’re stuck up or think we’re better than you. We don’t. … Oh, OK, maybe we do a little bit, but that’s mostly just a defense mechanism because we feel so out of place.

Mostly, we just don’t care. We’re probably even having fun watching you make a fool of … er … enjoy yourself. Your decision to dance has little

to no bearing on our lives. We’re all adults here, so feel free to do your thing, and we’ll find a way to keep ourselves occupied. We’ll be waiting for you at the bar, probably.

The same applies to karaoke, although I will admit that karaoke feels a little tacky for my taste. I don’t think I can sit through an entire poorly belted rendition of “Bohemian Rhapsody” without feeling a little sick to my stomach. And if you put on “Love Shack,” I might lose my lunch completely. Fair warning.

People especially like to try to coerce me to do karaoke after they learn that I was in choir during high school and part of college. Either that, or, upon hearing I do a bit of singing, they ask me to sing them something on the spot. Don’t. I don’t want to. I’m not a monkey here to perform for you.

But I digress. As I said before, if you want to dance, please do. Dance up a storm. Dance on air. Dance your heart out. But as for me and my non-dancing friends, we’ll probably sit this one out. Thanks anyway.

How do you feel about dancing? Let William know by emailing him at wp198712@ ohio.edu.

GALS WITH PALS

Queer rights important as ever in current election I am gay. And I am scared.

I am scared because Donald Trump is running for president. He may be lagging in the polls now, DELANEY but he’s still doing well in MURRAY many places. He still holds is a a major party nomination. freshman studying A lot of things scare journalism me about this man. at Ohio The sexism, the racism, University the apparent disregard for the emotions and experiences of others.

But something else scares me, too. Mike Pence is running, too. A man who, during his successful run for Congress in 2000, proposed that funding be taken away from HIV/AIDS research and instead go to supporting conversion therapy.

AIDS is historically a queer issue and something that led to direct death within the community.

In the ’80s, AIDS was largely ignored because it mainly harmed gay men — to the point that it was labeled “gay cancer.” Many

people viewed the disease as a punishment for gay men’s behavior, and thus justifiable.

It wasn’t until it was found that HIV could be contracted from blood transfusions and other methods — i.e., not just gay sex — that it was deemed an issue worthy of our time and resources.

Of course, HIV and AIDS did not end in the ’80s. It continues to be an issue for many groups but still greatly affects gay and bisexual men. And Mike Pence wanted to take funding away from this and put it right back into something else that would harm our community.

Conversion therapy is something that has haunted corners of the queer community for years. It is the belief that through enough “therapy,” queer people can become straight, and the therapy is usually performed on children and young adults, as directed by their parents. It typically involves two stages. The first involves breaking down a queer person’s entire identity and instilling such intense self-hatred within them that they want to change, and the second stage involves rebuilding them into a new, heterosexual identity.

Outside of those vague two stages, there are very few specific details about this type of therapy because survivors of it typically are unable to voice exactly what happened to them because it was so horrific. And yes, they are survivors of this because many of those involved in conversion therapy commit suicide before they can fully finish it. Those that survive rarely live as “straight,” but they do live permanently traumatized.

So even if Mike Pence has not voiced an updated view on this idea, even if Trump does not win the presidency and this idea does not ultimately end up in federal legislature, I am still scared. Because men with these ideas still came very close to the White House, and almost no one bothered to point them out. When gay marriage was passed, queer rights became particularly non-existent in the election, a blip on the radar among conversations about immigration reform and various scandals.

I am not saying that the other issues discussed in this election do not matter.

I am saying that legal marriage, while important, was not the be-all and end-all of

gay rights. Because queer people are dying in this country, from hate-based shootings and disease and “therapy” that is still legal in all but five states.

This scares me. Because even though my parents did not put me through conversion therapy, they could have. Even if I am not living with HIV, I could be. And those that do go through these things are not strangers to me. They are my brothers and sisters and friends. They are my potential partners and companions. They are my community, and they are dying. And people all too often look the other way.

I am scared because someone who believes people can be boxed into groups came close to leading this country. Sex objects. Criminals. Terrorists. Ones that do not deserve to exist as they are.

I am gay. I am still alive. And I am scared.

How do you think this election will affect the LGBT community? Let Delaney know by emailing her at dm181515@ohio. edu or tweeting her at @delpaulinem.

STREETVIEW

“Would you ever consider voting for a third-party candidate?”

“I am not voting thirdparty because a thirdparty vote is just a vote to the candidate you don’t like.”

Gerard Farley, senior studying marketing and sport management

“I won’t vote thirdparty because being a Democrat, I don’t want Hillary to lose votes to a third-party candidate, which may allow Donald Trump to win.”

“I am voting thirdparty because I don’t want either of the two candidates to win. There are many reasons why they are unqualified.”

Simphiwe Shongwe, freshman studying French education

Adrien Helmuth, junior studying accounting and management information systems

“I am voting third party because I couldn’t live with myself voting for a racist bigot like Donald Trump or a corrupt leader like Hillary.”

Tony Heim, junior studying journalism

“I am not voting third-party because the pattern over the years has been either Democrat or Republican. Third-party candidates don’t get into power.”

George Sarfo, graduate student studying information and telecommunication systems

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A look at languages International students are more likely to be multilingual than their American peers JESSICA HILL FOR THE POST Yasemin Inceoglu came to the United States a few months ago from Samsun, Turkey and has since been taking English classes to become bilingual.

Many other people in her country and around the world learn multiple languages to have better job opportunities, though that is not always true for American students.

The Classics and World Religions department offers classes such as Greek and Latin, and the Modern Languages Department offers classes such as Spanish and Russian. Ohio University also offers classes in Arabic, Indonesian and Swahili, according to OU’s website.

Most international students know multiple languages, Dawn Bikowski, a professor in the department of linguistics, said, which might be impressive to many American students, but multilingualism is more common in other countries than in the United States.

Although it is difficult to determine the exact number of languages spoken at OU, it could be in the hundreds. In Fall 2015, exactly 1,740 international students 6 / NOV. 3, 2016

from a total of 113 countries were enrolled at OU. Bikowski, who teaches many international students, said because they do not speak English the way many Americans are used to, Americans often treat them as second-rate students and as an isolated population.

The ultimate goal of many educators when teaching a language, Bikowski said, is not necessarily to get students to become bilingual, but to get them outside of their comfort zones.

“When you learn another language, you learn to think and communicate in different ways,” Bikowski said. “You appreciate how difficult it is for others in that process.”

Inceoglu, a graduate student studying statistics, knows both Turkish and English. She has been in the U.S. for a few months, and she is only taking English classes before starting her master’s degree.

“The hardest thing for me is speaking,” Inceoglu said. “When you’re speaking with someone, you have to face-to-face.

You can’t make some mistake. It feels nervous. I think I am improving day-by-day.”

Only 25 percent of American adults

speak a language other than English, according to the Pew Research Center.

Bikowski said she thinks the goal of making a majority of Americans bilingual is unrealistic because the process of learning a language can be time-consuming and ineffective if Americans do not live in a place where they can speak the language.

Instead, Bikowski said, she would like to see Americans become more inter-culturally competent. She said it would be interesting to teach people snippets of a variety of languages so they can learn about a country’s value systems and cultural thought patterns.

Duran Gulec, a graduate student studying agricultural engineering from Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, said he can speak three languages: Turkish, English and Arabic.

“Every company is looking for some (bilingual) people,” Gulec, who started learning English three years ago, said. “If you are talented with your second language, you can easily grab a job.”

Inceoglu is part of an OU conversational program, called Global Conversation Partners, that matches international students with domestic students to help

them learn English, she said. The program has helped her learn about American culture, and she and her conversational partner recently carved pumpkins together for Halloween.

Bikowski said she thinks Americans place a high premium on being multilingual because few people in the U.S. know multiple languages or have traveled outside the country, but in other countries, it is normal to learn multiple languages.

“I think in a lot of countries, that’s just the way it is,” Bikowski said. “You just learn languages because you have to. I think that’s the big difference. In America, if we really had to learn more languages, we would. But we really don’t have to.”

Milayna Powell, a freshman studying creative writing from Byesville, said the international students she has spoken with at OU have spoken English well, even if it was a little broken.

“I’m jealous that I don’t know that many languages,” Powell said. “I wish they would teach us at a younger age instead of in high school.” @JESS_HILLYEAH JH240314@OHIO.EDU

CLASSIFIEDS

McDavis speaks at GSS JONNY PALMERO FOR THE POST In the week following Halloween, Ohio University President Roderick McDavis met with Graduate Student Senate and two back south dorms will be torn down.

Here’s more information on top news from this week.

O’Bleness and Martzolff O’Bleness House and Martzolff House will be torn down in summer 2017.

Fenzel House may also be demolished, depending on if more beds are needed, but no decision has been made yet.

The estimated budget for the project is $2.5 million. If Fenzel House is not demolished, the budget will decrease to $1.8 million.

The demolition of O’Bleness and Martzolff will be part of the second phase of OU’s Back South demolition project. Cady House, Foster

House and Brough House were torn down during summer 2016.

Graduate Student Senate

At Tuesday’s Graduate Student Senate Meeting, McDavis addressed numerous issues, including September’s graffiti wall images.

“While I’m all about freedom of speech, some of the things that appeared on the wall were right on the border of totally offensive,” McDavis said.

McDavis also discussed the issue of graduate student income, saying that the law prevents graduate students from working more than 20 hours per week, and that the university does its best to be transparent about mandatory fees in letters to prospective students.

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BASKETBALL

NDOUR FINDS HOME IN N.Y. Maurice Ndour has played on four continents in search of basketball at the highest level CHARLIE HATCH SPORTS EDITOR

CLEVELAND — The locker room was gloomy following a 117-88 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Inside, the New York Knicks spoke softly and subdued.

Except for Maurice Ndour.

As teammates sulked in towels and sweatpants, Ndour donned a slim dark suit, his dreadlocks tied tightly and his face cemented in a smile.

“I’m doin’ great, baby,” he said.

Despite his teammate’s frustration, Ndour was radiant, soaking in his first NBA appearance — even if he didn’t play — making him the first former Ohio Bobcat on an NBA regular season roster since 2005.

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Maurice Ndour plays for the New York Knicks during a preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Oct 8. (PROVIDED VIA DAVE SAFFRAN/MSG PHOTOS)

THE ROOTS

Born in Dakar, Senegal, he grew up playing soccer.

By age 8, Ndour stood at 6-feet, his mom suggested the switch to basketball.

After playing well in a basketball tournament, Ndour received international attention and was offered to play at Okayama Gakugeikan High School in Japan. At the time, Ndour couldn’t find the country on a map.

He didn’t know the language either, but soon conversed in classrooms as well as dominating on the court, averaging more than 30 points per game for three years, according to a preview Post report.

Soon, Ndour attracted attention from schools in another country — the U.S. After he finished high school, Ndour returned to Senegal. Six months later, he was in New York City, playing for Monroe College, a junior college in the The Bronx.

Given a new opportunity, Ndour adapted and thrived.

By the end of his second year, he averaged almost 16 points and 11 rebounds per game. He left Monroe as a two-time NJCAA All-Region pick and was named the 86th-best junior college product in his recruiting class, according to jucorecruiting.com.

Offers came from big-time programs with interest from schools in the Big East and Conference USA, but Ndour wanted minutes immediately. After three visits to Athens, he found his new home.

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Just as far as his measurables, he’s a once-in-a-lifetime player.

(He’s) extremely active and athletic. You don’t get those, especially at the mid-major level.”

- Jason Kemp Ohio assistant coach ADJUSTING IN ATHENS

Forty minutes before the Knicks and Cavaliers tipped off, Ndour leaned back and laughed. Again, the locker room was quiet, and again, the Senegalese forward provided an upbeat attitude.

He laughed at a comment he made three years ago, when asked how he’d describe himself: a beast.

“That’s a long time ago,” he said, smiling. “I was a beast in (junior college). Hell yeah, I remember that. I was a beast in college, man.”

Ndour came to Athens and joined Ohio prior to the 2013-14 season. Still relatively unknown, his 6-foot-9, 200-pound frame with a 7-foot-5 wingspan was an

irreplaceable force.

“Just as far as his measurables, he’s a once-in-a-lifetime player,” Ohio assistant coach Jason Kemp said. “(He’s) extremely active and athletic. You don’t get those, especially at the mid-major level.”

Starting 31 of Ohio’s 36 games, Ndour averaged almost 14 points and seven rebounds per game, in addition to 55 blocks that season. When the year concluded, he was named Second Team All-MAC as the Bobcats went 25-12.

With one more year of eligibility, Ndour remained in Athens, but made another adjustment.

This time, it was a coaching change.

Jim Christian, then-Ohio coach who recruited Ndour, left to take a coaching job at Boston College. Saul Phillips, from North Dakota State, was brought in as a replacement.

“The first year, we were trying to transition from the Christian era to Saul’s, he was great,” said Kemp, who came with Phillips to Ohio. “He kinda showed our younger guys that’s how you have to be every day. His energy was infectious.”

That energy was vital. Ohio went 10-20.

Individually, Ndour flourished, averaging a team-high 16 points and eight rebounds per game. Additionally, he developed into a perimeter threat, too.

He was named second-team all-conference again as well.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

Ndour went undrafted, but not unnoticed.

After working out with the Knicks before the draft, the organization signed him to the summer league squad, where he averaged nearly 10 points and five rebounds per game.

Eventually offered a meager contract that guaranteed under $200,000, Ndour chose the Dallas Mavericks instead, according to the New York Post. The Mavericks offered an 18-month guaranteed deal for $600,000. The deal was cut short when Ndour had a stress reaction on his left leg and was waived.

“I definitely didn’t have no doubt I’d get back and play,” he said about being released just prior to the 2015-16 opening night roster. “I didn’t know if it was going to be in the NBA or Europe, but I definitely had the confidence in me.”

The next move was for Spain.

Once Ndour recovered, he joined Real Madrid in Liga ACB, where he won a league and annual cup championship.

When the season ended, he was back in the U.S., back with the Knicks Summer League team and back fighting for a spot on an NBA roster.

THE NDOUR EFFECT

April 30, 2005 was the last time a former Ohio player was featured in an NBA game. It was Brandon Hunter, who played for the Orlando Magic. Originally drafted by the Boston Celtics in the second round of the 2003 NBA Draft, Hunter’s career was brief — two seasons and 67 games played.

But that was then.

Mid-morning Oct. 25 in Cleveland, the Knicks were in their pregame shootaround; At the end, Ndour sat alone excitedly at midcourt along the scorer’s table. In the arena around him, every seat had a Cavaliers championship shirt draped over it with little plastic rings, supposed to replicate Cleveland’s banner raising and ring ceremony that night.

“There’s not a lot of kids that can say they will witness this moment right now,” he said.

“No, I didn’t envision myself being here right now. ... It’s definitely a dream come true for me, and I’m just happy that I’m here.”

Still as scrappy as he was at Ohio, Ndour adds a fast-paced dimension to New York.

“What he gives us is that ‘energy guy,’ ” Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek, said. “He’s very active, he cuts hard to the basket, he runs defensively, wreaks havoc on the other team by running around. We like that we have that option.”

Ndour, 24, isn’t the lone rookie big man on the roster. The Knicks have five players who could double as a forward or center with a year or less of NBA experience. And four of those players have played in Spain, along with Ndour.

One of them is Kristaps Porzingis, a second-year center who played in Spain, sees the youthful frontcourt as exciting and beneficial.

“Obviously we’re always competing in practice, we go as hard as we can,” he said.

“At the end of the day, I want to help (a teammate) earn minutes.”

WHAT NDOUR MEANS FOR OHIO AND BEYOND

Wherever Ndour plays, whether for the Knicks or their D-League team, Phillips loves the potential.

“Realistically, if he sticks that’s awesome,” he said. “Be even if he’s up and down between the D-League and the NBA, that experience will do him wonders.”

Ndour isn’t the only Ohio player under Phillips with professional experience; he’s just the most high profile. According to Kemp, every Bobcat who’s graduated in the past two years — Phillips is entering his third season at Ohio this month — has professional experience, even if in Europe. “(Ndour) got a lot of pride in being a Bobcat,” Kemp said. He also drove to Cleveland

to see Ndour in what could have been his first game. “ T h a t goes a long way for us.

When people turn on the TV and he gets on the active roster and out there playing, they’re gonna know he’s from Ohio because we’re gonna make sure they know.”

Ndour made his NBA debut Tuesday night against the Detroit Pistons. He played five minutes and scored three points in a 102-89 loss. He also had two rebounds and a steal.

He is now the 10th player in NBA history from Senegal to log minutes. Previously, he’s played for Senegal in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup and the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

“Playing here on this platform, I not only represent Senegal, but the whole continent,” Ndour said. “My goal is to try and do the best I can and inspire these kids so they can do better in their lives and try and use basketball and do the same thing that I did. It’s possible for them.”

At the moment, New York is home again. For Ndour, the road from Senegal to midtown Manhattan has been adventurous, but necessary.

“It’s happiness,” he said. “I’m happy to be here, I’m happy to be back, especially with the Knicks. I’m just excited.” @CHARLIEHATCH_ GH181212@OHIO.EDU Maurice Ndour plays for the New York Knicks during a preseason game against the Washington Wizards at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Oct. 10. (PROVIDED VIA DAVE SAFFRAN/MSG PHOTOS)

BOBCATS BY THE NUMBERS

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OU has highest percentage of nonwhite faculty of Ohio MAC universities MEGAN HENRY ASST. NEWS EDITOR This is the eleventh in a weekly series called Bobcats by the Numbers comparing Ohio University to the other five Mid-American Conference universities in Ohio.

Of the six Mid-American Conference universities in Ohio, Ohio University had the highest percentage of non-white fulltime faculty members for the 2015-16 academic year.

Despite having the highest percentage of non-white full-time faculty members, OU had the lowest percentage of female full-time faculty members.

The six MAC universities in Ohio include OU, Miami University, Bowling Green State University, the University of Toledo, Kent State University and the University of Akron. About 27 percent of OU’s full-time faculty members were not white,

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and Asian-Americans made up the highest number of those minorities, according to OU’s Office of Institutional Research. Forty percent of the full-time faculty at OU were women.

Cheryl Mukosiku, a senior studying biological sciences, said the university could do more for diversity, but the current levels do not surprise her.

“In academic circles, there’s definitely underrepresentation of both females and minorities,” Mukosiku said.

She said she hasn’t seen much diversity when it comes to her professors.

“Diversity maybe in terms of gender, being female, and things like that, but not necessarily in terms of race,” Mukosiku said.

Kyrsten Nitz, a sophomore studying nursing at OU, said most of her nursing professors are female, but different fields have different populations.

Minority full-time faculty members

make up 12 percent of Kent State’s faculty, the lowest of the six universities.

About 56 percent of full-time faculty members at BGSU were women, the highest percentage in the MAC. The low percentage of non-whites and women in full-time faculty positions at OU did not surprise Katherine Jellison, a professor and chair of OU’s history department.

“A lot of that has to do with those three words in real estate: location, location, location,” Jellison said. “I think it’s the nature of where we’re located, so trying to recruit more diverse faculty is sometimes difficult in a place like Athens because people worry about (if they will) have a community there.”

She said she believes OU is trying to improve diversity, but she thinks it can be hard for people to come to Athens if their first language isn’t English.

“I think there are probably some lin-

“

In academic circles, there’s definitely underrepresentation of both females and minorities.”

- Cheryl Mukosiku, senior studying biological sciences

guistic challenges to recruiting diverse faculty whose first language isn’t English if they want to have a community who (speaks) their first language,” Jellison said.

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Despite seldom use, cable still available in residence halls OU SPENDS $39,000 A MONTH FOR CABLE SERVICES GEORGIA DAVIS STAFF WRITER Despite having access to cable in her dorm room, Madeline Nielsen decided not to bring a television to campus this year.

“We brought one down last year, and we never used it,” Nielsen, a sophomore studying history, said. “It was just a waste of space at the end of the day.”

Ohio University offers students living in residence halls the amenity of watching cable television in their dorm rooms and student lounges. The service is called CatVision and has approximately 150 channels, including HBO and many HD channels.

“Academic and support units can request to have cable, and then they pay Housing the service fees that Housing then pays toward our service provider, which is Time Warner Cable,” Bodnar, who handles the CatVision account for Housing and Residence Life, said.

The university last renegotiated its contract with Time Warner Cable in 2014, and the contract will expire in 2021. The university pays about $39,000 a month, which adds up to about $470,000 a year. The cost of cable is included in student housing fees, Bodnar said in

an email.

“Because we purchase our programming in bulk, and we own the infrastructure that’s used to deliver it, we get a substantial savings over what students would pay if, for instance, they lived off campus and had to purchase cable themselves,” he said.

CatVision is not available for students who live off campus. If those who live off campus were to pay for a standard cable package through Time Warner Cable — which is similar to the package offered by the university — it would cost them about $50 a month.

Hannah Smith, a senior studying communication science and disorders, said she decided not to purchase cable when she moved into her house.

“I didn't want to spend the extra money, and I don’t have time to watch cable or much TV at all,” Smith said.

A survey was conducted in 2013 in which 82.3 percent of students living in residence halls said they watched television regularly, Bodnar said.

About six percent of people said they did not have a television hooked up to the cable outlet in their room, and 11 percent had a television hooked up, but did not watch it regularly.

“The service is there and

on in all those locations, but we don’t have any way to know who is actually connected, who is using the service,” Bodnar said.

The university still provides cable, according to Bodnar, because there are some programs not available on streaming platforms.

“Most campuses are still carrying cable, and it’s typically because of local programming and live sports, a lot of which isn’t available through streaming services,” he said.

Charlie Collins, a sophomore studying sociology criminology, bought a 32inch television for his room so he and his roommates can watch “big games.”

“I mean we use it pretty often, and we enjoy it,” Collins said. “NBA season just started, so we’re going to watch that more, but we normally watch every football game.”

Nielsen prefers to watch her television shows on portable devices, she said.

“I’m not around when (my television shows are) on cable,” Nielsen said. “To be able to watch it whenever I want on the app is just convenient.”

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Creating in college

THE BRAIN BEHIND THE STEPS

Fine arts majors balance academia with the construction and perfection of their craft

T

REBEKAH BARNES / SENIOR WRITER

he interim dean for Ohio University’s College of Fine Arts went to school originally to become a doctor.

While initially majoring in biochemistry pre-med at Wellesley College, Elizabeth Sayrs was also taking oboe lessons and music courses. Then she realized her focus was shifting more to her musical aspirations.

She had to call her parents and break the news to them. Although she admits her mother probably would still want her to become a doctor or a lawyer, she can’t imagine her life without fine arts.

“It’s inextricably linked to who I am,” Sayrs said.

She now has a bachelor’s degree in music and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in music theory.

Fine arts was ranked economically as the third-worst major, according to a 2012 Forbes article titled “The 10 Worst College Majors.” Film, video and photography majors were ranked second. Sayrs, however, said not to pay attention to those lists. “(Fine arts) majors tend to be happier overall and are more likely to be employed in an arts-related field,” Sayrs said.

And even if an artist doesn’t end up in the field, Andrew Barger, a second-year graduate student studying printmaking, said the skills can be transferred to other professions.

“I feel like now if you have some degree in the creative industry, you can still work for some of these high profile jobs, maybe not as a visual artist, but having that creative background,” Barger said. “Anyone that is making work is, I want to say, a problem solver, and a problem solver through visual language. That can be applied to many different things.”

At OU, there are more than 700 undergraduate and 240 graduate or professional fine arts majors split between six different programs of study, according to the Office of Institutional Research 2015-16 data. There are four schools: School of Art + Design, School of Interdisciplinary Arts, School of Music and the School of Dance, Film and Theater.

Fine arts classes are not just for students who are in those majors.

Sayrs said everyone should “try their hand” and practice creativity.

“Art-making should be something that is a part of everyone’s practice,” Sayrs said.

But there is a need for those who commit their lives to art, Michelle Lane, an Honors Tutorial College senior with a double major in the Theater Division in performance and production design and technology, said.

“I think it’s really letting artists have the respect that they deserve,” Lane said. “I know my family looked at me and was like, ‘You’re going to be an art student? You’re going into theater? What are you going to do with that?’ And it’s like, you can do so much and people need to understand that it’s just … as valid as other majors.

We might not come up with the next cure for cancer … but we’re here to entertain people. … The arts is something that regardless of what society you look at there’s always some form of it going on. It’s not something that’s going to go away.”

Mallory Scaife, a junior studying music education, said people should follow their passions, like hers for music.

“If you love doing it, then why would you settle for doing something else?”

Scaife said.

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SHINING THE ST She has been dancing since she was 2 years old, but instead of leaping right into the field, Corrinne Bailey wanted to learn the academic side of the steps.

Bailey, a senior studying dance who is from Hilliard, said her education with her major balances between learning the steps of the modern-focused technique and pedagogy. She said the department wants to see its students understand all facets related to dance, including choreography, music, history, lighting and production.

The dance program at OU focuses on modern dance, a form which is more interpretative and leans on abstract movements and ideas.

She teaches second-graders creative movement at East Elementary. She also teaches hip-hop fitness classes at Ping Center.

Bailey said during her first three years as a dance major, she was in rehearsal for about four hours a day, on top of classes.

Now, she is working on her senior project where she is choreographing a solo for herself.

For her, dance is “more than just a hobby.” “(It’s) definitely a way of life because it’s not just dance,” Bailey said. “It’s movement.

It’s the body. It’s people. It’s space. It’s art.”

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

BEHIND THE SC Mallory Scaife has performance anxiety.

But after months of practicing Concerto No. 1 by Robert Muczynski — a 21-page piece — the OU junior puts her head down and races her fingers across the keys, ebbing her body with each note she plays.

Scaife is a music education major from Wooster, and although her primary instrument is piano, she also plays clarinet and recently picked up bass clarinet.

With her degree, Scaife said she would ideally love to teach middle school or beginner band students.

Music majors, she said, have to go to juries to move onto the next level. It is a requirement to pass the jury to advance in the program.

Music education majors spend the first half of their degree focusing on technique and the last half focusing on teaching, which includes taking courses with education majors not specializing in music and student teaching.

Scaife is in Wind Symphony, which will play Carnegie Hall in February. She is also a vice president of membership for an honorary band sorority Tau Beta Sigma, a treasurer of Collegiate National Association for Music Education chapter at OU and a section leader for the Marching 110.

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CENES

PRINTING A PASSION Moving around the grid system above the Forum Theater stage, Michelle Lane looks comfortable. She is standing on metal squares suspended with lights dangling off the edges of the platform, but it is what she loves doing.

She is in the Honors Tutorial College with a double major in the Theater Division in performance and production design and technology, with a focus in lighting.

Lane is originally from Edison, New Jersey. For the future, Lane has dreams to one day own her own production company and to move to a city such as Chicago or Seattle.

She chose to pursue both majors so she is able to understand how actors and those who work backstage operate. She would be able to use that knowledge to help collaborate between the different roles.

Going to a vocational high school led her to pursue theater and attempt to find a program that would let her combine all of her interests. She found that at OU. Lane said what is interesting about theater is that it reflects the world around it. So when learning about theater, students are learning about people, too.

Yaphet Jackman said he learned more from a bad film set than any good ones he has been on. He is a thesis film major and wants to pursue cinematography post-graduation.

Jackman is from Guyana in South America and learned about OU’s film major through a partnership between the University of Guyana, which led him to Athens.

Jackman is in his thesis year and is collaborating a screenwriting major to create one work.

He has learned through studying film the amount of funding it takes to create a piece — funding that might not exist. He said he rarely films in Athens, which creates difficulties, but he is looking to do so for his final project.

Though he loves to create — he is not a film geek, a stereotype he thinks comes with film majors. He can’t remember most directors’ or movies’ names, but that doesn’t discredit the work he puts into his projects.

Jackman said he draws inspiration from life.

“You just walk around — there’s bits of inspiration everywhere,” Jackman said. “Human beings are such attractive characters.

They’re so diverse. They’re so layered.”

Film school, he said, can act as an incubator for future filmmakers.

What is great about printmaking, Andrew Barger said, is that a piece of art can be copied over and over again. A print can be given to friends, can be sold or can be worked on in the future.

Barger is a second-year graduate student studying printmaking. Originally from Atlanta, Barger pursued a degree in art education as well as printmaking at the University of Georgia.

The best way Barger said he can describe printmaking is that it is like he is making a stamp, which can be done on surfaces like wood or etched into copper. Or, as he described it to his parents, “Have you ever heard of Andy Warhol and screenprinting? … It’s kind of like that.”

Barger said during his graduate program, the first year is spent meeting and presenting to a committee that would critique artists’ work to decide if they can stay in the program. This year, he is supposed to continue creating and come up with a thesis idea to work on in his final idea.

Barger had started off creating politically conceptual prints. Now, he is working more with color and form to create abstract pieces that can open up a dialogue between more people.

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS ENROLLMENT 2015-2016 School of Art + Design Undergraduate: 318 Graduate: 59 School of Interdisciplinary Arts Graduate: 26 School of Music Undergraduate: 220 Graduate: 56 School of Dance, Film and Theater Dance Division Undergraduate: 43

PUTTING IT TOGETHER Katherine Hammond grew up in Newark surrounded by art. Her walls were covered with clippings from art history books.

With two parents who performed, painted, drew and nurtured their child with art, it’s not a surprise she went into the field.

As an undergraduate, she initially looked into studying studio art or graphic design.

However, after picking up an art history minor and taking the introductory class, she changed her mind.

“I was sitting in this giant, dark auditorium, and I can’t tell you how many times an image of an artwork would come up on the screen, and I would just physically respond to it — I just loved it,” she said.

She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art history from OU. She had planned on leaving Athens for her doctorate, but the program at OU brought her back.

As a fourth-year doctoral interdisciplinary arts major, she has two areas of focus — her first and primary in visual art and architecture, and the other in film studies. She also teaches introduction interdisciplinary arts courses.

Hammond is working on her dissertation, which is about graffiti and street art in Egypt following the country’s uprising.

Film Division Undergraduate: 7 Graduate: 52 Theater Division Undergraduate: 132 Graduate: 53

Photos by Matt Starkey and Carl Fonticella

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PRIDE IN PROTECTION

The goalies on the Ohio hockey team have Bobcat decals and other designs on their masks. (MATT STARKEY/ FOR THE POST)

Hockey masks serve as outlet for goalies to show personality on the ice SPENCER HOLBROOK FOR THE POST

14 / NOV. 3, 2016

Oftentimes in sports, rules prohibit players from personalizing gear and equipment.

In hockey, however, one piece of protection can be toyed with, altered or personalized.

The Ohio goalkeeping trio Jimmy Thomas, Aaron Alkema and Ryan Heltion all share a commonality: the goalie helmet is a

fun accessory that allows the goaltenders to express themselves while playing the game they love.

“The other goalies have a lot of detail on theirs,” Thomas said. “They are inspiring me to put other things on (mine).”

The other two goalies, Heltion and Alkema, each have different approaches to how they design their helmets.

Heltion makes sure his helmet is as personal as he can make it. Since his youth, he has been drawn to skulls and grim reapers.

There are skulls, a zombie bobcat and a certain Athens landmark on his helmet.

“I have (the Ridges) on there,” Heltion said.

“I kind of fused that together to give a good creepy-but-Athens-oriented goalie mask.”

Alkema, on the other hand, keeps his helmet simple and all about Ohio but still finds a way to add a personal flare, with a green base and a big Bobcat on both sides. Taking a closer look, though, there’s more to it.

On the chin of the helmet is a pair of aces, something Alkema said he came up with to go along with his nickname, “Aces.”

Goaltenders have reached out to a little-known artist that works on motorcycle helmets, motorcycles and airbrushings to spice up their helmets.

“They got the creative mind,” Thomas said.

“They’re the artist, so you kind of lay it in their hands, and then you kind of move things around the way you want them to layout.”

Once the mask is finished and ready to be worn in games, it becomes a losing battle trying to keep the paint nice and fresh.

In Thomas’ first game wearing his freshly painted helmet, a puck deflected off it, leaving a black scuff mark across one of the bobcat logos. Since it takes at least a week for the mask to be painted, there is nothing he can do to get the mask fixed until the end of the season.

Alkema let the scuffs and chipped paint stay.

“It’s going to have wear and tear because you’re using it every day,” he said.

Getting a new helmet with padding and a fresh paint job is always exciting and refreshing for a goaltender, but the old ones have the character and history to remind each goalie where they have been.

All three goalies have saved their past helmets. Alkema says he keeps them in his room.

“I have four of them sitting up there, so yeah, it’s something personal and something special you try to keep with you as long as you can,” Alkema said.

Heltion sold all his past equipment since his time in junior hockey — ­ ­­except the masks.

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Voter registration down in Athens MADDIE CAPRON FOR THE POST

D

uring the 2012 general election, there were almost 2,500 more people registered to vote in

Athens than are registered this year.

According to the Athens County Board of Elections, more than 45,417 people are

The OU College Democrats encourage students to register to vote outside Baker Center in October 2015.

(PATRICK CONNOLLY / FILE)

registered to vote in the county. In 2012, 47,858 people were registered.

Debbie Quivey, the director of the Board of Elections, said she did not know why more people would be registered to vote in 2012 than are now.

“In 2012 there may have been more people living here, or there may have been more students living here, it’s really hard to say,” she said. “This year we have the amount that registered, and I can’t really tell you why. There’s no statistics for why.”

David Parkhill, the president of Ohio University College Republicans, also said he does not know why more people would have been registered to vote in 2012 than are for the current election.

“My only guess is people are just getting so sick of it,” he said. “It’s such a brutal race, and people are just discounting the rest of the race. They just don’t want to get involved with any of it.”

Sam Miller, the president of OU College Democrats, however, said she thinks there are a lot of people who believe they are registered, but aren’t.

“They don’t realize there was a change, and their voter registration got purged because they were deemed an inactive voter,” she said. “I also think a lot of students, even though we stressed that if you moved at all since Obama’s term or the primary you still have to register again, think they’re still registered even though they’re not.”

Miller does not think it is necessarily a bad thing that there are fewer registered voters.

“I just think that in the scheme of things a lot of people are already registered to vote or did absentee,” she said.

“There are a lot of local races as well that students really care about at home so they want to vote there. It doesn’t necessarily upset me that there are less

“

People are just getting so sick of it. It’s such a brutal race, and people are just discounting the rest of the race. They just don’t want to get involved with any of it.

- David Parkhill, president of OU College Republicans

voters registered.”

This year, there are 10,312 registered Democrats and 6,585 registered Republicans, while 28,427 people are not registered with any party. During the primary election, 4,321 people registered as Democrat, 1,204 registered as Republican, and 33,851 people were nonpartisan.

Even though there are fewer registered voters than there were in 2012, the total number of registered voters has grown since the primary election. A total of 39,384 people were registered to vote in the county during the primary election. On Oct. 11, the voter registration deadline, there were 44,651 people registered in Athens County

which, when all new registrations were counted, grew to the new total of 45,417 registered voters.

“I have not seen the students come in and vote in person like I did four years ago or even eight years ago,” Quivey said. “In the primary election on the democrat ticket, Hillary (Clinton) took a little over 3,000 votes, and Bernie Sanders took over 6,000. He took 63 percent of the votes, which makes me think the students were leaning toward Bernie, and I think that could be why, now, the students aren’t voting in person. I think that plays a role in it.”

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Bats, ants top pest complaints on campus

When pest calls come in, OU’s Environmental Health and Safety department is there to help MARISA FERNANDEZ / SENIOR WRITER

Out of breath, Jessica Koynock dragged her suitcases across the worn floor of Washington Hall. Her roommate had already moved into room 404 for the Fall Semester of 2015, and their resident assistant told them their 62-year-old room had been freshly painted.

Koynock, now a sophomore studying visual communication, did not question the new paint. But her RA later told her the fresh paint was an effect of patchwork done to the roof over room 404 because squirrels were living up there, and it collapsed before Fall Semester began and the pests were removed.

But later that year, the squirrels returned. Scratches and noises echoed in the walls at night, waking up Koynock’s roommate. In early October 2015, Koynock filed a complaint to Ohio University’s Environmental Health and Safety department for a suspicion of “activity in their walls.”

“It would be 2 a.m., and they’d just get rowdy,” Koynock said. “They love to hang out in our roof.”

EHS went to 404 that day and found and trapped a squirrel in the wall. Chad Keller, the environmental health coordinator for EHS, said he set up more traps in the wall and checked every day, catching one more squirrel about a week later.

Koynock’s squirrel problem was not the only call Keller had to answer that day.

EHS answered four more calls — they treated a yellow jackets’ nest at the McFarland Avionics Building, they set traps for squirrels in Chubb Hall and mice in the stockroom of Nelson Dining Hall, and found the source of bees in a women’s bathroom in McGuffey Hall.

“Each day, it’s sometimes the same thing but a different situation,” Keller said.

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The bricks suck up heat from the sun. We’ll almost always get bees on the south- and west-facing sides of the building.

That’s (where) they get the most direct sun.”

- Chad Keller, environmental health coordinator for Ohio University’s Environmental Health and Safety department

KEEPER OF THE KEYS Keller and technician Mark Mills help the wildlife in Athens and the more than 200 buildings on OU’s campus coexist. The two men have the keys to access all the buildings on the Athens campus — and they need them. When there is an emergency call, the Ohio University Police Department will call Keller no matter what time it is.

Keller, an OU alumnus and licensed pesticide applicator, has been on the campus since starting his microbiology degree in 1991. He said his extensive knowledge of both pests and the campus helps him understand why the department receives certain calls.

Sometimes, pests find ways into buildings because the buildings are old and not well-sealed, Keller said. Other times, it’s just because of the buildings’ structure in general — the warm bricks attract many pests.

“The bricks suck up heat from the sun,” Keller said. “We’ll almost always get bees on the south- and west-facing sides of the building. That’s (where) they get the most direct sun.”

If a problem is insect-related, Keller will look at the building’s exterior to see if there are entry points where bugs can get in. Taking the extra time to do that helps Keller find problems without having to needlessly spray pesticide. Only licensed applicators in the state of Ohio are allowed to sprayed pesticide, but Keller said the department sprays as a last resort so no one has to be exposed to unneeded chemicals.

“You can’t control everything with the campus we have,” Keller said. “It’s not like we can go through and replace every window and seal every crack.”

BATTY BUSINESS In mid-September, Grace Belthoff, a freshman studying forensic chemistry, returned to her dorm in Sargent Hall at about 1:30 a.m. When she unlocked her door on the fourth floor, a black shadow swooped across the room.

“Naturally, I screamed. I was convinced it was a bat,” Belthoff said.

She woke up her RA, who called EHS, and someone went to investigate the problem that night. When EHS checked the room, however, they told Belthoff there was no bat.

“And I was like, ‘No. I saw a bat. These RAs saw a bat. I wasn’t hallucinating,’ ” Belthoff said. “I told them to tear my room apart. I wasn’t sleeping in that room until they figured out where (the bat) went.”

EHS discovered a two-inch hole in the corner of Belthoff’s room, and the bat flew into the hole when the lights turned on.

The hole was taped over until workers from Facilities Management patched it the next day. There have been no bat incidents in the building since.

Belthoff’s incident is not uncommon, although most bat incidents happen in August.

NUMBER OF CALLS PER PEST 300

257 21%

257 21% 250

200

122 10%

150

110 9% 73 6%

100

49 4%

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ANTS

ASIAN LADY BEETLES

73 6%

BATS

BED BUGS

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FLIES

86 7% 49 4%

37 3%

BEES / WASPS

110 9%

MICE

ROACHES SQUIRRELS

OTHER INSECTS

BOTTOM LEFT: Mouse traps are used to remove rodents from university buildings.

TOP RIGHT: Chad Keller poses for a portrait next to canisters used by the Pest Control team. BOTTOM RIGHT: Shelf in the Pest Control storage room (ALIE SKOWRONSKI / FOR THE POST) Graphic by Chance Brinkman-Sull

“The month of August we refer to as the month of the bat,” Keller said.

There were 79 calls in the month of August to collect bats in various campus buildings last year. The number may seem high, but it is reasonable for the number of buildings on campus, Keller said.

The valleys in southeastern Ohio are “perfect terrain” for bats, especially when students leave their windows open at night with no screen.

“Those (rooms) are caves to them,” Keller said.

BUGGING STUDENTS Whether it is Keller or Miller who captures the bats, the two release the captured bats when they go home. In the last eight years Keller has been at EHS, he estimates

has released more than 1,000 bats at his home. In fact, the department has a protocol for every pest.

Students should report wildlife-related problems on OU’s Pest and Nuisance Control homepage. If the problem occurs after 5 p.m. on weekdays or on the weekend, EHS will respond either that day or the next business day. If the incident is an emergency, students should call OUPD. To be classified as an emergency, the pest must pose a threat to residents or OU facilities. Mostly likely, “danger” entails an animal in direct contact or, in Belthoff’s case, a bat in a dorm room.

EHS will not respond to smaller calls, however, such as to squash a few ants or a spider in a dorm room.

“A pest report is for excessive patterns

and issues relating to the bugs,” Leah Wheeler, resident director of Washington Hall, said in an email. “A spider, a few ants, or a small amount of any bug is normal for any place of residence. It is important to keep spaces clean.”

In the 2014-15 school year, EHS responded to 1,222 pest control complaints. Forty-two percent of the calls are for bats and ants. Because bats are common in the area, they are to be expected, but Keller said pests such as ants or cockroaches are sometimes due to a sanitation problem.

When Keller started eight years ago, he said the number of complaints was higher.

He credits the improvement to implementing housing inspections during summer and winter breaks.

“We have a mouse call in, say, Jefferson,”

Keller said. “When the students leave over winter break, we’ll go through every room in that building, leave two traps and go through for two weeks, check them every couple of days to make sure.”

The months of April through October mean non-stop calls for EHS, Keller said.

The end of October is when calls start to slow down for the department. During the school year, Keller sometimes hires student workers to help cover the large campus.

“At this point it feels like I’ve seen every student on campus,” Keller said. “But, my job’s great. Being around students keeps me young.”

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When Maddie Knostman looks at the letter ‘A’, the letter ‘A’ isn’t what she sees.

Instead, it is a half circle with a line on the right side. In her mind, the letter ‘B' takes on a similar form, but with a taller line on the opposite side.

In her eyes, every word possesses its own unique shape — a visual representation of a larger meaning.

“That’s how I see words,” Knostman said. “A-N-D spells ‘and’, and so I see ‘and’ as a shape itself. But I see it built up of smaller shapes.”

According to her doctors, Knostman has memorized thousands of words this way, ascribing unique images to each individual character, stringing them together to create a picture that makes sense in her mind.

She’s one of many students at Ohio University receiving accommodations for dyslexia — the most commonly diagnosed learning disability, estimated to affect nearly one in 10 people across the world in some capacity. She didn't know she had it until she visited a neuropsychologist after a soccer-related concussion in high school.

“My whole life I’ve struggled with school in general and they didn’t know why," Knostman said. The doctors thought I just had really bad ADHD, and so I was treated for that, and I just learned to cope.”

Once diagnosed, Knostman was put on a “504 Plan,” referring to Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination against students with disabilities in public schools. That allowed her to participate in special study halls, take extra time on tests and receive alternative resources that helped her succeed in high school.

Now, as a college freshman studying visual communication, she has found taking notes and keeping up with a professor’s lecture to be a profoundly difficult task.

“One of the interesting things that happens is a lot of students receive accommodations in high school under different laws, and that all ends once they graduate high school,” Carey Busch, assistant dean for student accessibility, said. “In the K-12 system, it’s really the school’s responsibility to identify students who may have issues and give them the testing they need to find out what to do effectively.”

Student Accessibility Services offers students like Knostman tools such as LiveScribe pens — devices outfitted with tiny cameras and microphones, allowing students with learning disabilities to record lectures. They

can later play back the lectures at their own pace. The pens have a starting price of around $130, but qualifying students can borrow them for free.

“For most people, they think that all the letters of all the words move around and you can’t read words — and I thought that too, before I knew I had (dyslexia),” Knostman explained. “But once I realized that I had it … I learned more about it, and what I found out is that dyslexia is different for everyone.”

The story has indeed been different for Athens Mayor Steve Patterson, who explained that — as a child — he had issues “experiencing words in a different order,” and was “constantly being corrected” early in his education.

“I'm sitting there trying to read out loud to my parents, or trying to read out loud in class in early grade school. And the line was ‘Dick saw Jane running down the street,’ or something like that,” Patterson said. “And, for me, I kept viewing it as ‘Dick was Jane running down the street.’ There's such a broad spectrum of dyslexia. For me it was juxtaposing words.”

Growing up in the early ’60s, Patterson said he doesn’t recall the word “dyslexia” being part of the common vocabulary. Instead, students with learning disabilities were often assigned to the “struggling” reading group, without the help of a specialist, which are now often found in schools to provide assistance.

Though Patterson didn’t officially receive his diagnosis until he joined the Air Force, dyslexia was never a roadblock too large to overcome. He received his Ph.D. from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Maryland, became a psychology professor at OU and served as a city councilman before being elected as mayor of Athens last year.

“I taught myself speed reading. Target the nouns and the verbs,” Patterson said. “What I really want to drive home is that dyslexia has nothing to do with someone’s IQ. It’s not an intelligence issue.”

Knostman described her experience with mild dyslexia as her doctor once explained it to her – not a walk in the park by any means, but rather a trek through stormy weather.

“We’re on the same walk, but you’re on the sidewalk that’s sunny and dry, and I’m on the sidewalk that has a half-inch of snow,” Knostman said. “So over time, it’ll wear me down, and I won’t be able to move as fast as you.

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Without a favorite candidate in mind, some OU students decide pass up polls TAYLOR MAPLE FOR THE POST

W

hile some students at Ohio University are excited to support their preferred candidate on Nov. 8, not everyone is planning to cast a vote. Some, like freshman Ben Beaty, have decided to sit the election out.

“Once we went (past) the primaries, I was not satisfied with either candidate,” Beaty, a freshman studying accounting, analytics and pre-law, said.

Beaty said he doesn’t agree with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on economic issues, and Republican nominee Donald Trump worries him because Trump has “no ideological base” and “flip-flops” on issues.

He looked into supporting a third-party candidate, but he is not sold on those candidates either.

“I don’t agree with the Green Party candidate (Jill Stein) at all,” Beaty said.

Beaty said he leans toward an “economi-

cally conservative, socially liberal” stance, and he once thought Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson might be for him. That opinion, however, changed. Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate Bill Weld’s comments about Donald Trump last week discouraged him even further, Beaty said.

“After careful observation and reflection, I have come to believe that Donald Trump, if elected President of the United States, would not be able to stand up to this pressure and this criticism without becoming unhinged and unable to perform competently the duties of the office,” Weld said in a statement.

He addressed the statement mainly to “those in the electorate who remain torn between two so-called major party candidates whom they cannot enthusiastically support.”

Some took this statement to mean Weld was urging voters to support Clinton in an effort to defeat Trump. Beaty said to him, the statement showed John-

son and his campaign were not “truly in it to win it.” That helped lead to his decision not to vote in the presidential election, although he said he will vote in other races on the ballot.

“I can’t put my vote behind (the presidential candidates),” Beaty said.

Johnson’s campaign has since denied Weld meant voters should support Clinton.

“I would say I’m really discouraged in … the two-party system,” Beaty said. “It doesn’t represent everyone’s point of view.”

Nikki Edwards, a senior studying English, said everyone should vote, even if the candidates are not ideal.

“I think when you choose not to vote, you are giving a vote to somebody you don’t want,” she said.

Brittany Rothert, a junior studying child and family studies, also has no plans to cast a vote for a presidential nominee this year.

“I don’t really get too involved in politics,”

she said. “Also, I felt like either way we’d be screwed, so I just kind of backed out from it.”

Rothert said she has felt some pushback from her roommates who say it’s important for her to vote, but she said the same principle that grants Americans the right to vote also grants them the right to abstain.

“It’s my right to choose whether I want to vote or whether I don’t want to, and I chose not to,” she said.

DeLysa Burnier, a political science professor at OU, said she hasn’t seen specific research about voter apathy, but there are several reasons students might abstain from voting.

“The biggest issue is that they don’t feel like the major candidates bring up or address issues that are important to them,” Burnier said.

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Value-based vote Students supporting independent and third-party candidates vote on principle BHARBI HAZARIKA / FOR THE POST 20 / NOV. 3, 2016

Brandon Kerr is determined to vote for Gary Johnson.

Johnson is the Libertarian nominee for president. Kerr shares Johnson’s and the Libertarian party’s concern with implementing a limited government and ending the war on drugs, which he thinks are positions other candidates don’t offer in the same way. He finds it “disheartening,” though, how other people don’t know how Johnson’s ideas compare to Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump.

“It has become a fight against the great other,” Kerr, the vice president of Students for Liberty at Ohio University, said. “It’s not about policies, not about issues, not about what’s actually happening to America.”

A third-party candidate is any political candidate who is not a member of either major party. Examples of third-party organizations include the Green Party and the Libertarian Party.

On the Ohio ballot, there are five presidential candidates: Clinton, Trump, Johnson, Jill Stein of the Green Party and non-party candidate Richard Duncan. According to Politics 1, a non-partisan political public service platform, there are almost 30 third-party and independent candidates who are on at least one state ballot competing in this year’s election.

Third-party and independent voters are focused on voting based on their values, even though their candidates don’t receive the same amount of attention or support as major party candidates.

THE NEED FOR AN ALTERNATIVE

According to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released Aug. 31, Trump and Clinton are American citizens’ least favorite presidential candidates in more than 30 years.

The poll concluded Trump had a 63 percent unfavorability rate, compared to Clinton’s 56 percent. For some voters, that means it is time to move away from major party candidates and find a candidate to better meet their needs.

“I think this election is where people found that there are alternatives,” Ryan Powers, a supporter of Jill Stein and an organizer of the Athens branch of the International Socialist Organization, said. “Sure, there are significant moves to be made, but people are at least aware that there are in fact other candidates in the race.”

For many potential voters, though, third-party and independent candidates fail to appear as viable choices, Sarah Poggione, an associate professor of political science at Ohio University, said.

“It may have something to do with these particular candidates,” Poggione said. “But I think there are also structural things built into our political system that makes its difficult for third and independent parties to create an impact.”

The United States uses the Electoral

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If everybody picked whom they actually believed in, we’d have an electoral system that, I think, will work much better and represent the people.”

- Jacob Koval, the communications chair of Ohio University College Republicans

College, and any candidate who earns more than 270 electoral votes wins the presidency. When awarding electoral votes, most states, with the exceptions of Nebraska and Maine, go on a winner-takes-all system where whoever wins more than 50 percent of the state’s popular vote wins all the state’s electoral votes. Because of that, it can be hard for a third-party candidate to win electoral votes even if that candidate wins a lot of votes in the state.

“There is a lot there that kind of privileges the two major political parties,” Poggione said. “I think the political system as a whole works against the independent and third-parties in many contexts.”

According to a Sept. 30 Gallup poll, 57 percent of Americans feel the need for a strong third-party in the U.S., an increase from 2012, where 46 percent of Americans polled expressed the same concern. “(The dislike of the two major party candidates) kind of shows that there is polarization happening,” Powers, a senior studying philosophy, said. “That’s very telling, because it shows that people are fed up with

the status quo, and they want an alternative.”

Jacob Koval, a member of Ohio University Students for Liberty, said his encounters with supporters from both the major parties had led him to believe there is a lack of resonance felt by the supporters of major candidates.

“If everybody picked whom they actually believed in, we’d have an electoral system that, I think, will work much better and represent the people,” Koval, the communications chair of Ohio University College Republicans, said.

THE TOUGH CAMPAIGN TRAIL

While many are blaming the lack of attention on the third-party and independent candidates for their inefficient campaigning, others are of the opinion that the fault lies with media.

“I don’t know all of (the candidates),” Kerr, a senior studying management and political science, said. “It kind of goes to show who made a mark.”

DeLysa Burnier, a professor of political science at OU, said Trump in particular has

Jacob Koval, left, and Tim Slocombe, right, discuss the Gary Johnson campaign during a Students for Liberty meeting. (LIAM DAVIS / FOR THE POST)

a strong media presence, which is facilitated by his “extreme” views.

“Even though Trump is not an establishment Republican like Jeb Bush, he is still the standard bearer for one of our two major parties,” she said. “And that alone maintains a certain level of support, interest and media attention that you just can’t get as a third party candidate.”

She said she believes many third parties fail to capitalize on the limited available media resources, which would have otherwise proven to be effective.

“The bar is higher when you’re a third party candidate because we don’t support them very often,” Burnier said. “So, they have to be stellar on message and maybe have some charisma as well.”

A single misstep can be a big problem for candidates. Poggione cites Johnson’s failure to answer questions about Syria and world leaders as evidence of that.

The political structure of the voting system also contributes to the difficulties third-party and independent candidates face when running in the general election.

Each state has its own legislation that set standards for candidates. While states allow candidates from state-recognized major political parties to enter their names on the ballot with more ease, the laws do not extend the same courtesy to independent and third-party counterparts. According to the Ohio Secretary of State, for instance, independent party candidates in Ohio have to circulate a petition and collect 5,000 signatures from qualified voters to be recognized by the state as a presidential candidates.

Richard Duncan, a 63-year-old Aurora resident on the Ohio ballot for president as an independent candidate, is running a self-funded campaign. He spent about $5,000 to collect the necessary signatures to get on the ballot.

“It shouldn’t be this difficult for an independent candidate, but it is,” Duncan said.

Those who vote in support of a third-party or an independent candidate are doing so with the intention of creating a difference and upholding their values.

“There is this quote that goes, ‘activism requires no optimism,’ ” Koval, a sophomore studying political science, said. “(It applies) in the sense that you don’t have to believe that (Johnson) is going to win to advocate him.”

Third-party and independent candidate supporters are sometimes less concerned with acquiring a seat in the White House and more concerned with starting a conversation about issues and the principles they hold dear.

“I think you must vote on principle,” Koval said. “I think it’s an ethical duty, in a way.”

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the weekender

Dads Weekend 2016 events include ‘Daily Show’ comedic performance, stargazing and more IF YOU GO WHAT: Daily Show Correspondents Tour WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium ADMISSION: $20 regular seating, $30 for the first ten rows

Jr McCulloughy putts the ball on a hole on the fifth floor of the Alden Open on Nov. 7, 2015. The Alden Open was set up as an event for Dads Weekend. (EMMA HOWELLS / FILE)

ALEX MCCANN FOR THE POST The madness of Halloween has passed, but students have precious little time to recover before fathers come to Athens for Dads Weekend.

Dads can check up on their students while enjoying a wide range of events. A full list of events is available on the Ohio University website.

Correspondents from The Daily Show will visit OU for the second year in a row. Last year, Jordan Klepper and John Hodgman came to OU and performed for dads and students at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium.

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Daily Show correspondents, Adam Lowitt and Al Madrigal, will look to get the audience laughing.

Lowitt is a six-time Emmy Award-winner for his work as an executive producer and writer on The Daily Show.

He has performed at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival and in the Middle East as part of an Armed Forces Entertainment event.

Madrigal is The Daily Show’s senior Latino correspondent. He has done stand-up on many late-night shows, including The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Conan, Lopez Tonight and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

For dads who are looking to get outside and enjoy the fall weather, Outdoor Pursuits is hosting three events for

the adventurous-type.

On both Friday and Saturday, dads and students are invited to go stargazing and enjoy s’mores around a campfire at the Ridges. George Eberts, an assistant professor of astronomy, will accompany the stargazers.

Saturday and Sunday offer two more outdoor events: ziplining and hiking.

Ziplining will be available at the Outdoor Pursuits Zipline Facility, while the hike will take place in the Conkle's Hollow region of the Hocking Hills State Park.

Matt Rump, an adventure trip leader and climbing facilities manager at Outdoor Pursuits, said the events are always popular with parents.

“All of these events sell out,” Rump, a junior studying environmental geography

and biological sciences, said.

Rump encouraged people to try the zipline, which also includes a rope course.

For dads hoping to have fun in a more relaxing way, Alden Library will host its fourth annual Alden Open, during which three floors of the library are transformed into nine-hole and 18-hole miniature golf courses. Barbara Fiocchi, coordinator of libraries events and community outreach and engagement at Alden, said the Alden Open is generally a popular event.

“It’s really fun, and it’s low-key … you can talk and chat,” she said.

Local businesses will provide unique obstacles for the courses, including spinning houses and giant pancakes with glitter maple syrup. Golfers will also be able to enjoy a snack donated by Avalanche Pizza.

The funds raised from the Alden Open will benefit the Student Research & Creative Activity Expo, during which hundreds of OU students present scientific research and a variety of other creations.

“It’s like a creative event supporting a creative event,” Fiocchi said.

Fiocchi said that the pleasant, mellow atmosphere is part of what makes the Alden Open enjoyable.

“No one is playing cutthroat mini golf,” she said.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING LUKE FURMAN / FOR THE POST

D

ads love college. It’s an environment that puts them back in the good old days of Def Leppard and Van Halen.

Aside from the designated dad events, several entertainment venues Uptown are also catering to an influx of dads. The Venue of Drxvms is hosting The Werks, a band from Day-

ton, along with Peridoni, a Cincinnati band, on Friday.

The Athena Cinema is screening dad-classic film The Blues Brothers on Friday and Saturday. People can supplement their reunion with their dads up against Jake and Elwood’s attempt at reuniting the band.

For all the athletic dads out there, the

Friday

hockey team will play on Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. against Michigan-Dearborn. The Ohio men’s and women’s basketball teams also have games on Saturday, along with Ohio volleyball.

To send their dads off, students can check out Jackie O’s Sunday Funday: Pre-Apocalypse Party. The name is a reference to the election taking place

Sunday

What: Pumpkin Hustle 5K/3K Where: Bike Path, Meet at Athens Community Center Pool Pavilion When: 11:30 a.m. registration and the first race starts at 12:45 p.m.

Admission: $15, kids under 12 years old are free

What: Mandolin Orange Where: Stuart’s Opera House, 52 Public Square, Nelsonville When: 7 p.m.

Admission: $17

What: DJ Barticus Y2K Millennium Dance Party Where: The Union Bar & Grill, 18 W. Union St. When: 9 p.m.

Admission: Cover if under 21

What: The Werks with Peridoni Where: The Venue of Drxvms, 13 W. Stimson Ave. When: 9 p.m.

Admission: $12 tier one, $15 tier two; $20 at the door

What: The Ramshacklers Where: Casa Nueva, 6 W. State St. When: 10 p.m.

Admission: $5

Runners will take to the bike path for the fifth annual Pumpkin Hustle 5K/3K. The first place male and female of the 5K will receive three massages at Bodhi Tree Guesthouse & Studio, which also houses a float tank.

“It’s a neat way for runners to recover from races,” Sherri Oliver, the executive director of Live Healthy Appalachia, said.

What: Ohio volleyball vs. Miami (Ohio) Where: The Convo When: 7 p.m.

Admission: Free for students

What: Ohio men’s basketball vs. University of Rio Grande Where: The Convo When: 2 p.m.

Admission: Free for students

What: Open Mic Where: Front Room When: 8 p.m.

Admission: Free

What: Cat’s Pajamas Clothing Exchange Where: ARTS/West, 132 W. State St. When: 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m., Saturday Admission: Clothes or money to buy clothes

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Saturday

What: ‘The Blues Brothers’ Where: The Athena Cinema, 20 S. Court St. When: 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday Admission: $6.50

What: Ohio hockey vs.

Michigan-Dearborn Where: Bird Arena When: 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday Admission: $6 for students

two days after.

Regardless of how students choose to spend the weekend with dad, he will most likely find fulfillment simply spending it with family.

Ohio men’s basketball opens its season against the University of Rio Grande. It is the first in a three-game homestand that will last until Nov. 14. Ohio is projected to finish second in the MidAmerican Conference East pre-season poll, with Akron at the top of the poll. For more coverage, check out thepostathens.com.

What: Ohio women’s basketball vs. Thomas More College Where: The Convo When: 11:30 a.m.

Admission: Free for students

What: Ohio volleyball vs. Bowling Green State University Where: The Convo When: 7 p.m.

Admission: Free for students

Mandolin Orange will bring their blend of country, folk and bluegrass to Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville. Formed in 2009, the duo had previously played at the 2015 Nelsonville Music Festival. My Bubba, a Scandinavian folk duo, will open the show. The opener’s name is a combination of the first names of its two musicians, My Larsdotter and Bubba Tomasdottir. They hail from Sweden and Iceland, respectively.

What: Sunday Funday: Pre-Apocalypse Party Where: Jackie O’s Taproom and Brewery, 25 Campbell St. When: 3 p.m.

Admission: Free, but band donations encouraged Jackie O’s “Sunday Funday” occurs once per month and marks the opening of a new artist’s exhibition. This Sunday’s event, named the “Pre-Apocalypse Party” in reference to Tuesday’s election, will feature the artwork of John Ryan. The Taproom will be open from noon to 9 p.m. for special Sunday Funday hours, Jackie O’s events manager Sophia Karageorge said in an email. There will also be live music starting around 5 p.m. by Qiet, Blood Thirsty Virgins and John Healy.

What: Title IX A Cappella Dad’s Concert Where: Donkey Coffee, 17 W. Washington St. When: 8 p.m.

Admission: $3

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