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Ohio State receives grant to improve high school student involvement in STEM.

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Wexner Center hosts party to engage students with art displays.

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J. Cole made a large arena feel like an intimate show on Sunday night.

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Secretary of state race to address voter rights, redistricting LILY MASLIA Lantern reporter maslia.2@osu.edu

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Ohio State students win $25,000 for recycling efforts SHELBY METZGER Lantern reporter metzger.348@osu.edu A team of Ohio State students has won $25,000 from the 2018 Ford College Community Challenge, which will allow them to build machines able to recycle and reuse plastic.

The group, named Buckeye Precious Plastic, is building four different machines designed to turn old plastic into usable items and received the award in July. “[The grant] would give our initiative more opportunities, more access to resources and made it easier for our initiative to grow in members,” said Dustin Goetz, a group member and third-year mechanical engineering major.

The grant from the Ford Motor Company Fund, which sponsors the challenge, was recommended by a fellow student. The team filled out an application, and after being selected as one of 20 finalists, submitted a video detailing the project.

The Ford College Community Challenge “invites students worldwide to partner with organizations in their communities to design projects, addressing critical needs of their community,” according to its website.

Buckeye Precious Plastic was one of 10 winning groups from colleges across the country, including Purdue University and University of California, Berkeley.

“What I got excited about when I heard about Buckeye Precious Plastic is that they’re taking a stab at all these hard-to-recycle items and doing what they can to fix that problem.”

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Their efforts were inspired by the Precious Plastic program, an organization started by David Hakkens from the Netherlands in 2013 that aspires to find a solution to plastic pollution. The Precious Plastic website provides instructions for building a multitude of different machines designed to reuse plastic.

The four machines — a shredder, an extruder used in 3D printing, an injector and a compressor — were all built using recycled items and can be used in tandem.

First, the shredder breaks down plastic into flakes which can then be used by the other three machines to create a final product.

The extruder compresses flakes into a continuous line of plastic, which can be used to make items such as filament for a 3D printer, while the injector and compressor both heat flakes to be used in molds, with the injector being suited for small objects and the compressor for larger objects.

“We get most of our materials from recycling places so we’ve been junk diving a few times,” Brian Waibl Polania, a third-year me-

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The midterm elections are just over a month away, and the Ohio secretary of state seat, which is the office that oversees state-wide elections and voter registration, is on the ballot. The results of this election will be pivotal in determining the 2020 Congressional redistricting of Ohio.

Democratic State Rep. Kathleen Clyde will run against Republican State Sen. Frank LaRose in the critical Nov. 6 election that will decide the position fifth in the line of succession for governor.

The secretary of state election will also determine who serves on the commission responsible for the redistricting of new congressional and state lines that occurs every 10 years. In May, an amendment was approved by voters to change the requirements to pass congressional redistricting maps and to change the standards used in redistricting Ohio.

“Voters have approved constitutional amendment that provides for bipartisan method for drawing the district lines,” said Bob Taft, former Ohio governor and secretary of state. “It will affect how congressional districts are drawn and I would expect if it works as intended, there will be more competitive districts in Ohio.”

Clyde is in her third term representing Ohio’s 75th District and ran unopposed in the Democratic primary in May. On Sunday, Clyde spoke as a featured guest at a fundraiser celebration for Democratic female candidates in Ohio.

Clyde noted the importance of accessibility to voting for students in an interview with The Lantern before her speech.

“Students can really make a difference in our state, in our country by voting,” Clyde said.

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Ohio State receives grant to broaden student interest in STEM ANNA RIPKEN Lantern reporter ripken.2@osu.edu Ohio State University, in collaboration with Ohio Northern University and Kansas high school Olathe Northwest, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to broaden high school students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math pathways.

The project, called “Promoting Engineering Problem Framing Skill Development in High School Science and Engineering Courses,” was designed and submitted by principal investigator and assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Ohio Northern Blake Hylton and Ohio Northern faculty member Todd France, along with Patrick Herak of Ohio State’s engineering education department and Bruce Wellman from Olathe Northwest.

The group hopes to provide cross-curricular activities so that students in biology, chemistry and physics classes can all take part.

“There are clear, clear connections with all those three sciences and engineering that can be kind of wrapped up into [one] scenario,” said France, co-principal investigator and assistant professor of engineering education at Ohio Northern.

Ohio State will receive $121,957 from the three-year NSF grant out of a total $450,000, according to a College of Engineering news release, with Ohio State’s role being data analysis of the project results. The results will be collected through surveys and interviews with participating students and teachers.

The funding from the grant supports a project to design and incorporate engineering-based activities into core high school curriculums, such as biology, chemistry

“We want these students as potentially future engineers to be creative, to think critically about different problems where there’s no correct answer.”

TODD FRANCE Ohio Northern faculty member

and physics, while providing structure for teachers on how to support and offer resources to students with STEM interest.

Four activities are planned for the year, France said. Each activity will target different aspects of the engineering design process — specifically, the first few steps.

France said a common difficulty is students jumping in the design and prototyping phase without considering who the design is going to impact.

“We want these students as potentially future engineers to be creative, to think critically about different problems where there’s no correct answer,” France said.

“There can be many different types of design solutions that all can be high quality.”

Herak, co-principal investigator, will lead the data analytics portion of the project, along with a graduate research assistant.

Herak said he will be analyzing two things: quantitative and qualitative data.

“The quantitative data might be like, ‘Oh, here’s how students did on tests with

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The funding from the grant supports a project to design and incorporate engineering-based activities into core high school curriculums, such as biology, chemistry and physics.

special modules, and here’s how they did without it,’” Herak said. “You have to go through this paragraph of information and … read through enough of it to know, like, what are some of the keywords that keep popping up?”

Once the keywords are detected, Herak said they can then recognize if the results from student and teacher feedback are positive or negative and generalize this feedback to encourage larger pilot groups to participate in future projects.

“Usually the first group of people that do it are the most enthusiastic about doing it,” Herak said. “Then other people might be like, ‘Yeah, that’s a good idea, but I want to see how it works before I try it.’”

Project funding began Aug. 1 and is sourced by the Discovery Research in PreK-12 program — part of the NSF — which seeks to enhance the learning and teaching of STEM approaches.

Hylton said the project is currently a three-year project and in a phase where the group is trying to see what works.

“If we start getting promising results, then the hope would be to go on and apply for a follow-on grant that could be as much as a five-year project to implement our activities more broadly,” Hylton said The engineering activities are rooted in the 12 Next Generation Science Standards, which are content standards that set expectations for what students should know and be able to do. The project also sets expectations for the teachers to become more familiar with different disciplines of engineering and further engage students with the engineering field, France said.

“It’s really a pilot project to see how impactful it can be and what the student takeaways and feedback are to make it sustainable,” France said. “We need to have teachers buy into it for us because it just can’t be some far away institution telling them what to do, year after year. But hopefully the teachers find value in it and then they adopt it for their own classroom practices.”

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is critical for us and something that we should encourage as much as we can.”

LaRose, currently on his second term representing Ohio’s 27th District, ran unopposed in his party’s primary in May. LaRose has touted his bipartisan record in his campaign to capture the coveted seat.

“When you vote for the person that’s going to be in charge of Ohio’s elections, it’s important that you have someone with a track record of actually working across the aisle,” LaRose said in an interview with The Lantern Friday.

LaRose is currently pushing a bill in Ohio that would allow people to register for absentee ballots online. In 2016, he sponsored the successful bill that allowed Ohioans to register to vote online.

“It wasn’t popular with my own party when I first introduced it, to be very candid, but we stayed the course,” LaRose said. “This is kind of a pattern for me because in a lot of ways I’ve been willing to step out on things that I think were right, even when it’s not popular with my party.”

Noting LaRose’s nonpartisan work across the aisle, the Columbus Dispatch officially endorsed him in an editorial for his willingness to “oppose party orthodoxy for the good of Ohio voters.”

Ohio is currently under Republican control, with the GOP controlling the governorship and holding majorities in both the state Senate and House.

Clyde cited actions taken by the Republican party to

“When you vote for the person that’s going to be in charge of Ohio’s elections, it’s important that you have someone with a track record of actually working across the aisle.”

FRANK LAROSE Republican State Senator

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Kathleen Clyde, Democratic candidate for Secretary of State.

make it more difficult for students to vote. According to a Pew Research Center study, 58 percent of young adults aged 18 to 25 either identify as Democrats or lean toward the Democratic party.

“There have been a number of attempts made by the current party in power to make it harder for college students to vote,” Clyde said. “If your vote wasn’t valuable, they wouldn’t be going after it.”

Ohio Republican leaders, headed by efforts of current Secretary of State Jon Husted, faced scrutiny in the 2016 election for purging hundreds of thousands of voter rolls due to inactivity in voting. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this summer in favor of Husted and upheld states’ rights to suppress voter rolls.

A Reuters study found that at least 144,000 people were removed from the voting rolls in recent years in Ohio’s three largest counties — Cuyahoga, Hamilton and Franklin — which are home to Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, respectively.

“I reject that notion that [voter roll purging] has sort of become a politicized version of what has been the procedure in Ohio for over 20 years,” LaRose said. “You also have the responsibility of maintaining accurate lists and that goes back as long as there’s been a secretary of state.”

Ohio’s current process allows voters to be removed from the voter roll if they have not participated in an election in

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the past six years and failed to respond to a notice.

“My own opinion as a former secretary of state is that what Ohio does is a reasonable approach to keeping your voter rolls accurate and preventing voter fraud,” Taft said.

Clyde remains firm in her passion of getting young people to vote, saying that she wants to help register students to vote and “break down the barriers to voting that exist for students.”

The polls open at 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 6 and close at 7:30 p.m., while early voting starts on Oct. 10. For more information on where to vote, how to register and what to bring, visit the secretary of state website at https://www.sos.state. oh.us/elections/voters/.

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chanical engineering major and member of the team, said in a press release.

Chris Chia, a group member and third-year biochemistry major, said the team needed funding to continue building the machines after they began the project in March.

The team hopes that its efforts will help increase the amount of plastic reused and recycled on Ohio State’s campus.

“On campus the only thing that’s recyclable right now is bottle-shaped plastics,” said Tom Reeves, director of energy management and sustainability at Ohio State. “What I got excited about when I heard about Buckeye Precious Plastic is that they’re taking a stab at all these hard-to-recycle items and doing what they can to fix that problem.

That’s a problem that’s not just affecting us here at Ohio State but

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across the country.”

The members of Buckeye Precious Plastic also aim to have a positive impact on the environment not just on campus, but globally.

“There’s a giant float in the middle of the Pacific about the size of Texas leaking chemicals into our environment,” Chia said.

“So our goal is just to try to do as much as we can to reduce the plastic that’s out there right now, to keep it in use, but to still try to keep it out of the environment.”

The group continues to work on assembling the machines and was recently able to acquire a room in Smith Lab, where they will continue construction.

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Night Market ends summer with food and celebration at North Market ISABEL HALL Lantern reporter hall.2220@osu.edu

Despite getting off to a rainy start, Night Market at North Market gave Columbus residents a way to say farewell to the summer with food, drinks, shopping and music.

Last Friday, North Market held its third and final Night Market of the year. Night Market, which started this summer, offered a chance for Columbus residents to visit North Market past normal business hours and enjoy independent vendors, food trucks, games and live music.

Night Market was inspired by traditional outdoor markets in Europe and Asia and aimed to provide a fun, carnival-like experience, said Meghan Brouillette, director of communications for North Market Development Authority.

“We receive several requests from the public to stay open later in the summer. For our small businesses that operate full time within the market, it is too much of a burden to remain open much later every day for an entire season,” Brouillette said in an email. “The Night Market allows us to compromise and stay open late once per month.”

Due to the success and

popularity of Night Market, Brouillette said North Market is already making plans to hold Night Markets again in 2019.

Madison Ruehl, a worker for independent vendor American Nut Company, said she liked how Night Market allowed people to visit North Market when they normally wouldn’t be able to.

“It’s a really great opportunity for small businesses and entrepreneurs to get exposure where they may not have had the opportunity to otherwise,” DWAYNE SCHOCK Vendor at Homestead Mercantile

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Night Market attendees shop around North Market on Sept. 21, 2018.

“It’s definitely helpful for people who are very busy during the week,” Ruehl said. “The late hours are much better for people who work full time, and they have access to all of it when they don’t during normal hours.”

Food trucks and vendors attending Night Market included Penny’s Meat Cookout, selling bacon-on-a-stick and Italian sausages, Dos Hermanos Taco

Truck and Little Red Coffee Van. Guests could also enjoy craft beer and wine offerings.

As guests of Night Market walked around and enjoyed the food, they also listened to live music from Pramod Lama, owner of Momo Ghar Market within North Market, and DJ RHYNO. Family-friendly activities included giant pong, yard Yahtzee, cornhole and face

painting. Trapped Columbus Escape Room also offered escape adventures for guests.

Independent vendors who normally do not sell their products at North Market were also given the chance to interact with members of the Columbus community at Night Market, such as American Nut Company, American Homestead Mercantile, The Sweater Lady, 2 Girls With

Curls, Florence Grace and The Boutique Truck.

Dwayne Schock, a vendor at American Homestead Mercantile, enjoyed the experience of participating in Night Market.

“It’s a really great opportunity for small businesses and entrepreneurs to get exposure where they may not have had the opportunity to otherwise,” Schock said.

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A room titled “Love Forever” from “Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors,” featuring the artist’s immersive mirrored-room installations at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles.

LILY MCMORROW Lantern reporter mcmorrow.8@osu.edu Heather Lenz, a former Wexner Center for the Arts film intern, debuted her documentary “Kusama - Infinity,” about groundbreaking Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, last Thursday at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

The documentary, which took Lenz 17 years to produce, follows Kusama through her many years as an artist in which she experienced underappreciation and even theft.

Kusama is known for her various infinity rooms, an art form that uses mirrors to create an endless repetition of reflected images, that have been installed across the

country in the past several years, and most recently at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She has been an active artist since her childhood.

Lenz said she first had the idea to film a female artist after she completed an undergraduate art history class at Kent State University, where she learned that for every 1,000 male artists, there are only five female artists.

Lenz said she was highly discouraged from making the film by her peers and professors because of their unfamiliarity with Kusama.

“I thought the film would help shine light on her,” Lenz said. “It was really clear to me that her contributions to the American contemporary art world were not properly recognized.”

Lenz said she faced many challenges while making the film, such as organizing international travel to Kusama’s self-admitted home in a psychiatric institution, and funding for translators and travel expenses.

“The movie was a really good example of how we can all shape our own success through talent,” Melissa Starker, public relations manager of the Wexner Center, said. “One of the biggest takeaways from this is that it wasn’t always easy. Another [takeaway] that you hope that the artist demonstrates is that talent will prevail.”

The Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors installation will be available at the Cleveland Museum of Art until Sunday, Sept. 30.

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Wexner Center party brought widespread appeal to art displays JULIANNE KERVER Lantern reporter kerver.3@osu.edu Friendly chatter floating down the hallways and bouncing off the high ceilings created a warm environment for the Wexner Center for the Arts’ Fall Student Party last Friday.

One of the main attractions for students was free access to Mickalene Thomas’ exhibit “I Can’t See You Without Me.” Brea Berry, a fifth-year student docent at the Wexner Center, said she identifies with Thomas, being a black, queer female.

“I see myself in a museum,” Berry said.

The gallery stretched across multiple rooms, upstairs and around corners. From bursts of colored paint, glittering rhinestones and risqué sexual works, Thomas’ art truly caught the eye. “[Thomas] is truly comfy with her sexuality. She’s confident about who she loves,” Berry said. “She really hits barriers and breaks rules.”

Another rule-breaking artist featured was Yayoi Kusama, with her documentary “Infinity.”

During the showing, viewers held

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a quiet respect for the Japanese artist. The film followed Kusama’s life journey, her mental health struggles and her colorful, polka-dot covered art.

Though often serious in tone, the documentary was peppered

with humor and a message that art can change the world.

AROUSE Student Radio broadcasted live from the event. Backburner Comedy, Julian Jefko, the Magicians Club and the 3D Urban Dance Team all performed,

giving guests a wide variety of performances to check out.

3D’s performance earned high praise from the crowd.

“Everyone, the team and audience, was engaged and into it,” said Jack Crowley, a fifth-year

student. “Everyone got a chance to dance, even when offstage. It was a rapid-fire performance.”

The main goal of the event, aside from showcasing art, was to encourage students to visit the Wexner Center, said Jillian Davis, third-year and member of the Wexner Center student engagement group.

The group’s target is to encourage students, in and out of the arts, to come to the Wexner Center and see all it has to offer.

“We want to turn this program over to the students and make sure they have accessibility to the Wex,” Davis said.

While free pizza and ice cream might have contributed to the positive student turnout, Davis said plenty of people were just as engaged in the art displays and performances.

From Thomas’ glittering gallery, Kusama’s powerful documentary and AROUSE’s fun broadcasting table, every section of the Wexner Center was bursting with conversation, admiration and enjoyment. No matter what students’ interests might be, there was something for everyone at the Wexner Center.

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Ohio State continues rivalry with No. 21 Michigan CHARLIE MILITELLO Lantern reporter militello.15@osu.edu Coming off a 0-0 draw at home against Northwestern on Friday while playing nearly half the game down a man, the Ohio State men’s soccer team (1-5-2, 0-1-1 Big Ten) heads to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to take on the Wolverines (5-1-1, 1-0-1 Big Ten) on Tuesday.

Ohio State redshirt senior midfielder Brady Blackwell said even though Ohio State’s battles with Michigan are mostly noted on the gridiron, the rivalry transcends all sports between the two schools.

“I think everyone comes here because they know about the rivalry in football obviously, but I think it carries over to every single sport, so we’re not very fond of them,” Blackwell said. “They don’t really like us very much.”

The Wolverines come into this week ranked No. 21 in the nation, according to the United Soccer Coaches Poll, and are on a six-game unbeaten streak following their only loss of the season, at home to Tulsa on Aug. 24.

Michigan is a team that is both effective and dangerous on offense. The Wolverines have outscored their opponents 15-5 on the season while outshooting them 101-48.

The Wolverines’ attack is spearheaded by sophomore forward Umar Farouk Osman’s four goals and two assists, combined with eight points apiece from junior forward Jack Hallahan and sophomore forward Mohammed Zakyi.

Meanwhile, the Wolverines are just as strong between the pipes, with sophomore

night in Columbus.

“The hardest part about double overtime on Friday is we’ve got to turn around and do it on Tuesday, so it’s going to be a really quick turnaround,” Maisonneuve said.

“Managing bodies is going to be the No. 1 thing.”

“I think everyone comes here because they know about the rivalry in football obviously, but I think it carries over to every single sport, so we’re not very fond of them. They don’t really like us very much.”

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Ohio State men’s soccer head coach Brian Maisonneuve watches the Buckeyes play in the first half of the game against the University of South Florida on Sept. 7. Ohio State lost 1-0. goalkeeper Henry Mashburn currently holding a 0.68 goals against average for the season, accompanied by four clean sheets.

“Michigan’s very good this year, very athletic, tough and they get after you,” Ohio State head coach Brian Maisonneuve said. “It’s going to be a battle and we’re go-

ing to have to match their fight because you know they’re going to come out a hundred miles per hour.”

Maisonneuve said that a top concern of his is how his players will recover on such short rest following the tough double-overtime battle against the Wildcats Friday

With eight games under their belt, a new coaching staff and system and a whole lot of soccer left to be played, the Buckeyes seem to be settling in.

The defense rebounded from a tough outing at Penn State last weekend to shut out Northwestern on Friday despite being a man down, while the offense played its most effective game of the season last time out.

The Buckeyes and Wolverines are set to play in Ann Arbor at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

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Ohio State redshirt sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins (7) looks to throw the ball downfield against Tulane on Sept. 22. Ohio State won 49-6.

different ways. And in the prostyle traditional guy like Dwayne, you equate it by throwing.”

The change does not stop in the passing game.

Without a quarterback who can run a run-pass option similar to Barrett or what Penn State redshirt senior quarterback Trace McSorley will run against the Ohio State defense on Saturday, Meyer cannot run the double option where the second option is the quarterback run.

Meyer said the Ohio State offense still runs the double option, but in a different way than in past seasons.

“The double options are, sometimes you’ll see it looks like a called pass, but that’s a run where we’re reading the second-level defenders,” Meyer said.

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With sophomore J.K. Dobbins and redshirt junior Mike Weber splitting series at running back, Ohio State has the No. 5 rush offense in the Big Ten, averaging 233.3 yards per game with backs averaging 5.4 yards per carry.

Compared to the 17 touchdowns Ohio State has recorded in the passing game, six different backs have combined for 10 rushing touchdowns, with Weber and Dobbins combining for five scores.

However, the true read-option offense is not exactly gone. In terms of personnel, Meyer said Ohio State still has the ability to run a similar kind of offense Barrett did in his collegiate career with redshirt freshman quarterback Tate Martell — who has averaged 6.7 yards per carry and

scored two rushing touchdowns.

As Meyer has said multiple times, Haskins is not Barrett.

With that, Haskins will not run a dual-threat offense that serviced to Barrett’s strengths, just like Barrett would not have run a pro-style offense that would have complemented a quarterback like Cardale Jones.

For Meyer, it’s about creating an offense that puts Haskins in the best situation to beat opposing defenses.

“When you watch the film, it’s like I said, it’s not the same,” Meyer said. “It’s a very different offense right now. One was a run first, pass second. This is a do what they give you.”

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Ohio State ranked No. 1 in Big Ten Preseason Coaches’ Poll, No. 3 nationally BRADEN MOLES Lantern reporter moles.13@osu.edu Ohio State is ranked No. 1 in the 201819 Big Ten hockey preseason coaches’ poll, which was announced Monday as part of the Big Ten Hockey Preseason Honors.

Joining the Buckeyes in the poll were fellow 2018 Frozen Four participants Michigan and Notre Dame, who ranked second and third, respectively. Minnesota, Penn State, Wisconsin and Michigan State rounded out the rest of the conference rankings.

Additionally, Ohio State is ranked third in the nation in the USCHO preseason men’s poll, which was also released Monday. The Buckeyes are behind No. 2 Notre Dame and the defending national champions, Minnesota Duluth, who came in at No. 1 with 44 first-place votes.

Ohio State, Notre Dame and Michigan, which is ranked No. 4, each received two first-place votes.

Senior forwards Mason Jobst and Dakota Joshua, as well as junior forward Tanner Laczynski, were all listed on the 2018-19 Big Ten Preseason Watch List. Ohio State had three selections out of the 15 players named, tied with Michigan and Michigan State for the most in the conference.

This is Jobst’s third appearance on the Big Ten Preseason Watch List. Last season he was given 2018 Second Team All-Big Ten honors and enters this season as the NCAA’s active leading scorer with 128 points.

This is the first appearance for both

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Ohio State then-sophomore forward Tanner Laczynski celebrates the game-winning goal in Ohio State’s 3-2 overtime win against Michigan on March 10 in Nationwide Arena.

Laczynski and Joshua on the list. Laczynski scored a career-high 47 points last season and earned 2018 First Team All-Big Ten and 2018 Second Team All-American honors. Joshua was named to the 2018 NCAA Midwest Regional All-Tournament

Team and has a point in 12 out of his past 19 games.

The Buckeyes kick their season off with a series at Arizona State on Oct. 12-13.

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most difficult challenges for Ohio State in recent years, and that will happen again on Saturday.

Containing McSorley and Sanders is tough with a healthy roster, but with the loss of junior defensive end Nick Bosa, the Buckeyes will need big plays from other members of the defense to hold back the Nittany Lions’ offense.

After the Tulane victory, Meyer said he liked the play of the defense without Bosa, but said, with the style of Tulane’s offense, it will not help them against Penn State.

“It’s a much different game today than it will be next week,” Meyer said after Saturday’s game. “I thought they played well. They played only 30 minutes of football and we got ’em out. So the challenge of challenges is coming up.”

The “challenge of challenges” will force the Ohio State defense to clean up all the mistakes that occasionally plagued the team thus far.

It is another year with another major matchup against Penn State, and the Ohio State defense prepared for an offense that looks very similar to one that Meyer ran for the past four years.

“You’re playing with a quarterback that can run. That’s one that manages — we’ve had a lot of yards around here over the last years and years and years because of having that ability to do that,” Meyer said. “That’s a real threat. And that’s something that you have to game plan for.”

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Ohio State molds offense to best suit Haskins COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu When recruiting high school players to come to Ohio State, head coach Urban Meyer said he does not try and find players that fit the offense the team runs.

For Meyer, it’s the opposite. It’s finding the best talent and molding the offense around particular players. With that, Meyer brought together a coaching staff with the goal of building an offense best suited to highlight the specific talents of the players they have.

“I don’t think we’ve ever had a team average over 300 yards passing in a game. It’s different. But the one thing that Ryan [Day] and Kevin [Wilson] have done is utilize the skill set we have of the offensive personnel.”

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That idea continued with redshirt sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins.

Haskins is taking over for J.T. Barrett, a

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Ohio State redshirt sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins (7) talks to teammates before the play during the second quarter of the game against Tulane on Sept. 22. Ohio State won 49-6. former quarterback who specialized in the dual-threat option game, using his arm and his running ability intermittently to move the ball downfield, something the Buckeye offense built itself around.

With Haskins, Ohio State had to mold a brand new offense, something Meyer has had to do before.

“When we recruited Dwayne he had a very good skill set. So it’s our job as coaches to adapt,” Meyer said Monday.

“So we’ve tried to have very good offensive coaches obviously, and they take what people can do and do what they do best.”

That’s exactly what Ohio State has done.

Instead of running an offense that leads

the conference in rushing, something Barrett did in his final season with Ohio State, Meyer and his coaching staff have an offense that leads the Big Ten in passing, averaging 365.8 passing yards per game with quarterbacks completing 76.9 percent of passes for an average of 13.3 yards per completion.

For Meyer, this is a product of what opposing defenses have given the Ohio State offense. He said opposing teams are still giving the wide receivers single coverage, and that Haskins takes advantage of the coverage with the timing the offensive line gives him inside the pocket.

Leading quarterbacks like Alex Smith at Utah, Tim Tebow at Florida and Braxton Miller at Ohio State, Meyer said he rarely has a quarterback like Haskins, a pro-style, pass-first quarterback who has thrown 16of-17 total passing touchdowns this season at the helm of his offense.

“I don’t think we’ve ever had a team average over 300 yards passing in a game,” Meyer said. “It’s different. But the one thing that Ryan [Day] and Kevin [Wilson] have done is utilize the skill set we have of the offensive personnel.”

With Ohio State averaging 54.5 points per game and leading the Big Ten with 599 yards of total offense per game, Meyer will take the yardage any way he can get it.

“It’s all about equating numbers,” Meyer said. “You equate numbers a handful of OFFENSE CONTINUES ON 6

McSorley is a mobile quarterback, which Ohio State has faced the past two games, but one who offers an even larger threat with his arm. And, as Meyer said, a stronger offensive line in front of him.

Meyer also complimented junior running back Miles Sanders and said he expects a very similar team that has given Ohio State a lot of trouble in the past two seasons.

“Offensive line is better. And that running back is really good,” Meyer said. “We don’t see much difference at all. Scheme’s very similar to what they’ve done in the past and obviously the quarterback’s the guy that makes it go.”

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Ohio State sophomore linebacker Baron Browning (5) and redshirt junior defensive lineman Dre’Mont Jones (86) tackle a member of Tulane’s offense during the first half of the game against Tulane on Sept. 22. Ohio State won 49-6.

WYATT CROSHER Assistant Sports Editor crosher.1@osu.edu Ohio State comes out of its matchup against Tulane as the No. 4 team in the country with an undefeated record, tied for the 17th-best scoring defense in the nation.

But even with a win against then-No. 15 TCU under its belt, Ohio State has not played an opponent with the offensive weapons that No. 9 Penn State holds.

The Nittany Lions hold the No. 1 scoring offense in the nation with 55.5 points per game, including 63 points in each of their past two games.

The best offense Ohio State has played so far is the Horned Frogs, who ranked No. 44 averaging 35.3 points per game.

After the 49-6 victory over Tulane, which ranks tied for No. 107 in scoring offense, head coach Urban Meyer said on Monday that Penn State offers a completely different challenge to Tulane’s op-

tion-heavy offense.

“Completely different. Last week was more of a wishbone-style triple option.

This will be a true spread quarterback,” Meyer said. “It’s a much different mindset.

You’ve got to make sure you always account for it.”

The true spread quarterback is redshirt senior Trace McSorley, who is Penn State’s all-time leader in passing touchdowns (59) with 14 total touchdowns on the season, six of which came on the ground.

“You’re playing with a quarterback that can run.

That’s one that manages — we’ve had a lot of yards around here over the last years and years and years because of having that ability to do that. That’s a real threat. And that’s something that you have to game plan for.”

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The last time the Buckeyes traveled to Beaver Stadium, they lost to Penn State 2421, which was their only loss of the regular season. A year later, former Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett threw two touchdowns in the final five minutes to defeat the Nittany Lions 39-38.

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