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A faculty emeritus has lost his OSU email privileges because he abused the system.

ARTS&LIFE

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The Visible Invisible, a student organization, looks to shed light on the horrors of homelessness.

COMMENTARY

SPORTS

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Arts&Life Editor Sallee Ann Ruibal gives her take on the WWE’s new Women’s Division.

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OSU softball’s Shelby Hursh pitched a no-hitter during a game against Penn State on Wednesday.

The student voice of the Ohio State University

Thursday, April 7, 2016

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Year 136, Issue No. 32

Survey shows faculty discontent with OSU

Responses of Arts and Sciences professors reveal concerns about corporatization, bureaucracy Strongly disagree

Disagree

Neutral

The concept that OSU is a business and should be run using corporate strategies and practices is a useful one.

Agree

Strongly agree

The idea of “monetizing” OSU’s assets (e.g., the recent 50-year lease of the parking facilities, and the planned sale of OSU’s power plants and power grid) is a good one.

90.6%

76.4%

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Students and faculty join together in front of President Michael Drake’s office in Bricker Hall on April 6 in hopes of giving a voice to organizations that feel they have been silenced.

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What began as a student rally that started outside of Thompson Library at about 3:30 p.m. turned into a sit-in in front of University President Michael Drake’s office Wednesday evening.

Speakers inside Bricker Hall talked about being “silenced” by the administration when trying to make changes through their organizations.

Student organizations involved in the sit-in included Real Food OSU, United Students Against Sweatshops, Still We Rise, OSU

Student activist coalition occupies Bricker Hall

Coalition for Black Lives and the Committee for Justice in Palestine. The organizations rallied behind the hashtag #ReclaimOSU on Twitter.

Real Food OSU and OSU Divest said they want OSU to provide full access to the annual budget and a financial adviser to detail exactly where those funds are being spent and what corporations OSU is supporting.

The coalition’s second demand is that the administration agrees to one of the three proposed campaigns — Real Food OSU, United Students Against Sweatshops or OSU Divest — as a sign of good faith to continue working with the coalition, as stated in its press release.

“Several campaigns have been launched this year, and Real Food

Lantern reporter lehmkuhl.31@osu.edu Although Ohio State has plans to renovate its landmark stadium, Mother Nature decided to make some preliminary changes of her own.

The Block “O” logo above the south-side student section in Ohio Stadium facing the Lincoln Tower Park is in need of repair because of damage from Saturday’s high winds.

“While the light box and structure of the sign were not impacted, the translucent plastic cover was cracked in several places,” Ohio State spokesman Justin Moss said

in an email.

Construction workers from Columbus Sign Company began taking the existing face off the sign on Tuesday to start the process of fixing the OSU logo.

Jared Adkins, a Columbus Sign Company worker at the stadium, said that the damage done to the sign was only cosmetic.

“It’s going to be all aluminum now instead of plastic,” Adkins said.

The upgrade to the sign at the stadium comes on the heels of OSU announcing a renovation of the ’Shoe starting in 2017.

Moss said that an engineer will have to determine if there was any additional damage done to the op-

3.6%

0.7 2.9

Research and scholarship have been improving over the past 5 years.

20.5

7.8%

1.3 6.5

Over the last 5 years, the bureaucracy at OSU has: Greatly increased

Increased

Neutral

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Greatly decreased

89.9%

51.6

34.7% 12.7

38.5% 26.7%

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SOURCE: FACULTY SURVEY TEAM

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has been fighting for their campaign the last two years to get ethical sourcing for food on campus,” said Justice Harley, a first-year in African-American and AfriPROTEST CONTINUES ON 3

Ohio Stadium sustains wind damage Emily Lehmkuhl

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posite side of the sign, which faces the football field.

There is no timetable on how long the repairs will take, as an engineer has yet to assess the damage, Moss said. There is also no word on how much the repair will cost.

Moss said that there was no one injured in relation to the damaged sign, but there was more damage done around campus due to the wind.

“On Saturday evening, pieces of scaffolding planks and plywood fell and damaged a vehicle outside of Morrill Tower,” Moss said.

No one was injured by the falling scaffolding.

With national decreases in state and federal funding for education and rising tuition costs, the idea that colleges and universities should run more like businesses has been supported by many looking for a way to make higher education more efficient and affordable.

Yet, in a recent survey within Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences, faculty members expressed disagreement with the business model of education. Just over 90 percent of those who responded to the anonymous survey disagreed or strongly disagreed with the use of corporate strategies and practices to run OSU. The surveyed faculty held similarly negative views of the school’s bureaucracy, with just over half of respondents saying that bureaucracy at OSU has “greatly increased,” and more than a third saying that it has “increased,” over the past five years.

Of the 1,445 ASC faculty invited via email to participate in the survey over 15 days in November, 563 responses were received, although two were completely blank, according to a member of the Faculty Survey Team. Emails

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were sent to faculty members’ university email addresses and included a link to the survey. The link was non-transferrable, and the recipient could only access the survey from the email, which restricted one from taking the survey more than once.

In an open letter posted on its website, the FaST team said it was inspired to conduct this survey — the first one it has done — in order to “provide an alternative mechanism for determining and communicating faculty opinion on crucial issues facing our university.”

Harvey J. Graff, an Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and professor of English and history, said he thinks the results clearly show a breakdown in communication between faculty and administrators.

“We do not have management that is integrated at any level. We have terrible communications, and we desperately need much better communications at every level,” he said. “OSU could be a much, much better institution than it is.

We have the human resources, but we need this communication and the integration of leadership that we do not have.”

In an interview with The Lantern, Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Bruce McPheron SURVEY CONTINUES ON 3

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Former professor’s email rights revoked Boris Mityagin, former professor in the math department, claims OSU attacking free discussion Sam Harris

For The Lantern harris.2373@osu.edu A retired Ohio State professor with a history of sending controversial emails to his colleagues claims that the university has revoked his email privileges.

Boris Mityagin, faculty emeritus, received notice on March 28 that several of his Ohio State email privileges would be revoked. Mityagin claims that the university has no right to do so and is attacking his right to free discussion.

This notice came after multiple warnings from Vice Provost for Academic Policy and Faculty Resources Kay Wolf and Department of Mathematics Chair Luis Casian. Casian wrote his official notice to Mityagin by email, which was obtained by The Lantern through Mityagin.

“You have ignored my requests over several years and continue to send SPAM to the department,” said Casian in the email. “Moreover, your mass emails often con-

tain language which is disrespectful to others in the department and the university.”

One such incident involved several remarks surrounding the Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies. Wolf said in an email that Mityagin allegedly referred to the department as the Department of “Women, Gender and Rape Culture Studies” in an email on March 18 that reached more than 60 university faculty and staff members as well as several university LISTSERVs. Additionally, Mityagin is cited as forwarding an email referring to Title IX training as “consensual sexual penetration training” from the same email in December.

Despite these allegations, Mityagin maintains that the department had no right to take away any of his email privileges. He has also denied saying any of the aforementioned comments.

Benjamin Johnson, director of media relations for OSU, stated in an email, “The individual in question was removed from the list for failing to follow the guidelines.”

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OSU Faculty Emeritus Boris Mityagin.

OSU spokesman Chris Davey declined comment outside of Johnson’s statement.

Wolf warned Mityagin that his email account could be deactivated in an email on March 25, which said if he continued the “harassing and demeaning tone” of his emails and the abuse of the email system, the process of discontinuing the OSU email account would begin.

Mityagin said the ultimate decision of the mathematics department was to remove him from all mailing lists and deactivate three of his proxy addresses. He will

continue to have a fully operational account from which he can still send and receive emails, Casian said.

Mityagin has claimed that they have no grounds to impose changes on his emails, claiming that the department’s “justification is phony” in an email to The Lantern. “(The) administrators’ decisions are not justified by any OSU rule or regulation,” the email stated. “Kay Wolf talks about ‘tone’ and her feelings, she does not quote any rules.”

Following the removal of Mityagin from all department mailing lists, Casian sent a follow-up email outlining the deactivation of Mityagin’s proxy addresses, which are emails that use OSU’s servers but access them through a different address, such as @math. osu.edu. Casian wrote that Mityagin would have the opportunity to have the addresses reactivated should he “sign a contract clearly stating that (he) will abide by the email guidelines in the policy document ‘Some guidelines for departmental interaction.’”

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Despite this offer, Mityagin said he emailed Casian requesting the “text of the contract” directly following notification of the addresses’ deactivation on March 29. Mityagin claims he has still not yet received the contract in question or a response of any kind.

In the past, The Lantern has received emails from Mityagin, some referring to an article published in December.

One such email stated, “If The Lantern is honest and really wants to prevent suicide, write a series of articles on false rape accusations. If OSU is honest and really wants to prevent suicide, restore the definition of consent to a sane one and remove consent classes that automatically treat men as potential rapists.”

Mityagin has said that the removal of his proxy email addresses impedes his ability to stay in touch with his “scientific contacts with colleagues.”

“This is a tip of an iceberg: frontal attack on free discussion of academic issues on campus,” Mityagin said.

3-D printing helps pups, people Abby Vesoulis

For The Lantern vesoulis.3@osu.edu When Maddie, a 1-year-old German shepherd, came to the Ohio State University Veterinary Medical Center, her future looked bleak. The dog had a serious pelvic fracture through her left hip joint, likely the result of being hit by a car.

Luckily for Maddie, Dr. Jonathan Dyce, associate professor of small animal orthopedics, had a plan. Dyce 3-D printed Maddie’s deformed limb to help visualize and plan her reconstructive operation.

Dogs like Maddie have benefited from the use of 3-D printing in medicine, and humans can, too. Across all medical fields at OSU, experts have been cultivating uses and advancements in three-dimensional printing. Dr. David Dean, associate professor of plastic surgery at the Wexner Medical Center, uses 3-D printing to help patients, and he said he is working on a project aimed to help wounded veterans who suffer facial traumas.

Injured soldiers are surviving injuries they had not in the past due to very sophisticated body armor and improvements

in medicine. However, the veterans’ faces, hands and feet are still exposed to the elements of war, Dean said.

“So when an improvised explosive device detonates or if they are hit by a rocket-propelled grenade or something like that, those exposed areas can be affected,” Dean said.

Dean is currently working on an approach of bone regeneration in which they will 3-D print re-absorbable jaw implants for traumas such as those sustained by these veterans. Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the goal is for the project’s research to be applicable in a clinical setting by 2018, he said.

Current procedures require taking an existing material off a shelf and trimming it down to fit the patient.

“Unless you fully customize these types of implants, you run the risk of damaging surrounding tissue,” Dean said. Using a 3-D printer allows for a patient-specific implant.

Dyce was also able to use the additive manufacturing technology to help Quasimodo, an American Staffordshire bull terrier mix. The dog faced dislocation of its

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MUSICAL The Ohio State School of Music is set to perform “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” this weekend. ON PAGE 5

VISIBLE INVISIBLE:

Art exhibition aims to capture struggles of homeless youth

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Assistant Sports Editor stankiewicz.16@osu.edu The concrete walls of Ohio State’s Knowlton Hall are set to feature an art exhibition that challenges the stereotypes of homelessness.

The art show is being put on

by The Visible Invisible, a student organization, in conjunction with MINT Collective, a Columbus-based group of multidisciplinary artists, and Star House, a university-assisted drop-in center for homeless youth in Central Ohio.

On display will be art created by some of the homeless youth receiving services from Star House, members of The Visible Invisible and artists from MINT Collective.

A documentary the student organization filmed, which tells the stories of a former homeless youth and a young person in transition who spent time at Star House, will also debut.

“You probably see (homeless youths) on High Street, and you just don’t know it,” said Juli Sasaki, primary leader of The Visible

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Shane Bradford works on his painting at Star House.

Invisible. “We’re hoping the show will make people less scared and break the stereotypes of homelessness.”

The Visible Invisible is a relatively new organization on campus. It was officially recognized in Autumn 2015, although the vision for the club has origins from well before then.

Sasaki, a second-year in arts management, spearheaded a photography project while volunteering for Star House in July 2014.

Using cameras that had been donated to Star House, the youths were given a crash course on how to use cameras and instructed to go around Columbus, documenting parts of their lives.

Sasaki said the prompt was to “capture something visible to you but invisible to everyone else.”

What was depicted in the images unearthed harrowing realities about the lives of the homeless young people in Columbus.

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The collaborative art project that is set to be on display at the April 8 art show.

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OSU School of Music presents ‘Sweeney Todd’ Ashley Wilkinson

For The Lantern wilkinson.178@osu.edu The Ohio State School of Music is looking to make a killing this weekend with the premiere of its production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”

“Sweeney Todd” is a musical that explores the theme of revenge when Todd comes back from a trip to discover that his wife had been poisoned. This causes Todd to snap and plot a violent revenge against the man who killed her and is now caring for his daughter.

Josh Cook, a fourth-year in vocal performance, plays Todd.

“Sweeney is always thinking, always planning, always motivated in his action, yet physically he is often still and barely engaged with the scene,” Cook said in an e-mail. “At the drop of a pin, however, Sweeney goes from nearly comatose into a psychopathic rage, venting his frustrations at the world.”

Cook said that he has loved the play ever since the sixth grade, which helps him immensely while acting as Todd. He was first introduced to the production while in a musical-theater class in elementary school.

“It had everything a great piece

“The story is inseparable from the music... the orchestration closely matches the mood of the story throughout.”

Mark Gnatowski First-year in history and music

of art needs: beautiful music, a heart-wrenching story, strong acting and plenty of action to say the least,” Cook said.

The music in this production has many more musicians compared to the classic version of the play. Cook said the typical eightpiece orchestra arrangement has been expanded to a 32-person orchestra conducted by Russel Mikkelson, a professor in the OSU School of Music. “(Mikkelson is) a real singer’s conductor, someone who not only knows the orchestral colors and sounds but he knows the story we are creating on stage, a story that he helps us bring to life, breathing with us and helping lead us to its conclusion,” Cook said.

Mark Gnatowski, a first-year in history and music, is a member of the orchestra and agreed with Cook about the importance of the

A promotional poster for the upcoming production of “Sweeney Todd.” music to the story.

“The story is inseparable from the music,” Gnatowski said in an email. “The orchestration closely matches the mood of the story throughout.”

The story of “Sweeney Todd” made it to the big screen in 2007 when famed director Tim Burton released a film interpretation of the musical starring acclaimed actor Johnny Depp. Cook and Gnatowski agreed that although the movie is a fine representation of

the original Broadway production, the School of Music’s version is superior to the movie in many aspects.

Cook claims that although the movie features a large amount of blood and violence, the true moral and meaning of the story gets lost in translation.

“The stage production brings the audience a story: a story of loss, of pain, of vengeance,” he said.

Gnatowski added, “By paring

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Performances are set to take place at Mershon Auditorium on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for senior citizens, Alumni Association members, and OSU faculty, staff and students.

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WWE suplexes the patriarchy Sallee Ann Ruibal Arts&Life Editor ruibal.1@osu.edu

When my ex-boyfriend and I were at WWE Monday Night RAW in January at Nationwide Arena, he was transfixed. Paige — a Diva, then-WWE terminology for “female wrestler” — was watching passionately from the ropes as two other Divas threw each other around. Paige started pounding her fists on the ring floor.

My ex’s jaw dropped.

“What?” I asked.

“Boobs.”

At Wrestlemania 32 this past weekend, it was announced that the Diva’s Division of WWE would be rebranded as the Women’s Division. The pink, sparkly butterfly belt was replaced with a simple red belt, similar to other

WWE belts.

The change is symbolic of women in WWE being taken more seriously. No one is going to argue that Monday Night RAW requires the same amount of skill as mixed martial arts brawls or National Championship football games.

WWE is fake, staged, whatever adjective you’d like. But what’s not up for debate is that women wrestlers require the same amount of respect as their male counterparts.

Graphic designer and fellow wrestling fanatic Kate Foray has a website, rawbreakdownproject. com, where she posts infographics breaking down how much time WWE devotes to subjects in each RAW episode.

In her 16-week analysis focusing just on female wrestlers, Foray found that an average of 6 percent total airtime each week was spent

But dedicated fans’ adoration is more than skin-deep

on women.

It’s as reasonable to ask for Becky Lynch to immediately have equal airtime to John Cena as it is to ask the entire male population to not notice the way a female wrestler’s breasts bounce. Females will also notice the incredible pecs and biceps on Cena. It’s what happens when you have in-shape entertainers wearing just spandex and speedos. But dedicated fans’ adoration is more than skin-deep, and they notice the athleticism and charisma of all Superstars, whatever their gender. Talent is talent,

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Looking to project these truths for a larger audience, Sasaki organized an exhibition at the Global Gallery in Clintonville where the photographs were displayed.

The event was a major success, with many of the attendees raving about the impact the art had and asking if more exhibitions were planned for the future, Sasaki said.

It helped plant the seed for the creation of The Visible Invisible.

After taking a year off from school in Europe, Sasaki and a few friends began cultivating the work for fall. Dorian Bell, a fourth-year in public affairs, said a brainstorming session was held on how to continue engaging Columbus’ homeless youths.

“Art is what stuck,” said Bell, who is also the group’s treasurer.

The Visible Invisible started hosting art classes at Star House every Saturday afternoon in the fall. Some of the classes have themes or a particular kind of art as the focus, said Sandy Sechang, a fourth-year in city and regional planning and the group’s secondary leader. Those can range from Mexican metal art to monochromatic self-portraits to knitting.

However, those are just suggestions for what to try, said Hannah Torma, a member of The Visible Invisible. It’s not like a middle-school art class where creating the different styles is required.

“We really like to encourage them to work on whatever they want to work on,” Torma said.

“Whatever appeals to them.”

The reason for that is because it’s intended to be a relaxed space where youths can express themselves through art while helping dissolve stereotypes one brush stroke at a time. It’s more about the social aspect than the art itself, Torma said.

Attendance at the classes can fluctuate week by week, but for some, like Shane Bradford, it’s an essential part of their Saturday.

Bradford used to frequent Star House from October until January, when he enrolled in classes at OSU. The first-year in psychol-

“It’s a great feeling to make art while not being graded or criticized.

Shane Bradford First-year in psychology

ogy said he still makes the near 30-minute walk each Saturday to make art.

“It’s always a lot of fun,” Bradford said. “It’s a great feeling to make art while not being graded or criticized. Everyone is always so positive about what we make, too.”

At the event on Friday, one of Bradford’s paintings is a part of a large-scale collaborative piece.

Bradford’s was a yellow smiley face with the words “positiveness” and “hope” painted in black.

He is also one of the two people featured in the documentary.

“I painted that because it’s what drives me,” Bradford said, adding that he feels with art, “the meaning behind it is usually what’s important.”

The Visible Invisible wishes to use Friday’s show as a catalyst to continue eroding false ideas about homelessness, particularly the youth suffering.

“We’re hoping to keep taking down the barriers,” Sechang said.

The art exhibition held in the Knowlton Hall Gui Auditorium will take place Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.

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WWE suplexes the patriarchy Sallee Ann Ruibal Arts&Life Editor ruibal.1@osu.edu

When my ex-boyfriend and I were at WWE Monday Night RAW in January at Nationwide Arena, he was transfixed. Paige — a Diva, then-WWE terminology for “female wrestler” — was watching passionately from the ropes as two other Divas threw each other around. Paige started pounding her fists on the ring floor.

My ex’s jaw dropped.

“What?” I asked.

“Boobs.”

At Wrestlemania 32 this past weekend, it was announced that the Diva’s Division of WWE would be rebranded as the Women’s Division. The pink, sparkly butterfly belt was replaced with a simple red belt, similar to other

WWE belts.

The change is symbolic of women in WWE being taken more seriously. No one is going to argue that Monday Night RAW requires the same amount of skill as mixed martial arts brawls or National Championship football games.

WWE is fake, staged, whatever adjective you’d like. But what’s not up for debate is that women wrestlers require the same amount of respect as their male counterparts.

Graphic designer and fellow wrestling fanatic Kate Foray has a website, rawbreakdownproject. com, where she posts infographics breaking down how much time WWE devotes to subjects in each RAW episode.

In her 16-week analysis focusing just on female wrestlers, Foray found that an average of 6 percent total airtime each week was spent

But dedicated fans’ adoration is more than skin-deep

on women.

It’s as reasonable to ask for Becky Lynch to immediately have equal airtime to John Cena as it is to ask the entire male population to not notice the way a female wrestler’s breasts bounce. Females will also notice the incredible pecs and biceps on Cena. It’s what happens when you have in-shape entertainers wearing just spandex and speedos. But dedicated fans’ adoration is more than skin-deep, and they notice the athleticism and charisma of all Superstars, whatever their gender. Talent is talent,

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Looking to project these truths for a larger audience, Sasaki organized an exhibition at the Global Gallery in Clintonville where the photographs were displayed.

The event was a major success, with many of the attendees raving about the impact the art had and asking if more exhibitions were planned for the future, Sasaki said.

It helped plant the seed for the creation of The Visible Invisible.

After taking a year off from school in Europe, Sasaki and a few friends began cultivating the work for fall. Dorian Bell, a fourth-year in public affairs, said a brainstorming session was held on how to continue engaging Columbus’ homeless youths.

“Art is what stuck,” said Bell, who is also the group’s treasurer.

The Visible Invisible started hosting art classes at Star House every Saturday afternoon in the fall. Some of the classes have themes or a particular kind of art as the focus, said Sandy Sechang, a fourth-year in city and regional planning and the group’s secondary leader. Those can range from Mexican metal art to monochromatic self-portraits to knitting.

However, those are just suggestions for what to try, said Hannah Torma, a member of The Visible Invisible. It’s not like a middle-school art class where creating the different styles is required.

“We really like to encourage them to work on whatever they want to work on,” Torma said.

“Whatever appeals to them.”

The reason for that is because it’s intended to be a relaxed space where youths can express themselves through art while helping dissolve stereotypes one brush stroke at a time. It’s more about the social aspect than the art itself, Torma said.

Attendance at the classes can fluctuate week by week, but for some, like Shane Bradford, it’s an essential part of their Saturday.

Bradford used to frequent Star House from October until January, when he enrolled in classes at OSU. The first-year in psychol-

“It’s a great feeling to make art while not being graded or criticized.

Shane Bradford First-year in psychology

ogy said he still makes the near 30-minute walk each Saturday to make art.

“It’s always a lot of fun,” Bradford said. “It’s a great feeling to make art while not being graded or criticized. Everyone is always so positive about what we make, too.”

At the event on Friday, one of Bradford’s paintings is a part of a large-scale collaborative piece.

Bradford’s was a yellow smiley face with the words “positiveness” and “hope” painted in black.

He is also one of the two people featured in the documentary.

“I painted that because it’s what drives me,” Bradford said, adding that he feels with art, “the meaning behind it is usually what’s important.”

The Visible Invisible wishes to use Friday’s show as a catalyst to continue eroding false ideas about homelessness, particularly the youth suffering.

“We’re hoping to keep taking down the barriers,” Sechang said.

The art exhibition held in the Knowlton Hall Gui Auditorium will take place Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.

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OSU looks to break losing streak at Johns Hopkins Zachary Konno Lantern reporter konno.8@osu.edu

The Ohio State men’s lacrosse team is looking to put an end to its five-game losing streak as it travels to Baltimore to go up against No. 16 Johns Hopkins (5-4, 0-1) on Saturday.

OSU (5-6, 0-1) has not won since March 6. All five of the games that the Buckeyes have come out on the losing side of during their streak came against teams ranked in the nation’s top 20. OSU coach Nick Myers emphasized the need to not look in the past, however, and instead gear up for what’s next.

“We play an incredible schedule, and now we’re in conference play,” Myers said. “The focus is on Hopkins.”

OSU junior attacker Austin Shanks said the focus in the midst of the losing streak and upcoming matchup against the Blue Jays is internal improvement.

“We’re talking about ourselves.

We really need to come together as a group,” he said. “It’s about us — it’s not about Hopkins.”

Johns Hopkins comes into the game after losing to Rutgers 16-9 on Saturday. Still, the Blue Jays will likely present a tough test for the Buckeye defense. They rank 13th in the nation in scoring offense, registering 12.56 goals per game.

The offense is led by sophomore attacker Shack Stanwick and senior attacker Ryan Brown.

Stanwick leads the team in points (42) and assists (28), and Brown leads the team in goals (25) and is ranked 14th in the nation in goals per game.

One of the thorns in the Buckeyes’ side this season has been playing away from the friendly confines of Columbus. They are just 1-3 on the road this year.

Myers said extra concentration is needed whenever a team goes on the road for an away game, which OSU has lacked so far.

“You’ve got to be able to come out in an environment that maybe

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OSU redshirt senior shortstop Maddy McIntyre (30) during a game against Penn State on April 6 at Buckeye Field.

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yet back-to-back strikeouts from sophomore Ashley Goodwin and junior Anna Kirk halted OSU’s lead at three runs.

Hursh hit four batters in her outing, including junior Shelby Miller, who advanced to second on a passed ball in the sixth inning.

However, the Nittany Lions failed to score after Miller’s shoe slipped off on her way to third after Knief put a ball in play to the left side of the infield.

Both OSU and Penn State went down without scoring for the remainder of the game, as both offenses struggled to even put the ball in play.

Game 2 Thunder and lightning rolled in during the top of the sixth inning, sending the second game into a severe weather delay with the Buckeyes up two. After lightning continued to strike and the dark clouds passed through, Prantl hit a two-run homer to solidify the Buckeyes’ 12-10 win.

In the bottom of the first inning, Prantl recorded her ninth double of the season but was left stranded. With a chance to make a statement and two runners on, Penn State junior Kristina Brackpool ripped a three-run home run to left field to give Penn State its

first lead of the day.

The Buckeyes answered with a home run by Machovina, which brought in White with no outs.

The homer, the first baseman’s first of the year, sparked OSU’s offense, which later tied up the game on Bayne’s single to center field. Prantl followed with another double to bring in two runners, and Leonard hit a sacrifice fly to right field to bring in Bayne from third.

“Our offense is obviously there, especially after putting up 12 runs in that second game,” Machovina said.

With the fourth home run to left field of the day, Jones hit a solo shot to lead off the third inning to narrow the Buckeyes’ lead to two.

Jones’ homer and Miller’s follow-up single up the middle sent OSU junior starting pitcher Lena Springer to the bullpen and freshman Morgan Ray to the mound.

Ray struggled to stop a hot Penn State offense with the bases loaded, as the Nittany Lions reclaimed the lead on senior Erin Pond’s bases-clearing double.

While the first game only saw one pitcher on each side, both the Buckeyes and Nittany Lions utilized much of their pitching staffs to combat tough offenses. Penn

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OSU sophomore defender Brendan Barger (45) during a game against Notre Dame on March 26 at Ohio Stadium. is uncomfortable and really focus on you,” Myers said. “It brings you together, and I think we’re preparing hard and understand what it’s going to take to … compete for a Big Ten win.”

Finding offense OSU’s offense has struggled as of late. The Buckeyes have failed to score in the double digits the last six games, something Myers State freshman Madison Seifert took an early exit, giving way to Laubach to make a reprise in the circle. After Ray allowed another run in the fourth inning, Hursh also returned to the mound.

“We all have different roles, and those roles change,” Hursh said.

“And we just have to be ready to go in and shut teams down.”

OSU tied it at eight on Bayne’s booming two-run homer to center field and then retook the lead in the following inning on Machovina’s single through the gap. Freshman Bri Betschel lengthened the lead to two on a slap hit past Furuya to bring pinch runner Megan Choinacky in from second base.

Prantl’s home run brought the score to 12-8 heading into the top of the seventh inning, where the Nittany Lions brought only two runs across the plate, sealing a day that featured their first two Big Ten losses of the year.

Coming up OSU is scheduled to make a trip to Rutgers to take on the Scarlet Knights in a weekend series. Friday’s game is scheduled to start at 3 p.m., with Saturday and Sunday’s affairs set for 1 p.m. and noon, respectively.

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said is because of a number of factors.

“There’s some youth, there’s some inexperience. We’ve had some injuries. We’ve had to move guys around,” Myers said. “But there’s been no excuses. We’ve just got to do a better job of generating offense.”

One player the offense has missed is sophomore attacker Col-

in Chell, who returned from injury on Sunday against Penn State and provided a goal and two assists in the loss.

“He adds another dynamic piece that really helps us offensively. That’s not just scoring goals, that’s ground balls (and) toughness plays,” Shanks said of Chell. “He’s an all-over-the-field kind of guy, and he really brings up the team overall.”

OSU is still without junior midfielder John Kelly, who Myers said will again be out of Saturday’s game.

What’s next After making their way back from Baltimore, the Scarlet and Gray are scheduled to face off against Michigan on April 16 in the Showdown in the Shoe.

This is set to be the first time the Buckeyes face off against the Wolverines in the annual event, which is played in Ohio Stadium prior to the football team’s intrasquad spring game. The game is slated to begin at 11 a.m.

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OSU senior third baseman Nick Sergakis (21) and redshirt sophomore pitcher Adam Niemeyer (43) during a game against Bethune-Cookman on April 2 at Bill Davis Stadium.

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supposed to hit, I think we’ll be good.”

Back on the right track In the latest release of the RPI standings by the NCAA, OSU came in at 149th place out of 300 teams, meaning OSU will have to turn up the heat for the rest of the conference season in order to boost its tournament résumé.

Beals stressed the importance of getting back on the winning track against Maryland as a direct way to do that, as this series is the first of four consecutive Big Ten series for the Buckeyes.

A big factor for OSU to get back to their winning ways is whether redshirt sophomore pitcher Adam Niemeyer will be able to shake off the hamstring pull that caused him to exit his last start against Bethune-Cookman after just 4.1 innings of work.

“We’re going to bump him back to Sunday,” Beals said. “Right now we’re going to go Tully, (senior John) Havird and Niemeyer — just buying Adam another day.

There’s still some soreness and tightness in that hamstring, we’re going to learn more about it today and tomorrow.”

Junior catcher and co-captain Jalen Washington said the team

will be ready to open its first series in Maryland and stressed the importance of getting on a roll in the conference.

“Each Big Ten series is a big opportunity for us, so we just need to get out there and get ahead of it,” Washington said. “We don’t want to look back at the end of the season and worry about losing one to Maryland when we could have taken the series from them. Each opportunity is big for us.”

The first pitch in College Park is set to be thrown out at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, while Saturday and Sunday’s games are scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively.

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HURSH TOSSES NO-HITTER Junior pitcher strikes out 10, Ohio State sweeps doubleheader vs. Penn State Angelia Heimsoth Lantern reporter heimsoth.1@osu.edu

The Ohio State softball team’s bats waited until the second game of a matinee doubleheader against Penn State to get going. But with junior Shelby Hursh not allowing a single hit in Game 1, the Buckeyes really weren’t required to hit much.

OSU (21-8-1, 6-1-1) secured two wins against Penn State (1716, 6-2) on Wednesday behind the strength of Hursh in the first game and potent offense in the second.

The Buckeyes had to overcome a nearly two-hour rain delay in Game 2 to pull off the sweep.

The blustery weather and early start time might have kept fans from filling the stands at Buckeye Field, but that did not stop Hursh from tossing seven dominant innings in the first game. The Buckeyes had not seen a no-hitter since 2014, which was also accomplished by Hursh, that time against Utah Valley.

“I definitely knew, but we don’t talk about it because we think it jinxes it,” she said, when asked about what was going through her head throughout the game.

On the day, sophomore Taylor White went 5-for-7, while junior Alex Bayne added her 13th and 14th home runs of the year and tacked on five RBIs to her teamhigh total of 32. Bayne is now five

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OSU junior Alex Bayne (2) is welcomed by her teammates at home plate after hitting a home run during a game against Penn State on April 6 at Buckeye Field. homers away from breaking the team’s single-season record, with 20 games still remaining.

Senior catcher Cammi Prantl hit two doubles and a home run in the second game to bring in four runs, while redshirt junior Jess Machovina drove in three runs on a home run and single.

“I’m just glad to be back on the field playing, and my hitting’s coming through,” Machovina said. “I can finally produce for the team, and that feels so good.”

Game 1 In her 12th start of the season, Hursh took the mound on the windy morning to throw her second career no-hitter in the Buckeyes’ 3-0 win on the Nittany Lions.

Hursh struck out 10 in what

turned out to be a war of pitchers against Penn State junior Marlaina Laubach, who registered six of her own.

The weekly noon tornado test sirens wailed as Hursh recorded the final out of the game, a swinging strikeout by Penn State left fielder Macy Jones.

“I think it has a lot to do with pitch-calling,” Hursh said. “(Prantl) did a great job, and she always just works so hard behind the plate.”

OSU’s lead in Game 1 started early. After senior Maddy McIntyre fouled off six pitches and ultimately walked, Bayne pulled a long ball over the left-field fence in the bottom of the first.

The Nittany Lions went down in order in the second and third

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OSU junior Shelby Hursh (19) during a game against Penn State on April 6 at Buckeye Field. innings, while the Buckeyes also remained scoreless, leaving two runners on. In the third inning, the shortstop McIntyre snagged a high line drive to keep the leadoff hitter, senior Reina Furuya, from getting aboard.

In the bottom of the fifth, Bayne narrowly beat out the throw on a leadoff single up the middle. After Prantl drew a walk, sophomore first baseman Erika Leonard sent

a single up the middle. Leonard earned an RBI thanks to Bayne’s speed, as she made the trip from second base to home before center fielder Lexi Knief could make the throw.

White loaded the bases with her third single of the game after Penn State second baseman Mollie Sorenson missed the tag on Leonard as she advanced to second, SOFTBALL CONTINUES ON 7

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Ohio State looks to rebound in 3-game series at Maryland Giustino Bovenzi Lantern reporter bovenzi.3@osu.edu

Humble pie does not taste good, but sometimes it’s necessary in order to get a dose of reality.

Ohio State baseball coach Greg Beals knows this all too well after his alma mater Kent State provided that slice of truthful decadence with an 8-3 thumping Tuesday evening.

OSU (19-8-1, 2-1) had been riding a seven-game winning streak, and dating back to the March 15 win over UNLV, had won 12 of its last 13 games. But the throttling at the hands of the Golden Flashes provided a blinding reality check that Beals is using as a learning experience.

“It wasn’t just (Tuesday’s starter) Ryan Feltner, we all got punched in the mouth yesterday,” Beals said. “So it’s good. The competitors that we are, it’s not all bad.”

OSU hasn’t faced a Big Ten opponent on the road so far this season, and the nonconference loss

“They’re a good team, we have not taken them lightly. It’s a big Big Ten series.”

Nick Sergakis Senior third baseman

to Kent State was its first matchup versus a road opponent with a winning record.

Now, OSU, which is 4-4 on the road, is getting set to head to College Park, Maryland, for its first-ever road series with the recently added Big Ten rival Maryland Terrapins (14-15, 1-2). Last season, the Terps took two of three games at Bill Davis Stadium in May, sending OSU into a tailspin that it couldn’t steer out of.

OSU co-captain and third baseman Nick Sergakis said the Buckeyes are looking for revenge against the Terrapins after they stole a series from the Buckeyes in Columbus.

“They came into our place and

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OSU redshirt junior right fielder Jacob Bosiokovic (17) gets ready to swing during a game against Bethune-Cookman on April 2 at Bill Davis Stadium. kind of handed it to us a little bit,” Sergakis said. “We wanna go out to their park and do the same thing to them. They’re a good team, we have not taken them lightly. It’s a big Big Ten series.”

Beals noted that OSU is more experienced and more potent on offense, leading him to believe his guys will be ready for the battle when junior ace Tanner Tully takes the mound on Friday.

Scouting Maryland Maryland enters the series as losers of three of its last four games, including a frustrating series loss to High Point at home.

Maryland currently sits at 1-2 in the Big Ten after dropping two of three at Iowa, and the series this weekend against the Buckeyes will open a swing of conference games that make up nine of its next 10.

The Terrapins lean heavily on underclassmen for production at the plate, as their top three hitters — sophomore infielder Kevin Biondic, freshman infielder Nick Dunn and freshman outfielder Marty Costes — have accounted for a combined 11 home runs, 56 RBIs and a .325 average.

The Terrapin pitching staff sits in eighth place in the Big Ten with a 4.30 team ERA, but it’s loaded with top-notch talent. The pitching staff has been led by sophomore right-hander Taylor Bloom, who leads the team with a 4-2 record and a 2.36 ERA. Perhaps most impressively, Bloom leads the Terps with 8.5 strikeouts for each walk, which is tied for 16th in Division I. “Their starting pitchers are good,” Beals said. “We’ve gotta be able to be fastball ready and make sure we’re able to capitalize on the good pitches that we do get to hit, and then most importantly, we’ve gotta stay off their breaking balls. If we can stay away from the chases and hit the pitches we’re BASEBALL CONTINUES ON 7