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Ohio State freshman shares her experience and advice on living with an eating disorder.

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Columbus photographer spotlights city’s east side residents in blackand-white book.

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Even in dark moments for Ohio State, the offensive line has been a bright spot.

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Mikael Torpegaard is back at Ohio State after deciding against going pro.

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Wexner Medical Center seeking new leader after six-month void OWEN DAUGHERTY Assistant Campus Editor daugherty.260@osu.edu After more than six months without someone at the helm of the Wexner Medical Center, Ohio State announced it would begin looking for a new leader of its growing health enterprise.

The medical center had record revenue margins in the past year despite CEO Sheldon Retchin stepping down following criticism from some of Ohio State’s top doctors.

Now, Ohio State is looking to build on the success of the medical center that continues to grow not only in physical size, but also in its impact on the university’s bottom line; the medical center made up 48 percent of Ohio State’s total budget in 2016 and topped $3 billion in revenue for the first time that year, according to recent Board of Trustees documents.

“All of those things that we are doing are working quite well,” University President Michael Drake said in an interview. “And we want those to continue. What [the new CEO] will help us do is to improve, which we always want to be improving. And we are

entering into a significant growth phase and we want somebody to manage us through that.”

“I think what we learned from the past is that we can do a better job in communicating and sharing ideas. There has been a great effort since the spring in doing that, so I think we have made great progress.”

Michael Drake Ohio State University President

The significant growth will be seen right away, because Ohio State continues to expand its medical center. The university is planning on upgrading its ambulance facilities and will build a new research facility, as well as even more updates to the existing hospital, according to Board documents.

The chancellor will be in charge of overseeing both the medical center hospital operations and the WEXNER CONTINUES ON 2

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Evan Johnson, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in physics, holds a sign in the Ohio Union Monday at a protest against the tax bill proposed by congressional Republicans.

‘This is not what we signed up for’ Students gather in protest of latest GOP tax bill KEVIN STANKIEWICZ Editor-in-Chief stankiewicz.16@osu.edu SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu For the past week, Kendra Dickinson has spent part of her morning contacting her elected officials — from Sens. Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown to congresswoman Joyce Beatty and President Donald Trump — to voice her opposition to congressional Republicans’ proposed tax bill.

In particular, Dickinson, a second-year doctoral candidate in Hispanic linguistics, takes issue with a

provision that would reclassify tuition waivers graduate students currently receive as income instead.

About five hours after Dickinson sent her messages Monday morning, she joined hundreds of people — mostly graduate students, professors and undergraduates — gathering on The Oval, and then later walking to the Ohio Union, to further protest the bill.

“If I had known that it would be this way I probably wouldn’t have even started graduate school,” Dickinson said. “This is not what we signed up for.

Had [this provision] been in place, that would’ve absolutely, 100 percent been a deterrent.”

Specifically, the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” would count stipends or covered tuition graduate students and doctoral candidates often receive from univerPROTEST CONTINUES ON 3

Ohio State researchers could prove vital in Hyperloop development JAKE RAHE Lantern reporter rahe.21@osu.edu Imagine commuting to class or work at Ohio State from Chicago in 29 minutes or Pittsburgh in 18.

With Hyperloop, it’s a possibility.

The Chicago-Columbus-Pittsburgh route was selected as one of 10 finalists of the Hyperloop One Global challenge in September. If selected as the winner among the finalists, Ohio State researchers could play a big role in its design and construction.

“My intention was to bring in the proper people ... that are knowledgeable on the topic,” said Carla Bailo, assistant vice president for mobility research and business development at Ohio State’s Office of Research and College of Engineering. “Whatever expertise would be needed.

Ohio State would help that in the actual deployment of the win.”

Hyperloop One is similar to a train in size, but it would fit inside a vacuum tube and reach

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The Chicago-Columbus-Pittsburgh route was selected as one of 10 winners of the Hyperloop One Global challenge in September. If selected as the winner among the finalists, Ohio State researchers could play a big role in its design and construction. speeds up to 671 miles per hour.

These speeds are reached through a combination of electric propulsion, magnetic levitation and ultra-low aerodynamic drag.

Ohio State has played a small

role in the idea stage so far, Bailo said. But she sees the potential of using university researchers and students and the benefits it would bring.

“For our region, for student

involvement, for faculty involvement, all of these things we can win in terms of challenges are only going to help our economy,” Bailo said. “It will help us to produce students who are top-notch

and ready to take on the challenges of tomorrow.”

Thea Walsh, director of transportation systems and funding for the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, was in charge of the initial proposal and the stages moving forward after the Chicago-Columbus-Pittsburgh route was selected as a finalist.

Walsh said she sees many opportunities and benefits in bringing Hyperloop to Columbus and Ohio State.

“If you have a job here, you could live in your hometown of Chicago, or if you live here, you could work in Chicago,” Walsh said. “It also means that people who don’t have access to the big cities like even Columbus may have a way to get in here to access this job market.”

Winning the global challenge does not mean Columbus is guaranteed to get a Hyperloop corridor, Walsh said. However, Hyperloop One will bring its sights to the city.

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It’s possible: OSU student reflects on eating disorder recovery ALEX ANDREWS Lantern reporter andrews.624@osu.edu Sheila Bradley is constantly thinking about her body: what it looks like, what she eats and how much she weighs.

“I think about it all day. It is on my mind. It’s always something I’m trying to fix,” Bradley, a firstyear in business, said.

Body image is something Bradley has struggled with since 10th grade. She was 30 pounds heavier than she is now and decided to get into shape, but her methods to do so went far beyond regular workouts and eating healthy.

Bradley put herself on a strict diet, to the point of starvation, for six out of seven days, and on the seventh day she would uncontrollably consume an excess amount of food, an act called binge-eating.

It wasn’t normal, but Bradley said she didn’t realize it was a real problem until her senior year of high school.

“It started out with good purpose and good intent and I kept getting skinnier,” she said. “I kept restricting my food and I would work out for two hours a day no matter what.”

Bradley said her calorically restricted diet led to the binge eating she couldn’t control. At her lowest point, for six days she

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Sheila Bradley, a first-year in business, has been struggling with body image since she was in 10th grade. Over the past three years, Bradley has turned to her faith as a guiding light towards recovery from her eating disorder. would starve herself while looking forward to the seventh, when she would allow herself to eat.

Eating disorders affect the lives of people each day. The illnesses can include, but are not limited to, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder.

Studies show the disorders are common among college students.

In a study done on 289,024 students from 223 U.S. colleges and universities in 2015, it was discovered that, in the past month of when the study was conducted, roughly 8 percent of the students

had taken dieting pills, misused laxatives, induced vomiting or had been medically diagnosed with an eating disorder.

Mary Kiacz, the medical director of the Student Health Center, works with Ohio State’s Eating Disorder Treatment Team and has been working with students suffering from eating disorders for 35 years.

“It is a huge problem at Ohio State,” Kiacz said. “It always has been.”

Kiacz said when students are diagnosed and treated in high

school, they come to college thinking they have control over their illness, but they actually do not.

“All those controls they had at home aren’t there anymore, so they have to go into the common eating areas and make choices,” Kiacz said. “It’s very overwhelming.”

There are many steps Ohio State students can take if they are afraid they have an eating disorder.

The university’s Counseling and Consultation Service is one

resource that includes nutritional counseling, individual and group therapy for students. The Ohio State EDT is made up of health-care professionals across the multiple health services that the university offers to help with treatment and support for suffering students.

Bradley has had some professional help, but relies mostly on her faith to help guide her.

She grew up as a Catholic, but went mostly on her family’s agenda. She decided to switch churches when she was in high school and commit to the religion fully.

“I decided I was going to redo it, like, I was going to restart everything, I was going to re-accept God into my life,” Bradley said.

“Just because I wanted to do it, not because my parents made me do it.

She also made the decision to become vegan, which she said has actually helped free her mind when it comes to thinking about food.

“There’s so much more to life than thinking about what you are eating,” Bradley said. “Even before you start struggling, just don’t even start. Don’t even diet.

It doesn’t matter. Life is not about that.”

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College of Medicine.

The official term for the new role is chancellor. But, Drake said the duties are the same as the ones Retchin, who held the title of CEO of the medical center, had before, with a modernized and more streamlined job description.

Drake said the person selected would also have the same wide-ranging responsibilities as Retchin, who also was the executive vice president of health sciences before resigning in May. “It’s called different things in different places,” Drake said in reference to the chancellor title.

“We’re just wanting to make sure that we capture the size of our health science enterprise. That was the reason for the [name] change.”

Executive search firm Witt Kieffer was hired to undergo a national search for the chancellor.

Ohio State has used the search firm several times to help fill top job openings, most recently using the firm to find Susan Basso, the university’s senior vice president of human resources.

Drake said an advisory committee at Ohio State, made up primarily of faculty, will narrow down finalists along with the search firm in what he called a “robust process.”

The lengthy search will take months, Drake said. He expects to make a hire by the end of the summer, but said it might take longer.

“The most important thing is that we get the right person,” he said.

Whomever that right person is, they will be tasked with continuing the upward trajectory of the medical center and mending any lingering divides between senior leadership and top medical talent.

Five months after Retchin stepped down as his leadership was being questioned in a series of letters by more than 25 doctors and department chairs in May, one of the signees, Dr. Ali Rezai, left the medical center to join former Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee at West Virginia University’s growing medical facility.

The letters stated Retchin’s leadership caused top Ohio State faculty to leave and several key positions to go unfilled.

Rezai was the head of Wexner Medical Center’s Neurological Institute. He marked the sixth prominent figure Gee has pulled from Ohio State to West Virginia.

But Drake said he and medical center leadership learned a thing or two from the apparent divide that ultimately led to Retchin’s resignation.

“That was an interesting disconnect. The data are the data,” he said, pointing to positive metrics across the board for the medical center under Retchin’s guidance.

“But we also want to make sure that people are working well together and are feeling that. I think what we learned from the

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Two medical center employees walk past wall art containing the names of people and businesses who have donated to the hospital in the building’s main lobby. past is that we can do a better job in communicating and sharing ideas. There has been a great effort since the spring in doing that, so I think we have made great progress.”

Ohio State is developing a plan to increase faculty engagement in the medical center, according to November medical center Board of Trustees documents.

Drake, a former ophthalmology professor at University of California, San Francisco, who later became the vice president for health affairs for the University of California system, has frequently been lauded for the increased role and leadership he has taken on with the Wexner Medical Center.

His oversight of the center during its unprecedented success was cited by the Board as a reason for his performance bonus earlier this month.

Drake said he is looking forward to the new hire alleviating some of the added responsibility he has had in the past year.

“It has taken a little bit more of my time,” he said. “I get up very happy with the way things are working. But one of the things that this position will do is honestly relieve a little bit more of my time because we have other things we need to focus on as well.”

Whoever ends up taking the new position will have to work with an existing administra-

tion staff made up by some of Retchin’s most noteworthy hires.

One of them, Craig Kent, dean of the College of Medicine, was also named in the letters from doctors that asserted Retchin created division between the cancer center and medical college.

Other Retchin hires include CFO Mark Larmore and COO David McQuaid, who currently runs the operations of the hospital in Retchin’s absence.

Soon, they will all report to a new boss, one who will shape Ohio State’s impact in the field of medicine and its medical center’s growing footprint for the foreseeable future.

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sities for teaching or conducting research during their tenure as taxable income. Currently, the government only taxes a student’s stipend, not their waived tuition.

The average salary for a graduate research assistant is less than $30,000, according to a Vox article.

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, about 55 percent of all graduate students had adjusted gross incomes of $20,000 or less and nearly 87 percent reported incomes of $50,000 or less.

“I think it’s abhorrent that the same tax plan would decrease taxes on the rich and the corporations to the detriment of graduate students who are individual human beings making a basic living for taking classes, teaching classes that no other instructor wants to teach and that we’re expected to do research and be productive scholars with a minimal salary.”

Kendra Dickinson Second-year doctoral candidate in Hispanic linguistics

In Dickinson’s case, she said she makes a little less than $17,000 per year with her research and teaching stipend while she receives a tuition waiver of

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Maxwell Holden, a first-year graduate student in the master’s of fine arts program, holds a sign while he protests the Congressional Republicans’ tax bill Monday. about $33,000. If the bill passed, she said instead of falling into the 14 percent tax bracket, her new “income” of about 50,000 would be taxed at about 20 percent.

If passed, the bill could cost students — on average — up to an additional $2,000 each year, according to the Vox article.

At Ohio State there are 10,708 master’s students and 3,219 postbaccalaureate professional students across all campuses. More than 4,300 students receive nontaxable tuition waivers currently, according to a letter released Monday by University President Michael Drake.

For in-state students, graduate and professional school costs $31,093 each year; for out-ofstate students, it costs $52,561.

In the letter, Drake urged Congress to reconsider the bill’s provisions specifically affecting stu-

dents.

“As you continue to work on H.R. 1, the ‘Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,’ I wanted to express concern over provisions that will have negative consequences for students, families and Ohioans who rely on research universities for undergraduate and graduate education …”

“Without this provision in place, these students will be subject to a major tax increase, making it difficult for universities to recruit them and thus hindering our research and innovation mission.”

Noah Charles has been interested in physics since he got his first Isaac Newton book when he was 10 years old. He is one of the many students at Ohio State who would be affected by the tax increase.

To Charles, a fourth-year grad-

uate student in physics, becoming a physicist is “all that I ever thought that I was going to do.”

Now, a teacher and researcher at the university, he worries his full potential in academia won’t be met should the bill pass because he would no longer be able to afford his schooling. The House is expected to vote for the bill Thursday while the final version of the Senate’s bill is still underway.

“I think that graduate student education would change forever if this bill passes,” he said. “I will personally be devastated because I will have to leave [Ohio State].

I don’t want to do that. I love the research that I do and really like the teaching that I do.”

He said the cost of school would be too much for him to continue his research, which would be detrimental in his post-graduation

many challenges to overcome in creating and deploying a new technology.

ting edge of something new,” she said. “That doesn’t mean you sit here and wait for it to get done.

You got to help be a part of the process, which is very cool for me and my team. We are excited about that.”

Walsh believes colleges and students can play a large role in bringing the Hyperloop to the region, and some have already contributed to pod design and innovation.

“The whole corridor has this

wealth of knowledge of young people that wants to contribute to the process,” Walsh said. “I feel like that is part of our future too, is really tapping into what these groups are doing in terms of innovation and pod design.”

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“Winning means that they are going to be spending their resources as far as people power and possibly even funding to determine if this is the location they want to put up a corridor,” Walsh said. “I don’t think it guarantees us a future with Hyperloop, but it guarantees their undivided attention moving forward.”

Hyperloop would open the door to create a mega-region concept where resources from varying areas can be spread easily.

“When you have that kind of speed to move place to place, your place in general becomes bigger,” Walsh said.

Hyperloop would transport materials, products and food quicker, Walsh added. Food transportation would be extremely beneficial to regions that are considered food deserts along the Midwestern corridor.

Walsh added there are still

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“The whole corridor has this wealth of knowledge of young people that wants to contribute to the process. I feel like that is part of our future too, is really tapping into what these groups are doing in terms of innovation and pod design.”

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“I afford grad school right now in the way that many of us do — by pinching pennies,” he said.

“If I graduate too early it would significantly hamper my job prospects in the years to come. I still have things I want to do while I’m here.”

He said the bill’s creation implies the GOP does not think graduate students are important, “and funding tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy is much more important.”

Dickinson added: “I think it’s abhorrent that the same tax plan would decrease taxes on the rich and the corporations to the detriment of graduate students who are individual human beings making a basic living for taking classes, teaching classes that no other instructor wants to teach and that we’re expected to do research and be productive scholars with a minimal salary.”

When the nearly 90-minute protest ended at the Union, with chants of “Money for jobs and education, not war and deportation” ringing, the crowd started to disperse. Some lingered to ask about additional action they could take, and, like Sarah Little, some signed petitions.

Then, they had to get back to work. For Little, a second-year doctoral candidate in Hispanic linguistics, that meant studying for an exam in her introduction to audiology class; grading papers for the Spanish 1102 course she teaches; preparing for the oral exams she is administering Tuesday; and, if she has time, continue analyzing data for a final research project.

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Local photographer captures the narrative of Columbus’ east side SYDNEY RIDDLE Lantern reporter riddle.136@osu.edu

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Zane Osler moved to the East side of Columbus a year and a half ago. Here he was inspired to create “The East Side,” a book featuring portraits of people within the King-Lincoln District.

Zane Osler has taken photos around the world in astounding places like Fiji and Barcelona, but it wasn’t until he moved to the east side of Columbus that he created his most meaningful body of work.

For the past year and a half, Osler has been working on “The East Side,” a book of black-and-white street photography portraits taken of people in their day-to-day lives from the King-Lincoln District, a neighborhood Osler felt was underrepresented in the Columbus area.

“When people think about Columbus they think about the Short North. They think about Grandview. They think about German Village,” Osler said. “When I moved here, I started interacting with the people and children from this neighborhood and I realized how special this place was.”

Osler said the project began a week after moving in, when he befriended a group of neighborhood kids. He started photographing them playing outside and quickly realized the potential of what he was shooting. He started walking the streets in search of new people to meet and narratives to capture.

Osler said he was immediately touched by the culture of his neighborhood, and as he began compiling the portraits of the people he met, he wanted to share their stories in a way that would live forever.

“At first I wanted to do maybe a gallery show or an exhibition and then I realized the work was too important and I thought it needed to be in a place that is not ephemeral,” he said. “It needs to live in a book. It’s the story of our neighborhood.”

Osler described street photography as making ordinary moments in people’s lives extraordinary.

He said the ultimate reward of taking these photos has been the relationships he has formed and being able to provide his community with something meaningful.

“They provided me with some of the best photographs I’ve ever taken. In return, I get to show them and their neighborhood in a way they want to be shown.”

Zane Osler “The East Side” creator and photographer

After spending time with the neighborhood children, playing football and “just doing kid things,” Osler said he was able to take those moments and turn them into a physical memory for the kids.

Osler said it’s not just about taking a cool photo, but being able to establish a relationship that’s mutually benefiting.

“I never want to be the only one walking away with something,” he said. “They provided me with some of the best photographs I’ve ever taken. In return, I get to show them and their neighborhood in a way they want to be shown.”

The book is set to be released Dec. 2. Osler said he’s nervous for the fast approaching deadline but excited to finally present his book to the public, which will be available at Madison-USA — a store in the Short North where he also works as the lead photographer and stylist — as well as his website.

“People take cool pictures everyday, but I’m the only person shooting what I’m shooting, which is an incredible honor,” Osler said. “This is a small gesture I can do to memorialize this amazing place that has had a profound impact on my work.”

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Columbus improv group merges performance and life what really matters in life, I knew it wasn’t a bunch of stuff.”

That journey provided inspiration for Jekic and her husband, Mark Lancia, to write “Money for Meaning: Philosophy for a Life of Extraordinary Freedom.” The passionate duo teaches their readers the concept of trading consumption and distractions for a life of meaningful living.

“Improv is about saying ‘yes, and’ instead of ‘but.’”

Mihaela Jekic Duets improv group artist

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Sassy Do Improv is an all-female subgroup within the Columbus Unscripted improv community and focuses on women and those who identify as female to support female empowerment.

MAGGIE JONES Lantern reporter jones.5382@osu.edu To be quick on your toes through the practice of improvisation is one thing; to be able to apply these practices to everyday life is another. This weekend, one Columbus performance group is merging the two in a single-day workshop.

Sassy Do Improv will host “Sassy Do and YOU The Fusion of Improv and Leadership” at Wild Goose Creative on Saturday. The event is open to all and will feature performances, a layout of the process of improvisation, and how the practical exercise of improv applies to real-life experiences.

Founded in 2013, Sassy Do Improv is an all-female subgroup within the Columbus Unscripted improv community. As the largest of its kind in Columbus, the group focus-

es on women and those who identify as female to support female empowerment.

“Improv is this beautiful process that can help people take risks to have a chance to play [and] to extend their learning in a safe space,” said Barbara Allen, co-artistic director of Sassy Do Improv. “Trusting that what you do is right and that others will be there to support you … whether it’s performance or in life. It’s a real transferable experience.”

During the workshop, Mihaela Jekic, an improv artist from the Duets improv group and Ohio State alumna, will speak about her journey growing up during the Bosnian War and how that time led her to an improvised life.

“I had a normal childhood like most people, and then one day, almost overnight, my life changed. The war started and my family lost all of our possessions and became refugees,” Jekic said. “Through the chaos of war we had to improvise … it radically changed my philosophy about

“The foundation of our beliefs is where it all starts,” Lancia said. “When we don’t know what we want to do in life and it’s really easy to go with the flow and kind of do what everyone else is doing. We do that, we get average results. We have to take space and quiet time to figure out what is meaningful in our hearts, what resonates with us [and] what our passion is.”

Although Jekic and Lancia were both engineering majors at Ohio State, life took a different direction and the two found a lot of crossover between the principles outlined in improv and those in their book.

“Improv is about saying ‘yes, and’ instead of ‘but,’” Jekic said. “So many of us do what everyone else is doing when we come across new information. We look for reasons why we can’t or why life is so hard, but that concept of openness to new possibilities I feel is very really a connecting point between our work and improv.”

For Allen, the improvisation principles of being present in the moment and flexible have long applied on-stage as well as off it.

“We are all improvisers every day,” Allen said. “It’s hard because we are all so busy in life, but to decide that we’re really just going to enjoy this moment together, because it will never be this again. The ephemeral nature of improv is precious.”

“Sassy Do and YOU The Fusion of Improv and Leadership” will be held at Wild Goose Creative at 2491 Summit Street from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $20 via Eventbrite or at the door and includes snacks and drinks.

Ohio State alumnus lands role in feature film ALYSSA JACOBS For The Lantern jacobs.971@osu.edu An Ohio State alumnus has landed a role in the upcoming feature film, “Alan and the Fullness of Time.”

Columbus-native Rich Lewis will star as NIA Agent Ettes in the faith-based drama/thriller about a young boy’s struggle with what he’s meant to do, and the evils at work to stop him and his circle of close believers. Lewis’ character is one of the lead agents working against the boy.

“It’s really a culmination of a good story and working with people that you like.”

Chase Crawford “Alan and the Fullness of Time” producer

Rich Lewis prepares to take on his role in Alan and the Fullness of Time.

While at Ohio State, Lewis studied diagnostic radiography, but took to acting after falling in love with it in an introductory theater class, where he discovered his passion.

“I was having a lot of fun with

it and the professor recognized that,” Lewis said.

After graduation, Lewis worked in radiography technology at Grant Medical Center in Columbus for a year before taking on more creative endeavors in

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acting. Lewis said his experiences at Ohio State, as well as the diverse culture it offered, were reasons for his success.

“It’s really helped me to be more open because you have to be open in this line of work … It

helps you get better with people on set,” Lewis said.

The film is written and directed

by Markus-Charles Cook, a director of more than 10 films and son of the film’s executive producers, Cheryl and Jeffrey Cook. “Alan

and the Fullness of Time” will be the Cook’s first feature film.

Cheryl Cook said the production team chose to film in the Cincinnati area for a few reasons.

“It is [our] hometown and it’s also a growing area for filmmaking,” she said. “The community has been very supportive, and excited, I think, about the filmmaking process.”

The film is also being produced

by Chase Crawford, an Ohio native and University of Cincinnati graduate who doubles as an actor.

Crawford has appeared in shows such as “House of Cards” and “Empire,” as well as numerous independent films.

For Crawford, producing the film allows him to create a meaningful work alongside his friends.

“I mean I’m really excited.

This is a really good story and I get to work with a lot of people that are my friends,” Crawford said. “Markus has brought a lot of people on that he went to school with and that he’s friends with, too. It’s really a culmination of a good story and working with people that you like.”

“Alan and the Fullness of Time” will begin production this month in the Cincinnati area with an anticipated release date in late 2018.

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Playoff destiny out of Ohio State’s hands COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu

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Urban Meyer prepares to lead the buckeyes out on to the field prior to the Ohio State-Penn State game on Oct. 28.

Ohio State won 39-38.

Just a few weeks ago, then-No. 6 Ohio State (8-2, 6-1 Big Ten) seemed in prime position to slide into one of the four College Football Playoff spots. It had the potential to finish the season with a single loss and a Big Ten championship. No team with that resume has been left out since the playoff was created.

Then the Buckeyes played Iowa on Nov. 4, and everything changed. The Hawkeyes blindsided them, decimating Ohio State, 55-24.

All playoff talk ended. The discussion turned to how the Buckeyes, a team loaded with a decorated quarterback and a talented corps of players featuring mostly former four-star and five-star recruits, could lose to an Iowa team that lost to Northwestern.

But after taking down Michigan State 48-3 Saturday afternoon, the playoff optimism began to seep back into the minds of Ohio State fans. No two-loss team has ever made the playoff. Even last year, a two-loss Penn State

— which had a similar resume to Ohio State’s this season — was left out.

If the Buckeyes beat Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and defeat Wisconsin in the Big Ten championship, they would have a solid crop of victories.

But head coach Urban Meyer is determined to quash all playoff discussion.

“There will be zero conversation around here, especially when you guys talk to the players,” Meyer said. “There will be zero conversation about what happened before and what’s going to happen in the future. Zero.”

Whether Ohio State’s players and coaches discuss the playoff does not matter. They are at the mercy of the teams ahead of them in the rankings. They need certain teams to lose to even have a chance at being chosen for a spot by the selection committee.

If, for example, No. 1 Georgia, which lost to Auburn Saturday, defeats No. 2 Alabama in the SEC championship game, Miami or Clemson win the ACC championship game and Oklahoma wins the Big 12 championship, a twoloss Ohio State team would likely

be left out even if it wins its final two regular-season games and the Big Ten title.

Some Ohio State players, including sophomore defensive end Nick Bosa, have let their minds wander about what the season would look like had the team not lost twice, putting the fate of the playoff out of its control.

“Yeah, I mean, I sometimes do that, but the older guys tell me to focus on what’s at hand and I know that’s the most important thing,” Bosa said after Saturday’s game. “So we’re focusing on obviously what’s in front of us right now.”

For Ohio State, right now, the most important thing is to beat Illinois and Michigan and win the conference championship. Without winning those three games, playoff hopes — which, even now, seem somewhat far-fetched — would finally, mercifully dissipate.

Prior to the Michigan State game, Ohio State had a team meeting and addressed the Big Ten standings, redshirt junior defensive end Sam Hubbard said.

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Ke-Shawn Hayes bouncing back after knee injury ANDY ANDERS Lantern reporter anders.83@osu.edu Following Ohio State’s Nov. 22 dual meet against Kent State last season, wrestler Ke-Shawn Hayes was back home in Kansas City, Missouri, training over Thanksgiving break when his breakout season was stopped dead in its tracks.

“I went to hit a move on bottom, and [my knee] popped real loud,” Hayes said. “Then I couldn’t stand up.”

The pop Hayes felt resulted in season-ending knee surgery with an injury that could possibly be traced back to a few months prior.

“I think it first happened the end of my redshirt year,” Hayes said. “There was just kind of, like a pop but it wasn’t that bad. I was still wrestling and stuff.”

Hayes, a former top-20 overall recruit, was rated as one of the nation’s 15 best wrestlers at the 141-pound weight class entering the 2016-2017 season.

Hayes began the season with a 5-1 record, including two wins by technical fall and one by pin.

His lone loss was to the second-ranked Kevin Jack.

“I thought [Hayes] could have won the nationals,” Ohio State wrestling head coach Tom Ryan said.

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Ohio State wrestler Ke-Shawn Hayes rolled into the 2016-2017 season fresh off a 29-1 unattached record in his redshirt campaign.

Learning his season was over soon after it began was a tough blow for Hayes.

“It was heartbreaking. I’ve always felt because I came in at 141 after Logan [Stieber], I always kind of felt that pressure of taking over for one of the best college wrestlers in history,” Hayes said.

“I thought [Hayes] could have won the nationals.”

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guard Branden Bowen, who was making the transition from offensive tackle and had never held a starting role.

But as the season went on, the line began to settle and gel. Even as the unit started to click, questions about the depth persisted. The coaches voiced concerns about the ability for someone to step up should an offensive linemen be injures.

Then just as the line seemed to be hitting its stride, it was dealt a blow with the loss of Bowen, who broke his leg against Maryland. Knox, who replaced Bowen, has helped provide some stability to the right of Price.

“Bowen got hurt and Demetrius Knox came in and graded a champion again. I think that’s three games that he’s graded at champion,” Meyer said Monday.

The depth is still not where Ohio State would like it, Meyer said. Even though Knox has filled in admirably, further injuries could prove detrimental to the team’s success moving down the line. Against Iowa, when left tackle Jamarco Jones was down on the field with an injury and had to leave for a play, redshirt sophomore Joshua Alabi came in and was immediately target-

ed by the Hawkeye pass rush.

As for the production of the starters, the line appears to be clicking just as the Buckeyes prepare for matchups against Illinois and Michigan, which has the nation’s No. 9 rush defense. And should the Buckeyes advance to the Big Ten championship game and face Wisconsin, they will square off against the top-ranked rush defense in the league.

“I think [offensive line coach Greg Studrawa’s] done a wonderful job with them. I think the intentions and the intensity is there, the intentional work that they have at practice each week, it’s been good, and we are down to our sixth guy [Knox],” Meyer said. “We’re moving in the right direction.”

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win this game, we’re two spots ahead in the Big Ten East and that was our focus,” Hubbard said after Saturday’s game. “We needed to win this game and our laser lights were on what we needed to do to win this game.”

Now in the driver’s seat of the Big Ten East, the plan is simple: Beat Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, and beat them by as many points as possible. Style points matter to the selection committee, which picks the four best teams, not the four teams with the least losses.

Sure, Ohio State needs help with higher-ranked teams losing. But in the meantime it can help itself by winning its final

games — including the Big Ten championship — by large margins, just as it did down the stretch of the 2014 season, which ended with the Buckeyes sneaking into the playoff.

Meyer might be determined to have zero conversation about the playoff, but it is a good problem to have — and one many people did not think would be happening after the Iowa loss.

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“To not be able to wrestle my first season, I felt I was letting some people down.”

Hayes rehabbed well enough to not only return this season, but open it with a 6-0 record, including a win in the 149-pound weight division at the Princeton Open.

“He’s just diligent,” Ryan said.

“That’s just the way he does things. He’s systematic, consistent, he cares about the sport. So I’m not surprised that he handled his rehab the way he did.”

That’s not to say that the process of a full recovery was easy for Hayes.

“It was frustrating,” Hayes said.

“There was a lot of little details and little exercises that I didn’t want to really do. The frustrating part was that I wanted it to go faster, but it took a really long time. Wil [Turner], our trainer, made sure that he kept me at a good pace, a safe pace, so that I couldn’t re-injure it or anything.

But I definitely tried to get him to let me go as fast as I could.”

Now back to a 100 percent, Hayes said the injury has helped improve the mental aspects of his game, working this summer to become more aggressive on the attack.

With rehab behind him, Hayes expects to make strides in his wrestling style while the Buckeyes contend for a national title.

“Improve every time I step out on the mat, and put the best version of myself on the mat that I can,” Hayes said.

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Offensive line leading the charge for the Buckeyes EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu Ohio State’s offense did whatever it wanted to do against Michigan State Saturday.

In the 48-3 win, the Buckeyes ran up 524 yards of offense, 335 coming on the ground and 189 through the air.

The players who piled up all the yards received the bulk of the credit for the success, but Dobbins gave all the credit elsewhere. “[The offensive linemen] always block like that,” freshman running back J.K. Dobbins said Saturday. “Whenever I run the ball, I feel like they block tremendous.

Today, they did an outstanding job, but that’s what they do all the time.”

After the Michigan State game, Ohio State’s coaching staff graded the starters at both guard and tackle positions as champions — an honor bestowed on players who play well in a game — while naming redshirt senior center Billy Price as the offensive player of the game. Price made his 51st consecutive start, setting the program record.

The Buckeyes’ offensive line allowed just two tackles for a loss Saturday, accounting for just four lost yards. Matched up against the No. 3 rush defense in the nation, the offensive line proved it was up to the task, protecting quarterback J.T. Barrett

and freeing up holes all night for running backs Mike Weber and Dobbins.

On Ohio State’s sixth offensive play of the game, Price made a pair of blocks to free up a hole for Weber, who burst through effortlessly and sprinted 47 yards to the end zone to put the Buckeyes up 7-0.

Price said on the block he was able to get a good read on the blitz from the defense, and with the help of right guard Demetrius Knox, was able to open the hole up the middle for Weber.

“I felt [Knox] and was able to come back off a linebacker, open that hole and Mike just did what Mike’s supposed to do,” Price said after the game.

Even when the team was blown out 5524 against Iowa, the line still held strong for much of the game. Barrett was given ample time to throw the ball throughout the night and Ohio State averaged 5.4 yards per carry. The line only allowed one sack and no other tackles for loss.

Dobbins said that even though the yardage stood out more against Michigan State, the line was still productive against the Hawkeyes.

“The O-line was blocking well last week in the running game,” Dobbins said Saturday. “I wouldn’t say we were reborn.”

RIS TWIGG | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR The line did not initially begin the season Ohio State senior offensive lineman Billy Price (54) prepares for the snap with consistent success. After the first sev- during the first quarter of the OSU vs. MSU game on Nov. 11 at Ohio eral weeks, questions began to re-emerge Stadium. Ohio State won 48-3. about right tackle Isaiah Prince and right OFFENSE CONTINUES ON 7

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Unfinished business keeps Mikael Torpegaard at Ohio State KYLE McKINNON Senior Lantern reporter mckinnon.99@osu.edu Some star collegiate athletes reach a fork in the road and have to make a pivotal decision.

For senior tennis phenom Mikael Torpegaard, that fork came in May. Coming off a junior campaign that saw him go 38-5 in singles matches and 23-7 in doubles play, Torpegaard was faced with a life-altering decision. The 23-yearold could either stay in school for another year to further develop his skill set at Ohio State, or forgo his senior season and turn professional.

Knowing he still had improvements to make, Torpegaard opted to remain at Ohio State for a final go-round.

“Figuring out that I’m going to base out of Columbus playing professional tennis was the biggest deal for me,” Torpegaard said. “I also thought if I’m ready to go pro.

In many aspects of my game, I felt, yes. I’ve proven a couple times that I can play with the best of the best. At the end of the day, I still feel like I have some things to work on. Once I’m done with this final year, I’m going to feel completely ready to go pro.”

A native of Denmark, Torpegaard began playing tennis when he was 8 years old.

In 2014, he arrived in Columbus, where his career would take off. Torpegaard was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year in his first campaign. He was a singles All-American in both 2016 and 2017, was named the 2016 Big Ten Player of the Year and has been a unanimous first-team All-Big Ten selection for the past two years.

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Then-junior Mikael Torpegaard defeated Minnesota’s Matic Spec, 6-4, 6-4 in a match on April 14. pegaard understands the setup he has now at Ohio State is better than if he was on his own.

“I started thinking to myself, when I do go pro, where is it going to be from?”

Torpegaard said. “It’s not going to be Denmark. The federation doesn’t really have any money to support and there’s no facilities or people to practice with. The setup I have now is very close to being the optimal setup for my pro career.”

Before Torpegaard could decide his fu-

ture as a pro, he had to weigh his options.

Covering everything from his financial needs to his professional schedule, Torpegaard went over all the possibilities with Ohio State head coach Ty Tucker. A former tennis player himself, Tucker was a two-time All-American at Ohio State and turned pro in 1992.

If Torpegaard had an early start to his professional career, he might have never realized his potential in tennis.

“I mainly discussed it with Ty,” Tor-

pegaard said. “I felt there were so many ways I can still improve. The main thing that kept me here was that knowing when I’m going on the tour, I’m not getting as better. Here, I practice four or five hours a day out of my own time. If I play a new tournament every week, I’m going to play a match every day and I’m not going to practice. I won’t have a coach there to tell me what I’m doing right or wrong.”

While Torpegaard had obvious concerns about on-the-court setbacks, the other half of the decision-making process was leaving college with his degree.

He wanted an education to fall back on, and for good reason. According to Tucker, many who leave school prematurely for a professional tennis career burn out quickly and are worse off in the long run.

“Professional tennis is so tough to make,” Tucker said. “You’re almost best to leave with your degree. We’ve had a couple players leave without their degrees and turn pro a little bit early. It’s a tough transition to the professional game. We just showed him the guys that left early and where they’re at right now.”

Few Buckeye tennis players in program history have enjoyed the career Torpegaard has.

But there is one thing Torpegaard and the team are striving for, and it’s something he expects to capture in his last year at Ohio State.

“I’m expecting to win a title,” Torpegaard said. “If I wasn’t expecting to win a title, it’d be tough to be here for my last year. I’m expecting the team, if everyone plays up to their level, to be able to win a national title.”