The News Record 3.26.15

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SG swears in new members, allocates money for Sigma Sigma Carnival Andrew Naab, newly elected student body president. All undergraduate students are eligible to apply for cabinet positions beginning Thursday. Selected applicants will be interviewed by an interview panel of 10 students. A bill was also passed to allocate $164 for biodegradable trash bags for the Cincy Spring Cleanup on April 3 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The annual event brings students from all UC colleges together to improve their community through picking up trash around Cincinnati. This year’s spring cleanup includes an ice cream social afterward. “I noticed that in the past we volunteer, and then everyone just disperses and there’s no community really developed,” said Katie Vonerden, a second-year operations management student and Cincy Spring Cleanup director. Vonerden said the event encourages and inspires Cincinnati residents to

CASSIE LIPP | CHIEF REPORTER

As last year’s University of Cincinnati Student Government officers passed their responsibilities on to the newly elected officials, the students gathered to allocate funds and approve changes to the organization. SG swore in seven new senators at large as well as the new student body president and vice president at Wednesday’s meeting. SG members elected Tobi Akomolede as Senate Speaker and Madeline Adams as Internal Holdover Senator. Meghan Cappel was elected the new External Holdover Senator. The organization passed a bill that will restructure the president and vice president’s cabinet positions, which modifies existing cabinet positions as well as adds new positions. The restructuring is designed to increase the cabinet’s efficiency. “Right now the system in place was not accessible, nor did it help the student body president and vice president,” said

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DANIEL SULLIVAN | CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER

SG swears in seven new senators at large, new student body president and vice president, along with Senate Speaker, Internal Holdover Senator and External Holdover Senator.

A&S DEAN DISCUSSES PLANS FOR HIRING NEW FACULTY

PETREN OUTLINES McMICKEN VISION

UC Feminists discuss ableism, social stigmas on campus ABRAHAM BIALIK | CONTRIBUTOR

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Dean Petren discusses his vision for McMicken College with junior faculty Wednesday in the Tangeman University Center and outlines his current involvement in hiring new faculty members. PATRICK MURPHY | NEWS EDITOR

In the wake of budgetary issues the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences has been facing, recently hired Dean Kenneth Petren sat down with junior faculty members Wednesday evening to outline his vision for the college and to discuss potential concerns with McMicken’s departments. Petren’s three pillars for McMicken’s future, which broadly centers on students, include an emphasis on faculty research with graduate assistance, a push for teaching methods that emphasize student engagement and an investment in internships and co-op opportunities for McMicken’s 21 departments. “If you put these three things together: the research, the teaching innovation and experiential learning – now we are a

different kind of liberal arts institution,” Petren said. The roundtable talks were mainly concerned with a lack of funding for research, as well as the relationship between junior faculty and tenured professors. Junior faculty members are teachers hired by the University of Cincinnati that have not yet gone through their reappointment, promotion and tenure (RPT), which are the guidelines that tenure-track faculty members follow to get from associate professor to professor. “It takes a lot of money to recruit faculty members, and when you recruit them, you want to keep them. So you want to do all you can to keep them,” said Undergraduate Director and Professor Joseph Takougang. Currently, McMicken has 11 new hires

set up for the fall semester — something Petren says is a perfect opportunity to implement a feature freshman seminar class. The class would hold roughly 100 students that would split into groups that would be exploring the social themes of the book “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates” in which the author, Wes Moore, discovers a man born on the same block he grew up on, but ended up in jail rather than Moore’s fate of working as a White House assistant. “We want to introduce them right off the bat to a course that takes an academic approach to this burning societal issue and just hit them right between the eyes with it right when they get through the door,” Petren said. SEE MCMICKEN FACULTY PG 3

Ableism, a form of discrimination or social prejudice against people with disabilities simply because an individual is more “able” to do something another cannot, was the primary topic during a University of Cincinnati Feminists group meeting Tuesday evening. Conducted by guest speaker Sara Whitestone, a third-year biology and communications student and president of the Alliance for Abilities, the group explored the social stigmas of disabilities and ways to create a more inclusive environment for those with disabilities. “The most important part of this meeting was learning about disabilities that aren’t always visible and also physical abilities and how people have to deal with that on UC’s campus,” said Stevie Beck, a first-year fine arts student. One of the main points stressed during the meeting was the difference between looking at disabilities from a medical perspective compared to a social perspective. While looking at a disability from a medical perspective, it shows the disabled as the problem, according to Whitestone. The goal is to look at disabilities from a social perspective, showing society as the hindrance for not providing equality and creating opportunities for disabled. Throughout the meeting, the idea of sick or able was discussed and how a person should not be looked at as either of the two, but recognized as a social norm that any human being is susceptible to. David Schmatte, a fifth-year criminal justice student, was grateful for the opportunity to learn about ableism. “If I’m introducing a topic like mainstream feminism, ableism is left out in our society,” Schmatte said.“I’m glad to get some information on it.” Whitestone’s idea for part of the solution to ableism was to establish a network for helping people with disabilities, under the justification that it is their given right. The idea comes from her frustration that help is only given to those who push for help and that it is not given as their legal right. According to Whitestone, the only way that society can start to bring attention to ableism is to push past the haze of the superficial ideas about disabilities. “Above all, accessibility is everyone’s responsibility, because everyone will experience disability at some point in life whether it’s infancy, old age, injury or acquired a disability like I did,”Whitestone SEE FEMINISM PG 3

New UC Veterans Manager selected; dinner held for Sisters in Arms HUY NGUYEN | STAFF REPORTER

With an increasing number of military veterans reinforcing the Bearcat community, the University of Cincinnati has hired a new veterans manager in command of veteran-affiliated programs. To date, UC has over 2,000 militaryaffiliated students, whether they are active veterans or reserve veterans or participate in other forms of service. Every one of those students is under the care of the new manager in the Office of Veterans Programs and Services, Terence Harrison, a U.S. Army Reserve and UC alumni in criminal justice. “I joined the Army Reserves on January 21, 1989, down here in Cincinnati, Ohio,” Harrison recounted. “I became a 71 Golf, which converted into a 68 Golf, which is Patient Administration.” For the next 26 years, Harrison served the U.S. Army at bases all over the world, including Panama, Germany, Guatemala, Ecuador and Iraq for Operation New Dawn in 2010. “[The army] has been good to me for 26

years and counting,” Harrison said. Afterward, Harrison moved on to work as assistant director at the Veterans Upward Bound program of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, a program dedicated to encouraging veterans to successfully obtain a college education, before finding himself a new opportunity at UC. “It seemed like this is where I found my niche,” Harrison said. “Just to be able to serve those who have almost the same background as I do, and just to be able to help them where needed, it’s a wonderful thing.” As the manager for the Office of Veterans Programs, Harrison has the responsibility of making certain that all veteran students are paid their military benefits appropriated by the G.I. Bill in an efficient, timely manner — a task that is often bureaucratic and confusing. In addition to his main role, Harrison wants to increase student-veteran SEE VETERANS PG 3

HUY NGUYEN | STAFF REPORTER

New UC Veterans Manager Terence Harrison ensures that veteran students are paid their military benefits appropriated by the G.I. Bill in an efficient, timely manner.

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