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THURSDAY | OCT. 7 | 2010
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Bike share programs fail to function sean peters | chief reporter For the last two weeks any student who has tried to check out a bike through the University of Cincinnati’s bike share program has been turned away. An unnamed employee allegedly lost the master key that locks away all of the individual keys used to secure the bikes chained outside of the UC sean peters | chief REPORTER
LOOKING PRETTY ROUGH Bikes in the program are in various states of disrepair.
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Campus Recreational Center. No replacement key had been made yet. CRC employees claim a copy of the master key is being made and will be available “by the end of the week,” leaving the wait for a bike at approximately three weeks. The contact for bike share feedback, Wes Munzel, was not available for comments after multiple calls. While having a bike share program is indeed a privilege for UC students, not having access to the several dozen bikes can become a hassle for some. If a student is aware of the program and wishes to check out a bike, perhaps to ride home for a lunch
break, they might schedule their break around the traveling speed of a cyclist and not a pedestrian. Some Undergraduate Student Government senators raised the question at meetings last year whether or not the bikes could be maintained properly. Before the master key was lost, there were complaints that many of the bikes are in various states of disrepair — from under-inflated tires to shoddy brakes that don’t grip tires. Upon closer inspection, it is still the case. UC bike share was started April 22, 2010, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.
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KATRINE CIESLAR | STAFF REPORTER
The University of Cincinnati undergraduate studentgovernment meeting Wednesday night was dominated by safety issues going on just off campus. The undergraduate student senate agreed unanimously during the meeting that it was unacceptable that there wasn’t more security for students offcampus. The concern was brought up after the shooting Monday night on Glendora Avenue in Corryville. One issue raised was UC’s Nightwalk program wanting to set up workshops where UC students will learn how to stay clear of troubling situations. Student Government strongly recommended that UC students only walk in groups at night. Another focus was on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,Transgender and Questioning community as well, since there has been a total of nine suicides in the gay community nationwide within the last month. The LGBTQ community on campus wants to raise awareness towards these tragic events so this hopefully can be prevented in the future, according to at-large Senator KD Miller. Miller also noted that October 11 is National Coming Out Day, which will be celebrated around UC’s campus with a variety of events. Another important topic see SGA | 7 INSIDE
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An author from Haiti brought attention to the atrocities of child slavery during a lecture to at The University of Cincinnati’s Raymond Walters College Wednesday evening. Jean-Robert Cadet, a former Haitian child slave and author of the book “Restavek: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle Class American,” described his experience as a child slave in the Caribbean country and his subsequent rise in becoming a United States citizen. Child slaves are known as “restaveks” in Haiti. The French Creole term means “stay with” and describes children given away by parents unable to care for them to host families. Unfortunately, the host families often exploit the children for labor in exchange for leftover food, a place to sleep and promises to go to school. “It has nothing to do with skin color,” Cadet told the audience. “It has to do with class.” Cadet, a one-time member of the
UN’s Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, detailed how he had no possessions of his own while he was a child slave and had to sleep under the kitchen table in his host family’s home. “I’d never been part of a home,” Cadet said. Haitian society does not believe in adoption, Cadet said, because children are used as the parents social security system in the country. “They spend a lot of money educating a child,”Cadet said.“And that child has an obligation to take care of the parents.” The reason child slaves would not be sent to school was because they would not have the same obligation to their host family. “They are afraid that child will help his family,” Cadet said. Cadet came to the U.S. with his host family at the age of 15 and was quickly turned out of their home when they realized slavery was not accepted in the U.S. and he would attend the same see HAITI | 7
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I’M A SURVIVOR Author Jean-Robert Cadet describes his experiences at UC’s Raymond Walters College.
UC researchers working to develop Cocaine vaccine JAYNA BARKER | SPOTLIGHT EDITOR
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ADDRESSING THE ISSUE UC’s Eugene Somoza, M.D., Ph.D, and Theresa Winhusen, co-director of the Cincinnati Addiction Research Center, are looking to stop the effects of cocaine.
If researchers at the University of Cincinnati have their way, a vaccine will become available to more than 5 million Americans for one of the hardest habits to kick — cocaine addiction. A team of researchers at UC has been working for the past few years to develop an alternative vaccine for cocaine users to prevent it from reaching the brain. They have just started recruiting for a clinical trial to test the efficiency of a vaccine against cocaine. “The role of the immune system is to recognize foreign complex molecules that are not part of the body,” said Eugene Somoza, M.D., Ph.D, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience. “Normally when there is a virus in the body, the immune system creates antibodies
Cocaine needs to get to the brain. That’s how cocaine works. —eugene somoza M.D., P.h.D, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience
against whatever foreign molecules it sees. The immune system could create 1,000 antibodies specifically against complex molecules — proteins — of a virus.” But cocaine is not a protein, which makes it harder to attack. “It’s not a complex molecule,” Somoza said. “It’s a simple molecule. That’s a whole different ballgame. What you have to do is paste it on a complex molecule, because normally vaccines are created against
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viruses and bacteria.” Once the vaccine is in the bloodstream, the immune system sees the foreign protein — cocaine attached to a complex molecule — and it will reproduce and grab onto it. When someone takes cocaine, it eventually ends up in the bloodstream. The antibodies created by the vaccine go essentially lock onto it. So the cocaine is locked to this complicated molecule — an antibody — and cannot cross the blood-brain barrier, which also prevents the cocaine from reaching the brain as well. “Cocaine needs to get to the brain. That’s how cocaine works,” Somoza said.“Cocaine does all of its actions in the brain. There are several receptors that it goes to and creates good effects and bad effects — it makes you really, see COCAINE | 7
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Celebrate season city style Fall in the city doesn’t fit the typical image of leaf-pile jumping and pumpkin patch wandering. Few of us even have a yard to rake or a porch to decorate for Cincinnati’s most beautiful season. But weep not, city-dwellers — there are still plenty of ways to celebrate this most wonderful time of year despite the sirens and smog. 1. Find fall footwear: The autumn chill has officially fallen across campus, which can only mean one thing to the fashion-minded: boots are back. Urban Original’s website, www.urbanog.com, has become my new best friend due to it’s ridiculously lowpriced boots. With 45 pages of merchandise ranging from booties to thigh-highs, it’s the perfect site for students with large shopping lists and tiny wallets. 2. Enjoy the scenery: Seriously, some evidence of nature really does remain in the Cincinnati area. Burnet Woods is a gorgeous park to walk through (during the day, of course) and observe the colorful autumn foliage. Not up for the exercise? Eden Park’s overlook, located just off of Gilbert Avenue, provides a relaxing view of Kentucky and the Ohio River. 3. Update the iPod: Metalcore icons and Ohio natives The Devil Wears Prada recently released their latest monster-themed masterpiece, “Zombie.” Although the grainy audio intro for “Outnumbered” is a bit cheesy, this album makes for the perfect musical prelude to Halloween. Simply insert earphones and let your post-apocalyptic combat fantasies run wild. 4. Scare yourself silly: Why settle for a haunted house when ghouls can harass you just as well on a boat? The USS Nightmare was once a steamboat nicknamed “Death Dredge” by the Army Corps of Engineers who used it. It is said to have been the site of numerous unexplained deaths before retiring to commercial haunted house status. Visit www.USSnightmare.com to read the history for yourself and score a $3 off entry coupon. 5. Visit local haunts: Treat your inner child to a spooky spin on local history with the Haunted Duck Tours in Newport. The boat tour stops at tri-state spots with particularly eerie history, such as Music Hall, Union Terminal and Bobby Mackey’s Music World. Tour guides even supply passengers with quackers to ward off ghosts. Aw. 6. Get competitive: Fountain Square will be hosting its annual costume contest at noon on Oct. 22. While realizing you’re too old to trick-or-treat is depressing, at least you can waltz around downtown in costume with a crowd of creative characters. 7. Pick your pumpkin: Sure, you can pick up any old pumpkin at your local Kroger, but for the true downon-the-farm experience, a pumpkin patch visit is a must. Cliftonites who don’t mind a bit of a drive can get their hay ride on at Gorman Heritage Farms in Evendale or Turpin Farms in Anderson Township. 8. Suit yourself: Clifton may not have a giant Halloween Express store, but Elm Street downtown houses its own gem: Cappel’s. The costume and party supply store has everything needed to celebrate Halloween, whether you’re throwing a party, competing at Fountain Square or just really like to dress up. 9. Support a cause: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Hybrid Image Tattoo wins for most unique fundraising efforts. On Oct. 16, walk-in customers can receive a pink ribbon tattoo for $20 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. 50 percent of the proceeds go to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. 10. Catch a movie: Esquire Theater will host a portion of the Cincinnati Oxford Independent Film Festival Oct. 8 through 14. Plus, if tattoos aren’t your thing, fifty percent of money raised from the theater’s pink popcorn cups will go to local organizations fighting breast cancer. Send your comments to newsrecordent@gmail.com.
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Local comedians act out Think outside the comedic box Caitlin StewarT | Staff Reporter
The Underbelly comedy show in Newport, Ky., combines aspects of comedy television sketches from “Saturday Night Live” and “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” to create an uproarious night of laughs. The cast of local comedians’ lively sketches light up the dim parlor in the Southgate House during their performance. The event exceeds the expectations of a traditional comedy show. Rather than performing stand-up comedy, the comedians opt instead for simple but entertaining sketches and improvisation. One particularly noteworthy sketch was a two-part piece about mitosis led by Ryan Singer. While this initially seemed like a stretch for sketch, it was anything but bland. The performance began with two comedians covered in trash bags, connected together at the side. As the sketch went on, the two, who were in a relationship, soon “broke up,” revealing the actual reason that the cell was going through mitosis. Throughout this split, “Hello” by Lionel Richie was playing. It made for a very comical scene as the devastated split cell (Singer) cried out, flung
himself on the floor and crawled offstage. Some of the other sketches in the hourlong show included video and slam poetry about an acid trip. A crisis center sketch centered around poking fun at troubled callers, and one comedian enacted Bruce Springsteen singing songs about his love for Will Smith’s music and films. Though most of the program was very funny, there were a few drawbacks. Plan to arrive no earlier than the event’s scheduled beginning. Unless you plan to spend time at the bar, it’s is a very long wait for those who arrive when the doors open. The only other thing I could say in criticism for the program is that they did take some cheap jokes that they knew would get a laugh, even if they were a bit cliché. The rest of the program and the depth of the originality, however, seemed to override this small annoyance. The Underbelly comedy show is perfect for anyone up for some good laughs and wants to kill some free time during the week. It’s something every University of Cincinnati student should see at least once. The show takes place every first Tuesday of the month at 9 p.m. at Newport’s Southgate House.
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LAUGH OUT LOUD Anything goes for Underbelly comedians — anything but stand up, that is.
HORROR WITH HEART “Let Me In” tells simple story of boy meets vampire
before she can enter. She kills quite viciously. This is not the focus of the film, however; these kills are used to intercut a period of “Let Me In” has an element that many tenderness between Owen and Abby. Viewers American films cannot claim: subtlety. Most must struggle with Abby’s kindness versus American films just throw their cards on the her brutality. It is a hard line for us to walk, table and beg the viewer to pick them up. If but it is another reason why this film is such “Let Me In” was judged solely upon its trailers, a triumph. then this bombastic approach seems to apply. Much of the film’s brutality is not But what we see in trailers and what was perpetrated by Abby. Owen’s bully, Kenny, is brought to the screen are two very different quite often the cruelest things. character in the film. “Let Me In” is a His attacks on Owen are vampire movie, yes, but it vindictive and shocking. isn’t just a horror movie. It is through this lens that It is a love story, a tale of we see a major theme: that morality and an insight of good and evil and the on the human condition, flaws of hasty judgment as seen through the eyes regarding both. But again, of two young children. none of this is spoon fed The story revolves to the viewer. We are left around Owen, a boy to our own devices on this who is very much alone, complex issue. spending his time on This film will the outskirts, watching undoubtedly make you and listening to others feel uncomfortable, but voyeuristically (an effect the discomfort doesn’t accomplished through stem from overzealous brilliant cinematography). gore. We are presented During one of his situations that are voyeuristic nights, he is outside our own reality introduced to a young girl and we must struggle to named Abby. Despite her make sense of them. This attempts to fight it, she is the greatest strength quickly befriends Owen. of “Let Me In:” we must The two children form a struggle through the connection that creates same problems that the strong core of the film. photo couresty of epk.tv Owen faces. We must The plot is deceptively simple, but its unique IT’S DINNER TIME Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) loves Abby (Chloe Moretz), despite her make our own decisions, presentation pulls the gory hobbies and thirst for blood. It’s the classic story of two outsiders finding comfort in because none are ever readily provided. film forward. We see life one another, but with a vampire twist. NIck grever | staff reporter
through a child’s eyes. While we, as an audience, may figure out what’s going on before Owen, his discoveries are never strained for the sake of cinema. Of course, if one is familiar with the original film, “Let the Right One In,” then Abby’s secret isn’t much of a secret at all. She is a true vampire. She cannot go outside during the day, she feeds on human blood and she needs to be invited into someone’s home
Scooby-Doo evolves for new audience Mystery Machine drives on in “Mystery Incorporated” Sean Peters | Chief Reporter
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ROOBY ROOBY ROO! After 40 years of entertaining children, those meddling kids are still going strong. Too bad Freddie refuses to part with that ridiculous ascot.
Scooby-Doo has been around longer than most students enrolled at the University of Cincinnati have been alive. “Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated” is the newest animated series featuring the iconic Great Dane, Velma, Shaggy, Daphne and Fred. First airing on Cartoon Network in July, the series is by far the strongest addition to the collective ScoobyDoo universe (or, as I like to call it, the Scooby-Doo-ni-verse). There have been several revamped versions of the classic cartoon, all following the same principle plotlines in each episode: The gang makes some new friends, a terrifying spook emerges and the gang investigates, eventually unmasking the creep. While the past series spent much of the episode establishing a new and exotic location with its own unique spooky problem, “Mystery Incorporated” focuses on the gang’s hometown, Crystal Cove — the self-proclaimed “most haunted place on earth.”This local approach allows the show to have more reoccurring characters — chiefly the teenage sleuths’ parents, the mayor and police chief. The gang is also in high school, which answers some of my primary questions concerning those meddling kids: Why were they always traveling around? Were they just gypsy drifters? The Adult Swim show “The Venture Bros.” parodied the gang and personified different serial killers within each of them. They traveled around the country looking for any opportunity to take advantage of,
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constantly turning on each other while dealing with their own brand of insanity, assumably keeping Scooby (renamed Groovy) around to eat the bodies of their victims. The original idea for the show back in 1969 was to have the gang be a rock and roll band, like “Jabberjaw’s” crew. Thankfully, this did not play out. While Jabberjaw and Josie and the Pussycats were touring the world with their music, solving mysteries as they came, their shows didn’t survive a fraction of Scooby’s time. Growing up with such strange and famous figures that summed up the youth of the day in convenient stereotypes, it seems like the animated gang of mysterystarved amateur sleuths is HannaBarbera’s predecessor to “The Breakfast Club.” Only, instead of the mysteries faced by the Brat Pack, dealing with identity and self-worth, Scoob and the gang face mysteries involving ghost pirates and lake monsters. Speaking of lake monsters, a new live-action feature length film is coming out, straight to TV and DVD, titled “Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster.” It premieres Oct. 16 and, after watching a sneak peek, I am displeased to say it’s not looking great. For some inexplicable reason Fred has brown hair, completely throwing off the color scheme of the gang. It’s a true shame. The cast is different from the theatrically released ScoobyDoo movies and they look tired and unhappy with their artistic lots in life. Scooby-Doo should stay animated. New episodes air Mondays at 7 p.m. on Cartoon Network.
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DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, ART and PLANNING
UC grad redesigns portable toilet Industrial design graduate wins $1,000 innovator award
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THE PORTABLE RESTROOM Carly Hagins (top right), a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, created an environmentally friendly portable restroom for her industrial design senior capstone project. Her design (below) is more environmentally friendly. jayna barker | spotlight EDITOR
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ortable restrooms are small. They’re disgusting. They smell. They’re scary. And they’ve even been described as a “portal into the depths of hell.” University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning 2010 graduate Carly Hagins decided to change the perception of portable restrooms as part of her industrial design senior capstone project by re-designing today’s portable john. “It’s an interesting project because you get to pick, and it’s totally open,” Hagins said. “So after four and a half years of saying, ‘You’re going to do a light or a chair,’ you finally get to choose the whole thing.” The senior capstone is a 10-week project. Hagins spent the previous quarter actually doing research and gathering her bearings before starting the project. “The idea is really important. It’s kind of hard to come up with a good idea,” Hagins said. “My mom said, ‘You know, you’ve always been interested in bathrooms. Why don’t you [do your project on] a portable toilet?’ ” Once the idea hit the table, it made sense — because nobody likes them at all. “I learned a lot through the whole thing, especially people’s comfort with talking about this kind of stuff,” Hagins said. “No one wants to talk about it, but once you get them talking … They tell you their habits, where they go and where they won’t go.” She put out an online survey as part of the research and asked straightforward questions, like ‘Have you had a bad experience?’ or ‘Define a porta-potty.’ After sorting through 160 DAAP students’ answers, she had the perfect foundation to start building her idea.
People are uncomfortable when it comes to bathrooms and what goes on in there. —carly hagins daap graduate
“I listened to what people had to say, and I learned people don’t like to touch anything in a porta-potty, which stands to reason,” Hagins said. “I wanted to see if I could make it feel bigger so you could go in and move around without having to make contact with the inevitably germy surfaces.” Overall, she wanted a better experience for porta-potty users. “You should be able to use that box if you need to and not feel so stressed about it,” Hagins said. One motivation for Hagins was a conference she attended in Los Angeles called Opportunity Green — a sustainability conference. “Ever since I went to that, it has been a primary motivator,” Hagins said. “Pretty quickly, that became my goal for this project.” So, she learned more about the business. She became close allies with Adam Rumpke — as in Rumpke, one of the nation’s largest privately owned waste and recycling companies — who is in charge of portable restrooms in the Cincinnati area. He taught her a lot about the what she needed to know about business and the industry. “I just sent one e-mail saying, ‘Hey, I go to UC, and I’m doing this project. Can you help me
out?’ and he gave me a whole tour of their warehouse,” Hagins said. “That was unbelievably cool. It was kind of dirty, grimy and a little nasty, but it was so neat because right at the beginning of a very short project, I understood the business perspective of the industry. That’s information I would not have been able to figure out on my own.” During her research, Hagins found portable restrooms to be terrible for the environment. They use a lot of water and chemicals. The restroom she created “provides a better experience for the user, a more profitable venture for the business owner and a more environmentally friendly option than other portable restrooms. It is a comprehensive solution for the portable restroom industry that strives to address the
‘triple bottom line’ — people, planet and profit,” Hagins said. So, what does the redesign look like? “Right now, if you go into a portapotty, there is a bench,” Hagins said. “I never realized this before I did the project, but the bench is where everything goes. It’s totally gross, and it’s right there. You can smell it. You can look down and see it. It’s not that big, and it crunches in on your space inside the porta-potty. So, I put everything below the floor so you’re a little bit further away from it.” And the actual toilet itself has changed to fit the needs of those uncomfortable with squatting. “It’s like a cylinder,” Hagins said. “To be candid, you can get your feet around it.” to potty | 7
ROOM TO POO Hagin’s design (right) allocates comfort for the portable restroom user, as compared to the average small, enclosed spaces of portable restrooms. The final product (far right) was a full-scale model of what she wanted it to look like.
STAGES OF DESIGN Hagins spent one quarter researching the idea and then spent 10 weeks putting her project together, which went through many stages of design. Her capstone project was presented at the DAAP Works 2010 critique, where she presented her final product to her fellow students and professors. NEWSRECORD.LIVING@GMAIL.COM | 513.556.5913
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Shelter is source of comfort I miss my cat. I’m not a crazy cat lady or anything, but my cat Sam has been a part of my life for more than seven years. My sister and I got our Christmas kittens in 2003, when I was 13 years old. I grew up with Sam, a rotund (he weighs about 15 pounds), fluffy, floppy mutt with orangeand-white fur. When I first arrived at the University of Cincinnati two years ago, I was hit with a powerful wave of homesickness. Sure, I was excited and happy to be at UC, but there was a big, gaping hole in the middle of my chest where things like mom’s cooking, my colorful bedroom and my high school friends had been. And in the middle of that whole was Sam. Since then, I still get the occasional longing for hometown comforts, but I’ve gotten a lot more comfortable in Cincinnati. I have a solid cluster of friends, I adore my new apartment and I’ve come to love this city. And yet, there was still something missing. Cuddling with a fluff ball when you’re bummed out, having a creature depend on you … these were things I couldn’t seem to replace. I’ve had a pet of some kind my entire life, so not having one around — even after two plus years — just felt weird. I finally decided to do something about it. Playing with chief reporter Sean Peters’ black cats (Pugsley and Wednesday — adorable) just wasn’t cutting it. I can’t afford my own pet — food, litter, vet bills and an additional rent fee was just too much for my meager budget. And my attempts to convince The Boyfriend that a kitten would be the perfect addition to his three-story house shared by nine guys seemed to only result in eye rolls and scoffs. So what was I left with? Where could I spend time with a group of cats without suffering from the financial burden? And then it hit me. Why not find a way to hang out with some cool cats and do some good at the same time? So I called up former news editor Amanda Woodruff, who’s love for animals and desire to help the less fortunate made last year at The News Record sweet and fluffy. Her stories about UC cat colonies and strays really hit home with a lot of students. I asked Amanda if she could recommend any good animal shelters where I could volunteer. I tried Googling nearby shelters, but the only one I really came up with was SPCA Cincinnati. Amanda suggested I stay away from SPCA because she’d heard more than a few unsavory things about it. But she did know the perfect place for me: Save the Animals Foundation, or STAF. STAF is a no-kill shelter, which means their 600-plus cats stay until they find a home or die of natural causes. They have kittens, young adults, elderly cats … in every medical state you could imagine. There are cats with feline leukemia, cats with neural problems and cats that couldn’t be healthier. I contacted the STAF staff (heh) and started volunteering roughly a month ago. Since then, I’ve grown to love my Saturday mornings at STAF more than I would have imagined. My job every Saturday is to clean the cages of the newer residents — those who have just arrived at STAF and are working on getting their vaccines. And the majority of these residents are kittens. Playing with kittens every week is sometimes what gets me through that see ariel | 7
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Dining hall high price to pay Home cooking provides full bellies for a lower price gabrielle walter | Staff reporter One aspect of my freshman year I will not miss at the University of Cincinnati is the food plan. With my first year behind me, I, like many of my fellow students, had to start seriously budgeting my money. Besides housing, the only thing left to scrutinize is the food plan. Calculator in hand, I found out just how much I was paying per meal at the dining halls. I approximated the results for the 2010-2011 meal plans and was horrified … - 209 Value Plan = $6.20 per meal - 154 Plan = $8.00 per meal - 32 Plan (minus $100 on Bearcat Card) = $9.00 per meal - 45 Plan (minus $100 on Bearcat Card) = $7.20 per meal As part of the 132-plus plan last year, I could not believe that I was paying close to $9.00 per meal. Especially when my favorite combination was the make-your-own sandwich and ice cream machine. That is one expensive
ham and cheese sandwich and chocolate ice cream cone. Before I dared to enter the world of cooking on my own, I wanted to weigh the pros and cons of staying with UC’s food plan. On UC’s residential meal plan website you will see the phrase,“To dine with friends is enticing. To dine worry-free is enlightening.” It is true that eating two plates of the ridiculously addicting fries at CenterCourt with your new roommates can be a bonding experience, but I’ve already gained the Freshman 15 and sworn off the Centercourt fries (three months and still going strong). It’s true that I would not have to worry about what to make each night for dinner or the time it would take to do it, but is that worth $9.00 per meal? I can go to Panera Bread and get a YouPick-Two meal for around $7.50. Let’s not forget Currito, Buffalo Wild Wings and Potbelly’s — all usually under $9.00 per meal. So I can eat out every day at my favorite restaurants instead of at CenterCourt and still save money? I’m sold.
Restaurant dining aside, I now can say that I absolutely love cooking. My fellow food-planboycotter and I crack open the cook books every Sunday and pick four or five meals (we don’t cut the recipes in half so we have leftovers for busy nights). After we pick out our meals we head over to the affectionately-named Kroghetto, buy everything we need and come back to cook the afternoon away. The majority of my sophomore friends are in the same boat as my friend and I, so we don’t have to worry about eating alone. Sundays are cooking days, so we don’t have to worry about not having enough time during the week to cook. On top of that, we get to eat what we want. Instead of the same old chocolate ice cream every day, we get Moose Tracks with hot fudge that lasts all week. Oh, and just in case you’re wondering, last week I made caramelized onion chicken, pulled barbecue chicken, roasted red pepper tortellini and honey mustard and bacon smothered chicken. I spent $60 and each meal had 4 servings. That’s $3.75 per meal.
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American Dream has wide range Maria Bergh | Staff reporter Imagine unvarying suburban sprawl spreading from the front doors of Clifton across the country to the entry gates of Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Red River Gorge or some other preserve of nature. Imagine that from here to there are streets like Colerain or Beechmont or MLK — or whatever they are called elsewhere — roads that have a mall and every fast food chain represented and much, much more, all in one continuous line. Imagine that “forest” means the scruffy woods at the border of one subdivision and another, that “commuting” means shuttling from one sub center to another, that traffic waits in lines on streets wider than a football field is long. This picture is the real conclusion of the so-called “American Dream.”
Americans tend to work toward a personal ideal of comfort and security, one that requires the college degree we are pursuing so ardently. What Americans tend to forget is that when each person pursues this goal it is multiplied until what would be nice for some becomes terrible for all. I met a homeless woman last quarter who was homeless because her car broke down. She previously had a job, but when she could not get there, she could not get paid, and while she waited to get money to fix her car, she got behind on rent. She told me she hopes to move to the neighborhood she works in, so that the next time she can simply walk. When life is seen from the pedestrian perspective superhighways are deserts and the suburbs prison camps, cheaply
disguised as pleasant places to live. What is the point? I think Immanuel Kant, the philosopher, sums it up the best. Like all philosophers, much of what he writes seems impracticable, abstract, or even abstruse. But when it boils down, his Moral Imperative sounds like this: it is only right to do what everyone can do and live. This is a simple enough definition of ethics. But think about living it. Can every household have three cars? Mine does. Can every household possess over an acre of land? Mine does. Can every renter leave their entire apartment full of junk and buy new the next place like so many around campus do every year? If everyone lived like this, there would be infinite suburbia, no oil, no clean water and certainly no
wilderness or fertile farmland left. So much of the world that is beautiful is devalued or ignored in our economy. So much of the world does not have a choice in how they live, yet we who can choose accept the mainstream ideal. This has become a symbol for wealth. Like previous symbols (bound feet or long nails in China, powdered wigs in Europe), it is completely impractical. But it symbolizes the power and wealth of the United States, and each newly-rich country wants it, from China to Dubai. This stresses the globe and loses justice, beauty, and intelligent design and infrastructure. Make a choice in how you live. Ditch the car. Walk. Live inside the ring road. Live your life with an eye to the future you want to endorse, the country and the concepts with which you want the next generation to be familiar.
Student looks to UC police for safety tips Megan Fingerman | Staff reporter While scrolling through my UC e-mail account, almost every day, twice a day like clock work, I receive an e-mail about on- and off-campus robberies or assaults. How many of us actually read those warnings? I admit, I was one of those people who scrolled down the page looking at subject lines and automatically deleting the campus reports. I figured I don’t live on or near campus, so these emails do not affect me. Well … I was completely wrong. Over the summer, my friend and I were walking to Highlands Bar after parking o n Fosdick Street in Corryville. While walking toward the bar, a man came out behind a mini-van and tried to mug my friend. When my friend was unwilling to let go 509 and 510 Swift Hall University of Cincinnati 45221-0135 Office phone 556-5900 Office fax 556-5922
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of her purse, the man attempted to get away when I reached for the back of his jeans. I ended up with a bruised chin and my friend was scraped up from head to toe. So now I am here to convince you to read those safety e-mails because I believe them to be truly important in helping secure our safety on and off campus. Both University of Cincinnati Police and Cincinnati Police have spent time and money to help ensure the safety of all, which can’t be accomplished without citizen’s protecting themselves first. UCPD provides many ways to help everyone increase their alertness, including staying alert, sticking to well-lit and busy streets, walking with a friend or companion and keeping car doors locked. In 2010 so far, there have been 529 crimes as of July 7 in Corryville alone, including 21 burglaries, five aggravated assaults and 93 nonaggravated assaults, accodring to Cincinnati
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Police statistics. The crime percent is exponentially growing compared to the 2009 stats. Looking back at this experience, how could my friend and I have prevented ourselves from being a part of this statistic? Following the easy steps that UCPD has readily available on their website probably would have made us more aware of out surroundings and able to defend ourselves better. When I think about the incident, I wish I could go back in time and defend myself and my friend better from the attempted mugger after researching what UCPD has listed on their website. If you want to find more information about on and off campus safety, check out www. uc.edu/publicsafety or www.cincinnati-oh.gov/ cpd/. Remember, you are your best weapon when it comes to defending yourself.
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FROM ariel | 6 which is way better than snuggling up to some Axe-drenched frat boy. And, corny as it may sound, I get to do some good. But I think the most important thing is that volunteering at STAF restores my humanity, even for those few short hours. I am able to let go of all the frustration and anger that comes with working at The News Record and dealing with professors and never, ever having enough money in my bank account. I am able to get away from all those assignments and deadlines. And instead, I am able to help a living creature survive for one more day. I’m able to see what good can come from giving a few short hours of my weekend to a building full of pets who need a little love.
long Wednesday or the extremely dull research paper. Knowing that there are roughly 25 kittens waiting for me to cuddle with them come Saturday is an absolutely fantastic feeling. I also clean up Room 13. Room 13 is filled with young adults who are full of life. I walk out of there with more than enough claw scratches and usually covered in cat hair … but it’s more than worth it. I’m not exactly sure what the purpose of today’s column is. I guess I wanted to share with you all this perfect solution to so many problems I think many college students face. Volunteering at STAF gives me the opportunity to get away from all the stress and strife of college living. I get to cuddle with some of the most adorable creatures I’ve ever seen, FOUR THINGS TO DO THIS WEEK
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From VolleyBALL | 7 hard for her. While Sunahara said the Blue Demons will not be taken for granted, the Bearcats’ real challenge should come Sunday against Notre Dame, giving the victor first place in the Big East. In last season’s meeting, the Bearcats narrowly lost three sets to two on Notre Dame’s home court in South Bend, Ind. But this season, Cincinnati gets the Fighting Irish at Fifth Third where they have a perfect 2-0 record against Notre Dame and an active 35-match home winning streak. Sunahara said his team is used to shrugging off records
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From SOCCER | 7 during season play and a home match against a strong team like Notre Dame adds no extra pressure. “We treat it as another game,” Sunahara said. “We don’t look at the streak at all and we don’t talk about it. We look at every game as it comes and we just need to focus on one match at a time.” The opening serve at Fifth Third Arena is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday against DePaul while the “Ring of Red” match against the Fighting Irish is set to begin at 5 p.m. Sunday and will be televised nationally on ESPNU.
in a good position.” In their win over Pitt, the Bearcats mixed up their personnel and played 20 different players throughout the game, something Salmon expects to continue. She said whoever is playing the best soccer will get a chance to play. By digging deep into the bench against Pittsburgh, the Bearcats gave playing time to a number of underclassmen. Salmon expects junior forward Julie Morrissey — who scored the game-winning goal against Pitt — to find her way into the starting lineup against Georgetown.
have to come out and match their intensity,” Salmon said. The games against Georgetown and Villanova will be the Bearcats’ last two home matches before four road games to end the regular season. Salmon talked about the current standings in the Big East and how the weekend’s games could affect her team’s position — currently seventh in the conference’s National division with a 1-4 league mark. “There’s no breakout team in the Big East other than Notre Dame,” Salmon said. “Everyone is kind of hedged right in there. If we can win, it’s going to put us
From potty | 3 Although the project was highly influenced by the survey responses, Hagins was motivated mostly by sustainability and her responsibility as an industrial designer to be conscious of consumer habits. “In the business of making stuff, the reality is that there is enough stuff,” Hagins said. “People can stop making stuff altogether, and we can get by. So if we’re going to keep doing it, we have to think it out and be smart about resources.” One of Hagins’ biggest improvements from the average porta-potty is that it benefits the environment. “It’s a composting toilet, which means there wouldn’t be chemicals,” Hagins said. “There would be sawdust or organic material, and there would be a flush after each person. If it was
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maintained properly, it would still need to be serviced, but there wouldn’t be a smell. Eventually the waste could be used as compost for soil or in public parks — maybe sell it. It all depends on public acceptance.” After the research was finished and the redesign was fit to be eco-friendly, everything culminated with the DAAP Works Show, which is hosted during the spring of ever school year. “I actually did mock a full-scale porta-potty,” Hagins said.“It wasn’t functional, but you could walk into it and feel the proportions and see how it would feel.” Unfortunately, there was one con to the redesign. “I think it would have been nice to have a little longer with the project because it ended up being really big by the end,” Hagins said. “I kind of ran out of time to
really design the outside and get more into styling — a big part of industrial design. With the final model I had, it would have been nice to make it look nicer. I thought it was an achievement to get it full size, but it wasn’t as beautiful as I would have liked it to be.” Although she received a B+ on the project, Hagins received a larger award when she entered the Cincinnati Innovates Contest. “The Cincinnati Innovates [Contest] was kind of a big step because it’s a public recognition of ‘This is a good idea., ” Hagins said. She won $1,000 for her complete composting portable restroom, which was a perfect ending to a five-year college career in industrial design. What is Hagins up to now, five months after graduation? “I talked to a lawyer about the possibility of moving forward
with a patent so I can pitch it to manufacturers,” Hagins said. “Essentially a patent is really expensive and hard to back up, but I’m working on figuring out the next way to move forward because it would be really cool for someone to pick it up.” Although her time in DAAP is over, Hagins will still continue to integrate industrial design and sustainability in her life. “I think design becomes the most powerful when it tackles hard issues,” Hagins said. “Sanitation is a hard issue. People are uncomfortable when it comes to talking about bathrooms and what goes on there. It’s a reality of daily life, though, and shouldn’t be overlooked. To me, a wellthought out toilet is in many ways more impressive than a beautiful lounge chair.”
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From FOOTBALL | 7 on the field for more than 33 minutes on average. The RedHawk defense is young, but strong up front. Its led by linebackers Jerrell Wedge and Evan Harris. Wedge played every snap in 2009 and leads the team in tackles and sacks this season. Harris is second on the team in tackles and has one interception on the season. “I think their defense is pretty improved,” said running back John Goebel. “They show a lot of different looks and seem to be pretty intense this year and we are definitely expecting a fight out there.” Sophomore safety Pat Hinkel and freshman Dayonne Nunley lead Miami with two interceptions each. “They give you so many different looks [on defense] and Nunley is a great corner,” Jones said. UC quarterback Zach Collaros didn’t see any action against the RedHawks last season. He has 964 passing yards this season with nine touchdowns, one interception and leads the Big East with 241 passing yards per game. Running back Isaiah Pead should be able to find room this week, as Miami is giving up more than 100 yards rushing per game this season. The Bearcats left Oxford with a 3713 win in 2009 — Cincinnati’s fourthstraight win in college football’s oldest non-conference rivalry. Quarterback Tony Pike struggled, but senior running back Jacob Ramsey ran for 103 yards and three touchdowns. The RedHawks stumbled to a 1-11 finish last season, but are off to a 3-2 start in head coach Michael Haywood’s second season. “[Miami] is a better team [than last season]. Every time we play, them it’s going to be a good game because we come out to fight each other,” Goebel said. “It’s a serious game and means a lot to both of us and we are going to come in there with all we got.” Miami will be without seven starters due to injury, while UC might be without running back Darrin Williams. Safety Drew Frey will make his return after missing the Oklahoma game with a head injury and tight end Ben Guidugli is listed as day-to-day after injuring an ankle against North Carolina State.
the case of Chris Armstrong, the student assembly president at University of Michigan. Armstrong, who is openly gay, has been stalked and harassed by a UM alumnus because of his sexuality. The student government has decided to show their support for Armstrong by encouraging diversity. SGA will also be hosting its first Town Hall meeting at noon, Oct. 7, in the Tangeman University Center Atrium. UC Police Chief Gene Ferrara will be a guest speaker at the meeting and will discuss student safety.
From haiti | 1 school as their own children. He later attended high school in NewYork City, where a teacher learned of Cadet living in a laundromat and arranged an apartment, welfare and food stamps for him to survive. “When my English improved, I got a job,” Cadet said. He thought that job at a gas station would be all he would ever do. “A slave child does not know anything about dreaming or being something,” Cadet said. “I didn’t have a dream.” Then, Cadet walked into a U.S. Army recruiting station. “I asked the man how you changed oil in a tank,” Cadet said. “He said ‘You’ve come to the right place.’ ” Recalling the U.S. Army recruiter elicited laughs from the audience. Cadet conducted his army training at Fort Dix, N.J., and garnered more laughter from the audience when he told them of when he informed a sergeant he was there to change oil in tanks. The sergeant told Cadet that he now belonged to “Uncle Sam.” “I didn’t know I had an uncle named Sam,” Cadet said. “I’d never had a relative named Sam.” Cadet became a naturalized U.S. citizen while in the Army, attended college and formed the Jean R. Cadet Restavek Organization dedicated to ending child slavery in Haiti.
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From COCAINE | 7 really happy. It’s nice to be on cocaine. You really like the sensation.” The vaccine itself prevents the feeling of sensation even when cocaine is in the bloodstream. “After people get vaccinated, they take cocaine and nothing happens,” Somoza said. “They keep doing that for a while. This is only hypothesis, but if you [use the vaccination] long enough, you won’t use [cocaine] anymore.”
Dr. Somoza has been working alongside Theresa Winhusen, codirector of the Cincinnati Addiction Research Center. “It’s important to know there is no FDA-approved chronological phramacological agent for cocaine dependence,” Winhusen said. “That’s why this is so important. For alcohol, there are medications. For opium, there are medications. For cocaine, there is nothing. There are no FDAapproved medications. This is just one approach.”
And it’s the first approach that might have a chance of working. “The problem with previous medications is that they can be overridden,” Winhusen said. “This is actually the first true test of whether that kind of approach is going to work for stimulants because it can’t be overridden.This will help us know if it will be a good approach.” Somoza and Winhusen have received nearly $65 million in grants from the NIH during the past 15 years for this research. They are part
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Big Three, Heat can’t be beat It’s safe to say the first three minutes and 17 seconds of the Miami Heat’s first preseason game were the most-watched three minutes and 17 seconds of preseason basketball in history. And with good reason. The NBA has never before seen a team with such star power as this season’s Miami Heat and we’ve never seen an NBA season like the one right around the corner. Dwyane Wade’s hamstring injury might have spoiled The Big Three’s preseason debut, but he’ll be healthy by the time the regular season rolls around. Then the real show begins. In Boston, against Shaquille O’Neal, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo in a game that should go on to set a record for most future hall of famers on the court at one time. When the free agency season began this past summer, nobody believed three of the biggest stars would align in South Beach. It didn’t even seem possible when the trio entered the league simultaneously in June 2003. LeBron James was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2003 NBA Draft. Chris Bosh was summoned north of the border with the fourth pick and Wade was taken at No. 5. I believe you’re more or less familiar with their respective careers in the seven seasons since then. Wade won an NBA championship in 2006 in Miami, Bosh spent seven long years freezing his dreadlocks off in Toronto and with one decision and a one-hour special, James bid adieu to his hometown Cavaliers while Cleveland cried foul. The Big Three has taken more than its fair share of criticism for joining forces and James was named one of America’s most-hated athletes. Know what all that commotion did? Only add fuel to the fire. The Heat are already playing with more talent than every other team in the league. Now they’ve got more to prove than anyone else, too. We’ve seen James, Wade and Bosh each become elite players during their seven seasons apart. As teammates, they’ve won a gold medal with Team USA and now stand poised to build one of the greatest dynasties in sports. Well, Wade isn’t standing quite as poised as the other two thirds of The Big Three at the moment, but that’s the beauty of Miami’s setup — one all-star goes down hurt, there’s a pair waiting to pick up the slack. The supporting cast ain’t too shabby, either. Mike Miller might set an NBA record for most wide-open three-pointers made in a season after The Big Three demand most of the attention from opposing defenses. Point guards Mario Chalmers, Eddie House and Carlos Arroyo will rack up the assists and Zydrunas Ilgauskas will quietly put together an overall successful season and keep The Big Three happy. Oh, and chemistry issues? Please. James, Wade and Bosh are smart enough to know everyone outside of Miami is just waiting for them to fail and fall short of the lofty goals the trio has set for themselves. Too bad that won’t happen. The Miami Heat will be the hands-down best team in the NBA this season and Cavs owner Dan Gilbert will fall short on his promise to win Cleveland a championship before James wins his first ring in Miami. The Heat pulled off some great offseason moves this past summer, making for a truly unique season ahead. Now it’s time to deliver on the expectations those moves brought with them to South Beach. The Big Three’s 17 all-star game appearances, six all-NBA first team selections and five more all-NBA second team selections won’t mean a thing if the Heat don’t win a ring. Or two. Or seven.
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UC prepped for Big East’s best SAM WEINBERG | SPORTS EDITOR In its last outing, the University of Cincinnati volleyball team learned no team should be taken for granted — a valuable lesson for the team’s upcoming weekend matches. Before the Bearcats face their toughest conference test, the Lady Bearcats will host a struggling DePaul (1-16, 0-4 Big East) squad Friday at Fifth Third Arena. Then the No. 21 Bearcats (15-3, 4-0 Big East) will host the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (11-5, 4-0 Big East) Sunday in a battle of conference unbeatens and preseason favorites. “Notre Dame is a traditionally good team,” Cincinnati head coach Reed Sunahara said. “They have a lot of rich tradition, but we can’t overlook one for the next. Right now, we’re focusing on DePaul, and then we’ll focus on Notre Dame.” If Cincinnati’s last match against the 2-12
University of Connecticut Huskies taught the team anything, it’s that no win is guaranteed.
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RISING IN RANK The UC volleyball team’s No. 21 ranking in the latest AVCA poll is the highest for a Big East team since Louisville reached No. 17 in 2007.
The Bearcats narrowly won their sets against the Huskies and allowed 20 or more points per set against a UConn offense that ranks last in the Big East. While the match against the Fighting Irish has bigger implications, Sunahara said the team’s attention is focused on DePaul until the last point is scored. “Any league match is tough,” Sunahara said. “DePaul has a new coach and they’re going to play
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VICTORY BELL BASH
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HOME SWEET HOME Cincinnati’s Nippert Stadium will host it’s first game in nearly a month Saturday when the Miami RedHawks visit for the 115th Battle for the Victory Bell.
UC, Miami reignite rivalry TOM SKEEN | Senior REPORTER
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fter a bye-week break, the University of Cincinnati football team is set for its first rivalry game of the season. The Miami RedHawks will travel roughly 40 miles south Saturday to Nippert Stadium for the 115th Battle for the Victory Bell. Sophomore quarterback Zac Dysert, who through five games has passed for 1,058 yards this season with five touchdowns and six interceptions, leads the RedHawks. “[Dysert] is extremely competitive, he’s a winner, he puts in the work and he’s a football junkie,”said UC head coach Butch Jones. “You want a quarterback who’s a gym rat and in there all the time. He can
make every throw, he’s deceptively quick and I think he’s a great player.” Dysert’s favorite receiver is senior Armand Robinson, who has 410 yards and three touchdowns on 38 receptions. Robinson averages 10.8 yards per reception and ranks 13th in the nation with 7.6 receptions per game. The RedHawks use a two-headed attack at running back with senior Thomas Merriweather and freshman Tracy Woods. Woods has 50 carries for 193 yards and Merriweather has 190 yards on 43 carries with four touchdowns. Combining their numbers averages out to more than four yards per carry. Miami (OH) ranks 11th in the country in time of possession, keeping the offense
[Miami] is a better team [than last season]. Every time we play them, it’s going to be a good game because we come out to fight each other. It’s a serious game and means a lot to both of us, and we are going to come in there with all we got.
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—john goebel UC senior running back
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SPRINT TO FINISH The University of Cincinnati women’s soccer team plays its final two home games of the regular season Friday and Sunday at Gettler Stadium before four road matches to cap the season.
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University of Cincinnati women’s soccer head coach Michelle Salmon thinks one of the biggest factors in the team’s upcoming games might not be the people on the field, but rather those surrounding it. The Bearcats are coming off their first Big East win of the season — a 2-1 victory against Pitt this past Sunday — and a game in which Salmon said the crowd was a factor. “When the students come out, it makes a huge difference,” Salmon said. “Two years ago against Villanova, it was a huge factor in the game and in making the Big East tournament.” That same Villanova team will be in Cincinnati at 1 p.m. Sunday to face the Bearcats at Gettler Stadium. But before that rematch, UC will face the Georgetown Hoyas at 7 p.m. Friday. Georgetown (9-4, 2-2 Big East) has lost four of its past six games, but leads the Big East with 33 goals this season. To compete, Salmon said her team will have to continue to attack with a great deal of urgency and play smart defense. Villanova on the other hand enters Friday’s game 6-7 overall and 1-4 in Big East play. But the Bearcats won’t be overlooking the Wildcats with Salmon billing it as a rivalry game. “The games have always been tight and we see SOCCER | 7