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When the Ohio State football team travels to Minneapolis this weekend, one thing is for sure — it’s going to be cold.

But OSU coach Urban Meyer doesn’t care.

“I don’t even talk (about it),” Meyer said Wednesday. “We have had to play a couple cold games already, so it’s no issue.”

The last time the Buckeyes traveled to Minneapolis to play the Golden Gophers — in 2010 — OSU came away with a convincing 52-10 victory.

This, however, is a different Minnesota team.

The Golden Gophers currently control their own destiny in the Big Ten West Division as they currently sit at 7-2, 4-1 following a 51-14 win over Iowa last week.

Following their big win, the Golden Gophers jumped into the College Football Playoff rankings at No. 25, something that Meyer said was surprising.

“I think they are much higher than that,” he said. “When I see them play, I think they are very good.”

Coming off a big win of its own against Michigan State, OSU junior offensive lineman Taylor Decker said he hopes the Buckeyes can carry over the intensity from last week into preparation for the Golden Gophers.

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Redshirt-freshman H-back Jalin Marshall (17) carries the ball during a game against Michigan State on Nov. 8 in East Lansing, Mich.

OSU won, 49-37.

“We have been talking about, why can’t we prepare every week like we did for Michigan State?

Keep that high level of preparation and execution going into every game,” Decker said Wednesday.

“That should be the norm around here. The norm should be to control every single game.”

Redshirt-freshman H-back Jalin Marshall said the Buckeyes have even given a nickname to their new outlook.

“We have been calling this the ‘new normal,’ preparing like we did last week,” Marshall said. “I feel like last week we prepared extra hard because it was a bigger game. I feel like if we do that from

weeks in and weeks out, I feel like we will have success.”

Marshall is likely to get more touches this week as sophomore H-back Dontre Wilson suffered a broken foot against the Spartans and is expected to miss three to four weeks, Meyer said.

Marshall said he’s prepared for the likelihood of more touches, but added he is upset over the injury to his teammate.

“It’s heartbreaking to me because we are so close,” Marshall said. “But I feel like I am ready to take on the role to play a little bit more at the H-back position.”

Marshall said he has also taken reps as a kick returner this week

to replace Wilson — along with senior wide receiver Devin Smith and freshman running back Curtis Samuel — but feels confident he can be the one to replace his injured teammate.

“I feel like if they call my number,

Although he’s yet to win a National Championship or a Big Ten Championship trophy at Ohio State, Urban Meyer received an 8 percent raise following the 2013 football season. The football coach’s latest performance review also showed he needed to be engaged with various groups because of recent changes with the NCAA governance structure and consideration being given to new benefits for student athletes.

After he amassed a 24-game regular season winning streak to start his tenure at Ohio State, Meyer received a raise of exactly $328,640 over his three areas of income — base salary, media payment and Nike payment — heading into the 2014 campaign.

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Reaching out Sarah Ware, left, plays Callie and Aaron Lopez plays Captain H in an upcoming production of ‘In Here Out There,’ a play written by 9 students in OSU’s Master of Fine Arts in Acting program. The play was written as part of the MFA Acting Outreach and Engagement Project and features Callie, a fictional 13-year-old autistic girl, who was inspired by the students’ work with autistic children. See story on 7A.

Next step taken to redevelop area south of campus chelsea spears Multimedia editor spears.116@osu.edu As part of an ongoing process to revitalize one of the “most distressed” neighborhoods near Ohio State, Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment announced Wednesday it will be working with developer Edwards Communities to revitalize part of the area around Weinland Park, Campus Partners president Amanda Hoffsis said.

“This is part of the process that has been under way for a while,” she said.

“This isn’t a brand new thing — this is the next step in a series of improvements in that area.”

Since early October, Campus Partners ­— a private nonprofit corporation that works on community planning in the campus area alongside OSU and the city of Columbus — has been working to recreate more than 7 acres of the Weinland Park neighborhood.

That area includes spaces east of High Street and south of 9th Avenue, including properties on the south side of 8th Avenue, Hoffsis said.

According to a Campus Partners press release, this project is the next step in bridging the gap between the University District and the Short North.

“We are very pleased to be moving forward with this phase of the effort to enhance the neighborhood and return productive space to the community,” Hoffsis said in the released statement.

Hoffsis said that area is considered

distressed based on crime rates and declining home prices, however, she also said crime rates have been declining in the area and house prices have increased by about 10 percent lately.

Recently passed zoning gave Campus Partners a parameter of what is allowed to be built in that space, although no specific design plan has been chosen yet, Hoffsis said. Once a final design plan has been set, Campus Partners will sell that design to Edwards Communities.

“Our job, our goal is to put the parameters in place and to facilitate a design that would be supported by the community,” she said.

Hoffsis said the decision to partner with Ohio-based Edwards Communities

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During a Carmen outage that lasted at least the better part of four days, some students lamented over the derailed site because of its necessity to their academic lives. Others, though, weren’t as concerned.

Carmen was 78.1 percent of the way back to being operational as of 8 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Office of the Chief Information Officer website.

The website was taken offline Sunday after a routine expansion of storage space on the website encountered an error, vice president and CIO Mike Hofherr said.

In the meantime, the OCIO has recommended ways professors can work around the Carmen outage while the website is down, including using email, Excel and Box — a separate website that offers free cloud storage and file sharing services — according to a release on its website.

The release noted, however, there was no quality alternative to Carmen quizzes.

Hofherr said Carmen was created six or seven years ago and the team has updated the storage space several times since its creation. There hasn’t been a problem similar to this since the site went up, he said.

The team won’t know for sure what caused the problem until it runs root cause analysis — a method of problem-solving to determine what created the complication — next week. But Hofherr said the team does know that the problem occurred in the storage unit where Carmen is stored and affected multiple copies of the Carmen data, forcing the team to use a slower method than just restoring from Carmen’s primary backup to recover the data.

The cost to operate Carmen is included in an overall $1.9 million budget, which also includes costs of running other OSU software, said Kate Keune, spokeswoman for OCIO in an email.

Still, Hofherr said in a Tuesday email that he thought there would be minimal data loss, but it all depends on what backup procedure the team can fully implement.

“We are running two concurrent backup restores, both with different outcomes,” he said.

Hofherr said the team decides how much space Carmen needs before the start of each semester. Last week, while the team began looking at how much storage

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campus Redevelop from 1A was based on a number of factors, one of which was locale.

“It was important for us to pick someone local. We had a number of national firms who were very interested in the site, but we decided it would be important to partner with someone local,” Hoffsis said.

Edwards Communities has experience in both student housing and market rate apartments — the types of apartments that can be found in areas like the Arena District and Short North — which was also a part of Campus Partners’ decision to work with Edwards Communities, Hoffsis said.

Edwards Communities did not immediately respond to a phone call after hours Wednesday requesting comment on the deal.

According to the press release, Campus Partners is also working with Community Housing Network to relocate its existing apartments — currently located at 1494 N. High St. — to a new building set to be constructed in the same area as the development.

Over the next couple of weeks, Hoffsis said there will be meetings to hopefully set

a preliminary concept of the design plan in a month or two.

Some students said the area — which some feel is unsafe — will benefit from Campus Partner’s efforts. “(The efforts) can open up a lot more off-campus housing for a lot of students because a lot of students don’t even look over there because they think it’s not a good area,” said Michael Wade, a third-year in logistics management.

Stephanie Liskiewicz, a fourth-year in marketing, said a revitalization to the area definitely wouldn’t hurt.

“I think any additional businesses they can bring in is always good,” she said. “You could always use more housing for students and that sort of thing.”

Others like Armando Simpson, a first-year in business, said renovations would definitely make the area more attractive because it looks dangerous and abandoned as is.

“I wouldn’t go down there at nighttime,” he said.

Ingrid Gardner and Paul Ellis contributed to this story.

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Sophomore running back Ezekiel Elliott (center) carries the ball during a game against Michigan State on Nov. 8 in East Lansing, Mich. OSU won, 49-37.

Buckeyes from 1A I can get the job done,” he said.

No matter who ultimately takes Wilson’s spot, junior offensive lineman Jacoby Boren said he doesn’t think the Buckeye offense will miss a beat with a replacement. “(Losing) Dontre is a big hit, but we have a lot of depth. A lot of guys that can do a lot of great things back there,” Boren said Wednesday. “I’m sure Curtis

will be stepping in, he will be doing great things. I have a lot of confidence in him and some of the other guys.”

While Boren is confident in the offense, the Buckeyes will be going up against a defense that has allowed just 21.3 points per game and a defensive line that Meyer described as “rugged.”

“I think it’s an upper level, maybe top two or three defensive lines in the Big Ten conference,” Meyer said.

Campus Partners is working to redevelop more than 7 acres in the Weinland Park area.

Decker added that the Minnesota defense is comparable to what the Buckeyes saw from the Spartans last weekend.

“From everything we have seen on film, (they) are very similar. As far as a whole team, they are probably one of the better teams we are going to play all year,” Decker said. “Their scheme is very similar to Michigan State’s. Their blitz tendencies are a little different, but as far as an overall defense, very similar.”

On the other side of the ball, the Buckeyes will be facing a Minnesota offense that boasts one of the best running backs in the conference in senior David Cobb.

Cobb is averaging 133.9 yards per game in 2014, good for fourth in the Big Ten. OSU co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach Chris Ash said Monday that Cobb’s success is because of the Minnesota big guys up front.

“Starts with their offensive line, they’re doing a great job blocking up front for him. He’s a hard runner. When he gets that ball, he’s a downhill runner,” Ash said. “He keeps his legs driving all the time.

He’s a load. He’s a challenge. And he fits well with their scheme.”

The Golden Gophers rely heavily on their run game, as they rank last in the Big Ten in passing offense, averaging just 140.2 yards per game through the air.

Despite Minnesota’s run-reliant offense, Ash said the Buckeyes must still be aware of the Golden Gopher aerial attack.

“They do such a good job of running the football right now, you’ve got to devote more defenders to stop the run. And it isolates your backs in one-on-one situations,” Ash said. “They’ve done a great job exploiting that. Taken deep shots in certain personnel groupings over the top and connected with them. Obviously that increases your average per completion when you’re able to do that. So they’ve done a good job with that to complement the run game.”

Despite cold weather being almost certain — the projected high for game day as of Wednesday night was 28 degrees — and going up against a physical offense, junior defensive lineman Adolphus Washington said he is excited for the challenge.

“Definitely. But when it’s cold, you really find out who wants to play football,” Washington said

Wednesday. “The running backs might not run as hard when it’s cold, so we will see.”

Washington added that he, along with the rest of the team, is aware that the Buckeyes can’t look past the Golden Gophers, despite now being first in the Big Ten East Division.

“It is just as big. This is kind of like one of those trap games,” Washington said. “It’s going to be cold, we just have to go out there and play because Minnesota is 7-2, and they are not a bad team.”

Decker echoed Washington’s comments, adding that the Buckeyes were still intense this week during practice.

“We can’t sleep on this team. If we go in there not prepared, it is like walking into a hornet’s nest,” Decker said. “The weather is going to suck, we haven’t played a lot of early games this year and we just came off a big win so if we are not locked in and prepared, it could be bad for us. We just got some momentum last week, and we just have to keep that going.”

The Buckeyes will look to do just that as kickoff is set for noon on Saturday in Minneapolis.

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“We usually know Carmen’s space capacity and we can expand it,” Hofherr told The Lantern during a earlier phone conversation. “We saw it was low and we decided to use the routine maintenance window to upgrade storage.”

More space was taken up than expected because of online class expansions and digital scholarships, according to a release on the OCIO website. Kuene said these scholarships do not include scholarships in the financial aid sense, but rather online educational activities.

She said the site was expected to expand to 18 terabytes from 14 terabytes, which would cost an additional $400.

Expanding the site costs $100 extra per month per terabyte. The Office of Distance Education and eLearning pays the money to OCIO. Some students were more affected by the outage than others.

Matt Spies, a fourth-year in bio engineering, said he can’t access many of his class materials.

“I think it’s a pain in the a-- because I can’t get to notes and stuff on Carmen,” he said.

Jim Brown, a fourth-year in operations management, agreed the outage makes school more difficult.

“I can’t access any of the files and lecture notes so it makes it difficult to study,” he said. “Carmen could be better organized. and hopefully they end up improving it through the update they were originally going for.”

Kate Smidl, a fourth-year in speech and hearing science, said she takes her own notes

and prints out notes she needs from Carmen, so the outage isn’t as big of a deal for her.

“People are freaking out because they’re like, ‘I can’t take online quizzes,’” she said. “Also, some people don’t take their own notes. They just use notes on Carmen.”

Smidl did say she was having problems, though, because she needed certain readings from Carmen to write a paper but she hadn’t printed them.

But she said she thought overall the website’s outage was overblown.

“I feel like the teachers are struggling more than we are,” she said.

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Meyer from 1A OSU vice president and athletic director Gene Smith, Smith congratulates Meyer on “another remarkable season” before listing the annual salary increase for the head coach.

The letter was dated March 25.

A university policy says a compensation package exceeding $350,000 — which Meyer’s does — must be approved by the president and the provost, according an OSU document. Joseph Alutto was serving as interim president and Joseph Steinmetz was serving as provost at the time Meyer’s raise was approved.

Meyer’s base salary jumped to $818,640 from $758,000, his media payment went to $2.05 million from $1.9 million and his Nike payment increased to about $1.57 million from $1.45 million annually.

The letter concluded with Smith informing Meyer that the change in his contract would become effective Feb. 1 and would be reflected on his March 31 paycheck.

Smith told The Lantern that the raise was nothing out of the ordinary.

“It was part of the normal evaluation process we have each year,” Smith said in a Saturday email.

Meyer’s initial contract at OSU was signed as a six-year, $24-million deal, but has since undergone various revisions throughout his time with the Buckeyes.

In 2012, the OSU Board of Trustees approved changes to Meyer’s contract that included bonuses of $50,000 for any Big Ten Leaders Division championships. Meyer’s initial contract also included bonuses of $100,000 for a Big Ten Championship, $150,000 for a non-national championship BCS bowl game and $250,000 for a National Championship Game appearance.

Meyer’s latest performance review — which was sent to The Lantern on Nov. 12 to fill an open records request — was conducted by Smith on June 3 and was overall positive.

Smith thought Meyer exceeded expectations (out of three possible categories, “exceeds expectations” is

the best) in four out of eight core competencies. These included commitment to compliance, student-athlete welfare, leadership and public and donor relations.

Smith thought Meyer met expectations (which is the category between “exceeds expectations” and “opportunity for improvement”) in the remaining four categories. These included academic success of the program, competitive success of the program, communication and budget management.

The performance review also included an “overall rating” box that was left blank. Above the box read text that said an overall rating must be given for all employees.

When asked about the blank box in a Wednesday afternoon follow-up email, Rebecca Dickson, a paralegal and program manager in the public records office who sent the original documents, said she would work on getting an answer.

In a June 3 letter from Smith to Meyer attached to the performance review, Smith said he needed Meyer to “continue to focus on the academic initiatives” of the team.

Smith also said Meyer needs to be engaged with his “national organization” and the Big Ten Coaches group, because of changes in the NCAA governance structure and consideration being given to adding benefits for student athletes, which potentially pays them outside of cost of attendance.

Under the former NCAA governance model, athletic directors and student athletes did not have a voice in the legislative process, but under the new model they do.

“We need to be sure our position is properly represented with these groups,” Smith said.

Smith also praised Meyer’s approach to developing the “total student athlete,” calling it “one of the best.”

He said Meyer has created an environment where players can strengthen their values, learn life skills and strive for excellence in all that they do.

Smith said he was proud of the way Meyer led the coaching staff. He said there is “clarity” in the roles, expectations and value.

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1. OSU senior forward Matt Johnson (26) celebrates with members of the crowd during a Nov. 7 game against Nebraska-Omaha at the Schottenstein Center. OSU lost, 4-1. OSU players wore military-themed jerseys in honor of Veterans Day. 2. A sousaphone player salutes the crowd after dotting the ‘i’ in Script Ohio with the OSU Marching Band before a game against Michigan State on Nov. 8 in East Lansing, Mich. OSU won, 49-37.

3. OSU junior midfielder Zach Mason (7) consoles Michigan senior midfielder Marcos Ugarte (10) following a Nov. 9 match at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. OSU won, 1-0, in the quarterfinal round of the Big Ten Tournament.

4. OSU football players dance and celebrate after a 49-37 win over Michigan State on Nov. 8 in East Lansing, Mich.

5. Sophomore H-back Dontre Wilson (center) catches a touchdown pass while members of the OSU Marching Band look on during a game against Michigan State on Nov. 8 in East Lansing, Mich. OSU won, 49-37.

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ground this season. He’s the workhorse of the Minnesota offense — he has 227 carries while the team as a whole has only attempted 165 passes.

Apart from an Oct. 25 misstep against Illinois, the Golden Gophers’ only loss this season accompanied Cobb’s worst game of the year. Minnesota lost to Texas Christian University, 30-7, in September, and Cobb had just 41 yards on 15 carries. Outside of that game, he’s had at least 71 rushing yards per game — including a pair of 200-plus yard outings.

If the Buckeyes can slow Cobb down, it could be a long day for redshirt-sophomore quarterback Mitch Leidner. But if he gets rolling early, OSU might face a difficult task to keep its seven-game winning streak alive.

Following arguably the biggest win at Ohio State during the Urban Meyer era, the Buckeyes are preparing for their secondconsecutive ranked opponent.

Entering the third week of the College Football Playoff rankings, the Buckeyes jumped up six spots to No. 8 and the Minnesota Golden Gophers appeared for the first time on the list at No. 25.

As the Buckeyes get set to travel to blustery Minneapolis, The Lantern sports editors have come up with a list of five things to look for when OSU takes on the Golden Gophers.

1. Can OSU keep its eye on the prize?

Let’s be honest, last week’s win over Michigan State was probably the biggest win for the Buckeyes since the 2010 Rose Bowl against Oregon.

But was it too much for the Buckeyes to handle?

The mantra around OSU since Meyer arrived in Columbus has been giving players and coaches 24 hours to enjoy a win, but redshirt-sophomore wide receiver Michael Thomas said Monday that the Buckeyes were still enjoying the victory.

With that said, will the Buckeyes overlook a Minnesota team that is coming off of a 51-14 drubbing of Iowa?

Only time will tell.

2. Will the weather affect the Buckeye offense?

While the entire Buckeye starting offensive line is from Ohio, their starting quarterback is from Texas, and probably hasn’t played in a game as cold as he will Saturday.

While the kickoff temperature was 39 degrees last week in East Lansing, Mich., the estimated high temperature in Minneapolis for Saturday, as of Wednesday night, was just 28 degrees with a low of nine.

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Redshirt-freshman quarterback J.T. Barrett carries the ball during a game against Michigan State on Nov. 8 in East Lansing, Mich. OSU won, 49-37.

Minnesota senior running back David Cobb (27) runs the ball during a game against Purdue on Oct. 18 in Minneapolis. Minnesota won, 39-38.

offense, averaging 304.22 yards per game by himself has been on the sidelines for games like this (see 2013 games against Indiana and Michigan) but has never had to play in such bitter temps.

Just one current Buckeye offensive player was on the roster the last time OSU played in Minnesota, and that is redshirt-senior Darryl Baldwin, who was still a defensive lineman at the time.

The Buckeyes won 52-10 in the last matchup in 2010, a win that was later vacated because of NCAA violations committed by former coach Jim Tressel, then-quarterback Terrelle Pryor and other players.

week, and currently ranks second in the FBS in touchdowns responsible for with 34 (26 passing, eight rushing).

In addition, Barrett is just five touchdown passes away from breaking the school record for touchdown passes in a season, set by the 2006 Heisman Trophy winner, Troy Smith.

For Barrett to enter serious consideration, there is no doubt the Buckeyes will have to win their remaining games, plus a Big Ten title.

But if Barrett can look as good as he did against Michigan State the rest of the season, don’t be surprised if you see the Texas native in New York for the Heisman ceremonies.

3. Can J.T. Barrett make a Heisman push?

If Barrett can have an encore performance from his 386 total yard, five touchdown game against the Spartans, there is a good chance Barrett could enter serious Heisman discussions.

The redshirt-freshman made his first appearance on ESPN’s Heisman Watch this

4. Can Minnesota senior running back David Cobb emulate Michigan State’s Jeremy Langford?

Sure, OSU ended up beating the Spartans, but the redshirt-senior running back Langford gouged the Buckeyes’ defense for 137 yards and three touchdowns on just 18 carries.

Now that same defense has to find a way to slow down Cobb, who has already racked up 1,205 yards and eight touchdowns on the

5. What role will the OSU H-backs play?

With sophomore H-back Dontre Wilson — the Buckeyes’ typical starter — out with a broken foot, it’ll be up to a few different players to pick up the slack.

The first option is likely to be redshirt-freshman H-back Jalin Marshall, who has already shined multiple times for OSU this season. The former high school quarterback can line up in a variety of positions for the Buckeyes, including at quarterback in the wildcat package.

Leading up to the showdown in Minneapolis, Meyer even hinted that the Buckeyes “have a couple passes” in place for Marshall going forward. He failed to connect on his only passing attempt so far this season, but Meyer and the coaching staff clearly have some faith in his arm.

But even if Marshall doesn’t let it fly, the H-back spot could have a notable impact for the Buckeyes. Meyer mentioned that freshman Noah Brown will be in the mix, and at 240 pounds, he adds a new dimension to the OSU attack.

No matter if Brown is causing mismatch problems with his size or if Marshall is showing off his arm, the Buckeyes will likely try to put as much firepower on the field as they can.

OSU is scheduled to take on the Golden Gophers on Saturday at noon in Minneapolis.

Men’s soccer New-look OSU set for season opener ready for B1G semifinal tim moody Sports editor moody.178@osu.edu

ryan cooper Lantern reporter cooper.487@osu.edu No member of the Ohio State men’s soccer team has ever played in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament. In fact, five of the 12 players who have played more than 1,000 minutes this season were either freshmen in high school or in middle school the last team OSU made it there.

But that is where the team is set to play Friday, in its first semifinal matchup since 2009.

Senior midfielder Max Moller said he knows the significance of playing the game, even in uncharted waters.

“It’s definitely more important,” Moller said. “This is definitely special, especially it being my senior year, it means the world to me and all our seniors, so we’re very excited for this opportunity.”

Fellow senior midfielder Yianni Sarris echoed Moller’s feelings.

“It’s definitely an honor to be here, and I think definitely as a team we deserve it, for putting in hard work day-in and day-out in practice,” Sarris said.

No. 2 seed OSU (9-6-4, 5-3-0) is set for a rematch with No. 6 seed Indiana (11-3-5, 3-3-2), a team that defeated the Buckeyes in Columbus on Oct. 12, 2-1.

However, OSU coach John Bluem said he does not believe the version of the Buckeyes that fell to the Hoosiers last month is the same as the one currently taking the field.

“We’ve been playing very, very well,” Bluem said.

“We’ve got maybe a little bit of momentum going, maybe that will be the difference maker.”

OSU has only lost one of its last seven games going into Friday. Much of that can be attributed to the emergence of sophomore forward Danny Jensen, who has scored four of his team co-leading five goals in OSU’s past five games, including the lone goal in OSU’s quarterfinal victory against Michigan on Sunday.

“I think Jensen’s better up top now than he was around when we first played Indiana, so I think we might be a little more dangerous in the attack now than we were when we played them the first time,” Bluem said.

Because of No. 1 seed Maryland’s 2-0 victory against Rutgers on Sunday, the semifinals and finals of the tournament are set to be played in College Park, Md. OSU would have hosted the rounds if the Terrapins had lost.

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When the Ohio State men’s basketball team returns to the court, it will be after nearly eight months of dwelling on a one-point loss.

“Last season didn’t end the way we wanted it to, and that’s something we’ve had in the back of our mind throughout the summer and leading up to today,” senior center Amir Williams said Wednesday.

The Buckeyes’ 2013-14 season ended with a round of 64 exit in the NCAA Tournament when they fell to Dayton, 60-59, on March 20.

That early exit capped a season in which OSU lost 10 times, marking its first double-digit loss season since 2008-09.

But even with that loss in the back of their minds, the Buckeyes are more focused on improving throughout the season ahead, sophomore forward Marc Loving said.

“Last season obviously didn’t end how we wanted it to, but we have a fresh group of guys coming in that have a lot to learn,” Loving said Wednesday. “We’ve practiced a lot of scenarios, but as the season will go on, they’ll gain a lot of game experience.”

The new-look OSU roster features four true freshmen, one redshirt-freshman and one redshirt-senior playing in their first seasons for the Buckeyes. That group is set to take the place of a senior class that won more than 100 games over four seasons.

As the much less experienced Buckeyes look to start their own legacy, the first test is set to come against the University of Massachusetts-Lowell on Friday.

Loving said he and his teammates are “very excited to get the season going,” and added the Buckeyes are happy to have a crack at someone other than themselves.

“We’re looking forward to getting out and playing against some different guys, because we’ve been going up against each other for a pretty long time,” Loving said. “Getting out there, executing and seeing how we measure up against a different group of guys.”

While the majority of what he’s seen from his team so far this season has come in practice, OSU coach Thad Matta has had one chance to see how his young roster responds when the lights go on at the Schottenstein Center.

The Buckeyes played Walsh in an exhibition matchup on Sunday, and won, 77-37. Despite the 40-point victory, Matta said he still saw a lot of room for improvement when looking back at the film.

“We really dissected the film probably more than we have for an exhibition game,” Matta said Wednesday. “Tried to point out the little details that maybe we didn’t do as well as we needed to and still were successful.”

Even with the stretches of success, Matta said he wanted to stress to his team that the weak points that worked against Walsh won’t necessarily work when the regular season rolls around.

“Saying this isn’t going to work Friday, we’ve got to be sharper,” he said.

While OSU had a chance to watch film of itself, Williams said the Buckeyes’ knowledge of their next opponent has come mainly through word of mouth.

“We haven’t watched film on ‘em just yet, but from what we’ve heard, they change defenses a lot,” Williams said of UMass-Lowell.

“They’re a team that likes to speed you up, and you just gotta take care of the ball offensively. And just make extra effort plays on defense.”

Matta said any film he has seen of the River Hawks came from last season, which he conceded is “a little bit scary.”

“Because you’re approaching it … and they could be doing something completely different,” Matta said. “We’ve got no film from this year on them, so when they roll in, they could be two inches taller than they say they are, they could be two inches shorter. We don’t know the answer to that.”

Since they don’t know what to expect from the River Hawks — who finished 10-18 last season — the Buckeyes might have to rely on simply making sure they are ready to control what they can control.

Matta said OSU is aiming to simply take care of its own business, and be ready for whatever UMass-Lowell ends up coming out with on Friday.

“The huge focus for us going into today’s practice, tomorrow’s practice, yesterday’s practice is, ‘Hey, let’s dot our i’s and cross our t’s and make sure we’re ready to play,’” he said. “Whatever they throw at us, we’ll know what’s coming.”

Tipoff at the Schottenstein Center is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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Senior center Amir Williams (23) dunks the ball during an exhibition against Walsh on Nov. 9 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU won, 77-37.

New recruits

Coach Thad Matta got a boost for the future Wednesday when he signed on 4 new recruits — all rated as 4-star prospects by ESPN. Guards Austin Grandstaff and A.J. Harris, forward Mickey Mitchell and center Daniel Giddens all signed national letters of intent, giving the Buckeyes the 8th best recruiting class in the nation, according to ESPN. After the class was officially announced, Matta said: “I love who we got.”

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Tinder, fairy tale merge for ‘Dance Downtown’ performance KAT NIU Lantern reporter niu.57@osu.edu Swipe left, nope. Swipe left, nope. Swipe right, and it might be a match.

Something as simple as a directional swipe on a phone screen now has enough power to connect two individuals based on attraction to physical appearance. Tinder, an matchmaker app, brings a new form and ease in speed dating to the market.

Tine Salling, a guest artist and lecturer from Copenhagen, Denmark, for the OSU Department of Dance, choreographed a piece for this year’s “Dance Downtown: Solace and Mirth” showcase based on the lack of human connection and loneliness effects of virtual dating.

Salling is an urban street dancer whose uses hip-hop movements, but her choreography style derives from a more contemporary mindset, which focuses on portraying a message. “(Hip-hop) impresses you but it doesn’t move you as much as piece that has a message to say, rather than just cool movements,” Salling said about the new mindset she aims to bring. “Because street urban dance always comes from interpreting the music and the club you’re in, it’s rare it comes from another place.”

OSU’s Department Of Dance spokeswoman Dori Jenks said Salling’s cutting-edge style and urban dance vernacular appealed to the department.

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Seeing the pictures and seeing how people present themselves, I think it’s a loneliness expression. Why do people go this far?

— Tine Salling guest lecturer for OSU Department of Dance

“Our focus is on contemporary (dance),” Jenks said. “(Salling) is an up-and-coming choreographer and she is working in the idiom of urban street dance, which is something we are very interested in as a department.”

Salling’s piece, named “The Steadfast Tinder Soldier,” is based on the distance and desolation effects of virtual dating, but it also connects with a fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen called “The Steadfast

Above: Undergraduate and graduate students in the OSU Department of Dance rehearse Nov. 11 at Capitol Theatre in the Riffe Center.

The department’s annual ‘Dance Downtown’ is titled ‘Solace and Mirth’ this year.

Left: Taylor Craver (left) and Julie Kogan — both fourth-years in dance — rehearse Nov. 11 at Capitol Theatre in the Riffe Center.

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Tin Soldier.” This story tells a tale of little tin man with one leg who falls in love with a paper ballerina and is separated from her when he falls from a windowsill. The tin man endures obstacles that separate him from his love only to end up back before the ballerina through a series of events. The fairy tale ends with the tin man thrown into a fire, but the wind blows the ballerina into the fire with him, leading the tin man to melt into the shape of a heart.

“Tinder Soldier — that’s the little twist of it, the Tinder thing,” Salling said. “Being Danish, ‘The Steadfast Tin Soldier’ is in my background. It’s in my culture to know some of these references to these fairy tales.”

Salling said the play on words between “tin” and “Tinder” led her to choose this fairy tale. Conversely, it was the parallel of users’ dedication to continuously promote themselves on platforms like Tinder and the tin man’s dedication to return to the ballerina that drew a bridge between her message and the story.

“Putting yourself out there again and again and again made me think of ‘The Steadfast Tin Soldier.’ It’s very easy — you’re not putting yourself out there too much,” she said. “Seeing the pictures and seeing how people present themselves, I think it’s a loneliness expression. Why do people go this far? Why do people say these things out loud?”

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Kim K.’s tush tasteful, not taboo TYLER ANDERSON Lantern reporter anderson.2273@osu.edu

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Upper left, clockwise: Aaron Lopez as Captain H, Patrick Wiabel as Red and Sarah Ware as Callie in a scene from ‘In Here Out There.’

Eyes, mind, reason, love at the heart of OSU’s ‘In Here Out There’ DENISE BLOUGH Lantern reporter blough.24@osu.edu Since January, students in Ohio State’s Master of Fine Arts in Acting program have worked with autistic children in social skills training, inspiring the creation of “In Here Out There,” a play that opens Thursday.

The nine students collectively wrote the piece as part of the MFA Acting Outreach and Engagement Project, which is required in the

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program, said Lesley Ferris , interim chair of the Department of Theatre.

“A lot of people see autism as a disability,” said MFA acting student Aaron Lopez . “But this whole experience has taught me that it’s not a disability. It’s how they get through the world, which they view in this different and beautiful way that I’ll never know.”

“In Here Out There” delves into the life of Callie, a fictional 13-yearold autistic girl, whose fascination with superheroes leads her to

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Kim Kardashian’s bodacious badonk has been blowing up the Internet, generating a host of memes, tweets and articles. And while a majority of the feedback surrounding the star’s upcoming Paper Magazine cover has ranged from derisive humor to outright negativity, I’m handing major props to this shameless celeb.

Why? Because we live in a society that shames nudity of any kind, automatically labeling it as tasteless pornography.

We uphold our twisted taboos, hushing sensitive issues instead of discussing them like grown-ups. Our conservative past mandates that sex is dirty, nudity is filthy and our bodies should be properly covered. And Kim K. is fighting that outdated sentiment with a hefty dose of humor and approximately 25 pounds of unadulterated booty.

According to Paper magazine, the goal of the photo was to “break the Internet.” It features Kim sporting a wacky up-do, a pair of black gloves, and enough body oil to stir-fry dinner for a family of eight. Oh — and her totally bare behind. It’s an image that is as humorous as it is provocative. Appropriately tasteful, the photo is elegant in a way that is admittedly much more reserved than it could have been (in case anybody has forgotten the sex tape that fueled Kardashian’s rise to fame in the first place).

So did it work? Did Kim Kardashian’s derrière break the Internet? There might not have been a bandwidth shortage, but a quick Google search of the star’s name will tell you that, yes, it most certainly did. This isn’t the first time a celebrity’s backside went viral (I’m looking at you, Nicki Minaj), but it’s definitely the most notable.

Few people on Earth can stand up to the sheer star power of the Kardashian clan. The sisters are pop culture royalty, and Kim is their ringleader. Her incredible fame is the driving force behind the controversy of the image in question. And while the world is in uproar, a swift glance at her Twitter account reveals that Kim is laughing at the entire situation. She’s proud, and why shouldn’t she be?

Cover of ‘Paper’ magazine’s winter 2014 issue

She’s sparked a worldwide discussion and all she had to do was lower the back side of her dress.

Though many will disagree, this is not pornography.

It is not a naughty magazine clipping that should be shielded from virgin eyes, and it most certainly is not an instance of infidelity against her husband (as some celebrities have claimed). For Christ’s sake, the image more closely resembles a 99 cent doughnut special at Tim Horton’s than it does a dirty schoolboy fantasy. In short, it’s something to laugh at.

The fact that this magazine cover exists is a testament to the fact that times are changing. The fact that we can showcase a butt on the cover of a magazine isn’t a sign

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Images of the inside of Rocket Fizz in various U.S. locations. The soda pop and candy shop is set to open a franchise in the Short North this December.

DESIAIRE RICKMAN Lantern reporter rickman.16@osu.edu The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum is set to show that comics are more than just superhero antics. An upcoming event is slated to host an international comic conference featuring a U.S. congressman, a Finnish artist and a local Ohio cartoonist.

The International Comic Arts Forum is an annual symposium “devoted to the study of comics in all its varieties,” according to its website. Originally known as the International Comics and Animation Festival when it was started at Georgetown University, the conference aims to introduce North American scholars to comic art and scholarship from around the world.

“It has been going on since 1995,” said Caitlin McGurk, a project coordinator in special collections and area studies. “It’s basically one of the first and largest academic conferences for comics.”

McGurk said that although there are often cartoonist panels where famous cartoonists give talks about their work, the International Comic Arts Forum focuses the bulk of its conference on comic scholars from around the world who present papers about their research.

“It allows us the opportunity for people who present papers to be able to be introduced to some of the resources around the country that really appreciate and preserve comic books,” said Qiana Whitted, ICAF’s promotions coordinator.

Shop to make Short North sweeter KRISTA MCCOMB Lantern reporter mccomb.28@osu.edu If Coca-Cola and Pepsi are too vanilla for your taste, perhaps the syrupy carbonation of “Martian poop soda” will strike your fancy.

Rocket Fizz Soda Pop & Candy Shop is set to open its doors in the Short North this December, offering a large selection of treats in some unusual flavors, such as the aforementioned soda imagined from extraterrestrial feces.

Lyndsay Maher, owner of the soon-to-open Short North location, said the store will house more than 500 different flavors of bottled soda and over 2,000 types of imported and domestic candies.

Rocket Fizz is a California-based retail store franchisor that sells its own line of different flavored sodas along with a large selection of candies.

“I have had a sweet tooth for as long as I can remember,” Maher said in an email. “And I attribute that mainly to my grandparents. They would always have bowls of candy lying around their house. As I got older, my grandparents would take me to a fun little general store as a treat to pick out a few pieces of candy and maybe a small toy. Those memories created this vision to one day open an old-school soda pop and candy shop.”

The Short North is the first Rocket Fizz location in Ohio. There are more than 60 locations in 18 states, Maher said.

Some of the strangest products offered by Rocket Fizz are the flavored sodas, Maher said. The store will offer flavors like peanut butter and jelly, ranch dressing, buffalo wing sauce and bacon. Maher’s personal favorite is the Marion blackberry-flavored “Martian Poop,” which she said is “actually very good.”

Popular products are the giant gummy bears and Japanese

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A portion of a comic strip by former OSU student Jeff Smith, who is set to speak at International Comic Arts Forum on Nov. 15 in the Cartoon Room in the Ohio Union.

Rep. John Lewis, the U.S. congressman for Georgia’s fifth district and a civil rights icon, will headline the 17th annual International Comic Arts Forum with a presentation on his graphic novel, “March.”

“Named one of the year’s best books by USA Today, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly and Comics Alliance, the first volume of ‘March’ recalls Lewis’ childhood in Alabama and his early involvement in the movement to desegregate Nashville’s lunch counters, while volume two of the trilogy is scheduled for release in January 2015,” according to a press release.

“We’re especially excited that we were able to coordinate the conference with Congressman Lewis,” said Whitted, who is also an English professor at the University of South Carolina.

“It just kind of worked out wonderfully that we had to reschedule Congressman John Lewis’ talk, so now it’s going to fall at the very end,” said Jared Gardner, an English professor who is coordinating the conference.

Local Ohio cartoonist and former OSU student Jeff Smith will also be speaking at the conference.

Smith is the creator of the comic series “Bone,” which found popularity from the 1990s to the mid-2000s.

“Jeff Smith has been a real friend and supporter of the Cartoon Library,” Gardner said.

“All of his original work is on deposit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.”

Gardner said Smith began working on “Bone” as an undergraduate at OSU and published the earlier versions of it in The Lantern under the name “Thorn.” The cartoon strip ran in The Lantern from fall 1982 to fall 1985, according to The Lantern archives.

“I often describe ‘Bone’ as a mashup of what we call funny animal comics with Lord of the Rings,” Gardner said.

Finnish artist Hanneriina Moisseinen will have a presentation at the conference as well as a screening of the documentary “Laulu, ” in which she is featured.

Gardner said ICAF is the oldest of its kind in comic studies and is hosted at different locations around the country.

“They have moved around to different hosts over the years,” he said. “They’ve been at the Library of Congress, the Art Institute of Chicago and most recently at the University of Oregon.”

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Salling said she believed part of Tinder’s popularity is because of the design similarity to popular games, like “Blocks” and “Candy Crush,” that use the swiping motion. “It’s like a game, but a game of real people,” she said.

Cast member Quilan Arnold, who is a second-year Master of Fine Arts dance candidate, said the constant change in how people connect in today’s society is more awkward compared to the conventional way.

“I think there is this nuisance of interconnectivity between human beings in trying to find that connection with others,” Arnold said. “It’s kind of awkward because the person you try to connect to is a virtual version of themselves so are you really connecting with them?”

Arnold said he thinks the audience will read this contrast of connecting

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“And Captain H is someone that she looks up to, and someone who often combats Red, the villain, to help her get through life.”

Before the graduate students engaged with autistic kids, the group went to London in 2013 to learn about the Hunter Heartbeat Method, a Shakespeare-based, social skills teaching intervention for autistic children, Lopez said.

“They then formed interesting, creative responses to the work with the children, whatever sort of sparked them,” said Maureen Ryan, director of the MFA Acting Outreach and Engagement project. “Sometimes (the actors) would come in with a scene based on what happened in class, and sometimes they just improvised.”

The effects of the Hunter Heartbeat Method were researched at OSU over the last two and a half years with collaboration between the Royal Shakespeare Company, Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Autism Treatment Network, the Department of Theatre and the Nisonger Center, a university center that aims to improve the lives of those with developmental disabilities, said Marc J. Tassé, director of the Nisonger Center.

Kelly Hunter, English actress and developer of the Hunter Heartbeat Method, said she wanted to explore the power of Shakespeare outside of the theatre.

imported candies, Maher said. In addition to sweets, the store will also have “retro and gag gifts, tin signs, as well as movie and concert posters,” Maher said.

She described the items as being “low dollar” and “something for anyone’s price point.”

Maher, who previously worked in sales for hospital amenity companies, said the idea to open the store happened when she was living in Colorado and visited Boulder, where she stumbled upon a Rocket Fizz franchise. A couple years later, she moved to the Short North area with her family and decided to pursue opening the candy store because she wanted to “explore other paths outside of corporate America.”

Some students think it’s an interesting idea and one worth checking out.

Leila Khamees, a second-year in economics, said she couldn’t picture going by herself, but would consider going if she were babysitting and wanted something fun to do.

“I don’t eat that much candy, but I think it’s fun for the Short North, just because they don’t have anything like that down there,” she said. “It seems different.”

Lauren Eckhoff, a third-year in marketing, said she was surprised by the opening of a candy store.

“I’m kind of surprised that it would be opening with soda and pop just because I feel like that industry is kind of on the decline nowadays,” she said. “I feel like people are trying to get healthier options. Other than that, it’s interesting that they are bringing in candy from all over the world.”

Eckhoff also said it could be an interesting place to buy gifts.

“It depends on how unique the things are, but it could be cool,” she said.

Including Le Chocoholique, Rocket Fizz is set join a very small list of candy shops in the Short North when it opens the week of Dec. 14. It will be located at 944 N. High St.

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people and loneliness as chaos in the sense of relating to others. The piece should also allow them to interpret and mold this characteristic based on their respective interaction with platforms like Tinder, he said.

Although social networking presents many positive traits, Salling said it is a constant distraction — people can no longer hold on to one thing because of the idea that there maybe a better option or person somewhere in the world.

“The Steadfast Tinder Solider” is one four pieces featured in “Dance Downtown: Solace and Mirth.” The showcase is set to take place Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. at Capitol Theatre in the Riffe Center. Tickets are available at the OSU Theatre Box Office. Admission for OSU students, staff and senior citizens is $16.50. General admission is $21.50.

that we’ve lost our path. It isn’t a bad omen or a reason for concern. It’s a celebration of body acceptance. It’s a message that proclaims bodies are not secrets to be hidden, but rather beauties to be celebrated.

And it’s for exactly these reasons that Kardashian’s booty shot was an excellent idea.

I’m not advocating pornography of any kind. I’m not advocating public sex or nudism or perversion. But Kim Kardashian’s magazine cover is none of those things. It’s a butt. And like it or not, butts are funny. Butts are a part of life. Everybody has a butt, so why pretend that we don’t?

If you’ve yet to see the controversial magazine cover, simply search Kim Kardashian’s name and click on any of the most recent articles. The woman is everywhere, and fortunately, most news sites have decided not to censor the image — a fact that I find both pleasantly refreshing and delightfully progressive.

“The heart of the method is the iambic pentameter, the rhythm of the heartbeat, and the power that it has,” Hunter said. “Arguably it’s the first sound we hear in the womb, from our mother’s heartbeat. And what I’ve experienced is that this rhythm can genuinely calm children with autism, whose inner-rhythms are sometimes jangled or disturbed.

“Eventually I wanted to see if the method could be scientifically evaluated, but at the time there was no possibility of doing that in England,” she said, “And the RSC thought … ’Maybe there’s something OSU can do.’”

The two organizations have had a educational partnership since 2009.

Tassé said within the Hunter Heartbeat Method, children are given the opportunity to improve skills including voice, expression of emotion and social interactions, which are often lacking in autistic people.

“And in addition to teaching them muchneeded social skills and communication skills, this method of intervention allows them to discover the arts, which can be a leisure or vocational interest for them,” Tassé said.

The Nisonger Center took questionnaires from parents of children that the MFA acting cohort worked with as well as a control group made up of children from Columbus City Schools, with results set to be published in spring 2015, Tassé said.

In London, the MFA actors heard directly from Hunter and were able to observe her as she worked with U.K. children, Lopez said.

From this, they learned a series of games centered on Shakespeare’s play, “The Tempest,” said Robin Post, director of the Shakespeare and Autism program for the Department of Theatre.

They then participated in local workshops

once a week for two semesters at Haugland Learning Center — a Columbus school for developmentally disabled children — to observe and play roles from “The Tempest.”

Hunter has worked closely with about 65 children throughout the years, all of whom she chose to dedicate her new book to. Each child’s name is listed in the book, “Shakespeare’s Heartbeat: Drama games for children with autism,” which was released this month, Hunter said.

“In Here Out There” opens Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Roy Bowen Theatre at the Drake Performance and Event Center, and has nine additional shows throughout November, with the last taking place Nov. 23 at 3 p.m. A postperformance discussion will be held Nov. 15 with Hunter, Post, Tassé, the cast and others.

Tickets are $15 for students and children, $18 for faculty, staff, alumni and seniors, and $20 for the general public.

The last showing is a little different. The “sensory friendly” performance will implement several technical changes in lighting, sounds, space and more to the theatre in order to accommodate autistic audience members, who can be sensitive to bright or flashing lights or events that require them to sit still, Post said.

Shakespeare’s work set a precedent in theater, and now it’s the heart of an emerging mode of teaching social skills to autistic children.

“In Shakespeare there are four key words that are repeated more than others, and they are ‘eyes,’ ‘mind’ ‘reason’ and ‘love,’” Hunter said. “So his plays are a poetic exploration of these words, which is brilliant for people with autism, because using their eyes and mind to find reason and love is the very thing they find difficult.”

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opinion Father’s second deployment harder than first Bree Crye Lantern reporter crye.4@osu.edu This time it’s different.

My dad was deployed once before — back when I was in fifth grade. It was right in the thick of Operation Iraqi Freedom. At the time, I wasn’t too concerned. Sure, it sucked that my dad was away. It sucked that he missed my birthday, missed Christmas. My biggest concern at the time was how he wouldn’t be there the weekends I came to visit my soon-to-be stepmom and stepbrother. I barely ever got to speak to him — that was mostly over the Internet, and I didn’t know how to use it yet. I was, at the time, shrouded in a mist of ignorant bliss. I was 10 years old. I had no idea what was really going on, why my dad was away, what it all meant. But this time, I’m older.

Wiser. Definitely more tech-savvy.

And that makes this deployment that much harder.

What I thought was months has now turned to days. I was confident that I had all the time in the world left with my dad before he left, but before I knew it, it’s come right around the corner. The countdown has begun and realization is only slowly sinking in. He’s leaving. He will be gone for a year, possibly longer.

He doesn’t talk much about it. I can’t disclose much about where he’s going or what he’ll be doing — but to be honest, I don’t even really know much about it anyway. The only details I’ve gotten so far have been from my stepmom, Lisa.

That’s another thing that’s different — Lisa.

Now that I’m older, she confides more in me. We’re definitely closer than when I was in elementary school. But she doesn’t hide it anymore — how scared she is. And that scares me.

With everything that’s been going on in the news with ISIS, it’s terrifying to think that my dad will be out there. And I have to admit, when it comes to that kind of stuff, I’m woefully uninformed. I tend to shy away from news reports on what is happening in that part of the world. Now that I am older, I understand it more. It’s so much more real than before. I don’t know what’s better: keeping up with what’s happening, or pretending like it isn’t happening at all.

A part of me doesn’t want to know.

I think it would be worse. Harder to cope with his being gone. Infinitely more stressed about all the “what-if’s” and “what-could’s.”

Next year I plan to move back home instead of staying on campus. I tell people it’s because it’s too expensive, or that I just wasn’t able to find a new apartment, but that is not true. In reality, I’m moving back home to help out around the house. My little brother and sister definitely were not a part of the equation during my dad’s first deployment. My stepmom needs help watching the kids when she’s at work, and more than that, she needs someone to be with her at night, after the kids are asleep, and she starts to worry. Moral support — she needs it, I need it, and moving back home will allow both of us to have that. The rest of our family is in Toledo, so we only have each other close.

So will the 30 minute commute be rough? Sure. Will balancing class, extracurriculars, watching my siblings and working to pay my own school bills be rough? Sure. It will be one heck of a senior year, but what I’ve learned is that family comes first, and I need to be home.

The hardest part of it all, though, is how much more dependent I am on my father now than when I was before. After the drama of high school and my rocky transition to college, my dad’s become

my rock. I call him almost every day, every time I’m stressed out. He’s there.

Sure, I’ll still be able to talk to him, but it will not be as often. He will not be able to be there every time that I need him.

So maybe I sound like I’m whining. I know that I am not the only person in the world who has a loved one out defending our country. But I am very proud of my father. I am proud of everything he has done to protect us and keep our country safe. I have so much respect for everything that the military does, for all the veterans that have dedicated themselves to that cause. But let’s also not forget their families. The fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and spouses that hold down the home front. They make sacrifices, too.

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Sgt. 1st Class Jon Crye during his first deployment

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Sgt. 1st Class Jon Crye

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Bree Crye (right) and her father, Sgt. 1st Class Jon Crye

Blackburn House’s demolition leads to nostalgia

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Blackburn House

Letter to the editor: I listlessly scrolled through my email inbox when this excerpt caught my eye: “Blackburn House demolition in the North Residential District is scheduled to begin Monday (11/10). Demolition will take place over the course of several days and will be carried out by heavy construction equipment.

Please understand there may be additional noise and dust in the area during this time.”

Nostalgia made me pause — this announcement was eminent, but still stung.

I flashed back to moving in on Sept. 15, 2011, my freshman year. Blackburn was my first home in a jungle of diverse people, challenging classes and powerful memories.

Since then, I’ve moved off-campus with two guys I met in the dorm. As a senior, all my classes are now in Fisher, so I walk back by Blackburn regularly. Today when I passed by, instead of mindlessly thumbing through my iPhone, I reminisced on what the area means to me, to fellow students and to Ohio State.

As most people will tell you, there’s an entirely different vibe, social style and academic mindset of students who live on North Campus, where Blackburn once stood.

A good friend of mine, who came to OSU a year before me, advised me to live on South Campus. He told me North Campus was lame.

But my mom urged me to join a scholars

Blackburn House’s demolition Nov. 11 program living community. When I received an oversized acceptance letter in the mail to the Environment & Natural Resources Scholars Program, I couldn’t help but be excited. Calling myself a “scholar” sounded delightfully prestigious, the housing boasted air conditioning and I would get scheduling preferences on one condition — live in Blackburn House.

My student engagement and community involvement experience was drastically altered by this condition, though initially I refused to believe it. I ignorantly convinced myself that I single-handedly could liven up the quiet community with a few try-hard smiles and over zealous “hellos”. So as soon as I arrived in my cubbyhole of a room, I rushed to plug in my speakers and ignited my intrepid rap anthem, “If I Can’t” by 50 Cent. I left my clunky door open, letting the lyrics, “If I can’t do it homie, it can’t be done, I’ma let the champagne bottle pop, I’ma take you to the top,” waft down the windowless hallway.

Surely fellow freshmen would hear it and stop in to meet their new, cool neighbor. Instead, I was curtly asked by an unenthused girl to either turn it down or close the door.

I quickly learned blasting music is not the best way to make friends, and it remained difficult to find friends in Blackburn for multiple reasons. First of all, the location was a hike from the best quality food and major landmarks on campus like Sloopy’s at the Union or the basketball courts at the

RPAC. So when students left their rooms, they tended to migrate south rather than hang around and populate the immediate area. Also, Blackburn’s physical structure was nearly just as dark and dreary as its namesake. A rickety elevator, yellowing bricks, few windows and a squat, boxy exterior were hardly inspiring. Looking back, I do not believe the students there were inherently any less sociable from South or West Campus residents, but our environment undeniably affected us.

Moving into this new environment stirred up a dusty haze of uncertainty about who my true friends were and who I was. But with time, I improved my relationship building skills and learned a great deal about myself. Vast differences in music taste, life goals, social habits and countless more interests made finding commonalties daunting, but also made me cherish relationships when I did find them. I learned all it takes is one commonality in order to strike up a conversation, which can then lead to a friendship. Finding opportunities to spark these pivotal conversations is the hard part, and I sincerely hope the new North Campus dorms will facilitate more openness and community engagement. That’s not to say Blackburn was entirely stagnant, it showed flashes of liveliness on occasion.

The first girl I ever kissed in college also lived in Blackburn House. One evening the resident advisers hosted a game night in the lobby of an adjacent North Campus

dorm for students to enjoy and get to meet fellow residents in the area. This was around January, so I was surprised after months of living in the same place that I hardly recognized many of the people there. Where in the woodwork had they been hiding? I sat down at a card table and immediately noticed this girl was cute because she had a big smile and was confident when she spoke. In a relatively reclusive community, she was a rebel who dared to introduce herself. That introduction led to meeting up at Park Street on a Thursday night, which led back to Blackburn together. Thank you to those RAs who hosted game night.

They say when Blackburn is knocked down, there will be “additional noise and dust in the area.” But for those who once lived there, we know there has always been noise wafting down the halls and clouds of uncertainty hanging in the area. While the experience was challenging at times, it forced me to grow up and think for myself. For what Blackburn House lacked in aesthetics and location, it made up for by instilling in me a spirit of resilience and realization. When I return years from now I won’t be able to point and say, “that was my old dormitory.” But that’s OK because I’m happy to see the area growing and evolving just like I did.

Joseph Sitzwohl Fourth-year in marketing sitzwohl.1@osu.edu

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Ingrid Michaelson, 7 pm LC Pavilion Love and Theft, 7 pm The Bluestone Gallery of Echoes, 7:30 pm Shadowbox Live Kevin Nealon, 7:45 pm Funny Bone Dance Downtown, 8 pm Capitol Theatre Shaggy, 8 pm Alrosa Villa

Gallery of Echoes, 7:30 pm Shadowbox Live Danny Elfman’s Songs from Tim Burton, 8 pm Ohio Theatre Dance Downtown, 8 pm Capitol Theatre LEBOOM!, 9 pm Skullys

Captain Kidd Concert, 8:30 pm Skullys

Sama Davis, 9 pm Cafe Kerouac

Glamour and Glow, 9 pm Park Street Saloon

Saturday, 11/15

Sunday, 11/16 Jerrod Niemann, 7 pm The Bluestone

Girls on the Run 5K, 9 am Columbus Commons

Gallery of Echoes, 7:30 pm Shadowbox Live

Family Fun Day at the Movies, 1 pm Gateway Film Center

Jay Black, 7:30 pm Funny Bone

Decapitated, 6 pm Alrosa Villa

The Flex Crew, 9 pm Skully

In This Moment, Twelve Foot Ninja, Starset, & 3 Pill Morning, 6pm LC Pavilion

The Hoodoo Soul Band, 10 pm Rumba Cafe

Live Music with John Rush, 7 pm Woody’s Tavern

Columbus Blue Jackets vs. San Jose Sharks, 7 pm Nationwide Arena

Thursday November 13, 2014

Eric Hutchinson w/ Tristan Prettyman, 7 pm Newport

Comedy Collection, 8 pm Camelot Cellars

Kevin Nealon, 7 pm Funny Bone

Augustana, 7 pm A&R Music Bar

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VIS A VIS, THE SATURDAY GIANT, 9 pm Rumba Cafe

Bush League All Stars, 6 pm Rumba Cafe

CunninLynguists, 7 pm The Basement

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Jamestown Revival - Presented by WCBE - Nikki Lane and Hollow Wood, 7 pm The Basement

Monday, 11/17

Interpol, 7 pm Newport

Tuesday, 11/18 Marquette Golden Eagles, 4 pm Schottenstein Dollar Tacos, 5 pm Carabar OUABe Fit: Zumba, 6 pm Ohio Union - Dance Room 1 Four Year Strong & Transit, 6:30 pm Skullys Blue October, 6:30 pm Newport Columbus Blue Jackets vs. Detroit Red Wings, 7 pm Nationwide Arena Pauly Shore, 7 pm Funny Bone Mike Doughty, 8 pm Rumba Cafe

Wednesday, 11/19 Wellness Series: Cupcakes and Canvases, 5 pm Ohio Union - Creative Arts Room OUABe Fit: Barre, 6 pm Ohio Union - Dance Room 1 Flicks For Free: Sex Tape, 6 pm US Bank Conference Theater

Ohio Local Artists Showcase, 6 pm Skullys

Fitz & The Tantrums, 7 pm LC Pavilion

OUABe Fit: Yoga, 6 pm Ohio Union - Dance Room 1

Comedy Talent Search Semi-Finals, 7:30 pm Funny Bone

OUAB Presents: Robin Wright, 7:30 pm Archie Griffin Ballroom

ASKULTURA, 8 pm Skullys

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