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VonErden said the event also succeeded in prompting students to realize how much the people of Clifton and surrounding neighborhoods are in need.

“I think they realized how many streets in Clifton there are that are just littered, and we don’t even see that,”VonErden said. “They’re kind of the hidden streets no one knows are populated with trash.”

VonErden said she experienced a similar realization last year that inspired her to start the event. While she was tutoring at Taft High School through Bearcat Buddies — a tutoring program that pairs UC students with Cincinnati Public School students — the student she was tutoring arrived late to a session because he had accidentally cut himself on an open can that was on the street.

VonErden decided to drive around the surrounding neighborhood to see just how unsafe litter made the area.

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Nearly 400 University of Cincinnati students rose with the sun Saturday in the name of environmental pride and community improvement for the first Cincy Spring Cleanup.

While created as a collaborative effort between Student Government’s college tribunals to bring the tribunals together for a community service, all UC students were eligible to participate in the event.

Participating students divided into groups and traveled by bus to six different areas of Cincinnati, including Clifton, Avondale and Over-the-Rhine, to pick up litter. Trash pickup started at 9:30 a.m. and continued until 12:30 p.m.

Despite the chilly temperatures, students reconvened on McMicken Commons for an ice cream social afterward.

Katie VonErden, Cincy Spring Cleanup director and second-year operations management student, was impressed with the event’s large turnout, which surpassed her original goal to have 100

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Students got down and dirty during the Cincy Spring Cleanup volunteer initiative Saturday morning, where they patrolled the streets to clean up the trash and debris littering the streets.

Student Government UC UNITES IN MEMORY OF LOST BEARCATS members collaborate to unite tribunals STUDENTS, FACULTY, ALUMNI REMEMBERED FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

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The UC community gathered to commemorate 11 students and 12 staff members who died during 2014. Friends and family used roses to represent the memory of loved ones Wednesday in TUC Great Hall.

Director of Development for the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy and College of Allied Health Sciences. “It’s definitely a good time to remember everyone.”

Vice President for Student Affairs Debra Merchant opened the service, which also acknowledged the passing of 1,025 retirees and alumni.

“Our remembrances today will be all too brief,” Merchant said during the service. “No combination of words can capture the pride for our faculty and students.”

Roses in hand, speakers took to the stage to give their words of remembrance. The flowers symbolized the 11 students and 12 faculty members who passed.

One of the students remembered was Liying Guo, who was diagnosed with leukemia.

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Melodic harp notes flooded through Tangeman University Center’s Great Hall Wednesday as the University of Cincinnati community gathered to celebrate the memory of 11 students and 12 staff members who died during 2014.

“I hope that the UC community as a whole benefits and acknowledges the contributions that each of these individuals have made,” said Erica Forrest, assistant director of the Student Wellness Center. “I hope that everyone realizes the importance of putting their best foot forward while here.”

Attendees wore ribbons of remembrance and had the opportunity to write messages on a tribute wall.

“The memorial is a really nice event,” said Meridy Glenn, an attendee and UC

“She was never bitter or angry,” said speaker Michael Neugent, an assistant professor of finance. “She approached each day trying to bring a smile to those around her.”

Doug Rosfeld, director of player development for UC’s football team, spoke in memory of UC student and football player Chamoda KennedyPalmore, who died in motorcycle accident in September.

“He gave his best whatever he did on and off the field,” Rosfeld said. “He continues to inspire us every day to live, to dream and to love.”

Robert Mitchell served as a security official of the UC community for 12 years.

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While Student Government restructures how it operates in an effort to become a more effective body of change for the University of Cincinnati, the organization convened Wednesday to discuss how its members can best support each other.

SG currently consists of a Student Senate, executive boards and tribunals — smaller student government bodies within each of the university’s 13 undergraduate colleges. Additionally, there is a cabinet of students to carry out the agenda of SG officers.

The members discussed how to eradicate the disconnect between those various entities. SG members suggested getting to know each other better and educating themselves about the entities they are not a part of so that their efforts are more collaborative and that they know which SG members to approach for help.

Tribunal senators expressed the concern that tribunals are not on the same level and some members of college tribunals are not even aware they are a part of SG. As part of the effort to promote tribunals, Carl H. Lindner College of Business senators proposed to change the name of their tribunal from Lindner Student Action Team (LSAT) to the Lindner Student Association.

LSAT members saw that the current name causes hindrances for the tribunal, according to Lindner College of Business Senator John Giles. Almost no Lindner students know what the LSAT is, and they are confused about what the name implies about the group. Giles said the new name describes the tribunal more effectively.

“We’re going to try to help other tribunals market their tribunals,” Giles said. “We can definitely work together. I’m optimistic about what we can accomplish next year.”

As LSAT is the only tribunal with a unique name, some senators questioned whether or not a name change would bring more unity to SG. At-large Senator Jackie Mulay said a different name for the Lindner tribunal distances the group from the larger SG organization.

“Instead of focusing on branding a new name to get more people involved again, why don’t we focus on how we can get the Lindner College of Business students to feel more comfortable with the name tribunal?” Mulay asked.

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LGBTQ Center hosts Ally Picnic, offers support, community for all CHRISTINA DROBNEY | CONTRIBUTOR

As a part of QueerCat Pride Week, the LGBTQ Center hosted an Ally Picnic on McMicken Commons Tuesday that offered open conversation, free food and games for all.

According to the LGBTQ Center’s program coordinator, T. N. Vaught, the main purpose of the Ally Picnic, which saw 200 participants throughout the day, was to bring faculty, staff and student allies together to illustrate the communal support of the center on campus.

Members from Student Activities and Leadership Development, Residence Education and Development, Women’s Center, Learning Assistance Center, Ethnic Programs and Services, AfricanAmerican Cultural & Resource Center, and a multitude of others came to 565 Steger Student Life Center to show support.

“A lot of [the faculty members] wore the polos from their departments to show students that several student departments support them,”Vaught said.

The LGBTQ Center defines an ally as someone who confronts heterosexual and cisgender privilege in themselves and others and a concern for the wellbeing of members in the LGBTQ community while treating offenses against the community as social justice issues.

“We all come in different shapes and sizes,” said local supporter Christian Jackson. “It’s really someone who is supportive for equality and justice. An ally is someone who takes the time to support the queer community; someone who is very attentive to their needs.”

Ali Davis, a fourth-year anthropology and African studies double-major, believes that an ally is someone who “magnifies [the LGBTQ community’s] voice.”

“I’ve heard an ally defined as someone who supports the movement because they have advantages in society that the LGBTQ community don’t have,” said firstyear industrial design major Rose Ford.

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Students huddled away from the rain in the UC LGBTQ Center in Steger Hall for the Ally Picnic Monday afternoon.

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Samantha Messer, a second-year graduate student in art education, contributes to a group mural during the DAAP Art Swap.

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College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning students could be found in DAAP’s main staircase Thursday while they ate, sketched on a group mural and swapped art pieces with one another as part of the second annual DAAP Art Swap.

The event aims to integrate DAAP students and stimulate the exchange of art and ideas.

Samantha Messer, a second-year graduate student in art education and primary organizer of the event, said

she was thrilled to be hosting it again.

Messer described the art swap as an opportunity for “people from all disciplines in DAAP to come together.”

Students at the event brought old art pieces and traded them for raffle tickets. The raffle ticket would allow them to take somebody else’s art piece on display.

“I had a bunch of art sitting around, and I didn’t know what to do with it,” Messer said. “It weighs on you. It’s hard to move forward if you’re stuck with the old stuff you have.”

In its first year, the Art Swap gathered 30 students and

over 50 art pieces.

This year’s edition gathered different stations that encouraged students to create art, a large food table with free, fresh pumpkin pancakes and a ceramic bowl sale.

Messer believes that the benefit of this event is “generating positive social interactions.”

“Especially within DAAP, there can be some competition between majors,” Messer said. “We’re all creative people. We’re all awesome people. We all work really hard, so we’re going to share that with each other.”

Guillermo Morales, a second-year fine arts student, didn’t bring any art to trade, but came spur of the moment with one of his friends.

Morales said it was awesome to see “people getting together to trade art and have a good time.”

He also said the swap was a nice break from classes and provided something entertaining to do between them.

Elise Barrington, a second-year fine arts student, was excited to find out if anyone would pick her submission in the swap — a charcoal drawing of a buttocks.

“I thought it was funny!” Barrington said.

Barrington said it’s interesting to learn about what her colleagues are working on.

Along that same line of thinking were fourth-year fine art students Sara Smith and Nina Digiovenale.

Smith saw the event as opportunity to leave the studio and get exposed to different art pieces. Although Digiovenale admitted she was lured to the event by the free food, she was glad she attended the swap.

“I want to see what’s trending, and I also want to be here and support my fellow artists,” Smith said, adding that it’s easy to see what kind of styles students prefer to use when they are not restricted by the classroom.

“You can see the passion in their work, and I think that that should make a statement to the school — what things should be more sponsored,” Smith said.

Digiovenale liked the fact that the swap helps students prepare for the future when they will have to sell their work, adding it was nice for them to have the opportunity to exchange artwork with the comfort of peers.

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Paul Walker as Brian O’Conner exemplifies his badassery by clinging for dear life on a car teetering on the edge of a cliff in his last role. The film has already garnered over $300 million in foreign markets.

Review: Buckle up for ‘Furious’ franchise’s best installment yet TONY JOHNSON | STAFF REPORTER

“Furious 7” is the biggest, loudest, dumbest movie I have seen all year, and has a few things very, very wrong with it: its soundtrack and score graces us with the musical sensibility of an eighth grader who pleasures himself to Lamborghini and Wiz Khalifa posters, its screenplay is absurdly contrived and difficult to embrace as any sort of reality despite how much you check your brain at the ticket booth, and the acting is as ludicrously (pun absolutely and lovingly intended) hammy as any Hollywood franchise film I’ve seen in my lifetime.

But all of those flaws are irrelevant.

Just how the poorly developed goons can’t stop the late Paul Walker and Co. from saving the world one sports-car stunt at a time, the “cheese” factor of the film’s production value has no chance at stopping “Furious 7” from entertaining the hell out of us.

“Furious 7” lulls through its introduction, but totally delivers with a fistful of gasoline.

It was the most childish fun I’ve had in theaters since some guy pulled a threecourse BBQ meal (ribs, chips, slaw) from under his seat at a sold-out Thursday night screening of “Godzilla” last May. And I mean that in the best way possible.

The latest installment in the 14-year-old, street-racing-turned-vehicular-warfare series is indeed the most ballistic, ballsto-the-wall, awesome installment yet in the franchise, but not at all because it’s a masterful work of art or redefines the boundaries of filmmaking or any of that crap we don’t care about.

No, sir; this film cuts through all that literature nonsense and just gives the people what they want on a silver platter.

“Furious 7” achieves greatness with the simplest, most Hollywood methods imaginable: by being really, really badass.

I mean, it is: Bad. Ass. Capital B-A-D-AS-S. I mean, come on. Vin Diesel and the late Paul Walker, both real-life badasses, lead as Dom Toretto and Brian O’Conner, the two old-school badass good guys from the original. Jason Statham (yet another reallife badass) also features in the film as the film’s main badass bad guy, Deckard Shaw, who is out for revenge on Dom and Brian, because Dom and Brian killed Deckard’s brother — who was also a badass bad guy.

Supporting this trio of badasses is

Michelle Rodriguez as Letty, a badass girl with memory problems, Jordanna Brewster as Mia, a former badass turned loving mother and wife, Tyrese Gibson as a badass full of crowd-pleasing one-liners, and the regularly underrated comedic timing from Atlanta rapstar Ludacris as a conveniently tech-savvy badass.

A new addition to the franchise’s already badass lineup is the classic badass Kurt Russell of “Escape From New York” infamy, who provides a global-warfare vibe as Mr. Nobody.

Mr. Nobody is pretty badass — when he isn’t busy briefing crucial special-ops missions to a bunch of badasses, he likes to wear high-tech sunglasses and dualwield pistols like the grade-A, Hall of Fame badass that he is.

You know what else is badass about this movie? Everything.

But more specifically, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson may be making his claim for the biggest badass in all of Hollywood right now, and he could very well end up in the badass Hall of Fame with Kurt Russell one day.

At one point during the beacon of badassery that is “Furious 7,”The Rock’s character, Hobbs, says something so badass that auditoriums across the globe erupted into applause last Friday night. I know I cheered.

I think you may understand just how badass “Furious 7” is by now, and we haven’t even touched on the stunts and gunfights and explosions and races and incredibly tasteful ending yet.

This action flick is just hysterically fun, and I won’t ruin the best parts for you.

But I will say that director James Wan has crafted himself an ultra-profitable triumph, taking a significant chunk of pages out of the John Wu (“Face/Off”) and Tony Scott (“True Romance”) directing playbooks while keeping aesthetics sleek, clean and modern; totally in touch with the previous installment of the franchise.

Speaking of “the franchise,” consider this: it was briefly considered a laughing-stock action series of Universal Studios by a considerable fraction of critics — Roger Ebert half-sarcastically insinuated that “Fast and Furious,” the fourth installment of the franchise, was made to sell video games in his respective review for the film, and he isn’t the harshest of that film’s critics.

But “Furious 7” seems to have successfully established the franchise as a proud staple

of the Hollywood studio system.

It represents a rare franchise that has struggled, survived and eventually succeeded in a way that is practically entirely unparalleled.

The Fast and Furious franchise is outrageously silly. But it’s unapologetically silly, and this allows the film to take its core attraction — its gloriously choreographed action sequences — to great new heights.

Of course, this would not be a “Furious 7” review without a discussion of the ending, in which Paul Walker is given farewells from the cast through their characters — particularly Diesel’s Dom. The ending is more perfect than I could have ever imagined. It somehow manages to pull real-life, real-world emotion into

the “Fast and Furious” cinematic universe without disrupting the mood of the film.

With high-critical ratings, an opening weekend good enough for 9th of all time in the United States, an additional $300 million-plus from foreign markets, and the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean markets yet to premiere, “Furious 7” seems destined to become a $1 billion dollar movie, and is likely to wind up ahead of “The Dark Knight” on the all-time box office leaderboards.

Whether you haven’t seen any “Fast and Furious” movies or if you consider yourself a hardcore fan of the franchise, make sure you fasten your seatbelt upon entry to a showing of “Furious 7.” It sets the bar furiously high for upcoming blockbusters.

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Alexis Waithe, a second-year fashion marketing student, and Duy Tran, a first-year electrical engineer student, throw away piles of leaves on McMicken Street during Cincy Spring Cleanup Saturday morning.

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“I had never passed by these streets before in my life, and I realized people were living on these streets that were littered with trash,” she said. “Wherever you stepped, there would be a danger.”

VonErden united with other students who shared a similar passion for community service and held weekly meetings to plan the event. She hopes to make Cincy Spring Cleanup an annual student-led initiative.

Despite picking up trash for more than three hours, the students were not able to completely clean up the areas. However, they did see that they were making a difference.

“We got to talk to a lot of people walking by, and they seemed really happy with what we were doing,” said Jennifer Leonard, a first-year computer engineering student.

Leonard said her group came across a pile of trash two feet deep in Avondale, and they ran out of trash bags as they

were clearing it away.

Although the students found more trash bags in the pile and were able to utilize them, they were not able to eradicate the neighborhood of the large mass of beer cans, liquor bottles, basketballs and diapers.

“We can see the ground now, kind of!”

Leonard said.

Mark Gruenbacher, a third-year mechanical engineering student, was cleaning in Over-the-Rhine when his group also ran out of trash bags. Ready to get back to work, Gruenbacher ran two miles back to campus to pick up more trash bags. He then hopped in his car and raced back down to the site to continue working.

Still panting from his race across Cincinnati, Gruenbacher spoke about how great it was that the neighborhood residents came out to thank them.

“It was good to talk to them and see the benefits of what we were doing,” he said.

John Lewnard, a third-year mechanical engineering student in Gruenbacher’s group, said they made a lot of good memories during the event.

“The people coming up to thank us was actually pretty cool,” Lewnard said. “It actually shows you that people care.”

Lewnard said many neighborhood residents had tried to clean up the litter themselves before, but the mess proved to be too much for them to handle.

Therefore, they were appreciative to see so many UC students aiding their efforts.

“Overall, it was a lot of fun,” Lewnard said. “A lot of people were appreciative, and that was really nice.”

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Andrew Naab, student body president, leads Student Government’s weekly meeting Wednesday, which included discussion on how to better unite its numerous tribunals.

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goal and quality.”

Fourth-year neurobiology student Daycia Harley said allies are informed on the many issues surrounding those within LGBTQ and is someone who acts through activism.

The LGBTQ Center also offers a plethora of materials and resources to those interested in becoming a more informed ally.

These resources include two bookcases full of literature for check-out, a four-part Ally Training Curriculum series, in-class presentations, a Queer Student Panel in which LGBTQ-identified students speak of their experience and Queer Spirituality, a weekly meeting in which students speak to the connection of religion and spirituality to gender identification and sexual orientation.

“When I first came to college, I was so excited to come to the LGBTQ community,” said Erin Cox, a third-year architectural engineering student. “There were

groups for everything at my high school except for the LGBTQ community. There were a lot of judgmental people. [The LGBTQ Center] has made me confident, safe, and there are resources that I would not have otherwise. It’s kind of changed my life.”

Cox said the LGBTQ Center provides support for any problems students may be facing.

“Come in and ask questions,” Cox said. “Even if you are not part of LGBTQ, as long as you are polite and respectful, they will treat you the same way. It’s an open conversation.”

QueerCat Pride Week continues with events hosted throughout campus Thursday and Friday. A UCID is required for all events.

“Living in this heterosexist society and cissexist society, a lot of us who are LGBTQ feel ashamed, and have to deal with a lot of micro aggressions on a daily basis,”Vaught said. “So to have that pride in saying, ‘I am who I am’ and being able to express that around other people is something that some of us don’t get to do.”

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Andrew Naab, student body president, leads a responsive reading during Wednesday’s memorial service held in memory of UC community members who died during 2014.

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balance security officials should seek,” said UC Police Department Captain Rodney Chatman.

“Friends should all be proud of the legacy he leaves.”

Professor of Environmental Health Kim Dietrich spoke on behalf of Paul Allan Succop, a professor and scientific collaborator at UC. “He was an iconic member of our faculty, having taught thousands of students,” Dietrich said. “He’s a congenial colleague who will be missed, but always with us in strong memory.”

Rahul D’Mello spoke on behalf of Bernard Wells, who worked as a fundraiser for medical student scholarships.

“We are forever grateful to you, Bernie, to all you have done to support the college,” D’Mello said.

Glenn, along with other colleagues, came in remembrance of Wells.

“He was an absolutely unique, loveable person, funny, intelligent,” Glenn said. “He still makes me laugh. We get to smile every time we think of him.”

Associate journalism professor Elissa Yancey was one of the many faculty members who came to help remember those who had passed in 2014.

“It’s very nice to have this kind of event to give families and friends time to come together,” Yancey said.

After a responsive reading by Student Body President Andrew Naab, Provost Beverly Davenport concluded the ceremony.

“It’s so important never to forget. Today is a day to remember,” Davenport said. “They will never be lost in our hearts and will always be a part of UC.”

should be able to change their name if members feel it is necessary. The tribunal is its own unique body, like all other college tribunals.

“There is literally no such thing as a typical tribunal,” Kenny said. “Everyone acts differently. We need to not have this idea that we are not a typical tribunal, because there is no such thing.”

College-Conservatory of Music Senator Michael Dudley said LSAT’s proposal gave him inspiration for improvements within his own tribunal.

“I don’t think that they should be forced to do something just to become just like everyone else when we spent the better part of 30 minutes trying to talk about how everybody’s different,” Dudley said.

SG members will vote to approve LSAT’s name change when they reconvene April 8.

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Retired General visits Cincinnati, talks ISIS HUY NGUYEN | STAFF REPORTER

As the global ISIS threat continues, Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton arrived in Cincinnati April 1 to address how exactly ISIS began and what America can do to stop it.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh, continues to rampage through the Middle East, dismantling families and government institutions. Within four months after its rise in June of 2014, ISIS had murdered over 5,500 people, according to Newsweek. Just this Tuesday, it was discovered that a mass grave in Tikrit exceeded 3,000 victims, Newsweek reported.

Eaton attended a dinner in Xavier University’s Conaton Board Room led by the Foreign Policy Leadership Council in order to raise awareness about the ISIS threat and what kind of strategies the United States should conduct to defeat them.

Eaton was tasked with training and preparing the Iraqi armed forces beginning in 2003. After retirement, Eaton followed the course of the Middle East as Senior Advisor of the National Security Network think tank in Washington, D.C. “I have never seen a more intractable, a more complex problem than what we are presented with right now,” Eaton said.

One of the key factors Eaton said is the main cause of ISIS was the loss of a formalized structure in Iraq. Ambassador Paul Bremer had enacted the Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number Two in 2003, which dissolved all original state military, industry and government positions.

“There is the birth of what we have right now, and that is the Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,” Eaton said.

The problem that arises today about ISIS is that the U.S. does not handle it holistically, Eaton said, adding that a tunneled view of the situation is what generates a belief that military power and direct elimination of the danger will end the threat.

Iraq and Syria are filled with differing ideologies, each with their own tribes and borders. These separations in the region are what weaken the governmental authorities, yet ISIS continues to thrive, Eaton said.

“There are a lot of great things about the West and all the things that we have figured out how to do since the Reformation, but from an ideological perspective we don’t deliver on

that,” Eaton said in regard to the ideological separation. “ISIS is really good at it, and we are losing the ideological component of this fight that we have right now.”

Only recently has the U.S. begun to change positions on the situation in Iraq and Syria.

The State Department recently allocated funds toward the government office that analyzes and produces counter-ideology, Eaton said.

But Eaton said that is not enough, as a majority of spending continues to funnel into the Department of Defense and military spending, and not into other fields — such as social media, agriculture and education — that he said would be able to assist in this ideological warfare.

“The military is a noble, important organization, but not at the expense of everything else that the United States can deliver,” Eaton said. “We have a real problem in deploying U.S. expertise in the pursuit of our foreign policy.”

University of Cincinnati professor and head of the political science department Richard Harknett agreed that Eaton’s push for more societal and economic pursuits against ISIS can stabilize the region in the long run, but believes the U.S. is too uncommitted to solve the problem any time soon.

“I think the medium-term, long-term strategy the General was laying out is absolutely essential for long-term success, but I don’t see how it affects things on the ground, in Yemen, in northern Iraq, in Syria, where on a daily basis people are facing life and death decisions,” Harknett said. “You have to actually decide to go all in or get out. The current U.S. strategy is in no-man’s land.”

Harknett insists that while nonviolent methods and counter-ideological attacks are vital to peace in the Middle East, the U.S. must commit to a secure and lasting presence in the region in order to encourage local opposition and combat ISIS. Eaton admits that no matter what the United States ultimately does, it will undoubtedly be a long conflict before ISIS will be totally defeated.

“There is hope here, but it isn’t going to happen overnight,” Eaton said.

Eaton continues to work as an adviser to President Barack Obama’s administration to facilitate a successful end to ISIS. His voice can be found in the reports and policies of the National Security Network at nsnetwork.org.

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Bearcats football program opens up with spring game KENSINGTON WIELAND | CONTRIBUTOR

It may be spring, but fans got a glimpse of fall as the University of Cincinnati Bearcats football team returned to campus to play the 2015 Spring Game, running the pigskin on UC’s campus for the first time in over 12 months.

More than 2,000 fans packed Sheakley Athletic Center to support the Bearcats “coming home” and completing their 15th spring practice, which was free to the public.

Head coach Tommy Tuberville and his team are coming off of a 2014-15 season that warded a fourth-straight bowl game appearance and a fifth conference title in seven years. He is “very proud of all the work that has been done in spring practice” but summed up the game as “a lot of offense, very little defense and about zero kicking game.”

Fans were treated to a quick and experienced offense when, in the first game, the No. 1 offense went head to head with the No. 1 defense in a battle that highlighted spectacular play by sophomore Mike Boone, junior Tion Green and senior Hosey Williams — all three running backs.

Boone picked up 152 yards and earned accolades from Tuberville.

“He is someone who is going to be a force in college football as a running back in the next three years,” Tuberville said.

He cites “great vision, and tremendous work ethic” as Boone’s standout abilities. “He can keep his legs moving; one guy does not bring him down.”

Green picked up 96 yards with Williams in at third with 61 yards. “[Boone’s] got competition,”Tuberville said. “Hosey and Green are playing harder with Boone out there, probably leading the pack a little bit.”

Second-year starting quarterback Gunner Kiel sees a bright future as well with “the O-line doing a great job of getting down on the ball. All three [running backs] are different in their own way, and we are going to use that to our advantage.”

The game also set the stage for a three-quarterback showing of Kiel, Hayden Moore and newcomer Luke Wright. Kiel, in particular, “came out with more confidence and faith in my teammates.” He also expressed knowledge and excitement in favor of playing

a faster offense — something Tuberville listed as a goal for the new season. “[Tuberville] wants us to get in our center and get things rolling,” Kiel said.

Kiel was able to roll with the new speed and was 18 for 26 in passing. He also recorded one touchdown.

Moore, a native of Clay, Alabama, is quickly coming out of his redshirt season.

Quarterback Coach Darin Hinshaw ragged on his exceptional arm strength that he displayed in the spring game.

“He’s really good at reads and has great athleticism,” Hinshaw said.

Moore has recently been working on tightening his throwing motion and has come into his own by completing 22 of 29 passes on Saturday on his way to three touchdowns to round out a strong spring game showing.

This fall, fans can expect to see a better defense than Saturday — “something we’re still working on and not worried much about,” according to Tuberville.

“We’re going to go faster than we’ve ever gone before,” Kiel said. “It is amazing how good our team can be.”

Tennis takes 6-1 Baseball defies odds in conference series win vs. UCF victory over NKU JAELYNNE JOHNSON | SPORTS EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati’s women’s tennis team bounced back after a 7-0 loss to Xavier University on April 1, cruising to a 6-1 win over the Northern Kentucky University’s tennis team Tuesday. The match was held in the Western Fitness and Tennis Club due to rain.

“We needed this one today,” said Head Coach Eric Toth after the match.“We’ve struggled the last week or so, and we did a great job at just setting a good tone.”

The duo of Kelly Poggensee-Wei and Lauren Bellinger started things off for UC as they swept out NKU’s Danielle Donahue and Hailey Shanahan in their doubles match by a 6-0 margin.

Freshman Natalia Abdalla and junior Hannah Wille followed up and were victorious in their doubles match against NKU’s Sydney Power and Yasmine Xantos 6-1.

The Norse tried to make a comeback in the start of singles play with NKU taking leads in several matches.

Poggensee-Wei was down 3-0 at one point before she turned the table, taking a 6-3 win over Shanahan in the first set with a matching margin in the second set.

Bellinger was trailing 4-1 in the first set to NKU’s Rheanna Morehart. She was able to take control and earn a 6-4 win in the first set. In the second set, she trailed 6-5 before winning the final game to force a third-set tiebreaker that she won 7-1.

Wille earned the first singles point for UC by taking a quick 6-3, 6-0 victory against Donahue.

Katya Bure also defeated Power in a 6-2, 6-3 fashion and garnered the last point for the Bearcats to take the win.

UC honored its lone senior, Kristina Georgieva. She sat out the 2013-14 season due to a knee injury that has made her medically ineligible for the 2014-15 season.

“She’s a special person,”Toth said.“Her circumstances have got to be tough but she’s accepted that with flying colors and she is still a huge part of this team.”

UC will travel to Storrs, Connecticut, where they will play against East Carolina University on Saturday and the University of Connecticut on Sunday in conference matches.

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Infielder freshman Manny Rodriguez has started every game of the 2015 season. The Bearcats were able to win the weekend conference series against the UCF Knights in Marge Schott Stadium.

Pitching, balanced offensive plays top opposing bats; Record improves 8-21 EMILY WITT | STAFF REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati baseball team (8-21) took two of three against the No. 6 University of Central Florida Knights in a weekend series at Marge Schott Stadium.

The Bearcats took a 4-1 victory Thursday, a 5-3 victory Friday and a 2-1 loss Saturday against their conference rivals.

“How? Because we’ve played very good baseball these past two days, that’s how; when we play well, we can beat anybody,” Head Coach Ty Neal said of the Bearcats’ series conference win. “We just lack consistency this year with a lot of young guys, and we’re all still learning each other.”

After a rainy start Thursday, UC pitching dominated one of the nation’s top offenses, allowing a collective one run and five hits and striking out 12, a season high. Senior right-handed pitcher Ryan Atkinson (ERA: 4.35) threw five innings, striking out seven and giving up one run.

Right-handed pitcher Jarod Yoakam (ERA: 5.18) pitched one inning, giving up one run and two hits and right-handed pitcher Andrew Zellner (ERA: 1.21) earned the

save, throwing three innings, giving up two hits and striking out five. “[Atkinson,Yoakam and Zellner] threw strikes and gave us a chance to win,” Neal said of their performances. “UCF leads the country in almost every offensive category.

If they’re hitting those doubles and homeruns with nobody on, then you can stay in the game.”

Sophomore RJ Thompson (.296 avg) led the offense Thursday with two hits and two RBIs, while freshman Ryan Noda (.265 avg) and junior Devin Wenzel (.213 avg) each had solo homeruns to begin scoring — Wenzel’s first homerun of the season.

While Thursday’s offensive efforts were isolated, Friday’s offense proved to be a collective force to get on base and advance.

Thompson again led the team with two hits while Wenzel scored two runs and freshman Kyle Mottice (.208 avg) earned two RBIs. Each player on the lineup earned a run, hit or RBI. “Honestly, it was guys pulling for each other and guys going into the box with some grit,” Neal said. “They’re looking out for each other and holding each other accountable and getting some big hits.”

Freshman right-handed pitcher David Orndorff (ERA: 6.91) had his first career win, throwing 5.1 innings with three hits,

three runs and one strikeout.Yoakam threw 1.2 innings with one hit and one strikeout, while Zellner earned his second career save with two innings pitched and two hits.

A sunny Saturday brought a large crowd as the Bearcats fell to the Knights 2-1.

Freshman left-handed pitcher Dalton Lehnen threw a career-high 11 strikeouts, giving up two runs and six hits for his fifth loss of the season.

“He did a great job and gave us a great chance to win,” Neal said on Lehnen’s performance. “He didn’t walk anybody. I thought he competed very well.”

A quiet offense hurt the Bearcats Saturday as UC earned a collective one run and three hits against right-handed UCF pitcher Zach Rodgers, earning Rodgers his fifth win of the season. Noda gave the Bearcats their only run after an RBI double in the eighth inning.

“Their guy threw well. He held us to three hits and only walked us twice,” Neal said.

“We had our chances. We had a couple of innings where we had runners in scoring position but we didn’t get the big hit. It wasn’t lack of effort — our guys wanted it.

It just didn’t happen today.”

Neal still believes his team is a force to be reckoned with in the American Athletic Conference.

“This team is better than the record we had going into this weekend,” Neal said.

“This team is tested. We played very, very good competition this year, and a lot of it on the road. Everything we’ve been doing this year and early last year is preparing us to do well in our conference. I don’t think our guys are intimidated. This team has some talent and this team can win.”

The Bearcats traveled to Bloomington to play Neal’s former school Indiana University on Wednesday where they edged out Indiana 5-4.

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Manny Rodriguez fires a base hit into the outfield.

Track and field earn 21 top-three finishes at Miami Invitational JAELYNNE JOHNSON | SPORTS EDITOR

After a frigid home meet two weeks ago, the University of Cincinnati track and field programs garnered team titles at the Miami Invitational track meet in Oxford, Ohio, on Saturday.

Cincinnati looked to continue its outdoor season’s success as the women’s team took 1st place with a score of 157 ahead of Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, which scored 82 points.

The men were able to match their counterparts’ 1st place win by scoring 116 points. The University of Findlay garnered the runner-up finish and tallied 106 points.

Five Bearcat student athletes took the 1st place title in their respective events.

Their 1st place scoring aided in the final team’s scoring.

Senior Andre Anderson led the way as he earned 1st place in the men’s 400-meter hurdles with a time of 52.41 seconds. He was also part of the men’s 4x100 meter relay quartet that took 1st place with a time of 41.78 seconds.

Freshman Adrian Valles continued his success in the men’s pole vault event and was victorious by clearing 17 feet .75 inches.

Junior mid-distance runner Hannah Christ took the title in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 11:14.02.

Senior thrower Emelie Larsson won the women’s javelin event with a throw of 142 feet 11 inches.

Freshman Loretta Blaut rounded up the group with her win in the women’s high jump with a jump of 5 feet 7.25 inches; she was also a part of the women’s 4x100 meter relay quartet, and she won with a time of 47.43 seconds.

In addition to the success at the Miami Invitational, the Bearcats have three athletes ranked in the top 25 nationally in their respective events and 1st on the American Athletic Conference performance list.

Red-shirt senior Kaitlyn Good holds the 12th highest heptathlon point total in the nation with 5,129 points. She

achieved this total at the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational by winning every event and posting a career-best mark in the shot put March 27-28.

Kenya Woodall is 13th in the women’s 100-meter dash with a time of 11.65 seconds. She ran this time at the Disney Track and Field Open March 20-21.

Junior Macklin Tudor holds the 21st position in the men’s discus with his throw of 186 feet 10 inches at the Disney Track and Field Open.

Cincinnati will travel to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville this weekend to compete in the Tennessee Relays April 9 through 11.

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GenderF*ck Drag Show strips away gender confinement RENEE GOOCH | STAFF REPORTER

Drag queens and kings strutted down a runway-style stage in Tangeman University Center’s Great Hall Friday night at the 8th annual GenderF*ck Drag Show, which kicked off the University of Cincinnati’s annual QueerCat Pride Week.

The event, which took place on Good Friday before Easter Sunday received national attention and criticism from FOX News radio show host Todd Starnes.

“It’s amazing what sort of behavior is deemed appropriate on public university campuses these days, especially on Good Friday,” Starnes wrote in a blog post.

According to Urban Dictionary, to genderf--- is to “give a statement of freedom for all genders in a society where gender confines people.”

“Starting back in 2008, this show was in the Catskeller, and it was pretty small,” said Owen Cash, UC graduate and GenderF*ck host. “But, then it got bigger, and bigger, and now look at this — we are all here, and we’re filling up Great Hall. If you would have told me this was going to happen eight years ago, I wouldn’t have ever believed it.”

Cash is also a member of the Imperial Sovereign Queen City Court of the Buckeye Empire, a non-profit organization that engages in charitable and cultural events to raise funds for LGBTQ community members in need of monetary contributions and support.

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University of Cincinnati police officers hand dollar bills to one of the drag performers.

The Court teamed up with the LGBTQ Center and GenderBloc for QueerCat Pride Week, and the majority of drag queen and kings who participated in the show are members of the organization.

T.N. Vaught, the LGBTQ Center’s program coordinator, said someone does not have to be transgender to perform as a drag queen or king; drag queens and kings can identify as cisgender.

QueerCat Pride Week events, which include picnics, dance parties, support groups and more, will continue through Friday. The week has the goal of joining LGBTQ community members and activists together in celebrating their self-identifications and perspectives.

“I think the problem is that a lot of people aren’t exposed enough to different lifestyle choices that others are living by,” said Marlene Mahlock, a second-year marketing student, and LGBTQ advocate. “So they judge it, mock it or whatever, rather than actually trying to understand it.”

Proceeds raised from the drag show go to TransOhio, an organization that serves the state’s transgender community with the vision of aiding transgender people to feel safe and accepted where they live.

“We have a variety of dollar bills coming in during these drag performances,” Cash said. “We have flat singles, folded singles, crumbled singles, but you know what? We’ll take them all! It’s all good, because it’s all for TransOhio.”

“I think events like this makes exploring our differences fun,” Mahlock said.

“And in a way it’s really educational too, if that makes sense. Like, they have gender-neutral bathrooms here, and I think that’s awesome, but, I’m sure not everyone would agree with me.”

The gender-neutral bathrooms were established for the drag show to place an emphasis on equality in all genders, said Special K, another GenderF*ck host and member of the LGBTQ Center.

“If you walk into the bathroom and see someone who doesn’t look like the people you usually see in the bathroom, don’t worry about it,” Special K said.

“They’re handling their business, so you handle yours. And I think the only reason we should really say ‘ew’ if we see something in the bathroom, is if someone walks out and doesn’t wash their hands.”

The UC Police Department, UC Alliance, the Women’s Center, the Residential Hall Association and other organizations all made appearances on and off stage and donated money to TransOhio during the drag show performances.

“I have friends at different schools, and they acted like it was weird when I told them that a show like this was happening

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Andrew Naab, student body president, receives a lap dance from a drag queen during the GenderF*ck Drag Show Friday evening.

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The 2015 GenderF*ck Drag Show finale performance included the entire cast of drag queens and kings as they shared the stage, danced in collaboration to the tune

of “FourFive Seconds” by Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney.

Leaving the audience with a prominent message of gender equality, drag king performer Landon Strip ripped off his hoodie and flashed his undershirt to the audience, revealing a rainbow-colored statement: “Some people are gay, deal with it!” to which the audience responded by erupting into applause.

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