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Phelps, SG members sit for Pledge KINSLEY SLIFE AND LAUREN MORETTO | NEWS EDITORS
ALEXANDRA TAYLOR | PHOTO EDITOR
President of Latinos En Acción, Adam Winget, opens the LEA social September 3, 2015.
UC’s Latino community:
views on election, Trump JEN HAM | STAFF REPORTER
The Latino influence is integral in American culture today: food trucks, color TV, the jet pack, the Oscar statue. With these immense contributions, homage should be paid to what is even more impactful: the Latino voice. Amidst the unique presidential election of 2016, views between the multiplicities of ethnic groups across the country vary, leaving many with an imperative feeling to draw in all perspectives. The remarks of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have made shifts the dialogue about the presidential election to focus on those remarks some view as negative and to whom Trump includes or excludes. “All the things we hear on the TV and all the rhetoric that Trump uses towards Latinos affects me individually as well as my people,” said Adam Winget, a University of Cincinnati fifth-year sports administration student and president of Latinos En Accion (LEA). “We don’t really know where we fit in the first place. We get stereotyped by everyone and now that includes the man who is running for presidency: it messes with the mind. It makes me believe that this is what the country is coming to and I don’t want to believe that.” “[Trump] made it ok for extreme groups to show anger against people who
have different ideas. I didn’t think we had this animosity before in the sense that it was ‘ok’ to attack someone because of their race or gender or opinions,” said Ligia Gomez, a UC Spanish professor. Since the idea of Trump running for presidency became a reality, members of the Latino community, as well as other minority groups, have become more self-conscious and compelled to react. “Everyone expects you to have an opinion one way or another and some people just assume your opinion,” said Sandro Leon, thirdyear computer engineering student and LEA event planner. Clearly not all opinions are the same, as Sebastian Cornejo, a third-year computer-engineering student and Trump supporter. “As a Latino, people say I’m crazy when I say I’d rather have Trump in office over Hillary. I agree with him that the drug cartels in Mexico are a big problem that need to be stopped and that we can’t keep helping everyone else when our country has its own problems,” Cornejo said. The highest elected office in the nation is one that has a responsibility to respect differences, Leon said. “As President, you have to communicate your opinion, consider others’ opinions and make sure that you’re representing the country as a whole effectively. Hilary has the best balance of these qualities,” said Leon.
University of Cincinnati leaders, including Student Body President Mitchell Phelps, have joined a national dialogue by sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance at a student senate meeting Wednesday. “We sat because we’re really standing for something greater,” Phelps said. Phelps, and additional representatives of Student Government and of the Irate8 — donned in all black— sat in solidarity with the growing yet controversial motion of sitting or kneeling through the national anthem in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. “We did not stand and recite it out of disrespect for our nation, out of disrespect for our armed forces or military or even for police officers or for those who died for our freedom,” said Phelps in a statement following the silent protest. “Its difficult to stand and recite words and phrases that end with ‘justice for all’ when you turn on the TVs and look at media and you see that there’s really not justice for all in a lot of sentiments,” the student body president said. The motion has become a topic of
national interest since San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the anthem at a series of NFL games. The silent protests follow a series of police-involved shootings of black men, including the most recent deaths of Terence Crutcher of Oklahoma and Keith Lamont Scott of North Carolina.
We sat because we’re really standing for something greater MITCHELL PHELPS
Various other athletes of both the collegiate and professional levels have also refused to stand during the national anthem in protest of what they feel are wrongdoings against black communities and other minorities in the United States. “[We] want to set a reminder to be aware of some of the national issues going on and things that are really affecting others and really affecting all of us and specifically those within the black community including some of your peers and the students that we represent daily,” said Phelps.
Some students don’t agree with Phelps’ method of support. “Personally I think that the idea behind it is right, but it’s the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem and it’s not really something that we should be messing around with,” said Jordan Micham, a first-year architecture student. “It’s too serious of a practice and tradition to kind of alter that.” Other students fully support Phelps’ actions. “It’s basically just standing up for the injustice going on and recognizing it, and I appreciate the people actually standing up and participating in this for things they actually believe in and not scared of other people’s judgments, so that’s good and it’s good to see UC students doing it,” said Tyla McCants, a firstyear mortuary science student. Having yesterday’s silent protest include UC’s student body president makes it all the more impactful, according to McCant. “The last thing I really wanted to say is that from our acts, we are seeking justice, hope and support from our peers,” said Phelps. “We are all still together as OneUC.” FOR SG MEETING COVERAGE, SEE NEWSRECORD.ORG
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Student Body President, Mitchell Phelps, (middle), Kamree Maull (left), Joseph Malek, and additional members of SG and Irate8 sit for the Pledge of Allegiance Wednesday September 21, 2016 in TUC.
Cincinnati Metro bus adopts plan to improve efficiency KINSLEY SLIFE| NEWS EDITOR
The Cincinnati Bell Connector hype has drawn attention away from what some see as an inefficient mode of public transit — the Metro bus system. As of Tuesday, Cincinnati Metro and the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority announced the adoption of a new five-year plan to improve efficiency and increase bus traffic with a vision of 20 million rides by 2021. The 2017-2021 plan was created by Metro board members, various employees and union representatives in order to address the way public transit was lacking ease for thousands of Cincinnati residents who may rely solely on Metro for transportation — including
many low-income residents and students with offcampus jobs or residencies. Kes Kindle, a first-year archeology student at the University of Cincinnati, lives off-campus without a car. Kindle sometimes opts to take the bus home from work or campus, but steers clear of the Metro when she’s on a strict schedule. “Luckily I’m never on a time crunch when I have to take the bus home on days that I’m not working,” says Kindle. “I could definitely see that being a big issue if I had to be somewhere on time.” Timeliness aside, a November study of Metro’s reach commissioned by the Urban Land Institute and Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber found that only 23 percent of jobs in the city were easily reachable
by Metro buses. Results also show that over 75,000 of Cincinnati jobs aren’t reachable by public transit at all, ranking the city lower than 11 other peer cities including neighbors like Louisville, Indianapolis, Cleveland and Columbus for job accessibility by public transit. For residents using Metro, making vital commutes to work, school or even the grocery store, can turn into a trip of anywhere from 6090 minutes one way. Similarly, unfamiliar riders looking for quick solutions to car trouble or other circumstances are easily confused by the complicated route system. Other members of the UC community like Rico Rowland, a resident of downtown Cincinnati
and employee of the MainStreet Subway on campus, have been taking the bus their whole life. Rowland says his commute from downtown to Clifton is usually less than five minutes. “Not all the time is it a straight easy trip,” Rowland said. “If you’re going to different neighborhoods like from down town to college hill it could be a pretty long trip.” To achieve the 2021 vision, Cincinnati Metro has narrowed its goals to four key areas including: operational excellence, strategic alignment and partnering, organizational sustainability and technological innovation. These areas will work to improve cost, efficiency in routing to cut down on ride-times
and, most importantly, route expansion to reach more destinations and improve commuting for those making trips to destinations that Metro currently doesn’t reach. “I can definitely see taking the bus as kind of a big hurdle for people. I had to do a lot of asking around
to figure it out,” said Kindle. “The route lists are a lot to look at, lots of numbers. It’s a complex thing that is kind of hard to approach.” With the “20 million by 2021” plan in place, there is hope for more efficiency and increased usage of the Metro throughout the city.
ALEXANDRA TAYLOR | PHOTO EDITOR
New Cincinnati Metro plan strives to increase efficency and ridership.
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LAUREN MORETTO | NEWS EDITOR
Community engagement has become the forefront of sustainability efforts on and off the University of Cincinnati campus. Since its inception in January 2015, Clean Up Cincy has seen an incredible increase in volunteers, rising from 350 to 1,000 this year. The group is projected to increase to at least 1,200 volunteers this semester, according to Kyle Wilson, second-year urban planning student and assistant director of Clean Up Cincy. UC’s largest studentled beautification project serves as an outlet for students and members of the community to maintain gardens and clean up on campus and in the surrounding neighborhoods. Currently, the group sends cleanup crews around campus and down Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Ravine Street. The group also has a presence in about six Cincinnati neighborhoods, including West End, OverThe-Rhine, North Avondale and Walnut Hills.
Both students and community members have expressed concerns over gentrification in Cincinnati’s urban neighborhoods over the past few years. Wilson does not believe Clean Up Cincy directly combats gentrification, but it does serve a purpose by providing members of the community with a platform to be self-sufficient in their sustainability efforts. “If we can get those community members wanting to sustainably improve their own communities and that’s something that we don’t need big developers to come in and knock down buildings to do it, they are able to do the small steps and that really turns into a snow ball effect that just makes them better by themselves,” said Wilson, who cited the perceived unattractiveness of a neighborhood as a main cause of gentrification. Clean Up Cincy is partnering with numerous neighborhood councils and high schools to spread the word about their volunteering opportunities. The importance of making their group available to
community members as well as students is not lost on Wilson. “If you just go in and clean up someone’s house, do they really appreciate what you’re doing, do they really get to be a part of it?” Wilson asked. “That’s why we really want to become a part of the community, not just do this as kind of this
invading army of cleaning workers.” Clean Up Cincy hopes to be a key fixture in community outreach efforts on campus. “Since we are the largest student-led effort on campus it is a way for us to get as many students as possible out into the streets and interacting with the
community around us,” said Wilson. “We’d love to foster better relationships with the people here and them seeing [students] doing something like this rather than just partying or throwing kegs out our window or whatever… We’re not crazy people just doing whatever we want,
N.C. BROWN | CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER
Students gather at Sigma Sigma Commons for Clean Up Cincy Saturday April 2, 2016.
UC has selected a new dean of students: Juan Guardia ZACHARY PERRIN | CONTRIBUTOR
ALEXANDRA TAYLOR | PHOTO EDITOR
Juan Guardia, new Assistant VP and Dean of Students, discusses bring back a Dean of Students Advisory Council and improving issues concerning the welfare of students outside the classroom.
The University of Cincinnati recently hired a new dean of students, Juan Guardia, to lead the charge on all issues concerning the welfare of students outside the classroom. As of Aug. 1, Guardia will work with students on problems regarding crisis, conflict and risk of student retention, as well as other similar matters. “Whatever we can do to make sure that our students stay on campus and graduate,” said Guardia. In regards to communication with students, Guardia has also focused his efforts on ways to open clear routes for dialogue between the students and the administration. “One of the things I’m trying to bring back is having a Dean of Students Advisory Council,” he said. The Dean of Students Advisory Council would be a group of students that meet once a month to discuss — with Guardia — things going on outside of the classroom. Guardia hopes to compose the advisory council of students from all parts of the University including both graduate and undergraduate as well as UC Law and Medical students. “I think it’s really important to have students at the table so we can engage in conversations like what are things going on outside of the classroom that I may or may not be aware of,” Guardia said. “Who better knows what’s going on around campus than the students themselves?” This advisory board would be a way for students to be heard by Guardia directly to ensure that their concerns about life at
the university are met with proper action from the Division of Student Affairs. “Any way I can assist at remedying or assessing a situation to make sure that we can address those issues for the student,” Guardia said. “That’s what I would like to do, not only as the Dean of Students, but also going to our Vice President Debra Merchant as well.” Prior to coming to UC, Guardia spent three years working as the Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs at Northeastern Illinois University, a public university in Chicago with around 10,000 students. There, he oversaw a new Student Family Programs office, which dealt with things related to orientation. Guardia also worked with colleagues to run a Diversity and Culture Center at Northern Illinois University that provided resources for minority students of all colors, genders and sexual orientations. Before Northern Illinois University, Guardia worked as Director of Multicultural affairs at Florida State University where he helped curate multicultural programs for education, inclusion, advocacy and social justice on a campus of over 43,000 students. Guardia is excited to be working at a large, urban, residential institution where he can work with students of all types. “Cincy feels very much like my alma mater, Florida State, a very large public residential campus with Division I sports and things to that effect,” he said. “So once I got to campus and I interviewed for the position it just felt right.”
Student loan rates see promising new lows in 2016 ASHLEIGH PIERCE | CHIEF REPORTER
Students may catch a financial break this year with interest rates on federal student loans down to nearly a record low this current school year. The fixed-interest rate, now 3.76 percent, applies to any federal undergraduate student loan — subsidized or unsubsidized — taken out during the 201617 academic year. This compares to a rate of 4.29 percent for the 2015-16 school year. Some students at the University of Cincinnati were unaware of this year’s low interest rates and are hesitant to believe they will have very much affect on those who take out loans. “Most students have to take out a certain amount of loans no matter what, and they’re eventually going to pay them off,” said Brenna Truax, a first-year industrial design student. “Hopefully it will take a little less time, but I don’t think it will have that much affect.” Federal loans don’t always cover the entirety of what is needed to pay for tuition and other
college expenses, requiring many students to take out private loans with higher interest rates, according to Emely Casasola, a first-year mechanical engineering student. Though, Casasola does believe it will still encourage more people to attend college. Some members of campus see a need for reform. “If college tuition and associated costs continue to rise, the government will have to take a serious look at ways to provide more affordable loans to college students that they can pay back when they matriculate at a reasonable and controllable rate,” said Erwin Erhardt, associate professor of economics at UC. “Controllable in that they can move on with their lives and future decisions: buying a car, a house, [supporting a] family, etc.” The general sentiment surrounding college loans remains. “I think a lot of people don’t want to have debt, or a lot of it for that matter, going into college and leaving college,” said Jake Bartosch, a sixth-year
we’re actually caring about the neighborhood that we’re in as well,” he said. Volunteer opportunities are currently available once a semester, but could expand in the future, according to Wilson. Oct. 8 will be Clean Up Cincy’s next volunteer opportunity.
environmental engineering student. Students will still be wary of taking out loans because of the debt that will arise with them, according to Cameron Wright, a first-year business administration student. As for whether or not interest rates will remain low in coming years, economic experts share different viewpoints. The consensus is that rates will slowly rise, likely by half a percentage point per year, and that next year’s students will likely see an increase, according to Michael Jones, assistant professor for UC’s economics department. On the contrary, Haynes Goddard, professor emeritus in economics at UC, said the expectation is that interest rates will remain relatively low in the years ahead, referencing an article from The Wall Street Journal in which Federal Reserve officials said they see fewer short-term interest rate increases in 20172018 compared to prior projections. Economists do agree,
however, that students will likely notice little difference when repaying their loans. “The half-percent rate cut [from last year] may
not be significant enough of a break in the monthly repayment share,” said Asawari Deshmukh, assistant professor of economics at UC. “It may
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Midpoint, Wussy and much more music Flying Dog’s BrewCats:
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Marzen celebrates Germany RUSSELL HAUSFELD | ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR
Cincinnati has been looking fine in her lederhosen lately, celebrating her German heritage with multiple Oktoberfests and a slew of new breweries opening and expanding. As a resident of Cincinnati, you’ll hopefully be kicking back this fall on breezy evenings, eating a drenched plate of ribs and enjoying a refreshing beer. What beer, you may ask yourself, is right for this kind of occasion? Well, the Marzen is a brew significant to this time of year in Germany. It was typically brewed in March and kept in cellars throughout the summer. Remaining bottles of Marzen were then usually used up for Oktoberfest in September and October. Maryland-based brewing company Flying Dog released the Dogtoberfest Marzen at the end of August, just in time for celebrations and cooler weather. The bright yellow bottle, illustrated by none other than Ralph Steadman, depicts two hearty boys in green lederhosen sloshing beers behind a demented wiener dog cleaning itself. As of 2015, Flying Dog is the 37th largest craft beer producer in the nation, just beating out Narragansett and just under Ninkasi. It acquired its name after Flying Dog founder George Stranahan and a company of friends summited and descended K2 —the second-highest mountain in the world — then got a bit tipsy and became fascinated by an oil painting of a dog lifting up off the ground. Dogtoberfest pours a caramel-y, bubbly orange with a light head — just enough to foam up a mustache or upper lip. The brew is reminiscent of a wheat beer, but with slightly less breadiness. Instead, the light malts from Munich really come through, making it a smooth and easily drinkable brew. Coming in at 5.6 percent ABV, it is perfect for a meal, or a multi-beer session. The author was eating some delicious barbecue-encrusted ribs from Ron D’s BBQ in Madisonville while writing this. If you haven’t heard of this place, it’s a tiny food cart on the side of Madison Road. It’s a super low-key venture from a guy who just really likes making great barbecue. SIX-PACK: Ludlow Wines, 343 Ludlow Ave., 11 a.m.-9 p.m. TuesdaySaturday. Or Eastgate Jungle Jim’s, 4450 Eastgate South Drive, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. MondaySunday.
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Midpoint Music Festival
Besides the Bunbury, Midpoint Music Festival is Cincinnati’s biggest citywide music festival, featuring over 80 bands Friday through Sunday. Though it may be a different vibe this year with less stages, the weekend is still shaping up to be epic. This year’s Midpoint will only have four stages compared to last year’s multi-bar model. This could be good, providing more well prepared stages and sound setups. However, this also takes some of the personality out of the festival. No longer will the many bars of Cincinnati be showcased as intimate music venues, with a festival map spanning the city. However, the lineup of headliners — Future Islands, J.J. Grey and Mofro
and Band of Horses — is still sure to provide some high-energy festivities.
Friday Night Bands:
Future Islands, Tokyo Police Club, Antibalas, Langhorne Slim and The Law, Into It. Over It., Lau, Cereus Bright, The James Hunter Six, Public, Ona, Julia Jacklan, Dead Horses, Hoops, Molly Sullivan, Joesph, Pluto, Revolts, Leggy, The Slippery Lips, Royal Holland, Smut, Injecting Strangers, Darla.
Saturday Night Bands:
J.J. Grey & Mofro, Reggie Watts, Wolf Parade, Frightened Rabbit, Kamasi Washington, Bob Mould, The Mountain Goats, Car Seat Headrest, The Budos Band, Russian Circles, Helms Alee, Oh Pep!, Lucy Dacus, Mike Floss, Lucky Chops, MULTIMAGIC, The Harlequins, Honeyspiders, Sound & Shape, By Light We Loom, Mala In Se, Knife The Symphony, Wild Prxfits, Nights, Animal
Sunday Night Bands:
Band of Horses, Lucero, Houndmouth, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Nada Surf, Josh Ritter, The Wood Brothers, AJJ, Elephant Revival, Aloha, Joan of Arc, Aubrie Sellers, Potty Mouth, Vandaveer, Keeps, Parsonsfield, Amber Arcades, Diners, Kepi Ghoulie, The Mobros, Blank Range, Young Heirlooms, The Easthills, Coconut Milk, Alone at 3am, Modern Aquatic, The Fervor, Darlene, Us, Today.
GO: Midpoint Music Festival, Over-TheRhine (multiple locations), FridaySunday Sept. 23-25. $50 per night, 3-day passes sold out. Wussy at the Woodward Former Midpoint venue,
The Woodward Theater, will be hosting a big Cincinnati favorite — Wussy — to compete with the first two nights of Midpoint. The Cincinnati-based band will perform two nights in a row, and you could see them both times for less than it costs to go to one night of Midpoint.
GO: Wussy, Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St., Friday Sept. 23, 9 p.m. Saturday Sept. 24, $18. The Hiders at Ludlow
Plaza
If you’re budget does not allow for the expensive Midpoint tickets or the tickets to see Wussy, head down to Ludlow for a free musical option. The Hiders will have their full band playing Ludlow Plaza’s last free outdoor show of the year.
GO: The Hiders, Ludlow-Clifton Plaza, 333 Ludlow Ave., 7 p.m. Saturday Sept. 24, FREE.
ALEXANDRA TAYLOR | PHOTO EDITOR
Indie rock band, Heat, performs at Midpoint Music Festivial in MOTOR Pub Sep. 25, 2015. Midpoint Music Festival occurs this Friday Sept. 23-25, 2016 in OTR.
Fun fall festivals to attend in Cincinnati ISABELLA JANSEN | STAFF REPORTER
GRETCHEN SEMANIK | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Mad Frog, located at the corner of Vine Street and McMillan street, hosts Russian Dance Party, Saturday Sept. 24, 2016.
Russian dancing at The Mad Frog PARKER MALATESTA | CONTRIBUTOR
The Mad Frog — which labels itself as the “watering hole” for UC students — is paying homage to the bumping musical genre of Euro-dance on Saturday, with the International Russian Party. They will be playing solely European dance music to go along with the Russian soul and hospitality at this gathering. This will be a new tradition for The Mad Frog, with Euro-dance parties being held the last Saturday of each month. Get ready for a night of bumping bodies and vodka shots as The Mad Frog goes out on limb with electro moving music in a town that is going through a drought of danceable electronica. The luxurious, outrageous party culture goes so well with a brand of music that influences much of our American grooves. European culture has been a significant influence to modern America’s nightlife scene. Europe’s hit genre, Euro-dance, reached its peak in the 1990s, leaving a stain on the rhythm and blues and pop music rise in the beginning of the 2000s in America. Originating from Germany in the late 1980s, Euro-dance — also known as Euro — became popular when two German producers kick started the “Snap!” project in Frankfurt. Combining rap and soul lyrics with electronically mixed sounds, drums and bass, the soothing sound of Euro-dance was born.
Songs often carry an optimistic, upbeat tone and emphasize percussion and rhythm, with lyrics that are almost always in English despite the artists’ nationalities. European influence began to make its way across the Atlantic near the end of the ’90s, when Euro-dance plummeted in the domestic music charts and progressive house music started to pick up steam. Around that time, Canada adopted Euro-dance rituals and is now seen as the largest market for the genre outside of Europe. Outside of major market cities, Eurodance is not very popular in the United States. However, you can always count on hearing a high-energy song while attending an athletic event (read: “Sandstorm”). Without a doubt, “Sandstorm” will help open this show. But, hopefully we will get more of an authentic taste of European dance music and see what makes the European and Russian discotheque scene so world-renowned. The Mad Frog advertises the International Russian Dance Party as the place to hear the best European dance music with “sexy people.” If that doesn’t sound appealing enough to you, there will be drink specials abounding based around Russian favorites to fuel the night. GO: International Russian Dance Party, The Mad Frog, 1 E McMillan St, 9 p.m. Saturday. Ladies FREE, Men $5.
Despite the extremely warm weather here in Cincinnati, fall is right around the corner. With fall comes not only changing leaves and cooler weather, but also a long list of different fall festivals happening right here in Cincinnati. With the first day of fall this Thursday, one can start their fall bucket list with the Midpoint Music Festival in Over-The-Rhine. This festival is perfect for anyone who enjoys contemporary music and is looking for a new band to fall in love with. This music festival is this Friday through Saturday, and it allows individuals to walk easily from venue to venue throughout the OTR area. Also this weekend is the Newport Oktoberfest. This festival celebrates the German heritage with authentic German cuisine and folk music as well as a variety of beers crafted by German breweries. The Sunflower Festival is really a great way to get into the fall spirit. This festival takes place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 1-2 at Gorman’s Heritage Farm. Visitors can spend their time getting lost in the sunflower maze, taking a hayride, visiting the farm animals and picking out a pumpkin to take home. If all of that was not enough, there will be live music and tasty food from local food trucks to enjoy. The Minges and Weber Family Pumpkin Festival in Harrison takes place the weekend of Oct. 15-16. This festival provides its guests with live music, food and over 150 arts and crafts
exhibitors. Just like any pumpkin festival, one can pick out their very own pumpkin to take home, but this festival also provides old fashioned games such as seed spitting, sack races, cow chip throwing and many more. Also taking place the weekend of Oct. 15 is the Lantern Fest. While this is a Cincinnati event, it does take place at the Kentucky Speedway. When a lantern pass is purchased for the event, attendees will receive a lantern, along with a marker, a lighter and a s’mores kit. This festival is great for anyone ready to let go of past regrets, and making room for new hopes and dreams. There is also live music that makes for great dancing beneath the sky of glowing lanterns. Lastly, the Beer, Bourbon and BBQ festival is on Oct. 22. This event takes place in the Duke Energy Convention Center and provides guests with over 60 microbrews on tap and 40 barrel-aged bourbons. Those who are not at the legal age of 21 can still enjoy delicious barbecue and live bluegrass, blues and rock music.
ALEXANDRA TAYLOR | PHOTO EDITOR
The largest Oktoberfest celebration in the country, is a fall event looked forward to by most. Oktoberfest Sept. 19, 2015, Cincinnatins support UC’s Dance team with beer purchases.
‘The Beatles: Eight Days a Week’ ZEKE SHAHER | CONTRIBUTOR
RUSSELL HAUSFELD | ART & CULTURE EDITOR
Flying Dog’s Dogtoberfest is a refreshing Marzen style beer, pouring a carmel-y orange with a slight hint of froth to get caught in your mustaches.
Mother, Smoke Signals…, Orchards, Baby Money & The Down Payments, Ryan Fine & The Media, Honduras.
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Ron Howard attends the screening for new documentary, ‘The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years’ at the Picture House Central cinema on Aug. 9, 2016 in London.
Join in with the “fab four” as Ron Howard, director of Apollo 13 and executive producer of the acclaimed TV show “Arrested Development,” on a journey through Beatlemania in his new film “Beatles: Eight Days A Week.”The band battles fame, goes on tour after tour dealing with relentlessly screaming teenagers and social struggles in the middle of the 1960s. Beginning with the Beatles’ instant success of their debut album, “Please Please Me,” Howard’s documentary exhibits the band performing some of their earliest concerts, restored in color and with improved sound, as well as rare pictures and outtakes from studio sessions. Familiar scenes are carefully revisited, such as the Ed Sullivan appearance in 1964 that wowed Americans nationwide. However, the documentary is conferred under fresh perspectives. New interviews are conducted with the faces of proud — and famous
— Beatles fans, such as singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, actress Whoopi Goldberg and writer Malcolm Gladwell, giving their own nostalgic, and even some personal, accounts of the band. Insight is also given by surviving band members Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, with late archival footage on relevant topics from George Harrison and John Lennon, as well. Aside from headbopping concert footage and valuable intuitions, the film also demands attention with sleeklooking info graphics and charms audiences with the band’s cheeky humor that is exemplified well throughout the film. There is great balance in the depiction of the band as they are shown as four grand stars shining across the entire globe, and at the same time merely four friends enjoying their time making jokes and doing what they love most together. Additionally, the momentum of the film is increased when a hard
look is given into some of the social struggles and complications that unwittingly caused some contention for the band. Things like the Civil Rights movement that corresponded with a controversial show at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville amidst segregation; and other tragic events, such as John F. Kennedy’s assassination, that left the band hesitant to tour in the United States. As the troubles for the band started to pile up, so did their money and their need to grow up — which was obscured in the view of the public by all their fame. To any Beatles fan, some of the information has definitely been previously disclosed and feels like it is being rehashed. But, that should not discourage the curious moviegoer. Any music fan can be amused and informed by Ron Howard’s well-constructed documentary on one of the greatest music groups of all time. GO: Esquire Theatre, 320 Ludlow Ave., 11 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Monday-Sunday.
4 / SPORTS THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 2016
Bearcats look to down Redhawks for Victory Bell JASON SZELEST | STAFF REPORTER
On Saturday, for the 121st time, the University of Cincinnati Bearcats and the Miami University Redhawks will meet for a chance to take home the Victory Bell. Although Miami currently holds the series lead with a record of 59-54-7, Cincinnati has won the last ten meetings. Their rivalry is the second oldest in college football’s Football Bowl Subdivision. The last time Miami beat Cincinnati was in 2005, Bearcats quarterback Dustin Grutza threw five interceptions in a 44-16 blowout. Despite not losing to the Redhawks in over 11 years, Cincinnati head coach Tommy Tuberville is cautious of the intensity Miami brings in this rivalry. “We have a 10-year streak,
but streaks are made to be broken,”Tuberville said. “We’re going to get the best shot all year long from their football team. They’re going to be ready to play. They’re not worried about what happened before this game or what is going to happen after this game.” Tuberville also said that he believes the proximity of the rivalry ― the schools being 38 miles apart ― creates a greater intensity because the schools fight for the support of the same community. On the field, the biggest question for the Bearcats coming into this week is who the starting quarterback will be. After three quarterbacks saw action in the game against the University of Houston Cougars last week, many believe a quarterback change is in the works.
Hayden Moore will probably take the first snap against Miami, but Ross Trail and Gunner Kiel have received more snaps in practice this week, according to Tuberville. Another question has been the running game, which gained 30 yards on 25 carries against Houston. Tuberville attributed that stat more to the effectiveness of the Cougars’ defense, rather than Cincinnati’s shortcomings. “I’d be really concerned had we not run the ball well the week before,” Tuberville said. “You saw what Houston did to Oklahoma who has a pretty good running game. I think they are giving up a yard, maybe three-quarters of a yard per carry.” Defensively, the Bearcats will have to stop Redhawks sophomore quarterback
Billy Bahl, who has passed for 285 yards per game with six touchdowns and one interception this season. “He is a big guy about like Hayden Moore. He throws the ball downfield and has very good touch with the ball,”Tuberville said. Senior safety Mike Tyson, who is tied for the FBS lead in interceptions but has been playing more linebacker lately, will be using all of his skills to stop Bahl and the Redhawks offense. Three starters who saw little to no time in the Houston game due to injury will be joining the effort, senior safety Zach Edwards, sophomore safety Tyrell Gilbert and sophomore linebacker Bryce Jenkinson. Tuberville referred to the group as three of the more important guys they have
on defense. Ultimately, Tuberville expects excitement to come out of this rivalry. “It’s a non-conference rival game. Those are always a lot of fun for the fans and I think we are going to have a lot of people here at Nippert Stadium,”Tuberville said. “A lot of history goes back with this game.” Along with the ten-game
winning streak against Miami, Cincinnati also has a 29-game winning streak in home games against non-conference opponents at Nippert Stadium. The Bearcats enter the game with a record of 2-1, while the Redhawks currently sit at 0-3. The game will take place at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. It will be aired on ESPNews.
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From UC vs No. 6 Houston at Nippert Stadium Thursday September 15, 2016.
Hayden no Moore? Tuberville uncertain DAVID WYSONG | SPORTS EDITOR
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Cincinnati Bearcat football head coach Tommy Tubervillle named sophomore Hayden Moore his starting quarterback prior to the season ― is he already starting to regret it? After UC’s 40-16 loss to the University of Houston Saturday ― where Moore threw two crucial interceptions in the fourth quarter ― Tuberville did not give a definitive answer on if he was reopening the quarterback competition. While saying they will probably not reopen it, Tuberville said they would look at it. Then on Tuesday, five days removed from the emotions of the tough loss, the 62-year-old coach still had not made a decision whether Moore or someone else would be the team’s starting field general. “We’ll look at it this week and see who we think is the best,”Tuberville said. “Maybe if somebody else is the guy we need to put in, [we will] give him a shot. I thought Hayden played, not his best game, but pretty well for three quarters, but we did throw an interception for a touchdown.” The other two quarterbacks who have a shot to take the job are redshirt senior Gunner Kiel and redshirt freshman Ross Trail.
Tuberville said the coaching staff will decide who the guy will be through their play in practice. “[We will] put guys in more of a competitive practice session and see who is the best, probably will have the same starter, but again we can’t make those bad throws, we can’t give the football up, we just can’t,” Tuberville said. “So I won’t wait too long on that, we’re not going to wait too long at all to make a decision on ‘Well let’s give someone else a chance,’ but you have to do it in practice.” With this year being Trail’s first season of eligibility, he has not had much experience playing quarterback at the collegiate level, but Kiel, on the other hand, is the opposite. Kiel has played in 23 games for Cincinnati, throwing for 6,031 yards, 50 touchdowns and 24 interceptions. After leaving the team for personal reasons during the offseason, Kiel slid down to third-string on the depth chart. This was due to him not knowing the new offense as well as the other quarterbacks did and his poor play in the offseason camp scrimmages, according to Tuberville. However, Tuberville hinted that Kiel’s time may be coming. “It will be soon that he will have his opportunity,”Tuberville said.
“Gunner’s experienced enough to know there’s going to be a time and when you get that time you take full advantage of it and you say to yourself, ‘I will never go back to that sideline.’” Tuberville said Kiel has been looking better in practice, which has in turn given him more reps, and he commended him for his positive attitude since being named the thirdstringer. “He’s handling it better than I would,”Tuberville said. “If I had started 20 games and I’m the thirdteam quarterback I would look around going, ‘Why me?’ but there’s a lot of reasons, he understands that, but he’s earned the respect of all these guys in this room by how he’s handling it because you find out a lot about somebody when you got adversity, now that’s true adversity.” In comparison to Kiel’s numbers, Moore has played in 11 games and has passed for 2,670 yards, 16 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. Trail has only thrown two passes for two yards and one interception in his career. It is unknown if it will be Kiel, Moore or Trail starting on Saturday against the Miami University Redhawks.
TNR sports podcast predicts Big 12 teams DAVID WYSONG | SPORTS EDITOR AMIR SAMARGHANDI | MANAGING EDITOR JASON SZELEST | STAFF REPORTER CLAUDE THOMPSON | STAFF REPORTER
The Big 12 is looking to expand, and they have narrowed their list to 12 schools. Our experts: David, Amir, Jason and Claude ― who regularly appear on the On the Record Sports podcast, available on iTunes and Soundcloud― picked the two favorites.
David: The University of Cincinnati and the University of South Florida
Cincinnati is an ideal school for the Big 12. I believe they have showed they are eager to join a major conference by spending a boat-load of money on renovations for Nippert Stadium and Fifth Third Arena. The Bearcats’ basketball program will be their anchor into the conference. They are in the NCAA Tournament every year and would give another fierce competitor to the University of Kansas, who has been atop the conference for majority of the decade. I think South Florida also makes sense. While they don’t have as rich of a history as some of the other candidates, many top-high school recruits come from Florida. USF would give the conference more of a footprint in the area, being there is no Big 12 team from Florida, and their campus is a beautiful place to turn into the conference’s stamping ground.
Amir: UC and the University of Houston
I think the big Texas schools will get over their egos and select the most obvious candidate to be in the Big 12 ― Houston. Houston’s winning football record, prime location in the heart of the region and already significant name recognition make them the ideal choice. UC makes no sense geographically, but their Midwestern appeal will lure the wanton financial interests of the Big 12. Expect Cincinnati to be traveling long into the Great Plains for unnatural road trips soon.
Claude: UC and
the University of Connecticut
Connecticut and Cincinnati make the most sense for expansion into the Big 12, because they both have an isolated market. This is due to Connecticut being the only major school in their state, and Cincinnati having appeal in the tristate area as south as the University of Louisville and as north as Ohio State University. They also both allow the Big 12 to spread their reach more east to allow easier travel times for West Virginia University ― who recently joined the conference in 2012. Connecticut has a strong basketball program, as does UC, and would help bolster the already strong basketball roster that the Big 12 employs. I insist that Houston makes the least amount of sense. Houston would directly compete with Baylor University, Texas Tech University, TCU and the University of Texas for Big 12’s Texas recruits. That’s also not saying anything about Texas A&M in the Southeastern Conference.
Jason: The University of Houston and Southern Methodist University
At this point, I believe the University of Houston is a near lock to take one of the expansion spots. After a season in which the football team went 13-1, the team is undefeated this year and ranked No. 6 in the country. They also happen to be in the tenth largest media market in the United States. Pair those together with the fact that Houston sits right in the middle of Big 12 country, it would be hard to see why another team gets selected before the Cougars. A lot of people seem to be forgetting that SMU is still in this race. Either that or they forget that the Mustangs are located in Dallas ― the fifth largest media market in the country. In basketball, SMU has placed in the top-three all three years they have been in the American Athletic Conference. In football, they have struggled, but have proven historically that they can compete in a big-time conference.
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The Cincy Bearcat pumps up the largest student crowd in the history of the University of Cincinnati at the Bearcat’s football game against No. 6 Houston at Nippert Stadium Thursday September 15, 2016.
Students react to Big 12 move JASON SZELEST | STAFF REPORTER
It’s no secret the Cincinnati Bearcats are in the middle of a race where the winners will be awarded an invitation to the Big 12 Conference. As of now, the Big 12 has publicly listed 11 teams still under consideration for what probably will be two expansion spots. Coaches, players and administrators have already said what they think of the University of Cincinnati’s potential move from the American Athletic Conference. What about the fans who are coming out to support these athletic teams on a weekly basis? In terms of importance to the university, a move to the Big 12 would register off the charts, according to fourth-year operations management student Brendan Wambaugh. “On a scale of one to ten, getting into the Big 12 would fall at about a 20. The fact that UC would receive a check for $26.6 million, whereas right now they get one for around $6 million,”Wambaugh said. “With that enormous
influx of yearly cash, UC could be on track to compete with Ohio State as the team of the state a decade from now.” While the university has expressed clear interest in joining the conference, the key is getting the Big 12 to share that interest. Cincinnati needs to flaunt their desirables in order to interest the conference. “Geographically, UC would fit reasonably well into the Big 12, since it’s located between Iowa State and West Virginia,” said fourth-year chemical engineering student Jacob Bollman. “Also, it would add a large fan base to the Big 12 as UC would be the second largest university in the conference in enrollment, after Texas.” A big issue for the Bearcats in joining the Big 12 would be the jump in competition from the AAC. “For basketball, I think UC competes immediately, the Bearcats can already compete with any team in the country,” said Nick Bauer, a fourth-year marketing student and director of communications for UC RallyCats.
“For football, it would be a bit more of a process. I think there is more adjusting to the curve in football, but in the near future UC would still be able to win six to eight games a year, with a few breakout years like the Bearcats had in the Big East.” While UC has spent over $170 million on upgrading their basketball arena and football field over the past couple years, the size of the Bearcat’s stadiums could still be an issue for their inclusion in a bigger conference. “An issue I could imagine from a move to a bigger conference like the Big 12 would be that UC may have limited seating for sporting events as ticket demand increases,” Bollman said. “I think further stadium expansion may be needed.” Ultimately, the fans are just ready for a decision to be made by the Big 12. “At this point, all of the work has been done,” Bauer said. “The Big 12 knows what Cincinnati, as well as the rest of the candidates, have to offer.”