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What’s it take for OSU to cancel classes? It depends MICHAEL COLIN and john banghoff Lantern reporter and Lantern TV meteorologist mikecolin13@gmail.com and banghoff.1@osu.edu With temperatures falling well below zero Thursday, many Ohio State students called for classes to be canceled.

The National Weather Service predicted a high temperature of 4 degrees and a low of minus 11, with a windchill as low as minus 22 degrees.

Although it’s rare for OSU, canceling class is not unprecedented. Last year, classes were called off for three days.

The low temperature was at least minus 7 each time.

Administration and Planning spokesman Dan Hedman said before last year, a full day of classes had not been

canceled since 2009. Overall, OSU has only canceled classes on roughly 11 occasions since 1978.

Bob Armstrong, the director of emergency management and fire prevention, said input for canceling classes comes from multiple groups on campus, including the Department of Public Safety, Student Life and CampusParc, among others.

“If anyone within that group thinks that the weather conditions may warrant a discussion … I’ll pull the group together and we have that talk,” he said. “Our goal is to make a decision before 5 a.m. the day of.”

Armstrong also said the group of organizations would make a consensus recommendation, which is sent to senior management at Bricker Hall.

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Freezing temperatures with possible subzero wind chills caused many students to voice their desire for OSU to cancel classes.

Alumnus goes nuts about his post-grad job NOAH TOUMERT Lantern reporter toumert.3@osu.edu

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OSU tobacco-free student ambassadors hope to continue spreading awareness about the campus-wide tobacco-free initiative in their 2nd semester on the job.

Smoking ambassadors trying to put out the fire on campus TIANA REED Lantern reporter reed.1034@osu.edu Drawing from personal experiences with tobacco use and smoking, the Ohio State tobacco-free student ambassadors have begun their second semester of representing the university’s tobacco-free campus initiative.

The 19 ambassadors are made up of both graduate and undergraduate students selected via an application process to aid in the process of educating the OSU community about the tobacco-free policy put in place Jan. 1, 2014.

OSU’s tobacco-free policy bans the use of tobacco chew, electronic cigarettes, snuff and snus, a spitless, moist powder tobacco pouch, in all university buildings and on all universityowned properties, including parking lots, garages and outside areas.

Much like the tobacco-free policy, the ambassadors are

still in the beginning stages, and aim to educate OSU students and faculty about the repercussions of smoking, said Rebecca McAdams, a tobacco free coordinator at the Student Wellness Center.

The ambassadors were selected Fall Semester and spent much of that semester learning the tobacco-free policy. But as the ambassadors move into their second semester, they will start to apply what they’ve learned and start educating the community, McAdams said.

McAdams, who is a master’s candidate in public health and has worked as an admissions counselor, graduate assistant and academic counselor at OSU, said she helped review applications and educate the ambassadors during the Fall Semester and now works with the ambassadors on a biweekly basis to help prepare them for their work in the community.

“What I do is guide them as to what are the appropriate types of education that should be out there, and they can come to me

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‘The flow’s still going’ for ex-Buckeye Andrew Norwell Now a professional, the lineman is excelling in the NFL adrienne robbins Lantern reporter robbins.254@osu.edu New city, new team, new jersey, but some things never change for former Ohio State offensive lineman Andrew Norwell.

“The flow’s still going,” Norwell said. “It’s been five years since I’ve had a full haircut.”

Norwell wrapped up his career at OSU in 2013 before setting his sights on the next level. He is currently an offensive guard for the Carolina Panthers and played in 10 games with nine starts in the 2014 season.

It was not an easy journey for Norwell, who wasn’t invited to the NFL Scouting Combine

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Carolina Panthers guard Andrew Norwell (left) practices on Aug. 2 at Gibbs Stadium in Spartanburg, S.C.

For some students, searching for a job after graduation can drive them nuts. But one Ohio State graduate landed a job that literally involves driving nuts.

This isn’t an adaptation of “James and the Giant Peach.” Tom Shepherd took a job with Kraft Foods and has been driving around the country in the Planters NUTmobile after graduating last spring with degrees in psychology and strategic communication.

In the official job description, the position’s duties are listed as a Planters spokesperson, but the reality of the work is much more than that, Shepherd said. He and his coworkers had to attend training at “Peanut Prep” before they stepped into their official title as “Peanutters,” he added.

Brian Mallioux, the Planters NUTmobile coordinator, said the people who hold the job are more than just spokespeople.

“The job provides an interactive experience between the customers and the brand,” Mallioux said. “It allows for that face-to-face interaction with the public rather than sitting behind a computer screen on social media.”

He also said it provides great press for the company, but the company is trying to help the workers in their careers as well.

“The truly unique thing about the opportunity besides driving the nutty vehicle is the hands-on experience they’re able to receive and the nature in which they get to do so,” Mallioux said. “They’re managing their own PR firm on wheels while traveling across America.”

Shepherd isn’t alone in his giant peanut.

He is driving along with Meghan Krueger, a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Melany Rodriguez, a graduate of University of Texas Pan-American. And they’re just one of the teams.

There are three teams of Peanutters just like

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Student Legal Services brings advice to more than 11K KHALID MOALIM Asst. multimedia editor moalim.2@osu.edu It took Matthew Tatoczenko and his two roommates a little more than a month to get what they thought was their full security deposit refund on their Worthington Street apartment owned by NorthSteppe Realty.

The tenants were originally supposed to get back $1,250, said Tatoczenko, a fourth-year in computer science and engineering, but they only got $770 back after the landlords said they needed the rest for cleaning fees.

After thinking more about the situation, the roommates decided to contact Student Legal Services to help them file a lawsuit, which they won.

Since its start in 2011, SLS has provided legal services for more than 11,300 students. About 34 percent of those matters involve advice and representation for criminal and traffic offenses, and the remaining 66 percent involve landlordtenant issues, consumer transactions and debt collection defense, among others, said Molly Hegarty, managing director of the SLS. The SLS program was originally known as the Student Housing Legal Clinic, where its focus was on landlord and tenant matters, but after

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campus Nuts from 1A Shepherd’s that travel in NUTmobiles in different regions of the U.S. Since January, his team has been traveling around the western portion of the U.S., but he has taken the peanut all over the country.

A Westerville, Ohio, native, Shepherd said he is cherishing the experience he is getting away from the city he grew up in. He said the position is an adventure he never thought he’d experience.

“It’s not that I wanted to get out of Columbus, I just wanted to experience something else,” Shepherd said, adding that he likes the adventure that the position grants him, but couldn’t forget about his hometown.

“My favorite place might have been when I got to take the NUTmobile to Columbus for Red, White and Boom in July,” Shepherd said.

“But my favorite cities so far were Nashville around Christmas time, and San Diego was definitely one of my favorites.”

The three Peanutters are currently traveling a route that will start in Phoenix and tour most of the West before ending in Madison, Wisc.

But Shepherd said the peanut has taken him many places he otherwise would not have had the chance to go.

During his time as a Peanutter, Shepherd has done grocery market promos, stopped at festivals and been in parades.

Not only did the peanut appear in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2014, but it also attended the National Peanut Festival in Dothan, Ala. Mallioux said a huge purpose of the NUTmobile is to create “I

remember when” moments. He recalled a story of how a man from Tucson, Ariz., remembered dressing up as Mr. Peanut for his dad’s peanut store in 1954. The man brought the newspaper clippings to prove it. It’s these kinds of stories that Mallioux said make the position so great.

“What other job right out of college will provide you with a lifetime of stories and a multitude of responsibilities and experiences that are placed on you?” Mallioux said.

The stories and experiences are what Shepherd said he cherishes.

He added that spending so much time in the peanut has provided him with something that he never would have otherwise had.

“Every day is completely different,” he said. “We’re never in the same place twice.”

“We don’t have another company car,” Shepherd added. “If you want to go to Target to pick up toothpaste or something, you’re taking the NUTmobile.”

The NUTmobile, which is a 26-foot replica of a peanut on wheels, wasn’t Shepherd’s first choice for employment right out of college.

Instead, he said wanted to drive another iconic food mobile vehicle.

“I didn’t know the job existed until I applied for the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile,” Shepherd said. “Kraft responded by asking if I was also interested in this (Planters NUTmobile) opportunity.”

Now, Shepherd said he is happy with his home in the peanut, and in some ways he prefers it to the Weinermobile.

“I’m the only one who can go from saying ‘I’m a nut’ as a Buckeye to a nut as a Peanutter,” he said.

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OSU alumnus Tom Shepherd poses with Mr. Peanut in front of the Planters NUTmobile.

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a resolution passed by the Board of Trustees in 2011, the scope of the services expanded to providing help for criminal, misdemeanor, consumer transaction and traffic offenses, uncontested domestic matters and document drafting.

Students are required to pay a fee for Student Legal Services, which they can choose to opt out of. It costs $40 for the full year, or $23 if the student is enrolled in the spring and wasn’t in the fall. To enroll for the summer alone, a student would pay $6.

One of the staff attorneys, Alyson Tucker, a former Franklin County Public Defender, said she keeps in mind that students are scared to visit the SLS because they think visiting the office is related to having done something wrong.

“In a lot of our cases (the students) didn’t do anything wrong. I think they’re just afraid of ‘what if someone sees me going in here,’” Tucker said.

The biggest fear students usually have is that their parents will find out about any legal trouble they run into, which is most often underage consumption or possession of alcohol, Tucker said. However, everything between the attorney and the client is confidential and stays between the two, and unless otherwise noted, third parties such as parents can’t become involved, she added.

The more sensitive cases are those that involve stalking and sexual assault, which Tucker said becomes SLS’ top priority when a victim gets in touch with the office.

“We have enough flexibility and enough attorneys here to move things around,” Tucker said. “If you schedule an appointment two days out, I’m going to call you and see if you can come in the same day.”

Although Tucker said they will make every attempt to see clients for any case as soon as possible, the process of how the office goes about the case depends on the comfort level of the victim. First, the office meets with the victim when he or she feels fit. Then they are given advice on how to go about the matter, she added.

“It’s an area we did not expect to have so much representation in, but it’s become one of our most proud areas,” Tucker said of SLS’ handling of sexual assault and stalking cases.

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Since its establishment in 2011, Student Legal Services has served more than 11,000 OSU students.

The program works with student organizations, Greek Life and the Student Wellness Center’s Scarlet and Gray Financial Coaching program by holding events and information sessions, Hegarty said.

Hegarty said the SLS is working with the Sexual Violence Education and Support staff (from the Student Wellness Center) to come up with a signature event to raise awareness for Sexual Assault Awareness month in April.

“We do a lot in terms of outreach so that other offices on campus know who we are,” Hegarty said. “So that when they have a student in their office, and vice-versa, we know about each other so that we can refer to each other.”

But SLS’ legal guidance only goes so far. The office cannot represent students with a felony charge. The office instead gives a referral to another firm, as well as guidance regarding what to expect from legal proceedings, Hegarty said.

“They can come in here and start here and get referral resources from us,” she said.

Hegarty said SLS sees a variety of students throughout their college careers for many different reasons.

“We often are the services people don’t need until they need us,” Hegarty said.

The senior management then discusses the issue and sends its thoughts to the university president and provost. Armstrong said the president and provost make the final decision.

“There is no absolute temperature, snowfall amount or other specific hazard that triggers a closure,” Hedman said in an email. “Each situation is considered holistically — analyzing the entire picture rather than each individual component.”

Armstrong discussed three factors the group of organizations will look at when making its decision: Snow, ice, and temperature.

Thursday’s forecast called for extreme cold but no precipitation.

“Its all about the different conditions,” Armstrong said. “How long is the wind blowing? Is it a sustained wind or is it wind gusts?”

All of these questions are asked and discussed before the decision to cancel classes is made.

If the university decides students should attempt to brave the weather, Hedman offered a few tips.

“We recommend that students dress appropriately for the weather,” he said. “If they cannot attend class due to weather, as with any missed class, students are encouraged to contact the instructor and make arrangements. The university takes very seriously its obligation to provide the full measure of instruction to tuition-paying students, and for that reason, we try to remain open.”

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“I think my history of living with smokers is the biggest motivator. I know what it’s like to be around cigarette smoke all the time; it smells bad, it makes breathing difficult, and it’s just hard to concentrate on simple things like studying,” she said in an email. “Being an ambassador gives me the opportunity to help promote a healthy environment for me and other students.”

Fischer described the ambassador’s role as educating staff and students, as well as participating in events around campus.

“I think our main job, and what we spend most of our time doing, is approaching smokers on campus. It is our goal to be as respectful as possible when we inform them about the policy and ask them to put out their cigarettes,” she said.

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“Besides that, we also take part in campus cleanup to reduce cigarette litter, and we’re in the process of creating presentations for student organizations and staff so that everyone can have a better idea of what ‘tobacco-free’ really means.”

Aside from the ambassadors’ weekly work within the community, the ambassadors have scheduled events around campus. The next event will be the week after spring break and will be a tobacco-free litter cleanup that is open to students. The ambassadors will be partnering with the Ohio Union to clean up hot spots on campus where there is known to be a lot of litter from cigarette butts, McAdams said.

Brnjic said being an ambassador has provided her with many positive experiences, but added that the most rewarding experience came when she and another ambassador approached someone smoking on campus.

“In January, I approached a gentleman who was smoking on campus,” she said. “Another TFSA and I informed him on the policy, and if he could consider it the next time he lights a cigarette on campus. He informed us that he has been trying to quit, and he asked us for resources.”

The experience was important to Brnjic because she said she felt as if she was actually impacting someone’s life.

“This was really exciting for me to be able to directly affect this man’s life and improve his chances of kicking the habit for good,” Brnjic said.

For Fischer, learning the tobacco-free policy and being able to educate staff and students about the policy has been an integral part of her role as an ambassador.

“I’ve realized that very few people know the details of the tobacco-free policy. I care more about being a part of that change,” Fischer said.

For students interested in becoming tobacco-free student ambassadors next fall, there will be an application process and will require a weekly time commitment, McAdams said.

“At this point, they are required to do an average of three hours a week,” she said.

As the current tobacco-free student ambassadors progress into their second semester, Brnjic said she hopes the group continues to grow and expand as an organization, while also focusing on the goal of making OSU tobacco-free.

“We are growing and expanding. Becoming tobacco-free at Ohio State has to be a collective goal, so it is really important that we all work together,” she said. “We encourage any student organizations to contact us about having us present, or any students in general to contact us about how to join our program next year.”

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Norwell from 1A and ultimately went undrafted in the 2014 NFL Draft before signing with the Panthers as a rookie free-agent.

“Basically I worked my way up through the ladder to make the team,” Norwell said. “I just went out every day and I worked hard and coaches really liked my toughness and my physicality.”

It helps that the big guy — he has a 6-foot-6, 310-pound frame — has a big support system behind him at home.

His older brother, Chris Norwell, has had a big influence on him, he said, because he traveled a similar path. His brother played for the University of Illinois before signing with the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2008.

“I already went through the process of being an undrafted free agent in the NFL, so I kind of had some experience there,” Chris Norwell said.

Andrew Norwell said that put less pressure on him going in undrafted.

“I didn’t have to impress anybody … I just played football, what I’ve been doing all my life,” he said.

The long-haired guard might not have felt pressure, but he knew he would need to work to make the final cut, something his brother reminded him of often.

“He really had to prove himself to be worthy of a roster spot because in the NFL, that’s really hard,” Chris Norwell said.

The former OSU lineman didn’t know exactly how to describe the feeling of making an NFL team.

“They pulled me aside and they said I made it, I made the team,” he said. “It was just unbelievable. I’m on an NFL active roster. Words can’t explain that.”

Andrew Norwell was inactive for the first six weeks of the season before making his NFL debut in Green Bay on Oct. 19, when Trai Turner was injured in the first quarter.

“My O-line coach said, ‘All right, get in there.’ I ran on the field and basically took advantage of the opportunity … and I never got taken off the field since I was put in that day,” Andrew Norwell said.

He said he knew whichever team he went to he would make a difference, and he did. In his first win as an NFL starter on Dec. 7 in New Orleans, he cleared the way for the Panthers’ offense to accumulate 497 total yards, including 271 rushing yards, the thirdhighest in team history.

The lineman’s success was not surprising to his brother.

“He didn’t feel bad for himself. He prepared well each week, getting himself ready for his opportunity,” Chris Norwell said.

Chris Norwell said he was able to see his brother’s hard work pay off in person during the NFC Wild Card game on Jan. 3.

“It was just a really cool experience to see your little brother playing at the biggest stage possible,” he said.

Although that “little brother” is still adjusting to the NFL, there were many differences from college football he had to get used to, he said.

“The speed is one thing but the guys in general are way better. Everybody’s an all-star,” Andrew Norwell said. “You got to prove every day … You got to be perfect every day.”

Another big difference is what the guys are playing for, he added.

“With me working for a spot, you’re trying to take somebody’s livelihood away and they take it really seriously,” he said.

It’s a “high-pressure, high-performance job” and there are many changes to get used to, the Carolina Panther said, but he believes OSU prepared him well.

“We had a coaching change here when I was in college, different play book and I think that helped me out a lot.

(Coach Urban Meyer’s) program definitely prepared me for the next level,” he said.

Meyer’s arrival before Andrew Norwell’s junior season wasn’t the only way the Buckeyes prepared him for the NFL; the fans helped, too, he said.

“NFL fans are great. They really take pride in their team and want to see the guys be successful just like here at Ohio State,” Andrew Norwell said.

With his first NFL season under his belt, Andrew Norwell isn’t taking a break, and said he’s looking forward to next season.

“Last year around this time, I didn’t know where I was going,” he said. “This year I’m just training, working out, getting ready to go back down to Charlotte again.”

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opinion Conference at Yale brings together US students, European policymakers YANN SCHREIBER Lantern reporter schreiber.135@osu.edu Because I grew up in Europe, living in the United States is not a big deal for me.

Social norms are similar, and food tastes fairly alike. Politically, the European Union and the United States are steady allies and partners, facing the same problems and sharing the same values.

But I feel that my home, Europe, gets less attention in the U.S. than it deserves.

This is why 80 students from across the U.S. and one European college gathered at Yale University on Friday and Saturday for the first European Student Conference, where they met European policymakers and scholars to discuss specific policy proposals for the European Union.

David O’Sullivan, EU ambassador to the U.S., and former head of the World Trade Organization Pascal Lamy were among those in attendance.

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair and Ulrike Lunacek, vice president of the European Parliament, sent video messages with greetings and ideas.

“For years, students at American universities have lost interest in the future of the EU,” said Melina Sanchez Montanes, a student at Yale who is from Spain and vice president of the conference.

Unfortunately, preoccupied by the rise of China and the Asian tigers, caring about Europe in the U.S. does not seem fashionable anymore.

But the trans-Atlantic relationship cannot be neglected by either side, especially our next generation of leaders.

Through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which is a trade and investment deal between the EU and the U.S. that’s currently being negotiated, the EU and the U.S. might soon form the largest free-trade area known to man — and our generation will feel the most impact of these policies, as the TTIP will set rules for generations.

But it’s not only the TTIP that U.S. students should care about. The conference drafted policy proposals on subjects such as an innovative economy in Europe, migration in the Mediterranean, democratic participation and creating European solidarity. All proposals will be submitted to the European Union.

Even if military and economic perspectives shift, cooperation and mutual understanding between these two world powers will be crucial. I am convinced that the relationship between our two continents will still be shaping world affairs for decades to come.

This is why the conference founded the student-led think tank European Horizons, which aims at fostering the discourse on European policy in U.S. universities. Everyone with a genuine interest in the EU and transAtlantic relations is welcome — with or without knowledge of Europe and its institutions.

Students who attended the conference will establish chapters of the think tank, strongly connected to the headquarters of the think tank at Yale, on their campuses — and there is a plan to found one at Ohio State. (If you’re interested, do not hesitate to contact me.)

The U.S. and Europe share an important history and they share a future as well. This is why U.S. students should care more, engage more and be more curious about what is happening on the old continent.

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The first plenary of the European Student Conference is conducted at the Yale School of Management on Feb. 14.

Learn French, German or another European language! Travel to Europe for more than a 10-day tour of the continent’s capitals! Read and understand news coming from London, Paris, Berlin and Rome! Study the European legal and political system and contribute your visions and ideas to the European Horizons think tank to establish a long-term discourse on European politics and policy in the U.S. European Horizons is a network of young future leaders all across the U.S.

interested in a common subject. It will host speaker events and be a place for young Americans to voice their opinions on the EU through policy proposals and opinion pieces published by the national think tank and in news outlets.

Perhaps your thoughts and ideas from your safe — and potentially productive — distance will make an important difference in Europe, and, in the end, benefit us all on both sides of the Atlantic.

Ohio State students should take better care of off-campus streets Letter to the editor: As a graduate of the Ohio State University a long time ago, I occasionally get an opportunity to return to Columbus and walk around the old neighborhood. The campus looks really good; there are new buildings galore; it’s all neat and tidy.

Cross High Street, however, and it’s a different story.

It’s hard to believe that Ohio State students, capable of the discipline and toughness to win a national title playing sports, are also capable of leaving large amounts of rubbish in streets, on sidewalks and on front lawns. What is even harder to understand is that the residents of some streets and neighborhoods have so little self-respect that they do not pick up the trash in

their own front yards, much less take the time to tidy up the entire block.

How about walking the blocks with a few trash bags some Saturday morning and making it look like you have some pride in your homes?

OSU’s off-campus surroundings are disgusting. C’mon, show some pride, pretty-up your neighborhoods; it doesn’t take much time. Show the world you are proud of Columbus and of the Ohio State University.

Craig M. Wiester Minneapolis OSU Class of 1968 c.wiester@pcosp.net

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Members of Fishbowl Improv conduct a warmup exercise at their practice on Feb. 17 in University Hall. Fishbowl Improv will be hosting ‘The Tides’ improv festival this Feb. 20 and 21 at the Ohio Union.

OLIVIA HAMILTON Lantern reporter hamilton.889@osu.edu Fishbowl Improv plans to make a splash with its second improvisation festival, “The Tides,” at the Ohio Union this weekend .

Teams from colleges in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri, along with five professional groups from Chicago and New York, are traveling to Columbus to perform at the festival.

OSU’s other improvisation group, 8th Floor Improv, will also be performing at the festival.

Ethan Scheck, president of Fishbowl and a fourth-year in journalism, is managing the festival along with the group’s vice president and secretary.

This is Fishbowl’s second year putting

on this festival, which was called “The Tides of March,” a spin on the Ides of March, last year. Because this year’s festival takes place in February, it’s simply “The Tides.”

“The reason we wanted to do it in the first place, it’s fun first of all, and because you’re meeting people,” Scheck said. “You make connections with college people and meet people in professional groups.”

Stephen Doughten, vice president of Fishbowl and fifth-year in biomedical engineering and neuroscience, said the festival will showcase multiple forms of improvisation.

“All these different teams have learned all these different forms,” Doughten said.

“Everybody has this little bit of a different style. It’s like watching different television shows with all the different styles.”

Scheck said Fishbowl has not gotten stagnant because there’s always something new to try.

“There’s no shortage of differences or little quirks,” Scheck said, adding that he looks forward to sharing those elements of improv with others.

The festival this year includes Felt, a professional puppet improvisation show from Chicago .

The college teams will get to take part in workshops taught by professional improvisation teams, Doughten said.

“My favorite part of the festival is the workshops every time. People giving the workshops are top of the line. Every time, you walk out of there feeling like you’re better at something you love doing,” Doughten said.

Along with workshops, each team will give its own performance.

Scheck said at the end of the festival, the different improvisation groups will get a chance to perform alongside each other in “jam sets.”

“I’m very excited for jam sets, which means we’re going to have people from different groups performing together, and I am just excited to play with people I’ve been watching for the past few years,” Scheck said.

Adam Hacker, a second-year in psychology, discovered Fishbowl his freshman year after seeing a poster for its tryouts and will be a part of this year’s festival.

“I thought it sounded fun, and I tried out and got in. It’s been the experience of my college career,” Hacker said.

The festival starts on Friday at 8 p.m., doors at 7:30. It starts back up on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.

Editor’s note: Ethan Scheck is a former Lantern reporter.

OPINION

‘Fifty Shades’ bad for love HANNAH HERNER Lantern reporter herner.12@osu.edu “Fifty Shades of Grey” is nothing short of a cultural phenomenon. The series has sold more than 100 million copies (that’s more than every Nicholas Sparks book combined) and the movie made $81.7 million on its first weekend (that’s more than Avatar).

I’m not a fan of the whole thing, but I’m clearly outnumbered. People were undoubtedly attracted to the book because of the sex; that’s just human nature, but there has to be more to explain the wild popularity.

The actor who plays Christian Grey, Jamie Dornan, is an attractive man, but surely he’s widely admired for more than just his looks (Grey started off as a literary character, after all).

He has ambition, money and power, and he therefore looks great on paper. However, let’s not forget that he has a serious dark side and likes to borderline torture his sexual partners. How is this guy getting as much or more attention than, say, Noah from “The Notebook” did in his prime?

I can see swooning over a man writing 365 letters to you, but one who is obsessed with making you his victim? Not so much.

Maybe it’s the idea of a relationship outlined by a contract that is so appealing. We would all like to know what a person’s intentions are up front without having to actually get to know them. In this instance, though, the contract outlines an all-sexno-romance relationship in which he can control how much she sleeps, eats, works out and wears.

Remind me of what’s appealing about this?

It’s not about care; it’s about control. This type of relationship, while based on dominance, is cowardly. It’s a lot easier to hit someone and refuse to build a relationship with them than to be gentle and open.

Be it bad past relationships or rejections, it’s easy to become jaded toward love, making the first instinct to push the other person away. This kind of behavior is always glorified in films and books as beautifully tragic, but there’s

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Xanadu Boutique, an erotica shop in South Florida, has seen an increase in sales of adult toys and leather clothing since the rise in popularity of the series ‘50 Shades of Grey.’

“Maybe that’s what everyone is attracted to, the idea that you don’t have to partake in any emotional vulnerability to have a relationship.” nothing poetic about it. Everyone has the capacity to care about another person and to express it, no matter what their past experience: Christian Grey included.

It takes guts and a willingness to be vulnerable to show someone you care about them without knowing if they will reciprocate, but it’s a completely necessary step. It’s not always easy to act in a loving way toward a significant other, but relationships are all about making that effort.

Maybe that’s what everyone is attracted to, the idea that you don’t have to partake in any emotional vulnerability to have a relationship. Spoiler alert: Even

the characters in the book find out eventually that it’s not that simple.

Has romanticism died out?

Nicholas Sparks’ latest book adapted to a movie, “The Best of Me,” was his lowest opening to date, and his most successful movie, “The Notebook,” is more than 10 years old now. The concept of all-encompassing love seems too far-fetched in the modern age.

The idea of two people building an emotional relationship is more intimidating than an unhealthy, unequal, abusive relationship.

If a relationship like Ana and Christian in “Fifty Shades of Grey” is the new ideal, the new ideal for love isn’t love at all.

Rapper Drake’s surprise release of his new album, titled “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” dropped late Thursday night on iTunes when the 28-year-old Canadian rapper and former “Degrassi: The Next Generation” actor tweeted out a link to his new project. Amid speculation about whether the 17 songs constitute an album or a mixtape, “If You’re Reading This” was Drake’s first major musical project since the release of his third album “Nothing Was The Same” back in September 2013. The new album (or mixtape) also features collaborations with Lil Wayne, PartyNextDoor and Travis Scott.

Overall, Drake’s new release is laudable. His opening song “Legend” is a song with the typical Drake style of smooth R&B, but also including nice rhymes. The following track, “Energy,” features him returning to his newer style of rapping that boasts where he is and his position in the rap game.

His track “You & the 6” gives thanks to his mom and his home city of Toronto for the experiences given to him growing up, and is in close relationship to his previous songs about his relationship with his mother, like “Look What

You’ve Done” from his 2011 album “Take Care,” and “Too Much” from “Nothing Was The Same.”

Personally, the album is growing on me. It was difficult to judge at first because for many, Drake can never reproduce the tunes from his first two albums, the aforementioned “Take Care” that won a Grammy in 2013, and his debut release “Thank Me Later” from 2010.

However, Drake’s unique sound again shows itself on these tracks, and his rhymes reinforce why Drake is considered one of the best rappers in the game today.

One thing I think this album lacks is the versatility that Drake is known for. There are fewer slower songs on the album than what Drake usually releases and I always enjoy the nice balance of smooth R&B and rap.

Nonetheless, a few songs bring back memories of old school Drake, like the aforementioned “Legend” as well as “Jungle.”

I would say my top three tracks are “Used To,” which features Lil Wayne, “You & the 6” and “Energy,” but there isn’t a song that I dislike on the album. If I had to grade it, I would give it four stars. Nothing will probably replace his first two albums for most fans, but this is definitely a must-hear for fans of Drake and hopefully is a nice preview of his scheduled album titled “Views from the 6” that reportedly will come out later in 2015.

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‘Mockingbird’ sequel needs to be judged on own merits NINA BUDEIRI Lantern reporter budeiri.1@osu.edu President John F. Kennedy was elected president the year Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” was first published. With the book’s sequel being released this year, Lee knows how to keep a crowd waiting.

A manuscript of the sequel, titled “Go Set A Watchman,” was discovered by Lee’s lawyer in fall 2014, attached to a typescript copy of “To Kill a Mockingbird”, according to a HarperCollins Publishing press release.

But there is a twist — apparently Lee wrote this sequel to “Mockingbird” before even considering writing the classic novel that has come to be a staple in highschool classrooms across the country.

In the release, Lee said she wrote “Go Set a Watchman” in the 1950s featuring Scout as an adult woman.

“My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout’s childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout. I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told,” Harper said in the release. “I hadn’t realized it had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.”

The novel, set in 1950s Alabama, will examine Scout’s “personal and political (issues) as she tries to understand her father’s attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood,” according to the press release.

People are excited. The book hit No. 1 on Amazon’s best-seller list, and it won’t even be released until July.

Molly Farrell, assistant professor in the Ohio State Department of English, said the release of Lee’s second novel all these years later could change readers’ outlook on Lee.

“Harper Lee has spun a mystique for her readers, given that she shied away from the spotlight, and another novel might change the way people view her,” she said.

I have to agree with Farrell. I read “Mockingbird” in high school like everyone else in the country. I laughed when, during Tina Fey’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, she said she expected to be more eligible for the “Harper Lee Prize for small bodies of work.”

This Harper Lee fun fact has become a staple in American culture. The day of the announcement, I read a tweet from the president of the Boo Radley Society at OSU (known for random acts of kindness across campus) that said “Really hoping that Boo Radley doesn’t turn out to actually be a psycho in the TKAM sequel...

Otherwise @BooRadleyOSU is gonna get awkwaaard.”

Humor aside, to me, this shows exactly how much “Mockingbird” has influenced people’s lives, and I’m interested to see if the sequel will have a similar influence.

Especially with the racial tension going on across our country right now, I think Lee’s 1950s-set sequel might just shine a brighter light on these issues at just the right time.

Farrell also told me that she hopes readers will approach “Watchman” as not just the sequel to the beloved “Mockingbird,” but as a work of its own.

As long as readers “don’t expect a new ‘Mockingbird’ but rather are open to exploring a new work distinct unto itself, then they won’t be disappointed in their efforts to understand Lee and the market for her books in a new way,” she said.

I do agree with this, and think that no book should be judged by another book, but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t excited to be reunited with Scout and Atticus once more.

“Especially with the racial tension going on across our country right now, I think Lee’s 1950s-set sequel might just shine a brighter light on these issues at just the right time.”

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Harper Lee, who wrote ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, is pictured at the Stage Coach Cafe in Stockton, Ala., on Aug. 31, 2001. A recently-discovered sequel, ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ is due to be published in July 2015.

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Accounting by day, stringing by night Jeff Deibel has strung racquets at OSU since coach Ty Tucker played for the Bucks adrienne robbins Lantern reporter robbins.254@osu.edu Ohio State’s tennis teams go through an estimated 1,600 racquet strings a year and someone has to be there to make sure the racquets are restrung for practice, matches and tournaments.

Jeff Deibel has been stringing racquets at OSU for 35 years and is on call 24/7 for the Buckeyes men’s and women’s tennis teams.

“I have strung on holidays on quite a few occasions,” Deibel said of his constant work schedule. “I have strung on Christmas Eve … I have strung on New Year’s Eve, I’ve also strung on New Year’s Day.” Deibel holds a day job as an accounting manager at Ice Miller LLP. But after work, he goes to the indoor facility to pick up equipment in need of new strings.

“It could turn out to be an hour’s worth of work, to six or seven hours worth of work depending on what kind of mood they’re in,” Deibel said.

By they, Deibel is speaking of the players who sometimes hold off until the last minute to turn in their racquets, he said.

Sometimes that can mean racquets turning up just before the players have to leave for their next match.

“You find guys and girls emptying their bags, having memory loss of when they turned stuff in last,” Deibel said.

Although waiting until the last minute to turn in a racquet isn’t ideal, Deibel said some players go “overboard” turning racquets in early.

“Last time I looked, you can only play with one racquet at a time, even though they think they got to have three fresh racquets for every match,” Deibel said.

The players are aware that they do this to Deibel, but they look at it as a precaution, redshirt-senior Kevin Metka said.

“We give him so many racquets sometimes, especially after matches he gets a little angry with us … We don’t want our racquet to be almost broken and then you go into a match and you break it in an important point,” Metka said.

Deibel got his start while attending OSU, when former coach John Daly approached him to string for the Buckeyes.

“One year turned into two, and two years turned into 10, and now we’re on our second coach,” Deibel said.

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After more than 3 decades as the racquet stringer for OSU’s men’s and women’s tennis programs, Jeff Deibel has been around for two head men’s tennis coaches and a plethora of players. Deibel said he still has ‘come to Jesus’ conversations when players question how their racquets are strung.

In 1999, Ty Tucker took over the OSU men’s tennis program, and although the staff continued to change, Deibel continued on.

“He was stringing racquets when I was playing here, so I’ve known him well and obviously we have complete faith in what he does,” Tucker, who played for OSU from 1989-1991, said.

A lot has changed over the years, including Deibel’s responsibilities.

Part of that change has come with an advancement in racquet technology, as well as the number of different racquets players might have, Deibel said.

“It used to be a handful of racquets and a handful of strings,” he said. “Now there are so many different racquets and so many different strings.”

The players choose the type of string they want for their racquets, along with the tension they prefer when coming to OSU. But finding the right strings isn’t always easy.

“They have an idea of what they want, on the string side it’s a personal preference,” Deibel said.

“If they are playing with an expensive string … we may not be able to get it, it might just be too much out of the budget.

“They rely on me to figure something out.”

There is the occasional player who is more picky than others about their racquets, Deibel said. How people string a racquet can vary and, in some cases, players will disagree with the choice made by Deibel.

“Most of them, as long as it’s the right tension and the right feel, they don’t have any complaints, but there are some that can just be ridiculous,” he said. “Couple of them have sent them back and told me they don’t like the way it was done and then we have a come-to-Jesus meeting.”

Deibel said he normally wins those meetings with backup from Tucker, who “tells them they’re being ridiculous.” “(Deibel) is a handful, but a good guy,” Tucker said.

Jordan brothers following in family’s, Stiebers’ footsteps patrick kalista Lantern reporter kalista.4@osu.edu Growing up in a family with a wrestling background could prove to be difficult, especially when your father and uncle were successful.

Bo and Micah Jordan grew up in Ohio and have known they would be wrestlers for the majority of their lives. It was in their blood, as their father Jeff is the head coach of their alma mater St. Paris Graham High School, which has won 14 straight team state titles, and was an All-American at Wisconsin.

Their uncle, congressman Jim Jordan, like his brother, was a four-time state champion in high school and also became a two-time NCAA Champion for the Badgers.

Like the pair of Jordan brothers before them, Bo and Micah also each won four state titles, but chose a different path for college.

“I think my whole family wanted me to go to Wisconsin, especially my dad at the start, but he told me to do what felt right and Ohio State was the place I grew to love,” Bo said.

The Jordans — Bo is a redshirt-sophomore while Micah is a freshman — have now arrived at OSU, and have another set of brothers to look up to, the well-known Stiebers.

Redshirt-senior Logan Stieber, who has totaled seven championships in as many years dating back to high school, believes the Jordans can continue their success at a high level.

“They’re very similar, both really tough, both have four high school state titles and I think they can bring the same amount of hype and results as Hunter and I have,” Stieber said.

“They’re great people and they work really hard.”

Hunter Stieber, a redshirt-junior for the Buckeyes, was a four-time Ohio state champion as well.

OSU coach Tom Ryan said the two sets of brothers resemble each other.

“They’re (the Jordans) similar to the Stieber brothers in a lot of ways. Both are really close and obviously the success has been there,” Ryan said.

When comparing the brothers, Ryan said the elders — Logan and Bo — are as alike as the younger brothers.

“I would say in both cases the older brother is the more physical wrestler and the younger brother is a little prettier,” Ryan said. “The younger brothers use a little more speed and the older brothers use a little more braun.”

These aren’t traits that have developed overnight either, as even at a very young age, the Jordans were wrestling.

“We’ve been wrestling for as long as I can remember,” Bo said. “One of the earliest childhood memories I have is me wearing a diaper, knee pads and my dad’s shoes on the wrong feet trying to do penetration steps in the house.”

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Come-to-Jesus meetings and all, the team and Deibel seem to have kept a good relationship overall.

“He knows all of our racquets … He’s a really nice guy. We all love him,” Metka said.

Even with all the time, complaints and lastminute phone calls, Deibel said his second job has a way of overall staying “sort of fun and interesting.”

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Redshirt-sophomore Bo Jordan (right) and freshman Micah Jordan (above) make up 1 of 2 sets of brothers on the OSU wrestling team, along with Logan and Hunter Stieber. All 4 were 4-time Ohio state champions.

Along with being successful wrestlers, Ryan said the Jordans had a great upbringing.

“They are guys that will always get along with people and are very humble,” Ryan said. “Humility will always be a constant, despite the success they’ve had.”

Their cousin, Isaac Jordan, is currently wrestling for Wisconsin and is ranked No. 2 at 165 pounds. The cousins are the top two 165 pounders in the Big Ten, and could match up in the Big Ten Championship Finals.

“I just have to go out there and wrestle my best like every match,” Bo said. “I’m not going out there wrestling Isaac Jordan or any other name, I’m wrestling against myself and being the best I can be.”

Micah Jordan is redshirting this year and has posted a 29-1 record in various open tournaments throughout the season. The 149 pounder is the same weight as Hunter and, in the case of Stieber not being able to return from injury, Micah has stayed ready with the postseason looming.

“It’s been a good year, redshirting is allowing me to get ready for next year,” Micah said. “I definitely want to be wrestling with the varsity guys and my brother, but for now my main goal is just to get better for next year.”

Having his brother help him out with the transition to college and redshirting has helped, Micah said.

“It’s great having my brother here. We are drill partners and he pushes me and helps me out a lot,” he said. this story continues online at:

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The Cleveland Browns are not good.

But hey, fans, look over here.

The Browns are set to unveil a new logo in just a matter of days.

Guess what? It isn’t going to make a difference.

No matter what monstrosity of a logo Jimmy Haslem and his cohorts show to the suffering fans of arguably the worst franchise of the last 15 years, it isn’t going to change the product on the field.

And if you are a Cleveland native like myself, a new logo is just the latest in a heap of distractions.

Whether it be text-gate, Johnny’s rehab or practically begging a journeyman quarterback to return to his hometown team, the Browns have run out of options to keep fans optimistic.

Imagine being in the meeting room where a select group of Browns officials gathered, and Haslem got up and said, much like coach Klein at halftime of the Bourbon Bowl, “Anybody got an idea?”

And some great visionary, some modern-day Confucius, stood up and said, “Let’s change the logo.”

From what I might ask?

The elf, the mascot dog “Chomps,” or the actual real-life dog “Swagger”?

The point is the Browns didn’t know their own identity off the field and they certainly don’t know what it is on the field.

How about before rebranding with a new sad excuse for a

logo, fixing the problem on the field?

That, however, might be too tough a task as it is, because let’s be honest, who wants to come to Cleveland to play for the Browns?

Now, before you jump on my back about thrashing the 216, let me be clear: I am a Cleveland native. I grew up just 30 minutes south on I-71 in Brunswick, Ohio.

I’ve been to the “upgraded” FirstEnergy Stadium, or whatever it’s called nowadays.

I was in the stands on the 40-yard line when “Johnny Football” made his first NFL start. I sat there for 58 of the 60 minutes (‘cause who could stand all 60 minutes of that debacle?) just to watch the Browns put up 107 yards of offense with the player who was supposed to be the franchise player behind center.

Even with a slightly aboveaverage defense, let me ask you: If you weren’t from Cleveland, and had no ties to the city, would you want to wear the Orange and Brown?

The answer is a resounding no.

Even if they come up with some NFL “Dawg” version of the Oregon Duck uniforms or put Jim Brown’s face as the logo on the 50-yard line, it won’t change the disaster that takes the field each Sunday.

So if the Browns are going to change the logo, at least make it something worthwhile.

Perhaps a dollar sign, to remind fans of how much money they are going to be wasting on tickets and apparel just to see the rebranded franchise continue to be a bottom-dweller for another 15 seasons.

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