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Ohio Board of Education’s controversial resolution on LGBTQ+ protections draws a crowd, no decision given
Brendan Shea, State of Ohio Board of Training member, sponsored a decision Sept. 20 that will change the academic coverage for LGBTQ+ college students in Ohio. Credit score: Reilly Ackerman | Lantern Reporter
State of Ohio Board of Training member Brendan Shea sponsored a decision proposing to vary the academic coverage for LGBTQ+ college students in Ohio. After hours of public commentary, the board didn’t vote on or go the decision.
The decision, which was first introduced Sept. 20, won’t transfer ahead, and it’ll as a substitute be despatched to the chief committee after a 12-7 vote within the basic meeting.
The decision acknowledged its opposition to the U.S. Division of Training Title IX rules defending gender identification and sexual orientation, and it might prohibit instructing about sexuality and gender. It will additionally ban these assigned male at start from female-only services.
In line with the decision, Ohio colleges would want to reveal info every time a toddler claims a “discordant gender identification,” modifications their pronouns, questions their gender identification or signifies any misery about their gender identification.
“The State Board of Training stands resolutely with dad and mom, colleges, and districts in rejecting dangerous, coercive, and burdensome gender identification insurance policies, procedures, and rules,” the decision acknowledged.
Board member John Hagan from District 9 stated he agreed with Shea’s proposal. Whereas Hagan stated he would change elements of the decision, he “positively helps this decision.”
“I feel that we have to focus on the training of kids,” Hagan stated. “We’re lacking the mark on literacy and in math.”
The BOE hosted a public commentary session for the decision Wednesday.
Colby Tarrh, a graduate scholar within the Faculty of Social Work, shared his opposition to the decision on the public session. Tarrh stated he got here out as homosexual at 14 years previous and he suppose this proposal is dangerous to LGBTQ+ youth primarily based on his personal experiences and tutorial analysis.
“I’m not asking the board to affirm my identification. I’m asking this board and your complete Ohio state authorities to go away its LGBTQ inhabitants in peace, cease attacking our skill to dwell safely on this state and provide us the decency and kindness that’s imagined to be the expertise of dwelling in Ohio,” Tarrh stated.
Tarrh stated resolutions focusing on LGBTQ+ youngsters can contribute to greater suicide charges in his group. A 2022 Trevor Mission survey of over 33,000 LGBTQ+ youth and younger adults within the U.S. confirmed that practically half of respondents have “significantly thought-about suicide,” and people who discovered their college to be affirming of their identification reported decrease charges of attemping suicide.
Beth Murdoch, a board member of Hilliard Metropolis Colleges, stated she supported Shea’s decision at Wednesday’s public session with amendments for fogeys to lift their baby as they see match with out interference from colleges.
Although she stated she didn’t agree with a few of Shea’s language within the decision, Murdoch stated she agreed with the decision requiring colleges to share details about youngsters with their dad and mom concerning gender identification.
Murdoch stated within the public session she needs to see public colleges give attention to the fundamentals and distance themselves from politicized academic matters like anti-racism and sexual and gender identification as a result of these points “don’t profit Ohio college students.”
“Let’s cease utilizing colleges as a coaching floor for activists for our favourite causes,” Murdoch stated. “Let’s not fake that colleges have equal or larger rights than dad and mom in terms of elevating their youngsters, and let’s get again to educating our kids.”
Murdoch stated her opinions don’t symbolize these of Hilliard Metropolis Colleges’s administration or different workers.
In the course of the BOE assembly Sept. 20, when Shea proposed the decision, group members gathered to protest the decision, such because the members of the Celebration for Socialism and Liberation, which shenby g — whose most popular title is lowercase and who makes use of they/them pronouns — stated of which she is an element.
“The lots of people that oppose bigotry, transphobia and assaults on youngsters wanted their voice to be heard exterior of the parameters the board arrange themselves,” g stated.
g stated the decision is a “wake-up name” for the general public to convey its struggles to make sure their rights are by no means questioned once more.
“We imagine this will solely be doable by means of the facility of the folks, in a mass motion, and the development of a brand new system — a socialist system,” g stated.
College spokesperson Chris Booker stated in an electronic mail the decision won’t influence LGBTQ+ people at Ohio State.
“[The] decision from the state board oversees Okay-12 training,” Booker stated. “The Ohio Division of Larger Training oversees greater training for the state.”
Ohio State supplies measures to guard its transgender college students, in accordance with the college web site, together with gender-inclusive housing and restrooms and a most popular title coverage permitting for title modifications. The Scholar Life Scholar Well being Insurance coverage Profit Plan additionally covers gender-affirming care — together with counseling, hormone remedy and sure surgical procedures, in accordance with the web site.
A set of LGBTQ+ sources at Ohio State and in Columbus might be discovered right here.
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Ohio State Men’s Hockey Falls Just Short in Double-Overtime Battle with No. 1 Seed Michigan State in Big Ten Tournament Championship Game
Ohio State men’s hockey fell just short of winning its first Big Ten Tournament championship.
The Buckeyes came back from a 3-1 deficit in the third period and forced double overtime against No. 1 seed Michigan State on its home ice, but suffered a 4-3 defeat to the Spartans in the end.
What a battle. Spartans score with 4:51 left in the second overtime for the win.
Next up – NCAA announcement at 3 pm Sunday on ESPNU. pic.twitter.com/lm88wMx8Di
— Ohio State Men’s Hockey (@OhioStateMHKY) March 23, 2025
It appeared as though Michigan State would win comfortably for most of regulation. The Spartans took a 2-0 lead in the first period on power-play goals from Karsen Dorwart and Isaac Howard. Ohio State’s Joe Dunlap cut the lead to one with an even-strength goal late in the first period, but after a scoreless second period, Michigan State took a 3-1 lead in the first minute of the third period on a goal from Tanner Kelly.
In the final eight minutes of regulation, however, Damien Carfagna and Gunnarwolfe Fontaine each scored goals for the Buckeyes to even the score.
We’ve got a one goal game in the third @OhioStateMHKY #B1GHockey on BTN pic.twitter.com/Rc5FqWnQTY
— Big Ten Hockey (@B1GHockey) March 23, 2025
WE’RE ALL TIED UP WITH TWO MINUTES TO GO @OhioStateMHKY #B1GHockey on BTN pic.twitter.com/q04xT4PNnK
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) March 23, 2025
It took more than 35 minutes of overtime for either team to score the game-winning goal as Ohio State’s Logan Terness made 20 saves between the two overtime periods while Michigan State’s Trey Augustine stopped several close chances by the Buckeyes. In the end, however, Howard slipped a shot around Terness with 4:51 remaining in double overtime to score the game-winner for the Spartans.
WHO ELSE BUT ISAAC HOWARD @MSU_Hockey goes back-to-back as #B1GHockey Tournament Champs pic.twitter.com/PNRAETTGuu
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) March 23, 2025
Despite the loss, Ohio State is still in line to make this year’s NCAA Tournament. They’ll find out their seed on Sunday at 3 p.m., when the 16-team tournament bracket will be announced on ESPNU.
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Ohio State's College Football Playoff Run Led By First-Quarter Dominance, Second and Third Quarter Control
Given some of the slow starts that set the Buckeyes back in games against Nebraska, Penn State and Michigan in the second half of the regular season, fast starts were an emphasis for Ohio State entering the College Football Playoff.
That emphasis yielded dividends. As Eleven Warriors dove into Ohio State’s quarter-by-quarter and half-by-half splits during the 2024-25 CFP, the first quarter stood out as the biggest period of Buckeye dominance.
Ohio State held significant edges in the second and third quarters, too, while holding level in the fourth.
| SPLIT | POINTS | OPP POINTS | SCORING MARGIN | YARDS | OPP YARDS | YARDS PER PLAY | OYPP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIRST QUARTER | 42 | 7 | +35 | 622 | 199 | 9.4 | 3.5 |
| SECOND QUARTER | 48 | 25 | +23 | 531 | 357 | 8.2 | 4.6 |
| FIRST HALF | 90 | 32 | +58 | 1153 | 556 | 8.8 | 4.1 |
| THIRD QUARTER | 31 | 22 | +9 | 326 | 264 | 6.3 | 4.1 |
| FOURTH QUARTER | 24 | 21 | +3 | 299 | 361 | 5.2 | 5.4 |
| SECOND HALF | 55 | 43 | +12 | 625 | 625 | 5.7 | 4.7 |
The Buckeyes outscored Tennessee, Oregon, Texas and Notre Dame by a combined 42-7 in the first quarter, tripling their four opponents’ offensive outputs with 622 yards of offense against just 199 yards allowed. The yards-per-play numbers are perhaps the most staggering: Ohio State picked up 9.4 yards per play in the first quarter during the CFP while opponents managed a meager 3.5 yards per play.
Fast starts fueled the Buckeyes most in the first two rounds of the CFP against the Ducks and Volunteers. Ohio State outscored Tennessee and Oregon by a combined 35-0 and outgained them by a combined 438 to 53 in the first quarter. That’s more than eight times the yardage output in 30 total minutes, which is mind-blowing even when considering the Buckeyes received the football to start both games.
Starting with the football also doesn’t impact yards per play, and Ohio State picked up 11.2 yards per down to Tennessee and Oregon’s two in the pair of opening frames.
“We’ve always wanted to have fast starts,” Ryan Day said before the Texas game. “You want to set the tone for the game as an individual but also as a team. In both games, we started off with the ball and have gone right down and scored. … Execution fuels emotion. That certainly has a big part of it. They go together. We’ve executed well on those first couple of drives. The defense has gotten some three-and-outs early in the game. We’ve been able to jump on the last two opponents.”
Ohio State jumped on Oregon in particular, as most readers probably remember. The Buckeyes got out to a 34-0 lead against the No. 1 seed and only undefeated team in the CFP, held a 34-8 edge at halftime and closed with a 41-21 victory.
The first half holistically was a dominant phase for Ohio State, who held a halftime lead of at least seven points in each of its four CFP games en route to a +58 scoring margin in the opening 30 minutes. The Buckeyes picked up 8.8 yards per play in CFP first halves while allowing just 4.1.
Halftime adjustments were also a strength of Ohio State’s, even if the margins aren’t as gaudy as their first-quarter or first-half splits. It’s true that the Buckeyes only outscored their opponents by nine points across the four playoff third quarters, but they iced out Tennessee with a 14-0 penultimate frame after kicking off to start the second half and finished a string of 31 unanswered points vs. Notre Dame with 10 to start the third quarter.
Plus, thanks to the ferocity of their first halves, many of the second halves during Ohio State’s title run were spent running out the clock to ice games. That’s the main reason why the fourth quarter is the only split where the Buckeyes didn’t show clear control across their four-game run. Third-stringers saw action in the fourth quarter against the Volunteers and there were multi-score leads to protect in the final 15 minutes against the Ducks and Fighting Irish.
That goes to explain why CFP opponents outgained the Buckeyes 361 to 299 in total yards and 5.4 to 5.2 in yards per play in the fourth quarter. In the lone fourth quarter where Ohio State needed to outperform its foe – the Texas game where it entered the final frame tied 14-14 with the Longhorns – it did so.
After sputtering on offense for much of the second and third quarters, the Buckeyes amassed a 13-play, 88-yard scoring drive to go ahead 21-14 before assembling what might now be the most legendary goal-line stand in team history to seal a 28-14 victory.
Notre Dame came charging back from its 31-7 hole and 31-15 deficit entering the fourth quarter with a Jaden Greathouse touchdown to slice the lead to 31-23, outgaining Ohio State 147 to 109 in the final frame as the Buckeyes ran a few conservative plays to drain the clock. But there was nothing conservative about the since-dubbed “3rd-and-Jeremiah” throw to seal a national championship.
JEREMIAH SMITH DOWN THERE SOMEWHERE
pic.twitter.com/GVtQqoDKdz— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) January 21, 2025
That’s the story of Ohio State’s CFP splits: A team that dominated both sides of the ball out of the gates of games, then made the plays it needed in the second half to ensure those starts didn’t go to waste. And it hoisted the CFP national championship trophy as a result.
Joy Dunne scored two third-period goals and the Ohio State women’s hockey team advanced to its fourth consecutive national championship game with a 4-2 victory over Cornell in Friday’s first Frozen Four semifinal at Ridder Arena.
Ohio State (29-7-3) will play Wisconsin in Sunday’s championship game, the third year in a row the rivals will meet for the title. The Buckeyes are 12-3 in NCAA tournament play under ninth-year coach Nadine Muzerall, a former Gophers player and assistant coach.
Dunne’s first goal broke a 2-2 tie at the 16:23 mark of the third, and she made it a two-goal lead just over four minutes later. She leads the Buckeyes with 28 goals this season and has scored in nine consecutive games.
The Buckeyes led 2-0 on first-period goals from Makenna Webster and Brooke Disher, but the Big Red (25-5-5) tied it with second-period goals 1:08 apart from Lily Delianedis and Kaitlin Jockims.
For the game, Ohio State had 42 shots, with Dunne having nine of those, while Cornell had 29. Both teams were 0-for-3 on the power play.
Ohio State’s Amanda Thiele made 27 saves and improved to 7-1 in NCAA tournament play in her career. Annelies Bergmann stopped 35 shots for Cornell.
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