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Business college jumps in national rankings for best value Lindner college restructures graduate program, sees higher selectivity JACK HIGGINS | CONTRIBUTOR

The University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business MBA program was ranked No. 1 for best value in academic quality, job placement and affordability for 2015 by CollegeAtlas. org.

Vivek Choudhury, graduate associate dean of the College of Business, listed several reasons why the college deserved the award.

“We restructured the graduate business program two years ago by making it smaller, more focused and by becoming more selective, accepting only a higher quality of applicant,” Choudhury said.

The college now has a built-in cost structure and a one-year MBA program, which uses graduate certificates and allows the students to take courses that focus on their future careers, Choudhury said. The restructured program has

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allowed for the students to better shape themselves in the eyes of potential employers.

The award will improve the quality of an applicant applying to the college, which in turn will lead to more qualified students attending the college, ultimately leading to better job placement following graduation, Choudhury said. The award will help Lindner’s MBA program bring in new employers to visit the school and hire UC’s graduates. This is not the business school’s first award. The college has been ranked nationally by many other prestigious publications.

“Both the Lindner full-time MBA program and the part-time MBA program were ranked in March’s issue of U.S. News, and the Lindner program had the largest jump in the rankings [out of any MBA program in U.S. News & World Report’s 2015 Best Business School rankings],” said Trent Hershenson, director of marketing for the Lindner College of Business.

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Vivek Choudhury says their higher selectivity leads to an increase in qualified students.

SUICIDE PREVENTION WALK RAISES $88K

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Two months after University of Cincinnati Provost Beverly Davenport announced the launch of an internal search for a new dean of McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, a search committee has been formed and received its official charge Thursday.

The committee consists of three faculty members elected by A&S faculty and five appointments by Davenport — two A&S faculty members, one faculty member of a different college and two A&S students, one undergraduate and one graduate — according to Richard Miller, search facilitator and interim vice provost for academic planning.

The elected faculty members are: Lee Person, a professor of English and comparative literature, Bruce Ault, a chemistry professor, and Vern Scarborough, an anthropology professor.

Davenport’s appointed faculty and students are: Kay Kinoshita, a physics professor; Gail Fairhurst, a communications professor; Shivam Shah, a third-year neuropsychology student; Alison Fields, a first-year classics graduate student and Carol Tonge-Mack, assistant dean of undergraduate affairs, according to Miller. UC Board of Trustees Secretary Thomas Cassady has also agreed to be on the committee and assist with the search, Davenport said.

Teik Lim, chair of the committee and dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, will lead the group to make sure it takes into account the collective will of the faculty, students and administrators and deliver a solid recommendation to the Provost in a timely manner, Lim said.

“I am very confident that the search committee members will do a thorough job in creating a hiring plan and recruiting a diverse pool of candidates for the deanship,” Davenport said.

Now that the Provost has charged the committee, it will send an announcement about the dean position and will encourage all qualified candidates within the College of Arts and Sciences to apply.

“We are interested in candidates who possess a strong record of financial management, change management, collaboration, leadership collegiality and working across a broad range of disciplines within the College and across the colleges of the University,” Lim said.

Being able to earn the trust and support of the faculty, staff, students, alumni and other stakeholders as well as an understanding of

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darkness Each balloon color represented a type of loss related to suicides, such as the loss of a sibling, a parent or a partner.

Foundation hosts fundraiser to shed light on tenth leading cause of death PATRICK MURPHY | STAFF REPORTER

Thousands of local supporters came to Sawyer Point for the 11th annual Out of the Darkness Community Walk Sunday, orchestrated by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

The AFSP hoped to raise $75,000 during this year’s walk, but surpassed its goal, reaching $88,000. The event offered resource tables from organizations such as the Survivors of Suicide Support Group, Christian Survivors of Suicide, A Home Within and the National Alliance for Menial Illness for those struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts.

The University of Cincinnati was represented at the event by the UC nursing program. Jennifer Roades, a fourth-year nursing student at UC, worked the booth in collaboration with Active Minds, a group that works to spread awareness in suicide prevention.

“Tons of people have taken the

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resources that we have provided for the community,” Roades said.

The walk — which commenced in Sawyer Point — looped around downtown Cincinnati and back, totaling 2.9 miles. Candles in paper bags lit the walking path on both sides. The glowing candles were placed by some of the event’s participants to represent those who have died from suicide.

Matt’s Crusaders, a group of family and friends who raised over $5,000 for the AFSP, led the walk. Fundraising will continue until Dec. 21.

Sara Danks, an AFSP board member and coordinator of the event for the last seven years, stressed the importance of showing Cincinnatians their presence in the community.

“We remind our community every October that we will not stop walking until suicide is no longer a problem,” Danks said.

The ceremony opened with guest speakers Debra Terhar, president for the State of Ohio’s Board of Education, Ohio Rep. Lou Terhar, Dr. Michael Meier,

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director of counseling at the McGraw Health & Wellness Center at Xavier University, and Michael Lamma, vice president of Development and Field Manager for the AFSP. The event also offered other features including food from the program’s sponsors, music by the Cincinnati folk band The Foles and face painting for children.

Approximately 81.4 percent of the donations will go to supporting research programs, with the rest going to management and fundraising.

These research programs include the Interactive Screening Program, which provides an anonymous web-based site built specifically for college student outreach that screens the user for depression.

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UC professor honored for contributions to civil rights movement Former Freedom Rider recalls pivotal journey in fight against segregation ELYSSE WINGET | STAFF REPORTER

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David Fankhauser was arrested during his time with the Freedom Riders. He joined the protests at age 19.

On the heels of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame inducted a University of Cincinnati professor Oct. 2 for his contribution to the civil rights movement and for his involvement with the Freedom Riders.

David Fankhauser, a professor of biology and chemistry at UC’s Clermont branch attended Central State University in the early 1960s. At the time, the college had a 99.4 percent black student population.

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) called upon CSU in search of student volunteers to be part of the Freedom Riders — a series of bus trips that were taken through the southern United States to protest racial segregation in the interstate bus terminals. At 19 years old, Fankhauser, a white guy from Ohio, joined

the riders.

“It seemed to me that the right thing to do was drop my studies, go to Alabama, and join the freedom rides,” Fankhauser said.

Raised as a Quaker, Fankhauser was very adamant about civil rights and racial integration. He engaged in planning meetings with civil rights leaders Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Alabama. Fankhauser and other Freedom Riders rode a Trailways bus from Montgomery to Jackson, Mississippi.

After their arrival, Fankhauser and seven other Freedom Riders were arrested for refusing to leave the waiting room of a whites-only bus station. After the freedom rides, Fankhauser resumed his life as a college student.

“I got out of jail and went to take my finals,” Fankhauser said.

Fankhauser was first arrested and held in Jackson City Jail, but when it overflowed with the large number of Freedom Riders, they were transferred to the maximum-security unit of Parchman State Penitentiary. He was bailed out after

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42 days in jail. The Freedom Rides proved a success for the civil rights movement when then US attorney general Robert Kennedy finally issued an injunction enforcing laws against segregation of interstate facilities, like the bus stations.

“This was the dam that broke,” Fankhauser said.

Historians have said this was a turning point for civil rights in the US. “I was very grateful to be apart of it,” Fankhauser said. “But I don’t think I did anything special; 19-year-olds want to do the right thing.”

Leonard Hubert, the Chair of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, spoke highly of Fankhauser and his work.

“There is a rich history here in Ohio with individuals who participated in the freedom rides,” Hubert said.

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‘The Birds’ falls short at Cincy Shakespeare Company Adaptation of horror classic struggles with making story convincing PATRICK MURPHY | STAFF REPORTER

Coinciding with Halloween, the suspenseful classic “The Birds” has been adapted to the stage, opening at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company last Friday.

The original idea for the screenplay, written by Conor McPherson, came from a short story by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1952. Alfred Hitchcock’s famous 1963 film adaptation also differs from the original piece in terms of characters and setting.

The only true recurring characters in all of the adaptations are those merciless birds, which thankfully never appear onstage. We’re left instead with a total of four characters, an elaborate stage, and a lot of poorly executed attempts at recreating a truly terrifying environment.

The stage is a complete house, extensively furnished and intricately designed in collaboration by scenic and lighting designer Andrew J. Hungerford, scenic artist Sarah Beth Hall and master carpenter Will O’Donnell.

The set spares no small detail to create a realistic environment. All the amenities that would accompany a cottage of stone and plaster — a piano, a couch, chairs and a dining room table — were included.

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Sherman Fracher stars as Diane in the psychological thriller. The performance runs through Nov. 11.

the second floor, a kitchen in the upstage right area. Several windows and doors on stage right barred by wood gave a genuine sense of containment, and at times claustrophobia, given that the 90-minute play offered no intermission.

Costumes, designed by Madeline Greenwalt and furnished by Abbi Howson and Noelle Wedig, were equally well chosen. Complex and gruesome blood splats riddled Nat (Brent Vimtrup), Diane (Sherman Fracher) and Julia (Sara Clark).

Exceptional praise goes to the costume of Tierney (Nicholas Rose), whose insanity

was obvious from his high school football shoulder pads and mismatched protective gear — with special note to his wicker basket helmet exhibiting a crudely drawn face. It may be believable that his pill and alcohol consumption convinced him a scarecrow appearance could threaten the birds away, though the comedy of it downplayed the feeling of danger his character should have emitted.

The representation of the birds, attributed to the sound designer Doug Borntrager, was weak. The dialogue between Nat and Diane, the two most

Paris comes to Taft Art Museum through photos CAITLIN SAIA| CONTRIBUTOR

Tucked away in the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnatians can transport themselves to the City of Lights by walking among the famous images of “Paris Night & Day: Masterworks of Photography from Atget to Man Ray,” an exhibit that contrasts the traditional artwork of the Taft Museum and captures the ever-changing Paris.

The personal and unique collection of vintage black and white prints and photographs range from 1900 to 1940, and were originally controversial because of the nude subjects.

Eugène Atget, an influential French photographer, has his work highlighted in the exhibit and is considered to be the “bridge to the new way,” according to Taft Museum of Art volunteer docent, Julie Stevens.

Atget’s work introduced extreme

innovation and advancement in technology at the time, allowing us to see what Paris, an artistic epicenter, was really like through all different types of lenses as artists documented the old way of life or celebrated the new.

The exhibit is divided into themed sections that represent different methods of photography and evolutions of technology and the camera. It features the works of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Brassaï, Ilse Bing, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt, André Kertész and Man Ray. Many were surrealists or modernists emerging at the time of the world wars.

Taft Museum patrons can see famous works such as “Portrait of Dora Maar,” a gelatin silver print from 1936 shot by Man Ray that captures a muse of Picasso and a photographer herself, also featured in the exhibition.

Dora Maar’s piece “Le Simulateur” (“The

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Simulator”), where she experiments with her camera by turning it upside down to insinuate the ceiling as the floor, is featured in the “Paris de Nuit” portion of the exhibit.

The modernization of Paris is shown through what could be considered Atget’s most influential work of the exhibit, “Boulevard de Strasbourg, Corsets” from 1912, where Atget’s goal is to attempt to preserve the past and capture the mercurial city. “Champ-de-Mars from the Eiffel Tower” is a gelatin silver print by Ilse Bing that captures Paris from a new angle.

Live French music accompanies patrons as they travel through “La Vie de la Rue” (“Street Life”), “Divertissement” (“Amusements”), “Portraits et Figures” (“Portraits and Figures”) and “Paris de Nuit” (“Paris at Night”).

“The Taft family began collecting the primarily European artwork in 1910,” Stevens said. “This exhibit really is another element that compliments and contrasts the rest of the museum collection because the Tafts usually were attracted to more traditional works.”

The photography series will be in Cincinnati for a couple of months, along with events and programs such as book and artist talks with partners from the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County who will discuss the love many people have for the city of lights and its history.

The Taft Museum of Art is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. through 4 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. through 5 p.m. Student admission is $8 and is free for all on Sundays. Exhibition tours are free with museum admission.

The exhibit is on view Oct. 3 through Jan. 11.

The Weather Station releases stark, moving album Canadian folk band explores loud questions with quiet reflections ZACK HATFIELD | ARTS EDITOR

At 17 minutes, the newest six-song album from The Weather Station is brief, like a rainy front moving across the listener’s mind.

The Canadian band’s new album, “What Am I Going to Do Now with Everything I Know,” is a folky EP comprised of the sounds of shimmering pedal steel guitar, soft brushes on snare, fingerpicked acoustic guitar and the voice of Tamara Lindeman.

Her voice is the catalyst of the album, and recounts pain and beauty with aching restraint in semi-whispers and a range comparable to Joni Mitchell circa her “Blue” era.

The style of the album is indebted to Canadian folk-hero Mitchell, but The Weather Station is unique because the band is purely original, and captures a spare sound unbound by time.

The lyrics of “What Am I Going to Do” gravitate toward delicate ruminations of confusion and fragile relationships.

The opening track, “Don’t Understand,” puts us in a lonely house as Lindeman sings “They had piles of bills and letters and all these photographs of people I would never meet,” establishing a tender tone and descriptive songwriting.

Lindeman’s words are poignant because they are universal in a personal way, recounting private memories with organic meditations on wide concepts.

“Some day your touch would change/ You might look away/I thought time moved in with us too when it was only me and you,” Lindeman sings on “Time.”

Lindeman is also an actress with over 30 credits to her name in film and television, which might explain her emotional but controlled range while singing.

Just as the album art depicts the singer looking into what appears to be an empty log house, the album feels like we’re given

a stolen glimpse into a life hunting for answers.

The specific lyrics and overarching mood of each track make the entire album cinematic, like an ethereal soundtrack for a somber love story or a mystery.

The subjects of the songs are nostalgic but avoid verging on sentimentality, each song’s lyrics revealing quotidian observations about life with poise, each word carefully included as each note carefully played and needed.

“What Am I Going to Do” was released on the small indie Canadian label You’ve Changed Records, who has only nine other artists signed (including The Constantines and Apollo Ghosts).

The album was recorded in both North Carolina and Ontario. The recordings from the United States, “Don’t Understand” and “Seemed True,” are some of the EP’s highlights, the intensified multi-tracked harmonies of the latter just as powerful as the gentle narration of the former.

Despite the album being recorded in two studios, its sound remains unbroken.

The style seems to draw simultaneously

from the pantheon of Canadian singersongwriters (Neil Young, Leonard Cohen) as well as U.S. artists, with many flourishes and undertones reminiscent of Americana.

The Weather Station takes the vulnerable, stark acoustic sounds of Brooklyn-based Hem and fuses them with the intimate songwriting capability of Iron & Wine.

The album comes and goes quickly, but its moving verse and atmospheric instrumentality make it one you’ll want to listen to over and over again.

“What Am I Going to Do with All That I Know” is a quietly ambitious album that all leads up to an ending that seems revelatory in a melancholy way.

“What if we get married?” Lindeman asks on the final song, “Almost Careless,” adding, “Then we turned across the park’s expanse/Open fields of last year’s grass/ Heading back with one question less/one less, one less than we started out with,” as a ghostly pedal steel swells and fades away.

The Weather Station is releasing a fulllength album in the spring, “Loyalty.”

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The Weather Station combines Lindeman’s powerful songwriting abilities with subtle folk rhythms.

essential characters, could not compete against the overwhelming noise of the birds.

The entire atmosphere of the impressing birds was not dangerous or threatening because the cawing was meek and unimpressive. At critical moments the rising clamor could have added greatly to the story’s feeling of insecurity.

The acting fought constantly with a script that sought for moments of empathy and naturalism, but came across as awkward line jumping that either never gave a true sense of the anxiety, or appeared too rehearsed.

Another tricky area of performing was Diane’s prerecorded inner monologues, exemplifying her psychotic musings in her personal diary. In them, Diane would detail the changing environment of the characters. While these moments were rehearsed in terms of sound and execution, this sort of detachment of voice and body struggled to give a real impression of insanity. The voice was full of power and resentment, and the body seemed like Diane was looking ponderously out in the distance.

Aside from some offsetting notions on how the play was presented, each actor did a fairly decent job in their roles, the most prominent being Sherman Fracher’s Diane. The script offered subtle twists and light comedy, and the little things could be ignored, but if you’re looking for horror you’re better off revisiting Alfred Hitchcock.

‘Annabelle’ stays within conventions of horror genre TONY JOHNSON | STAFF REPORTER

Is a horror movie good if it frightens you in the moment but fails to do anything else?

This seems to be the question that the James Wan-produced “Annabelle” asks us.

The film serves as a loosely connected prequel to the 2013 horror-extravaganza “The Conjuring.”

While the original film in the franchise (a direct sequel to “The Conjuring” is in the works) succeeds to sell you on the characters with great acting and precise plot construction, “Annabelle” stutters and stalls.

Actors Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson convinced us that demons were real in “The Conjuring,” while the stars of “Annabelle,” Annabelle Wallis (yes, her name is Annabelle) and Ward Horton, made us wonder why we should be frightened at all.

The story structure — along with Horton’s hammy portrayal of an oblivious, cheerful husband — practically serves as a parody to “The Conjuring.”

The first half of the film is notably slow, doing its best but failing to get us invested into the lives of a young white family so cheerful that they wouldn’t be out of place in a Target commercial.

And yet, the scares are there.

Director John R. Leonetti, who served as the cinematographer on both “Insidious” films (also directed or produced by Wan) and “The Conjuring,” has definitely learned a thing or two about how to make us jump in our seats from his producer.

Leonetti takes camera tricks and visual terrors from many of Wan’s movies and puts his own hardly-noticeable spin on them.

Sometimes all Leonetti needs to scare us is eerie music and low-angles of Annabelle, that wretched doll terrorizing the family.

Wallis, the mother, receives the doll as a gift from her husband, after which a demon — called forth by members of a cult that wants to steal a soul — possesses the doll. Moving homes won’t even save this family from the possessed doll, which even manages to appear in a moving box in their new apartment after the family had thrown it away.

It is an uninspired plot, but effective.

We are caught off guard, but not shocked.

We are frightened, but never truly terrified.

Except for that elevator scene.

When a demonic spirit conjured

by Charles Manson followers haunts protagonist, Mia, and her infant child in the inexplicably dark basement and lobby of their apartment building, the slow burn of realizing that Mia must take the long way back to her apartment is enough to make us squirm.

But from then on out, it’s back to occasional jump scares, laughable dialogue, questionable character choices and phony logic — even by horror film standards.

Speaking of horror film standards, “Annabelle” provides nothing new to the genre.

We’ve already seen demented dolls (“Child’s Play”), creepy baby carriages (“Rosemary’s Baby”, “Eraserhead”), a comically convenient satanic textbook with all of the answers (“Paranormal Activity”, “Evil Dead”), sacrificial solutions to possession (“The Exorcist”), preposterously creepy music produced by children’s toys (“The Conjuring”), and even demons behind the subject of the shot ( “Insidious”).

“Annabelle” is somewhere in between inspired and unoriginal, shocking and dull, noteworthy and worthless.

It is a middle-of-the-pack horror film that succeeds in whetting our appetite, but fails to completely satisfy, and certainly falls short of the glorious fear fest that was “The Conjuring.”

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the campus counseling center.”

The Interactive Screening Program has screened more than 1,200 students at Xavier, 10 percent of who indicated they had made an attempt of suicide already in their lifetime.

Every student, said Meier, was put in direct contact with a student counselor.

The program is being used in over 90 different colleges in the US, not including UC. The AFSP has a meeting with the counseling department Monday to include the ISP program to the University of Cincinnati.

The evening concluded with 2,200 walkers. Participants released colored balloons with flashing white lights inside of them into the night sky.

“We hope that this provided comfort, strength in numbers, and peace,” Danks said.

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“white boys” to sing.

“He had everyone standing up and singing,” Hubert said. “It was extremely powerful.”

Fankhauser said it was an honor to be awarded for his work from nearly 50 years ago but he wants to focus on the future of civil rights and the unrest occurring in our country now. “[To be awarded is] an honor, but I would like them to ask what I’ve done recently,” Fankhauser said. “I want us all to look closely to our society and recognize where we need help.”

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The full-time MBA program was ranked No. 60 out of 453 accredited full-time MBA programs in the nation and No. 33 among public institutions.

This was a 39-spot rise over last year’s ranking and the single biggest increase of any school in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report.

The part-time MBA program was ranked No. 81 out of 282 accredited part-time MBA programs and No. 47 among public institutions. This was also the largest ranking rise of any school in the nation, rising 69 spots, according to U.S. News & World Report.

The college has also been ranked nationally for its master’s programs this year in Healthcare Administration, ranking No. 3 in the country by The Best Schools.

The Science in Accounting program ranked Top 25 program in the country by Public Accounting Report.

Science in Finance was ranked No. 7 in the nation for best, most affordable in the country by Master of Finance Degrees.

Additionally, Lindner’s undergraduate

program was ranked No. 36 among all public universities by Bloomberg Businessweek in 2013.

The Lindner College continues to make strides forward into the future by creating the MBA Leadership Council.

“We officially got accepted into the council about a month ago, and we will be helping come up with ideas to make the college better, connecting the college with alumni and coming up with college sponsored events,” said Herve Bisseck, a first-year Lindner graduate student and new council member.

Bisseck said the college deserved the award because it does a great job creating a competitive working environment for its master’s students.

“The college has recruited a lot of foreign students from around the world which definitely raises the bar. They force you to keep working to find a job while in classes,” Bisseck said.“The professors will ask us about our résumés and have us create marketing plans. All these things, along with the tuition, are what contributed to my college winning this award.”

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the core academic mission of A&S is also needed, Lim said.

“I would like a dean who would look at where McMicken is currently and be willing to advance the college further and also help communicate between administration and students,” said Melissa Carroll, a second-year communications student.

The committee will interview all the candidates and conduct an open interview on campus for each finalist. Following the interviews, a recommendation of all acceptable candidates will be made to the Provost. The committee has projected that it will have a recommendation for the Provost by the end of the semester. Kristi Nelson, senior vice provost for academic planning and professor of art history, has served as the college’s interim dean since former dean Ronald Jackson’s resignation in November 2013. Once the new dean is selected he or she will need to work closely with the faculty to deliver high quality curricula and develop strong research programs to provide the best possible learning experience for students, Lim said.

University expands recruitment to out-of-state students FERNANDA CRESCENTE | STAFF REPORTER

In an effort to increase its percentage of enrolled out-of-state students, the University of Cincinnati’s office of admissions is looking to Chicago, DallasFort Worth, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., to recruit incoming freshmen and transfer students.

UC representatives will visit students at high schools and community colleges, meet with their respective counselors and advisers, attend college fairs and host events to increase communication efforts on the targeted areas, said Alicia Kornowa, director of admissions recruitment.

Establishing a connection with counselors and advisers is a good way of sharing information essential to students who may be interested in coming to UC, Kornowa said. She also highlighted the importance of having regional representatives installed in those areas to expand UC’s representation in more events, develop more in-depth relationships and have a wider reach that would otherwise

not be possible.

“Once the mid-Atlantic representative begins to have measurable success, the intent is to add more regional representatives in other markets, starting with Dallas and Atlanta,” Kornowa said.

Several pieces of data were evaluated before Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. were chosen, Kornowa said.

After considering regions outlined as the top metropolitan markets in the United States by the Western Interstate Commission of Higher Education, as well as examining data pieces that included demographic analysis and application trends, those markets appeared to be the most promising.

“Each of these markets is more diverse than is Ohio in general,” said Caroline Miller, senior associate vice president of enrollment. “Each of these markets shows a history of families being willing to send students out of state.”

Despite the initiative, the main focus of undergraduate enrollment efforts will still

be on local students.

However, moving into selected outof-state markets will help UC maintain or even expand enrollment, Miller said.

Expanding enrollment is a concern, Miller said, because of the declining population in Ohio and the Midwest. Southern states— specifically Texas — anticipate population increases.

“We expect to see more domestic out-ofstate students from other regions of the US,” Miller said. “There, students will be more likely to live on campus, and we hope it will help us better connect with UC alumni who have moved to these markets.”

The recruitment initiative will continue until it is possible to determine the true potential of those markets, Kornowa said.

If in five years the number of enrolled students from those areas increases, recruitment activities will continue.

“Our students will graduate into an increasingly global and mobile world,” Miller said. “Attending school with students from other US regions and other countries will help to prepare them for that.”

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WASHINGTON — With Americans’ fears over random Ebola exposure fueled anew by scares on a cruise ship and a tour bus, the Obama administration moved Friday to fight accusations of incompetence from around Washington and on the campaign trail ahead of the midterm election.

President Barack Obama named a veteran political operative, Ron Klain, to coordinate the government response in a move intended in part to restore public trust after a series of missteps by health authorities.

Facing relentless criticism from Republicans and pleas from Democrats locked in tight election races, White House officials even said they were considering proposals they have previously deemed an overreaction, including the possibility of imposing travel restrictions between the U.S. and the countries in West Africa where the Ebola outbreak is widespread.

Administration officials said they wouldn’t rule out a ban on travel, despite their insistence a day before that such a move might inspire sick travelers to try to evade screening.

“The guiding principle will always be what’s in the best interest of the American people and their health and welfare and safety,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.

The shift in rhetoric came as the fear of infection spread, much more quickly

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than the threat of exposure to the deadly virus.

Spurring concern were fresh reports of possible Ebola exposure among tourists.

Carnival Cruise Lines announced that it had confined a cruise ship passenger who is a lab supervisor at the Dallas hospital that treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who died from Ebola this month at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.

And the Department of Defense said it shut down part of the Pentagon just outside Washington after a tourist who said she had recently visited Africa

was found vomiting in a parking lot.

Pentagon police cordoned off a large section of the lot, including the bus the tourist had traveled on, and called paramedics, who responded in hazardous materials gear. The woman turned out not to have Ebola, local health authorities said.

As of Friday, roughly 1,000 people were being watched for symptoms, asked to monitor themselves or urged to check with a counselor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

None has exhibited symptoms. The group includes some who have been ordered into quarantine, a larger group that is being closely watched with temperatures taken at least daily, and a much larger group who may have flown on a Frontier Airlines jetliner that carried Amber Vinson, one of two nurses who contracted Ebola after closely caring for Duncan.

Also Friday, Texas health officials asked 75 health care workers who were exposed to Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S., to sign a

document that outlines new restrictions on their travel and movement.

The restrictions, which come after Vinson’s air travel, include staying off all public transportation and staying out of public spaces for 21 days from their last contact with Duncan. They also must monitor their conditions.

Vinson is being cared for at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

Meanwhile, Nina Pham, the first nurse who was infected with Ebola after caring for Duncan, was in fair condition, “stable and resting comfortably” and receiving intensive care in an isolation ward at the National Institutes of Health near Washington, officials said Friday.

“We will have her here until she is well and clear of the virus,” said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. She was sitting up, eating and interacting with the staff, Fauci said.

The fear of Ebola has spread from California to Connecticut, with false alarms across the country. And Friday’s news about the cruise ship only further fueled anxiety, something the Obama administration has tried to put to rest.

For weeks, the White House spoke of the unlikelihood of a widespread outbreak in the U.S., partly in an effort to keep public panic at bay. But after Duncan traveled to Dallas and a series of failures in his care came to light, Obama was pressed to take more dramatic action. On Friday, the president called on Klain, naming him Ebola response coordinator and clearing a path for him to begin work.

As a longtime Democratic political operative, Klain is trusted within the White House as a political crisis manager and administrator with experience coordinating government bureaucracy.

Included in his resume is a stint as Vice President Al Gore’s top legal advisor during the 2000 election recount.

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Working students challenged by time, course loads KINSLEY SLIFE & ANNIE DENNIS | THE NEWS RECORD

Rose Brewington, a fourth-year journalism student at the University of Cincinnati, works full time at a company off-campus called Stationery Works, a custom stationery printer.

“I work anywhere from 35 to 40 hours a week, and go straight to the office as soon as I finish my classes,” Brewington said.

Brewington is also enrolled in 18 credit hours and plans to graduate this spring.

“It’s not as much of an issue for me anymore,” Brewington said of the workload. “I’ve been doing it for the past four years.”

Brewington’s circumstances are not unlike many other students’ experiences. Over the past year, UC has seen a 2 percent increase in tuition rates, and in turn students are working harder than ever to afford their degrees.

According to UC’s website, tuition for the 2014-2015 school year is $11,000 for in-state students. Out-of-state tuition is 2.5 times the in-state tuition cost, or $26,334.

These costs are just for tuition; students also face the costs of housing, books and parking fees on campus.

“I pay for a semester and my parents pay for a semester,” said Ellen Verkley, a fourth-year communications student.

“I don’t have financial aid. I buy all books, supplies, and I pay for my summer classes. I lived on campus my first two years but I had to move home because I couldn’t afford my $900 rent at University Park Apartments.”

Verkley takes 15 credit hours of classes while working an average of 26 hours a week as a waitress at Buffalo Wild Wings.

“It’s hard to find a balance, but I have to in order to graduate,”Verkley said. “Some weeknights I work until midnight or later and go to school the next morning.

It’s stressful, but I have to get through it. I love UC and want to be more involved in campus life, but honestly, I just don’t have time for it.”

Verkley plans to graduate in the summer of 2015.

UC offers students various types of aid, including a work-study program.

This program allows students to work on campus. Pay is credited to students in the form of a paycheck and students are expected to manage their own funds.

The work-study program is only available to students who submit their FAFSA, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, by March 15 of the year preceding their receipt of aid. In addition, students cannot receive more than $3,000.

According to UC’s Center for Exploratory Studies website, most first-year college students have not been admitted into a degree program, although being admitted is a stipulation for eligibility in the work-study program.

Kevin Klinzman, an employee in the One Stop Student Aid office, explains that the work-study program is a good form of aid, but is often underutilized by students.

“A lot of kids are eligible and will receive the award on their aid statements but never follow through,” Klinzman said. “Some don’t even know it exists, so they don’t apply.”

Klinzman also explained that many students don’t understand how work-study works.

“Students will expect to just get the money, but participating in work-study requires you to seek out

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Students balancing classes with on and off-campus jobs face obstacles including managing limited time and meeting deadlines.

a job, interview for it and work to get paid,” Klinzman said.

Cristina Kowalski is a professor in the foreign language department and teaches Spanish courses.

The university requires students to take at least one semester of a foreign language, and in some cases more depending on the degree. This can often mean 10 to 12 hours of study time outside the classroom.

Kowalski said many of her students have trouble meeting deadlines, and some even sleep in class.

She said she has always tried to be understanding of students who are balancing work and school.

“I understand the work load is hard for students, but the department cannot lower the standards set by the university,” Kowalski said. “We have to stay competitive with the other big schools.”

Kowalski believes the implementation of more online classes and night classes would help students with jobs.

“It seems that campus life outside of class is impossible for students,” Kowalski said. “We have a Spanish club that’s well funded, but only three students attend. These are the best years of their lives, and they can’t even enjoy it.”

Kowalski also mentioned that student tuition pays for the renovation of the football stadium.

In her opinion, the university should lower tuition costs and give more scholarships to students struggling to pay for college.

Sometimes work-study, a full time job and understanding teachers aren’t enough to help students

remain in school. Mike Bold, a 19-year-old who attended UC from 2013 to 2014, decided to take a year off after he was unable to afford his tuition bill.

“My family doesn’t have a lot of money, and I had no college savings, so all of the money for school was either coming from loans or out of my own pocket,” Bold said. “My parents get Social Security, so I don’t get much more in FAFSA since my family already receives aid.”

Bold said the cost of tuition, fees and room and board took everything he earned from working two part-time jobs and taking 17 credit hours. He had nothing left to buy books or supplies. Bold said one UC professor made his situation even worse.

“She demanded a lot of outside-of-class time to meet with her, and when I would email her about my situation with work, she seemed to be okay with me turning in a few late assignments,” Bold said. “But then she would take points off and get frustrated with me in class.”

In the end, Bold ended up in too much debt to continue his education.

“By the end of spring semester I owed UC over $4,000,” Bold said.

Brewington, Verkley and Bold said they hope UC will recognize their struggles and implement more ways to assist students. For their part, they are not giving up.

“My plans are to spend this year working really hard and coming back so I can get my degree,” Bold said. “I know that’s what I need to do, and I will definitely be back.”

Sorority carves out time for philanthropic pumpkin fest Theta Phi Alpha members take pies to face during annual fall celebration EMILY BEGLEY | COLLEGE LIFE EDITOR

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Event participants decorate pumpkins during Theta Phi Alpha’s Pumpkin Fest 2014.

Members of Theta Phi Alpha walked across McMicken Commons with their heads down Sunday afternoon, bracing themselves against the possibility of being hit in the face with a pie.

Sunday marked the sorority’s secondannual Pumpkin Fest, a philanthropic event that allows Greek life to have fun for a good cause. Proceeds from the day, totaling more than $1,800, benefitted the Dragonfly Foundation. The foundation focuses on providing positive distractions to young cancer patients and their families.

Participants were asked to register for the event prior to attending. Students signed up in teams of four for a $70 fee, which gave participants access to all games and activities. The fee also bought Pumpkin Fest 2014 T-shirts for all team members, featuring a bright orange Cinderella-style pumpkin carriage printed on the front.

The event started as a way to bring Greek life together for fall-themed activities, said Jen Morand, a third-year organizations leadership student and Theta Phi Alpha member.

“Last year, we literally just came up with games, almost on the spot,” Morand said.

Games included bobbing for apples,

pumpkin decorating and pumpkin pieeating contests. Teams rotated activities on a schedule, giving them a hand at all activities. Participants also faced off in relay races that involved rolling pumpkins across the commons, becoming human wheelbarrows and chugging apple cider.

“It gets everybody in a competitive state,” said Sydney Allen, a third-year communications student and Theta Phi Alpha member.

Allen said the event aims to bring out members from various sororities and fraternities; approximately 215 sorority life teams participated in Pumpkin Fest.

Chi Omega member Taylor Bonifant, a second-year construction management student, heard about the event through a friend. She looked most forward to participating in the relay. In the meantime, she watched games from the sidelines and cheered on competitors.

A high point of anticipation was the option to pie Theta Phi Alpha members in the face. Pumpkin Fest T-shirts became decorated with pie, and whip cream dripped from students’ faces and hair.

Sorority members manned a pie table, handing out the silver tins for a $2 fee, with all proceeds to benefit Dragonfly.

Prizes were doled out at the end of the day, and winners were awarded with pumpkin-shaped trophies.

Although the event is continuing to grow, Morand regarded Sunday as a smashing success.

“It’s been a work in progress, but it’s a lot of fun,” she said. “We all enjoy doing it.”

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Volleyball sees five-set face-off PATRICK LAAKE | STAFF REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati volleyball team reached five sets for the second time this season to put away the University of South Florida Bulls, 3-2 on Friday.

UC saw its first five set match during the squad’s conference opener Sept. 26, a 3-2 victory at Houston.

Early in Friday’s game, it was back and forth until the Bearcats rattled off six straight points to make it 22-14. The Bulls couldn’t catch them as the Bearcats took the first set 25-17.

Senior middle blocker and outside hitter Me’Ashah Nicholson led the Bearcats all night with five kills in the first set and a .833 attack percentage.

“I thought Me’Ashah’s leadership was great,” head coach Molly Alvey said.“I thought she stepped into her role and made big plays for us.”

The Bulls went on to win the next two sets, by a score of 25-19 and 25-10. Cincinnati had a dismal -.029 attack percentage in the third set.

“We came out and played like we should have,” South Florida sophomore Jaime Dickinson said.“We can beat teams and we can keep them under 10. We just need to keep doing that.”

The Bulls proved they could dominate but couldn’t hold on as the Bearcats were lifted by the home crowd’s support and they ran away with the fourth set 25-17 to force a fifth and final set.

“The crowd here was awesome,”Alvey said.“When you’re at home in front of a fan base like this, there’s not much that can help you more than a big fan base” In the fifth set, UC was up 8-6 until USF’s senior middle blocker and right side hitter Bree Scarbrough had two big blocks in a row to tie the game at eight. Scarbrough was the spark plug all night for the Bulls and was a staple in the team’s defense.

The tide turned as the referees ruled that the Bulls served out of order. They subtracted the two points the illegal server earned and gave a point to the Bearcats, resulting 9-6 in favor of UC. Cincinnati held on as junior right-side hitter Emma Roberson scored the game winner, to give the Bearcats a 15-11 win.

“At the end of the day it’s still a win, doesn’t matter if it’s ugly or great,” Nicholson said.“I’m very excited to play UCF next and I can’t wait to stick it to them.”

Cincinnati moves to 13-6 this season and 5-2 in conference play.

South Florida fell to 8-11 even though they had more kills than the Bearcats (55-53) and had 11 more total offensive attempts.

Cincinnati ended its weekend hosting the University of Central Florida (15-5) Sunday when the Knights continued their undefeated streak in conference play with a 3-0 victory over UC. The Knights haven’t tasted defeat since Sept. 21 at the hands of the University of Florida Gators.

For a full game story on the loss to USF, pick up a copy of The News Record Thursday.

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Emily Elsbrock, a senior midfidlder, fights to keep the ball in play during UC’s 1-0 victory over Southern Methodist University.

Women’s soccer outruns Mustangs Bearcats hold off Southern Methodist University in strong defensive effort, continue to push toward conference play PATRICK LAAKE | STAFF REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati women’s soccer team bounced back from back-to-back losses Thursday night, shutting out Southern Methodist University, 1-0.

The victory marks the team’s fifth shutout at home this season and improves its home record to 6-1-1.

“I’m really proud of our ladies because I thought we responded well to a good team,” said head coach Neil Stafford.“I don’t think anybody wants to play Cincinnati at Gettler.”

Right out of the gate, the Bearcats were aggressive and pushed the pace. In the 17th minute, senior midfielder Emily Elsbrock found herself wide open in front of the net, only to push the shot wide of the diving keeper and the right post.

Cincinnati recorded all six of the shots on goal taken in the first half. SMU never got close to a scoring chance.

“We’ve been trying to teach these guys when you go into a fight you have to throw the first punch,” Stafford said.“We don’t always do that.”

The Mustangs only had three shots in the match — all taken within the last 12 minutes of the game but none falling within the net. The beneficiary of the great defense was

senior goalkeeper Kristina Utley. Utley has only started two games this season and didn’t have to do much against SMU. “She has been sitting on the bench for a little bit and to come out and have that response … full credit to her, it shows her leadership and maturity,” Stafford said.

The magic moment for the Bearcats came in the 47th minute as senior defender Jae Atkinson played a pass down the sideline to junior forward Laura Rose. Rose then made a defender miss on the far side of the box and pushed it past the SMU goalkeeper.

With the assist, Atkinson moved to a tie for fourth in the nation in assists and tied Tina Matlock (1996) for second in UC history. She also took sole possession of eighth place on Cincinnati’s career assist list with 17.

Assistant coach Nate Lie was booked in the 75th minute and shown a red card. An argument between the Cincinnati bench and the referee during a substitution led to Lie being ejected from the game.

“I think discipline from coaching staff to players is just so important,” Stafford said.“We will handle this in house.”

The Bearcats have one more home game on the schedule, unless they finish high enough in the league to host a tournament game.

Cincinnati hosted the University of Houston Sunday for the Bearcats’ senior night, winning the conference match-up, 1-0.

For a full game story on the victory over Houston, pick up a copy of The News Record Thursday.

UC swimming blows Xavier out of water ELLEN HADLEY | SPORTS EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati swimming and diving team hosted Xavier University Friday resulting in a clear sweep for the Bearcats just a little more than halfway into the meet.

UC even cut the second group of diving events and used an exhibition swimmer for the women’s 200-yard individual medley as a courtesy to Xavier.

“We took out the last part of the meet in diving just as a goodwill gesture and, you know, we love swimming Xavier and think that it’s appropriate to do that for them,” UC head coach Mandy Commons-DiSalle said.

The men’s squad finished with a 164-93 margin over XU while the women scored 142.5-114.5.

This is the sixth straight season the Bearcats competed against the Musketeers to open their season and the squad’s second consecutive sweep.

UC’s freshman class maintained a strong presence throughout the 28 men’s and women’s swimming events.

Standing out in the men’s events was freshman Chris Bready, dominating the 1,000- yard freestyle and finishing the race in 9:26.67.

“Chris has been amazing so far this year,” CommonsDiSalle said.“He was able to put up pretty good times at the intrasquad meet … He’s one of those kids that will just get in there. He’s a machine; he just goes.”

Bready also went on to win the 500-yard freestyle, clocking at 4:38.66.

“I felt good. I came out and gave it everything I had,” Bready said.“I mean, the 1,000 I just came out ahead of everybody early and just kept hold of that lead and just built on it. I feel like I executed it really well. Then the 500 I pretty much just went out and did the same thing and we took first in both and I’m really proud of my team.”

Bready wants to focus on his flip turns over the week.

“I feel like once I get that down, nothing is going to stop me,” Bready said.

Also representing the freshman class for UC was Ryan DiPietro, winning the 200-yard butterfly with a 1:54.05 time and the fastest 200 individual medley time with 1:57.38.

For the women, freshman Sara Wanasek took the 1,000yard freestyle and clocked a 10:28.39 time.

Sophomore Jackie Keire took first place in the 200-yard freestyle event, finishing in 1:52.30 despite feeling under the weather. She also won the 100-yard freestyle with a time of

51.74. She helped the Bearcats finish strong in the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:46.28.

“Sometimes it can get hard, especially with the training we’re going through but you just look at these checkpoints —little checkpoints — to see how you’re doing and when it comes down to conference you have support from your teammates and you just keep it going,” Keire said.

Last season, Keire swam at the NCAA Championships, qualifying for three events — the first time UC has sent a swimmer to the tournament in three years. She also won two titles for individual events at the American Athletic Conference Championships.

“Last year was a really, really good year for me and looking back and asking myself, ‘Why?’ I think it’s because I was really happy with the team,” Keire said.“The team had a really good, positive outlook and the coaches were really good and just making sure I transition that fun and positive attitude into this year, it’ll continue again.

“Everyone still has that momentum going. I think they’re more excited even this year to keep going, to keep getting better,” Keire said.

She also holds records for UC in the 50-yard freestyle (22.85), 100-yard freestyle (48.52), 200-yard freestyle (1:44.73) and 500-yard freestyle (4:41.33).

“Well I think the hardest part for her is coming back this sophomore year and really repeating what she did her first year,” Commons-DiSalle said.“So, it’s more of a mental battle for her that we’re going to have to be really conscious of and I’m working with her not only to make sure she’s getting what she needs inside the pool but outside the pool as well.”

UC had two weeks to prepare for Xavier after the team’s Red & Black Intrasquad meet. During the two weeks, UC took a trip to Camp Kern for a team-building retreat with leadership and began goal-setting efforts to set momentum for the team. The team trained one day before having UC’s reading days off to rest and recover, according to CommonsDiSalle.

“I think that event really set them up going into this week,” Commons-DiSalle said.“We’re a team. We’re united. Here’s our goals, here’s our focus and we’re going to get it started off right.”

UC now prepares to head to Columbus to take on Ohio State University Oct. 24 at 4 p.m. and the women will compete against Purdue, as well.

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Third-year swimmer Hope Andrews pulls ahead during the 500-yard freestyle Oct. 3 during the Swimming and Diving Red and Black intersquad meet in preparation for Friday’s meet against crosstown rival Xavier University.

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Freshman midfielder Christian Hay jumps to head the ball during UC’s 5-1 victory over Temple University Saturday evening.

Bearcats break losing streak against Temple ALEXA SPARTIS | CONTRIBUTOR

The University of Cincinnati men’s soccer team took on the Temple University Owls Saturday at Gettler Stadium for the second time this season. The two teams previously faced each other Sept. 27, resulting in a 2-0 loss for UC. The 5-1 victory prevented Temple from claiming its third consecutive win against Cincinnati.

The rematch started off slow in the first half as friends and family cheered on the team in the chilly, and occasionally rainy, weather. The first goal of the game was assisted by junior forward John Manga to senior midfielder Ashani Walker at the 18-minute mark, moments after Walker was subbed into the game.

The Bearcats often lost possession of the ball, allowing Temple to score 35 minutes into the game. The first half ended in a 1-1 tie. After halftime, the Bearcats appeared more focused and ready to bring the heat.

“At halftime we just talked about keeping the ball more and trying to relax,” said Alan Rovira, senior midfielder.“We were going a little bit too fast in the first half and everything was so hectic, so in the second half we just focused on keeping the ball more and had a little bit more composure.”

The beginning of the second half was more exciting for fans. A yellow card for Temple allowed Bearcat redshirt junior midfielder Emmanuel Appiah to score from a free kick around the 63rd minute, giving UC a boost of confidence and a 2-1 lead. This was the first goal Appiah has scored since his freshman year in 2011.

Less than five minutes later, a kick by Rovira deflected off of a defender and landed in the back of the net, giving the Bearcats a two-point advantage over the Owls.

Just three minutes after Rovira’s goal, junior midfielder and forward Alejandro Garcia drove the ball toward the goal and swiftly passed it to Walker, who scored his second goal of the night. Almost immediately after, Garcia assisted once again, this time to junior midfielder Stefan Bangsund who blasted the ball past Temple’s goalkeeper and gave the Bearcats 5-1 decision.

Head coach Hylton Dayes said the team learned from its mistakes this time around.

“We wanted to play tonight and hustle a little bit more,” Dayes said.“We wanted to pressure them a little bit more and we wanted to counter attack, which is how we scored the first goal. At the end of the day, it’s great to be back home and it’s great to score five goals to get the win.

“When we play the way we did tonight, I think we can be a good team. There are always improvements,” Dayes said.

“The big thing for us is to come out of this game healthy. I think for Memphis, we’ve got four points in the league so now we’ve got something to play for.”

The Bearcats’ head to the University of Memphis to play the Tigers 8 p.m. Wednesday.

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From conception to screen, students breathe life into film

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n a silent room above Drunken Bento on West McMillan Street, a man lay quietly weeping on a worn out couch. His black curls were spread around his head, and a single tear dripped from his right eye.

STORY AND PHOTOS BY LAUREN KREMER On that October night, the room was twisted in black wires and crowded with people, all watching in on the intimate moment. Matt Stalf, a University of Cincinnati electronic media student, looked in with a camera pointed straight at the man.

Joey Meisberger heard the crying through his audio recorder, which picked up the sound from Alex Huddleson’s boom microphone. Cameron Coyan hovered behind the camera, catching glimpses of the story as it came to life.

The group was comprised of UC electronic media students, and the man on the couch was Bartley Booz, a third-year acting student at UC’s College-Conservatory of Music.

The students are using skills they developed through e-media studies to create a short film to cap off their time in the program. The short film, “Solitude,” is an idea brought to life by the four students. Each plans to finish their degree this school year.

Booz sat up on the couch, breaking out of his realistically performed depression, and laughed.

“Sorry,” he said. “You just can’t control which eye the tears fall from.”

Stalf wanted the tear to drip from his left eye instead of the right, which would enable the camera to capture it. Booz was handed a bottle of eye drops, which he is terrified of using.

“I initially wanted to do the independent study because I realized I am graduating this semester and wanted to leave a mark on the e-media department,” Stalf said. “I have always wanted to do a full student-based production while at UC, and now seemed like the best time since I have honed my skills throughout the years in e-media.”

Huddleson came up with the original story idea.

“Alex had the idea for a podcast of a guy that went on a trip and returned to find everyone missing,” Coyan said.

The story revolves around Jack Khavo, a medical researcher who discovers a life-saving key to rejuvenating cells. A car crash puts Khavo in a coma, and his life’s work — the very thing that would have

saved him — is rendered incomplete. In Khavo’s “coma world,” we see him stuck in an apartment, unable to get out.

The film will tentatively be shown Dec. 3 at 7 p.m in MainStreet Cinema.

The group used their various talents to edit the script and contribute ideas, but Coyan earned the title of author.

Each member of the group has to wear many hats in the production and editing processes.

They hope the final product will make them proud, and even anticipate the possibility of it winning an award.

The students will submit the finished film to multiple big-name festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival in France and South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.

In the meantime, Meisberger enjoys working on this labor of love.

“I think an adventure like this is great experience for our future careers and will lead us into a finished product that will be good to show the world our potentials.”

ABOVE: Matt Stalf (left) and Joey Meisberger (far right) adjust lights while filming their short film “Solitude.” Bartley Booz (middle) waits to begin acting. BELOW: Joey Meisberger holds his boom mic to pick up sound.

CCM actor Bartley Booz plays a pleading Jack Khavo, the main character in the film who is stuck in a coma.