HIVE Parquet output always uses index regardless of settings

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Hello,

I'm using HIVE (v1.2.1) to convert our data files from CSV into Parquet for use in AWS Athena.

However, no mater what I try the resulting Parquet always has columns titles [_col0, _col1, ..., _colN]

After researching, I read that the line SET parquet.column.index.access=false was supposed to allow for Parquet to use the column titles of my HIVE table; however, it has been unsuccessful so far.

Below is an example script I use to create the Parquet from data

SET parquet.column.index.access=false;

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS EVENTS(
    `release` STRING,
    `customer` STRING,
    `cookie` STRING,
    `category` STRING,
    `end_time` STRING,
    `start_time` STRING,
    `first_name` STRING,
    `email` STRING,
    `phone` STRING,
    `last_name` STRING,
    `site` STRING,
    `source` STRING,
    `subject` STRING,
    `raw` STRING
)
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.OpenCSVSerde'
LOCATION '${INPUT}';

INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY '${OUTPUT}/parquet'
STORED AS PARQUET
SELECT *
FROM EVENTS;

Using parquet-tools, I read the resulting file and below is an example output:

_col0 = 0.1.2
_col1 = customer1
_col2 = NULL
_col3 = api
_col4 = 2018-01-21T06:57:57Z 
_col5 = 2018-01-21T06:57:56Z 
_col6 = Brandon
_col7 = brandon@fakesite.com
_col8 = 999-999-9999
_col9 = Pompei
_col10 = Boston
_col11 = Wifi
_col12 = NULL
_col13 = eyJlbmdhZ2VtZW50TWVkaXVtIjoibm9uZSIsImVudHJ5UG9pbnRJZCI6ImQ5YjYwN2UzLTFlN2QtNGY1YS1iZWQ4LWQ4Yjk3NmRkZTQ3MiIsIkVDWF9FVkVOVF9DQVRFR09SWV9BUElfTkFNRSI6IkVDWF9FQ19TSVRFVFJBQ0tfU0lURV9WSVNJVCIsIkVDWF9TSVRFX1JFR0lPTl9BUElfTkFNRSI

This is problematic because it is impossible to transfer it to an Athena table (or even back to HIVE) without using these index-based column titles. I need HIVE's column titles to transfer over to the Parquet file. 

I've search for a very long time and have come up short. Am I doing something wrong? 
Please let me know if I can provide more information. Thank you!