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Ohio State Trustees conduct lengthy private meetings

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Thirteen sororities and 18 fraternities hung banners as part of AWOW’s initiative to educate campus on sexual assault and misconduct.

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In the Board of Trustees’ Aug. 22 to Aug. 25 committee meetings, four out of nine executive sessions ran longer than public meetings.

SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu Ohio State’s status as a public university requires by law that its Board of Trustees hold meetings in a public forum. However, the Board frequently meets in executive sessions — closed-door meetings in which private matters such as legal challenges or staff discipline are kept off the public record.

In fact, The Dispatch reported in March 2017 that the Board met in this private forum in every meeting since 2011. And that still holds true today.

In last week’s meetings — running from

Aug. 22 to Aug. 25 — The Lantern kept track of the timing of both executive and public sessions. Executive sessions outlasted public meetings in four of nine committee meetings.

For example, the Board’s Quality and Professional Affairs Committee meeting on Aug. 22 was in executive session for one hour and 16 minutes. Its public session was 10 minutes.

The Wexner Medical Center committee’s executive session lasted two hours and 46 minutes. Its public session lasted one hour and 12 minutes.

The week’s executive sessions also ran longer for the Talent and Compensation meeting compared to that of Audit and Compliance, with an executive session lasting 14 minutes

and public session running for more than an hour.

The Governance, Talent and Compensation, Master Planning and Facilities, Advancement, Finance and Academic Affairs and Student Life committee meetings had public sessions that lasted longer than the private executive sessions, as well.

The largest gap of these was a one-hourand-eight-minute difference between the Advancement committee’s one-hour-and-22minute public meeting and 14-minute executive session.

Ohio law allows for these private meetings to take place if matters such as trade secrets,

KAYLIN HYNES Lantern reporter hynes.39@osu.edu 15th and High is changing right before our very eyes. Call it the new Gateway. Call it the center of campus. Or call it what Ohio State officials are dubbing “University Square.”

Call it whatever you want. But one thing you can’t call it is close to being completed.

The seemingly constant construction going on along High Street will not be coming to an end anytime soon, said Erin Prosser, director of community development for Campus Part-

ners, the nonprofit extension of Ohio State tasked with the numerous building projects in the campus area.

Prosser and her Campus Partners team estimate a completion date for the entire project sometime in the early 2020s, meaning freshman who entered Ohio State in 2016 might not see the project finish before they graduate.

Before any new buildings can be put in the space, Prosser said significant upgrades are needed on stormwater drains and city utility lines, making driving on High Street less appealing this year, and for years to come.

She said Campus Partners is spending $30 million in infrastructure upgrades alone, before any construction of new buildings takes place.

Prosser and her Campus Partners team estimate a completion date for the entire project sometime in the early 2020s, meaning freshmen who entered Ohio State in 2016 might not see the project finish before they graduate.

However, new details are emerging on just what 15th and High will look like in the upcoming years.

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At the heart of the square: an 11-story hotel, complete with a rooftop view of Thompson Library from across The Oval.

The hotel is planned to be an upscale, boutique hotel with approximately 150 rooms that will serve as the “signature building” in the square.

Prosser said they have already received requests for design from prospective hotels and will decide on one in the coming weeks.

The buildings along East 15th Avenues “University Square” will feature mixed-use retail spaces such as patios at street level and the upstairs space will house Ohio State administrative buildings.

While there are no set businesses to be placed in the retail spaces that will compose “University

An Ohio State undergraduate organization is putting in efforts to help campus “Banner Up” against sexual assault and misconduct.

Advocates for Women of the World, along with the support of Greek chapters, engaged in the second consecutive “Banner Up” campaign during Welcome Week to educate students about sexual assault.

As students moved in throughout the campus area, Greek houses hung banners that contained a variety of messages aimed at spreading awareness, such as “It’s a Dress, Not a Yes” and “Consent is Sexy Mandatory.”

“This is our second year doing it and it should be annual,” said Nicole Haddad, a fourth-year in finance and the co-founder of AWOW. “We were actually inspired by a video at Indiana University. They originally had the Banner Up campaign and it was an Interfraternity Council program.”

Fraternities were the sole participants in the campaign at Indiana University, but AWOW decided to expand the Ohio State version of the campaign to also include sororities.

The campaign was intended to be a direct response to banners

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Dorm window policy threat to free speech America strives to be a bastion of free thought and expression, the primary marker of a free society, and we were recently reminded of this in a vile display of hate at the University of Virginia, a great public institution.

Ohio State, another great public institution, recently reminded us that free speech isn’t necessarily safe with its new policy that, in effect, prohibits students from hanging items in their dorm-room windows.

“If we do not; if we seek to limit speech we find reprehensible, we find ourselves agreeing with an ideology those neo-Nazis want to reinstate. The only way to fight hateful speech is with compassionate speech.”

In the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, three things must be remembered; two obvious, the other not so much. First, hatred and bigotry must be countered every step of the way with messages of compassion and love. The 9 percent of Americans, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, that call neo-Nazis’ views acceptable, while alarmingly high, are no match for a united 91 percent of Americans that call it for what it is. Second, calls for

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Students are no longer permitted to decorate dorm room windows in any dorm on campus per a new university policy. violence are not protected speech.

There is no room in our political discourse, or in American society, for a call for the extermination of a race or for violent demonstrations against ethnic or political groups.

And finally, we must allow those vile, reprehensible human beings to speak; we must allow these people to voice their moronic beliefs. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., dissenting in Abrams v. United States (1919), wrote of the marketplace of ideas theory the First Amendment embodies: “The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.”

All speech must enter the marketplace of ideas to be judged by

the American people to be truth or asinine. We must trust the American people to know which beliefs are just and which are not.

If we do not; if we seek to limit speech we find reprehensible, we find ourselves agreeing with an ideology those neo-Nazis want to reinstate. The only way to fight hateful speech is with compassionate speech.

This brings me to the issue at hand: Ohio State’s recent policy that says dorm room windows can’t be obstructed and university window covers must be visible from the outside, which effectively bans all student signage in dorm windows.

What does “Donald Trump wears cargo shorts,” written in Post-it Notes on a window have to do with neo-Nazis? It is a fair question, but one that misses the

entire point. The university banning expression in dorm windows is a short step away from banning messages altogether in dorms, or maybe even on The Oval. While many of us would choose to miss the few days each semester when we are peppered with pictures of unborn fetuses from demonstrators on The Oval, it is important to remember the earlier point — the best way to fight speech you disagree with is more speech, not less.

Perhaps you are now thinking they won’t ban speech on campus. They can’t, right? Wrong.

Last year, while campaigning for a seat on the Franklin County Democratic Party’s Central Committee, I was told I could not canvas at the turnaround by the Ohio Union due to university regulation, which said I had to reserve

a spot in advance. I had to sue the university to assert my right to campaign on campus for an office that represented campus.

Unfortunately, I fell short in the election, and with the university unwilling to change its policies for all students, I dismissed the case, for I was no longer running.

But the fact remains that these policies are still in place, and they can be used against anyone trying to be heard, especially students.

As Justice Abe Fortas wrote in Tinker v. Des Moines (1969): “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

To those who no longer live in the dorms, I’ll spare you the oft-quoted Martin Niemöller poem, “First They Came for the Socialists.” I just invite you to remember this moment when the university decides to issue further regulations. To those who live in the dorms, I say hang anything you want. In fact, hang a copy of the Bill of Rights; and maybe Post-it Notes underneath with the message, “I dare you.”

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that have floated around campus that mocked anti-sexual assault messages, which Haddad said were upsetting to sexual violence victims and concerning for students looking to change the culture.

In 2015, an off-campus Ohio State house made headlines for its banner that read “Daughter Daycare,” adding controversy to a trend on campuses across the country.

Nearly every sorority participated this year — 13 out of 15 — and 18 fraternities at Ohio State joined the movement.

Haddad strongly encouraged continuing education on sexual assault, which is a main goal of AWOW’s campaign, but acknowledged information doesn’t flow as freely as it should among young people.

“There should be talk of consent and what the standard is and what that means. It should be ingrained earlier,” she said.

With one of the largest student populations in the nation, Ohio

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Thirteen sororities and eighteen fraternities hung banners wih educational messages such as “If it’s not a yes it’s a no.”

State has the ability not only to change the culture, but also to set the standard with sexual assault awareness that goes beyond Title IX and services aimed at educating students, Haddad said.

“Sixty-thousand students. People coming from all over the world.

There are different standards for the world,” Haddad said. “We understand that and we aimed this campaign at not just females, but the world. There are cultural differences and this education is important.”

Going forward, AWOW has its sights set on increasing participation — which doubled this year as compared to last — and on achieving status as a university event with potential involvement from athletic teams, clubs, and other student organizations. “[AWOW’s] hope is that Banner Up will serve as a step in the right direction towards ending campus rape culture,” Sara Wendel, a fourth-year in public management and AWOW’s current president, said.

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real estate, HIPAA and FERPA — laws that protect the privacy of medical patients and students, respectively — will occur.

“The Board often considers significant issues and decisions that require sensitivity, discretion, confidentiality, care and candor in order to best protect the institution or those impacted by their decisions,” Ohio State spokesman Chris Davey said in an email. “The Board only uses executive sessions when doing so would best serve the interests of the university and of the people they have been appointed to serve, and only in accordance with state law.”

Dennis Hetzel, president of the Ohio News Media Association said it’s no surprise Ohio State uses executive sessions so fre-

quently, given the stature of the institution and its different entities, including the police department and hospital. However, he said government bodies such as the university should try to conduct as much business in public as possible.

“I think sometimes governmental agencies forget that going into executive sessions, even though they can do it, it is optional. They don’t have to do it,” Hetzel said.

“They really should be asking themselves, ‘Does this really need to be done in a closed meeting even if we can do it?’”

Hetzel said governing boards like Ohio State’s Trustees should make sure they are following the law in terms of how they go into and out of executive sessions, and make sure they’re not doing

things in the private meetings like voting, which is illegal under Ohio’s Sunshine Law.

“Most public bodies schedule executive sessions towards the end of the meeting so the public doesn’t have to sit there twiddling their thumbs for two hours. If that’s a normal practice I really would say boo on them for doing that.”

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“Every action or vote that is taken as a Board is conducted at public meetings open to anyone who would like to attend,” Davey said.

Hetzel said a proper way for the Board to go into private meetings is to hold a motion to go into executive session, and be as specific as possible. He added citing “personnel matters” is not enough.

A common practice is for the Board to begin its meetings with executive sessions after it comes together publicly — five of its nine committee meetings last week began with the closed-door meeting, something that Hetzel said “serves the public poorly.”

“Most public bodies schedule executive sessions towards the end of the meeting so the public doesn’t have to sit there twiddling

their thumbs for two hours,” Hetzel said. “If that’s a normal practice I really would say boo on them for doing that. It’s kind of arrogant and disrespectful to the public.”

Under Ohio law, it is illegal for governing boards to meet in executive session first, but since Ohio State’s Board meets in public first, no matter how quick, executive sessions preceding public meetings can occur.

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Square,” Campus Partners said they are using this year for community and student outreach.

Prosser said she plans to reach out to students on campus instead of having students come to them, so they will visit places like the Union, RPAC, dorm buildings and libraries to hear what students would like to see in the open retail

“It’s the secondmost dangerous intersection for pedestrians and bicycles in the metro region [of Columbus].”

Erin Prosser Campus Partners director of community development

spots.

In order to make room for the new open courtyard and walkways, a campus bar staple will be closing.

Prosser said The O Patio and Pub will be leaving the space at the end of their lease in the summer of 2018 without an option for renewal.

“The O has a lease until next summer,” Prosser said. “Once their lease is done, and they could choose to leave early, that’s their prerogative, but for right now we do have a lease with them until the middle of next year.”

Campus Partners is viewing this project as a long-term upgrade and enhancement to the overall physical space, Prosser said.

In addition to the new businesses, 15th Avenue will be straightened to make it better align with The Oval and simplify the intersection to make it safer for pedestrians walking to and from class.

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“It’s the second-most dangerous intersection for pedestrians and bicycles in the metro region [of Columbus].” Prosser said.

“There’s so many of you guys crossing at one time and it’s basically set up for cars. Cars have the priority, and cars are turning in front of you guys … We want to make a place where pedestrians are the focus and it’s safe and pedestrians are the priorities — not the vehicles.”

Prosser added the one-way and dead-end streets create a confusing and intimidating space for visitors wanting to come and visit campus.

Campus Partners plans to overhaul Pearl Alley from East 14th to 17th avenues to create a retail

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To improve flow from Pearl Alley to High Street as part of the master plan, 14th Avenue will open up to High Street where it is currently inaccessible.

Campus Partners is aiming to reopen East 16th Avenue at High Street by summer 2018.

In the meantime, students can expect more of the same: orange barrels, closed sidewalks and continuing construction for the foreseeable future.

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leven years ago, Russell Lepley left his hometown of Columbus to dance professionally in Europe.

While working with at Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, Germany he met Filippo Pelacchi, and after marrying they came to Columbus to open a studio that embodies their shared outlook on dance and movement.

“Our general philosophy for the space is that it’s really non-judgemental,” said Lepley. “We really want people to come and think of it as a way to just practice and enjoy their body, enjoy movement in their body and not worrying about what they look like.”

Flux + Flow began offering a full schedule of classes on July 5. On Labor Day, the studio will be making some adjustments to its schedule and will be opening a second dance room sometime in September.

The studio is located on the corner of Crestview Avenue and Calumet Street in the building that formerly housed the Clinton-

ville Community Market, a natural-foods co-op.

Lepley said he wants Flux + Flow to be a continuation of bringing the community into that space.

“We just hope that we can be a space where people can come and meet and potentially just taking class together find ways to collaborate,” Lepley said. “We’re really interested in collaboration and having a place that fosters a sense of community.”

Their desire to own a movement center grew from wanting to break from the professional dance world and create opportunities for all adults, from beginners to professionals, to move in a space free of judgement.

The studio currently offers classes that range from contemporary to hip hop to Vinyasa flow. Fillipo and Russell are classically trained in ballet and contemporary, but in opening the studio they aimed to offer a wide variety of movement types on many different levels of experience.

For Lepley and Pelacchi, dance is about the experience rather than achieving perfection.

“Our approach to dance is not like getting to the perfect position or being a perfect ballerina,” Pelacchi said. “We teach it in a way that’s to use your body in a way that’s safe and is going to put you in alignment and a way that’s more about transitions and moving and feeling expressive.”

Along with dance, Lepley has been practicing yoga for several years. He said yoga is one way he believes the classes at Flux + Flow can be less intimidating to non-dancers.

“We have things that aren’t just dance, and we have a full yoga schedule, also because apart from the fact that we’re genuinely interested we just thought that that was a nice entry point for people to access movement,” Lepley said. “So many people are comfortable doing yoga, but are maybe a little self-conscious taking a dance class, so they would be able to come here and try a yoga class.”

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Evolved building gets solar-powered transformation GHEZAL BARGHOUTY Arts & Life Editor barghouty.5@osu.edu As the university district transforms, the surrounding community is also facing major changes. To keep up, Evolved Body Art on the corner of East Hudson Street and Summit StreetStreets will be partially solar-powered by early November.

At least 90 solar photovoltaic modules will be installed on the building’s rooftop, which

will be similar to the solar panels being used at the RPAC and homes out west, said Johnathan Gioffre, an OSU alumni and owner of Go Modern Energy, the company that will be installing the panels.

“It’s the same type of solar panel that you see on old calculators that would be ran off of light,” he said. “We’re installing about 90 of them and they’re going to generate electricity for the building below for his studio.”

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Evolved Body Art will be installing roughly 90 solar panels in October.

Fifteen Ohio State dance students were selected for an exclusive five-and-a-half week dance program in Denmark this summer.

Department of Dance took on Denmark this summer LYDIA FREUDENBERG Lantern reporter freudenberg.7@osu.edu Fifteen students from Ohio State’s Department of Dance traveled to Denmark in a new program called Dance Denmark.

This 5 ½ week journey –– from May 28 to July 6 –– allowed students to not only be immersed into the Danish culture, but also participate in performances.

Program director Ann Sofie Clemmensen, a visiting assistant professor at Ohio State, founded the program and saw a chance to provide her students with a distinct experience in her home country.

“I think it’s important to give students the opportunity to travel abroad,” Clemmensen said. “And I wanted to show them my little country.”

Denmark held its largest sports and cultural festival, Landsstævnet, this past summer in Aalborg. So when Clemmensen had the opportunity to allow her students to perform at International GymNight on June 30 during the festival, she decided to create DANCE Denmark.

The two dances performed at International GymNight were contemporary styles titled “RIDE” and “INGEMINATE.” Paige St. John, a third-year in dance, performed in “INGEMINATE” with the 14 other students on the trip. Hazel Black, a third-year in dance, directed the piece.

“I personally liked that we were all dancing together,” St. John said. “It brought us a lot closer.”

Anthony Milian, a fourth-year in dance, said the performance was jolting and slightly dark, but still “felt like it created strength for the entire group.”

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will only be partially solar-powered due to a lack of roof space, as well as a production limit set

by American Electric Power, who controls the building’s net utility.

“If you’re over-producing [energy] in a 12-month period, you’re no longer a client or a consumer of the utility, now you’re actually selling them energy and now you’re a producer,” he said.

Nick Wolak, owner of Evolved Body Art, said the move towards solar energy comes from an effort to save older buildings from being replaced, as well as a more accessible.

“We’re trying to make it so that all the buildings around us aren’t just new, luxury condos,” Wolak said. “We’re hoping to preserve as many of the older buildings as

we can and part of the idea behind that preservation is also updating them.”

Though the installation process will take between three and five weeks, Wolak expects the project to start taking hold in October.

Walak also purchased the former Hudson Street Theatre property at 368 E. Hudson St. back in May, and said a similar update is in the works for the renovated location.

“As long as that project goes well, the next step will be to create some sort of green roof in conjunction with the solar panels on the Hudson Street Theatre,” he said. “That probably won’t happen till next year, but we’re in the conceptualization stage.”

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becoming more feasible and resources readily available in Columbus, Walak said it was a perfect opportunity to bring the project to the university district.

“There’s solar panels all over the world, there are communities that are entirely off the grid and there’s small villages in Africa that use solar panels,” he said. “I think Columbus has enough resources [and] people with open minds that we can incorporate solar panels just as well as everywhere else.”

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al GymNight, though. The group stayed through the Fourth of July for the largest Independence Day festival outside the U.S., Rebild Festival, in Rebild National Park.

Four students, including St. John, performed a dance titled “Reverb.”

“It was a really cool opportunity because we weren’t only representing our school and OSU, but our country,” St. John said. “It was bittersweet since it was our last performance … but it was so exciting to be performing that we could not wipe the smiles off our faces.”

Prior to these three large performances the students were able to take classes and workshops on commercial street dance, a popular hip-hop style in Denmark, by partnering with Gerlev Sports Academy — an institution focused on teaching movement and sports.

“It gave those students who really had interest in that sort of blend between art and commercial, an opportunity to see what that [style] is and work with really renowned choreographers and teachers,” Clemmensen said.

Students were able to work with professionals like Ida Frost, a Danish jazz and hip-hop dancer,

and Tine Salling, a Danish dancer and choreographer who focuses on street-styled dance.

“Being able to study at a sports academy was really interesting because I found that all the Danish [people] are very intelligent physically,” Milian said. “It was very humbling, and it put such an importance on wellness and well-being.”

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Along with providing dance and other movement classes to beginners, Lepley and Pelacchi said they hope to provide a space for former dancers that may not want to dance professionally once they come to college, but still want the opportunity to practice what they love.

“You don’t have to just stop dancing, you took that seriously all through high school, just because you go to college and do something different doesn’t mean that you can’t go into a dance class,” Lepley said. “I think there’s a stigma in our culture that like after a certain age it’s like kind of silly to be taking dance classes, even within the dance community.”

When hiring teachers, Lepley and Pelacchi looked for people that shared a passion for whatever form of movement they brought to the studio.

Additionally, Pelacchi said they looked for people who shared their goal of creating a space free from judgement.

“We like when people are passionate about what they’re doing, so that’s first, and second if they have like a similar view of what we have,” Pelacchi said.

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Located in Clintonville, Flux + Flow resides in the building that once housed the Clintonville Community Market.

“There’s a difference of a teacher who’s passionate about it, and a dancer who is teaching because it’s to make extra money on the side. And if you try both, and if you see the difference between, you can really feel it.”

While Lepley and Pelacchi enjoy the art of teaching and sharing what they’ve learned throughout their careers, they said they are also hoping to bring some of their own artistic voice to the Columbus dance community.

Although they have been focusing on teaching more than performing since opening Flux +

Flow, Pelacchi and Lepley said they have had a few opportunities to engage audiences with the art form that brought them together and led them to Columbus, and that they hope to continue to doing so in the future.

“It felt really nice to like perform again, even if it was something small, getting lost in the moment and feel the connection with each other is something for sure that we want to keep up.” Pelacchi said.

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Andre Wesson could be ready at start of season Andrew Wesson (24) attempts to score during a game against Fairleigh Dickinson University.

JOE DEMPSEY Lantern reporter dempsey.131@osu.edu Ohio State men’s basketball forward Andre Wesson’s availability for the 2017-18 season was called into question last week when the Buckeyes announced the sophomore was undergoing medical tests on an undisclosed medical issue.

One week later, Wesson appears to be on his way back to the court well before games

start in November.

“We are completing the medical evaluating process and anticipate having Andre (Wesson) back on the court shortly,” team spokesman Dan Wallenberg said in an email.

Wesson played 29 games, averaging 11.6 minutes and 2.3 points per game as a freshman.

Having Wesson healthy would give new coach Chris Holtmann more breathing room with a thin roster of nine 11 schol-

arship players that includes two former walk-ons. Wesson, a Westerville native, is one of three small forwards on the team with Keita Bates-Diop and freshman Kyle Young.

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OSU redshirt sophomore wide receiver K.J. Hill (14) catches the ball during the Spring Game on April 15. Scarlet beat Gray 38-31.

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The deep ball has been asked about seemingly more than any other topic this offseason, especially with Kevin Wilson — the architect of Indiana’s offense which had been consistently top three in the conference during his tenure — joining the staff as co-offensive coordinator.

McLaurin knows that for the offense to be successful and for his unit to be able to live up to those expectations, the wide re-

ceivers will need to be able to step up and show they can catch deep passes, just as the championship team in 2014 was able to do.

“Coach Meyer told us that when he recruited us, ‘we need the deep ball,’” McLaurin said. “I feel like from any of the six receivers are capable of doing that. We’ve just got to come down with that ball and J.T.’s going to give us some 50-50 opportunities too.”

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Ohio State redshirt sophomore tackle Branden Bowen hits a pad at the first practice of fall camp on July 27.

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should not have much confidence though, as Munford has spent less than a year in the program and Alabi switched from the defensive line to the offensive side of the ball in the spring.

But given Bowen’s ascendance, Meyer assumed he could sacrifice the depth the former tackle would bring on the outside to improve the interior of the line.

Even the linemen on the other side of the ball who compete against him in practice have noticed Bowen’s growth.

“During the summer, you could start to see that he would train with a purpose,” defensive end Jalyn Holmes said. “Even when he messes up, he’s with coach Stud asking what he could do better. He’s carrying himself as a professional, and that’s why he’s a starter.”

Mike Weber’s health remains a question Five weeks after running back Mike Weber injured his hamstring in a practice, Meyer acknowledged the tweak was still

hampering him.

“He’s very close [to being 100 percent].

I’ll know more today, but he’s close,” Meyer said.

This lack of clarity comes after many players and coaches had confidently said the second-year starter will play in Thursday’s season-opener against Indiana. Two weeks ago, running backs coach Tony Alford said Weber would “absolutely” be the starter in Week 1. At the end of July, Meyer said Weber was dealing with a “little tight hamstring.”

But on the opening depth chart, Weber was not listed as the sole starter. Instead, he and freshman running back J.K. Dobbins are dual starters. At Monday’s press conference, Meyer didn’t specify whether the reasoning for having both as starters was due to Weber’s health.

The coach said he doesn’t feel like the first-year running back will start, but left open the possibility of starting Dobbins in his first career game.

The team has yet to play its first game, and the same assurances came at the beginning of last season that the team would be ready for the deep ball to begin the season. But McLaurin is confident his fellow receivers will be ready to help improve that aspect of the team’s game.

“I feel like we’ve really plugged some holes that we had and some of the things that we were missing last year,” McLaurin

said. “The deep ball, I feel like that’s going to be back and just that confidence in J.T. needs to be there. I feel like it’s still there, but you really don’t know till the first game. But I’m really confident where we are right now and we’re just putting those finishing touches on it.”

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OSU then-junior cornerback Damon Webb (7) wags his finger at MSU after a big play during their game on Nov. 19, 2016 at Spartan Stadium.

The Buckeyes won 17-16.

Weber didn’t have much competition last year. The first-year starter rushed 182 times for 1,096 yards, finding the end zone on nine occasions. Behind him, Demario McCall took just 42 carries 273 yards and did much of his damage during garbage time in the Buckeyes’ blowout wins.

This year, Dobbins figures to take a decent portion of Weber’s carries. He has been heralded as one of the most impressive Ohio State freshmen in recent years.

Alford said Dobbins picked up the offense faster than any first-year player he has ever coached.

Starting safety battle ongoing Since the spring, Erick Smith and Jordan Fuller have been locked in a battle to be named the starter at strong safety alongside Damon Webb. According to Monday’s depth chart, the battle continues despite the first game of the season being only three days away.

Though defensive coordinator and safeties coach Greg Schiano and Meyer have

effusively praised Webb’s development as the only returning starter in the secondary, they have been largely silent and coy about the Smith-Fuller battle.

Smith is entering his fifth season at Ohio State, but he has dealt with numerous injuries, including an ACL tear in 2015. Though Fuller has only played for the Buckeyes for one season, the former four-star prospect is a lanky 6-foot-2, 202-pound athlete whose potential might be enticing enough to win him a starting position.

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Six wide receivers hope to improve from 2016 EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu Ohio State’s wide receivers were disappointing last season.

The unit compiled its fewest receiving yardage total in the Urban Meyer era, and the leading wideout on the team was an H-back — albeit it was Curtis Samuel, who was selected in the second round of the 2017 NFL Draft.

Entering this season, however, Meyer has an added sense of confidence in his unit, and believes it is prepared for the task ahead.

“This is as much depth as we’ve had,” Meyer said Monday.

The team released its depth chart Monday morning, and six receivers appeared in bold as starters, two at H-back and four at wide receivers. Meyer said none of them will be counted on to be “the guy” but that all six are expected to contribute this season.

“I can tell you six people that will play in a pure rotation basis,” Meyer said. “That’s how much confidence we have in them, and we have six. At the X, it’s going to be Bin Victor and Austin Mack.

At the H, it’s Parris [Campbell] and K.J. Hill and at the Z, it’s Terry [McLaurin] and Johnnie Dixon.”

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OSU then-redshirt sophomore wide receiver Terry McLaurin (83) waits for the play during the Buckeyes game against Nebraska on Nov. 5. The Buckeyes won 62-3.

Trusting the six receivers to make plays will be crucial for quarterback J.T. Barrett. The fifth-year senior completed and attempted more passes last season than he had in any other season of his career, yet he finished with his second-fewest passing yards and touchdown passes.

But Barrett said the receivers are entering this season with a far more advanced understanding of the plays this season, which he said will be important in finding more success in the passing game.

“They’re top guys at receiver because they understand the concept of the play and where you

at and how you fit into that concept,” Barrett said.

The three-time captain added though each of the receivers is slotted in at exact positions between the H, X and Z receivers, all of them are capable of playing all over the field.

With six receivers rotating

through the offense, it is not only possible, but probable that no one will emerge as an elite threat among the wideouts. This was largely the case among the receiving corps a season ago.

For those involved in the rotation, they don’t view the lack of a consistent starting trio as a hinderance. Rather, they see it as an opportunity for everyone to all receive semi-regular playing time and compete to be the most productive wide receiver in the group.

“You just want to be part of the six,” McLaurin said. “Once you know that you’re part of that six, you want to vie for those touches.

Only a certain amount of people can touch the ball on every game.

You just want to be one of those guys that contributes.”

This six-man rotation will enter the year with lofty expectations.

The disappointment of last season’s group puts more pressure on this season’s group of wideouts to play a larger role in the team’s offense and help Barrett put up the Heisman Trophy-caliber numbers he put up in his first season as a starter.

And the key to making Barrett the leader of a capable offense again is to channel the deep ball.

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What we learned from the OSU football depth chart COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu Just three days prior to Thursday’s season opener against Indiana in Bloomington, Ohio State’s football team released its first depth chart of the 2017 season.

Offensive tackle Branden Bowen will start … at right guard When coach Urban Meyer spoke at Big Ten Media Days prior to fall camp, he named seven players as potential candidates to win the starting right guard spot: Malcolm Pridgeon and Demetrius Knox, Matt Burrell and Branden Bowen and Wyatt Davis, Josh Myers and Thayer Munford.

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OSU redshirt freshman running back Mike Weber (25) in the Fiesta Bowl on Dec. 31.

Burrell started in the spring game, which seemingly gave him an edge in the wide-open position battle. Though Meyer said Burrell put forth his best effort to win the job, he noted that one player — Bowen — rose above the competition and deserved to be named the starter.

“He’s the most improved guy, one of the most improved players on our team,” Meyer said of Bowen. “Something clicked with him in early summer. I heard it from [strength and conditioning] coach Mick [Marotti]. I saw it. It really wasn’t that close, to be honest with you.”

As the position battle has raged over the past few months, Meyer and offensive line coach Greg Studrawa preached that the eventual starter at right guard would be the most consistent lineman.

“When you look at Bowen, you just think, like, ‘That’s a huge guy.’ You see the potential there.

You see what you can be,” defensive end Tyquan Lewis said of the 6-foot-7, 312-pound offensive lineman. “He just looks like he’s motivated more. He’s like ready to go play now.”

Of the four upperclassmen in the mix at right guard, Bowen is the only one who didn’t play guard last season. The former offensive tackle provided insurance

to right tackle Isaiah Prince and left tackle Jamarco Jones as their backups.. He was expected to play the same role this year.

Just three weeks ago, Meyer said the battle to win the job was between Pridgeon, Burrell and Knox. He noted that Bowen was playing well enough to earn playing time, but he felt unsure about moving the offensive tackle inside to guard because it would diminish the depth outside. During Monday’s press conference, Meyer made it clear he simply couldn’t keep Bowen off the field. “[Top backup offensive tackle] Munford has done a nice job, but those concerns are there,” Meyer said. “But you’ve also got to get

“He’s the most improved guy, one of the most improved players on our team.”

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OFFENSE LT

74 Jamarco Jones 58 Joshua Alabi

DE

LG

73 Michael Jordan 69 Matthew Burrell

DT

C

54 Billy Price 79 Brady Taylor

93 Tracy Sprinkle 67 Robert Landers 53 Davon Hamilton

DT

86 9 92 55

RG

RT TE

QB RB

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59 Tyquan Lewis or 97 Nick Bosa 18 Jonathon Cooper

Dre’Mont Jones Jashon Cornell Haskell Garrett Malik Barrow

76 Branden Bowen 66 Malcolm Pridgeon or 52 Wyatt Davis

DE

59 Isaiah Prince 75 Thayer Munford

6 Sam Hubbard or 11 Jalyn Holmes 2 Chase Young

LB

33 Dante Booker 39 Malik Harrison

85 Marcus Baugh 13 Rashod Berry or 89 Luke Farrell 16 J.T. Barrett 7 Dwayne Haskins 18 Tate Martell 25 or 2 30 or 26

Mike Weber J.K. Dobbins Demario McCall Antonio Williams

MLB 35 Chris Worley

32 Tuf Borland or 5 Baron Browning

LB

17 Jerome Baker 16 Keandre Jones

CB

12 Denzel Ward 1 Jeffrey Okudah or 24 Shaun Wade

SAF 7 Damon Webb 14 Isaiah Pryor

H-B 21 Parris Campbell or 14 K.J. Hill 80 C.J. Saunders

your first five in there.”

On the opening-week depth chart, Munford is listed as backup right tackle and Joshua Alabi is slotted to back up Jones at left tackle. Meyer does not and

DEFENSE

WR 11 Austin Mack 9

Binjimen Victor

SAF 4 Jordan Fuller or 34 Erick Smith

CB

3 or 8

Damon Arnette Kendall Sheffield

WR 1 Johnie Dixon

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