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ROTC honors senior cadets at event UC hosts annual Military Ball, seniors announce plans after graduation TYLER BELL SENIOR REPORTEr newsrecordnews@gmail.com The University of Cincinnati Army ROTC program honored its eight graduating cadets with tributes during a celebratory Friday night at the Newport Syndicate.

The annual Military Ball started with a toast to those fallen in battle. In the front of the reception hall, a table was left empty in honor of the prisoners of war and other military members still missing in action.

After the somber opening, the ball quickly transitioned to UC’s graduating ROTC class. “[The ball] is really a celebration [for the seniors] and all that they have accomplished,” said Lt. Col. William Galinger, a military science professor.

Graduating cadets announced their plans for the future and took a break from

rigorous training to relax with friends. “[The ball] allows for dancing and music, and for girls to be girly for once,” said Maria Harford, cadet battalion executive officer. “It’s the fun side of the army that no one really gets to see.”

The seniors mentor younger cadets each year, and the ball gave the cadets a chance to thank their mentors.

One of the cadets recited a poem for his mentor entitled “Yoda,” while another cadet paid back $600 he borrowed from his mentor to fix his car.

After graduation, the seniors’ future goals displayed a variety of interests, including plans to go to medical school and open an antique bookstore.

“This senior class has been truly exceptional,” Galinger said.

UC has never had eight distinguished military graduates before, and most universities only have two, Galinger said.

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benjamin goldschimdt CHIEF Reporter newsrecordnews@gmail.com A University of Cincinnati alumna’s nonprofit organization is under fire for tax and mortgage loan fraud.

Free Truth Enterprise is a nonprofit organization that assists ex-offenders and their families after they are released from prison. One of its purposes is to provide housing and employment referrals for convicts.

It allegedly failed to produce documents requested by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, according to a complaint filed Tuesday.

“Charitable organizations have to operate transparently and work to further their chosen mission,” DeWine said in a statement.

Regina Shields, a UC graduate and CEO of Free Truth Enterprise, faces four counts of filing false federal income refunds, one count of money laundering and one count of wire fraud. DeWine’s complaint alleged the Free Truth Enterprise violated Ohio charitable law, including a breach of fiduciary duties and unjust enrichment.

The Attorney General’s Office began investigating Free Truth Enterprise in September 2012, following a receipt of complaint, and found eight of its properties were given to the organization but not all of the deeds were filed with the Hamilton County Recorder’s Office.

“Regina Shields also used these same properties as collateral to post bond for individuals charged with trafficking cocaine and heroin, though neither Shields nor Free Truth Enterprise held proper title to the properties, collectively valued at $1 million,” DeWine said.

The Attorney General’s investigation also found Shields did not file annual reports from 2003 to 2008 and from 2010 to 2011.

DeWine also filed for a restraining order and a preliminary injunction against Free Truth Enterprise.

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RANKING UC The US Department of Education released a college scorecard detailing universities’ graduation rates and costs.

BETTER THAN SOME UC graduation rate, tuition cost place in middle of the pack jake grieco senior reporter newsrecordNEWS@gmail.com Some faculty members are questioning the University of Cincinnati’s rankings in the US Department of Education’s new college scorecard.

The scorecard — announced by President Barack Obama in the State of the Union address Tuesday — is an easilyaccessible and interactive tool providing incoming college students with financial information and graduation rates of the nation’s universities.

While the scorecard is intended to help students make sound decisions, some have argued the database does not reveal everything a student needs to know before applying.

“It is a good place to start,” said Caroline Miller, UC’s associate provost for enrollment management. “Culture matters as well, but that is harder to measure.”

The scorecard — which measures costs, graduation rates, median borrowing and loan default rates — ranks UC as an affordable institution with a $18,131 annual average net costs for undergraduate instate students.

While the scorecard ranks the cost of a

UC education in the medium range, only three other similar Ohio public universities costs more than UC — Ohio State University, Ohio University and Miami University.

Johnson said the university strives to keep costs as low as possible. Costs increased 4.7 percent from 2007 to 2009, substantially lower than increases at OSU and OU. Toledo University and the University of Akron both decreased the average costs over the same period of time.

UC faired better in graduation rates, placing in the “high” ranking with 58.7 percent six-year completion, but there are several problems with that number, Miller said. She claims the number is not updated, and UC’s graduation rate is actually closer to 62 percent.

The numbers also provide a lack of context and fails to explain the reason UC’s graduation rates are lower than some other Ohio institutions.

“It is way easier to achieve a high graduation and retention rate if a campus only admits super smart, low-need students,” Miller said.

Ohio State University’s graduates 79.9 percent of its students, while Miami University has the highest graduation rate at 81.5 percent. With a 65 percent rate, Ohio

University also graduates more students than UC. UC admits a diverse student body with the overall goal of creating opportunities for students, Johnson said. The UC2019 plan aims to increase the overall graduation rate to 75 percent, a goal the university is actively working toward.

“There’s ways we can improve value for our students to make it easier,” Johnson said.

One of the ways is to increase the amount of scholarships UC offers, but information like that will not be reflected on the scorecard.

While some complain the report fails to put the data in context, the creation of an aggregated source for such data is something one UC student would have appreciated during her college search. “[The scorecard] would have made it easier,” said Emma Seymour, a first-year psychology student.

Despite the data collected in the repots, it is impossible to measure the opportunities the university provides high school graduates looking to further their education. “[UC] is a jewel for kids in this area,” Johnson said.

McMicken offers students short semester of classes New program , Dean Jackson explains “Maymester” opportunity nicole sims contributor newsrecordnews@gmail.com

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MAY YOU TRANSFORM Dean Ronald Jackson explains Maymester opportunities.

Unique coursework is on the horizon for Bearcats this spring.

Beginning in May, students at the University of Cincinnati will have the option to take a shorter summer semester, featuring some non-traditional coursework.

The program, aptly named McMicken Maymester, offers 14 total courses through a range of different disciplines within the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences.

All the courses are worth three credit hours and cost the same as any other class at UC, but allow students the option to complete it in a shorter amount of time.

With courses meeting for 12 hours a week during May, students will have most of the summer left to seek other opportunities.

Ronald Jackson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, first introduced the idea

of Maymester, and although the idea is not original to UC, Jackson plans to make it stand apart from similar programs in other colleges.

“We want to distinguish our Maymester as one that was built around hands on, interactive, engaging learning,” Jackson said.

One distinguishing aspect of Maymester is the opportunity in some classes to study throughout the city and apply the knowledge learned in school outside the classroom.

Vanessa Plumly, a German studies graduate student, will teach a course centered on the German American history in Cincinnati, primarily in Over-the-Rhine.

The class will focus on German architecture in the city and include trips to Over-the-Rhine.

“There are so many cultural aspect in the city,” Plumly said. “It’s sort of like this text you can manipulate and find little

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corners that have some sort of German influence.”

Craig Dietsch, an associate professor in Geology, will take trips in his Field Geology of Cincinnati course to places such as UC’s own Center for Field Studies.

Dietsch wants students to leave the course reconnected to the natural environment, with a better understanding of how it is changing.

“In the college and university the words transformation and transformative is kind of a big catchword now,” Dietsch said.

“This is a little opportunity in your life in May in a couple Saturdays to find that transforming moment.”

Maymester is only offered through A&S, but the classes are open to all UC students — as well as the public.

Jackson encourages students to tweet him @McMickenDean, to provide suggestions on how to improve Maymester.

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Clifton Town Meeting to hire leasing expert CTM allocates $8,750 for retail consultant to aid in district redevelopment BENJAMIN GOLDSCHMIDT CHIEF REPORTER NEWSRECORDNEWS@GMAIL.COM A retail group is likely to enter a contract with Clifton Town Meeting to help revitalize the Ludlow Business District.

Uptown Consortium brought the idea to CTM after Kathleen Norris, a leasing consultant for Bandit Retail Group, successfully brought in favorable businesses to Short Vine during its redevelopment.

CTM passed a resolution Feb. 4 to allocate $8,750 to hire Norris if Uptown Consortium, the Clifton Business Association and Clifton 20/20 all match its contribution.

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It is likely a contract with Norris will be signed in the near future. Each party involved expressed interest in hiring Norris, but seems to be waiting for the first group to commit, said Morgan Rich, CTM trustee.

“There’s getting to be a lot of competition between these small … neighborhoods — between Short Vine being worked on, the development Vine Street and what’s going on in McMillan now — Ludlow is a little bit behind the eight ball,” Rich said.

CTM wants to bring in businesses the community needs — to attract more shoppers and keep residents from taking their business elsewhere — and the plan to realize that goal is to work with the landlords.

Norris works by building relationships with landlords and getting them to work toward the community’s vision of how the business district will look.

Any landlord can lease to whatever business comes along, and part of Norris’ job is to get landlords to hold out for a business that meshes with the needs of the community and would likely be a long-term tenant.

“As opposed to just saying you need a butcher and a bakery, go out and find them, she actually talks to the landlords and say this is what the community wants, this would be a tenant that would fit here, this is why you should hold out as opposed to taking the next person that comes through

the door,” Rich said.

Norris employed the technique in her work on Short Vine, and proposed to do the same sort of work for Ludlow Avenue in a CTM meeting in January.

“You do have to recruit tenants, because if you want it to be planned you can’t simply say we’ll put a sign in the window and the right guy or gal is going to come along,” Norris said. “The ones you really want have options, so you have to go get them.”

CTM wants to avoid only bringing in businesses they want and is hoping to get a feel for what people in the community want, including University of Cincinnati students.

‘HARLEM SHAKE’ IN CINCY Bearcats make video, continue viral craze

UC Medical Center awarded silver ranking for cardiac health BROOKE BEERY SENIOR REPORTER NEWSRECORDNEWS@GMAIL.COM The University of Cincinnati Medical Center received an award Tuesday recognizing its continued use of guidelines for cardiac health put into place by the American Heart Association.

“It’s an honor, they’re going to present the award at the American Heart Association Scientific Session in Dallas, Texas in November,” said Stephanie Dunlap, medical director of the Heart Failure Treatment and Heart Transplant Program at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. “This will help us with ranking nationally with our heart failure program and I think it puts us at an advantage over other institutions in the area.”

The University of Cincinnati Medical Center received the Get With The Guidelines, Heart Failure Silver Quality Achievement Award.

The award is a hospitalbased performance improvement program that helps ensure up-todate, evidence-based care for heart failure patients. The guidelines were designed to decrease the cost of hospital admissions by ensuring certain medicines are prescribed and the function of patients’ hearts is documented in charts, Dunlap said.

The guidelines have proven successful in lowering 30-day mortality rates and re-admissions from heart failure patients, according to the American Heart Association.

To receive an achievement award, a hospital must implement the standing orders and protocols.

The measures include things like influenza vaccinations during flu season, having certain drugs prescribed at patient discharge and follow-up visits scheduled within seven days or less.

The University of Cincinnati Medical Center implemented the program in 2011. Data from the program was collected and submitted to the AHA, which made it possible to win the bronze award in May 2012.

The silver award was granted in recognition of UC’s excellent performance for 12 consecutive months. After 24 months, the hospital will be eligible for gold status.

“We already have that as a goal,” Dunlap said.

In addition to receiving the award, the University of Cincinnati Medical Center will be highlighted in the AHA’s US News and World Report Recognition Advertisement in July and will be recognized in AHA’s scientific journal.

Approximately 100 students from the University of Cincinnati participated in the Harlem Shake video Friday. The video was featured at halftime during the Bearcats basketball game.

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Marathon raises money, exceeds goals Students dance to give back to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center GRACE ZBIEGIEN SENIOR REPORTER NEWSRECORD.LIVING@GMAIL.COM The University of Cincinnati community raised more than $30,000 for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Saturday and Sunday with 24 hours of dancing and socializing.

Approximately 600 people participated in the fifth-annual Cincinnati Dance Marathon and approximately 200 participants stayed the entire 24 hours.

Payton Stephens, a 12-year-old girl who was treated at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center as an infant, gave the keynote speech at the event, hosted at the Campus Recreation Center.

“Thank you from the bottom of my fixed heart,” Stephens said.

Natalie Gerano, the program director for the Children’s Miracle Network, a program that helps sick children by raising money for children’s hospitals, including Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, explained the Cincinnati Dance Marathon is important not only for the hospital, but for the participants.

“It keeps the youth engaged in giving back,” Gerano said. “It’s important because

the funds that they raise come back to the hospital, and they’re able to provide support to a lot of the big programs. In order for Cincinnati to continue to be the third-top pediatric hospital in the country, it takes funding.”

To keep participants excited and energetic throughout the night, a team of 100 students taught one part of a nineminute choreographed dance every hour.

In addition, each hour had a theme, including student government hour, where student government hopefuls, including Joe Blizzard, Jaclyn Hyde and Kathleen Hurley, explained their platforms.

Other themed hours included a ’90s hour, aquatic hour — where participants were able to swim in the pool — and a 2 a.m. rave hour with crazy dancing and amped-up energy.

Michael Flick, a third-year construction management student and participant at the dance marathon, stayed the full 24 hours.

“At like 4:00 [a.m.] I started dozing off, but then I just got up and started dancing again, and started socializing a little bit more,” Flick said.

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DANCING DAY AWAY UC students come together to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network at the Cincinnati Dance Marathon on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. third-year graphic communications major and a member of the morale team.

“I really love when the kids come in. It’s really awesome to see who we’re actually benefitting,” Logue said.

The goal for the event was to raise $30,000.

By the end of the dance marathon, $30,034.01 was raised through registration fees and donations.

V-Day hosts event for feminine experience Popularity of Vagina Monologue performance calls for multi-day production SARAH ARRIOLA CONTRIBUTOR NEWSRECORD.LIVING@GMAIL.COM

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VAGINA MONOLOGUES Brandy Turnbow thanks students and community for coming out to the Vagina Monologues production in Zimmer Hall on Friday.

University of Cincinnati students, faculty, staff and community members brought Zimmer Auditorium to life Friday and Saturday evening with laughter, delivering a deeper understanding of what women endure throughout their lives.

“The Vagina Monologues,” written by award-winning playwright Eve Ensler, is a series of monologues based on more than 200 interviews Ensler conducted with women of all ages about their vaginas.

The monologues use humor, wit and the idea of common experiences to focus on issues such as sexuality, menstruation, sex, rape, genital mutilation and childbirth.

Reading through a script of monologues simply wouldn’t pack the same punch as

seeing the performance live. The actresses’ skills brought the monologues to life.

Shakira Adams had attendees rolling with laughter during her enthusiastic performance of “My Angry Vagina,” a monologue that addressed tampons, gynecological exams and the discomfort of thongs.

Linnea Bond energetically showcased a collection of moans in “The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy,” a monologue about a lawyer-turned-sex worker.

The most heart-wrenching monologue of the night came from Griscelda RamirezRomero, who performed “My Vagina Was My Village,” which told the story of Bosnian women in rape camps. The audience didn’t make a noise as Ramirez-Romero related the horrors these women endured.

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Presented for more than six years at UC and sponsored by the UC Women’s Center for four years, the monologues are hosted by V-Day, a global activist movement focused on stopping violence against women and girls.

Benefit programs like “The Vagina Monologues” are put on around the world

by V-Day to raise awareness and funds. The programs are often hosted near Valentine’s Day because the “V” in V-Day stands for “victory, valentine and vagina.”

The show gained so much popularity it was turned into a multiple-night performance.

Audience members didn’t know what to expect before “The Vagina Monologues,” but they ended up with a night full of laughter and a greater understanding of the feminine experience.

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‘Tiny asteroid’ causes great damage Russia sees ‘blessing in disguise’ after space rock blast, scientists call for action

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PROTESTERS H A worker sweeps up shattered glass from a store broken windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia, February 15, 2013.

SERGEI L. LOIKO LOS ANGELES TIMES MOSCOW — As Russian authorities searched Saturday for remnants of the space object that startled residents of the southern Ural Mountain region a day earlier, scientists called its shock wave a loud warning that they hoped would inspire action to prevent potential catastrophes.

“When a small piece of rock would fall on the Earth 100 years ago, it could have caused minimal damage and would have stayed largely undetected, but Friday’s accident fully demonstrated how vulnerable the technological civilization

of today has become,” Vladimir Lipunov, head of the Space Monitoring Laboratory with Moscow State University, said in an interview.

“It is high time Russia should start heavily investing in building an advanced space danger monitoring and warning system, and above that, a system capable of destroying such super bombs falling on us from the skies,” he added.

The scientist’s remarks echoed concern displayed by government officials. “Today neither Russia nor the United States is capable of shooting down objects from outer space,” tweeted Dmitry Rogozin, vice

premier in charge of the nation’s defense industry.

What NASA described as a “tiny asteroid” wreaked havoc in the densely populated and highly industrialized Chelyabinsk region early Friday, its shock wave resulting in injuries to more than 1,100 people and costing millions of dollars in damage to buildings and disrupted phone and Internet communications.

The massive sonic boom damaged 3,000 houses, 34 hospitals and clinics, and 360 schools, as well as several businesses, officials said. At least three hockey games were canceled because of damage to the local rink.

Regional Gov. Mikhail Yurevich told reporters Saturday that damage exceeded $33 million but that 30 percent of the windows broken by the shock wave had already been replaced. About 20,000 municipal employees, emergency workers and volunteers worked round the clock to fix the windows in a region where the overnight temperature fell to minus-4 degrees Fahrenheit.

Police have collected several small pieces of a black rock-like substance believed to be from the space object that broke apart as it exploded over the area, Interfax reported. Divers finished their initial inspection of Chebarkul Lake, about 40 miles west of Chelyabinsk, but found no traces of the object, a big chunk of which was believed to have fallen into the lake, breaking the thick ice.

The Chelyabinsk region has long been one of the most important military industrial regions of Russia, where you “can’t drive a mile without passing a defense or a nuclear industry installation,” Lipunov said.

“We should be thankful to fate that this meteor, in fact, was a blessing in disguise, and instead of destroying a significant part

of Russia with quite dire consequences to the rest of the world, it sent us a clear warning signal by simply blowing up a bunch of windows and lightly injuring over 1,000 people,” the scientist added.

Rogozin said he would provide Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday with “proposals on possibilities to register the danger of the Earth’s coming close to ‘aliens’” and to prevent such events in the future.

Lipunov said his monitoring system of four 15.7-inch telescopes deployed across Russia was able to produce a high-quality two-hour video of the 2012 DA14 asteroid, a much larger space rock that coincidentally passed close to Earth on Friday. But he said his lab could not discern smaller asteroids and meteors, which can also pose a grave risk.

Many Russian experts say that government funding for a monitoring system should be reinstated and that it should be equipped with 59-inch telescopes like those in the United States.

“Americans can, for example, detect a dangerous object and calculate that it can fall somewhere in the Urals, but that doesn’t concern them,” Alexander Bagrov, a senior researcher with the Astronomy Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Russia-24, a government news television network.

Bagrov spoke in favor of creating an early warning system of satellites monitoring space for signs of approaching danger, but Lipunov countered that a spacebased system would be more expensive and could take a decade to install — and even then it would not be as reliable as an Earthbased system equipped with powerful telescopes.

EU to test beef products for horse meet Tainted meat, mislabeled products raise concern HELEN MAGUIRE DPA / MCT CAMPUS BRUSSELS — Ready-meals labeled as containing beef should be tested across the European Union for the presence of horse meat, according to a plan approved Friday by a team of EU food safety experts.

Tests conducted in Britain, meanwhile, found traces of horse meat in 29 of 2,501 beef products, the Food Standards Agency said.

Across the EU, a total of 2,250 samples of food sold as beef products — between 10 and 150 per member state — should be tested for the presence of unlabeled horse meat, under the proposals drawn up by the European Commission, the bloc’s executive.

The EU experts also agreed that horse meat should be tested for possible residues of phenylbutazone, an antiinflammatory drug that is illegal in animals intended to be eaten, proposing that one sample be tested for every 50 tons of meat.

The previous day, Britain said some horse meat sold to Europe may have contained traces of the drug, commonly known as bute, after traces were found in eight of 206 tested horse carcasses.

The tests are to be carried out in an initial round before the end of March, with results to be published on April 15.

They will be co-financed by the commission, although they are not compulsory for member states.

They would be an “important step in restoring consumer confidence,” said Irish Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney, whose country currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency.

The 29 products that tested positive in Britain all contained more than 1 percent horse meat, the FSA said, adding that 950 more tests were under way.

The tainted samples came from supermarket chains Aldi, the Co-op and Tesco, as well as producers Findus and Rangeland.

“In the vast majority of cases, the results so far are showing that no horse DNA is present in the foods tested,” said FSA chief Catherine Brown. “But this is still far from the full picture,” she added, calling on companies to keep supplying updates.

In addition to the FSA findings, pub and hotel group Whitbread said their lasagne and beef burgers also had been affected. Meanwhile, meat pies were withdrawn from the menu at schools in the county of Lancashire, after one was found to contain traces of horse.

A dozen countries have been affected by mislabeled horse meat, with supermarket chains in recent weeks withdrawing products after tests revealed they contained up to 100 percent horse meat.

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PROTESTERS FAVOR DORNER People protest near the Los Angeles Police Department & headquarters in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday, February 16, 2013, iin response to the death of fired ex-officer Christopher Dorner, who is accused of killing four people.

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Protesters argue police corruption, racism in favor of killer HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS LOS ANGELES TIMES LOS ANGELES — Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters downtown Saturday afternoon, holding signs of support for Christopher Dorner, the fired police officer suspected of killing four people.

Those gathered said they were protesting police corruption and the way the massive manhunt for Dorner was conducted. Authorities said Dorner appears to have died from a self-inflected gunshot wound after a shootout with police in Big Bear on Tuesday, ending a deadly rampage that stretched across Southern California.

Protesters said they believed Dorner’s claims that he was unfairly fired from the department in 2009 — grievances described in a lengthy online manifesto that has been attributed to him.

Dorner also claimed that he was the victim of racism.

Protesters also said they were appalled by police mistakenly shooting at passengers in two separate trucks in Torrance, wrongly believing Dorner might be in the vehicles.

One woman was shot in the back and is still recovering.

The protesters emphasized that they did not condone the killings of which Dorner is accused.

Michael Nam, 30, stood at the corner of 1st and Main Streets with a sign, painted by his girlfriend, showing a tombstone and the words “RIP Habeas Corpus.” The tombstone was engulfed in flames.

Nam, of Lomita, said he was disturbed by the burning of a mountain cabin near Big Bear where Dorner barricaded himself with a high-powered sniper rifle, smoke bombs and a cache of ammo.

The blaze started shortly after police fired “pyrotechnic” tear gas into the cabin;

the canisters are known as “burners” The Facebook post announcing because the intense heat they emit often the protest tells attendees to “keep it causes a fire.

PEACEFUL” and to bring recording But authorities have maintained that the equipment. fire was not intentionally set.

The Facebook page states: “This is not Dorner, whose charred body was found a page about supporting the killing of in the cabin, appears to have died of a single innocent people. It’s supporting fighting gunshot wound to the head, authorities back against corrupt cops and bringing to said. light what they do.”

“How the police handled this — As the protesters stood Saturday, they were the judge, the jury and the drivers passing by honked, waved and gave executioner,” Nam said. “As an American thumbs up. A handful of officers watched citizen, you have the right to a trial and due from police headquarters across the street. process by law.”

Nam said he spoke to the officers before Nam, a former Marine and a current the protest began about what the protesters member of the Army National Guard, should do to keep the event peaceful. said he has combat experience from He said the officers were respectful. deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The protesters marched around the He said he has been in situations block, circling an intersection near in which a combatant has been the department headquarters. barricaded and successfully They chanted, “LAPD, you are What I waited until the person guilty.” surrendered, eventually Signs expressed anger saw was a getting “tired and coming at police and support for out on their own.” complete Dorner.

Nam said it was “pretty “If you’re not enraged, disregard for obvious” police wanted you’re not paying attention,” Dorner dead. “What I saw one sign read. the Bill of was a complete disregard for “Why couldn’t we hear his Rights. the Bill of Rights,” Nam said. side?”

“Clear his name!

San Bernardino County Christopher Dorner” Sheriff John McMahon, during Liliana Alaniz, 40, came with her family a news conference Friday, defended the — her mother, sister, nieces and daughters tactics used by his agency in the shootout — from Long Beach to join the protest, at the mountain cabin, which left one of which she said was her first. his deputies dead and another seriously “I really, really believe he was innocent wounded. in the firing case,” Alaniz said of Dorner.

“The bottom line is the deputy sheriffs of Alaniz held a sign that read, “Trying to this department, and the law enforcement clear your name.” officers from the surrounding area, did an Her daughter, Andrea Tovar, said Dorner outstanding job,” he said. “They ran into the “has his supporters.” line of fire.”

“Murder is never right, but neither is the Protesters on Saturday said they law when it’s unjust,” said Tovar, 18. She organized the event through a Facebook page called “I support Christopher Jordan said police need to know they “can’t get away with everything.”

Dorner.”

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Cincinnati falls to No. 15 Hoyas Free-throw woes, defensive lapses come back to haunt Bearcats Joshua a. miller sports editor sports.newsrecord@gmail.com

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FIGHTING FOR POSSESSION Cincinnati’s Justin Jackson battles for a rebound against Georgetown standout forward Otto Porter Jr.

The University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team continued to be plagued by poor shooting Friday night, falling to No. 15 Georgetown, 62-55.

Cincinnati (19-7, Big East 7-6) shot 31 percent from the field and made only 4-24 (16.7 percent) attempts from 3-point range. However, UC’s poor free-throw shooting — 17-30 on the night — proved to be the final difference in the game.

“Basketball is a game of who makes fewer mistakes,” said UC head coach Mick Cronin. “Georgetown made fewer mistakes than us tonight. They also shot the ball a little bit better than us.

Obviously, they shot free throws better than we did. It is hard to overcome that against a great team.”

Sean Kilpatrick opened the scoring for the Bearcats with a transition layup after an emphatic block from Justin Jackson on the defensive end. UC’s defense kept Georgetown in check early, with Jackson and Cheihk Mbodj combining for three blocks in the game’s first three minutes.

Both teams began the game 1-7 from the field and UC led just 3-2 at the 15:00 minute mark.

Georgetown took the lead on a Markel Starks jumper and began to pull away after a steal and an old-fashioned 3-point play from standout forward Otto Porter with 12:10 remaining. The Hoyas led 1713 with 8 minutes remaining in the half.

Cashmere Wright, who missed his first five shots of the game, hit the Bearcats’ first 3-pointer of the game with 4 minutes remaining in the first half to cut Georgetown’s lead to 25-20. UC finished the first half 1-11 (9 percent) from behind the arc and 8-26 (30 percent) from the field.

Georgetown led by as many as nine in the first half, but JaQuon Parker’s buzzerbeating layup cut the halftime lead to 3125. The Bearcats poor free-throw shooting — 8-17 in the first half — cost UC greatly in the end.

Georgetown dominated the opening minutes of the second half, extending its lead to 43-31 just four minutes into the half, after four points from Porter.

Kilpatrick’s 3-pointer with 15 minutes remaining sparked a 14-3 UC run over the next 9 minutes, which saw the Bearcats regain the lead, 51-50 with 6:54 left to play. Parker led UC’s charge with eight points, including five free trows.

Titus Rubles had a chance to extend

UC’s lead at the free-throw line, but missed both shots. Starks drained a highly contested 3-pointer on Georgetown’s ensuing possession, regaining the lead for the Hoyas, 54-51.

UC had three chances to tie the game with Georgetown leading 55-53, but couldn’t convert anything on the offensive end in the game’s closing minutes.

Porter pushed the Hoyas’ lead to 57-53 with a pair of free throws at the 1:16 mark and Wright’s 3-point attempt at the other end clanked off the rim. The Hoyas iced the game at the free-throw line, securing its 62-55 victory.

Starks and Porter paced Georgetown with 17 and 16 points respectively. Parker led UC with 15.

UC has now lost three of its last four games. Although some consider 2013 to be a disappointing season for the team, the most important thing is making the NCAA tournament, Wright said.

“We are disappointed, but we realize as a veteran team all you have to do is get to the tournament,” he said. “All you have to do is keep grinding. Right now we are just playing. We are trying to fine tune things, get back to where we were and stop making these metal mistakes on defense.”

UC will look to bounce back next Thursday Feb. 21 at the University of Connecticut.

Remaining Men’s Basketball Schedule Feb. 21 Feb. 24 Mar. 2 Mar. 4 Mar. 9

at UConn at Notre Dame vs. UConn at Louisville vs. USF

Big East Tournament Mar. 12-16 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Opponents and game times to be announced.

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