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hen doing his best to drive a point home, one of our editors at The Post likes to quip that “multimedia is the future.” And yes, he is the The Post’s multimedia editor. Even as I sit here on my words-will-always-prevail pedestal, I have to admit that he is right.

The pressure for once print-centric newsrooms to produce video content has always been there; it has just been largely ignored, or at least considered secondary to a print reporter’s work. I am sure some stereotype-laden editor somewhere once said, “Leave the video to the TV guys,” or something.

Our multimedia editor, Patrick Connolly, would of course say that’s dead wrong.

The best editors I have had have encouraged me to tote a camera and video equipment on assignment, especially in breaking news EMMA OCKERMAN / situations, and I have seen interns praised heavily EDITOR-IN-CHIEF for their interest in storytelling in all formats — be it audio, reported words, video or photo. Still, it sometimes seems that student journalists consider that multi-faceted interest a choice, rather than our future.

In the past four weeks or so, The Post has produced dozens of web stories, but also 11 videos that were published on our website, YouTube account and promoted via Twitter and Facebook. Those videos carried weight separate from our reporter’s stories — from a piece Connolly produced on the lack of gymnastics gyms in Southeast Ohio, a video by Connolly and Post freshman Hope Roberts on a student’s experience of being hearing-impaired, or a collaborative video on Ohio University Professor Jim Zhu’s project to build a flying car — they were each a different take on one story, told through a variety of media.

Most of that multimedia viewership came to The Post through social media platforms, or through our readers clicking on a video directly while already reading a related article.

That experience shooting and editing video is progressively necessary for our student journalists. In a New York Times article Connolly shared with our staff this week, Sydney Ember reports that video content generates more than 50 percent of BuzzFeed’s total revenue — and that segment could soon grow to 75 percent. Mic, a politically-focused news site, also aims to have 60 percent of the company’s focus on video, Ember reports.

And, to turn the tables a little bit, Times reporter Phyllis Corkki wrote last week that she too was learning to use Snapchat to report her stories (we’re doing the same at The Post), and shared the struggle of picking up a new skill in her mid50s. One part of her story particularly struck me: “Before the age of 30, people’s brains possess more plasticity, meaning they can learn more easily.”

That means staffers at The Post have to start learning now — and fast. So I guess it is about time we all address multimedia as our future, and chug along (as we have been all year) in deftly adding to what we have known, with what we must learn.

— Emma Ockerman is a senior studying journalism and editor-in-chief of The Post. Want to talk to her? Tweet her @eockerman or email her at eo300813@ohio.edu.

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LET’S TALK LIFE

Music rooted in culture Binge days during a diet of Athens, unmatched are OK in moderation Portion control can still keep students in outside of college life check with the “sweeter” things in life There is a music melting pot to be appreciated in every college town. In Athens, one may enjoy anything from Kendrick Lamar to classic country Living in Athens offers a formative musical experience largely unmatched by pre-college life.

You might have noticed the town and university LUKE both teem with melodies FURMAN created by an abundance is a junior of means that work to enstudying gross its residents comjournalism pletely in musical attuneat Ohio ment.

University For many of us studying here, we’ve come from suburban environments, venturing to the closest city once in a while but never long enough to become rooted into its heartbeat. Our high school peer groups consisted of fewer people and had fewer new ideas being thrown around. But from this sort of background or another, Athens only enhances a person’s appreciation for a musical environment.

Spending any amount of time in Athens, you’re likely to hear sub-bass through dorm walls, bro-country down the street (accompanied with engine revving) or world music while walking along the bike path. Sometimes house parties blast music so loud the vibrations from the bass appear to cause disruption in the house’s material. I can’t imagine being the roommate upstairs trying to sleep.

Every now and then, the Marching 110 illuminates Peden Stadium, and piano keys echo through Baker Center’s atrium.

Around the holidays, the streets of Athens are literally accompanied with Christmas music.

And for the rest of the year, there’s that small group of songs that house parties and bars always play, like Travis Scott’s “Antidote,” Drake’s “Back to Back” and

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Kendrick Lamar’s “M.a.a.d City.” These songs play the traditional role of music in helping to bring us together as a common community. They provide a soundtrack for Friday and Saturday nights along with the ensembles of street musicians lining Court Street.

Sometimes Athens’ sonic effects can be as simple as hearing two guitars peacefully harmonizing from an adjacent apartment.

There are also several great venues to catch live music in town, like Casa Nueva, The Union Bar & Grill and Donkey Coffee and Espresso. Not to mention, Donkey Coffee plays a great selection of music itself. It might be the only place Uptown where you can hear Springsteen’s “Atlantic City” on a Saturday morning.

Haffa’s Records and Blue Eagle Music only add to the town’s versatility with LPs and instruments.

The number of people wearing headphones on- and off-campus shows what is otherwise an invisible desire for music floating above the seventh floor of Alden Library.

Whether in student or parent, local or visitor, Athens invokes a sense of liveliness and rhythm that never seems to stop. It’s a town packed with ideas and cultures that influence our idea of daily life and how we live it. A significant part of that influence falls on the music we come across, on purpose or by accident.

Athens’ musicality might not be apparent at first. But with an ear to the air, you’re bound to hear something new.

Where do you go in Athens to hear music? Let Luke know by tweeting him @LukeFurmanLog or emailing him at lf491413@ohio.edu.

I don’t diet by any means. I don’t believe that a road to a better lifestyle involves depriving yourself of all things good and holy: sweets.

SARAH If I told myself I would VAUGHN never be allowed to have is a junior anything loaded with studying sugar and spice and evjournalism erything nice again in the at Ohio name of feeling better University about myself, I would just sit on my couch and continue binge eating a bag of Doritos, saying “I’ll start tomorrow.”

The key to everything is portion control. Portions are important, but you can’t just think about them in regards to your main meal. Portions allow your late night indulgences to carry a little less regret in the morning. You can eat whatever your heart desires as long as you establish a personal line as to how much of that brownie is too much. Of course, having sweets every day is a little excessive, but who is going to pass up that free cookie being handed out in Baker? Not me, that’s for sure.

I really encourage you to document your meals. That way you are seeing how much of a certain food you are putting in your body, how often it is being consumed, and when you seem to struggle most. It’s self-discipline, and it helps.

Don’t be writing “ABSOLUTELY NO YUMMY ICE CREAM TODAY OR YOUR LIFE WILL BE OVER” in caps and big bold letters on a certain day, because that is a cruel and unusual punishment. There is

a difference between self-discipline and punishment.

Punishment will not make you grow as a person, it will just constantly set you back more and more. You will pile up guilt and more guilt if all you do is make yourself feel worse with each bite. Self-discipline is more of a wager.

We all have those days where nothing seems to be going right, so you just dive right into a fresh pint of ice cream you have tucked in the back of the freezer.

You deserve that ice cream, or whatever your snack of choice is. You also deserve to flaunt your newly found self-love. So, to have the best of both worlds, just set that line.

This is where control of yourself comes into play. You look at that tub of ice cream and tell yourself when enough is going to be enough. You can also bargain with yourself. Consider whether you really need your self-pity binge today, or if it would be more appropriate tomorrow after the exam you know you are going to fail. The issue only becomes an issue when you overindulge.

Like I said, write it out. Figure out those stress days and add yourself a sweet treat here and there, but don’t get into the habit of doing it every day. You can have your “cheat day,” and it will be great.

Just don’t overthink it to the point where you inflict punishment on yourself for enjoying the sweeter things in life.

What is your favorite short workout?

Tweet your answers to Sarah using her Twitter handle @_suraaahhh.

CHUCK’S COLLEGIATE POLITICS

Roger Ailes’ name may be stripped from newsroom, but university should still address controversy surrounding other campus buildings Schoonover Center still grapples with name, last year’s comments This week, I was actually going to weigh in on how it is a shame that the university has yet to rename WOUB’s Roger E Ailes newsroom.

CHUCK That was until McDaGREENLEE vis announced he had is a given back Ailes’ gift of sophomore studying $500,000, which is actualadolescently a phenomenal thing for to-youngthe university to do, givadult en that that is an absurd integrated amount of money to have language your name on something. arts at Ohio Anyway, in record time, University McDavis announced the renaming of the room, and facilities made record time in removing it — probably right when the word left McDavis’s lips. Honestly, it was impressive how quickly the letters were scraped off from the walls.

Besides my affinity for when facilities does things in a reasonable amount of time, I am for once pleased with how the university handled the situation, while I do believe Ailes’ name lingered on our campus a bit too long, they handled the situation with grace in giving back his gift as well.

But, there’s a catch.

Our lovely center for communications, the Schoonover Center, is named after a donor who has had some less-than-pleasant remarks about the students of Ohio University as a whole. Here are some highlights from his email on April 2, 2015.

“I want to be one to express my outrage that we let a bunch of loudmouths and demonstrators who have probably never given a dime to OU and a bunch of newspaper reporters and university professors who have no idea or don’t care what it takes to attract top notch Presidents to live in a small town like Athens.”

“It never ceases to amaze me how people who have no responsibility for the operations of Ohio University or providing a suitable house for the President and his family and to serve as the official home for the First Family of OU.”

“I think we should handle it the same way the Democrats do every time Republicans attack President Obama ... They label them racists. So if you are worried about the petition by the Faculty just play the race card and call them racists and make them defend themselves! They pull that in Washington everyday!”

Yeah, we have a building named after this crass man.

Heaven forbid the students of our university be outraged by the fact that “bats” caused the McDavis family to move out of the home that every Ohio University president has historically lived in.

Would you rather we be a campus full of people who don’t speak up when they are outraged?

Here at OU, we have a faculty student body that refuses to play sheep when something happens that we don’t agree with. So forgive us for not letting you play shepherd. That we haven’t given a dime to the university? I pay — and I know I pay — $20,000-some-odd dollars to come here a year. Which is going to turn into the roughly $80,000 I will have paid to go here. So yeah, I have given money to the university.

To say that Park Place wasn’t a suitable place to live is far-fetched. Have you set foot on some of those Back South residence halls lately? Park Place is Versailles compared to Back South.

Schoonover, let me address something real quick, too. Before you bash an entire political party as a whole, you should probably remember that the student body you are paying to have a building in your name use, is largely liberal. You not only complained about a “race card” but attacked what makes up a large chunk of this campus’ political beliefs.

So, President McDavis, while I am thrilled with the decision to scrape Ailes name off our campus,, the fact that we still host this man’s name on our newly-renovated building shows that our higher-ups are willing to look past anything if the money is there.

How do you feel about the Roger Ailes dispute? Let Chuck know by tweeting him @chuckingaround.

STREETVIEW

“If you could be any kind of animal, what would you be and why?”

“I guess I would be a bird so I could fly away from all of my homework I have to do.”

“If I could be an animal, it would be a lion because the lion is the king of the jungle.”

Katie Davis, sophomore studying creative writing

Clay Mercer, freshman studying management and strategic leadership

“Elephant, because they’re my favorite, and they memorize almost everything ... You know how you see the ones that like, you know, paint stuff? It would be pretty dope to do that.”

“If I was an animal, I would be a leopard because my town is the Louisville Leopards, and I’ve always found that as an interesting animal that is good at killing its prey.”

Meriah Woolery, undecided freshman

Stephen Kerzan, undecided freshman

“A giraffe, because they’re very unique.”

Maggie Loney, freshman studying commercial photography

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Athens’ bar bouncers decipher fake IDs, deal with drunken patrons LUKE O’ROARK FOR THE POST

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he life of a bouncer is never easy.

Just talk to The Pub bouncer Evan Schmidt, or any other bouncer Uptown, for that matter.

Schmidt was guarding The Pub’s door frame one night when, suddenly, a woman — clearly intoxicated after a night out on Court Street, according to Schmidt — stripped off her pants and allegedly sexually advanced on the hulking Ohio University senior.

“Hey baby, can you light my fire?”

Schmidt, a bouncer at the popular Athens bar since May, recalled the woman saying to him, referring to the classic 1967 Doors song.

“She dumped her entire purse out right in front of Pawpurrs,” Schmidt said. “She was just super nuts, and you can tell she wasn’t all there.”

The woman was eventually hauled off Court Street by officers from the Athens Police Department.

For Schmidt, though, it was just another typical Saturday night guarding Athens’ uptown bars.

“I enjoy it. It’s fun. I love the people I

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I enjoy it. It’s fun. I love the people I work with. Every single person I work with is amazing... there are also downsides. Downsides include dealing with drunk people.

- Evan Schmidt, bouncer for The Pub work with. Every single person I work with is amazing,” Schmidt said. “There are also downsides. Downsides include dealing with drunk people.

“Drunk people are the worst people on earth,” he added.

Being the link between a typical bargoer and their quest for alcohol can be a dangerous and riveting experience.

Zach Hawk, a former Ohio football player who stands at 6-foot-4 with a beard and long hair, used to guard The J Bar.

People wait outside The Crystal on Court Street on Saturday, Sept. 10 (METIN OZISIK / FOR THE POST)

“Weekends weren’t too bad. It was the week days where I had class the next morning … sometimes I had an 8:30 or 9 the next day. Just trying to go to sleep still having that pounding in your head,” Hawk said. He added he made $5.50 an hour plus a third of tips from the bar, worked late hours and could easily decipher fake IDs. Schmidt said The Pub doesn’t give their bouncers much training, but being an integrated media major helps him decrypt photoshopped IDs. “A lot of pictures you can tell are photoshopped,” Hawk said. “A lot of the color schemes are off. Some of the information of the back of IDs are missing.”

In terms of danger, Hawk recalled when a drunken student punched him in the face, which resulted in Hawk — with blood running down his nose — tackling the man to the ground.

APD Chief Tom Pyle said bouncers have to be careful with physical altercation, as using force in any circumstance other than self defense could potentially lead to assault charges.

“Bouncers have no special license to use physical force,” Pyle said. “They can only defend themselves. But so once they’re in a fight, if someone punches them — which is sometimes the case — they have a right to defend themselves, and when they’re defending themselves, if they choose to get that person out of the bar by force, then that’s probably a different story.”

Pyle said APD standard protocol for bar fights is to usually warn the parties to

“cease and desist”, or stop, before citations and arrests occur.

“More times in the present day we’ll get calls of fights and they’re over long before and people are walking in different directions,” Pyle added.

Even if drunken folks slip past the bouncer, fights and damage can happen inside the bar, too.

The Pigskin Bar and Grille bartender Nate Fischer said a young woman once threw a bottle at him after she was cut off from continuing to drink.

“Fest days are the best and worst days, because everyone is drunk,” Tori Palivoda, a Pigskin barback, said. She and Schmidt added that cleaning up puke around the bar is never fun.

Hawk and Schmidt questioned why students would even try to cause chaos at a bar in the first place.

But, it is Athens after all — a southeastern town with at least 23 bars in it.

“I have certain pet peeves, and my biggest thing is that guys are always trying to look cool. So they always try to show off, and sometimes that means trying to talk back to the bouncer,” Schmidt said.

“Which I love it when they try to show off in front of their friends, or in front of a girl, because then I just throw them out.”

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POLICE BLOTTER

CLASSIES

Students attempt to steal Athens bricks LAUREN FISHER FOR THE POST When a group of Ohio University students left the grounds of The Ridges at night on Sept. 8, they planned to leave with a cache of iconic Athens-stamped bricks. Instead, they left in handcuffs.

An Ohio University Police Department officer arrested four individuals at The Ridges after the officer observed a group of people “tampering with the street paving bricks” on East Circle Drive. All those involved were charged with destruction of property, according to the police report.

The incident was one of five criminal mischief charges filed during a week that also yielded 12 drug charges, eight charges related to alcohol and four reports of theft.

DUCT TAPE DILEMMA

On the morning of Sept. 8, officers received a complaint from

the WOUB newsroom, located in the Radio-Television Center, that an unknown person or persons had “placed duct tape on a plaque” on the third floor of the building, according to the police report.

Though the case is still listed as active, controversy surrounding the status of the Roger Ailes Newsroom culminated in the evening of Sept. 12, when Ohio University President Roderick McDavis announced that Ailes’ name would be removed from the Radio-Television Center.

Before the meeting had even come to a close, the letters bearing Ailes’ name had been stripped from the wall, and were promptly covered with a wooden board. The actions occurred four days after OUPD launched its investigation into the attempted destruction of the sign, which is listed as an act of criminal mischief.

SATURDAY NIGHT’S NOT ALL RIGHT FOR FIGHTING

It was a late night for three OUPD officers who responded at approximately 3 a.m. to reports of two males “physically fighting” on the second floor of Gamertsfelder Hall. Upon arriving, the officers reported the two suspects engaged in a verbal argument in the hallway

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS

— one of them, however, fled the scene when he saw officers approaching and slammed the door of his room in one officer’s face.

When officers were able to make contact with the man, they detected a “moderate odor” of alcohol on his breath and person, according to the police report.

While officers charged both individuals involved in the altercation with disorderly conduct by fighting, the man who fled the scene racked up additional charges for underage alcohol consumption and obstructing official business.

FALLING FOR ATHENS

On the evening of Sept. 10, an OUPD officer responded to a men’s restroom in Crawford Hall, after receiving reports of an injury sustained from a fall.

Upon arriving at the scene, the officer found a male sitting in a chair in the restroom, holding a bloody t-shirt to his face and smelling of “an intoxicating beverage,” according to the police report.

The man stated that while walking along the construction zone near South Green, he tripped on a curb, and injured his face as a result of the fall.

He was transported to O’Bleness Hospital for treatment, but not before being issued a citation for disorderly conduct by intoxication. @LAUREN__FISHER LF966614@OHIO.EDU

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The Survivor Advocacy Program did not exist when Kristin Waltz attended Ohio University in the ’80s.

Fast forward 26 years after she graduated, and Waltz is now the SAP survivor advocate and case manager.

Under that role, she provides crisis intervention and advocacy services to students who are survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. Her role will include direct victim services, crisis intervention and emergency response.

“I’m going to be working directly with the survivors and perhaps family and friends who may need some support, may need some education on the process on what their loved ones are going through,” Waltz said. “I’ve had the opportunity to work with some families already this year, so that was pretty neat to see the care and support that our students are getting.”

Waltz, who started her new position July 18 and earns a salary of $48,000 a year, splits shifts for on-call crisis hours with SAP Director Kimberly Castor and the SAP Graduate Assistant Mackenzie Roman.

Delaney Anderson was the program coordinator of the Ohio University Survivor Advocacy Program, but left her position in October for a job outside the university. Anderson, whose annual salary was $37,230, was a licensed and credentialed non-mandated reporter, meaning she did not have to report suspicions of abuse.

Some of Anderson's roles were briefly overseen by Alicia Chavira-Prado, special assistant to the vice provost for Diversity and Inclusion, who was not a credentialed non-mandated reporter and didn't have a role in advocacy services, according to a previous Post report. The lack of a non-mandated reporter in Anderson's position led to the program temporarily shutting down Nov. 16.

In March, the university announced SAP would reopen for Fall Semester.

The purpose of SAP is to provide confidential support and counseling to survivors of sexual assault, stalking and relationship violence. SAP is under the Division of Student Affairs and reports to Associate Dean of Students Patti McSteen.

“They have worked very hard to establish connections on campus and within the Athens community to better serve our students,” McSteen said in an email.

While SAP is confidential, the program does not provide traditional counseling like

Kristin Waltz, an OU alumna, poses for a portrait in Baker University Center. Waltz is the case manager for the Survivor Advocacy Program. (LIZ MOUGHON / FOR THE POST)

Counseling & Psychological Services.

“We do the crisis intervention referral, case management and advocacy work,” Waltz said. “We are trauma informed. We will help someone get into CPS for traditional counseling. ... We’re not a source of long-term, ongoing therapy, but we can do some brief crisis intervention work and support for students.”

Originally from Dayton, Waltz received her undergraduate degree in social work from OU in 1990. She obtained her Masters Degree through The Joint Master of Social Work Program, which is run by North Carolina AT&T State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

After graduate school, she stayed in North Carolina where she worked in adult mental health before moving back to Ohio two years ago.

“I came back to Ohio because my mother is 82 and I wanted to be closer to her, and I liked the Athens area,” Waltz said. “It’s close to my heart. Anyone who’s gone to school here usually, I think, has a little bit of that left in them.”

In addition to spending time in the SAP office at Lindley Hall, Waltz can be seen at Casa Nueva performing as lead vocalist for her band, the Come On, Come Ons. “I like to say she has a powerful voice both on and off the stage,” Castor said. @MEGANKHENRY MH573113@OHIO.EDU

New Survivor Advocacy Program director shares goals for year Kristin Waltz, SAP survivor advocate/case manager, said. “Plus, I think we do a pretty (good) job of problem-solving as we move along through things. I think that’s a combination of the experiences that we’ve had professionally works very well together.”

Delaney Anderson, whose annual salary was $37,230, was the program coordinator of OUSAP, but left her position last October for a job outside the university. Anderson was a non-mandated reporter, so her absence left OUSAP without a licensed and credentialed program coordinator. A non-mandated reporter does not have to report suspicions of abuse.

OUSAP temporarily closed Nov. 16, and in March the university announced SAP would reopen for Fall Semester.

SAP is not exclusively for those who recently experienced sexual assault.

“We‘ve had people present that had childhood trauma that they’re ready to start working towards,” Castor said. “Not that we provide counseling, but we can link them to resources on-campus or off-campus."

The program also offers a 24/7 confidential crisis line at (740-597-7233.

Kimberly Castor hopes to expand the program’s relationships with the community MEGAN HENRY ASST. NEWS EDITOR Kimberly Castor is continuing her career in social work near her hometown.

Castor, the Survivor Advocacy Program Director at Ohio University, offers support and information to student survivors of sexual assault and violence.

“I was looking for something that I would be able to use my education and my experience and work in the community that I love," Castor said. "I’m from the area. I wanted to stay in the area, so when the position became available, it seemed like the perfect opportunity for me because it was at OU, it was with a population I really felt passionate about.”

Castor, who is from Meigs County, completed both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at OU in social work in 2011 and 2012, respectively.

When she attended OU as a student, the OU Survivor Advocacy Program was in existence, but she did not know much about the program.

“I did have classmates that did internships and job shadowing with the program,” Castor said.

After completing graduate school, she did adjunct teaching in the social work program and worked through the child welfare program. She went on to work at Appalachian Behavioral Healthcare, the state mental health center in Athens, for four years before taking her new position as SAP director.

As director, she is in charge of office staff and collaborations with prevention education efforts on campus. She also has full programmatic responsibility in addressing campus-wide interpersonal violence.

Castor has two goals for the academic year: getting the word out about SAP and creating relationships in the community.

“My two main goals are just getting the word out that we’re here,” Castor said. “We had feedback from previous years that students just didn’t know the program existed or didn’t know what it was.”

Castor started her position as SAP director June 27 and her salary is $62,000.

SAP’s purpose is to provide confidential support and counseling to survivors of sexual assault, stalking and relationship violence. Instead of being called the Ohio University Survivor Advocacy Program as it was in the past, the program is now the Survivor Advocacy Program.

Associate Dean of Students Patti Mc-

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Kimberly Castor, an OU alumna, poses for a portrait in Baker University Center. Castor is the director of the Survivor Advocacy Program, This year, Castor hopes to make students more aware of SAP and to reach out to the Athens community in order to establish new relationships outside of the university. (LIZ MOUGHON / FOR THE POST)

I was looking for something that I would be able to use my education and my experience and work in the community that I love. I’m from the area. I wanted to stay in the area, so when the position became available, it seemed like the perfect opportunity for me because it was at OU, it was with a population I really felt passionate about.”

- Kimberly Castor Survivor Advocacy Program Director at Ohio University Steen, who now oversees the program, said the transition of SAP to the division of Student Affairs has been smooth.

“I am pleased with the level of dedication, compassion, care and thoroughness that Kim and Kristin have demonstrated during their first few months with (the) survivors

advocacy program,” McSteen said in an email.

After spending the summer adjusting to her new role, Castor said she was ready for students to return to campus. She said SAP has received a lot of walk-ins and crisis calls.

“When the students came back, (the transition) seemed pretty seamless I think,”

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Some students find silver lining in dropping their intended major Graduation rates increase slightly for students who switch to a preferred major MEGAN HENRY ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

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annah Borowski entered her freshman year as a linguistics major with a specific dream.

“I wanted to teach English to women in the Middle East and nothing else,” Borowski, a junior, said.

However, after some conversations with her advisors, Borowski said she realized no one could have a job that specific.

During her sophomore year, she changed her linguistics major to a minor, and started working toward a global studies- war and peace major, instead.

“You have to open your mind up to more options, and now I’m on a path to work for the government and that’s a huge employer,” Borowski said.

She became one of many students who choose to change their major at least once throughout college.

Of the students who entered OU in 2010 with a declared major and graduated within the next six years, 35 percent changed their majors during their undergraduate career, OU Spokeswoman Anna Hartenbach said.

“Go for it, because there’s no sense in majoring in something and learning skills that you’re just not going to want to need five years from now,” Borowski said.

Students who declare their major first semester freshman year and never change have a graduation rate of 79 percent. However, students who do change their majors throughout

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Go for it, because there’s no sense in majoring in something and learning skills that you’re just not going to want to need five years from now.”

- Hannah Borowski, junior studying global studies - war and peace

their college career have an 83 percent graduation rate, according to a report by the Education Advisory Board.

Before Kori Chenetski started classes her freshman year at Cleveland State University, she had qualms about her music therapy major.

“I had a big fear that if I major in music, it would ruin my love for music,” Chenetski said. “That just really scared me and I never ever could imagine that happening because music has been a part of my life for such a long time.”

After her first semester at CSU, Chenetski decided music therapy was not the major for her. She got a fresh start by transferring to Ohio University and changing her major to child and family studies.

“I’m a lot happier (now that I switched my major),” Chenetski, who is now a senior, said.

Jennifer Klein, the as-

sistant dean for student persistence and success at the Allen Student Advising Center, said it is important for students to keep an open mind when deciding a major.

“There are so many majors and minors and certificates that many people haven’t considered,” Klein said in an email.

When selecting a major, it is crucial for students to identify their skills and strengths, Erika Peyton, assistant director for employer relations and marketing at the Career and Leadership Development Center, said.

“Once they have identified their own priorities, students are better equipped to evaluate their options and make a decision confidently,” Peyton said in an email.

Borowski said she is glad she has made the switch.

“I think I knew I had to make myself more marketable,” Borowski said.

Borowski said only one of her classes did not transfer over to her new major, and Chenetski said most of hers transferred.

“The biggest thing I was scared of when switching majors was that I was going to be really behind, that I was going to be late to graduate, but it’s all about what makes you happy in your future,” Chenetski said.

—Madeleine Peck contributed to this report.

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Despite historical significance, women’s commune has mixed feelings toward Clinton’s campaign JULIA FAIR FOR THE POST

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ome women in Athens County carry varying degrees of acceptance toward Hillary Clinton’s status as the first female presidential nominee from a major political party.

But despite any mixed feelings about Clinton’s nomination, M. Geneva Murray, director of the Ohio University Women’s Center, said Clinton’s campaign should still be considered historically significant.

“Hillary Clinton being on the ticket means we’ve potentially moved on to a point where we can see a woman as president,” Murray said. “Whether it’s Hillary Clinton is a different story.”

The rest of the country reflected similar views after a Langer Research study in August showed about 58 percent of women favored Clinton for president following the Democratic National Convention, compared to 35 percent of

women planning to vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.

The women of the Susan B. Anthony Unrest Home, a local women’s commune, often come together to discuss feminism during a potluck dinner. Their get-together Sept. 10 was no different.

In their latest discussion, the group shared their concerns for the environment, and wondered if Clinton would hold a worldview similar to theirs. “(Clinton) is not where I’d like to her to be environmentally … but I think she’s been great for women’s rights around the world,” Sabra Robinson, a member of the group, said as she sat near a metal sign that read “even cigarette butts are litter.”

After dinner, the women turned toward discussing the effects of feminism on the 2016 election, and their hopes for Clinton.

“My hope is that some of her maternal instincts will seep into Capitol Hill somehow,” Molly Blair, a resident of the commune, said.

From left to right, Molly Blair, Helen M., Kristy Maki, Cindy Zeck and Heather Cantino have a discussion with other members of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Unrest Home Womyn’s Land Trust about presidential candidates, feminism, and environmental issues.

Members of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Unrest Home Womyn’s Land Trust gather for a group discussion on presidential candidates, feminism, and environmental issues after their potluck dinner in celebration of SuBAMUH’s 37th birthday Sept. 10. (PHOTOS BY EMILY MATTHEWS | PHOTO EDITOR)

Though the entire group spoke in favor of women’s rights, some felt uncomfortable with the methods Clinton’s campaign used in clinching the nomination.

Blair said she thought Clinton may have played “a man’s game” during the race and wondered how much Clinton has compromised who she is.

As the storm prevailed overhead, each woman grabbed a folding chair, turned on a flashlight and shared her feminist-driven hopes and qualms.

The group suggested that everything is connected to feminism, and in turn connected many aspects of feminism to politics.

Jan Griesinger, co-founder of the group,

said feminism is about a whole lot more than many may realize.

“We’ve got the best government that money can buy,” Griesinger said.

She grasped a book — its cover a photo of her late best friend and co-founder of the group Mary Morgan, holding her favorite protest sign (“U.S. Congress for sale”). The book was written about Morgan’s life.

Morgan died in January 2015, unable to see Clinton rise to the first successful woman candidate for a major political party. Her absence left her friends discussing what the historic campaign could mean for future women on what would have been Morgan’s 91st birthday.

Some members of the

group attributed the conditions of the current election cycle to Clinton’s success.

“Even though I’m terrified of Trump, I honestly believe that his running against her is the only way that a woman would be elected at this point,” Cindy Zeck, a member of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Unrest Home, said.

At the end of their conversation, the women were hopeful for change, but they were aware that more work will be needed in the future.

“I do believe more women will be elected (to the presidency),” Blair said.

OU’s Women’s Center, which is nonpartisan, would be “remised” if they

didn’t recognize that Clinton being on the ticket was significant, Murray said.

“It always helps us to see people who look like us holding office,” Murray said.

She used President Barack Obama as an example of that — proof that you can be a person of color be elected to the highest political position in the nation.

Murray that Clinton’s campaign could be an opportunity to tell other women that they are able to have a career in politics.

“You can do this, you can wear the shirt when you’re five that says ‘future president’ and be female,” Murray said.

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BEST FOOT FORWARD Heels withstand the test of time despite pain, possibility of injury

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REBEKAH BARNES / SENIOR WRITER

alie Holub knows she could sprain her ankle or cause a stress fracture when she puts on heels — but that doesn’t matter to her right now.

The senior studying international business and marketing said she feels powerful when she puts them on. She wore heels almost everyday of her summer internship with Sport Inspired in London, switching between the five pairs she brought. She even bought two more pairs while there.

“I didn’t mind,” she said.

With an extensive history, heels can still stand as a symbol of power and fashion, despite the pain and injury that can be associated with the heightened style.

A high heel can be defined in a variety of ways, depending on its style. For example, according to Steve Madden’s “Glossary of Shoe Types, Materials, and Con-

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Walking downhill in stiletto heels — that’s not a good plan. …

You will wreck yourself.”

- Dr. Jeff Russell, director of Ohio University’s SHAPe Clinic

struction,” stilettos have higher, thinner heels with the heel itself tapering in width toward the ground, although kitten heels are about 1 to 2 inches in height. Wedges are also classified as a high heel, though the sole covers the entire foot rather than just supporting the heel.

There is more that goes into the footwear than just simply slipping on a pair.

Dr. Jeff Russell is able to see the science behind the shoes. Russell is the director of Ohio University’s SHAPe Clinic, working specifically with performing artists.

He works with dancers who use pointe shoes, a type of ballet footwear with a flat toe, which dancers stand directly on. That position, called en pointe, is the “farthest, most extreme position (a ballerina) can be when she’s pointing her foot.”

Slightly less extreme are two positions called demipointe and three-quarter pointe, which are both similar to the position the foot is in while wearing high heels, specifically stilettos — it is not directly on the toes, but on the heads of the metatarsals, or toe bones.

“Your entire weight is coming down through that foot, and it’s those metatarsals … that are taking much of that weight,” Russell said. “Over time, you can (develop) a stress fracture because you’re putting so much load on those foot bones, and the forces are transmitted up through the bones and (to) areas where (the bones) are weak.”

That position can cause the Achilles tendon to shorten, so Russell recommends stretching one’s feet after wearing heels so they do not remain that way permanently.

According to a study published by the University of Alabama at Birmingham in May 2015, more than 123,000 injuries related to wearing heels were treated across 100 emergency departments in the United States between 2002 and 2012 — with the highest affected age category being 20- to 29-year-olds.

Wearing heels makes it more difficult to balance, as the support surface is in a more peculiar shape than it would be in a pair of tennis shoes. The center of gravity also then is disrupted and “goes up and comes forward,” Russell said.

“Basically, your pelvis tips forward, and you have more lower back curvature than normal, and that can put a lot of stress on your lower back. It’s basically like walking downhill all the time,” Russell said. “So, if you think about walking downhill all the time, it can be very uncomfortable on your low back because you’re wanting to fall forward because you’re on a slope. …

In order to keep yourself from falling forward, your body naturally responds by curving your lower back more to help stabilize you.”

And when it comes to actually going downhill — something that comes with the Athens terrain — Russell was pretty clear in his recommendations.

“Walking downhill in stiletto heels — that’s not a good plan,” Russell said. “You will wreck yourself.”

Russell said there should be an understanding of the science behind such extreme shoes, and he recommends paying attention to the pain caused by them, if it does occur.

“Your body has pain for a purpose,” Russell said. “It’s supposed to be a signal to you, and you’re supposed to listen to it. So, if something is a little uncomfortable because your shoes don’t fit right ... something that’s not a big problem — that’s one thing.

“But when you start having pain, that’s a signal you should listen to, and you need to do something about that and have yourself looked at by someone who understands the foot and the ankle and the injuries to it.”

Marissa Santiago-Meyers, a sophomore studying English and Spanish, said she has avoided pain by having her family teach her how to walk in high heels, rather than putting on her first pair of pumps right before a school dance.

“I was taught how to walk in them from a … younger (age),” she said, adding that she owns about 40 pairs of heels. “You definitely have to build up in height. My mom was super strict on that when we were growing

“

I think a lot of women in general wear heels because it makes them hold themselves in a different way.

It’s like an alternate personality-type thing. You go out at night, you’re a different person than you are during the day.”

- Trina Gannon, an adjunct instructor who has degrees in clothing and retail with a focus on history and anthropology

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up. We couldn’t get super tall ones when we were, like, 14. She made us go through the steps in the inches.”

Holub learned how to walk properly in heels by attending modeling etiquette school.

“We had to wear them eight hours a day,” she said.

Holub said that helped her learn how wear heels regularly. She wears heels now about three times a week.

Erika Peyton, assistant director for employer relations and marketing at the Career and Leadership Development Center at OU, said she likes to wear heels because she feels it dresses up an outfit. According to an article from the National Law Review, however, businesses cannot demand women wear heels unless the same expectation is given to men under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Under that, it is illegal to discriminate based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin.

When attending career fairs or interviews, the question may be whether or not to put on a pair of high heels to fit conservative, corporate standards. Peyton said dress codes all depend on the industry and type of company, but there is one thing for all applicants to keep in mind.

“What we recommend to students if they do chose to wear heels is it really should be something that you can comfortably walk in — they shouldn’t be a distraction,” Peyton said. “We always want the content of a student’s experience, the content of their character to be the focus, not the fact that they’re wearing heels that are an encumbrance.”

Finance and corporate law were two industries where Peyton said people generally dress “business professional,” which means suits are usually expected. But even in everyday dress outside of the office, heels are not the norm for most, and it has been that way since the '50s, said Trina Gannon, an adjunct instructor at OU with degrees in clothing and retail with a focus on history and anthropology.

Gannon said high heels started out as platform sandals, which royalty would wear. The shoes were intended to make the elite stand out, and throughout history, people would follow the standards set by royalty.

Gannon said although they might not be considered "high heels" in today's context, men's shoes — such as tennis shoes and dress shoes — even have added height.

“Women’s shoes became more of a focus of fashion during probably sometime in the late 1700s when women’s hemlines shortened a little bit,” Gannon said. “But when women’s hemlines lengthen, that’s when shoes become a little more plain, a little more dull.”

Heel height can also change in response to war and times of national conflict, such as the period following 9/11.

“In times of conflict, not only do women’s clothing become more subtle, but their shoe heel shortens,” Gannon said. “So, like in times of conflict, like in World War II, the heel was THEPOSTATHENS.COM / 13

an average of 1 1/2- to 2-inches high. In the late ’90s, if you look at what was trending for women, it was stiletto high heels, the 4or 5-inch heels; after 9/11, it went straight back down to 2-inch heels.”

The style today has transitioned back to higher heels and wedges. In Athens, specifically, business owners sell heels throughout the year. Marissa Whaley, store manager of Bluetique on West State Street, said the beginnings of Fall and Spring Semesters are when she most often sees people coming in to buy heels.

The store’s most popular-selling heel depends on what is in style.

“Comfort is never really an option,” Whaley said of what customers want in a pair of heels. “It’s whatever looks cute with an outfit.”

April Almond, manager of The Other Place on Court Street, said the store tries not to stock particularly high heels. Lynsey Long, a sales associate at The Other Place, said the store sells a lot of TOMS wedges due to their comfort. Those can cost between $69 and $99 depending on the style.

Both Almond and Whaley said sorority recruitment during Fall Semester creates a higher demand for high heels. Lynne Francisco, owner and buyer for Figleaf on Court Street, said the college-aged demographic tends to be more geared toward trendy purchases.

Holub said she has experienced blisters when breaking in a new pair.

However, Holub said when it comes to purchasing high heels, she buys higher-quality shoes, which she said makes the shoes more comfortable.

Even with the pain and the injuries associated, though, people still purchase and wear heels.

“I think a lot of women in general wear heels because it makes them hold themselves in a different way,” Gannon said.

“It’s like an alternate personality-type thing. You go out at night, you’re a different person than you are during the day.”

Gannon said she started wearing heels more frequently when she started teaching, living by the old adage that she should “dress for the job you want, not the job you have.”

Santiago-Meyers said people should wear what makes them feel the best. For her, that is a pair of heels.

“You get more confidence, I think,” Santiago-Meyers said. “It just makes you feel all put-together. … I always feel way more confident in a pair of heels. It changes your walk. It changes the way you stand.”

And for Holub, it can be as simple as others knowing that she is passing by.

“I like the sound,” Holub said. “I like being taller.”

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INCH-BY-INCH From the basics to the extremes: a quick, visual guide to navigating footwear terminology: Definitions via the Steve Madden “Glossary of Shoe Types, Materials, and Construction” / Icons via Thinkstock

Wedge

A triangular, wedge-shaped heel that runs along the entire length of the foot

Flats

Shoes that do not have any heel height

Mules

A shoe or sandal characterized by a closed, or nearly closed, toe and a backless heel of any height

Kitten heel

A low-heeled stiletto shoe, often between 1 and 2 inches in heel height

Stiletto

A very thin, very high-heeled shoe, the heel of which tapers nearly to a point where it comes into contact with the ground

FOOTBALL

TARELL BASHAM:

Ohio’s newest record-holder on defense ANDREW GILLIS ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

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he play was a blur.

He didn’t remember what anyone told him immediately afterwards, except for one word from fellow defensive lineman Cleon Aloese — “uso.”

“I remember him running up to me and giving me a big hug,” Tarell Basham said. “He yelled ‘uso.’ In his language, that means brother.”

The two brothers embraced near the Ohio sideline as they celebrated Basham’s accomplishment.

His accomplishment, however, was no small feat.

In the blink of an eye, Basham came through the middle of the line on a stunt and took down the Kansas quarterback Sept. 10. The sack gave him his 20th career sack — the school record.

“It’s about time I got me one,” Basham recalled thinking. “It was a long game. It came at the end of the fourth. First thing I thought was ‘Oh! That’s the one!’ I got up, did what I wanted to do, put the belt on, went onto the next play. It was a great feeling.”

He got calls from friends and family, including kind words from those around the football team about his record. He said each one of those calls and messages felt great to receive.

But it’s not Basham’s freakish athletic ability that gets him recognized. It’s his off-the-field characteristics.

“He’s vocal,” said Jesse Willliams, the Ohio defensive line coach. “He brings a lot of energy and effort to the drills. The greatest thing about it is, like a lot of the other guys on the group, he has a lot of passion for the game. As a senior, it’s always complicated. You see the clock running down. He’s only been here for four years; it happens real fast.”

Basham said he tried to take on a greater leadership role this season with his career winding down. An aspiring club-owner and actor once his football career ends, he has tried to take the younger players under his guidance this season as his time as a Bobcat comes to an end.

“A lot of guys out here listen to me,” he said. “We just want to do what we’re capable of doing with that role to better the

“I wasn’t thinking about it. I was just focused on the game. Focused on my alignment assignment, making sure I’m in the right gap.

I knew if I played hard enough, the sack would come. I just had to stay disciplined and do what I was coached to do.

- Tarell Basham, senior defensive lineman

Senior defensive lineman Tarell Basham poses for a portrait at Peden Stadium. Basham recently broke the school record for all-time sacks. (METIN OZISIK / FOR THE POST)

team to get everyone on the same page.

Communication is key out there.”

The leadership has always been there for the four-year starter, even if it was shown in just his on-field efforts.

“He has a motor that goes all the time,” Coach Frank Solich said. “I like to see those kinds of guys get rewarded, so I feel it is a great honor for him and well deserved.”

Basham’s leadership and production on the field has helped the veteran defensive line tally six-and-a-half total sacks this season in just two games. That statistic puts them tied for 15th in the FBS, tied with the likes of Stanford, Michigan and Penn State.

Basham’s 20th sack placed him at 13th in the Mid-American Conference career sack list. With a strong finish of 12.5 sacks, he’ll break the all-time record. NFL standout Khalil Mack finished with 28 career sacks second on the list — a number certainly reachable for Basham.

“I wasn’t thinking about it. I was just focused on the game,” Basham said of his record-breaking sack. “Focused on my alignment assignment, making sure I’m in the right gap. I knew if I played hard enough, the sack would come. I just had to stay disciplined and do what I was coached to do.”

But for Basham, the career sack record for the Bobcats wasn’t enough. He has another goal to reach.

The school record for sacks in a season is nine, with the record set in 1992.

It’s safe to say that record is within striking-distance for Basham.

But he’s not sitting back now that he has the career sack record. He has another record to catch.

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RETURNING TO THE COURT

Carley Remmers played volleyball for Freeman High School in Filley, Nebraska before she came to Athens. After an injury prevented her from playing for Ohio for 15 months, Remmers has returned to the court for the Bobcats. (CARLEY REMMERS / PROVIDED)

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arley Remmers shuffled her feet as she stood beneath the massive inflatable Bobcat that covered the entrance to the court.

She stood underneath one of Rufus’ fangs and faced the backs of her teammates, waiting for her name to be announced at The Convo for the first time ever.

As a redshirt freshman playing in her first collegiate game, she was nervous about a number of things,

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but at that exact moment, she felt relaxed.

At last, for the first time in 15 months, she was going to play in a volleyball match.

In the span of less than two years, she had gone through a significant spinal injury, a surgery and a rigorous rehabilitation process, but now it was time to get back to the court.

Remmers inched slowly to the court as the lights in

The Convo turned off, anticipating of the announcement of the starting lineup.

After an absence that felt like an eternity to her, she waited for her name to be announced.

THE INJURY

A native of Filley, Nebraska, a town with a population of just more than 100 people, Remmers was a star at Freeman High School.

The sister of two former volleyball players, she became a prolific player in her own right with more than 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs by her senior season.

However, she dealt with various injuries throughout her career. “(She had) foot pain that started in track and continued all summer (leading into her junior year),” Dani White, the head coach at Freeman High School, said in an email. “Which led to

enormous bigger-than-quarters blisters on her feet, and then an appendectomy in October.”

But during a game in April of 2014, she had an injury that changed her season — and career.

Remmers went up for a block at the net, as she had done thousands of times during her career. But that time, it was different.

“I went up for a block and my whole back completely tightened,” Remmers, who is studying applied nutrition, said. “They diagnosed it as a bulging disc. They said since I was so young, they were going to give it time before they did surgery.”

A bulging disc occurs when the outer layer of the disc slips into the spinal canal, according to the Mayo Clinic’s website. The disc becomes larger than the space it normally occupies and pushes against nerves in the spine, causing debilitating pain down the back and legs.

Doctors said there was no reason to rush any type of operation — waiting was the best option at the time.

So, for months, she waited. But she was still in pain. If she was going to get better, surgery now seemed to be her only option.

Shortly before her first semester and freshman season at Ohio, Remmers received a L4-L5 discectomy on her bulging disc.

A discectomy, according to the Mayo Clinic’s website, is a surgical procedure that is performed to remove the damaged portion of the disc and decompress the injured nerves in the spine.

She was going to get better, but Remmers would now have to sit out her entire freshman year.

COMING BACK

Much like a good portion of freshmen in college volleyball, Remmers — who is academically a sophomore — was redshirted.

But after recovering from back surgery, her goal was no longer to become the go-to player she was in high school — she just wanted to play volleyball.

Remmers had surgery, but sometimes bulging discs and nerve pain can return. Up to 10 percent of those who have had a discectomy will see a recurring bulging disc in the same place that had been previously operated on, according to Spine-

and blocking,” Webb said. “I got to see again some of the things when they were recruiting her.

She’s a gamer, just a kid who plays hard. She has a good IQ, knows the little things that will help you win.”

Remmers left the court not thinking about her performance, but rather the thrill of competing in her first game.

She had not played her best, but she had played. Her dream, which had been interrupted for what seemed like an eternity, was beginning to come true.

“Being able to show everybody else that I can play and that I deserve to be on this team, it’s a really good feeling,” she said.

Health’s website.

Remmers knew that, of course.

She just didn’t want to think about it.

“That was always in the back of my mind,” she said. “(That) I wouldn’t be able to return to my highest level of playing.”

On the sideline, however, she had to change her role, so she found a new way to contribute.

“I know I couldn’t do my role on the court,” she said. “But I knew I could do my role off the court from the bench, being as loud as I could and helping my teammates see what’s going on on the other side of the court. I had to step into the vocal role on the sideline.”

On the sideline, she was the motivator — just another one of the loud yells coming from the sidelines.

“I know it was a big adjustment for her to be injured and definitely a learning experience,” White said in an email. “Learning to support her teammates during her injury helped her grow as a player.”

And while healing, Remmers was looking to others for motivation.

“It’s OK, you’re going to be OK,” her trainers repeatedly told her.

BACK IN ACTION

It was one sentence that officially ushered in Remmers’ debut with Ohio. She hoped to hear it a lot sooner, but even after 15 months of waiting, it sounded just

BACK TO THE FUTURE

Carley Remmers poses for a portrait in The Convo on Sept. 5 (MATT STARKEY / FOR THE POST)

as sweet to her ears.

“From Filley, Nebraska, redshirt freshman, outside hitter, Carley Remmers!”

Carley Remmers, a redshirt freshman for the Bobcats, competes during high school for Freeman High School in Filley, Nebraska.

(CARLEY REMMERS / PROVIDED)

Learning to support her teammates during her injury helped her grow as a player.”

- Dani White, head coach at Freeman High School

The voice boomed throughout The Convo as Remmers ran to join her teammates.

She stayed relatively calm until she put her hand over her heart, looked up at the American flag and heard the national anthem.

“I kind of had a little moment during the national anthem,” she said.

In her collegiate debut, Remmers was thrown another challenge. Originally recruited as an outside hitter, she was placed as the starting middle blocker, due to the absence of Katie Nelson.

Coach Deane Webb had hoped Remmers would have more time to develop, but he still put her in the lineup.

“As a middle blocker, she struggled in her first three sets. She was not closing blocks and her technique was off. She seemed tired,” Webb said.

But in the fourth set, the thirdyear head coach saw exactly why he had recruited her.

“She just started making plays

Back at practice, Remmers is just another one of the women on the team. She is working her way back to playing shape, and learning to become a quality middle blocker for the Bobcats.

As one of the team’s seven players with freshman status, she is ready to help this year’s young Ohio team compete to defend its Mid-American Conference title.

Even as a freshman, she has assumed a leadership position of sorts.

Remmers said she used to not like to talk about her back injury.

It was a sensitive subject for her.

Talking about how she was held back from her dream was just too much for her to bear.

Now, she is ready to talk.

She wants to help the players who may be stuck in her same position.

She may be talking to players who are just redshirting and are not injured, but she wants to motivate them just like the team motivated her last year.

“I told my coach that it’s good to talk about the injury,” Remmers said. “Especially to younger players who might end up sitting out with an injury. They’re kind of down in the dumps. I go up to them and say ‘You know what, if you need to talk to me, just come talk to me. I can try and help you through it.’ ” She’s going to do plenty of talking this year. But more importantly, she will do plenty of playing.

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FACING A WORLD OF C AMERICAN DISINTEREST

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hina has the world’s second-largest economy, and has become dramatically dominant in global trade.

Yet when Yvonne Yan came to Ohio University, she met students who were completely ignorant to that.

Two students in particular were about 30 years behind in their understanding of her home country, Yan said. The students believed China was in economic turmoil, that its people worked only in factories and wore outdated clothing.

That was enough for Yan to realize some American students were completely detached from global affairs.

As an international student from Qingdao, China, Yan said she is committed to understanding different cultures from around the world.

“I just want to know the world,” Yan, a senior studying strategic communication, said.

With some American students expressing little interest in global issues, Yan said it can be difficult for international students like her to make deep connections with domestic students.

Yvonne Yan, a senior studying strategic communications, poses for a portrait in Schoonover Center. (HANNAH SCHROEDER / FOR THE POST)

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GLOBAL DISINTEREST Indifference toward international affairs has been instilled in many Americans from a young age, Amritjit Singh, the Langston Hughes professor of English and African American Studies, said. Being from Ambala Cantonment, India, Singh said it is often the opposite case for developing countries around the world.

“If (one is) growing up (in India), anything that happens in (Washington) D.C., whether they want it (to) or not, has an effect on them, ” Singh said. “That’s not true for American kids. What happens in New Delhi, what happens in Beijing, what happens in Cairo … it doesn’t have any material difference.”

For example, Singh said he suspects few students know of periods of historical consequence such as India’s partition, which began in 1947 and split the British-Indian Empire into Pakistan and India, leading to a legacy of violence that is still ongoing. Singh taught a course during Spring Semester 2016 titled “Literature of India’s Partition.” It attracted only six students.

Hannah Truman, a freshman from Lima studying studio art and psychology, said she sees truth in the stereotype that suggests Americans are uninterested in matters outside their own country. Truman said she stays informed only through what she is taught in classes, and from what she hears from friends who follow global news.

“I personally am guilty of not being very aware,” Truman said.

Growing up, she said her family was not always informed or interested.

“I know that there are very many people who don’t bother worrying about (issues outside of) the square of what’s going on in their lives,” she said.

Yan saw such disinterest firsthand when she attended the 9th UNESCO Youth Forum in Paris, France, in 2015. Under the supervision of the U.N., approximately 500 youth representatives from countries around the world discussed the effects of climate change and the goal of a sustainable future.

Last year, after applying for the position, Yan was selected to be one of the 25 representatives from China. She said she was not aware of any American representatives at the conference, however, which surprised her.

“It’s important that young Americans who are going to be responsible citizens, who may have positions where they affect policy and the future, are as well-informed as they can be,” Singh said. “But the incentive is not very strong.”

Singh said it is then up to university officials to garner enthusiasm for the international studies program. Due to limited funding, however, he said it is difficult to spark interest in students.

In a lecture series called the Global Awareness Program, Singh and other professors used a grant from the 1804 Fund — established by the Ohio University Foundation — to create a three-year series focusing on topics such as the perception of women globally, the Islamic faith and global poverty. The lectures held in smaller spaces routinely attracted 30 to 40 students, and the sessions held in an auditorium-like setting attracted up to 200 attendees. Singh said he hoped the program’s success would lead to an added international studies course as part of the general education requirements for all students. It did not.

WESTERN BIAS When searching for news about the U.N. youth forum she attended, Yan said she found in-depth coverage of the event through news media reports in China and other countries, but saw little mentioned in American publications. Yan said that lack of in-depth international coverage from American news outlets could be leading to disinterest.

Using Google Trends, The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog explored American interest in countries around the world.

It compared the number of times a country was searched on Google to the number of times each country was mentioned on U.S. television news from 2009 to 2016.

The search found the U.S.’s closest neighbors were among the top countries searched

from the same country will set up group chats to discuss what classes to take.

Last semester, Yan took a class with 10 to 15 Chinese students. They all sat together in the back of the class. The goal was not to avoid American students, Yan said, but rather to sit with friends, just as American students would.

“I think it depends on your personal social network,” Yan said.

Yvonne Yan, a senior studying strategic communications, poses for a portrait. Yan is an international student from Qingdao, China.

by Americans. Mexico held the No. 1 spot, while Canada held No. 3. Searches showed little interest in countries in Africa and central Asia.

The number of times people searched a country mirrored how often American broadcasters mentioned that country as well.

In a Forbes article, which was reported with the same data, Kalev Leetaru wrote, “media outlets are themselves reflections of the distinct interests of their respective readership.”

Data showed a clear interest in Russia, China and the Middle East in American media. Central Africa and central Asia were little-discussed by broadcasters, and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Northern Africa and South Asia were discussed on even fewer occasions.

Content often focused on countries closer in proximity to the U.S. as well as those experiencing conflicts that could potentially impact the U.S. Without coverage of international issues readily available, Yan said interested students may have trouble staying informed.

“Some people are very interested in global affairs, but they don’t know how to get (involved),” Yan said.

EMBRACING DIVERSITY International students can add diverse opinions to conversations in classrooms and social settings, which would otherwise be quite “homogenous,” Singh said. “(Diversity) has a completely dramatic effect on people’s consciousness and people’s thoughts,” Singh said. “(In the classroom), it will be one discussion if all of the students are white men and women, but a completely different discussion when you have some African-Americans, some Chinese-Americans, people from India, people from Ghana, Korea.”

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“If (one is) growing up (in India), anything that happens in (Washington) D.C., whether they want it (to) or not, has an effect on them.

That’s not true for American kids.

- Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes professor of English and African director for diversity and inclusion and multicultural programs and initiatives at the Multicultural Center, said students should work on building unity between people of different nationalities.

“What we see is a lot of diversity on college campuses, but what we do not see is all those diversities coming together. So the international students stay together, the white students stay together … the LGBT students stay together, the black students stay together,” she said. “What we’re not seeing is those students working together.”

Yan said she sees that happening when international students group together in the classroom. In some cases, she said students

ACCLIMATING TO ATHENS Despite the challenges they face, international students find a temporary home in Athens.

Shivam Agrawal, a sophomore studying economics and philosophy and an international student from New Delhi, India, said he is not “picky” when finding friends.

“Culture is a coincidence; it doesn’t always form who the person is,” Agrawal said. “You grow up in a culture, but you may not like it.”

Agrawal said he is completely comfortable associating with students outside of his culture. He even said it is sometimes more difficult to associate with Indian students than American students because not all Indian students speak the same language. Agrawal speaks Hinglish, a language combining Hindi and English. Exclusion often boils down to a language barrier, he said.

“I think there are some people who prefer to be with people of their culture versus any other culture or domestic students,” he said.

“It is wherever people feel more comfortable.”

Still, some international students best adjust to the U.S. by connecting with other students from their home country.

Agrawal joined the Indian Students Association, a group whose Facebook page states its mission is to “connect all the Indian students at Ohio University,” and he thought the group helped him acclimate to life in Athens.

“When (international students) go to (international) events, there is a familiarity of the community there,” he said.

But Agrawal said it is still important to be accepting and open to diversity while making friends.

Chunnu-Brayda said there will always be “room for growth” in that area.

“Bridging isn’t going to happen on its own, and we need to be intentional about gaining as much experience and learning as much as possible from each other,” Chunnu-Brayda said. “Because at the end of the day, we’re always going to be better off for it.”

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Student copes with university’s horrific attack OU graduate student Salma Alokozai, who completed her undergraduate degree at American University in Kabul, Afghanistan, was worried about her friends Aug. 25 Salma Alokozai, a graduate student studying public administration, poses for a portrait outside Alden Library in Athens, Ohio on Sept., 8, 2016.

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JESSICA HILL FOR THE POST Salma Alokozai had just woken up and checked social media Aug. 25 when she learned of the three armed men who took hostages at American University of Afghanistan.

As an alumna of the university, Alokozai was immediately worried about her friends who were still attending the school. For the duration of the attack, she sat in front of her laptop, attempting to find them.

Thirteen people were killed in the attack at the university, and dozens were injured. According to a report from NPR, the Afghan government suspected the Taliban was responsible for the attack on the university, which is one of many international institutions using the American 20 / SEPT. 15, 2016

education system to teach students.

American University of Afghanistan was not the first school to be allegedly targeted by the Taliban.

In 2013, the Taliban organized at least seven attacks in Afghanistan, targeting girls attending school and killing more than 160 people, according to the Global Terrorism Index.

Afghanistan had the second-highest number of deaths resulting from terrorism in 2014, according to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index.

Alokozai, an OU graduate student studying public administration from Kandahar, Afghanistan, has been coping both with the aftermath of the event, and the lack of sympathy she has found from other students. “(The news) was shocking, and it was painful,”

What if my sister was there?

- Hashim Pashtun, president of International Student Union Alokozai, said. “I was in love with (American University), and every student was in love with it.”

Alokozai said she remembers her school fondly, and that American University taught her to think critically and look at topics from different perspectives.

“That kind of education is a threat to (the Taliban’s) religious beliefs, and to fundamentalism

and extremism,” Alokozai said. “They know that the students in that school are going to change so many things in that society and … the way people handle terrorism.”

Seven of the thirteen people killed were students, according to a news release from the Afghan president’s office. For some, it was their first or second day of school, Alokozai said.

“They were at an age where they had the right to live, the right to have a future, to see their dreams coming true,” Alokozai said.

“But (the gunmen) killed them.”

Nobody offered Alokozai any sympathy, though, she said.

Because of a lack of global attention to the attacks in Afghanistan, she said she felt as though the lives of her and others were “not as valuable” to some.

“I didn’t hear anything from anybody, so I think no one even knows about it,” Alokozai said. “Especially in our country ... it is (seen as) something normal. … It happens every day there.

No one pays much attention.”

Hashim Pashtun, the president of International Student Union, said he thinks people are now accustomed to terrorist attacks occurring in the Middle East, leading them to be apathetic toward further carnage.

“As a whole, I think domestic students can have a vital role and (should) be thankful for what they have,” Pashtun said.

Steve Howard, director of the Center for International Studies, said many young Americans only read or learn about the niches of news that are of interest to them.

“Expand your horizons,” Howard said. “Move out of your comfort zone. Go listen to a talk about something you don’t know anything about.”

Pashtun, a graduate student studying civil engineering, said his sister graduated from American University, and planned to attend an alumni meeting the same day the school was attacked.

“What if my sister was there?” Pashtun said.

Alokozai said she does not wish for anyone to experience terrorist attacks, adding that it is difficult to have a personal connection to such violence.

“I was there,” Alokozai said. “I wasn’t there physically, but mentally, my heart and mind, I was there.”

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Grad student flees home country AMAL ABDULQADER LEFT YEMEN AFTER SAUDI-LED BOMBINGS IN JUNE 2015

​Amal Abdulqader, a graduate student from Sana’a, Yemen, poses with the Yemeni flag. She left Yemen after Saudi-led bombings in 2015. (LIZ MOUGHON / FOR THE POST)

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mal Abdulqader and her family were in the basement waiting for the bombing to stop when her 7-year-old brother asked if they could build a pillow fort to protect themselves.

The windows in their Yemeni home were taped to prevent shattered glass.

They were hiding in the basement while a Saudi-led coalition conducted those bombings in early June 2015.

Yemen, an Arab country in western Asia located next to Saudi Arabia and Oman, has experienced extreme off-andon violence for decades, causing residents to flee for their safety in large numbers.

Abdulqader, a first-year graduate student studying international development studies, is from Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. She fled from Yemen when the coalition attacked and crossed borders into Oman, before staying in Malaysia until Yemen grew safer.

“You will not believe … how people suffered there,” Abdulqader said.

Abdulqader had friends and relatives who died in the Yemen attacks. She said she was afraid she would die from fear before any bomb would kill her.

Being the oldest of her siblings, Abdulqader convinced her family to leave the country in June 2015 until it was safe to return. Despite the guilt and worry she felt for her family, she said she did not want to become another “number in the victim data.”

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, more than 165,000 Yemenis have fled the country. More than 8,000 civilians were killed from airstrikes, according to the United Nations News Centre.

Abdulqader said she knows people who left the country by boat and fled to Djibouti, though she and her family drove to the Omani border to escape the bombing.

With her siblings and her mother, Abdulqader drove for 30 hours. The trip should have been 10 hours shorter, but they faced flooding en route.

While in Malaysia, Abdulqader said she had nightmares about bombs every night.

She and her family would become scared when the wind would slam windows and doors shut.

Her family, missing Yemen, decided to take the risk to return home after five months.

Abdulqader traveled to the United States and has not seen her family since.

She said when she came to Ohio Univer-

sity, she realized Americans did not know much about the conflict in her home country.

“In the beginning, I was sad because we are dying in another part of the world and nobody knows, or nobody cares because they don’t know,” Abdulqader said.

“I can’t blame them.”

Ziad Abu-Rish, an assistant professor of history, said being aware of international news is part of being a responsible citizen in the U.S. He said the majority of OU students know “very little” about the conflict, let alone anything about U.S. involvement in Yemen.

“I’d like to emphasize that the US government has fully supported the Saudi-led intervention, which has been responsible for the largest share of civilian deaths, population displacement, infrastructural damage, and bringing Yemen to the brink of famine,” Abu-Rish said in an email.

Abdulqader said she partly blames such ignorance on the Yemenis outside of Yemen who are not lobbying for peace and spreading awareness of the problems.

She does not know exactly when she will be able to return to Yemen, as she is afraid she will not be able to fly back to the U.S. if she does, but Abdulqader said she misses her family and the city.

“I’m afraid when I go back, I will not find the same city I left,” Abdulqader said.

Alena Klimas, the vice president of International Student Union, said she knows about the events occurring in Yemen and thinks it would be hard to leave family behind.

“I think it’s easy to leave a place behind, and it’s not as easy to leave people behind when you know things like that are happening,” Klimas said.

Abdulqader said her family and other Yemenis are starting to adapt to the bombings. Yemenis are beginning to go to school and have weddings. When she calls them once a week, she hears explosions in the background, but her family just says, “What can you do? We have to live our lives.”

But Abdulqader said she and her family have had it easier than others. They have the essentials, unlike the 2.5 million Yemenis who are internally displaced without a home, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

“If you have something to eat, and if you still have a roof over your heads, you are fine,” Abdulqader said. “You are fine.”

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the weekender OHIO PAWPAW FESTIVAL BLENDS FOOD, ART, MUSIC

THE FESTIVAL DEDICATED TO OHIO’S STATE FRUIT WILL INCLUDE ACTIVITIES FOR BOTH CHILDREN AND ADULTS

JOE WILLIAMSON COOKE FOR THE POST The world’s largest pawpaw festival will have a few more events for attendees to look forward to.

The 18th annual Ohio Pawpaw Festival will take place this weekend at Lake Snowden in Albany.

The purpose of the festival is to educate the attendees about pawpaws by blending art, delectable foods, entertainment and crafts provided by local businesses. The event also includes a wealth of family-friendly and hands-on activities for kids, including inflatable bounce houses and an obstacle course.

A one-day pass is $15. A weekend-pass is $30, and children 12 and under can attend for free.

Festival events include the pawpaw eating contest, a cook-off and Jeopardy games. The festival will also feature entertainment with nine different microbrewers present, performances

by Rusted Root and Tom Eaton as well as a presentation by keynote speaker Lyle Estill about sustainability.

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IF YOU GO WHAT: Ohio Pawpaw Festival WHEN: 4 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m., Saturday; 10 a.m., Sunday WHERE: Lake Snowden ADMISSION: $15 for a one-day pass; $30 for a weekend pass; children 12 and under free

Terri Frazer skins and seeds pawpaws to hand out as samples to festivalgoers wanting to try the fruit during the Pawpaw Festival at Lake Snowden on Sept. 12, 2015. (ALEX DRIEHAUS / FILE)

Ohio Trail Runners, an effort by Ohio University’s Campus Recycling to build the world’s largest cardboard fort and a renewable energy regatta boat race, all of which will take place Sept. 17.

Chris Chmiel, the lead organizer of the Pawpaw Festival, said the new events mixed in with the traditional ones will draw in larger audiences while tying into the educational theme the event aims to

employ.

“This run and regatta serve as great additions, which will both bring in new people,” Chmiel said.

“These new events consist of substantial-minded education, which (is) a theme we aim to display for our audience.”

The pawpaw, also known as the Asimina triloba, stands out because of its rich and creamy texture. It is North America’s largest native tree fruit,

and it is related to 2,100 tropical fruits. The fruit, which is the official state fruit of Ohio, grows in 25 states east of the Mississippi River.

Kelly Messerly, a digital content manager for Athens County Convention and Visitors Bureau, said Athens stands out on a local and national scale for its diverse supply of pawpaw fruit.

“Pawpaw fruit is something that has been a part

of a culture for a long time,” Messerly said. “The Pawpaw Fest is a great opportunity ... to show an audience the rich array of this fruit.”

Michael Owen, founder and president of the Southeastern Ohio Trail Runners, said the addition of the four-mile run provides a lane for healthy activity.

“This run serves as a good addition to the festival, especially since

Athens is known for their strong running culture,” he said. “Festgoers will get to invest in their health by partaking in this run.”

Owen said the Pawpaw Festival is a good venue for Southeastern Ohio Trail Runners to garner publicity from markets around Ohio and to collaborate with organizations with good causes.

Chmiel said the family-friendly environment of the festival has been crucial in enabling it to achieve success.

“It’s a nice and laidback community event that is very affordable,” he said. “There are people coming from all over the country, and I believe they will all have a good time.”

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WHAT’S HAPPENING BHARBI HAZARIKA / FOR THE POST

JAZZ NIGHT WITH SEAN PARSONS AND MATT JAMES When: 8 p.m., Saturday Where: Athens Uncorked, 14 Station St. Price: Free A collaborating jazz duo is sure to sway the audience and wrap them in a blanket of soothing music.

The event will be hosted by Athens Uncorked on Sept. 17. The music will begin at 8 p.m.

The experienced duo consists of Matt James, professor of saxophone and jazz studies and associate director of the Ohio University School of Music, and Sean Parsons, a jazz pianist, composer and arranger. Parsons is also an assistant professor of jazz studies.

According to the Facebook event page, James released an album in 2014, ‘Opening Lines,’ which is available on iTunes and CD Baby.

Parsons holds a bachelor’s degree in music composition from Illinois Wesleyan University, a master’s degree in jazz studies from DePaul University, and a doctorate of musical arts from the University of Illinois.

MOON TUNNEL: CLAIRE EDER, HUGH MARTIN AND KELLY SUNDBERG When: 7:30 p.m., Friday Where: ARTS/West, 132 W. State St. Price: Free ARTS/West is inviting students to dive into a deep sea of literature to contemplate the magnificent coral reef.

Moon Tunnel, sponsored by the English department at Ohio University, is a reading series featuring the work of Claire Eder,

Hugh Martin and Kelly Sundberg, according to the City of Athens’ website.

The series will be held on five Friday nights throughout the academic year. The first part of the anthology will start Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the basement room of ARTS/West.

ATHENS ASYLUM WALKING TOUR When: 2 p.m., Saturday Where: The Ridges Price: $15 per person, or $10 for members.

Explore the origins of the urban legends that have established Athens as one of the scariest places in the U.S. George Eberts, an assistant professor in Ohio University’s department of physics and astronomy, is the “local Asylum expert” and will host an outdoor walking tour of The Ridges, according to the event’s Facebook page.

The monthly tour will start Sept.

17 at 2 p.m. The short excursion costs $15 per person, or $10 for history center members.

ISRAELI SHABBAT When: 6 p.m., Friday Where: Hillel at Ohio University, 21 Mill St. Price: Free Devour delectables such as hummus, shawarma, olives and pita at a Shabbat service and dinner hosted by Hillel at OU. The event is sponsored by Hillel at OU in partnership with Bobcats for Israel. The festivities start Sept.

16 at 6 p.m.

According to halakha, which is Jewish religious law, Shabbat is a weekly religious ritual in Judaism where followers observe a day of rest.

‘80S NIGHT WITH DJ BARTICUS When: 10 p.m., Friday Where: Casa Nueva Restaurant and Cantina, 6 W. State St. Price: $3 for 21 and older; $5 for eighteen and older; free for those wearing jumpsuits Step onto the dance floor dressed in polka dots and retro prints for an ‘80s night at Casa Nueva Restaurant and Cantina, 6 W. State St. DJ Barticus will be fueling the Casa floor once again Sept. 16 at 10 p.m.

The cover charge will be $3 for those 21 and older, $5 for 18 and older, and free for those wearing jumpsuits.

In an interview with ‘The Post,’ Barticus, who focuses mainly on rap and dance music, expressed his love for jumpsuits and the consistency it offers as a uniform.

SECOND YEAR GRADUATE EXHIBITION: 2LEGIT2QUIT When: 10 a.m., Thursday Where: Ohio University Art Gallery, Seigfred Hall 536 Price: Free

SASSAFRAZ WITH UPTOWNE BUDDHA! When: 9 p.m., Friday Where: The Union Bar & Grill, 18 W. Union St. Price: $5

VARIETY SHOW FEATURING OLD SCHOOL/NEW SCHOOL STROLL COMPETITION When: 7 p.m., Saturday Where: Baker University Center Ballroom Price: Free

ATHENS OHIO ROLLER DERBY OPEN RECRUITING When: 5 p.m., Sunday Where: Dow’s Rollarena, 15329 Elm Rock Rd., Nelsonville Price: $5 Admission; $2 for skate rental; 18 and older

ADOPTION EVENT FOR TRACTOR SUPPLY PAW DAYS When: 10 a.m., Saturday Where: Tractor Supply Co., 1000 E. State St. Price: Free to attend

CHRIS KEESEY WITH LINCOLN MASH When:7:30 p.m., Saturday Where: Donkey Coffee & Espresso, 17 W. Washington St. Price: Free

PEOPLES BANK, COMMUNITY BANK AND THE UNITED APPEAL FOR ATHENS COUNTY’S “PAY IT FORWARD” DINNER AND DANCE FUNDRAISER When:6 p.m., Saturday Where: Athens Community Center, 70 E. State St. Price: $20 for one ticket; $35 for two tickets; $100 for six tickets in advance; $25 per person at the door

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