October 13, 2016

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B O B C AT S B Y T H E N U M B E R S

Executive firm to aid in search for next president OU students are eager for a more visible, involved president MEGAN HENRY ASST. NEWS EDITOR This is the eighth in a weekly series comparing Ohio University to the other five Mid-American Conference universities in Ohio.

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earch firm Witt/ Kieffer, which is currently helping Ohio University in its presidential search, has also helped other universities in Ohio find their presidents.

Of the six Mid-American Conference universities in Ohio, the University of Toledo also used the firm when selecting its current president. The university paid $120,000 for the firm's services.

Bowling Green State University used Witt/Kieffer to hire a previous president in 2008, but used Heidrick and Struggles to hire their current president, Mary Ellen Mazey, in 2011. The contract for the Heidrick and Struggles firm was $120,000.

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The six MAC universities in Ohio include OU, Miami University, Bowling Green, Toledo, Kent State University and the University of Akron.

OU’s Board of Trustees announced during its June meeting that the presidential search firm would be Witt/Kieffer, a Chicago-based executive search firm that specializes in “providing outstanding leadership solu-

Executive Search Firm: A recruitment service organizations pay to search for and recruit the highest-qualified candidates for senior-level, executive jobs such as CEO, president and vice-president Search firms used by MAC universities: Witt/Kieffer www.wittkieffer.com/ Isaacson, Miller www.imsearch.com/ Heidrick and Struggles www.heidrick.com/

Storbeck/Pimental & Associates www.storbeckpimentel. com/ R. William Funk & Associates http://rwilliamfunk.com/

tions to organizations committed to improving the quality of life,” according to the firm’s mission statement.

Witt/Kieffer is partnering with OU’s Board of Trustees to assist the search committee in finding possible candidates to become OU’s new president. The search committee is made up of 21 people, and OU is paying the firm $150,000 to help with the search.

OU’s Board of Trustees will make the final decision on the next president. In OU's presidential profile, the university lists valuing diversity and being visible and approachable as some of the qualities it hopes to have in a new president.

Jenna Shroyer, a sophomore studying marine, freshwater and environmental biology, said she wants OU’s next president to be “open-minded.”

“I love OU because it’s

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I love OU because it’s so diverse and different and wants everyone to be themselves, and I don’t want somebody that’s going to come in and backtrack everything.”

- Jenna Shroyer, sophomore studying marine, freshwater and environmental biology

so diverse and different and wants everyone to be themselves, and I don’t want somebody that’s going to come in and backtrack everything,” Shroyer said.

She wishes the search committee would be more transparent with the public about applicants and a time frame.

“This isn’t high school where you have to go here.

I pay to go here,” Shroyer said. “I chose to be here.”

Sharon Gaber is Toledo's current president, and she was hired in 2015. Toledo's search committee

included 20 members.

Previously, OU hired A.T. Kearney Inc. to assist with the search when OU President Roderick McDavis was selected in 2004.

The 21-member search committee includes students, faculty, deans, trustees, staff, administrators, alumni and Athens residents.

Taylor Brokaw, a junior studying communication sciences and disorders, said she wants the next president to be more involved. “(McDavis) used to be

around when he lived on campus, but not anymore, so maybe someone who wants to live here (on-campus) and interact with students,” Brokaw said.

Austin Gebers, a sophomore studying outdoor recreation and education, said he wants the next president to interact with students. “(They should) be part of the student (community) and grab lunch with them sometimes,” Gebers said.

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The internet is not really Frank Ocean hones decadesruining our generation old technique on new album Boy, the internet sure has ruined our generation, hasn’t it?

Remember when people used to actually do things? Those people would go out. They would WILLIAM PERKINS hold actual conversais a senior tions. They would meet studying people. They would make journalism a difference in the world. at Ohio Honestly, I’m just University afraid for our generation.

We’re all just so alone, and it’s all because of the internet, smartphones and social media.

Except it isn’t.

But the opinion the internet is ruining us seems to be popular. At least, that’s what I hear on the internet. For example, a few years ago, a spoken word poet named Gary Turk released a video on YouTube called “Look Up” that got pretty popular. It featured a lot of people alone looking vaguely sad staring down at their phones or laptops with a dramatic solo piano track playing in the background.

“Look up from your phone, shut down your display,” he extolled to the viewer.

“Stop watching this video. Live life the real way.”

I’m not exactly sure what he means by “the real way.” I mean, I’m pretty sure I’m really alive, but who knows? In any event, I don’t think many people took his advice, because at the time I’m writing this, the video has received more than 59 million views. From people on the internet. Living life the “fake way,” presumably like sheeple.

And, based on the fact that Turk’s videos are monetized, he better hope people continue ignoring his advice.

I know, I know. It’s a lot of fun to bash technology, isn’t it? Especially if you’re a millennial. It shows you’re not like most millennials. No, you’re a millennial who was born in the wrong decade. You’re an old soul.

At least, that’s what you say on Twitter.

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But it’s just a tired, cliched argument to say technology is making us more isolated and more removed from reality. It’s not poignant. It’s not deep. It’s not new, and it doesn’t solve anything, so I don’t waste my time worrying about it. I have too many cat videos to watch.

I’m not going to say the internet hasn’t dramatically changed our world. I’m also not going to say those changes are all necessarily good. But when technology finally does take over, the singularity is reached and the robots make us our slaves, no amount of I-should-have-livedin-the-1920s Tumblr posts will save you.

No, we’re all going down together, and we all know it’s probably for the best. The robots will do a good job running the world.

But we still have at least a few decades before we have to worry about that. For now, it’s important we realize most of the bad things about our world today aren’t actually the result of the internet. They’re a result of the fact humans are bad at stuff. And we’ve been bad at stuff for hundreds of thousands of years.

One thing we’re really bad at is connecting with other people. I mean really, really connecting with other people on more than just a superficial level.

You don’t really understand anyone, and no one really understands you. Whether you’re attempting to make that connection over coffee or over Facebook, something is probably going to get lost in translation. But, eh, it’s worth a shot at least.

In other words, you’re not lonely because of the internet. You’re lonely because that’s life. Get used to it.

And a quick note to our future robot overlords: my only real skill is writing snarky think pieces. That’ll still be useful under your new world order, right?

How do you feel about the internet?

Let William know by emailing him at wp198712@ohio.edu

The past year evolved the musical landscape in ways unimaginable.

Creative godhead Kanye West dropped a revolutionarily fluid alLUKE bum, The Life Of Pablo, FURMAN back in spring, and The is a junior Avalanches finally restudying journalism leased a sophomore alat Ohio bum, filling the 16-year University gap from their acclaimed 2000 debut Since I Left You. Both of those masterworks are slightly overshadowed, however, by an album with a greater ambition and rarity.

In the wake of a four-year anticipation stirred by 2012’s Channel Orange, Frank Ocean not only returned this year with a proper follow-up album in Blonde, but also took one sonic effect to its musical zenith.

Blonde, released Aug. 20, utilizes pitch-shifted singing, a technique in which a sound’s original pitch is raised or lowered, in the most artistic way yet.

A practice once used for exaggerated effects and chipmunk-like vocals becomes a vehicle for lyrical significance in Ocean’s work.

On the album opener “Nikes,” we find Ocean’s voice pitched up into a seemingly female-exclusive range. Since his breakout single “Thinkin Bout You” had been penned for a female artist, it isn’t unimaginable that Ocean sought a way to sing in this range.

Ocean even alludes to the high range on the album’s final song “Futura Free,” where he drops the term “castrati.” ‘Castrati’ refers to male singers who retain a soprano range, usually through developmental deviation or bodily intervention.

Another album, released Sept. 30, also made use of upward-shifted vocal pitches. Bon Iver’s latest achievement 22, A Million contains pitch-shifted vocal melodies on songs like the opener

“22 (OVER S∞∞N)” and the single “33 ‘GOD’ ” similar to that of Ocean’s pitch.

Along with Blonde’s hour-long length, 22, A Million is worth every bit of its 34-minute runtime.

Although the most prominently featured, “Nikes” is not the only song on Ocean’s second studio album with manipulated vocals. “Self Control” and the aforementioned “Futura Free” also make use of the practice in sections shorter than the full verse on “Nikes.” All three of these songs embody overtones of life, love and struggling, three emotionally weighted themes.

The inclusion of contrast between male and female vocal ranges practically creates the illusion of a duet, despite all the singing being sung by a single voice.

Aside from “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe” from Kendrick Lamar’s breakout Good Kid, M.A.A.D City and the chorus tomfoolery on Vampire Weekend’s “Diane Young,” voice pitching has not been employed in this particular fashion. It offers a glimpse of innovation within Ocean’s long-awaited follow-up.

Unlike Kanye West’s method on 808s and Heartbreak, the effects did not correct vocal mistakes but instead opened a new frontier of possible melodies and multi-octave harmonies.

In the same manner Channel Orange redefined how a modern rhythm and blues record could sound, Blonde has the potential to open doors for the burgeoning musicians of today, showing them how closely technology has allowed musicians to recreate the visions first manifested in their heads.

Like several of the albums mentioned above, Blonde’s lyrical wealth and sonic innovation is likely to set a trend in the capabilities and direction of popular music for years to come.

Do you enjoy Frank Ocean’s music?

Let Luke know by tweeting him @LukeFurmanLog or emailing him at lf491413@ohio.edu.

SILENCING STRESS

Building back up after being torn down Being taken advantage of is arguably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a person. Why? Well, when someone uses you, takes advantage of you or BRI takes for granted the things SHANIUK that you have done for them, is a it can really mess with your sophomore studying head and make you feel as journalism though you are not good at Ohio enough and there is someUniversity thing wrong with you. In actuality, however, it is most definitely not you; it’s them.

Katelyn Sweitzer, a sophomore integrated media major at OU, has been recently stressing out about a situation dealing with someone who has been seemingly and selfishly using her good character traits to their advantage.

“I think what upsets me the most about the situation that I am currently in is that I know that I could never use somebody that way that I’ve been used, which really baffles me,” Sweitzer said. “It just hurts knowing that someone has the capability of treating someone they supposedly care about so negatively.”

Being taken for granted is a different kind

of stress revolving around the amount of emotional anguish it causes a person. Stress caused by schoolwork or balancing life’s daily schedule can be extremely overwhelming.

Emotional stress caused by being mistreated, however, can sometimes be strong enough to cause a person to feel so empty that they question their own worth.

While the stress of being hurt by somebody you care about is never easy to get over, and in some situations may never completely go away, there are methods one can use to help cope with such affliction.

In any situation of distress, and especially in a situation of distress involving another person who is causing you pain, one of the best things a person can do is surround themselves with people who care about them and they know they can trust. Encompassing oneself with quality friends and family members can not only help them to take their mind off of whoever is hurting them but also can provide them with a solid support system that they are able to fall back on whenever life gets a little tough. Then, if you ever need to talk to anyone for advice or even just to vent, you are able to confidently say that you have got an insanely wonderful group of people standing behind you.

In a situation such as this, it is very important that you learn to distance yourself from the person who has hurt you so much. Let’s be honest, moving on from someone you care about, whether it be a romantic relationship, friendship or whatever, is never an easy thing to do. In fact, it is a difficult thing to do because when we really care about someone that much, no matter how much they hurt us we constantly find reasons to hold on to the idea of them changing, which makes letting them go even harder.

Just because somebody hurts you does not mean they can’t change, and I do believe in second chances because we all mess up sometimes; however, you’ve got to look out for yourself and your own well-being first.

Just as in any other kind of stressful situation, you are never, and will never, be alone in your feelings.

Caring about others is important, and if the people in your life care for and appreciate you just as much, it can be very rewarding.

Just don’t forget how important you are, and do not forget to care about yourself.

How do you build up your own self-confidence? Let Bri know by emailing her at bs714714@ohio.edu

STREETVIEW

“What is your favorite pumpkin carving you’ve ever done?”

“Literally, I’ve carved a pumpkin once in my entire life, and it was garbage. It was just a smiley face, and I did it with my little brother and sister.”

Heather Griffiths, a freshman studying creative writing

“It was like a scarecrowtype of thing but more for scaring people. For a while, I put it out in the field, but I’d also hide it in places when it was dark. I thought it was creepy. So I kind of kept doing it.”

Max Wagner, a sophomore studying screenwriting

“Probably Jack from ‘Nightmare Before Christmas.’ ” Jessica Costello, a freshman studying journalism news and information

“The ones where they’re, like, throwing up are cool. I’ve done that before.”

Eric Turner, a sophomore studying marketing

“I’ve never made one.

Back home, we don’t really celebrate it. We always got pumpkins, but we never carved them.”

Jasmin Goncalo, a freshman studying photojournalism

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Less rain could mean smaller jack-o’-lanterns SARAH FRANKS FOR THE POST Many people may have already started to look for a short, stubby pumpkin to carve into a jack-o’-lantern with personality, or a perfectly round gourd to add a touch of fall to their front porches.

But those looking forward to carving pumpkins this Halloween may not realize how much the pumpkin selection depends on the type of growing season farmers have had. An especially dry season could mean smaller or fewer jack-o’-lanterns on many people’s porches.

For Ben Starkey, fall without pumpkins is “flavorless”.

“I don’t know what would be able to take ( the pumpkin’s) place. … Pumpkin is the flavor of fall. Everyone loves the smell. They associate pumpkins with fall,” Starkey, a junior studying history, said.

A lack of rain this season has made growing a plentiful crop of pumpkins difficult for some farmers. Other farmers were more fortunate, however, to get hit by enough rain for a successful yield.

Pumpkin spice latte fanatics need not worry, though.

Pumpkins are not disappearing any time soon, although many farmers experienced a dry growing season.

Tom E. Weekley, owner of Weekleyville Pumpkin Farm in Guysville, said he experienced the driest growing season he has seen in his 53 years of living on the farm, reducing his yield by one-third of what he typically expects in an average year.

“I pride myself on not running out,” Weekley said. “I came awful close (last year). There (weren’t) many left, but I had some for the last day.”

Weekley said he sees a lot of repeat customers who come from out of state for his extra-large “prize-winning” pumpkins because he is one of the only farmers with them in the area. This year’s “prize winners” are only about two-thirds of the size his pumpkins are in a good year, Weekley said.

“If I had plenty of rain they would have kept right on growing, and they would’ve gotten bigger and still been fresh looking. Some of the varieties like that decide they better hurry up and mature two weeks early,” Weekley said.

Pumpkins and gourds sit in a crate at Weekleyville Farm in Guysville. Weekley's crop has produced fewer pumpkins this year due to low rainfall. (HANNAH SCHROEDER / FOR THE POST)

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Tom E. Weekley poses for a portrait in front of some of the pumpkins and gourds he harvested on his farm in Guysville.

Weekley’s crop usually includes a number of prize-winning pumpkins, but this year’s low rainfall has led to a smaller crop of pumpkins for Weekleyville Farm. (HANNAH SCHROEDER / FOR THE POST)

Last season was also dry for Weekley, though not as dry as this season.

“The pumpkin season has been dry — really dry.

It’s a drought here,” Weekley said. “I missed a lot of the rains that neighboring farms got. People, like, two miles away from me, friends of mine — they get a couple inches of rain twice, and I didn’t get a drop.”

Pumpkins are 90 percent water, making rain a crucial factor for growing preferable pumpkins.

In contrast with how Weekley faired, Bernie Fleming, owner of Keller Farms Landscape and Nursery in Columbus, said he considered this season to be above average.

“People were saying they had a total loss on pumpkins (this season) and I didn’t understand what they were talking about,” Fleming said. “We had some rain last week. If you went two miles, there were people that got just a little shower, and we got three inches of rain.”

Fleming’s successful season came despite the lack of rain that Weekley encountered as well. The reason for his success remains a mystery to him, he said.

“It’s all on the luck of Mother Nature. … We’ve been blessed. Sometimes we don’t challenge that, and we accept it good or bad,” Fleming said.

The cooler nights in recent weeks, Fleming said, have catalyzed people’s excitement for the fall season — more so this year than in the past. A 90-degree evening is not the ideal weather for pumpkin patch exploration, he said.

Ralph Jutte, a co-owner of Pigeon Roost Farm in Hebron, said he also was relieved when the crisp nights arrived. The higher-than-normal temperatures he was seeing at the end of September were not the kind of weather that typically gets people in the fall spirit.

With more than 200 farm animals and attractions, such as Pigeon Roost’s Great Pumpkin Fun Center, Jutte said his farm offers the “fall experience” that one can not get by picking up a pumpkin at Wal-Mart or Kroger.

“I tell people, if you wanna buy a pumpkin, go to WalMart or Kroger,” Jutte said. “But if you want to have a farm experience and have the kids enjoy selecting one from, we probably got 2,000 pumpkins in our yard to sell — just a totally different experience.”

Aside from just heading to the patch with friends to pick a few pumpkins, Jutte said he sees many college students come to the farm to navigate Pigeon Roost’s corn maze.

“I think with the color changing of plants, the leaves and the fall leaves, that it puts people in a special mood — and sometimes more so than Christmas,” Fleming said.

So while some pumpkin patches like Weekley’s might be seeing smaller and fewer gourds this year, people are as eager as ever to find that perfect pumpkin to light up their home this festive fall season, Fleming said.

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Graffiti found on county building JONNY PALERMO FOR THE POST As the election draws closer, political stories about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s comments and Athens voter registration have been making headlines in the past few days. Here are some of the top stories from the week: ATHENS COUNTY REPUBLICAN BUILDING VANDALIZED

On Tuesday morning, workers at for the Athens County Republican Party headquarters on West Union Street noticed graffiti on the building’s wall.

“Racism Lives Here” was spray painted on one side of the building, and “Fascism Lives Here” was displayed on another.

The vandalism is believed to have occurred between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, according to Athens County Republican Party chair Pete Couladis.

Couladis said he might not remove the graffiti immediately.

VOTER REGISTRATION DOWN FROM 2012 ELECTION

As of Tuesday afternoon, the number of people registered to vote in Athens was

down compared to those registered in 2012. As of about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, 44,651 people had registered to vote, compared to the 47,858 that had registered in 2012.

Organizations have been proactive in getting students to register to vote. The Ohio University College Democrats, who set up tables in locations around campus, have even used a megaphone to persuade students.

Olga Thomas, a clerk at the Athens County Board of Elections, said about 500 to 700 registration forms had yet to be processed since mid-afternoon Tuesday, and they expected more forms to come in by the deadline.

DRUG AND THEFT REPORTS

The Ohio University Police Department had a busy Homecoming Week,

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responding to more than 30 calls.

Eleven of the reports were drug-related crimes. Many of those violations occurred near local “waterfronts,” such as the creek near the Academic Research Center and the Hocking River.

The department received a total of 11 theft reports, with some thieves targeting cars parked in university-owned parking lots.

On Saturday, a string of four campus car thefts, three of which were successful, were reported within a six-hour period.

OUPD also documented three instances of criminal mischief and one report of disorderly conduct by fighting.

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Alternative medicine heals with oil, touch ALEXIS EICHELBERGER FOR THE POST

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ydia King has not been sick for two years — something she believes could be due to her use of coconut oil.

King, a freshman studying pre-professional biology, practices oil pulling with coconut oil, which means that she swishes the oil around in her mouth for twenty minutes to detoxify her body.

Like some people in the Athens area, King practices a kind of alternative medicine. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in three Americans uses some form of complementary and alternative medicine. Those practices can include using methods such as acupuncture and yoga to treat pain or illness.

She started using coconut oil and other kinds of essential oils — such as tea tree and peppermint — about two years ago after learning about them on Pinterest. She uses them both through a diffuser and by applying them on her skin.

King said one reason she became interested in alternative health remedies was because of the addictive and dangerous properties found in some modern medications.

“Alternative medicine is a great way to not only make yourself feel better, but it also has legitimate health benefits, too,” she said.

Eric Thunder Crow Shatz has been a shamanic healer for more than 20 years and over time has combined the use of a variety of musical instruments and his voice to put his own spin on music therapy.

“I basically surround the person in sounds and vibration and create a kind of journey for them,” he said.

Shatz starts his sessions by playing a drum while his clients sit in a reclining chair.

The rest of the session includes the use of a variety of other instruments, including a didgeridoo, two Chinese gongs, Tibetan healing bowls and a Native American flute.

Shatz said many of his clients come to him to be treated for emotional pain or “blockages.” He said he is not acting as the healer, but rather his intentions are to remind people of their capability to heal themselves.

“The vibrations and the intention I’m putting into the session is just a reminder of how the body can heal itself,” he said. “We all have the ability to heal ourselves, but sometimes we forget how to do that.”

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I kind of like to call it the mother touch ­— like it’s the way a mother would soothe her child.”

- Michelle Kerns Reiki healer and massage therapist For those looking for a source of pain relief, Reiki could be a helpful holistic treatment option. Reiki, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, is “a complementary approach in which practitioners place their hands lightly on or just above a person, with the goal of facilitating the person’s own healing response.”

Michelle Kerns is a Reiki healer and massage therapist at the Athens Wellness Cooperative. “(Reiki) is the healing touch that flows through every human being (and) acknowledges love,” Kerns said. “I kind of like to call it the mother touch — like it’s the way a mother would soothe her child.”

She said using alternative medicine practices such as Reiki focus on acknowledging pain and finding the cause rather than simply treating the symptoms.

“We have such a fast-paced society. I think when people slow down and treat (themselves) to a massage or a Reiki session … it puts (them) back in (their) body,” she said.

Sarah Felder, a senior studying specialized studies focusing on human sexuality, has been a certified Reiki healer for about three years.

“I’ve just always been very interested in healing in a holistic way that isn’t just addressing the immediate physical body but also addressing that the physical body is connected to the mind and the spirit,” she said.

Felder said she does not have regular clients and does not charge money for her sessions because it is a healing experience for her, too.

“If I feel like I have bad energy, and I’m feeling depleted, I’ll just ask my friends if they want a Reiki session,” she said.

“Through healing them, it heals me.”

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Lydia King, a freshman studying pre-professional biology, poses for a portrait with some of the essential oils she brought to college. King uses different oils for different therapeutic purposes. (EMMA HOWELLS / PHOTO EDITOR) LEFT: Lydia King, a freshman, displays some of the essential oils she brought to college, such as lemongrass, peppermint, orange and eucalyptus.

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RIGHT: Jordan Mossing, 27, of Toledo, rides along Route 32 on his way to Cincinnati on Oct. 3.

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RIGHT: Mossing eats outside of Avalanche Pizza on East State Street early in the morning of Oct. 2.

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LEFT: Mossing packs up his tent after camping out along the bike path on Oct. 2. (PATRICK CONNOLLY / FOR THE POST)

Toledo man spreads love, bikes across country ALEX MCCANN FOR THE POST

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n August, Jordan Mossing made a stop in Athens after leaving his old life in Toledo behind to bike across America.

The 27-year-old lives in a tent and plans to eventually visit all 50 states.

Mossing departed his hometown in August and is currently biking across America in what he calls a “ride to unite.” He hauls his tent in a trailer behind his bike, and spent a few days in Athens before departing for Lexington, Ky. Mossing makes ends meet while traveling by working odd jobs. Even when businesses are unable to offer him short-term employment, he said something good always comes out of it.

“They’re like, ‘Yo, man, we want to give you a job, but we’re overstaffed, or insurance policy … but here’s some money for food, or here’s some food,’ ” Mossing said.

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Every time I choose love over fear, it’s the right decision for me."

-Jordan Mossing, 27-year-old from Toledo The “ride to unite” sprung from Mossing's desire to spread love and to interact with people.

“I was tired of trying to save up money to line up a vacation to go see family or friends that I never see and just barely making it work out," he said.

After working at UPS for six years, Mossing was nervous to leave his old life behind. However, after looking back at his traveling experience, he does not regret the decision.

Kazmin Henkin, who is from Painesville, met Mossing at Donkey Coffee and

Espresso.

“I was just walking around the corner, and I see three people sitting at the table, and on the table there’s some awesome magic crystals,” Henkin said.

Henkin then introduced himself to Mossing and the other people at the table. The two quickly discovered that they shared similar lifestyles.

“What are the chances?” Mossing said.

“He’s a traveler. I’m a traveler.”

Initially, Henkin and Mossing were planning on traveling to Florida together as the weather became colder, but the two bikers instead decided to bike through Ohio together last week.

However, the pair have more in common than a love for biking — they are both freestyle rappers.

“We both like to freestyle, we like to get on the mic, we like to perform for people,” Henkin said. “What we share is an extension of ourselves and our light within.”

Henkin posts some of his freestyles to

SoundCloud under his emcee name Kazamondo. Both Henkin and Mossing are fond of rapping at open mic nights. Mossing previously performed at Donkey Coffee on Sept. 29.

“The message … of love — we both share that so strongly. Not just what we put out (with) our vibes naturally, but, yes, into our creativity, our music,” Mossing said.

Mossing said he has grown immensely as a person through Ride to Unite. “(I’m) still working on myself, still learning about myself with this trip,” he said. “But it’s really, truly stepping into love.”

Mossing believes all actions stem from either fear or love, he said, and Ride to Unite is helping him to make the right choices.

“Every time I choose love over fear, it’s the right decision for me."

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Miniature memorial James E. Guyette tries to find local museum to display crafted scenes

ABBEY MARSHALL FOR THE POST

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ecent Ohio University graduate James E. Guyette was socializing with the wrestling team at Swanky’s, an uptown Athens bar, in 1979 when he laid eyes on the most beautiful woman. He then approached her on the dance floor, beginning their 37-year courtship.

Their relationship came to an end on Sept. 18, when Jill Costa died at age 59 from cardiac arrest after months of battling a growing tumor in her lung.

In an effort to honor the memory of his college sweetheart, Guyette, who graduated with a degree in journalism, is searching for a southeastern Ohio museum or art gallery to display Costa’s unique hobby: miniature scenes.

Costa first became intrigued by miniatures to bond with Guyette’s mother.

“Upon visiting my family home in South Euclid, Ohio, Jill thought the miniatures were really cool,” Guyette, a former Post employee, said. “She thought it was something her and my mom could work on together. Jill embraced the hobby as her own.”

Costa not only used miniatures to connect with her family’s past, such as recreating a scale model of her grandfather’s bar in Youngstown, but also to display the historical significance of industry in southeastern Ohio. Costa made scenes modeled after coal mines and the brick plant in Nelsonville, where she lived.

“Southeastern Ohio was very known for its coal mining industry,” Guyette said.

“Jill’s hometown was close to the Hocking River, and a lot of what was left of the railroad from coal-mining was in her hometown.”

Costa used objects she found at flea markets and train shows to create scenes, such as a miniature Tiki bar made primarily of a reworked manger from a Nativity scene. Her imagination is what made Costa’s work so impressive, Guyette said.

“I like the creativity that Jill put into designing and building these things,” Guyette said. “She would gather all the pieces and parts and alter them and do some deep thinking to fit them into the display and figure out how to put everything in context.”

Guyette has enlisted other people in his quest to find the miniatures a home.

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LEFT: OU alumnus James E. Guyette is looking for a place to display miniatures made by his late partner, Jill Costa, who passed away in September.

Ann Addington, OU’s assistant director for health promotion, met Costa through community meetings held by the Collegiate Recovery Community. She was one of the first community members to enroll in the SMART Recovery group to have discussions with students and other local citizens.

After Costa’s death, Guyette, whom Addington had never met, got in touch with her about his plan to memorialize Costa.

“After she passed, her boyfriend contacted me and asked if there was anyone I knew to preserve those miniatures she made,” Addington said. “I knew a few people in Nelsonville (and) started contacting people.”

Because of the strong ties Costa’s work has to southeastern Ohio, Addington said Appalachian communities can benefit from the miniatures.

“Some of them are really representative of Appalachia,” Addington said. “She captures some of the history of Nelsonville, southeastern Ohio and Appalachia.”

In addition to Costa’s historical contribution, she made an impact in the OU medical school. Costa studied nursing at Hocking College so donating her body to science seemed logical to her, Guyette said, even though it surprised him at first.

“Jill was a very generous soul,” Guyette said. “She was very proud of what she had done because she felt she was sparing her family any difficulty in arranging a burial space. She felt she was benefiting society by having other students learn from her death.”

Macy Kuhar, a sophomore studying pre-nursing, is reaping the benefits of Costa’s generous donation. Her father, OU alumnus Mark Kuhar, is a friend and former of colleague Guyette.

“With anatomy, it’s one thing to read about it in a book or to dissect an animal,” Kuhar said, “but to have a cadaver and to be able to see the things you learn about come to life, that’s pretty valuable for someone who is going to be in the medical profession.”

Through her life and death, Costa made an impact on so many people’s lives, Guyette said.

“I’m hoping Jill’s legacy can live on forever because of all the good times we experienced over many years,” Guyette said. “With the time and efforts Jill put into her miniatures, I think that’s an accomplishment that should live on forever.

It’s wonderful that Jill’s contributions to medical science might live on forever.”

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James E. Guyette and his college sweetheart, Jill Costa, pose for a photo. (JAMES E. GUYETTE / PROVIDED)

A knack for knapping Flint knappers dig through quarries for “Ohio’s Gemstone”

SEAN WOLFE CULTURE EDITOR

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hris Miller descended into a quarry that, when he stood at the bottom, reached several feet higher than his head.

Above him, a tree sat on the edge of the quarry with its exposed roots extending down into the bed of flint where others had previously dug into the earth hoping to find a vein of Ohio’s official gemstone in Flint Ridge State Park in Glenford.

He has been a flintknapper for 20 years, and he knows exactly for what he is looking. Sifting through the layers of discarded flint littering the ground beneath him, he spotted it: a vein of flint protruding from the wall of the quarry. Its red and yellow hues were still visible through the layer of dust and dirt covering it.

After some trial and error, he dislodged a sizable chunk of flint and turned it over in his hands. He continued to knock pieces off, looking for any cracks or crystals in the rock that could cause problems later in the knapping process.

“This piece could actually be taken home and used,” he said.

Flintknapping is the process of breaking down pieces of flint by removing tiny chips, which creates a razor-sharp edge — the reason Miller always wears protective gloves when digging. Knapped flint can be used for tools such as arrowheads and knives, and the process itself dates back to about 15,000 years ago, when Paleo-Indians moved to Ohio and began hunting in the region, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The veins of flint in Flint Ridge are located on private property, so it is up to the owners whether they want to allow diggers on their property.

Since 1956, Marion Nethers has lived on the property where Miller’s favorite quarry is located. Her son owns the land, but she weighs and sells extracted rocks to diggers who wish to make use of the quarry. Because she can’t always be present to take payments, she relies on an honor system with a scale and a sign-in sheet on her front porch.

“My theory on it is, I gave you every opportunity to be honest,” Nethers said.

“And if you choose to be dishonest, it’s not going to hurt me, but some day you will have to answer for it.”

Chris Miller displays a flint arrowhead at a quarry near Flint Ridge State Park.

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Various arrowheads from Chris Miller’s collection sit on the ground next to his foot as he shapes a piece. (OLIVER HAMLIN / FOR THE POST)

Flint Ridge is one of the most wellknown flint deposits in Ohio. People have worked with its deposits of flint for more than 12,000 years, since Native Americans came to the area to replace their broken and worn-down flint tools.

Certain conditions must be met in order for the flint to be ideal for knapping. Due to its composition, when flint is struck headon, a cone-shaped fracture comes off at the point at which it was hit. Crystals, cracks and exposure to the sun and cold are all factors that could cause fractures in flint.

After Miller extracted a piece of flint from the quarry, he took out his tools and began chipping away, slowly forming it into a rounded shape. When the edge of the flint is hit by a hammer, the vibrations travel down the “ridges,” or the raised surfaces.

“Once you learn the art of ‘coning,’ now you can take off the flakes that you want to remove because you understand the shape of them,” he said.

The more Miller struck the flint, the closer it began to resemble an arrowhead.

The rock just previously buried under sediment and roots was transformed into a tool whose design dates back thousands of years.

Once the flint has been formed into the desired shape, knappers use a process called heat treating to create a glossy finish on the rock and to enhance the natural colors. Heat treating occurs in a kiln and can take from 24 to 36 hours, with temperatures up to 550 degrees, Miller said.

Depending on the color and style of the flint, as well as the time that went into making it, Miller said some of his arrowheads will sell for up to $150. One particular arrowhead, which was made using one of the oldest-known techniques dating back to more than 13,000 years ago, could sell for nearly $1,000 an inch.

Since starting his maintenance business and caring for his mother, who recently developed Alzheimer’s disease, Miller has not had much time to return to Flint Ridge.

He said he used to spend upwards of a third of a year living in the area, digging and knapping flint for a living. In the past three years, Miller estimated he had only returned to Flint Ridge fewer than three times.

“This is like my second home,” he said.

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Chris Miller, a flintknapper from Mansfield, digs for rocks at a flint quarry near Flint Ridge State Park on Oct. 11. (OLIVER HAMLIN / FOR THE POST) THEPOSTATHENS.COM / 11

Ensuring Athens’ safety

Boil orders are common in Athens, but data show the city’s water quality is acceptable ALEX MEYER SENIOR WRITER When the City of Athens issued a boil order for two blocks on the east side of town on Monday, Oct. 10, Phil Perry didn’t find out until the next day.

Perry, an Athens resident who lives on Dalton Avenue, said he did not have to boil any water, but began to use bottled water as soon as he found out.

Such boil orders are typically a precautionary measure city officials take when Athens’ water lines could potentially become contaminated, Andrew Stone, Athens’ Public Works director and city engineer, said.

But the city’s water almost never becomes contaminated, he said, and the water meets quality standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to recent data.

Through maintaining water lines and protecting water wells, city and county officials work to ensure residents like Perry are drinking clean water.

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Water lines are under pressure for years and years, and over time, they degrade and don’t have capability to hold that (pressure). “ - Andrew Stone, Athens Engineering and Public Works director and city engineer BOIL ORDERS DON’T MEAN CONTAMINATION

Athens Water Treatment Plant Manager Shawn Beasley conducts a water test in the plant’s laboratory. The water begins as a pink color, but eventually turns blue after testing. CARL FONTICELLA / PHOTO EDITOR)

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The City of Athens issues boil orders when pollutants — such as metals or bacteria — could potentially enter the city’s water lines, Stone said.

“If we ever can’t guarantee (water is safe), we issue a boil order,” Stone said.

Boil orders usually happen when the pressure in the city’s water lines falls below 20 psi, or pounds of pressure per square inch. Pressure in the city’s water pipes keeps out contaminants, he said, and if the pressure drops, contaminants may get in the water supply.

The city issues boil orders through email and text notifications, announcements on local radio stations, social media and an alert website. The orders recommend residents in a particular area boil their water before drinking it or using it to prepare food.

From 2011 to 2015, the city had an average of about 23 boil

itors levels of corrosiveness in water in its wells at the treatment plant, according to the report, but lead can still be a problem for homes with old pipes.

“Water that sits in pipes unused for extended periods of time (months or more) still has the potential to leach lead from those pipes,” the report states, adding residents should run the water for a few minutes if using water from old, unused pipes for drinking.

Ohio has nine current lead advisories, but none are present in southeastern Ohio, according to the Ohio EPA’s drinking water advisory map.

orders per year, according to data from the Athens Engineering and Public Works Department.

Many problems can cause boil orders, Stone said, including pump malfunctions and line breaks.

“Water lines are under pressure for years and years, and over time, they degrade and don’t have capability to hold that (pressure),” he said.

The boil orders give the city time to test water for contamination after a problem arises.

“In the last 35 years, there’s only been one sample that’s come back with a contamination problem,” he said. “Almost always, the water is fine.”

In Perry’s case, the city issued a boil order for parts of Dalton Avenue and Grand Park Boulevard due to ongoing water line improvements.

“They’ve been working on it for about three weeks,” Perry said.

PROTECTING WATER IN SUSCEPTIBLE AREAS

KEEP OUT CONTAMINANTS

From a regulation standpoint, Athens’ public water is acceptable, according to local and national data.

The city tests its water quality multiple times per day in different areas and sends data to the Ohio EPA, Stone said. The agency regulates all public water in the state, Ohio EPA spokeswoman Heidi Griesmer said.

Athens had only two health-based violations in the past 10 years, according to the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water database, and the last time such a violation occurred was in 2009.

Athens’ water is pulled from the ground using wells. The city has 17 wells, mostly located around the west side of the city, which stretch 30 to 60 feet deep into aquifers, Stone said. Aquifers are porous layers of rock that contain and release water, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

“Each well has a pump on it and pumps water out of the ground and sends it to the water treatment plant,” Stone said.

The Athens Water Treatment Plant, 395 W. State St., filters and aerates the water and adds chemicals to treat the water, such as chlorine, he said. At the plant, the city monitors for dirt, metals and “organic contaminants,” or germs.

The EPA sets national standards for the amount of contaminants allowed to be in water, and Athens met every standard, according to laboratory test results in the city’s 2016 drinking water Consumer Confidence Report.

One drinking water contaminant — lead — has been in the spotlight in recent years following the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

Flint switched to a new water supply in 2014, causing its drinking water to have high lead levels from corrosive supply pipes, according to NPR. Lead in drinking water can cause “de-

ABOVE: Shawn Beasley poses for a portrait inside the Athens Water Treatment Plant.

Beasley is the plant manager. (CARL FONTICELLA / PHOTO EDITOR) LEFT: The Athens Water Treatment Plant is 58 years old, and the machinery has remained the same since it opened. (CARL FONTICELLA / PHOTO EDITOR)

lays in physical or mental development” in infants and children, according to the EPA, and it can cause kidney problems and high blood pressure in adults.

“What happened in Flint is that they had a surface water source and pulled it out of the Flint River, and the river was extremely corrosive,” Stone said. “(Athens has) never had a lead issue.”

Athens has low levels of lead that fall below the EPA maximum, according to the consumer confidence report.

In tests conducted last year, Athens’ water had 2.5 ppb of lead, while the EPA’s maximum was 10 ppb. In comparison, Flint’s water had 27 ppb of lead, almost double the EPA limit, according to a Washington Post report.

The Athens public water system mon-

Much of the Public Works department’s job involves monitoring the wells in what is called the Wellhead Protection Area, Stone said. The area’s aquifers lack a protective layer of clay in the ground above it.

“If something were to be spilled on the ground, it could contaminate the aquifer pretty easily,” Stone said. “So we have an area of the city (where) we have rules about use of pollutants and chemicals that people can use and store.”

The city’s Wellhead Protection Plan restricts the use and storage of potentially polluting chemicals and prohibits certain land use and construction activity.

The city inspects facilities and tests wells regularly, Stone said, and contamination instances are very rare.

“We’ve never had a situation where contamination has made it into an actual water well,” he said.

The Athens Public Water System provides drinking water to about 24,000 people, according to the EPA, which is more than a third of the population of Athens County.

The county has a total of 16 public water systems.

Jack Pepper, director of environmental health at the Athens City-County Health Department, said boil orders do not affect private water systems. But for public water systems, such as the one in Athens, they are a common occurrence.

So far in 2016, the city already issued 23 boil orders, according to the city’s data.

Though the city issued a boil order Monday, another Athens resident, Stephanie Foster, hadn’t heard about it.

“I had the idea that there was one,” Foster said, referring to water line construction in front of her house on Grand Park Boulevard.

“But I usually drink bottled water.”

Stone said residents usually don’t need to worry about boil orders, unless they have an immune system deficiency or another medical issue listed on the city’s website.

“If I have a boil order in my house, I typically drink the water,” he said.

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The 10 seniors on the Ohio University’s hockey team pose for a portrait. The seniors look to leave a legacy after they leave the program. (METIN OZISIK / FOR THE POST)

Seniors ‘want to go out with a bang’ JORDAN HORROBIN STAFF WRITER

A FAMILY

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eilly Moore looks down at his phone and sees a familiar name and face pop up.

On the other end of a FaceTime call is graduated Bobcat forward Michael Harris, who roomed with Moore the previous two years. With texting, phone calls and video chats, old friends and former teammates are never too far away.

“Seniors, even from my first year, are still talking to us,” Moore said. “Like, before our first game (of the season) a couple of them wished us luck and said, ‘We miss you.’ ” Like most teams, Ohio leans on its senior class every year to provide leadership, experience and a sense of unity for its younger players. Keeping in touch after graduation is just another part of that.

“It’s like a family,” senior defenseman Mike LaFrenier said.

The 2016-17 senior class is the foundation of Ohio’s family. The 10-man bunch spends a good chunk of its waking moments studying, eating and playing together. But with all the promise they bring to a title-hungry program, and with the real world on the horizon, they have plenty left to accomplish as a group.

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This is a situation that you really can’t find anywhere else. A bunch of our guys have been around the country or out of the country playing hockey, and personally I know for a fact that I’ve never had any sort of camaraderie like this.”

- Reilly Moore Ohio senior defenseman

Nothing puts a smile on Liam Geither’s face faster than watching an unsuspecting teammate get doused with a helmet-full of water or stumble on skates that have clear tape on the blades.

But for Geither, the fifth-year forward and self-proclaimed “grandfather” of the Bobcats, his pranks are just part of what keeps the team in good spirits. On a typical day, any one of the team’s innumerable inside jokes is enough to fill the locker room with laughter.

“Just trying to make everyone laugh around here,” Geither said, who lists roommates and fellow seniors Patrick Spellacy and Matt Hartman as his favorite targets. Geither and Spellacy have known each other since grade school.

It’s impossible to measure the chemistry that will be lost when this year’s senior class departs, but Ohio coach Sean Hogan knows exactly what he’s going to lose statistically.

The losses include five of the Bobcats’ top seven scorers from a season ago and more than 85 percent of the goalie starts the past three seasons. The seniors account for more than a third of the team’s 28-man roster.

If nothing else, Hogan is losing a big group that has spent years bonding and growing stronger together, physically and mentally.

“Some of them are really young (when they come in) and they grow into men,” Hogan said.

Moore, a senior defenseman who transferred to Ohio after a year at a junior college in New York, appreciates how unified the seniors are. He’s played as far west as Wyoming and as far north as Toronto, but his time as a Bobcat has been something special.

“This is a situation that you really can’t find anywhere else,” he said. “A bunch of our guys have been around the country or out of the country playing hockey, and personally I know for a fact that I’ve never had any sort of camaraderie like this.”

The seniors have played lots of games together, but they don’t leave their chemistry at the rink. They plan movie nights at Fun Barn and save seats when they find a table at Alden Library.

Most of the seniors live together, too. They’ve known each other so long that sometimes a simple look is enough to trigger laughter from an inside joke made long ago.

“We know we’re probably going to go to each others’ weddings and stuff like that out of school,” Moore said.

THE REAL WORLD BECKONS

Geither shook his head and laughed at how quickly his hockey career and his time at OU have come to a close.

His freshman duties, such as team laundry and carrying all the sticks, pucks and water bottles to and from the locker room, seemed like they took place yesterday. Now the adult world was coming at him quick.

“Coming up in six months, I’ve gotta start being a real person,” he said, “which kind of sucks now that I think about it.”

When the hockey season ends some time in March, the senior Bobcats will only have a couple months until school ends for them, too. Pressures to graduate, move away and hunt for jobs are already getting in their heads.

Hogan makes a point of talking to seniors about transitioning from college to the next stages of their lives. The first year or two out of college, when the players’ schedules aren’t broken up into semesters and summer breaks, can be really strange, he said.

He also tries to keep them focused on whatever task is in front of them as senior year starts to drag.

Hitting the middle of a long season, while taking upperlevel classes, makes it easy to become distracted and frustrated.

“When you’re at practice, be at practice,” Hogan tells his seniors. “When you’re at school, be at school.”

Senior winger Patrick Spellacy, who is studying marketing, has considered pursuing professional hockey “if the right opportunity presents itself.” Otherwise, he hopes to land a job with a company in Cleveland where he interned this past summer.

Geither, who is studying management information systems, said he’s currently waiting to hear back from a couple of companies about jobs. He said the job hunt is “a big worry,” but he knows that he and his teammates have futures outside of hockey.

Entering the real world is something all the seniors are thinking about; it is as exciting as it is stressful.

“I think all the guys are excited for their next step,” Moore said. “Everybody has an idea of what they want to do next.”

LEAVING THEIR MARK

Senior Adam Steranko celebrates during a game against John Carroll on Sept. 22. (BLAKE NISSEN / FOR THE POST)

Some of them are really young (when they come in) and they grow into men.”

- Sean Hogan, Ohio Hockey coach

Regular season dominance is expected at Ohio.

For more than 30 years, the Bobcats have finished with a top-ten ranking in the American Collegiate Hockey Association.

Postseason success — both in the Central States Collegiate Hockey League tournament and in the ACHA national tournament — has been less of a guarantee, especially for this year’s senior class.

Only Geither and fifth-year goalie Aaron Alkema, both redshirt freshmen at the time, were on the roster for Ohio’s 2013 CSCHL tournament championship.

Since then, the Bobcats’ current senior class has been runner-up in the division tournament three straight years.

“That’s probably not good enough for Ohio Hockey,” Hogan, who is in his third year of coaching, said.

Their showings in the ACHA national tournament have been worse: two first-round losses and a second-round loss.

The expectation to be better in this final season isn’t necessarily spoken among the seniors, LaFrenier said.

But it’s there and it’s not going away. Especially after last year’s early exit in the national tournament on yet another promising team.

“It stung this entire summer,” Moore said. “It’s been in the back of my mind. We’re all thinking about it and we all want to go out with a bang.”

Going out with a bang would mean winning a championship in the CSCHL, if not the ACHA. It’s a tall order, but for a seasoned group that has accomplished so much in regular season play, championships are all that escape them.

“As seniors, we want to leave a lasting legacy,” Spellacy said. “You see all the banners up here. We want to see one that we can be proud of too.”

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HOCKEY

Gang Green ‘best student section’ JESS UMBARGER FOR THE POST

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ggression is one emotion Ohio’s hockey team and its most devoted fans share.

The student organization known as “Gang Green” considers itself “the best student section in college hockey,” due to its constant taunting of rival teams.

“It just was a high energy atmosphere and it allowed me to yell and scream,” Thomas Fankhauser, an Ohio University alumnus and previous member of Gang Green, said at the game against Colorado on Saturday, Oct. 8. Fankhauser was a member of Gang Green for five years before he graduated last spring with a bachelor’s degree in classical civilizations.

Fankhauser rarely stopped yelling during the game in Bird Arena, taunting the other team’s goalie with chants that played on the his last name — “Ball.” Actually, few members remained quiet throughout the entirety of the game, and many wouldn’t let the emcee announce who on the other team scored. Instead, Gang Green drowned the emcee out by chanting “no one cares.”

One member of Gang Green wore mask designed to look like a cat’s face, and harassed opponents who ended up in the penalty box — right next to where the student organization sits.

Matt Rudin, a sophomore forward for Ohio, said in an email that he “can see the frustration in the eyes of the players” when Gang Green is in full force.

Its members even go as far as knowing the opponents’ first names so they can attempt to distract and irritate them further.

Rudin said the devotion the squad has to Ohio’s team 16 / OCT. 13, 2016

It just was a high energy atmosphere and it allowed me to yell and scream.

LEFT: Gang Green cheers from the stands during Ohio’s game against Colorado on Oct. 8 in Bird Arena.

Gang Green is present at nearly every Ohio hockey game to cheer on the Bobcats and taunt the opposing team.

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- Thomas Fankhauser, an OU alumnus and previous member of Gang Green is “something special”.

Emily Witte, a senior studying education, said her favorite part of each game is usually “ripping the goalie apart.”

One of the many Gang Green traditions includes a member running around the rink each time Ohio scores, adding another person to the line for every goal made, Taylor Baird, the president of Gang Green, said.

“The (goalies) on the other teams don’t notice until it’s like four or five people, and then they realize what we’re doing and they feel really terrible,” Baird, a senior studying psychology and anthropology, said.

Fankhauser said that being a part of Gang Green was “better than therapy” for him.

Baird said many of the group’s traditions, such as dancing to “YMCA” and “Sweet Caroline,” were already established by the time she became president.

The student section includes all of the attendees nearby, encourages all fans to join Gang Green’s enthusiastic cheers.

And the group is usually successful; many of the fans near Gang Green members begin to cheer with as much fervor as the members themselves.

On Saturday, one child in attendance even walked over to the section with his

own hockey stick sporting an attached OU flag — something many of the members carry themselves.

The child soon began waving his flag with the student section members during each goal Ohio made, and at the beginning of each intermission.

“We have a lot of little kids who will come and hang out with us during the game and will follow us,” Baird said. “(It’s) really cool to see the impact we are having on them.”

Even though Gang Green is a relatively small group, their members were among the loudest fans in attendance at Bird Arena on Saturday. Baird said the group has about 10 legitimate members, though the members are usually able to make a few more devoted fans each game.

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The Co$t of Diabetes Students with diabetes affected by insulin prices

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ate D’Aurelio, never expected Confirmation preparation to be so difficult.

Though his sponsor provided a steady supply of sugary donuts to keep him interested in weekly get-togethers, D’Aurelio couldn’t help falling asleep halfway through the meetings. His parents knew something was wrong with their then-13-year-old son — they just couldn’t figure out what.

“A few weeks later, I couldn’t even get out of bed,” D’Aurelio recalled. “I was so drained and tired. I had no energy.”

Just a few weeks later, doctors discovered that D’Aurelio’s blood glucose level was nearly 690 milligrams/deciliter. Typically, human blood glucose levels hover at about 100, fluctuating with food consumption and physical activity. At that rate, D’Aurelio was just steps away from falling into a coma.

His parents rushed him to the hospital in the middle of the night, where the conclusion became all but obvious: D’Aurelio was exhibiting the textbook symptoms of Type 1 diabetes — an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas is unable to produce insulin, the hormone that allows the body to process sugar.

He would spend the coming days learning to navigate the complex ins and outs of a disease that affects approximately 1.25 million Americans and requires aroundthe-clock vigilance.

Now, a senior studying accounting at Ohio University, D’Aurelio has nearly eight years of experience carefully counting carbs and monitoring his blood sugar, taking insulin every time he eats.

On a sunny Wednesday afternoon, he swings by Wendy’s for lunch, calculating the number of carbs in the food before pricking his finger with a lancet and dabbing a spot of blood onto a thin strip that reads his blood sugar levels.

Blood glucose test strips — crucial components of a diabetic’s routine — cost on average about $1 per unit. D’Aurelio estimates that he tests his blood sugar about six or seven times per day. At that rate, it can be estimated that Type 1 diabetics like D’Aurelio spend at least $2,500 per year — and that is just the test strips.

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One carton of NovoLog, the insulin that D’Aurelio uses to keep his blood sugar in check, costs an average of $600.

A new analysis by The Journal of American Medicine Association, however, reveals an even more concerning fact: The cost of insulin nearly tripled between 2002 and 2013, rising from approximately $231 to $736.

As most of D’Aurelio’s expenses are covered by his parents’ insurance, he counts himself among the relatively lucky ones — those who would seldom lose sleep at night over the price of the life-saving substance. But for the millions of Americans not covered by health insurance, an increase in prices could be a matter of life and death.

“There is a cause for worry,” Amber Healy, an assistant professor of diabetology, said. “The rising costs of insulin make it harder for patients to afford other necessities like food, utilities, rent and medication for other members of their household.”

When diabetics find themselves struggling to make ends meet, Healy explained, they tend to seek out dangerous alternative methods, which can range from skipping insulin doses to omitting them altogether.

Karen Bailey, co-director of clinical care at the Diabetes Institute, explained that finding the right insurance is often a headache for students transitioning off their parents’ coverage.

“The problem is that the market is very purposefully confusing,” Bailey said. “The whole point is to make a profit.”

Though D’Aurelio is far from reaching the drastic measures that Healy described, he is concerned that pharmaceutical companies such as Novo Nordisk, which manufactures NovoLog, are heading in a direction that values sales over consumer wellbeing.

Pondering the implications, he places his order at an ice cream shop counter: two scoops of vanilla on a sugar cone — ”just what a diabetic needs.”

“You need insulin to survive. I feel like something that you need every day shouldn’t be allowed to get jacked up crazy high,” D’Aurelio said. “They’re supposed to be selling insulin to help us. Not to make a profit off us.”

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Nate D’Aurelio, a senior studying accounting and a Type 1 diabetic, poses for a portrait with his insulin pump in Ohio University’s Radio Television building. (OLIVER HAMLIN / FOR THE POST)

ELECTIONS

Local Republicans say Trump’s policies matter more than morals Despite recently leaked audio, some women in Athens County say they still support Trump and his policies LUKE TORRANCE FOR THE POST

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ours before what was to become one of the most difficult days for the Trump campaign, Athens resident and volunteer Rebecca Keller was explaining why she supported Donald Trump.

“He’s a fresh mind, a different perspective,” Keller said. “He doesn’t owe anybody anything. I think it’s time we tried something different.”

Around the time the Athens campaign office closed for the day Oct. 7, a recording from 2005 was published in which Trump made vulgar comments and discussed cheating on his wife. Trump issued an apology that night, but several Republicans still renounced the candidate, including U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio.

“Donald Trump’s comments were offensive and wrong,” Portman said in a statement on his website. “While I continue to respect those who still support Donald Trump, I can no longer support him.”

Ohio will be a key battleground state this November, and it will be difficult for Donald Trump to win the election without carrying the swing state. A CBS poll released Oct. 9 showed Clinton leading Ohio with 46 percent of likely voters, compared to Trump’s 42 percent. Nationally, the two candidates are tied among men, but Clinton has a 14-point lead among women, according to a Rasmussen poll released Monday. If Trump is to carry the state, he’ll need the support of voters like Keller.

“I still love him, and I’m standing by him,” Keller said about the weekend’s controversy. “The media is taking irrelevant things and trying to distract us from the crooked criminal Hillary Clinton. ... Nothing would change my mind (about Trump).”

Keller was not always a staunch Republican. She said she keeps an open mind and even voted for President Barack Obama in 2008. But she feels the Obama Administration has not acted responsibly.

“I just got nervous when I started to see

LEFT Rebecca Keller, left, and Larry Gibson, right, work at the Athens County Republican Party headquarters, located on West Union Street, on Oct. 7.

Keller is one of many women supporting Donald Trump for president. (CHRIS PENWELL / FOR THE POST)

my country slip away,” she said. “Why do I have to clip coupons, and you get to do irresponsible things?”

Keller is one of many Athens women planning to vote for Trump. Rebecca Thacker is a professor at Ohio University’s College of Business and the chair of the local Women for Trump group. The group is not organized in the way traditional political groups are in that they do not hold meetings or host events.

“Often people meet just to meet,” Thacker said of the policy to not hold meetings. “Our group is grassroots; it’s informal in the way the whole Donald Trump movement has been.”

Instead, she encourages fellow female Trump supporters to speak to other women about why Trump would be a better option than Clinton for the presidency.

She admits that can sometimes be a diffi-

cult task in Athens, where the population has a tendency to lean liberal at the polls.

Thacker said she was not bothered

by Trump’s 2005 remarks released over the weekend.

“I think there are a lot of red-blooded American men who talk like that,” she said.

“But I’m not going to base my decision on if he’s a moral character. If people want to focus on that, then it’s tunnel vision. We need to focus on how we can fix our country.”

The Athens County Republican Party hosted a debate watch party Sunday, and Keller was among those in attendance. She said the mood at the party was good, and the crowd was excited about Trump as the election continues.

“He got through the nonsense,” she said.

“We thought he handled the questions well, even if (the moderators) tried to force

the debate into the gutter at first.”

Missy Pedulla is a freshman studying biochemistry and a member of the OU College Republicans, and she said she plans to support Trump for president.

“I support his economic and foreign policies, and I believe he will do the best to uphold the Constitution,” Pedulla said.

Like Thacker, Pedulla said she was more concerned with Trump’s plans for the country than his morals.

“I do not agree, condone or support anything that was said over this past weekend,” she said. “However, I am voting for him based on his policies.”

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Umamahesh Yellamraju’s gods are displayed in the room which holds his shrine.

Krishna, left, and Radha, right, are Indian gods displayed in Umamahesh Yellamraju’s shrine. They are a symbol for spiritual love.

Lord Ganesha is one of the most wellknown Indian gods. Whenever Hindus pray, they begin by praying to him.

A figurine depicts Saraswati Ma, the Indian goddess of knowledge and literature.

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graduate student studying English, said Hindu students would be missing the cultural aspect of going to temple.

“What they (are) missing is the social experience (and) celebrating the festivals,” Luthra said.

Luthra does not think a temple is necessary, however, because international students should interact with people outside of their culture.

“If you just have your own temple and your own group from your own country and religion … then you’re not actually making really good use of this wonderful opportunity that for many people, is an opportunity of a lifetime,” Luthra said.

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tudents who are Buddhist, Muslim and Jewish — and many who practice other ideologies — all have a building in which to worship in Athens.

One spiritual tradition not represented in Athens is Hinduism.

Without a temple, who are Hindu, like Chinky Dhingra, practice their beliefs outside a formal institution.

“For me, I have a collage that has all the pictures of all the gods,” Dhingra, a graduate student studying computer science, said.

Hinduism is not represented in a community center or place of worship in Athens, but some Hindu students do not think a local temple is necessary because of alternative ways of worship.

NEW VIEWS OF HINDUISM Hinduism is a set of traditions followed by people primarily in India and Nepal, as well as people of Indian descent throughout the world, according to BBC. Many different sects of Hinduism exist, however, and it is difficult to find beliefs that all Hindus share, Brian Collins, the Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande chair in Indian religion and philosophy, said.

“For the most part, all Hindus recognize the authority of the Vedas (sacred scriptures in Hinduism) as the ultimate authority of revelation,” Collins, who teaches Hinduism as well as other courses about religion, said. “For the most part, they all worship, engage and celebrate the festivals and the rights of at least one of the Hindu gods.”

Swati Roy, a sophomore studying international business, said Hinduism differs from person to person based on individual beliefs, and people pray by themselves whenever they need to.

“It’s a personal opinion,” Prashant Kumar Kuntala, the president of Indian Students Association, said. “You’re a Hindu, but it’s up to you how much you want to spend praying. It’s a personal choice.”

Roy said some Hindus do not believe there is a specific god or way of worship.

“Some just believe that religion is just a way of life,” Roy said. “You just do good deeds, and good deeds come back to you.

You just pray to a divine energy. It doesn’t have to be a specific god or a specific idol that you worship.”

Roy’s beliefs are different from her parents, which she said is common among many younger people who are Hindu.

“I don’t know which Hindus are really religious,” Roy, who is from Dhaka,

Classics and world religions professor Brian Collins poses for a portrait in his office on October 12. Collins mainly teaches courses focused on Hinduism and Buddhism.

Bangladesh, said. “Because every time I meet someone, if they’re from this generation, it’s very hard to find someone who’s really religious.”

In 2014, 26 percent of Hindus in the U.S. said religion is “very important” to them, compared 45 percent of Hindus in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center.

The newer generation of Hindus does not have as many mandatory customs to pray every day as previous generations did, Roy said, which is why younger Hindus may not practice and go to temple as often as their parents do.

Roy said she does not like labels but would consider herself more of an agnostic atheist, although her parents are still very religious. She knows many Hindus who worship or pray because their parents want them to.

WORSHIP IN ATHENS Having no place of worship in Athens, practicing Hindus have found alternate ways to worship.

“Hindu students are in and out, and the settled community here has not grown to the place where they’re investing in (a Hindu place of worship),” Collins said.

In Ohio, 12 Hindu temples have been established; the nearest ones to Athens are in the Columbus area. “(In Southern India), it’s very common to have two to three temples within four or five streets apart,” Kuntala, a graduate student studying computer science who is from Hyderabad, India, said.

Dhingra said her mother would want her to go to temple at least once a week, but members of the younger generation typically just go to temple on festivals, ceremonies or their birthdays.

Hindu festivals are widely celebrated

with a large group of people, Roy said. The Indian Students Association celebrates two main Hindu festivals throughout the year, Holi and Diwali.

“It’s just being with the family and the people in the festivals and the ceremonies,” Roy said. “It’s just the aspect of being together and celebrating something.

(The festivals are about) spreading more love and inclusion and spirituality.”

This year, the Indian Students Association will celebrate Diwali on Nov. 6. The celebration serves to get rid of Hindus’ sorrows, Roy said.

“We believe that by lighting candles and things like oil lamps, we get rid of the darkness in our lives,” Roy said.

Holi, in honor of spring, happens in Spring Semester and is celebrated with two different events, Kuntala said. One will be solely for throwing colors, and the other will be a formal dinner.

In addition to celebrating festivals on campus, Hindu students have found other ways to worship without a temple in Athens.

“It’s not that we don’t believe in god,” Dhingra said. “It’s that we just don’t believe in going to temples in order to connect with god. ... As long as you’re honest to yourself and do the right thing, that’s what really matters. And for us, I understand most of us, we do believe in god.”

Collins said having a temple or Hindu community center would be helpful for both Hindu students and people who are curious about the traditions.

“For (Hindu students), it would make it easier for them to stay in touch with their traditions,” Collins said. “For everybody else, it provides a place for you to learn about Hinduism.”

However, Nitin Luthra, a first-year

PRACTICING PRIVATELY In Hinduism, there are thousands of Hindu gods, and idols — small statues or photos that depict gods — are a way for Hindus to worship in physical form, Collins said.

Roy said small idols Hindus can carry are reminders that a god is with them.

“Even when you don’t have a space or you don’t have other people who are Hindus, you still have somewhere to turn to when you want to pray,” Roy said.

Roy’s mother gave her a small idol of the goddess of knowledge, Saraswati Ma. “So it’s just a portrayal of strength and divinity and spirituality all into one,” Roy said. “And when you turn to that idol, it just makes you feel more safe (and) more stable in your life.”

Umamahesh Yellamraju, an internal medicine physician from Hyderabad, India, and his family built their own temple in the northeast corner of their home in Athens.

Yellamraju’s temple smells of jasmine, and the god Radha Krishna is displayed prominently in the middle of the room.

Pink curtains flow down the wall next to pictures of other Hindu gods.

He and his family use the temple everyday and pray inside it before every meal.

Still, Yellamraju said there would be benefits to having a temple in Athens.

“It would be nice to have (a formal temple in Athens) for my kids’ sake,” Yellamraju said. “There’s only so much we can explain to them about (Hinduism) unless they feel it and see it.”

Dhingra said one major Hindu belief is karma, the idea that if someone does a good deed, then good deeds will happen to them.

“We don’t have to go to temple to be religious, we just believe, like any normal good person, we should do good and good things will happen to us,” Dhingra said.

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the weekender Nelsonville Public Square to bring 20th annual Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Fest The Nelsonville Chamber of Commerce has hosted the annual festival since 2008, bringing 40 teams to compete in meat-specific competitions LUKE FURMAN FOR THE POST Barbecue competitors and connoisseurs will travel to Nelsonville this weekend to flood the streets with the aromas of slow-cooked pork, ribs, brisket and chicken. And that’s not to mention the sweet sauces and peppery rubs.

“When you get that many teams, cookers and smoke, it smells delicious,” John Gambill, a pitmaster of Historic BBQ based in Lebanon, said. “People say they smell it driving past Nelsonville.”

The Ohio Smoked Meat and Barbecue Festival will start at 8 a.m. Friday, when teams begin to set up, and will run until 3 p.m.

Saturday, when the winners are presented with their awards on the main stage of Elks Lodge, according to the event’s website.

Vendors will sell food after 5 p.m.

Friday and after noon Saturday.

In its 20th year, 40 teams are scheduled to participate in several meat-specific competitions and the lauded “Grand Champion” title. The festival is among the bigger barbecue competitions in Ohio, Paul Grant of Slippery Pete’s BBQ from Wadsworth, said.

Hocking College and the Inn at Hocking College hosted the event for the first 11 years of its existence before the Nelsonville Area Chamber of Commerce took on the responsibility of organizing the event in 2008.

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Last year, Historic BBQ picked up first place in the brisket competition. Gambill said the team likes to cook at low temperatures using smoke as a complementary flavor. Evoking natural flavors of meat, especially chicken, also garners the team compliments from the public, Gambill said.

“The community supports the festival and does a good job of running it,” he said Nelsonville’s Public Square and the surrounding pavement will be closed to traffic and will serve as the location for the smoky gathering. There is no admission fee.

Grant said the competition draws talented and top teams from around the region and throughout the country.

“A lot of teams stay awake the entire night,” Grant said. “For an Ohio contest, to be holding 40plus teams is saying something.”

Gambill noted the atmosphere of the festival has shifted and refined over the years.

“There used to be a lot of people there for the party and only a few serious cookers and now there’s more serious cookers than partiers,” Gambill said. “It’s a tough weekend, and there are a lot of talented teams.”

He said the event acts as a precursor to the Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational held in Lynchburg, Tennessee on Oct. 22, and Nelsonville offers an opportunity to get one last cook in before

Barbecue teams, like Slippery Pete’s BBQ, set up on Nelsonville’s streets. (PAUL GRANT / PROVIDED)

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A lot of teams stay awake the entire night.

- Paul Grant, competitor

an event of such magnitude.

The Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival is set to award $10,000 in prizes on Saturday to the top teams that reach the podium.

The festival is Kansas City Barbecue Society-certified and local representatives will be in attendance.

Along with Gambill, Grant also praised the festival’s historic setup in town.

“Nelsonville is a great host and sponsor,” Grant said. “The organizers are some of the best around, and a lot of people look forward to the competition.”

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IF YOU GO WHAT: Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival WHEN: Friday and Saturday WHERE: Nelsonville Public Square ADMISSION: Free, food for sale

WEEKENDER BRIEFS

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hough Homecoming Weekend’s antics may be in the past, Ohio University students will still have the chance to showcase their school spirit by attending the football game against Eastern Michigan University on Saturday, or by getting to know fellow classmates through a rock climbing clinic.

Additionally, Donkey Coffee & Espresso will host “f-word,” described as “a provocatively good time … with a new installment of their spoken-word musings” Friday and Lex & Rob + Kallan, a vocal and guitar medley, on Saturday.

Also on Saturday, the OU football team will play Eastern Michigan while honoring veterans, active-duty mil-

itary and first responders. High school band members will be joining the Marching 110 during the game as well.

The softball team will also take the field Saturday at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. against Charleston.

On the more adventurous side, Outdoor Pursuits will lead a rock climbing clinic for any beginners who are interested in the sport. There will also be recreational ice skating in Bird Arena on Sunday for those looking to burn off some steam before the week begins.

For those looking to spend their weekend listening to live music, several venue will be hosting shows. On Saturday, the Union Bar & Grill will host Natural Sway, Hex Net and Crooked Spine. Natural Sway will be celebrating

Friday What: Outdoor Pursuits Lead Climbing Clinic When: 7 p.m.

Where: Charles J. Ping Student Recreation Center Admission: Free

The Outdoor Pursuits team will lead a rock climbing clinic on Friday to assist those who lack experience.

Students can join the team at the rock climbing wall in Ping to develop some new skills. The clinic will benefit both those students who have prior experience with climbing, or those looking to take on a whole new hobby entirely.

What: f-word When: 8 p.m., Where: Donkey Coffee & Espresso, 17 W. Washington St. Admission: Free

Saturday What: Ohio football vs. Eastern Michigan When: 2 p.m.

Where: Peden Stadium Admission: Free for OU students, $20-$25 for non-students

Saturday’s game will be “Heroes Day” and “Band Day.” Attendees can join the football team in honoring veterans, active-duty military, police officers, firemen and first responders.

More than 100 cadets will be sworn in during halftime. At the same time, more than 2,000 high school band members will join the Marching 110 on the field to honor Band Day.

a record release, and all three bands are from the Athens and Columbus areas. There will be a $5 cover charge.

Hosted by A-Town roots, an “Indy DJ Takeover” will include three DJs from Indianapolis: Magnetic, Indigo Child and Cam Miller, also with a $5 cover charge. The “takeover” will take place at The Venue of Drxvms on Saturday. In addition, Jim Volk, a traditional guitarist from Columbus, will perform at Athens Uncorked on Saturday night.

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Sunday What: Lex & Rob + Kallan When: 8 p.m.

Where: Donkey Coffee & Espresso, 17 W. Washington St. Admission: $15 per person What: Recreational Skate When: 2:30 p.m.

Where: Bird Arena Admission: Free for OU students with ID and children under 5, $3.50 for OU employees and children under 18, $4 for all other adults

What: Kids Day At Little Fish Brewing Co. When: 3 p.m.

Where: Little Fish Brewing Co., 8675 Armitage Rd. Admission: Food and drink for sale

What: Natural Sway, Hex Net and Crooked Spines When: 9 p.m.

Where: The Union Bar & Grill, 18 W. Union St. Admission: $5 cover charge What: Magnetic, Indigo Child and Cam Miller When: 9 p.m.

Where: The Union Bar & Grill, 18 W. Union St. Admission: $5 cover charge What: An Intimate Evening with Guitarist Jim Volk When: 8 p.m.

Where: Athens Uncorked, 14 Station St. Admission: Free

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