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Republican Club rallies, searches for votes BENJAMIN GOLDSCHMIDT | CHIEF REPORTER The Northeast Hamilton County Republicans Club hosted a rally at the Sharonville Convention Center Saturday to talk about the importance of campaigning to undecided voters in the election.

“The world’s media recognizes Ohio as key to the presidential election, and Hamilton County will play a vital role in Ohio’s electoral vote,” said Judy Wells, president of the Hamilton County Republicans Club.

Approximately 200 people attended the rally, including 31 elected officials, ranging from senators to county judges. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) served as the keynote speaker.

“Please, talk to everyone you know, talk to the independent voters,” Ayotte said. “Ask them, if they voted for Barack Obama last time, okay, what makes you think that the next four years are going to be different from the last.”

Ayotte described America’s economic growth under Barack Obama as “anemic,” and said “the best way we could do better is to have new leadership in the White House.”

While most speakers claimed Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan had a “clear plan” for America, much of their reasoning behind supporting the Romney Ryan

ticket revolved around criticism of Obama. “[Romney] is a guy who can really do things, that can get our country turned around again,” said Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio).“Barack Obama has not done that, and in fact, because of Ba-rack, far too many people in this country are ba-roke.”

Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) talked about the difference that reaching out to undecided and independent voters in suburban Chicago made in 2008.

Roskam said Obama had a seven-point lead in the 2008 election in his district, but is now down 10 points.

“Where we go from here, is that this group here — this group has to be contagious,” Roskam said.

“We [got to] go out to the independent voters and say, come on home.”

After the push to be more active in the election process, some of the attendees said they plan to do more, while many of the attendees said they have already been campaigning. “[Today’s rally] inspired me to keep on doing what I’ve been doing — not so much making phone calls but more talking to the community, church, work,” said Jenny Jeffery of Harrison. “I think the independent voters that I’ve been talking to are more leaning toward the Republican ticket — I think they’re frustrated.”

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SHARONVILLE RALLY The Northeast Hamilton County Republicans Club gathered at the Sharonville Convention Center Saturday to urge supporters to get more involved in Republican election efforts. Prominent Republican leaders like Sen. Kelly Ayotte spoke to supporters at the event.

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BUILDING FOR FUTURE Dan Schimberg across from his development, Views On Vine, in the Short Vine Business District in Clifton.

REBUILDING SHORT VINE

After decades of ‘crime and plight’ future is bright JASON M. HOFFMAN | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Dan Schimberg might never be credited with saving Clifton from a pit of economic despair, but history might be well served to take note of how one of Cincinnati’s sons has made it his business to restore the Short Vine Business District to prominence.

Schimberg, graduate of the University of Cincinnati and sole proprietor of Uptown Rental Properties, is in the middle of reinvigorating the Short Vine Business District from ghost town to once again thriving entertainment epicenter of Clifton.

He remembers the days when Short Vine was the home of good times in Clifton — something the area hasn’t seen in more than 20 years.

So Schimberg set about collecting real estate around the area. His business went from a few homes he rented to students, to its current cache of more than 200 properties in the area.

The vision for the Short Vine district had its genesis more than a decade ago, thanks to the assembly of the Uptown Consortium — a conglomerate of the largest businesses in Uptown. The consortium consists of UC, UC Health, Children’s Hospital, TriHealth and the Cincinnati Zoo. Beth Robinson, president and CEO of Uptown Consortium, said Schimberg has been vital to the consortium gaining ground with its goal of rejuvenating Short Vine.

“Dan has long been a champion of revitalizing Short Vine,” Robinson said.

Robinson understands the importance of the Short Vine district to the UC community, given her tenure spent at the helm of UC’s real estate development.

The degradation of the Short Vine district took place approximately 30 years ago, Schimberg said.

“Essentially, the downfall of Short Vine in the late ’80s all started with some desperate landlords allowing some tenants in there that really brought some tough elements up to the area,” Schimberg said.

“And it became an area that drove out a lot of the good restaurants, a lot of the retailers that were appealing to student body and the university and it brought in an element that basically made students afraid to go there.”

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Short Vine as a business district became less than ideal, leading Schimberg and other to come together in search of a way to renew the once-thriving district back to prominence.

“We have a vision that came out of a 2005 Urban renewal Plan process with major stakeholders and UC that really provided a roadmap to success,” Schimberg said. “Frankly we’re using that plan when we go the city, the urban renewal council and the university and we say ‘look, this is what everyone asked for — this is what everyone wanted.”

And part of that plan was to move 1,500 people up to Short Vine, Schimberg said.

The goal of having residents on the streets is the driving force behind the design of the units along Short Vine.

Each unit has either balconies facing the street, patios or decks offering occupants a view of the business district, the university or other parts of Clifton, Schimberg said.

All of these efforts aim to get traffic, both pedestrians and automotive back into the district.

But you don’t solve long-standing problems like the one facing the Short Vine business district by simply adding some new apartments and making a superficial change, Schimberg said.

Schimberg said the newest additions to the Uptown Properties fold would appeal, he hopes, to more than just undergraduate students.

“We are trying to build a broad base of products that appeal to all types of people who either need to or want to live near the university,” he said. “And we’re finding a lot of success — we are at 100-percent capacity.”

Additionally, inquiries are in place for next year, and projections are Uptown Properties will be able to maintain a 50-percent retention rate in its units, Schimberg said.

With the development of Views on Vine on track for completion, Short Vine will soon be filled with more residents, but that is only part of the revitalization equation.

“A lot of our most recent work was actually not on SV, because if you do all of this work and it’s only skin deep, it doesn’t do any good — it doesn’t accomplish anything,” Schimberg said.

The Food and Drug Administration awarded the University of Cincinnati a $2.7 million grant to conduct a study on drugs that restrict activity in the immune system.

The study aims to end questions concerning the differences between generic and brand-name versions of tacrolimus, common immunosuppressive drugs, used to help post-transplant patients accept their new organs.

“The public concern [with tacrolimus] is that the generic drugs are inferior to the brandname drugs,”said Dr. Rita Alloway, UC professor of medicine and director of transplant clinical research who will be leading the study. “[The study will] look at all the approved generics and based on healthy patient trials and how quickly it dissolves. We then compare them to the brand name under the assumption that if the highest and lowest generic compare to the brand name then all generics will.”

Alloway will collaborate with Uwe Christians, a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Colorado, and Sander Vinks, a UC professor of pediatrics and director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

Many UC medical departments will collaborate with the University of Colorado.

“At the University of Cincinnati we’ve always been highly recognized as a leader in transplant research,” Alloway said.

Alloway and partners will travel to Washington, DC Monday to present the grant at a meeting to the FDA, the American Society of Transplantation and American Society of Transplant Surgeons.

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Anti-abortion message returns to campus RYAN HOFFMAN | NEWS EDITOR A joint effort by a student group and a social action movement brought the pro-life message back to the University of Cincinnati campus Thursday.

Students for Life — a pro-life group at UC — collaborated with Created Equal, a Columbus based anti-abortion movement, to show the injustice of abortion, said Seth Drayer, director of training for Created Equal.

The two organizations set up signs displaying graphic pictures of aborted fetuses in front of McMicken Commons.

“We know that it’s graphic because abortion is graphic,” Drayer said.

“There’s no way to show abortion without it being disturbing because that’s the nature of abortion.”

Members from both Students for Life and Created Equal answered questions and discussed its position on abortion.

“A lot of people walk by and they don’t know what it is, and they don’t even realize that this is what abortion looks like,” said Annmarie Condit, member of Students for Life. “That’s really all we’re trying to show — just the facts about what’s happening.”

The demonstration is the second time in less than a year Students for Life has invited an anti-abortion group to campus.

In May, Students for Life collaborated with Genocide Awareness Project on a demonstration that featured 6 feet by 10 feet signs displaying aborted fetuses next to signs featuring genocide victims.

The previous demonstration’s

larger size caused a more aggressive response from members of the UC community, said Marty Arlinghaus, member of UC Students for Life.

“Last [May] there were more people that would come up and yell, and it was much harder to have a conversation,” Arlinghaus said. “This year there were fewer people that went by, but a greater majority came up and talked to us.”

Students for Life plans on holding another event on campus in the near future, Arlinghaus said. The planned display will feature fetus development throughout pregnancy instead of focusing on abortion like the previous demonstrations.

Students for Life want to maintain a presence on campus, Arlinghaus said.

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RIGHT TO LIFE Students For Life partnered with Created Equal to hold a pro-life demonstration in front of McMicken Commons Thursday to promote abortion awareness.

Police, LGBT community collaborate CPD appoints LGBT liaison, holds LGBT safety forum

KARA DRISCOLL | NEWS EDITOR

To improve relations between the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) and the gay community, the city of Cincinnati hosted a public forum Thursday at the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

Assistant Police Chief James Whalen said there hasn’t been much communication between the LGBT community and CPD in the past, making it one of the most underserved communities in Cincinnati.

CPD introduced Officer Angela Vance as a liaison for the LGBT community at the forum.

“Since I’ve come on the department I’ve been out as a lesbian, since 1990,” Vance said.

“Since that time I have had some bumps and bruises, and that is to be expected in this man’s organization. However, from 1990 to today, this police department has made leaps and bounds.”

Police Chief James Craig, councilmembers P.G. Sittenfeld and Chris Seelbach attended the forum.

One of the topics of discussion was the murder of Kendall Hampton, a transgender person who murdered in Cincinnati in August. Hampton’s family was in attendance and urged officials to “stand up as a city” against discrimination.

Grants aim to prevent youth drug usage DEA looks to empower youth, gives $1,000 grants

KARA DRISCOLL | NEWS EDITOR

The National Family Partnership (NFP) and the Drug Enforcement Administration partnered up to sponsor a youth drug prevention initiative for Red Ribbon Week.

The 27th annual Red Ribbon week, the largest drug prevention campaign in the United States, aims to raise awareness about the destructive consequences of drug use.

10 schools across the country will be awarded a $1,000 grant and 10 families will win an iPad for their homes. To participate, students and families must decorate their homes and campuses with the slogan, “The Best Me Is Drug Free.” “[The] DEA is excited to partner with the National Family Partnership on this contest that empowers communities to come together to talk about the drug problem,” said Michelle Leonhart, DEA administrator.

To win the grant and prizes, individuals are required to send a photo of their decorations to redribbon.org by Nov. 2. The winners will be determined by the amount of votes they acquire online.

Winners will be announced at events hosted at the winning schools.

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SHOOTING IN QUESTION A wrongful death lawsuit was filed by Eric Deters on behalf of Erica Collins’ family Thursday. Claims in the lawsuit vary from the police report. Collins was fatally shot by Cincinnati Police Officer Matthew Latzy Oct. 13. The case is under investigation by CPD.

FAMILY FILES SUIT Attorney claims wrongful death in CPD shooting

KARA DRISCOLL | NEWS EDITOR The family of a woman shot and killed

by Cincinnati Police Oct. 13 filed a lawsuit against the officer Thursday.

Eric Deters, the family’s lawyer, filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming Cincinnati Police Officer Matthew Latzy as the defendant.

Latzy responded to a scene in the 2900 block of High Forest Lane where he discharged his firearm twice, striking and ultimately killing Erica Collins, 26.

Collins called CPD over a domestic dispute at the Park Valley Apartments at approximately 1:15 p.m.

Collins alleged her sister, Elizabeth Collins, was attempting to break into her apartment by kicking and hitting the door — the dispute reportedly concerned gas money, said Cincinnati Police Chief James Craig.

Erica Collins’ possession of a 7-inch knife prompted Latzy to remove his firearm, a standard issue Smith & Wesson 9-mm handgun, from his holster and hold it in a low, ready position, Craig said.

“Officer Latzy made several verbal commands for Erica to drop the knife,” Craig said. “Erica refused to comply and turned to face Officer Latzy.”

According to witnesses at the scene, Erica Collins told Latzy he would “have to shoot [her]” and then moved in his direction.

The lawsuit contends Latzy said, “Ma’am,

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drop the knife,” in which Erica Collins responded, “I’m fixin’ to cut her tires.”

The suit states Erica Collins put the knife down after Latzy commanded her to do so, and said, “How are you just gonna let her leave?”

Erica Collins put her hands up and said “No!” before Latzy discharged his firearm, the lawsuit stated. “[Erica Collins] had two bullet wounds, one was to the head and that one did go through the mid-portion of the brain on the

right side,” said Hamilton County Coroner Lakshmi Sammarco. “She had one bullet wound to the upper torso. That bullet did go through her heart.”

The information released by CPD and the lawsuit varies in several ways.

CPD officers are trained to shoot the torso, discharging their firearms twice to stop the threat, Craig said, and Latzy feared if Erica Collins had made contact, the knife would have ripped through his protective vest.

Latzy had never used his firearm in his 14 years of service with CPD. He has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the investigation.

“Whenever an officer feels an immediate threat to his life, his partner or another person, they are trained to protect [them],” Craig said. “In some incidences, that means using a firearm.”

Since October 2010, 15 police-involved shootings have occurred in Cincinnati — resulting in the death of six suspects, including Erica Collins.

Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory acknowledged the case deserves scrutiny and said it’s important to wait until the investigation is completed before casting judgment.

“It’s a tough situation — police officers are sworn to protect the citizens of Cincinnati and, doing that job, sometimes they have to take actions that result in loss of life,” Mallory said. “Nobody takes that lightly.”

UCPD reacts to rape poster found at Miami U KELSEA DAULTON | sENIOR REPORTER A flyer posted in a Miami University co-ed residence hall suggests how students can get away with rape.

The flyer, entitled “Top Ten Ways to Get Away with Rape,” explicitly

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UC REACTS University of Cincinnati Police Chief Michael Cureton and the UC Women’s Center weighed in on the events that transpired at Miami University after an offensive flyer was found in a bathroom.

tells the reader to slit a woman’s throat if there is a chance he will be recognized, take advantage of a sleeping woman and practice rape because “practice makes perfect.”

Without knowing the seriousness of the incident or information on the person or persons responsible for the poster’s content, University of Cincinnati Police Chief Michael Cureton said he could not provide specifics on what would happen if an incident like this was reported to UCPD. “If [UCPD] detects the information or someone provides it to us, we would investigate and attempt to determine its source and if a student, faculty or staff member is at imminent risk or threat of harm,” Cureton said.

The UC Women’s Center reports 13 incidents of acquaintance rape and one attempted rape, six incidents of stranger rape and one attempted rape, and one incest or statutory rape from 2011 to 2012.

There have been 13 incidents of sexual harassment, six incidents of stalking, two incidents of domestic violence, 10 incidents of dating violence and two reported rapes that happened over a year ago.

The women’s health center at UC offers a sexual response team to inform the community about reporting options available to victims of sexual related crimes and ensure university policies are updated and in line with best practices.

The women’s center asks that members of the UC community help in the effort to raise rape awareness.

“The women’s center can only do so much,” said Dylan Colvin, fifth-year women’s gender and sexuality student and student worker at the women’s center. “The dedication of those who work at the women’s center is amazing, but without the support of other groups our work can often be overlooked and even belittled. This is where students need to be involved too, if you see something that is missing on campus-speak up.”

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SPOTLIGHT REBUILDING SHORT VINE BUSINESS DISTRICT PHOTOS BY LAUREN PURKEY | PHOTO EDITOR

BUILDING IT UP Construction workers lay down reinforcing bars on the ground for what will become Views on Vine, Uptown Properties’ new apartment building.

CLIFTON’S NEWEST BUILDINGS Workers step through the grid of steel bars on the ground of the future Views on Vine. Uptown Properties’ preliminary plans slate the building opening in summer 2013 (left). Uptown’s most recently opened building, Vine Street Flats, started business this year.

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Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner | orlando sentinel SANFORD, Fla. — A judge Friday said yes to the very thing Trayvon Martin’s family did not want: Defense attorneys rummaging through their son’s school records and background, looking for damaging information.

Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson cleared the way for George Zimmerman’s legal team to begin digging. Defense attorney Mark O’Mara apologized, but said he owed it to his client.

“Though it sounds horrible to come before you and say, ‘I really want to go after the victim’s reputation,’ that is simply what the Sixth Amendment tells us we have to do,” O’Mara told the judge.

Nelson authorized his request to subpoena Trayvon’s Twitter and Facebook posts. In self-defense cases, she said, if there’s evidence that a victim had a violent past, it could be relevant.

The accounts were de-activated long ago, O’Mara said, but he believes they will reveal “videos out there that suggest he (Trayvon) involved himself in MMA fighting.”

That’s important because one eyewitness told investigators that he saw Trayvon on top of Zimmerman, straddling him “MMA-style,” a reference to mixedmartial arts fighting, a combination of boxing, wrestling and martial arts.

Zimmerman, a 29-year-old Neighborhood Watch volunteer, shot Trayvon Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. He’s charged with second-degree murder.

The defendant says he acted in selfdefense. Prosecutors say he profiled Trayvon, an unarmed black 17-year-old from Miami Gardens, Fla., assuming he was about to commit a crime and began following him.

The judge also ordered Miami-Dade schools to surrender Trayvon’s records to O’Mara. Those, too, are expected to damage his reputation.

Police have said Trayvon was serving a 10-day school suspension at the time of

his death after being caught with an empty marijuana baggie.

Two hours before the hearing began, Trayvon’s parents held a news conference on the courthouse lawn, saying it would be a travesty if the judge gave O’Mara their son’s school records.

It’s wrong, said Tracy Martin, Trayvon’s father, “to make a dead child seem as if they’re the perpetrator.”

Family attorney Ben Crump was more strident: It would be the equivalent of blaming a rape victim, saying she asked for it because of the way she dressed.

Although the judge ordered the release of the school records, she pointed out that they will not be released to the media — and unless O’Mara can convince her they’re relevant, jurors will never see them.

Zimmerman said nothing during the hearing. He had entered the building alone, walking through the front doors without fanfare but had put on so much weight — an estimated 40 to 50 pounds — that the two dozen reporters and photographers looking on were unsure it was him.

That gave him enough time to ride the elevator to the fifth floor courtroom without having to dodge cameras.

Overall, it was an extraordinary day of developments in the case.

It was Nelson’s first hearing in the case. She was assigned it in August after an appeals court ordered Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. to step aside.

Nelson started the hearing early and kept attorneys on a short leash, twice ordering them to stop sniping at each other.

She issued several rulings: —No, she would not seal defense subpoenas or hold closed-door hearings about them, as prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda requested. Her courtroom, she told attorneys, is an open one.

—Yes, prosecutors would get Zimmerman’s medical records, although she would look through them first. De la Rionda said he needs them to reinforce that Zimmerman was not seriously hurt in his fight with Trayvon.

—Yes, defense attorneys were entitled

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CHARCTER IN QUESTION Tracy Martin (left) and Sybrina Fulton (middle), parents of Trayvon Martin, watch during a hearing for George Zimmerman at the Seminole County Courthouse in Sanford, Fla, Friday. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, is at right. to the phone and social media records of a 16-year-old Miami girl, thought to be one of the state’s most important witnesses.

The girl, Trayvon’s girlfriend, told authorities she was on the phone with Trayvon when he and Zimmerman came face to face and that Zimmerman was the aggressor.

But the judge put off a request by de la Rionda for a gag order, something designed to muzzle O’Mara.

The defense attorney has gone on television, set up a website and used social media to issue statements about the case, de la Rionda complained in a motion.

Nelson also delayed until next Friday a

decision on what to do with a request by O’Mara to order Sanford police officers who will be witnesses in this case not to talk about their testimony — not even to de la Rionda — before they are deposed.

O’Mara requested that, he wrote in a motion, because Sanford police Sgt. Joseph Santiago testified Thursday that officers and an assistant state attorney closely involved in the case were upset when the lead investigator asked prosecutors to file a manslaughter charge.

That’s because the parties had agreed in daily sessions for more than two weeks that there was not enough evidence to charge Zimmerman with a crime.

Libyan forces cease fire mel frykberg | mcclatchy newspapers CAIRO — As Libya on Saturday marks one year since the capture and death of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, a battle is brewing in and near the city of Bani Walid, where the Libyan army and militia from the city of Misrata are preparing to attack one of the last strongholds of Gadhafi supporters.

A 48-hour cease-fire went to effect Friday to allow civilians to leave the city, which lies about 100 miles southeast of Tripoli, the capital, after an assault on Thursday by the government and the militia forced hundreds to flee, left at least 20 people dead and dozens more wounded.

Thursday's assault came after Bani Walid leaders failed to hand over men wanted by the Libyan government for the abduction, torture and death of Omran Shabaan, a militia member from Misrata who helped to capture a wounded Gadhafi from a drainpipe. Shabaan died in a Paris hospital last month shortly after his release from several months in captivity.

The exact number of fatalities and injuries in fighting before the cease-fire went to effect was hard to determine, with both sides giving disputed figures and facts. The cease-fire itself follows divisions in the government over what action will be taken — a sign of the continuing chaos that has ruled in Libya since Gadhafi's government was toppled.

“There has been no news on how many people were killed today, but the humanitarian situation in the city remains problematic,” Nasser Al Hawary from the Libyan Observatory for Human Rights, told McClatchy Newspapers.

Pro-Gadhafi partisans in the Tripoli neighborhood of Abu Salim say they are trying to track events in Bani Walid by telephone.

“Two of my friends were killed on Thursday,” an Abu Salim resident, who asked that he be identified only as Mohammed because of security concerns, told McClatchy Newspapers by phone. “The situation in the city is very bad. People are short of medicine, food and water. We spoke to members of our family there yesterday, but we have been unable to contact them today.”

Bani Walid was a center of pro-Gadhafi sentiment during last year's rebellion and was the last major city to hold out after other Gadhafi enclaves had fallen, including Sirte, Gadhafi's hometown, where he died on Oct. 20, 2011.

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INVESTIGATING THE SCOUTS Pictured is the “Boy Scout” statue in front of the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Philadelphia, Penn.

Scouts’ abuse files released jason felch and kim christensen | los angeles times

LOS ANGELES — More than 1,200 files on suspected sexual molesters in the Boy Scouts of America were made public Thursday, lifting the veil on decades of alleged abuse in one of the nation’s oldest youth organizations.

The court-ordered release of the files offers a detailed view of how the Scouts handled suspected molestations from the early 1960s through 1985.

Suspected abusers from all over the country are named in the files — many of them never reported to police or charged with a crime. Doctors, lawyers, politicians and policemen are among the accused and many are about to face public exposure for the first time.

“The secrets are out,” said Kelly Clark, one of the plaintiff’s lawyers in an Oregon lawsuit that resulted in a nearly $20 million judgment against the Scouts in 2010. “Child abuse thrives in secrecy and secret systems are where it breeds.”

Clark’s office made the confidential files public — minus the names of victims and others who reported suspected abuse — after the Oregon Supreme Court ordered their release in June at the request of news organizations including the Oregonian, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The New York Times and The Associated Press. Kept by the Boy Scouts for nearly 100 years, the files were intended for internal use to bar suspected molesters from rejoining the organization.

The Los Angeles Times over the last several months analyzed a larger and slightly more recent batch of files — 1,900 cases opened on suspected child abusers from 1970 to 1991. In hundreds of cases, the newspaper found, the Scouts failed to report abuse to authorities and many times covered up allegations to protect the organization’s reputation. The Times also found that dozens of men who were expelled on suspicion of sexual abuse managed to re-enter the organization only to face new allegations.

The Times is incorporating the files released Thursday into its own online database, which contains information on nearly 5,000 such cases spanning 1947 to January 2005. The database offers a complete record of files opened during that period

except for an unknown number of files that have been purged by the Scouts over the years. More than 300 cases involve someone with ties to a troop or unit in California.

Many files include graphic descriptions of abuse by young victims, including a 10-yearold Scout from Georgia who described being raped by his 27-year-year leader on a 1972 camping trip.

“I kept saying I wanted to go back swimming but he said, ‘Just a minute,’ ” the boy wrote.

“I was crying. ... I didn’t go on any more camping trips.”

The scoutmaster was not tried in that case, but later was convicted of child sexual abuse and sentenced to 14 years in prison, public records show.

Months ago, the Times obtained the information for its analysis and database from a Seattle attorney, Timothy Kosnoff, who has sued the Scouts more than 100 times on behalf of alleged victims of child abuse.

In a statement Thursday, Boy Scouts’ National President Wayne Perry acknowledged that some allegations of abuse have been mishandled by the Scouts.

“There have been instances where people misused their positions in Scouting to abuse children, and in certain cases, our response to these incidents and our efforts to protect youth were plainly insufficient, inappropriate, or wrong,” Perry said. “Where those involved in Scouting failed to protect, or worse, inflicted harm on children, we extend our deepest and sincere apologies to victims and their families.”

Perry underscored the organization’s enhanced child-protection efforts in recent years, including increased background checks, training and mandatory reporting of all suspected abuse.

Scouting officials have long maintained that analyzing the files would not enhance their efforts to protect Scouts — even after some of their own expert advisers urged them to do such a review. After a judge’s decision to release the files in the Oregon case, however, the organization commissioned a study of hundreds of cases between 1965 and 1985.

Janet Warren, a psychiatry professor at the University of Virginia, found no common profile among predators.

Others said the files are of considerable

value to researchers and youth groups.“This is the biggest and maybe the only set we have on child abuse in American youth organizations,” said Patrick Boyle, who reviewed hundreds of files for his 1994 book “Scouts Honor: Sexual Abuse in America’s Most Trusted Institution.”

“It gives us incredible insights.”

The Times investigation revealed several trends in the files, some of which echo revelations about the Catholic Church and, more recently, the Penn State scandal involving defensive coach Jerry Sandusky.

On Wednesday, the newspaper reported that the files revealed a pattern of grooming behavior, in which men seduced their young victims by offering them gifts, favors, counseling and oneon-one attention. In many cases, the alleged molesters spent time alone with Scouts — a practice long discouraged by the organization and formally prohibited in 1987.

In September, the Times reported that the Boy Scouts failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters to police and often hid the allegations from parents and the public.

Scouting officials frequently urged admitted offenders to quietly resign and helped many cover their tracks, allowing them to cite bogus reasons for their departure.

In 80 percent of the 500 cases in which the Scouts were the first to learn about abuse, there is no record of Scouting officials reporting the allegations to police. In more than 100 of the cases, officials actively sought to conceal the alleged abuse or allowed the suspects to hide it, the Times found.

Nine days after that report, the Boy Scouts announced that it would conduct a comprehensive review of about 5,000 files going back to the 1940s and would report to law enforcement any cases it had not previously disclosed.

In August, the Times reported that the blacklist, for years the primary line of defense against child molesters, was repeatedly breached. In more than 125 cases, men allegedly continued to molest Scouts after the organization was first presented with allegations of abusive behavior.

Predators slipped back into the program by falsifying personal information or skirting the registration process. Others were able to jump from troop to troop around the country thanks to clerical errors, computer glitches or the Scouts’ failure to check the blacklist.

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REMARKS JAMES RAPIEN

Cincy fans caught up in ‘curse’ After the San Francisco Giants eliminated the Cincinnati Reds from the playoffs a few weeks back, I’ve heard people in the community — and on every single talk show in town — say Cincinnati sports teams are cursed.

They aren’t, not even close When I ask them why they feel that way I generally hear, “Carson Palmer’s injury in 2005 doomed the Bengals” or “Kenyon Martin getting hurt in 1999 cost the Bearcats a National Championship.”

Now, Johnny Cueto got hurt for the Reds, which eventually doomed its embarrassing best-of-five series elimination by the San Francisco Giants.

All of the above examples are unfortunate situations and have made it hard to be a fan in this town. But using childish terms like curse are farfetched and quite silly.

I’ve been a fan of the Bengals, Reds and Bearcats for as long as I can remember — I’ve felt the same pain as any other Cincinnati fan.

Still, I am not going to say the sports teams in Cincinnati are cursed.

Winning championships is not something that comes easy. There is a reason people called the New York Giants world champions in February.

That team was the best in the NFL, an accomplishment the other 32 NFL franchises, including the Bengals, hoped to achieve. Did it lose to the Houston Texans because of a curse, or because the Texans were better?

Think about how hard it is to be the best at something.

Everyone reading this is talented at something, but being the best can be an elusive dream. If you have a high grade point average, you are obviously a good student, but are you the best student at UC? You might be the best student at UC, but you’re probably not the best student in all of the Ohio universities — and you’re definitively not the best in the country.

To be the absolute best at something is tough, and throwing around silly words like cursed doesn’t help the situation.

No one knows what would have happened if Kenyon Martin, Carson Palmer and Johnny Cueto stayed healthy.

Regardless of injuries, these teams still had a chance to be special.

Martin was a huge part of the 1999 Bearcat team, but it still had an opportunity to play in the NCAA Tournament. The Bengals had a 17-7 halftime lead in the 2005 playoff game against the Steelers, but couldn’t hang on.

Did the Bengals need Palmer or a better defense? Fans say Palmer would’ve led that team to a Super Bowl, but he’s only led his team to the playoffs one time since.

The Reds took a 2-0 series lead on the Giants before losing Cueto became an issue, forcing them to start Mike Leake, who wasn’t even on the postseason roster. There was plenty of time to win the series before Cueto’s injury mattered.

It has been 22 years since the Reds won a World Series Championship, the Bengals have yet to reach the top of the football world — despite coming agonizingly close twice in the 1980s — and the Bearcats haven’t won a National Championship since 1962 in any of major sports.

In the grand scheme of things, 22 years without a major championship in your city isn’t long at all. To call 22 years a curse is nothing more than an excuse — one thing this city’s sports fans and teams certainly have no shortage of. The bottom line is the teams just haven’t been good enough.

The injuries and years of heartbreak happen in plenty of other cities and towns. If losing wasn’t tough on fans, coaches and players alike, the sheer joy of winning at the highest level wouldn’t be nearly as sweet.

A Cincinnati team will win a championship at some point.

It might not be soon, but it could certainly be a whole lot worse. The next time you think Cincinnati sports are cursed, go ask a Chicago Cubs fan their opinion.

SPORTS Toledo ends UC’s unbeaten run JOSHUA A. MILLER | SPORTS EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati football team lost its first game of the season Saturday, falling to the Toledo Univerity Rockets 29-23 despite not allowing an offensive touchdown.

“If you would have told me that our defense would hold the explosive Toledo offense scoreless in terms of touchdowns, I would feel pretty confident that we would win the football game,” said Butch Jones, UC’s head coach. “But Toledo made the plays when they needed to, so hats off to them.”

Cincinnati’s poor start to the game would prove to be the difference in an otherwise closely contested game.

Toledo struck first on a 43-yard field goal from Jeremiah Detmer, after UC netted negative two yards on its opening drive.

The Rockets added a defensive score less than three minutes later when Rocket’ defensive back Jermaine Robinson intercepted UC quarterback Munchie Legaux’s pass and returned it 75-yards to give Toledo a 10-0 lead with 11:23 remaining in the first quarter.

UC advanced to the Toledo 31 yard line on the ensuing drive, but was derailed by an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty.

Toledo added another field goal following UC’s punt

to take a 13-0 lead.

Cincinnati scored for the first time on a 3-yard burst from Legaux, after Ralph David Abernathy IV advanced the Bearcats to the Toledo 4 yard line on a 52-yard run.

Sophomore receiver Cassius McDowell fumbled on Toledo’s ensuing drive, as Toledo turned the ball over for the first time in the game. Cincinnati senior defensive end Brandon Mills recovered at the Toledo 45 yard line to set up and eventual 40-yard field goal by sophomore kicker Tony Miliano.

Both squads added another field goal before the half, and Toledo led, 16-13, at halftime.

Detmer pushed Toledo’s lead to 19-13 on Toledo’s first drive of the second half with his third field goal of the night — this time a chip shot from 20-yards out.

UC took its first lead of the game, 20-19, on a 25-yard touchdown strike form Legaux to senior receiver Damon Julian with 1 minute and 55 seconds remaining in the third quarter.

The Bearcats lead was very short-lived, as Toledo junior receiver Bernard Reedy returned the ensuing kickoff 91 yards for a touchdown and Toledo regained the lead, 2620.

“When you give up a kick return for a

touchdown, you know you are in trouble, and Toledo did a great job,” Jones said. “I have a tremendous amount of respect for their football program. Bernard Reedy is a great football player, but it is inexcusable that we gave them seven points.”

UC would have three more chances to score, but came away with only three points.

Miliano added his third field goal of the night, after a par of scoreless possessions by both teams, to cut the Toledo lead to 26-23.

The Rockets used up nearly seven minutes of clock on its ensuing drive, before adding a field goal to take a 29-23 lead on Detmer’s fifth field goal of the game.

Following Toledo’s kickoff, UC took over with only 35 seconds remaining in the game.

The Bearcats advanced to the Toledo 46 yard line on the final drive of the game, before Legaux threw an interception that seemed destined for Toldeo defensive back Jordan Haden.

Legaux finished the game with 227 yards passing, completing 15-33 attempts and Abernathy IV and senior running back George Winn combined from 184 yards rushing. UC outgained Toledo 477-355.

Cincinnati will be back in action Friday, Oct. 26, against undefeated No. 16 Louisville.

UC swimming splits against Xavier

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SEASON OPENER UC Sophomore, Alex Chin, competes at the Xavier and UC swim meet at the Keating Aquatic Center on October 19, 2012.

MICHAEL WYLIE | SENIOR REPORTER The University of Cincinnati men’s and women’s swimming teams split its meet with Xavier University Friday night at UC’s Keating Aquatics Center, with the women’s team winning, 188.5-96.5, and the men’s team falling, 158-136.

On the women’s side, UC freshman Jessica Piper took first place in all four events she competed in to help the Bearcats defeat the Musketeers.

Piper led the Bearcats 400-yard relay team to victory, took home the 200-yard individual freestyle with a time of 1 minute and 53.72 seconds, the 200-yard backstroke (2:03.73) and finished her first collegiate meet with a time of 2 minutes and 10.68 seconds to win the 200-yard individual medley.

The trio of juniors Victoria Jacumski, Sammie Wheeler and sophomore Helena Pikhartova also prevailed in the 100-yard breaststroke. Jacumski passed Pikhartova in the last 25 yards and hit the wall first by a margin of .07 seconds and also won the 200- yard breaststroke with a time of 2:24.35.

Other first place finishers for the women’s team were senior Brittany Groene with a time of 2 minutes and 15.23 seconds in the 200-yard butterfly and freshman Iuliia Fedoreeva, who won the 100-yard butterfly in a time of 58.54 seconds.

Xavier narrowly edged UC’s men’s team, despite the Bearcats strong performance in the early stages of the meet.

UC Freshman Joe Bott secured the men’s first individual victory of the season with a time of 9 minutes and 43.91 in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Bott finished ahead of freshman Donovan Kearns, who finished with a time of 9 minutes and 49.39 seconds Kearns added a victory of his own in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4 minutes and 46.83, narrowly edging out Xavier’s Alex Huff by .47 seconds.

Sophomore Aw’se Ma’aya was also victorious, finishing first in the 100-yard backstroke for Cincinnati with a time of 52.44 seconds — it would be UC’s final victory of the night.

Xavier went on to win the 100-yard Breastroke, 50-yard freestyle, 200-yard backstroke, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard Breaststroke, 100-yard Butterfly and 200-yard individual medley, to win the meet by only 18 points.

Cincinnati will return to action Nov. 2 against West Virginia University at the Keating Aquatics Center.

UC volleyball dismisses Syracuse ALISSA SNODDY | CONTRIBUTOR The University of Cincinnati women’s volleyball team swept Syracuse University Sunday, after dropping a 3-0 decision to Big East leaders Marquette University Friday night.

UC junior Emily MacIntyre continued her run of outstanding performances, leading the Bearcats with 12 digs.

The Bearcats trailed for nearly the entire first set, but strung together six straight points to take a 22-20 lead. UC finished the match 25-22 and took a 1-0 set lead.

UC dominated the opening stanza of the second set and jumped out to a 10-3 lead because of three Syracuse errors and a pair of kills from seniors Emily Hayden and Becca Refenes.

Syracuse pulled within four points, 20-16, but Refenes and senior Jordanne Scott finished the set with five straight kills and UC took a 2-0 lead The third set remained close throughout and UC lead by as little as one point at the 2019 mark, but a five-point run, featuring kills from Scott and Refenes and a service ace by Nicholson, closed out the set, 25-19, and the match, 3-0.

UC senior Emily Hayden led the Bearcats with 12 kills. Cincinnati posted 38 kills as a team to go along with 37 assists.

“I think we minimized some of our errors today,” said UC head coach Molly Alvey.

“I would have liked to see us clean up our serving and execute a more balanced attack across the board, but I was pleased with how we followed our defensive plan. Emily Hayden today was elevating extremely well and played unbelievable.”

Cincinnati will be back in action against the University of Louisville Sunday, Oct. 28, at Fifth Third Arena.

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Men’s soccer defeats Rutgers ANNIE MOORE | SENIOR REPORTER The University of Cincinnati men’s soccer team defeated the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights 1-0 Saturday night at Gettler Stadium.

The Bearcats controlled the majority of the game, but did not take the lead until sophomore forward Cole Denormandie scored in the 88th minute.

Senior midfielder Shamar Shelton dribbled down the left side and played a perfect cross into the box, which Denormandie collected and slotted past Rutgers goalkeeper Kevin McMullen.

Denormandie’s goal was his second in as many games.

The Bearcats have now recorded eight shutouts this season. Taylor Halfling, who has been in goal for all eight clean sheets, only had to make two saves against the Scarlet Knights.

UC has only allowed three goals in seven home games this season.

The Bearcats outshot the Scarlet Knights 19-9 and had several early scoring opportunities, including a one-on-one opportunity for sophomore forward Matt Remaley which Rutgers senior goalkeeper Kevin McMullen saved.

Cincinnati, now third in the Big East Red Division, will return to action Saturday, Oct. 27 at Gettler Stadium, against the league-leading Louisville Cardinals.

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