The News Record 4.2.15

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THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2015

SG allocates money for Sigma Sigma Carnival, UCAirportRide MATT NICHOLS | STAFF REPORTER

DANIEL SULLIVAN | CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER

Newly sworn-in Student Government members discussed allocating funds, UCAirportRide and Assistant Vice President confirmations Wednesday evening. The organization voted to allocate $750 to help fund the 76th Sigma Sigma Carnival, one of the University of Cincinnati’s longest running student-operated events. Students will get the opportunity to meet SG members at various booths and ask questions about SG operations. “If there are programs and initiatives that are meaningful that can’t happen without our help, then those are the types of events we want to allocate funds for,” said Andrew Naab, newly elected student body president. Vice President Andrew Griggs

SG President Andrew Naab and Vice President Andrew Griggs dicuss plans for the upcoming Sigma Sigma Carnival and a driving service which will shuttle students to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport.

Duke Energy helps UC save energy through Smart Saver program

presented this year’s plan for UCAirportRide, a program that offers free rides to the airport for UC students during and after exam week. The program, which was initiated last fall, has traditionally been solely run through SG, including the funding. “We want students to know that these vans aren’t run by random volunteers that they can’t count on,” Griggs said. “We’re confident that the more we do this, the more people will trust SG and UCAirportRide to get them to the airport safely and on time.” Last semester, the program was able to transport students to and from the airport, but due to complications with drivers not showing up, SG will no longer provide return trips. SEE SG PG 3

MOTHER OF ADVOCACY SERVICES VISITS UC, SHARES EXPERIENCES

HOST EMPOWERS DEAF COMMUNITY

STACI BOOTHE | CONTRIBUTOR

As a result of its energy-reduction incentives, the University of Cincinnati has received a total of $2.5 million in conservation-related rebates from Duke Energy. UC’s participation in Duke’s Smart Saver Incentive program started in June 2012 and has since earned the university a multitude of rebates for approximately 40 different projects around campus, according to Joseph Harrell, assistant vice president of utilities. Some of these projects include changing inefficient high-intensity discharge lights in parking garages to efficient fluorescent lighting and reducing the amount of outside air in energy intensive laboratories by installing controls that reduce the air change rate, especially during unoccupied hours, according to Ronald Heile, university engineer for planning, design and construction. “As part of the major renovation on [the Medical Sciences Building], the university’s largest building, we reduced the amount of outside air needed and installed a glycol energy run around coil to recover energy from the exhaust air and supply it to the building’s air intakes,” Heile said. The largest single rebate, netted over $1 million, came from the chilled water storage tank that was installed under the half football practice field along Jefferson Avenue, according to Heile. The rebate for these efforts is a big success for the university but there is more to come, Harrell said. “To me it means we got to keep getting better,” Harrell said.“Just because we succeeded doesn’t mean we should stop. We just got to keep things going to improve our other buildings.” There are several more energy-saving projects that will be put in place over the next several weeks, according to Harrell. Those projects include doubling the lighting in the Campus Recreation Center with LED lights and improving the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and cooling (HVAC) units in Dyer Hall, Kettering and the health profession building to reduce the amount of outside air that has to be heated and cooled. “As a faculty member, I’ve been very impressed with the way UC deals with the realities of powering a large institution while continuously looking for longterm, sustainable solutions to our energy needs,” said Jodi Shann, director of the SEE DUKE ENERGY PG 3

DANIEL SULLIVAN | CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER

Marilyn Jean Smith educates students by speaking about her own experiences with sexual and domestic violence Tuesday.

PATRICK MURPHY | NEWS EDITOR

Speaking from her own experience as a deaf woman who has survived sexual assault, Marilyn Smith, founder of the Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services (ADWAS), emphasized the need for advocacy services within the deaf community Tuesday evening. Assisted by an American Sign Language translator, Smith spoke about why she founded the ADWAS, the history of the program and what can be done to assist to hearing-impaired women who experience domestic or sexual violence. With a full room in attendance at the Engineering Research Center, Smith broke down the steps that took her from her basement operation to establishing 25 centers that utilize members in the deaf community to assist the community

as a whole. According to Smith, the defining moment of her journey was in 1970 at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., when she experienced sexual violence and the resistance of faculty, who she said neither believed her nor did anything about the incident. “They questioned whether I was being honest about the incident, they called my parents without my permission, and at that time we [didn’t have a lot of recourses], so I really had to depend on hearing people to call and then interpret what I was saying for me,” Smith said. Smith said that the faculty largely ignored her, and she felt that this feeling of ignorance shifted her feelings of the community at Gallaudet University. “I held a lot of anger inside for a while,” Smith said. “I had no choice but to stay

because at that time Gallaudet was really the only place for me. I needed a degree, and so I decided to just stick it out and stay until I graduated, and that was really a rough time.” The true inception of the ADWAS program, however, began from learning that a good friend of hers killed his own wife with an axe in front of their two children in 1981. “I remember that when I received that information, all of my anger came out,” Smith said. It was then that Smith, with the collaboration of deaf women, hearing women and mothers of deaf children, began work on March 25, 1986, to start a resource for deaf women who have experienced domestic and sexual violence. SEE ADWAS PG 3

Women’s Center releases program review, continues to support students BECKY COOMBS | CONTRIBUTOR

MADISON SCHMIDT | PHOTO EDITOR

Dr. Amy Howton, interim director of the UC Women’s Center, speaks about the progress of the center during its 2014-15 program review Tuesday afternoon in the AACRC.

Following the public release of the Women’s Center’s recent findings and recommendations from a program review, members from the center held an open forum in the Harambee room in the African American Cultural & Resource Center Tuesday. The forum was led by Tamika Odum and Amber Vlasnik, external reviewers with expertise and experience in campus-based women centers and higher education. University of Cincinnati professor Dr. Amy Howton oversaw the forum. “Our mission is to promote equitable and safe environments on campus for women through advocacy, research and education,”Vlasnik said about the mission of the women’s center. The Women’s Center created the forum in 2013 as an opportunity for reflection and strategic action through a comprehensive program review, according to Howton. The entire

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comprehensive report is available on the UCWC homepage. The forum opened with an introduction to the UCWC’s staff and members, followed by the findings referred to as strengths of the UCWC. According to the report, these strengths include: advocacy for individuals, groups and institutional groups; asking tough questions; creating impactful, relevant student leadership experiences; creating and maintaining safe space; intersectionality and collaboration; theory to practice; outstanding educational programs; research and gender-based expertise; and offering student-centered resources and support. Vlasnik said unique contributions found to be prominent of the UCWC were “advocacy around gender-based violence prevention and survivor services, creating a feminist community and demonstrating UC’s commitment to gender equality and women.” SEE WOMEN’S CENTER PG 3

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