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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014
UC Crossroads church members race to raise food donations Students work with faculty, staff, community to donate food to local families for Thanksgiving ELYSSE WINGET | STAFF REPORTER
MADISON SCHMIDT | PHOTO EDITOR
Before the race, participants gathered in Bogart’s. Over 50 faculty, staff and students of UC participated with UC Crossroads in a Thanksgiving Food Drive Relay Race Thursday.
A Thanksgiving Food Drive Relay Race brought over 50 University of Cincinnati faculty, staff and students together Thursday to contribute to underprivileged families across Cincinnati while also growing a local church community. Crossroads, a multisite, non-denominational church in Cincinnati, hosted the event. The church recently acquired a location in the Clifton community in hopes to reach UC students. Last year 85,000 meals were provided by the Church of Cincinnati, which is comprised of 90 churches in Cincinnati and includes Crossroads. “The Church of Cincinnati, over the last 18 years, have been feeding families in Cincinnati who couldn’t afford or wouldn’t have a Thanksgiving meal the way that many of the rest of us do,” said Lena Tome, the campus pastor of Crossroads UC. Tome is also a UC alumna who graduated from the Lindner Honors Plus program in 2014. Her father, Brian Tome, is the pastor at Crossroads in Oakley, which is SEE FOOD DRIVE PG 3
Professor noted as UNIVERSITY RECOGNIZED FOR WORK AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT top cardiovascular WHITE HOUSE COMES TO UC researcher in US LEON KRATZ | CONTRIBUTOR
A University of Cincinnati professor was recognized by the American Heart Association as one of the top cardiovascular researchers in the country, a recognition that only five women have received. Dr. Evangelia Kranias, a pharmacology and cell biophysics professor and director of cardiovascular biology at UC, was honored last week at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions for her career contribution to advancing the understanding and management of cardiovascular disease. Kranias was honored in a special reception along with her peers, a select group of about 60 people named Distinguished Scientists by the American Heart Association at the Nov. 16-19 Scientific Sessions in Chicago. “This year the AHA had a big reception recognizing all of us,” Kranias said.“It was a special recognition for all the distinguished scientists, who are the top cardiovascular researchers in the country.” The AHA started recognizing worthy scientists in 2003, and four or five have been named each year since then. Kranias was named a Distinguished Scientist in 2009, but for her, there is an even greater source of pride. “This is the recognition of 30 years of work in our lab,” Kranias said.“This is a lifetime recognition and there are very few people in the country who have this title, and out of them there are only five women, and I’m one of them.” Yet Kranias did not become part of such an elite category without a phenomenal career. Kranias emigrated from Greece to the U.S. as an undergraduate Fulbright scholar at the University of Chicago, and received her doctorate degree from Northwestern University in molecular biology and biochemistry. She came to the University of Cincinnati in 1978. Since then she has dedicated her career to uncovering new solutions to cardiovascular disease, and as a result she became Distinguished University Research Professor in 2004. With more than 250 published works, she has contributed to numerous advancements in her field, and she presented some of these findings to the AHA last week. “I was an invited speaker on our most recent findings regarding the regulation of the heart by genes that we recently discovered and the impact of these genes in the heart under healthy and disease conditions.” Kranias and her team discovered one of these genes, a protein called phosphatase SEE AMERICAN HEART PG 3
MADISON SCHMIDT | PHOTO EDITOR
Lynn Rosenthal, adviser to the White House, said that sexual assault will end with the generation of students in college today. NATALIE COLEMAN | NEWS EDITOR
After a series of student-charged campaigns to end sexual assault on campus, Lynn Rosenthal — the adviser to the White House on Violence Against Women — visited the University of Cincinnati Friday to commend the work being done by students, faculty and administration to prevent, respond to and end sexual assault in the community. UC planned a daylong event for Rosenthal with multiple sessions where she advised students and administration on investigating sexual assaults and keeping survivors’ best interests in the center of it all. Rosenthal’s visit was sponsored by Amy Howton, along with UC’s RECLAIM peer advocates and the UC Women’s Center, the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence, Fellows of the Graduate School of UC and Women Helping Women. To begin the event, Rosenthal addressed survivors of sexual assault in the audience.
“It’s you, the survivors, who are my inspiration every day,” Rosenthal said. “Every day, when I walk in that gate [to the White House,] I feel like the survivors are with me when I walk in. It is the survivors who have inspired me throughout that journey. I want to thank the survivors that are here today.” Rosenthal was drawn to speak at UC after she saw UC President Santa Ono’s leadership and the work being done to actively improve survivor services and the way that sexual assault cases are investigated. “Coming from Washington DC, sometimes I know that people don’t recognize the resources they have right here in their own backyard,” Rosenthal said. “I almost feel like my work in the White House is done when a college president stands before you and takes the pledge and says, ‘It’s on us.’ ” Ono spoke on the importance of RECLAIM and the national fight against sexual assault on campuses and in communities.
“Our UC student advocates and the RECLAIM program were really central in the university’s response even prior to the White House task force,” Ono said. “They were pivotal before the report and they were pivotal in the actual report itself.” Though UC’s RECLAIM recently lost its confidential hotline, it continues to push forward to change the university’s handling of sexual assault for good. Lauren Stoll — a RECLAIM Peer Advocate and fourth-year social work and women’s studies student — said the event with Rosenthal and the UC It’s On Us campaign is only the beginning for UC’s fight against sexual assault. “This is the time to start this revolution and having someone from the White House visit and say, ‘We are here to talk about this and we want to start a conversation around this,’ is powerful,” Stoll said. “There needs to be a more collaborative effort and I think this is the perfect starting point for that.” SEE ROSENTHAL PG 3
I Am A Queen event empowers women on UC campus, in community PATRICK MURPHY | STAFF REPORTER
A passionate voice echoed across the Tangeman University Center’s Great Hall as inspirational speaker Patrice Barnes demanded that the women of the University of Cincinnati find their power and purpose. “There is a reason for your breathing. There is a reason for the palpitation of your heart. You are here for a purpose, on purpose, to fulfill a purpose,” Barnes said. Barnes’ speech, which included a reading of Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Women,” was just a slice of what Tiffany Petersons, fourth-year marketing student and Ms. Kuamka 2014, had in store for her inaugural I Am A Queen Women’s Empowerment Event. With the support of the AfricanAmerican Cultural and Resource Center, Women’s Center and the Ethnic Programs and Services, the event was a student-organized conglomerate of invited educational and inspirational speakers who sought to empower women to carve their own paths and to create
a community of women to support each other. Holly McGee, an assistant professor in the history department, stressed the sense of community in her speech to the congregation of around 250 students and supporters. “It is not the easiest thing to be in a minority position in a collegiate environment,” McGee said. “For women of color or of similar socioeconomic backgrounds, it’s important to have a feeling of having a home of people you can turn to, who look like you, sound like you and feel like you.” Headed by Ms. Ebony J, a radio talkshow host for 101.1 The Wiz, the program featured spoken-word artist Abdine Lewis, an African dance performance by the Queens of UC African Student Association, jazz music by the band Natural Progression and a fashion show celebrating all facets of expression – from professional and cultural, to sporty and sophisticated. SEE I AM A QUEEN PG 3
MADISON SCHMIDT | PHOTO EDITOR
Patrice Barnes, an inspirational speaker, uses a crushed plastic cup as a metaphor to stress the importance of fulfilling one’s purpose in life by first taking care of the body during the event.
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