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‘Post’ celebrates business clients, alumni with event I

t is not too often that Post editors and reporters find the time to meet those who truly make our print publication and recent website redesign possible: the business leaders Uptown and marketing specialists on Ohio University’s campus who purchase advertisements each issue which fund our newsroom.

The Post — luckily — has been able to maintain its editorial independence and newsroom operations largely through advertising revenue, coupled with donations from our generous and robust alumni population.

That editorial independence — which allows us to operate as an entirely student-run newsroom and publish without the prior review of an OU faculty member — has contributed to our rich history of deep reporting and media innovation, EMMA OCKERMAN / and this is something we would like to thank our EDITOR-IN-CHIEF advertisers for.

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Emma Ockerman is a senior studying journalism and editor-in-chief of The Post. Want to talk to her? Tweet her at @eockerman or email her at eo300813@ohio.edu.

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Top Presidential Salaries in the MAC GRAPHIC BY CHANCE BRINKMAN-SULL / GRAPHICS DIRECTOR

= $10,000

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SALARIES OU President McDavis receives the highest yearly salary of all his Ohio MAC counterparts MEGAN HENRY ASST. NEWS EDITOR

$450,000 UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO

$495,000 MIAMI UNIVERSITY

SHARON L. GABER

GREG CRAWFORD

$500,000

$450,000

OHIO UNIVERSITY

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

RODERICK MCDAVIS

BEVERLY WARREN

$370,000

$412,136

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BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY

MATTHEW J. WILSON

MARY ELLEN MAZEY

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espite receiving the third highest salary at Ohio University, President Roderick McDavis earns the highest salary of the six Mid-American Conference universities in Ohio.

McDavis’ 2016-17 salary is $500,000, which has nearly doubled during his 12 years as president.

“That’s a lot of money,” Nina Zingale, a sophomore studying early childhood education, said.

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.

McDavis, the second alumnus and the first black president of OU, began his term during the 2004-05 academic year. Back then, his salary was $275,000.

In March, McDavis announced he would step down as president when his contract expires June 30, 2017.

Despite Zingale’s surprise at how much McDavis makes, she was not bothered by the half-amillion dollar figure.

“As long as it isn’t negatively impacting me,” Zingale said.

Jake Angelo echoed Zingale’s statement.

“It doesn’t really bother me as long as he’s doing a good job,” Angelo, a sophomore studying engineering, technology and management, said. “Pay him as much as you want as long as my tuition isn’t really going up.”

In total, McDavis and his wife, Deborah, have given $131,920 back to the university, according to OU Spokesperson Dan Pittman.

Before starting his presidency at OU, McDavis worked as a pro-

fessor, dean and administrator at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Florida.

OU men’s basketball coach Saul Phillips and football coach Frank Solich claim the top two spots as the university’s highest-paid employees for the 2016-17 academic year.

Miami President Greg Crawford, who started in July, falls right behind McDavis with a salary of $495,000.

Before becoming Miami’s president, Crawford worked at the University of Notre Dame as a professor, associate provost and vice president.

Kent State’s President Beverly Warren, who made $450,000 last year, donated her $9,000 raise to scholarships for the university during the 2015-16 academic year.

She also donated $25,000 on the university’s “Giving Tuesday” in 2015.

Toledo President Sharon Gaber, who made $450,000 last year, donated more than $21,000 in gifts and pledges back to the university during the 2015-16 academic year.

Cody Pomeroy, a sophomore studying integrated media, said McDavis’ salary is a bit high.

“I’m not sure what would be setting him apart from other people that he’d be making that much,” Pomeroy said.

Out of the six schools, The University of Akron’s Interim President Matthew Wilson has the lowest salary at $370,000. His term started in July.

When compared to the six schools, McDavis has been in the position of president for the longest time, with the 2016-17 academic year being his 12th and final as OU president.

Bowling Green President Mary Ellen Mazey has been in her role the second longest — since 2011 — and she earns the second lowest salary.

She has donated more than $170,000 back to the university.

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CHUCK’S COLLEGIATE POLITICS

QUERY A QUEER

Brock Turner leaves jail Why bisexual stereotypes are being perpetuated in LGBT community three months early Brock Turner, a name that most Americans say with a bitter taste in their mouths, is yet another example as to how CHUCK our nation perpetuGREENLEE ates rape culture and is a defends those with sophomore studying “affluenza.” adolescentAffluenza, for to-youngthose who don’t adult know, is when a integrated kid has grown language up so privileged, arts at Ohio they don’t know University. right from wrong because everything was handed to them. Because, you know, we have to defend the privileged at any cost.

If you have had the pleasure of not hearing who Turner is, he is “just a kid who made a mistake,” or “a swimmer at Stanford, how could he be so bad?” Yeah, these are the defenses put on by some who believe he did no harm.

“His life will never be the one he dreamed of and worked so hard to achieve,” wrote Turner’s dad in a plea.

“That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of 20 years of his life.”

Maybe I am lunatic for wanting to say this, but Mr. Turner, your son is a rapist. Your son deserves to be locked up.

Even though I share these feelings with many, the fact of the matter is that Turner was able to finagle his way into a six-month sentence for rape. The average sentence in America is 11 years, which, arguably, isn’t long enough.

Though Turner was sentenced to a quick six months in March, he was actually just released. Released after three long, hard months because of “good behavior.”

OK. To make matters worse, Brock Turner is coming home, and if you are wondering where home for the rapist is, it’s in Ohio. That’s right. We as a state get the privilege of letting Turner rest his head in his cozy bed every night.

That shows that we as a nation defend the people with privilege. If Turner was able to have a short sen6 4 |/FRIDAY, SEPT. 8,APRIL 2016 22, 2016

tence because his father came to the rescue with a heartfelt letter, then our judicial system is a joke. The trend of “white affluenza” is real.

Should Turner have been of any other race or background, he possibly would have been locked up for far longer than three months. But remember, he is “just a troubled kid” in the eyes of some.

Brock Turner — not that you will ever read this, but I certainly hope you do — let this act as an open letter from me, a white kid who refuses to condone your actions.

Brock Turner, you are a rapist. You are a rapist, and that is all you will ever be to me. As you lay in bed every night, I hope you have trouble sleeping because of what you did.

Whenever you are with another woman, which I hope you never are, I hope you learn what the conversation of consent is. The groundbreaking idea of consent is something that not nearly enough people have had.

It is as simple as “no” really does mean “no”.

I am sure that topic has been drilled into many heads here at Ohio University, but we still had the 10th highest number of on-campus rapes reported to campus police out of all U.S. fouryear universities (public and private) with populations above 15,000 students. It is also said that for every attack, there are two to three that go unreported.

Should that be the case, that means there are numerous attacks on our campus every year that go unreported. Even though you are tired of the consent conversation, those statistics are why we are having it.

Until that number is at zero, more “Brock Turner cases” will happen and you will continue to be reminded of why consent is important.

So, Brock, can you tell me what consent is yet? Because in those “20 minutes of action,” I can bet you didn’t have the conversation of consent.

Anyway, no means no, and Brock Turner is a rapist.

How do you communicate consent to your partners? Let Chuck know by tweeting him @chuckingaround.

Bisexual members of the LGBT community are just as important as any other, yet some still feel as if they are being excluded CASSIDY PAUL (she, her, hers) is the Education Coordinator at the LGBT Center, as well as Women’s Affairs Commissioner for Student Senate; Sam Haug (they, them, their) is the Group and PR Coordinator at the LGBT Center.

Question: As a bisexual woman, I’ve been fighting for LGBT equality all my life.

Recently, I’ve been seeing so much more negativity toward bisexuals coming from lesbian and gay people.

It sounds exactly like what they went through. They accuse people like me of being inherently immoral: untrustworthy, dishonest, and promiscuous (I’m not). They say that being bi is a choice (it isn’t), that I don’t know my own orientation (I do) or that it is a phase, and generally act like I’m suddenly not good enough for them. I’ve been told that I didn’t contribute anything to their fight for equality, and how dare I try to ride their coat tails.

I’ve been told that being bisexual means I’m transphobic (I’m not) because “binary” also starts with bi.”

I’ve been told that I have “straight privilege,” which is completely ridiculous and an awful thing to say. I’ve seen more negativity toward bisexuals - from lesbians and gays - since Obergefell v. Hodges - than ever before.

So my question is, what gives? Why are bisexuals suddenly bad guys? Did I miss some big event or tiny trend that led to this? Has it always been this way, and I was too oblivious to notice?

Response: Unfortunately there has always been negativity toward the bisexual community — I wouldn’t say that this is something new, but rather something that is more easily received because of social media, as well as the representation of bisexual people within media that plays into stereotypes, such as the stereotypes you mentioned about the hate toward bisexual people that they are “promiscuous” and “dishonest.” Like all stereotypes, this plays on people’s insecurities and fear toward something that they do not understand.

SOME HELPFUL RESOURCES:

• https://robynochs.com • http://www.biperspective.org / Pages/BP_BiBasics.html

• https://bisexual.org/ • http://lgbt.foundation/

information-advice/coming-outsupport/coming-out-as-bisexual/

When you are told that bisexuality is a choice, that you don’t know your orientation, and that you are “going through a phase,” that is the same rhetoric that is used against gay and lesbian people, and it divides a community that is stronger when advocating and empowering all identities.

Robyn Ochs, a bisexual activist, defines bisexuality as, “I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted— romantically and/or sexually—to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.”

Just because “bisexual” and “binary” both start with “bi” does not mean that bisexual people believe only in a binary. Bisexual people do not have “straight privilege” because it takes a heteronormative avenue that implies that someone is heterosexual until proven not and that erases a lot of someone’s identity.

Have a question for the LBGT Center? Send your questions via email to lgbt@ohio.edu and/or oulgbtcenter@gmail.com and/or therainbowroomou@gmail.com; via Tumblr (oulgbtcenter); via Twitter to @oulgbtcenter with hashtag #qaqueer; or post/message to Facebook (oulgbtcenter). Questions may also be explored on our weekly radio show, the Rainbow Room, on ACRN.com.

CORRECTIONS: In an article under the headline “Women’s Center programs focus on positivity, empowerment” in the Welcome Back edition of ‘The Post,’ there was incorrect information about events and programs at the Women’s Center.

A workshop within the “She Leads OHIO” program is politically-focused, but the overall program concentrates on professional leadership development.

The Women’s Center will be showing a documentary as a part of its “Race, Gender, Culture

Film Series” about a man from India who started a business to help provide women with clean and affordable feminine products.

Brown Bag events will cover a wide-span of topics, and there will be one Brown Bag that is politically-focused.

In an article under the headline “ ‘Baptism’ of starting QB Greg Windham” in the Aug. 25 edition of ‘The Post,’ the location of Windham's tattoo was incorrectly stated. The tattoo is on his bicep.

AMPLIFIED OBSERVATIONS

Long songs need structural, conceptual support LUKE FURMAN is a junior studying journalism at Ohio University.

Columnist Luke Furman details the successes and failures that befall songs longer than seven minutes in this week’s Amplified Observations

Long songs are like suspension bridges. If there’s not enough support, they collapse into troubled waters, taking with them everyone on board.

But if the chords manage to hold and the concept and engineering are strong enough, the bridge delivers its travelers safely to the other side.

Songs that indulge in themselves must be engrossing enough to the listener as to dispel the feeling that the listener is wasting precious time crossing a bridge to nowhere. They must make a connection to the listener through storytelling, relatable experiences or stirring riffs and chords. Sometimes one of these is enough and sometimes it takes all three.

This primarily applies to rock songs

that are seven minutes or longer. Since most jazz and classical works rely on movements and improvisation, they’ll have to wait in traffic until this column is over. There’s no way to establish movements or improvise without taking your time, but things could easily fall apart just as well.

Storytelling, the simplest of these three methods, captures the audience using narrative suspense, like in Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” or George Thorogood’s “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.” Everyone enjoys a good story, and if the tale draws us in, we usually find out what happens in the end.

Other artists use powerful phrasing and relatable sentiments to hold attention for long stretches. My Morning Jacket’s “I Will Sing You

Songs” and Yes’ near-19-minute opus “Close to the Edge” achieve this effect quite well.

But it’s most impressive when these two techniques are combined with a display of sheer musicality. When the melodies are memorable and the riffs are rockin’, no one will want to tap the right double arrow.

Examples include Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs,” Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird,” Yo La Tengo’s “Night Falls on Hoboken” and, of course, Iron Butterfly’s “In-AGadda-Da-Vida.”

Sometimes musicians cheat a little bit and stitch two compositions together into one long track, like Elton John’s “Funeral For A Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding” and Grand Funk Railroad’s “I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home).” But whatever you call it, the change up is effective at shaking off boredom and listener fatigue, a pitfall to song length.

It’s difficult to recall specific songs that fall apart after a certain point, probably because culture forgets them or they lack inventiveness. But

it would be accurate to say that sometimes boring riffs go on for too long and lyrics sound uninteresting and soulless at a certain point (“Revolution 9”). Not every song has to be as long as Sufjan Stevens’ 25-minute album closer “Impossible Soul.” I would prefer if they weren’t.

But long songs tend to be worth the effort, even if some might bring wasted time. They have more space to convey a moving atmosphere and make a sonic connection.

It’s all about staying in the slow lane of that suspension bridge and enjoying the scenic view. It’ll distract you long enough to realize that you’re already on the other side.

What is your favorite lengthy song? Let Luke know by tweeting him @LukeFurmanLog or emailing him at lf491413@ohio.edu.

STREETVIEW

“What is the best memory you’ve made at OU so far?”

“Joining the Quidditch team because so much has happened. I joined last year and this is my second year, but just everything that comes with that has just been a blast. I met my girlfriend almost a year ago at tryouts.”

Marco Rodriguez, a sophomore studying sport administration

“Orientation, when I came in the summer, and I walked over to see what my dorm looked like, which was Boyd, and thinking ‘this is home.’ ” Kyle Weese, a freshman studying pre-law

“One night I was just exploring the area my freshman year, and I stumbled across Emeriti Park, and I just analyzed all the leaves and the pond and the trees and the flowers.

At that moment I really connected with OU, and I knew I made the right decision coming here.”

Alex Wood, a sophomore studying chemistry

“Opening Weekend when I was down on Mill Street. I don’t remember much of the night, but it was amazing.”

“Probably right now. I missed the GoBus, and I’m just sitting here waiting to get a ride.”

Abby Harder, a freshman studying journalism

Jacek Staggs, a freshman who is undecided

-photographs by Kevin Pan

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Ohio students work to raise young voter turnout MADDIE CAPRON FOR THE POST Though trends show young people go to the polls less than any other age group, students at Ohio University and on campuses across the state are working to change that.

During previous elections, college-aged voters have been less likely to cast a vote than their grandparents, parents and even their older siblings, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Athens has been no exception to that trend.

During the last presidential election in 2012, about 28,000 of the city’s roughly 47,900 registered voters went to the polls. Of those votes, 5,121 were cast at Baker Center, which was the primary polling place for those living in residence halls in 2012, according to data from the Athens County Board of Elections.

There are more than 8,000 students living on-campus, and more than 17,500 total undergraduate students attending the Athens campus, according to OU’s Office of Institutional Research’s University Profile.

Nationally, people between the ages of 18 and 24 are about 30 percent less likely to head to the polls than voters older than 65.

The average youth turnout during the past three elections in Ohio was about 53 percent, which is slightly higher than the national average, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

According to the Board of Elections, there are currently about 41,500 people registered to vote in Athens, though that number will change. Board Director 6 |/FRIDAY, SEPT. 8,APRIL 2016 22, 2016

We have the opportunity to change the course of history, regardless of which candidate you support.”

- Sam Miller, OU College Democrats president Debbie Quivey said they expect a large turnout this year, especially from students.

“Every presidential election every four years, the students vote,” Quivey said. “We can tell by looking at them, the addresses and things. We know that the biggest group we get through here are students.”

OU College Republicans President David Parkhill, a junior studying business management and strategic leadership, said his group does not approach students on campus to register them, as Athens tends to fall to the left on the political spectrum. Instead, he primarily focuses on registering students he knows are Republicans — those that attend the College Republicans’ weekly meetings.

Sam Miller, OU College Democrats president and a junior studying journalism, said the College Democrats set up a table on campus twice a week and walk around each night in order to register as many students as possible.

“When we register students, we let them know this election is very important for our state and country, and that Ohio has a huge part to play in that,” she said.

Student groups at other universities, such as Kent State University and Bowling Green State University, are trying to increase the

number of young voters at the polls as well. According the Ohio Department of Health’s Network of Care database, all three universities were located in counties with less than 25 percent voter turnout in 2012, which fell far lower than the national average for the year.

“It’s definitely not easy, but we need students to do it,” Hana Barkowitz, the president of Kent State University College Democrats, said. “It’s so important because it’s hard to tell students their vote matters just as much as anyone else’s. This is our future, even more so than the older people who are voting because we are younger.”

Parkhill and Miller both said the two major party candidates — Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton — have the potential to influence the country’s future, and the results of the election could impact the lives of young voters for longer than just the next four years.

“Voting is always important, but this year it is more crucial than ever,” Miller said. “We have the opportunity to change the course of history, regardless of which candidate you support.”

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CLASSIES

POLICE BLOTTER

Intoxicated 61-year-old tumbles down embankment by bus stop LAUREN FISHER FOR THE POST

sion charges and two reports of criminal mischief.

While the last unofficial week of summer means Labor Day barbecues and football kickoffs for most Athenians, one unlucky man was met with injury and arrest for a peculiar afternoon drinking escapade.

As students shuffled between classes Aug. 31, an OUPD officer was busy responding to a report of a 61-yearold man who fell down the embankment near the Athens Transit bus stop next to Baker Center.

Upon reaching the man, the officer found that he was not only hurt from the fall, but under the inf luence of alcohol.

The individual was transported to O’Bleness Hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries sustained during the fall. According to the police report, he was later issued a citation for disorderly conduct by intoxication.

The incident was one of six alcohol-related arrests made by OUPD between Aug. 30 and Sept. 4, a week that also yielded six drug posses-

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Over the course of three days, OUPD received four reports at Ping Recreation Center. In total, eight instances of theft were reported this week.

Two of the Ping Center thefts involved money being stolen from wallets that were in students’ bookbags. In another report, a woman noted both her wallet and keys had been taken from an unsecured locker.

While one of the cases is under investigation, the remaining three are pending investigative leads, according to the report. It is not clear whether the cases are related.

SOUTH GREEN SHUFFLE

Early Sept. 3, an officer responded to a report of an intoxicated man who had passed out “partially in the roadway” of South Green Drive, according to the report.

Upon speaking with the man, the officer detected a “moderate odor” of alcohol, which was confirmed when

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS

the individual stated that he had been Uptown, consuming alcoholic beverages throughout the evening. The report also indicates that at the time, the man did not know where he was.

The officer arrested the man for underage consumption and sent him to the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail, according to the report.

A TRIP FOR TWO

Later that night, an officer responded to another situation on South Green — this time, to a report of a verbal argument between a male and female in Luchs Hall.

Upon arriving at the scene, the officer noted both parties smelled strongly of alcohol, had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and were unsteady on their feet, according to a police report.

The officer arrested both individuals for disorderly conduct by intoxication, and the two were transported to Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail and kept there until they were sober.

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Students who brand themselves as a DJ pursue more than a few house parties

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MARISA FERNANDEZ SENIOR WRITER att Novick, a DJ of six years, was about to perform for one of the biggest crowds of his career — the entire city of Cleveland and LeBron James.

The city was filled with a million people, as many people as Times Square on New Year’s Eve, and they were ready to rejoice Cleveland’s first championship in 52 years with a parade for the Cavaliers. Novick had his equipment ready in his Uber to help Cleveland party all day, but it appeared he was not going to make it.

While in the gridlocked traffic, Novick’s driver told him it would be best to start walking. He got out and carried his equipment, worth thousands of dollars, more than a mile in the 80-degree heat to Azure, a rooftop club downtown.

Though carrying his gear was not ideal, weaving through hundreds of Cavs fans on the way, he did what he had to do to arrive just in time to play 12 stories above the parade for one million people.

Novick, or his promotional name Mattitude, works for Rock The House Entertainment, which booked him the rooftop gig as well as many other private and public events.

But the company wouldn’t have given that gig to just anyone. It took Novick years to build up the Mattitude brand — deejaying is only one of his skills. He is also the marketing assistant for Rock the House, a content coordinator for online music news site Leak Jones. He is a 2016 graduate from Bowling Green State University with a degree in telecommunication.

Novick kept the party going for Cleveland into the night. There is truth, he said, to a DJ being the lifeblood of a party, though the generalization that anyone can do it looms over professionals such as himself. DJs are bending in different ways to compensate as entertainers by giving more heart and skill to a crowd than what the stigma of a DJ implies — posing and pushing a few buttons.

GETTING THE GEAR “There’s more to it than just pressing play,” Bobby Fleck, an Ohio University sophomore studying music production and DJ of four years, said. “You’re going from song to song, and you’re creating a flow. You need to know when to keep the certain energy up and when to slow it down.”

Brandon “DJ B-Funk” Thompson, a 2003 OU alumnus and local DJ, said being a DJ was not nearly as cool back then as it appears to be now.

“Back in the day, you would just hear a Sublime album or a Bob Marley CD played from front to end,” Thompson, who also helps plan the annual Athens Halloween Block Party, said. “Now, you really just need

a laptop, and you can go and get your software, and you’re off and running.”

But more equipment than just a laptop is required for a professional setup. Novick’s purchases went from a “super cheap mixer from Guitar Center” for $150 to a new setup of a computer DJ and DJ mixer in April. What he has now can be found in clubs throughout the U.S. and is “up there with what Diplo uses.”

Computer DJs, a machine more commonly known as a CDJ, plug into a mixer and allow the user to manipulate the music that is on a CD or on a flash drive. DJ controllers can be plugged into a laptop with software that makes mixing much easier for beginners, Thompson said.

According to Music Trades, a trade publication dedicated to the music industry, retail sales of DJ equipment in the United States increased from $114 million in 2011 to $145 million in 2015. The study included equipment such as CD players, turntables, digital DJ controllers, DJ mixers and special effects lighting units.

Thompson’s setup is worth about $10,000, which includes his DJ mixer, MacBook Pro, two CDJs and his own speakers.

Novick said technology gives those serious about the profession more ways to do a better job.

“You don’t have to carry around eight crates of vinyl records (and) two bags of CDs trying to figure out what to play,” he said.

GETTING THE GIG The more professional the equipment, the harder it is to justify working at house parties as being worth the risk.

“I’ve had beer spilled on my equipment before. I’ve had my equipment stolen before, my speakers blown out,” Jarman “DJ Smit” Smith, a senior studying marketing and business pre-law, said. “So it could be somebody else’s risk. It discourages me, I’m not going to lie.”

Many hosts offer to pay if equipment is damaged at parties, but Novick said the offer is empty and unrealistic.

“Do you have $5,000 just sitting in your bank? Probably not,” he said.

It’s for that reason Thompson advises DJs to insure their equipment, a cost he said most “completely forget about.”

Smith said the equipment he bought in college was for his own curiosity — he had no intention of officially branding himself as a DJ like many who stumble into the side-profession during college.

Smith deejayed at Indie Fest with Juicy J in 2015 and said he enjoyed being on a stage of that size. However, he said the elaborate stage was equally as fun as a house party he did at Palmer Fest.

Party limitations are disrupting the growth of the DJ business in Athens, Thompson said.

“A lot of parties that would have normally

“

There’s more to it than just pressing play. You’re going from song to song and you’re creating a flow.

You need to know when to keep the certain energy up and when to slow it down.”

- Bobby Fleck, sophomore studying music production and DJ of four years

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LEFT: Jarman Smith, a senior studying marketing and business pre-law, performs in front of a group of partygoers at the Venue of Drxvms in Athens on Aug. 26. (OLIVER HAMLIN / FOR THE POST) RIGHT: DJ Bobby Booshay's equipment sits on stage at The Venue of DRXVMS in Athens on Aug. 27. Bobby Fleck, a sophomore studying music production, has been performing as a DJ under the name DJ Bobby Booshay since he was 16 years old. (KEVIN PAN / FOR THE POST)

gone on most nights or would have gone on a little bit later, are getting shut down pretty early,” he said.

According to sections 9.14.01 through 9.14.99 of the Athens City Ordinances, police can shut down a party if it is deemed a nuisance.

Thompson cited an example of when he was studying at OU during the early 2000s. He and his friends deejayed house parties during Mill Fest and Palmer Fest for a solid 12 hours before the noise ordinance went into place at 12 a.m.

“Now, most of the fests are done by 5 p.m.,” he said. “You’ve got to get $250 or $300 for a DJ, and your party might get shut down at 2. You’ve already paid the DJ — that’s just money lost.”

Hourly rates vary depending on what city a DJ performs in and the complexity of the setup, Thompson said.

Smith said he charges anywhere from $100 to $150 an hour whereas Fleck usually incorporates one flat fee from $100 to sometimes $350. Both Smith and Fleck said price is also driven by competition in the area.

Thompson said DJs in bigger cities such as Columbus or Dayton are territorial when it comes to gigs, but he does not see Athens to be that way.

“If someone asks me questions about deejaying, that’s what I’m all about,” Thompson said. “It’s always good to find someone else in the game to bounce ideas off of.”

VIBES Having the tools to DJ are essential, but Thompson said a laptop and easy access to equipment does not give anyone the right to call themselves a DJ. “It’s an ongoing battle to know what an actual DJ is,” he said. “Just standing in front of people and playing music is technically a DJ, but there’s got to be some skill. I just 10 / SEPT. 8, 2016

“

You’re making everybody dance, and besides alcohol, you’re making people stay.”

- Bobby Fleck, a DJ of four years keep getting emails of people wanting to DJ at Halloween. That wasn’t the case four, five years ago.

The skill Thompson refers to is more than mixing. Fleck makes his own music — sometimes a hard concept to grasp because the sounds are virtual. At gigs he turns on switches to speed up the beat and raises bass levels at the time he thinks is right and when it’s necessary on tracks he made.

He described house parties as having a more relaxed tone when it comes to playing music. There is more room to experiment and have fun.

“Everybody is not as opinionated than in a bar or at a club,” he said.

Fleck added that being a real DJ doesn’t stop at just deejaying.

“I’m my booking agent, manager, roadie at times. I do it all,” he said.

When Fleck started deejaying, he did not trust himself enough to go to a gig without a little knowledge or a setlist under his sleeve.

Now, he’s more comfortable freestyling.

“At one point I was like, ‘All right, I’m just going to wing it each time.’ It always ends up a lot more fun that way,” he said.

Fleck’s friends know him from his nickname “Bobby Booshay,” a reference to The Waterboy. He and the character from the movie are both named Bobby (although the character spells the name ‘Bobby Boucher’) and both stutter, so it morphed as a good stage name too.

When he started promoting himself four years ago in his hometown of Cleveland, he

had to sell tickets for his own events to help gain notoriety.

He learned the hard way not to depend on venues and promoters for his business.

“I would never hear back from them,” he said. “It got to the point where I just said ‘screw it. I’m going to do what I do and do the best I can and make a lasting impression to the point where these promoters will come to me.’ ” Each DJ has their own way to set up for gigs. Most of the time, Thompson said it is too expensive to own speakers and a separate laptop, so it is normal to use the same laptop dedicated for schoolwork and rented speakers.

Novick said it takes him no more than 15 to 30 minutes to set up his equipment, but he gives himself a full hour to soundcheck.

At Azure, Novick said the technology was not as complicated as some gigs, so he felt comfortable jumping right into his set.

LIFE$TYLE There is a power to understanding music and how it can create a memory, Fleck said.

“The DJ controls the party. You’re making everybody dance, and besides alcohol, you’re making people stay,” Fleck said.

Like many DJs, Smith isn’t without his stories. In April, he was deejaying at the Venue of Drxvms on Stimson Avenue and invited anyone on stage. When the beat dropped on a song, everyone on stage jumped in the air at the same time, and the stage broke.

“When I’m deejaying, I’m partying too,”

Smith said. “When people play music sometimes they just stand there, but I be partying at the same time.”

However, if someone’s DJ career is only a handful of stories, Thompson said that DJ has not reached his or her full potential.

“I’ve seen a lot of guys who come through OU, and they start white hot and they’re awesome and they’re rocking it and then they graduate, and they are like ‘Yeah, I don’t even DJ anymore,’ ” Thompson said. “That’s when you find that they’re not doing it for the right reasons. They did it for the popularity or wanted to be that guy or girl everyone knew at the party.”

The evolution of music is also changing how people party and the necessity of DJs. Music curators such as Spotify and Apple Music allow anyone with an oftentimes-free account to select pre-made playlists for hosts in a pinch.

Music curators are not bad, but Thompson said pre-made playlists can take out the heart and energy a DJ puts into a party.

“A computer cannot get the next big track. It can only play what people are telling it to do,” he said. “A lot of things are working against a DJ, but at the same time, people still want quality and care.”

Novick is optimistic about his deejaying career looking at the next 10 years, but he still has a contingency plan.

“I probably won’t be doing it at all, or it’s all I’ll be doing. Right from the get-go, I never would have saw this five years down the line,” Novick said.

For him, though, it is moments like deejaying during the parade in Cleveland that reinforces how cool the business is.

“At the end of the day you just have to go up and kill it,” he said.

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Students dress up their homes with greenery Cacti, a naranjilla tree, a jade plant and several aloe plants can be found in and around some off-campus housing in Athens SARAH FRANKS FOR THE POST For housemates Melanie Umbaugh and Sarah Root, a 4-by-3 foot poster of a cactus in the middle of their living room was not enough to create the green space they desired. After obtaining about 45 plants, however, the housemates are feeling more at home.

Though some students do successfully care for a few plants in their dorm room as underclassmen, the freedom of living off-campus inspires many students to explore their green thumb.

Emily Pauley, a junior studying linguistics, said she maintains between 35 and 40 plants, mainly succulents or desert plants, which stem from the same family as cacti.

But if people step into her home, they will also find some unusual greenery not normally seen in an Ohio climate. Pauley is attempting to grow a naranjilla tree, which is similar to an orange tree, but so far the tree has not produced any fruit, Pauley said. She said she is more interested in the thrill of experimentation.

Other varieties in her collection include a jade plant, multiple aloe plants, a tea plant and an especially peculiar plant — a “sensitive plant” called mimosa pudica, which will hide away its leaves immediately when touched by a human. “(My home is) certainly less boring than it would be. It just makes me happy,” Pauley said. “I love all the green.”

Pauley said her roommate is now getting into collecting plants as well, picking up plants that catch her eye from various local growers.

“Plus it’s a good conversation piece whenever guests come over,” Pauley said. “They have a lot of questions or I just force knowledge on them — which is fun for me.”

Jeff Risner, Athens City Council 2nd Ward, enjoys the challenge of growing carnivorous plants that require a little more care.

Growing both temperate and tropical carnivorous plants, Risner has figured out ways to replicate the specific environments that the 60 different species he grows need to flourish.

“Just because they’re tropical doesn’t mean their conditions are steamy-jungle,” Risner said. “Some are mountain forests, others are low-level, near the equator valleys where the temperatures are much higher. So, they vary quite a bit.”

Using glass tanks under grow-lights or his 8-by-14 foot greenhouse, Risner is able to keep the tropical species alive that would otherwise be unable to grow in an Ohio climate.

“I’ve always been interested in natural science, nature, evolution and just the whole idea of (plants) sort of acting like an animal, it’s something that attracted me,” Risner said.

“It’s a pretty fascinating subject so the more I got into it, the more I got into it.”

Umbaugh, a junior studying theater, and Root,

LEFT: Emily Pauley poses for a portrait with some of her plants in her apartment on Congress Street. Pauley has a collection between 35 and 40 plants. (EMILY MATTHEWS / PHOTO EDITOR)

a junior studying environmental geography, like Pauley, also keep mainly succulents because of the low-maintenance they require to stay alive. The prickly plants create a pathway leading up to their house. A sight they said passersby regularly enjoy.

“People walk by all the time and they tell us, ‘We love your plants’ and it’s just a cool thing,” Root said.

Having such a display on their porch, however, has left Root and Umbaugh vulnerable to plant-theft recently.

“I had a garlic plant that was hanging up there, (and) someone completely stole it last night,” Root said. “I mean, I guess people are drunk and stupid.”

Madeline Stecz, an alumna living in Athens who graduated in the spring and studied sociology, loves keeping plants, many of which she displays in front of her home.

She also experienced an ongoing problem with a neighbor messing with her plants. This time, however, the culprit had four paws.

“There was this cat around here that was coming up to my plants and taking them out of the pots,” Stecz said. “I was like

‘What is going on? Leave my plants alone.’ So sometimes I’ll bring them inside just because of that.”

Feline thieves have not stopped Stecz from lining her porch with her plants,

though.

“I think it just, like, makes you appreciate nature so much,” Stecz said.

“There’s so much that goes into it that you would

never think about. … They just make me really happy.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Ohio’s not-so ‘new kid’

Jaime Kosiorek poses for a portrait at The Convo. Kosiorek, a junior on the volleyball team, has stepped into a leadership role. (ALEX DRIEHAUS / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY)

THE RECORD-SETTING JUNIOR STEPS INTO LEADERSHIP ROLE IN 2016 TONY WOLFE SENIOR WRITER

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t did not matter to Jaime Kosiorek that Arizona State was the 25th ranked team in the country. At the very least, she did not know that it should matter.

On Aug. 31, 2014, then-freshman Kosiorek stood in the backcourt of first-year coach Deane Webb’s Ohio squad in the middle of the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, for the second match of her first weekend of college volleyball. One of the best teams in the Pacific-12, college volleyball’s strongest conference, which placed eight teams in the season-ending RPI Top 25, stood on the other side of the net. The Sun Devils had played seven sets to that point in the weekend and won them all, including the first in their match with the Bobcats.

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Kosiorek began the second set with a kill assisted by Abby Gilleland. Then she got her first chance of the second set to serve, and fired a ball nobody on the opposing side of the court could even touch.

She fired another serve, also unreturned, to open a 3-0 set lead.

Once Arizona State narrowed the gap to 13-12, Kosiorek rattled off four of Ohio’s next five points, including three straight service aces. As a final touch, with Ohio a point away from taking the set, Kosiorek fired yet another laser-fast serve into the opposing court that went unreturned, handing the Sun Devils their first lost set of the season.

By the end of the day, Kosiorek would become just the second hitter in Bobcat history – and the first since 1985 – to record eight service aces in a match. She also totaled 13 kills, for good measure.

Arizona State ultimately emerged with a

3-2 win, but there was plenty for Ohio to be excited about.

The new kid was here. And she was ready to put on a show.

CURTAINS OPEN

Every freshman on the Kenston High School volleyball team received nicknames.

Jaime earned hers early.

During her eighth grade year of volleyball, she approached Kenston volleyball coach Dan Coughlin during an open gym and asked if she could participate. After receiving the green light, Kosiorek darted straight past where many of the freshmen and sophomores were playing and spent the entire time practicing with the varsity team.

“I’d never met her,” Coughlin said. “I just stood there with a big smile on my face and thought, ‘Man, this girl’s got a lot of guts coming in here.’ ” That was also the first time Coughlin had

the chance to see Kosiorek’s serve, which as an eighth grader, was a raw but still lethal weapon. Kosiorek, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but now living in Chagrin Falls, had been on a Junior Olympic national team for two years already, a Cleveland-area club team that traveled around the country to play the sport’s top prospects. Before starting high school, Kosiorek received her first college letter — one that happened to come from Penn State, a program that, at the time, was in the midst of chasing its third of what would become four straight NCAA titles.

When she took the court for the first time as a freshman, she walked out with a simple new alias: The New Kid. At the time, the moniker stood for Kosiorek’s age. Now, it is more representative of the way she plays the game. While many girls refine their patience and approach as their careers go on, Kosiorek still attacks with the same aggressive, swing-as-hard-as-possible

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For me, my serve was kind of like a fire thing. I had the power to get an ace if I put the ball where it needs to be.”

- Jaime Kosiorek, junior volleyball player

mindset she did when she first began Junior Olympic play in seventh grade.

“Some kids are all about really high intelligence play, but they’re not one to just go bang the ball and go nuts,” Webb said. “That’s part of what drives Jaime. She loves being in the moment. She loves celebrating. She loves hitting the ball hard.”

It’s difficult to fault Kosiorek for such an approach when that reckless abandon has hardly ever let her down. She was conference MVP three times at Kenston, finishing second team All-Ohio as a junior and first team All-Ohio as a senior. She was also a first team all-national recipient with her club team, and was an All-American twice.

Just two seasons into her career at Ohio, Kosiorek already finds her name scattered around the Bobcat record books. A year after tying the program record for single-match service aces, she broke it with nine service aces at Buffalo on Oct. 10. Her 46 service aces as a freshman in 2014 is the fourth highest single-season total at Ohio, while her 1,125 attacks in 2015 rank as the eighth highest single-season total in Bobcat history.

Her career mark of 0.38 service aces per set is the best in program history.

“I really wanted to come in as a freshman and make an impact right away,” Kosiorek said. “For me, my serve was kind of like a fire thing. I had the power to get an ace if I put the ball where it needs to be. If we’re down, I can hit this ball hard, and change something on my side.”

It has been an action-packed two years for Kosiorek at Ohio, but for those who know her, it is hardly a surprise. While some see a court in the middle of the arena, Kosiorek sees a grand stage, not unlike those used for Broadway musicals, which Barb Kosiorek said her daughter is “obsessed with.”

“Jaime likes to perform, and in a way she performs on the court,” she said. “She always performs when there’s people watching.

She’s a very fierce competitor, and also very confident.”

And like any good play, Kosiorek has never had to carry the show on her own — far from it. During her first two seasons at Ohio, she had the opportunity to play alongside twotime Mid-American Conference Player of the Year Gilleland and all-time Ohio digs leader Meredith Ashy. Together, they helped lead Ohio into a top-25 national team ranking during Kosiorek’s freshman year, and a MAC title and subsequent NCAA tournament appearance in her sophomore year.

Even after Ashy and Gilleland graduated, Kosiorek is joined in 2016 by loads of returning talent, headlined by senior outside hitter Mallory Salis, senior setter Brooke Coleman and redshirt junior middle blocker Ali Lake, any of whom can take over the court on any given night.

Kosiorek was the lone Bobcat to receive preseason All-MAC honors, for which she was voted first team.

For Kosiorek, however, individual honors come in as a distant runner-up when it comes to what she has planned for her final two years at Ohio.

“I’m just living in the moment,” Kosiorek said. “I don’t think the all-conference titles and stuff capture everything. I would love that all-conference honor. That’s great. But I think succeeding in my own eyes and in my teammates eyes and coaches’ eyes, having them recognize that I’ve done what I needed to do, is way more important.”

A NEW SCENE

It is opening weekend for Ohio’s 2016 season. Kosiorek’s on the court — on her stage — and all eyes are on the freshman. That freshman, though, is a different “new kid.”

Lizzie Stephens, a freshman outside hitter, is standing out during a weekend in which Ohio is struggling. The fearlessness she exhibits in the 33 kills she records over the course of three matches catches the attention of teammates and coaches alike.

Kosiorek listens to Stephens tell the postgame interviewers that she simply tried to hit everything as hard as she could, and is hit with a wave of nostalgia. It is nostalgia for what Kosiorek was two years ago, for what she calls the “beautiful thing” about playing as a freshman.

“It’s nice to look back on those moments,” Kosiorek said. “Those moments remind you to get back to that girl who had the fire under her and wasn’t afraid of what might happen.”

Now a junior, Kosiorek is in a bit of a transition period. Her serve is weakened for the time being, held back by shoulder problems that flared up in the preseason. She is also without the teammate, Gilleland, whose fiery persona on the court fed Kosiorek’s own so well. She is now responsible not just for creating her own energy, but for helping mold the next generation of Bobcat stars.

“The setter’s job is to make the young hitter look good,” Webb said. “The last two years, Jaime was the hitter. And now it’s reversed … as a junior, her job is to make a young setter look good. And that takes some time.”

It is a challenge Kosiorek can look forward to encountering throughout the rest of her tenure. After all, as a middle childhood math and science major, teaching others is something she plans to be doing for a long time.

But that does not mean the fire has to burn any less brilliantly — perhaps only that it must be a slightly more controlled burn.

The show will always go on. Even after the new kid grows up.

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COVER STORY

OU FORWARD USES COINS, HOCKEY TO REMEMBER BROTHER JORDAN HORROBIN / STAFF WRITER

Garrett Jenkins needed someone to pick up the phone.

He stood outside Milan High School in Milan, Michigan on a mid-May afternoon waiting for a ride home from track practice. It was past 4 p.m. Where were his parents?

He called his dad, Joel, who was hard to understand through the phone. He was crying.

“Something bad happened,” Joel said. Garrett looked around and the serious“I’m on the way to the hospital with ness of the moment crept into his mind. your brother.”

“Honey,” Gloria said, “Come here, beGarrett’s stepdad, Steve Montesan- cause I think we need to pray.” to, took Garrett straight to the hospital.

He froze.

“What’s going on?” Garrett wondered. He “Is Ian going to die?” was calm, but confused.

Garrett’s mind flooded with thoughts “I thought it was just a broken arm he couldn’t believe. Or didn’t want to beor something,” Garrett, an lieve. His brother, his best eighth-grader at the time, friend, his role model, his RIGHT: Garrett said. “People have a tendency goalie and his golf partner — Jenkins, age 8, posing to freak out more than they they could all be taken away with his brother Ian, need to.” before he knew what to think age 10. Both played At the University of Michor do. hockey growing up. (PROVIDED VIA igan Hospital, Garrett’s mom, On May 23, 2011 at 7:54 CASSIDY JENKINS) Gloria, filled him in on what a.m., Ian Patrick Jenkins died they knew. Garrett’s oldat age 15. Garrett lost the er brother, Ian, had fallen off a friend’s closest person in the world to him and, at pickup truck and sustained a closed head age 13, was suddenly asked to grow up. He injury. Still, Garrett didn’t clue in to the wasn’t ready. magnitude of what was happening. Aside But the years have shaped Garrett, a from a minor cut on his arm, Ian didn’t freshman with the Ohio Bobcats hockey have any noticeable scratches hinting at team, in ways he couldn’t imagine as a such a severe injury.

13-year-old. The unexplainable tragedy of As the doctors took Ian into surgery, a loved one lost too soon has taught him the family went to the hospital chapel. how fragile life can be.

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To play college hockey at OU, he gets to honor his brother. Because it’s something his brother never would have done. And at the same time, start a new chapter for himself.”

- Gloria Montesanto, Garrett’s mother

ABOVE: Garrett Jenkins poses for a portrait in the locker rooms in Bird Arena. (LAUREN BACHO / PHOTO EDITOR) BELOW: Garrett, age 4, playing football the basement of his home with his brother Ian, age 6. (PROVIDED VIA CASSIDY JENKINS)

IN A LOT OF WAYS, the boys were nothing alike. Ian was a big kid, nearly six feet tall with a size 11 shoe in the 10th grade, and had straight, brown hair. Garrett was smaller, scrawnier and had curly hair that was nearly black.

Ian had lots of friends and was very social. His mom called him the Pied Piper because he loved being surrounded by people.

Garrett was quieter and more introverted. He had friends too, but he liked following the Piper.

Soon, Ian’s friends became Garrett’s friends, and vice versa, and a network of kids from their neighborhood and sports teams formed. But they each had just one best friend. Growing up two years apart, they were inseparable.

They always played together. Sometimes it was golf, like at Pine View in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where they’d sneak right onto the 11th hole from their house. More often, it was hockey.

Nearly every day they played mini sticks, a version of hockey using miniature hockey sticks, a ball and a net. They’d have friends over and blast music during games, or go at it one-on-one. Ian was a goalie; so, naturally, Garrett wasn’t.

The boys scurried up and down hotel hallways playing mini sticks at their hockey tournaments, which were often at the same venues, even though they played in different

age groups. Most of their miniature hockey classics, however, took place in their basement, which saw its share of drywall dents and scuffs.

As Garrett and Ian grew, so did their competitiveness. Battles for the ball turned into wrestling matches. Among the casualties were tables, lamps and themselves.

“They were like two bear cubs in the house,” Gloria said.

A little blood here, a few tears there. But the anger didn’t last long.

“I guess it shows how close we were,” Garrett said. “We’d fight and 10 minutes later we’d be fine and watching TV.” Through the years, it never got easier for Garrett to score on Ian. As a teen, Ian blossomed into a premier goalie prospect and was scouted by several colleges, as well as junior hockey programs across North America.

Ian’s hockey goals had been the same for years in pursuit of the NHL: be in the U.S. National Team Development Program and then play NCAA hockey at Michigan. He and Garrett had even fantasized about Garrett playing for the Wolverines’ rival, Michigan State, so the two could duke it out like old times.

But while Michigan gave him free tickets in the team’s family section and the USNTDP coach offered him a roster spot, Ian changed his mind. He wanted to play in the Ontario

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Hockey League, a more pro-style of junior hockey in Canada, and fast track his NHL dream.

On May 7, 2011, the London Knights picked Ian in the second round of the OHL draft. Garrett thought London was a great fit for his brother because it was a league powerhouse located just two and a half hours from their home.

Ian signed with the Knights on May 18 of that year. The next day, while Garrett was temporarily stranded at track practice, Ian went to his friend’s house after school. Ian sat in the bed of a red, late-90s Ford Ranger truck. He fell out while it was moving and hit his head.

Joel had picked up the boys' sister, Cassidy, from school and taken her for ice cream. They heard the sirens and, when they found out it was Ian, went to the scene. Joel saw his son on the ground and knew something was wrong. He wouldn’t let Cassidy leave the car. It was her 10th birthday.

After Ian’s surgery, when the family was filled with a mix of confusion, fear and grief, Garrett didn’t know what to do.

Although Ian was available for visitors in the intensive care unit, Garrett didn’t go see him until the next day.

Ian was in a coma and his survival was unlikely. It was more than Garrett could handle to be around.

“It kinda freaked me out,” he said. “I wasn’t mature enough to sit there and strike up a conversation (with Ian).”

Garrett wished he’d kept it together and spent more time with his brother, he said, but he just couldn’t.

Four days later, Ian was gone. And the following month was agonizingly slow for Garrett. His parents told him to take as much time off from school as he needed.

The thing was, he didn’t know what he needed.

“I had no idea,” Garrett said. “I just told them what I thought they wanted to hear.”

He returned to school after about a month, but it wasn’t until later that the family went for counseling to speed the healing process.

Garrett first went to sessions with his mom, dad, sister, stepbrother, stepmom and stepdad at NorthRidge Church in Plymouth, Michigan. The family also saw a local therapist, Colin Horn, who had known the family for years and worked with them through Joel and Gloria’s divorce.

At the time, Garrett thought counseling was “the dumbest thing ever” and he didn’t know why he had to go. Everyone grieved in his or her own way, he thought. Though his method was to not grieve openly at all.

Garrett stopped going for a while. He admits that he’s not quick to talk about things that bother him, which he got from his dad. He keeps most of his pain inside, stowed away safely to himself. He needed Horn to get in his head and clear some things out.

Eventually, he saw the value in the small group and oneon-one sessions. It’s been so helpful, in fact, Garrett continues to go see Horn alone a few times a year.

“I’m not a psycho or anything,” Garrett said. “But (therapy) definitely keeps you together a little bit more.”

Garrett has changed how he forms relationships with people. He opens up quicker than he used to.

“He always kept people at arm’s length before,” Gloria said. “He’s more real about (relationships) and doesn’t take them for granted.”

Garrett has learned that at any moment a relationship can vanish.

He’s more real about how he views his hockey career, too.

While hockey is still a big part of his life, it’s no longer the focal point. He realized that last year when he chose to play junior hockey in Alberta and Massachusetts instead of going to college. For the season, he was living and breathing hockey.

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Garrett Jenkins, age 3, posing with his brother Ian, age 5, on Halloween. (PROVIDED VIA CASSIDY JENKINS)

“I’m definitely going to be the weird penny guy at OU. Most people are like, ‘Oh, they’re just pennies and dimes.’

But obviously, to us, they mean something."

Garrett Jenkins, age 11, posing with his brother Ian, age 13, while out for pizza with family in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (PROVIDED VIA CASSIDY JENKINS)

doesn’t regret it one bit. But the time away also taught him how much there is to see and do outside of the sport he grew up playing.

“I like school,” Garrett said. “So going to college and setting goals — like getting good grades and being involved in the school other than hockey — is definitely important to me.”

Going to OU seems like a perfect fit, combining a successful club hockey team with a business program that has opportunities he’s looking for.

Garrett, who plans to study finance, is already talking about internships and how he hopes to get involved in the business school.

On the ice, he’s a speedy forward looking for playing time on a veteran Bobcat team that went 29-9-2 last season. He still loves the game, and OU is a place where his love can thrive.

In some ways, hockey may be Garrett’s ultimate distraction from personal battles. But at the same time, it will always connect him to his brother. His best friend. His role model. His goalie and his golf partner.

“To play college hockey at OU, he gets to honor his brother,” Gloria, an OU alumna, said. “Because it’s something his brother never would have done. And at the same time, start a new chapter for himself.”

The new chapter is without Ian, but not entirely. Garrett tattooed Ian’s date of birth and death on the left side of his chest, a physical reminder that keeps his brother close to his heart. And he will always carry the lessons Ian taught him.

Ian may have shown Garrett how to pick a corner with a wrist shot or throw an elbow where it stings, but no lesson from him was a great as his final one: life is unpredictable.

“It’s the reality of things and a lot of kids don’t like to grasp onto that,” Garrett said. “But I think this whole situation with my brother has definitely matured me.”

IF YOU SEE GARRETT this fall at OU, it’ll probably be on a Friday or Saturday night in a chilly Bird Arena, as he dashes through center ice with his head up and a puck on his stick.

But you might also catch him somewhere on campus reaching down and scooping up a penny or a dime.

When Gloria’s mom died, Gloria started finding dimes everywhere she went. After Ian’s death, pennies started to pop up, too. And the family found them all over the place.

One was in a Red Robin parking lot at Steve’s feet as he got out of his car. Another was wedged between layers of a sandal in Gloria’s walk-in closet. Two more were waiting for the family in IKEA, which brought back memories of Gloria getting lost in there years before with Ian, Garrett and Cassidy.

“Everyday stuff like that reminds me of him,” Garrett said.

Gloria recorded the dates, time and locations of the pennies she found in the first year and a half after Ian died. Eventually, the volume of coins became overwhelming.

“We’ve collected so many pennies and dimes over the years,” she said. “It’s just freaky.”

Some of the coins are kept in a mug in Gloria’s bedroom.

The others are in a bowl in the kitchen that Cassidy made in school.

When Garrett roams the OU greens, his eyes will be peeled for something most people overlook. He said he’ll probably keep a jar in his dorm room at James Hall to store what he finds.

“I’m definitely going to be the weird penny guy at OU,” he said. “Most people are like, ‘Oh, they’re just pennies and dimes.’ But obviously, to us, they mean something.”

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International students face ‘invisible barrier’ in U.S. JESSICA HILL FOR THE POST

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fter a 30-hour flight with two stops, Ashley Chong arrived in Ohio with two years’ worth of luggage, one of which was dedicated completely to non-perishable Malaysian food — just in case she did not like American food.

Mami, milo and apollo were just some of the non-perishable Malaysian food items Chong brought with her.

Chong, a sophomore from Malaysia studying forensic chemistry, came to the United States under a two-year transfer program.

In Malaysia, she went to a private institution named Sunway University and enrolled in a four-year program — the American Degree Transfer Program, which allows her to spend two years in the U.S. “I just thought, ‘you know, just do it,’ ” Chong said. “If you think (something is) interesting and it scares you a little bit, just do it. It’s probably the right choice.”

Many first-time international students learn to adjust to American culture and the educational system during their first couple of weeks at Ohio University.

In fall 2015, more than 1,700 international students, both undergraduate and graduate, enrolled in OU, according to the university’s website.

Chong is from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, and described Athens as a nice, small town, adding that she would consider moving to the town with her mother.

In between completing assignments for her chemistry, physics and biology classes, Chong started to play for the Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team to add balance to her schedule.

“Sports (are) a must,” Chong said. “You need to have sports. You can’t be studying 24/7 and going for classes 24/7.”

Chong said she wants to join more organizations, though her current classes are much more rigorous than her Malaysian classes, and she is still adjusting to the American educational system.

“I just think I need more time to actually incorporate other activities into my daily routine, once I feel more settled in,” Chong said. “I just feel like assignments are taking over my life right now.”

Chong said classes at OU rely more on software and technology, such as Connect and Launchpad, whereas in Malaysia, assignments are typically on paper.

Additionally, textbooks are much more

The hardest part is you feel lonely at times. You want to just try and connect with people. ...

That’s difficult.”

-Nitin Luthra, first-year graduate student from India studying English expensive in the U.S., Chong said.

“For every subject, you have to use some sort of online portal to turn in assignments, which is something I’m trying to get used to,” Chong said.

Chong said she appreciates the freedom of speech Americans have. In Malaysia, citizens could be charged through the Sedition Act if they are not careful with what they say, Chong said.

“Malaysia is not as developed as the U.S., especially not mentally,” Chong said.

“It’s just easy to offend people there.”

Chong also said OU professors are more helpful than those in Malaysia because they encourage students to ask questions and attend office hours.

She said overall, the university is more “about the students” than her school in Malaysia.

Because of the new environment and teaching methods, though, Chong said she feels more stressed at OU. In Malaysia, Chong’s classes were normally one to two hours long. With some classes being only 55 minutes at OU, Chong said they tend to be more jam-packed with information.

“You really have to focus," Chong said. “There’s no room for you to zone out and dream.”

Nitin Luthra, a first-year graduate student from India studying English, said OU exceeded his academic expectations.

Luthra said OU is far more professional and rigorous than he expected, and that the students are focused and academically-oriented.

“The reason for that could be (the U.S. is) a developed country,” Luthra said. “India has the problem of numbers. That’s why it’s not as organized there.”

As a graduate student, Luthra said he hasn’t had a lot of time to go out on the weekends. He said he has to work intensely throughout the week in order to make time on Fridays and Saturdays.

“The hardest part is you feel lonely at times,” Luthra said. “You want to just try

and connect with people. You want to meet more people. That’s difficult. Perhaps not for everybody, but certainly for me.”

Despite the educational shock Chong felt, she said she did not experience much of a culture shock. Television shows such as Grey’s Anatomy, which she said accurately depicted American culture, sufficiently prepared her for what the U.S. would be like.

Although she said she was not surprised by American culture, Chong said she thinks it is harder for international students than American students to make friends because of an unconscious “invisible barrier” that comes between American and international students as a result of their cultural differences.

Chong found small talk is an important part in Americans’ social lives, which she does not like.

Hashim Pashtun, the president of International Student Union, said domestic students should help international students who are adjusting to American customs.

“The small request I have from domestic students is don’t judge them and don’t be offended if they do something

wrong," Pashtun said. “Try to help them.

Try to get to know them, and don’t expect American tradition or culture from them. Don’t be hurt and don’t feel offended.”

Swati Roy, an international student from Bangladesh who enrolled in OU last year, said she struggled with homesickness her first semester. She said the adjustment international students make can be difficult, but it ultimately gets easier.

“To the new international students, I’d just say, ‘hang in there,’ ” Roy, a sophomore studying international business, said. “Your first year might feel a little bumpy, you might feel a little intimidated, but concentrate on your studies and just try to be friendly to people.”

It is still too early to tell, Chong said, but she thinks Athens is starting to feel like home.

“It’s home because I like the community here. It’s really small and people are very friendly,” Chong said. “It feels like home-ish. It’s close.”

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OU professor imagines autonomous, flying car Professor Jim Zhu has spent the last decade developing a flying car, and while his team is still far from accomplishing that goal, they’ve made plenty of progress along the way LUKE TORRANCE FOR THE POST Professor Jim Zhu’s office in Stocker Center is crammed with materials from projects new and old. Long equations fill a whiteboard on one wall. On another are photographs of a space shuttle in flight — a reminder of his time working for NASA. On his desk, between stacks of paper, are a couple of model cars and airplanes. They were gifts from his two children long ago and serve as a reminder of the project that has consumed him for over a decade: fusing the two vehicles together to create a flying car.

“There is a real need for something like this,” Zhu said. “It can lead to an improved quality of life. It can make getting around easier. And it’s also a good way to motivate students because it’s fun and challenging.”

Zhu said the concept of a flying car is an old one. Henry Ford made an attempt as early as 1928. Zhu has a book containing every flying car design patented up to the ’90s, which is when he first attempted to build a flying car with his students at Louisiana State University. His first prototype, the size of a remote control car, took flight in 2004.

Since then, Zhu and his students at Ohio University have made progress. He and one of his students are currently using a remote control car to test technology for a self-driving car. He is also working to develop an autonomous plane. The ultimate goal is to fuse the two autonomous vehicles together to create a flying car that would not need a pilot.

Zhu also wants the car to be able to take off vertically, which would be more convenient for the driver, though it is a tall order for the students working under him. The current design of the car has the wheel arranged in a diamond pattern — Zhu said that would make landing easier — and four fans in each corner of the car for takeoff.

There are also two fans facing backward to propel the vehicle forward in flight, and small wings fold down from the rear of the car. Zhu patented a design for a flying car and created a 3-D model, but the car primarily exists only in theory.

“It’s difficult because we have to develop the technology as we go along,” Zhu said.

Zhu first became interested in flight as a fourth-grade student in Beijing, when he read a book from the Soviet Union about making paper airplanes. A few years later, in 1966, the government launched the Cultural Revolution to remove capitalist ideals from Chinese society. The schools were shut down for several years.

Disillusioned with the political structure

Professor Jim Zhu talks about a part of his prototype Sept. 1. Zhu, who works in the Russ College of Engineering, is in the midst of creating a full scale flying car.

(AUSTIN JANNING / FOR THE POST)

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Professor Jim Zhu poses with a prototype Sept. 1. Zhu, who works in the Russ College of Engineering, is in the midst of creating a full scale flying car.

(AUSTIN JANNING / FOR THE POST)

of the country, Zhu went to work in a gear factory at the age of 16. He became the factory’s floor manager by age 17.

“At the factory I learned much of my technical knowledge and skills,” Zhu said.

Zhu’s curiosity helped him to learn without schooling. On his walks home from the factory, Zhu and his friends would pass a technological institute and sift through the institute’s trash for electronic parts to build transistor radios.

In the early ’70s, the schools began to reopen, and at 21, Zhu went to Beijing Polytechnic University for industrial engineering, where he worked on industrial saws and other projects.

He left China in the early ’80s to study control engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and taught at Louisiana State University for a decade before coming to OU in the fall of 2000.

The flying car has preoccupied much of Zhu’s time since arriving in Athens, but he has worked on other projects. In 2001 he worked with NASA to help develop a second-generation space shuttle. When that program was canceled, Zhu’s team at OU switched to airplane flight control. Zhu recently patented a system that would prevent a pilot from losing control of a plane due to turbulence. Zhu plans to use that

technology in the flying car.

“He’s been very active in developing control systems, which require some very deep mathematics,” said Dr. David Juedes, the department chair for electrical engineering and computer science at the Russ College. “I have a lot of respect for his work.”

Amy Chan, a graduate student from China studying electrical engineering, said she plans to use the self-driving car to earn her Ph.D. “I found his area of research very interesting to me,” she said.

Although the flying car might be far off, self-driving cars are already on the horizon, if not closer. The ride-share company Uber recently announced it would test a fleet of self-driving cars this month. Chan recently ran a successful test with the RC car.

“Getting to work on things that are new or challenging, that is very gratifying to me,” Miguel Sempertegui, a graduate student studying electrical engineering also working under Zhu, said.

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Art and exotic animals mix at new Uptown shop BAILEY GALLION STAFF WRITER The miscellaneous food and drink containers that sit in a locked glass case in Silver Serpent Exotic Gifts aren’t what they seem.

James Wanke, a fifth year Ohio University senior studying biological science and the night manager at the store, removed one from the case and unscrewed it to reveal a secret compartment.

The containers are secret smell-proof safes, he said.

“I think the best one is the expired mayonnaise can,” he said. “I don’t really think anyone’s going to open that, especially if you leave it out in a warm room.”

Wanke is the “animal guy” at Silver Serpent Exotic Gifts at 55 N. Court St., which opened Aug. 19. He takes care of the store’s various resident animals: three pythons, two chameleons, “about a hundred” tropical fish and a loud, 20-year-old gray cat named Twinkle. Perseus, the store’s mascot, is a blue-eyed, silver ball python.

The store doesn’t sell any animals, but it sells plenty of other items. Acrylic and glass tobacco pipes, hidden safes and Pokemon-themed collectibles line the glass cases. Tobacco products and a fridge full of bottled soft drinks sit behind the cash counter. Framed, dead, exotic butterflies cover a wall.

Wanke said the insects are sustainably raised from institutes that study them.

The store opens at 11 a.m. each morning and doesn’t close until 3 or 4 a.m. the following morning. Wanke said the owners and managers wanted the store to be available to “all walks of life and all types of people,” including Athens’ nightlife.

“We get a lot of people who come in after they’ve been drinking,” Wanke said.

Silver Serpent Exotic Gifts, which recently opened at 55 N. Court St., carries a wide array of items ranging from reptiles and fish to tobacco pipes.

(EMMA HOWELLS / PHOTO EDITOR) “They may not make a large purchase, but they come in the next day when they’ve got a headache and then they make their purchase.”

The store began turning a profit right away, Wanke said. For the first week, sales averaged at $3,000 a day, then dropped slightly as the store began to run out of products. Wanke said the store gives out stickers, which many visitors put up around town to attract attention to the store. But he also said much of the interest comes from the smalltown culture in Athens.

He said the staff tries to market the store as more than just a pipe and tobacco shop, so they call it an exotic gift shop instead of a smoke shop.

The store pays at least $10 an hour for each staff member, an equal rate for both managers and employees.

“We don’t really pull rank here,” Wanke said. “It’s just if you can’t work as a team, you can’t work as a team. We haven’t had that issue yet.”

All of the store’s employees were hired after volunteering to set up the shop over the summer. Friends and passersby stopped in to hold the snakes and began helping paint the store, and later took jobs there.

“We didn’t have to interview a single person,” Wanke said. “Every single person who works here came over the summer and put in their hours for free for a chance at a job.”

Ian Pack, a store clerk and Athens resident, began volunteering when he moved to Athens over the summer. ”I met this guy and said I needed a job and he said, ‘Well, help us build the shop, you’ll get really good pay,’ ” Pack said. “I was like, ‘Sure, why not.’ It just worked out.”

Pack said he enjoys coming to work every day, and that most days it doesn’t feel like work.

Corey Hilbig, a senior studying music production, brought his friend in to visit the store.

“We got bored of drinking at our house, so we came here,” he said.

Hilbig worked as a DJ at the store’s opening. He said he recommends the store to people every day.

“Where do I start,” he said.

“Let’s see here … There’s a very good selection, it’s a very good location and the people who work here are amazing.”

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Interpreting Silence For several years, Kirsten Pribula thought she was the only student on campus who was deaf GEORGIA DAVIS / STAFF WRITER ILLUSTRATION BY THINKSTOCK

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t age 23, Kirsten Pribula heard a water sprinkler for the first time.

She stood in the middle of College Green for a few minutes trying to preserve the moment and remember the sound.

Pribula lost her hearing between the ages of 3 and 4 due to autoimmune inner ear disease. AIED is a progressive hearing loss condition caused when the immune system attacks the inner ear, according to the American Hearing Research Foundation.

Pribula underwent cochlear implant surgery — a surgery where a device that improves hearing is placed in the inner ear — when she was eight years old. The

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surgery allows her to hear partially, but Pribula still relies heavily on lip reading and interpreters, she said.

In group conversations, Pribula said she often needs an interpreter because it is hard to keep up with the back-and-forth nature of the conversations.

“But with one-on-one conversations, I do really well because … I can read lips well,” Pribula said.

Despite the problems she faces because of her hearing loss, she still chose to come to Ohio University. Pribula was also looking at Gallaudet University, the only university in the nation designed specifically to eliminate barriers for students who are deaf and hard of hearing,

but Gallaudet did not offer Pribula the major she wanted to pursue.

Pribula, a junior studying graphic design, thought she was the only student who is deaf on campus, but according to Carey Busch, the assistant dean of student accessibility, there are between 15 and 18 students on Ohio University’s Athens campus that are deaf or hard of hearing. The group makes up less than one-tenth of a percent of the campus’ student population.

Although Pribula often feels overlooked by the general student body, there are some offices at OU actively working to accommodate students who are deaf, in and out of the classroom.

MAKING CAMPUS ACCESSIBLE

OU has the Office of Student Accessibility Services, located in Baker Center, Room 348, to help students with disabilities on campus, including students with all levels of reduced hearing.

In 1990, Congress passed The Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against people who have disabilities in all public forms of life, including universities.

“Our overall goal with all students would be to remove barriers that they experience as a result of their disability,” Busch said.

Through accessibility services, Pribula said she is provided with interpreters and notetakers that help her in the classroom.

Without the notetaker’s help, she would have to multitask more, which can lead to missing signs from the interpreter who relays what the professor is saying.

Before the notetakers were implemented, Busch said the office relied on the professors to supply the student with content from the lecture. The feedback from students using this process was negative, so the office switched to using student notetakers.

In cases where they can’t find a notetaker, they work to ensure the student still gets the “full benefit” of the lecture Busch said.

Another way to improve the accessibility in the classroom, Pribula said, is to choose videos that have subtitles available. If the professor cannot find a video suitable for captioning, Pribula said they give her an alternative assignment.

“Most of the time, it kind of sucks because I feel like I’m kind of being left out a little bit and … that I’m not doing the same thing as other people in the class, and I don’t want to make other people feel jealous in class because I’m getting the special treatment,” Pribula said. “I don’t want the special treatment — I just want to be treated the same as everybody else.”

Accessibility services is not the only office providing assistance for those who are deaf.

Housing and Residence Life also cooperates with students who are deaf to provide them with necessary equipment, Jneanne Hacker, the director of business and conference services, said in an email.

She added that the office makes sure the room of a student who is deaf has a bed shaker and strobe lights connected to the fire alarm, as well as a doorbell located outside of the dorm room that activates the lights in the room.

There is not a designated hall for students who are deaf, Hacker said, because the department likes to make all housing choices available for students.

ABOVE: Kirsten Pribula, a junior studying graphic design, speaks with Dr. Rosemarie Basile, an assistant director in the School of Art and Design, in Seigfred Hall on Aug. 31. (NICKOLAS OATLEY / FOR THE POST) LEFT: Pribula signs her name on College Green on Aug. 31. (NICKOLAS OATLEY / FOR THE POST) LIFE ON CAMPUS

Outside of the classroom, Pribula said the main problem she faces is people do not know how to communicate with her.

“Sometimes, when people try to talk to (me), they realize ‘Oh, (she is) deaf,’ and they would feel sorry for (me),” Pribula said.

Busch said she has seen an influx in students who are deaf who want to be more involved in campus activities. She added that it has been a “point of frustration” that interpreters are not available for most of the campus events, such as concerts and theater productions.

“Recently we’ve had some students who really want to be more involved on campus and not just be a student and go to class,” Busch said. “I think campus culture is the biggest place where we have some room to grow.”

Tyler Murphy, the vice president of OU’s American Sign Language club, said he would like to see more campus events interpreted for students who are deaf.

The club is interested in expanding this year and reaching out to students, who are deaf on campus — as none regularly attend the club’s meetings — to gain knowledge and listen to their experiences, Lauren Mathie, the president of ASL Club said.

“We want (students who are deaf in our club), and we want to know who they are,” Mathie, a senior studying communication, said.

Because Pribula lost her hearing at a young age, she said her parents put her in speech therapy, and she also learned sign language from an interpreter when she became deaf.

“My parents know this world we live in is a hearing world, and they wanted me to have the best of both worlds,” Pribula said. “They wanted me to (be a part of) the deaf world and the hearing world.”

Pribula said she wants for people to feel comfortable interacting with her.

“I just want them to be more open-minded a little bit instead of thinking that I’m kind of the weird deaf girl, and that they can’t really communicate with me,” Pribula said.

“But they can (communicate with me) — they just have to work a little bit more because I’m the one working hard a lot.”

Pribula said there is a lack of people who are Deaf on campus, a fairly typical problem.

“A lot of times, (the Deaf community) is left out,” Pribula said. “I think there’s a few other people (on campus) who are deaf, but they’re not connected to the Deaf community, so they have no knowledge of sign language or Deaf culture or the community itself.”

DEAFNESS BEYOND OU

There are two different definitions of deaf — deaf and culturally Deaf.

When the “d” is lowercase, it refers to a medical term for a person with “some level of reduced hearing,” Busch said. “(Deaf) with a capital ‘D’ ... has to do with culture and identity,” she said.

Parts of Deaf culture include using the proper etiquette, such as appropriately getting someone’s attention, and using sign language to communicate, she said.

Lisa Koch, an adjunct ASL professor who herself is hard of hearing, said choosing to

be a part of Deaf culture is an “individual decision” and is often dependent on if the person who is deaf is taught to speak rather than to use sign language.

According to the Center for Hearing and Communication in New York, more than 90 percent of children who are deaf are born to hearing parents. Koch said that can play a major role as to whether the child is raised using sign language.

A “right of initiation” into the Deaf culture is receiving a sign name from a person who is Deaf, which takes a “special characteristic” about a person and typically the first letter of their name, Koch said.

Koch said her sign name, which was given to her by her roommate at Gallaudet who is Deaf, is the sign for the letter “L” and the sign for “audiology,” which was her major at Gallaudet, combined into one sign.

“You do not ask for one,” Koch said. “You are given it.”

Pribula’s sign name is the letter “K” and the sign for “work” because she said she is hard-working and always busy. She received it from an interpreter about the time she became deaf.

“Only the Deaf person can give the hearing person a sign name because it’s our thing,” Pribula said. “It’s our culture, our language.”

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the weekender

’90s band Hum returns to The Union for sold-out show LYNANNE VUCOVICH FOR THE POST Not all of cult ‘90s rock bands are together anymore, let alone touring, but one still is, and is heading to The Union Bar & Grill.

On Saturday, Hum will play at The Union at 9 p.m. with Dibiase and Megawave. Tickets for the show are now sold out.

Hum has played at The Union many times before, and it was one of the first outof-town shows they booked, Eric Gunn, an owner of The Union, said.

“They really haven’t toured a whole lot, and they started doing some shows, so we contacted their booking agent and we wanted to see if we could make it happen,” Gunn said. “Those guys were regulars here before. We had the opportunity so, of course, we jumped on it.”

Gunn said he is personally excited for the show and the opportunity to see old friends that he has not seen in years.

“Hum is a band that is very much a part of that quintessential ‘90s music era, but they don’t get the kind of mainstream buzz like other bands like Nirvana,” Megan Fair, a senior studying journalism and diversity studies, said.

Hum is originally from Illinois and started making music in the early ‘90s. The band has had multiple different members throughout the years, but is now a fourpiece, according to its Facebook page.

“They call themselves space rock, but I would even go as far as to call them a shoegaze, post-hardcore band,” Devon Hannan, a sophomore studying journalism, said. “Their vocalist is the post-hardcore part, however they’re very pedal dependent.

They’ve got a lot of that fuzzy stuff going on which gives them that shoegaze essence as well.”

Hum’s most successful song was released in 1995, titled “Stars,” and was on their third album You’d Prefer an Astronaut.

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LEFT: Hum will play a sold out show at The Union on Saturday.

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Records, cites Hum’s last album, Downward is Heavenward, as one of his favorite albums of all time.

“They’re just really one of those bands that really hit it with me,” Lampela said.

“They’re awesome, just really good spacey rock.”

“They were one of the first bands that made people realize that you can write a dark song that sounds kind of bright, and that’s pretty darn cool,” Fair said. “They did a lot of things first, and no one really talks about it.”

One band Hum influenced is Megawave, one of the opening bands of the show, Fair said.

“Hum is a favorite for them, and this is (Megawave’s) last show,” she said. “What a perfect way to send off your career as a band with one of your favorite bands.”

Dibiase has ties with Hum as well. Matt Talbott, Hum’s lead singer, helped produce one of the band’s records, Gunn said.

Fair likes Hum for their noisy, unpredict-

able sounds, she said.

Tickets for the show are sold out, and not everyone who wanted to attend got tickets.

“Everybody’s really mad they didn’t get tickets,” Hannan said. “I’m pissed I’m missing this show. I would have carved my left kidney out to see them.”

Fair will be seeing Hum on Saturday and bought tickets as soon as they went on sale. “(Hum will be) loud, bring ear plugs,” Fair said. “They’re one of those bands that a record captures only some of the largeness and complexity of what’s happening, but live will be really cool because you’ll be immersed in it.”

Gunn expects a very diverse crowd to attend Saturday.

“There’s people coming from all over, even Chicago,” Gunn said. “It’s gonna be a blast, a blast for the past.”

Gunn described Hum as a small indie band when they were starting out that just happened to blow up.

“I think we’re super lucky they’re com-

IF YOU GO WHAT: Hum with Dibiase and Megawave WHEN: 9 p.m., Saturday WHERE: The Union Bar & Grill ADMISSION: Sold out ing to play in Athens and that The Union is back,” Fair said. “It rivals the quality of a lot of the popular mid-level venues in Columbus, so that means we’re going to have the opportunity to see more bands like Hum come through again.”

The Union hopes to host more bands like Hum in the future, despite Athens being a smaller market, Gunn said.

“It’s fantastic. It’s like Christmas early,” Lampela said. “I can’t wait.”

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ALSO HAPPENING FALL CLOTHING SWAP When: 12 p.m., Saturday Where: Wolf Tree Collective, 74 E State St. Admission: Free, $3 to $10 donation asked Just in time to start throwing together an affordable Halloween costume or pick up some fall essentials before the chill hits, the Fall Clothing Swap is the place to be this weekend to trade in old threads. One can bring in their old clothes, shoes, purses, etc. in exchange for items completely new to them. According to Wolf Tree Collective’s website, “We have had great success the last two swaps … Folks have left with bags full.” This event is free, however, a $3 to $10 donation is asked to help support the space Wolf Tree Collective uses to hold its free programs for families in the community. Any clothes still remaining after the swap are donated to other nonprofits.

BETTER TOGETHER 9/11 INTERFAITH PEACE WALK When: 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Sunday Where: The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 64 University Terrace Dr. Admission: Free Sunday, the United Campus Ministry will be going on a peaceful, reflective, interfaith walk through campus. The route will take walkers past religious buildings from different faiths including Hillel at Ohio University, St. Paul Catholic Church, First Presbyterian Church of Athens and others.

The walk will finish in front of the Islamic Center followed by a candlelight vigil. The peace walk is part of the year-long Better Together campaign trying to mobilize students from various faith backgrounds to engage in community service

and social justice together to make OU and Athens better for everyone.

JAZZ NIGHT WITH NICK SIMKO AND ELI CHAMBERS When: 8 p.m.-10 p.m., Saturday Where: Athens Uncorked Admission: Free Nick Simko and Eli Chambers of the Columbus-based band, “Radarhill,” come to Athens Uncorked on Saturday evening for Jazz Night. The duo began playing together after they met at Ohio University’s School of Music. Today, Simko and Chambers travel around Ohio and the Midwest playing trumpet and bass.

“From standards you know and love to free improvisation, it’s sure to be a night to remember!” the event’s page said.

SUNDAY FUNDAY WITH DOXCITY When: 4:30 p.m., Sunday Where: Jackie O’s Production Brewery & Taproom, 25 Campbell St Admission: Free This Sunday you can unwind to the sounds of Doxcity live at Jackie O’s Production Brewery & Taproom with special guests D.jONES, Emcee Schwatrtz, Stoneface, 2DS, Rem da Reason, Kalvin Kush and Dawg Yawp. The Sunday Funday will also feature the “amazing” artwork of Jessie Boone, as described on the Sunday Funday event page.

THE PUNK SINGER When: 4 p.m., Friday Where: United Campus Ministries, 18 N College St. Admission: Free Bikini Kill frontwoman, Kathleen Hanna, was a pioneer in the Riot

United Campus Ministry’s 9-11 interfaith peace walk will start at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd on Sunday at 7 p.m. (MICHAEL SWENSEN / FILE)

Grrrl movement of the ‘90s and a feminist activist. Youth Against Misogyny and Sexism is hosting a free screening of ‘The Punk Singer,’ which shows director Sini Anderson’s exploration into Hanna’s life and career.

WATER, WITCHES, BREAKERS, BLUE MOTH AT THE UNION When: 9 p.m., Friday Where: The Union Bar & Grill, 18 W. Union St.

SHABBAT DINNER When: 6 p.m., Friday Where: Living Learning Center, 111 S. Green Dr.

EVENING OF STEAMPUNK FUN When: 5 p.m., Friday Where: ARTS/West, 132 W. State St.

FREE FRIDAY When: 10 a.m., Friday Where: Athensworks, 29 E. Carpenter St.

LEVI FUNK When: 8 p.m., Friday Where: Donkey Coffee and Espresso, 17 W. Washington St.

LIFT UP AUTISM When: 10 a.m., Saturday Where: Crossfit SEO, 762 W. Union St. WOMYN GATHERING IN SE OHIO When: 11 a.m., Sunday Where: Turtle Hill Farm, Union St.

*Compiled by Sarah Franks

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