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EVENT AIMS TO GROW CONSCIOUSNESS ON RACE
TARGETING SYSTEMATIC RACISM
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Nzingha Dalila, assistant professor of human social services technology at UC Clermont, talks to faculty and staff during a workshop Wednesday to teach them how to recognize and stop systemic racism in day-to-day life. SOPHIA GAINES | STAFF REPORTER
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niversity of Cincinnati faculty and community members delved into the topics of systemic racism, racial identity development and racebased traumatic stress injury Wednesday at Journey to Advocacy. Led by Nzingha Dalila of UC Clermont campus, the event was a part of the Inclusive Excellence Workshop series. The goals of the workshop were to help the attendees gain a better understanding of how systemic racism causes emotional injury to black Americans, how racial identity development impacts change advocacy and to explore increasing effectiveness of advocates for racial justice.
Dalila has devoted much of her life to education on racism and social justice, discussed race-based traumatic stress injury (RBTSI), or post slavery syndrome. The workshop began with Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask,” which looks to speak to people of color across the world. “We Wear the Mask,” related to discussions and an activity later in the session, which stressed how someone’s looks might not be correspondent to how they are actually feeling, as if they were wearing a mask. RBTSI is a non-pathological process and set of reactions to racism that may impair a person’s functioning. Symptoms can include re-experiencing of events, numbing of stimuli, increased vigilance or a
traumatic reaction. The syndrome is sometimes likened to the psychological effects of rape and domestic violence. Legal sanctions often focus on the character or actions of the target and injury is addressed as a onetime event, Dalila said. “Oftentimes, because of the society that we live in, these actors don’t even realize that what they’re doing is racially violent,” she said. Dalila added this is why it is important to look at the systemic changes necessary in policies and practices, but that is usually not done. Attendees then participated in a simulation of a person of color speaking to a mental health care provider. SEE RACISM PG 2
Opinion: US has no right to refuse refugees STEVE BEYNON | COPY EDITOR
Joseph Stalin said, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” A large body count can feel cold and oddly comforting because they do not feel like people. This has made it fairly easy to ignore the years-long Syrian refugee crisis until photos surfaced of a three-year-old’s dead body washed ashore in Turkey. His name was Aylan, and he drowned with his fiveyear-old brother and mom trying to get to Greece. Aylan’s father, Abdullah Kurdi, told German newspaper, Die Welt, he blames the Canadian government for his family’s death due to authorities rejecting the application for asylum. Over the past week, many U.S. politicians and Republican presidential candidates have exhausted heated rhetoric of slamming America’s doors on people like Kurdi’s son. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) said the U.S. should limit refugee admission to Christians, who make up eight percent of Syria’s population,
according to Syrian census data. GOP hopefuls Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson have suggested a registry for all American Muslims, a terrifying idea reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s organization of Jews. This idea is obligatory from the likes of conservative talk-radio, but this rhetoric is coming from frontrunners looking to lead the nation. More than half of the country’s governors, including Gov. John Kasich (R-Oh.), have vowed to not allow refugees into their states. However, it is unlikely the states will have the legal authority to reject refugees. A Republican knee-jerk reaction to the refugee crisis and the chicken hawk approach to full-scale war is a far cry from an intellectually honest foreign policy solution. This is xenophobic pandering to the lowest common denominator. The devastating ISIS attacks on Paris, leaving 129 dead and nearly as many critically wounded, has shined a light on the Syrian crisis in the midst of countries like Germany opening its borders to 800,000 refugees from Iraq and Syria,
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Masa Wawieh, 4, left, and Maram, 8, watch their father, Fouad Wawieh, make tea in a Pomona, Calif., motel where they are staying after arriving from Syria, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015.
France bringing in 30,000 and the Obama administration’s plan to welcome 10,000. The House voted 289-137 on a bill aimed to cripple refugee admission to the U.S., with 47 Democrats joining 242 Republicans in favor of the bill, creating a majority that could override President Barack Obama’s promised veto. Many point to the parallels of Jews who sought asylum in the U.S. on the eve of World War II. According to polls conducted by the U.S. Institute of Public Opinion in 1938, asking Americans’ attitudes on allowing European political refugees into the country, an astonishing 67 percent of Americans were against the idea. At the time, Americans were afraid of Nazi spies melding into Jewish refugee ranks. The country was also just coming off of the Great Depression, and the idea of adding more people to the system was scary. A recent NBC poll shows 53 percent of Americans are opposed Obama’s plan to allow more Syrian refugees in the country. Many are cautious about jihadists sneaking into the mix. The U.S. is also just coming out of the Great Recession, which makes some weary of adding more people into the system. For Americans to not allow refugees ignores the fact the bloody crusade ISIS is waging to establish a totalitarian Muslim theocracy is the direct result of the half-baked foreign policy of the past administration. To not acknowledge the Islamic State as the child of the power vacuum the 2003 invasion of Iraq created is political cowardice. MSG Joshua Wheeler died in a firefight with ISIS during a raid to free Kurdish prisoners. He is the only American soldier to be killed in the fight against the Islamic State so far. His death is a tragedy, and we should not make it part of a statistic. The last Iraq War cost 4,486 American lives and injured SEE REFUGEE PG 2
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After a five year hiatus, Adele comes out with her new album “25.” The album talks about making up for lost time after a bad breakup.
Review: Adele’s ‘25’ successful despite hiatus RENEE GOOCH | MANAGING EDITOR
“Hello / It’s me.” Adele sings, announcing her return after over five years without a single release. She is back and bigger than ever, breaking the charts yet again. Topping off at 900,000 sales after just one day of releasing her newest album, “25,” on Friday, Adele is breaking mainstream music records by refusing the streaming of her album on sites like Spotify, Apple Music or Tidal for an entire week. Regardless, she is still topping the iTunes charts, setting a standard for pop culture SEE ADELE PG 5
Ohio to potentially allow guns on college campuses, SG votes against CAROLINE CORY | STAFF REPORTER
In an almost unanimous vote, the University of Cincinnati Student Government opposed Ohio House Bill 48 (HB 48) Wednesday evening. HB 48, which would allow concealed weapons to be carried on college campuses, daycare centers, institutions of worship, certain areas of airports and public areas of police stations, was recently passed by the Ohio House of Representatives in a 63-25 vote. The bill is currently awaiting decision in
the Ohio Senate. If passed, the bill will be approved or declined by Gov. John Kasich. Whether HB 48 is voted in place or discarded in the Ohio Senate, the bill allows Ohio colleges to vote according to what each institution feels would be best for their students, according to a statement issued by James Whalen, UC’s director of public safety. “House Bill 48 provides for local authority, which is important because Ohio colleges and universities have varying environments and it is critical for Boards
to have the ability to choose what is best for their individual institution,”Whalen said. SG voted in opposition to HB 48 and the decision is now in the hands of the UC Board of Trustees. Student Body President Andrew Naab cited student safety as a main concern why SG widely opposed Ohio HB 48. “One reason [SG] specifically opposed Ohio HB 48 is due to the safety and security of students — specifically dealing with what can we do to ensure that our
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students are the safest that they can be — because that’s the utmost priority that our institution has,” Naab said. According to the same statement released by Whalen, UC policy would adapt to fit student needs if HB 48 were to pass in the Board of Trustees. “Allowing concealed carry at UC can present safety challenges, but if House Bill 48 is passed and our Board of Trustees decides to permit concealed carry on SEE SG PG 2
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‘America Under Attack,’ was not only plastered all over television on 9/11, but visibly scarred into Amina Darwish’s mind. Talking from her experience with Islam while living in America, Darwish and the Muslim Student Association held an open discussion on the issue of Islamophobia Thursday evening in University of Cincinnati’s Tangeman University Center. According to Darwish, her cousin was living in lower Manhattan on the Hudson River and her cousin’s daughter went to school across from the World Trade Center when the 9/11 attacks took place. Both their apartment and the daughter’s school were affected by the terrorist acts. It took 12 hours and a heroic effort by the teacher to find out they were taken away to safety, according to Darwish. “Looking back on that day, it is a very personal and hurtful day to me,” Darwish said. “I tell this story because if you do not see my pain, you might not see me as human.” Darwish said on this day her cousin did not feel safe wearing a hijab in public. The second speaker, Ismaeel Chartier, was born in New York City and raised in an Irish-Catholic family. Currently, Chartier functions as an instructor — or Imam — at the Clifton Mosque. “The first time I picked up a Quran, my goal was to disprove it,” Chartier said. During the process, he went to Egypt and
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campus, [public safety] will work to implement appropriate training and safety measures to support that decision,”Whalen said. If HB were to pass, a lower penalty would be sentenced to those who carry concealed weapons on college campuses that continue to forbid firearms on campus, making it a minor misdemeanor. “[HB 48] lessens the penalty for concealed carrying on a campus where it’s banned to a minor misdemeanor, a lighter punishment than what you’d get even for an open container violation. That’s just not right,” said Student Body Vice President Andrew Griggs. “Not to mention the inclusion of day cares, public areas of airports and police stations, and places of worship. The bill just goes way too far.” The amount of training going into obtaining a concealed carry weapons (CCW) license was also a point of discussion SG made. If the bill were to pass in the Board of Trustees, the training to obtain license would only require eight hours. Although there may be cases where license-holders are more thoroughly
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47,541, not including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The GOP are beating the drums to war, with all presidential candidates aside from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) committing to invasion as an answer the Islamic extremist threat. Democrats have not necessarily committed to full-scale war but are saber rattling. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said, “Together, leading the world, this country will rid our planet of this barbarous organization called ISIS.” Whether or not Sen. Sanders or Hillary Clinton will deploy conventional troops to fight is cloudy but both promise to escalate the aggressive bombing campaign. The only thing we have to show for the Iraq War is a $2 trillion debt, a cost that will grow to $7 trillion by 2053 once you add in veteran benefits and debt repayment, according to Congressional Research Studies. The partisan pretzel one would have to twist themselves into to support a war with no clear mission statement, repeating the mistakes of the past, which will inevitably lead to more refugees makes them more loyal to a party than to the country or the truth. The Syrian refugee crisis is our mess to clean up. Perhaps jihadists will abuse hospitality, but this is the world we helped create. Regardless of how the Western world moves forward, this humanitarian crisis will serve as an example that war has ripple effects that must be anticipated. The U.S. made this bed, which we will lie in for decades.
discovered it was his definition of truth. “Most Americans do not know Islam,” Chartier said. “As Americans, we have been fed narratives on the negatives of Islam.” Islam is not a monolithic religion with radical tendencies, as there are various factions with different perspectives and interpretations of the religion, according to Chartier. One student asked what causes these terrorist groups, such as ISIS, to identify as Islam. “People wrap themselves in the cloak of religion to rally the people,” Chartier said. “It is easier to gain sway if they can use religious statements to empower their cause. They often use literal interpretation which undermines the religion.” The ideas of sisterhood and brotherhood are heavily ingrained in the Islamic religion, Darwish said. Quran state men and women are not the same, specifically stating everything the man owns is half the woman’s and everything the woman owns is entirely hers. Darwish said this not designed to oppress men, but rather to empower women. “My wife looks at [Islam] as her trip into feminism, which pushes for equality,” Chartier stated. The Quran also does not solely say for women to dress conservatively, but for both men and women to do so. “In America, women still make 70 cents on the dollar to men here, women are sexually assaulted in this country,” Chartier said. “We have never had a female head
of state but we act as if we champion feminism.” The discussion ran over the time in which the forum was scheduled to end, with many students hanging back to discuss the religion further. “I did not know much about Islam previously, so I wanted to come to get questions answered,” said Steven Davis, a second-year business student. Chartier invited anyone who would like to learn more about the religion to come to the Clifton Mosque to learn more. “America has been a melting pot of culture since the beginning,” Chartier said. “Islam is just another part of what makes our country great and becoming more conscious of the religion will help exemplify the qualities that makes our country great.”
trained, promising students all individuals who have a CCW license have had extensive training is too risky, Naab said. “We understand that some people who do have their concealed carry permit either have been or are former or active members of our military or are potentially members of a police department in all the different sorts that could have given them in-depth training for this,” Naab said. “However, what we can’t do is guarantee that.” Griggs also felt the amount of training provided by HB 48 would be insufficient to guarantee safety on campus, factoring in the already high stress levels of college students. “The eight-hour training required for a concealed carry license really is not enough to make you an effective responder on these types of situations,” Griggs said. “It could even lead to more innocent casualties rather than less. For me personally, I just do not believe that more guns on campus leads to a safer campus— just the opposite. Especially when we’re talking about the emotionally charged environment that is college.” The university budget would not be significantly affected the passage or
banning of HB 48. However, new campus initiatives are being taken in light of the HB 48 situation, such as diversifying police forces and departments and implementing more lights around UC’s main campus. “The university is going to be aggressive in the future through working to recruit a diverse police department and a diverse police force as well as hiring more security guards and more staff in our safety department that are diverse, because we know that our police department is heavily filled by Caucasian men and women,” Naab said. “There’s a new phase of the Duke Energy lights that will be coming to campus, as well.” SG also included a resolution behind their opposition to HB 48, citing the passage of the bill would be in misalignment with UC’s Student Code of Conduct, which prohibits the use, possession or storage of firecrackers, any kind of guns and knives at the university. “HB 48 would make campus less safe,” Griggs said. “Especially in case of a false alarm, [HB 48] could needlessly escalate the situation and lead to danger for many people.”
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Ismaeel Chartier, Clifton Mosque leader, answers questions and shares personal stories during an open discussion addressing islamophobia.
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Three white audience members were asked to act as the black patient and three other people of any race acted as the health care provider. Another three people sat behind the patients and acted as their “inner voice,” designed to emulate the inner voice of a black person in the given situation. The doctor would ask questions such as, “What year is it? What month is it? What are three objects?” while the “inner voice” would say things like, “They think I’m a savage. They think I’m below them. They hate me.” Participants were also bandaged tightly around their chest and abdomen to create the physical tension and tightness a black person might feel in that situation. A person playing a patient said with the constant negative self-talk, it was hard to focus on the questions. “This loud voice had its own conversation in my mind,” said an “inner voice” participant. The questions were not designed to be emotional, but patients felt emotions rising. Dalila spoke about racial battle fatigue, a physical, mental and behavioral stress response involving energy spent on coping with and fighting racism. She also discussed choice points, which can affect whether racial violence or racial justice is promoted. The cumulative impacts of many small choices can be as significant as the impacts of big decisions, Dalila said. “It’s not that people are evil. We have a system that’s broken,” Dalila said. “We, in our ivory towers, are not addressing it and then we wonder why we continue to have people who embrace white supremacy.” An attendee shared a story about her African-American son, who is a UC student, being threatened by a white student athlete. Although the white student had to complete community service, she said, the university did not do anything about it. “It’s important for you to have closure,” said Paul Eric Abercrumbie, director of diversity at UC. “It shouldn’t have to be an open question. We want him to understand what his rights are.” A faculty member brought up around the time of the Samuel DuBose shooting, faculty had to include a prewritten phrase into each of their emails. “We’re just copying and pasting this,” she said. “Do they really understand and believe in what is being said? There was no class. There was no nothing. I just thought it was a farce.” Dalila provided two questions for the attendees to ask students in order to help them become critically conscious, “how does our field systemically encourage racial violence?” and, “what can be done to eliminate the systemic racial violence in our field, whatever field that’s in?”
Transgender Day of Remembrance honors lives lost worldwide PATRICK MURPHY | NEWS EDITOR
In honor of 170 transgender lives being lost worldwide in 2015, the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance lit candles in their honor and held a reception illustrating photographs and shorts excerpts from some of the lives lost. The Friday evening event housed approximately 150 people in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center. “Trusting in the promise of the fullness of life — is this a foolish hope or a genuine hope for us?” said Terry Hocker, a pastor of the Truth and Destiny Covenant Ministries. “It is only genuine if the seeds of that promise are already present in us, and the manifestation of this hope is with us now. That hope permeates every corner of this room. It causes us to gather and honor loses, while claiming our bright future.” According to information gathered by the Transgender Day of Remembrance Planning Committee, 18 out of the 170 transgender lives lost in 2015 were from the U.S. “I am fortunate enough to have a group of friends for support,” said Callie Wright, a Cincinnati podcaster and activist. “There are those in our community who aren’t that fortunate, and in the meantime, while we are trying to convince the world to take care of us, let’s make sure we’re taking care of us.” A total of 1,731 cases of transgenderrelated deaths occurred from Jan. 1, 2008
to Dec. 31, 2014, according to the Trans Murder Monitoring project. Two of these victims came from Cincinnati. Tiffany Edwards, 28, died on June 27, 2014, and Kendall Hampton, 26, died on Aug. 18 2012. While a total of five transgender lives were lost in Ohio, 112 were reported in North America. The largest death toll occurred in Central and South American
The only way that things will get better is if we continue to be angry at our mistreatment. JASON HETTESHEIMER
at 1,356, with the largest concentration coming from Brazil at 51 percent. The second comes from Mexico at 14 percent. “Moving forward, things will not get better if people are taught to be complacent in their mistreatment,” said Jason Hettesheimer, a Cincinnati activist. “The only way that things will get better is if we continue to be angry at our mistreatment, and that anger directed at dismantling the systems that tell us that we are better off dead than alive.” Twenty-two out of the 50 states have laws protecting discrimination based on sexual orientation.
There are no statewide protections in Ohio for sexual orientation and gender identity outside of state employment, meaning an individual could deny any member of the LBGTQ community employment, housing or public accommodations, according to Equity Ohio. A bill entitled Equal Housing and Employment Act previously passed the Ohio House of Representatives on September 15, 2009 by a vote of 56 to 39. The legislation was not given testimony or a vote and failed in the 2008-09 legislative session of the Ohio State Senate. An Ohio State Representative for District 31, a new bill should be on 2015-2016 legislature, according to Brian Garry. “The bill is flawed,” Garry said. “It talks about sexual orientation, it doesn’t specifically mention transgender people, and transgender people need to be protected by law as a protected class of people, [even as] a federally protected class of people, but certainly on a state level.” The program concluded with a performance by MUSE Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir singing “Standing On the Side of Love,” by Jason Shelton. “We still have trials, we still have hope, and we still have disappointment,” Hocker said. “In the midst of great death, we rise, we actualize, and we, as trans people, will lead out footprint on this earth.”
SPORTS / 3 MONDAY, NOV. 23, 2015
Third straight victory for women’s basketball as both teams traded buckets and tied the score on four separate occasions. The University of Cincinnati women’s basketball team With just under two minutes left in the third quarter, the successfully completed a sweep of their opening three Bearcats took the lead for the first time since early in the game home-stand by downing the Bowling Green State first quarter on two free throws delivered by junior guard University Falcons Saturday 54-51. Bianca Quisenberry. This made the score 43-42. This marks the first time UC has started 3-0 since the The fourth quarter was competitive, but in the remaining 2011 season. two minutes of play the Bearcats held the Falcons Despite trailing for much of the game, the Bearcats’ scoreless and senior guard Alyesha Lovett added a free resilient defensive effort set the tone as the team stayed throw in the waning seconds of the game, to win by three in a full court press for nearly all of regulation. This type points. of fast-paced style has become typical of the women’s Lovett was around the ball more basketball team lacking size. often than not during the game as Sophomore guard Ana Owens, who led she led UC in steals, rebounds and We found a way to win the team in points with 15, explained the blocks, she also added 14 points. team’s reasoning for playing fast. Elliot raved about Lovett’s high —and that’s grit, it’s “We have to play fast because we’re energy. character building and it’s small,” Owens said. “We have to play up “Lovett played 40 minutes today team building. and down [the court] and press to make at the tip of our press ready to up for our size.” trap, ready to jump, ready to JAMELLE ELLIOT The Falcons turned the ball over 19 rotate,” said Elliot. times, thanks in no small part to the press. Lovett embraced her role in the team’s defense during “It’s no secret it was our game plan,” said UC head the game. coach Jamelle Elliot. “We stuck to it. We sprinkled in some “I just knew my team needed me whether I was scoring different pressures throughout the game.” or not,” Lovett said. “Defense is my favorite. They needed For the third time in as many games UC found itself me right there.” trailing at halftime, but a pair of three-point shots at the Elliot is impressed with the team’s performance thus far end of the second quarter from senior guard Jasmine this season. Whitfield brought the deficit within two to make the score “We found a way to win—and that’s grit, it’s character 32-30. building and it’s team building,” Elliot said. “I can’t say Despite being outrebounded 26-17 and outscored in the how proud I am to come home for three games to start the paint 16-10 at half, UC’s defense did enough to stymie season and be successful in all three.” the Falcon’s offense by forcing Bowling Green to make UC will travel to Freeport, Bahamas to take on the Baylor mistakes. University Bears at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Junkanoo Jam. The third quarter opened with a back-and-forth affair, ETHAN RUDD | CONTRIBUTOR
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Ana Owens leads the Bearcats against the Bowling Green State University Falcons Saturday afternoon with 15 points and four assists.
Volleyball star Bearcats gored by South Florida Bulls welcomed into women’s team CLAUDE THOMPSON | STAFF REPORTER
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The University of Cincinnati volleyball team’s freshman outside hitter Jordan Thompson has had a season for the ages, as she leads the team in kills and sets played. Thompson’s performance has led the team to an 18-10 overall record and a 10-7 conference record in the American Athletic Conference. This is an improvement from last season, when the Bearcats had a 1517 overall record and a 7-13 conference record. “We have a lot of new additions to the team this year,”Thompson said. “Having new structures is crucial and having Jade [Tingelhoff] as my setter who I played club with, and having that relationship helps put the ball away.” Thompson did a phenomenal job of putting the ball away for the team this season, leading for Cincinnati with 414 kills, which is 29 percent of the team’s total kills with 1,445 in all. “A lot of people have asked me if it is a lot of pressure, and honestly there is not a lot,”Thompson said. “It is a lot of hard work but with everyone on the team supporting me it makes it easier.” With being a freshman and also leading the team in sets played, Thompson is having a big impact on the Bearcats and is a crucial piece to the team’s success thus far. “Being a freshman, it is difficult in a way, but knowing I can make errors with the team still supporting me just makes me feel I can still play my best,”Thompson said. Thompson grew up in Edina, Minnesota where her father Tyrone Doleman played basketball at the University of Pittsburgh and also spent time playing with the Harlem Globetrotters. Her uncle, Chris Doleman, played 15 seasons in the NFL between the Minnesota Vikings and Atlanta Falcons. He is also a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012. “I get a lot of my athleticism from my dad and he was the one who introduced me to sports and helped teach me how to play,”Thompson said. “He has definitely been one of my biggest supporters playing college volleyball.” The Bearcats have four more regular season matchups and were in Florida for the past two to face the University of South Florida Friday and the University of Central Florida Sunday. USF has a total record of 9-20 and a conference record of 6-11. UCF, who was last year’s AAC conference champs, has a record of 14-15 and an 8-9 conference record. “We need to start these games off with energy and intensity,”Thompson said. “Getting off to a good start right away is big for us.” With the Bearcats heading in to the conference tournament during the coming weeks, the team is trying to stay focused until then. “We try and keep it light in the locker room,”Thompson said. “But, we also need to keep that competitive edge going as well.”
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Jordan Thompson, outside hitter for the Bearcats, is starting off her debut season.
The University of Cincinnati Bearcat football team encountered a setback in their bid for a bowl this season with a heavy 65-27 loss to the University of South Florida Bulls. Both quarterbacks struggled to find their usual success through the air as quarterbacks Gunner Kiel and Hayden Moore combined for five turnovers in the first half, which allowed the Bulls to take advantage of every opportunity they had and go into halftime with a 51-3 lead. The Bull’s scoring started on the first play from scrimmage when USF’s sophomore quarterback Quinton Flowers utilized the play action to catch Cincinnati
off guard and threw a 67-yard touchdown pass to junior wide receiver Rodney Adams, one of four touchdowns for Flowers. “We got hit pretty quick,” said UC head coach Tommy Tuberville. “First play of the game. We panicked and didn’t do anything on either side of the ball. We’ve fallen behind this year before and we’ve clawed back, but tonight there wasn’t much clawing by coaches or players.” The shock-and-awe speed of which USF took a commanding lead and allowed them to lean on their running game throughout most of the game, with two of their running backs exceeding 100 yards rushing and combined for three touchdowns.
Cincinnati allowed 361 yards rushing, which resulted in USF controlling possession, lead and clock. The Bearcats found little success on the ground, but did get two short touchdowns from junior running back Tion Green, who finished with 51 yards on 10 carries. “They had the best team by far tonight,” Tuberville said. “They got after it. We couldn’t stop the run, couldn’t stop the pass, we couldn’t run it, we couldn’t throw it and we turned the ball over. There aren’t any excuses and I told all the young guys who knew they were going to be playing that there wouldn’t be any excuses.” UC senior wide receiver Chris Moore, who had six receptions on the day, provided a positive takeaway from the game as he caught the lone touchdown pass from Moore to become the Cincinnati career leader in touchdown receptions. In addition to Moore, seniors Alex Chisum and Shaq Washington each finished with six catches as well. Cincinnati struggled to cause any disruption on defense and did not sack USF’s quarterbacks at all, while the offense surrendered three sacks of their own. “We didn’t play well with our eyes on defense,”Tuberville said. “Guys weren’t looking at the right receivers in coverage, we weren’t tackling, we were leaving our feet. They took it to us and that’s all there is to it. We escaped a lot of bad things this year through either our offense playing well or our defense playing well and, well, we didn’t play well on either side of the ball and it caught up with us.” The Bearcats look to get their seventh win of the season noon Saturday at East Carolina University in their final regular season game. CBS Sports Network will air the game.
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Gunner Kiel looks for open receivers downfield against Miami University back in September. Kiel and backup quarterback Hayden Moore had a combined five turnovers to give the Bearcats a 48 point deficit against UCF Friday evening.
Opinion: Football team fails to deliver despite starting strong CLAUDE THOMPSON | STAFF REPORTER
When you lose a game by giving up 65 points, it is safe to say things have not quite stuck to plan this season. After dropping a crucial road conference game against the University of South Florida Bulls, the University of Cincinnati football team just happens to be in this very predicament. The game against the Bulls is the second time this year the Bearcats have allowed over 50 points on defense. This comes in the same season they held the University of Miami Hurricanes to 23 points, winning the game. They Bearcats had four total assisted tackles in the loss this week. The best defensive teams in football are taught to gang tackle, so it is inexcusable to have only one person making a tackle so often. The loss drops Cincinnati to 3-4 in conference play in the American Athletic Conference this season. UC was a cochampion of it at the end of last season. Repeating was the goal, but not the result, as Cincinnati watched less-talented teams like Temple University, University of Memphis and University of Houston run away with the conference and go late into the college football season with undefeated records. Part of the issue comes from junior starting quarterback Gunner Kiel continuing to struggle with an injury. Due to the missed games, the offense’s dynamic has changed week to week, and a quarterback controversy has been sparked with Kiel’s future replacement, Hayden Moore. When Kiel was on the field it had been noted he had issues with decision-making. It has yet to be seen whether he can read a defense or not.
Despite Kiel’s struggles and injuries, the offense has been stellar this year. Although it was ranked top-five in the nation, UC struggles to run the ball consistently and effectively. Many would think this was because of the team’s running backs underperforming, but this is not the case. The team has three running backs — all rushing for over 600 yards. When it comes to coaches, Hayden Moore has the single game-high this season with 20 carries, which means no running back has rushed the ball more than 20 times in a game during the current season play. Lack of running plays being called is a blatant indication of the offense being imbalanced and refusing to take advantage of all the talent at its disposal. Sophomore running back Mike Boone has over 650 yards on only 80 carries, which is an outstanding 8.3 yards per rushing attempt. The fact he only has 80 carries is indicative of an inability to commit to the running game, which would keep the opposing defenses guessing and wears them out by being on the field longer. It is possible to speculate some of the closer losses would have been wins, had Cincinnati used Boone more from beginning to end. The Bearcats are bowl-eligible, but actually going to a bowl game seems like a long shot at this point. Even if they do get a bowl game, there will be a lot of pressure to win it since the Bearcats have not won a bowl game since head coach Tommy Tuberville took over the program. Cincinnati has a lot of questions to be answered during the offseason. Depending on how these last few games go, they may have even more.
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Roundtable on pop culture effects on society EMILY HETTERSCHEIDT | STAFF REPORTER
Andy Warhol paintings, videos and other facets of pop culture were shared and celebrated Saturday afternoon in McMicken Hall for the third annual student-organized Pop Culture Conference. The conference, organized by professor Molly Brayman’s Advanced Composition English class, allowed students to submit ideas for discussion on any pop culture topic with the goal of understanding how these topics affect society. “We solicit submissions for undergraduates to present their ideas and research on anything to do with our popular culture, larger cultural society, how they think about it,” Brayman said. Brayman said this conference was a great opportunity for undergraduate students to shine a light on their research. “I think we do a lot to celebrate the research and work that our faculty do and our graduate students do and we have these structured lectures and things like that,” she said. Brayman explained it was important undergraduates also had an opportunity to share their research, work with others and discuss it with their peers. The success of the conference shows others value these opportunities as well, Brayman said. “This is the third year that I’ve done this or had a class help organize it, and each year I hear about how it was such an enlightening experience to realize that other people are thinking about some of
these issues as well,” Brayman said. The conference included roundtable discussions, exhibits, art pieces, videos and many other displays of research. Faith McGillivray, a first-year communication student, was one of the students in the class who helped organized these pop culture events. “I contributed a video for one of the roundtable, or exhibit rooms, and I’m also facilitating a discussion group in one of the roundtable rooms,” McGillivray said. “We just put everything together, from the pizza, the food, the posters, the flyers, everything. We did it all ourselves, our class.” McGillivray also explained why she was so excited for the event. “I really like that it’s really thought provoking,” she said. “We have to stop and think about something that we don’t think about and that really influences us, especially without our knowledge, so it brings it to the forefront and consciousness of our minds, and I think that’s really important.” One student who presentedat the event was Allison Twyman, a fourth-year communication student, who brought an Andy Warhol-inspired soup can with the label peeling off. Twyman said it represented the dangers of eating processed meat. “This really just represents your body deteriorating over time, which is the peeled label on that part and obviously vegetable beef is red meat and processed meat,” she said.
Another topic discussed at the conference was the difference between documentaries and reality television, as well as implications upon why difference is important. The roundtable discussion started with a presentation given by four students who recently participated in a trip to Alaska to film a documentary on adventure racing. After the discussion, students who attended the roundtable were able to ask questions and discuss the topic. One of the presenters of this discussion, Shannon St. George, a fourth-year electronic media student, explained she liked being able to collaborate with others
on these topics. “I think it’s cool having it as a discussion, too,” St. George said. “It’s like a two-way street, versus just us giving a presentation. I’ve never done anything like this.” While the event had a small turnout, the Pop Culture Conference achieved its main goal of allowing students to share information and gain a greater understanding of the effects of pop culture. “When we talk about culture, even if we’re talking about our favorite television show, we’re frequently talking about how we view society and how we view others,” Brayman said. “So it ends up getting into some rich territory.”
CRISTINA DROBNEY | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Students discuss musical influence in popular culture as they introduce their research projects during the 2015 UC Pop Culture Conference roundtable discussion Saturday afternoon in McMicken Hall.
Review: ‘The Merry Widow’ delivers Event highlights hilarious classy, hilarious performance ’90s black culture DULCINEA RILEY | STAFF REPORTER
The formula is well known. A witty, intelligent woman is being pursued by a number of men for a variety of reasons, but no one can get a hold of her — and hilarity ensues. While the arc may be a familiar one, “The Merry Widow” is unquestionably unique in its bright and humorous energy. The masterful range of the music and the sheer aesthetic beauty of the set and costumes made CCM’s fall opera a visual joy, as well as a musical one. At a party honoring the Petrovenian Embassy of Paris, the stuffy, kilt-wearing Baron Zeta (Stephan Michael Hanna) reveals to his secretary Njegus (Devan Pruitt) the fatherland is on the brink of economic collapse. The only way to save Petrovenia from ruin is to ensure Hanna Glawari (Nicolette Book), a wealthy widow, marries a fellow Petrovenian so her money will be passed on to aid the country. Petrovenian or Parisian, all gentlemen are eagerly anticipating the chance to win over Glawari and her riches. Only one man among them is anxious by her arrival, the fatherland’s dashing diplomat, Count Danilovitch (Harry Greenleaf or Andrew Manea). After many blurred years of champagne and pleasurable company, Danilovitch is faced with Hanna — his first love. The Baron unknowingly begs him to halt her from wedding any non-Petrovenian and now, Danilovitch has a choice to make. Shall he nudge some lucky Petrovenian fellow to marry her and save their country? Or can he find the courage to not let the woman he loves slip away once more? While money may be the Baron’s motivation for the party and for Madame Glawari, every guest is just as involved in his or her own desires. Various and interchangeable couples will tumble after one another, at varying levels of glee and drunkenness. Indeed, the only person not committing blatant adultery is the Baron. Though his wife Valencienne spends the bulk of the show fawning after her Parisian lover, Camille de Rosillon around the embassy. These two characters, performed by Tarra Morrow and Thomas Capobianco respectively, were some of the best on stage. The lovers prompted full laughter from the audience, chasing each other around the stage, hiding from the Baron, finding hidden moments to profess their love to each other as a beautiful duet. Physical comedy was a strength throughout the opera. While the location of the story changed from the embassy, to Madame Glawari’s flower garden, to a Parisian nightclub, the same inebriated ensemble still rallied. While the Baron’s overwrought worry for the fatherland, or the flirtatious dialogue between the Count and Madame Glawari may be the focus of a given scene, a buzz of amusing side stories were ever-present in the background. Women eying the gentlemen, the gentlemen tripping over each other, individuals and pairs appearing in some
level of rumpled undress and continuing on about their evening, all happening for the audience to casually notice with brilliant affect. Some of the best parts from this show were merely in the facial expressions and silent punch lines delivered by the ensemble cast, as Njegus — the spoken role of manservant — is in league with a silent maid who wanders around seducing male guests and smoking cigarettes in her stockings, offers a humorous dialogue on the opera’s story. “The Merry Widow’s” appeal is not merely in the romance of Madame Glawari and the Count Danilovitch. The undeniable joy bursts through all character, the vibrance seeming to emanate color from the stage is what drew every audience member to Lehar’s opera. The opening of the second act at Madame Glawari’s flower garden is a prime example. Every member of the ensemble wears a flower crown, which at points are humorous and suggestive, but at the scene’s beginning they add to the ambience on stage. Lights descend from above as the ensemble sings simple sustained notes, and the effect is breathtakingly beautiful. Followed by Nicolette Book’s brilliant solo as Madame Glawari, the audience was completely engrossed in her voice. Much in the same way Harry Greenleaf’s Danilovitch fell back in love with Hanna, the audience fell in love with this stunning performance.
IMAGE COURTESY OF CCM
Nicolette Book (left) and Harry Greenleaf (right) performing The Merry Widow.
NICK RIDDICK | STAFF REPORTER
Dressed in backwards clothing, overalls and oversized athletic jerseys, students gathered at the African American Cultural and Resource Center (AACRC) Friday evening for the History Graduate Association’s (HGA) second Furaha Fridays: 1990s Edition. After dancing to some nostalgia-inducing hits and consuming a variety of ’90s-themed snacks, ranging from Cookie Crisps, to Zebra Cakes, to Kool-Aid Bursts with the difficult-to-twist-off caps, attendees were split up into several teams for a game of Jeopardy. Slightly differing from the trend of its previous event, the second Furaha Friday social focused more heavily on the educational component through an exhibition of black culture in the ’90s. “Though we didn’t directly teach with this one, we celebrated the culture of black people in the 1990s and it’s very important for students to see that valued,” said Doug Carver, program coordinator for the AACRC and director of HGA. “This event improved more in its programming and structure,” Carver said. “It actually felt like a program to our guests.” Between intervals in the jeopardy match, teams would send representatives to compete in tie-breaking mini games. For instance, students would see who could unravel a toilet paper roll the fastest, or try to eat an Oreo placed on their forehead without using their hands. Courtney Penland, a third-year marketing student, commented on her preference to the contents of this event over the previous one. “Sometimes with Greek-related stuff, not everybody feels included,” Penland said. “This was nice because everybody had some way to participate. It was funny to me how hyped the whole room was.” One thing remaining consistent throughout the event was music. Tupac Shakur went head-to-head with Kris Kross and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air’s theme song. LaVonne Heisser, a third-year pre-medicine student and HGA member, said the evening’s music selection was her favorite aspect of the event. “My favorite part about the ’90s is the music. Every song you know is great,” Heisser said. “Nobody ever says, ‘Oh that song was trash’ when a hit comes on, they just dance.’” The event served its purpose of drawing the middle ground between education and fun, attracting an attendance of just over 100 students. “I’ll be honest, I got nostalgia just going shopping for this event,” Carver said. “Everything I saw, it was like, ‘Oh, I remember these!’” The 1990’s are a powerful symbol of memory and reminiscence for many people, particularly students, and to this effect the event carried weight.
LIFE & ARTS / 5 Smokeout encourages smokers to quit cigarettes MONDAY, NOV. 23, 2015
ISABELLA JANSEN | CONTRIBUTOR
University of Cincinnati students partnered with the American Cancer Society Thursday to put on The Great American Smokeout — an event to encourage students to quit smoking. Nearly six million lives are taken each year and many cut 10 years short due to cigarettes, according to the American Cancer Society. The annual event comes as part of Lung Cancer Awareness Month. The third Thursday of November is set aside to encourage smokers to quit. The idea behind the event is that if an individual is able to quit, even if just for one day, they will be making an important step toward a healthier life. Ryan Gaffney, a fourth-year marketing and international business student helped orchestrate The Great American
Smokeout at UC. Gaffney said they are there to help people who want to quit smoking carry out the goals. “Being a campus organization, this is a bunch of young people with a fairly significant amount of people who smoke,” Gaffney said. At the Thursday event, Gaffney and American Cancer Society representatives accepted monetary donations in exchange for hot dogs. Every donation made at the Smokeout went towards the American Cancer Society and prevention services for cancer patients, according to Allison Smock, a community manager at Relay for Life. “We have some really great programs that you can get here locally here in Cincinnati that not all facilities have,” Smock said. “For example we have the
Hope Lodge and it is a place where people can come and stay for free with a loved one if coming to Cincinnati offers them their best chance of survival to get treatment.” The donated money will also go towards transportation programs for those who do not have access to reliable transportation. “Money also goes to different programs such as Road to Recovery, where free transportation is offered for people who do not have a ride to get to chemotherapy and radiation,” Smock said. “So, really all the money goes to a lifesaving mission.” When it comes to the fight against smoking, many have their own life experiences pushing them to suit up for this battle. For Gaffney, having a mother diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and given three months to live is the reason behind his fight.
“It wasn’t looking too good and I told her if she could try and keep fighting, I would keep fighting,” Gaffney said. “So, she kept fighting and now she is going on five years with beating her diagnoses and she is in remission surviving, and I am still here fighting.” For Ally Kampel, a first-year early child education student, her battle also stems from a family member. “My sister has smoked for years now and as I have aged, I have seen it taken a toll on her health,” Kampel said. Kampel’s passion for her sister’s wellbeing was only emboldened as she discussed her nephew’s future with her sister. “She has a three-year-old son, and I wish she would consider the damage that occurs in her body when she smokes, because I want her to be here for me and her son,” Kampel said.
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music. Her new album dropped exactly one month after Adele broke her silence in the music industry Oct. 23. The release of the single “Hello” – the first song on the 11-track (14-track deluxe edition) record – was accompanied by an open letter to her fans on her personal Twitter account. In the personalized letter, the singer addresses the reasons behind her sustained silence in the music industry and gave everyone a taste of what was in store for “25.” “My last record was a break-up record and if I had to label this one I would call it a make-up record. I’m making up with myself. Making up for lost time. Making up for everything I did, and never did,” Adele wrote in her letter. “Hello,” is a song that portrays Adele trying to come to terms with a lost lover. The piano following her deep, vibrant voice makes all listeners forgive the British singer for her absence while they skip to the next song in anticipation for what is to come. “The bigger that your career gets, the smaller your life gets,” Adele said in an interview with Rolling Stone. “My career is not my life. It’s my hobby.” A true, private artist through and through, Adele followed up this quote in Rolling Stone by explaining although she is currently 27, her album was titled “25” because this was the age all of her artwork and writings were influenced upon. The eighth track on the album, “Love in the Dark,” grasps upon the idea of moving forward after heartbreak, while Adele notes her realization that her love has already vanished. With lyrics like, “I don’t want to carry on like everything is fine / The longer we ignore it all the more that we will fight,” Adele is sure to make any woman or man who has gone through previous heartbreak know they are not alone, and should not feel guilty for moving on with life. “25” centers upon making up with the ideas of lost love, while Adele forgives herself for wishing away lost time and is reminded of all the great journeys in life she has taken since her debut album, “19,” and its follow-up record, “21.” “I feel like I’ve spent my whole life so far wishing it away,” Adele says in her open letter. Adele tops-off the record with the final bonus track “Why Do You Love Me.”This closing track is a heartfelt love song to the father of Adele’s 3-year-old son and her boyfriend, Simon Konecki. Her voice booms through the speakers in perfect tone with the melody as she sings, “There must be something in the water / Cause baby, I’m in deeper than I knew / How do you keep me coming back for more?” Adele did not disappoint fans with this release. But, when did she ever? The singer closed out her letter by sending a chill up her reader’s spine when she said, “’25’ is about getting to know who I have become without realizing. And I’m sorry it took so long, but you know, life happened.” If it keeps providing inspiration for artwork like this, take your time and continue letting life happen, Adele.
ALEXANDRA TAYLOR | CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER
Andy Knolle, a fine arts student at DAAP with a focus in printmaking, sees the world through sound by experimenting with sound vibrations.
Artist Feature: Student uses sound to create images CARLY SMITH | STAFF REPORTER
Dabbling in all different mediums of art, from sound design to printmaking, Andy Knolle’s creative and conceptual artwork examines art in abstract and meaningful ways. Knoll is studying fine arts at the University of Cincinnati’s school of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning with a focus in printmaking, new media installations and visual-based research. With a working background in sound, Knolle has a very interesting take on how sound can be incorporated in his 2D artwork. The News Record talked with Knolle in his studio to discuss his creative process, studying abroad and future plans. The News Record: What first drew you to art? Andy Knolle: I drew a lot as a kid and watched a lot of cartoons that I then drew. I also failed my second grade test because one question asked you to draw a picture and I spent my entire time drawing that picture, instead of taking that test. So my parents enrolled me into a lot of art classes after that.
really big part of my practice because it’s how I see the world. Getting outside of drawing and doing different mediums is important to me. Printmaking has also been a really fun way to do experimental type drawings. TNR: Do you prefer to create images of art or to do music? AK: I like using sound to create my images. All of this year has been using sound to create my art. A lot of my stuff in my studio right now was made from sound vibrations from a speaker. I use a black powder and send a tone to the speaker, which create vibrations against the paper. I make more 2D pieces now instead of music. TNR: You studied abroad in Germany recently. How was that? AK: I spent the last summer in Germany. My time there was really influential because Germany is the birthplace of experimental music and a bunch of what I listen to.
TNR: You studied many fields of art before coming to UC. What made you want to study these specific genres?
Tonight, I actually have a performance for the German studies program, and I’m doing what I did when I was there. My piece wasn’t originally a performance in Germany it was more of an interactive piece. The majority of my work is centered around technology.
AK: I did theater in high school and did sound design for them. Sound has been
TNR: Your images on your website are really abstract, how do you find
inspiration for these types of works? AK: Most of my work is based off theory and process. I would say I’m a pretty traditional conceptual artist because my final image isn’t too important to me. I allow a process to come through, rather than worrying about if the final product will be pretty enough. It’s more about how that final image came to be. TNR: What is a theme that you find popping up in your work? AK: When I first started getting into the ideas of technology and the anxieties that come with using it, the theme of, “Am I using this right? Am I using this wrong?” I find it kind of funny that people think there’s a wrong way to use technology. TNR: Once you finish your time here at DAAP, what are you planning on pursuing? AK: The big dream is to go to grad school and get my MFA (Master of Fine Arts) so I can become a professor. Most likely, I’ll take some time off. I actually really want to be a janitor. Blue-collar jobs really interest me because I think it’s a job that you can get lost in and think about external things. So I still have the want to create and make art, rather than getting a job in the arts because I think that would drain my creativity.