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An expo showed the problem solving and hacking skills of students this week.

The second annual University of Cincinnati Information Technology Expo was hosted in Tangeman University Center’s Great Hall Tuesday, where senior IT students showcased their real-world projects and participated in a password-hacking competition.

A total of 41 students showcased 24 projects, and professionals in the IT field were selected as judges to decide the winners.

The purpose of these projects is to bridge the gap between technological solutions and real-world problems, said Hazem Said, department head of Information Technology.

“These projects focused on the areas of business productivity, personal productivity and health care, and education and community services,” Said said. “We wanted students to work outside of a technological box and apply the same solutions they learn from IT to problems facing the ‘real world’ in these areas.”

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Said noted IT can revolutionize the norms of society.

There is a balance between the individual, the state and technology, and good IT solutions do not let one component overshadow the others, Said said.

They are natural solutions that work for everyone, he added.

“Students have solved problems through desktop virtualization and others that developed iPhone and Android solutions to common problems,” Said said.

Casey Tritt, and Justin Behymer, fifth-year IT students, won the best IT solution in the personal productivity and health care category and also won the best IT solution overall.

Their project was called SyncMei, which is an iPhone iOS5 mobile application, which integrates location awareness with popular social-networking feeds. The app is designed to provide detailed information about businesses, restaurants and events surrounding the user in any location.

Isaac G. Nyenaweh, fifth-year IT student, won the best IT solution in the education and community category, and Jared Hancock, fifth-year IT student, won the best IT SEE EXPO | 5

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TECH SAVVY STUDIES A fifth-year UC information technology student presents his project at the second annual University of Cincinnati Information Technology Expo hosted in Tangeman University Center’s Great Hall Tuesday.

Students showcased their real-world projects.

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Report says Downtown has allure JAMES SPRAGUE | CHIEF REPORTER

A recent report from a local organization shows downtown Cincinnati is becoming a more popular destination for employees, residents and visitors.

The eighth annual State of Downtown Report, released Tuesday by the nonprofit organization Downtown Cincinnati Inc., documents how the downtown district saw an increase in residents, an expanding workforce and more visitors in 2011.

The report profiles downtown Cincinnati by examining eight different aspects — residential opportunities, safety and cleanliness, downtown development, offices, employment, retail and restaurants, conventions, hotels, arts, culture and entertainment, access and parking.

The increases highlighted in some of those areas illustrate a vibrant downtown scene, said Gina Gartner, director of stakeholder services for Downtown Cincinnati Inc. “New, world-class office development, active retail leasing and expanded entertainment options demonstrate that downtown is thriving,” Gartner said. “In addition, the growing residential community, from the Banks to Over-the-Rhine, is actively engaged in making downtown a great place to live.”

The residential population of downtown Cincinnati moved above the 13,000 mark in 2011 — a 12-percent increase from 2010, according to the report.

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PAYING THE PRICE University of Cincinnati graduates, left to right, Drew Carpenter, Ben Dudley and Ashley Anderson now understand the responsibility that comes with taking out loans to pay for their educations and eventual career goals. The three have a combined debt of $124,000.

THE BIG PAYBACK As recent graduates enter professional world, student loans accrued in pursuit of their degrees are catching up

ARIEL CHEUNG | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ashley Anderson is a success story in most regards.

As a 2010 alumna of the University of Cincinnati, she now works downtown in the prestigious Great American Tower as an attorney information and press coordinator for Frost Brown Todd law firm.

But with almost a quarter of her paycheck going toward paying back student loans, Anderson can’t afford to move out of her parents’ house.

“It’s almost embarrassing,” said Anderson, 23. “I’m making decent money, but if I were living on my own, I would be living on zero per month. I wouldn’t be eating.”

It’s a problem plaguing college graduates across the country; 94 percent of students who earn a bachelor’s degree must take out loans to pay for school, according to an analysis by The NewYork Times.

And as tuition and average student debt at UC continue to climb, students are finding it hard to keep up.

RISING COSTS MAKE FOR RISING DEBT When UC’s tuition increases in August to $10,784, it will cost twice as much to attend the university as it did in 2000.

From 2005 to 2010, annual tuition rose $1,686, from $8,379 to $10,065. Meanwhile, average graduate debt increased by almost $10,000.

Factoring in other costs like room and board, books and personal expenses, those graduating in June will have wracked up $98,121 for a four-year undergraduate degree — approximately 26 percent of which is covered by borrowing, on average.

In Ohio, which has some of the highest average student debt in the country and ranks as the sixth lowest in state financing per student, UC is the second-most expensive

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Fifty-six percent of students currently enrolled at UC receive a federal loan, according to the UC admissions office. The average debt for a 2010-11 graduate was $26,462 — approximately $3,000 higher than the national average for graduate debt, according to The New York Times.

But as state support at UC has fallen by 11 percent in the past decade, the cost of the cuts is often being passed on to students, said Tom Canepa, the associate vice president for admissions.

“When state support goes down and universities have costs they have to cover, or costs that are impacted by budgetary reductions, it can translate to tuition increases,” Canepa said. “And if there isn’t the increased levels of scholarships, grants or work opportunities, the result of that is going to be students and families that have to incur

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As of Fall quarter, 34 percent of financial aid for UC students was offered in the form of scholarships or grants — which don’t have to be repaid — with the remaining two-thirds supplied through loans, according to The College Board.

And as students take on more debt, they don’t always realize the long-term consequences, Canepa said.

“Sometimes I think students and parents, to some extent, don’t look at loans in the same way they look at a car loan or a home loan,” Canepa said. “Especially if a student is the first in their family to go to college, there’s not that understanding that this is a loan we’re talking about. It does need to be repaid.”

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Research shows obesity rates for children continue to climb as they opt to consume junk foods over healthier options.

A University of Cincinnati study published in the International Quarterly of Community Health Education found that, on average, children consume approximately 300 calories per day from calorically dense snack foods, while receiving only 45 calories from their daily intake of healthy snacks, such as fruits and vegetables.

During the past three decades, child obesity has tripled, with nearly a quarter of all children between ages 2 and 19 listed as obese — while nearly a third are either overweight or obese.

“We can predict food behavior and design interventions to modify these constructs and change eating habits,” said Manoj Sharma, an associate professor in UC’s Health Promotion & PHOTO ILLUSTRATION | PAT STRANG Education Department.

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The children’s eating habits were affected by their attitudes toward healthy and junk foods as well as social pressures, Sharma said.

The study examined the eating habits during a 24-hour period from a group of 167 fourth- and fifthgrade elementary school children from the Princeton school district in Cincinnati.

The district was selected because it had a diverse student population representative of the general United States population.

“Fruits and vegetables are more expensive than junk foods, and kids don’t have the taste for vegetable,” Sharma said. “They do not like them, so they do not consume them.”

The trend follows adults as well, with 90-95 percent of adults not consuming the necessary quantities of fruits and vegetables.

Different results were found in gender and race. Boys consume, on average, approximately 238 calories each day from snacks, while girls take in SEE OBESITY | 6

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Economic fall result of service

The United States has shifted to a service-driven economy during the past 50 years.

Companies like General Motors, who used to manufacture products within the United States, have shifted or outsourced manufacturing activities to foreign countries like China.

Where in 1960 an individual with a high school degree could get a job working on an assembly line manufacturing goods and be able to afford a home and groceries, nowadays similarly qualified individuals are working in retail, customer service or a clerical job with high employee turnover and little advancement opportunity.

This has shifted the United States economy and has exponentially reduced the size of its middle class. The result is a wealth disparity where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the gap continues to increase every time jobs are sent abroad.

The question that comes to mind is why are we outsourcing work to countries like China? The answer is all about the bottom line.

Companies like GM or General Electric would rather pay an employee in China a miniscule wage to make their goods than pay a U.S. citizen working the same job in the United States almost $8-perhour minimum wage, health insurance and fringe benefits as well as pay social security tax and federal income taxes they have to match for each employee on their payroll.

In 1960, the percentage of workers relative to the workforce as a whole in the United States that worked in companies producing goods within the United States was nearly 40 percent and the percentage of employed persons who worked in service related work was almost 60 percent.

In 2010, the percentage of workers making goods in the United States fell sharply to 14 percent, and the percentage of workers in the service sector has risen to nearly 86 percent of the work force.

The problem is simple yet very complex and is grounded in the fact that Americans don’t make anything anymore.

Some American companies don’t even choose to incorporate in the United States because of strict securities regulations from the 1933 and 1934 Securities Acts as well as the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), which add a lot of red tape on reporting requirements and what officers of certain companies can and cannot do.

Before SOX, top officers of publicly traded companies could get away with unethical behavior such as freezing employee’s pensions while selling their own stock if the company’s share price was going down.

This happened with the CEO of Tyco in the early 2000s. SOX also holds top management accountable for fraudulent financial statements that investors or “reasonable persons” would rely on to make investment decisions such as buying stock or approving a loan.

Another factor that might explain this shift is unions.

While sometimes a good thing, unions have also become corrupt in a lot of ways.

For example a lot of small, local supermarkets don’t allow unions for their workers because they don’t want to deal with the hassle.

An example is Marc’s, which operates in the greater Cleveland area. The desire of companies to stay away from unions can be seen on a larger scale and is a driving force as to why a lot of American companies don’t have direct labor.

The solution to our economic problems and fiscal deficit lies in trying to get more companies to make products in America. The government has tried to incentivize companies by providing tax relief, which rewards companies producing stateside.

Even with a couple tax breaks, this trend, in a way is a dilemma like global warming, in that this shift is occurring, we are causing it, and we are having a rough time reversing it.

OPINION Student body president says farewell ALAN HAGERTY As I reflect on this past year, the experience has been simply incredible. I have been continually supported by a passionate and dedicated band of student leaders, especially my close friend and Student Body Vice President Michael Linger.

Our platform “Bringing Your Priorities to MainStreet” certainly achieved its vision.

During our term we focused on five priorities — safety, student life, academics, athletics and sustainability through various events, initiatives, programs and services. Rather than list everything we’ve accomplished — and trust me, I could go on for awhile — I will give three of Student Government’s greatest accomplishments this past year.

First, we led the initiative to create the Advisory Committee to Public Safety known as ACOPS. Essentially, ACOPS connects the Department of Pubic Safety directly with all parts of the university community.

This will allow for greater transparency and communication as well as a forum for

new initiatives and ideas to help make our community safe.

Second, we helped empower the college tribunals, which are the governing bodies for each respective college. Tribunals host career fairs, service events, educational seminars and much more that make a significant impact within their colleges. Basically, Student Government proposed a new funding model to allow less restricted access to funds that directly align LETTER TO with the Tribunals’ mission THE EDITOR and purpose. So, rather than having to meet the strict criteria of the University Funding Board, College Tribunals will be funded and overseen directly by Student Government.

Third, we revamped our nighttime student transportation. We took NightWalk, a volunteer-run service within Student Life and have proposed an entirely new model called NightRide. Pending final approval and funding, the Department of Public Safety will manage NightRide with paid student workers.

NightRide will be an entirely more reliable,

accountable and professional service for the thousand of rides it provides each year.

Again, I could go into much more detail, but I hope these three initiatives highlight our many successes this past year. To the entire UC community, thank you for an exceptional year together during my service to the university and the student body.

In celebration of an exceptional year, please join me at 11 a.m. Friday at McMicken Commons to perform the UC Alma Mater followed by the 7th Annual MainStreet Stride.

After the Stride, be sure to get some free food at the Myers Alumni Center and watch the Student Government Inauguration by President Greg Williams for incoming Student Body President Lane Hart and Vice President Maesa Idries.

I am confident they will do a tremendous job as “Student for Students.”

Alan Hagerty is the student body president at the University of Cincinnati.

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Gay marriage stance potentially harmful CRAIG NEIMAN | TNR CONTRIBUTOR People are decrying President Barack Obama’s declaration of support for gay marriage as a simple ploy for brownie points.

Is it true?

Leading up to what is sure to be a taxing presidential race for candidates and voters alike, Obama and Mitt Romney are each drawing lines in the sand, staking their claims over sections of an already deeply polarized United States.

Obama’s voice of support certainly secured his place as the candidate of choice for the gay electorate, but his proclamation will likely result in a net loss at the polls in November. Those who claim Obama is “only in it for the votes” are missing the larger picture of how Americans feel about gay marriage.

As with almost any candidate, Obama’s supporters are a widely diverse and eclectic crowd. They can range anywhere from a union worker living from paycheck to paycheck, to a student demonstrator camping out in Zuccotti Park in New York to an investor like Warren Buffet who believes in additional financial regulation on the part of the federal government. Given his diverse following, differences of opinions between supporters Obama’s position is a given — just like every politician experiences.

Up until this point, none of Obama’s policies and views have been contentious enough to potentially drive away supporters that would have otherwise been a lock in the 2012 campaign. Unfortunately for Obama and

his elections prospects, gay marriage is such a contentious view, one that has the power to drive away scores of his of supporters.

Even worse for the president, many of these supporters were the key his victory in 2008. By looking at some statistics on America’s view of gay marriage, it’s easy to see Obama’s stance could possibly do some serious harm to his election prospects this November.

President Obama’s statements were likely spurred on by Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s confirmation of his support for gay marriage; in light of this event, Obama came under pressure from the base of the Democratic Party to make his stance on gay marriage public.

Responding to political pressure should not be confused with, in this situation or others, shrewd political maneuvering to ensnare the majority of the voting public. In fact, Obama’s actions could potentially drive away a majority of voters.

A mere 38 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, according to recent surveys by The New York Times and CBS. Given this information, it’s clear to see the majority of potential voters in the upcoming election disagree with the president.

While some might argue that this is only one issue out of many that will influence voters in the upcoming election, many people view gay marriage as an affront to their faith. When religion gets involved, the stakes are raised.

The religious voter might not view this

issue as one of many political issues, but instead as a matter of sin or good vs. evil.

Some religious Obama followers have already felt their support wavering because of the administration’s pro-choice policies.

Obama’s declared support of gay marriage might tip these religious voters into the Romney camp, or might even turn them away from participating in the election entirely.

It’s easy for Obama to say he has evolved his views on gay marriage, but it doesn’t reflect America’s view of same-sex marriage.

Many people in America are opposed to the very idea of gay marriage and would even let Obama’s stance be the key influence in how they vote.

Obama’s voice of support will likely only bring him a loss in votes.

This being the case, it is evident that Obama’s statements had less to do with political gain than with simply clarifying his views on a topic past presidents have chosen to remain mum on.

If it is any consolation to those in favor of gay marriage, the mere fact young voters think Obama could use gay marriage as a springboard for obtaining more votes could symbolize the generation gap in the issue.

After all, young voters are far more inclined to support gay marriage, even across party lines.

Regardless of what political pundits might say currently, the aftermath of Obama’s stance will not be known until election day, and there will be plenty of mud slung between now and then.

Plenty of blame for loan rate increase crisis The impending interest rate increase in federally subsidized Stafford loans has been the latest political battleground inside the beltway, but everyone is missing the point.

Going to college is something that has evolved from being a privilege of the wealthy few to something most Americans feel entitled to, but nobody understands the cost.

Each fall, collegiate freshmen are faced with an important question: How am I going to pay for this?

For students who excelled in their high school years and reached the upper tier of standardized test scores or athletics, scholarships await. For

others, grants might have been an option in years gone by, but that has changed now.

The final option, and one that most students utilize, is taking out student loans.

What seems like a decent STAFF deal at the beginning — take EDITORIAL out a loan to pay for classes and maybe even have some left over for spending money — quickly becomes a one-way street headed for a life of indentured servitude and fledging hopes of pursuing the “American Dream,” — whatever that still means.

Not to mention, said loans don’t have to be paid off immediately.

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The Senate failed to keep the interest rate on these loans from doubling July 1.

As unfortunate as it might be, that ship has sailed and there is no turning back.

While students rallied to show their distain of elected officials, They forgot one thing: they signed the loan agreements of their own free will.

That is to say, nobody forced anyone to take out loans and nobody else should be on the hook for lack of payment.

Politicians should have acted, but their inaction doesn’t make up for blindly jumping into a pit of debt in search of an education.

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THE MILLIONAIRE PRESIDENT Recent reports published have Barack Obama’s assets worth anywhere from $2.6 million to $8.3 million, including a JPMorgan Chase checking account valued at as much as $1 million.

Obama worth up to $8.3M kathleen hennessey | tribune washington bureau

WASHINGTON — His book sales may be slowing, but President Barack Obama appears to be on solid financial footing.

The president reported assets that could exceed $8 million, according to financial disclosure forms released by the White House on Tuesday.

Obama’s precise net worth is impossible to discern from the forms, which require public officials to report assets and liabilities only within broad ranges. The forms showed assets of between $2.6 million and $8.3 million.

Obama listed a JPMorgan Chase checking account valued at between $500,000 and $1 million, notable as the bank faces federal regulatory scrutiny for a $2 billion trading loss. He reported two Vanguard retirement accounts and considerable investment in Treasury notes _ between $1 million and $5 million.

The president, who has recently tried to woo young voters by talking up college affordability and low interest rates for school loans, appears to be bracing for high tuition costs himself. Obama reported two college saving accounts, presumably one for each of his two daughters, each valued at between $100,000 and $200,000.

Obama, who has made much of his wealth through book sales, saw those sales slouch in 2011. Royalties from his memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” came in at between $100,001 and $1 million last year, down from between $1 million and $5 million in 2010. Royalties from Obama’s book “Audacity of Hope” also fell from between $100,001 to $1 million to as low as $50,000.

The Obamas’ only liability is the mortgage on their Chicago home, according to the report.

Obama listed the loan as valued at between $500,001 and $1 million. He pays a 5.625 percent interest rate.

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SPACE RACE ON CEO Elon Musk in the mission control room at the Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies Corp., April 19.

If successful, it will be the first time a private company will dock with the International Space Station.

A New Frontier For Space Travel W.J. Hennigan | Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — For the last halfcentury, space flight has been the domain of the world’s superpowers.

All that is set to change as soon as Saturday when SpaceX, the private rocket company in Hawthorne, Calif., will attempt to launch a spaceship with cargo into orbit and three days later dock it with the International Space Station.

If successful, the mission could mean a major shift in the way the U.S. government handles space exploration. Instead of keeping space travel a closely guarded government function, NASA has already begun hiring privately funded start-up companies for spacecraft development and is moving toward eventually outsourcing NASA space missions.

The upcoming launch is “the first step in the handoff” to private industry, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said.

“Everybody realizes the importance of this mission,” he said. “Nobody will be rooting against SpaceX.” But if the mission fails, it could trigger serious doubts about NASA’s decision to hand these responsibilities to a fledgling private space industry. Doubters have already begun to raise questions. Some former astronauts, members of Congress and space experts say the current plan to subcontract space missions is foolhardy. They say the plan is risky and that outer space is no place to roll the dice on unproven companies.

On launch day, it falls to SpaceX and its 40-year-old billionaire founder, Elon Musk, to prove they’re prepared.

With SpaceX engineers at the controls in Hawthorne, a towering rocket will blast off from a launch pad about 2,600 miles away in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and lift a gumdropshaped space capsule with a half-ton of food, water and other supplies up to the crew aboard the orbiting space station.

But delivering cargo isn’t the key mission — the space station is well-provisioned. The main purpose is to demonstrate that the space capsule can rendezvous with the $100 billion orbiting outpost and link up with the space station’s onboard computers. If all goes well, the crew aboard the space station will snag

the spacecraft with a robotic arm and lead it in for docking. Weeks later it will be released and sent back to Earth.

“We’re ready to take that next step,” Musk said. “It’s been a long road to this point.”

Musk is a straight-talking modern-day industrialist cut in the mold of a young Howard Hughes. He’s led numerous startup companies in a wide-range of industries, dating Hollywood starlets along the way.

The sandy-haired South African emigrant first made millions when he co-founded and sold online payment business PayPal Inc. to eBay Inc. in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Armed with his personal fortune and a Rolodex full of Silicon Valley venture capitalist contacts, Musk started SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and co-founded electric car company Tesla Motors Inc. in Palo Alto.

In starting SpaceX in 2002, his goal was to make money by developing and launching rockets that could carry satellites into space at a fraction of the cost of the current generation of spacecraft.

The sales pitch as a low-cost alternative has resonated with NASA. With federal money in short supply and the space shuttle fleet retired, the space agency has experienced thousands of job cuts across the country at places such as Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Johnson Space Center in Houston and Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, Calif.

The U.S. government now has no way to space other than doling out $63 million for a seat on a Russian Soyuz rocket.

After years of study and approval from Congress, the space agency is moving to turn the job of carrying cargo and crews over to private industry at a lower cost. Meanwhile, NASA will focus on deep space missions to land on asteroids and Mars.

Still, some in Congress aren’t sold on the privatization plan.

“I believe NASA would better serve the American taxpayer by continuing to push the frontiers of human space travel in its own right,” said Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. “There are no ‘private’ space companies; only taxpayer-funded ones that NASA has arbitrarily decided to call ‘commercial’ and hold to reduced standards of performance and accountability.”

Eugene Cernan, who was the last astronaut to walk on the moon in 1972, and Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon in 1969, testified before Congress in September about NASA’s decision to outsource space missions to private business.

Cernan described NASA’s future plans as a “slide to mediocrity,” “third-rate stature” and “devastating.”

Earlier this month, the pair, along with Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 mission, wrote a letter to Congress saying they want safe spacecraft.

“We all agree that our country has painted itself into a corner and does not now, nor will for many years, have a U.S. government craft suitable for carrying cargo or crew to the International Space Station,” the astronauts wrote. “The reputation of our country ... dictates that we do everything possible to ensure that any commercial crew service meets standards equal to those that we would enforce would the craft be government owned and operated.”

NASA says it is working with SpaceX to ensure safe flights and also has signed development contracts with lesser-known names in aerospace such as Sierra Nevada Corp. of Sparks, Nev., and Blue Origin of Kent, Wash.

Inside SpaceX’s Hawthorne complex, the company has a vast mission control center where engineers can keep real-time tabs on rocket launches at Cape Canaveral and on the mission itself. They monitor incoming data for anomalies, and if there are any, they can order the launch to be scrubbed or address the mission issues.

“There’s a real chance this mission doesn’t succeed — a lot can go wrong,” Musk said. “I mean, there’s a reason they call it rocket science.”

Musk started the company after investing $100 million of his own fortune with limited knowledge of the rocket business. He came to find that the industry was difficult to enter and littered with failed projects.

The company’s first rocket, the singleengine Falcon 1, failed three times before it successfully carried a satellite into space in 2008. That same year, NASA awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract to transport cargo in 12 flights to the space station.

From debt | 1 students understand the significance of taking out loans, Canepa said. From freshman orientation sessions for parents to working with the financial aid office to discuss budgeting with students, it is important students understand the impact of their financial aid, he said.

“It may be that some students are incurring some debt that is higher, or they are not in their dream job right away,” Canepa said. “But over the course of their career, we know that a college degree is going to more than pay for itself.”

While Drew Carpenter, a 2011 UC graduate, recognized financial aid advice was likely available, it wasn’t something he took advantage of while at UC, he said.

“I feel like a lot of freshmen don’t know they can go talk to somebody about loans and stuff like that,” Carpenter said.

Carpenter now works for Ohio-based company Marathon Monitors as a field service engineer. As a UC student, he amassed approximately $70,000 in debt when he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. Now, he pays $650 per month toward erasing his debt.

Still, Carpenter doesn’t regret his five years at UC, or what it cost to complete his education, he said.

“I think it worked just fine,” he said. “I wish I would have gotten a higher-paying job when I graduated, but that’s the economy’s fault, not the education.”

Like Carpenter, Anderson also took out loans to cover everything from tuition to housing — which ended up as a $44,000 debt.

As a first-generation college student, Anderson had to navigate the world of financial aid on her own, she said.

“I went to college completely blind; my parents refused to co-sign on any of my loans, so my interest rates were out the wahzoo,” Anderson said.

Despite being a straight-A student in high school, Anderson didn’t receive scholarships to ease her total.

The end result Ben Dudley, 25, found that his $10,000 student loan debt was preventing him from pursuing his writing career. While working a full-time factory job, Dudley was stuck, both creatively and financially, he said.

“When you’re working full-time and you get home exhausted, the last thing you want to do is write,” Dudley said. “So as much as I thought it would be a creative renaissance, it was a creative stagnation.”

Dudley decided to go back to school and work toward a master’s degree in creative writing. It gave him the opportunity to re-evaluate his career path and put off loan payments, he said.

“I saw grad school as a good way to figure out where to go next,” Dudley said. “Now, in terms of my writing, I’m vastly more confident. Not only do I know what I need to do, but I know what people are looking for.”

College graduates make 84 percent more over a lifetime than those with just a high school diploma, according to a 2011 study by Georgetown’s Center on Education.

“Education is expensive for what it is, but I think my degree was worth it,” Carpenter said. “I’m paying my bills on time, I bought a new car when I graduated.”

And if students strive to keep costs low while in school, it’s easier to keep the debt at bay, Canepa said. “[Students] should only be incurring the amount of debt they need in relation to the educational expenses,” he said. “All those peripheral kind of expenditures that aren’t directly related to collegiate work are things they shouldn’t saddle themselves with.”

But as approximately half of college graduates younger than the age of 25 are jobless or underemployed, it can be hard to justify the means to the end, Anderson said.

34%

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Scholarships Data from: The college board

BY THE NUMBERS Report by The College Board show 66 percent of money used to pay for higher education comes from loans, compared to 34 percent from scholarships.

“It’s about sacrificing — sacrificing things I want at this point to pay for the education that I needed,”Anderson said.

“Obviously, it was worth it [in the long run], but I wouldn’t be aware of that today.”

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SCRIBBLES JAMES SPRAGUE

Facts prior to drawing conclusion I could just imagine the reaction throughout the TriState as I heard the news on the radio Monday morning while driving to campus.

“Here we go again,” and “UC is nothing but a bunch of thugs,” were among the first thoughts I imagined people were having … straight from the gut reactions to the latest news enveloping the University of Cincinnati basketball team.

For those who haven’t heard, yet-to-be determined members of the UC basketball team — possibly three to six players, based on what news report you read — allegedly assaulted a bouncer at PLAY nightclub downtown during the wee hours of Sunday morning.

The bouncer, 23-year-old Brian McLucas, alleges that at least three members of the team assaulted him when he attempted to intervene in a situation involving the players and a waitress at the club who was not working at the time.

The players allegedly hurled racial epithets at the off-duty waitress and helped themselves uninvited to her alcohol, according to McLucas’ account.

When McLucas intervened, he stated, the players then allegedly punched him in the right eye — fracturing his eye socket — and kicked him while he was down, resulting in a concussion and bruised ribs.

McLucas received treatment at University Hospital for his injuries and filed a police report Sunday afternoon. He has also stated he would press charges against the players involved, but none have been filed as of yet.

I will say someone did a number on McLucas. That is a fact. Photos of him after the alleged scuffle show one dandy of a shiner, to say the least.

But it doesn’t automatically mean UC basketball players are responsible for it. Nor does it mean UC basketball players aren’t, either.

Already, though, it seems the public’s mind is made up.

Conclusions have been drawn all over social media, ranging from UC players being thugs to McLucas seeking 15 minutes of fame.

Inane commentary about Mick Cronin, comparisons to both Xavier University and The Ohio State University, and the infamous tale of former UC player Art Long punching a police horse have found their way into the mix as well … all of it adding up to one muddled, stupid bundle of confusion and hearsay.

We, as the public, might want to think a little harder about exercising some restraint before automatically condemning either side in this situation.

I know it’s quite easy for UC detractors — a legion that has reared its ugly head often since the beginning of the Bob Huggins era and grown exponentially after the Crosstown Fracas this past December — to point to this situation and use it as another example of what is awry with UC and college athletics. Some will even bottom-feed on the situation and drag the issue of race into it, casting aspersions once again on the behavior of black males, if it even was black UC athletes allegedly involved in this situation.

It will also be easy for UC’s defenders to point to McLucas and sling the timeless complaints that he is alleging the assault in order to gain monetary benefit or notoriety. They will lay bare his upbringing, his education, a YouTube video of him fighting in his neighborhood and his Facebook posts as examples of his character and reasons behind the incident.

This is already becoming evident with both sides having whipped out those big and tawdry guns to fire off verbal rounds at each other on websites the Internet over.

A real and true fact of the matter, however, is that roughly 99.99 percent of the Tri-State population was not involved with nor witness to the alleged incident at PLAY Sunday morning.

All we are armed with is a few news reports, reader commentary treading the area between idiotic and vile, and SEE SPRAGUE | 5

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Gov. Kasich recognizes Bearcats JOSH MILLER | SPORTS EDITOR

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CELEBRATING UC BASKETBALL Gov. John Kasich honored junior guard Cashmere Wright who represented UC as an elite Ohio basketball squad.

Junior guard Cashmere Wright and assistant coach Darren Savino represented the University of Cincinnati men’s basketball program at a reception at Gov. John Kasich’s mansion to recognize the 2012 postseason tournament success of Ohio collegiate basketball programs.

In addition to UC, the event honored representatives from the men’s teams of Ohio University, Ohio State, Xavier, Wittenberg University and the College of Wooster as well as the women’s teams from Division II Ashland University and Division III University of Mount Union.

The state of Ohio made NCAA tournament history this past season by becoming the first state to advance four teams to the Sweet 16: as UC, Ohio, Ohio State and Xavier. Ohio State would go on to reach the Final Four after defeating Cincinnati in their Sweet 16 matchup in Boston.

OSU defeated UC by a final score of 81-66, Xavier fell to Baylor University in their quarterfinal matchup 75-70, and OU lost a highly controversial overtime game, 73-65, to the perennial power-house North Carolina TarHeels.

“Placing four Ohio teams into the Sweet 16 was amazing, and the success of the smaller-division schools was special as well,” Kasich told the group. “You helped spark

the state and 11 million Ohioans are proud of you.”

UC finished the 2012 season with a final record of 26-11, the Bearcats compiled a school-record eight wins against ranked teams on their way to Big East Championship title game and the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.

The Sweet 16 appearance was the farthest the Bearcats have advanced in the NCAA tournament since the 2000-2001 season, in which Cincinnati fell to No.1 seeded Stanford University.

Wright later joined forces with Ohio State guard Aaron Craft to defeat Kasich and CBS Sports commentator Clark Kellogg in a bestof-three games competition of the age-old game of H-O-R-S-E. Kellog’s son Nick also had a significant impact on the tournament, as his impressive stretch of tournament play helped OU to become just the fifth 13 seed in NCAA history to advance to the Sweet 16.

After what was surely a one-sided game of horse, Kasich presented Wright with a certificate of recognition for the UC team and gave him a tour of the mansion as well.

Wright was honored and thankful to have been given the opportunity to attend the reception, he said. “[Today’s visit] is an accomplishment of sorts,” Wright said. “Not many people get SEE HONORS | 6

Bike polo: UC’s newest sporting fad SAM WEINBERG | SENIOR REPORTER When people think of the game polo, they probably think of rich Englishmen decked out in cardigan polos, frolicking around on horses, laughing and talking with accents thicker than honey.

While that might be a little stereotypical, it’s how the game is usually portrayed.

But polo isn’t just a game for the rich and foreign, however.

In fact, you’ve probably seen polo players around Clifton and didn’t even know it, because instead of playing on horses in fields, Clifton players don bikes and battle in an oval-shaped concrete arena nestled quietly behind the intersection of Joselin Ave. and Digby Ave, While it’s still technically polo, the official name of the game is hard-court bike polo, and it’s not a game for your typical English duke, either.

In actuality, the game is more like hockey on bikes than polo, and, while the game still revolves around hitting a ball into a goal with a mallet, the resemblance with “typical” polo stops there — especially when you throw in the contact aspect of hard-court bike polo.

“The contact part of the sport is actually something that’s disputed in the bike polo community,” said Ian Bulling, a fourth-year urban planning student and representative of Cincinnati’s bike polo chapter. ”A lot of cities play really rough — especially Cincinnati — but when you travel, cities will have their own set of rules on contact.”

As for the rest of the rules, they’re pretty simple and can easily be picked up after just watching a match or two.

To start the game, the ball is placed in the middle of the arena while each team lines up on one of the end walls behind the goals.

A judge or spectator counts down and yells “Polo” to signal the start of the game — known as the joust — where the players rush the ball, indirectly creating one of the world’s most intense games of chicken.

From there, the game is played until one of the teams scores a set number of goals — usually three or five — or until a designated time limit runs out, which is generally around 10 minutes.

The arena looks almost exactly like a hockey rink would if it was covered in concrete rather than ice, and goals are three-by-six feet. Designating a goalie is optional and varies from situation to situation throughout the game.

What makes bike polo particularly challenging and hard to master, however, is the rule it borrows from its aquatic cousin.

Like in water polo, players feet are not allowed to touch the arena floor, meaning players must

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NO HORSE REQUIRED The sport of polo is catching on among UC students as a growing chapter plays weekly at the bottom of Joselin Street. keep their feet on their bikes at all times.

With all the contact, however, a few people per game are always bound to twinkle-toe the concrete surface, and, when it happens, a player must take him or herself out of the game to touch an end wall on the half court line before they can re-enter the fray.

“You fall, but then you just get up and keep on going,” said Finessa Wenning, a member of the Cincinnati chapter since August 2011. “You go through different levels as you get better, though. It’s definitely fun, and it’s very exciting.”

Age wise, hard-court bike polo is relatively young. It was started back in the early 2000s by bike messengers in Seattle who used the game to pass some free time. Since then, the game has exploded in popularity, as it is currently played in more than 30 countries and 300 cities.

“It’s still growing in a pretty rapid pace in the U.S.,” Bulling said. “What’s really fascinating to me is how fast it’s growing in places like Europe, Asia and Central America.”

While the game quickly grew in Seattle, it took a few years to travel the 2,300-plus miles from the Emerald City to Cincinnati.

“Cincinnati has had a club since 2007 or 2008,” Bulling said. “Most of the founding members of the chapter are now elsewhere,

so the group of players we have now has been around since probably 2009 or 2010.”

While the group has its core members, it continues to grow, and, to Bulling’s knowledge, they’re the only chapter in the nation to get a brand new arena paid for by a city government.

“It’s fun and it’s frustrating at times, but it’s good to have something to get better at,” said Morgan Sassler, one of the chapter’s newest players. “It’s not too competitive here, which is also nice.”

While the group welcomes any newbies to go out and play with them, the chapter does have two separate and dedicated teams — think varsity and junior varsity — that travel to compete in tournaments, including the Midwest Regional Championships taking place this weekend in Madison, Wisc.

Like in other popular sports, there are also national and global tournaments.

“The regional tournaments are mainly just used to feed into the higher levels,” Bulling said. “The top teams from regionals will go to nationals, and the top teams from nationals will go to the world championship in August.”

For those interested in giving the game a try, the Cincinnati chapter plays every Tuesday and Thursday at 2 p.m. in their new arena at the end of Joselin Street.

BASEBALL

UC baseball makes final home stand MICHAEL WYLIE | STAFF REPORTER The University of Cincinnati baseball team will conclude its regular season with a three-game series against Georgetown University, beginningThursday evening at Marge Schott Stadium.

The Bearcats (16-37, 5-19 Big East) will look to build on their two-game sweep of Villanova this past weekend, winning games 5-2 and 7-3.

Junior right-handed pitcher Zach Isler (0-5, 3.07 ERA) will take the mound Thursday, looking for his first victory of the season.

Freshman left-handed pitcher Zach Morris (3-4, 3.00 ERA) will get the start Friday night and will attempt to follow up his strong performance against Villanova — where he pitched five innings, striking out eight and surrendering only one earned run — with another solid performance against the Hoyas.

The Bearcats conclude the series Sunday afternoon; a starting pitcher has not yet been named.

The Hoyas (23-27, 8-15 Big East) have won three of their past four games and are tied with Pittsburgh for eighth place in the Big East standings.

Cincinnati’s offense will look to capitalize on a Georgetown pitching staff, which ranks 11th in the Big East with a combined 4.98 ERA and has surrendered a league-worst

33 home runs this season.

Cincinnati Sophomore Justin Glass — who currently ranks seventh in the Big East with a batting average of .356 — will look to exploit the Hoyas’ weak pitching staff and continue his stellar offensive season, as he is tied with Georgetown’s Mike Garza for the Big East lead in hits with 77.

Freshman third baseman Joey Bielek is tied with Glass for the team lead in multi-hit games, batting in the cleanup spot behind Glass — he leads the team in multi-RBI games with nine.

The Bearcats are ranked sixth in the Big East defensively with a fielding percentage of .966, but will need to be more sound than they were in the Villanova series where the defense committed 10 errors in just two games.

After the Hoyas leave town, the Cats will turn their attention to the Big East tournament which starts in Clearwater, Fla., next Wednesday.

The Bearcats and Hoyas square off Thursday in game one starting at 6:30 p.m. Game two is on Saturday at 6:30 p.m., and the series will conclude Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m.

Prior to the start of Sunday’s game; 10 UC senior baseball players will be honored, as they conclude their careers at Marge Schott Stadium.

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ONE LAST TIME The 10 seniors on the University of Cincinnati baseball team will play their final home series at Marge Schott Stadium against Villanova University.

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Jonathan Hembree, a senior IT student, won the competition by hacking the program in the least amount of time.

This expo is the second,

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“Overall, the 2012 IT Expo was a motivating event that will propel the students into greater success in their career and will enable the department to excel in preparing future IT professionals,” Said said.

FROM OBESITY | 1 348 calories daily.

Hispanic children consume the highest amount of calories from snacks with 297 daily, followed by white children, who consume 282 calories, and black children, who take in approximately 221 calories.

Sharma worked on the study in 2010 with then-UC student Paul Branscum, who is now a professor at the University of Oklahoma.

The study was published in spring 2012.

One solution for changing children’s eating habits is changing their attitudes toward healthy foods by the use of health educators, Sharma said.

“Contributors to obesity beyond junk foods include portion size, sweetened drinks and not getting enough physical activity, with children spending more and more time [in front of a] screen — either watching TV or playing on the computer,” Sharma said.

The study was funded by UC through a $750 grant.

FROM SPRAGUE | 3 the many preconceived notions we all carry in us regardless of how much we refuse to acknowledge such biases.

A real and true fact is the Cincinnati Police Department is still investigating the alleged incident, as is UC Athletic Director Whit Babcock. The right people are attempting to sort this out and come to the right conclusion, at which time action will be taken and the right parties will (hopefully) be subject to the right repercussions.

Whether those repercussions are UC basketball players being convicted of assault, being removed from the basketball team and serving jail time or Brian McLucas being charged with filing a false police report and being shown as instigating the incident have yet to be determined.

But until then, it is completely wrong for us to jump to conclusions or act as if we are the police, the judge and the jury regarding this situation. Reader comments on various articles, Facebook posts and our opinion of the parties involved does not change the lack of knowledge we have regarding the situation or give us carte blanche to treat this incident as a foregone conclusion.

We don’t know a damn thing yet about what really took place at PLAY Sunday morning, folks.

And that is the most real and true fact of all.

FROM DOWNTOWN | 1 — spearheaded the population increase, according to the report.

With the increase in population, however, rental rate per square foot in the Central Business District also increased to $1.11 per square foot, a 9-percent jump from 2010.

The report also highlights the jump in the downtown workforce, as the opening of Omnicare and Nielsen added 1,100 new employees to the area.

Conventions downtown were also a boom for the city last year, as the total economic impact from 2011’s top-10 conventions in Cincinnati brought $27,476,792 to the city, a 24-percent increase from 2010, according to the report.

Entertainment downtown was also a high point of the report, as 28 new businesses opened in 2011, among them the Holy Grail Tavern & Grill at The Banks, PLAY nightclub, and the Servatii Café, according to the report.

FROM EXPO | 1 solution in the business productivity category.

During the password-hacking competition, students could use what they learned in the IT program to reset a password on a local admin agent, said Tony Grismayer, a network technician for VARtek.

“The theory behind this is, if you can successfully hack something, you also know how to prevent it from getting hacked,” Grismayer said. “Students have learned in the classroom how to mirror an OS using a hard disk or a flash drive, and using that information, they can successfully hack a system.”

Jonathan Hembree, a fifth-year IT student, won the competition by hacking the program in the least amount of time.

The expo is the second “reinvented” IT event hosted by the university, Said said.

“Overall, the 2012 IT Expo was a motivating event that will propel the students into greater success in their career and will enable the department to excel in preparing future IT professionals,” Said said.

FROM HONORS | 3 experience what I did today. I am very blessed to have the opportunity.”

Savino was also very appreciative of the invitation and was thrilled that he and Wright were able to take advantage of the opportunity, he said.

“It was a great experience,” Savino said. “The governor was a gracious host.

He showed us he’s been working on his jump shot. It was my first time to visit the governor’s residence which made it special for me and I’m sure for [Wright] as well.”

With the return of Wright, Sean Klpatrick, Jaquon Parker, Justin Jackson and four others who played significant time throughout the NCAA Tournament, UC head coach will look to emulate last year’s postseason run.

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