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THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015

Student found guilty of sexual imposition, rape charges dropped to prison.” Glover was sentenced to three years of community control. Community control, or probation, will be enforced by a probation officer assigned to Glover, Pridemore said. Glover was ordered to stay away from the victim and go through sex offender treatment. He is not allowed to own or watch any pornographic material and he must register as a sex offender for the next 15 years. Pridemore said the UC Police Department was helpful throughout the case and court process. “In this case, as we normally do, an investigator was assigned to assist the victim through to the completion of the court process,” said Jeff Corcoran, UCPD assistant chief of police. “This includes such things as providing transportation to the courthouse, accompanying the victim to the courtroom, and helping to explain each step of the process.” UCPD also coordinates with a victim

BECKY BUTTS | SENIOR REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati student accused of sexually assaulting another student in the Steger Student Life Center was found guilty of two counts of gross sexual imposition Dec. 22. Mark Glover, a graduate student in the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, was originally charged with four counts of rape, one count of kidnapping and one count of gross sexual imposition. According to court documents, Glover met the victim in a UC dining hall on Sept. 29. He took her to Steger around 4 p.m. and allegedly forced her into a unisex bathroom on the sixth floor where he sexually assaulted her. In a plea deal offered by the prosecutor to ensure conviction, Glover pleaded guilty to two counts of gross sexual imposition and all other chargers were dismissed. “I was not happy with this plea,” said Katherine Pridemore, assistant prosecuting attorney. “No one was happy with this plea. We wanted him to go

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White House Task Force to visit campus Friday, Saturday

BAILEY DOWLIN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

A UC student was sexually assaulted in a unisex bathroom on the sixth floor of the Steger Student Life Center Sept. 29, according to court documents.

CITY LEADERS DISCUSS POLICE, COMMUNITY COLLABORATION

CINCINNATI TALKS CIVIL RIGHTS

CASSIE LIPP | CHIEF REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati has been selected to host two of the seven national hearings on 21st century policing conducted by 11 members of the White House Task Force Friday and Saturday. Both sessions will take place in Tangeman University Center’s Great Hall. The first session, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., will focus on policy and oversight. The Task Force will reconvene from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday to discuss how law enforcement interacts with technology and social media. The sessions are part of an effort by the Task Force to collect data and opinions from the public in various parts of the U.S. Five other sessions are scheduled throughout the nation. “This is government action happening here in the Great Hall,” said Richard Harknett, head of UC’s Political Science Department. “It’s a different type of opportunity to influence government thinking as they develop policies.” Harknett said all students and faculty can benefit from attending the sessions. While they can gain a better understanding of how the government tries to research and reform issues, the UC community will also have the opportunity to voice its opinion as the Task Force prepares a report for President Barack Obama. Obama signed an executive order to establish the 11-member Task Force Dec. 11. The members will provide a report and recommendations to Obama by March 2. Harknett said the hearings are another way UC can advance its mission of conducting public research, as well as contribute to the community. “We are a public research university,” Harknett said. “We take that mission very seriously, and that is to create new knowledge and advance — in this case to impact policy. Hosting this meeting is providing the public a service. People would not normally have access to those that will be writing government policy.” One expert scheduled to appear Saturday is Mike White, a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, according to Arizona State University News. Although Harknett is not sure why Cincinnati is one of the areas the Task Force chose to visit, the city demographics may have been a SEE TASK FORCE PG 3

MADISON SCHMIDT | PHOTO EDITOR

Iris Roley, Cincinnati community activist, talks about her role in the collaborative to bring police and community members together during the 2001 Cincinnati riots in the College of Law Tuesday afternoon. COURTNEY STANLEY | ONLINE EDITOR

As discussions of police brutality and racial profiling overwhelm national headlines, over 100 Cincinnatians gathered in the College of Law at the University of Cincinnati for a panel Tuesday to discuss how Cincinnati dealt with civil rights lawsuits and policing reform after the city’s 2001 riots. In 2001, a Cincinnati police officer shot and killed 19-year-old African-American Timothy Thomas, sparking four days of violent protest. In addition to generations of distrust that had been growing between the community and the police, 15 black men had been killed by police since 1995, and the police were starting to rack up racial-discrimination and excessive-force lawsuits. “The conversation we were not having was how we could reform and rebuild our police department so that it could serve all of us equally and fairly,” said Iris Roley, one of the event’s panelists.

The panelists included Roley, a community activist, Al Gerhardstein, a civil rights attorney, Kathy Harrell, president of the Cincinnati Chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, and U.S. District Judge Susan J. Dlott. Their diverse professions added varied perspectives to the collaborative agreement. “It’s important to hear multiple perspectives behind issues,” said Jayla Rodgers, a second-year prospective marketing student. “Having different views will help people understand what’s going on without bias.” The four panelists discussed their involvement in creating a collaborative agreement to force communication between the community and the police and how it has evolved into the police department we have today. “It’s not an easy conversation to have for a community, and it certainly wasn’t easy, and still isn’t easy for police,” Roley said. “We could be mad at the police

and we could have our attorneys sue the police, but what could we do so we would not have to have this very hard conversation again?” The collaborative agreement was the answer to Roley’s question. The agreement was a court order that lasted for six years and required a reform of the Cincinnati Police Department, according to Gerhardstein. The agreement detailed reforms for use of force, accountability and investigation, and it laid out a plan to make both police officers and community members involved in problem solving. “All of that was in order for the police to make sure that they were being fair in the way they used their powerful authority,” Gerhardstein said. The agreement established a commitment to data-driven problem solving, and Gerhardstein said that to this day Cincinnati is probably the only SEE CIVIL RIGHTS PG 3

UC graduate scheduled to open restaurant downtown, credits business program RUSSELL HAUSFELD | STAFF REPORTER

DANIEL SULLIVAN | CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER

Charles Matthews, UC professor of entrepreneurship and strategy, founded the entrepreneurship program at UC in 1997.

A University of Cincinnati graduate is pairing with a local food vendor to open a restaurant in downtown Cincinnati, and he credits the lessons learned from a program offered by the Carl H. Lindner College of Business. Josh Rudd, who graduated from the program in 2012, is working with Cincinnati food vendor Nick Pesola to open Revolution Rotisserie and Bar, a new restaurant in Over-the-Rhine. The restaurant is scheduled to open in midFebruary. Rudd, who also founded the shoe company Piola, emphasized the importance of getting to know the professors. “My professors were always willing to work with me if I needed to be out of town for work or something,” Rudd said. “They helped me get grants to start a business, helped me pay for flights and hooked me up with people in the community who may be interested in my business.”

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Lindner College’s Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Research, which aims to provide students the tools to become effective and creative business owners, helps address common challenges faced by aspiring entrepreneurs like Rudd. “These can include lack of money, people just saying ‘no,’ or sometimes just perceptual barriers,” said Charles Matthews, UC professor of entrepreneurship and strategy. Matthews founded the entrepreneurship program at UC in 1997. The students who enter this program either want to start their own businesses, have a background in small or family businesses or just want to understand how to be innovative in a business setting, Matthews said. “I have always seen the role of this program as eliminating the barriers and creating gateways,” Matthews said. Some of the advantages entrepreneurship students have are the SEE RESTAURANT PG 3

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