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Cincinnati unites for annual 5K, raises thousands for brain tumor research UC Brain Tumor Center hosts walk, money raised tripples since foundation

annual patient education symposium that’s free to patients, and the walk funds that aspect.”

The money raised by the walk also provides pilot grants, also known as exploratory grants, which are used to fund researchers at UC’s medical school who are working on the next cure for a brain tumor, Warnick said.

Warnick noted the growing success the event has achieved over the few years it has existed, citing the exponential growth in participants and particularly the substantial money raised for brain tumor research.

“We’ve raised $1,000,000 [over 5 years] for brain tumor research and education,” Warnick said. “We’re about 50 percent ahead of last year. But, the first year we only raised just short of $100,000 from about 1,500 walkers … So we’re going to triple [the amount raised the first year] in just 5 years.”

In his speech before the 5K began, Warnick announced the money raised from

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The Cincinnati community gathered for the fifth annual Walk Ahead for a Brain Tumor Cure 5K walk-run Sunday, raising approximately $300,000 to support brain tumor research.

The event is hosted by the University of Cincinnati Brain Tumor Center’s Community Advisory Council and typically takes place around Halloween, according to Dr. Ronald Warnick, director of the center.

Over 3,000 people participated in the event, which began at 8:00 a.m. for those who ran the 5K and at 8:45 a.m. for those who walked. Participants started and concluded at Sawyer Point Park.

Warnick helped manage the event, and is in charge of assigning the money raised from the walk.

“I am responsible for using this money responsively for patient education and research,”Warnick said. “So, we have an

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Walkers carry balloons and signs for their loved ones and friends diagnosed with brain tumors.

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UC faculty makes ties abroad after grantfunded trip to Europe STACI BOOTHE | CONTRIBUTOR

After two weeks in Europe, Raj Mehta, vice provost for the University of Cincinnati’s international services, returned to campus with a potential partnership opportunity with the University of Bordeaux in France.

Mehta was awarded a Fulbright grant to travel to Europe, learn about restructuring efforts in European universities and determine which university would be a good partner for UC to expand research and study abroad opportunities.

The Fulbright grant sponsors US and foreign participants for exchanges in all areas of endeavor and increases mutual understanding between the people of the US and people from other countries.

Mehta traveled to Europe with a group of administrators from other American universities such as the University of Colorado, the University of California, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of South Florida, among many others.

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The suspect fled after a neighbor interceded. He ran eastward on Bryant Avenue toward Clifton Avenue and continued toward Loraine Avenue.

Assailant follows UC student home, neighbor intervenes in assault KATIE COBURN | NEWS EDITOR

Editor’s note: The following article describes a sexual assault in detail. The News Record spoke with the survivor in-depth and she insisted on having her name disclosed.

A University of Cincinnati student adamantly refuses to be victimized by an attempted rape or to let it prevent her from sharing her personal account. She wants to spread awareness to UC students about the severity of sexual assault, something she claims to be a common occurrence on college campuses.

Paloma Ianes, a third-year journalism student, began her walk home from school early on Oct. 15 after one of her classes was canceled. She left UC around noon, walked down Clifton Avenue, past Skyline Chili and turned left onto Bryant Avenue toward her mother’s apartment complex located near the intersection of Bryant Avenue and Telford Street.

Ianes was on her way to her mother’s apartment where she usually keeps her dog while she is in class. Ianes lives in an apartment complex down the street.

“When I was on Bryant I noticed that there was a guy behind me,” Ianes said.

“I didn’t think much of it, because people walk behind people … and it’s noon and this is a relatively safe neighborhood from what I know. So I didn’t think much of it; I kept walking.”

Ianes said she typically listens to music during her walk home, but for some reason she did not have headphones in her ears this particular afternoon.

While texting friends during her walk home, Ianes did not notice the man following her until she was within less than five minutes away from her mother’s apartment complex. She said she began to think that it was strange when the man walking behind her turned to walk up the concrete walkway and stairs leading to the apartment complex.

“I didn’t recognize him as a tenant,” Ianes said. “At that point I thought it was strange … I noticed that he was walking really close to me, and then finally when I got to the door of the apartment building,

that’s when he grabbed my [buttocks]. At that point I knew something was going to happen.”

Ianes noticed that he had agitated, heavy breathing and said that she could feel him breathing down her neck.

“My first thought was that I was going to get robbed,” Ianes said. “But, obviously when he grabbed me, I realized it was going to take a different turn. I swung around, and at that point he tried to take my shirt off, and as he grabbed my shirt, I fell to the floor.”

Lying on the concrete stairs with her back against the apartment building’s glass door, the suspect attempted to remove Ianes’ clothes, she said.

“I cannot stress enough what weird state of mind this guy was in,” Ianes said. “He was on something. I don’t think he could take off his own clothes if he wanted to. He was fumbling around. He was just tugging at my clothes. He wasn’t making a lot of sense with what he was doing, which was just making me panic more.”

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UC football player arrested after alleged break-in ELIZABETH DEPOMPEI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Another University of Cincinnati football player was arrested Sunday after he allegedly broke into a home while intoxicated.

Sophomore linebacker Marcus Tappan, 19, broke a window to a home with the intent of retrieving property, according to Hamilton County court documents.

In the complaint, Tappan was described as slurring his speech and smelling of alcohol.

Tappan admitted to consuming alcohol, specifically Crown Royal whiskey.

Tappan was with Northwestern University linebacker Russell “Brett”Walsh at the time of the arrest. The owners of the home Tappan and Walsh allegedly broke into did not want to press charges, court records show.

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UC hosts DigiGirlz event, offers insights in technology for women PATRICK MURPHY | STAFF REPORTER

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High school and middle school students work with computer coding at Friday’s DigiGirlz event.

The budding student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery Committee on Women worked with the University of Cincinnati to host Mircosoft’s worldwide DigiGirlz event Friday. This first-time partnership with UC had been planned since May with the efforts of the ACM-W, and the event attracted more than 50 female students from middle and high schools around the Cincinnati area.

The student organization, founded just this year, insisted on working with any company to establish a talent pipeline in order to accomplish its goal of raising the percentage of women in the engineering field from seven percent to 20 percent by the year 2020.

“As a student organization, we really wanted to partner with anybody, and we’re so excited that it was Microsoft,” said Priya Chawla, an undergraduate computer science student in the Ascend Program and president of the ACM-W. “We want to retain and recruit women at UC. That is the primary goal.”

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DigiGirlz, which started 10 years ago, is now part of Mircosoft’s YouthSpark program, an effort that began in 2012 and seeks to create programs and partnerships for more than 300 million students by 2015.

By the close of its second year, the YouthSpark program has created “opportunities for more than 227 million youths in over 100 counties around the world,” according to Microsoft YouthSpark.

The event aligns with UC’s own commitment to motivate aspiring students into STEM fields — disciplines associated with science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

“The whole idea behind these programs is to get in front of students that normally wouldn’t have access to this technology, and really start to build a pipeline for people in STEM careers for the future,” said Donna Bank-Hoglen, community manager from the Microsoft Heartland District.

Bank-Hoglen said the DigiGirlz program has been successful in hiring women to positions at Microsoft.

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Participants raise their guns to the sky during Saturday’s Largest Nerf Battle. Players attempted to break a world record, and although participation fell short, the battle raged on throughout the morning.

Students battle it out to set Guinness World Record Although participant turnout falls short, Nerf battle unites players MICHELLE BRANDSTETTER | STAFF REPORTER

In the second before the battle begins, the air is still. There is a fleeting moment when the anticipation of hundreds hangs in the atmosphere, welling up in everyone at once. A sharp noise signals the start of the battle, and then, chaos.

Saturday’s attempt at the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Toy Pistol Fight was unsuccessful. The group needed over 461 participants to beat the record previously set by Washington University in St. Louis. Only 208 people fought in the day’s final battle, but many of the events’ goals were still met.

The record attempt was funded by the Child Wellness Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children through empowering communities.

Byron Hutchins, a University of Cincinnati student studying history, was the record attempt’s MC. “It’s such an interesting record to go for,” Hutchins said. “It’s a great way to get people to get outside and be active.

Opportunities like this give you the chance to have a great time with a wide variety of people.”

From 10 a.m. to noon, Hamilton County Fairgrounds was the site of raffles, booths, a Nerf shooting range, and five battles — including the world record attempt.

Each battle had different rules: Free-

for-alls, where all of the players were up against each other, Team Free-for-alls, where groups fought to be the last one standing, and Capture The Flag, where two teams fought to take the other’s base.

The bulk of the fighting happened on the front lines, where the bravest and most foolhardy leapt into action. Spent ammunition littered the ground.

The battle became more strategic, less dense as participants fell. The last people remaining have developed personal vendettas.

The day’s activities were led by Will Stogner, a long-time member of the Ohio Nerfers, a community group centered around Nerf wars. “[Nerfing] is fun, but it’s also more than that,” Stogner said. “It’s a way to build community.”

Stogner said many of the members of the current Ohio Nerfers group have been members for years.

“It’s a large group,” Stogner said. “There are lots of new people. It’s really a great way to get to know people.”

Katherine Wilhem and her daughter, Zoe Waddle, thought the best part of being in the Nerf War was the instant sense of community.

Waddle, a 12-year-old attending seventh grade at Walnut Hills High School, had never participated in a Nerf War when she began passing out tickets to the record attempt.

“My mom’s friend was part of organizing it and asked if I’d pass out tickets, so I did,” Waddle said. “It seemed like it would be a lot of fun.”

Wilhelm was impressed by the immediacy of her connection with other Nerfers.

“As soon as you get out there, it’s like, we’re teaming up, let’s make a plan,” she said. “Everyone here today is just really

friendly.”

Although no records were set, the mood was jovial to the very end. The final battle, while smaller than hoped, was a delightful mess of determined players and flying foam darts.

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Players take cover behind a spray-painted barricade in the midst of a Nerf battle Saturday at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds.

Opinion: Pets should not be forgotten in Ebola epidemic Pets of individuals infected are family members, should be treated as such during treatment EMILY BEGLEY | COLLEGE LIFE EDITOR

Since the Ebola epidemic began, it’s been impossible to open a news source without seeing headlines about the virus. And for good reason — as of Oct. 24, there have been 10,141 diagnosed cases in West Africa and three confirmed cases in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But out of the dozens of articles I’ve read on the topic, one stands out above the rest —not because it was well written or informative, but because it was so completely offensive.

On Oct. 21, the E.W. Scripps Company published an article entitled “Outpouring of support should go to Ebola victims, not nurse’s dog,” referring to Ebola-infected Dallas nurse Nina Pham and her Cavalier Kings Charles Spaniel, Bentley. The subheading: “Forget the dog, focus

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Nina Pham, a 26-year-old nurse from Dallas, was declared virusfree 13 days after being diagnosed with Ebola. Her dog, Bentley, is being quarantined through Nov. 1.

on the victims.”

The piece was written by Andrea Seabrook, founder of DecodeDC, a multimedia publication that focuses on helping Americans understand the impact of political issues on everyday life.

“Please believe me, I love my two dogs, Sadie and Chauncey,” the opinion piece begins. “They light up my family’s life every day.”

“But if I get Ebloa — or any other ravaging, disastrous, and ultimately headline-grabbing illness — please, please don’t worry about my dogs.” A photo of Seabrook’s pups, a black-and-white Boston terrier and a floppy, droopyeyed hound dog accompanies the story.

The story fails to inform readers of anything substantial.

It dances around the fact that America is big-hearted, yet misinformed, offending readers instead of telling them the facts. If the story proves anything, it is that Seabrook, in fact, does not love her two dogs, nor care for any other animals affected in some way by the disease.

Seabrook focuses on her opinion that Americans should care about Ebola victims while disregarding their pets, literally saying we should “forget about the dog.”

But if she is so focused on the welfare of those diagnosed, she would realize how important victims’ pets are to them. They are not property that can be simply forgotten about. They are a member of the family.

Pham, 26, was the first person to contract Ebola on U.S. soil. Thirteen days after being diagnosed, she was declared virus-free. Her 1-year-old King Charles is currently being quarantined by Dallas Animal Services, and he is expected to reunite with Pham when his isolation period ends Nov. 1.

In a much more informative article published by CNN Oct. 25, the first thing Pham plans to do after beating Ebola: “Hug her dog, of course.”

Bentley has been a focus of news articles alongside coverage of Pham, not because Americans have a particularly soft spot for animals, as Seabrook implies in her article. It is because Bentley is a part of Pham’s family, and to her, his recovery is just as important as her own.

Seabrook criticizes a donation fund and health partnership established in Dallas to benefit Bentley, saying “despite months of growing crisis in West Africa, Ebola donations didn’t start picking up until two American aid workers were infected by the disease and flown to Atlanta in late August.”

“To some this is a sign of our tenderness, of America’s big heart,” Seabrook continues. “But to me it betrays something darker about ourselves: our blindness to the

suffering of poor people, far away, our heliocentric ego and our seeming inability to prioritize the heath of human beings in West Africa, in true danger of losing their families and villages to this scourge, over the health of one American patient’s dog.”

What could one of these things possibly have to do with the other? Just because I care —deeply — about Bentley’s fate, as well as any other pets affected by Ebola thus far, or in the future, does not mean I am turning a blind eye to the thousands of individuals and families affected by this virus on a global scale.

It is as if Seabrook is aiming to make people feel guilty about caring about the animals affected by the epidemic, when their welfare shouldn’t be any less important than that of human beings. If anything, pets need more people to provide them a voice. If we don’t speak for them, who will?

As more cases continue to be diagnosed in the U.S., should we begin euthanizing dogs without even testing them for symptoms of Ebola, as was the case with a mutt named Excalibur in Spain?

Spanish authorities executed Excalibur without ever testing him for the virus, despite an online petition signed by more than 380,000 people in an attempt to prevent the euthanasia. The mixed-breed’s owner, 44-year-old María Teresa Romero Ramos, was declared Ebola-free earlier this month.

If we stop caring about the welfare of pets affected by the virus, we will do nothing more than add to the overall death toll of the disease.

“The lesson we should take away from the miniscule outbreak of Ebola we’re experiencing in Dallas is not ‘take care of our own,’ but ‘everyone is our own,’ ” Seabrook writes at the end of her piece. “The world is too interconnected for us to ignore those poor people, far away. Their health is our health.”

Then the kicker — “That, I believe, should be more important than the health of anyone’s pets.”

Seabrook not only completely disregards the welfare of animals in this piece; she also paints a muddied image of people who do care, making it seem like doing so disregards concern for human beings.

So I’ll end this article with a plea of my own: If I happen to get Ebola — “or any other ravaging, disastrous, and ultimately headline-grabbing illness,” as Seabrook writes — please do worry about my dogs.

Please do, because that is exactly what I’ll be worrying about. Because their health is just an important to me as my own.

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was attempting to remove her clothes, Ianes said it was clear that he was trying to bust the buttons of her flannel shirt.

“It was a button-up shirt so he had pulled down on it and the button just kind of popped right off,” Ianes said.

“I remember the button clearly because I remember thinking, ‘My shirt’s coming off,’ which it didn’t because at that point I guess I started flailing around and I actually kicked him in the face.”

Ianes — who said she screamed throughout the assault — screamed the loudest when the suspect first grabbed her buttocks. Ianes said she thought this is what attracted the attention of a neighbor who lived in an apartment complex located diagonally across from Ianes’ mother’s apartment complex.

The neighbor looked out her apartment window from across the street and noticed a man hovering over Ianes.

She ran out of the apartment complex toward Ianes and the suspect, according to Ianes. The suspect then fled the scene, sprinting eastward on Bryant Avenue toward Clifton Avenue and continued to Loraine Avenue.

“I mean what she did was ridiculously brave, because for all she knows he could have had a gun pointed at me, because she saw everything from the back,” Ianes said.

Ianes called the police immediately and said her neighbor remained by her side helping her.

The police arrived about 15 minutes later, according to Ianes.

Ianes said that she was surprised at how helpful the police were. One police officer in particular was very comforting, Ianes said.

Police questioned Ianes and her neighbor regarding the assault and continued to talk with Ianes for approximately a half-hour about self-defense techniques, such as carrying pepper spray, jabbing offenders in the eyes and what she could do if it happened again.

Ianes described the suspect to be a 30-to-40-year-old black man who had a stocky build and wore a navy blue jacket and a navy blue forward-facing baseball cap.

Standing at 5 feet and 8 inches, Ianes said that she did not remember him being noticeably tall.

“This guy looked like he could have been a dad,” Ianes said. “He was clean-shaven; his clothes weren’t loose or dirty. I just remember his eyes were like bulging out of his head. I mean he looked like drugged out. But that’s literally the only thing that was odd about him was his eyes and his breathing.”

Ianes said police are tying to obtain camera footage from surrounding buildings to determine how long the suspect was following her.

“I’m usually on my phone, which I guess the police say it’s something that girls should try to avoid, at least that’s what they told me, because you’re less aware,” Ianes said.

“But there’s honestly nothing you can do until it happens.

I mean because what are you going to do? Run from every person that’s behind you? He was behind me and that’s all I could decipher from the situation. And until I actually realized that he was trying to do something to me, it was too late. I mean he was already there.”

Moving forward The Personal Crime Squad of the Cincinnati Police Department, which has received overwhelmingly cooperative assistance from the community, is actively investigating the assault and is very optimistic that it will be able to make progress in the investigation, said a police officer from CPD’s District 4 who requested anonymity.

Detective Jeffrey Smallwood of CPD’s District 5 is the lead investigator on the case.

Police say they are confident they will find the man responsible.

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Raj Mehta, vice provost for international services, returns from two weeks in Europe.

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Paris, Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux, France. In each city, the group visited different universities and high schools, meeting with faculty and sometimes students, Mehta said.

“I enjoyed visiting the high schools the most and talking with the students who were going to graduate and go to a university,” Mehta said.

French universities are divided into separate institutions based on their focus of education and none of them have their own campus, according to Mehta.

The University of Lyon for example is

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charged with disorderly conduct and underage drinking.

UC’s senior director of sports communication, Ryan Koslen, emailed a statement in response to Sunday’s arrest. “[UC football] Coach [Tommy] Tuberville is aware of the incident involving Marcus Tappan and is in the process of gathering information. It would be inappropriate to comment at this time.”

Tappan and Walsh are scheduled to be arraigned Monday at 12:30 p.m.

On Sunday, Oct. 19, backup quarterback Jarred Evans was arrested and charged with assault hours after the Bearcats’ winning game against Southern Methodist University. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for Nov. 4 at 9 a.m.

Evans wasn’t the first Bearcat to make headlines this season. On Sept. 14, four players were temporarily suspended after police responded to shots fired on Lyons Street in Clifton.

One player, cornerback Alex Thomas, 18, was arrested after fleeing from police, according to Hamilton County court records.

Thomas pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $110, according to court documents.

“It’s, I would say, like putting together a puzzle,” Smallwood said. “You have to still look for the pieces. You look for evidence. Each case is different. There’s always something there, you just have to figure out what thread to pull.”

Ianes is also confident in CPD’s ability to identify and obtain a suspect, however, she expressed her disappointment toward the fact that UC students were not alerted of the assault through a public safety alert email.

“I was beyond shocked that students didn’t get an email,” Ianes said. “I mean that’s just ridiculous.”

Michele Ralston, the University of Cincinnati Police Department’s public information officer, said in an email that according to UCPD Captain Rodney Chatman, “UCPD was not made aware of the incident because it occurred within District 5 and outside UC’s Clery area. Since the incident occurred outside the Clery area and an ongoing threat was not believed to exist, a warning was not issued.”

UC’s Clery Timely Warning area extends beyond campus and includes select surrounding communities in which UCPD is required to notify students of any crime that occurs and poses an ongoing threat.

Ianes said that her mother’s apartment complex was less than a 15-minute walk from campus and considered a student neighborhood — with students residing in nearby apartment complexes located across the street.

Though UCPD says the complex is not within the Clery area, the apartment complex’s location appears to be on the area’s boundary, according to a map available on UCPD’s website. The map can also be viewed at newsrecord.org.

“I believe that everything occurred as it’s supposed to occur in regards to a situation like that,” said Greg Vehr, vice president of university communications.

Ianes said she thinks that UCPD should become involved in all crimes that involve UC students, because UC’s students live throughout Clifton.

“I think students need to know that this stuff happens in safe neighborhoods,” Ianes said. “I can say that I learned that you’re not really safe at any point, because people have these preset judgments [that] after dark it’s not safe.

This was a clear case of where that was totally wrong.”

Speaking out Ianes said that she trusts her instincts more after surviving the assault. However, because the incident occurred during the middle of the day and in the middle of what she thought was a safe neighborhood, Ianes does not have any strong pieces of advice other than to be aware of your surroundings and to consider carrying pepper spray.

“This is just one of those situations where I really don’t have any generalized advice because it’s so weird what happened,” Ianes said. “It’s so odd. What are you going to tell people? To not walk around at noon? It’s not like I can say this definitely reinforced don’t walk home after dark.”

Ianes does think students who experience these types of assaults should be more open when talking about it in order to help prevent future assaults.

“The cops said that they had received calls from girls about a guy with a similar description and that’s it though,” Ianes said. “They remained anonymous on the phone, and they didn’t want to continue further investigation. I don’t blame them; I understand. But, I think that is wrong, because from woman to woman, from girl to girl, we have to look out for each other. The louder you are about something, the more people know and the more people will listen to you.”

Ianes said that she understands why some sexual assault survivors choose not to disclose personal information or experiences because of the serious effects an experience such as rape can have on a person.

divided into 16 different institutions and they are all numbered instead of having individual names.

The divided nature of the universities in France makes finding a partner university very difficult because there is no central point of contact since each institution has their own representatives to handle international activities, Mehta said.

While in France, Mehta discovered how the French government is planning to restructure these divided universities and combine them into a single entity or coalition.

The French government has what it calls an Initiative d’excellence (Excellence Initiative), which urges individual institutions to merge back into one single university in return for receiving an IDEX grant that can range from 700 million euros to one billion euros, Mehta said.

The IDEX grants are designed to help with the reforms needed to form a single university from the individual institutions.

Mehta said eight universities in France have received the IDEX grants so far: Sorbonne University, Paris Sorbonne Cité, Paris Sarclay, Paris University of Science and Letters, University of Bordeaux, University of Strasbourg, University of Toulouse and Aix-Marseille.

Out of all the universities that received the IDEX grants, Bordeaux has done the best with the merger process, making it an ideal partner university for UC, according to Mehta.

Unlike the other universities that have only formed coalitions, Bordeaux has only one person in charge of its international activities and is in the process of consolidating all the partners of the three

“I think if anything, the stigma has to go on sexual assault; this weird embarrassment that girls have of being victims just needs to disappear,” Ianes said. “Luckily I wasn’t actually raped; of course there [are] shades of gray.

But, I think victims need to show their faces and be like, ‘Yeah this happened to me and it could happen to you.’ ” Ianes said that she does not wish to blow her account of assault “out of proportion,” and that she recognizes that numerous girls have experienced much more severe sexual assault situations, all of which cause lasting psychological and emotional effects.

“I thought this wasn’t going to affect me,” Ianes said.

“In terms of just observing my own body and how I’m reacting to it, I can say that whenever guys are walking behind me, I definitely start breathing a little bit harder.

If a guy is too close to me, I start breathing harder. It’s just things like that. I definitely would have been the first person to say that those things wouldn’t have happened to me.”

Ianes stresses that everyone needs to realize that at anytime on any given day, her story could be their story.

“I’m what I consider to be the average — in terms of demographics — the average UC student,” Ianes said. “I’m not some really unusual case. I’m a normal girl who was just walking home from school. It’s not like I was at some weird place at some weird time. It was a very average situation if you will, one that all UC students do; all UC students walk home. I just think that no one wants to think that it’s going to happen, so you don’t want to make a plan. But, what people don’t realize is that not making a plan is just almost allowing it to happen.”

Ianes said that she is taking any opportunity she can to share her personal account and to advocate for others who experience similar situations to speak up.

“I think this is a good opportunity because I am more than willing to have my face shown, my name displayed,” Ianes said. “I want to be recognized, my whole identity. I have no limitations as to my identity being disclosed.”

Ianes said that she respects women who are not comfortable with disclosing their sexual assault, however, she believes that if more women — and men — who experience this shared their stories, the stigma surrounding sexual assault would lessen. Silencing sexual assault survivors perpetuates the stigma, Ianes said.

“I feel like your whole story is kind of muted behind this faceless image,” Ianes said.” I think that’s silencing women.

I don’t think that’s helping them. I think that’s making this seem like some sort of weird anonymous body of helpless, traumatized victims that don’t have a face or identity. We have a f------ identity. We have a face. We’re normal. That’s what I hate. That there is a stigma as if we were some abnormal [people].”

After being questioned about what she was wearing — a button-up flannel shirt and leggings — and how she was walking in the time leading up to the assault, Ianes said that details of how a person was sexually assaulted are more important than what could have led to a person becoming a victim of sexual assault.

“I could have been butt-a-- naked for all that it matters,” Ianes said. “That doesn’t mean that it’s okay for someone to assault you and that doesn’t make it any less of an assault. It’s a crime against humanity. It’s violating someone’s everything.”

Ianes said that she wants women survivors of sexual assault to know that it is not their fault they were sexually assaulted.

“I can tell you that I never thought it was going to happen to me, and I definitely had that predisposition that of course I’m not going to be a sexual assault victim,” Ianes said. “It happens to average people. You’re not like this outsider if it happens to you. I want people to look at me in the face and be like, ‘S---, I’m sorry that happened to you but it can happen to me too.’ ”

institutions that have merged together, making them far easier to communicate and work with.

A partnership with the University of Bordeaux would expand study abroad opportunities for students and allow the faculty of both universities to collaborate on research projects.

“Bordeaux is one of the top eight universities in France and they want to work with us,” Mehta said.

The University of Bordeaux has chosen three faculty members from the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences to stay at the university for a month or two to collaborate on research and possibly teach a seminar to its students next semester, according to Mehta.

Although the trip is not fully set up, the chosen faculty members are: Don Bogen, professor of English and comparative literature, Sheila Fleming, professor of psychology and William Connick, professor of chemistry.

The faculty trip would be the first step to expanding a new partnership, Mehta said.

The next step would be to take a group of students to Bordeaux to promote study abroad possibilities.

Michele Vialet, professor of romance language and literature, is planning a possible trip for a group of European studies students in the spring, but nothing has been fully confirmed yet according to Mehta.

Once the faculty and students have established a connection in Bordeaux further opportunities will follow, Mehta said.

“Overall my trip was a success,” Mehta said.“And I feel we are further along in establishing a partnership than the other American universities that were present.”

The UC engineering department also represented itself at the event by informing potential students of the opportunities the department has to offer and listing what UC students should be doing to be successful in their college applications. The department also raffled off a scholarship, which was awarded to Neha Chawla, a freshman at Centerville High School.

Included in the DigiGirlz event was a demonstration on how to write and organize code though Code.org, an initiative by technology companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft to garner student interest in coding. The hour sought to show students the intricacies of coding and how simple learning the process can be.

“It was a fun event to learn about engineering and coding,” Chawla said. “I didn’t know anything about engineering before but now I really want to be some type of engineer I learned what code looked like and it wasn’t as intimidating as I thought.

It was actually like a game and really fun.”

While the event gave many female students access to learn abilities they would otherwise not be influenced by, BankHoglen said there is still more work to be done.

“Microsoft and other companies are struggling to find workers who have the skill set needed, and even more so in technology, where woman and minorities are really unrepresented,” Bank-Hoglen said.

“It’s wonderful for these student groups to participate because they look like the students we want to reach. They identify themselves in these positions.”

a week for six weeks over the summer,” Waldeck said. “The latest scan has shown that it has shrunk, but obviously there is still something there, so we got to give more time.”

This was Waldeck’s first walk, but he was grateful for support from his family, peers and other walkers.

“We’ve raised a lot of money [for research] so I’m just glad,”Waldeck said. “I mean I’ve never met the people [attending the walk] before, but I feel like it’s one big community. Everyone’s very accepting and friendly. It’s nice knowing that you have people behind you, family and friends willing to wake up at the crack of dawn to come walk for you.”

About 30 UC students from Cats for Cause, 60 volunteers from Mt. Saint Joseph University and other volunteers from various backgrounds joined forces to help register the walk-on participants joining the day of the walk.

Along with helping the registration process, the volunteers distributed purple T-shirts to survivors and gray T-shirts to participants in the event.

Hayley Montgomery, a first-year biology

of animals student, helped with preregistration by distributing tags and T-shirts.

“It’s nice seeing all the teams and all the people,” Montgomery said. “We talked to one lady who almost started crying. It was her first year without her husband.”

Andi Mapes has served as the event’s volunteering coordinator since its first year in 2009.

Mapes learned of the walk from her daughter when she was in eighth grade and showed interest in volunteering.

“We signed up to walk the first year, and so many people showed up the day of that one of our friends grabbed us and said, ‘Can you please help us register these people?’ and we’ve done it ever since.”

Mapes encourages all those who can support the cause to do so in any way they can.

“The event, along with all the volunteers and everybody that participates — we all have a responsibility to give what we can,” Mapes said.

“Sometimes it’s time, sometimes it’s money. There’s a face to every cause. It might be the person next to you, so if you can give, give.”

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last year’s walk allowed Dr. Atsuo Sasaki, assistant professor of medicine, to devise a strategy to kill cancerous neuroblastoma cells.

Sasaki’s research was further funded by the National Institute of Health, which awarded the UC Brain Tumor Center $1.67 million to continue its groundbreaking research.

The event was filled with numerous teams, which consisted of groups of people that walked and raised money for their loved ones diagnosed with a brain tumor or who have passed away from a brain tumor.

Teams ranged from two members to over 40 members, each decked out with their own personal flair and custom T-shirts.

One team of 19 members named the “Tumonators” supported UC alumnus Billy Waldeck, a speech pathology graduate afflicted with a brain tumor. Waldeck was happy to report that he was in partial remission according to a scan he had the week before.

“Back in January I was diagnosed with an astrocytoma glioma brain tumor, and I went for radiation treatment for five days

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CCM entertains with ‘Legally Blonde’ the musical Mainstage performance adapts classic movie to rom-com musical with riotous humor, emotion AIDAN SMITH | CONTRIBUTOR

College-Conservatory of Music’s bright and poppy musical “Legally Blonde” opened on Thursday, continuing this season’s apparent, if unintentional, theme of feminine empowerment.

“Legally Blonde” tells the story of a typical blonde sorority girl, Elle Woods, who expects an engagement to her boyfriend, Warner, but instead gets dumped when he goes to graduate school and desires someone a little more serious.

The musical follows Elle’s journey to Harvard Law School as she tries to win her man back, but ultimately finds maturity and love elsewhere in the process.

The story is based on a novel with the same name, written by Amanda Brown. In 2001, Brown’s novel went to the big screen starring Reese Witherspoon.

The musical rendition of Legally Blonde went to stage in 2007 with music and lyrics by Nell Benjamin and

Laurance O’Keefe.

Director and choreographer Diane Lala put out the opening night performance with a lot of strength. The cast was very multi-talented with careful character development, solid singing and great dance numbers.

The lead role, played by Lawson Young, had a difficult task in playing such a dynamic character as Elle.

The audience saw the versatility displayed by Young as she switched from stereotypical dumb blonde to the successful Harvard Law graduate, added further by the impressive emotional impact of dialogue and song.

The other lead, Emmett Forest, played by Chris Collins-Pisano, gave the audience a very warm, innocent performance. Collins-Pisano engaged his audience with a quirky and nerdy delivery that made everybody cheer him on as the underdog in his quest to win over Elle.

The humor offered by every cast member made this musical stand out, and it showed in the audience’s constant giggling.

The crucial performances by the supporting cast

members allowed for the play to be light and loveable, with entertainment in every scene of the musical.

The very loveable hairdresser, played by Madeline Lynch, and her love for the UPS man played by Jay McGill, was the humorous highlight of the musical.

McGill made the audience laugh every time he would walk on stage, giving cheesy line after line, as mood music reminiscent of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get it On” played in the background.

Stereotypes are a big part of this musical. The pretentious boyfriend, Delta Nu Sorority girls and big, scary law professors made the story relatable and made the audience really care for what was going on.

Every moment was crucial to the development of emotion.

Kudos to the cast and crew of “Legally Blonde” as they opened its series of shows by giving the audience a warm, hilarious production that kept us all entertained from start to finish.

Legally Blonde plays at CCM until Nov. 2.

DAAP unveils outdoor sculpture, accompanying gallery exhibit KYLEY FREDRICK | STAFF REPORTER

On a bright and windy afternoon on Thursday, sculptor Bret Price stood outside of the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, ready to unveil his sculpture.

As the cover was slipped off of the galvanized steel sculpture reaching 20 feet, a group stood in awe before eyes trailed down and fixed on the smiling artist, whose height only reached a third of the art he created.

The sculpture, named “Jezebel,” may appear colossal in size, but there is a soft nature to the piece. The name may be suggestive of what the artist was trying to communicate about his work, and jokes were made about whether Price had Googled the name before deciding upon it.

The answer: only afterward.

Price lives in California but has access to create sculptures in Northern Ohio, so “Jezebel” is resting in her native land.

When asked what inspired “Jezebel,” Price commented about how he is inspired walking down the street every day, but that this was more of a determination.

“I try to make things that I’ve never seen before because I know if I’ve never seen them, nobody has either.”

—Bret Price, Sculptor

“It wasn’t inspiration, it was curiosity,” Price said. “I try to make things that I’ve never seen before because I know if I’ve never seen them, nobody has either. My pursuit is to create these forms that are rather unique and figure out a way to present them which works aesthetically.”

On Price’s personal website, his artist statement says his intent is for his sculptures to communicate a sense

of continuance — as if each piece is a single frame taken from a film, appearing to be at rest before moving on.

DAAP’s Director of the School of Art, Kate Bonansinga, attended the unveiling. “We wanted to keep it close to DAAP, and we did a number of different Photoshop renderings of the sculpture in various places near the building,” Bonansinga said. “This is the one which seemed the most suitable because it had brick as a backdrop, and there is a surrounding grove of trees— they didn’t overpower the piece, but instead enhanced it. It is a heavily trafficked corner. Both vehicular and pedestrians go by there, so it would give it the highest visibility.”

In addition to the unveiling of “Jezebel,” the DAAP Galleries are presenting Cross Sections, an exhibit of small-scale works by Price. The gallery will be open from now until Dec. 9.

Price’s work is at times elegant and sophisticated, or dark and complex. He takes large pieces of steel and plays with the heat and intensity, ultimately manipulating it until it’s finished.

“I built a machine, a mechanism, to twist it,” Price said. “It’s just a spindle. It’s quite simple, you hook up a piece of chain to a tractor and it spins the metal. Since it is hot, the metal folds. A lot of the pieces I make are bent.”

It is not always the fastest process, but Price has evolved as a sculptor and mastered his craft.

“They asked Shoji Hamada, a natural treasure of Japan, at a convention how long it took him to make a cup and he says: five minutes and 50 years. He said that because it only took him five minutes to make the cup, but 50 years to learn how to create it and the way it should be done.”

Price mirrors this logic to his own art. “The first piece of metal I bent took me two months. Now it would take me three days.”

Bringing this large-scale work of art to the University of Cincinnati was definitely a challenge when it came to finding the exact home for the 20-foot woman.

“I think it is a real asset to the campus art holdings, and it also just creates a pleasant place on the hillside,” Bonansinga said. “So hopefully people will be attracted to it and treasure it the way it should be. I think the more sculpture we have on campus, the more we can increase people’s appreciation for outdoor sculpture and art.”

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The 20 foot steel sculpture can be seen on the corner of Clifton Street and Clifton Court, on a hillside.

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(Left) Duke Riley’s clothes he wore while traveling on freight trains to do research for his Lubberland project. (Right) Viewers admire the 18 miles of thread used to create Anne Lindberg’s ‘cadence.’

CAC reshapes history, space with pair of new exhibits SHEALYN HOEHN | CONTRIBUTOR

Upon walking into the Contemporary Arts Center’s newest exhibits, Based on a True Story and Unmade, most would find themselves within unfamiliar territory.

What appear to resemble lost artifacts and refurbished woodwork in Based on a True Story are actually brand new products that were birthed by artists Duke Riley and Frohawk Two Feathers.

Riley combines what he calls “populist myth” and “reinvented historical obscurities” with avid field research, “participatory craft” and “museological display.”

Two Feathers is a Los Angles-based artist and historian who is credited with reimagining 18th century colonial history through a “fictive cast of slaves, revolutionaries, militiamen and aristocrats.”Together, the two of these artists have created a blend of both historical and contemporary art with an infusion of personal ideals.

Two Feathers takes an interesting approach within his art, using an

increasingly visible presence of subjects and stories that once lived outside recognition and official records.

One of the more arresting pieces was a drum on which he carved, “This Beat Gets The Snakes Out. This Beat is For Victory!” (2012).

Combining old ideas with new product results in a very contemporary outcome that not only presents a historical concept, but also a brand new form of artwork.

Viewers are then brought into Riley’s take on Lubberland, a hobo community in an underground waterway in Cleveland, Ohio.

In 1930, 30 percent of America’s population was homeless due to the Great Depression, and Lubberland was a place for the homeless to live.

Riley hopped trains to further understand the concept of Lubberland and homeless America.

Riley portrays this lifestyle in “An Invitation to Lubberland” (2010), where he uses brick, mortar, rock salt, antique railroad spikes, whiskey, water and video

projection to assist in depicting the loss of the homeless.

Artists Anne Lindberg and Saskia Olde Wolbers work together to create another new CAC exhibit, Unmade, where each have chosen to work within a surreal manner, creating beautiful visuals and audio that help to launch the viewer into another form of thought.

In Wolbers’ installation called “Placebo,” a video is largely projected depicting what appears to be a warped and surreal variation of changing hospital scenes. Each visual is so aesthetically pleasing, moving as if it were dripping or melting, perhaps devolving. A voiceover is simultaneously played — a story of two lovers lying next to each other in the hospital after being in a terrible car crash. The artwork is very stirring and also stimulating.

Anne Lindberg’s installation, “cadence,” is a beautiful work that creates its own experience.

An 18.75-mile thread made from Egyptian cotton is brought back and forth between two walls on either side

of the space, with colors ranging from yellow, orange, red and white.

The piece took between 30 and 35 hours to make according to Jamie Thompson, CAC education curator.

Lindberg’s installations had ripped off the plaster in other buildings displaying her work because of the tautness of the thread, according to Thompson.

Thompson said that was not the case at the CAC, and that the plaster was reinforced.

Zaha Hadid, the CAC’s architect, didn’t design the building in favor of classical work, such as hanging painting, Thompson said. The walls are rough and angular and discourage such use.

Artists respond by pushing back — not necessarily working against the space but with the space.

Both Based on a True Story and Unmade will be on exhibit until March 22, 2015.

Admission to the museum is $5.50 for students, but free after 5 p.m. on Mondays.

Opinion: ‘Dear White People’ addresses everyday racism, white privelege in America MACKENZIE BOWER | CONTRIBUTOR

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Jaeden Lieberher as Oliver (left) and Bill Murray as Vincent (right). Murray is known for his pickiness when it comes to roles.

‘St. Vincent’ lacks Bill Murray’s genius Though charming, Murray fails to bring trademark mix of dark comedy, playfulness to latest lead role MONROE TROMBLY | STAFF REPORTER

Bill Murray’s latest role, in Theodore Melfi’s “St. Vincent,” is as Vincent MacKenna, a hardened, bitter, curmudgeon who has nothing but caustic things to say, and is ultimately a character who can’t reach the depth of Murray’s best roles.

The opening credits run a good five minutes before they finally end with Vince splayed on the kitchen floor with his head bleeding, drunk.

While Murray’s earliest roles in movies such as “Caddyshack,”“Meatballs” and “Stripes” are of goofballs and misfits, he has always held a penchant for playing highly flawed and troubled individuals detached and separate from the society that surrounds them.

Whether it is Phil Conners in “Groundhog Day,” Bob Harris in “Lost in Translation,” or his flawed father roles in Wes Anderson’s “Rushmore” and “Moonrise Kingdom,” Murray has a particular knack at playing men who are disenchanted and isolated in their own psychological troubles.

Vince spends his time at the bar, at the racetrack and with his “lady of the night,” a Russian prostitute named Daka played by Naomi Watts with the most hackneyed accent ever heard.

One morning, he’s woken from a drunken stupor by a moving van crashing into his tree, and meets his new neighbors with delightfully mean, racially charged words directed toward the Mexican moving men.

Melissa McCarthy stars as the single mom Maggie Bronstein, with Jaeden Lieberher as Oliver, her son.

Oliver, who is still in grade school, attends St. Andrew’s school during the day, continually being picked on and bullied for being the smallest and scrawniest in his grade.

Oliver and Vince meet when Oliver ends up locked out of his house, and Vince, rising at the opportunity to profit by babysitting the kid, starts to watch Oliver after school. They predictably get into antics and play off one another, each showing each other a different side and view on life.

While charming, the relationship between Vince and Oliver and every other story with the restorative

relationship of an old schmuck and innocent young boy is so clichéd and stale that it’s hard to stay interested in “St. Vincent.”

The film, for the most part, doesn’t reveal enough of Vince’s past to the audience, or the film’s characters for that matter. And even when his redeeming past does come to light, the revelation isn’t very astounding or emotionally impactful, because Vince’s causticness never piqued the audience’s interest to begin with.

Dubbed a comedy, “St. Vincent” is the kind of film where all the punch lines are in the trailer, so you know exactly what jokes are coming from the very beginning of each scene. The camera angles and movement are decent, but the film never really lifts off from its predictable narrative arc and all-too-familiar character archetypes.

The relationships, motifs and emotional undercurrents are heartening, but “St. Vincent” misses its mark, feeling overly sentimental and trite. It’s clear from the get-go that Vince is flawed, drained and drunk, but the eventual revealing of his “saint-like” past is at best, an “oh” moment.

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Naomi Watts plays a Russian prostitute named Daka.

Walking into the theater, I was not really sure what to expect from the movie “Dear White People.”

As a white person, this film was an eye-opening reminder that I am unfairly advantaged.

I have opportunities and privileges that I did not earn, and that others do not have, because of the color of skin that I was born with and the circumstances that I was born into.

Much of our society has been conditioned to not acknowledge the subject of white privilege, or any type of privilege or opportunities that are only available to majority groups, but “Dear White People” addressed the issues head on in an appealing and entertaining way.

“Dear White People” is an insightful comedic drama that brings viewers into the world of the fictional Winchester University, where housing policy changes have led to an all-out culture war that challenges the way racism is viewed in modern American society.

If you are looking for a comedy that will leave you rolling on the floor laughing, this is not the film for you.

However, “Dear White People” was able to accomplish a bigger feat of integrating comedy, drama and a complex storyline without undermining the importance of the issues addressed.

Unapologetic statements about subtle racism begin right away and force viewers to dive head first into one of the most uncomfortable issues in America.

The writers throw inhibition to the wind in an effort to highlight what modern racism really is.

They challenge the idea that racism is isolated to only a radical few, and educate the audience about the micro aggressions that affect minorities every day.

“Dear White People” focuses on the dynamic between a minority trying to gain acknowledgement of their struggles from the unknowingly privileged, and the privileged majority that does not want to admit that they may be perpetuating the oppression that the minority faces.

Internalized racism, the confusion that biracial individuals can face and societal stereotypes are just a few of the focuses in this hour and 48 minutes of emotional twists and turns.

Audiences are introduced to the motivations behind different characters’ actions, and then the film dissects how the media, the characters’ pasts, and the characters’ elders have created those different motivations.

One of the main points of this film was to make it overwhelmingly clear to viewers that although it is difficult to admit, racism is definitely not a thing of the past, but rather has morphed into a more passive and behind the scenes enemy.

The questions that viewers are left with at the end of the film can provide a platform from which to launch much needed discussions.

A movie that educates mainstream audiences about race issues is far past overdue, and definitely sparks much needed dialogue among people who would probably not otherwise bring up these issues.

When Americans stop hiding their social issues under the rug, maybe some real social justice progress can be made.

“Dear White People” is more than just an entertaining trip to the theater, but a statement that turning a blind eye towards issues of social justice is no longer sufficient.

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happened to Gunner,” UC head coach Tommy Tuberville said.“I brought him up and I told everyone and they all got quiet and I said, `He’s our CLAUDE THOMPSON STAFF REPORTER guy. We’re going to go with him.’ Gunner is beat up a The University of little bit. Munchie put a long Cincinnati Bearcats year of rehab in, something wasted no time asserting most of us wouldn’t have their dominance over the gone through. And this was University of South Florida his moment.”

Bulls at Paul Brown Stadium Big performances in this Friday. game for Cincinnati came It started with an opening from all over the roster, but drive interception of USF none were as big as the quarterback Mike White. performance by freshman Bulls wide receiver Rodney running back Mike Boone.

Adams ran a deep post down “Oh man, [Boone] was a the middle of the field with big spark,” Legaux said.“We Cincinnati senior cornerback just kinda threw him in there Howard Wilder in hot pursuit and said ‘You need to help us with air-tight one-on-one win.’ He did a great job today coverage. and he’s a hard worker. He Both Adams and Wilder doesn’t say too much, you leaped into the air competing know, just a hard-working for the ball, but it was slightly kid and a great athlete.” underthrown and Wilder was Boone was originally in perfect position to claim slated to be redshirted this uncontested possession, season, but had his number giving Cincinnati its first called after multiple Bearcat turnover of the game. running backs went down Early in the first quarter, with injuries throughout the USF was called for a costly season. Boone ran the ball 19 MADISON SCHMIDT | PHOTO EDITOR pass interference foul against times and gained 219 yards UC players pile on top of a USF player in possession of the ball.

The Bearcats beat the Bulls 34-17 Friday night at Paul Brown Stadium.

UC junior wide receiver with one touchdown and one Mekale McKay, who was penalties for 95 yards against Cincinnati’s relief of Kiel and finished the game with fumble – good for an 11.2 thrown to the ground before the ball reached own four penalties for 37 yards.

14 completions out of 15 pass attempts for yards per carry average. him. The foul put Cincinnati at USF’s 38-yard Kiel finished with 196 passing yards and 121 yards and one rushing touchdown, his That was the best performance for a UC line.

20 rushing yards with two total touchdowns first score since returning from a leg injury running back since 2010 when former UC Capitalizing on the USF error, Cincinnati before leaving the game with a rib injury suffered last year that doctors said would running back Isaiah Pead ran for 222 yards scored on a 38-yard touchdown pass from before the end of the second quarter. Kiel end his football career. Fortunately for the against Rutgers University.

UC sophomore quarterback Gunner Kiel to was not the only player to leave the game, Bearcats, it only set the quarterback up for a “Everybody out there was feeding off junior wide receiver Johnny Holton. With two USF players were ejected. greater return. of Mike Boone,”Tuberville said.“He gets in that, the Bearcats took the lead 7-0 in the USF cornerback Chris Dunkley was “[The coaches] said my time was going to the game and starts doing good things, all first quarter. ejected in the second quarter for targeting come and it came today. Hopefully, I did a the other guys start noticing.You could tell The turnover and subsequent score was with a hit to the head on UC junior wide good job helping my team win,” Legaux said. the confidence was building for the whole the story of the night for Cincinnati, who receiver Shaq Washington. “[Coach Tuberville] called me up in front of football team.” forced four turnovers during the match Washington finished the game with new the team and said ‘this guy came back and Cincinnati ended the game with 590 total — two of which were fumbles on botched personal career high records in receptions put in a lot of hard work and we’re going to offensive yards, allowing USF to gain only snaps by USF. and all-purpose yards in a single game as rally behind him and try to win this football 281 yards.

The Bulls fumbled the football four times he tallied 12 catches for 163 receiving yards game.’ ” Cincinnati improves to 4-3 on the season before halftime, losing one while White and another 46 yards on a punt return in the Legaux had complete trust and support by and now takes its hot streak on the road threw his second interception of the game to first quarter. USF wide receiver Andre Davis, his teammates and coach. to New Orleans, Louisiana, to face Tulane UC freshman cornerback Linden Stephens who became the all-time leader in receptions “I brought him up at halftime and University for a Halloween game 8 p.m. Oct. on the first play of their third drive in the for the Bulls, was ejected in the fourth everyone was kind of wondering what 31. second quarter. quarter for Cincinnati scored its second touchdown, fighting. a run into the endzone by Kiel for 17 yards, Cincinnati after USF committed a kick interference quarterback penalty on the previous punt return by UC to Munchie set up the Bearcats with good field position Legaux at the Cincinnati 42-yard line to start the started the drive. second The Bulls finished the game with seven half in

Quarterback sees first score since season-ending injury

Athletics dept. shows gratitude DAVID WYSONG | STAFF REPORTER

Students lined up under a giant inflatable Bearcat at McMicken Commons for a free lunch on Thursday as part of student appreciation week. Music blared across the commons as hungry students munched on hot dogs, hamburgers, and chips.

The University of Cincinnati athletics department organized the week of events to thank the student body for its support of varsity sports throughout the year. Brad Wurthman, the associate athletic director for marketing, helped plan the week’s events.

The events started Monday with a pizza party. Tuesday evening, the Bearcats set up outside of the Campus Wellness and Recreation Center with a DJ, tickets and giveaways.

Wednesday, the group went to Buffalo Wild Wings on Calhoun Street where students could pick up tickets for Friday’s football game against the University of Southern Florida, win prizes and get autographs from UC football players at lunchtime.

“We are just trying to show every day leading up to the game Friday, what students mean to us and thanking them for the support they have shown this year,”Wurthman said.

“Also being at Paul Brown Stadium it is just our way of saying thanks.”

Wurthman said the feedback from students has been great.

“The turnout so far this week has been great. People are fired up about it, and everyone has tickets for Friday. So it’s doing exactly what we hoped it would do,”Wurthman said.

There have been a number of student appreciation events over the past few years, but last week marked the first official student appreciation week.

“This is awesome, and I really like free food so they can keep doing this for us,” said Abbie Guvo, a second-year psychology student.

“The turnout so far this week has been great.

People are fired up about it, and everyone has tickets for Friday.”

—Brad Wirthman, Associate athletic director for marketing

Athletics tries to make sporting events appealing to students through fan involvement. Saturday night the men’s soccer program gave free scarves to fans during the team’s senior night celebrations. Friday night the volleyball program will have free candy for fans as a part of the team’s Halloween festivities.

“I enjoy going to football the most. I think it is interesting and it is usually the sport that gets the most students, so it is a pretty fun environment,” said Madison Taylor, a secondyear international business in communications student.

Matt Moore, a fourth-year criminal justice student, had a different opinion on which sporting event is the best to go to and which one has the most support from the fans.

“I like going to the basketball games the most because, from what I have seen, they have the most attendance support and the atmosphere is just so much different at the basketball games,” Moore said.

At the football game Friday, the first 6,000 students to enter the gates of Paul Brown Stadium received complimentary rally towels.

Hopefully this week’s display of fan appreciation will continue to draw roughly 36,000 crazed Bearcat fans into the jungle of Paul Brown to support the football team for their last two home games of the season Nov. 13 against East Carolina University and Dec. 6 against the University of Houston.

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LEFT: Quarterback Gunner Keil fights off USF’s Tashon Whitehurst while running with the ball. RIGHT: Quaterback Munchie Legaux drops to his knees in the second half moments after scoring a touchdown. The Bearcats beat the Bulls 34-17 Friday night.

Men’s soccer drops on senior night ELLEN HADLEY | SPORTS EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati men’s soccer team saw bitter defeat Saturday in the team’s senior night loss against the University of Central Florida, 3-2.

At an even four shots in the first half, UC and UCF struggled to convert shots into goals.

It took 42 minutes of back-and-forth play before UCF was able to claim the first goal of the game. UC redshirt senior goalkeeper Taylor Hafling went to clear the ball but a breakaway by UCF forward Romario Williams passed a UC defender and Hafling put the ball in the center of the goal and UCF on the board.

UCF continued to show its offensive dominance coming out of halftime. Midfielder Mason Miller rebounded off of Williams’ free kick with a header into the open net after redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Alex Gill saved the initial kick at 1:34 into the second half.

UC head coach Hylton Dayes saw the momentum change after being down two goals and a need to up the team’s mental game.

“At halftime we tried to sort out some things,” Dayes said.

“I thought that our mentality was good going in, but then right off the bat, you know, we gave up the free kick and they scored right off that and it was just tough because now you’re in a 2-0 hold. Tonight the focus wasn’t necessarily right.”

Cincinnati began playing with more urgency halfway into the second half. Freshman midfielder Christian Hay claimed his first goal of the season off a kick from the near corner to the far post by senior midfielder Alan Rovira.

Two minutes later, junior midfielder and forward Alejandro Garcia saw his second goal this season off of a cross by senior midfielder Ashani Walker. Walker made a pass up the field while running through the midfield to the top of the box. Garcia finished Walker’s fourth assist of the season from the far post through the keeper’s legs to put the Bearcats back in the game.

UC accounted for all six of the team’s corner kicks in the second half.

With the score evened up at two goals each, the Bearcats began to lose steam.

UCF’s Miller was not content with just one goal. He was able to secure the win with a header off of a free kick by forward Walker Dawkins. Miller found the upper right-hand corner off, lobbing it off of the hands of a diving Gill.

Dayes saw his team as disjointed throughout the majority of the game.

“We thought we were going to get the win but you have to respect the fight of the guys,” Dayes said.

UC was unable to comeback from being down 3-2, giving the Knights their second win this season and its first conference win.

The Bearcats had five saves in the game, while the Knights had zero.

Cincinnati saw contributions by all five seniors in the match after receiving honors prior to the game. Rovira and Walker’s goals complemented the work by fellow seniors Hafling, defender Matt Remaley and midfielder Will Diebold.

“Remaley’s one of our steadiest players,” Dayes said.

“Matt’s done a great job for us at right back. He’s one of our leaders. He gets forward a lot and really makes things happen for us. He gives us what we need from that position and I think he inspired us late in the game when we were coming back from the 2-nil down.”

The Bearcats head to Dallas, Texas, for the regular season finale against Southern Methodist University 8 p.m.

Saturday with seeding for the American Athletic Conference Tournament on the line. The league’s top four teams host teams five through eight in the quarterfinals Nov. 8.

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The UC men’s soccer team lost to UCF Saturday night, 3-2.