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BEN GOLDSCHMIDT | TNR CONTRIBUTOR While nationwide homicide rates are at their lowest point in decades, Cincinnati clocks in at quadruple the national average.

A national study shows homicides accounted for 5.3 deaths per 100,000 people in 2010 — a 3.6 percent drop from 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC. For the first time since 1965, homicide is not among the top-15 national causes of death in the United States. As a result, life expectancy for Americans born in 2010 rose 37 days to a total of 78.7 years.

Cincinnati proved to be an outlier in this study, reporting a homicide rate of 21.6 deaths per 100,000 people.

Subsequently, life expectancy in Cincinnati is 77.1 years, more than one year lower than the national average, according to a CDC report.

Furthermore, the four homicides reported from Dec. 11, 2011 to Jan. 7 are consistent with averages from previous months, according to a report released by Cincinnati Chief of Police James Craig.

One former member of CPD, however, said the information must be put into perspective.

“You can’t look at one year,” said Tom Streicher, former Cincinnati Police Chief, during a press conference in

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January 2011. “You have to look at things as they evolve over time.”

While city homicides dropped from 72 to 66 from 2010 to 2011, homicides in Cincinnati have been consistently high for the past decade.

Cincinnati murders have surpassed national and state averages annually since the riots of 2001 and earned the city the title of Most Dangerous in Ohio in 2010, according to NeighborhoodScout.com. The highest murder count in the decade was 86 deaths in 2006, and the lowest was 49 in 2001. The average for the decade was 67 murders per year.

Clifton is home to staggering robberies and theft, but has accounted for less than 2.5 percent of Cincinnati homicides annually since 2001, police reports show.

“Clifton has so few homicides in any given year that it is impossible to say anything about trends,” said John Eck, a professor in the College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services at the University of Cincinnati.

Streicher, who retired just last year, noted that an increase in infant deaths and domestic violence cases have caused Cincinnati statistics to look worse. A smaller police force and a lack of jail space have also been attributed to these rates. Despite these setbacks, gang slayings have decreased by 35 percent over the past three years, and nonlethal violent crimes are on a steady decline.

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CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS Although homicides for the United States are down, Cincinnati homicides are well above the national average for the past year.

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RAISING THE STAKES Lawmakers are reviewing an interstate gambling law, the Wire Act of 1961, that may result in legal online gambling in Ohio.

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Employers and graduating students will have an easier time locating one another since the career services website at the University of Cincinnati’s Clermont branch campus was updated and improved.

The new website allows employers to view student resumes and allows students to view job listings, along with placement tracking, resume referrals and interview scheduling.

Students will have around-theclock access to the website and all its features.

“In this day and age, people do not want to drive to the university to get their job information when they can access it at 1 a.m. on their home computer,” said Beth Bamber, program manager of Career Services at UC Clermont.

Clermont always had the career services website, but staff decided to update it last month, Bamber said.

“Before, information had been there for years; now it is separated into different sections and has links to use,” Bamber said. “It is user-friendly with more access to online resources. Instead of always coming to Career Services, students can access the information online.”

In the process of contacting employers and informing them, they can now post job openings, Bamber said.

“Our goal was to enroll students first, before we contacted employers,” Bamber said.

The website will be linked to other major job sites and online databases, Bamber said.

Any UC student can use the website, though Main Campus students must contact Career Services at UC Clermont to be moved around the firewall, Bamber said.

Funded through the UC Clermont Career Services budget, the website can be accessed at www.ucclermont.edu/careers.

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RYAN HOFFMAN | SENIOR REPORTER Internet gambling might be coming to the Buckeye State just three years after Ohio voters approved a ballot issue approving casino construction and operation in Ohio.

“At this time, we’re researching the Department of Justice’s opinion on Internet gambling and the potential for Internet gambling in Ohio,” said Danielle Frizzi-Babb, communications director for the Ohio Lottery. “Ultimately, this is a policy decision that we will need to consider with our administration.”

The Department of Justice’s opinion that Frizzi-Babb referred to is the recent reversal of interpretations of the federal Wire Act of 1961,

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Ohio considers Internet gambling which had previously banned interstate gambling over phone lines and any form of gambling over the Internet.

“Due to the nature of the Internet, every type of communication constituted interstate commerce, so they applied [the ban] to all bets, regardless of whether they went to another state or not,” said Anthony Cabot, an expert in gaming law and a partner at Lewis and Roca LLP Lawyers in Las Vegas.

The change in the interpretation of the Wire Act now allows each state to determine whether they want to adopt laws prohibiting or protecting online gambling, Cabot said.

It’s unclear at this point just what kind of internet gambling could potentially come to Ohio.

New Jersey is considering legislation that would allow all of their casinos to offer online gambling including poker, blackjack and other casino games. California and Iowa are considering online poker while New York and Illinois are in the process of making lottery tickets purchasable online.

In Ohio, it will be interesting to see what kind of effect online gambling would have — if approved — on the new casinos being built in Cincinnati and Cleveland.

Rock Gaming LLC, the Midwest-based gaming partnership developing the two casinos, didn’t respond to a media inquiry.

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Primaries show frontrunners as well as voting trends.

A team of University of Cincinnati researchers returned from New Hampshire last week, where they continued their ongoing research on the nation’s first primary.

The research focuses on identifying certain characteristics that New Hampshire residents look for in an ideal candidate.

To do this, members of the team administered 20-question surveys to people attending rallies, town hall meetings and other political events during the week before the primary.

Each question is answered on a scale of how strongly the person agrees or disagrees with the statement being made.

Questions range from the race and gender of a candidate to whether SHORTor not the THOMPSON candidate has military experience.

“We find the social and cultural issues they definitely appear in other states, particularly in the south,” said Cady ShortThompson, dean of UC Blue Ash College and a communications professor. “Now we don’t do this research elsewhere, but based on poll information and impressions from other states in terms of who they vote for, they’re far more likely to have socially conservative attributes.”

Short-Thompson has conducted research at every New Hampshire primary since 1988, making this past primary her seventh.

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A group of Carl H. Lindner College of Business marketing students recently partnered with a brand-engagement agency, Northlich, on behalf of their client, the Cincinnati Recreation Commission (CRC), in an effort to promote financial support of the Cincinnati Recreation Foundation, which helps fund programs offered by the CRC. The group, Urban Vision, consisted of eight University of Cincinnati students: Deja Amato, Sarah Deist, Adam Fearing, Samantha Flore, Sean Hooey, Saffiya Ismail, Paloma Suter and Daniel Vorderbrueggen.

Elaine Skeldon, an adjunct professor of marketing, assigned the project to be one in which students created an advertising plan based on needs and desires of the client.

Eight teams competed in the marketing campaign, which began in October after Northlich attended Skeldon’s marketing

class — Urban Vision came out victorious.

The group tried to pursue a direction that would emphasize the Cincinnati pools, yet could still be applied to everything else the Cincinnati Recreation Centers have to offer, Fearing said.

“We really put a lot of thought and effort into the project,” Fearing said. “Especially our iPhone app idea [where you can play a game and when you win, a small donation is made], the idea of having a much larger citywide marathon, with all of the proceeds going to the CRC, as well as the idea of a Youth Olympics maybe hosted here on UC facilities, with some of the athletes helping out, complete with awards for the young participants.

“As a member of the Cincinnati football team, I would love to be apart of something like that, and I’m sure many of my teammates and fellow Bearcats would enjoy it,” Fearing said Fearing said the project was inspired by the story of a struggling child.

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“She explained how the CRC program had helped her child get to a physically functional level that would have never been possible without their help — it was a beautiful thing to hear.”

Fearing said brainstorming ideas was difficult, but doable with the team he had.

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Wake up, SOPA is your call

Currently, social media websites like Facebook and Twitter are blowing up with outrage at what might be Generation Y’s first lesson in real-world politics.

Many people our age thought they were inciting hope and change four years ago by hitting the campaign trail with President Barack Obama.

They danced in the streets in November 2008 when Obama took the election. Twentysomethings around the country patted each other on the back, believing they made history and took a step toward change.

Four years later, it appears some people who pushed so hard to bring “real change” to Washington have finally realized that all the door knocking and billion-dollar campaign efforts they helped propel were little more than business as usual.

The top contributors to Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008 included Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Citigroup, Inc, according to opensecrets.org.

The top contributors to John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008 included Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Citigroup, Inc, according to opensecrets.org.

The same people contributed to both campaigns. Big businesses and special interest groups consider this kind of double candidate support to be sort of an insurance policy– They can’t lose if they’re batting for both teams. Unfortunately, that means regular people can’t win.

It’s a cold reality, which they seemingly neglect to teach you about in high school government class — that realworld politics are a lot more similar to songs by the WuTang Clan than any episode of Schoolhouse Rock.

Instead of jabbering on about sitting on Capitol Hill, that sad little scrap of paper should have been informing school children that,“cash rules everything around me.”

Money is power, and there is no way around it.

Last May, after backing the blockbuster merger between NBC and Comcast, FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker announced her resignation without stating her future intentions. Shortly after, NBCUniversal issued a release stating that Baker would be joining their company as their new senior vice president of government affairs.

Yes, you’re reading that correctly. Baker sat in on a commission tasked with deciding whether or not two massive media companies should be allowed to merge, and four months after the deal was passed, she was offered a senior VP job with that company.

So, a few key web players decided to stage a protest Wednesday and it seems Generation Y is taking notice.

Resources our generation has been raised to take for granted have been made unavailable to make users aware of what could become of the Internet if SOPA is signed into law, and it finally got our attention.

The sad part is that SOPA really could quite literally be the end of the Internet as we know it.

The average person has ignored the issue of NetNeutrality for years, and now too many dollars have made their way into too many pockets.

The average citizen stands to lose a lot of rights and conveniences with the passage of SOPA, but the average politician in Washington stands to lose a lot of money if they don’t appease the lobbies.

Unfortunately for the typical BearcatsFan4Lifee88s out there, when the issue of citizens’ rights vs. political money and power, the choice is almost always to clock them duckets.

Until Americans learn to vote with their wallets instead of being fooled by blues and reds into voting down political parade routes, we’ll only continue down this road of forfeiting our liberties.

Dollar, dollar bill, y’all.

OPINION Banks should share foreclosure cost SHERROD BROWN Some Ohio families are starting the New Year in a new neighborhood, apartment or shelter after being foreclosed upon or being unable to sell their former home for as much as they paid for it.

Meanwhile, onceLETTER TO thriving middle-class are THE EDITOR neighborhoods being undermined by vacant homes, vandalism, and declining property values.

If we’re going to continue our economic recovery, we need to address the issue that put our economy on the brink of collapse — the housing crisis.

When it comes to the housing crisis, there is plenty of blame to go around. But before the recession, too many fast-talking mortgage brokers steered Americans into unfair loans that helped put the U.S. economy on the brink of collapse — costing millions of Americans their homes and jobs.

Federal regulators were asleep on the job — failing to ensure that responsible mortgages were being underwritten and then managed properly by financial institutions.

Now, after American taxpayers bailed them out, Wall Street banks are walking away from their bank-owned properties, leaving behind homes that are often vandalized and left to dilapidate.

As a result, Ohioans are seeing their property values plummet as abandoned homes are stripped of copper and anything else of value — broken windows are not always boarded up and busted pipes are not always fixed.

According to a Policy Matters Ohio report, one in three Ohio homeowners in 2010 owed more on their loans than their homes were worth. Instead of approving these sorts of

“short sales,” banks are foreclosing on homes, but then declining to take possession of them — sometimes because legal fees and maintenance costs often exceed the real estate value.

The result is needless evictions — forcing Ohioans from their homes only to have the banks later abandon the property. These socalled “bank walkaways” leave communities — and local taxpayers — to deal with the blight.

I’m demanding solutions. Nearly 14 months ago, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report — that I requested — on bank walkaways. The report found that bank walkaways, though not a common practice nationwide, are concentrated in economically struggling areas and distressed urban areas of particular cities, including those with lowvalue properties and sub-prime loans.

Cleveland experienced the third most bank walkaways in the nation, while Akron, Columbus, Dayton, Youngstown and Toledo were all among 20 communities nationwide with the most abandoned foreclosures.

For too long, banking regulators have looked out for the big banks’ bottom lines, at the expense of families in already hard-hit communities.

In December, the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued guidance to the banks instructing them on how to properly walk away from their properties. In response, I wrote to the OCC — which oversees the five largest mortgage servicers — outlining the devastating effect that bank walkaways have on low-income and middle-class families and their neighborhoods.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has found that vacant homes in a neighborhood lower surrounding property values by 3.1 percent — in an already sluggish housing market. We need stronger standards that will help keep Ohio families in their homes and protect communities from having to pay thousands in maintenance fees on

abandoned homes.

In addition to demanding additional action from OCC, I’ve also introduced the “Foreclosure Fraud and Homeowner Abuse Prevention Act”, which would require mortgage servicers to work with homeowners to modify their mortgage prior to foreclosure.

Preventing foreclosures is the best way to protect Ohio communities from the harm caused by abandoned properties.

Earlier this month, I met with a Cleveland Heights resident who lost her job after the company she worked for downsized — then she lost her home. Jeanette Smith was forced to move to an apartment as the bank initiated foreclosure.

But, without alerting her, the bank stopped the Sheriff’s sale. Without being able to back out of the lease, Ms. Smith was hit with a double disadvantage — local vacancy fines for a property she thought she no longer owned and a rent check she now had to pay.

If the banks are not willing to work with a struggling homeowner to prevent eviction, then the banks should be accountable for maintaining the foreclosed property. If they don’t, then they should pay a penalty as would a homeowner who allows a roof to collapse or fails to repair broken windows.

Ohioans are seeing their property values plummet as abandoned homes on their block or in their neighborhood are stripped literally to their foundations. Meanwhile, cities and counties are left footing the bill because a bank has abandoned its responsibility. The only party that wins when homes are abandoned is big banks. We should not allow this practice to go on any longer.

Now is the time Main Street stops paying for the financial and housing crisis it did not create.

Sherrod Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.

AMERICA’S OBSESSION WITH POP CULTURE TRENDS MEAN IGNORANCE ON ISSUES THAT REALLY MATTER

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The debt has been an increasingly important issue over the past decade for several reasons.

The most important point to note is that the debt represents the fact that our government is spending more money than it collects in revenue via taxation — its spending outpaces income.

When the government encounters a fiscal shortfall, it has three methods to right its financial ship: raising taxes, printing money or borrowing currency.

Why are these choices bad for America?

Well, if the government raises taxes, you have less to spend on your necessities.

If the government borrows money, then we are indebted to another nation.

Currently, the United States borrows from China, Japan and many European countries.

If we cannot pay back our loans, we default on our debt to those countries, which could lead to a war which we couldn’t afford.

In the case of printing money, purchasing power on the money you do have is greatly reduced — as the government prints more money, prices on everyday goods and services increase — leading to inflation.

Since wages never keep up with inflation, this is especially traumatic on those with fixed incomes — the retired and the poor.

Many countries have faced currency crises in recent history, from Argentina to Zimbabwe. In the case of Zimbabwe, their government printed money to pay for their debts, and in doing so reached hyperinflation — they were forced to print bills worth $3 million each, which were almost worthless.

The Gross Domestic Product index (GDP) doesn’t accurately display what a country produces, because it is based on the amount spent on private businesses as well as government.

So, it is possible to have a government that spends a lot and has a high GDP, without showing the true rate of decline. In other words, government spending masks the true rate of decrease in the decline of a nation’s economy.

However, using GDP as an economic indicator, we can illuminate several points.

If you look at countries that have recently suffered a monetary crisis, you can see how close the United States is to the edge of the cliff.

According to the CIA’s “World Factbook”, the limit for any given nation’s debt is around 200 percent of GDP — this is the rate for total collapse even though many things collapse in the economy before nation falls off the cliff.

Nations currently in crisis such as Zimbabwe (233 percent), Japan (199 percent), Greece (142 percent) and Italy (119 percent) give some indication of what’s to come for the U.S. if we continue on our current path — our GDP was surpased by debt just last week.

Since Zimbabwe’s situation isn’t as well known, it is easier to focus on the European crises for comparison.

Greece is nearing total collapse, and there are riots on the streets monthly — if not weekly, or even daily.

When the currency collapses, the worst hit are those who have saved money or those living on fixed incomes.

We can expect the same type of riots and violence that have happened in Greece to occur here if our spending is not reigned in.

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If nothing is done to divert our current economic course, it can be expected that mostly peaceful movements like “Occupy Wall Street” and the Tea Party will be leading the riots when a wheelbarrow of cash doesn’t buy a loaf of bread or a gallon of gas.

Our money is made of cotton, which has a nominal market value.

However, once the government prints on it, in the form of dollar denominations, it becomes worth less than the material it is printed on.

Because a commodity doesn’t back our currency, it is intrinsically worthless.

If we keep allowing economic insanity to continue, we will face the same type of crisis Greece is enduring.

The only difference will be that Greece has a population of 11.3 million people, whereas the U.S. has a population of 307 million people — the riots and chaos will be an exponentially larger scene than that of Greece.

The real threat here is that there are now laws in place that can effectively detain protestors, rioters, dissenters, activists, and anyone else the government deems to be a “suspected terrorist” through the National Defense Authorization Act, the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act and the inevitable martial law/police state scenario these pieces of legislation have made possible.

My recommendation to secure your future is to grow your own food, raise chickens for meat and eggs and coordinate with your local community when things get out of control.

Mark Spitz, the seven-time gold medallist swimmer’s words ring true here: “If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.”

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for those problems along with the solutions. The least important factors were race, gender and religious beliefs, Short-Thompson said.

The data from this year’s primary have yet to be compiled and analyzed, but Short-Thompson said she did observe some distinctive qualities.

There seemed to be some indecisiveness — similar to that seen on the national level — when it came to supporting a specific candidate, ShortThompson said.

“I was used to a more fervent response from the beginning,” ShortThompson said. “Often times, it’s like there’s a one-person show; that wasn’t the case this time.”

The candidates spent a lot of time attacking the incumbent President Barack Obama and a substantially less amount of time attacking each other, which Short-Thompson said was unusual, but probably due to the fact that there wasn’t a clear front runner at the time.

Besides the anti-Obama rhetoric, Short-Thompson said most of the candidates used the same themes; family, freedom, faith and Reaganism.

“The similarity was sticking, and I think that’s one of the reasons why voters see them as awfully similar,” Short-Thompson said.

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Northlich Vice President and Director of Public Relations Tammy Monroe expressed the

agency’s satisfaction with the project’s outcome.

“It’s so fulfilling when your job provides real solutions to clients while cultivating young leaders of tomorrow,” Monroe said.

at this point,” said Cabot, whose home state of Nevada has already authorized all forms of online gambling.

If the Ohio Lottery Commission were to adopt online gambling, it could provide the commission with increased profits. All lottery profits are distributed to the Lottery Profits Education Fund, a fund that supports education in Ohio. Last year, the commission contributed $738.8 million to the fund, Frizzi-Babb said.

The office of Gov. John Kasich continues to review this issue and has nothing to announce at this time, said Connie Wehrkamp, Kasich’s deputy press secretary.

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Senior forward Yancy Gates grabbed a game-high 12 boards to go along with 13 points, for his fifth double-double of the season and 18th as a Bearcat.

Four other teammates joined Gates in double figures, with Kilpartick netting a team-best 16 points including 4-of-9 shooting from distance.

The Huskies dropped their first home game of the season as Cincinnati garnered its seventh consecutive road win in the Big East, dating back to last year.

Napier carried the Huskies while burying a gamehigh 27 points, in addition to seven assists.

Just past the midway point of the first half, UC held a two-point advantage before notching a 10-0 run for its largest lead of the game.

Cincinnati shot 7-of-14 from 3-point range in the opening period as it took a nine-advantage into the intermission.

The Bearcats will face former head coach Bob Huggins as they travel to Morgantown, W. Va., Saturday for a 3 p.m. tip-off on ESPNU. “It gets a lot easier,” Cronin said. “Just as long as we have [Kilpatrick], we’ll be fine.”

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Do you know how hard it is to get a salad on this campus?

I’m not talking the about the overpriced side salads at Quick Mick’s, or the sandwichturned-salads at Subway that can rack up almost 50 grams of fat and 670 calories with dressing and toppings.

I just want a good, healthy, tasty salad.

It’s part of my latest health kick, which was going rather well until I got back to the University of Cincinnati for Winter quarter. As soon as classes and work began, I started to slip into my old ways of fatty fast food and countless calories.

Once I started looking at my on-campus options, however, I realized that the reason I wasn’t eating right is because it’s way, way too easy to eat wrong on this campus.

Tangeman University Center is oozing with trans fats, so with my trusty “Eat This, Not That!” app, I went to get the trans fat facts. The sodium scoop. The carb and cholesterol knowledge.

The first culprit? Burger King, which snagged a “C” on the “Eat This, Not That!” (ETNT) grading scale and has been crowned the worst of the “Big Three” burger joints. More than 90 percent of its entrees scored a “C” or worse, with items like the Triple Whopper with cheese (1250 calories and 84 grams of fat — which is a third more than the daily recommended fat intake) or the Tendercrisp Chicken sandwich which, with mayo, racks up 800 calories and 46 grams of fat.

Shockingly, Taco Bell scores better than Burger King, though that’s largely due to its Fresco menu. Still, a chicken taco salad costs you 790 calories and 38 grams of fat, so I’m not all that impressed.

Chick-fil-A offers a handful of options that are pretty decent when they’re not smashed up, gristly or lukewarm. But I’ve been disappointed with the lack of quality too often to let my heart be torn in two yet again by another sub-par chicken sandwich.

Kuma Neko Sushi is obviously the best option, and I do love me some sushi, but you can only have sushi so much in one week before the eau de poisson gets to be a little too much.

Of course, there’s always the market upstairs, which is a snacker’s dream. Overflowing with chips, sodas and other carb-crammed items, there’s not much there in the way of healthy eating, unless you count the bruised apples wilting forlornly to the side.

Oh, and I almost forgot the newly installed Papa John’s, whose heat-lamp pies are just a degree warmer than the service. Between the terrible service, breadsticks drenched in slime and pizza topped with congealed cheese and pools of oil, I couldn’t even muster the courage to look at the ETNT ratings.

So TUC is out, which leaves the two Starbucks shops and a Subway (not counting the dining halls, because if you don’t have a meal plan, chances are you don’t eat there.)

In terms of the Coffee King, I present Exhibit A: “Starbucks’ signature line of drinks typically involves injecting massive loads of sugary syrup and milk into espresso, making 500-calorie concoctions too common for comfort,” the ETNT app reads.

“Plus, its baked good selection is a vortex of refined carbs.”

A vortex, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I rest my case.

And we’re left with Subway, the supposed mother ship for healthy eaters. There was a time when Subway was my go-to campus eatery, but in the past year or so, the jacked-up prices and shrinking $5-footlong menu have left me craving more. I’m also tired of getting my sandwiches crushed and falling apart. This ain’t amateur hour, folks.

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Although the University of Cincinnati acknowledged that Martin Luther King Day is typically seen as just a “day off” to many students and faculty, its annual tribute to King asked students to see it as a “day on” instead.

The tribute, entitled “His Voice, Our Voice” was more than just a celebration of his life.

Instead, it focused on Martin Luther King Day being a call-to-action in regard to the social injustices that remain in the world.

This year’s program, hosted Wednesday in MainStreet Cinema, focused on challenging the UC community to remember MLK’s words and apply them to our lives.

“MLK’s words were about humanity; they were not about race,” said Brandi Elliott, associate director of Ethnic Programs and Services and co-chair of the tribute committee.

UC Board of Trustees member Robert E. Richardson expanded on this idea during his keynote address. His speech focused on economic issues, telling how the deaths

of under-represented workers during the 1960s inspired King to speak out in favor of labor unions.

He reminded the audience of the current struggles of unions, alluding to the recent attempt to restrict union bargaining rights in Ohio.

Throughout his speech, Richardson returned to the idea of “dangerous unselfishness,” a policy he said that King practiced every time he spoke out in support of the rights of other, disregarding the risk to himself.

“If you are in a position to help others, it is your duty,” Richardson said.

Leaders such as Provost Santa Ono, undergraduate Student Government president Alan Hagerty and United Black Student Union president Mario Shaw all took the opportunity to speak about how the words of King have affected their service to the university.

Eric Abercrumbie, director of Ethnic Programs and Services and the African American Cultural and Resource Center, finished off the program with a rousing

“charge” to the UC community.

He urged students, faculty and staff to celebrate the upcoming anniversary of King’s birthday not as “a day off” but instead, “a day on” — an opportunity to put King’s words into practice.

“We know what his voice is, but what is our voice? What do we speak up about? As we leave today, I charge you — find your voice,” Abercrumbie said.

“We have made progress, but there is still progress to be made,” he said.

Abercrumbie then instructed the audience to hold hands and join in singing “We Shall Overcome,” a song that became the anthem of the Civil Rights movement in the ’60s.

Elliott said she hoped the tribute empowered the UC community.

“I hope people are inspired to go out and do work, in their community and university, and when they see injustice, to speak up, and to never say ‘I can’t do anything,’ because you can always do something,” she said.

Burrito Wars

PETE MENTREK | TNR CONTRIBUTOR

With all the options students have for food around campus, it can be a bit daunting to choose. So often we — especially commuter students — flock to the restaurants that we’ve known our whole lives, restaurants we know are safe, instead of swiping our Bearcat Cards at a place that just might be better.

With all the dining that Clifton has to offer, the decisions are almost endless. You have a hankering for a gyro at 3 a.m.? Clifton can do that. Do you want Pad Thai so spicy that it takes rust off of a bike?

Clifton has you covered.

For this installment, we’ll be focusing on burritos.

Mainly, burritos the size of a brick. We’ll be comparing three local burrito chains — Chipotle, Currito and Habanero, based on simple criteria to help you make the best decision for your money.

Each restaurant will be awarded up to three stars (three being the best, one being the worst) based on taste, menu diversity, accessibility, price vs. value, drink options and slogans. Cheers!

Taste: CURRITO:

ANNA BENTLEY | CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER

TAKING THE HEAT Every Bearcat and kitten knows the three big names in Clifton Tex-Mex cuisine: Currito (top left), Habanero (top right) and Chipotle (bottom left). Which of the three can take the heat?

Cost:

Drinks:

CURRITO:

CHIPOTLE:

Currito offers a manageable, “regular” burrito and a football-sized “large” burrito.

The regular-sized burrito and drink will run you around $8, but you’ll want more. The large burrito and a drink will run you about $10, and you’ll want to go into hibernation.

HABANERO:

A build-your-own burrito with chips and guacamole and a regular drink runs you about $10. You’ll most likely have enough left over for lunch tomorrow — or the rest of the week.

In what should be the most important of the criteria, Currito comes in first. The food is perfectly seasoned across the board, so even a burrito-creating novice cannot go wrong.

Chipotle was the most consistent of the three as far as taste was concerned. Portioning, cooking method and freshness were all spot on, but not as dazzling as Currito.

Menu items vary in their overall taste. The al pastor was bright and flavorful, but the fish tacos were lacking. Using fresh ingredients year-round, regardless of seasonality, often garners unripe mangoes or mushy tomatoes.

Menu:

HABANERO:

A taco platter, served with black beans and rice, and a regular drink will run you about $10, but you’ll finish it easily and need to spend that much again on dinner or a late-night snack.

Parking: CURRITO:

CURRITO:

Options like freshly sliced cucumber, black bean hummus, and Thai-peanut salsa should get any customer excited. Or confused. You decide.

CHIPOTLE:

There are a limited number of menu items on Chipotle’s menu board, but they are all done extremely well. Offering up standard tacos (soft or hard), mammoth burritos, and, if you ask nicely, quesadillas wasn’t enough to top the diversity portion.

HABANERO:

CHIPOTLE:

Habanero takes the honors for menu diversity. With options like apple and green chili salsa, al pastor chimichangas (spicy pork with pineapple in a deep fried tortilla), and the only place on our list offering fish tacos, Habanero easily takes the cake, or in this case-the tres leches.

No parking lot but, depending on the time of day, meter parking is available out front.

Currito is also the closest to campus of all three.

CHIPOTLE:

Trying to find a parking space around the Clifton Chipotle is harder than chaperoning your little sister’s Twilight-themed birthday party when a Justin Bieber song comes on the radio.

HABANERO:

Sharing a parking lot with three other businesses provides ample parking, and the storefront overlooking Ludlow Avenue helps with the foot traffic market.

Overall:

CURRITO: CHIPOTLE:

HABANERO:

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CURRITO:

Offering a variety of health conscious, made-to-order smoothies adds a cooling touch to their spicy burritos. Pepsi products are also available.

CHIPOTLE:

Chipotle offers a limited variety of beers and Coke products but sadly, no Mello Yello.

HABANERO:

Nothing sets off the flavor of Latin cuisine like a room temperature Pabst Blue Ribbon.

If that’s not your thing, Habanero also offers frozen margaritas and a variety of gringosafe beers as well as Coke products, including Mello Yello!. They also have multiple beers available on tap.

Slogans: CURRITO:

With the variety of options, “Burritos Without Borders” is perfect for what they do. It’s just not as catchy or defamatory as Habanero’s.

CHIPOTLE:

“Food With Integrity” speaks volumes for what the Chipotle honchos are trying to accomplish, but taking the high road lands you dead last on this list.

HABANERO:

Employees dawn T-shirts with the motto “Corporate Burritos Suck” etched on the back. Plain, simple and usually correct.

Have a suggestion for out next installment of food wars?

Send it to us at newsrecord.living@gmail.com and Pete will try it, or give himself food poisoning trying.

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FROM ARIEL | 4 choose from.

Potbelly is my ultimate favorite, but now that I’ve seen that my standard Pizza Sandwich has 36 grams of fat, I’ll have to find a new fav.

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ARMCHAIR

FULLBACK JASON HOFFMAN

Take the points in title games This time next week, we will all know which teams will meet at Lucas Oil Field in Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI. At the beginning of the season, I said the Patriots and Packers would meet in an epic showdown that would rival the greatest of NFL shootouts, but Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning made sure I would not be fully correct — although I did say the Patriots would win, meaning I can still be right on my preseason Super Bowl champion prediction.

(HOME TEAMS IN CAPS) Baltimore (9) over NEW ENGLAND Tom Brady took the high road last week and resisted the opportunity to break Steve Young’s postseason record of six touchdown passes in a game — a nod to the karma gods, I suspect, since hindsight is 20/20 and the Patriots undoubtedly remember how everything went against them in the 2007 Super Bowl after they spent the regular season running up the score on everyone.

On the other side of the field will be the Ravens, who are in a familiar position given they knocked the Patriots out of the playoffs two years ago and look eerily similar to that squad with their stagnant offense and fierce defense.

This game will go one of two ways — and I think the Patriots win both types. First, Ray Rice and Vonte Leach will pound the ball and control the clock limiting the number of times Tom Brady can throw touchdowns to his two-headed-tight-end-monster.

Behind door No. 2 lies another beat down where Brady throws for 400-plus yards and 31 touchdowns, while Chad Ochocinco sits on the sidelines tweeting about his reality star girlfriend and his Bugatti Veyron.

Either way, the Patriots will win this game.

However, I think the Ravens keep it within a touchdown and cover the spread on the road in Foxboro, Mass.

Patriots win 24-20.

New York Giants (3) over SAN FRANCISCO Tom Coughlin has the “New York Football Giants” rolling once again, and the old veteran isn’t quite done yet. Last week’s circumcision of the Packers was the most complete game the Giants have played since they had Michael Strahan sacking quarterbacks and gallivanting around New Amsterdam with women he hadn’t given his name to.

The 49ers did in the Saints as dirty as Drew Brees and Co. did in the Lions a week ago. They proved they can not only play with anyone in the NFL, but they can punch them in the mouth as well.

The Saints players’ body language on the sideline looked as if they were a prize fighter, hoping their corner man would throw in the towel and save them from the savage beating incurred in the Bay Area.

Unfortunately for John Gruden’s spank material, the 49ers brought the lumber and Drew Brees is now working on his golf swing instead of audible packages and coverage reads.

The most interesting thing about this matchup is the similarity in the two teams.

Jim Harbaugh’s young squad plays solid defense, hits quarterbacks and controls the clock — ditto for the Giants except they have a passing game that consists of more than slant routes to a freakish tight end.

The next sentence is the most painful thing I’ve written this season. Eli Manning will be the “X” factor in this game. His play, just like last week, will solely determine whether the Giants move on or Manning goes back to New York and feels the venom of the media.

Based on the eye test, I say Manning steps up and take the G-Men to their second Super Bowl in five years. The 49ers will be game, but just like the horse I lost money on two weeks ago, they fade down the stretch and limp to the finish.

Giants win 20-14.

Last week: 2-2-0 Playoffs: 4-4-0

SPORTS VOLLEYBALL

Sunahara resigns as Cats’ coach SAM WEINBERG | SPORTS EDITOR Following 12 seasons as head coach of the University of Cincinnati volleyball team, Reed Sunahara announced his resignation Monday.

“This has been something I’ve been thinking about for some time,” Sunahara said. “Fifteen years at one place is a long time.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my association with UC, and I am grateful that I have the chance to go out after winning the Big East Tournament.”

In his 12 seasons as head coach, Sunahara amassed a 289-109 record to become the winningest coach in program history.

“Reed has laid a tremendous foundation for the next coach to build upon,” said UC Athletic Director Whit Babcock. “We are grateful for his services and wish him the best in future endeavors.”

As head coach of the Bearcats,

Sunahara won two Big East Conference Championships, one Big East Tournament Championship and three Conference USA regular season titles.

Sunahara came to Cincinnati in 1997 and served as the assistant coach to Laura Alford before taking over as head coach in 2000.

Since then, Sunahara has coached five AVCA All-American performers, three AVCA Region Freshman of the Year honorees, three conference Player of the Year winners, six conference Freshman of the Year selections and 24 all-conference selections.

In his 12 seasons as head coach, he has also led his teams to 20 or more victories in a season 11 times.

Babcock said a national search will begin immediately to find Sunahara’s replacement.

“We have a great product here at the University of Cincinnati,” Babcock said. “Our goal is to find the best coach who meets the high expectations of our

PAT STRANG | PHOTO EDITOR

UC’S GREATEST COACH In his 12 seasons as head coach of the University of Cincinnati women’s volleyball team, Reed Sunahara became the winningest coach in program history with a 289-109 record. program. We have a great tradition athletically; and coupled with the top-notch Big East Conference

and our outstanding facilities, we feel this will be a very attractive opportunity.”

Cats defeat third-straight ranked team on the road

MEN’S BASKETBALL

KIL-ING THEM SOFTLY

HUNTER TICKEL | TNR CONTRIBUTOR

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SOPHOMORE STEPPING UP Sean Kilpatrick puts up a layup in the second half during the University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team’s 71-55 victory against Notre Dame on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2011, at Fifth Third Arena. In the Bearcats’ 70-67 win against UConn Wednesday, Kilpatrick hit the final basket of the game with 2.7 seconds remaining to secure Cincinnati’s win against the Huskies in Storrs, Conn.

En route to its second road win over a top-15 team in the past weel, the University of Cincinnati nearly let one go.

Guard Sean Kilpatrick hit a game-winning 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds remaining to break the deadlock, as the Bearcats escaped Storrs, Conn. with a 70-67 upset of No. 13/11 Connecticut on Wednesday.

“Once I saw [Kilpatrick] had [the ball], I liked our chances,” said UC head coach Mick Cronin.

“If they come up, he can [get to the free throw line]. If they back up, he is a confident shooter. You just roll the dice in that situation. My belief in him took over; I just let him go.”

With less than two minutes remaining, UConn stormed back from an eight-point deficient as guard Shabazz Napier dropped 10 points during that span, including a long-range jumper to tie the game with nine seconds left.

UC (15-4, 5-1) did just enough to come away victorious after missing the front end of two one-and-ones, while shooting 1-of-4 from the free throw line down the stretch.

“It would have been a tragic loss,” Cronin said. “We started missing free throws up eight [points] with our best foul shooters getting fouled. If we walk up there and make the first [two], you’re up 10, and the game is over. I guess we kept it exciting for ESPN.” UConn guard Jeremy Lamb converted two shots from the charity stripe at the 6:52 mark to complete a 20-7 run and give his team its final lead of the contest.

The Bearcats answered with a 10-0 spurt, capped by a Kilpatrick corner 3-ball to extend their lead to eight.

“We’ve got answers on the offensive end,” Cronin said. “We weathered the storm. In the last 10 minutes of the game, we are a different team defensively. We SEE BASKETBALL | 3

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

UC women travel to UCONN seeking win JOSHUA MILLER | TNR CONTRIBUTOR Following two tough losses to nationally ranked teams — No. 7 Rutgers and No. 2 Notre Dame — the University of Cincinnati women’s basketball team will wrap up one of the roughest three-game stretches in all of college basketball Thursday as they travel to Storrs, Conn., to take on the No.3 UConn Huskies (14-2, Big East 4-1).

The Bearcats (9-8, Big East 0-4) will have their hands full as they continue to fight for their first win of the season in Big East Conference play, as the perennial powerhouse Huskies — who are seven-time national champions — will be looking to improve upon their NCAA-best 96-straight home victories at Gampell Pavilion.

Leading scorer Dayeesha Hollins (14.5 ppg) will lead the Cats against a balanced UConn squad whose only losses have come at the hands of the top-two teams in the country — Baylor and Notre Dame.

Paced by reigning Big East Freshman of the Year Bria Hartley (15.4 ppg), the Huskies are averaging just more than 80 points per game while allowing only 45.

UC’s head coach Jamelle Elliott believes that in order for her team to have success against the Huskies and the rest of the Big East, someone other than Hollins must step up and emerge as a serious offensive threat.

“We need somebody else to step up and

make plays,” Elliott said. “Right now, Dayeesha is the only one that is able to be successful against these types of teams.”

When the Cats and Huskies tip off Thursday night, Elliot will be counting on improved play

by Hollins’ fellow backcourt members.

“I really want our guards to take some of that offensive load off Dayeesha, whether it is [sophomore] Kayla [Cook] making threes, [freshman] Alesha Lovett making open shots, or taking it to the basket or [senior] Bjonee [Reaves] taking it to the basket,” Elliott said.

Hollins, when asked about getting her teammates more involved against UConn, said, “They have to be more aggressive — have confidence.”

Elliott was in agreement, pointing out that her team seemed very hesitant to attack the basket and take open shots over the past few games — a problem that Elliott hopes will not be an issue Thursday night.

“Hopefully, we will be a little more aggressive and confident moving toward the basket against UConn,” she said.

From a defensive standpoint, UC will be focused on containing Hartley, senior Tiffaney Hayes (14.7 ppg), and five-time Big East freshman player of the week Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis (14.4 ppg).

If there is a chink in UConn’s armor, it’s that they’re turnover-prone, having committed 220 this season.

Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m.

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RETURNING TO UCONN Before coming to UC, third-year head coach Jamelle Elliott was an assistant coach at UConn for 11 years.