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Number of part-time faculty at UC growing, national trend UC using more part-time faculty to combat rising cost, student needs BRYAN SHUPE CHIEF REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati is following a national trend of increased reliance on adjunct faculty members. Though the university is hiring more adjuncts than ever before, UC is below the national average for this type of employment.

While total student enrollment is increasing, the employment of tenured, full-time, professors at UC is decreasing, and creating controversy among some members of the university community.

The controversy comes as the university is in the middle of labor negotiations with

CRIME BLOTTER 10/29 Robbery and Shooting A UC female student was robbed and a male was shot on Warner Street near Stratford around 12:03 a.m. Tuesday.

The female’s purse and wallet were stolen and the male was shot in the abdomen.

The shooting victim was transported to UC Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. An extensive search

by Cincinnati and UC police units was unable to locate the suspects.

10/28 Attempted Robbery on Eden Avenue Several teenage male suspects approached a female graduate student at 7 p.m. on Eden Avenue near Taft Road.

The suspects attempted to take her bag.

The female student was able to pull away and return to MSB to report the offense.

The only description given was several males of high school age wearing black jackets and dark pants.

10/25 Attempted robbery on Jefferson Avenue Three juvenile suspects attacked a UC student in an attempted robbery on Jefferson Avenue near Daniels Street around 3:15 p.m. Friday.

The suspects approached the male victim from behind, punched him and started rifling through his pockets. A bystander screamed for help and all three suspects ran from the scene without taking any property from the victim.

Research finds white collar criminals adapt to prison life better

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PHIL DIDION PHOTO EDITOR Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory highlights downtown development and sustainability during his final state of the city speech at the Ensemble theater in Over-the-Rhine Tuesday.

Mayor Mallory reflects on tenure, praises development, sustainability BRYAN SHUPE CHIEF REPORTER

Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory spoke of his term’s successes and the future of the city during his final State of the City address Tuesday at the Ensemble Theatre in Over-the-Rhine.

About 200 community members listened to Mallory praise downtown developments,

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Research conducted at the University of Cincinnati suggests white-collar criminals have no more trouble adjusting to prison life than the general prison population.

“The results were really clear. They did better, or they didn’t suffer any more than the other prisoners did,” said Michael Benson, a criminal justice professor at UC. To test the assumption that white-collar criminals are especially sensitive to the hardships of imprisonment, Benson, along with UC criminal justice doctoral student William Stadler and UC criminal justice professor Frank Cullen analyzed data of 366 prisoners; 78 of who were white-collar criminals, in two federal prisons in Terre Haute, Ind. The general opinion is that white-collar criminals would be extra sensitive to the pains of prison life because of their middle-class lifestyle.

Stadler, Benson and Cullen’s research shows that compared to the rest of the prison population, white-collar inmates

the UC Chapter of American Association of University Professors — a union that represents full-time professors across the country.

“One of the arguments that the administration makes, and it’s valid to a point, is that we just can’t hire full-time people all the time because then we have to have some flexibility for enrollment changes and changes in the discipline,” said Greg Loving, philosophy professor at UC Clermont College and president of the UC-AAUP chapter.

Part-time faculty employment at UC has increased 89.5 percent overall since 2003, and the university currently employs 593 adjuncts.

Loving sees this rising dependence as

PHIL DIDION PHOTO EDITOR Mayor Mark Mallory will leave office having served eight years in the top leadership position at city hall.

sustainability improvements and local crime reduction that occurred during his tenure.

Though the object of much criticism during his eight-year stint in office, he’s now credited with perpetuating citywide development.

Mallory described the Banks Project on the city’s riverfront as a product of his persistent efficiency.

Two days after Mallory — who will leave office after the Nov. 5 election due to term limits — was sworn in as mayor, the project developer backed out and word spread that the project was dead.

Mallory was urged to pull the plug on the Banks Project.

“So, I went to the press conference. And the media asked me, ‘Is the Banks Project dead?’” Mallory said. “And I said, ‘No, it’s not dead. This is a new beginning.’ And it was.”

Now, nestled between the Great American Ballpark and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the Banks Project is fitted with 300 apartments, 80,000 square feet of retail, 12 restaurants and a police station.

Phase two will add more retail and housing, and is slated to begin by the end of the year.

Washington Park and the Over-theRhine business district also underwent major renovations during Mallory’s two terms in office.

Along with growing businesses in the city, Mallory said he made it his goal to become the greenest city in Ohio, which it now is.

“You talk about the future; you talk about where the new jobs are being

created. It is the area of sustainability,” Mallory said. “I thought it was important to recreate the old Office of Environmental Management. It is now called the Office of Environment and Sustainability.”

Cincinnati reduced its carbon footprint by 8.2 percent. Only five cities in the country use more renewable energy than Cincinnati does, Mallory said.

Frank Bowen, dean of students at the University of Cincinnati, said he was pleased with Mallory’s impact as mayor overall.

“He did a very good job of creating somewhat of a collage of successes that the city has had under his leadership. I haven’t always agreed with him, by the way, because I didn’t always see his vision.

But I will tell you, that I did acknowledge it when I saw it,” Bowen said.

Mallory and some members of city council have been scrutinized for proceeding with several development projects, mainly the streetcar — a project plagued with delays and cost overruns. The topic is a main subject in this year’s race for mayor.

Mayoral candidate Roxanne Qualls has been a long-time supporter of the streetcar system, which has become a defining element of her campaign.

“It is an economic development investment that will generate jobs, attract businesses and also attract new residents.

And in doing so we will increase the tax returns to the city as well as increase property values and stimulate new development,” Qualls said to The News Record. “That has been proven to be the case in every city that’s developed a SEE MALLORY PG 2

Student government considers adding voting representative to board of trustees Idea still in beginning stages, would require approval from Ohio governor BRYAN SHUPE CHIEF REPORTER

University of Cincinnati Undergraduate Student Government members discussed the possibility of adding a voting student member to the UC Board of Trustees during a senate meeting Wednesday.

UC student body president Joe Blizzard and undergraduate student trustee Benjamin Keefe proposed the bill that could make the UC Board of Trustees more representative.

The board is currently comprised of 11 members — nine voting members and two nonvoting student representatives.

UC student Joshua Smith is the graduate student representative for the 2013-14 academic year.

“What Joe and I want to do today is

open up discussion,” Keefe said. “It will be on the assembly floor at a later date. It could be two months from now, it could be two years, but we want to prepare the student body to make an opinion on this bill.”

Keefe is supportive of a student trustee with the ability to vote, but is unsure about whether or not students should have the ability to vote on multi-million dollar initiatives.

Blizzard said it would be beneficial to have direct student opinion on the board.

“It’s really important that we have as much perspective on this as possible,” Blizzard said. “I think granting student members voting rights would be in the best interest for students and the university.”

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PHIL DIDION PHOTO EDITOR Student body president Joe Blizzard and vice president Jacklyn Hyde dressed in Halloween costumes Wednesday.

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Kenyon Martin inducted into UC Hall of Fame

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Kenyon Martin answers questions at the Legion of Excellence Gala. He was inducted into the hall of fame, Monday.

Former UC basketball star returns to former school, one of four inductees MELANIE TITANIC-SHEFFT CONTRIBUTOR

University of Cincinnati coaches and alumni gathered at the Kingsgate Marriott Monday to induct Kenyon Martin and three other former athletes in to the James P. Kelly Hall of Fame.

Basketball star Kenyon Martin of the New York Knicks came to UC as a freshman and worked to become an All-American basketball star under the direction of former coach Bob Huggins.

Martin eventually became the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft.

One of the best players in UC history, Martin said he came to the university as a child and left as a man.

“I attribute a lot of my success to … Huggins for staying on me and demanding the best out of me,” Martin said. “He always made sure that I worked hard, made it to class and that I put in the time at the gym.”

When Huggins — who started at UC in 1989 — resigned under pressure from the university in 2005, Martin was upset, but grateful to come back to UC nonetheless.

“Anytime you get honored for something you worked your whole life for, it’s a humbling experience,” Martin said.

Gino Guidugli, a Highland Heights, Ky. native and 2005 UC graduate, was another Hall of Fame inductee.

Guidugli was the only UC football player to ever be a four-year starting quarterback. He still owns most of the passing and total offense records.

After helping the Bearcats to victory through four winning seasons, Guidugli went on to become the running back coach at Central Michigan University.

“I had plenty of chances to play for other colleges while at UC, but the great coaching, mentoring, and strong bonds I formed while here were my strongest catalysts for staying in Cincinnati with the Bearcats,” Guidugli said. “Now, being in the same company as these other great athletes tonight is quite an honor.”

The other two inductees were Ron Stapleton, men’s track and field athlete of UC’s 1973 class, and Julie DuPont, women’s volleyball player of UC’s 2004 class.

Digital-media use to average 15.5 hours a day by 2015 MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

Americans are spending more time on their digital devices, and that won’t change for years, according to a new study.

The University of Southern California report released this week shows that Americans consume “an enormous amount” of media via television, radio, phone and computer, amounting to an average of 63 gigabytes per person per day last year. All told, total U.S. media consumption reached 1.46 trillion hours in 2012, an average of 13.6 hours per person per day, a year-over-year increase of 5 percent.

By 2015, data indicate that Americans will consume media for more than 1.7 trillion hours, an average of 15.5 hours per person per day. Mobile messaging hours, which last year accounted for about 9 percent of voice call hours, will double to more than 18 percent of voice hours, a year-over-year growth rate of more than 27 percent, the report said.

The study also found that viewing video in the Internet, which averaged fewer than 3 hours a month in 2008 and nearly 6 hours a month last year, will increase to nearly 11 hours a month by 2015.

Insurers, White House argue against delaying health care deadline As Affordable Care Act is implemented, government, providers disagree on time constraints, requirements MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON — Even with its health insurance marketplace floundering for the fourth week, the Obama administration is resisting what some Democratic allies contend is the most logical response to the problem: giving consumers more time to sign up.

According to insurers and the White house, delaying the deadline could undermine efforts to lure a broad, young and healthy mix of consumers to the market. That would end up costing insurers, and possibly taxpayers, money.

The case against delay was outlined in a memo circulated to lawmakers by the insurance lobby last week.

The document from America’s Health Insurance Plans warned that delay could have a “destabilizing effect on insurance markets, resulting in higher premiums and coverage disruptions for individuals and families.”

For now, the administration is sticking with the insurers.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday called delaying the tax penalties for those who miss the deadline premature.

Testifying before a House committee, Sebelius said she was confident the site would be running smoothly by the end of November, giving consumers four months to enroll easily online before the deadline of March 31.

President Barack Obama made the case in Boston, where he argued that the model for his health care law — the 2006 Massachusetts law that then-Gov. Mitt Romney pushed through — experienced a similarly slow rollout and went on to success.

There is more than policy keeping the administration from pursuing what some contend is a simple fix.

House Republicans have long pushed to delay the mandate.

Any concession on the point would hand another “I told you so” moment to the GOP only weeks after the White House and Democrats watched the government shut down rather than agree to Republicans’ demands to suspend the mandate for a year.

Still, the politics of the issue could change quickly as Democrats face pressure to show they are responding to

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modern streetcar. It’s the beginning.”

Former city councilman and fellow mayoral candidate John Cranley is an outspoken critic of the project.

“We can’t afford it,” Cranley said. “It’s too much money for too little benefit. We already got our debt rating downgraded.

There’s an operating deficit. It’s robbing Peter to pay Paul. Stealing and underfunding neighborhoods all for one project, no matter how good it is, is not worth that much money.”

Although the project has been and still is a highly contentious issue, Mallory said the project is necessary to further revitalize the city’s urban core. Mallory concluded his address by commending the city and its citizens.

“The legacy is not mine; it is yours, Cincinnati. You stand up to challenges, take on big projects and embrace the future. We have returned to our heritage — a can-do city. Making national headlines, making international headlines, now for the right reason,” Mallory said. “You, Cincinnati, created the buzz.”

public frustration with the website.

Ten Democratic senators have signed a letter asking the White House to extend the date beyond March 31 — six of those are up for re-election in 2014.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said an extended enrollment was merely a fair way to make up for a website rollout she labeled a “disaster.”

Millions of people have been shut out of the site intended to link consumers with private health plans.

“That is unacceptable; consumers should not pay a penalty because a website did not work,” Shaheen wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in USA Today.

Advocates for the extension note that the administration has already pushed back the date by six weeks in an attempt to align mismatched deadlines outlined during the rule-making process.

Another limited extension is unlikely to change consumer behavior much, some experts opposed to a delay concede.

“To change sends a message: Don’t worry about signing up quickly. So there is an impact, but it depends a lot on how long an extension it is,” said Linda Blumberg, a health policy expert at the Urban Institute.

Blumberg said it was too soon to know whether an extension was necessary.

Any decision should come only after insurers know who is signing up and whether they are seeing too many sick customers to deliver on the premiums they’ve promised.

There are two major provisions already built into the law to help insurers adjust for risk pools, she said.

Obama advisers made similar arguments.

Extending the enrollment period by a few months or a year increases the possibility that people won’t sign up until they’re too sick, increasing the costs for everyone else, said Chris Jennings, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton now working on Obamacare implementation.

Enforcing the requirements for insurers without enforcing those for individuals would compound the destabilizing effect, Jennings said.

“No one will sell you house insurance when your house is on fire,” he said. “If you want to ban discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions, then you have to have everyone in the pool. That’s why you need the individual responsibility requirement.”

Critics of the president’s law are reviving the push to

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actually reported fewer problems with cellmates, feelings of safety and general difficulties.

“When we compared the responses we found out that there wasn’t really any difference. In fact, in some places the whitecollar offenders actually did a little better,” Benson said.

According to his research of prison literature, white-collar prisoners possess many of the qualities that help criminals cope with prison life. A prisoner who typically adjusts better will be more intelligent, older and have a strong support system.

“When you think about this, this describes white-collar offenders,” Benson said.

Other advantageous factors found in most white-collar offenders are an understanding of bureaucracies, which help them feel more comfortable with forms, rules and regulations, and a familiarity with responding to stress. But, Benson said, no stay in prison is stress-free.

“I don’t mean to say they experienced no problems; that’s not true. But the point is

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undo the mandate.

Romney issued a statement Wednesday suggesting a number of changes, including “carefully phasing it in to avoid the type of disruptions we are seeing nationally.”

In support of the Obama plan, some former Romney advisers have stepped forward to counsel patience through what they suggest is just a rocky beginning.

The law ramped up slowly in Massachusetts, said Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist who has advised Romney and Obama on health care reform.

In the first month of enrollment in 2006, he said, only 123 enrollees from the premium-paying population — comparable to the group using the marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act — signed up.

That represented fewer than 1 percent of those who eventually signed up within the enrollment period.

“The fact that people aren’t signed up now for a policy they can’t even get until January, and which they’re not mandated to have until March, is not at all interesting or important,” Gruber said on a White House conference call held as Obama prepared to travel to Boston. “What matters is the fact that it will ramp up, and it will ramp up over time.”

they had no more problems than average,” Benson said.

However, there are several elements in the experiment that Benson noted that are not ideal. The data — originally gathered

by UC criminal justice professor Patricia Vanvoorhis from 1986 to 1988 — analyzed prisoners from only two prisons: one medium-security prison and one lowsecurity prison. Prison populations have changed dramatically from the ’80s, and the war on drugs has changed the composition of prisons by increasing drug offenders.

Changes in the federal sentencing guidelines have likely caused an increase in whitecollar offenders as well. While white-collar criminals are incarcerated at a higher rate than they were 30 years ago, Benson believes this research is important in dispelling the belief that white-collar criminals are not able to handle prison life.

“We’d like to do contemporary research now, but we’d have to get a grant and get access to prisoners again to test them,” Benson said.

Stadler, Benson and Cullen’s research is now available in Justice Quarterly both online and in print.

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detrimental to the student experience.

Universities across the country are contributing to the trend of increased adjunct employment for several reasons.

Apart from adjuncts’ hands-on knowledge, their part-time status does not typically come with benefits or job protection, Loving said.

Increased use of part time faculty is a growing trend in the U.S. where tenured faculty employment has dropped about 37 percent nationwide since 1975, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education — a news source for university faculty and administration based in Washington, D.C. “There are a variety of reasons why higher education institutions have increased their reliance on adjunct labor,” said Michael Edmondson, director

of marketing and recruiting for The Philadelphia Center, an experimental education program. “Subsequently, there are numerous implications both on the labor side and the teaching side that need to be considered.”

The national part-time faculty average for public institutions is 26.7 percent of the total faculty population, according to the Chronicle of Higher Institution.

UC sits below that average at 20 percent.

For students, there are advantages to having full-time professors — they host office hours — and part-time professors are usually actively working in the field that they teach.

“I think full-timers are better,” said Dan Ford, fifth-year mechanical engineering student. “They just seem to have more experience.”

Like many business decisions, this one

comes down to money, and there is no question that reducing part-time faculty and hiring more tenured professors would be more expensive, Loving said.

“Mainly, it’s a cost issue. I had a dean, several deans ago [at Clermont], looked me in the face and said ‘Well yeah we could hire more full-timers, but I can hire adjuncts for half the price,’” Loving said.

“Well you can but what kind of impact is that having on the student experience with an unstable faculty?”

UC Provost Beverly Davenport said UC’s faculty needs to fluctuate over time depending on student enrollment and student interests and that the use of adjunct faculty gives the university the flexibility to meet those needs.

“There are reasons why adjunct faculty are beneficial,” Davenport said. “We are below the national average, so we certainly

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selected vary by state.

In Ohio, the governor, with the consent of the state senate, appoints all members.

Before official appointment, recommended UC candidates must be approved by UC President Santa Ono, Blizzard said.

According to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 50.3 percent of national public institutions have at least one voting

WANT TO GET INVOLVED WITH TNR? STOP BY 509 SWIFT HALL shouldn’t be alarmed by the percentage that we have. Faculty salaries are one piece of a very large and complex budget.”

Richard Miller, chair of the faculty senate and civil engineering professor, said there is a time and place for adjunct professors at UC, because while they bring exceptional field experience to the classroom, their level of commitment may not be as high as that of their full-time counterpart.

“It’s like everything else. There are good things and bad things,” Miller said.

“Properly used and used under the correct circumstances, adjuncts are very good.

For example, here in my department, we have an adjunct professor who teaches a class on surveying. We can’t afford to pay a full-time faculty member to teach one course per year. That is not a good use of the student’s tuition.”

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Poets to speak on campus, discuss work

The works of fresh new writers coming out of the Queen City differ in style and content, but the Cincinnati Review is the common thread between them.

The writers will read and discuss their work as a part of

the Visiting Writers Series at the University of Cincinnati Nov. 8 during the Cincinnati Review Emerging Poets Festival.

Each writer has appeared or been reviewed in the Cincinnati Review, a venue for emerging writers that works out of McMicken College of Arts & Sciences.

The four poets will speak in the Elliston Poetry Room in Langsam Library at 2 p.m. for readings and discussion. The discussion will begin promptly and the reading will begin at 3 p.m.

Collier Nogues is the author of “On the Other Side, Blue,” published in 2011 by Four Ways Books. Her debut collection focuses on loss, love and grief.

Nogues has been awarded fellowships and grants from a number of institutions such as the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center and Oregon’s Fishtrap, Inc. Nogues also taught writing at the University of California, Irvine.

Shara Lessley wrote “Two-Headed Nightingale,” a book that focuses on the flight and motion of birds. Lessley is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She has received awards including the Artist Fellowship from the State of North Carolina, the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Colgate University’s O’Connor Fellowship, the Gilman School’s Tickner Fellowship and a

Mid life crisis arrives early: Overeducated, underemployed

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The quarter life crisis is the new mid life crisis.

As many of us near graduation, the term “quarter life crisis” seems to be surfacing more and more. An increasing amount of millennials — those born from the late 1980s to 2000 — are suffering from anxiety and stress about the future. People in their twenties are going through a crisis of identity and purpose. For those of us who are in our twenties, we grew up in a time of scrunchies and crop tops, boy bands and Baywatch. Our parents told us we were perfect and creative and successful, and we believed them. This is not to discredit my generation for all of the things we have achieved thus far — we thrive off of technology, challenge the government, and have contributed wonderful things to our culture.

The concept of a quarter life crisis seems to be primarily found in western society. As one of the most influential nations in the world, we are depending on our 20-somethings to carry on the tasks of our forefathers. Millennials should be bright-eyed and optimistic about being the future leaders of America. Instead, we are feeling increasingly lost as we evolve and navigate through society. We are so privileged as a culture to be able to go to college and express our freedoms, yet we drag ourselves down because sometimes the weight and responsibilities feel like too much to handle.

It is not uncommon to find articles criticizing millennials as narcissistic, entitled and high-maintenance. Which, in many cases is true. Never has a generation had more access to each other’s lives by way of social media. Our lives are put on display and inspected under the microscope of scholars.

So yeah, maybe we are a little narcissistic. But that doesn’t mean we also aren’t heartfelt, political and influential.

College students are graduating with historic amounts of debt. Because of this, graduation ceremonies no longer mean what they used to. The cloud of debt hanging over most people’s heads complicates their feelings of accomplishment.

For many students, it seems like just another step in the process toward our eventual struggle to find employment and prove ourselves to each other, our parents and society.

The sense of defeat that college graduates are feeling is enormous when they should be proud of themselves.

Many theories address the paradox of efficiency millennials are facing. The more young dreamers and visionaries move up the rungs on the corporate or social ladder, the more we continue to suffer from post-modern stresses and burnouts. Especially during a time of economic uncertainty, unpredictable market meltdowns and a government shutdown, this all causes 20-somethings to suffer from a sever case of,“Who am I?” We are hitting this selfhood crisis earlier than expected, and much earlier than our parents. We overthink and are viewed as underachievers, which causes a mind-lock.

The baby boomer generation gave birth to the millennials.

They were hard-working vessels of the American dream.

Many of them got what they wanted early on. They settled down, married and started their careers. Our parents suffered (or are currently suffering) from a mid-life crisis.

They had everything in order until they didn’t. Now we are going through this same loss of identity, just a decade earlier.

However, studies show that millennials are working hard.

In 2012, 33.5 percent of Americans ages 25 to 29 had at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 24.7 percent in 1995, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

So, we’re working harder than ever to get these degrees for a dismal job market that doesn’t apply to us. Many college graduates have nightmarish dreams of working minimum wage jobs and living with our parents.

A Pew Research study in December 2011 found that 53 percent of adults age 18 to 24 either live with their parents or have moved back home temporarily in recent years. Ideally, no one wants to move back in with his or her parents. But more and more college graduates are moving back home, which makes us feel the opposite of successful. So much pressure is being put on us by society that we seem to sort of give up.

According to a study conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment is down for college graduates. Entrylevel employment rates are down 15 percent compared to 20 years ago. More than 11 percent of bachelor degree holders are completely out of the labor market and looking for a job.

We’re knocked off of our feet before we even have a chance to apply our skills to the economy.

The majority of graduates who are employed sometimes have to deal with harsh ageism in the workplace. After all, millennials have a reputation with the older generation as being distracted and ruined by social media. The baby boomer generation raised us, so they feel it is their right to criticize us. Technology is the crutch they use to label our generation with words like lazy and uneducated. But we are educated. And we’re going to take this world by storm, as soon as we realize that a quarter-life crisis is not the end of all things.

From what I have observed, 20-somethings are more than willing to put in the time and earn their place in the world even if it is exhausting. This exhaustive effort to prove ourselves to our parents and society is what causes the quarter life crisis. So many millennials are united by this term, because it sums up how we feel in society.

To those of you feeling the affects of the quarter life crisis, take a second to reflect on all that you have achieved as a college student. Many of you have earned minors, certificates or have been active in the University of Cincinnati student groups. College has been a time of learning, growth and educational development for you. Although our lives are connected through technology, and we witness our friends getting married and starting families, use that to your advantage, and not as a standard to where you should be.

If you have to move back home with your parents — so be it. But give yourself some credit for making it this far. Giving credit where credit is due is something we need to work on as a generation. We are a competent, proud group of young adults. A quarter life crisis should not be the term that unites us in our struggle to identify our place in the world. It can be analyzed by sociologists and criticized by baby boomers, but it should not define us as a generation.

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Although stories and poems by Collier No There is a lot of buzz about Miley Cyrus and her recent eccentric behavior on the MTV Video Music Awards. Parents everywhere are up in arms.

Cyrus’ performance raises a lot of concern about the message of sexuality sent to children and teenagers.

Her claim to fame is the Disney Channel show,“Hannah Montana,” in which her persona is an innocent girl next door, a very stark contrast to her current persona. And that’s exactly Cyrus’ intention. Imagine sweet Hannah Montana twerking on stage to Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.”

She is now in her twenties, and like any child-star coming into adulthood, she is trying to break away from being associated with Disney.

Often women are shamed for being sexually powerful while men are encouraged. This can be problematic for parents who wonder how to have a helpful dialogue with their children about sexuality in society.

Cyrus now identifies herself as a sexual-being, and as an adult she has the power to express herself in any way without being shamed for it. A parent would ask how this image of sexuality from a pop star sends a message to children.

We, as an American society, are far too obsessed about celebrities and the superficial lives they lead.

Celebrities are not responsible for teaching kids, and parents need to have a dialogue with their children about what they see on television and online. Show business is not the same as real life, and in real life subtlety can go a long way.

Children should not fear becoming a sexual being, and in fact, every person who goes through puberty will think about sexuality.

Sex is a biological function, and if people grow to fear it then they deny what they are. However, children need to grow to learn that there is more to life than simply being sexually active. Miley Cyrus is a performer, and with her new persona she is making a statement: “I am no longer an innocent child, I am a sexual woman and I am secure with that.”

Cyrus’ performance at the VMAs shocked the masses and disgusted many, and the attention she receives proves that a woman is prohibited to be sexual because she simply wants to be.

One could make the argument that in her statement of female sexual power, she is inadvertently participating in patriarchy. She shows this by submitting sexually to Thicke

Discovery/The Nation prize.

Lessley currently lives in the Middle East and is working on a second collection tilted “The Explosive Expert’s Wife.”

Nathaniel Perry is the author of “Nine Acres,” published

by APR/Copper Canyon in 2011. The title is taken from the chapters of a farming handbook from the 1930s.“Nine Acres” includes 52 poems that examine sustainability on a number of levels.

Perry’s more recent work will appear in Orion, Kenyon Review Online, Subtropics and other publications. Perry is also the editor of the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.

The final poet featured in the event is Marcus Wicker.

Wicker’s first book,“Maybe the Saddest Thing,” was published by Harper in 2012. The book was awarded the National Poetry Series Prize.“Maybe the Saddest Thing” is composed of a collection of contemporary American poems by new poets.

Wicker received the 2011 Ruth Lily Fellow and has obtained fellowships from Cave Canem, the Fine Arts Work Center and Indiana University. Wicker is an assistant professor at Southern Indiana University.

Audience members will have the opportunity to purchase books for a signing after the event. The festival is the secondto-last installment in the series, which will conclude Nov. 22 with poet Denise Duhamel.

on stage, but can one side truly exist without the other?

There is one thing that is certain, children must be taught to not be ashamed of their sexuality, and also realize that admirable traits all people should strive for are intelligence, confidence, self-respect and ambition.

Cyrus embodies all these qualities, but no one can see past the antics to her logic.

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Miley Cyrus has come a long way since her days in this outfit. There is no denying that she is a talented performer. Cyrus now joins the ranks of pop bad girls like Rhianna and Britney Spears.

CCM prepares to open classic musical

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Fourth-year students Katie Wesler and Max Clayton take on the leading roles of Kathy Seldon and Don Lockwood in CCM’s production of “Singin’ in the Rain.”

Performance of ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ to tackle classic songs, diverse choreography EMILY BEGLEY COLLEGE LIFE EDITOR

Hollywood is booming. Audience members fill row upon row in a theater bathed in shades of yellow and orange, anticipating the click of a movie projector to signify the start of a film. The Silent Era is in full swing, and stars are spawned without uttering a single word.

It was the golden era of silent films in which Don Lockwood thrived.

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music will delve into Lockwood’s cinematic world during five performances of “Singin’ in the Rain” beginning Oct. 31. The show is the second installment in CCM’s 2013-14 Mainstage Series.

Max Clayton, fourth-year musical theatre student, will take on the role of Lockwood, a fictional silent film star brought to fame by the play.“Singin’ in the Rain” revolves around Lockwood, leading lady Lina Lamont, sidekick Cosmo Brown and aspiring actress Kathy Seldon during Hollywood’s transition in 1927 from silent films to “talkies” – movies that incorporate dialogue.

The play, based off of a 1952 film of the same name directed

by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, incorporates an incredible score with highlights including “Good Morning” and “You

Are My Lucky Star.” Songs have been adapted throughout multiple performances and platforms, including covers of “Singin’ in the Rain” by various artists and Glee’s creative rendition of “Make ‘em Laugh.”

Riding off the tails of “Carrie,” CCM promises to maintain the light-hearted, uplifting performance that “Singin’ in the Rain” traditionally exudes. The show, directed by CCM musical theatre professor Diane Lala, is expected to adhere to the play’s classic songs, choreography and overall joyous tone. Choreography, created by Lala in collaboration with musical theatre/dance professor Patti James, will incorporate an array of genres from tap to ballet.

Because “Singin’ in the Rain” is such a well-known play – CCM describes it as “one of the most-loved and celebrated MGM film musicals” – sticking with the play’s original goals is a smart and effective choice. Bringing in too many new aspects would overwhelm audience members who already have an opinion formed of what the play should be.

The wide range of dance styles the choreography will incorporate also ties into the show’s prevalent uplifting atmosphere. Emitting happiness to audience members has been an enduring intention of the play throughout its history; embodying the emotion through movement is a promising means of doing so.

Tickets are still available for CCM’s performance of “Singin’ in the Rain;” purchase a seat to travel back in time to a budding Hollywood and experience the magic of its transformation along with its biggest stars.

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Cincinnati restaurants provide array of festive foods SARAH MULLINS STAFF REPORTER

Jenco Brothers’ Candy: Jenco Brothers gives a whole new meaning to “It’s like being a kid in a candy shop.” They offer so many different kinds of candies and treats that you won’t even need Halloween to fulfill your candy wishes.

On Halloween, wear a costume and receive 25 percent off bulk candy.

Graeter’s: Graeter’s is a Cincinnati staple, but their seasonal pumpkin ice cream is worthy of garnering the same excitement level as the infamous Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte. Graeter’s ice cream is filled with the pumpkin spice expected during the holiday season, only in ice cream form.

Pumpkin Ice Cream (one scoop $3.50).

Holtman’s Donut Shop: These delectable doughnuts are just the treat to start off the day’s Halloween celebrations. Holtman’s offers a wide variety of specialty donuts and daily specials. For the spooky season, Holtman’s adorns some of their classic doughnuts with pumpkin-shaped sprinkles and offers their popular bear claw doughnut filled with a scrumptious apple filling.

Doughnut ($2-$2.50).

Whole Foods: Halloween isn’t typically considered a healthy holiday, but for a little additivefree spookiness, Whole Foods offers a wide variety of themed confections and candy (not to mention a pumpkin beer and hard apple cider selection).

Sidewinder: Sidewinder’s hot apple cider is sourced from Hollmeyer’s Orchard, a farm based in Cincinnati. Sidewinder also has pumpkin syrup during the harvest season; feel free to create your own pumpkin spiced drink.

Organic hot apple cider ($2.50).

Yagoot: Yagoot’s creamy and tart frozen yogurt makes their dessert unique. Their seasonal flavors are switched around each month, and pumpkin hits machines Nov. 1. The pumpkin flavor has a creamy texture and is spiced just right for a little pick-meup that won’t consume all of the day’s calories.

Pumpkin Frozen Yogurt (coming Nov. 1).

Busken Bakery: Busken’s ever-popular iced sugar cookies take on every holiday throughout the year, and Halloween is no exception. Their signature cookies are round and iced to resemble a Jack-O-Lantern.

Abby Girl Sweets Cupcakery: Abby Girl Sweets offers daily and weekly specials, even offering the occasional caramel apple cupcake. Cupcakes are baked fresh from scratch.

Pumpkin Spice Cupcake ($2.75 each 6 or more $2.50 each).

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Class of 2014 officers sponsor Nippert Stadium renovations as senior gift JOSHUA MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati Senior Class officers are sponsoring the Nippert Renovation Project as their 2014 senior gift initiative, with the hope of driving UC’s young alumni into more philanthropic ventures at the university.

The SCO is an independent student group comprised of officers from the majority of UC’s colleges that works closely with the UC foundation. The group decides on a sponsored senior gift every year.

“Historically each class at UC — freshman through senior — had officers.

But over the years that went away at some point and the senior class was the only thing that existed,” said James Schwyn, Senior Class Officer president. “So we try to come up with a new gift each year to promote giving back to the university.”

Seeking to break away from the norm of senior projects, the SCO chose Nippert because of its positive impact on the entire campus.

“The senior class gifts in the past, we felt like weren’t necessarily relevant to the student body,” Schwyn said. “It’s either a monument or something that the student body wouldn’t really want to get behind. Plus, if enough money isn’t raised to cover it, the University has to put extra effort into fundraising.”

SCO officers said the approach taken toward the senior gift in years past was obsolete and left a bad taste in student’s mouths.

“In the past this has been asking and

pushing seniors to donate late in the spring, without any benefit other than giving out of the kindness of their heart.”

Schwyn said. “We recognize that the average person wants to give and get something and that’s fair.”

Based on interest and involvement, a series of giving levels have been developed to reward students for their giving.

With incentives ranging from the possibility of being recognized on the field at halftime of UC’s season finale against Louisville, Dec. 5, to a private lunch with UC director of athletics Whit Babcock, the SCO hope to drive more students toward involvement and to do so earlier in the year.

In early November, the SCO will begin aggressively pushing the senior gift initiative, with the hope of locking up several senior givers prior to the Dec. 5 Louisville game.

“Our goal is to raise $14,000,” Schwyn said. “And we’re looking to reach a 14 percent participation rate of 2014 graduates, that’s roughly 500 people.”

In years past, the senior gift initiative has raised around $10,000 with a participation rate close to 10 percent. But with the added incentives and increased outreach efforts, the SCO has high hopes for the future.

“This is a project that’s going to happen, that is exciting and that not only the student body, but the alumni and community as a whole are getting behind,” Schwyn said. “And it’s going to happen, so we felt like this would be an excellent opportunity to capitalize on this and move forward. We want to create unique opportunities and create a true culture of giving back to UC after graduation.”

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University of Cincinnati freshman swimmer Jackie Keire (Ontario, Canada) was named the American Athletic Conference Women’s Swimmer of the Week Tuesday, after a dominant performance in her second collegiate meet.

The UC women’s team took second place at the West Virginia Invitational over the weekend, with Keire contributing to six total metal performances for the Bearcats.

Keire opened the meet with a comfortable victory in the 1000-yard freestyle, finishing in 10 minutes and 9.2 seconds.

She followed that up with individual victories in the 100-yard freestyle (50.81 seconds), the 500-yard freestyle (4:58.16) and the 200-yard freestyle (1:49.05), securing a victory in all four of her individual races.

Keire was also a member of the 800yard freestyle relay and 200-yard medley relay, which placed second and third.

After winning four individual events at UC’s opening meet of the year against Xavier, Keire is now a perfect 8-0 in individual events in her collegiate career.

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Former University of Cincinnati quarterback Zach Collaros prepares to throw down field during UC’s 45-3 dismantling of Miami University in the 2010 battle for The Victory Bell.

Zach Collaros finds himself backing up long-time star in Canada despite string of impressive come-back wins, CFL accolades JOSHUA MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Former University of Cincinnati Quarterback Zach Collaros has been “here” before. “Here,” is as the very good back-up quarterback on a very good football team, although his current team plays with 12 players at a time and happens to be in Canada.

Collaros’ current situation — back-up quarterback for the Toronto Argonauts — and the manner in which his season has unfolded, are eerily similar to his sophomore year of college, when he burst onto the scene at UC. Collaros, a two-year starter at UC, found his way to the Argonauts of the Canadian Football League in 2012 after being cut by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and briefly returning to school.

“Football wise, it’s been a pretty smooth transition,” Collaros said. “We have a good team here with a lot of good guys in the locker room, so they’ve made it pretty easy. Living wise, it’s a little more up here and it definitely gets a little colder earlier in the year. But it’s a lot like going to college, you just have to meet people and get acclimated.”

Because he signed for Toronto mid-way through the 2012 season, Collaros didn’t have the opportunity to make an impact on the Argonauts 2012 Grey Cup

Championship, the CFL equivalent to the Super Bowl.

“I came in a little late last year so they immediately put me in the [injured reserve list] for the year, so I just sat back and learned the game,” Collaros said. “There’s definitely a lot of different rules, having the extra player out here and only playing two downs. It makes it a lot different than playing American football.”

In place of injured starting quarterback Ricky Ray, Collaros certainly didn’t show any signs of a learning curve in his first start, July 30, against the BC Lions. The Steubenville, Ohio native connected on 11 of his first 13 attempts for 110 yards and two touchdowns in the opening half.

“If I had struggled in the first half it would’ve made the second half a lot more difficult, so that quick start was huge more me and for our team,” Collaros said.

He didn’t show any signs of inexperience in the second half, either, connecting with John Chiles in the corner of the end zone to give the Argonauts a 21-9 lead early in the third quarter.

Collaros finished the games 21-of-25 passing for 253 yards and three touchdowns, leading the Argonauts to an easy 38-12 victory.

It was a situation all to comfortable for Collaros, who burst onto the scene in college with a 75-yard touchdown run mid-way through the third quarter of UC’s 34-17 victory over South Florida in 2009. It was Collaros’ first play from scrimmage, after coming in for injured starting quarterback Tony Pike.

“I think experience is the greatest teacher there is, so having been through something like that helps,”

Collaros said. “To come in for a guy like Ricky Ray, being at Cincinnati on the national stage definitely helped me out with that.”

Collaros went on to lead the Argonauts to four straight road victories — a CFL record — all of which were second-half comebacks.

“We all just had to persevere, that’s football. You’re going to struggle sometimes,” Collaros said. “You just have to keep trying to execute plays and do what you’ve been coached to do. We all did a good job of staying the course and managing to string some points together for wins.”

Compiling a record of 4-1 in five starts, Collaros completed 111-of-172 passes (65 percent) for 1,299 yards and nine touchdowns in September.

Collaros won the CFL offensive player of the month award for his September comeback efforts, which he credited to experience gained in late-game situations while quarterbacking UC to the Big East Championship in 2011.

“There were a lot of games my senior year that we were behind at halftime,” he said. “We had a really good group of guys and a great senior class. We always were in the locker room saying ‘we’re going to win this game’ and we all stayed calm. I defiantly drew from those experiences and it helped me out [in the comeback victories].”

Unfortunately for Collars, the injured quarterback he started in place of, Rick Ray, is a three-time Grey Cup Champion and an undoubted future Hall-of-Famer.

He’s an irreplaceable player in the world of Canadian football.

Much like his sophomore season at UC, when Collaros made only four starts (four victories) but threw for 1,434 yards and 10 touchdowns, he was reverted to a back-up role when Ray returned from injury in October. “[Going back to a back-up role] has been tough, I’m not going to lie,” Collaros said. “But I understand the situation, Ricky is an unbelievable quarterback, an allpro quarterback. I still have to play my role. The worst part about it is practice, because you don’t get many reps.”

Collaros has played sparingly since Ray’s return and didn’t play at all in the Argonauts first-round playoff victory against Winnipeg Saturday.

Collaros’ future as a starting quarterback in Toronto is unclear because, unlike Pike, Ray won’t be leaving anytime soon.

However, with the CFL adding an expansion team in Ottawa, and Collaros considered among the best back-up quarterbacks in the league, there is a chance Collaros will be a key building block for the Ottawa franchise.

Because teams can only protect one quarterback on their roster from the expansion draft, the Argonauts won’t be able to stop Collaros from being swooped up

by Ottawa, a possibility that grew amongst the rumor mill with each of Collaros’ impressive showings.

But for now, Collaros is focused on helping the Argonauts defend their Grey Cup title.

“I’ve been trying not to think about [the expansion draft],” Collaros said. “[I’m] focused on finishing the year with the Toronto Argonauts and doing whatever I need to do to try and help this team win games and get to the Grey Cup. Whenever free agency and the expansion draft come, we’ll see how the chips fall. But right now I’m focused on our championship run here.”