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Ohio State student creates art to raise funds for relief of catastrophic storm damage in Puerto Rico.

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USG General Assembly producing OSU wideouts less resolutions than past years emerging FOOTBALL

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Undergraduate Student Government meets in the Senate Chamber Room on Sept. 6. So far this year, USG has introduced 10 resolutions compared to 17 at this same time last year.

It’s been a slow start for Ohio State’s Undergraduate Student Government General Assembly; the group has produced less resolutions in 10 sessions than that of the two previous years.

The current assembly (USG’s 50th) has introduced 10 resolutions thus far, whereas the 49th introduced 17 resolutions in its first eight sessions in Autumn 2016. At this time in Autumn 2015, the 48th assembly introduced 14 resolutions.

General Assembly senators are elected by Ohio State students to directly voice their wants and needs. The assembly specifically comes up with resolutions to university rules and protocol, and suggests changes to administration.

USG is essentially the sole en-

When he’s not in the Schottenstein Center running practices and overseeing games, Patrick Klein, the associate head coach of the Ohio State women’s basketball team, is helping young Appalachian students prepare for college and improve their leadership skills.

Klein’s love for basketball is strong, but his love for his hometown and helping those who come from similar areas is stronger.

Klein — originally from Belpre, Ohio, a small Southeastern Ohio town in an Appalachian region — started the iBelieve foundation in 2011, a week-long experiential leadership program for underprivileged students from Appalachian areas.

The foundation puts on several programs throughout the year with workshops that consist of leadership, organizational skills and motivational speaking lessons.

Originally, the foundation started with only 36 students for its Ohio program. It has evolved to incorporate thousands of students throughout multiple states and offers up to eight programs a year.

Klein said the iBelieve pro-

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“These kids need a support system.They need others to show them just what they’re capable of. iBelieve can be that support system.”

Patrick Klein Ohio State women’s basketball associate head coach

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gram provides a support system for students who might not have one at home.

“I won the parent lottery growing up,” Klein said. “I had the ultimate support system, but most of these kids don’t have that. They are underserved, undereducated and underprepared for the real world.”

The foundation puts highschool students on college cam-

puses for up to five days at a time, giving them opportunities to meet with others and get acquainted with the campus.

Students who take part in multiple iBelieve programs can graduate. All of those that have graduated have gone on to pursue a college education.

Only about 18 percent of all people in Appalachian areas have a four-year college degree, ac-

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“Where would I be without iBelieve?,” Ryan Exline, a firstyear in zoology, wondered aloud.

“I would be missing so much of who I am today.”

Exline, who graduated from iBelieve in 2016, said the foundation gave him the knowledge and confidence to excel at one of the largest universities in America. “iBelieve gave me the skills to be successful in college, but these are especially important at such a large university like Ohio State,” Exline said. “Had I not been taught these skills, I very well might not be at Ohio State.”

cording to the Appalachian Regional Commission.

Patrick Klein started the iBelieve foundation in 2011, a program for underprivileged Appalachian- area students to help develop them into modern day leaders, through summer workshops and a strong support system.

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Ohio State sophomore wide receiver Binjimen Victor (9) in the third quarter against Rutgers on Sep. 30.

Ohio State redshirt quarterback J.T. Barrett is a confident player and has never been one to say he doubts his wide receivers.

Through the issues in the passing game, Barrett has remained steadfast in critique of himself and timing difficulties with his targets. But his confidence in his receivers hasn’t faltered. Likewise, the trust the wideouts have in Barrett hasn’t wavered.

Now, it seems that mutual conviction is becoming legitimate with Barrett’s confidence in his arm and his receivers growing with each throw. It has manifested itself in a third different wideout — Johnnie Dixon, Parris Campbell and Binjimen Victor— emerging as a potential go-to target for the third straight week.

“Not a jump, but a steady incline [from the receivers],” head coach Urban Meyer said. “Very pleased with their attitude and they’re making plays.”

Four throws in Saturday’s 62-14 Ohio State victory against Maryland exemplified the strengthening connection between Barrett and his receivers.

On Ohio State’s first offensive series, Barrett rifled a third-down pass between two defenders to Dixon to move the chains. Barrett later connected with the 6-foot4 Victor on third-and-6 from the Maryland 8-yard line in the back of the end zone for a score.

Sophomore wideout Austin Mack caught a back-shoulder fade for 20 yards on the following

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Student creates art to raise funds for Puerto Rico aid HANNAH DUNLAP Lantern reporter dunlap.296@osu.edu An Ohio State student is creating art to aid hurricane victims in Puerto Rico, and has raised more than $1,000 in the process.

Kimothy Wu, a fourth-year in strategic communication, created a fundraiser called “Art for Puerto Rico,” and all proceeds will support those impacted by recent hurricanes.

She creates a custom piece of art for each person that donates a minimum of $15 and releases roughly 1-2 pieces of art a day, and said enough people have donated to keep her busy on pieces even after the fundraiser ends Oct. 31.

“I want to take my time and I want my artwork to be good for others,” Wu said. “I feel there is a notable difference when I am doing it for other people.”

Puerto Rico has been in a state of turmoil since it was hit by Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm, on Sept. 20, just after Hurricane Irma also left a path of destruction.

At least 34 people have died because of the hurricane, and more than two weeks later, many parts of the island are still without power, and food and fuel is limited.

When Wu created Art for Puerto Rico, she originally wanted to raise money for those affected by

hurricanes Harvey and Irma in the United States.

“When you have help, even from a stranger, it gives you the strength to keep fighting.”

Kimothy Wu Fourth-year in strategic communication

“After reading diverse personal accounts about the aftermath of the hurricanes, I felt there was much more support for hurricane victims in [Texas and Florida] than for those affected in Puerto Rico,” Wu said. “I wanted to help others and this is the best way I knew how.”

Wu said she was surprised by how successful the fundraiser has already been. Art for Puerto Rico began with a goal of raising $500, but reached $300 by the end of the first day. She said people often have a very pessimistic outlook on the world, and while there is a lot of selfishness out there, there is a lot of selflessness, as well.

Wu is now over halfway to reaching her new goal of $2000.

The money raised from Art for Puerto Rico will go directly to

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A painting created by Kimothy Wu for her fundraiser called “Art for Puerto Rico.”

a nonprofit organization called Friends of Puerto Rico. According to its website, the nonprofit “invests in communities to foster economic sustainability and promote self sufficiency through art, cultural and educational exchanges.”

Wu said any help given to those in need provides strength they need to keep fighting.

“It’s extremely motivating to see people of all different backgrounds come together for one cause,” Wu said. “We’re all human, why wouldn’t we want to help each other?”

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For Kimothy Wu’s fundraiser, anyone can donate a minimum of $15 and request a custom piece of art she creates. She releases roughly 1-2 pieces of art a day.

OSU researcher finds racial segregation had surprising health effects MATT DORSEY Engagement Editor dorsey.215@osu.edu Communities that were once separated by black and white led to outcomes that were, well, not so black and white, a recent study by an Ohio State economist suggests.

Trevon Logan, an Ohio State economics professor, and John Parman, an associate economics professor at the College of William and Mary, co-authored a research paper — published in the journal of Social Science and Medicine — which used a new measurement to track the racial segregation level of North Carolina communities from 1909 to 1975, and examined some health effects of that segregation.

The research led to a surprise finding.

“The more segregated areas actually had better health outcomes for black individuals in terms of longer life spans,” Parman said.

“That is not what we expected to find.”

In urban areas, black men in highly segregated communities lived an average of 10 years longer than men in communities with average segregation levels, the study found. Women, on aver-

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Trevon Logan, an Ohio State economics professor, co-authored a study analyzing health effects of segregated rural and urban communities in North Carolina from 1909 to 1975. age, lived about five years longer.

In rural areas, black men lived an average of about six years longer in highly segregated communities and women an average of about four years longer.

The result is unexpected, Logan said, because as Americans, “we always think about segregation being bad, bad, bad and bad

all the time.” And while segregation is, of course, not desirable, he said that thinking can lead to people missing some things when looking at all of its impacts.

“For some health effects, it might be good not to be so intermixed,” he said. “If disease and pathogens are spread through spatially, it might be to your ad-

vantage to actually be separated.”

The study, originally published in July, analyzed census data from North Carolina and compared it to recently digitized death certificates from the area.

North Carolina was chosen because it was the first state to digitize its death-certificate data, a move that Logan said saved tens of thousands of hours in data sorting.

Logan and Parman developed a way to measure segregation while working on a previous research project.

“What actually got the ball rolling on this project, which has been a few years in the making, was talking about Trevon’s grandmother, who would say that when she grew up, the neighbors on her street were different races,” Parman said.

The two were surprised to hear that about a Southern neighborhood in the middle of the 20th century, he said, and it provoked Logan and him to wonder how many other neighborhoods had perhaps been more integrated than they had previously assumed.

Eventually, the conversation led to them completely revolutionizing how segregation in communities was measured.

“I think it’s time to accept that complexity. And that makes the way that we analyze this country a lot more difficult, but I think that’s exactly what we need to do.”

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Previously, the measurement was determined by dividing up a highly populated location into arbitrarily drawn statistical areas, then looking at the distribution of racial groups in each of those, relative to the city’s racial proportion overall, Logan said.

Not only did this approach fail to give a representative picture of what individual neighborhoods looked like, but it also left no possible way to measure segregation levels in rural areas because of the low population density, Logan said.

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tity comprised only of students that can be heard directly by administration consistently, through meetings with university leaders and Ohio State personnel.

Tony Buss, a fifth-year in English and senior adviser to USG Vice President Sophie Chang, explained the disparity in two parts: an inexperienced group of senators and an unusually productive 49th assembly during the 20162017 academic year.

“We have a lot of new members this year, and we’re still trying to foster a positive experience within the chamber. We’re working on teaching them how to write effective legislation.”

Sophie Chang USG Vice President

“I think partially it’s been the learning curve of a bunch of new senators learning what [General Assembly] is,” Buss said.

“It’s just a new body completely; they’re learning how everything works and how to be senators.”

General Assembly is comprised of 43 senators, who are chosen through elections, and six committee directors who are appointed by senior staff — nine students who work directly with the vice president and president on various executive matters.

Senators represent different sections of Ohio State and directors oversee the six issue committees within USG. There are four senator vacancies and only one — the senator that represents the College of Nursing — out of the 39 senators has previous experience in General Assembly.

Buss, a fourth-year USG mem-

ber who had been in the previous two assemblies as the director of diversity and inclusion, said the senators are still learning about general assemblies and USG in general.

Comparatively, the majority of the 49th assembly had previous assembly experience, which could be the cause for its productivity.

“It was a very prolific year for USG,” Buss said. “That was the most resolutions ever in USG [general assembly] history.”

Chang, a fourth-year in environment, economy, development and sustainability, oversees the sessions as the speaker of the General Assembly.

She said she is trying to create more ways to teach the senators how to use general assembly for policy-making.

“We have a lot of new members this year, and we’re still trying to foster a positive experience within the chamber,” Chang said. “We’re working on teaching them how to write effective legislation.”

During its ninth and 10th sessions, Chang included discussions about how to write resolutions and provided opportunities to brainstorm new policy ideas.

Buss said the comparatively fewer resolutions might also be a result of how the effective the 49th assembly pushed policy.

Buss said assembly members are finding their footing with figuring out the best approach to pushing policy proposals.

“They’ll be able to use [General Assembly] more effectively now that they are getting a lot more understanding of how the policy process can work,” he said As the semester reaches its halfway mark, Buss said they hope to see more action in the chamber.

“I do hope to see more resolutions, but I’m excited about what’s coming up because I think there’ll be a lot of intentionality behind everything done,” he said.

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Patrick Klein, third to the right, speaks at an iBelieve fundraiser. The iBelieve foundation puts on several programs throughout the year with workshops that consist of leadership, organizational skills and motivational speaking lessons. iBELIEVE FROM 1

Klein said he hopes to grow iBelieve so that one day the program will be able to incorporate every Appalachian state. It currently has programs in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

“It’s not just changing their future, it’s about generationally changing their families’ future,” Klein said. “Our mission is long

term.”

“These kids need a support system,” Klein said. “They need others to show them just what they’re capable of. iBelieve can be that support system.”

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data was especially troubling for the time period the two economists were looking to study because the majority of black households lived in rural areas.

The pair thought about how censuses had been taken doorto-door and realized the actual census manuscripts would give a picture of who was living next to whom, allowing them to develop their new measurement.

The breakthrough was considerable, especially in allowing them to analyze rural areas where there had previously been no measurements of segregation.

“Now we can talk about rural areas being segregated or integrated and the effect that that would have on other outcomes,” Logan said.

Additionally, the findings of the health effects study could lead to a future examination of the role

community organizations might have had in the lives of segregated black community members, Parman said.

“Does a more segregated area have different roles for, say, the churches, for the local doctors, for services provided by the government, services provided by organizations?” he said.

Beyond studying segregation, Logan said he hopes he and Parman’s data-gathering about rural communities leads to a public understanding that they are diverse, something he said does not think is widely understood.

“I think it’s time to accept that complexity,” Logan said. “And that makes the way that we analyze this country a lot more difficult, but I think that’s exactly what we need to do.”

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Bringing down Escobar

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Retired DEA agent Steve Murphy recounts his experience in taking down notorious drug trafficker Pablo Escobar.

RACHEL BULES Copy Chief bules.7@osu.edu In front of a packed crowd Monday night at the Ohio Union, retired DEA agents Javier Peña and Steve Murphy recounted their experiences taking down one of

the deadliest and most elusive cocaine kingpins in history: Pablo Escobar.

Their investigation and eventual assassination of Escobar was the basis for the first two seasons of the critically acclaimed Netflix original series, “Narcos.”

In a pre-show interview with

The Lantern, Murphy and Peña explained that the purpose of their lecture series is to share honest testimony with their audiences.

“We present this as a lesson in history,” Murphy said. “Tonight is about telling you the truth.

The purpose of sharing this with young people is because they

weren’t around when it happened, and it’s a significant part of world history.”

Escobar ran a cocaine network known as the Medellin cartel in Columbia in the 1980s. Once the cartel expanded cocaine trafficking to Miami, the U.S. government became involved in what is

commonly known as the “War on Drugs.”

Essentially, Peña and Murphy were sent to Columbia as DEA agents assigned to disassemble the Medellin cartel and take down Escobar, in cooperation with the Colombian National Police.

“Our philosophy was that when you go after an organization, you have to go after everybody in it,” Peña said. “In other words, you have to dismantle the organization, not just one person.”

Murphy also explained that the phrase “war on drugs” is a misnomer, because in an actual war, governments commit serious amounts of personnel and resources to fighting a war.

“We were fighting a ‘war on drugs’ against the biggest cocaine dealer, the world’s first narco-terrorist, the world’s most wanted criminal, and what did they send?

They sent the two of us,” Murphy said. “It was more of a joke. Since we’ve retired, we’ve re-examined the situation. We still need the enforcement element, but we cannot arrest our way out of this problem. We cannot put enough people in jail to stop narcotics trafficking. There’s just too great a demand.”

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More friends, more funds GHEZAL BARGHOUTY Arts & Life Editor barghouty.5@osu.edu Two Buckeyes have come together to create an app that rewards friendships with savings.

Tyler Stohr, a fourth-year in geographic information sciences, and Salem Khan, an Ohio State business graduate, combined forces last January to create Socialyze, an app that rewards friend groups for going out –– depending on how many people come along.

“The basic idea is that you get better discounts based on how many friends you have with you,” Stohr said. “All these deals are completely customizable by the business. It can be a number of friends or how long it lasts –– which days, which times and what you get for the offer.”

Socialyze targets local favorites like Buckeye Donuts, Lucky’s Stout House, Fourth Street Bar and Grill and Plaza Mexican Grill. Depending on how many friends each business requires, users can earn a variety of discounts.

“I did some research and it was about 80 percent of college students basically hang out in groups of twos, threes and fours,” Khan said. “So I [thought] that’s pretty good because basically if you can track

groups of friends at a specific location that’s good for the business as well as for a group of friends, versus in this case, friendship is rewarded with savings.”

For example, a business like Cazuela’s might offer happy hour deals during peak hours for groups of at least three.

“It’s a win-win relationship because customers get the great deals and the business gets three or four people in the door,” he said.

“Rewarding friendships in money –– that’s the main goal here.”

Tyler Stohr Socialyze Co-creator

The idea behind Socialyze came from Khan, who saw how much his own friend group spent going out, along with the difficulty of actually deciding on a place to go.

Khan said he knew if that was a common problem for himself, it had to be a problem in other friend groups.

After trying to create the app himself, Khan decided to attend a Code that Cares meeting, a campus group designed to build iOS applications for charity and nonprofit organizations that is founded and headed

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pair decided to head the project together.

Since launching this past August, they’ve used techniques like networking, giving out free cookies or shot glasses and Snapchat geofilters to market Socialyze. The pair is planning to expand by hosting fundraisers with student organizations and Greek life.

As of right now, Socialyze has officially signed with 12 businesses. Stohr said they’re working on deals with popular companies like Berry Blendz, Trism, Donatos and Leo’s, but is also working on expanding to bigger eateries like Wendy’s and Panda Express.

“The goal is to get every business on there,” Stohr said. “We want great deals from everyone’s favorite places.”

Though Socialyze isn’t a funded app yet, Khan and Stohr see a lot of value for students in what it can do. If it does work out, they said they hope to use the capital to better their marketing, sales and usership to provide the best app experience they can.

“This is an application for rewarding friendships, so rewarding friendships in money –– that’s the main goal here,” Stohr said. “Bringing people together, making sure that people have that interaction with people and going out versus just putting the pictures on Instagram.”

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usually my normal tool,” said James, SolCon guest speaker and graphic artist. “I’m trying to simulate what they call thick and thin contrast in the lines — that’s how you would start to ink a figure.”

Hands-on lessons and advice like this were the common theme of Sol-Con: The Brown and Black Comix Expo. The event teaches students from elementary school to

high school how to do things such as digital painting, animation and how to create their own comic books and magazines.

Sol-Con brought more than 250 local K-12 students to Hale Hall throughout Friday to engage in workshops and panel discussions about comic books.

“It doesn’t matter if you never picked up a comic book before in your life,” said Frederick Aldama, an Ohio State professor of English and Sol-Con co-founder.

“You’re going to come in this space and feel the creativity from this new generation of Latinx and African-American kids meeting with creators, and learning how to make their own art from them.”

Founded by Aldama, John Jennings and Ricardo Padilla in 2015, the expo began to bridge the gap between local Columbus communities through the arts. The namesake of Sol-Con was birthed from “sol,” the Spanish word for sun and “con,” a common term to describe comic book lovers.

“I noticed in the city of Columbus that the Latinx and African-American communities weren’t coming together, nor were there opportunities to find common ground,” Aldama said. “We want Latinx and African-American kids there because comics are a way for us to create a space of inclusion for our communities that have been kept apart otherwise.”

Even though students attending might

not necessarily have had any interest in art, James told students that being an artist wasn’t his first career choice either. “[My original mindset] didn’t start out like ‘Oh I’m going to be an artist!,’” James said jokingly. “I never really thought about it to that point, but I was always drawing and that’s the way it worked out for me.”

Aldama said Sol-Con educates the teachers just as much as it does the students, as they find new ways to learn and find inspiration from comic books.

“Children are exercising their imaginations, and that means exercising your own hypothetical faculty,” Aldama said.

“They’re given the techniques to do something and teachers see this, and they realize, if they haven’t already, that learning through doing and creating is the best way to learn.”

Looking forward to next year’s Sol-Con, Aldama said he believes local Columbus students will continue to rediscover their own creativity through comic books.

“This is a space where creativity is in action, in ways that transform our material reality in very tangible ways,” Aldama said.

Peña said Escobar was directly or indirectly responsible for an estimated 10,000 deaths, with a high estimate by one of Escobar’s bodyguards being 50,000.

“This is an important lesson in history,” Peña said. “We need to remember the innocent people who lost their lives for being at the wrong place at the wrong times. This stuff really happened. Some people think it’s make-believe, but the atrocities, the violence really occurred.”

Escobar was killed while trying to escape a raid by the DEA in December 1993.

The murder rate in Medellin dropped 80 percent after Escobar’s death.

“Maybe this sounds too humble, but we just never imagined anyone would want to hear this story,” Murphy said.

The third season of “Narcos” was released on Netflix on Aug. 28, and the fourth season is already in the works.

“Here’s a little tidbit for your paper,”

Murphy said. “If you go back and watch Season One, Episode 10, as Boyd Holbrook stops in his Ford Bronco to let people walk across the street, those are my real daughters. That’s never been published anywhere, so now you have an exclusive for your Ohio State newspaper.”

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Graphic artist Verzell James explaining to local high school kids how to properly ink a human figure at the Sol-Con: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at Hale Hall on Oct. 6.

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enth-richest man in the world in 1989.

The lecture covered the history of Escobar and his family, the violence perpetrated by the Medellin cartel in Columbia, smuggling tactics used by the cartels, the prison he built for himself and his compatriots, and his eventual downfall.

“We never met him, but he knew us by name,” Murphy said. “He put a $300,000 bounty on our heads.”

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Ohio State linebackers continuing upward trajectory COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu Ohio State’s linebackers — led by junior Jerome Baker, who had 3.5 sacks, a fumble recovery and two interceptions including one for a touchdown in 2016 — were expected to help ease the loss of three NFL-bound defensive backs who accounted for 15 interceptions last season.

But that did not happen in the first few weeks of the season.

Linebackers Dante Booker, Chris Worley and Baker did not pick up a sack or interception through the first three weeks of the season. Last week, Meyer said the linebackers and the unit’s energy were average to begin the year.

In the last couple games, the unit has begun to make more game-changing, drive-ending plays. None was more apparent than when Baker scored the linebackers’ first touchdown of the year in the Buckeyes’ 62-14 victory against Maryland Saturday.

It came off a fumble forced by defensive end Nick Bosa on the third play of Maryland’s opening drive.

“Out of nowhere, I just see Nick Bosa do what Nick Bosa do and seen the ball, scooped it up and ran as fast as I can [for a touchdown],” Baker said.

Baker later forced a fumble on a fourth-down try from Maryland that ended the Terrapins’ drive.

Booker also made his presence felt early as he began Maryland’s first drive with a sack. Booker

picked off the first pass of his career two weeks ago against Rutgers and also picked up his first sack of the season against the Scarlet Knights.

“We’ve just really been tightening down on the little stuff,” Booker said. “I know that’s easy to say, but I really feel like that’s what we’ve really been doing.

Just tightening down the little things, trusting each other and just going out there and having fun with each other.”

rotation work regardless of who is healthy.

“We’re just locked in,” Baker said. “We were so worried about making mistakes and doing the wrong thing [earlier in the season]. We all told each other just go out there and play no matter who’s out there.”

The most notable difference between this year’s Ohio State linebackers and last year’s unit, which featured Baker, Booker and now-Miami Dolphins linebacker Raekwon McMillan, is the position coach. Luke Fickell, who played for the Buckeyes and worked as an assistant coach for Ohio State from 2002 to 2016, took the job as Cincinnati Bearcats head coach.

Former NFL coach Bill Davis, who was an analyst for Ohio State in 2016, was hired to replace Fickell as linebackers coach. Davis worked as a defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers (2005-06), Arizona Cardinals (2009-10) and Philadelphia Eagles (2013-15).

Last Wednesday, Meyer said Davis’ “last two weeks have been outstanding.” However, the transition to college position coach — a job Davis had never held — was rocky to begin.

“It was a little bit of a culture shock,” Meyer said. “This is closer to a high-school program than a pro program. We’re in the development where you have 17and 18-year-olds that need to be developed with energy and hands on and sprinting A to B as coaches.”

Meyer explained he often chooses to avoid hiring lifelong NFL coaches because they are not as attuned to focusing on the dayto-day responsibilities of coaching teenagers. Meyer said though the linebackers began the year slowly, they excelled recently, including making plays on special teams.

“I think we’re really on a roll

here and we’re going in the right direction,” Davis said last Wednesday. “We’ve got a little momentum going and we look to build on that.”

Given the linebackers’ performance against Maryland, the unit seems to be on the right track.

sport.”

Sophomore Anthony McCollum, who earned the silver medal in last year’s national openair competition, said Milev has already made an impact on the Buckeyes, though he was hired less than three weeks ago.

The team competes on October 27-28 at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where it will face Army, Coast Guard, North Dakota State and Utah to begin the season.

“We ask for the Ohio State community to celebrate with us, there’s a lot of talent on this team and you can expect lots of wins this year,” Milev said.

depending on the size of the gun used and the distance from the

target. The type of competitions also vary in how fast the shooter must get the shots off. Most of the sport, as described by Milev, is a balance between controlling the fine-tuned machine to work with the shooter and the mental focus needed to be successful.

“To truly appreciate pistol, you have to try it,” Milev said. “Even just learning more about it, asking our athletes about what they do and how they must train, people will understand this is truly a

Both Campbell and Dixon recorded more than 100 yards and a score in one of the two most recent games, displaying their potential to be the go-to playmaker at receiver. Saturday, Barrett turned to his big target in Victor for four catches and a team-high 55 yards. Campbell and Dixon each had three receptions during those weeks, but their play was significant enough to be noted by opposing coaches on scouting reports.

Victor’s five targets were all against man coverage and thrown to a spot where Victor can elevate above the defender and be the only one to come down with it.

“Down in the red zone, top shelf, I mean that’s where the ball has to be,” Barrett said. “Based

on coverage, I think that was something good.”

Victor is a different receiver than Campbell and Dixon. Campbell is used over the middle or on bubble screens when he can use his speed in the open field. Dixon is a deep-ball threat.

Victor might not be more than a red-zone target, but he’s Ohio State’s tallest receiver and its best option in jump-ball scenarios.

The trio of Campbell, Dixon and Victor all bring something different to the table for defenses that have to design a scheme to minimize their impact. And Mack, who showed Saturday he can be another option for Barrett, might be the best route runner on the team with less speed than Campbell and Dixon, but more

than Victor.

The competition hasn’t been great. And it is uncertain whether Ohio State’s wideouts can be difference-makers against the Penn States of college football, but they deserve recognition for finishing the plays Barrett makes and giving him options — two elements of the offense which weren’t present in early September.

The next logical step: consistency.

“I wouldn’t say we’re where we need to be,” Campbell said. “But I like where we’re at.”

“I think we’re really on a roll here and we’re going in the right direction... We’ve got a little momentum going and we look to build on that.”

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Booker and redshirt senior defensive end Tyquan Lewis also each said increased competition in practices since the Week 2 loss to Oklahoma has led to additional improvement.

Though redshirt freshman Tuf Borland and freshman Baron Browning have filled in adequately in place of Worley, who has missed the last three games with a sprained foot, Worley’s likely re-entry into the starting lineup would give the Buckeyes added stability. Regardless, the linebackers believe they can make the

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tion] is making a few changes in their competitive events, but right now only three collegiate events pistol shooters participate in are Olympic,” Milev said. “I would like to see the program go in this direction, and eventually see athletes coming here to contribute to our team along with our athletes competing and winning in international matches in the years to come.”

Pistol has multiple events in the men’s and women’s divisions,

“Never in high school did I think I would be at six Olympic games and even receiving a medal, I just love it so much.”

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drive, and then hauled in a touchdown reception with a defender on his back while getting two feet in bounds with 10 seconds left in the half.

Barrett deserves credit for his play — including 20-of-31 passing for 261 yards and three touchdowns Saturday — and the play-calling has improved. However, the wide receivers have also managed to get open more recently, which has allowed the quarterback to build confidence and compete at a tempo the team will need in a showdown with Penn State in three weeks.

“It’s great seeing [Barrett] make those passes and having confidence in us to make those contested catches,” Mack said.

“Shoot, keep it coming.”

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Ohio State hopes to keep the Baugh rolling EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu With five minutes remaining in the second half, redshirt senior quarterback J.T. Barrett found his tight end, redshirt senior Marcus Baugh, on a crossing route just in front of the line of scrimmage.

Baugh caught the pass and appeared to run out of room with sophomore defensive back Antoine Brooks charging toward him at the 4-yard line, but the 6-foot5, 250-pound tight end hurdled the defender, landed in bounds and lumbered the rest of the four yards into the end zone to extend Ohio State’s lead to 26-7.

“I [hurdled] in high school a couple times, but yeah got to

“Marcus Baugh is really coming on at the right time. So I think he’s getting much better. And he’s hitting his stride a little bit.”

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protect myself,” he said after the game Saturday. “You just waiting and looking at their body language when they try to come and make the tackle and you just react.”

Though Baugh’s impact was felt in Saturday’s game, and the

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Ohio State redshirt senior tight end Marcus Baugh hurdles a defender as he scores during the second quarter of the Buckeyes’ victory against Maryland on Oct. 7 at Ohio Stadium. athleticism he showed on his touchdown highlighted why expectations remain high on Baugh, he has fallen short of the lofty standards set by Ohio State tight ends during Urban Meyer’s tenure as head coach.

Since Meyer took the reins in 2012, tight ends have been responsible for 13 percent of receiving touchdowns. Meyer has relied heavily on tight ends like Jeff Heuerman and Nick Vannett during his tenure, but has not been able to count on the same level of

production from Baugh. Ranked as the fourth-best tight end in the 2013 class by 247Sports’ composite rankings, Baugh began his Buckeye career with expectations that he could continue production at the position.

In Baugh’s second season as the starting tight end, he has accounted for only three touchdowns and 367 yards — 7 percent of the team’s receiving touchdowns and 7.8 percent of the receiving yards in that time span.

Meyer mentioned on Sept. 28

that Baugh still has a ways to go until he is ready to be a reliable weapon in the passing game. He said he is seeing improvements in Baugh and by forcing targets to the tight end, Meyer can help him realize his potential.

Since Meyer said that, Baugh has made four catches for 29 yards and caught his lone touchdown of the season. Though the strides Baugh are making have been far from the progress the team hoped for him to make, Meyer has noticed an improvement.

“Marcus Baugh is really coming on at the right time,” Meyer said after Saturday’s game. “So I think he’s getting much better.

And he’s hitting his stride a little bit.”

Injuries and personnel changes have affected the bulk of Baugh’s career to this point. He reportedly dealt with a shoulder injury for most of 2016 and had offseason surgery to correct the issue. He also dealt with a foot injury in this summer.

That combined with the coaching changes — most recently with Kevin Wilson and Ryan Day taking over as co-offensive coordinators — has made it challenging for Baugh to find consistency as a starter.

Despite the circumstances he has faced, the fifth-year tight end said he has more to give the offense and hopes he will be able to provide the team with the reliable target Meyer wants out of the position. And especially as seemingly every offensive player has improved as of late, Baugh wants to be able to do his part to contribute to the team’s success.

“I’m playing good, but I could play better,” Baugh said. “I’ll probably always feel like I could play harder and execute better.

So that’ll always come week by week.”

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Emil Meliv, now Ohio State’s pistol coach, takes aim at the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup at Fort Benning in Georgia on March 28, 2014.

After competing in six Olympic games, Emil Milev has a new challenge ahead of him: being head coach of the Ohio State pistol team as it prepares for another triumphant season.

The pistol team won last year’s women’s aggregate national championships and the open team intercollegiate championship for the third season in a row. Milev said he is looking forward to building on the success of an already highly decorated program and “taking it to the next level.”

“The name is what led me here — it’s the best in the country,” Milev said. “I think the team and I can work together, and this collaboration can be beneficial to the program. I want to give them a lot of opportunities in the sport and in life.”

The Bulgarian-born Milev competed for his home country in four Olympic games between 1992 and 2004 and earned the silver medal in the 1996 Atlanta

games, before moving to the U.S. in 2004 and becoming a U.S. citizen in 2009. He competed for the U.S. in the 2012 London and 2016 Rio games. Milev also is a six-time World Championship competitor, earning the silver medal in 1994.

Milev began the sport of pistol as a hobby, going with friends to the shooting range. He began intercollegiate competition, eventually working toward qualifying for the World Championship and Olympics.

“I felt hungry for the competitiveness, and started practicing harder, reading books and learning more about the sport,” Milev said. “Never in high school did I think I would be at six Olympic games and even receiving a medal. I just love it so much. I never dreamed it would be my life, but it slowly turned out to be that way.

It’s very rewarding.”

A main goal of Milev’s is to have the program focus more to the Olympic-styled events he knows best.

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