The News Record 11.21.13

VOL. CXXXVI ISSUE XVIV • FREE-ADDITIONAL COPIES $1

THE NEWS RECORD THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI’S INDEPENDENT, STUDENT-RUN NEWS ORGANIZATION / THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 2013

SPEAKING SERIES WRAPS WITH EROTIC, PROVOCATIVE POET

VISITING WRITERS

CATS ROUTE BEATNIK MURDER CAMPBELL

‘KILL YOUR DARLINGS’ HITS BIG SCREEN IN DRAMATIC FASHION

PAGE 6

PAGE 3

‘WALKING DEAD’

PAGE 4

PAGE 4

Safety around campus improving; still more work needed Increased patrols leading to decreased crime, officials talk future strategies ALEXIS O’BRIEN NEWS EDITOR

DAN SULLIVAN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Board of Trustees chair Fan Barrett, UC President Santa Ono, Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell and UC Vice President for Administration and Finance Bob Ambach (left to right) at Tuesday’s safety committee meeting.

Ohio governor to speak at winter commencement

While heightened enforcement efforts are improving crime trends in the areas surrounding the University of Cincinnati, UC and local law enforcement officials are still searching for methods to reduce crime.

“I want to see no red dots on the map,” said President Santa Ono when he examined a crime data map of Clifton Heights, University Heights and Fairview during the monthly Campus Safety Committee meeting Tuesday.

Since the Aug. 25 implementation of increased law enforcement patrolling— a

change that increased police coverage in the areas surrounding campus from four days a week to seven — crime around UC has decreased about 54 percent, said Robin Engel, director of the Institute of Crime Science.

“Criminals are looking for target-rich environments and if they see our guys, they’re going somewhere else,” said Jeffrey Blackwell, Cincinnati police chief.

Cincinnati Police, with the help of UCPD, have focused on preventing street robberies though an increased law enforcement presence in areas where students live and socialize.

“To be honest, this is the safest I felt during my four years here,” said Jaclyn Hyde, student body vice president.

SEE SAFETY PG 2

STUDENT SOLUTIONS

RYAN HOFFMAN NEWS EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati landed a big name to speak at its December commencement ceremony.

UC announced Monday that Ohio Gov. John Kasich will speak at the ceremony commemorating 2014 graduates.

“John Kasich has been an exceptional supporter of higher education,” said UC President Santa Ono, in an email to The News Record. “He has collaborated extensively with university presidents in Ohio and cares deeply about student success. I’ve enjoyed working with him on several initiatives and feel that our university system is stronger because he has been governor.”

Kasich said via Twitter that he was looking forward to speaking at the ceremony.

SEE KASICH PG 2

CRIME BLOTTER 11/10 Attempted Robbery on Calhoun Street and Clifton Avenue A male suspect, approximately 20 years old, got out of a car on Calhoun Street and Clifton Avenue and demanded a pedestrian victim’s cell phone at 2:25 a.m. Sunday.

The suspect exited a tan Chevrolet Malibu, in which were other occupants the victim could not describe, and struck the victim with a bottle when the victim resisted. The victim sustained a small laceration above his right eye and the suspect got back in the car and fled the scene. Nothing was taken in the offense.

11/15 Robbery at Clifton International Market Three male suspects robbed Clifton International Market at 3232 Jefferson Avenue Friday afternoon.

According to Cincinnati Police, 21-year-old Quinton Scott was one of the suspects who injured the market employee through physical assault and a strike to the face with a glass object.

The suspect was last seen heading toward Burnet Woods.

11/20 Robbery at Euclid Avenue and Daniels Street A male victim was confronted at gunpoint and his wallet and cell phone were taken at Euclid and East Daniels at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The suspect was described as male, black, 20 to 25 years old, 6’4” tall, wearing a brown and red hooded sweatshirt and maroon pants. He was last seen on Eden Avenue heading south toward William Howard Taft Road.

Cincinnati and UC police were unable to locate the suspect after searching the area.

PHIL DIDION PHOTO EDITOR Debra Merchant, vice president for student affairs and services, helps host the Students’ Experience event while students provide input for how the university could be more inclusive.

Students share ideas on making campus, university more inclusive BRYAN SHUPE CHIEF REPORTER

Conversations about race and diversity at the University of Cincinnati took a different tone Wednesday as students gathered in the African American Cultural Resource Center to offer their ideas to foster acceptance and inclusion on campus.

“This particular session is a little bit more than an ongoing conversation,” said Debra Merchant, vice president for Student Affairs and Services. “I am inviting you to partner with us for action. We want action to come out of this meeting because we’re talked out.”

Merchant and Bleuzette Marshall, interim chief diversity officer, hosted the meeting and encouraged attendees to formulate concrete ideas about how the community can better support unrepresented faculty and students.

“I think we’re missing the point,” said Amara Agomuo, a fourth-year political science student. “The students out at [the Tangeman University Center] weren’t expressing themselves over diversity. The main issue is race, not diversity. The thing that I’ve realized is that even though I get A’s, I don’t feel competent. At the end of the day, I feel like I’m still a token.”

Wednesday’s meeting built on the conversation that began during an open forum hosted by Provost Beverly Davenport Nov. 13 and addressed concerns

that surfaced at a student-organized town hall meeting Friday.

Merchant and Marshall began the discussion by pointing out existing, diversity-driven initiatives at UC, such as the College of Engineering Emerging Ethnic Engineers — a program that aims to increase the number of ethnic engineering students.

Davenport thinks solid ideas that increase the comfort level of underrepresented students and faculty are the ones that will lead to solutions.

“What we’re talking about is identity,” Davenport said. “Our identities are bigger than race, they’re more than gender and where we came from. If you are not thinking, questioning and reflecting on who you are, then we’ve all missed the boat.”

Davenport told some students they should be questioning their identity during their time at college because “that’s what college is all about,” but said hearing students question the efforts of UC is hard.

“I think the most hurtful thing to me over the last few days is people saying to other people, ‘Don’t come here,’” Davenport said. “I didn’t come here to be a part of an institution that feels that a huge part of it is not doing the best it can.

I won’t shy away and I don’t sweep things under the rug.”

Terry Kershaw, department head of Africana Studies, said the open discussion was a definite step in the right direction, but that it’s only the start to bridging cultural gaps at UC. “It’s always a positive step when people

who feel they have been marginalized have their voices heard, and there’s a collective effort to say ‘Let’s make a difference,’” Kershaw said. “But it can’t stop here. Talk is cheap.”

Following a short brainstorming session before the two-hour meeting came to an end, students and faculty members presented multiple ideas to promote diversity and acceptance on campus.

Among those ideas was the possibility of mandatory diversity classes and improvements to the diversity website.

“What we’re going to do is take all this information and pull out some strategies so we can have some actionable items,” Merchant said.

The next open forum for the UC community is scheduled for Dec. 2.

PHIL DIDION PHOTO EDITOR Amara Agomuo, a fourth-year student, speaks at the UC Student’s Experience forum in the AACRC Wednesday.

SG supports Ohio House bill giving student trustees vote on university boards If passed, house bill would give student trustees vote JAMIE MAIER STAFF REPORTER

DAN SULLIVAN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Student body president Joe Blizzard (left) and vice president Jacklyn Hyde at Wednesday’s meeting.

In a meeting with a packed agenda, University of Cincinnati Undergraduate Student Government voted to support state legislation and to further diversity initiatives on campus.

The legislation would allow student trustees that sit on pubic universities’ governing boards to vote — a right they currently do not have.

“We are elected by the entire student body to represent them,” said Jaclyn Hyde, student body vice president. “If we are given the chance and the opportunity to have this vote and to give this voice in such an important board, we need to jump on it.”

Of 39 states with student trustees, Ohio

CHIEF.NEWSRECORD@GMAIL.COM / 513.556.5908

is one of seven with non-voting students on the board.

All 14 public Ohio university trustee boards include two non-voting student members who represent undergraduate and graduate students.

“If 82 percent of the states in the United States give this vote, why are we regressing when we need to be progressing?” Hyde said.

The bill — endorsed by UC’s undergraduate and graduate governances — is scheduled to be considered by the Ohio House in early January.

Student government also decided — in response to recent events and questions about UC’s diversity efforts — to add more students to student government’s the Diversity Council.

“There has been a lot of emotional anger from students over what has SEE SG PG 2

2 / NEWS

THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 2013 / NEWSRECORD.ORG

Obama honors Clinton, Oprah, others with Medal of Freedom President gives nation’s highest honor to 16, 50 years after President Kennedy established award MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor Wednesday to 16 Americans, including former President Bill Clinton and iconic talk show host Oprah Winfrey, in a star-studded and often poignant celebration at the White House.

“These are the men and women who in their extraordinary lives remind us all of the beauty of the human spirit, the values that define us as Americans, the potential that lives inside of all of us,” Obama said in a 45-minute ceremony.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is given to those who have “made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors,” according to the White House. The late Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, Watergateera Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and country music legend Loretta Lynn were among the leaders of sports, politics, science and the arts to receive the medal.

Most of the loudest applause was reserved for Clinton, who since leaving the White House has raised money to help in the aftermath of natural disasters and created a foundation to improve health, economies and the environment across the globe.

“Lifting up families like his own became the story of Bill Clinton’s life,” Obama said. “He wanted to make sure he made life better and easier for so many people across the country.”

In recent years, Obama and Clinton have become allies, but the relationship between the 42nd and 44th presidents has been fraught with complications, particularly in 2008 when Obama and Clinton’s wife competed for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008.

Just last week, Clinton urged Obama to allow Americans to keep their insurance as part of the new troubled health care law. The two hugged briefly.

“I’m grateful, Bill, as well for the advice and counsel that you’ve offered me on and off the golf course,” Obama said.

“And most importantly, for your lifesaving work around the world, which represents what’s the very best in America. So thank you so much, President Clinton.”

Obama mentioned Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state, only once, thanking Clinton for having patience “during the endless travels of my secretary of state.”

In holding the event Wednesday, Obama honored the legacy of President John F. Kennedy, who established the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Kennedy was assassinated

FROM SAFETY PG 2

She’s noticed an increase in police presence and a crackdown on alcohol violations.

“When we look at the underlying causes of victimization, there’s a very strong alcohol component,” said Paul Neudigate, district five police captain.“Our unfortunate victims are leaving the bars. They’re intoxicated, which causes a problem, and it makes their situational awareness suffer.”

At the start of the 2012-13 Fall semester, Neudigate’s team decided to send a message to students that resulted in 108 arrests for “mainly over-the-flask and minor possession.”

“We’re engaging those students and holding them accountable and beginning to shift the culture of decisions students are making off campus,” said Daniel Cummins, assistant dean in the office of student life.

Engel said that though these efforts are producing noticeable change in the community, increased police presence isn’t always perceived positively.

“There is a tipping point that at some point [the UC area] looks like a police state, and that when you see officers, you become more fearful,” Engel said.“It’s a very fine line, so we just need to make sure that if we can use other resources where that perception is that it’s safe, and not that it’s crime ridden.”

Committee members discussed the possibility of hiring community ambassadors — trained civilians who augment police service — to patrol areas surrounding the university.

The ambassadors, similar to those currently working downtown, could be responsible for area cleanup, public information dissemination and, most importantly, criminal dissuasion by their presence. And while the duties and benefits of ambassadors still have to be analyzed by the safety committee, some committee members said ambassadors might provide a cost effective alternative to hiring additional police.

“Saturation patrol works,” Engel said.

The next safety committee meeting is scheduled for January.

FROM KASICH PG 2

The first-term, Republican governor was briefly considered for the 2012 Republican vice president nominee. Speculation has emerged that Kasich, who is up for reelection in 2014, could possibly run for the Republican presidential nominee in 2016, although Kasich has said he is focused on governing the buckeye state. Kasich’s run for the 2000 Republican presidential nominee never gained traction and dropped out before the Iowa Straw Poll.

Notable past speakers include Sen. Rob Portman and former Cincinnati television news anchor Nick Clooney.

CLASSIFIEDS POLICY 1 All ads must be prepaid.

2 Out-of-town advertisers must send check with copy.

3 NIU’s must be signed and filled out before acceptance of ads.

4 All ad changes are due two days prior to publication.

5 No refunds unless a mistake by The News Record’s staff occurs in the advertisement. Refunds are not granted for ads placed, then cancelled. Adjustments are limited to the portion of the ad which is incorrect. Under no circumstances will an adjustment be issued greater than the cost of the ad.

6 To receive student discount, current verification must be shown.

7 Students or student groups may not use display or classified discounts for non-university, for profit businesses.

8 Advertisers should check their ads the first day of printing. The News Record is not responsible for more than one incorrect insertion.

9 The News Record reserves the right to reject any ads at its discretion, with or without notification to the advertiser.

10 These policies are not negotiable.

PROVIDED

U.S. President Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Linnea Smith, wife of former University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith, in the East Room at the White House on Nov. 20.

50 years ago this week in Dallas, two weeks before he could honor the inaugural class of 31 recipients.

Instead, President Lyndon Johnson presided over the ceremony at the White House the same day Kennedy’s family moved out.

“I hope we carry away from this a reminder of what JFK understood to be the essence of the American spirit,” Obama said. “Some of us may be less talented, but we all have the opportunity to serve and to open people’s hearts and minds in our smaller orbits.”

Others honored Wednesday: former Chicago Cubs great Ernie Banks, known as “Mr. Cub;” the late Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii; Daniel Kahneman, a Princeton University scholar of psychology; former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar; chemist and environmental scientist Mario Molina; the late civil rights leader Bayard Rustin; jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval; former University of North Carolina basketball head coach Dean Smith; writer and activist Gloria Steinem; civil rights leader Cordy Tindell “C.T.”Vivian; and Patricia Wald, the first woman appointed to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Besides Clinton, Winfrey drew the most interest. Winfrey rose from a childhood of poverty to become the creator of the highest-rated talk show in television history. She launched “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1986 when few women — and even fewer black women — had a national platform and used her influence to support underserved communities around the world.

“Even with 40 Emmys, the distinction of being the first black female billionaire, Oprah’s greatest strength has always been her ability to help us discover the best in ourselves,” Obama said. “Michelle and I count ourselves among her many devoted fans and friends. As one of those fans wrote, ‘I didn’t know I had a light in me until Oprah told me it was there.’ What a great gift.”

Obama joked that he could relate to Winfrey, whose funny-sounding first name prompted her boss to suggest she change her name to Susie.

“I have to pause here to say I got the same advice,” he said. “They didn’t say I should be named ‘Susie,’ but they suggested I should change my name. People can relate to Susie, that’s what they said. It turned out, surprisingly, that people could relate to Oprah just fine.”

UC joins consortium in effort to digitalize resources Resources to be digitalized range from rare books to birth records LUKE MANSER STAFF REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati is working on a project that will make its vast academic resources more up to date and accessible to students.

UC is joining two national consortiums made up of other universities and research institutions — the Academic Preservation Trust and the Hydra Project — to create a broader system in which data can be transferred and stored, said Linda Newman, Digital Collections and Repositories in Langsam Library head.

“UC Libraries has an active digitization program,” Newman said. “We digitize rare and unique materials from our special collections and make them freely available to students, faculty and scholars on the web.”

They range in content from rare, fragile books like “The Spanish Antiphoner” to official records like Cincinnati birth and death records from 1865 to 1912, Newman said.

The digitized collections were selected based on previous use by scholars, and for their potential to catalyze new avenues of enquiry by researchers in their digitized form. Existing repositories for these collections house a small number of collections produced by UC students and faculty, such as the graduate student publication “Focus on German Studies.”

The Hydra Project and APTrust will ensure the accessibility and preservation of digital items, provide the ability to establish one’s copyright claim and the terms under which the deposited items may be used and enable students and faculty members to “publish” their scholarly work on the platform.

“They will establish one’s contributions to a discipline and provide the data sets, analyses and presentation materials behind one’s published work, and even in some cases, in lieu of a final publication,” Newman said.

Hydra is an open-source framework software for repository-powered applications and hosts digital repository field leaders such as the University of Virginia, Stanford University and Columbia

University. UC is joining Hydra as its twentieth partner.

“APTrust strives to make the current intellectual property and data that universities currently have sustainable for the future,” Norris said.

The organization, which consists of 16 universities, also strives to combat the issue of bit rot — a problem many universities face when data is stored in obsolete technologies.

And the project isn’t costing UC very much money.

Stephen Marine, associate dean for Special Collections and Digital Initiatives, said there is no membership cost associated with Hydra and that one associated with the APTrust is modest.

“Because the repository is integral to the library’s mission of providing access to and preserving the universities intellectual output, the costs so far for developing the repository are simply a part of doing business,” Marine said. “By being part of the Hydra and APTrust consortia, we gain an incalculable amount of software development and expertise from some of the top-tier universities in the world.”

Professor creates endowed chair in College of Medicine Longtime, local cardiology expert funds position to further research KATIE COBURN CONTRIBUTOR

Vijay Sanghvi, an adjunct clinical medicine professor at the University of Cincinnati has dedicated most of his life to curing heart disease. Now he is opening up his wallet to further his life’s work.

Sanghvi recently donated $2 million to create Sanghvi Endowed Chair in Cardiac Imaging and support an appointed medical expert in the field of cardiac imaging.

“I hope that UC becomes a center of excellence in cardiac imaging and thus in cardiology, not only in the city and state, but also in the country,” Sanghvi said.

Sanghvi — the first American of Indian origin to create an endowed chair at UC —said he hopes the chair will advance the science of cardiac imaging at UC, specifically in diagnostic testing so researchers can detect and treat heart diseases at obvious stages.

“The chair holder would be able to conduct research studies in his [or] her area of expertise and thereby seek

FOR RENT 1-Bedroom/3-Bedrooms in HYDE PARK. 1-BR (700 sq. ft.) Hardwood floors, Rent $750/month.

3-BR (1,200 sq. ft.) with 2 bathrooms, balcony, hardwood floors. Rent $1,350/month.

HEAT & WATER PAID. Call us at (513) 477-2920 or pgspropertiesincincinnati@gmail.com

external funding based upon outcomes of it,” said Gregory Rouan, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine.

Sanghvi said he wants his investment to foster leadership and enhance education within the cardiology field.

“I hope that UC becomes a center of excellence in cardiac imaging and thus in cardiology, not only in the city and state, but also in the country.”

Vijay Sanghvi, adjunct professor in College of Nursing

Richard Becker, head of UC’s cardiovascular health and disease division, said selecting a medical expert who represents Sanghvi’s vision for cardiac imaging could involve a national or international search.

“It’s a critical contribution to the division and the heart, lung and vascular institutes,” Becker said. “Dr. Sanghvi has had a major impact on medicine in Cincinnati, including the University of Cincinnati, and this gift is a way that he will continue to give throughout future

FROM SG PG 2

happened in the past few weeks. We need some solid action plans to improve UC today, and I feel that this subcommittee is one of those things,” said Tobi Akomolede, an engineering student and SG senator.

While there is currently a diversity plan in place, little progress has been made in recent years to put the plan into action, said Joe Blizzard, student body president.

“We need to focus on the strategy side of things. The subcommittee takes a look at issues that students face on a day-to-day and year-to-year basis,” Blizzard said.

The Diversity Plan incorporates six goals to be completed by 2016 CHIEF.NEWSRECORD@GMAIL.COM / 513.556.5908

times.”

With collaboration of Sanghvi and Becker’s division the search might take place within the next few months, Sanghvi said.

Sanghvi, who first came to Cincinnati in 1966, served as director of cardiology at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati from 197190. He received a medical degree from Gujarat University in India and continued postgraduate training at McMaster University and Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.

Sanghvi said he is thankful for his U.S. citizenship and the educational and occupational opportunities Cincinnati has provided him; thus, his reason for giving back to the society and country through the creation of the Sanghvi Chair.

Becker said Sanghvi has worked tirelessly to advance cardio-imaging standards and consequently optimized patient care.

“It’s incredibly generous,” Becker said. “Endowments are really the most powerful, but yet humbling way to acknowledge not just one’s own commitment to science or medicine, but it really is the ultimate show of trust for those who will follow.”

encompassing students, faculty, leadership positions and community members related to UC in order to improve overall diversity and acceptance on campus.

The goal of the committee is to accurately reflect the views of all groups on campus.

“We are looking to make the campus a more inclusive campus, an open campus,” Blizzard said. “A campus where we are not afraid to have conversations about race, about sexual orientation, sexual assault or anything that may come up … we need to make a conscious effort for those conversations to happen naturally so we can build awareness.”

3 / COLLEGE LIFE

71413

THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 2013 / NEWSRECORD.ORG

Provocative poet to conclude Fall 2013 Visiting Writers Series Denise Duhamel to discuss book, poetry collections

early collections, such as “Smile” and “Girl Soldier,” have a feminist perspective.

Her book “Kinky” focuses on AMONA REFAEI STAFF REPORTER showing the Barbie doll in a series of various satirical manners such Since 1951, fiction and poetry as a Buddhist Barbie. Duhamel authors have discussed, divulged also has two collections, “The Star and extrapolated from their Spangled Banner” works as part and “Queen for a of the Visiting Day: Selected and Writers Series, New Poems,” that a sequence that include similar gives University satire about of Cincinnati American culture. students a look Duhamel has into the minds been given of writers. awards and grants Friday marks from various the sixth and organizations final installment including of the series for a National Fall semester.

Endowment The event for the Arts will feature Fellowship.

American Duhamel is also poet Denise a guest editor Duhamel, who for The Best is known for American Poetry imaginative 2013. compositions Duhamel and and edgy, other writers eclectic topics. and poets who “Denise participated in Duhamel is Fall semester’s an exciting series were poet,” said selected by one of Jennifer Habel, two committees creative writing made up of coordinator. creative writing Jennifer Habel, creative writing coordinator “Her poems faculty who teach are political, sexual, funny and either fiction or poetry. irreverent. They sometimes employ “We host writers who have informal language and reference published one book, as well as contemporary pop culture. For all those who have published as many their humor, her poems address as twenty,” Habel said. dark and emotional subject matter.”

Duhamel has published a number The event will be in the Elliston of poetry collections; her most Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library recent, “Blowout,” was published in Friday at 4 p.m. The bookstore 2013. will be selling copies of Duhamel’s Her pieces have pursued a books for audience members to variety of subjects. Duhamel’s have signed after the reading.

“Her poems are political, sexual, funny and irreverent. They sometimes employ informal language and reference contemporary pop culture. For all their humor, her poems address dark and emotional subject matter.”

YOU’RE IN

DANGER OF LIVING A LONG, HEALTHY LIFE.

Today, people are living longer than ever.

Which means you’ll need to be prepared not just for retirement, but for the 30 years after. We’ll guide you through each one by putting together a comprehensive, personalized plan for you. It’s one more way we deliver Outcomes That Matter.

Retirement can last 30 years or more.

We can get you through each one.

Get started at TIAA.org/plan.

The Lipper award is given to the group with the lowest average decile ranking of three years’ Consistent Return for eligible funds over the three-year period ended 11/30/12. TIAA-CREF was ranked against 36 fund companies with at least five equity, five bond, or three mixed-asset portfolios.

Past performance does not guarantee future results. For current performance and rankings, please visit the Research and Performance section on www.tiaa-cref.org. TIAA-CREF funds are subject to market and other risk factors.

BEST OVERALL LARGE FUND COMPANY The Lipper Award is based on a review of 36 companies’ 2012 risk-adjusted performance.

Consider investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. Go to tiaa-cref.org for product and fund prospectuses that contain this and other information. Read carefully before investing.

Type of service available varies.

TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC, and Teachers Personal Investors Services Inc. ©2013 Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), 730 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10017. C11804A

Students donate, celebrate during McMicken Week DAAP gallery features Thursday Friday All Week Relaxation Station Dodge-Ball Tournament FoodBank atypical pieces where: 50210003 C11804A FTM Danger 8.2x18 NWSPRNT_1.indd Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

where:

Scioto Hall

when: 5pm-7pm

what: massages, food and finals supplies

Recreation Center

when:

donations benefitting the FreeStore FoodBank will be accepted all week long

5pm-7pm

what: registration fee for dodge-ball teams is $10 per team; 6-10 people per team sign up online

1st place in the dodgeball tournament wins a pizza party (sponsored by the Arts and Sciences Tribunal)

PHIL DIDION PHOTO EDITOR

Students enjoy free food at International Taste Wednesday as part of McMicken Week. Activities throughout the week will celebrate McMicken College of Arts & Sciences while collecting donations to benefit the FreeStore FoodBank.

Exhibit showcases pieces usually sold online, in stores WILL KENDRICK STAFF REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati will get a little bit craftier with the showing of a new art gallery from the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning.

DAAP’s current INDIEpendent gallery, which features a collection of crafty, handmade pieces by artists and designers who typically sell their pieces online or in shops, will host an opening ceremony 5 p.m. Friday at the Dorothy W. and C. Lawson Reed Jr. Gallery.

Most of the artists with work in the gallery are expected to attend.

“This type of art wasn’t created to be in a gallery,” said Aaron Cowan, DAAP galleries director. “I was curious as to how people would react to it in a gallery setting.”

Cowan said that the idea for this type of showcase came from a conversation between Cowan and Chris Salley, the owner of Fabricate, an arts and crafts store, in Northside.

The ceremony will also act as a sort of prequel for the Crafty Supermarket, which is Saturday at Music Hall.

The fourth annual supermarket will feature more than 80 artists and vendors, many of which have pieces currently featured in the INDIEpendent gallery.

The supermarket will be open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday in Music Hall’s ballroom.

Sunday, the DAAP galleries will host an educational workshop connected with the INDIEpendent gallery.

The workshop will be open to children ages 6 and up and will be taught by several DAAP graduates.

This is the first in an upcoming series of educational events that DAAP has planned to correspond with the galleries.

Five similar workshops are planned for Spring semester.

“These artists consider themselves somewhere between independent business owners and artists,” Cowan said. “And with the current popularity of things like Etsy and all the little shops in places like Clifton and Northside, doing this type of gallery just made sense.”

INDIEpendent is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday-Thursday and runs through Dec. 10 at the Dorothy W. & C. Lawson Reed, Jr. Gallery.

4 / ARTS

THURSDAY NOV. 21, 2013 / NEWSRECORD.ORG

Villain turns hero in ‘The Walking Dead’

Murderous beatnik history exposed

JOSHUA MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

I’m not one to give too much credit to the writers of The Walking Dead, but in their execution of “Live Bait”, the sixth episode of season four, they were brilliant.

The average fan will piss and moan about the lack of action in “Live Bait”, a somber and rather depressing episode that focused it’s entirety on The Governor (David Morrissey) channeling his inner Alexander Super Tramp (“Into the Wild”), aimlessly walking the Earth in a bearded state of self reflection. But, what this episode accomplished will be for the greatest benefit of the season as a whole.

The previews for the episode, which depicted The Governor — patch on eye, emotionless scowl on face — standing outside the walls of the prison, led us to believe that he had finally returned to the prison to take another stab at removing Rick and the gang from the blood-stained face of the earth.

Let us not forget, that the last time we saw this man he was mercilessly massacring 20 or so of his most loyal post-zombieapocalypse soldiers with a standard issue Steyr AUG A1 (for those unaware, that’s a Austrian-made assault rifle). Why wouldn’t we expect bloodshed?

Alas, there wasn’t even a glimpse of the prison in the episode. Instead, we got 15 minutes worth of Hundai Sonata commercials and 45 minutes of brilliance from The Governor, who has adopted the alias Brian Herriot.

The episode begins with a series of flashbacks, as The Governor, who apparently gave not a care about the zombie inching closer and closer, stares into a small bon-fire.

Perhaps, just maybe, he was in deep thought about the fact that he just brutally murdered 20 of the less than a few hundred human beings left on the planet. That, or the walker might have been in his blind spot. I don’t know.

Martinez — the most renowned wielder of a baseball bat left on Earth — arrives to save the day, but then proceeds to pack up with the painfully undeveloped character that is Shumpert and abandon their once fearless leader in the midst of the night.

The Gov. wakes up, alone and as angry as someone hanging out of a window in a JG Wentworth commercial, and does what any fallen leader in his situation would do: crash a late-model military flatbed truck through the gates of the place he once ruled and burn the whole damn place to the ground.

At this point, we expect him to hop back in the truck and lead a solo-kamikaze mission through the gates of Rick’s prison.

Instead, the episode flashes forward several months, revealing a haggard and frail Governor. With a limp and no fight left in his eyes, he stumbles about, looking more a walker than a human. He’s deader inside than he’s ever been, which says a lot considering he once collected human heads in high quality fish tanks.

On the brink of death, The Governor is taken in by two sisters Lilly and Tara Chambler, their cancer-ridden father, David, and Lilly’s young daughter Meghan, who the Governor had briefly mistaken as his longsince deceased daughter.

Although taking in a disease-ridden, bird-nest bearded man sporting an eye patch and a trench coat has never gone wrong for anyone, Lilly confiscates his weapons.Yet, there is still an inherent fear, mostly because of the psychopathic look permanently plastered on the governor’s face, that he’s going to brutally slaughter his new-found caretakers. Well, that and the fact that he once turned his best friend into a zombie and locked his girlfriend in the room with it.

That concern was greatly intensified when he discovered an extra revolver in another apartment while retrieving backgammon set for Megan from another apartment.

But the violence never came, as The Governor slowly started to bond with Meghan, eventually making the ever-sacred pinky promise to protect her.

After unfortunately having to execute the zombie turned David with an oxygen tank, The Governor burns the picture of his wife and daughter. At which point it becomes obvious that, along with the Burning of Woodbury, he has removed himself from the Governor completely.

Despite arguing, he allows Lilly, Tara and Meghan to leave with him. And, after finally giving into the blatant sexual tension between them, The Governor shacks up with Lilly in the back of his soon-to-be broken down mobile home. Rather awkwardly I must add, as Tara and Meghan we’re all-off two feet away.

The next day, after abandoning their vehicle, the group is forced to flee a hoard of walkers on foot. With Lilly assisting Tara, who had just twisted her ankle, The Governor pleads with a terrified and frozen and terrified Meghan.

In a scene symbolic of so many things, Meghan sprints into his arms and he sprints away with her, falling into a zombie pit where he brutally kills four walkers with his bare hands, ripping the brainstem out of one unassuming zombies throat. Meghan and the Governor embrace, accepting each other as the replacement father and daughter that each had lost to the apocalypse, has Martinez emerges at the top of the pit.

It took the full-60 minutes for me to give in to what I couldn’t possibly believe the writes had done, because how could they manage to do so with a man whose character has been the bane of the ever-shrinking remains of existence. How could they possibly rehumanize The Governor?

We’ve been trained to believe that the only things beneath that eye-patch are an impressively-masked British accent and pure, unadulterated evil. But Governor Herriot, has something to live for again.

We’re not sure if that makes him more or less dangerous, and that’s exactly the point.

PROVIDED

The beatniks would be nothing if they had not been such great friends to each other. Though the situation with Lucien Carr got them into a sticky spot, it resulted in a life-long bond.

Ginsberg, Kammerer, Carr become Hall, Radcliff, DeHaan on silver screen MONROE TROMBLY STAFF REPORTER

Inspired by events that transpired during the early years of a handful of writers who soon became known as the Beat Generation, “Kill Your Darlings” is a period piece of pre-Beat forays and adventures that explores the moments and times that formed the Beats and cemented their conviction to write for the rest of their lives.

One member of that group is the main subject, center and focus of this film, yet he is conceivably the most obscure and lesserknown “member” of the literary movement.

The film recounts the true events and story of Lucien Carr, a founding and key figure in the Beat movement, before it was hailed or even addressed by that name. Friends with the most prominent of Beat writers by the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, they all met and formed an undertaking named “The New Vision,” during Allen’s and Lucien’s short stints at Columbia University in the early ’40s.

Daniel Radcliffe portrays the young, wiry Ginsberg, and Dane DeHaan plays Lucien Carr. The film follows the escapades of the two and their companions as they romp around New York City, proclaiming to nobody in particular but themselves that they are of a new, profound movement; A movement with no relevance, respect or reverence to institutions, traditions, the past, or people for that matter.

They invoke banned works of literature by the likes of Henry Miller and Arthur Rimbaud, rip-up and destroy works

by Darwin and Shakespeare, skip inconsequential classes, tromp around the city till dawn and experiment with a whole smattering of alcohol and drugs to expand consciousness, heighten senses and induce wild marathon-like spouts of rapid writing.

The young prodigies spend an eternal amount of time distorting, twisting and bending their minds, with no substantial time spent actually on writing. The

character that writes the most is in fact Lucien’s friend and muse, David Kammerer, played by Michael C. Hall.

It becomes clear later on that David had been close to Lucien for a good deal of time even before Columbia, and at least in the film he is depicted as being clearly infatuated with Lucien, writing Lucien’s papers for school and hosting small parties.

At least in the dialogue, “kill your darlings” is a reference to a statement made by Ginsberg’s literature professor while addressing the class, telling the students to “kill your darlings, kill your desires and your metaphysics” when writing. But the main plot suggests the title is an allusion to something else entirely, an act of Carr’s that’s quite literal to the title, subsequently sucking Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs alike into the fold.

It’s revealed right from the opening scenes that Carr ends up killing Kammerer, and the film opens as sort of a murder-mystery.

The details and accounts of the crime where never fully clear, but it’s known that Carr went to both Kerouac and Burroughs after the deed, each in turn offering Carr help and advice; Burroughs advised Carr to turn himself in and confess, which Carr eventually did.

“Kill Your Darlings” suggests that the whole incident was vital in stirring Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs to start their literary careers and subsequent works that would go on to define them in the ’50s. In a sense it did. They all wrote short works later on that referenced Carr and Kammerer, but for a while the group of writers that Carr helped form, also called “The Libertine Circle,” was fragmented and shattered.

While the plot does revolve around how and why Carr ended up killing Kammerer, “Kill Your Darlings” revolves mostly around Carr and Ginsberg’s friendship.

It also explores Ginsberg’s tendencies and curiosities towards his eventual homosexuality.

Ginsberg is drawn in by Carr’s cleverness and anarchical views towards the traditional, conventional and custombent 40’s, but Carr is too vulnerable and

trapped by Kammerer’s dominance to offer Ginsberg solace.

It’s good fun watching and observing the boy’s antics, holding the knowledge that they’ll become some of the most influential writers of the 20th century, but it does grow a bit tiresome, and surprisingly that’s where John Krokidas, the film’s director, strikes his chord.

The whole point of the film is to illustrate what the Beats would have been like while growing and forming to become the Beats, and to show the writers before they’ve hit their breakthroughs.

While watching the Beats wreck havoc around NYC and Columbia, hell-bent on destroying every ounce of past tradition and custom, both societal and literary, you start to question just what their motives, drives and purposes really are.

Their rebellion sounds great and looks great on paper, but what are the ends to their means and point of it all?

What if they had never wrote their masterpieces, and instead succumbed to pure, law-breaking, destructional anarchy?

It’s interesting to contemplate that Kammerer’s murder was perhaps the very reason they took a step back from their wild living and abandonment of morality, instead focusing on using the events as inspiration for later works, noting the impact that it had on all their individual lives.

It certainly did for Carr as he later asked Ginsberg to omit his name from the dedication of Ginsberg’s famous “Howl.”

“Kill Your Darlings” is a good film with fuzzy, close-focus, but insightful cinematography, a thundering soundtrack of ’40s jazz numbers, and a cast that more than makes up for the few minor inconsistencies that the film has in regards to pacing and plot.

The rebellious nature of the Beats and nightly capers leads to effective and enjoyable contemplation as to how we’ve envisioned and imagined the writers before they each wrote their magnum opus, and how their darkly pasts later came to shape and form their careers as leading literary figures.

Famous composer honored by UC president

PROVIDED

CCM organizes concert for Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday BECKY BUTTS ONLINE EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music’s Philharmonia

Orchestra will feature a campus executive on stage for its concert Friday.

University of Cincinnati President Santa Ono will take the stage with CCM’s premier orchestral ensemble as they pay tribute to renowned composer, conductor and pianist Benjamin Britten to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Conducted by Mark Gibson, professor of music and director of orchestral studies at CCM, Friday’s performance will showcase Britten’s renowned orchestral piece “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,” narrated by Ono. “I adore Britten in general but this piece is one of my favorites,” Ono said. “It is a majestic piece that highlights all of the parts of an orchestra, primarily for young kids who have never heard orchestral music before.”

The narration and music may sound familiar to those who saw Wes Anderson’s 2012 film “Moonrise Kingdom,” which starred Bruce Willis, Edward Norton and Bill Murray.

The narrations at the start and end of the composition introduce different sections of the orchestra and are accompanied by musical demonstrations of the capabilities of each instrument.

“The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” (1946) was originally composed for an educational film called “Instruments of the Orchestra” and was an attempt to introduce children to classical music.

The Britten-Pears Foundation recently compiled an animated version of the piece from short animations made by international students.

It premiered in London Nov. 10.

But Britten’s music won’t be the only compositions performed by the Philharmonia.

The first half of the performance will feature two works by British composer Sir Edward Elgar (“Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1” and the “Enigma Variations”).

Following those pieces, the orchestra will perform Britten’s Violin Concerto and close with “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.”

“I encourage students to come out and see it,” Ono said. “It would be great for students from all colleges of UC.” CCM’s Britten centenary celebration concert will take place Friday, Nov. 22 in Corbett Auditorium at 8 p.m. Tickets are free for UC students and $6 for nonstudents.

Cincinnati subway transformed into concert venue Local hip-hop artists alongside bigger names take over city underground AMANDA ADKINS STAFF REPORTER

Cincinnati’s rap scene goes underground.

Ubahn was Cincinnati’s first underground music festival, held in the transit tunnel to the city’s unfinished subway.

The subway looked as if it had never been abandoned, as the grimy tunnel was transformed with lights, a skateboarding rink and two stages. The front stage hosted lesser-known artists, some of whom undoubtedly deserve to gain recognition soon. Concertgoers were watching skateboarders perform amazing tricks and wiping out, while bumping to beats from the front stage.

The event would still have been fun if it ended there, however further back in the subway was the main stage where top-bill artists performed.

The main stage was much more like a typical concert venue. Everyone crowded around dancing and enjoying the raw talent of Cincinnati’s local rap and hip hop. The line-up from Saturday Nov. 16th is definitely worth looking up. A couple mentionable artists include Black Signal, whose mixed beats and high energy kept the crowd cheering through their entire set. Cal Scruby — although not local to Cincinnati — was more than welcomed by the crowd at Ubahn; his fresh lyrics and ability to rap had even the rats dancing. His performance was refreshing; a reminder that rap did not die with the talent of some of today’s mainstream

AMANDA ADKINS STAFF REPORTER

artists.

And of course, Mike Posner delivered a flawless performance.

5 / COLLEGE LIFE Bearcats receive free zoo tickets to “DAAP Night�

THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 2013 / NEWSRECORD.ORG

DAAP event gives students of all majors access to PNC Festival of Lights CASSIE MERINO STAFF REPORTER

While UC at the Zoo brought out thousands of members of the Bearcat community, the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning invites

MADISON SCHMIDT CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER

Members of the University of Cincinnati community file into the Cincinnati Zoo during UC at the Zoo .

students to view a different side of the zoo from 5 to 9 p.m. Dec. 6 at the annual PNC Festival of Lights.

The University of Cincinnati’s Student Government DAAP Tribunal is providing a total of 250 free tickets to “DAAP Night� at the festival, which transforms the zoo with thousands of colorful lights that line paths and illuminate exhibits. “I’m looking forward to seeing the [lights] for the first time,� said Melinda Sekela, a fourth-year graphic communications design major and DAAP Tribunal president.

This is the first year that the event will take place, and tickets to “DAAP Night� are available to students of all majors.

Each student can reserve up to two tickets and are on a first come, first serve basis.

There will be a bus provided to and from the event and will meet outside DAAP entrance. The shuttle bus will run 4:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. “We have had a lot of feedback through Twitter and Facebook and people seem really excited about it,� Sekela said. “We are just waiting for people to take the step and reserve the tickets.�

Email daapgoestothezoo@gmail.com to reserve tickets until Nov. 30.

MADISON SCHMIDT CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER

21-24

21

SPCA Cincinnati Wish List | 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is accepting donations of canned dog and cat food, new or used towels and more at the Recreation Center and Tangeman University Center.

Psychology Club | 5-6 p.m.

Psychology Club welcomes new and returning members to join in on a presentation about the Human Brain Project in the Recreation Center Room 3230.

“Owen Wingrave�

This two act-opera about a pacifist born into a military family is part of CCM’s Mainstage Series. Performances take place 8 p.m. Nov. 21 to 23 and 2 p.m. Nov. 24 in Patricia Corbett Theater.

21 21-22

18-22

Not to miss: what’s happening this week on campus

22

Great American Smokeout | 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Show support and join the fight against cancer on McMicken Commons.

A Slice for your Thoughts | 12-1 p.m.

Attend one of two focus groups to share your thoughts with SALD about Campus Link. Meetings will take place in TUC Atrium Nov. 21 and 415B TUC Nov. 22.

“Benjamin Britten at 100� | 8 p.m.

CCM Philharmonia continues CCM’s Britten Centennial Celebration with this performance, which will take place in Corbett Auditorium.

Â

 Scan  me!  You  should  sign  up  for  22IS1050  in  the  Lindner  College  of  Business!  (For  details,  visit  http://business.uc.edu/departments/obais/Courses/information-­â€?systems-­â€? courses/is1050-­â€?digital-­â€?life.html.) Â

6 / SPORTS Seniors continue to shine for UC in young season THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 2013 / NEWSRECORD.ORG

Sean Kilpatrick surpasses 1,500 career points, Justin Jackson scores career high JOSHUA MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

With 2 minutes and 20 seconds remaining in the University of Cincinnati’s (81-62) handling of the Campbell University Camels, head coach Mick Cronin took out seniors Justin Jackson and Sean Kilpatrick for the final time.

Jackson, who scored a career-high 19 points to go along with nine rebounds and five blocks, had just dove face first into press row to save a ball that Kilpatrick initially saved from going out of bounds with a diving effort of his own. UC was up by 18 points at the time.

“No [not diving] never crossed my mind,” Jackson said.“Not on Mick’s team.”

No Campbell defender could stop Kilpatrick from scoring, as he simply created scoring opportunities for himself if he wasn’t already open. With a game-high 23 points on 9-of-12 shooting, Kilpatrick, who surpassed the 1,500 point plateau for his career, continues to utilize an improved shot selection to score efficiently and often in the early stages of his senior season.

“I thought all his looks were great tonight,” Cronin said.“If you shoot 3-for-6 from 3-point range, that’s a good number. He continues to really buy into what I’m trying to teach him in that area. He’s just got to keep being patient, I’ll make sure the ball continues to get his way.”

Kilpatrick’s ability to find open shots has been greatly helped by Jackson’s offensive emergence and significantly improved ability to stay out of foul trouble and remain on the court.

“Me and Mick sat down and talked about [moving to the five spot and changing his style of play] and he said I’d be more effective as a post player,” Jackson said.“We worked all summer and I just got my feel for it.”

With Kilpatrick and Jackson leading the way, UC shot an impressive 63 percent from the field and dominated the low post game with 58 points in the paint, but Cronin wasn’t happy with smaller aspects of UC’s game.

“At least we finally shot a high percentage, but I was unhappy with our turnovers,” Cronin said.“We’re supposed to win a game from a talent standpoint, when we’re at home.

We had a lot of breakdowns in the second

half that don’t show up in the stat sheet.”

Ge’Lawn Guyn returned to the starting lineup for the Bearcats, after missing the majority of their 77-49 win against Appalachian State Saturday. The Lexington, Ky. native provided an immediate spark for the Bearcats, opening the scoring with a transition dunk and converting his first 3-point attempt of the night to give UC an early 9-6 lead.

The Camels played tough in the early going, with Darius Leonard knocking down a pair of jump shots to tie the game at 9-9 before UC’s seniors began to take over the game.

Kilpatrick, Jackson and fellow senior captain Titus Rubles converted three baskets in succession after the under-16-minute media time-out to give UC a 17-9 lead with 14 minutes remaining in the half, as the Bearcats slowly started to pull away from the Camels.

Kilpatrick — who moved into 13th place on UC’s all-time scoring list in UC’s victory against Campbell — netted his 1,500th career point before capping an 11-0 run for Bearcats with his first 3-pointer of the game.

“I’m just happy I get a chance to coach him,” Cronin said about Kilpatrick’s scoring milestone. “As a coach, you’ve got a chance when you’ve got guys that care and take ownership in a program and he, Justin and Titus are all that way. For a scorer he’s a true warrior. He is all work, he’s a self-made player and I give him all the credit.”

Jackson’s put-back layup and Kilpatrick’s second 3-pointer pushed UC’s advantage to 13 points, 29-16, as the teams headed into the under-8-minute media break.

Kilpatrick, who gave UC its biggest lead of the half, 40-23, with a pair of free throws with 1 minute and 39 seconds remaining, led all scores at the half with 12 points. Jackson was the only other player in double digits at halftime with 10 points.

Behind Kilpatrick’s 4-for-5 effort from the floor, the Bearcats shot 64 percent (18-of28) in the first half on their way to a 42-29 lead, while UC’s high-pressure defense and six combined blocks from Jackson (4) and Jermaine Lawrence (2) limited the Camels to 37 percent (11-of-29).

Kilpatrick picked up where he left off to start the second half, spinning into the lane to beat the shot clock with a highly contested jumper and knocking down his third 3-pointer of the game on his first two

TYLER STAFFORD CONTRIBUTOR

UC senior guard Sean Kilpatrick goes up for a shot against Campbell’s Reco Carter during UC’s 81-62 victory against the Camels Wednesday night at Fifth Third Arena.

shot attempts of the half. UC led 49-36 at the under-16-minute media timeout.

Six consecutive points in the paint from Kilpatrick, Jackson and Shaq Thomas pushed the Bearcats lead to double digits, 6847, for the time in the game with just under 7 minutes remaining.

But just as they had all night, the Camels managed to keep the game from getting

too far out of hand with 3-point shooting from Andrew Ryan (17 points) and Darius Leonard (16 points). The Camels shot 11-of22 from 3-point range.

With a late layup, Rubles (10 points) joined Kilpatrick and Jackson as the only UC players in double digits, as the Bearcats dribbled out the ball for a comfortable 81-62 victory.

UC football inks home-and-home series with Miami Hurricanes provide elusive quality non-conference foe willing to travel to Cincinnati JOSHUA MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati football program will play a home-and-home series against the University of Miami in 2014 and 2015, Director of Athletics Whit Babcock announced Tuesday.

Miami is the newest addition to UC’s continually improving non-conference schedules in the upcoming seasons, which is something UC has struggled with in the past.

“I think it’s a great series, it is very difficult, I didn’t have anything to do with it, but it is very difficult to get anybody to play us here,” said UC head coach Tommy Tuberville. “These so-called ‘big time teams’ they tuck their head and run when you call them. They’ll play us at their place, but they don’t want to come here.”

UC will face future contests at Ohio State (2014), at Brigham Young University (2015), Purdue University (2016) and Michigan University (2017).

Tuberville went on to thank Miami, for bucking the norm of schools from other marquee conferences avoiding programs like UC. “Miami said they would, so we will go there next year, and they will come here the year after that,”Tuberville said. “I want to thank them for doing that because they didn’t have to do that, and it will be tough for us down

there next year and it will be tough for them when they come here, but that’s college football.”

The Bearcats will travel to Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Oct. 11, 2014, with the Hurricanes returning the trip to Cincinnati Oct. 3, 2015.

UC will have the daunting task of playing at Ohio State (Sept. 27, 2014) and Miami in a three-week span prior to the start of American Athletic Conference play in 2013.

“It is very difficult to get anybody to play us here.

These so-called ‘big time teams,’ they tuck their head and run when you call them. They’ll play us at their place, but they don’t want to come here.”

TOMMY TUBERVILLE, UC HEAD FOOTBALL COACH

Miami’s trip to Cincinnati will likely be the first marquee home game for the Bearcats in the renovated Nippert Stadium, as UC will play all of its 2014 home games at Paul Brown Stadium while Nippert is under renovation.

“I came in here twice [as a coach], the first time I came here, we [Miami] were the number one team in the country, Vinny Testaverde was the quarterback, we won by a fairly good number but we had to fight hard and the stadium was loud and energetic, and with this expansion, it is going to be even better,” Tuberville said.

Tuberville was a coach on Miami’s staff from 198693, starting as a defensive line coach and eventually reaching the position of defensive coordinator.

Miami won three national championships and compiled an overall record of 87-9 during Tuberville’s time on the staff under head coached Denis Erickson and Jimmy Johnson, who Tuberville credited as an influence for UC’s heavy utilization of trick plays.

“I learned a lot of things from Jimmie Johnson when I was at Miami,” Tuberville said. “I was a special teams coach and we had [trick plays] in all the time, and we really didn’t need to run them but he ran a lot and I would ask him why, and he said ‘momentum.’ You need to change momentum somehow.

You can change the momentum with a big play that’s a little different.”

UC offensive coordinator Eddie Gran — one of the most respected recruiters in the nation — also has strong ties to Miami, where he was a graduate assistant from 1990-91. He has also handled recruiting in the Miami area for several schools throughout his career, including his most recent stint at Florida State (2010-12).

The 2014 matchup will be the 12th meeting between Miami and Cincinnati, a series that has not boded well for the Bearcats. The Hurricanes hold a 10-1 advantage in the series, although Miami was ranked in the AP Top10 in six of the previous 11 meetings, all of which took place before UC’s emergence as a viable football school in the mid-2000s.

Tuberville, Bearcats look to keep AAC hopes alive

PHIL DIDION PHOTO EDITOR

University of Cincinnati head coach Tommy Tuberville speaks with an ESPN reporter after UC defeated Temple 38-20 Oct. 11, at Nippert Stadium.

UC must dispatch Houston to continue conference championship pursuit CHARLES GROVE STAFF REPORTER

Thick in the fight for the American Athletic Conference Championship, the University of Cincinnati football team faces its final road test of the year Saturday in a crucial matchup in Texas against the Houston Cougars.

Sitting only one game behind the conference-leading Central Florida

Knights, the Bearcats (8-2, AAC 5-1) are set to battle a Houston team (7-3, AAC 4-2) looking to right their ship before it’s too late. The Cougars started off conference play with four wins but have fallen to UCF and Louisville by a combined 12 points the past two weeks.

The UC defense — ranked eighth nationally — is only allowing 304 yards and 18 points per game, and will face the test of freshman quarterback John O’Korn, who is leading all freshmen in the nation with 23 passing touchdowns

on the season. “[O’Korn] gets the ball out of his hands quick and he knows what he wants to do,” said UC head coach Tommy Tuberville. “[Houston] decided to go with him after the first or second game and it’s really paid off for them.”

While stopping a freshman quarterback playing with a lot of confidence will be a challenge in itself, Tuberville said Houston will be one of the toughest teams the Bearcats will see this year.

“The biggest thing about this game going into it are the adjustments that both teams will make as we go through.

There will be points scored; there will be a lot of action in the game, a lot of speed on both sides. Our teams mirror each other’s philosophies,”Tuberville said.

One of those philosophies for Houston is creating turnovers. The Cougars are the best in the nation at winning the turnover battle, forcing 33 turnovers this season while only coughing up the ball 11 times. Houston has also forced two or more turnovers in 17 of their last 18 games.

Cincinnati, currently on a five game win streak, pulled out all the tricks in a 52-17 slaughter of Rutgers a week ago, with an onside kick in the first quarter, a pass from wide receiver Shaq Washington to Chris Moore and a fake punt.

“We were on a roll,”Tuberville said.

“When you’re on a roll, you just keep going. But you know, I told our guys last week, we are going up to win the game, we are going to have fun, we are going to come out of the shoot, and we are going to play hard. As long as we have excitement on the sidelines, and we’re having fun, we’ll keep doing those things.”

During their win streak, the Bearcats found themselves winning games in all sorts of ways from close struggles to blowouts. Tuberville said the ability to win in a variety of ways shows the real strength of his team — especially with the variety of offensive schemes his defense has seen in conference play.

“You want to be able to win games in a lot of different ways, you want to be a complete team, and you want to be able to win a game on defense,” Tuberville said. “There is no doubt in my mind that we won the game on defense in the SMU game. The first thing I do in this room on Sunday is congratulate everyone on winning and I tell everyone to give the scout team a hand because they don’t get to dress, they don’t get to travel — but what they do — playing a week as the other team’s offense or defense, it is invaluable.”

Senior quarterback Brendon Kay, who is completing more than 72 percent of his passes with 20 touchdowns compared to just seven interceptions, was locked in against Rutgers. The Michigan native threw for 405 yards and four touchdowns, both career highs.

Tuberville said the progress the passing game has made this season has been “unimaginable.”

“I can remember our first scrimmage in the bubble, in the spring,”Tuberville said.

“It didn’t matter what we played, zone or man, we couldn’t complete a pass. It was rough. I can remember against Miami (Ohio) we were wondering what in the world we were going to do. We almost didn’t score a touchdown against a team that we probably should have beat by 30-40 points. Our offense the past two months, it has been unimaginable how much better we have gotten, just because all of the pieces are working.”