The Lantern - April 6 2017

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Students question the need for a public-private energy deal and ask who will benefit the most from it.

EATING DISORDER WALK

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Local band Lazy Susan and the Bean Bag Boys have gone from dormroom jam sessions to the stage.

A one-mile walk will loop around Ohio Stadium to raise awareness of eating disorders.

BACKUP QUARTERBACKS

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A battle is brewing between young Buckeye talent who are looking to back up JT Barrett.

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Data shows racial disparity in police stops Professor

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ASHLEY NELSON Sports Director nelson.1217@osu.edu OWEN DAUGHERTY Lantern reporter daugherty.260@osu.edu One out of 20 Ohio State students is black. One out of every 12 residents of the University District is black. Yet when University Police were responding to suspicious activity in 2016, one out of every three of the subjects of those field interviews was black.

Black subjects, when compared to Columbus’ and Ohio State’s overall population, made up a disproportionate number of field interviews conducted by University Police in 2016, according to a Lantern analysis of the 933 field interviews made last year. Of the 1,684 traffic stops conducted by University Police, black subjects were overrepresented as subjects of traffic stops when compared with the demographics of OSU’s student and employee population, as well as the population of the surrounding neighborhoods — though not compared to city-wide demographics.

The findings come on the heels

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A University Police officer blocks off the road during an incident at the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry building. of a new statewide policing standard that will require all police departments to collect race and gender data for anyone pulled over in traffic stops or questioned in field interviews. University Police had already been collecting the data since 2013.

In the report where the 2016 data was collected, University Police offered multiple explanations for the racial disparities, including

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accounting for Columbus’ black population, which makes up 28 percent of the city’s residents. Administration and Planning spokesman Dan Hedman highlighted the report’s findings in his responses to The Lantern as well.

At OSU, black drivers were involved in 15 percent of all traffic stops. OSU’s black student population is 5.3 percent of the student body, while the black population

in the University District, comprised of the campus and surrounding neighborhoods, is 8.4 percent of the total population.

Of the 933 field interviews, 34 percent involved black subjects.

In 2015, 33 percent of field interviews involved black subjects.

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In an attempt to force Ohio State to disclose details of the $1.1 billion energy privatization deal, Bruce Weide, professor emeritus of the Department of Computer and Science Engineering, filed a lawsuit with the Ohio Supreme Court.

The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday to compel OSU to make the details of the deal public before the matter goes to a vote at the Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, with the goal being that the deal will be voted down until it can be reevaluated, Weide said.

“We hope that at least some of the trustees will realize that this has not been an open or fair process,” said Fred Gittes, Weide’s lawyer. “Hopefully, they will postLAWSUIT CONTINUES ON 2

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Wexner Medical Center moves ahead on Framework 2.0 Vote also to be held on granting posthumous degree for Reagan Tokes NICK ROLL Campus Editor roll.66@osu.edu

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Ohio Gov. John Kasich and President Donald Trump both issued orders that flags at government and public facilities be flown at half-staff on Thursday in honor of former U.S. senator from Ohio and astronaut John Glenn’s internment at Arlington National Cemetery. Glenn died on Dec. 8. He was 95.

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The Wexner Medical Center Board voted on Wednesday to proceed with approving up to $6.6 million to seek out design and planning work for relevant portions of Ohio State’s Framework 2.0 development plan.

New details of Framework 2.0 — a laundry list of infrastructure developments announced earlier this year as an update to the original Framework infrastructure plan — were released Monday, along with updates to the ongoing 15th and High redevelopment plan.

The new details of Framework 2.0 relating to the Wexner Center include planning for new buildings and overhauls for the medical campus, Wexner Center and its

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ent criteria. In a statement, Hedman said a field interview “could result from a community member calling for service or a suspicious person report,” in addition to an officer observing “suspicious behavior and (deciding) that a field interview is needed to assess the situation in an effort to enhance safety.”

The number of field interviews and traffic stops involving black subjects was addressed at length in the administrative review itself — obtained by The Lantern in a public records request — as multiple paragraphs are dedicated to explaining the reasoning for such discrepancies.

“We work hard to build and maintain the trust of our students and the entire university community,” Hedman said. “As a university agency, servicing a college campus, which is home to nearly 100,000 students, faculty, staff and visitors, we have a uniquely tailored approach focusing on both safety and education.”

The statement from Hedman also acknowledged that the department is required “to train (its) personnel in bias-based profiling issues and take corrective measures if it is determined bias-based profiling occurs.”

No corrective measures were taken and there were no reported citizen concerns of bias in 2015 or 2016, according to the report.

The review’s theories

The review, written by Capt.

David Rose, who heads the patrol bureau, attributes the higher rate of black subjects interacting with police mostly to the surrounding campus area and Columbus’ black population, which is 28 percent of the total population.

“Roads passing through campus represent a convenient passage between surrounding communities so non-affiliates are likely well-represented in the sample,” Rose wrote in the review, referring to those not affiliated with the university as employees or students.

While the 2016 review did not record the OSU-affiliation of those pulled over or who were the subject of a field interview, the 2015 administrative review did. It found that 82 percent of field interviews involved nonstudents and nonemployees.

Affiliation was not recorded for traffic stops in 2015. The 2016 review states that “university affiliation is not reliably recorded during traffic citations so these data are missing to make a reliable interpretation.”

Since that data is no longer reliably kept, it is impossible to see the percentage of field interviews that are with students and employees.

“In addition to enhancing safety for our students, faculty and staff, we are a public institution and an open campus that welcomes more than three million visitors each

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year,” Hedman said. “As such, we have no plans to change the reporting.”

The surrounding area Rose’s reasoning for the racial discrepancies is that the university area is open for nonaffiliated people to pass through, which accounts for the 6-percent gap between Columbus’ 28 percent black population and the percentage of field interviews carried out on black men and women, 34 percent. The proportion of traffic stops in which the subject was black — 15 percent — is lower than the 28 percent total city’s black population.

However, Census data from 2010 shows that the ZIP codes bordering the University District have a smaller black population than Columbus as a whole, although the most recent census data available is older and subject to unreported changes between 2010 and 2016.

The University District, the area that University Police patrols with some overlapping jurisdiction with the Columbus Division Police, is made up primarily of two ZIP codes, 43210 and 43201. This can be separated as on-campus and off-campus living areas, respectively.

OSU’s campus has its own ZIP code, 43210, which is 7 percent black, according to census data.

The surrounding ZIP code, 43201 — which stretches several blocks north of Lane Avenue down to the Short North and from roughly State Route 315 to Interstate 71 — is 14 percent black. Together they make up the University District, the most densely populated area in Columbus.

As defined by city code, the University District’s boundaries are Fifth Avenue to the south, Glen Echo Ravine to the north, train tracks to the east and the Olentangy River to the west.

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pone the vote on the agreement to either reconsider disclosing the information or allow the court to decide if they are violating the public records law and then act accordingly.”

The proposed deal is between OSU and Ohio State Energy Partners, a recently formed entity comprised of Paris-based energy company ENGIE and Axium Infrastructure, an investment firm.

The deal allows for a third-party energy firm to give $1.1 billion to OSU upfront, with OSU making $45 million payments to ENGIE every year at a 1.5 percent inflation rate for the next 50 years.

“If you ask (OSU) if this is a loan, of course they will say no, it’s not a loan,” Weide said. “But if you just look at the details and the cash flow, who is giving money to whom when, it is exactly a loan.

They can dress it up in the guise of energy management, but it’s simply a loan for operating expenses.”

Weide said OSU is, in part, using this deal to generate an immediate influx of cash to cover basic operating costs that OSU regularly incurs.

“I think OSU is pretty much tapped out when it comes to borrowing money,” Weide said.

“They borrowed a tremendous amount of money to build new residence halls and to expand the medical center. OSU is trying to make sure they don’t impact their capability of borrowing from capital projects.”

However, as a public university, OSU is only able to accept loans to cover capital expenditures, such as the construction of new buildings or purchasing machinery.

“This deal is clearly a loan to OSU but it’s not a loan for capital expenditures, which is what state

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law requires money to go towards — this loan covers operating expenses,” Weide said. “I think the state auditor should look into this.

This seems like a surprisingly transparent attempt to circumvent limitations on how much and for what purposes OSU can borrow money.

OSU declined to comment, citing that the litigation is still pending.

Weide said his interest in this matter stems from the fact that when he was a faculty member, he worked very closely with University Senate on the parking privatization deal.

Weide and Gittes said they agree that the details of the deal should be publicized before OSU makes a 50-year commitment to an energy company whose interests are not necessarily known. “(This deal) is fusing publicly-owned facilities and essentially turning their operation over to for-profit corporations who don’t have any duty to public interest — they exist to make a profit,” Gittes said.

In the meantime, Weide hopes that the trustees take notice of the lawsuit and reevaluate the amount of information that is being withheld from the public potentially changing how trustees will vote on the matter.

“The lack of disclosure really raises serious questions about the financial common sense of this deal — the trustees concern should be with higher education and the larger goal is improving the quality of academics, the quality of research exploration and contributions to society through OSU — that’s why it was created, not to make deals with private, for-profit companies,” Gittes said.

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including the training of doctors, nurses, pharmacists.

Part of the money will go to a new interdisciplinary research building as well, to be built potentially on West Campus near the College Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.

“If we’re going to be a worldclass college of medicine … if we’re going to be a world-class university, we need to focus on the research enterprise,” McPheron said.

The approval of the proposal faced no opposition.

Voting on the full $5-7 million estimated to be doled out for design and planning costs is set to go to the Board of Trustees on Friday, assuming other committees also approve the money, some of which is also being allocated to on-campus development related to 15th and High.

Degree for Reagan Tokes The Board of Trustees is set to vote on a proposal to grant Tokes a posthumous bachelor of arts degree, first in committee on Thursday and then among the full board on Friday.

Tokes, a fourth-year in psychology, was last seen alive on Feb. 8 as she left her shift from Bodega Cafe in the Short North, before

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Reagan Tokes, left, poses with Brutus Buckeye and her sister, Makenzie.

police say she was kidnapped, robbed, raped and murdered. Brian Lee Golsby, 29, is facing an 18-count indictment related to Tokes’ death and a string of robberies in German Village. Golsby is facing the death penalty. He pleaded not guilty on Monday.

Tokes was remembered shortly after her death by a string of vigils and fundraisers held at campus bars to raise money both for a scholarship in her name, as well as for her family.

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Energy deal looks to line pockets of few at expense of many At the end of the day, we still do not have an answer to why the Ohio State needs a private partner to achieve sustainability goals. The answer still appears to be needing a private partner for the sake of it. The last slide of the presentation during a University Senate meeting, held on April 4, said it all: The current state of energy operations under university control and the Comprehensive Energy Management Project will both provide high standards for energy operations, both allow the university to continue to determine sustainability goals, both have the university continuing to determine the mix of energy, and both include investments in energy system affecting university costs.

However, the “benefits” include a $1.165 billion package for the academic mission and academic collaboration, and, also a “major energy efficiency program with dedicated funding.” That last point is something that we as a university can make the conscious decision to do without the assistance of a third party.

And the compensation package? This is coming off the heels of the most successful fundraising campaign in the history of the university. Why this? Why now?

Additionally, stated goals coming out

of the CampusParc privatization deal in 2012 have not been met, leading to grave concerns that these goals will not be met either.

Clearly, this deal is, and has always been, all about the money. Notably, tucked away deep in the back of the Request for Proposals is “Form E,” the Technical, Financial and Academic Collaboration Score Sheet. This is essentially the rubric the university used to compare the corporate bids. Here we can see what the priorities of the deal truly are.

Out of 100 total points, 10 points are given for Academic Collaboration, with an additional ten points for Technical Ability/ Partnership. The other 80 points?

“Upfront Payment less Residual Asset Value,” with the winner of the category shelling out the “Highest Upfront Payment.” The fact that the Highest Upfront Payment is eight times more valued than either academics or technical ability to achieve sustainability goals is disturbing and, frankly, just wrong.

A better world is possible. As stated during this University Senate meeting, OSU is one of the few universities to own all its energy infrastructure, from electric and natural gas to geothermal, steam and chilled water. We are getting

almost 25 percent of our energy sourced from wind — why can’t we ramp this up ourselves? Campuswide updates to the infrastructure would cost an estimated $250 million, which the university definitely can afford. Privatization absolutely hurts workers. Maintaining university control over energy systems means utility workers could maintain their unionized, university jobs. These jobs provide safe working conditions, quality pay and multiple benefits. Their children can get assistance in attending OSU, a university that was designed to uplift and advance the community around it. Why resort to privatization, when we have the professors and students with the knowledge and potential to advance our goals and improve our technology?

Let’s commit to us. Let’s commit to keeping this institution public, with its own control over its assets and the power to its people. This world is possible.

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OSU hosts NEDA Walk for Buckeye Blackout to hold fourth-annual eating disorder awareness concert, first at Newport “I can’t even tell you how inspiring it is to have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people in the same space, all finding support in our community.”

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KAYLEEN PETROVIA Lantern reporter petrovia.1@osu.edu This Sunday, a group of Ohio State students will walk toward a future without eating disorders.

Body Sense, a student organization that advocates for positive body image and self-love, is hosting the National Eating Disorders Association walk in Columbus to raise funds for eating disorder treatment and research for the eighth time this year.

Laurie Hamame, president

Members of Body Sense walk at the 2015 Columbus NEDA Walk at Fred Beekman Park. of Body Sense and fifth-year in journalism, said the NEDA Walk allows for a community of like-minded individuals to unite in fighting eating disorders and the stigma that surrounds them.

“I think getting a group of people together who have the same values and same mission is so important because a lot of people — myself included — have felt like they’re the only person that feels this way, or they are the only person fighting against the diet indus-

try or just feel alone in the struggle,” Hamame said.

The NEDA Walk is a nationwide event that hosts walks throughout the country that each raise funds for the nonprofit National Eating Disorders Association. This year, Hamame said the Columbus NEDA Walk has raised more than $14,000 so far. But the goal is to raise $25,000 total, a $5,000 increase from last year’s total.

She said Body Sense members

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The Skashank Redemption performing at the 2015 Buckeye Blackout concert in the Ohio Union.

EMMA STEELE Lantern reporter steele.849@osu.edu Concerts use a lot of energy with bright lights and sound systems, but Buckeye Blackout looks to counteract that with its emphasis on energy conservation.

Student organization Buckeye Blackout is set to host its fourth-annual concert featuring local bands at a new venue, New-

port Music Hall, on Friday.

The club, focused on promoting sustainability and energy conservation on campus, calls for Friday’s concertgoers to turn off their lights and appliances before leaving home for the show.

“Part of the idea behind the show is to create a campus wide blackout during the concert,” said Jeff Leopold, the club’s co-marketing chair and a second-year in BLACKOUT CONTINUES ON 6

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HUMANS OF OHIO STATE Lazy Susan and the Bean Bag Boys: A group as inventive as its name

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Lazy Susan and the Bean Bag Boys from left to right: Anna Weber, Carson Dentinger, Noah Zeitlin and Joe Ernst.

EMMA STEELE Lantern reporter steele.849@osu.edu Local band Lazy Susan and the Bean Bag Boys was just an inside joke between friends long before they were playing shows.

“We were really just sitting around in our dorms freshman year, trying to come up with the craziest band name we could think of,” said Carson Dentinger, a third-year in health science.

Even with an absurd name decided on, the band didn’t officially become active until a year and a half later.

“It was an idea for a long time before it was a real thing, (until) one day they asked me, ‘Anna, would you be the Lazy Susan to

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“Each one of us has bits and pieces on our phones that we send to each other.

It’s almost like musical mad libs”

I always get stopped (when I’m walking him) but it’s fine, he loves it. He loves kids and he’ll actually be walking on the sidewalk and he’ll cut people off until they pet him. He just wants the affirmation of them bending down and he’ll run away. He loves it as much as they love it. If he can bring joy to other people too, that’s great, because it’s college, it sucks.

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our Bean Bag Boys?’”said Anna Weber, a third-year in English and music.

The Bean Bag Boys are Dentinger on drums, Joe Ernst, a second-year in business and Russian on bass and guitar, and Noah Zeitlin, a second-year in finance on guitar. Weber, or Lazy Susan, plays keyboard and sings.

From there, it was a gradual — and casual — move to where they are now. The band members agreed that it started off as nothing too serious, just a group of friends messing around.

“We were kind of just jamming for a while,” Dentinger said.

“That’s what the whole thing was for a year and a half.”

The jam sessions paid off.

Eventually, riffs were repeated, mixed with some lyrics and turned into songs.

“I knew we had potential to write some awesome stuff,” Ernst said. “It was a variety of sitting down and improving and making

sounds into a song.”

Even with the members’ busy schedules, songwriting has remained a true collaborative effort.

“Each one of us has bits and pieces on our phones that we send to each other,” Zeitlin said. “It’s almost like musical mad libs.”

The band’s sound is a combination of band members’ classical, jazz, indie, and 60s rock ‘n’ roll roots, said Ernst.

“One of us will write something that is too jazzy or straight ‘60s, but (when) we put it together, it’s our own sound,” he said.

While Lazy Susan and the Bean Bag Boys has goals for a recorded

album, Weber said the band members think they sound better and their chemistry comes out best onstage rather than in a recording booth.

“We have an EP of four songs and our goal is to record the rest of the album this spring,” Weber said. “(But) we’re more about being a live band and playing shows.

The guy who did our recording said we’re a live band.”

Dentinger said he believes it’s because of the roots in friendship and jamming together that they have strong onstage chemistry and are able to put on a good show.

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Hippo Campus, 7 p.m. at the Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St. The indie rock band is set to perform with openers Magic City Hippies. Tickets are $23.85 including fees via Ticketmaster.

“Sixty Six,” 7 p.m. at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient, Lewis Klahr is set to screen his latest animated film, which focuses on American 1960s pop culture. Tickets are $6 for students and $8 for the general public.

Moonlight Market, 6 to 11 p.m. on Gay Street in downtown Columbus. Local businesses will have extended hours and special promotions, and there will be more than 100 street vendors and various street performers.

Buckeye Twirl Showcase, noon at the Ohio State Adventure Recreation Center. Buckeye Twirl and special guests Dance Coalition at OSU, Ohio State Irish Dance Team and Ohio State Jump Rope are all set to perform.

Admission is free.

Noah Zeitlin Second-year in finance

Spring Dance Concert, 8 p.m. at the Barnett Theatre in Sullivant Hall. Undergraduate and graduate students are set to perform solo and group works that highlight concepts they’ve learned throughout the school year. Tickets are $10 for OSU students, faculty and staff, and $15 for the public.

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Buckeye Blackout, 7:30 p.m. at Newport Music Hall, 1722 N High St. The lineup includes Fortune Orange, Lazy Susan and the Bean Bag Boys, Clubhouse, NesWordz and Zoo Trippin’. Admission is free for OSU students and $5 for the public.

Brantley Gilbert, 7 p.m. at the Schottenstein Center.

The country music artist is set to perform following opening acts Tucker Beathard, Luke Combs and Brian Davis. Tickets start at $44.15 including fees via Ticketmaster.

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Arts and Autism Festival, 3 p.m. at the Gateway Film Center at 1550 N High St. This event will spotlight creative careers for persons with autism in honor of April’s Autism Awareness Month. Admission is free.

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Booking the Newport has been a dream since the annual concert began, said Julia Andreasen, co-marketing chair and a thirdyear in atmospheric science. This is in large part because of the group’s emphasis on supporting local bands.

“Playing at the Newport is every student and local band’s dream,” she said. “Local bands appreciate that we want to advocate for sustainability.”

This year’s lineup, decided collectively by the club, will include a mix of both student and local bands. Headliner Zoo Trippin’ is supported by Fortune Orange, Lazy Susan and the Bean Bag Boys, NesWordz and Clubhouse.

In between sets, an emcee will talk about sustainability and raffle items including solar-powered speakers and other sustainable products.

Leopold said there will also be a designated spot to sign the club’s sustainability pledge, as Andreasen said the concert is a means to start a dialogue about sustainability.

“We want to show people it’s easy to talk about,” she said. “It’s something that can even be talked about at a concert.”

The idea to promote sustainability through a concert isn’t random, rather it’s a reflection of Buckeye Blackout’s larger purpose, Leopold said.

“We focus on promoting sustainable lifestyles through arts and

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music specifically,” he said. “Music is our way to get the message out because everyone can connect to music.”

Andreasen agreed that music is the perfect way to bridge the gap and spread the club’s message “It’s an event based on music, but I hope (we) impact students,” she said. “You can say ‘sustainability’ and people are like ‘sure,’ but if we can transfer the message through what people love, that would be amazing.”

Buckeye Blackout members said they want students to know that it isn’t hard to lead a more sustainable lifestyle.

“A lot of people think of sustainability as something that is challenging,” Leopold said. “(We) want people to know it’s not hard to be sustainable and make a difference.”

The concert is the culmination of a weeklong “Time for Change” sustainability effort put on by Ohio State’s College of Public Health. The show will begin Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Newport Music Hall. Admission is free for students with a valid BuckID and $5 for the general public.

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typically fundraise individually by asking friends and family members to donate, but the organization also holds group fundraisers such as T-shirt sales and yoga workshops.

Body Sense hosted the first Columbus NEDA Walk in 2010, the year the student organization was founded on campus. However, Hamame said this year is the first time the walk will be held on central campus, beginning at Larkins Plaza outside of the RPAC. Clorissa Mendez, coordinator for the Columbus NEDA Walk and a second-year in social work, said the location of the NEDA Walk will help to raise awareness of eating disorders and allow for ease of advocacy on campus. “(Eating disorders are) not something that people can do alone,” Mendez said. “You need support, whether it’s from family or friends, and I think when the community is more educated, people will feel more comfortable to come out and say, ‘Hey, I think I have a problem’ and people won’t shut them down or laugh, and they’ll take it seriously.”

Check-in for the walk will begin at 10 a.m. and participants will be able to participate in a variety of activities leading up to the opening ceremonies, Hamame said. There will be a yoga session, T-shirt tie-dyeing, face painting, booths with representatives from eating disorder treatment centers and stations to make pouches for keeping written compliments. She

said the event’s most popular activity is “scale bashing,” during which participants can “deface” hundreds of available scales with permanent markers.

Hamame said the opening ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. and will feature two speakers who will share their stories of eating disorder recovery. She said hearing personal messages from survivors of mental illnesses inspires others to believe recovery is possible.

“I can’t even tell you how inspiring it is to have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people in the same space, all finding support in our community,” Hamame said. “Everyone is just kind of on a high.”

The NEDA Walk will come to a close after participants complete a one-mile walk around Ohio Stadium. However, Hamame said she hopes the walk will have lasting effects on those involved.

“As someone who has struggled with an eating disorder myself, I’ve been in that place and I know how dark it can feel,” Hamame said. “I’m so inspired by the community coming together, and I think just being there, whether you’ve struggled (with an eating disorder) or not, the NEDA Walk can help you learn how to love yourself a little bit more.”

Laurie Hamame is a former Lantern reporter.

They have played at house shows and venues around campus such as the Scarlet and Grey Cafe and Cafe Kerouac.

“Our first couple of shows people wanted an encore after we were done with all the songs we knew,” he said. “So we looked at each other and decided to just jam.”

At the end of the day, that’s all the band members can really ask for — to play like they’re back in their dorms, but in front of people who want to hear them, Ernst said.

“It’s really cool to see your friends come out and it’s even cooler to see someone (we don’t know) appreciate us and sing our lyrics,” Weber said. “We just like to have fun.”

Lazy Susan and the Bean Bag Boys will play at the Newport this Friday as part of Buckeye Blackout’s sustainability concert. The show is free to Ohio State students and starts at 7:30 p.m.

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hoping that we can redo what we did last year this weekend and, you know, it’s an honor anytime that I get selected to compete for this university.”

Four Big Ten standouts return this season to defend their individual event titles. The Buckeyes return with a pair of first-team All-Big Ten selections in redshirt junior Sean Melton and Yoder.

Last season, Yoder captured gold for pommel horse and the Big Ten Freshman of the Year award.

Melton received four first-place performances on floor, still rings, parallel bars and the all-around, earning Gymnast of the Year.

The Fighting Illini return firstteam All-Big Ten selection and still rings champion Alex Diab, while Michigan returns with vault champion Anthony McCallum.

Additionally, on Monday, the

best gymnast title in the Big Ten conference was awarded to two athletes. OSU redshirt senior and team captain Jake Martin and Justin Karstadt of Minnesota were named the Co-Big Ten Gymnasts of the Year, an award that is voted on by head coaches throughout the league.

Martin is the seventh athlete in the program to earn the title.

He also is a finalist for the Nissen-Emery Award because of his athletic and scholastic achievements.

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OSU begins tough end-of-season push JAMES KING Lantern reporter king.2239@osu.edu The Ohio State women’s lacrosse team (6-8) have not had the easiest path to get where it is at this point in the season, and it is not going to get any easier.

The Buckeyes have three games remaining against three of the best teams in the country: No. 17 Northwestern, No. 1 Maryland and Johns Hopkins, who sits just outside the 20th spot in the Inside Lacrosse Poll.

While OSU began to get its offense back on track against No. 6 Penn State — scoring 12 goals for the first time since March 7 — they will need to summon even more production in the remainder of their games.

“I thought we had some good chemistry on the attack,” coach Alexis Venechanos said of the team’s loss to the Nittany Lions.

“I thought we limited our turnovers in the midfield, and when you’re playing these conference games, those little details are going to matter.”

Northwestern has, historically, been dominant against the Buckeyes, winning 13 of the 16 previous matchups, with OSU’s most recent win coming in a 2014 overtime game. Venechanos spent three years on the Wildcats’ staff (2004 to 2006) as an assistant, so it means a lot to her for them to be

“We’re working on ourselves right now.

We’re working on the little things, the fundementals and to see those getting better is huge for our team.”

Molly Wood Junior attacker

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Ohio State freshman midfielder Liza Hernandez (12) looks to score against Vermont on Feb. 6. one of the big rivals in their conference.

“It was a great learning experience. I learned a lot on the field and off the field,” Venechanos said. “(Northwestern coach Kelly Amonte Hiller) is a great competitor. She taught me how to compete, and I’m glad we have an opportunity to play them every

year.”

Hiller has led the Wildcats to seven NCAA championships, with last season being the first year that they had not reached at least the NCAA quarterfinals in 14 years. While Northwestern’s record at first glance is similar to the Buckeyes at 6-6, the Wildcats’ schedule has been stacked with

great competition.

The Buckeyes will still be without freshman midfielder Liza Hernandez, but they can still be capable of generating offense.

Junior attacker Molly Wood and sophomore midfielder Baley Parrott have both stepped up to lead their team in scoring.

“We’re working on ourselves

right now,” Wood said. “We’re working on the little things, the fundamentals and to see those getting better is huge for our team.”

OSU will be looking to continue its development as the season winds down, but Venechanos said they are most excited for the present.

“We’ve challenged our players to get a little bit better from the previous week, the previous day and even in the drill we are doing — let’s get better this time,” Venechanos said. “We’re moving some people around, they’re stepping up.”

The game is set for a 7 p.m. start time on Thursday, in what will be OSU’s first game of the season at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.

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Buckeyes hit the road to Big Ten championship DANEYLIZ RODRIGUEZ Lantern reporter rodriguez.681@osu.edu After a win against No. 4 Illinois to round out the regular season, the Ohio State men’s gymnastics team is gearing up for the Big Ten Men’s Gymnastics Championship. The Buckeyes enter the competition with the best four-score average out of the seven conference schools (417.867), a No. 2 ranking on pommel horse (70.350), a No. 3 ranking on par-

allel bars (70.683) and a 7-1 Big Ten record.

The 2017 championships will be hosted by the University of Illinois. They begin on Friday and conclude on Saturday at the State Farm Center in Champaign, Illinois.

The team and all-around competitions will be featured on Friday, while the individual events will be held on Saturday evening.

The Buckeyes are looking to win back-to-back titles for the first time since 2006 and 2007, and are

hoping to repeat last year’s accomplishments.

“I think we are as ready as we can be … I think the guys are hungry to not just prove themselves but also go against other teams from the Big Ten,” said OSU coach Rustam Sharipov. “We really, really want to repeat our success from last year and keep the Big Ten trophy in the house, but, deep inside, they know that they just need to do their job and not focus on winning or beating anybody. If they do their job, we’re

going to be where we should be.”

Last season, the Buckeyes received their 13th Big Ten team title — the first since 2007 — and 78 event titles, including four from last year.

“Freshman year, I competed and it was just an energy like I hadn’t felt before,” sophomore Alec Yoder said. “We were lucky enough to hold Big Ten’s at St. John’s here in Columbus on campus … it was just an awesome time and we competed really well, and I’m

tory — 45-0 with 113 touchdowns and nine interceptions — but remains the fourth quarterback in the room.

Ryan Day, OSU’s quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator, said all three are very talented, but have different abilities that define their style of play.

“Dwayne’s a little bit of a tall-

er guy and can really deliver the ball from the pocket, where Tate is more of a run-around guy and make things happen,” Day said.“Joe is kind of a little bit of everything … All kind of different but all are really hungry to get the starting job.”

Barrett is the starter, but any coach will say competition for a

guaranteed starting job is healthy for the group. Competition for the second spot on that depth chart cannot be overstated as vital for game preparation.

“We all know what happened a couple years ago where all of a sudden someone taps you on the shoulder and says, ‘You’re the starter. Go beat Wisconsin in the

Big Ten Championship game.’

And they did it,” Meyer said. “So that position is a key guy and everybody appreciates that.”

inspire me to be the best person I can be in and outside of the pool.

I hope to live a life as full and successful as Holly.”

This year’s victory is the 30th national title for the Buckeyes, the most of any OSU sport. What made the win that much sweeter was having the competition at

McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion, Vargo-Brown said.

“I am so incredibly proud to be a Buckeye, because we had that entire half of the bleachers, filled with scarlet and gray,” she said.

“There was one moment when I looked up and one of the routines was getting ready to walk out for

their performance and the entire side of the pool was all standing there with ‘O’s up in there, and I started to get emotional.”

Vargo-Brown’s passion and love for OSU has been key in her success and great accomplishments in the sport of synchronized swimming.

“Thirty is special no matter when it happens,” she said. “But number 30 at home was like a storybook. We have been writing this story the whole season, and we talked about this final page was theirs to finish the book, so to just have it play out in that way just a really nice ending to the story.”

“I think the guys are hungry to not just prove themselves but also go against other teams from the Big Ten.” Rustam Sharipov Men’s gymnastics coach

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Burrow is more of a pocket passer than Barrett and not as dynamic with his legs. Haskins will experience his first playing time for the Scarlet and Gray in the spring game on April 15, but is said to have the best arm in the group. Martell comes to OSU as one of the most decorated high school quarterbacks in recent his-

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just been a really great pleasure.”

Just as Vargo-Brown admires Baranski, that respect is reciprocated, Baranski said.

“Holly and I have been through many ups and downs during my four years at Ohio State,” she said.

“She has always lead me in the right direction and continues to

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JACOB MYERS Assistant Sports Editor myers.1669@osu.edu One of clearest positions on the Ohio State football roster is the quarterback position, at least at the top of the depth chart.

Redshirt senior J.T. Barrett will enter the 2017 season as the starting quarterback. That’s been known since the Texan announced his return for his final season.

But the race to be Barrett’s backup in 2017 took place throughout the 2016 season between then-redshirt freshman Joe Burrow and then-freshman Dwayne Haskins and only escalated when freshman Tate Martell arrived in Columbus as an early enrollee.

OSU coach Urban Meyer cleared the air on Tuesday by saying that as of right now, Burrow remains the No. 2 on the quarterback depth chart.

“I’d say Joe is ahead of (the other quarterbacks),” he said. “But they’re both getting reps. Tate had his best day, too, the other day in the scrimmage, so it’s good competition there and that brings out the best in people.”

Last season, Burrow was the only other quarterback to see the field, and that was when the score was lopsided.

Burrow played in six games last

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OSU then-redshirt freshman quarterback Joe Burrow (10) runs the ball during the second half of the Buckeyes’ game against Nebraska on Nov. 5. The Buckeyes won 62-3. season, completing 22-of-28 passes for 226 yards and two touchdowns. He also carried the ball 13 times, gaining 58 yards and scoring once.

Dwayne Haskins did not play and will enter 2017 as a redshirt freshman.

The 6-foot-3, 215-pound Burrow — who hails from Athens, Ohio — was stepping into the backup role last fall following the departure of quarterback Cardale Jones, the poster child for the value of the backup quarterback after leading the Buckeyes in three

games to claim the national championship.

“The backup’s job is to be ready at any moment, and if I’m not ready then I’m not doing my job,” Burrow said during the 2016 fall camp.

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SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING

Vargo-Brown making history at OSU SYDNEY MCNULTY Lantern reporter mcnulty.79@osu.edu For Ohio State synchronized swimming coach Holly Vargo-Brown, her Buckeye roots were planted over 30 years ago as a student-athlete.

Vargo-Brown started at OSU in 1981 as a physical education major. She was a four-year synchronized swimming letterman, as well as a part of the Buckeyes’ 1982 and 1983 national championship teams, before graduating in 1984.

In 1993, she joined the program as an assistant coach and has since worked her way up to the top as head coach of the Buckeyes.

“I think how it happened was I was done swimming and I wasn’t quite done with the sport and the opportunity opened in the department for me to kind of step in a coaching role,” Vargo-Brown said. “I don’t think my intention at that time was any kind of thing of visions of grandeur, I just loved the sport. I loved the school, and that was my primary focus.”

Fast forward to 2017 and she continues to add to her legacy, in particular in the past five seasons at the helm.

Freshman guard Kiara Lewis and freshman forward Tori McCoy will transfer from the Ohio State women’s basketball program, the team announced on Wednesday.

McCoy was named to this year’s Big Ten All-Freshman Team and replaced junior forward Stephanie Mavunga when she left the lineup in early February with a right foot injury. Throughout the season McCoy averaged 8.1 points and 5.9 rebounds per game, while registering a team-high 59 blocks.

She averaged 16.9 minutes per game.

Lewis earned her spot in the starting lineup as well later in the year, starting the final 15 games of the season. Lewis was one of OSU’s strongest defenders and averaged 6.7 points, 1.8 assists in 19.4 minutes per game.

“Kiara and Tori are both great student-athletes and I wish them nothing but the best in their future endeavors,” OSU coach Kevin McGuff said in a press release.

Both Lewis and McCoy will have to sit out next season if transferring to a Division-I program.

Neither player has announced where they are transferring.

The Buckeyes currently have no commitments in the 2017 class, and will now have to rearrange their lineup with the loss of the two freshman, along with senior forward Shayla Cooper to graduation.

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Synchronized swimming coach Holly Vargo-Brown embraces her team following the Buckeyes’ 30th national championship victory.

“To know that I am sitting here doing something to and for the school I love — that’s the coolest thing ever,” she said.

Last week, her team took home its second title in three years, thanks to its leader and an abundance of talented athletes, including senior Emma Baranski

who won her second-consecutive solo national title, making her the fourth OSU synchronized swimmer in Buckeye history to do so.

Baranski has evolved into not only an amazing swimmer but an influential leader, adding a unique sense of elegance to the team, Vargo-Brown said.

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Ohio State freshman guard Kiara Lewis (23) announced her intent to leave the Buckeyes.