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Construction spending raises concerns as University debt grows HEATHER KING AND CHANDLER BONN
Nippert Stadium is scheduled to be under construction until August 2015.
Provost develops faculty-focused fellows program
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While brick-and-mortar spending expands, a growing university-wide debt looms, despite what University of Cincinnati officials call a strong financial rating. Over the past five years, UC spent more than $530.5 million to pay the principal cost and interest on money the university borrowed to finance renovation and building initiatives, according to university financial records. The figure for spending in 2014 was $112.8 million — enough money to provide 2,563 UC students with full scholarships for four years. Greg Loving, president of the UC chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said the university is addicted to building the campus at the expense of “building people.” According to Loving, the AAUP’s most recent salary negotiations with the administration suggest slow progress in changing the university’s spending pattern. “[After a year of negotiations] we did get a raise,” said Loving, who is also an associate professor of philosophy. “We beat
inflation by maybe 1 percent. What that means is we are still at the bottom of a lot of our peer institutions.” Loving said that during negotiations with the AAUP, university officials wanted UC to become part of the Association of American Universities, where UC would be competitive with the 62 other schools involved. But if UC was a member of AAU, “We would be making the bottom salary,” Loving said. Sara Hutchinson, an adjunct Spanish professor at UC, said the university spending numbers are shocking. Hutchinson notes that the numbers show officials emphasizing construction rather than helping students. Hutchinson, a UC graduate, said she was reminded of UC’s spending when the university sent her an email asking for donations. “The email encouraged alumni to ‘make their mark’ by donating to the Nippert Stadium [renovation],” Hutchinson said. “This was frankly insulting to me, as the ‘mark’ that students should be making is to SEE SPENDING PG 3
STUDENTS PLEDGE TO END SEXUAL ASSAULT
IT’S ON US COMES TO UC
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As part of development initiatives for faculty and leadership, Beverly Davenport, senior vice president and provost, created a Provost Fellows Program that will grant two faculty members the opportunity to work directly with the administration. The Provost Fellows Program creates opportunities for faculty to lead important initiatives for the university. The program is also about recognizing the value the University of Cincinnati’s faculty brings to conversations about the school’s future, Davenport said. “My experience as a provost fellow at Virginia Tech showed me just how important this kind of opportunity can be,” Davenport said. “At UC, we need for our faculty to understand the workings of the administration and we need to work hand in hand to create a strong and vibrant future for our whole UC community.” Vice Provost Richard Miller will facilitate the fellows program that is set to launch early next year. The program’s initiatives for 2015 will be to work with the University Honors Program, assisting in the analysis of data from the faculty satisfaction survey, according to Miller. The faculty members chosen to be a part of the program will maintain their faculty titles, but will spend half their time working in the provost’s office — approximately 20 hours a week for a year, Miller said. The Provost Fellows Program is similar to the program Davenport started at Purdue University when she was associate provost there, Miller said. Purdue’s Provost Fellows Program was launched by Davenport in 2009 and is still an ongoing program. “Like the program at Purdue, UC Provost Fellows will be able to be a part of developing and refining the initiatives they’re assigned — in essence, collaborating at high levels with the administration to chart the course for the future and hopefully increasing their interest and abilities to take on these positions in the future,” Davenport said. The Provost Fellows Program is one that will be continued for years to come at UC, Miller said. Future Fellows may be involved in other ongoing initiatives in the provost’s office, such as the new cluster hiring initiative, faculty development, student success and international affairs, according to Miller. “Bringing faculty into high-level conversations about these initiatives, which will directly impact them, their peers and the future of UC, gives us all a broader understanding of these critical issues,” Davenport said.
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Members of UC Student Government signed the pledge to recognize and end sexual assault as part of a national campaign titled It’s On Us.
Administration joins students, brings national campaign to university level KATIE COBURN | NEWS EDITOR
Students and campus organizations at the University of Cincinnati are collaborating to address and prevent sexual assault on campus beginning with its introduction of the UC It’s On Us campaign Friday. Launched by the White House, It’s On Us is a national campaign brought to UC by the collaborative efforts of the Office of the Provost, UC’s Women’s Center, RECLAIM Peer Advocates, Student Government and other student leaders and advocates on and off campus. The UC It’s On Us campaign follows the national ‘It’s On Us’ four-part pledge: to recognize that non-consensual sex is sexual assault; to identify situations in which sexual assault may occur; to
intervene in situations where consent has not or cannot be given; and to create an environment in which sexual assault is unacceptable and survivors are supported. Emily Imhoff, a fourth-year international affairs student and director of government affairs in Student Government, said the campaign’s purpose is to spread a culture of consent and to hold students and administration accountable. “It’s obviously an issue,” Imhoff said. “Sometimes people don’t realize it’s an issue because walking to and from classes you don’t typically see violent acts of assault, but they are so ingrained in our society, we’re just conditioned to ignore them, to excuse them.” One in four campus women will survive rape or attempted rape during her college career at UC, whereas, one in five women of the general population will survive rape or attempted rape over the course of her life, according to The Campus
Sexual Assault Study: Summary Report of Results for the University of Cincinnati of June 2007. “Not only does every single person deserve a life free of violence, every person deserves an education free of violence,” said Maria Kothman, a fourthyear social work student who serves as a RECLAIM Peer Advocate for UC’s Women’s Center. “It’s unacceptable that the rates are higher for campus women.” The statistic addressed women at UC who survived rape or attempted rape, but it did not account for other forms of sexual assault. “One in four women survive rape or attempted rape, but so many of the other three out of four may survive other forms of sexual assault, or they may survive harassment, stalking, or intimate partner violence,” Kothman said. David Schmutte, a fifth-year RECLAIM SEE IT’S ON US PG 3
Design student one of three in US to win Volkswagen internship JOEL MCGRINDER | CONTRIBUTOR
After designing a unique, futuristic vehicle for a video game, a University of Cincinnati student won an internship in Germany with Volkswagen. Cameron Bresn, a third-year industrial design student in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, is one of three winners of the 2014 Volkswagen Design Contest and will intern with the carmaker in Germany for six months. Bresn and the two other winners are invited to participate in a six-month internship at the Volkswagen design center in Wolfsburg, Germany. The internship offers the winners of the competition the chance to experience and participate in the daily operation of the company and to participate in ongoing projects, according to the Volkswagen contest website. The competition was global, allowing submissions from all over the world. Not only did Bresn have to compete against unknown participants, but fellow UC students as well.
“The entire junior class of industrial design students was competing,” Bresn said. “We discussed some ideas, but it was mostly an individual effort.” Contest participants were required to design a vehicle in collaboration with a scenario for a video game. Because of the limitless bounds of the fictional universe the prompt provided, Bresn strived to design anything but the ordinary. “I focused on the car … making it nontraditional,” Bresn said. Researching and implementing the aesthetic techniques of designers — such as Joris Laarman, Zaha Hadid, and Dion Lee — Bresn found inspiration for his futuristic vehicle. After Bresn came up with a vehicle design he liked, the conceptual video game universe surrounding it fell into place. Because Bresn came up with a futuristic and sleek vehicle design, he chose a sci-fi video game universe to complement his concept – a racing game that pushed the SEE DESIGN PG 3
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‘Once’ serenades audiences at Aronoff KRANTHI PAMARTHI | STAFF REPORTER
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Carlee Alson, farmer and writer from Indiana, writes on a note card provided for the exhibit about her personal aspirations at the exhibit on Sunday.
Hope grows at Cincinnati Art Museum KYLEY FREDRICK | STAFF REPORTER
Among the famous pop art and Regionalist paintings currently invading the walls of the Cincinnati Art Museum (including the iconic “American Gothic”) stands an impressive 16-foot white crabapple tree, roots and all. During the next few weeks, Americans will be bombarded with visions of the perfect Christmas tree, but the “Tree of Life” stands as a unifying symbol of hope. The organic structure is bare, except for the twisted silver wire hanging from the branches that holds glass structures that resemble test tubes. In the pieces of glass hanging from the tree are colorful pieces of paper, all holding handwritten wishes of people who visit the exhibit. Matt Kotlarczyk, the artist who created “Tree of Life,” is an alumni of the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, where he studied sculpture and design. The museum wanted a project that would spur a new holiday tradition, something not about Christmas. The tree is symbolic of winter as it demonstrates that even
though things in life will naturally die, there is still new life being generated — a reason to be hopeful. “The crabapple tree was in my front yard when I first moved into my house, but it started to look sickly,” Kotlarczyk said. “I was thinking through ideas and I had a dying tree in my front yard which was special to me, so the writing was on the wall. I was happy I could use it and give it a new life.” The artist statement at the exhibit states that the wintery, monochromatic color pallet of the bare tree — white rubber coating, silver glass and clear wire — acts as an austere welcome of the chilly, beautiful winter weather we must embrace. “With each wish I wanted it to be visible. When the paper is inserted into the tubes it creates more color and brings light back into the universe, it makes the world brighter,” Kotlarczyk said. Once the exhibit closes on Jan. 4, all of the wishes will be burned, the ashes used to plant a new tree in the spring. “I think I want people to think of what, to them, is going to make the world a better place. To be able to summarize
that, to think it, write it and put it on a piece of paper makes it more of a reality. To say those words and write them, the combination is going to make the world a better place by getting the idea out there,” Kotlarczyk said. Diane Moser, a volunteer docent at the Cincinnati Art Museum, stands next to the large tree to offer insight about the mission behind it. She witnesses many different people as they write down secrets and goals for the New Year. “I think it is wonderful because it increases positive energy and we could all use more of that,” Moser said. “I am always amazed when people come up and say I don’t know what to wish for, because I have about 500 wishes.” Moser mentioned that admission is free, and that there is no pressure on what to wish for. “Some people will write, and write and write and I think ‘How wonderful, they are probably wishing something for the world and universe.’ Other people will write just one word and drop it in,” Moser said. “I think it is just a wonderful experience.”
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Connie Roenker snaps a photogragh and ponders on last years exhibit. “I remember this exhibit from last year because I wrote about my sister who lost everything she owned in a house fire,” Roenker said.
The Aronoff Center’s most recent production is a beautiful musical to experience, a meditation on love’s healing powers in the wake of pain. “Once” is a musical adaptation of a 2006 film of the same name written and directed by John Carney. The musical opened Nov. 11 at the Aronoff Center as part of the Broadway Series and runs through Nov. 23. The Tony Awardwinning musical is a short leisurely walk through a pub, which is poignant and oddly blissful because of a passionate, nontraditional love story between the lead pair. The first act focuses on the destined meeting of Guy and Girl. Girl tries to help Guy in securing a future by the very thing he loves and almost abandoned — music. Impressively, each cast member plays their own instrument. Ward plays the guitar and de Waal plays the piano with passion. The musical follows, both humorously and heartbreakingly, Girl’s immature character, played by Dani de Waal, and her amusing way of doing things. The musical is directed by John Tiffany, and the captivating choreography is directed by Steven Hoggett. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, the original actors in the film version, provided the music and lyrics for the numbers sung by the ensemble throughout the show — songs that help bridge together a succinct two-act story. Guy, skillfully played by Stuart Ward, is a singer-songwriter in Dublin who has lost his inspiration with music. He loved a woman who went to New York City in search of her future, and since then has been in a constant fear of confronting his life, afraid that he might lose whatever is left. The play is set in a Dublin bar with mirrors lined up on the wall, reducing in size as they go out from mid-stage. The reflections of characters in these mirrors signify reality and how distant they are from it. This intricate setting, with agile shifting of furniture for different scenarios, makes it more mesmerizing for the continuous flow of movement in the play. De Waal plays the classic example of someone who tries to hide her sadness with a smiling face in hope of a different future, waiting completely on the will of others. She accidentally hears Guy sing and understands that he is a troubled man losing his interest in music. Intuitively, she tries to help him come out of this block and help him get through it because he has the potential of becoming a famous musician. Girl is abandoned by her husband and is forced to live with her mother and her Czech friends in small quarters. Erica Swindell played the role of Réza in the musical, and a special mention should be given for her mesmerizing dancing. The musical reaches its epic moment in both acts when Guy and Girl perform the poignant duet “Falling Slowly,” a song that is haunting in its beauty. “Once” is not about the past or the future. It’s a passionate romance between two people who fall in love with each other and help navigate their obstacles in the present. It is moving because their present is mixed with emotions that are real, even if the characters convince themselves that they are not. “Once” is a story where people go to extremes in fulfilling a destiny they think they deserve.
‘The Endless River’: Pink Floyd’s final album
After nearly 50 years as a band and 20 years since its last album, classic rock’s most legendary group sets sail, this time in search of an ending. PROVIDED/COLUMBIA
The album art (above) is the fourth album cover not designed by artist Storm Thurgerson, who died in 2013. This album art was designed by Ahmed Emad Eldin, an 18-year-old Egyptian artist. ZACK HATFIELD | ARTS EDITOR
Although Pink Floyd’s sound often reflects the universe and its distant galaxies, the band isn’t going out with a big bang like fans would expect in its most recent album — the first in two decades. But “The Endless River” supposedly marks the end of Pink Floyd, as the progrock veterans (guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason are the only surviving members) have stated that this will be the final release from the band. This isn’t an album for pure “Dark Side of the Moon” obsessives or Syd Barrett lovers. It isn’t for strict fans of post-Roger Waters Floyd either (if any exist). It’s for listeners willing to take a journey through Pink Floyd’s musical history, not sure where it will take them. Pit stops might show you some out-of-place saxophone solos and a random track that features Steven Hawking’s speech synthesizer, but that’s just part of the trip. It’s a strange last album because of its quiet circumstances. The famous and polarizing conflict between bassist
and vocalist Waters and Gilmour wasn’t resolved. Gilmour doesn’t sing on any of the tracks either, save for the albumclosing song. The material isn’t even necessarily new, most of it from the vaults, produced after sifting through discarded sessions from the band’s last album, 1994’s neutrally reviewed “The Division Bell,” which was recorded on Gilmour’s houseboat-turnedstudio, “Astoria.” In this way, we must face that we’re really listening to a zombie of an album. And although Richard Wright sadly passed away in 2008 after battling cancer, his lushly textured keyboards make up a lot — if not most — of the sound on “The Endless River.”This is fortunate, as Wright’s sounds frequently help form gravity around the chaos of the other instruments. The ambience on albumopener “Things Left Unsaid” is Floyd at its most recognizable, Wright’s ethereal synthesizers breathing like calm waves crashing on a shore. The album inevitably takes on an elegiac tone, a posthumous spotlight on Wright —
Pink Floyd’s secret weapon. Gilmour, often ranked as one of the world’s most skilled guitarists, lends his heart-wrenching solos to standout instrumentals like “It’s What We Do” and “Surfacing,” where his Stratocaster squeals with emotion unparalleled by most musicians. The production on the album is pristine; the keyboards, sound effects and guitar reverberations synchronized beautifully. But even if Floyd can still put out an instrumentally solid release, it all feels a little too immaculate, as if we’re listening to a Pink Floyd cover band rather than the real thing. This has always been the case of Pink Floyd post-Waters, but at least “The Division Bell” and 1987’s “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” had Gilmour’s vocals, which can get the job done. The album itself feels like a languid trip down a river as we listen to solos and sound effects that reference songs in the band’s back catalog, and it isn’t exactly bad, just mildly disappointing. There’s the trademark ether of Pink
Floyd, and the maniacal drum solos from Mason that have accompanied so many laser shows, but the overall album sounds like a Pink Floyd clip show. When Gilmour finally does sing, it’s on the last track, “Louder Than Words.”The first lines remind us of the inner problems between the band members. “We bitch and we fight/Diss each other on sight,” Gilmour sings in a dulcet and soulful voice, but later admits their musical harmony: “It’s louder than words/The sum of our parts/The beat of our hearts.” Even though the album cover features a man in a boat amid rolling clouds looking at the bright horizon as though awaiting the future, “The Endless River” seems content with nostalgia, ignoring the tradition of releasing albums that try to reinvent the band’s place in music. The name of the album suggests a river flowing forever, much like the band’s continuum in rock history, but the sad truth is that this is Pink Floyd’s coda, the river more akin to the mythological river Styx, carrying the band from our world to the next.
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Student Government organizes drives, gives back during holiday CASSIE MERINO | CHIEF REPORTER
The University of Cincinnati’s Student Government plans to give back this holiday season by participating in the second annual global #GivingTuesday. #GivingTuesday is a national event, started up in December of 2012 by New York’s 92nd Street Y in partnership with the United Nations Foundation. The purpose of the event is to give back to the community after days of feasting and consumerism during the holiday shopping boom. The event will occur Dec. 2, the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. “Essentially I don’t believe Student Government puts on a lot of community service events,” said Manoj Ambalavanan, associate vice president of campus relations. “The idea behind it is you have Black Friday, you have Cyber Monday; these are days of massive consumption [and]
the next day is Tuesday, so why don’t we give back for all the consuming we have done these past two days?” There will be canned food and clothing drives on campus, and hygiene packets will be distributed to those in need through the help of Mathew 24 Ministries, a humanitarian organization and ministry. Student Government was originally spending $497 to create and distribute the hygiene kits, but cut the cost to $347.20 in the hopes of receiving donated supplies from Procter & Gamble Co. The money will go toward supplying soap bars, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, lotion and combs. “We put this on last year and it was a big success,” Ambalavanan said. Ambalavanan said that ideally some students would help put together the kits and there will be canned food and coat drop off boxes.
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More than 80 students signed the pledge to join the It’s On Us campaign to adress sexual assault. FROM IT’S ON US PG 1
Peer Advocate said RECLAIM’s main objective is to stop sexual assault on campus, and the campaign is just one way peer advocates are working toward this goal. “It’s a problem that we need to, at the very least, address,” Schmutte said. The Office of the Provost is funding the campaign. Provost Beverly Davenport said the campaign has received overwhelming support from the university, including the President’s Office, UC Athletics, UC Public Safety Chief of Police Jason Goodrich and Title IX Coordinator Jyl Shaffer. “I’m proud to support the #UCItsOnUs campaign, because it’s important for all of us to work together to build a culture
of respect and consent,” Davenport said. “The statistics about sexual assault on college campuses can seem daunting, but if we all work together and take responsibility, I believe we can make a difference.” Kara Driscoll, a third-year journalism student who serves as a student worker for Provost Beverly Davenport, said the campaign is not only promoting the prevention of sexual assault but also a response to sexual assault after it occurs. “[Davenport is] an advocate for women. She’s an advocate for a safe environment at UC,” Driscoll said. “I think even in her short time here she’s done a lot to change the atmosphere and make it a better place for everyone, but I think especially for women in leadership and students in general.”
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to use their experience and education to build a more equitable world.” Some UC students question the university’s priorities, such as directing money to brick-and-mortar projects rather than addressing the needs of students. The university began renovations on Teachers College in Dyer Hall in September and Scioto Hall in October — both to be completed in 2016. Christian Corgan, a third-year electronic media major at UC, is one of those students. In the spring, Corgan received his associate degree from UC’s Blue Ash College. Corgan said he and other students in the e-media department often had to use tripods, cameras and other equipment that was outdated or broken. “I would ask teachers, ‘Why don’t we have better equipment? Why are we dealing with this broken stuff?’ ” Corgan said. “They would just respond, ‘Well we don’t have the money for it.’ ” University officials said the university’s financial condition is strong. “When you look at the university debt rating, we’re AA, which is a very high, respectable debt rating, so obviously the rating agencies think we’re okay and there’s not an issue financially given our financial statement and level of debt,” said Lynne Johns, director of Business Affairs and Debt Management in the Budget and Financial Services Department. University financial records suggest a different picture. Those records show UC ending the 2014 fiscal year with
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boundaries of modern technology and motorsports. “Quantum AG,” Bresn’s video game concept, features “intense, severe, and fast-paced racing” that showcases his vehicle, the “S-2 Boson Racer,” according to Bresn’s submission. Bresn’s favorite part of the design process was seeing all of the pieces come together to form a unified result. “Seeing the final product come together was the most gratifying part
Student government spent almost $400 to create hygeine kits to donate to those in need.
More than 80 students signed the campaign pledge Friday, which included students writing their names, email addresses and their reason for choosing to sign the pledge. Students’ pictures were also taken and uploaded to the UC It’s On Us Facebook page. Sushmita Walve, a third-year astrophysics student, said she signed the pledge because she wants to alleviate the victim blaming associated with sexual assault. “It just breaks my heart, because if a girl does go through it, it’s so ridiculous to blame it on her,” Walve said. “It just affects them so much, so I think we should all work together and try to help them. Everyone is related to someone who could have been assaulted.” Anthony Pantano, a third-year social work student, said he signed the pledge to serve as a voice for those who have survived sexual assault. “I find it to be an extremely important topic and also another one that doesn’t get enough light,” Pantano said. “As far as the people that are underprivileged or vulnerable, the populations that it involves, I think they need a voice. So, us as students should take it upon us to be that voice.” Taking the pledge is the first step in recognizing the problem and volunteering to be a part of the solution, Kothman said. Shivam Shah, Student Government vice president, also signed the pledge. Shah calls students to not only sign the pledge, but to take an active stance and attract attention to the campaign by creating conversation around campus and their communities. “We see all these statistics, but if you don’t materialize it, then sometimes it’s hard for students to know what it means and they just know it as a number,” Shah said. “If people just take a picture and then walk away, not enough is going to happen. People need to start talking about it.”
an operating loss of $263,700 — the fourth consecutive year the university ended in the red. Between 2011 and 2014, UC’s operating losses totaled more than $1 million, according to university records. Student tuition and fees funded more than half of the 2014 operating budget for UC, but it was not enough to offset the $23 million decrease in federal grants and contracts revenue. Students paid more than $431 million in tuition and fees in 2014 — 56 percent of the total operating budget. Despite spending more than $500 million to pay the principal and interest on bonds over the past five years, UC’s bond debt rose to $1.236 billion in 2014 — $108 million more debt than the university had in 2013. Records indicate the university’s bond debt will continue to increase. According to a financial statement from April 14, bond payments will rise each year from 2014 to 2018 for a total of almost 19 percent. These projections do not include any new projects. Recently, the Department of Athletics submitted a request for designs for a complete renovation of Fifth Third Arena, UC’s primary basketball arena. The project would cost $70 million. If approved, the construction is projected to begin April 2016 and would be completed by November of 2017. Loving said past experience has taught him to question deals that are not supported by hard numbers. “A lot of these claims are made at the beginning of these projects, but when they don’t work out, we’re left holding the bag, and so I always want people to return to [asking], ‘How are we tracking the initial claims of the investment? How is all of this working out?’ ” Loving said.
Imhoff said another purpose of the campaign is to inform students of Lynn Rosenthal’s visit to UC Nov. 21. Rosenthal, a White House Advisor on Violence Against Women, is scheduled to speak in the Tangeman University Center’s Great Hall at 11 a.m. Davenport said Rosenthal chose to visit UC out of all Ohio universities. “Her visit here speaks volumes about the work that UC has done and is continuing to do, to prevent sexual violence and support survivors,” Davenport said. Imhoff said she plans to work with RECLAIM advocates to continue the campaign throughout the academic year. “When we make an effort to look out for one another, to hold each other accountable, we create a community of care,” Davenport said. “Everyone can learn from that example, and everyone has an important part to play.”
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Shivam Shah, vice president of UC’s student government, pledged to join the campaign.
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It would make more sense to gather data from other schools regarding costs and benefits rather than relying on projections by UC’s athletics department, according to Loving. “Instead of rosy projections based on ideals, what have other schools done that’s the same thing we have done, and what was their payoff?” Loving said. Johns declined comment on the Fifth Third Arena renovation project because she said it “hasn’t reached [her] level yet.”
of the experience,” Bresn said. He was surprised when he received emails from competitors who lived in different countries congratulating him on his achievement. Although extremely excited about traveling to Germany for the internship, Bresn plans to keep an open mind regarding his future with UC and pursuing careers after college. “I’m in a situation where I have more coops and time to decide where I want to go with it,” Bresn said. “I’ve been interested in car design since I was a kid, and pursuing a career in that field is my goal.”
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Students take time to begin roles in life-saving process Sharing America’s Marrow teams up with fraternity, encourages UC community to donate bone marrow MICHELLE FLANAGAN | CONTRIBUTOR
Volunteers walked through Langsam Library Thursday morning holding clipboards and asking University of Cincinnati students a thought-provoking question: “Would you like to take five minutes to help save a life?” Sharing America’s Marrow, a nonprofit campaign with the goal of registering 50,000 bone marrow donors in 50 states in 2015, set up two booths on campus in conjunction with fraternity Phi Gamma Delta to inform students about signing up with the national bone marrow donation registry. Although 11 million people are on the national bone marrow registry, six out of 10 patients still don’t have a match, according to Taylor Shorten, Sharing America’s Marrow’s director of development. Shorten explained that the process of donation is very similar to that of blood donation. Seventy-five percent of the time, stem cells are donated instead of bone marrow. It takes four to six hours because the blood has to be filtered in order to remove the stem cells before it can be returned to the other arm. The other 25 percent of the time, the donor is put under general anesthesia and the bone marrow is taken from
the back of the pelvic bone. The donor goes home the same day, but there can be a bit of soreness for another few days. “Matches are based on genetics, and being someone’s donor is a lot like being their genetic twin,” Shorten said. The chances of being matched to a donor are affected by factors including age, gender and ethnicity, meaning that one individual could easily be the only one in the world able to donate to a specific person in need. When a donor is called, he or she is asked to go to the nearest collection center, and although Shorten said donations can sometimes be made locally, there’s usually travel involved. The closest donation centers to Cincinnati are located in Nashville and Washington, D.C., but Shorten said travel should not be a deterrent to potential donors. “Delete Blood Cancer takes care of all travel expenses for the donor and a friend [or] family member and makes sure everyone is super comfortable,” she explained. “If the donor must miss work and the workplace does not compensate for missed days financially, Delete Blood Cancer can also work out compensation for the donor.” Delete Blood Cancer is the largest bone marrow center in the world, with more than 4.5 million donors registered and 40,000 patients treated. Stuart Johnson, a second-year undecided student, had never looked into blood marrow donation, but decided to say “yes” when handed the clipboard to register.
“I’ve donated blood plenty of times before, so I don’t see why this is any different,” Johnson said when asked why he didn’t hesitate to do something he’d never thought about. Ellie Bisbee, a first-year student who is also undecided, explained that she heard about bone marrow donation before and was interested, but never took action. Unaware that the event was happening, Bisbee walked into the library and said she thought, “Wow. That’s a lot of people!” She wasn’t worried about what would happen if she got a donation match, though. “If you’re only sore for a day, I feel like that’s not that big of a deal,” Bisbee said. Michael Damen, a third-year biology student, said that although he donates blood frequently, he’s never looked into marrow donation. “I kind of just walked in, they asked me, and I said, ‘Sure, why not?’ ” Damen said. He believes it’s important that UC promotes opportunities to help others, and he said this is a fast, easy way to do so. Shorten reiterated why students saying “yes” is so important. “For so many patients, a bone marrow transplant is the only option and the only cure for their cancer or disease,” Shorten said. “Being a donor is literally giving life to someone who otherwise would probably lose it.”
Journalist talks covering MiddleEastern conflicts CARSON HOOVER | CONTRIBUTOR
An award-winning international journalist shared her experiences and viewpoints on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Wednesday night at the University of Cincinnati — a topic she has reported on in the region for more than a decade. Linda Gradstein, who has had almost 20 years of correspondence with National Public Radio, gave a speech titled “Is the Cycle of War Inevitable?” in Tangeman University Center’s Great Hall. The Department of Judaic Studies sponsored the event. Gradstein lives in Jerusalem with her husband and four children, where she covers headline news. Gradstein and her team then report back through The Media Line, a news source focused solely on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Gradstein started the talk with a joke and a general background of the struggle of borders, Israeli settlements and the decades-old struggle for a peace treaty. “Hezbollah has rockets aimed at Israel and can start a war any minute,” Gradstein said, explaining the most substantial fear of Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Hezbollah is fighting on Syria’s behalf and there is no sign of Syrian war coming to an end due to the lack of international resolution, she said. Extreme tension started before summer when Hamas, a Palestinian militant organization seen as a terrorist group by the United States and several other countries, kidnapped three Israeli teen hitchhikers. In response, Israel kidnapped a Palestinian teenager and burned him to death, Gradstein explained. In recent news, a young Palestinian man shot Yehuda Glick, an American-born Israeli rabbi, four times at point-blank range at a conference two weeks ago. Glick survived and is now in good condition. Later, there was a shootout in the young Palestinian’s neighborhood and he was found dead. This caused an outbreak of riots. “Two-thirds of Israelis and two-thirds of Palestinians favor a two-state solution,” Gradstein said. “Jerusalem could have a burrow system; an Israeli major and a Palestinian major could separately control their people.” According to Gradstein, the issue is that there are more than 350,000 Israelis in settlements in the West Bank that would have to leave in order for a peace deal to work. This is a result of over 400 Palestinian villages being destroyed in the 1950s, she said. Gradstein went on to describe how the U.S. could help find a long-overdue resolution, though it may not happen quite yet. “The U.S. can play an important role, but the Obama administration has too much on its plate,” Gradstein said. “The U.S. has to be involved on the economic side, that’s the first thing they can do. The U.S. must push both sides to make an agreement. They are seen as an honest broker, so they can definitely encourage.” Gradstein went on to say, “There’s concern if Hamas is overthrown, then there is a power vacuum, but it would be a mistake to wait around for it to just explode. There is truly a crisis of leadership.” After a detailed explanation of the conflict, Gradstein finished the speech by taking questions from audience members. “It sounds interesting,” said Apoorva Reddy, a first-year political science student, of Gradstein’s work as an international journalist. “I like to write. I think it would be interesting to do everything she’s done.” After Gradstein’s speech, Stephanie Branch, a fourth-year international studies student, said, “Her language was amazing. It was insane how well she chose her words.” Despite the years of experience the journalist has, Gradstein still overcomes obstacles in her reporting. “Israel can dominate Gaza if it wanted, but it hasn’t,” she said, offering a final thought. “This means there’s not a military solution, which means it’s political. The two sides are fated to be together. Even with everything else, the U.S. needs to get involved. Covering this is challenging — very emotional, intense, and a privilege.”
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UC’s Equestrian Club, which is open to all students regardless of previous experience with horses, competes in three to four horse shows every semester. The group also meets weekly for lessons with coach Missy Jo Hollingsworth.
Group members jump into passion for horses UC’s Equestrain Team welcomes all to join regardless of prior experience CASSIE LIPP | SENIOR REPORTER
There’s a certain anticipation that accompanies the feel of jumping a horse — grabbing the reins and bracing your body as you guide your companion over an obstacle. There’s an entirely different type of anticipation that comes with jumping a horse as part of a national competition. The University of Cincinnati Equestrian Team (UCET) is a nationally-competitive, semi-varsity sport with about 40 members on the team, according to Jackie Hack, UCET President and a second-year education student. The group competes in three to four horse shows per semester, and although members are not required to compete, they are strongly encouraged to do so. “We encourage it because it’s super fun to be able to get out there and see what everyone else is doing and learn how you can better yourself as a rider,” Hack said. Team members also meet once a week for lessons with the coach. All students are welcome to join the team regardless of their prior experiences with horses. “We all love to meet new people and love to open the team up to anybody,” Hack said.
“We have a couple of girls that joined this year that have never been on a horse before, and they have grown so much already, even in these first couple of months, and it’s just a really neat thing to see.” Hack said she began riding horses when she was a young girl because her cousin did, and Hack has been in love with everything equestrian ever since. “Horseback riding in general is pretty unique,” she said. “It takes something special for somebody to be able to trust a 1,200-pound animal with their life.” Students may recognize UCET members from their grilled cheese sales in Tangeman University Center. The sales are one of many fundraisers team members participate in to raise money for their dues, which is $500 per semester for new members and $450 per semester for returning members. The UCET hosts one horse show each year at its home barn, Saddle Lake Equestrian Center. The team competes in the Inner Collegiate Horse Show Association. Local schools they compete against include Xavier University, Morehead State, Midway College and University of Kentucky. Hack said the greatest part of UCET is the close bond team members have. “I just love being able to bring everybody together doing something that we love to do,” Hack said.
Hack said UCET Coach Missy Jo Hollingsworth tells new students joining UCET that their team members will be their friends for the rest of their college experience and beyond. The UCET president last year recently got married, and her bridal party consisted of many of the team’s members. Hollingsworth has been the UCET team coach since 2007 — the first year the team was in the top five in the region for both the Hunt seat and Western divisions. UCET has been successful on both the regional and national level every year since then. Hollingsworth’s work earned her the “Coach of the Year” award in 2012 from UC Club Sports, Hack said. “I like watching the riders grow up to be great young adults,” Hollingsworth said. “I love a rider who can try out for a team and get to experience a quality of horse that they have never gotten to ride before. It’s very exciting for me to see progression like that.” The fact that members are of all skill levels adds to the strength and diversity of the team. Hollingsworth spoke of the fact that watching members grow and evolve during their time in the group is particularly rewarding. “I find my bravest riders are the ones who have never ridden before and show up to try out,” Hollingsworth added. “I’m always so impressed by them.”
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Members of the team have been successful on both regional and national levels of competitions since 2007 — the same year coach Hollingsworth began coaching the group. 2007 was also the first year the team placed in the top five in the region for Hunt seat and Western divisions.
SPORTS / 5 Bearcats rob Pirates, stay in fight for conference title MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2014 / NEWSRECORD.ORG
DAVID WYSONG | STAFF REPORTER
The temperature dipped below 30 degrees at game time Thursday for the University of Cincinnati inter-conference matchup against the East Carolina University Pirates, but the game was heated. The Pirates started out their season with a 6-1 record — their only loss being to the University of South Carolina Gamecocks — and were ranked No. 18 in the Associated Press top 25 poll for college football. The Pirates looked as if they were going to run away with the American Athletic Conference title, until they were upset by the Temple University Owls Nov. 1 with a final score of 20-10. With three losses so far in the season, the Bearcats know that they have to win every game for the remainder of the year if they want to at least tie for the conference title. Knowing that the Pirates were coming off of a loss, the Bearcats faced a hungry team during primetime. UC started off quickly when senior linebacker Jeff Luc forced the Pirates to fumble on their first possession. The UC offense then conducted a three-play, 82-yard drive when redshirt sophomore quarterback Gunner Kiel threw a dump pass to junior wide receiver Mekale McKay and let McKay do the rest for a 55-yard touchdown. The Bearcats took an early 7-0 lead. The Bearcats defense allowed the Pirates to get two consecutive field goals to bring the score to 7-6. Then on UC’s third possession of the game, Kiel completed a 17-yard touchdown pass to junior wide receiver Max Morrison to end the first quarter with a 14-6 lead. A nine-play touchdown drive and a touchdown off of a Kiel-thrown-pick gave the Pirates a 20-17 lead over the Bearcats. That lead did not last long when Kiel threw his third touchdown pass of the game for 66 yards to junior wide receiver
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Kicker Andrew Gantz celebrates with quarterback Gunner Keil after making a field goal to put the Bearcats over the Pirates 54-46.
Chris Moore, taking back the lead at 24-20. The first half ended with a two-yard touchdown run by senior running back Rod Moore and a missed ECU field goal by senior kicker Warren Harvey. The teams went into the locker room with the Bearcats claiming the lead at 31-20 The Bearcats looked as if they were going to run away with the game after they scored on the first possession of the second half — increasing UC’s lead to 3820. — But the Bearcats failed to score on the next four possessions. The lead was trimmed to 38-34 in the fourth quarter after an 18-yard touchdown pass from ECU senior quarterback Shane Carden to senior wide receiver Justin Hardy. UC then ran down the clock with a five minute, 24-second drive that ended with a 36-yard touchdown pass from Kiel to
McKay on a fourth-and-six play. That made the score 45-34 with under five minutes left in the game. The Pirates did not give up though, marching 71 yards in 57 seconds to make the score 45-40 after a missed two-point conversion. On the Bearcats’ next offensive possession, fans thought that their chances to win the AAC title were over. On fourth and two, UC head coach Tommy Tuberville decided to go for it. The offense ran an option play and Kiel missed Rod Moore on the pitch back, giving the Pirates the ball back with prime field position. After six plays and a pass interference call on fourth down, the Pirates took the lead 46-45 with one minute and two seconds left in the game. The crowd fell silent.
But the Bearcats knew they hadn’t lost yet. The offense then drove 35 yards in 42 seconds and freshman kicker Andrew Gantz kicked a 47-yard field goal with 15 seconds left to make the score 48-46. With 15 seconds left in the game, the Pirates still had a chance, but on first down the ECU offense fumbled, and UC senior defensive end Terrell Hartsfield recovered it for a touchdown with no time left. The Bearcats won the game, 54-46. With Gantz making the biggest kick of his career — high school and college — he was elated after the game. “It is something everyone dreams of. When you start kicking a football — whether you’re an 8-year-old or an 18-year-old — that’s the moment you dream of. To be in a position to win a game for your team, for your brothers that you work so hard with. It was just indescribable,” Gantz said. Kiel ended the game with 436 passing yards and four touchdowns, and talking after the game, he praised Gantz’s performance. “He came up to me before we went out there and said, ‘Hey it’s me and you, it’s me and you. So if you get me down there, I’m going to hit it.’ So I was like ‘I got you man, we’re going to do it, we’re going to do it,’ ” Kiel said. With the Bearcats having three games left, they still have a chance to win their conference. “We got our foot in the door for the conference, but it is just in the door,” Tuberville said. “We have three hard games left. We are going to have to play like we played tonight in a lot of areas to have a chance. The next two are on the road and we’ll see what happens.” The Bearcats are now 6-3 and their next game is Saturday at Rentschler Field against the University of Connecticut Huskies, who are 2-7 for the year. Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. and will be televised on CBS Sports Network.
Men’s, Women’s basketball open season with head start ELLEN HADLEY | SPORTS EDITOR
The University of Cincinnati women’s basketball team hosted the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff Saturday to tip off both teams’ regular seasons. The 73-57 decision showed a strong Bearcats offense with notable performances all around. UC opened the game, leading for the first seven and a half minutes until a layup by UAPB’s Jazmyne Victorian gave the Golden Lions a 10-9 lead. Two minutes later, a threepointer by junior guard Jasmine Whitfield put the Bearcats back on top, 12-10. The score remained close with neither team leading by more than three points until 2:46 remained in the first half. Freshman guard Makenzie Cann caught a defensive rebound before bumping UC’s lead to five at 28-23 with a three-pointer. UC continued to hold the lead going into halftime, 33-29, leading for a total of 15 of the 20-minute-long half. The Bearcats never surrendered their lead throughout the second half, reaching a seven-point lead three times in the last five minutes of the game. Whitfield marked her first three-pointer of the second half five minutes off of a turnover by UAPB’s Shami Goodman, pushing UC’s lead to 39-31. Freshman guard Ana Owens sealed the deal for the Bearcats with three
MICHELLE BLAUMAN | CONTRIBUTOR
Chelsea Jamison take dribbles around an Arkansas-Pine Bluff player Saturday afternoon at Fifth Third Arena.
seconds left in the game completing a layup ending it at 73-57. UC out rebounded the Golden Lions 55-34. “I took away the fact that we have to get better defensively,” Elliott said.“This was a game where, after this, it doesn’t get any easier.” Each recruiting class offered strong performances for the Bearcats; Owens and Cann both showed offensive endurance and focus. Cann finished 3-5 in both three pointers and shots inside the arc during her debut game for the Bearcats. She also made two-out-of-three free throws. “Makenzie is a lights-out shooter and she showed that tonight. I was glad to see she was confident enough to take those shots,” Whitfield said.“Ana, she’s lightning fast … They did well.” Owens dropped a three-pointer with just over 12 minutes left in the game pushing UC ahead by 10 points. She also assisted Whitfield’s three-pointer near the halfway mark, giving UC a 48-37 lead. Sophomore Marley Hill claimed her career-first double-double with career-highs in total points (21) and rebounds (18). “Our goal was to get it to Marley — get the ball to Marley early,” Elliott said.“She’s our guy. She’s kind of that post player that we are going to really look to establish early on.” The 18 rebounds are the most a player has completed since Nov. 21, 2007 when Jill Stephens dropped 22 against McNeese State. Whitfield finished 9-11 from the free throw line, marking 12 points in the paint and a career-high 24 total points. “We need [Jasmine] to perform the rest of the season the way she did today, you know, having a sense of calm about her,” Elliott said.“She’s that stable person that we have on the floor that can get us in the offense to settle us down when we’re playing too fast so I’m definitely confident as a coach when she’s out on the floor knowing we’ll be OK.” The Bearcats head to the University of Tennessee at Martin for a matchup against the Skyhawks Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. UC spends the next six games on the road before returning to Fifth Third Arena to host crosstown rival Xavier University, Dec. 14 at 2 p.m.
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It was the Bearcats’ newcomers who stole the show in the University of Cincinnati men’s basketball home opener Friday night against the Saint Francis University Red Flash. The Bearcats went wire-to-wire to win a low-scoring game 52-37. An electric crowd of 7,114 welcomed the Bearcats back for their 114th season and the team, fed off the energy in the first half. Senior returning point guard Ge’Lawn Guyn started his season on a high note as he scored five of UC’s first seven points. Unfortunately, those were the only points he would score in the game. Junior starting center Octavius Ellis transferred from Cincinnati after he redshirted his freshman year. Following a year at Trinity Valley College, he returned to the Queen City and proved Friday that he will be the main man on both sides of the ball. “I’m excited to be back,” Ellis said. “I had butterflies a little bit.” Ellis had a gamehigh 13 points along with eight rebounds, two blocks and three steals. He seemed to be the leader on the court even though it was his first career game at Cincinnati. “He reminds us of last year Justin Jackson,” sophomore guard Troy Caupain said. “Wall him up and let him attack, he gets big time deflections.” Freshman sixth man Quadri Moore showed he does not shy away from shots. The 6-foot, 8-inch forward’s first career shot was a deep three that went through. Moore shot 50 percent from the field on eight shots and finished with nine points. “He’s going to get his shots up,” UC head coach Mick Cronin said. “You don’t have to worry about Quadri’s confidence.”
The first half was a defensive battle. Cincinnati’s press is back and better than last year. The Red Flash struggled to get it in bounds and when they did, getting across half court was an adventure. Cincinnati never let them breathe and forced 10 turnovers in the first half. “We didn’t make any shots but we continued to defend,” Cronin said. “Our defense was off the charts.” Cincinnati’s offense is what kept the Red Flash in the game. The Bearcats never got a rhythm and two of the top-returning scorers, redshirt junior Shaq Thomas and senior Jermaine Sanders, were held scoreless in the game. Even with the offensive struggles, Cincinnati took a 29-17 lead going into halftime. One solid returning piece showed up Friday in the form of Troy Caupain. The sophomore guard looked bigger, more athletic and much more comfortable in Cronin’s system. Caupain accounted for eight points, four assists and one highlight reel block after chasing down a fast break. The Bearcats stopped pressing for most of the second half but were still forcing turnovers and never let Saint Francis get into a groove. Saint Francis was only in the game because of a few crucial threes by junior Ben Millaud-Meunier. After two free throws by Millaud-Meunier, Saint Francis cut the Cincinnati lead to just nine with seven minutes to go. The Bearcats kicked the defense into high gear and held the Red Flash to just five points in the final seven minutes. Freshman Gary Clark put an exclamation point on the victory with a steal and slam with 40 seconds to go. The Bearcats next chance to improve the offense is Wednesday when they host Morehead State at Fifth Third Arena. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. DAN SULLIVAN | STAFF PHOTOTGRAPHER
Guard Kevin Johnson prepares before making a shot Friday night during their game against Saint Francis. The Bearcats won 52-37.
Volleyball fights back to claim first victory in four weeks PATRICK LAAKE | STAFF REPORTER
The University of Cincinnati (14-13, 6-9) and the University of Tulane (5-22, 3-12) volleyball teams were both desperate for a win Friday after losing their last seven matches. Tulane was also looking to pick up its first win on the road this season (0-10), something the Bearcats denied them. The Green Wave gained momentum right out of the gate as they had two four-point runs in the first set. Freshman Sarah Ray finished the first set with five kills, including the final two that clinched the set 25-23. It was only the fourth time this season that Tulane has won the first set of a match. Cincinnati bounced back, quickly going up 6-2 in the second set. After a service ace by Tulane, Cincinnati sophomore outside hitter Ciara Hill picked up a rare yellow card after arguing with the referee. Right side
hitter Emma Roberson fired the team up after the card and the Bearcats went on a run that put them up 22-14, before finishing Tulane off, 25-18. “I thought [the energy from Roberson] really elevated the level of the team,” UC head coach Molly Alvey said. Once again, the Bearcats came out of halftime on fire, highlighted by an eight-point run that put the Bearcats up 21-9. The set ended at 25-12, with the fewest amount of points that Cincinnati had given up in a set since holding Charleston Southern to 12 points on Sept. 19. Tulane tried to force a deciding fifth set and seemed like it was going to until Cincinnati rattled off an impressive 11-1 run. The Green Wave were up 22-14 before Roberson sealed the deal with kill number 23 of the match. It marked the 22nd time this season that Roberson has finished a math with double-digit kills. “That’s what every team wants,” Roberson said. “If you can fight through that adversity you can fight through
anything.” Freshman outside hitter Christine Chandler set a new career high with 16 kills and finished the match with a team high .464 attack percentage. Cincinnati finally ended its seven-game losing streak. They were once 13-7 before the season headed south. “This team has really kept their heads up and we have a really good energy on the team,” Alvey said. “Everyone has been sticking to the game plan, knowing it’s going to turn around.” The Bearcats have four games left, three on the road, before the American Conference tournament, after Sunday’s match up against the University of Houston. UC fell in straight sets to the Cougars, 3-0. This is the second meeting between the two teams this season; UC beat Houston Sept. 26 at Houston in a five-set battle, 3-2. For a season update, pick up Thursday’s edition of The News Record.
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