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UC football player suspended after running from police
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
BEARCATS KEEP BELL OVER MIAMI
NATALIE COLEMAN | NEWS EDITOR
After a gun was reportedly fired at a Sept. 14 house party near the University of Cincinnati’s campus, four students on the UC football team faced disciplinary action, including one arrest and suspension. CPD responded to a report of shots fired at 132 Lyons Street around 2:45 a.m., where there was a large house party. There were no injuries at the scene, according to an incident report from the UC Police Department. Alex Thomas, 18, a cornerback for UC football, has been suspended from playing with the team for at least four games after he reportedly ran from Cincinnati police officers. Thomas was arrested and charged with obstruction. Thomas was released at 6:36 a.m. after posting a $250 bond. His lawyer issued a plea of not guilty, according to documents filed with the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts. Thomas is expected to appear in court Oct. 14 for a pre-trial hearing. UC football head coach Tommy Tuberville released a statement in response to the arrest. “In accordance with my team rules, he will not be eligible to participate in a game until his legal matter is completely resolved,”Tuberville said in the statement. “We have higher expectations of everyone within our football program and there will be consequences for those actions.” Three other UC football players — Ey’Shawn McClain, Leviticus Payne and Hosey Williams — were cited for misdemeanors, according to the statement from Tuberville. Payne and McClain — UC cornerback and linebacker respectively — had outstanding warrants for a Feb. 4 drug possession charge. The three will remain on the active football roster and continue playing with the team. “This kind of behavior is not acceptable and not indicative of the UC football program,”Tuberville said. “Moving forward, we will continue to educate our players on making good decisions and being great representatives of the university.” The Bearcats’ next game is Saturday against the Buckeyes at Ohio State University.
CRIME BLOTTER 9/14 - Assault on Rohs Street A UC student was shot in the face with an Airsoft pellet gun sometime after midnight on Rohs Street. The victim sustained a laceration to his lip. He flagged down a UCPD police cruiser on Calhoun Street after the incident. There is no further information available on the description of the suspect. 9/15 - Sexual imposition on Joselin Avenue At approximately 10:15 a.m. a female student was accosted by a suspect who grabbed her butt on the 300 block of Joselin Ave. The victim screamed and the suspect fled. The victim described the suspect as a black male, age 25 to 30, and around 200 pounds. He had a round face and a mustache. He wore a light grey sweatshirt and grey sweatpants. 9/15 - Attempted robbery on Warner Street An attempted robbery occurred on Warner Street near Sauer Avenue. The victim called 911 from his residence hall to report that he had fallen and requested transport to the hospital. Hours later, the victim told police that he was a victim of an attempted robbery. He alleged the two suspects demanded his wallet, and when he refused, the suspects punched him in the face. The suspects then fled the scene. The victim sustained a laceration to his face. The suspects were described as two white males, 21 to 23 years of age. One had shoulder-length blonde hair and a maroon shirt and jeans. The other suspect was thinner and wore a black hooded sweatshirt and jeans. The report originally stated the robbery occurred on Backstage Drive near CCM, though police determined the location to be Warner Street. 9/18 - Robbery on Chickasaw Avenue Around 1:30 a.m. in the 2300 block of Chickasaw Ave., two suspects, one of whom had a handgun, approached a Cincinnati State student. The suspects demanded the student’s property and took his wallet and personal property. No further information is available on the description of the suspects. If anyone has information about these crimes, call Crime Stoppers at 513-352-3040. Crime Stoppers offers rewards for information leading to the arrest of suspects in crimes, and you can remain anonymous.
KATIE NORMAND | CONTRIBUTOR
Bearcat players getting fired up for their game against the Miami Redhawks. Bearcts hold onto vicotry bell for the ninth straight year.
Home sweet home: Cincinnati grinds for win over storied rivals at Paul Brown Stadium CLAUDE THOMPSON | STAFF REPORTER
The Victory Bell is officially staying in Cincinnati for another year after The University of Cincinnati Bearcats defeated their oldest rival, Miami University Redhawks, for the ninth consecutive time. UC finished their homecoming game with a 31-24 victory at Paul Brown Stadium Saturday in front of 41,926 fans — the largest crowd ever in the history of the Battle for the Victory Bell. The Bearcats marched out onto the field for the 119th time against the Redhawks, continuing the second-oldest NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision rivalry, trailing only the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame.
Despite Saturday’s victory for UC, Miami still leads the overall series 59-53-7, dating back to 1888. Quarterback Gunner Kiel, who is the reigning American Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week, led the Bearcats through the stiff defense of Miami to obtain his second career win. Kiel threw four touchdowns and finished the night with 25 completions for 271 yards and also held for only two interceptions — both to Miami cornerback Quinten Rollins. The Redhawks defensive secondary prevented the Cincinnati wide receivers from getting open deep all night. Kiel’s longest pass of the game (29 yards) was a touchdown strike to Johnny Holton in the third quarter — Holton’s first career touchdown reception. They held Cincinnati’s leading wide receiver, Mekale McKay, to only 40 yards on three catches. Two of those three catches, however, SEE FOOTBALL PG 6
DAAP student chosen from thousands for summer fellowship program in California Interaction design student earns opportunity to intern with award-winning app in Palo Alto PATRICK MURPHY | STAFF REPORTER
Gliding across the country en route to California, a University of Cincinnati interaction design student found himself in Palo Alto for a summer internship at the headquarters of news aggregate application Flipboard — Apple’s iPad 2010 App of the Year. Kyle Bennett, a third-year student in UC’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, landed the internship after going through a rigorous application and interview process. Interviews were held by the venture capitalist firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers — the same firm responsible for the up-start of Facebook and Google. The KPCB Fellows Program sought engineers and designers capable of working with companies that KPCB has investments in, such as Twitter, Shazam, Zynga and Flipboard. Bennett learned of the internship through “Fast Company,” a business magazine that features business success, design and technology articles. Bennett and 10 other applicants were chosen out of 2,500 applications, ranging from 200 colleges nationwide. “There were tons of interviews,” Bennett said. “There would be a general round, then the semi-finals and then the finals.” Bennett flew to San Francisco on May 1 to attend information sessions with other students in the fellowship, including talks and mentorship dinners discussing data science, entrepreneurship, technology and design. Over the course of the three month-long fellowship,
Kyle Bennett, a third-year DAAP student, spent his summer in California for a fellowship program.
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Bennett completed an internship with Flipboard — one of KPCB’s portfolio companies — where he was mentored by an executive within the company and gained experience working on unique and challenging technical, design and product problems. Bennett completed the internship the day before the start of UC’s fall semester. Bennett said the highlights of the fellowship included an entrepreneur meeting, where Kyle was able to talk with notables such as KPCB investor John Doerr, graphic designer John Maeda and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Bennett accredits his acceptance into the fellowship to his effective portfolio. “I wanted to make sure I represented a broad spectrum of capabilities,” Bennett said. These capabilities included: design work with iOS and Android applications, a freelance web design modification for a law firm in New York, an abstract work of a violin in the composition of different figures and shapes and design with print media and magazine layouts. “Make whatever you’re interested in shine the most,” Bennett stressed regarding portfolio design. “Businesses love to see a balance between passion and getting work done.” Bennett also stresses the importance of experience as a fundamental factor in the application process. He completed two previous co-ops with Cincinnati’s LPK design agency and also worked with Procter & Gamble and in UC’s App Lab. “Most kids think that if they don’t get into the internship that they want to do, they won’t get to where they want to be,” said Bennett, who also noted that P&G was not where he wanted to be. “But, these internships gave me invaluable experience that helped immensely with my work at Flipboard.” Bennett’s work with Flipboard during his internship not only resulted in Flipboard making modifications that are due to come out soon, but also creating an entirely new feature to the program that Kyle presented to investors during his internship. Bennett created the feature in collaboration with another student of the fellowship. “We started on white boards brainstorming what it would look like,” Bennett said. Bennett spent six weeks working on this feature. “I ended up presenting this feature to the entire company,” Bennett said. “When I got done, all the heads of the department said, ‘When can we get this into the app?’ ” Due to disclosure polices, more information on the feature cannot be released yet, but it will be released sometime in the near future, Bennett said. Bennett’s final advice to students interested in being successful when seeking an internship is to have an open mind on every aspect of your designated field. “A designer should essentially be able to design anything,” Bennett said. “The only difference between fashion design and architecture design are these technical boundaries.”
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