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SG president commends successes of Women’s Center Week dedicated to teaching meaning of consent found positive student response PATRICK MURPHY | STAFF REPORTER

University of Cincinnati students from the Women’s Center kicked off Wednesday’s student government meeting addressing their successes during Consent Culture Week — a weeklong, on-campus campaign that opened the discussion defining and promoting sexual consent. The consent campaign began the first week of school and distributed advertising materials raising awareness.

The campaign implemented a pledge board where students could sign, promising to promote and foster a culture of consent on UC’s campus.

It gained a total of 462 signatures, including that of UC president Santa Ono. “Survivors of sexual assault felt comfortable enough to come up to us and share their experiences,” said Maria Kothman, a student representative from the women’s center. “That couldn’t be more of a success.”

Recently, the White House and members

from the National Campus Leadership Council launched the It’s On Us campaign — a national program that spreads awareness of sexual assault. Politicians, actors, and public figures contributed to the campaign — along with student body president Christina Beer.

Beer submitted a piece about sexual assault prevention and awareness efforts being pursued

by UC’s Women’s Center. The national campaign also consists of videos from actors speaking out against sexual violence and a call to citizens to take a pledge to help keep men and women safe from sexual assault.

The center also plans to continue its efforts in spreading awareness through Elect Her, a conference that encourages women to run for student government and other campus-based official positions in and beyond college.

The program will be held on Saturday, Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 4.p.m. in the African American Culture and Resource Center The Women’s Center also plans to spread female leadership support through an event called CONNECT, being held Sunday, Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Stratford Heights Pavilion.

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SG presdient Christina Beer keeps a focus on women’s rights and advocacy at UC.

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A collaborative effort between the University of Cincinnati Police Department, Student Safety Board and Safety Ambassadors is igniting conversation among students to promote safety resources on campus. The organizations set up a “safety table” in residence halls Wednesday.

The purpose of the safety table is to educate students, faculty, staff and parents on UCPD’s activity and to ensure a safe environment on campus and within the surrounding community, said Dave Hoffman, UC crime prevention officer. The safety table is an extension of the ‘Be Smart. Be Safe’ initiative that UC is working on.

Michele Ralston, UCPD public information officer, created the safety table initiative. Ralston said the safety table has been successful thus far, and that she plans on using this year’s feedback to continue improving and implementing the program.

“Our objective is safety and to keep students safe,” Ralston said. “We have to educate them on the resources available to them and to encourage them to make smart decisions about their personal safety.”

Student representatives from UC’s Student Safety Board collaborated with UC Safety Ambassadors to conduct the safety table.

The interaction with students coming in and out of residence halls may make for a short conversation about safety, but it is getting a foot in the door to inform students, said Caitlin Denny, a fifth-year marketing student.

Denney serves as the Student Safety Board’s marketing director. She said the board’s involvement in the safety table includes sparking conversations with students.

Ralston — the new Student Safety Board advisor — said it was important for students to learn from their peers, such as the representatives from the board.

“I think it’s really a dual mission,” Ralston said. “Our mission is to keep the students safe, and their mission is also student safety. So, we can work together to make a bigger impact.”

The safety table reinforces the safety information that first-year students were provided at orientation, Hoffman said.

“Sometimes at orientation when they get this information for the first time it’s coupled with so many other things and it gets bogged down,” Hoffman said.

“We just want to reinforce that a second time to get the information and resources to them.”

Launched in March of 2014, the UC Safety

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Lisa Rodgers, 49, has been a safety ambassador for four months. Ambassadors patrol the surrounding areas of campus every day.

Ambassadors is managed by Michael Myers and provides an extra set of eyes and ears for UC police.

Safety Ambassadors are hired for their sociable personalities and customer service skills and train with UCPD to become familiar with the safety services UC provides.

Dressed in red and equipped with radios, Safety Ambassadors primarily patrol the south and east sides of campus, such as Short Vine and U-Square, Hoffman said.

Ambassadors provide services such as walking with

students who are not comfortable walking alone and helping with directions.

“In the first three months we’ve had about 4,700 positive contacts, such as helping with directions, and 1,200-1,500 not so positive contacts, such as witnessing accidents and helping an intoxicated person find a ride home,” Myers said.

Safety Ambassadors patrol every day from 6 p.m. to 2:20 a.m. Five ambassadors patrol Sunday through SEE SAFETY PG 3

Preacher’s provocative accusations unite angry students UC’s campus experiences religious protester exercising free speech KATIE COBURN | NEWS EDITOR

McMicken Commons transformed into a platform for the expression of free speech Monday and Tuesday afternoon as irritated students gathered and heckled a passionate religious protestor.

Jessee Morrell, Open Air Outreach ministry advocate, said the purpose of his first visit to the University of Cincinnati is to bear a message of good and bad news for students who sin.

“The bad news is that God is going to judge your life, it’s Heaven or Hell when you die and God hates sin. He condemns it,” Morrell said. “The good news is that Jesus died for our sin and through His blood there is forgiveness, but in order to receive it you need to repent. So we’re here to call sinners to repentance.”

Having traveled to over 100 universities across the nation and abroad for over 10 years, Morrell said he holds a banner with large letters to attract students’ attention.

The banner he held Monday and Tuesday read ‘repent or perish’ in a flaming font. He paired his signs with shouts of provocative phrases to provoke a response and debate.

While some students attempted to tune out Morrell’s preaching with speakers blaring AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell,” other students were attracted by the spectacle and word of mouth.

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Jessee Morrell stations himself in the center of campus to draw attention to his message.

“It’s an interesting way to display your first amendment rights, that’s for sure,” said Jared Deubler, a first-year industrial management student.

Morrell preached radical beliefs that aligned with his views, but not those of the students that he attracted, Deubler said.

“Our objective is dialogue with the students — question and answer,” Morrell said. “What I’m here to do is trying to reason with them, trying to give them a reason to believe in Jesus, a reason to repent, a reason to turn from their sins.”

Morrell said his target audience is those who disagree with him.

“I want those who don’t agree with Christianity to voice their opposition so that we could discuss it,” Morrell said. “So when I’m preaching and I have a crowd of hostile, angry people who don’t believe the Bible, that’s my target audience; and so long as it’s only heckling and questions and mocking, I’ll address it and talk to them.”

Deubler said Morrell was misquoting the Bible by referencing only portions of passages and taking it out of context to

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distort the meaning.

“He told women that they should learn inside,” Deubler said.

Haley Marshall, a first-year prepharmacy student, said that she thinks Morrell was making an “ass” of himself.

“I heard someone say earlier that he was saying girls get raped because of the way they dress, which is a huge statement to make,” Marshall said. “He’s been saying that people are going to Hell for being sinners. He’s basically just calling everyone out, and obviously people don’t like that.”

The majority of students in the crowd hurled insults aimed at Morrell and his statements.

“I think it’s a right to free speech, but I think he’s preaching hate,” said Greyson Elliott, a first-year international business student. “Honestly I don’t think he should be allowed here. I think we should get him out of here, but we can’t because it’s a free country. A lot of people get really heated up when people start preaching things like that, like hate and going to hell. It’s just a really sensitive topic.”

After observing the situation, some students decided to peacefully protest Morrell’s preaching.

“Yesterday when I was out here, he proceeded to tell me that I was a terrorist and that I was a threat to national security for being homosexual, so I decided to come out today and show my pride,” said Chris Poole, a first-year SEE PROTEST PG 3

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Honors student conference to revolve around leadership skills CASSIE LIPP | STAFF REPORTER

Creating a vision for change and disregarding the impossible is the core of a leadership conference University of Cincinnati honors students will attend this winter.

Up to 60 students enrolled in the University Honors Program will travel to West Harrison, Indiana, for the LeaderShape Institute’s leadership conference, held Jan. 4 to 9 at the Higher Ground Conference and Retreat Center. The dates coincide with the final week of UC’s winter break.

The LeaderShape Institute is a national program that focuses on defining the future in regard to groups, causes, organizations and communities.

Seven students attended an informational session about the opportunity Wednesday morning in Swift Hall. Iman Said, a second-year operations management student who participated in the 2013 conference, led the meeting. She is now an on-site coordinator for the upcoming seminar.

The forum is focused on innovation and teaches students how to create a vision for change and make it a reality, according to Said.

The conference, which fulfills one honors experience, is geared toward anyone interested in learning how to impact change through developing leadership skills. The deadline to apply for one of 60 available spots is Oct. 29.

Honor students of all ages and majors are eligible.

Said explained that students will build connections with people they likely would never meet otherwise, and they will be connected with students from many different majors.

During the first day of the conference, students will be introduced to other members of their cluster — the group they will work with through the event to create their vision for change. By the end of the conference, the clusters will work together to form a plan of how to make that vision a reality.

Said’s cluster in the 2013 conference had two visions: preventing sexual assault on campus and increasing diversity multiculturalism.

Later in the conference, students will get feedback from each member of their group on how they work as a leader and what they can do to improve their leadership skills. Said defined a leader as someone who identifies an issue and figures out how to solve it.

The seminar asks students to address difficult questions, such as what it means to be a leader.

They will also learn the importance of networking and effective group work.

Although students were warned that the conference is a lot of hard work — they will be asked to discuss a variety of social issues — the experience is also very rewarding.

“By the end of the week, you legitimately come out feeling like you can do anything,” Said added.

The students who attended the information session said they were excited to apply for the program.

“I have heard that LeaderShape is an amazing experience,” said Michelle Casey, a second-year psychology student. “Some of my neighbors last year were saying how fantastic it was. One of my friends went on it — it was one of the best experiences she’s ever had.”

Additional informational sessions will be held 12:30-1:15 p.m. Thursday and 4-4:45 p.m. Oct. 2, both in 700 Swift Hall.

Ski, snowboard club prepares to travel West Cincy Snowcats welcome new members to get on board for winter Colorado trip FERNANDA CRESCENTE | STAFF REPORTER

The sun that shone over the Cincy Snowcats’ booth Wednesday afternoon wasn’t nearly strong enough to melt the excitement of the University of Cincinnati’s ski and snowboard club.

The student group has been on campus for 20 years and aims to bring together the community of skiers and snowboarders in Cincinnati. The club usually organizes trips to different destinations out West during winter and spring breaks. The club also provides students with discounts to Perfect North Slopes and carpools to Mad River Mountain.

Members of the organization did more than stand behind a table and hand out fliers outside Tangeman University Center. They were passionate about the club and worked hard to gather students and encourage them to participate in one of their annual trips.

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bus, completely recommend it. You know, you’re on a bus with 50 people, driving across the country. It’s the coolest feeling ever.”

“The trip was insane,” he added. “We would go out at night, you know, you’d see all your friends, we had awesome parties set up. The social aspect and the mountains were nothing I’ve ever been on.”

The club meets every other Wednesday and has social events, like cookouts and games, planned for the weeks leading up to the trip. During the summer, they all stick together by practicing sports like skate boarding that are similar to the ones they do in the winter.

“When the snow melts, we are still a club, we still hang out,” Burnley said.

“You make a lot of great friends and a lot of great connections through this club, and that’s been a really big thing to me when I came to college.”

Peter Bonn, a first-year exploratory studies student that stopped by the booth, plans to go on the trip and is trying to find a group of friends to go with him.

“I’ve been skiing since I can remember, and this is just a good way to get out West this year,” Bonn said.

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Greg Hand, former vice president of public relations, addresses audience members during the first 50 Minutes talk of the year. His presentation revolved around Winona Lee Hawthorne, the first woman to graduate from the University of Cincinnati.

Hand profiles UC’s first female grad Former PR vice president leads library’s first 50 Minutes talk of academic year WILL KENDRICK | STAFF REPORTER

Professors, staff members and colleagues gathered in the Archives and Rare Book Library (ARB) Wednesday afternoon for a discussion led by Greg Hand, former vice president of public relations, on the University of Cincinnati’s first female graduate.

The event revolved around Winona Lee Hawthorne, who graduated from UC’s first graduating class — with a grand

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events, voting rights and nominations, a 30-percent discount on Perfect North season passes and more, according to Snowcats.

The club will head to Winter Park, Colorado, on Dec. 13 and will stay at the Winter Park Resort Dec. 14-20. The trip costs $475, which includes six nights of accommodations, a four-day lift pass, free shuttle services and discounted ski and snowboard rentals. Participants will receive other perks, such as pub-crawls and exclusive entertainment.

“The experiences you have on these big mountains — mountains that you just don’t get to experience when you’re on the East Coast — it’s incredible,” said Nick Burnley, a third-year marketing student and member of Cincy Snowcats.

“The views, the food, the places you stay — it’s one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever had.”

Although participants can choose their own form of transportation, the club encourages students to buy a round-trip bus ticket for $200 and travel across the country with other members.

“I went to Aspen, Colorado, last year,” said Mason Mariani, internal social chair and a second-year marketing and information systems student. “Rode the

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total of 8 students — in 1878. She was the only woman.

Hand’s presentation was the first installment of the library’s monthly 50 Minutes talks, casual discussions that focus on the ARB’s collections, book histories or local heritage.

Hand’s lecture covered both the life of Hawthorne and his own research methods. By using both common and non-common genealogical techniques, Hand was able to comprise a nearly complete biography — only lacking in photography. He also touched on the importance of archival research.

Hawthorne was born in 1856 in Winona, Minnesota. Five years after her birth, Hawthorne’s family moved to Newport, Kentucky, and settled there, according to Hand.

She was enrolled at Hughes High School — located in downtown Cincinnati at the time — and was enrolled as a “special student” at UC because of her gender.

She attended numerous UC classes over the course of four years, earning her an honorary degree at the university’s first graduation ceremony.

Each graduate was required to read a scholarly essay, and her essay on Classics was lauded by local papers like The Cincinnati Post.

Hawthorne later married into a military

family. Her husband, William Langdon Buck, a hotel manager who worked as a quartermaster for Kentucky military volunteers during the Civil War, was eventually elected as a city official in Newport.

Both Hawthorne and her husband traveled frequently and lived in various frontier forts. Following an expedition mission to the Philippines, Buck was awarded the title of Major Langdon Buck and worked on dozens of internal assignments following the Civil War. The couple had three daughters, one who married the still renowned San Diego-based architect Frank O. Wells.

Hawthorne was employed at various universities, teaching mostly Greek and Latin, and worked alongside her husband at the frontier forts.

Hawthorne died in 1933 in San Diego, California, and was buried alongside her husband at the Arlington National Ceremony in Virginia.

The presentation was followed by questions from audience members.

Hand is also curating and editing an upcoming book of UC-themed essays in celebration of the bicentennial in 2019.

Any and all essay topics can be submitted at www.uc.edu/bicentennial.

The university’s next 50 Minutes talk on Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” will be held in the ARB Oct. 17.

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entrepreneurship student. “So that’s what I’m doing, but to do it in a peaceful way. I haven’t been cursing or acting belligerent, just holding my sign and doing my thing.” Poole’s sign read,”If God hates gays, why did he make boys so cute?”

Chris Waddy, a fifth-year marketing and international business student, stood by Morrell holding a sign labeled “pornhub.com.” Waddy said he was holding a sign because a friend handed it to him.

“This is way too serious,” Waddy said.

“So, I just wrote pornhub.com because everyone seems to laugh at it, that’s just it. Everyone’s just yelling at each other.

So why not put a smile on people’s faces?

“I’m fine if you come on campus and preach Christianity. I’m Christian. But, at the same time you can’t yell at people.

That’s not the way to do it. This is not going to work. No one is going to listen to you.”

While students characterized Morrell as “ignorant”, Morrell claimed students’ sinful behavior was ignorant.

“Sin is unintelligent, to break God’s law, to test the limits of His grace, to risk your soul going to Hell, to do what you know in your heart what is wrong, Morrell said.”“The way the students are acting primarily is very ignorant. They are choosing to act foolishly.”

Morrell said that he did not usually sin and that it definitely was not a daily, weekly, or monthly habit of his.

“It’s not in my nature,” Morrell said.

“It’s a free-will choice. You don’t have to. I could sin today if I wanted to.”

Although Morrell said he could not possibly know if all of the students listening to him sinned, he said he knew students engaged in sin according to their cheering and hand raising in response to his questions pertaining to premarital sex, underage drinking and marijuana use. According to his Facebook profile page, Morrell studied at Teen Mania Ministries — one of the largest Christian youth ministry organizations in the country, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Teen Mania International’s mission is to, “provoke a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ and to take his life-giving message to the ends of the earth,” according to its website.

Morrell said he carries out this mission by preaching to college students every day from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Two Mormon missionaries — referred to as Elders — of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints said they were on campus Thursday to share their Christian values and beliefs.

“I don’t think it’s the right approach,” said Elder Clare. “It’s not how Christ taught. Christ taught by love and teaching by example. He’s doing more harm than he is good. There’s going to be no point in our lives where we’re ever perfect no matter how hard we try or what we do.

It’s about the effort we put into it and how hard we try to not sin that matters to Christ.”

Elder Wall noticed that Morrell had attached a GoPro camera to his banner, claiming that Morrell antagonized students solely for attention and to videotape aggravated students.

The missionaries said they share their

beliefs by asking students if they have a few minutes to sit down and discuss Jesus Christ. They claimed Morrell was making Christians look bad.

“He doesn’t really give anyone else a chance to speak, and when they do start speaking, he immediately shuts them down,” Poole said. “He starts screaming in people’s faces, just acting a bit crazy.”

Poole said that if he knew why Morrell was saying such ignorant things, he would have the key to why people are insane.

“We should all love each other,” Poole said. “You know we’re all humans, and I personally am Christian, and I don’t feel like me being gay is wrong. I feel like we should all be able to coexist and love each other.”

Christina Beer, student body president, said that Morrell has every right to speak his mind on campus just as the students gathering to hear him speak do.

“As long as it doesn’t turn violent and as long as it doesn’t get to a point where there’s commotion or chaos, I think that’s where it can become an issue,” Beer said.

“But as for this, he really does have every right to.”

The more Morrell condemned the students, the closer the students united against him.

“I think protestors like this really bring us together as a student body,” said Addie Schafer, a second-year nursing student. “It’s like everything we pick on each other about just goes away when protestors like him show up on campus and you see everybody supporting the other students.”

Wednesday, while seven patrol Thursday through Saturday.

“We look at ourselves as a real friendly approach to serving the community,” Myers said. “We look for situations where we can help or be a blessing to people.”

Markita Coach, safety ambassador supervisor, said a lot of UC students are not aware of the ambassadors’ services, even though they have existed for six months.

“The safety table allows us to interact with people beforehand and get the message spread out a lot better,” Coach said. “I like being able to talk to people, to deter them from crimes and to help them have safe behavior in public.”

Students can call 513-446-2968 to contact an on-duty ambassador.

As UC’s crime prevention officer, Hoffman said he primarily communicates with students to inform them of general crime prevention and resources that public safety offers.

Hoffman said he also coordinates with the Cincinnati Police Department regarding city safety measures.

This year UCPD is adding 24 police officers and 10 security officers to support the increase in student body enrollment, Hoffman said.

UCPD is also working with Duke Energy to install street lighting in areas surrounding campus. There are 321 lights scheduled to be installed this year, compared to the 93 installed last year.

The LiveSafe mobile application is another free resource that students can download through Google Play and iTunes.

Comprised of a texting feature and GPS tracking system, it connects users directly with UCPD and allows them to report crime tips anonymously, among other safety functions, such as the ability to UCPD’s emergency and non-emergency numbers through this application.

“It’s just another tool for the students to use,” Hoffman said. “We figure if we can put as many tools in their hands as possible, that helps us help them even more so.”

NightRide has also seen an increase in use. Three vans were added this fall, totaling the number of shuttles to eight.

Hoffman estimated that over 10,000 students have utilized NightRide, which operates Sunday through Wednesday from 8 p.m. to midnight and Thursday through Saturday from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Students can contact NightRide by calling 556-RIDE. The first safety table occurred Sept. 17, in Calhoun Hall.

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“Adore” mixes elements of grunge, electronica, folk and punk, and is marked by a quieter sound than the chaotic noise featured on 1995’s “Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness,” which is certified gold.

Aphex Twin’s LP most personal, ambitious effort TONY JOHNSON | CONTRIBUTOR

After 13 long years—several eternities in the music industry—ambient icon Aphex Twin has finally delivered a new album.

“Syro,” is a 65-minute pulsing soundscape brimming with the political paranoia that the album title implies —“Syro” is a term meaning “pertaining to Syria.”

But the album is also laced with surprisingly personal moments from Richard David James, the man behind the music.

Aphex Twin has constructed a surrealistic and haunted collection of electronica-ambient music that drips with beats made of electric goo.

Every track mope-raves along, inflicted by some sort of irreparable trauma that doesn’t quite stop the music from making us dance, but makes us think twice about it.

After three minutes of precisely crafted ambience, the opening track provides listeners with a harrowing moment of personal connection, provocatively smashed into the ambient frenzy of the rest of the album.

The track, “Minipops 67,” invites listeners to connect with the artist, but still remains mysterious as to what kind of connection we should be making.

The sound of indecipherable words lodged between “You” and “with you” creates a cryptic message.

I’ve never been so compelled to dance like a wiggle-worm and frown simultaneously by music — at least not in an appreciative light.

“Syro” takes you deep into something sticky, scary and hollow — it’s got a bass line made of Jell-O, pianos in need of an exorcist, and bells on blips on bings that wouldn’t be out of place in a John Carpenter slasher film or a Sega Genesis sci-fi shooter video game.

It’s a surreal head-bobber floating down a lazy-river ride lit up with LED lights and the occasional disorienting strobe.

Basically, it’s an impressive beast of an electronic release in regards to Aphex Twin’s contemporaries.

It may not be as epic as F--k Buttons’ 2013 release “Slow Focus,” and it certainly won’t boast the mass appeal of Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories,” but it’s a bold electronic music effort with enough energy to light up a spaceship and enough depth to get lost.

“Syro” is a paradox: psycho yet pleasant, soothing yet twitchy, calculated yet delirious. It manages to explore a surprisingly vast emotional landscape without abandoning its ambient roots.

The record hits nightmarish fits of glee on the second half.

The eighth track, “CIRCLONT14,” is a pounding, violent series of bouncing drums and chilling synths.

The music morphs from a wild computer-glitch tango into an incomprehensible woman’s ghostly howl.

If you can manage to see the album through to its final track — after the near-hour of relentless thumps and bops and claps and rings — you may very well shed a tear for the raw and simple swan song bound to be remembered as one of the more emotional moments this year in music.

The end song is titled “Aisatsana.” It’s noticeably the only track titled exclusively with letters.

It alludes to a girl, real or otherwise.

The reverb from what sounds like an old piano gently blows its chords like kisses to the singing birds that swell all around like clockwork.

Perhaps most unlike any of James’ previous tracks, “Aisatsana” may be the most likely to separate Aphex Twin’s “Syro” from the rest of his catalogue.

The somber sounds of the piano dying away from your speakers are what will leave you mesmerized after the record has stopped spinning.

Once the floating drones and pounding percussion bring us right where it wants us — with our minds fried and our feet jittering — Aphex Twin plucks softly at our heartstrings, leaving us wondering to ourselves about the man behind the music.

With every LP the artist has released, we have been left wondering, “What is Aphex Twin?”

Now, perhaps for the first time after listening to one of his records, we must ask ourselves, “Who is Richard Davis James?”

Smashing Pumpkins revisits ‘Adore’ Extensive packaging, remastering, remixing in 107-track, six-disc reissue ZACK HATFIELD | ARTS EDITOR

The opening seconds of “Adore” sound like electric crickets, the opening words like velvet: “Twilight fades through blistered Avalon/ The sky’s cruel torch on aching autobahn.” This fragile atmosphere is present through most of the Smashing Pumpkin’s album, which is proving to be one of the band’s most controversial.

Just this week, a reissue of “Adore” was released and repackaged as “Adore (Super Deluxe).”The expansive release contains six CDs that include outtakes, instrumentals, live versions, B-sides, a DVD from a 1998 tour and liner notes written by front man Billy Corgan detailing the complicated process of making the album.

1998’s “Adore” was the first album released after the band’s commercial breakthrough “Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” — a genre-defying double album that integrated aspects of alternative, grunge, metal, progressive and even classical music.

Melon Collie’s success led many band members to drugs, and other issues arose when Corgan’s mother died shortly after its release.

Because of these problems, “Adore” feels like a cathartic album, the sounds often sweeping and hushed — Corgan’s personal lyrics sung frequently, but always heartbreakingly, in almost a lullaby-whisper. The band’s thematic impetus has always been rage and sadness, but here the album’s sound is more fine-tuned and cohesive.

The elegiac “For Martha,” an ode to Corgan’s late mother, is fueled by a dreary piano, a new sound introduced in the Pumpkins’ discography at that time. Aspects like this — combined with Corgan’s arcane imagery and other raw, electric moments on the LP — make “Adore” a standout in the band’s entire

archive.

Like the Pumpkins’ previous rereleases, “Adore” is remastered flawlessly; each sound crisper, the smaller notes delivered from any fuzziness that might have marred them in the original.

D’arcy Wretzky’s bass riffs lines are emboldened and James Iha’s guitar riffs sharpened.

Now that the entire band has been replaced except for Corgan — who’s putting out two albums in 2015 under the Smashing Pumpkins name — it’s refreshing to hear “new” material from the 1998 lineup.

A second glance at “Adore” affirms its imagination. Corgan was an early musician to produce albums with computer programs, but all of that was relatively new at the time. Revisiting the album production-wise allows its sound to reach the resolution and intention it first aimed at in the studio.

There are plenty of glittering gems in the demos and acoustic recordings brought out of the vaults, like the lead single from the album, “Perfect,” which is included in an unplugged rendition. With just Corgan and an acoustic, it replaces the album version’s biting edge with a vulnerability that dismantles the song down to its core elements.

A lot of features on the album will be exciting for hardcore audiophiles, such as a mono version of every song that provides starker mixes from Corgan.

The edition’s best offering is probably “Let Me Give the World to You,” a song originally written for “Adore” but moved over to 2000’s concept album and sequel “Machina II,” which was released exclusively online for free. The version included in the reissue is drastically different from that one — pioneer Rick Rubin produces it, so the sound is stripped down, punchier and focused.

Although the song was an outtake, it feels right at home on “Adore,” the underlying sadness and gothicism of the album glimpsed as Corgan sings with an affecting weariness, “Lovers form

dead excuse/And blur the lines with soul abuse/My lonesome lies just have no use around here.”

A total of 107 tracks are included in the super deluxe edition, which costs $85 online. This indeed makes the release super, but of course not every track is perfect.

All of the album’s demos and outtakes mean that the reissue is going to mean more to devoted listeners — who will able to discern the nuanced changes — than to casual fans. But parts of the reissue are accessible to everyone, like the sixth disc’s live performances, which feature a thrilling rehearsal of “Transmission,” or the run-through of “Shame,” a haunting pop song where Corgan taunts “You’re gonna walk alone/you’re gonna walk so far/you’re gonna wonder who you are.”The work itself feels like the Pumpkins are wondering who they are, expanding their own identity, and testing themselves musically and emotionally.

Re-releasing the album has shown that it’s aged surprisingly well, unlike other works done by the band’s contemporaries. The album still feels relevant as anything released today, if not more so. Maybe this is because “Adore” abandoned the loud-quiet dynamic that was the hallmark of so many ‘90s alternative bands.

Not everything holds up. The electronic drums make some tracks, like “Crestfallen,” feel a little like an outdated trip-hop, and extras like drummer Matt Walker’s “re-imaginined” tracks on disc five sound a little flat and like filler.

Although the album reached platinum upon the 1998 release, it was pretty much underrated in comparison to other works in the Pumpkins’ canon. But “Adore” — although not the best starting point to begin a Smashing Pumpkins love affair — is an essential album to come out of the late ‘90s. Its emotional reaches and experimentation with effects and producing make it innovative in scope even today.

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Detective Gordon (Ben McKenzie) comforts a young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) after the untimely death of his parents, a key event in Batman’s life.

New show ‘Gotham’ explores city pre-Batman KYLEY FREDRICK | CONTRIBUTOR

“Gotham,” a new TV series on FOX, delights DC Comic fans by retelling the ageless story of Batman — before his role as a crime-fighting vigilante.

Viewers also get to meet the city of Gotham’s iconic villains before they adopted infamous names, all while discovering pre-cape Batman.

The show’s first episode, which reached 8.2 million viewers during it’s Sept. 22 premiere, starts off by following Selina Kyle, a petty thief and cat lover.

Camren Bicondova, a seasoned dancer making her acting debut, plays Selina.

Viewers can assume she will become the sexy Cat Woman with whom Batman has always had a complicated relationship.

In the first scene, Selina has just stolen a carton of milk and pours some in a dish for a cat she sees in the street.

When three figures walk down the dark side street, she scurries to a fire escape and watches from above.

The three figures turn out to be a young Bruce Wayne and his parents.

Viewers must brace themselves as they watch the inevitable unfold: A man in a mask carrying a gun walks out from the shadows. The Wayne’s comply with the man’s demands and hand over money and

jewelry. Despite their willingness to obey the robber, the masked man shoots both parents and leaves young Bruce with their bleeding bodies.

Rising black smoke and back-alley robberies make up Gotham’s dreary appearance. Police corruption is rampant and the criminals are getting away with murder, literally. The show’s protagonist is detective James Gordon, played by Ben McKenzie. He is new on the police force and committed to doing honest work in a shady town.

The police wage a war on some criminals, but are in the pocket of many, as is the case with the character Fish Mooney. Played by Jada Pinkett Smith, Mooney is a new character Batman fans will not recognize. She is a well-connected gangster, quick to punish those who cross her. Pinkett’s acting skills are remarkable, but the character itself is cliché and overdone. Mooney’s errand boy is Oswald Cobblepot, played by Robin Lord Taylor, better known as Penguin—a name he despises.

Many villains will make appearances in the show, allowing the creator of “Gotham,” Bruno Heller, creative freedom to explain their origins. Some that are scheduled to make an appearance this season are: Riddler, Joker, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Hugo Strange, Harvey Dent

and Mr. Freeze. The portrayal of these miscreants is surprising, to say the least.

For instance, when the detectives are searching for the man responsible for murdering Bruce’s parents, they visit the home of a convicted felon. The felon is a large, tall man who fits the description of the murderer. While entering the small apartment the detectives notice the felon’s wife and child are present — the daughter being the future Poison Ivy. She is a young girl, with startlingly red hair and a sad demeanor. Behind the girl, various plants line the walls and decorate the modest apartment. It is hard to imagine the highly sexualized and devious Poison Ivy as once a shy little girl, but interesting nonetheless.

The pilot episode sets the theatrical tone for the rest of the series. The show pulls off a great balancing act.

The dramatization is neither corny or overdone. This type of showy television makes viewers feel like they are walking through a comic strip, acting out the dialogue in their heads.

Fans of Batman will feel at home watching “Gotham,” and probably learn more about the characters who they have admired for years.

It’s the perfect way for fans to get involved with the story from a different angle: the beginning.

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Q&A

Local dream-pop band Prim talks MidPoint Music Festival MADISON SCHMIDT | PHOTO EDITOR

The musicians, who are University of Cincinnati alums or students, integrate all of their individual influences to create the ecclectic sound of Prim. Their music is available on SoundCloud and Bandcamp.

MONROE TROMBLY | STAFF REPORTER

Prim, a fairly new Cincinnati band spurred by the convergence of solo material and live collaborations, plays Midpoint at 10 p.m. Saturday Sept. 27 at The Drinkery.

Singer Molly Sullivan and guitarist Ian Gullett began to talk and collaborate in winter 2013. What followed after — with the addition of bassist Alessandro Corona and drummer Jake Langknecht — was the creation of three songs, which formerly introduced the outfit to the Cincinnati community. Over the spring and early summer Prim played at venues such as MOTR, Northside Tavern, The Comet, and traveled to play shows in Louisville and Lexington — helping to spread Prim’s imaginative approach to electro/dreampop music, with an emphasis on dancing.

With less than a week away from Midpoint, The News Record sat down with Prim to discuss the band’s music, its influences and favorite memories of the Midpoint Music Festival.

TNR: Have you all been playing music around Cincinnati for a while before Prim?

M: Yes. For me personally, it’s going on 10 years.

TNR: When did Prim start? When did you guys decide to start playing together?

Ian: A year?

M: Yeah, almost a year ago I think. So, Ian and I both were commissioned to do pieces for a friend’s dance company, Pones, for their Fringe show [The Fringe Festival]. I heard Ian’s track and I was like, ‘whoa, someone in Cincinnati is making that music? I wanna know who that is.’ So, I found out and contacted him.

We had some mutual friends so we were already acquainted online, just through Facebook.

TNR: All of you guys knew each other?

Alessandro: Yeah, [I knew] Molly, and then we were talking about putting a band together.

M: Basically we recorded three songs and then started some writings for a few other tracks, and we’re like, ‘alright, if we’re not going to just go ahead and get a band together, we’re never going to play out live, so, let’s make this a reality.’ We threw feelers out to a few people, and these guys joined our team, and we had our first show in April, but we started practicing in February. That’s when we first started talking. We played the last night of my solo residency at The Comet. It was our debut show.

TNR: What is the story behind the band name, Prim?

M: I was doing a project for myself. I was trying to write a song a day for a month, and record it and put it on SoundCloud.

I had been milling around the idea of having a moniker for my personal stuff.

Prim was what I kind of came up with. It is from ‘prim and proper,’ but you never really hear it as a standalone word.

TNR: It was a kind of side project of yours?

M: Yeah I was doing things a little more experimental and weird and then we were trying to come up with a band name because we wanted to put something up online, and it was just like, ‘why don’t we use this one?’

TNR: Can you describe your sound?

M: I would say like, gritty, gritty dreampop — gritty electronic dream-pop, maybe. I don’t know, I feel like since we’ve coalesced as a band, we’ve kind of changed the sonic palette a little bit.

A: So, it still has the feel of like an electronic-pop song, but we’re playing with like your ‘rock band’ instruments or whatever, so there’s a little more grittiness to it. There’s that raw element to it, of people actually playing.

TNR: So you had the outlines of the songs and then added the live instrumentation?

A: Yeah, that really was how, at least when it started out that was the way that it worked out. Now, we come with song ideas and people put their parts over the top of it. A little more of a traditional rock band way of doing it.

TNR: Do you have a specific process that you write songs to?

I: I don’t think we’ve found it yet, I mean it seems like they’ve all kind of come together in a different way. So if we did find one that’d be awesome. Yeah, we’re still kind of new in that regard. We haven’t got things really figured out yet, not that that’s a bad thing.

TNR: Besides the three songs on Bandcamp, how many songs do you think you have?

A: We’ve got like, seven or eight total.

I: Yeah, seven to eight, we’ve got about a 40-minute set I guess, maybe 45 if we play slow. [Laughter] Sometimes we do.

M: This summer proved to be a little more on the lax side in terms of getting together and practicing and writing.

I: It’s been a couple months since we’ve actually sat down. Maybe that’s a winter

thing, maybe we’re just going to hole-up or the winter, and churn out a new set.

TNR: What bands are you guys influenced by?

A: We do covers of bands that I think we’re all mutually influenced by. Triphoppy stuff, kind of, [to Molly] you’ve been thinking along those lines, and then like ’50s even.

M: Yeah there’s a little bit of a doo-wop element. I don’t even really like doo-wop, but I can’t really say there’s like one influence.

TNR: Would you say there are any current influences? Or stuff you guys have been listening to lately?

I: I don’t listen to anything that sounds like this, so it’s kind of amazing to me.

TNR: Anything you’re listening to at the moment?

I: I got the new Aphex Twin record like, yesterday, so I’ve been listening to that for the last couple of days, but a lot of stuff I listen to sounds nothing like this. So it’s kind of nice in that I don’t know what I’m doing, so I don’t have expectations.

A: I’ve been listening to a lot of new or future R&B, and new and future soul like that.

M: Schoolboy Q, Kendrick, I mean I’m listening to all of it.

TNR: What bands or projects are you guys also in besides Prim?

A: I’m in a band called Butt. [To Ian] He’s in Smasherman. [To Jake] he’s in Cedar Skies and The Never Bird.

I: [To Molly] She’s in Molly Sullivan.

[Laughs] M: My parents named it.

TNR: Are there any specific emotions or ideas you like to convey through your music?

M: Generally, I wanted to have a project that was a little more on the pop side of things. Something where people go to a show and it’s like a full band and there are songs that you’re not necessarily dancing to, but you can feel the beat, play around with it, and have a little more active and vibrant show.

A: That is a good way to describe it, as a juxtaposition to your solo stuff, because your solo stuff is very intimate and almost intense. With Prim, we get to points where you can almost dance, and it’s more

jovial, sort of. There’s mirth.

TNR: What are some of your favorite memories or experiences playing Midpoint or attending the festival?

I: I did a Midpoint, it had to be like 2007 or 2008, and it was before Main Street had been rejuvenated but they pretty much opened up a lot of venues that had recently closed on Main Street. They weren’t really bars, but they just staffed them for the weekend. And then it rained the whole weekend, so it was kind of like a ghost town — just a bunch of people on a mad dash from venue to venue in the rain all weekend. It was probably one of the coolest Midpoints I remember.

J: The Midpoint in 2012 was the year that all of my favorite bands from 2007 and 2008 played for some reason. So it was kind of like cleaning up a lot of bands that I should’ve seen a long time ago.

M: I’ve always worked through Midpoint weekend so last year was my first year as a solo artist, but I played with No No Knots at the CAC [Contemporary Art Museum] before Shonun Knife, this Japanese, female threesome. When they went on, it was a room full of middle-aged biker dudes. It was awesome.

There were some random things that I wandered into [over] a couple years. One of them was Beat Connection. They were playing at MOTR and I just wandered in one night and they were playing this electro-pop. Everybody was super into it, dancing, and I ended up hosting them.

The following night they were still at the festival, and they were touring with STRFKR. I had invited the Beat Connection guys to this after-party at my friend’s warehouse. They were on the phone and they were like, ‘hey, do you mind if STRFKR comes?’ My friends had named it the “post-STRFKR show dance party,” and I’m like, ‘my friends are going to shit their pants.’ STRFKR came and we were all just partying and hanging out, it was really fun. That’s what I look forward to at Midpoint.

A: My favorite part of Midpoint is my friends who never come to shows buy tickets and go see local shows. It’s like people who wouldn’t go out or go find a Prim or Molly show are actually going to be there.

In addition to the band’s performance, Prim guitarist Gullet will also perform in Smasherman on Thursday, Sept. 25 at 9:15 p.m. Corona will play with Saturn Batteries on Thursday, Sept. 24 at 11:15 p.m. at the Christian Moerlein Brewing Co.’s indoor stage. Sullivan will perform her solo outfit at the CAC; the times and schedule are TBD.

Kevin Smith’s ‘Tusk’ explores absurd transformation with humor RUSSELL HAUSFELD | CONTRIBUTOR

Kevin Smith—the mind behind the bizarre “Clerks” and “Red State”—may have just released his strangest film to date.

Wallace Bryton (Justin Long) and his best friend, Teddy (Haley Joel Osment) are the duo behind the podcast The Not-See Party. Their podcast consists of the two making fun of people who Wallace interviews outside of the podcast studio.

Inspiration is obviously drawn from writer and director Smith’s own experience as a podcaster. The film itself was inspired by an episode on his SModcast podcast.

Teddy is not present for Wallace’s interviews, so the meat of the podcast is Wallace explaining these encounters to Teddy. This is where the “Not-See” part of the name comes from.

From the nature of his podcast alone, viewers may get the feeling that Wallace is a jerk. No need to assume, though, because he proves that through the rest of the film.

The characters in “Tusk” lend themselves well to Smith’s dialogue-heavy film style.

By creating a main character who is unlikable and supporting characters with their own strange quirks, conversations play out

in more colorful ways than if the leading man were a lovable hero.

While he is in Canada, Wallace finds an ad above a urinal from a man named Howard Howe (Michael Parks) who writes that he does “not wish to spend [his] remaining years alone while [he] has so many stories to share.”

For the sake of the podcast, Wallace goes to meet with him at his secluded home in the woods. There, Howe explains to Wallace that he was once shipwrecked on an island with no one but a walrus. He befriended this walrus and called him Mr. Tusk.

Until Wallace meets with Howe, it is hard to guess where the film is going. But once Wallace passes out on the old man’s floor after being drugged and Howe looks at him lovingly and says, “It’ll be alright, Mr. Tusk,” it is clear that the film is about to take a disturbingly strange turn.

As Howe tortures Wallace and delivers monologues on his personal connection to Mr. Tusk, Wallace’s girlfriend, Ally (Genesis Rodriguez), and Teddy set out on a search to find him.

A dopey detective named Guy Lapointe, who is in search of a serial killer, joins

them. Johnny Depp plays Lapointe, but he is hardly recognizable.

Depp’s daughter, Lily-Rose Depp, makes her first on-screen appearance as a sarcastic Canadian cashier as well.

In the film, Howe designs a suit that a human can be grafted into that would give them the semblance and mobility of a walrus. Wallace is grafted into this suit and essentially turned into a walrus.

The real life creator of the suit is Robert Kurtzman, who worked on the art and makeup of other movies like “Army of Darkness” (1992) and “Austin Powers in Goldmember” (2002). The suit is extremely disturbing to look at – it’s basically a bunch of skin sewn together into a bulbous walrus shape. The best description comes from Smith himself, who describes it as a combination of Leatherface and a walrus.

Kevin Smith has written a grotesque film that is full of dark humor. With a great cast and a great costume designer, Smith creates a weird genre of his own somewhere between horror and comedy.

So why should you watch the film?

Michael Parks’ character, Howard Howe can tell you: “To solve a riddle older than the sphinx.

To answer the question that has plagued us since we first crawled from the surf and stood erect in the sun: is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?”

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Bearcats soccer gains momentum against EIU TAYLOR RHOTEN | CONTRIBUTOR

In a slow, uphill battle, the University of Cincinnati men’s soccer team pulled off a close overtime victory against the Eastern Illinois University Panthers Sunday.

Besides the commanding voice of redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Alex Gill, the backline for UC did not communicate very well, causing problems throughout the first half.

According to Gill, one of the main weaknesses the squad has had all year has been marking up on opposing players during corner kicks.

“We need to get better at marking for sure, and that will come with practice,” Gill said.

At the end of the second half, the Bearcats’ defense came out stronger. They communicated much better and were more organized. Just as well, they started winning balls in the air and marking players more efficiently in the area where the ball was contained. The Panthers had no answer for this and, because of the better play from the back, had a lack of chances in the second half.

Unfortunately, the woes of the offensive attack continued into the second half. Once again possessing a majority of the ball, Cincinnati could not find the right ball once they got into the final third. With five goals on Wednesday, the Bearcats looked like an entirely different team.

Hylton Dayes, UC head coach, contributed this to poor finishing.

“I thought we created enough chances, we just did not finish very well. I also thought the quality of our crossing and final pass was not really as sharp as it was on Wednesday,” Dayes said. “We got some of the same chances on Wednesday, we just could not finish them.”

Although the Bearcats’ defense looked shaky, the midfield controlled the ball well, relieving most of EIU’s offensive pressure. The way UC controlled the ball was the team’s biggest strength Sunday. The team was able to find open space to play the ball early and often.

Unfortunately, even though the Bearcats controlled the ball well, especially in the final third of the game, the team could not produce a goal to end the game in regulation.

Fans could here Dayes repeatedly screaming, “Play faster, play faster!”

“When we play quickly it allows us to get behind teams, as well as to really get chances,” Dayes said. “We really want our guys to continue pushing the tempo.”

The problem of slow play was quickly solved in the overtime period when the Bearcats scored a little more than a minute in. The goal came off of a cross from fourth-year right back Matt Ramaley to third-year forward John Manga, who put it into the back of the net off of a one time shot. This resulted in the 1-0 victory for the Bearcats.

Going forward, Dayes talked about taking it one game at a time. He expressed the importance of giving the guys a day of rest before “refocusing against Cleveland State.”

Cleveland State was no problem for the Bearcats’ offense Wednesday evening, winning 2-0.

MADISON SCHMIDT | PHOTO EDITOR

Forward Julie Gavorski steals the ball from Syracuse during their game Sunday afternoon. The Bearcats won 3-1 at Gettler Stadium.

Soccer’s best start in over decade ELLEN HADLEY & HANNAH HICKLEN | THE NEWS RECORD

UC women’s soccer topped the University of Syracuse Sunday afternoon 3-1 at Gettler Stadium, leaving the team with a 6-2-2 record at the end of nonconference play, the best start the team has seen since 2002.

“It was very important for us to end nonconference play with a big win because it allows us to go into conference with confidence,” third-year midfielder Danielle Rotheram said.

UC claimed more than three times as many shots as Syracuse throughout the game but neither team capitalized in the first half, leaving the score at 0-0 after the first half.

With the beginning of the second half, the Bearcats took complete control of the game, recording 16 total shots compared to Syracuse’s five and led with nine shots on goal while Syracuse only had one. In addition, UC led in corner kicks, 8-3.

The first goal was scored three minutes into the second half off of a penalty kick by team captain Megan Cravenor, a fourth-year midfielder.

UC head coach Neil Stafford explained that the team’s energy was what helped them succeed in the second half and it all began with the penalty.

“A big part of our style is just going out there and wreaking havoc and making it really difficult for people to play, especially at home, and when we do that we’re dangerous,” Stafford said.

This style has been working for the Bearcats as they held a shutout streak at home from their home opener Aug. 31

until Syracuse’s lone goal Sunday.

Rotheram drove home the game-winning goal 15 minutes into the second half after UC sophomore forward Taylor Jackson’s header was blocked by a Syracuse defender.

“My main individual focus has been to work hard during training on what I have been lacking and applying the coaches’ feedback to my game,” Rotheram said.“As a team player, I also try to encourage my teammates more by giving positive comments and feedback.”

Three minutes later, Vanessa Giles sealed the deal for the Bearcats with the final goal of the game off of a header by fourth-year defender Jae Atkinson’s corner, sending the ball flying into the back of the net inside the near post.

Syracuse was able to prevent a shut out with one goal 12 minutes left in the game after a deflection off of the crossbar.

“I think this game was a great step in the right direction before we start conference play,” Cravenor said.“Getting a solid win against a good ACC team was great for the team.

We have high expectations we set for ourselves, such as shut outs, and we didn’t get that Sunday, but we learned from it and can use this experience going forward.”

UC enters conference play Thursday when they host Temple at 7 p.m. at Gettler stadium.

Cravenor said she is “100 percent confident” going into conference play this week.

“You have to be,” Cravenor said.“This is a different battle than the nonconference games. Every game, every point, every goal matters. We have the potential to do great things this season as a team — and we will.”

Volleyball player screams ‘leadership’ on and off court After transferring to UC this year, one student-athlete stands up, stands out as team leader amongst peers DAVID WYSONG | CONTRIBUTOR

The words “intimidating” and “positive” may not be two words that are usually related, but when talking about University of Cincinnati volleyball player Emma Roberson, it is a perfect combination.

For the past two seasons, third-year right-side hitter Roberson has played for the University of Evansville in Indiana, but this season she has brought her talents to Cincinnati. So far she has made some noise for the Bearcats, both with her leadership and her play on the court.

Through 12 matches Roberson led the team with 157 kills.

During the past six matches she made double digits in kills.

“She just gets the job done and it is always great to play with someone like that, because you can trust them and it brings so much confidence to the rest of the team,” said teammate Amelia Wegman, a third-year outside hitter.

Roberson makes a huge impact on the court with her play, but she is known for her vocal leadership more than anything.

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Emma Roberson sets the ball during UC match against Tennessee State University. The Bearcats beat the Tigers, 3-1.

“She’s one of our talkers on the team but very rarely do you hear anything negative come out of her mouth,” said head coach Molly Alvey.“She is always smiling and always laughing.”

A communication student, Roberson talks to keep her teammates positive, but also uses her voice to be intimidating toward the other team.

“My bite is bigger than my bark,” Roberson said.“I talk a lot and it gets in peoples’ heads. Sometimes I talk way more than I am athletic.”

So far, Roberson has had a lot of success with the Bearcats, but she also found success on her former team, the Evansville Purple Aces. During her freshman season Roberson finished with 136 kills, 29 blocks and 26 digs.

During that season, she was named the Missouri Valley Conference Freshman of the Week. During both her freshman and sophomore seasons she earned the Scholar Athlete Award and the Missouri Valley Conference Academic Award, according to her bio on gobearcats.com.

When talking about why she ultimately made the decision to come to Cincinnati, Roberson said,“I knew coach Alvey from growing up, we are both from Louisville. I also liked how close the University of Cincinnati was. I really enjoyed all the girls on my visit, and the school itself is a beautiful campus so when I came on my visit it was a perfect fit.”

Coach Alvey appreciates having Roberson to the team.

“The addition of Emma has been huge for this program from an experience perspective,”Alvey said.“Having two years of college experience is a really big deal for a team with six freshmen.

“She was brought to UC because of the experience level, her personality, and she is a good volleyball player. We knew these things when recruiting her and what we felt she could bring to the program she has brought.”

Growing up, Roberson was not the only one in her family that played volleyball. Her sister Emily Roberson played at the University of Louisville and her sister Ellie Roberson played at Morehead State University.

With her sisters also being volleyball players and her family being very competitive, and being very supportive, Roberson credits her family with helping her get to where she is today.

“Having two older sisters pushes me to be better every single day, and every single one of them — my two sisters, my one brother and parents — show up to every single home game and come to away games,” Roberson said.“The support system I have is just unbelievable.”

There is still a long season ahead for Roberson and the Bearcats. Their next match is Sept. 26 against the University of Houston, and then the team has 19 more regular season matches through Nov. 28.

“I want to continue to push and earn my spot on the court

and I am a pretty vocal leader and want to continue to have that role,” Roberson said.“Also I am on the six-game double digit kill streak and would like to keep my kills above double digits.”

Teammate Amelia Wegman expects Roberson can meet her goals.

“I think her potential is to completely control matches for our team,”Wegman said.“Right now she is obviously our biggest offensive threat but, not only can she be an offensive threat, I think she can began to get huge blocks and get huge plays defensively.”

“Whether it is a volleyball day or a rehab day these girls work hard, and with that potential is limitless.”

Emma Roberson, Right-side hitter

The Bearcats currently hold an 8-4 record and sit at sixth place in the American Athletic Conference. They have won six out of their last seven matches.

Conference play has not yet started, but the team is preparing to play its first conference match against the Cougars who are also 8-4.

With conference play just getting started this week, Alvey is confident in her team.

“When you look at what we have with just our young talent combined with our upper class leadership there is so much we can do,”Alvey said.

Roberson agrees.

“I think potential is limitless when you work hard and we have a bunch of girls that work hard. Whether it is a volleyball day or rehab day these girls work hard, and with that potential it is limitless,” Roberson said.

Outside of volleyball, Roberson is interested in utilizing her vocal abilities. Her plan is to become a graduate assistant for a volleyball team for two years and then to work to get her master’s in early childhood special education. She then hopes to become a pre-school teacher, hopefully back in her hometown of Louisville.

The people closest to Roberson praise how positive of a person she is, especially with her teammates. Roberson said she hopes to take that positive reinforcement off the court to a pre-school classroom, but for right now she will keep intimidating opponents on the court.

The volleyball team spends the weekend on the road to kick off conference play for the Bearcats. UC travels to the UH for a matchup against the Cougars Friday at 8 p.m. then heads to New Orleans to play Tulane University Sunday at 2 p.m.

Women’s Soccer vs. Temple, Gettler Stadium

6:00 p.m.

Football at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, & Big Ten Network (TV)

SUNDAY, SEPT. 28

7:00 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 27

THURSDAY, SEPT. 25

SPORTING EVENTS THIS WEEKEND 12:00 p.m.

Women’s Soccer vs. Connecticut, Gettler Stadium