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THURSDAY | NOVEMBER 1 | 2012
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SG approves funds for tailgate, watch party DANI KOKOCHAK | SENIOR REPORTER The University of Cincinnati Undergraduate Student Government appropriated funds to an alumni tailgate and watch party Wednesday. The event aims to serve as a platform for students to engage with alumni. “This is about student groups getting in contact with their alumni and building that relationship, not just getting back the same alumni that come back for everything,” said Carolyn Johnson, presenter of the bill and director of alumni affairs. Events include a tailgate for the home basketball game against the University of Alabama and a watch party for the football game against the University of Connecticut Saturday Dec. 1. The party will take place at Uncle Woody’s Tavern, which will have a catered burger buffet for a minimum of 150 people, according to the bill. Rally Cats and Student Alumni Council are providing financial and networking resources. “Student Alumni Council is willing to donate a $150 prize for the student group that brings back the most alumni,”Johnson said.“Rally Cats is sponsoring money for the marketing materials.”
A request for $900, with an overrun of $90, from the student government programming line item was proposed in the bill. The amount will cover the cost to allow the first 150 alumni registered to eat free of charge. Students who wish to register and attend the event will be required to pay a $6 fee for the burger buffet. “We want this to be an event that facilitates alumni engagement, and this facilitates that without encouraging only students to take up those 150 premiums,” said Matt Meriweather, co-presenter of the bill. The dollar amount will be taken from the programming line item of the budget instead of the co-sponsorship line item because the director of alumni affairs, Carolyn Johnson, is hosting the event. The director of alumni affairs position was created to bridge the gap between student government, the alumni association and Student Alumni Council, said Lane Hart, student body president. The appropriations bill concerning the alumni tailgate and watch party passed by majority vote in the senate.
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FUNDING APPROVED Student Government approved a bill Wednesday that appropriated $900 to a tailgate and watch party that aims to engage students with alumni. The event will be on Sat. Dec. 1 at Uncle Woody’s.
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BY THE NUMBERS The University of Cincinnati Police’s annual crime report shows an overall decrease in campus and neighborhood offenses.
CRIME ON THE DECREASE
UCPD releases annual report, campus crime down KARA DRISCOLL | NEWS EDITOR
The University of Cincinnati Police Department released its annual crime report for 2011, which showed an overall decrease in crime compared to previous years. In accordance with the Clery Act, UCPD must disclose data of offenses occurring each year. Every effort is made to ensure all reports are included in the data, including crime that wasn’t officially reported to police, according to the campus safety report. “We are still working hard to continue to have the numbers go down,” said UC Police Chief Michael Cureton in a previous interview.“We want students to be aware that the administration, police are working very hard. [UC Police] are dedicated to providing a very safe community.” Liquor law violations led with 268 instances on campus — the largest number of reports in 2011. The number increased from 258 in 2010 and 199 in 2008; yet drug violations in residence halls went down from 32 in 2010 to 16 reports. Forcible sex offenses increased in residence halls from two in 2010 to five in 2011. Forcible sex offenses include rape and attempted rape, forcible fondling, forcible sodomy and sexual assault with an object, according to the campus safety report. Sexual assault is a major problem with every college and university, said UCPD Captain Rodney Chatman. “[Sexual offenses] remain one of the most underreported crimes,” Chatman said. “I hope that the increase in reported offenses is related more to the students both receiving messages on how not to be a victim and students receiving information about risky behavior and I hope it’s related to a greater sense of comfort in reporting these offenses — knowing there are tremendous resources to help any victim of sexual assault [on campus].” A second-year female said she was the victim of sexual imposition when she awoke to a male student groping her in her bed at Stratford Heights Nov. 5. “I woke up the next morning and his fingers were in my pants,” she said. The female student reported the crime to judicial affairs, but did not feel the case was handled in an adequate way. “Judicial Affairs said they handled it, but the only thing that happened was that he got moved to another dorm,” she said.“I cancelled my contract and I left UC dorms for good.”
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She no longer feels safe on campus, she said. “I will not live on campus; I will not hang out on campus,” the secondyear student said. Drug violations increased exponentially off campus, with 38 reports compared to zero over the past two years. Aggravated assault — an attack by a person upon another with a deadly or dangerous weapon, resulting in injury, according to the report — decreased off campus, while robbery and burglary increased in the Clifton area. Burglary decreased on campus, but some students at UC feel unsafe in the Clifton area. Stuart Gilchrist, a fourth-year aerospace engineering student, was robbed at gunpoint by a mob of individuals on Warner Street at approximately 10:30 p.m. in September 2011. His cellphone and other possessions were stolen and the suspects instructed him to run up the street after holding a gun to his stomach. Gilchrist reported it to police, but now feels uncomfortable walking alone in Clifton at night. “I try my hardest not be on the streets off campus after dark,” he said. “I have a night class now so I either park my car near campus or ask my friends to walk with me.” Gilchrist also feels crime has increased in surrounding areas. “This year there’s a lot more [crime], it seems,” he said. UCPD arrested five suspects related to several thefts from automobiles and criminal damaging around campus Saturday. The suspects were picked up at approximately 4 a.m., Chatman said. The suspects were arrested in Corry Garage while peering into cars and carrying a backpack with rocks, supposedly used for breaking into cars. The investigation is ongoing and police identified a sixth suspect who was allegedly involved in the crimes. Police are comfortable saying that the suspects are responsible for other break-ins around Clifton, Chatman said. Though the area is perceived to be unsafe by many, police are increasing patrol and targeting specific areas, Cureton said. “We don’t want students to fear crime,” Chatman said. “We also want students to have a respect for the existence of crime because when students take preventative safety measures, it eventually makes the community safer.”
Christ Hospital was recently named one of the nation’s top 50 cardiovascular hospitals in an annual study. Truven Health Analytics — a medical company that specializes in analyzing and gathering data pertaining to the healthcare industry — conducted the study. Truven uses this information to publish reports that seek to find the nation’s highest-quality hospitals for interested healthcare customers. “We work together comprehensively across all services,” said Chris Thompson, the executive director of Christ Hospital’s Cardiovascular Department. The study found that if the nonqualifying hospitals performed at the level of hospitals such as Christ, “nearly 8,600 additional lives could be saved and more than $1 billion could be saved.” “We’ve been able to accomplish that through hard work, and keeping our teams cohesive enough to maintain it,” Thompson said. The study looked at 1,000 different national hospitals and categorizes them into three separate groups: Teaching hospitals with cardiovascular residency programs, teaching hospitals without cardiovascular residency programs and community hospitals. The hospitals are then evaluated on clinical outcomes of patients being treated for heart attacks, heart failure and those that undergo percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Length of stay and the average cost per case also determine which hospitals qualify. Truven has named Christ Hospital one of the top 50 cardiovascular hospitals in the country nine times, said Michael Beauchat, public relations representative from Christ Hospital. “It’s recognition of the work that the staff does for the community,” Beauchat said.
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