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Notifications: Off Use of GroupMe app leads to code of conduct violations KAYLIN HYNES Lantern reporter hynes.39@osu.edu

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Eighty-three undergraduate students enrolled in a marketing course last Spring were caught cheating using a messaging app called GroupMe.

After caught sharing answers to course assignments in a messaging app called GroupMe last spring, 83 undergraduate students enrolled in a principles of marketing course were charged with violations of the student code of conduct, calling into question the ethics behind using technology to collaborate with classmates.

The Fisher College of Business students were reported by their professor in April, according to a statement from Ohio State spokesman Ben Johnson.

“The charges include unauthorized collaboration on graded assignments, which is prohibited under the Code of Student Conduct,” the statement reads.

Sanctions for group-cheating

range from warnings to grade penalties and even dismissal from the major, college or university in extreme cases, according to the code of student conduct.

“Students charged with academic misconduct violations may accept responsibility for the charges or request a hearing before the Committee on Academic Misconduct pursuant to the Code of Student Conduct,” the statement read.

Students may also request a hearing before a panel of faculty and student representatives to determine if they are in violation of the code of student conduct.

“If found in violation, students receive sanctions based on the nature and severity of the violation in accordance with university standards and protocols,” the code states.

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Attorney General calls Board of Trustees approves design on Cardinal Health to costs for university projects pay for its contribution to opioid addiction ZACH GRADER Lantern reporter grader.2@osu.edu

ZACH VARDA Lantern reporter varda.6@osu.edu Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sent a letter to licensed wholesale drug distributors Oct. 30, including Cardinal Health, a company with extensive ties to Ohio State, calling on them to play a part in combatting the opioid crisis Dewine said they helped create.

The letters were sent in conjunction with a speech given by DeWine introducing his “Recovery Ohio” plan, which consists of 12 new initiatives introduced to fight the opioid epidemic in Ohio.

“Ohio is in crisis,” DeWine said in his speech. “At least 14 Ohioans are dying every single day in our state from drug overdoses. More people will die in Ohio this week than died in the devastating shooting recently in Las Vegas.”

The national opioid crisis has hit Ohio especially hard. The rate of deaths from opioid overdose in Ohio is 22 per 100,000 people, more than double the national

average of 10 in 100,000. That death toll is second only to West Virginia at 35 in 100,000, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

“Your failure to take action to stem the flow of prescription opioids into our communities contributed to the tidal wave of addiction and death that we now face.”

Mike DeWine Ohio Attorney General

The new effort by DeWine, a Republican running for governor in 2018, seeks to combat the problem through measures such as expanding treatment and empowering law enforcement. DeWine believes the companies responsible for “flooding” the state with pills should help pay for it.

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Updates to Ohio State’s future plans for campus, buildings and size, called Framework 2.0, are taking another step forward.

The Board of Trustees on Friday approved $45 million for designs of projects that are a part of Framework 2.0. The plans include updates to the design and infrastructure of research facilities, blueprint of a new arts district and development of an interdisciplinary health sciences center.

“Rather than approving all of the construction at once we are looking at an annual assessment of where we are,” said Keith Myers, Ohio State’s vice president of planning and real estate. “This also suggests that this will be a very active process.”

Arts District and Campus Gateway The university is looking to the heart of campus, where East 15th Avenue meets High Street to create a gateway from off campus to Ohio State’s academic core.

In doing so, the university will relocate the Department of Theatre, expand Weigel Hall for the School of Music and add a moving-image production major.

“This is where we are heading

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Campus Partners plans for the 15th and High project. with the arts district, the School of Music on the other side of the College Road, the Department of Theatre, and a new fine arts library, which really creates a center for the arts district at the intersection of Annie and John Glenn Avenue and College Road,” Myers said.

Ohio State is also planning to consolidate the fine arts, music, dance and theatre library collections.

Interdisciplinary Research Building Another campus addition will be a 380,000 square foot, five-

floor interdisciplinary research facility.

The facility will bring a variety of different laboratories, each offering its own specific innovative and environmental research contribution.

“If you recall from the original framework, the Midwest Campus — near Morrill and Lincoln towers — was a vision to become a new research campus for the university,” Myers said. “This is the first building to go up there. It is on the intersection of Olentangy [River Road] and Woody Hayes FRAMEWORK CONTINUES ON 3

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One year after Trump’s win, student-voters reflect on 2016 election SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu SCOTT GOOD For The Lantern good.123@osu.edu It’s been one year since the 2016 presidential election and Parker McDonald doesn’t like to tell people who he voted for — though the candidate he chose won.

The third-year in media and communication technology voted for President Donald Trump.

“I don’t stand by any of the decisions he’s made as president,” McDonald said. “I’m very reluctant to say, ‘Yeah, I voted for that person.’”

McDonald, who is socially liberal but fiscally conservative, said he would have voted for Bernie Sanders if Sanders had won the Democratic nomination, and chose Trump rather than Hillary Clinton because of Trump’s background in business.

“I wanted economic reform,” McDonald said, adding he didn’t like the career politician Clinton was built up to be.

He said voting for president in 2016 was similar to being “caught between a rock and a hard place.”

“It was not an easy decision,” McDonald said. “I don’t think it was an easy pill to swallow for anybody who voted for Trump.”

And, one year later, McDonald has “pretty heavy buyer’s remorse.”

Along with economic reform, McDonald hoped to see a change in the way Trump carried himself, but has not seen the previously expected presidential shift.

“There’s things I’ve liked and been disappointed with, but as a whole there’s nothing that’s made me regret voting for him.”

Nick Bellopatrick Second-year in political science

“We’re still experiencing the same behavior we saw during the campaign during the first year of his presidency,” McDonald said.

“It’s bad. It’s really bad.

“Seeing the things he posts on Twitter, it’s crazy to almost talk about because it’s unreal. He’s publicly slandered women, minorities, all kinds of people.”

Trump’s lewd comments are nothing new: a now-infamous tape of Trump talking of sexually assaulting women surfaced during the campaign, but McDonald said he chose to ignore the comments then, adding that it is impossible to ignore what Trump now says in office.

Nick Bellopatrick, a second-year in political science also voted for Trump and agrees that the way the president carries himself is distasteful. However, he

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Students hold signs by the South Oval during an Ohio State Students for Trump debate watch party. said the president has done well conducting himself in regard to international relations.

“There’s things I’ve liked and been disappointed with, but as a whole there’s nothing that’s made me regret voting for him,” he said, adding that he didn’t vote for Clinton because he didn’t believe she was qualified, specifically saying it wasn’t because she’s a woman.

Bellopatrick, a member of the conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom at Ohio State, said the strong inter-

national presence Trump has created and leadership he’s demonstrated confirm he made the right decision.

McDonald said he chooses to avoid conversations about the 2016 election, but Bellopatrick said political discussion is necessary for all parties and ideologies to better understand each other.

“Everyone has to be open and understand that the person next to you disagrees with you,” he said.

Bellopatrick said he does not regret voting for Trump — for

now.

“Things can always change.

We’re in a volatile environment,” he said. “At the end of the day, we’re all American.”

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“As a licensed wholesale drug distributor, you occupy a unique space in the prescription opioid supply chain,” DeWine said in his letter to Cardinal Health. “Your failure to take action to stem the flow of prescription opioids into our communities contributed to the tidal wave of addiction and death that we now face.”

“There is no denying that the rise in opioid abuse that has stricken our communities increased in tandem with the prescribing and distribution of opioids.”

Mike DeWine Ohio Attorney General

Cardinal Health said in a statement to The Lantern that it supports efforts in the fight against opioid abuse.

“In Ohio, for nearly a decade, our employees have collectively volunteered thousands of hours to support drug take-back days and prevention education and awareness efforts for students,”

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Ohio State’s ties with Cardinal Health and partnership with the College of Pharmacy are still active. the statement said. “Through the Cardinal Health Foundation, we have contributed more than 120 grants to nonprofit organizations to expand prevention education, prescriber education and drugtake-back initiatives in this state.

In addition, Cardinal Health operates a state-of-the-art, constantly adaptive, rigorous system to combat opioid diversion.”

A report by the Washington Post and “60 Minutes” last month, however, said Cardinal Health contributed $1 million to lobbying efforts for a recently passed bill which essentially makes it close to impossible for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration to freeze suspicious drug shipments.

The company paid a $34 mil-

lion fine for filing suspicious online drug orders after a DEA investigation in 2008; in 2011 it was investigated once again for sending millions of doses of oxycodone to a small number of Florida pharmacies, according to the Post/“60 Minutes” report.

DeWine said in his letter that action from drug distributors is yet to be seen and he expected to

“hear more than promises to act at some indefinite time in the future.”

He said there is no point in meeting otherwise.

“There is no denying that the rise in opioid abuse that has stricken our communities increased in tandem with the prescribing and distribution of opioids. There is also no denying that you were a direct beneficiary of that increase,” DeWine’s letter read. “What remains to be seen is your willingness to be a partner in finding, crafting and funding a solution.”

Cardinal Health announced Monday its CEO George Barrett — who plays in a band with university president Michael Drake — will be replaced by Mike Kaufmann, the company’s CFO by the end of the year.

Cardinal Health said the change in leadership had been long-discussed.

Despite the Post/“60 minutes” report and leadership changes, Ohio State’s ties with Cardinal Health, including its decade-long collaboration Generation Rx, a website that describes safe prescription usage, and partnership with the College of Pharmacy are ongoing.

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The university will relocate the Department of Theatre, expand Weigel Hall for the School of Music and plans to consolidate the fine arts, music, dance and theater library collections.

Drive.”

In the future, the university looks to potentially create a twin duplex building to the south where a parking lot currently sits.

Interdisciplinary Health Science Center Interprofessional education in the health sciences will be revamped with the interdisciplinary health sciences center project.

Faculty and classroom space, simulation labs and additional green space in between buildings will be added to the colleges of medicine, optometry, nursing and the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.

The vision is to expand and renovate Hamilton Hall on Neil Avenue, and in doing so the university would have to make space by clearing out some space, Myers said.

“If you can envision the demolishing of Fry Bridge, and

two wings of the Starline Loving, there will be small additions made to Hamilton Hall,” Myers said.

“The new building would consist of about 54,000 square feet.”

Inpatient and Outpatient Services Center The current plan in place for the Wexner Medical Center will give a major facelift to its ambulatory facility and outpatient services center.

The forthcoming designs will give the facilities more clinical space, add greater focus on research and teach empirical-based health care and design.

Ohio State is viewing inpatient and outpatient services as two separate projects, but applying similar goals and initiatives to both services.

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Depending on the outcome of individual cases and if they were ultimately found in violation or not, some students’ abilities to graduate on time could be impacted because of the curriculum requirements of Fisher.

The business college has specialty majors that each have their own set of core requirements, in addition to the general core classes that all Fisher students must pass in order to earn their degree.

GroupMe was used by students to in a core marketing class for all specializations in the business school. It is also a prerequisite class for two of the four core courses specific for marketing.

The class is also a prerequisite for Fisher students’ senior capstone courses. This means if a student is charged with a violation and penalized with either suspension or having to retake the class, it could affect their eligibility to graduate on time.

Disciplinary action could also pose problems for business students who shared answers in the prerequisite course if they were juniors and seniors. If they are suspended or required to retake the class, it could postpone when they are able to take the required electives needed for graduation.

Another group of students at Fisher that could be affected by the outcome are juniors and seniors in the human-resource specialization. If these students are penalized with suspension for the Spring Semester, they might have to wait until the next academic year’s Spring Semester, as some courses are only available during that part of the year.

While the integration of technology in classes at Ohio State is

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always changing, the code of student conduct remains the same.

Johnson said students are welcome to use social-media tools like GroupMe to communicate, but they must remember that the code of student conduct applies when they are communicating online just as it applies in the classroom.

“It’s not the social-media vehicle, whether it’s GroupMe or Facebook or a social-media platform or a learning platform that the university provides, it’s whether you’re sharing information that is allowable by the rules of the course or whether you’re sharing information that’s not allowable, and students just need to be aware of that,” Johnson said.

“In most cases, sharing the due date for a homework assignment is perfectly acceptable but sharing the answers to a final exam is not. Students should not share anything online that is prohibited by the rules for the course,” he said.

David Terry Paul, who has taught marketing at the Fisher College of Business for more than 30 years, said he has frequently experienced students cheating, but believes it is more common online because of things like online assignments and the flipped classroom approach.

The flipped classroom is a teaching method that has students learn new material outside of class — like watching lecture videos or having assigned readings — and doing what would typically be “homework” during class time to practice what was learned through activities such as problem-solving or discussion.

“When there are online as-

signments you know those aren’t monitored and obviously students can work together even though they’re not supposed to and that’s troubling and that’s really unfair, but I think as long as we have the flipped classroom and lots of online assignments it’s going to happen,” Paul said.

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“When there are online assignments you know those aren’t monitored and obviously students can work together even though they’re not supposed to and that’s troubling and that’s really unfair, but I think as long as we have the flipped classroom and lots of online assignments it’s going to happen”

room, in the exams, and I always have lots of monitors and we really are very vigilant during the exams. I think that’s the main part of the course and that’s where I concentrate in terms of trying to keep things legit.”

According to Ohio State’s code of student misconduct, “‘Academic misconduct’ is defined as ‘any activity that tends to compromise the academic integrity of the university or subvert the educational process.’”

Cases of misconduct range from deliberate acts of cheating to unintended missteps, in which students fail to distinguish their work from someone else’s.”

When an instructor suspects incidents of academic misconduct, they are required to report to COAM and a review panel of the committee will begin an investigation of the charges, decide whether a violation has happened and, if a student is charged with misconduct, the committee will determine the penalty, according the code of student misconduct.

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However, Paul said having a majority of what counts for the overall grade complete in class helps to keep the grading fair.

“A part of it for me is that the online assignments in my classes are a fairly small part of their grade,” Paul said. “The lion’s share of what counts for their grade is how they do in the class-

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Ohio State community weighs in on animal-human bond MAGGIE JONES Lantern reporter jones.5382@osu.edu

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Hannah Smith and her 2-year-old Labrador-collie-pitbull mix, Eli.

Spending the upcoming festive season with a significant other is one way to enjoy the holidays, but another — perhaps cuter — way to celebrate is with man’s best friend.

The bond between humans and animals is quite special, said Joelle Nielsen, an Ohio State veterinary social worker and program coordinator for Honoring the Bond, an organization that recognizes and supports the relationship between animals and their owners.

“There’s research out there that talks about the bond and even the mental-health benefits,” Nielsen said. “Our animals, they give us unconditional love, and that’s not something we consistently get from humans … the animals are there for us regardless.”

To Hannah Smith, a fourth-year in strategic communication, having a constant companion in the form of Eli, her 2-year-old Labrador-collie-pitbull mix, has made for a fun past year and a half. The first-time owner experience has been transformative, Smith said.

“Eli is the first dog I have ever had and he is the best,” Smith said. “He definitely can read me almost better than I can read myself.

When I am sick he stays by my side all day and when I’m super active he’s still right there. He can tell my mood by the tone of my voice and acts upon that.”

The connection is special for many reasons which can vary across the board, Nielsen said. For some of her clients without any children of their own, the pets can step in place.

“Many owners will say to me, ‘This is like my child,’” Nielsen said. “The attachment for some people is very much like a member of

the family.”

It’s no wonder, dogs react to their owners in a manner that mirrors how children respond to their parents. A 2013 study published in the journal Plos One found that these similar behaviors are rooted in what is called the “secure base effect,” a type of bonding that happens when dogs or kids consider their protectors to be a steady point that instills them with confidence, safety and comfort.

“Our animals, they give us unconditional love, and that’s not something we consistently get from humans.”

Hannah Smith Fourth-year in strategic communication

Although she had only cats growing up, Emily Reed, a fourth-year in psychology, has been getting acquainted with her new puppy, Ollie, a Cavalier-King-Charles-spaniel-poodle mix who has a knack for brightening up anyone’s day.

“He’s kind of like a child for me … he’s a member of the family definitely,” Reed said.

“I work at a pet store with all of these puppies, I fall in love with puppies all the time from a miniature poodle all the way up to a Great Dane, but I still want to go home to [Ollie].”

Though Nielsen said a close connection with an animal is good, it’s still difficult to decide who the better companion is.

“I don’t want to say that one is better than the other,” Nielsen said. “I think they are both important, if you had to choose one or the other, I think that’d be a hard one.”

Could Columbus be the ‘Silicon Valley of Gaming?’ Multivarious hopes so JAKE RAHE Lantern reporter rahe.21@osu.edu Columbus is a Midwestern focal point for college football and several national corporations, but Multivarious Games wants to make the city the regional heart of another industry: video games.

The company’s main goal is to make Columbus the Midwestern hub for video game production.

Chris Volpe, CEO and president of Multivarious, believes Columbus has the potential.

“We have all the elements to do this,” Volpe said. “We just have to build out that infrastructure and culture around the city and state.

[Video games] are just not something that we do here, so a lot of people do not know the opportu-

nities and the broad expansiveness of the games industry.”

Multivarious, founded in 2011, started as a side project for the team on nights and weekends, and as an offshoot of the Central Ohio Gamedev Group, said Cody Starcher, a producer at Multivarious. COGG is made up of people who create video games and are passionate about game development.

“Here is a bunch of people who are talking about wanting to create video games,” Starcher said.

“Let’s actually get them out on the market, let’s actually get them published.”

The amount of time everyone began putting in after work and on weekends started to increase once the group got its start.

“It was everybody’s part-time

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gig. Nobody could do it full time,” he said. “We [were] just trying to make video games.”

Around 2014, Volpe joined the team and decided to turn the side project into a full-fledged company, Starcher said. “[Volpe] got out of his job. He cashed in his retirement and was like, ‘All right, I am going to go full time and make this a thing,’” Starcher said. “He started to really work to find clients and contracts, so we could keep the lights on and hire more people.”

Since then, Multivarious has grown to six full-time employees, five of whom are Ohio State graduates, and around another six that work part-time.

Starcher said Multivarious wants to make Columbus into the “Silicon Valley of Gaming” and

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Coding sandbox and workspace at Multivarious, located at the Idea Foundry, where volunteers can come to work. plans to do so through their three main pillars of business.

The first is to create their own games that they can be proud of and would want to play. Multivarious has already released a mobile

game called, “Hatch-It!” and is currently working on its second project, “No Mercy,” an ambitious action-adventure game to be released to PC sometime in 2018.

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Wild Goose helps local artists shine

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Wild Goose operates out of its own space at 2491 Summit St. and is dedicated to facilitating art creation across a variety of mediums.

ISAAC KANE Lantern reporter kane.244@osu.edu Local gallery Wild Goose Creative is a space devoted to aspiring artists in Columbus, and since its inception 10 years ago, it has worked to bring the city’s art community closer together.

Founded by a group of volunteer art enthusiasts who wanted to promote creativity in the area, the group started out by setting up art galleries in homes and other spaces around Columbus.

A decade later, Wild Goose operates out of its own space at 2491 Summit St. and is still dedicated to facilitating art creation across a variety of mediums, providing resources and experiences for the Columbus creative community and connecting artists in its space, according to the Wild Goose mission statement.

Justin Johnston, executive director at Wild Goose, said the studio’s focus as a nonprofit is to enhance the local art scene and encourage artists in the area to pursue their dreams.

“We are an art gallery that features work from local emerging artists, all of the artists on our walls are local [and] a lot of our artists are showing and selling

their work for the first time,” Johnston said. “We are all about giving people their first big break in the art community.”

Each month, Wild Goose hosts a new gallery featuring the work of local artists. For the month of November, the organization will showcase “Winter Bones,” a collection of pieces put together by 11 different artists and inspired by Harrison Farm –– a farm located in Groveport, Ohio that is dedicated to connecting people and animals.

The series works to highlight the transition from fall to winter with the bones of animals featured in each piece.

In addition to showing art, Wild Goose uses its space for a variety of events and purposes throughout the year.

“Beyond just being a gallery, it is a production space for concerts, theater, poetry, writing and everything in between,” said Clara Davison, an intern at Wild Goose and a third-year in arts management.

“The space is for the community and by the community. It’s really for anyone with ideas to take a chance and see what happens since they have the freedom to do so there.”

For both Davison and Johnston, Wild Goose’s monthly Speak Easy is a must-see. On the first

Thursday evening of each month, a crowd gathers at Wild Goose to watch people tell their own stories, with each month centered around a different theme.

“It’s pretty much a live radio hour,” Davison said. “It’s a super local community event of people coming together that has been going on a while and you can really tell that people are into it.”

Some other events coming up includes the Best of the Underground on Nov. 17, a concert that features local and independent musicians.

In addition to the new gallery titled “Please Touch the Art” opening Dec. 2 –– which will feature only art that is meant to be touched –– there will be a cooking competition on Dec. 9, when two chefs will square off in a competition to see who can make the best food using only a hot plate.

Despite any change throughout the years, Davison said Wild Goose has maintained its founding mantra.

“It’s so small and local and very focused on the community,” Davison said. “All starting 10 years ago with a collection of volunteers who really wanted something and saw a need for that space, and it’s just continued to evolve from there and still stuck to its roots.”

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According to Multivarious’ website, “Hatch-It!” is a puzzle game about a brave little robot whose mission is to save unhatched baby dinosaurs before an asteroid hits Earth.

“We are super excited for [“No Mercy”] and are trying to make something that people have never seen before,” Starcher said. “It is taking the basic brawler mechanics and ideas and really testing what you can do with them.”

Starcher said the company wants to create games for clients that can be used to change the world with video-game technology. One of these projects works to help kids with muscular dystrophy through the therapy apps for Nationwide Children’s Hospital using Microsoft Kinect.

“Instead of [the kids] getting poked, prodded and measured to see how far they can reach, they get to play a game,” Starcher said. “Since we started it has been localized to seven different languages and shipped around the world.”

Multivarious’ final pillar is to build a community for video-game development in Columbus and the Midwest.

“If you ask anyone outside of Columbus, they do not think of us as a creative hotspot. I’d like to change that.”

Chris Volpe Multivarious CEO and president

Multivarious hosts gaming communities and holds events, such as the Game Development Expo, to advance the role that Columbus plays in the gaming development community.

GDEX, which Starcher considers “Sundance [film festival] for video games,” began as a way to highlight all of the independent games that were being

made in Columbus, but started to grow, Starcher said.

“We need some way to showcase all of these awesome little indie games that Ohio was making and then it kind of grew,” Starcher said. “This is Columbus games, now it’s Ohio games, now it’s Midwest games and now it is games from all across the nation.”

Colleges play a large role in what GDEX does. “The largest sponsor every year for GDEX is higher education,” he said.

Columbus State University and Shawnee State University are the biggest supporters.

Columbus State sponsored DevDay, a day for development workshops, and Shawnee State sponsors the DevDay after-party, Starcher said.

Despite its close connection to Columbus, Ohio State, as an institution, does not participate in GDEX, but several student organizations participate, Starcher added.

Volpe wishes a larger connection could be made and sees the potential in getting Ohio State more involved.

“At GDEX, Ohio University shows up in full force, Columbus State shows up in full force, Miami and Shawnee State, they show up [and] have student projects there,” Volpe said. “They see it as an opportunity to have boots on the ground [and] practical experience, but look who didn’t show up.”

Besides GDEX, Multivarious and Ohio State do have a relationship and have worked together before, Volpe said.

Overall, Volpe said he likes what Multivarious has become, and is excited to see where the company will go from here.

“I like that Multivarious is a strange, creative house that works on a lot of different projects,” Volpe said. “If you ask anyone outside of Columbus, they do not think of us as a creative hotspot. I’d like to change that.”

On the cuff of love?

MAGGIE JONES Lantern reporter jones.5382@osu.edu Now that we’re on the verge of winter, students are itching to settle down. Hold onto your seats partners, it’s cuffing season.

Cuffing — a derivative of handcuffing — is a term used to describe the inclination for singles to be more likely to look for a relationship in the winter months rather than in spring and summer.

“It’s a human need to have intimacy, and so during the winter months you are less likely to be willing to go out and meet someone,” said Claire Kamp Dush, an associate professor of human sciences and a romantic relationship expert. “It’s a way to have intimacy over the winter months, but have it take less effort.”

Zawwar Khan, a fourth-year in mechanical engineering, first heard the term in 2013 after hearing the song “Cuffin’ Season” by rapper Fabolous. For Khan, the meaning behind the term implies a shortlived relationship.

“Cuffs are never backed up to be longterm feelings, it’s just a way to be tied down for a few months,” Khan said. “A cuff is nothing but a short-term relation-

ship that can be used as an excuse to not go out during those chilly winter weekend nights.”

In 2015, the dating app Hinge polled 1,000 active users and found that men are 15 percent more likely to be looking for a relationship in the winter over any other season, whereas women are 5 percent more interested in a more committed relationship during those months.

Despite obvious drawbacks of entering a relationship that might have an expiration date by spring, there are benefits of settling down over the winter in comparison to having various summer flings. Kamp Dush said being in a consistent relationship provides better social support that individuals need.

“One of the developmental parts of adulthood is finding and forming satisfying intimate relationships, and to get to that you need to have satisfying relationship experiences,” Kamp Dush said. “If you are constantly having short-term relationships ... you are not learning what you were really looking for in a partner.”

While long-term relationships can be a possible outcome, Khan understands the possible fallout from these winter tendencies.

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“People quickly forget about all of the partying and fun they had over the summer, and they just need someone to snuggle up with and watch Netflix,” Khan said. “If this is only a short-term feeling, that will quickly fade as April rolls around, that’s when you have become a victim of cuffing season.”

While having a cuff is neither bad nor good in comparison to other types of re-

lationships, Kamp Dush urges — as with any romantic relationship — students be respectful of their partner through truthful conversation about relationship intentions.

“One thing I would suggest is being open and honest about what your expectations for this relationship are,” Kamp Dush said.

“Ideally, finding someone that shares those expectations. You could be surprised and it could be the start of something great.”

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Ohio State freshman running back J.K. Dobbins (2) sets up on the line of scrimmage prior to a snap in the second quarter of the Ohio State-Iowa game on Nov. 4. The Buckeyes lost 55-24.

had no idea the total number of carries Dobbins had until he was told because he is a “big-picture guy” and was focused on “getting the offense going.”

Dobbins, who leads the team with 119 carries for 914 yards (7.7 yards per carry), carried the ball four times for 50 yards in the first quarter against the Nittany Lions, then did not touch the ball again until the third quarter.

In the Buckeyes’ 55-24 loss to Iowa, the issue resurfaced as Dobbins had four carries for 45 yards in the first quarter, but

finished the game with just six carries for 51 yards. On Monday, Meyer admitted the coaches discuss running back carry counts and said he believes the star freshman deserves more touches.

“We have conversation about it,” Meyer said. “If there’s a huge disparity between — I think, Mike’s playing hard. I think J.K. is our starter, had a couple of nice runs. Those are things we talk about. But once again I think coach Alford does a nice job. He should have more than six carries, but we got behind and started throwing it a lot.”

Dobbins’ usage against Iowa and inconsistent playing time against Penn State come in stark contrast to his high carry counts at the beginning of the year. Starting in his first-ever collegiate game due to redshirt sophomore running back Mike Weber’s injury, the freshman totalled 29 carries for 181 yards, more carries and yards than both Weber or former Ohio State running back Ezekiel Elliott in their first seasons of eligibility.

In six of the next seven games, Dobbins received between 12 and 14 carries. He has not rushed for less than 5.5 yards per carry in a single game.

“I want to wear him out,” Meyer said on Oct. 11 following Dobbins’ 13-rush, 96yard performance against Maryland. “Seriously, I want to wear him out.”

That has not happened. In contrast, Ohio State fans have worn themselves out yelling for Dobbins to get more carries.

This is not the first time Ohio State’s star skill position player has not consistently re-

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ceived touches. On nearly every occasion, quarterback J.T. Barrett has tallied more carries than the running back or H-back.

While Dobbins had just six carries against Iowa, Barrett rushed the ball 14 times for 72 yards, averaging four yards less per carry than the freshman.

In Ohio State’s loss to Oklahoma earlier this season, Barrett had 18 carries for 66 yards while Dobbins took 13 carries 72 yards. In the loss to Penn State last year, Barrett had 17 carries for 26 yards while former H-back Curtis Samuel had two rushes for 71 yards and caught six passes for 68 yards. In a 2015 loss to Michigan State, Barrett rushed 15 times for 44 yards while Elliott had 12 carries for 33 yards.

Like many other teams during Barrett’s tenure as Ohio State’s quarterback, Iowa focused on keeping the ball out of the running back’s hand and forcing the dual-threat to beat them on the ground. Meyer said he and the offensive coaching staff must figure out how to improve the game plan to get more handoffs to the running backs.

“A lot of times when you’re struggling, [Barrett running is] your kind of get-outof-jail-free card,” Meyer said.

But Barrett’s increased runs have not got the Buckeyes out of jail. Instead, they take the ball out of the more dynamic playmaker and give it to Barrett who, despite being a dual-threat quarterback, averages 2.6 less rush yards per carry than Dobbins.

Meyer said he prefers his quarterbacks to run between eight and 12 times per game, and noted he does not want Barrett to run

as much. However, he also said he and the assistant coaches have talked about whether Ohio State has passed the ball too much in favor of trying to focus on improving the aerial attack, which struggled early in the season.

“We discussed that as well,” Meyer said. “Really through about a six-game run there, we were a nice balance as far as run-pass ratio, throwing for a little bit more than we have. But, yeah, that’s much different makeup right now than when we were a heavy, heavy — used to be about a 70 percent run. It’s about 65 [percent run], about 55/45 now.”

Ohio State has rushed the ball on just 52.2 percent of its plays this season. Last season, the Buckeyes rushed the ball on 58.8 percent of offensive plays. In Meyer’s four prior seasons, his teams did not run the ball on less than 62.8 percent of its plays.

Since Meyer wants less quarterback runs and has considered whether Ohio State has become too pass-happy, only one antidote exists: increased running back carries.

It should be an easy change. All Ohio State must do is hand the ball to one of its most explosive skill position players. Yet Meyer has dealt with this issue in years prior and it continues to surface.

The time to “micromanage” Dobbins’ carries is not now. It was before Iowa embarrassed Ohio State and eliminated it from playoff contention.

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MEAD FROM 8

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Current Ohio State freshman wrestler Brakan Mead has his hand raised by a referee while wearing an OSU singlet as a child.

125-pound class.

Mead’s personality almost seems to eclipse his size. Confidence is not an issue for Mead, Marinelli said.

“He’s 6-foot-8,” he said. “He’s 6-foot-8, 350 pounds and he can move the jive. He’s got lots of confidence and he’s great.”

Marinelli spoke of Mead like a family member. He first knew what he had in his gym during

Mead’s freshman year, when he saw Mead’s attitude while wrestling larger opponents who were more skilled. He said Mead always believes he’s going to win, regardless of who he is facing.

His greatest test is yet to come.

“Ohio State is so good in wrestling right now. You have to be a great wrestler just to be on the team,” Marinelli said. “Right now, all the stars are aligning the

way he wants them to and he’s taken advantage of it.”

One could wonder whether anyone in Mead’s position could truly be ready for what is to come in the next two months before Tomasello’s return from injury.

Mead does not wonder.

“I never have a doubt about that,” Mead said. “I think that I’m ready to go. I think that the team and the staff believes that I’m

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sought to accomplish when it began the year. Players, coaches, media and fans all set the expectation level for the Buckeyes to win a championship. Despite the fact Meyer has won just one Big Ten title in his six-year tenure at Ohio State, winning the Big Ten is tertiary to reaching the playoffs and winning a title.

If Ohio State wins the remainder of its three regular season games — against Michigan State, Illinois and Michigan — then it will travel to Indianapolis to presumably square off against the Wisconsin Badgers, who are one win from clinching the Big Ten West title.

For Meyer, the matchup against Michigan State is as far as he is looking ahead.

Just as it has for a large part of Meyer’s career in Columbus, the road to the Big Ten title game runs through that matchup.

“You still look at the standings and Ohio State and Michigan State are [first and second] in the Big Ten East,” Meyer said. “And everybody knows this game for the last, what’s our sixth year of playing them or something, usually it’s just a prizefight. So the tougher team usually wins. And we’ve got to understand what we’re going to play against.”

Even if Ohio State runs the table and captures Meyer’s second Big Ten championship, this season is lost for many.

And this year defines the end of an era.

The core group of players that led Ohio State to a national championship, two playoff appearances, a Big Ten title and another bowl game win will exit Ohio Stadium for the final time against Illinois, leaving the Buckeyes with a plethora of position battles heading into the next season.

With so many potentially drastic changes coming to Ohio State’s roster and the struggles this veteran team has faced thus far this season, it is fair to wonder whether Ohio State will be back in the mix next

season.

How will the team fare with a new quarterback under center and an offensive line replacing its two top linemen protecting him? What about a defensive line that could potentially lose four starters?

Those asking the questions might not want to admit it, but next season could prove less fruitful than this campaign.

It is going to be a young team replacing key contributors all over the field, and a learning curve will await. Those disappointed by the results in 2017 could be disappointed by 2018.

Perhaps the difference in expectation levels will lessen the blow of a down year for the Buckeyes. Knowing that the team is younger could make a title-less season easier to stomach.

The Buckeyes entered the 2017 season as the favorite to win the Big Ten and among those listed as most likely to win the national championship. That they will not achieve the latter is a devastating blow and the former would be only a mere consolation prize. Though it is still early, the Buckeyes do not appear to be in a position to be named the early favorite to win the Big Ten or national championship next year.

To many outside the program, the season is over. To those inside the program, the season is still alive and well. There will be no talk of the 2018 season until the clock in that meaningless bowl game ticks down to zero.

“Where is the program headed?” Meyer asked. “That’s kind of deep. We’re playing Michigan State this week. We gotta really practice well and fix the turnover issue on offense and play a little better on defense. Kicking was much better.”

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ready to go. I know me and my support system believe that I’m ready to go. I’m just going to go and compete.”

On top of the support system that includes his family and coaches, there is another person that will be happy to supply Mead with guidance. That person is Tomasello.

Tomasello is a former national champion. He’s a three-time All-American and individual Big Ten champion. He’s competed internationally. For now, he can’t be much more than a coach to Mead.

“Each practice, if I see something, I’m going to point it out to him,” Tomasello said. “I feel like we have a pretty good relationship now so when we go to tournaments, I’m going to try to go to as many tournaments as I can when I’m not wrestling.”

Ryan praised Tomasello’s leadership as a captain. Mead is a possible replacement for Tomasello when the decorated senior graduates. The freshman called Tomasello “unreal” and cited his tendencies to live right and lead by example as reasons why he looks up to the NCAA champion.

“Nate has helped me out,” Mead said. “He’s helped me be a better person and he’s helped me be a better wrestler in a really short time since I’ve been here. I owe a lot to him.”

With Ohio State and Mead’s first dual meet against Arizona State n Columbus Sunday looming, it leaves one to wonder how the hometown freshman will

fare in his time filling in for the All-American.

“Anybody could go down at any time,” Ryan said. “You better be ready to knock the door down when it’s your chance.”

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Ohio State freshman running back J.K. Dobbins (2) runs the ball in the second quarter of the Ohio State-Iowa game on Nov. 4. The Buckeyes lost 55-24.

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Head coach Urban Meyer paces the sideline during the fourth quarter of the Ohio State-Iowa game on Nov. 4.

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EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu Ohio State will not win a national championship this season. It will not even reach the College Football Playoff.

The Buckeyes’ second loss of the season, a 55-24 blowout to Iowa Saturday, made sure of that.

As far as many Ohio State fans are con-

cerned, the 2017 campaign is effectively over. Quarterback J.T. Barrett’s Buckeye career will end in a meaningless bowl game, and the rest of the team will begin to look to next season.

So what’s next for Ohio State?

Head coach Urban Meyer said Monday that keeping the Buckeyes motivated with few remaining game in their schedule is something he has not considered too much.

“That’s something we work on not today,

that’s something we’ve been working on all year,” Meyer said. “And you try to get a close team that cares about each other and plays really hard. It’s not going to be some speech I give to the team. So it’s a process.

It’s a journey that we’re on. And there’s still plenty of things, great things ahead.”

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The Monday after No. 6 Ohio State’s 39-38 comeback win against Penn State in which freshman running back J.K. Dobbins took 13 carries for 88 yards, head coach Urban Meyer was adamant he would not “micromanage” which backs deserved carries.

Two days following the victory, Meyer said he deferred to running backs coach Tony Alford and co-offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson when determining who carries the ball. Two days after that, Wilson said Alford controlled carry counts and DOBBINS CONTINUES ON 6

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Ohio State freshman Brakan Mead won a high school state championship for Olentangy Liberty at 113 pounds after amassing a 45-4 record in his senior year.

A photo features a small child having his hand raised by referee while wearing a black singlet that reads “Buckeyes” on the chest and “OSU” over the left leg.

That child is Ohio State freshman wrestler Brakan Mead. That photo currently adorns the profile of Mead’s Twitter account.

“It was a dream my whole life and now it’s a reality,” Mead said.

On Oct. 8, All-American redshirt senior Nathan Tomasello sustained a right knee injury which will likely keep him out the first two months of the season. It left a gaping hole at the 125-pound class of the Buckeyes’ lineup, which is currently ranked second in the nation.

Enter Mead.

Ohio State’s reserves at 125 pounds consisted only of freshmen. On Oct. 19, Mead and Brady Koontz wrestled for the right to represent the loaded Buckeyes at the class. One fact might have given Mead an advantage.

The stands at the wrestle-offs

were filled with his family, friends and high-school coaches. Mead is a product of Olentangy Liberty High School, born and raised in Columbus. He pinned Koontz in the first match and won by points in the second. The 125-pound class belongs to the hometown kid, at least for now.

“It definitely means a lot espe-

“It was a dream my whole life and now it’s a reality. It definitely means a lot especially because I’m home.”

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cially because I’m home,” Mead said. “I know that all the matches, I’m going to have family there and coaching staffs from my past.”

Less than eight months ago, Mead was in high school. On March 11, he won a state championship at 113 pounds after amassing a 45-4 record during his senior season. That might be quite

the accomplishment, but Mead now wrestles alongside gifted athletes such as senior heavyweight Kyle Snyder, an Olympic gold medalist.

“We’re ranked No. 2 in the country right now, and I think it’s a really good feeling,” Mead said.

“But that’s part of it here. That’s why I’m here. I think that’s why everybody chose here. I think that’s the culture that we’ve built and that’s the atmosphere that’s been built by the guys that are in the lineup right now.”

Head coach Tom Ryan, who had to pull Mead’s redshirt in order for the freshman to compete this season, praised Mead’s character while acknowledging the daunting task that stands before him.

“There is nothing easy about what he’s trying to do,” Ryan said. “He has a monster undertaking. As a true freshman that was a lighter weight class coming in, it’ll be a real challenge for him.”

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