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UC Scientific Research Society Sigma Xi recognizes junior faculty PATRICK MURPHY | NEWS EDITOR

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There’s science in the air, and an immense amount of carbon dioxide. A Young Investigator Award winner, however, has plans to convert that waste into renewable energy.

Bestowed by the international Scientific Research Society Sigma Xi in celebration of junior faculty every year, Dr. Hairong Guan, associate professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Cincinnati, received the decoration during the Sigma Xi Spring Mixer Thursday in the CARE-Crawley Building.

Guan gave a 40-minute presentation on how to convert greenhouse gases into fuel, how to help store and transport hydrogen more effectively and how to collaborate with industries to create more economical

UC’s Scientific Research Society Sigma Xi recognized its junior faculty Thursday for their work in various research projects.

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and sustainable products for consumers.

All of these initiatives revolved around both Guan’s research into designing catalysts with earthabundant metals and the idea of sustainability. Guan defined sustainability as using less energy, using more renewable sources and using more abundant materials without toxic emissions.

Guan’s prominent focus is in Catalysis, which is the speed a chemical reaction occurs due to a catalyst, the substance that generates the reaction’s speed.

“We’re trying to make a chemical process that’s more sustainable,” Guan said. “Catalysis will not only reduce the energy we input, but also change the pathway so we can avoid more expensive stuff, so we can SEE SIGMA Xi PG 3

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Nearing the end of Queercat Pride Week, the LGBTQ Center brought the raw heat of feminism and the empowerment of porn together Friday in the University of Cincinnati’s Steger Student Life Center during an event titled “Pizza and Porn.”

The event began with the 2009 documentary “Mutantes: Punk, Porn, Feminism” followed by a panel discussion with T. N. Vaught, LGTBQ Coordinator; Carolyn Peterson, instructor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies; and Maria Merrill, graduate assistant at the LGBTQ Center. “[The documentary] talked about the intersections of race, class, decriminalization of sex work, the antiporn and pro-sex division within feminist scholarship of porn, and then at the end they talked about the post-porn era,” Merrill said.

The LGBTQ Center displayed a trigger warning for the documentary, which warned of sexual violence, sexual aggression, explicit nudity, language, knife play and flashing lights.

After the documentary, students were given time to ask about the content of the film.

Merrill said the best way to approach the topics addressed in the film is to leave any preconceived notions at the door.

“Don’t just have assumptions and [let that] lead the way you think today,” Merrill said. “I think that’s how a lot of people feel. They were raised a certain way, and instead of coming to college and educating themselves about it, they use what they were taught and kind of let that be instilled inside of them.”

Merrill also encourages students to get involved in events to educate themselves on issues that are broadly ignored, but also to throw themselves out of their comfort zones and experience a different viewpoint. “[Individuals learn by] coming to events where you might have to get out of your comfort zone and engaging with a community that might be different than the community you’re used to,” Merrill said. “I think putting yourself in situations that make you uncomfortable is a great way [to learn]. I think that if you would’ve asked any of the students here, they would say that as well.”

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Students edit the Wikipedia pages of prominent female figures in a range of industries from architects to artists Saturday afternoon in efforts to combat gender imbalance online.

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About 30 students dug through books and sifted through websites in the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning Library Saturday afternoon , researching female artists and designers and updating their Wikipedia pages.

The Wiki Women Edit-A-Thon was created by three design students in response to what they said is a gender imbalance on Wikipedia.

The students were inspired by a similar event held at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

Participants gathered in the MoMA library for 48 hours to research female artists, designers, architects and interior designers and either created Wikipedia pages for the artists who did not have a page or added more information to the

pages that had little information.

Both male and female students came to the DAAP library in hopes of making a difference.

While Karyn Georgilis, a third-year industrial design student, did not think DAAP students would have a two full days to dedicate to an edit-a-thon, she thought a shorter, four-hour event would draw more attention.

“I’m impressed with how it’s turned out in that guys and gals are both interested in this and realize that it’s an issue,” Georgilis said.

The DAAP edit-a-thon was not met without opposition on campus, as promotional fliers for the event were repeatedly torn down and replaced with a satirical “Wiki Dudes” poster featuring Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus, Albert Einstein and Abraham Lincoln.

The parody posters were reported to the university’s Title IX office. Although they do not automatically constitute a Title IX violation, UC Title IX Coordinator Jyl Shaffer confirmed the Title IX office is assessing the report to see if the posters are part of a pattern of behavior that needs to be addressed in other ways.

Along with third-year graphic communication design students Hannah Sellers and Maggie Murphy, Georgilis worked with DAAP librarians and art history professors to compile a list of 15 highly-influential female artists and designers whose Wikipedia did not include sufficient information.

“We want to concentrate on making change,” Sellers said as she perused books for information to add to the SEE WIKI WOMEN PG 3

UC’s Young Americans for Liberty chapter hosts state convention PATRICK MURPHY | NEWS EDITOR

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After receiveing a bootcamp orientation into student activism, attendees listened to YAL advocate Ty Hicks, US Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Thomas Woods, Sean Malone and Melony Armstrong.

Political activists from Ohio and beyond gathered at the University of Cincinnati for the Ohio State Convention hosted by the budding UC chapter of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) Saturday.

According to Ty Hicks, Midwest Regional Manager for YAL, individuals from Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan came to the convention. Such speakers as U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky; author, political analyst and historian Thomas Woods; and business owner and activist Melony Armstrong were present.

Michael Esch, a third-year secondary education student and president of UC’s YAL chapter, attributes the opportunity to host the state convention to the chapter’s activity since its conception last semester.

“They saw how our group was growing on Facebook and through emails — that people were signing up to our chapter,” Esch said.

“I think we had 200 people sign up for the group just in one semester.”

The schedule of events featured a campaign

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boot camp, in which Chris Doss from the Leadership Institute, an organization founded in 1979 that instructs young conservatives, sought to teach students how to be an effective activist through messaging, recruiting and managing volunteers and interactions with voters.

Massie, who serves Kentucky’s fourth congressional district, talked about everything from the difficulties of dealing with Congress — such as receiving 1,600 page bills with 36 hours to read and vote on them — to the corruption that Massie identifies in Congress.

Massie stated that on several occasions, a bill would be on the floor for a vote, but that only a select group will actually be there to vote on it or the speaker of the house identifies that there are 218 congressmen present to vote, as the law requires, when no real head counts are actually conducted.

“He really peeled back the behind the scenes of [Congress],” Esch said.“They will set up bills that will come through and SEE YAL CONVENTION PG 3

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CCM updates Mozart with remarkable ‘Così fan tutte’ KAILEY SCHNEIDER | CONTRIBUTOR

Although the opera “Così fan tutte” was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the late 1700s, the College-Conservatory of Music’s MainStage production of the opera still manages to capture a modernday audience’s attention.

The production played Thursday night to an amused and awe-filled audience.

Director Robin Guarino’s decision to take the story into the far-out ’60s certainly helped with the culture barriers.

From the skills of the actors and actresses to the magnificent set, which featured a fully functional hot tub, doctors dressing in drag and Beatles references galore, it was easy to forget everything was in Italian (of course translations on title cards didn’t hurt either).

The show began with a house party, and the house actually rotated around the stage, absolutely mesmerizing the audiences. It was almost like a movie rather than a stage production because of the constantly changing scenery and movement.

The story of Fiordiligi (Ann Toomey/ Jessica Faselt) and Dorabella (Adria Caffaro/Elenia Antonia Franck), two sisters, and their respective lovers Guglielmo (Joseph Lattanzi/Simon Barrad) and Ferrando (Alec Carlson/Chris Bozeka) unraveled on the stage.

Ferrando’s and Guglielmo’s best friend Don Alfonso (Derrel Acon/Tyler Alessi) makes a bet with the boys that their loves would cheat on them given the opportunity. Secure in their girls’ fidelity, the two agree to take the bet.

The boys pretend to be drafted into the Navy and leave their girls, only to return the next day in disguises akin to the Beatles stepping off of the Magical Mystery Tour album in real life.

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CCM’s version placed the opera in the mid-20th century. The show was able to connect with audiences through its humor and skillful performances. This production concluded CCM’s 2015 MainStage series.

The housemaid Despina (Grace Kahl/ Jasmine Habersham) agrees to help Don Alfonso, and the two boys make a hysterical pairing as they try to set the girls up with the “strangers.” Hijinks ensue.

While the job of connecting with the audience is always a difficult one, that task is nearly doubled in difficultly when everything is in a completely different language.

Thankfully, this cast not only lived up to

expectations, but also exceeded them.

Each member of the cast had his or her own charm that was endearing to watch and easy to love.

Toomey’s performance as Fiordiligi stood out. Not only were her vocals stunning, her range large and powerful, but her acting was also completely charming, as she could convey a wide variety of emotions throughout her songs.

Her facial expressions throughout the performance were over-the-top in the best

possible way, and her comic timing was impeccable.

One moment that had the audience in stitches was actually a well-played-out accident.

A distraught Toomey was stuffing herself with ice cream when a large chunk fell out and onto the floor. Instead of leaving it, or stuffing it back in the container, she ravenously consumed it.

Such a simple action left many in guffaws simply because of her ability to connect with the audience.

Toomey wasn’t the only one with wonderful facial expressions; Adria Caffaro as Dorabella captured hearts as well with her own silly faces, not to mention a powerhouse of a voice.

Joseph Lattanzi and Alec Carlson worked delightfully together.

Lattanzi had sweet vocals and touching moments in his acting. Carlson was hysterical, and his charisma was palpable. The two worked off of each other well.

Another vastly amusing pair was the schemers Despina and Don Alfonso, played by Grace Kahl and Derrel Acon.

Kahl was the first actress to hit the stage, as she danced to her cassette, and she remained adorable and funny throughout the show.

It takes real talent to sing operatic Italian in a New Jersey accent, as she did whilst in disguise as a marriage licenser.

Acon and Kahl played an integral part in one of the silliest scenes in the show.

They were dressed in drag as doctors who tried to “cure” the boys after they drank “poison” in despair — a scene that will most certainly be remembered.

Between the quirky ’60s aesthetic, astounding, professional vocals and comedic acting shown by the leads and ensemble, this performance of “Così fan tutte” will surely live on as a CCM great.

In China, students gain new perspectives on art RUSSELL HAUSFELD | STAFF REPORTER

Students at the school of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning were given the chance to take a three-week long journey to Jingdezhen, China — the home of porcelain — to work alongside Chinese master craftsmen and learn the techniques of creating art with porcelain last semester.

The porcelain creations are now on display in an exhibit at Clay Street Press in Overthe-Rhine titled “Handmade in China II: Stay Handsome.”

The results of this trip include — but are not limited to — traditional works like spoons and table wear, stylized busts of Mao Zedong dressed as Mr. T and lithographs formed from molds, all made with porcelain from that region in China.

Guy Davis, a professor in DAAP’s ceramics program and faculty leader of the trip, explained that students had the experience of working in a completely different setting in Jingdezhen. He described the workspace as a factory, in which many studios were set up near one another with a focus on collaboration between craftsmen.

“The sculpture factory there is not like a factory we would think of here,” Davis explained.“It is more like a neighborhood or a community. So, a complex mold that might take me several days here, a specialist in the studio next to me could make it in an afternoon.”

The ability to work alongside these expert craftsmen gave the artists time to concentrate more on ideas and designs and quickly dive into their work.Colin Klimesh, a graduate student with a ceramics focus at DAAP, said Jingdezhen and the op-portunities available there changed his idea of what it means to be a maker of art.

“When presented with the opportunities in China, I really wanted to make the most of it, and that meant allowing others — the craftsman — to be a part of my process, which in turn enabled me to be more productive than I could ever be in my own studio,” Klimesh said.

The specialized craftsmen the group was able to interact with emphasize one of the biggest differences in the Chinese artistic process.

“There’s a thrower, a mold guy, and a kiln guy there, whereas here, we teach students to throw, mold and fire their own work,” Davis said.

Sophie Neslund, a graduate student at DAAP whose porcelain cat head sculptures can be seen throughout the exhibit at Clay Street Press, said it was fascinating to see how master craftsmen interacted with her own ideas.

“It was really interesting noticing the parts that the sculptor saw as important versus the parts that I thought were the most important,” Neslund said.

The exhibit at Clay Street Press is full of varied artistic styles and creations, but most of the piec-es blend the feeling of traditional Eastern porcelain with Western ideas and designs. There are lithographs — a type of relief artwork that originated in Europe — mugs with American catch-phrases on them, and oblong abstract structures all tied together by the pure, smooth material they are made from.

“We didn’t specifically talk about doing an East-meets-West thing,” Davis said.“But, it seems like the gut thing to do is to really respond to the traditions and the history there. Some people are more respectful, some more irreverent.”

By the end of the trip, Davis hoped students came home with a new sense of what quality really means in relation to their artwork.

Neslund said she returned with a renewed sense of humility and humbleness about her own artis-tic process.

“Witnessing the truly incredible and wellcrafted work that these people were making with really bare-bones technology really made me stop short,” Neslund said.“Some of these men work in small rooms with one bare bulb and a single tool and produce work of a caliber that I can only hope to achieve.”

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Kumiko (Rinko Kikuchi) wanders the desolate North Dakota landscape in search of the buried cash depicted in the Coen Brothers’ 1996 neo-noir film ‘Fargo.’

‘Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter’ questions truth ZACK HATFIELD | ARTS EDITOR

This is a true story. Or, at least, this is what the opening shot of “Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter” tells us. The words are borrowed from the introduction to 1996’s “Fargo,” the Joel and Ethan Coen’s neonoir masterpiece, establishing a sort of meta-cinematic quality throughout the entire film.

Its role in “Kumiko” is important — the unexplainably childlike and quixotic title character, played by Rinko Kikuchi, finds a VHS copy of “Fargo” in a cave and watches only the scene where Steve Buscemi’s character buries a suitcase of cash in bright snow by some fences. Kumiko, stuck in a dead-end job in Tokyo as an “Office Lady,” sews a map to the treasure and uses her company credit card to fly to North Dakota and look for the treasure.

In a way, the framing devices, traditiondefying protagonist (she’s constantly being interrogated by her mother on the phone about jobs and boyfriends) and the themes of miscommunication and texture of desolation make this a self-consciously Japanese film, which is ironic because it’s technically American. At times “Kumiko” feels like a transposed “Lost in Translation,”

giving us insight into the vast emptiness of the Midwestern landscape through the eyes of a Tokyo native.

Directed by David Zellner and shot succinctly by cinematographer Sean Porter, its imagery and narrative seem haunted by the influences of Asian New Wave directors like Hsiao-Hsien Hou, but also — no surprises here — shares the peculiarity of the Coen Brothers.

Its cast includes a well-intentioned policeman (played sentimentally by Zellner) and an older woman (Shirley Venard) who would have been right at home in “Fargo.”

Austin-based The Octopus Project’s ambient score leans on synthesized organs and eerie progressions to keep the tension there — tension between the audience and the screen as well as tension between genres. The official trailer for “Kumiko” seemed to market it as a Japanese horror film, but in reality it’s more of a tragicomedy that lets us laugh at Kumiko’s eccentricities.

It’s an unapologetically strange film that doesn’t offer many answers. What “Kumiko” ultimately becomes is a meditation on reality, on what you believe is true.

“Kumiko” is itself based off of an urban legend, itself based on events that actually happened to a Japanese woman who committed suicide in 2001.

The validity of the “true story” of “Fargo” has long been known to be false, making this film’s opening even more ambiguous, if not a fitting epigraph to a movie so invested in questioning reality.

The real treasure of the movie is Kikuchi, who plays Kumiko with a perfect awkwardness and quietude that aches throughout the film’s 104 minutes. When she is told that “Solitude is just fancy loneliness,” her expression proves it.

The shortcomings lie within the film’s intentions, or lack thereof.

The overall impression “Kumiko” gives is as messily unspooled as the VHS tape Kumiko pulls from her VCR. Is it a comment on Japan’s hikikomori culture?

On the unreliability of American myths?

Or is it a sort of diatribe on capitalism?

The film’s ending offers a sort of beautiful, trailing ellipsis that attempts to stay with you long after watching, but because of the aimlessness of its characters and plot, it probably won’t.

“Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter” is playing at the Esquire Theatre.

Don’t Miss: DAAP MFA Thesis Exhibit Through April 18, the Contemporary Arts Center is hosting a dozen MFA theses from the college of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning on its second floor. The display is a part of DAAP’s annual DAAPworks exhibit, bringing together painting, sculpture, photography, 3D installation and more. The distinct ambitions found in the artist statements attest to DAAP’s versatility and imagination. Jordan Sandidge explores the frictions of gender roles and repressed memory with quilts and textiles. Kate Stenger’s whimsical stop-motion animations mix curiosity with “unacknowledged reality,” while Saeide Karimi engages politically and socially with her photographs depicting her insertion into American family portraits as a Muslim woman. Truly, every emerging artist featured in the exhibition wields its own significance, each thesis evoking a miniature portrait of that person’s artistic purpose. At its best, the exhibit allows us a glimpse of the modern art’s future itineraries, making it an experience not to miss.

The artists will give talks on Saturday, April 18 at the 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati at 1-3 p.m.

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Colin Klimesh’s installation explores object fetishism through an assemblage of seemingly disparate materials. The DAAP exhibit allows students to make connections within the contemporary art world.

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Wikipedia page for Flemish Renaissance painter Catharina van Hemessen.

The students who created the event made sure they trained students on aspects including where to look to for accurate information, how to add it to Wikipedia and how to properly cite information. Without proper citation, Wikipedia entries are more likely to be deleted.

“It is interesting that it is a collaborative environment,” Sellers said, glancing around at students helping other students during the event.

Sellers said the fact that anyone can edit Wikipedia pages is cool because it gives students the power to create positive change to repair gender imbalance.

While anyone can edit information on the online encyclopedia, only about 10 percent of Wikipedia editors are female, Murphy said.

The event was a great opportunity to draw students’ attention to the gender imbalance on Wikipedia and help them gain a better understanding of how they can contribute to information available online, Murphy said.

“It’s very empowering to edit a Wikipedia page,” Murphy said. “I hope that students can move forward, and next time they are researching something and they notice a [gender] gap in Wikipedia pages, they can go in and edit it and fix it.”

Murphy was looking to increase the information on the Wikipedia page of Lella Vignelli, who co-founded the design studio Vignelli Associates with her husband Massimo Vignelli. Although the studio is internationally recognized

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Promotional fliers for the event were repeatedly taken down and replaced with a parody version that pictured Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus, Abraham Lincoln and Albert Einstein. UC’s Title IX Office is assessing a report which was filed in response to the parody fliers.

and the pair is well-known among design students, Lella Vignelli’s Wikipedia page was very sparse compared to that of her husband and other male designers.

The gender imbalance is not limited to Wikipedia, Georgilis said.

As Georgilis completes a co-op every other semester as required by her program, she said she still forgets how many industrial designers are female.

In her last rotation, she was the only woman in the office where she worked.

“I think it’s interesting that we all get this perspective on co-op that this is an issue, so when people come back they Joseph University basketball player, died early Friday morning, according to multiple local and national news outlets.

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more toxic chemicals. We can change the chemical process so that we can be more environmentally friendly.”

Guan said this means that while more preferable materials provide energy, such as iron, nickel and cobalt, extracting that energy is not at an efficient enough level to compare to the more expensive metals used, such as platinum and iridium. “[Iron, nickel and cobalt] are more abundant on earth’s crust; you don’t want to work on chemicals that are very limited, because then not only does the price go up, but also there is not enough for you to use,” Guan said. “We want to build a research program on something more abundant. Then, we don’t have to worry that, ‘Oh, we’re going to use up all of it.’ ” Guan repeatedly thanked UC graduate students who did work involved with his research.

“I ask the graduate students to call me by my first name,” Guan said. “We are in a team, and that’s what defines our relationship. We have a very challenging research project. We band in war together to solve it together.”

The Sigma Xi chapter also celebrated Grants in Aid research winners Brandon Cook in the Aerospace Engineering Department, Xiaodi Duan in the Environmental Engineering and Science Department, Emily Jennings in the Biological Sciences Department and Janine Sparks in the Geology Department.

Each recipient will receive around $1,000 for whatever purpose they deem essential to their research.

Cook is researching the safe integration of unmanned aerial vehicles into the National Airspace System using genetic algorithms and programming; Duan is researching permanganate oxidation of Cyanotoxins using accelerated ultrasound; Jennings is researching DNA methylation and transgenerational priming in the viviparous cockroach; and Sparks is researching a biogeochemical approach for determining resources use by prehistoric humans on Trinidad.

Funding for these projects come from dues acquired by Sigma Xi, which additionally fund events and other grants and aids, said Margaret Hanson, former Sigma Xi president and associate dean of graduate students.

“A lot of what Sigma Xi is trying to do is recognize high-quality individuals doing this research, giving them a little bit of financial support and also recognition for their CVs that will assist them in their careers,” Hanson said.

Confronted with a dwindling number of individuals joining the honors society, by next year Sigma Xi plans on instating a fellowship that seeks to recognize post-doctoral members, which includes students who seek temporary positions after doctoral studies. “[Post-doctoral members] kind of slip through the cracks,” Hanson said. “[We want] to recognize these students who are doing some really outstanding stuff.”

are willing to do social action that’s actually action,” Georgilis said.

Students could keep track of how many words they added to the Wikipedia pages and record them on a chalkboard near the entrance to the library.

“At the end of the day, I hope that our word count is a lot, and that we do end up actually closing the gender gap by giving people these Wikipedia pages, because Wikipedia is a huge source,” Murphy said.

Kali Robinson, a fourth-year graphic communication design student, and Rhianna Calendine, a third-year middle-

childhood education student, said they did not realize how underrepresented women were on the Internet and Wikipedia until they joined forces in the edit-a-thon.

“It was an issue that I kind of assumed was a problem, but I didn’t know there were people getting together writing Wikipedia articles in libraries,” Robinson said.

The two girls peered over a MacBook and piles of tabbed and noted reference books as they dug through information on the graphic designer April Greiman.

Calendine said although the DAAP edita-ton was focused on women in design, she sees the gender imbalance on the Internet and Wikipedia existing within every profession.

Sean Nelson, a third-year industrial design student, worked efficiently to help add over 500 words to various Wikipedia entries.

“I really dig the concept of what they’re trying to do with all this,” he said as he compiled information on the Cuban interior designer Clara Porset.

Nelson said the effort to close the gender gap in the art and design field is of particular importance because it affects a woman very close to him. His girlfriend studies fine arts in Boston, and she has won many awards and scholarships for her work.

“Even with all of that, she will only get a fraction of the visibility a male artist will get, which is really interesting, because when you think of art and design schools, the majority of the students are women, and after graduation you hear about almost none of them,” Nelson said. “A very small minority of men are the ones making the headlines and everything, and that’s something that should be fixed.”

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The convention, lasting from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., consisted of 126 attendees.

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nobody will be in there, and they’ll just pass them because no one is there to say, ‘Nay.’ ” Woods sought to illustrate 45 topics on liberty in 45 minutes, covering subjects like monopolies, the Federal Reserve and the Austrian philosophy of economics.

“What the Austrian view does is describes cause and effect relationships in the world,” Woods said.“It’s a way of looking at the economy that’s less mathematical than the mainstream is today.”

While still in its embryotic phase, Woods believes the Libertarian party is bound to shoot off soon.

“We’re not as numerous as I’d like us to be,” Woods said.“But we’re more mainstream than we’ve been before. We are more numerous than I’ve certainly ever seen.”

Armstrong, owner of a hair-braiding salon called Naturally Speaking, spoke of her experience working against government restrictions requiring all hair braiders to have a license to operate a business.

According to Sean Malone, writer of the documentary “Locked Out: a Mississippi

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brings up some major points in the conversation regarding the relationship between feminism, pornography and prostitution.

“The really important point is about the exploitative context within which pornography and prostitution happen,” Peterson said. “There’s nothing inherently wrong with pornography or prostitution, but the context in which they happen is problematic for many reasons.”

This context, Peterson said, is the structural and systemic illegality of prostitution. Peterson asserts that the vulnerability the law creates for sex workers is disparaging.

“It’s not well-to-do, well educated, white upper class or mid-upper class women who are going to prison for prostitution,” Peterson said. “Cops aren’t going into the suburbs and knocking on doors to find out who is a call girl. There are lots of sex workers who look like soccer moms.”

Peterson said that individuals who do not benefit from class, race or wealth privileges get targeted far more frequently.

“You take someone who is working on the streets, someone who doesn’t have control over their own finances, who doesn’t have control over their own client-base, someone who may have

Success Story” featuring Armstrong’s story, this would require a college degree in cosmetology and was largely done by cosmetology lobbyists seeking to cut out the weaker competition.

“One of the reasons [lobbyist argued for the license] was that there would be an AIDs epidemic that would break out all across the state because of unlicensed hair braiders,” Malone said.

As of a month ago, there are over 2,500 people who are now registered in the state of Mississippi to braid hair, according to Armstrong.

“I had passion for what I was doing, and had hope,”Armstrong said.“Hope kind of lessens what you’re going through at the time, and hope gets you to the next day.”

The convention ended with a social at Mac’s Pizza Pub. “The whole point of college is to wrestle with ideas,”Woods said.“To expose yourself to perspectives that you might never have known, or perspectives that you don’t want to know, but [being] open minded enough to give it a try. Maybe some of the dissenting voices have a point once in a while. Listen to them instead of ridiculing them.” serious addiction issues, someone who has a pimp who’s taking their money and controlling their labor; that’s a totally different story,” Peterson said.

This multiplicity is what Peterson believes hinders individuals from getting around the social stigmas that prostitution is degradable.

“It’s really about labor rights,” Peterson said.

Peterson discussed in the panel conversation the important distinction made in the film between decriminalization, legalization and the regulation of prostitution, and how the state takes distinct positions: either enforcing the criminalization heavily or taking an invested interest.

Combined with the idea that sex workers might require legal assistance or protection on the job broaches another question Peterson believes feminism must endeavor to answer.

“How much control do you want to give the state over the bodies of sex workers?”

Peterson asked. “Do you want a bunch of white men in Washington deciding and making very powerful policy decisions?

How much regulation is welcome, and how much regulation is a good idea? The government is going to be a paternalistic force, and so how comfortable are we with this paternalistic force in the lives of sex workers?”

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UC baseball wins second series with win over Memphis CLAUDE THOMPSON | STAFF REPORTER

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Dalton Lehnen leads the Bearcats in their final game of the series against the Memphis Tigers.

The University of Cincinnati men’s baseball team won its second series in a row at home in Marge Schott Stadium after defeating the University of Memphis Tigers two games to one.

The deciding game three, went into extra innings (12) after Memphis left-fielder Kane Barrow singled in the ninth inning to draw the game at seven with two outs remaining.

Memphis scored 17 runs in the series and was led by first baseman Tucker Tubbs who hit four home runs over the weekend, including two in game one.

The Bearcats claimed the first game on Friday when UC leaned on a big second inning, scoring four runs on five hits while being assisted by two Memphis errors.

The game remained out of reach for the Tigers, only scoring off of Tubbs’ two solo home runs.

UC designated hitter and relief pitcher Jarod Yoakam collected his first save of the season after entering the game in relief of Ryan Atkinson in the sixth inning.

The second game featured the highlights of the Memphis offense as they collected three home runs from three different players.

This included a three-run homer from center fielder Darien Tubbs and was directly followed by a solo shot from second baseman Brandon Montgomery in the ninth inning; that took the game out of the hands of the Bearcats who were only down by one run headed into that inning.

Pitchers David Orndorff and Colton Cleary for UC both posted earned run averages higher than five in the second game, including a 13.03 ERA from Cleary.

The third game was driven by an offensive dogfight as both teams only managed to squeeze out one or two runs in the innings that they scored, stranding a total of 15 batters between the two teams.

UC right fielder Ian Happ went 5-for-5 with two home runs in this game — providing the offensive leadership the team needed when the Tigers threatened to take the lead.

“They did a good job pitching me all weekend,” Happ said. “I think I just adjusted to their plan today. I felt good out there.”

Happ singled to lead off the 12th inning after both teams failed to score in the 10th and 11th. With one man on, second-year head coach Ty Neal called up J.J. Carr to pinch hit for Yoakam.

Carr hit a sacrifice bunt to advance Happ to scoring position at second, which allowed third baseman Devin Wenzel to come in and smack a walk-off double between the center and right fielders.

“We can play with anybody,”Wenzel said. “Every time we get a pitcher on the mound or someone in the box, I feel like we can get something done and do something to help this team win and that’s all that I was trying to do, you know, do what I can to get a W for us. We’re hitting our stride at the right time and we’re making teams beat us.”

Wenzel stood at second as the entire Cincinnati bench stormed the field to celebrate its second straight series win after having defeated previously No. 6 ranked University of Central Florida on April 2-4.

“These guys work their tails off, so I don’t have any doubt whether we’re going into every game or series from just the amount of work that these players and these assistant coaches put into it,” Neal said. “We’re going day-to-day and every single day trying to make ourselves better.”

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Kyle Mottice sends a low-flying base hit to right field against the Memphis Tigers.

Men’s golf earns runner-up Lacrosse drops to 2-12 record JAELYNNE JOHNSON | SPORTS EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati men’s golf team participated in the Hoosier Invitational over the weekend at the Indiana University Golf Course in Bloomington, Indiana. The 54-hole tournament featured 36 holes on Saturday with the final round scheduled for Sunday where they finished in second place.

The 17-team playing field included teams from: University of Dayton, Drake University, Eastern Michigan University, Miami (Ohio), University of Toledo, University of Wisconsin, Xavier University and Youngstown State.

Cincinnati is coming off an 11th-place finish at the Old Waverly Collegiate Championship last Tuesday in West Point, Mississippi.

Two seniors posted top 25 scores. Jared Howard recorded his best tournament score of the year, tying for 11th place at 4-under par 211. John Michael O’Toole earned his fifth top-25 finish of the year, tying for 22nd place at 1-over 217.

Howard and O’Toole competed in Bloomington along with senior Baxter Reeves and sophomores Jared O’Kelley and Cincinnati native Brennen Walsh. Howard leads all Bearcats with a 74.08 stroke average, followed by O’Toole’s 74.12 and Reeves’ 74.92 O’Toole tied for 1st place with three other players after obtaining a 4-under par 7068=138 Saturday at the invitational.

He was tied for 4th after the morning’s opening round from four birdies. He then swung his way into a tie for 1st after posting his best round in the afternoon, carding a 3-under 68 with four birdies and

only one bogey. “[O’Toole] has been playing very well lately; he avoided the double bogeys today and managed himself around the golf course very well,” said Head Coach Doug Martin. “If he goes out there Sunday and has a solid round, he could win the tournament.”

O’Toole is tied at the top of the player leaderboard with Xavier’s Jose Montano (71-67=138), Toledo’s Chris Selfridge (72-66=138) and Wisconsin’s Jack Watson (68-70=138).

As a team Cincinnati recorded their best two rounds of the season on Saturday, earning a combined 7-over 287-288=575 to rank 5th in the 17-team event. Wisconsin leads the field at 3-under 286-279=565.

O’Kelley is tied for 20th after two rounds at 2-over 72-72=144. Howard is tied for 28th at 4-over 72-74=146, and Reeves and Walsh are both tied for 39th place at 6-over 148. Reeves scored a 74-74=148 and Walsh earned a 73-75=148.

The final round began 9 a.m. Sunday as the Bearcats were in a race for 2nd place.

O’Toole played his last three holes in 3-under par to shoot 1-over par. Walsh and Howard also shot 1-over par 72.

O’Kelley shot the lowest round for the Bearcats with a 70 in his final hole of the competition.

Cincinnati finished with a final round of 2-over par 287+288+286=861, which was good enough for 2nd place behind Wisconsin, who tallied a score of 286+279+288=853.

Next, the Bearcats will compete in the Boilermaker Invitational in West Lafayette, Indiana, over the weekend.

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The University of Cincinnati women’s lacrosse team drops to a 2-12 overall record after suffering a 13-8 loss to Vanderbilt University on Wednesday and an 8-4 loss to Georgetown University on Sunday.

Cincinnati hosted the Commodores at the Sheakley Athletics Center on Wednesday afternoon.

The Bearcats won several statistical categories including ground balls, draw controls and saves, but UC could not overcome 20 turnovers as it fell to Vanderbilt in its third Big East contest of the season.

After Vanderbilt had a 2-0 lead, senior Ashley Helmrath scored the second of two Bearcat goals to tie the game at the 21:46 mark of the first half. Junior Courtney Curtis scored first, followed by Helmrath.

MacKenzie Lange scored a goal at the 8:34 mark of the first half to cap a four-goal Vanderbilt run that put the Commodores up 6-2. Four other scores of the run came from Amanda Lockwood, Caroline Peters and Meggie Ramzy before Lange found the back of the net during the run.

With 3:42 remaining in the first half, sophomore Dani Tunnel was able to find the back of the net and made the halftime margin 7-4. The sophomore would end up with a hat trick, scoring three goals in one game.

Coming back from the break, the Bearcats still failed to pull it together offensively.

“It’s one of those things where we’re on a big roller coaster with the team,” said Head Coach Gina Oliver. “When we’re up, we’re up, and when we’re down, we’re down. But it’s a good thing that we had some people

step up and I think this is a step for our team to come together and play more as a team.”

Vanderbilt’s Alexa Kunowsky capped another four-goal run by the Commodores with 9:18 remaining in the second half. This gave them a 12-5 lead against the Bearcats.

Curtis scored her second point of the game with 3:50 left to play — her goal cut the deficit to 12-8. Her score was the last for Cincinnati, and Vanderbilt added another goal with 24 seconds remaining in the match to come out with the clear win.

Following Wednesday’s loss, Cincinnati traveled to Washington, D.C., where they faced off with Georgetown in a Big East contest Saturday and they lost 8-4.

The Hoyas opened up the contest on a five-goal run with scoring from Kristen Bandos, Lauren Schwalje, Natalie Miller and Caroline Tarzian.

Curtis netted the first goal for Cincinnati — her 34th of the season — with 13:35 left to play in the first half.

Georgetown was leading UC at the half 7-1.

Returning from the half, both teams remained scoreless until freshman Brooke Kovinsky scored with 15:29 remaining in the second half; this tallied her fourth goal of the season.

With less than 10 minutes left to play in the second half, Tunnell scored the next two goals for Cincinnati, bringing the margin to 7-4.

Georgetown’s Hannah Siebel scored on a free position to put the Hoyas’ lead back to four goals, 8-4 — the final score of the game.

Cincinnati will remain on the road when they visit No. 10 Florida noon Wednesday.

Track and field programs perform strong at Tennessee Relays JAELYNNE JOHNSON | SPORTS EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati track and field program traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee, over the weekend, where they competed in one of the most challenging meets of the season. The Bearcats prevailed, finishing the meet with 15 top-eight finishes.

The three-day meet began Thursday with the multi events, hammer throw and 10,000 meter run. The remainder of the

meet schedule was completed on Friday and Saturday. This marked the first meet of the outdoor season in which the Bearcats showcased their full team.

The Bearcats are coming off of a championship weekend at the Miami Invitational as both the men and women won team titles in Oxford, Ohio. The teams combined to post 21 top-three finishes, including seven event champions.

On opening day of the Tennessee Relays, Cincinnati got off to a good start. Strong

performances came from senior Kaitlyn Good in the women’s heptathlon and freshman Alex Bloom in his first men’s decathlon.

Good concluded the first day of the women’s heptathlon in 1st place with a day one career-high 3,132 points. Bloom sat in 4th after the first day of the men’s decathlon with 3,422 points.

Good accomplished two career-best marks: the 100 meter hurdle race in 14.97 seconds and her clearance of 5 feet 7 inches in the high jump.

Day two brought similar success to the Bearcats as it made its presence known combining to garner 15 top-eight performances.

Good finished the meet with a career-best performance in the heptathlon on Friday with 5,280 points—well enough for a 1st place finish. Good finished top four in all three events on day two of the competition including a top finish in the javelin with a throw of 125 feet. She also had an outdoorbest mark in the long jump event of 17 feet 9.75 inches.

Bloom finished in 5th place in the men’s decathlon with 5,922 points, behind Nathan

Jeffers of Charlotte who had 6,203 points.

Also making statements were junior sprinter Kenya Woodall and junior thrower Macklin Tudor. Woodall won the 200 meter dash race with a time of 23.44 seconds and the 400 meter dash race with a time of 53.33 seconds. She also took 2nd in the 100 meter dash race with a time of 11.56 seconds, which is three-hundredths of a second off of former Bearcat Natasha Burse’s school record.

Tudor waged his third UC school record in the shot put event with a throw of 59 feet 4.75 inches. His throw passed former UC athlete Troy Cooper’s hurl of 57 feet 9 inches. Tudor is now the indoor and outdoor shot put and discus record holder.

Other Cincinnati athletes that finished in the top eight of their events included: Frida Akerstrom (5th) in the women’s discus, Erika Hurd (2nd) in the women’s high jump, Jaashir Morris (6th) in the men’s 400 meter hurdles and Loretta Blaut (4th) in the women’s high jump.

Cincinnati will next travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where they will compete in the Penn Relays April 23 through 25.

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University of Cincinnati track and field programs competed at the Tennessee Relays over the weekend. The Bearcats completed the meet with 15 top-eight finishes.

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Students tee off fundraiser with golf-themed carnival

MOLLY COHEN | STAFF REPORTER

Outfitted in green jackets and white caddy jumpsuits, students congregated on Sigma Sigma Commons Saturday night for the 76th annual Sigma Sigma Carnival at the University of Cincinnati. Inspired by the Masters Tournament, a major national golf competition, students raised funds to give back to the university.

“I like that the carnival happens to fall on the same week as Masters,” said Cody Kratzer, Sigma Sigma president and a fifth-year business student.“This is my favorite theme. I’m an avid golfer.”

According to Kratzer, 50 organizations applied to be part of the carnival this year, which is more than ever before.

The goal behind the event was to have a good time while raising money to benefit the student body.

“We want to donate back to UC a gift that’ll benefit all and celebrate their work and the school,” Kratzer said.

One of the represented businesses was Clifton Market, which has a new grocery store coming to 319 Ludlow this summer.

“We’re trying to spread the word about the Clifton Market, encouraging UC students and parents to be owners,” said Adam E. Hyland, principal and cofounder of Ecca Nova, an advertising company.“We will have a local, organic emphasis while keeping the price point competitive — we have a diverse neighborhood.”

University organization RallyCats was also in attendance, giving carnival-goers a chance to throw darts at photos of

UC rivals. Manning the booth was third-year architectural engineering student and RallyCat member Spencer Gates.

“This is one of the biggest events we do every year,” Gates said.“We just want to celebrate the end of the year with alums and those who have worked so hard this semester.”

Crossroads Clifton drew carnival-goers with a brave challenge — an ode to the church group’s BRAVE Journey series. The goal was to find a golf ball from one of the cups hanging from the tent ceiling while standing on a wooden plank above a pool of water with toy sharks.

“We’re starting a new series,” said Jillian Kavinsky, a firstyear marketing and entrepreneurial student.“We love UC, and we wanted to come and have fun.”

Forever Bearcats, a student-run donor organization for UC athletics, featured goldfish racing at their booth, during which two real goldfish were dropped side by side in parallel tanks and raced to the other side. For senior marketing student and Forever Bearcats president Josh Staley, the event is all about having fun.

“My favorite thing is just being with all the other organizations,” Staley said.

Also in attendance were students new to the Bearcat community, including first-year chemistry student William Trent Harders, who tried his luck on a mechanical bull.

“I’m ready to meet new people, try new things, and have new experiences,” Harders said.“I was fulfilling my childhood dream of being a bull rider.”

Fellow first-year chemical engineering student Carl Beere also came out to see what the event was about.

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UCPD officer Gutierrez rides the mechanical bull during the 76th annual Sigma Sigma Carnival Saturday evening.

“I’m having a good time,” Beere said.“I got to ride a bull, I was interviewed — I’m famous.”

The carnival lit up the night with a firework show, and had students dancing to the beat with music by disk-jockey HD. “Campus events are the easiest way to meet people,” said Chantal Woodson, a second-year bio pre-med student.“It’s just fun. I loved dancing, the fireworks and the music.”

MainStreet Stride fires up students, celebrates Bearcat spirit MATT NICHOLS | STAFF REPORTER

More than 1,000 students, faculty and staff clothed in red and black paraded down MainStreet Friday afternoon as the Bearcats Band played in their wake. The procession was part of the University of Cincinnati’s 10th annual MainStreet stride, an annual parade that celebrates the beginning of spring.

The parade featured more than 25 student organizations and UC departments showing off school pride by carrying signs, throwing Atomic Fireball candies to students and wearing their most spirited Bearcat gear.

The parade was led by this year’s winner of the Face of the #BearcatCard Contest, Erin Walsh.

Walsh became Grand Marshall of MainStreet by posting the following tweet: “@UCMainStreet From CCM to SBC to the LAC & everything in between, my Bearcat pride shows through my involvement across campus! #BearcatCard”

Greg Hand, former vice president of public relations, was a judge at this year’s event and has been involved with the MainStreet Stride since its creation 10 years ago.

“This was an event that was created to celebrate the reopening of the remodeled Tangeman University Center and this plaza, the MainStreet,” Hand said. “When they were first opened, the university was looking for some way to celebrate it. The university created this parade as a way to bring students and faculty and staff together to celebrate a part of campus that’s made for getting together and intermingling.”

Walsh led the UC community to the Campus Recreation Center Gymnasium for a free lunch including corndogs, veggie burgers and pulled pork sandwiches, along with performances by the UC Bearcats Band and the Cheer & Dance Team.

During lunch, UC President Santa Ono and former Student Body President Christina Beer took the stage to begin inaugurating the new Student Government leadership.

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“It’s absolutely unbelievable that this was us a year ago, but on the other side of the microphone,” Beer said. “We are definitely looking forward to the next leadership of Student Government, and I’m confident that they are going to take the University of Cincinnati to even greater heights.”

Ono proceeded to announce the eight newly elected at-large senators that will take office this year, followed Student Body Vice President Andrew Griggs and President Andrew Naab.

Naab spoke to the audience about his upcoming term as student body president.

“We’re really excited to work with our eight new at-large senators in office,” Naab said. “We have a lot of work to do this year, but we have a great team behind us that’s committed to ensuring that we are an inclusive organization that represents the University of Cincinnati. We were elected to get results, and that’s what we want to do.”

The inauguration ceremony concluded with the playing of UC’s Alma Mater

performed by the UC Bearcats Band.

“It has been a magical year,” Ono said.

“We had so many things to be proud of, so many accomplishments, but the best is yet to come.”

Awards were given out to UC departments or organizations to further express the university’s appreciation for their participation in the parade.

The College-Conservatory of Music was awarded the Most Creative Department award, while Student Affairs won Most Spirited Student Organization. Ono was also surprised with a new Hottest College in America award.

Ono concluded the annual event with a few encouraging words for next year’s academics and athletics. With success on and off the field, UC as a school is capable of competing nationally, Ono said.

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Karl Bennett, a bike technician at the UC Bike Kitchen, displays his bicycle at the second annual Cincinnati Bike Show Thursday evening.

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Bicycle enthusiasts from all over Cincinnati brought their favorite bikes to the Tangeman University Center Atrium Thursday to celebrate the second annual Cincinnati Bike Show.

Organized through UC’s Office of Sustainability, the Cincinnati Bike Show included free food, live jazz and access to representatives from several local bike shops and organizations, including UC’s Bike Kitchen, Cincy Redbike and Cincinnati Bike Polo.

Approximately 45 proud bike owners entered their bikes into the show, each with a unique design and purpose. Bikes were marked with tags for voting, noting the name, owner and story accompanying the bicycle.

“You’ve got a really good blend of the on-campus and off-campus,” said Morgan Billingsley, a fifth-year geology and environmental studies student and a coordinator with UC Sustainability. “We’re at UC; this is where we can make it happen and bring everybody together, but we want everybody. Cyclists of all shapes, sizes, age range, budgets, whatever, we want everybody.”

Anyone who signed in had a chance to vote for their favorite bikes on a list on 10 categories, including best beater, best vintage bike and gnarliest bike.

Peter Lusher, a former UC student involved in the bicycling community, won gnarliest bike with a custom-made chopper he built from scraps, aptly painted like an American flag.

“It feels awesome to get a little recognition,” Lusher said.

All 10 winners received a free T-shirt and a pair of front and rear lights along with a choice of several variety prize packs with tactical items like patch kits, locks or a multi-tool.

Lusher hopes this competition helps

inspire other enthusiasts in the area to work on building more complicated bikes.

“The more the bike community gets together, the cooler bikes get,” Lusher said.

“If more people came with custom builds or specific gearing sets, then more people will know about it and ideas will get spread around.”

Beyond just voting, anyone who signed in could enter in a raffle to win several different prize packs, each containing different bike accessories.

Among the many prizes were monkey lights, a wheel-attachable bike accessory that projects multicolored patterns onto the frame of the wheel.

Noticing several bicyclists performing small jumps and tricks along the Atrium railing, Billingsley added that the event was also created to promote bicycle safety.

“I’m very lucky; I’ve been in two bike accidents and both times the driver stopped, and that is a very fortunate thing,” Billingsley said. “If you’re out there on a bike, you need to be paying attention and make sure that you are seen.”

Raphael Vayntrauba, a third year prepharmacy student who attended the event, reminisced about a beloved bike he lost a few years ago that looked similar to one of the bikes entered in the show.

“I am absolutely fascinated with bikes,” Vayntrauba said. “I love road bikes especially. I used to ride a Huffy 626 before I crashed it into a car.”

Vayntrauba, who didn’t know about the event until walking into TUC Thursday night, was excited to see all of the involvement in the Cincinnati bicycling community.

“Some people might not know this, but there is a bike kitchen over by Langsam Library,”Vayntrauba said. “So if your bike breaks down, take it over there and they can fix it. This community is here to help everyone, so why not take advantage of that?”

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