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A dramatic Denison Day win

Whenever the Ohio Wesleyan men’s lacrosse team faces Denison University, there’s bound to be some excitement.

On April 12 that was exactly the case as senior attacker John Umbach scored the winning goal with only 19 seconds left in regulation. Junior Marcus Dietz was credited with the assist.

OWU defeated their rivals by a score of 9-8 to remain undefeated. The dramatic win avenged two 2014 losses to Denison including a 5-14 loss in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) tournament.

“We definitely felt very confident going into that game,” said senior attacker Tommy Minkler. “We knew that if we played our game and did not focus too much on them, then we would come out on top.”

The goal came just after Denison received a penalty with under a minute left. This gave OWU a one man advantage.

“Prior to the goal we had a lot of opportunities in the last couple of minutes to score,” Umbach said. “As a team we did a great job forgetting about the missed shots and were able to settle down and bury one with 19 seconds left.”

The goal, number 27 of the season for Umbach, was scored in front of an ecstatic crowd of over 2,000 at Selby Stadium.

“The atmosphere is amazing and nerves always kick in,” said Umbach. “Luckily for us we have been fortunate enough to play in big games with big crowds this year like the Franklin and Marshall game and the Salisbury game.”

OWU is now 12-0 on the year with only two games remaining in the regular season. Current Division III polls have them ranked at 3 and 4 in the country respectively.

“We have really been trying not to focus on the rankings too much,” said Minkler who contributed two goals in the win. “It’s easy to get caught up in the polls and get a big head, so both the coaching staff and the senior class have been really trying to keep everyone grounded and humble.”

Minkler and Umbach both said that the feeling after the game was incredible but that the goals for the season were still clear.

“While this was just another regular season game, the atmosphere in the locker room was great,” Umbach said.

Minkler added that the game taught the team a lot about themselves and that they plan to play Denison again in just a few weeks, at the NCAC tournament.

Family relationships affect personal health

Where you live, where you work and even your family relationships all affect personal health.

Emily Ahonen spoke to Ohio Wesleyan students about the social determinants of public health.

Ahonen is a researcher and assistant professor of environmental health science at Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University.

What a person’s public health means, Ahonen explained, encompasses everything from where they live, their education and even their family relationships.

A good relationship with your spouse or parents can play a role in how healthy you are, Ahonen said.

“Whether or not you have a job, where you work, and if it is dangerous, or if you’re exposed to certain chemicals all influence and affect your health and wellbeing,” Ahonen said.

Ahonen also added that whether or not you are in the country legally can affect your health. In addition, a person’s literacy skills also play a role in their personal health.

Ahonen referenced two case studies which show how public policy can be changed to improve public health.

The main case study was a three year study in which she looked at the differences between different government funded housing in Chicago. One group of study subjects lived in newly renovated “green” housing – which means the houses were made with far fewer harmful chemicals. The other study group was still living in the older government funded housing, buildings made with more chemicals.

What Ahonen and the other researchers found was the people living in the “green” houses were in better general health. One glaring statistic they found was 61 percent better asthma control from subjects living in the “green” houses versus those living in the older housing units.

Ahonen and her team’s research helped to pave the way for more equal housing for all income ranges in Chicago.

“If we better understand the ways in which housing impacts health, we can recommend building housing with characteristics which better support the health and well-being of the people who live there,” Ahonen said.

Junior Valentina Marginean was one of the 20 students at the lecture.

“I think the main point that [Ahonen] was trying to make was that environmental factors in both developed and under-developed societies are significant contributors to one’s health,” Marginean said.

App aims at college life

By: Charlie Kottler, Transcript correspondent

A new social media live streaming app is shaking up college campuses by allowing viewers to interact with live campus events like never before.

Twitter’s new live streaming companion app was launched this week. Twitter bought Periscope in January, but just released information about the new acquisition on March 26.

Periscope is going to be in direct competition with Meerkat, another popular live streaming app. Meerkat has only been on the iPhone App store since Feb. 27.

There are several colleges considering using Periscope to stream different types of campus events. Duke University has announced that it will be streaming its 2015 commencement via the app, in addition to its normal online stream.

“The addition of livestreaming video apps just adds another element to how we coordinate and coach students in the community here,” said Cara Rousseau, manager of digital and social media strategy at Duke University.

Unlike previous live audio and video broadcasting apps, Periscope has a very strong social media component. The app allows participants to share comments regarding the broadcast and chat others who are viewing the same stream.

Periscope has one particular advantage that makes it better than Meerkat, said sophomore Shashank Sharma, director of public relations for both Delta Tau Delta fraternity and Horizons International. This advantage is that Periscope saves broadcasts on the app for 24 hours, while Meerkat only allows broadcasts to be seen until they are over. Therefore, those that were unavailable to watch the live stream live still have the opportunity to watch.

“Campus events, meetings, and athletic competitions could be shown on this free app. This would allow others to experience OWU in a whole new way,” Sharma said.

Brian Rellinger, chief information officer at Ohio Wesleyan, shares a similar sentiment.

Rellinger said OWU currently utilizes StreamOWU to share video of selected events. He said that although StreamOWU covers almost all athletic events, they provide streams for only a small percentage of lectures and campus activities. He said using Periscope would increase viewership, as people outside the OWU community would become more likely to watch events via Periscope.

In addition, Rellinger thinks Periscope could enhance study-abroad programs for those who are participating and those students who are still on campus.

“I think it would be neat to have students on travel learning programs use the app to allow students on the OWU campus to have a glimpse into their experience,” Rellinger said.

Trattoria chef has hidden talent

By: Houston Smith, Transcript correspondent

Jeff Eden. Photo courtesy of LinkedIn.com.

He is a self-employed tattoo artist who can make a standard, no topping pizza in less than two minutes, and he hasn’t seen his chin in 10 years.

Jeff Eden, Ohio Wesleyan class of 2011, was born and raised in Rhode Island, and moved to Ohio in 2006. He attended OWU for five years, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in drawing.

He’s grown a beard for about 10 years, and few people at Ohio Wesleyan have seen him without one. Sometimes it is long enough to braid, but he often trims to keep it neat.

Eden is a food service supervisor at Ohio Wesleyan, and has worked in the kitchen for almost nine years. He works in Smith Dining Hall most days, and is an important part of Trattoria Pizza, located in the kitchen of Smith.

Trattoria is the only kitchen open from 8:00 p.m. to midnight every day of the week. The phone rings constantly with students’ orders. Eden and his team work non-stop to complete orders sometimes with three or four items. They feed hundreds of students.

“On Sundays we usually make between 70-100 orders,” said senior Noelle Davis, an employee at Trattoria.

Eden wanted to become a tattoo artist since high school, and he used to practice drawing on friends. He completed an apprenticeship under his mentor Tony Kuntz to get his tattooing and piercing certification for Ohio.

“Tony was pretty much like a big brother, an all-around cool guy, and very personable,” Eden said.

After his apprenticeship, Eden was employed as a tattoo artist. He created original designs and applied tattoos under the supervision of Kuntz. Now he is self-employed, and maintains a safe practice.

“I’ve been tattooing professionally for about four years,” Eden said.

Eden recently covered up a tattoo on his aunt done by Steve Tefft, the season two winner of a popular TV show called Ink Masters.

“She wasn’t happy about the tattoo, and it was around 20 years old, so I covered it up with a piece of my own,” Eden said.

His ultimate goal is to move to New York City and pursue his passion for art.

Shows to queue for this summer

The return of warm weather and sunny days also brings some of the best reasons to hole up inside with the television all day. A few of my favorite shows will be gracing the screen once again in the upcoming months, and if you aren’t already obsessed with them, you should start catching up.

Game of Thrones (April 12)

Photo courtesy of watchersonthewall.com.

Everyone’s favorite fantasy drama is coming back with, hopefully, a much better season. Season four, although I gladly watched its entirety, was unsatisfying and lacking in narrative. Each episode felt like an excuse to kill off unnecessary characters or build personalities for characters that no one really cares about (all eyes on you, Gilly). And yet I am holding out hope for season five. Game of Thrones is my ultimate guilty pleasure. It is decadent, overly violent and sexualized and does not try to hide its obvious ploy to prey on the most basic forms of entertainment. It embraces its excessiveness and through that it thrives. Despite my every instinct to scoff at something so animalisticly enjoyable, I am still hooked. Plus, I will never turn down an opportunity to watch Emilia Clarke in any situation, but especially when she is plotting to take over the world by way of dragons and well fitted dresses.

Hannibal (June 4)

If up until now you have been spared my heated rant on the brilliance of Hannibal then I have failed as a fan. I repeatedly urged my family to begin watching for months before they finally gave in, and now they regret not starting it sooner. I can say with complete confidence that Hannibal is one of the best shows on television today. I have enjoyed it much more than some of the more beloved shows i.e. Mad Men and Breaking Bad. Mads Mikkelson as the titular character is absolutely mesmerizing. He plays the repugnantly evil man in his stages as a well-respected therapist, before his unsavory habits are discovered. He befriends the unassuming Will Graham, played by Hugh Dancy, and begins a path of sadistic manipulation. The two establish one of the most captivatingly disturbing relationships that rapidly muddles the distinction of a protagonist. Aside from having a fascinating plot, Hannibal also excels in cinematography. The repeated scenes of Hannibal preparing dinner are equally repulsive as they are stunning. It is a masterpiece of a show that has left me feeling incomplete while not on the air.

Project Runway (Late July)

Competition shows stress me out more than most things. I so quickly allow myself to care about each contestant and root for almost all of them. I watch the end of each episode of Project Runway through a blanket I’ve hid myself under so I don’t have to see the designers cry when they get Heidi Klum’s “Auf Wiedersehen”. I still hold a grudge against the girl who won four seasons ago with a line composed of the same shapeless maxi dress. You don’t need talent to sew a maxi dress! Project Runway has been my go to reality show for years. It has just the right amount of drama and the contestants, usually, actually exhibit talent and compete for legitimate reasons unlike many of the popular Real World, and Bachelorette types. Plus it never gets old living vicariously through the struggles of making a ball gown in less than 24 hours, and then criticizing those who fail when in fact I couldn’t even load a needle in a sewing machine.

WCSA passes bagel reform

WCSA crest. Photo courtesy of the owu website.

While students enjoyed beautiful spring sunshine on the Jay, the Wesleyan Council on Student Affairs (WCSA) met indoors for their April 13 full senate meeting – and for ice cream.

Several official matters were discussed before the frozen dessert arrived.

A survey measuring student preference for off-campus meal point restaurants was announced. It will be circulated tomorrow.

The academic policy committee is still working on extending library hours.

The administrative policy committee is set to review WCSA’s governing documents later this week in an attempt to make the meeting process more efficient.

Finally, a plan to reduce the size of bagels in the Hamilton Williams Campus Center Bakery is underway. Some bagels are too large for the slicers, according to senators; the slicers are also too dull.

Dean of Students Kimberlie Goldsberry entered the room just in time for her advisor’s report, with ice cream in tow.

WCSA recessed for five minutes to distribute the surprise treat, though junior Emma Drongowski, vice president of WCSA, asked senators to fill out comments cards during the break.

“There you go, efficiency,” she said.

Housing regulations change, reflect other campuses

By: Ashley Day, Transcript correspondent

With the desire to attract and recruit more students from local areas, Ohio Wesleyan University recently made a change to its residency requirement, which will take effect in fall 2015, director of residential life Wendy Piper said.

The original policy, put in place for the fall semester of 2011, stated students could commute if they resided with their parents or guardians as long as their permanent home address was within Delaware County, Piper said.

According to the new residential requirement, now full-time enrolled students who want to commute must reside with their parents or legal guardians at their primary place of residence, which must be within 30-mile range of campus, assistant director of residential life Meredith Dixon said.

Students wanting to live off-campus but not with their parents or guardians must qualify for an exemption under the other parts of the residency requirement—23 or older, fifth year senior, married, caring for a dependent child or for medical reasons. Students who meet the other requirements can choose to be released off-campus and live wherever they choose, Piper said.

Although the new residential requirement will allow more students to commute, the Residential Life (ResLife) staff members believe students should choose to live in campus housing in order to be more involved with the university, Piper said.

“The ResLife staff wants to reiterate what the nature of our residential community and the importance of students being fully involved in what Ohio Wesleyan University has to offer by residing on-campus,” Piper said.

The residential requirement allows a greater range of students who can commute, but it is not expected to affect number of admissions into OWU, Director of Admissions Alisha Couch said.

“I don’t expect large changes from the revision of this policy,” Couch said. “This year we have six to eight prospective freshman that live outside of Delaware County, yet are within the 30-mile radius that are interested in possibly commuting.”

The change in policy allows OWU to be more competitive with other colleges in the area, as most already have the 30-mile radius rule in place, which give them the opportunity to bring in more local students, Couch said.

“In the past, a student may have ruled out OWU simply because they couldn’t live at home,” Couch said. “This change makes OWU an option for more students.”

OWU professor is in love with Ohio’s landscape

By: Cassie Ingram, Transcript correspondent

During his senior year of college he decided to start painting landscapes. Little did he know where it would take him. Now an art professor at Ohio Wesleyan University, Frank Hobbs is pursuing his dream of painting beautiful landscapes.

“Nature has always been important in my life, but I didn’t start painting landscapes in earnest until my last year of college,” said Hobbs, associate professor of fine arts.

Already a fairly established landscape painter back in his hometown of Virginia, he fell even more in love with landscapes once he moved to Ohio in 2007.

After Hobbs gained a teaching position at OWU part-time assistant professor Nancy Murray drove Hobbs around the area and gave him an “enlightening discourse on the geology, biology and botany of the region,” Hobbs said.

“I could already see the places I’d want to return to and paint,” Hobbs said.

Starting in 2007, Hobbs has been producing landscape works of different areas in Ohio.

Gallery 22, sponsored by the Delaware Art’s Castle and located at 22 Winter Street next to the Strand Theatre, is hosting Hobbs and about 30 of his landscape paintings of Ohio. His technique is different from most painters, and is “very stylized,” according to some viewers of the show. His paintings are fuzzy, not quiet crystal clear, but you can tell what they are easily.

The show at Gallery 22 is only a small retrospective of work that he’s done since his arrival in 2007. The rest of the work has either been sold or located in various galleries that are representative of Hobbs.

Ray Wollschleger, a studio and pastel portrait artist in Delaware that has a studio in the back of Gallery 22, has seen all of Hobbs paintings in the Gallery and had a lot to say on the topic.

“He has a great sense of perspective, and it’s very appealing and well set up,” Wollschleger said.
“Most artist’s pallets and artworks are influenced by a time and place that they are doing their work in.”

“I wanted to give viewers a sense of the beauties and idiosyncrasies of the place they call home,” Hobbs said.

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The Vagina Monologues grapples with tough issues

A past Vagina Monologues logo. Photo courtesy of owu.edu.

A performance of The Vagina Monologues introduced students to topics on women and sex, gender identity, violence and relationships in a crowded Bishop Café on April 4.

The text was written by Even Ensler in the 1990s. “She went around and interviewed self-identifying women about what it meant to have a vagina, and compiled the numerous interviews of women from all walks of life into a book, into a script, into a show,” junior Margot Reed said. Reed was a director for the performance. She has participated in the event for the past two years.

“The purpose is not to choke feminist views or radical beliefs down anyone’s throats,” junior Alanna Spalsbury said. “It is relatable. It is meant for women who have gone through some of the things covered in the play to be able to speak out like ‘hey, I’ve been through the same,’ and not feel ashamed of it.”

This was Spalsbury’s first year participating in the The Vagina Monologues. She had a “monologue called ‘Reclaiming Cunt,’ which was a piece about using the word cunt not in the derogatory way, but instead to describe the vagina and all of its beautiful and unique features. It was my favorite piece for a long time, so being able to perform it was amazing.”

“Too much about women’s sexuality or abuse or identity in any way is oppressed because of today’s society, and I think this play sheds light on some of those tougher issues,” Spalsbury said.

Sophomore Emma Nuiry said the play “challenges the way we talk about our bodies involving the rhetoric and attitudes as well as societies expectations for our vaginas.” Nuiry was a director and a performer in the event.

According to Spalsbury, about 40-50 people attended the event.

“I think it went well. The crowd was lively which made it very easy to perform. It was a beautiful day and there was a great turnout,” Spalsbury said.