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ONE YEAR LATER Victims, officers reflect on anniversary of campus attack

KEVIN STANKIEWICZ Editor-in-Chief stankiewicz.16@osu.edu The Federal Bureau of Investigation is set to meet with victims of the Ohio State car-and-knife attack Tuesday to provide an update on its investigation, said William Clark, a professor emeritus of material science engineering who was injured during the Nov. 28, 2016, incident.

The meeting comes on the one-year anniversary of the attack, which left 13 injured after a student, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, rammed his car into a crowd of people and began stabbing them with a butcher knife.

FBI terrorism investigations do not follow a set schedule, and it is not clear when, exactly, the bureau will be able to officially answer the lingering questions regarding Artan’s motives and any possible links to terrorist organizations.

Official updates on the investigation, particularly regarding Artan’s motives, have been scant since the days immediately following the incident, at which point law enforcement said it was “too soon” to label the attack terrorism. In July, the Associated Press reported on FBI files that included a note Artan wrote and left the morning of the attack. In it, Artan criticized his family for being “moderate” Muslims.

In the report, the FBI released a previously deleted Facebook post from Artan that suggested the United States could stop lonewolf attacks by making peace with the Islamic State.

“If you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks, then make peace” with the Islamic State, he proclaimed in his Facebook posts.

The Islamic State claimed the attack one day after it occurred in a statement put out by its Amaq News Agency the next day. A translation of the statement from ISIS claiming the attack called Artan a “soldier of the Islamic State”.

However, the statement doesn’t necessarily mean Artan had direct communication or link with the terror group.

The FBI investigation is still ongoing with little known on when a final conclusion will surface.

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Alan Horujko shot and killed the Nov. 28 attacker within 53 seconds of pursuit and recounts his story in a university-produced interview.

‘Like the stars aligned’ OSU police officer Alan Horujko recalls Nov. 28 attack COURTESY OF OHIO STATE

On Nov. 28, 2016 Abdul Razak Ali Artan plowed his car into a crowd of people and proceeded to strike bystanders with a butcher knife, injuring 13. He was shot and killed

by University Police Officer Alan Horujko minutes after the attack began.

Ohio State police officers recount scene of Nov. 28 attack OWEN DAUGHERTY Assistant Campus Editor daugherty.260@osu.edu When a police officer calls for assistance, their fellow officers come running without hesitation.

That was the case Nov. 28, 2016 when University Police Officer Alan Horujko called over his radio “shots fired” and “officer in trouble.”

Within a few minutes, numerous officers were on the scene to find that Horujko had already shot and killed Abdul Razak Ali Artan, who injured 13 people by first ramming his car into a group gathered outside and then by attacking bystanders with a butcher knife.

New details outlining the events that took place that fateful day were released by Ohio State Monday. The videos, photos and documents accompanied several officers’ narratives recount of what took place on the sunny Monday after Thanksgiving break last year.

That day will long be remembered on Ohio State’s campus for the students and officers who responded.

The officers who first arrived were paramount in securing the area and assisting victims before medical first responders showed POLICE CONTINUES ON 3

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Law-enforcement officials gather near Watts Hall and the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry building on North Campus Nov. 28, 2016.

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Police officers stand near the body of Abdul Razak Ali Artan, lying near the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry building on North Campus.

SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu KEVIN STANKIEWICZ Editor-in-Chief stankiewicz.16@osu.edu Alan Horujko doesn’t remember the sound.

The University Police officer fired his Glock 22 pistol five times toward Abdul Razak Ali Artan on the morning of Nov. 28, 2016, killing the attacker who moments earlier rammed his car into a crowd of students and began slashing them with a butcher knife, but Horujko can’t recall the sound.

In the moments between the crash and the gunshots, time slowed for Horujko. What lasted only 53 seconds, he said, felt like half an hour.

Officers are told in moments of distress, they’ll likely experience tunnel vision and auditory exclusion, making it difficult to recall the events that took place. That didn’t happen for Horujko.

“I remember everything kind of sounding echo-y and very surreal, but I was able to pick up on a bunch of details,” Horujko said in an interview conducted by Ohio State, which the university released Monday, a day before the one-year anniversary of the attack that left 11 wounded.

“I yelled after [Artan] multiple times, ‘Drop the knife. Drop the knife. Drop the knife.’ But he never looked back at me. Never acknowledged me.”

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Officer Alan Horujko speaks at the memorial ceremony for fallen OSU police Officer Michael Blankenship on May 19.

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William Clark, a professor emeritus of material science engineering, had retired after 35 years of teaching at Ohio State. He was one of the 13 victims of the car and knife attack on campus Nov. 28, 2016.

SUMMER CARTWRIGHT Campus Editor cartwright.117@osu.edu William Clark would not have been at the scene of the Nov. 28, 2016, attack had he not filled in to teach an engineering course for a colleague during the second half of Autumn Semester.

Clark, a professor emeritus of material science engineering, had retired after 35 years of teaching at Ohio State. He was one of the 13 victims of the car and knife attack on campus that day.

Clark was struck by the car Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove into a crowd of people who were gathered outside Watts Hall due to an unrelated chemical leak in a nearby lab. Clark suffered from two severe cuts to his right leg.

But one year after the attack, Clark is continuing to withhold judgment on Artan and the unconfirmed ISIS association portrayed by some media and President Donald Trump, who met with victims in December as president-elect, and said Artan, a Somali refugee, “should not have been” allowed to immigrate to the U.S. “Before I pass judgment on this young man, I’d like to see what exactly the circumstances are and exactly why he took the course of action he chose,” Clark said in a press conference held the day after the attack. “I’m a research professor, I like to make my guesses based on data.”

His opinion on the attack remains similar to what it was one year ago.

“I’m sure if his name was Fred Smith or something we wouldn’t have heard that kind of line,” he said in reference to associating names with terrorism. “He has that influence in his background, well sure, but you know, everybody has some set of influence in their background.”

Wearing an Ohio State sweater, Clark said in an interview with The Lantern that he initially spoke at the press conference because he was the least injured — and least impacted by the incident.

He said he doesn’t blame Ar-

tan’s ideology for inspiring his actions. Instead, he noted the pressure Artan faced in his transition from community college to Ohio State.

“There were some reports on discussions between [Artan] and his academic adviser and counselor, and it would seem to be very clear from those that he was in some academic difficulty and certainly under a lot of pressure, under a lot of stress,” Clark said, referencing the fact that Artan asked his adviser to withdraw him from his courses weeks before the attack. “Those things get forgotten about. Hard to see this guy as a sort of warrior of ISIS, per se.”

“Before I pass judgment on this young man, I’d like to see what exactly the circumstances are.”

William Clark Professor emeritus of material science engineering

Without hesitation, Clark reflected on the attack that shocked the campus community, recalling the “very cold” November day as one would any other: fact after fact, remembering details sporadically, but describing them without any hesitation.

After being hit by Artan’s car, Clark was lying on the ground opposite of where the attacker exited. He didn’t see the potentially traumatizing incidents others did.

What he did see was the side of a Honda Civic that had just struck him and a dispersed crowd of people. He felt pain in his leg and slowly got up, thinking that an accident had just occurred.

“Meanwhile on the other side of the car all of the sudden this commotion breaks out,” he said.

“There’s a lot of shouting and noise and stuff.”

Clark didn’t know what was going on until he, along with a few students in the area, headed to the back of Watts Hall.

That’s when he heard gunshots, and said “everything sort of went quiet.”

While in the laboratory, Clark did his best to comfort a woman

who was hysterical. It was then that a man told him of his bleeding leg.

“I thought ‘Yeah, it’s probably got scratches on it’ and I’m looking down and it’s pouring blood,” he said, smirking. “I sat down on a chair in there, put the foot up and looked at it as blood was pouring out.”

Just as he put his injured leg up to subside the bleeding, his daughter called to alert him of an incident happening on Ohio State’s campus.

“She said ‘Dad there’s an active shooter in Watts Hall. And I said ‘Yeah, well, I can tell you a story about that.’ I’m sitting here, I got hit by his car,” Clark said. “And so we were chatting away until one of the [emergency medical services] guys said ‘Sir, you really need to take the phone away, we need to take you now.’”

He said he never went into shock the day of the attack, or after.

“It just sort of happened. You get a cut in the leg. It’s bleeding.

You get it taken care of,” he said.

Clark canceled class the week of the attack for his students to recover from any emotional or physical trauma they might have endured. But, the following Monday, he was back in Watts Hall teaching and planning lectures.

He still walks past the laboratory where the attack took place, and feels fine doing so.

“I was in it the other day,” Clark said. “In fact, the day after I got released from the hospital and I realized that my laptop and things were still up in the office … My wife drove me around there and parked outside and you know, looking at the marks along the wall, it didn’t seem to have any great traumatic impact.

“You get to a certain age in life where you soak it up and you go on,” he said.

Clark said this Nov. 28 he will meet with FBI officials for a debriefing of any information that arises from the still-open investigation.

“And then I’m going to the Blue Jackets game that night, so that’s how I get to celebrate,” he said, smiling.

Review finds officer’s use of deadly force ‘objectively reasonable’ ZACH VARDA Lantern reporter varda.6@osu.edu The University Police Division’s Board of Review sent its findings on the use of deadly force by officer Alan Horujko during last year’s Nov. 28 attack to Police Chief Craig Stone Oct. 4, finding it “objectively reasonable” and recommending no corrective action.

Horujko was the first officer on the scene last November after Abdul Razak Ali Artan plowed his car into a group of students and proceeded to exit the car and attack students with a large cooking knife.

Ohio State released the board’s conclusion Monday, along with a cache of other documents related to the attack, a day before its oneyear anniversary.

“Officer Alan Horujko #312 discharged his Division-Issued firearm (Glock 22) a total of five (5) times towards an armed male who had already drove a 2002 silver Honda Civic over a sidewalk and through a crowd of people resulting in multiple injuries,” the letter to Stone read.

The Board of Review received the case file on Horujko’s use of deadly force “on or around” July 26 and met Aug. 21 and 28 to discuss their findings. The Board of Review consisted of Deputy Chief of Police Kimberly Spears-McNatt, Captain David

Rose, Lieutenant Brandon Yankanin, Lieutenant Michael Neff and officer Adam Tabor.

Artan’s vehicle had come to a rest on the south side of MacQuigg Laboratory at 105 W. Woodruff Avenue after colliding with a concrete planter. Artan then ran down West 19th Avenue slashing individuals.

He was pursued by Horujko, who was already in the immediate area responding to a possible gas leak at MacQuigg Laboratory.

“While approaching the male, Officer Horujko gave several verbal commands for him to drop the knife,” the findings said. “The male then turned and began to aggress on Officer Horujko with the knife in his hand. Officer Horujko, believing the male posed an immediate threat of death or serious physical injury to himself (Officer Horujko) and the publicat-large, discharged his firearm.”

The Board of Review informed Stone they concluded Horujko’s use of his firearm was “intentional and not in violation of policy” and cited the Supreme Court case Graham v. Connor, which stated that use of force by government officials must be analyzed under the Fourth Amendment’s “objective reasonableness” standard.

The board returned the investigation to Stone for whatever action he deemed appropriate.

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up shortly thereafter.

Amid the mayhem, many — including officers on the scene — thought there was still a threat to campus.

The Lane Avenue parking garage, located next to The Blackwell Inn, was thoroughly explored and later cleared after a call alerted authorities of a suspicious package or person in the garage.

The investigation turned up nothing, confirming that Artan was indeed the only threat.

In fact, when University Police Officer Jason Becker arrived outside of Watts Hall he had only one thing to ask Horujko: “Is there anything else you know of that we need to be worried about?”

Even though Horujko said there wasn’t, Ohio State’s entire campus was put on lockdown for hours as officers searched campus for any other suspects or active threats.

As Officer Kevin Gray arrived and surveyed the scene, Horujko told him that he had just “shot

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A Columbus Police Officer stands with a University Police Officer outside of the police cordon in front of the CBEC Building and Koffolt Labs where a body lies dead after an attack on OSU’s campus Nov. 28. and killed the suspect.” Gray then stayed with Artan’s body for three hours, he recounted in his written narrative.

Officer Mark Sandbrink was one of the first on the scene. He said he responded to Horujko’s

call for officer assistance immediately and on his way heard gunshots echoing off the surrounding buildings.

As Sandbrink got out of the car with his gun drawn, he saw Artan lying motionless on the ground

hero.

With Artan at his feet, Horujko kicked the knife away, and, with the help of a medic from the Columbus Division of Fire who was on hand because of the gas leak, he cleared the scene.

He then ran back to the car he

a medical emergency.

It wasn’t until he ran up to the vehicle and noticed the driver-side door open and the car empty, followed by a secondary wave of screams, that he began to realize something wasn’t right.

He drew his gun and said, “What’s going on?”

“He’s got a machete,” someone responded, pointing in the direction which Artan had begun to run.

Artan was “chasing anybody he could reach” and “slashing pretty wildly at anybody,” Horujko said.

Horujko began his 100-yard pursuit of the attacker, eventually firing those fatal five rounds.

In the year since, Horujko has received honors from Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and the Ohio House of Representatives. However, the man many consider to be a hero has opted out of the public eye until now.

“I’m a pretty private guy. Like to be humble and out of the spotlight,” Horujko said. “Immediately after the fact, I really didn’t want any of that attention. I just wanted to go back to normal life and normal patrol and helping people out.”

and checked to make sure Horujko was safe and uninjured.

Sandbrink said he stayed with the suspect’s body for five hours before being relieved by Columbus Division of Police officers.

Lieutenant Alex Rayner recalls showing up to the scene and seeing personal belongings, such as shoes and backpacks, scattered across the outside of MacQuigg Laboratory where Artan first ramped the curb with his car and plowed through people before he exited his car.

Shortly after the immediate scene was secured, a bomb sweep was conducted from West 19th Avenue starting at Koffolt Labs to the intersection with College Road.

Multiple officers’ narratives outlined the collaboration between University Police and Columbus Police, who ultimately took over the investigation.

Becker was in charge of assisting Columbus Police detectives with interviewing witnesses in-

side Watts Hall.

Becker also took photos of the scene that were later turned over to Columbus Police as part of its investigation.

Finally, almost three weeks after the incident, Becker was the one to go to Columbus Police’s evidence room to pick up Horujko’s Glock 22 pistol, which he had discharged five times, to end any threat before many even knew what took place.

Asked to summarize the day in a word, Horujko said “grateful.”

Grateful for his training, which had seen him go through a similar exercise less than a month prior where he was required to deal with a situation involving a man with a knife in a building.

Grateful that he had volunteered to go direct traffic, which, as he said, was “like the stars aligned in some way to put me right there where I was needed to protect those people.”

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about 100 yards from MacQuigg Laboratory, watching as the 18-year-old slashed somebody with a knife, and radioed “10-3, 10-3,” police code for officer in trouble.

As Artan drew close to the main entrance of the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry corridor, which Horujko could see was filled with students studying, Artan finally took notice of the officer in pursuit.

“A bunch of [students were] standing up, seeing what the commotion was about, seeing who was yelling, who was running,” Horujko said.

He yelled a few more times to get Artan’s attention, who finally looked at the officer.

“I remember him looking at me, looking back at the female he was chasing and then the front doors he was trying to get to, looking back at me again and then making a longer turn and running straight at me at that point,” Horujko said.

Then he fired his weapon. Five rounds. Five sounds.

It wasn’t until Artan fell at his feet that Horujko realized what had just happened.

Horujko was at MacQuigg because he volunteered for a simple task: help traffic flow on West 19th Avenue after the building was evacuated following a gas leak. After filing a theft report that morning, Horujko was about to go get coffee in preparation for what he thought was going to be a long 16-hour shift. Instead, he volunteered to handle the menial task of directing traffic — and ended his shift hours early as a

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“I wanted to make sure I could give first aid to anybody there until the medics could get to those people. So I ended up sprinting back that whole way I had sprinted before.”

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first witnessed plow into a crowd of people.

“I wanted to make sure I could give first aid to anybody there until the medics could get to those people. So I ended up sprinting back that whole way I had sprinted before,” Horujko said.

When he returned to the site of the crash, no one was around.

“It was just a smoking car and there was a bike wedged under the front of it and there was absolutely nobody there,” Horujko said.

But when he first observed the gray Honda Civic drive up on the curb and strike the gathered students, Horujko believed the incident to be merely an accident and Editor in Chief Kevin Stankiewicz Managing Editor for Content Jacob Myers Managing Editor for Design JL Lacar Copy Chief Rachel Bules Campus Editor Summer Cartwright Assistant Campus Editor Owen Daugherty Sports Editor Colin Hass-Hill Assistant Sports Editor Edward Sutelan Arts&Life Editor Ghezal Barghouty Assistant Arts&Life Editor Sara Stacy Photo Editor Jack Westerheide Assistant Photo Editor Ris Twigg Design Editor Chandler Gerstenslager Assistant Design Editor Kelly Meaden Multimedia Editor Hailey Stangebye Social Media Editor Nick Clarkson Engagement Editor Matt Dorsey Oller Reporter Sheridan Hendrix Miller Projects Reporter Erin Gottsacker

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WINTER WONDERLAND Columbus Recreation and Parks Dept. presents first annual winter festival this weekend. | ON PAGE 5 sheer energy and momentum of Melville’s novel, which inspired him to create a piece for every chapter. The large-scale works feel as if they are moving throughout the multiple layers of paint, metal work, woodwork and collages as they imitate the flow of the ocean, the expanding shape of cigar smoke rings, and the texture of barnacles on a whale.

“At 82 years old, he’s still challenging himself with new technology and materials, with inspiration taken from everyday life,” Pagano said.

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‘The Flag Today’ and ‘The Flag Today’ (inverted) by Alex Dodge featured in the Pizzuti Collection in the Short North.

SYDNEY RIDDLE Lantern reporter riddle.136@osu.edu Sculpture is taking a back seat to paper in the latest exhibits hitting the Pizzuti Collection.

The first exhibition, “Lines/Edges: Frank Stella on Paper,” celebrates artist Frank Stella’s four-decade-long experimentation with print and collage.

“Pair,” the second exhibition, features works on paper by artists Alex Dodge and Glen Baldridge. The gallery will be the

first edition of a series that juxtaposes two separate artists in the same exhibition.

“We want to create a proximity of different things to start a conversation,” head curator Greer Pagano said. “We chose to present these young artists with Frank Stella to showcase emerging artists with a modern master.”

“Lines/Edges” is an extensive collection of Stella’s work that shows the evolution of his practice, Pagano said. She said Stella got into print-making about a decade into his career as a painter and drew inspiration from wherever he could.

“He is completely driven by the shape of the canvas,” Pagano said. “You look at the pieces we have and see that he embraces change and challenges. He’s focused on the narrative as much as possible.”

The collection features a handful of series from his career, such as the “Circuits” series that is inspired by his love of auto racing and racetracks around the world, and nine of the 266 works in the “Moby Dick Deckle Edges” series, a decade-long obsession with Herman Melville’s epic novel, “Moby Dick.”

Pagano said Stella was fascinated by the

“We want to create a proximity of different things to start a conversation.”

Greer Pagano Head curator of the Pizzuti Collection

“Pair” is the first exhibition of a new series, Pagano said. The idea is to start a conversation by placing two artists in the same exhibition, in this case Dodge and Baldridge, whose work Ron Pizzuti has been collecting since 2005. Both are graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design and share a studio space together in New York.

Both artists work in multiple disciplines between new media and fine art. Dodge explores technology as it interacts with and shapes human experience, while Baldridge focuses more on the unseen, peering into remote and unknown places at the edge of society and nature.

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Columbus debuts its own winter wonderland restaurant, out of purchasable handmade bowls created by volunteers.

Wendy Frantz, who has coordinated Empty Bowls for almost nine years, said this CRPD initiative is celebrating its 20th year of donating funds to the Mid-Ohio Food Bank.

“It’s about supporting our community and giving back.”

Nancy Colvin Columbus Recreation and Parks Department communications and marketing specialist

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Customers line up outside the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department food truck, nicknamed “The Strawberry.”

LYDIA FREUDENBERG Lantern reporter freudenberg.7@osu.edu The newest downtown festival is giving people a reason to embrace the winter season.

Presented by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department and hosted at the Scioto Mile Saturday, the first WinterFest features live music, nine food trucks and locally crafted seasonal beer.

Nancy Colvin, communications and marketing specialist for CRPD, sad the primary focus of the festival is to give back to the community through the departments’ Empty Bowls initiative, which supports the Mid-Ohio Food Bank.

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“Alex and I both have a fluid approach to using process and technology to achieve various conceptual and/or aesthetic effects,” Baldridge said in an email.

Pagano said she decided to pair these two artists together due to their multidisciplinary approach such as printmaking, photography and scratch-off ink, as well as their humorous commentary on today’s culture of consumerism, environmental and political issues and the daily overloads of information created by modern technology.

“Seeing 12 years of work from Glen and I chronicled side by side is not only moving on a personal level, looking back on the years, but it also paints a picture of how the world has changed,” Dodge said in an email.

Elements of the artwork include a variety of ideas and themes. For example, the gallery features Dodge’s prints of the American flag draped over hidden objects and Baldridge’s boards decorated with bullet hole decals spelling out “The End’s Not Near, It’s Here’” and “Two Days Before The Day After Tomorrow.”

The Pizzuti Collection is located at 632 North Park St. and is free to members, $12 for adults and $10 for senior citizens. The gallery is open Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m.

Colvin, an Ohio State alumna, helped develop WinterFest with a creative team, and said the festival hopes to not only raise money but bring people together.

“The music is great, all of it is great, but really when it gets down to the core of it, it’s about supporting our community and giving back,” Colvin said. “We want everyone to have a wonderful time, but we want them to know that it’s going towards a good cause and this is supporting our community.”

Admission is free, but a portion of the food truck and beer sales will go toward the Empty Bowls cause. The recreation department’s food truck also will contribute to the fundraiser. Titled “The Strawberry” for its fruit-like design, the truck will offer soup from Milestone 229, a local

Since 1997, the effort has generated more than $236,000 for the food pantry. Frantz said WinterFest will be another opportunity to teach Columbus what the fundraising team is all about.

Frantz added that the initiative creates insight for ceramic bowl-makers, especially kids.

“It also teaches the children who make the bowls by saying to them, ‘When you make this bowl, it’s going to help another child in need,’” she said.

Apart from the food and drink, the festival also will feature live music by local artist Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons, and Doc Robinson. Columbus-native RJD2, a nationally recognized musician, will make a homecoming appearance as the headliner.

“Being able to have local acts is always fantastic, and a point of pride for us to say that, yet again, this is our city, and these are the artists that live and work here,” Colvin said. “Really, all of this is local talent because RJD2 … he is a hometown boy too, and we’re happy to have him back.”

WinterFest begins at 11 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m. Saturday at Bicentennial Park.

Mozart meets EDM ISAAC KANE Lantern reporter kane.244@osu.edu

In the United States, strobe lights and DJs haven’t been associated with classical music –– until now.

Trism will host what organizers say is the first-ever classical music rave in the United States Tuesday, featuring live classical music infused with electronic dance music.

Live acts from Sweet Teeth, Xioma and CellOhio will kick off the evening starting at 9 p.m. DJ Mr Van Walsh will take over the event for the rest of the night with music ranging from traditional classical dance music to classical music mixed with EDM. COURTESY OF CELLOHIO

“There is a super elite and super strict association with classical music and we wanted to tear that down a little bit.”

Clara Davison Executive director of CellOhio

CellOhio, a student ensemble made up of cellists, put together the event and reached out to Brendan Jan Walsh, whose stage name is DJ Mr Van Walsh, because of his experience hosting classical music raves around the world.

He agreed to come all the way to Columbus from his residence in

DJ Mr Van Walsh agreed to come all the way to Columbus from his residence in Amsterdam to help put on this innovative classical music rave.

Amsterdam to help put on this innovative show.

Clara Davison, executive director of CellOhio, explained that the inspiration for this event was to show that classical music can be fun, even if it is not generally considered “dance music.”

“We wanted to have a dance party with classical music because we think classical music is so fun and easy to dance to and there is a super elite and super strict association with classical music and we wanted to tear that down a little bit,” Davison said.

This idea is similar to the one that Walsh and some of his friends came up with a few years ago

when they were discussing how to create a friendlier atmosphere for classical music enthusiasts looking for a good time.

Walsh, who has been arranging raves in Amsterdam and elsewhere internationally since 2013, said the idea came about through group of classical music lovers who were frustrated by the etiquette required in concert halls.

“We sort of did a brainstorm, and one girl suddenly yelled out, ‘I like to rave! Why can’t we do a rave?’, and from that exclamation we sort of got together and said we were going to do a rave,” Walsh said.

As of today, Walsh has been a

part of more than 20 successful raves with audiences as large as 1,500 people. Prior to its American debut, the rave has traveled to other countries, including Australia, Brazil, Belgium and Turkey.

Admission is free, but in hopes to host more events like this in the future, CellOhio plans to ask for donations from attendees.

Davison urges those who are interested in seeing something different to check out the event.

“If you want to come see something that is totally new and has never been done before on this continent, come hang with us and make music history.”

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Ohio State redshirt freshman quarterback Dwayne Haskins (7) throws a pass in the fourth quarter of the game against Michigan on Nov. 25 in Ann Arbor. Ohio State won 31-20.

situation and implied he would not want to throw Haskins into a tough situation unless he absolutely needed to use him.

“I mean, that’s an option,” Meyer said. “But the comforting and more, almost hate saying comfort.

It’s the confidence. Because you’ve seen it.”

Should Haskins be required to step in and see meaningful time for Ohio State Saturday, he will provide the Buckeyes with a completely different offensive look. He is not the dual-threat quarterback Barrett is, but his pocket-passing style and big arm offer the offense more of a vertical threat.

It could even potentially give Ohio State an advantage because Wisconsin might not be prepared for such a drastically different style of quarterback.

“We’re not going to try to play guessing games,” Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst said on a teleconference on Sunday. “We believe [Barrett] is going to play.”

That is not the ideal situation for the Buckeyes.

In 2014, Ohio State was down to no one else but a redshirt sophomore quarterback in Cardale Jones, who had a similar profile as Haskins, and it worked out. But relying on an inexperienced, young quarterback in a critical make-or-break game is not a situation the Buckeyes would like to be in again.

If Barrett is healthy enough to play, he will.

But his health will determine more than just the starting quarterback. It will determine how much the Buckeyes are able to do offensively and if they will need to change their game plan.

The health of Barrett will leave a bevy of questions unanswered for the remainder of the week.

Those questions will not be answered until kickoff Saturday.

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Winter Olympics Across 5. The second best medal to be awarded.

7. A substance allied to fats and oils secreted by bees also used to make candles.

8. Having a relatively low temperature.

9. An olympic sport that consists of rails and jumps.

12. The lowest medal awarded.

13. Precipitation made in the form of ice crystals.

14. A bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally.

15. The act or sport of gliding on skis.

16. Mounds of snow that are meant to ski through.

17. The solid form of water produced when its frozen.

Down 1. Glasses that go all the way around your eyes that are see through.

2. A game played on ice with teams of 6 players each with an object to hit a puck into a goal.

3. A shoe fitted with a metal blade for skating on ice.

4. The best medal you can get.

5. The act or sport of gliding on skis.

6. A board for gliding on snow resembling a wide ski.

10. A long and narrow sled used for gliding over snow or ice.

11. A form of protection that covers the head.

12. A mechanical device on skis or a snowboard usually made of metal that fastens the boot securely.

15. A pair of long slender runners made up of wood plastic used to glide over snow.

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Offensive inconsistency adds pressure to OSU defense vs. Wisconsin COLIN HASS-HILL Sports Editor hass-hill.1@osu.edu During the majority of No. 9 Ohio State’s 31-20 win against Michigan on Saturday, the Buckeye offense could not find much success. Led by quarterback J.T. Barrett for nearly three quarters and quarterback Dwayne Haskins for the rest of the game following Barrett’s knee injury, the offense averaged 5.6 yards per play, Ohio State’s second-lowest average of the season behind only its 5.1 average in the 31-16 loss to Oklahoma.

On Barrett’s seven nonscoring drives, Ohio State managed minus-3 total yards and did not gain more than 9 yards on a single drive. It was not until Barrett exited the game due to a knee injury and Haskins replaced him that the offense took off with two touchdowns, one made field goal and one missed field goal, while also managing to avoid bringing out the punting unit.

The Buckeyes eventually survived the scare, coming back from a six-point third-quarter deficit to extend their win streak against Michigan to six games. But Ohio State could not have been in the situation to come back without its defense clamping down after a shaky first quarter.

For the second straight week, the Buckeyes might have to rely on their defense to propel them to victory, this time against No. 5 Wisconsin in the Big Ten championship Saturday night.

“It’s championship season, so the preparation has to be a bit more crisp and everybody has to contribute a little more and it’s always great to play for a championship,” redshirt senior defensive end Tyquan Lewis said following Saturday’s victory.

Michigan drove 77 yards down the field on 13 plays with ease on its second possession to score the game’s first touchdown. Following a 42-yard punt return by Donovan Peoples-Jones that set Michigan up at the Ohio State 6-yard line, the Wolverines scored another touchdown. But Michigan

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Ohio State redshirt junior defensive end Sam Hubbard (6) sets up to attempt to stop a Wolverine offensive drive in the second quarter of the game against Michigan on Nov. 25 in Ann Arbor. Ohio State won 31-20. scored just once more for the remainder of the game. Ohio State had five sacks, three pass breakups, an interception and a forced fumble.

Unlike the defense, many questions about Ohio State’s offense remain unanswered, specifically regarding which quarterback will start and, if Barrett is healthy, whether he can consistently capture Haskins’ second-half success.

In his press conference Monday, head coach Urban Meyer said that even though Barrett did not practice on Sunday, he is probable for Saturday’s game. After the game, Barrett emphatically said he would play against the Badgers. In order to win the first conference championship of his career, Barrett must play much better against Wisconsin than he did against the Wolverines.

The Buckeyes also will, once again, be facing one of the top defensive units in the nation.

Wisconsin’s opponents average just 80.5 rushing yards per game, 9.5 yards less than any other team allows per game. But the Badgers’ pass defense is not any less stingy. It allows just 156.4 pass-

“It’s championship season, so the preparation has to be a bit more crisp and everybody has to contribute a little more and it’s always great to play for a championship.”

Tyquan Lewis Redshirt senior defensive end

ing yards per game, No. 2 in the nation behind just Michigan.

If Barrett has similar struggles, Ohio State would have to hope its defense, which gave up 14 quick points to Michigan, holds steady

against a more potent Badger offense.

“They can do a lot of different things, but they’re definitely runfirst,” redshirt senior linebacker Chris Worley said on a teleconference Monday afternoon. “When they do decide to pass, they have a quarterback who can do it all.”

Wisconsin has always had a run-first offense. This year is no different. The Badgers average 243.3 rushing yards per game, the 18th-most in the country, and 182.8 passing yards per contest, the 97th-most in the nation.

From Melvin Gordon to Montee Ball to Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne, the Badgers have had no shortage of talented running backs come through the program. The latest, Jonathan Taylor, is just a freshman. But despite his youth, he has performed like a veteran. Taylor has 258 carries for 1,806 yards and 12 touchdowns in his first collegiate season. Even though his season is not comROMEO FROM 8

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Ohio State redshirt junior goalie Sean Romeo during an exhibition against Ryerson on Sep. 30. Ohio State lost 7-4.

other than his own.

“I don’t know if it’s really improving, more just like kind of shaking the rust off,” Romeo said.

“That first game just felt so different being away from a game for over a year, so I think that was really helpful to kind of get back into the groove and kind of figure things out again.”

Romeo is coming off arguably his best series of the season, making 31 saves in a 3-2 victory against then-No. 17 Michigan, then upping that with a 34-save performance in a 5-1 win versus the Wolverines the following night. The Buckeyes will continue to need performances like these to maintain success. While their team defense is second in the NCAA at 1.93 goals against, the offense is only tied for 34th in scoring.

plete, Taylor already ranks third in Division I history in rush yards as a freshman.

“He’s a strong, powerful runner and once he gets going, straightline, he can definitely make a lot of guys miss,” Worley said. “He doesn’t run like a freshman. It’s going to be a task to get him on the ground.”

Ohio State will focus on stopping Taylor on early downs. Worley said the Buckeyes will try to force the Badgers into third-andlong situations, opportunities where Ohio State believes it has an advantage.

Though quarterback Alex Hornibrook does not pose a stark challenge, he will be more difficult to defend than Michigan quarterback John O’Korn, who constantly missed open receivers against the Buckeyes.

Wide receiver Quintez Cephus leads Wisconsin with 501 receiving yards, but tight end Troy Fumagalli leads with 38 catches. Ohio State has struggled to defend tight ends, especially in its 55-24 loss to Iowa. Even though Michigan tight end Sean McKeon had just two catches for six yards, he was open on multiple occasions.

The Badgers’ offense, at times, seems like a more talented version of Michigan’s. But to win the conference championship, the Buckeyes will have to hold Wisconsin to a similar production level they held Michigan.

“At this time of the year, you don’t want to just play teams that don’t submit a challenge against you,” Worley said. “It’s going to be a great challenge for us as a team, as a defense. It’s going to be a battle inside and out.”

Ohio State can take some pressure off the inconsistent offense if its defense — which played just well enough to keep the team within striking distance against Michigan — prevents the Badgers from controlling the momentum and possession, slowing the game and putting the Buckeyes in an early deficit.

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Barrett’s injury leaves questions unanswered ahead of B1G title EDWARD SUTELAN Assistant Sports Editor sutelan.1@osu.edu The knee injury to quarterback J.T. Barrett in the third quarter of Ohio State’s game against Michigan on Saturday left the Buckeye offense in a state of uncertainty.

But redshirt freshman Dwayne Haskins stepped up and drove the Buckeyes to victory in their 31-20 win.

Head coach Urban Meyer listed Barrett as probable for the Big Ten championship game against No. 5 Wisconsin, but much about his situation is still to be determined. He did not practice Sunday, and Meyer said he did not know much about the injury to his starting quarterback.

“I don’t want to pretend that I know I’ve dealt with it before, but it’s a cartilage that once it comes out of the area — I shouldn’t even — I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about,” Meyer said Monday.

More concerning for Ohio State is that Meyer said it’s too early to tell if the injury will affect Barrett’s mobility, a key aspect of his game, and that he will know more about Barrett’s limitations later this week after he practices.

What has always made Barrett

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Ohio State redshirt senior quarterback J.T. Barrett (16) runs the ball in the second quarter of the game against Michigan on Nov. 25 in Ann Arbor. Ohio State won 31-20.

such a weapon for Ohio State is his ability to be a key contributor through the air and on the ground.

He is not known for his ability to make outstanding passes, but his running ability adds an additional threat to his game. Barrett is second on the team in rushing yards

with 672 on 130 carries and has nine of the Buckeyes’ 31 rushing touchdowns.

An injury to the knee brings up several potential concerns for Barrett. First, it puts into question whether Barrett can run effectively. If the knee causes him pain, it

could threaten plans for optionand designed runs.

Second, if the Buckeyes think Barrett is healed enough, they could trust in him to run the ball only for him to be injured in a more serious way against Wisconsin should he be tackled on a

carry. Meyer said after Saturday’s game that he thought Barrett was going to be healthy enough to play, and it was on a run by Barrett that he injured his knee.

“We were worried he wasn’t going to be able to [play],” Meyer said Saturday. “He’s so tough, he went out there and played, and obviously we didn’t do very well and then we got going and then tied things up at 14.”

Much of what will determine Barrett’s mobility and his potential to play will come down to practice this week. Meyer did not say what the practice plan for Barrett this week was and did not say whether Barrett is going to be full-go for practice.

The only thing Meyer knows at this point is Haskins will be seeing additional reps in practice and will be essentially splitting time with Barrett.

Meyer said he was impressed

by Haskins against Michigan, primarily the comfort he displayed in a tough environment and against one of the nation’s best defenses. The performance by the second-year quarterback gave Meyer some comfort, should Haskins need to play.

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Romeo providing stability in net for Buckeyes WYATT CROSHER Lantern reporter crosher.1@osu.edu

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Ohio State redhshirt junior goalie Sean Romeo during an exhibition game against Ryerson on Sep. 30. Ohio State lost 7-4.

Not many college hockey teams could lose their top three goalies in one offseason and even dream of competing for the NCAA tournament the following year. But this is the dilemma Ohio State faced coming into this season.

Enter redshirt junior goalie Sean Romeo.

The University of Maine transfer has done more than hold his own in the Buckeyes’ goal, posting better numbers to this point in the season than his predecessors — 2016 second-team All-Big Ten goalie Christian Frey and 2012 Chicago Blackhawks seventh-round draft pick Matt Tomkins.

Through 13 games, Romeo holds a 7-3-3 record with a 1.69 goals against average, fifth-lowest in the NCAA, while also boasting a .931 save percentage that is tied for seventh. In his senior season, Tomkins ranked 24th in goals against and did not rank in the top 30 for save percentage. Frey did not rank in the top 30 for either category during his final campaign.

“I’ve said this to everyone I’ve talked to, his focus, his preparation, his detail, what he does ev-

ery day is amazing,” head coach Steve Rohlik said. “I’ve never seen a guy that comes to the rink every day and goes through his

“He’s a workhorse.

He’s basically like Seabiscuit, the more you work him, the better he’s going to do.”

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routine like Sean does.”

A native of Cary, North Carolina, Romeo’s first sports was soccer, not hockey. But when he saw roller hockey, he switched sports as soon as possible. Then, when the team’s goalie was sick for a game, Romeo took his opportunity and never looked back.

“I played goalie when I was 6 years old for the first time, let in 10 goals my first game, didn’t go well, but I loved it,” Romeo said.

Romeo started in 23 games as a freshman at Maine, but was benched his sophomore season for then-freshman Rob McGovern. Romeo played in only two games that year and transferred to Ohio State the following offseason.

Due to transfer rules, Romeo sat out the entire 2016-17 season as a redshirt, though he could practice with the team during that time. While this time was helpful, Romeo said sitting out an entire season was often a struggle.

“You’re part of the team practicing every day, but you’re not really part of the team when it comes to games and stuff, so it’s tough,” Romeo said. “But I think I learned a lot about myself, along with hockey, and how to prepare and how to get ready when I had my opportunity.”

Volunteer assistant coach and former Ohio State goalie Dusty Carlson began working with Romeo last offseason, and had nothing but praise for the goaltender’s work ethic.

“He’s a workhorse,” Carlson said. “He’s basically like Seabiscuit, the more you work him, the better he’s going to do.”

Carlson said he knew Romeo’s mental game was not going to be an issue. He said since Romeo allowed seven goals in an exhibition game against Ryerson, he’s grown increasingly confident and calm behind the net.

Romeo said the improvement he has seen from the exhibition game was more due to getting the feel back in net against a team ROMEO CONTINUES ON 7