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UNCERTAINTY REMAINS Law experts question Ohio State’s merits for denying Richard Spencer

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Ohio State Students for Trump hold signs during debate watch party last fall.

Campus speech: left and right say not all views are welcome ZACH VARDA Lantern reporter varda.6@osu.edu

cer’s speech is potentially infringing upon Spencer’s First Amendment rights, depending on Ohio State’s campus space policies and its definition of safety concerns.

Spencer’s potential visit to Ohio State, while controversial, is protected under the First Amendment, so long as it does not pose imminent danger to those present during the event, said Daniel Tokaji, a Moritz College of Law professor specializing in constitutional

Milo Yiannopoulos and Richard Spencer are two prominent speakers who have caused controversy when they attempt to give, or succeed in giving, speeches on college campuses.

While these speakers might have different messages — Yiannopoulos once said feminism was cancer and Spencer expresses white supremacist ideologies — what they do have in common is their claim of conservative ideals and the push back they have received speaking on campuses.

Free speech on campus has

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Richard Spencer’s request to use campus space has been denied for the second time this Autumn, begging the question: is this rejection legal?

SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu Ohio State has once again denied white supremacist Richard Spencer’s request to use campus space for a speaking event, garnering support from many of its students and faculty for standing firm against his racist messages, but the legality of this move is questionable, according to First Amendment experts.

The university issued a vague letter to Spencer’s lawyer, Kyle Bristow, Friday. In it, Ohio State cited safety concerns as its reason for rejecting the requested speaking event, but stated it plans to consider “alternatives.”

Four days later, Ohio State remains mum on what these possible alternatives could be, declining to comment on the matter beyond what was stated in the letter. Until more information is released, its current stance on Spen-

OSU uses Neighborhood Safety Notices to keep off-campus safe KAYLIN HYNES Lantern reporter hynes.39@osu.edu It’s not quite a Buckeye Alert, but it’s still worth attention.

Ohio State’s Neighborhood Safety Notice email notifications alert students and university employees of crimes or crime trends that are serious or pose a continuing threat that occur on property that is not owned or operated by Ohio State.

The university began the implementation of Neighborhood Safety Notices June 2016 in an effort to keep its students and employees aware of off-campus crime. Since then, students and employees have received alerts of robberies near High Street, and recently, a “serial groper” at an off-campus bar who was summoned by Columbus Police for groping two women.

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versities and finding that some schools had created similar safety notices.

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The university began the implementation of Neighborhood Safety Notices — emails sent to students about crimes or crime trends — last June in an effort to keep its off-campus areas safe Notices provides a larger scope to safety procedures that Ohio State decided to add in addition to Buckeye Alerts. Public Safety Notices are required by the Clery Act, a national university

requirement to disclose information about crimes that occur on or around campus.

The decision to send these alerts was made after comparing safety procedures of other uni-

“It’s just an extension of that philosophy to be more broad and recognizing that Ohio State University is within a major city and students, faculty and staff live or work or hang out in the immediate off-campus area.”

Dan Hedman Ohio State Office of Administration and Planning spokesman

“It’s just an extension of that philosophy to be more broad and recognizing that Ohio State University is within a major city and students, faculty and staff live or

work or hang out in the immediate off-campus area,” Dan Hedman, spokesman for Ohio State’s Office of Administration and Planning, said. “Just because it’s not within the Clery guidelines doesn’t mean public safety doesn’t want to keep students, faculty and staff aware of the information.”

The areas of Clery covers is the immediate campus area, with a border at High Street, meaning anything east of High Street is considered off-campus.

Noncampus buildings the university owns or controls are also covered under the Clery Act, including places like fraternity and sorority houses and medical buildings.

Neighborhood Safety Notices are issued on a case-by-case basis, according to the Department of Public Safety’s website.

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OSU unsure if ‘Dreamers’ can be legally protected when DACA ends TERESA CARDENAS Lantern reporter cardenas.53@osu.edu Following Attorney General Jeff Session’s announcement on Sept. 5 to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Ohio State stood firm against the decision and vowed to support all the university’s DACA recipients.

However, it is still unknown if the support will be enough for Ohio State to legally protect DACA students, also known as “Dreamers,” when the program ends March 5.

DACA is an Obama-era executive order that granted work permits, access to education and protection from deportation to undocumented immigrants who arrived while they were children.

It protects those enrolled until their two-year status ends. The window to reapply for protection has already closed.

In the program’s current state of limbo, “Dreamers” are protected by the federal government and not Ohio State, according to Stacy Rastauskas, the university’s vice president of government relations.

“DACA is a protection that the federal government grants, up until this point,” Rastauskas told The Lantern Sept. 21. “So Ohio State doesn’t grant a protection to the students; DACA students obtain that status, and then they

ment on the university’s legal obligations to protect its DACA

“Ohio State treats DACA students like Ohio residents and it provides whatever resources it can to assist those students.”

Robert Cohen Columbus-based lawyer

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Ohio State students filmed the Sept. 6 DACA protest and held signs reading “Dreamers not criminals.” self-identify to the university.”

Undergraduate Student Government President Andrew Jackson, a fourth-year in political science and Spanish, said he would love to see the university protect “Dreamers,” but he is concerned that it could mean Ohio State will have to give up its information on DACA students.

“I’m not sure what it would look like to protect DACA students if this goes into effect and we have to effectively tell the federal government who DACA students are,” Jackson said.

However, Robert Cohen, a Co-

lumbus-based lawyer who focuses on immigration and nationality law, said he believes this might not be the case, as Ohio State does not legally have to keep track of Dreamers.

If this is true, would Ohio State technically break the law if it continues to provide resources or inhibits federal investigations?

Cohen said the university must follow the law once the program ends and cannot advise people to stray from the law.

Ohio State’s student legal services did not initially respond to The Lantern’s request for com-

students and passed on the questions to Ohio State spokesman Ben Johnson.

Johnson said legal affairs are not doing interviews on the subject and referred to President Michael Drake’s comments supporting DACA on Aug. 31.

With an uncertain legal future, Ohio State has made plans to do what it can for its DACA students.

Cohen said Ohio State’s actions have been among the best so far.

One of Ohio State’s resources includes lobbying Congress to promote new legislation for protecting “Dreamers” once the program ends.

University leaders, including Drake, Provost Bruce McPheron, deans of colleges and student

leaders, will meet with Ohio representatives to ask for a congressional fix, Rastauskas said.

“What we are doing is advocating for Congress to not wait until March 5 to address this issue, but continue to find a protection for this particular group of individuals who, by no inclination of their own, came to this country and are every much as a piece of our community as those who were born in the United States,” she said.

The lobbying dates have not been yet to be set, but Ohio State will join other higher education institutions during this week and send DACA stories to representatives on Capitol Hill, Jackson said.

“Ohio State treats DACA students like Ohio residents and it provides whatever resources it can to assist those students,” Cohen said.

Another on-campus resource is DACA liaison Bowen Marshall, who works with DACA students and educates them on their rights as undocumented students. The information for Marshall has been displayed on the buckeyelink homepage since the September announcement.

Future protection for DACA recipients rests in the hands of Congress — or, if it doesn’t arrive on a legislative solution, it might fall on Ohio State to continue its protection. As of now, the answers remain unclear.

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And, while the university is a public institution, it functions in a variety of capacities, such as a performance space. This means there is more leeway for the university to reject a request to use a building’s space because the university is acting as a rental hall, not a public entity, he said.

Spencer requested to use the Ohio Union Performance Hall, which can fit about 500 people, for a Nov. 15 event.

To deny this request and legally uphold the provisions protected under the First Amendment, Ohio State would need to have the capability to prove Spencer’s speech is obscene and elicits danger, Tokaji said.

“The court says this only applies when the basis for the restriction is the content of the speech, but that clearly seems to be the case here,” he said. “It’s the endangerment of public safety which has everything to do with Mr. Spencer’s speech.”

Ohio State governs the usage of campus spaces through its university space rules, which includes rules for events and the general usage of spaces. For some events, a reservation is required for students, university departments, faculty, staff and groups not affiliated with Ohio State to use university spaces, Ohio State spokesman Ben Johnson said in an email to The Lantern in September.

“Non-affiliates require authori-

zation under these rules to make speeches or presentations, to erect displays, to engage in any commercial activity, or to conduct similar activities on university-owned or university-controlled property,” according to the university space rules.

“Ohio State evaluates requests on a case-by-case basis and the [University Police] works with event organizers to evaluate potential risks to personal safety, university property or facility security; to promote safety; and to protect the rights of all members of the university community,” Johnson said.

Discriminating against somebody like Spencer, who has expressed white supremacist ideologies, for his beliefs alone is unconstitutional, Tokaji said.

The vagueness and lack of transparency Ohio State has displayed since Friday could mean the refusal to allow his event is, in fact, a discrimination of Spencer’s ideology, said Ari Cohn, director of individual rights defense program for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

“They haven’t expressed what threat to public safety the event would cause and why it is unable to ensure safety for the event,” Cohn said.

He said FIRE — an organization which works to protect constitutional rights on campus — sees this ambiguity a lot “where vague security concerns are cited

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Controversial far-right speaker Milo Yianapoulos speaks at the Ohio Union on Nov. 4. His speech at University of California, Berkeley last month sparked riots and protests. as a reason for not allowing a speaker to rent facilities or speak on campus.”

“To say security concerns could beg the question whether the university is really trying to keep a specific view off of campus,” he said. “That would be problematic from a First Amendment standpoint.”

Spencer’s far-right viewpoints can be compared to that of another controversial speaker, Milo Yiannopoulos, who visited Ohio State last November and spoke at the Union.

However, the circumstances of the two events differ, which in turn can be reason for why Yiannopoulos was allowed on campus, and why Spencer is currently not

allotted his requested space.

Yiannopoulos was invited by a student group, which Tokaji said hinders the university’s capability to say no to a speaker of radical ideologies. Spencer’s request for space was made by a Georgia State graduate student.

“If the university made an effort to restrict student groups that wanted to bring someone like Spencer to campus, that would be very problematic and unconstitutional,” he said.

Yiannopoulos’ and Spencer’s controversial and arguably hateful rhetoric often creates tense environments, but concluding that they bring violence is a discrimination that could be taken to court, said Gary Daniels, the

chief lobbyist for the Ohio American Civil Liberties Union.

“They can’t just simply say ‘We’ll look at the speaker; this is somebody who inflames passions and does things that people don’t like, so we anticipate that there are going to be safety concerns, and so that’s why we’re not allowing him to speak,’” he said.

Should the university decline to provide the alternatives they alluded to regarding Spencer’s request, they would have to define the danger in which they cite, Daniels said, also adding the ACLU finds Spencer’s white nationalist messages reprehensible, but the restriction of his speech unconstitutional.

Daniels said an issue arises when a university like Ohio State picks and chooses who can speak because declining one request could lead to a snowball effect of sorts, which can silence entire groups or ideologies over time.

“A lot of people seem to be OK with silencing a message they don’t like, but many seem to not understand that once you open up that door, you’re coming after somebody else next,” Daniels said. “That seems to be the history of our country.”

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been a contentious issue for decades, which recently exploded during the 2016 election. Because of the election result and the turmoil that followed, some conservatives say they are being silenced on campuses nationwide and throughout the halls and green space of Ohio State.

“The great irony of a college campus is that campuses encourage diversity, in racial diversity, in gender diversity, in religious diversity and socioeconomic diversity,” said Niraj Antani, the youngest member of the Ohio House of Representatives, a Republican and Ohio State alumnus.

“But when it comes to thought diversity and ideological diversity they are hostile and that’s a problem. Professors and administrations should be welcoming to all ideologies and they’re not. And that does occur at Ohio State.”

Antani, who was president of the Ohio State College Republicans, said the marginalization of conservative speech on campuses is not a new phenomenon and has been happening at Ohio State for at least eight years, when he started in Autumn 2009. “[Students] don’t want to stand up in a class and defend Trump or Republicans because they think their professor might grade them poorly because of that,” Antani said.

Kenny Horsley, a second-year in political science and a member of College Republicans, said that he felt animosity as a first-year student and as a small minority of his scholars group that held conservative views.

Horsley said he experienced “back-door” threats because of his expressed political ideology.

“It’s mostly stuff that’s all talk, but there are violent threats,” he said. “It’s people that are not open to ideas.”

Alternatively, Brad McKinniss, a graduate student and president of Young Democratic Socialists at Ohio State, said speakers who are further left than mainstream Democrats probably have a harder time on campuses.

“In a way, it’s worse for leftist speakers because it’s been happening to left speakers for years, if not decades, where they have been ‘de-platformed’ and not allowed to speak about current issues,” he said.

Lately, Ohio State has been embroiled in the free-speech debate for denying Richard Spencer’s request to speak on campus twice, while the University of Cincinnati announced it allow Spencer to speak on its campus this fall.

Antani said while people certainly should disagree with individuals or groups that spread a negative message, it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed

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Nick Davis, a fourth-year in natural resource management, is the president of Ohio State Students for Trump. to speak.

“Just because you disagree with my free speech, that doesn’t mean you get to ban it,” he said.

McKinnis said the decision to deny Spencer’s request for campus space was the right decision by the university, and that there is a fundamental difference between the right-wing and left-wing speakers that are trying to come to campuses.

He said far-right speakers like Spencer spread violent messages, while left-wing speakers “are just trying to speak about people that are oppressed.”

McKinniss added that students can’t leave it up to the administration to stop speakers like Spencer coming to campus.

“The onus is on students and professors in a way to not allow this to go any further. I am very glad the university didn’t allow him, but we can’t always rely on the university to protect us,” McKinniss said.

Ohio State has made news for denying Spencer, but it certainly has not been grabbing headlines the way a campus like University of California, Berkeley has, specifically its decisions to allow speeches that have resulted in costly damages and large police forces.

Nick Davis, a fourth-year in natural resource management and president of Ohio State Students for Trump, said he thinks Ohio State’s campus has its problems, but that it is not as bad as UC Berkeley when it comes to politi-

cal division.

“It’s better, it’s just not perfect,” Davis said. “But you don’t get perfect anywhere.”

Many controversial speakers have been labeled as alt-right, which is a white nationalist movement that has become prominent.

But Davis said the alt-right labeling is not a fair way to portray the conservative movement on campuses.

“I don’t think the alt-right represents what the conservative movement is about,” he said.

“They have their separate ideals and their separate values and opinions. Do I agree with them?

Not necessarily. Do I think they should be allowed to voice their opinions? Sure, everyone should be allowed to voice their opinions. But they don’t represent what the right is supposed to be.”

According to the group Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Ohio State is coded as “yellow,” meaning it has at least “one ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application”

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of free speech. FIRE is a group founded by University of Pennsylvania libertarian professor Alan Charles Kors, and its stated goal is “defending individual rights in education.”

One of the main Ohio State policies that FIRE takes umbrage with, claiming its vagueness allows for infringement on free speech, is regarding the Bias Assessment and Response Team.

The policy states: “Bias incidents are acts or behaviors motivated by the offender’s bias against age, ancestry, color, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic information, HIV/ AIDS status, military status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.”

Ben Johnson, an Ohio State spokesman, said the university is committed to creating a diverse community welcoming to everyone on campus.

“Ohio State has found that maintaining such an environment requires a transparent effort to learn about and address incidents of bias and discrimination on our campuses,” Johnson said in an email. “BART enables The Ohio State University to stay informed about incidents in the community involving bias or hate. BART does not have authority to issue sanctions. Reports to BART are referred to other university units for further evaluation and action when appropriate.”

Antani, who is co-sponsoring a campus free speech bill, said universities must start with a policy that allows everyone on campus to have free speech.

“If you are going to rent out facilities to outside groups, then you have to rent out facilities to outside groups,” he said. “You cannot determine that depending on what type of speaker they are.”

McKinniss, however, said he believes the First Amendment is being misconstrued.

“A lot of people misunderstand free speech as everyone should be given a platform, but that’s not how it works,” McKinniss said.

The Supreme Court has said that not all speech is protected.

For example, any speech that leads to or elicits violence, Moving forward, the students interviewed for this story ex-

pressed a hope that political speech on campus can return to a civil discussion.

“In order to make progress, in order to move forward, both sides have to be able to share their opinions so we can work out which one is right and which one is wrong. How can we make this better and move forward as a society?” Davis said.

McKinnis said he would like to see debates on campus move back to a more civil climate, but that he doesn’t see it happening anytime soon.

“This election was a breaking point for a lot of people in a lot of different ways,” McKinniss said.

Davis said change is necessary for political discussion, and cannot be changed with a single policy.

“The culture, in general, at Ohio State, and the country in general, people need to be more accepting and more tolerant of other people’s views,” Davis said.

“They’re all constantly preaching tolerance and acceptance until they think differently than [someone], and that’s something as a society we need to work on.”

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dia content. Joyce said she’s excited to see what Nini puts together for the evening.

“It’s always fun to see how other people’s mind work to pair [garments] together,” she said. “So, I’m excited to see the whole outfit head to toe.”

“I just love making people look good, and a nice outfit always makes you more confident.”

Allie Nini Thread store manager

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Models at the 2016 A Thread of Hope pose in the fashion presentation for the then upcoming late autumn and holiday clothing, which was later available at the Thread boutique in Grandview.

LYDIA FREUDENBERG Lantern reporter freudenberg.7@osu.edu Students and alumni will have the opportunity Thursday to give back to a local foundation while enjoying food, music and fashion at an independent Columbus boutique.

The third annual A Thread of Hope — created by Miranda Boyle, who also owns the boutique Thread on Grandview Avenue — will once again raise money for Sam’s Fans, a Columbus organization that

provides music and art therapy to children with severe diseases like Fanconi Anemia.

Allie Nini, store manager of Thread and Ohio State alumna, has participated in the event since the fundraiser’s founding in 2015. This year she will help style the outfits for the fashion show.

“Helping other people who are local and working together to reach a goal is always awesome,” she said. “I’m also really excited for the fashion show. I just love making people look good, and a nice outfit always makes you more confident.”

The fashion show will be Thread’s larg-

est yet, with 16 models all wearing pieces by national designers like Wai Ming, Trina Turk, and accessories by Pluma Jewelry, a local crafter. Nini described the looks as being dramatic with a lot of layers.

And for guests interested in owning clothing displayed in the show, all the featured garments and accessories will be available on Thread’s website that evening and in-store the next day.

Emily Joyce, a fourth-year in fashion merchandising and an employee at Thread, is getting involved in the fundraiser for the first time and will oversee the social me-

Other aspects of the evening include live music, food catered by Cameron Mitchell Restaurants and a silent auction. If the event seems to be beyond the average college student’s budget, volunteering for the affair can go a long way, Joyce said.

“It’s such an awesome cause,” Joyce said. “Just because we’re college students doesn’t mean we still can’t give back and help other people.”

Nini added that since the fundraiser deals with fashion, music, art and helping children, it proves personal interest can be incorporated into a good cause and create a more meaningful volunteer experience.

And with a rapidly growing fundraiser, not only has the volunteer team grown, but the money raised tripled from the first year to the second year. But things are not slowing down, like Nini said, “our goal is to always raise more.”

A Thread of Hope will be held in Dublin’s new The Exchange at Bridge Park on Thursday, and begins at 7 p.m.

Buckeye Book Community highlights social justice COURTNEY FULTON For The Lantern fulton.209@osu.edu This year’s Buckeye Book Community selection will come to life on Oct. 26 when author Bryan Stevenson discusses his personal story and the inspiration for his novel “Just Mercy.”

A lawyer, social activist, and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Stevenson published “Just Mercy” in 2014 as a way of sharing his experience and shedding light on the creation of the initiative.

“Bryan’s journey shows readers what it takes to act on conviction, passion, and purpose.”

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A true story based on justice, redemption and its author’s coming of age, “Just Mercy” portrays a young lawyer dedicated to helping those in need. The novel tackles one of Stevenson’s first cases, as he represents a man who claimed he was falsely convicted of murder.

In 1994, Stevenson founded the

nonprofit organization in Montgomery, Alabama, in an effort to provide legal representation for prisoners who might have been wrongly convicted.

La’Rez Wilson, community relations coordinator for Student Life’s Department of Social Change, explained the connection of these events to the core goals of the university, including fostering an environment which values controversial conversations and open discussion.

Since 2001, Ohio State’s Buckeye Book Community program has selected one book to be read by all incoming students the summer before their first semester at the university. Each year, more than 7,000 new Buckeyes are supposed to read the text.

“Our goal is to help first-year students become more aware about some of the critical issues within our criminal-justice system that many of them may have never thought about and also make some connections to their first-year transition,” said Ivory Douglas, program coordinator for Ohio State’s First Year Experience.

According to the Buckeye Book Community website, these critical issues include racial inequality, economic injustice and mass incarceration.

Wilson described the Buckeye Book Community’s role as an avenue for character development

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A photo illustration of “Just Mercy,” written by founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson, who will speak in the Mershon Auditorium on Oct. 26. and an asset to all areas of students’ lives.

“Bryan’s journey shows readers what it takes to act on conviction, passion, and purpose,” Wilson said.

The impact of “Just Mercy,” however, is not limited to Stevenson’s lecture. Campus events include a panel discussion with

Ohio State professors who teach courses at local prisons, a workshop on courage and character development amid difficult situations and an event with PassGo, an Ohio State student organization, about the importance of diverse communities and advocating for injustice.

First-year students may register

for the lecture online at First Year Experience’s website and the general public can pick up tickets at the Wexner Center for the Arts or at the door while supplies last.

Stevenson will speak at the Mershon Auditorium next Thursday. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the discussion starting promptly at 7:30 p.m.

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Boo! Spooky vegan market pops up in Columbus PARIS MCGEE Lantern reporter mcgee.247@osu.edu

As the market expands each season, the event has become more than just an opportunity for free giveaways. Joshua Hurwitz, a fourth-year in engineering, became a vegan after his first pop-up market experience last year.

“Originally I was only going to the market for free food with a friend,” he said.

“But after I was there and I learned about veganism and [vegans’] lifestyle, I took away a whole new meaning about the foods I eat and the environment I live in. There were so much information and people willing to help me understand the culture, and what veganism is all about.”

Following this autumn’s market, the next vegan pop-up event will take place in December in celebration of the holiday season.

The Spooky Vegan Pop-Up Market will be held Sunday from from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.

All treats with no tricks –– The Spooky Vegan Pop-Up Market comes to town on Oct. 22 at the Ching Ten Maitreya Temple in Columbus.

Sponsored by the It’s All Natural market of Gahanna and Ching Ter Maitreya Temple of Columbus, the market will feature 16 vendors from across Ohio, including Sobremesa Street Kitchen, The Little Kitchen Food Truck and Momma Can Cook.

“The event highlights local vendors who showcase vegan products, educate the public about veganism and provide money for local charities who share our ideals.”

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Justin Overby It’s All Natural clerk

Sprouting Dreams LLC will be serving vegan waffle dishes at the Spooky Vegan Pop-Up Market on Oct. 22.

“We hold one market four times a year,” said Justin Overby, a store clerk at It’s All Natural. “The event highlights local vendors who showcase vegan products, educate the public about veganism and provide money for local charities who share our ideals.”

Local vendors who produce all natu-

ral, plant based products will have array of foods, beauty supplies and household items that all support the vegan lifestyle.

Food vendors will range from doughnuts, cookies and other baked goods, to “delicious vegan meals with Asian, Ethiopian, Mexican and American inspirations,” Overby said.

For families, there will be trunk-or-treating –– trick-or-treating, except out of car trunks instead of houses –– for children, and in support of local charities, raffle prize drawings will be given out with all proceeds going towards the Sunrise Sanctuary in Marysville, Ohio, a nonprofit animal shelter.

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the crime, the seriousness of the crime, the proximity to campus, the victim’s affiliation to Ohio State and whether the suspect was charged with a criminal offense or arrested.

When it is determined there is a danger to the campus community, Buckeye Alerts, usually sent out via text message, are issued by the university. This might require immediate action from the campus community, like the alert sent out Nov. 28 when a student drove his car into a crowd of students and injured 11 people with a knife. The alert told students to take cover.

Public Safety Notices are emails drafted

by University Police that are distributed by the Ohio State Department of Public Safety after crimes occur on campus or on public property within or immediately adjacent to campus.

Similarly, Ohio State’s Department of Public Safety might work alongside other police departments, such as Columbus Division of Police, to ensure that the in-

formation sent out in the Neighborhood Safety Notices is accurate.

“We run a first draft quickly by [Columbus Police] to make sure it is accurate because we wouldn’t want to send something out based on what we’re hearing from media outlets or on social media that isn’t accurate or jeopardize a case that they’re working on,” said Monica Moll, the director of Ohio State’s Department of Public Safety.

Hedman believes communication between the Ohio State community and police will keep campus safe and students more aware.

“We have always told people see something, say something. If you see something going on let us know so we can take a look, whether its OSU police or Columbus police that are gonna take a look and investigate that,” Headman said. “The more people are aware of things that are currently going on in the immediate off-campus area, the more they can be aware of what’s going on elsewhere.”

Student actress breaks into first leading role MIRANDA LIPTON For The Lantern lipton.18@osu.edu Jasmine Michelle Smith is stepping out of the classroom and onto the stage in her first lead role as Marisol Peréz in Beth Kattelman’s production of “Marisol” this month.

Smith was involved in theater throughout high school and her past three years at Ohio State. As a fourth-year theatre major and dance minor, Smith has had extensive experience performing in front of large audiences. However, none of them have been as big as the audiences at Ohio State, she said.

“I am really excited to be on stage as much as I will be, especially in a theater that I feel comfortable in.”

Jasmine Michelle Smith “Marisol” lead actress

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Jasmine Michelle Smith, pictured above, will play her first lead role as Marisol Peréz in Beth Kattelman’s production of “Marisol” later this month.

“Because this is my first lead role at [Ohio State], it will be a bigger audience and space,” she said. “I am really excited to be on stage as much as I will be, especially in a theater that I feel comfortable in.”

“Marisol” is one of the few main-stage performances that the Ohio State Department of Theatre presents seasonally. It will be held in the Thurber Theatre inside the Drake Performance and Event Center, which, with a capacity of 600, is the largest theater on campus.

The award-winning play, which debuted in 1992, tells the story of a young Puerto Rican woman who lives in the Bronx.

Marisol has a guardian angel visit her one night to deliver the news that the angels are upset with what has been happening in heaven, and that there will be a war on earth in the near future. From that point forward, there is frequent violence, and chaos ensues throughout the plot.

Kattelman, an associate professor and curator for the Department of Theatre, said there were challenges in finding a cast to work with the violent plot of this performance, and added she wanted to make sure the cast read the play and knew the subject matter ahead of time.

“They needed to be mature enough to handle it, with a great stage presence,” she said.

The cast and crew will have worked on this performance six days a week, five hours a day, for six weeks straight before the play’s premiere, Smith said.

Smith said her role has required her to memorize more lines than she has ever had to memorize for a show in the past, as well as having one of the fastest turnaround times before the rehearsals were “off-book,” or rehearsed without a script.

“Marisol” opens Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. and will run through Nov. 5. Tickets are $15 for students and $20 for the public plus fees via Ticketmaster.

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Dobbins continuing dynamic freshman season EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu Nine plays into Ohio State’s first drive against Nebraska, freshman running back J.K. Dobbins took the handoff from quarterback J.T. Barrett and followed a block from redshirt sophomore tight end Rashod Berry to the left sideline.

Fifty-two yards later, Dobbins was in the end zone and the Buckeyes had their first score of the game. Like Dobbins, they never looked back.

“I saw [the defender] the whole time, and I knew I was going to have to beat him and he was the last person to beat,” Dobbins said after the game. “So I beat him.”

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“He’s just an exceptional player.

And when you have a home-run hitter like that, you feed him the ball as much as you can.”

Ohio State freshman running back J.K. Dobbins (2) runs the ball in the third quarter of the 2017 Ohio-Army game in Ohio Stadium on Sep. 16. Ohio State won 38-7.

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For Dobbins, everything this season has seemed to be just that simple. Any obstacle facing Dobbins so far, he has beat with ease.

With 775 rushing yards on 100 carries this season, the 5-foot-10, 208-pound running back is on pace to become the fourth freshman running back in Ohio State history to rush for more than 1,000 yards.

Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer knows the Buckeyes will rely heavily on Dobbins the remainder of season. He said Wednesday he intends to wear Dobbins out and not hold back on his usage of the freshman. That sentiment has not changed.

“We’ve had a couple games where he hasn’t had an opportunity to get a lot of carries and we’ll see him bust out,” Meyer said Saturday. “He’s just an exceptional player. And when you have a home-run hitter like that, you feed him the ball as much as you can.”

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J.K. Dobbins (2) runs the ball in for a touchdown in the first quarter during the Ohio StateNebraska game in Memorial Stadium on Oct. 14. Ohio State won 56-14.

Dobbins has had an exceptional freshman season. Heading into the year, the expectation was that he would serve as redshirt sophomore Mike Weber’s backup. A hamstring injury to Weber in fall camp thrust Dobbins into a starting role. And even though Weber

has returned, Dobbins has continued to shine.

“I didn’t think I would have this much success early, but I knew I would get a lot of success,” Dobbins said. “I think it’s advanced, but I’m glad I could help my team get a spark.”

NCAA wrestling history,” Snyder said. “We could both have five or six guys in the finals competing against each other for both teams.

That’s more than half of the finalists in the tournament. The opportunity for that to happen doesn’t happen. It’s very rare.”

Bo Jordan (174 pounds), another senior and veteran of three years of battle against the Nittany Lions, lit up while discussing the possibilities of the impending dual meet on Feb. 2 or 4 in State College, Pennsylvania, between two teams that just might shake the wrestling world.

“It’s going to be sick,” Jordan said. “There’s so many cool matchups. A lot of individual matchups, me and Mark Hall

one-on-one against each other. He beat me last year in the national finals, I’ll have him again. I mean, Kyle [Snyder], there’s so many good matchups. And Myles [Martin] and Bo [Nickal]. So many fun matches you’re going to be able to watch. It’s going to be cool. I’m looking forward to that dual.”

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tive view on what I really wanted and what program I feel like could take me to where I wanted to get to,” McKenna said. “I just thought that the things that would allow me to succeed the most were encompassed here at Ohio State. The energy, the motivation, the guys on the team, the structure and just the culture and the way everything was run.”

Snyder, one of the veterans of the team that will go toe-to-toe with Penn State for the fourth time this season, said he thinks a lot about the Nittany Lions. It’s the dual meet the Olympic gold medalist is most excited for.

“It’s going to be one of the most exciting dual meets, tournaments I think there’s ever been in

He is far from the first freshman running back to provide his team with an unexpected spark.

Two years ago, then-freshman Penn State running back Saquon Barkley entered the season as the backup running back to Akeel Lynch, the team’s returning lead-

ing rusher. Barkley had had some big games before, but it wasn’t until an injury to Lynch in the fourth game of that season provided Barkley with an opportunity to claim the starting spot. Barkley missed two games with his own injury before making his debut as a starter against Ohio State.

In that game, Barkley rushed for 194 yards on 26 carries.

That season, he established himself as a top threat out of the backfield for the Nittany Lions as he rushed for 1,076 yards on 182 carries. However, he was outshined in the Midwest by Ohio State’s Ezekiel Elliott, who finished the season with 1,821 yards on 289 carries in his final collegiate campaign.

This season, Barkley has stolen the spotlight in the Big Ten, appearing to be an early favorite for the Heisman Trophy and a likely top-10 selection in the 2018 NFL Draft. Barkley is the face of Big Ten running backs right now, but Dobbins is in the early stages of what should be a fruitful collegiate career.

Dobbins currently has the edge on Barkley in rushing yards this season (775 to 649), but Barkley’s impact as a receiver and on special teams solidifies him as the top running back in not only the conference, but also the country.

The two will soon square off in arguably both teams’ most crucial game of the year. Just as the game between Elliott and Barkley was seemingly the start of Elliott passing the torch to Barkley as the face of Big Ten star running backs, this could be the changing of the guard from Barkley to Dobbins.

Dobbins might not have the same 194-yard breakout game as Barkley, but just as long as he provides his team with another spark, he will be satisfied with the end result.

“I know coach Meyer says he wants to get me the ball more, but if it’s all about winning the game, and it’s not going through me, then I’m fine with it,” Dobbins said. “Just want to help my team.”

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the Wolverines have not looked as threatening this year, their stingy defense has not allowed more than 20 points in a game and will test a strong Nittany Lion offense.

Though the Buckeyes have avoided outright saying they were looking forward to avenging last year’s loss to Penn State in prior weeks, it’s not a stretch to believe it has been in the back of their minds since the white-clad fans stormed Beaver Stadium as the Scarlet and Gray walked deject-

edly back to the locker room.

Redshirt senior defensive end Tyquan Lewis admitted as much saying the team has had an eye on Penn State for a while and mentioned the coaches have been preparing for this matchup for weeks.

But for now, Ohio State rests, awaiting a chance for revenge.

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Ohio State and Penn State: College wrestling’s arms race JEFF HELFRICH Lantern reporter helfrich.36@osu.edu Ohio State’s final points tally last season would have won them the national championship in all but five years in the history of the NCAA. The reason it did not is due to the NCAA’s resident wrestling powerhouse, Penn State. The Nittany Lions have won six of the past seven team titles, with Ohio State being the only exception in 2015. The embarrassment of riches on the team rosters in both State College, Pennsylvania, and Columbus will carry over to this season.

Penn State carries five defending individual national champions. Ohio State returns one in senior heavyweight Kyle Snyder.

Three other individual titles have been won by current Buckeyes in years past: redshirt senior Nathan Tomasello, junior Myles Martin and Snyder.

FloWrestling’s preseason NCAA wrestling rankings exemplify the dominance of both teams, but in a different way. Penn State includes just seven ranked wrestlers, but all seven are listed in the top five in their respective weight classes across the nation.

Five No. 1 spots belong to Nittany Lions.

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Then-junior Kyle Snyder lifts Penn State’s Nick Nevills for a takedown on Feb. 3, 2017 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU lost, 32-12.

“It’s going to be one of the most exciting dual meets, tournaments I think there’s ever been in NCAA wrestling history.”

Kyle Snyder Ohio State senior wrestler

Ohio State’s lineup is more balanced. The Buckeyes have a wrestler ranked in the top 12 at all 10 weight classes, with six being in the top five and three ranked at No. 1: Snyder at heavyweight, Tomasello at 125 pounds and redshirt sophomore Kollin Moore at 187 pounds.

The Buckeyes might hold an advantage at the lower weights, with Tomasello at 125 pounds

(No. 1), sophomore Luke Pletcher at 133 pounds (No. 9) and junior transfer Joey McKenna at 141 pounds (No. 6). No wrestlers are ranked for the Nittany Lions in those three classes.

Penn State’s murderers’ row of middleweights stands as its linchpin. Every defending champion — Zain Retherford (149 pounds), Jason Nolf (157 pounds), Vincenzo Joseph (165 pounds), Mark

Hall (174 pounds) and Bo Nickal (184 pounds) — holds top spots.

Head coach Tom Ryan and the Buckeyes consider themselves to be reloaded and ready to dethrone the Nittany Lions in the 2017 season.

“We know Penn State scores a lot of points, but we’ve got a lot of big point scorers as well,” Ryan said. “But that was a factor last year. They’ve got some guys that were pinning people and they have five champions back.

We picked up Joey McKenna, who was a huge transfer for us; we picked up [transfer] Te’Shan Campbell.

“So this team is stronger than it was last year. Ke’Shawn Hayes is coming off of an injury last year.

So it’s a stronger team than last year and we have every reason to believe that if we are at our best and they’re at their best, it’s going to be a lot of fun in March.”

McKenna was recruited by Penn State during the offseason and had a chance to survey the pros and cons of both programs.

The junior ultimately mortgaged his remaining two seasons of eligibility on the Buckeyes to help him achieve success.

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Buckeyes will not let bye week halt momentum COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu

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Urban Meyer prepares to lead the Buckeyes onto the field before the Ohio State-Army game on Sep. 16.

No. 6 Ohio State (6-1, 4-0 Big Ten) has found itself in the midst of a hot stretch. But through no fault of its own, that stretch will be put on hold this weekend.

The Buckeyes have a bye week and will not play until they welcome No. 2 Penn State to Ohio Stadium at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in a battle of Big Ten powers.

“It’s definitely going to be fun to have a week off and refresh,” junior linebacker Jerome Baker said after the Buckeyes’ 56-14 win over Nebraska. “It’s a good time because we’ve got two weeks to prepare for Penn State.

As everybody knows that’s a great team, so it’s definitely good for us.”

Since its Week 2 loss to Oklahoma, Ohio State has rolled on both sides of the ball, even though its special teams has looked incompetent.

The Buckeyes have defeated their past five opponents — Army, UNLV, Rutgers, Maryland and Nebraska — by a combined score of 266-56 and have outgained opponents by 1,885 yards.

Redshirt senior quarterback J.T.

Barrett has thrown for at least 200 yards every game and accounted for 22 touchdowns over the span without an interception.

In the past five games, opponents

“We’ve got a nice train rolling right now. We just want to come into this bye week focused and ready to get better.”

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have scored just three first-half touchdowns against the starting defense.

“This is a good time to be cooking, but it’s also a good time to have a bye week and get these guys fresh,” Meyer said Saturday.

“We’re still finalizing how we’re going to do the bye week.”

After its longest road trip of the season and the third night game away from home, Ohio State took Sunday off. For the first time all season, it did not feel rushed to jump into preparation for its next opponent, even though the Nittany Lions might be the most formidable opponent of the year.

Redshirt junior wideout Terry McLaurin said Ohio State appreciates the week off, which allows it to focus heavily on its next opponent, but it also must balance that with maintaining steady improvement.

“As far as just keeping the pedal off the gas, we’ve got to keep it going,” McLaurin said. “We’ve got a nice train rolling right now.

We just want to come into this bye week focused and ready to get better.”

Nearly a year ago, then-No. 2 Ohio State traveled to State College, Pennsylvania, to take on Penn State, a team that had just come off a bye week and handily defeated Maryland before its off week. Conversely, Wisconsin took the Buckeyes into overtime before Ohio State was able to come away with a hard-fought 30-27 overtime victory in Madison, Wisconsin. As the Buckeyes battled, the Nittany Lions rested.

Both teams’ schedules are flipped this year.

Not only will the Buckeyes be playing a game for the first time in two weeks when they play host to Penn State, but the Nittany Lions will be coming off a game against No. 19 Michigan. Even though BYE WEEK CONTINUES ON 7