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AT THE TABLE The Board of Trustees hold their first meeting after naming Santa Ono interim president after William’s resignation.

The University of Cincinnati’s Board of Trustees held their first meeting of the academic year Tuesday, following the recent appointment of Santa Ono to interim president.

“Rest assured, we are moving this institution forward in a very positive way,” said Chairman Francis Barrett. “Thankfully, we have to look no further than the provost’s office to find our new leader.”

Ono was appointed interim president after Williams’ abrupt resignation on Aug. 21.

“I am deeply honored to be able to work with the students, faculty and staff, and the entire Bearcat nation of alumni, supporters and friends who have helped to make UC one

of the best universities in the world,” Ono said.

Ono, who joined the UC community as academic provost in 2010, started with a base salary of $255,000 and an annual stipend of $90,000.

Following executive session, the board approved an increase in Ono’s payment plan for his services as provost, agreeing on $96, 150 increase in salary.

The increase in salary was based upon Ono’s prior performance as provost and as a professor in the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Medicine.

The pay increase is unrelated to his recent appointment to interim president, Barrett said.

The board of trustees will reevaluate Ono’s compensation plan as interim president later in the semester, Barrett said.

Along with a $100,000 bonus, the university will pay for the remaining $172,963 of Ono’s mortgage on his house in Atlanta.

In his new position, Ono’s commitment to academic superiority remains at the helm of his objective, vowing to carry forward the work of the UC2019 Academic Master Plan, he said.

“We will carry that work forward because the bottom line is that we must continue our accelerated transformation into an even more distinguished, student-centered, faculty-driven university that gives back to this community, to Cincinnati and to the world,” Ono said.

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CEAS dean appointed LANCE LAMBERT | SENIIOR REPORTER Among the transitions of executive leadership at the University of Cincinnati, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) appointed Teik Lim as interim dean, earlier this month.

Teik Lim — an associate dean for graduate studies and research — was appointed on Aug. 1 as the interim dean for the next year until a LIM permanent dean is named.

Lim replaces former dean, Carlo Montemagno, who will remain on faculty as a professor of biomedical engineering for the coming school year, after serving as dean for six years.

“Montemagno has accomplished a lot of good for the college,” Lim said. “[He] connected with alumni in a way no one before has, and he continues to get a lot of support from the alumni.”

Some alumni were worried about Montemagno stepping down as dean, Lim said.

“I reassured the alumni I would continue the close connection between the college and the alumni as interim dean,” Lim said.

As interim dean, Lim will focus on ways to create greater budget transparency while also working to improve connections among other UC colleges, he said.

“I want everyone to know this is what the college is going to invest in, so everyone knows their voice is heard,” Lim said. “Even if they don’t get what they want.”

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VOICING THEIR OPINIONS University of Cincinnati students, faculty and staff were given an opportunity to reach out to anti-abortion protesters via a free speech board on McMicken Commons. Some were in

CAMPAIGNER IN CHIEF Obama seeks to reignite collegians in 2012 BEN GOLDSCHMIDT | CAMPUS REPORTER With the presidential election in November quickly approaching, the Obama campaign held a student press phone conference Tuesday in an attempt to reenergize and reach out to college voters across the country.

Young voters in 2008 not only turned out to the poll booths in staggering numbers, but also volunteered their time making phone calls and going door-to-door to help the Obama campaign.

This election has seen a dramatic fall in young voter participation, as Mr. Obama pointed out in the conference call that 24 universities nationwide were involved in.

“I know that there’s been some talk about whether young people are going to get involved or turn out, but the fact of the matter is that we’ve seen in the past and we’re going to see again this time the kind of difference that young voters make,” said Obama. “Frankly the other side’s strategy is to make young people so discouraged they choose to sit out this election.”

The president credited his 2008 victory and the actions his administration has taken over the last three and a half years to young voters. He cited actions like ending the war in Iraq, doubling America’s renewable energy and passing health care reform.

“All of these changes happened because of you,” he said. “And now we have more work to do.”

In another attempt to reach out to young voters across the country, Obama held an Ask Me Anything (AMA) event yesterday on the website reddit.com – which is particularly popular with younger people – where subscribers could ask the president anything they wanted.

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of a state that can succeed again in manufacturing.

“Ohio is, I think, representative of the choice in this election,” he said.“Ohio is a state where one in eight jobs are connected to the auto industry.

If we had taken Gov. Romney’s advice back in 2009, we would have let Detroit go bankrupt, and instead we reinvested, got workers and management to come together and the US auto industry’s come roaring back. I expect that if you’re not completely tired of me you’re going to see me in Ohio again.”

However, where Ohio republicans – specifically Sen. Rob Portman, Gov. Kasich and Rep. Paul Ryan – have criticized Obama most on the state’s economic struggle is his energy policy.

Obama credited Ohio State with good research on harnessing clean energy as opposed to tapping into Ohio’s abundance of natural gas and coal, which, Republicans say, would put Ohioans back to work and provide cost-efficient energy.

The president stated that the election in 2008 was unique, but this election is more important because “the differences between the two parties are even more stark.”

“When I ran in 2008, John McCain said he believed in climate change,” he said. “Governor Romney basically doesn’t think we should be doing anything about it.”

John McCain, Obama’s opponent in 2008, also believed in comprehensive immigration reform and campaign finance reform, Obama said. In contrast, he said the Republican Party now does not believe in immigration reform or keeping money out of politics, and that Romney is taking “$10 million checks from undisclosed donors.”

Obama spent much of the call distinguishing his political views with his opponent, Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate who officially accepted the Republican Party’s nomination yesterday.

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The University of Cincinnati’s newly formed journalism department named its first director before the start of the fall semester.

Jeffrey Blevins — an experienced journalist and professor who is ending his eight-year career at Iowa State University to come to UC — will lead the journalism department, w h i c h separated from the Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Blevins left his position as the director of BLEVINS undergraduate education at the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at ISU to lead UC’s journalism department because of the impressive quality of the program, he said.

Blevins’s interest and knowledge about new media, particularly social media, and knowledge of media law were points of interest that made Blevins a desirable candidate to become the journalism’s department head, said Bob Jonason, assistant journalism professor.

A rational approach to the prospect of what digital media can offer the journalism industry, Blevins said. Blevins has witnessed two extreme reactions to new and social media; one of them being “the doomsayer” perspective of new media, which portrays it as the destruction of journalism, he said. The other perspective portrays new media as the utopia of journalism, causing people to tweet and post news electronically without thinking critically.

“The right approach is in the middle of that,” Blevins said.

“We certainly can’t ignore new media or social media, nor should we. We need to think critically about it, and think of innovative ways in which we can use it to make journalism better.”

“The growth in the [journalism] industry has been in the area of digital media, and personally, I see us focusing attention in that area,” Jonason said. “That’s what employers want — students who SEE BLEVINS | 2

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this year, Galinger said. ROTC is a studentorientated program — the seniors lead the other cadets.

“We are excited for this year’s freshman,” Galinger said.“This year’s incoming freshmen have higher academic scores at UC than any other university.”

Cadet Sarah Mikkelson, a second-year student studying mathematics, said she appreciates the level of attention ROTC dedicates to academics.

“A lot of people get confused and think ROTC is all frontline work,” Mikkelson said.

“It’s a relief knowing I’ll have a job coming out of college, plus you have officers telling you what to do to keep you on top of your work. Other students who live away from home lose sight of that.”

Approximately 20-30 of the 120 participating freshman will continue onto their second year and sign a contract to become cadets, Galinger said.

“We feel this experience humanizes us a bit,” Galinger said. “I see strong Americans come forward and appreciate them trying us out.”

The University of Cincinnati’s Army ROTC Bearcat Battalion held an icebreaker event for prospective-freshman cadets Wednesday at Burnet Woods.

The icebreaker acted as a relief from their first physical training session early Wednesday morning, said Senior Cadet Maria Harford.

Harford worked hard over the summer, said LT. Col. William Galinger. High-level evaluators awarded her excellent overall scores in physical training, field navigation and leadership tests.

“I don’t ever feel like I’m that good,” Harford said. “It was nice to see the last three years of training pay off.”

Hartford ranks in the top 10 percent of her ROTC class based on criteria of field scores, leadership skills and academics.

Harford will advance to officer rank with 28 other senior cadets during graduation in April.

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QUEEN-SIZED INVESTMENT ROTC cadets meet for the “Icebreaker” social before joining the program.

Mikkelson is one of seven students attending the contracting ceremony Thursday at 9:30 AM, which advances them to cadet level.

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Loss of tax credits imperils wind farms’ future

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SWEETWATER, Texas — The impact of wind energy in this region of West Texas can be seen simply by driving down the road.

South of Sweetwater, hundreds of towering wind turbines from some of the nation’s largest wind farms dot ridge lines as far as the eye can see.

North of town, crews are busily erecting new transmission lines to move more wind power from West Texas and the Panhandle to population centers like Fort Worth, Dallas and San Antonio.

But the wind industry building boom, which has led Texas to be the nation’s leader in wind energy, could be nearing the end if the production tax credit expires at the end of the year.

The topic has become a key issue in the presidential race, with President Barack Obama supporting the continuation of the federal subsidy, while Mitt Romney says he would let the tax credit expire.

Obama has touted the jobs the green energy has brought to the U.S. while Romney has said wind and solar power “make little sense for the consuming public but great sense only for the companies reaping profits from taxpayer subsidies.”

Wind proponents like Sweetwater Mayor Greg Wortham say the expiration of the tax credit would slow new investment in the wind industry if not bring it to a complete halt.

Wind farms like the ones around Sweetwater, which is about 200 miles west of Fort Worth, or others closer to the city wouldn’t go away, but it would likely end the incentive for building new ones. For Sweetwater, which proclaims itself as the wind energy capital of the U.S. _ it’s also well known for its rattlesnake roundup _ losing the tax credit would be a significant blow.

“It’s almost like if our own Congress

wasn’t in our way, this would be a danged good economy,” said Wortham, who is also executive director of the Texas Wind Energy Clearinghouse, which promotes wind energy The wind industry is big business in Nolan County, where Sweetwater is located.

The tax base has grown from about $500 million in 2000 to $3 billion today. Besides making some ranchers rich, the money has pumped dollars into rural school districts where some new schools have been built for the first time in nearly a century.

The tax credit works by giving wind farm owners 2.2 cents for every kilowatthour of power they produce for 10 years.

That subsidy, which makes wind power far more competitive, is expected to cost the federal government about $1.3 billion this fiscal year.

While current wind farms would retain the tax credit, any wind farm that comes online after 2012 wouldn’t qualify for the tax break unless it’s extended by Congress.

Already, manufacturing companies spread across Texas and the nation have started laying off employees as orders dry up, according to the American Wind Energy Association. If the tax credit expires, the association says 37,000 jobs would be lost in the wind industry over the next two years. There are 37 plants manufacturing components for the wind industry in Texas, according to the AWEA. “It does have a paralyzing effect,” said Peter Kelley, AWEA’s vice president of public affairs. “We’re already seeing layoffs and slowdowns.”

Some Republicans in Congress want to halt subsidies completely and let market forces decide whether wind can survive on its own.

Earlier this month, the Senate Finance Committee approved a one-year extension of the tax credit by 19-5 vote, but it has not come up for a vote on the Senate floor.

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AN UNSURE FATE The Sweetwater, Texas, is tightly linked with wind energy in the United States. All who rely on the wind industry there are nervous as the production tax credit is scheduled to expire at the end of 2012. the five“no”votes, but did support extending the credit with a 20 percent reduction.

“Sen. Cornyn is committed to permanent, pro-growth tax reform that lowers rates, broadens the base, and helps job creation,” said press secretary Drew Brandewie.

But Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, where the second-most wind installations are located in the U.S., argued that the subsidy shouldn’t be cut off or reduced.

“No single energy tax incentive should be singled out over others, energy-related and not, before a broad-based tax reform debate,” Grassley said in a statement.

In Sweetwater, Wortham said residents are frustrated with the lack of strong

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FROM KICKING | 6 mammoth amount of history and prestige — but also a team going through a rebuilding process.

Another team, Sunderland, has recently joined the sweepstakes, but that move would represent a lateral step at best.

Dempsey’s heart seems to lie with Liverpool. But the Reds haven’t reached the Champion’s League since 2008-09 and finished only one spot above Fulham last year. Since then, the club has hired a new manager and started the season with one loss and one draw.

No matter what happens with Dempsey, Liverpool will finish higher in the table than Fulham.

But there’s no way in hell it will qualify for the Champion’s League.

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Liverpool might be a aecognizable name, but Dempsey can do better. In fact, he can do better by staying right where he is.

Yes, after this season he’ll be a year older, but he’ll also be out of his contract. That means any top team could secure his talents without paying the $12.5 million Fulham is demanding for him. With the price tag ripped off, Dempsey could easily find himself suiting up for Arsenal or Manchester United on the biggest stage.

Unless something crazy happens before the transfer window closes Friday, Dempsey should reconcile his differences with Fulham — he hasn’t played in the team’s first two games — and go play joga bonito.

problems because the state spending has not stayed up with inflation due to economic issues, Lim said.

“In spite of the challenges around the country, state and UC, in the engineering college we have excellent staff, and I need to help provide them with the best tools to help produce students,” Lim said.

Much like a business’ role is to produce a certain product a college’s role is to produce graduates, Lim said.

A week after the president of the university resigned, the school has yet to release details on the search process for the new dean, a position he would be interested in, Lim said.

“I will have to say I will seek the dean position, if I feel there is support from Ono, the faculty and students,” Lim said.

Montemagno left the CEAS with an academically superior group of incoming freshmen, a group that has an average ACT score of 29 and includes 27 high school valedictorians and eight salutatorians.

“This freshman class is the most academically qualified in the history of the college,” Lim said.

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the 42,000 students enrolled at the university. With the brightest and best prepared freshman class on record, UC continues to be a destination university, Ono said.

The freshmen class is more diverse than the 2011-2012 freshmen class, with 17 percent students of color and 13 percent with a score of 31 or higher on the ACT, said Caroline Miller, associate vice president in the office of enrollment managment.

The university houses a record-breaking amount of international students this year as well, Ono said. The transitioning administration’s responsibility and singular focus is to move the university into the future for current students and those who have yet to walk UC’s campus, Ono said.

“We will not rest on our laurels,” Ono said. “We will become even better.”

their sales pitch, and they’ll put on a pretty entertaining show,” he said. “But what they’re not doing is offering a serious path forward. I don’t believe in top-down economic policies – that’s what got us into this mess in the first place. I believe in middle-out and bottom-up economics.”

Austin Kaiser, political director of the University of Cincinnati Republicans, believes Obama’s rhetoric on “hope and change” will not work in this election because of vast unemployment and the country’s economic state.

“This election Obama has been avoiding his record because, frankly, he does not have much of a record to run on,” he said.

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“He is targeting a lot of the youth vote but what he has done specifically for this age group is dismal. Half of college graduates from this year’s class will be unemployed or underemployed.”

Obama concluded the call by saying that the Republican Party knows its stance on many issues is unpopular with young voters, and their campaign strategy detracts from the issues as a result.

“They’re going to put millions of dollars of negative ads and false attacks on the air, and they’re hoping that young people, even if they don’t vote for them, at least don’t vote at all,” he said.

support from the Texas Republican Congressional delegation on wind, noting that it was once an issue the GOP supported.

The tax credit began under President George H.W. Bush’s administration in 1992, and wind power greatly accelerated under President George W. Bush’s leadership.

In West Texas, Wortham said, residents welcome all kinds of energy _ oil, gas, coal, nuclear as well as wind _ and it shouldn’t be about pitting one energy source against another.

“Let’s be for all of it because we’re out here making it,” Wortham said. “Right now, they’re playing with people’s livelihoods with this tax credit.”

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They also want students that can write clearly, with accuracy and with credibility.”

The university has a good start incorporating new media into its program with The New Media Bureau, a group of faculty and students whose mission is to tell the untold stories of Cincinnati across multiple media platforms, Blevins said. “[UC’s] quality internship program, The New Media Bureau, a very talented faculty and extracurricular experiences including The News Record — the independent run student newspaper, are some of the attributes that attracted Blevins to UC, and are “the ingredients” for eventually becoming an ACEJMC (Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications), Blevins said.

There are currently 109 ACEJMC-accredited schools, all within the United States except one.

Blevins and the journalism faculty plan to add UC to that list in the next five years.

To fully understand what UC specifically needs to accomplish to become ACEJMC accredited, a representative would need to evaluate the journalism program, Blevins said.

Accreditation represents quality and relevance for the programs that are recognized, Blevins said. More students interested in pursuing journalism will consider UC as a prospective school more than they did before journalism was its own department, Jonason said. ACEJMC accreditation will make a degree in journalism from UC even more desirable by students and employers, Jonason said.

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is something I’ve never seen coastal Mississippi were without before ... this is power, with more than 9,000 in not a Category the same predicament in coastal 1 storm,” Alabama.

GULFPORT, Miss. — Rescue Nungesser, the New Orleans had more efforts began in earnest parish president, Wednesday morning as Hurricane than half a million residents told The Weather Isaac slowly pushed northward, without power because of Isaac, Channel in and the local power company sparking tornado warnings along the early the Mississippi co++ast, dangerous Entergy warned it would be days morning hours. before everyone in the area has flooding and overtopped levees in The National electricity again.

Louisiana and power outages in H u r r i c a n e In some good news for three Gulf Coast states.

Center, in National Guard troops and residents along the U.S. East an advisory local residents rushed to the aid of Coast, there was no apparent overnight, said stranded residents in Plaquemines damage to a major pipeline Isaac made a operated by Atlanta-based Parish, La., about 90 miles east of second landfall Colonial Pipeline that carries New Orleans. near Port Through the overnight and gasoline and diesel from the Gulf Fourchon, La., early morning hours, a father-son Coast to the heavily populated and began its region. team of boaters helped gather march northward “Everything right now is residents seeking shelter from across land. By 6 floodwaters on their rooftops in normal ... we haven’t lost power. the parish, which had been under Right now everything is good,” a.m. EDT, there was little sign said Steve Baker, a company a mandatory evacuation. that Isaac was on spokesman. Although refiners The Times-Picayune, the its way out, with hometown paper in New Orleans, in the New Orleans area ramped sustained winds identified the local heroes as Jesse down production, the pipeline of 80 mph for Shaffer Sr. and his son, Jesse Jr. company was able to continue nearly half a day. to draw from supplies in storage Television stations carried video Because Isaac at refineries, and the pipeline taken by the Shaffers of the rescue came ashore over a swampy of residents who had taken refuge originates in Houston, allowing area, there was little to break refiners there to increase their in their attics. up the center of the storm and supplies.

The parish president, Billy it remained largely intact as it It all translates to relief for Nungesser, reported surge levels began moving over land as a East Coast motorists, who were of at least 12 feet coming into dangerous rainmaker. looking at possible $4-a-gallon homes in a parish that was the site It continued to move slowly of Isaac’s landfall at 7:45 pm EDT gasoline had there been greater at a pace of around 6 mph, disruption. on Tuesday night. + ensuring the storm would remain “The way things look right a problem in coastal communities now, that’s correct,” said Baker. into Thursday. Interviewed on Also on Wednesday, the The Weather Channel shortly Lake Pontchartrain Nungesser and others reported 24-mile after Isaac came ashore, Causeway remained closed in the 18 miles of levees on the western Nungesser said the storm surge bank of the Mississippi had been New Orleans area, complicating had unexpectedly pushed up the overtopped by the storm surge the return of residents who were Mississippi River, which has been evacuated. and tidewaters. at historical lows because of this The span was likely to remain The levees did not appear to summer’s punishing drought. closed for much of the day.

Water was splashing over the Farther east in Gulfport, tops of the river’s levees, causing power lines were down, concern. “We’re concerned if this and flooding closed U.S. keeps up it will push up the river 90, a key coastal highway and bring the river over its banks,” that runs the length of Nungesser said.

Harrison County.

However, U.S. Army Corps of Reporters for the Sun Engineers spokesman Ken Holder Herald, a McClatchy told The Weather Channel that newspaper that is tidewaters were receding and no distributed in Mississippi’s breach of levees was expected. A three coastal counties, few hours later, the worst fears described a scene of chaos apparently came true as one or as the sun came up, with more Mississippi River levees JOHN FITZHUGH | BILOXI SUN HERALD downed trees on roads and were overtopped. tree limbs and branches littering yards.

Parts of the Mississippi coast were under a curfew The deteriorating weather overnight, making it easier conditions made it difficult for emergency management to assess exactly what was officials to respond to calls happening in the parish. Holder for help. The curfew was extended give way, but rather were topped did not return requests from Wednesday until noon at the by rising waters.

McClatchy for comment.

By nearly noon EDT, the earliest.

The National Hurricane Authorities rescued a family Coast Guard in the New Orleans Center reported Tuesday night with a six-month-old child remained on standby, unable a storm surge of 10.3 to begin search and rescue feet was registered at a operations in wind gusts that National Ocean Service continued to exceed 70 mph tide gauge in Shell nearly 17 hours after the Category Beach, La. 1 hurricane made landfall.

A storm surge of Although the wind speeds 6.7 feet was reported paled compared to Hurricane at a tide gauge in Katrina, which came ashore seven Waveland, Miss. The years ago Wednesday and claimed center upgraded its more than 1,800 lives along the -Billy Nungesser rain forecasts at 10 p.m.

Gulf Coast, the wide and slowcentral time, projecting moving nature of Isaac made it a seven to 14 inches devastating storm. in Louisiana, Mississippi and East from New Orleans, overnight from a houseboat on Alabama, warning of “significant the Pearl River, which is a water tornado watches were in effect lowland flooding” and 20 inches along three Mississippi coastal border between the state and of rain in isolated locations. counties for most of Wednesday, Louisiana. On the Back Bay in “This storm is packing a Biloxi, rescue teams saved a man and a warning went into effect late hell of a punch,” said a worried who tried to ride out the storm on in the morning for areas around Nungesser. a sailboat. the Pearl River, where Mississippi The Popps Ferry Bridge in and Louisiana meet.

In the coastal city of Gulfport, Biloxi was closed Wednesday after rescue officials found a home to tourism, casinos and sailboat mast dangling over a lane condos in Mississippi, Wednesday of the drawbridge. Underscoring brought an initial sense of relief.

Isaac’s slow movement, the “We’re lucky at this point, but National Weather Service had a we do have some infrastructure damage,” said Rupert Lacy, tornado warning in effect until 4 p.m. Central time Wednesday for emergency management director all three of Mississippi’s coastal for Harrison County, home to hardcounties, and there were flood hit Gulfport and Biloxi. “There is warnings in the state capital, going to be some damage to the Jackson, more than 100 miles beach, and we’re suspecting that away. Most of the damage seemed we will have homes and buildings concentrated in Plaquemines with water. But we probably won’t Parish, a swampy area which know that for sure until tomorrow sticks out like a finger in the Gulf (Thursday).” of Mexico.

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Higher Calling

A University of Cincinnati student is making an impact in the non-profit sector on a national level.

B e n Williams, a fourth-year journalism major, will visit New Orleans Memorial Day weekend after Hurricane Isaac’s tragic flooding around the Gulf Coast Wednesday.

Williams will represent Matthew 25 Ministries (M25M), an international disaster relief organization, with Tim Mettey, Vice President and Disaster Relief Coordinator for M25M. They will spend the weekend making ground contact with partners and developing new cohorts to aid in the organization’s relief mission.

“We have to establish partners, we have to make sure they’re reliable, and make sure they’ll distribute things to the people that need it,”Williams said. “That’s what we’re going to do this weekend.”

Williams does marketing work for Matthew 25 Ministries, but participating in mission trips is what gives him hands-on opportunities to impact someone’s life, rather than going through the motions of a regular job, he said.

“I feel like I’m doing good because I’m making these assessments and I’m seeing what’s there and what we can do,” Williams said. “It hits home more because you’re actually seeing it with your own eyes. That’s pretty impactful.”

After the tornado outbreak that killed more than 30 people last spring, Williams delivered gift cards to several affected people in Indiana and Kentucky.

“To be able to hand them something and say, ‘Here, this is yours,’ — and to see the gratefulness on their face was pretty awesome.”

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WARSAW, Poland — In late 1999, two years before the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a group of Afghan agents loyal to an anti-Taliban guerrilla leader proposed assassinating Osama bin Laden.

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FORMER POLISH SPY Alexander Makowski, above, says the CIA refused to kill Osama bin Laden in 1999. former Polish spy who was the Afghans’ go-between on the plot. The CIA rejected the plan, however, saying, “We do not have a license to kill.”

The story — the centerpiece of “Ferreting out bin Laden,” a book by former spy Alexander Makowski that was published in Poland in June but isn’t yet available in English — offers previously unknown details about how the United States missed warning signs of the deadliest foreign attack ever on U.S. soil.

It’s told from the perspective of an allied intelligence service whose specialty is human intelligence — recruiting and running agents — not the technological monitoring that’s considered the United States’ strength.

“They gave us the exact location of the houses where bin Laden would be staying in Kandahar, the route he would be taking between his living quarters, his meeting place, and what kind of transportation he would be using,” Makowski told McClatchy Newspapers in a recent interview, referring to the city in southern Afghanistan that was the Taliban’s seat of power.

The Afghans planned to use car bombs to kill the Saudiborn leader of al-Qaida. But on Oct. 14, 1999, a CIA officer whom Makowski identified as “Jim” flew to Warsaw with a response.

“I would like everyone here to be absolutely clear on one thing: We do not have a license to kill,” “Jim” told top officials at the headquarters of Polish intelligence.

Makowski, at the time a businessman, said he was at the meeting. “We have to capture bin Laden safe and sound so that he can stand trial and be sentenced legally,” Makowski quotes the officer as saying.“Any other solution is out of the question. CIA operates within the American legal order.”

According to Makowski, the intelligence proved accurate: bin Laden arrived in Kandahar as planned and stayed in the house as had been predicted. Could the Afghans have killed him?

“I have no doubt,” he said. Bin Laden’s death in 1999 could have changed the American role in the world today, particularly if his death had demoralized al-Qaida enough that it abandoned its 9/11 plans.

Both the war in Afghanistan, which continues to this day, and the war in Iraq, which claimed nearly 4,500 American troops, were outgrowths of the 9/11 attacks, as was the increase in anti-Americanism in much of the Muslim world.

But Makowski’s book isn’t about the world that

might have been. Instead, he uses the aborted bin Laden assassination plot as the basis for a much broader criticism: that the U.S. government, including the CIA, faced with a choice between a fundamentalist Taliban regime that had taken power in 1996 and the Taliban’s main rival, guerrilla leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, sided with the Taliban.

The bin Laden mission was not the only missed opportunity that Makowski highlights. He also blames the CIA for the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000, which claimed the lives of 17 American sailors.

“Beginning in 1999, for almost a year, we started giving information that bin Laden had made a decision to prepare an operation to attack U.S. warships in the Gulf,” Makowski told McClatchy. “We started supplying details.

There was a 27-person team, the command was divided and it was based in Dubai. We told them who its leader was, his passport number, his Dubai identity card and that they were preparing to attack a U.S. warship,” he said.

At first the CIA asked for more information. But after seven or eight months of reporting, the agency wrote back that the information is interesting “but they think such an attack is impossible,” Makowski said.

Three months later, the Cole was attacked as it was in port in Yemen.

“To me, the most appalling thing is that after we supplied all this information about an attack on a warship in the Gulf, the Cole wasn’t protected in any way,” Makowski said.

The CIA had no comment on the book or on Makowski’s assertions.

A former senior U.S. intelligence official said he’d never heard of Makowski, but he declined to speak on the record.

Michael Scheuer, who from 1996 to 1999 headed the CIA’s special “Alec station,” which monitored bin Laden, said he was unaware of Polish intelligence on the terrorist leader.

Makowski’s former colleague, Gromoslaw Czempinski, who’s a legend at the CIA for having led the rescue of six U.S. intelligence officers from Iraq in 1990, vouches for his story, however.

“The Americans didn’t believe us. They said, ‘We have better sources than you do,’ “ Czempinski told McClatchy.

“We offered them bin Laden, but they refused.”

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While this country has made huge steps in women’s rights, American women under attack once again.

Throughout the past year, the women of America received threats to reproductive rights, rights to equal pay and, in a more exaggerated tone, our simple rights as Americans.

On Aug. 19, Republican Missouri state legislature Rep. Todd Akin appeared on a St. Louis news show and was asked if he would support legalizing abortion in cases of rape.

“From what I understand from doctors ... If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” Akin said.

Since his comment was released to the world, Republicans are scrambling to distance themselves from Akin. Since Akin is a member of the House Science Committee, his comments and beliefs should give us cause to reflect on the requirements we call for in the people that run this country.

A big question that has been asked multiple times since, is whether or not Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are going to fall into the same category as Akin on subjects like this.

Take for example, the many times that Romney has changed his views on abortion and if it should be controlled federally or if the issue should be left for the states to decide. Throw in that wonderful dash of Ryan’s thought that taking the morning after (Plan B) pill is a form of abortion that should be banned, and I think we have the perfect recipe for this assumption to be true.

Romney and Ryan can try as hard as they want to distance themselves, but with their past views being revealed, looking at the way they have voted on these issues, and hearing the way they plan on voting in the future, I am afraid of what the outcome might be for women in this country.

Is it possible that we might backtrack so far that we will, once again, be viewed as second-class citizens?

The Republican Party denies the fact that a “War on Women” is taking place yet it seems that more facts pop up almost monthly to prove that this “war” is a very real thing.

All Americans are aware Akin is not the first person to make a mistake speaking on national television, and rest assured he will not be the last.

With the national election coming soon everyone should consider not only the rights of women in America, but also the rights we all deserve.

Before heading to voting booths, I can only ask that you all consider what is right not only for you or for your religion but to consider what is right for all Americans.

As women, we deserve the right to choose what we do to our own bodies and also to have safe means of accessing healthcare, regardless of what someone else thinks about it. These are our bodies and they belong to nobody but us.

We do not deserve violation, rape, or to have dried up old men running this country think that they understand how our bodies work or how we should take care of ourselves.

To close on what Akin has said; there is no such thing as “legitimate” or “illegitimate” rape. As President Obama said in his speech in Columbus last week, “Rape is rape.”

There should be no question about it, nor which party stands for the rights of women.

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The University of Cincinnati started the 2012-13 academic year, and transition to semester, with administrative shuffling due to no fault of its own; however, its handling of the situation has been anything but graceful.

UC students deserve to know why the 27th president resigned six days before the new school year as well as leadership that garners respect because of results instead of using catchy gimmicks that WE detract from real issues.

When Gregory SAY Williams resigned the post of university president, he did so with no explanation other than “personal reasons,” leaving his aspirations of UC2019 and everything else “Proudly Cincinnati” in his rearview.

The more than 42,000 students who call the university their own deserved more, and quite frankly he should have delivered.

When high-level administrators part ways in academia, it’s generally for another position at a more prestigious locale. See: Zimpher, Nancy.

That does not appear to be the case for Williams.

The university is planning to honor him sometime during September for less than three years of service — most students take longer than that to attain degrees and instead of coming out of school flush, they owe an

average of $26,462, according to a New York Times study published in May. Williams’ departure meant the Board of Trustees had to appoint an interim president.

Enter, Santa Ono. Following the unanimous appointment, Ono tweeted his feelings.

“I thank U Cincinnati Board for electing me to serve in an interim role as UC’s 28th president.

Will give 150% for #HottestCollegeinAmerica,” Ono said in a tweet.

Ono, who has become famous around the uptown campus because of his late-night tweets and social brand, decided to get out in front of any doubters by exclaiming exuberance for his new position on Twitter, ending the post with #HottestcollegeinAmerica.

To brand UC as America’s hottest college in hopes of increasing awareness might be a good idea, but the face of a wanton “elite institution” shouldn’t be the creator of a hashtag.

If the undergraduate student government would have made the tweet, branded the university as the “hottest” or come up with the banner and T-shirts that followed, we would be OK with it. Not to say we would agree with the label, but if it came from students, it would be much more acceptable.

Following the “hottest” week for UC Twittertrending, Ono was awarded a $100,000 bonus following his first trustee meeting as interim president Tuesday — must be nice.

We don’t begrudge anybody for making money commensurate with success and position, but as students, it’s difficult to see the justification for bonuses and settlements when decades of personal debt lie in wait.

Last is the issue of mixed messaging.

“I don’t want everybody here to have a 32 (ACT score). I think it’s a compelling story to take kids who have a 25 or a 24 and work with them,” Ono said in an interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Really?

Saying young men and women who take on the task of bettering themselves despite less-than-elite ACT scores sounds more like a compelling pitch for a reality TV series about disadvantaged youths than the mission of a pre-emanate research institution.

It’s time the newly minted administration takes itself to task and re-evaluate what it actually wants. Is UC going to be an elite university, or simply the #HottestcollegeinAmerica — whatever that’s supposed to mean.

Is it going to pursue “compelling” stories or search for real results and the highest academic profile for a public university in Ohio? We hope for the latter, but this seems to be a time of hashtags and billboards, not test scores and achievements.

Deeds not words will further UC. Hopefully Ono is the man for the job.

On May 13, 1931 one man changed marketing forever when he wrote a three-page internal memorandum at Procter & Gamble that led to the creation of brand management.

His name was Neil McElroy. He graduated from Harvard, and lived most of his life here in Cincinnati.

More than 81 years later, another Harvard man is applying many of the concepts outlined in McElroy’s memo to develop a brand that will change the University of Cincinnati forever.

Upon his arrival in 2010, Interim President Santa Ono wasted little time branding himself as a student-centered leader. Ono engaged with students early and often. He attended student group meetings and events, invited students to sit on university committees, and, most notably, created a Twitter account.

According to McElroy, brand development requires the careful examination of “the combination of effort that seems to be clicking.” With more than 4,500 followers and 10,000 tweets, it seems @PrezOno is clicking with students in more ways than one.

His engagement with students is truly unique. For example, last winter @PrezOno

took a red-eye flight from San Francisco to make sure he was on campus for the closing of the Cincinnati Dance Marathon, an annual student-organized fundraiser for Children’s Hospital.

Not to leave academics by the wayside, he spearheaded the Provost’s Committee on Teaching Excellence (PCOTE) to ensure that all students have an THEY outstanding experience and faculty continue to be SAY world-class.

Under his watch, students created a framework for UC-developed apps through the new UC Forward initiative culminating crosscollege learning.

When @UCStudentGov asked for help on building a volleyball court and BBQ area for all students, @PrezOno stepped up to the plate and funded the initiative. He’s quite fit too; he could be seen running amongst scantily-clad students at the Nearly Naked Mile — a benefit run that he helped sponsor on campus last fall — or while he’s working out with the Bearcats Football team in Nippert Stadium.

All these workouts are a practice for the students vs. faculty and staff softball game, Battle for the Bat, an initiative he founded to bridge the gap between administrators and

students (the second annual game will be held on Oct. 12th).

All of this talk about branding may sound like a forced effort, something you could hire Don Draper to do, but this is the real deal.

President Ono is truly genuine in his eagerness to advocate for students and the university. As students, it’s unique to be able to reach the highest-ranking officer in 140 characters on an instant’s notice.

The tweets aren’t for naught though, @PrezOno engages with students — just check out his feed. The President’s Twitter account isn’t just an element of his brand; it’s a way to connect with students.

If Twitter shut down tomorrow, he’d find another way to get real feedback from students.

Just as McElroy was a global visionary leader in Cincinnati, @PrezOno is a visionary committed to keeping @UofCincy loyal to students and the #HottestCollegeinAmerica.

Lane Hart is the student body president and a fifth-year information systems and finance business student at the University of Cincinnati.

Maesa Idries is the student body vice president and a fifth-year chemical engineering student at the University of Cincinnati. You can follow them on Twitter @UCStudentGov.

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Should I stay or should I go?

Not only is that an awesome Clash song, it’s also a major question facing American soccer star Clint Dempsey.

It’s a question he appears to have answered but should rethink.

At 29 years old — entering the last year of his contract — Dempsey feels this is his last chance to play for a world-class club. He made it clear early in the summer he wanted to leave his English Premier League side, Fulham, for an opportunity to play Champion’s League football — something Fulham just can’t offer him.

In the 20-team league, only four sides qualify for Champion’s League play. Fulham finished ninth last year, 17 points away from the coveted fourth place.

Over the past five years, the club managed to finish as high as seventh, but also managed to finish as low as 17th.

Unfortunately for Fulham, who has built a respectable team capable of defeating anyone on a good day, money drives the EPL even more than it drives baseball in America.

“Moneyball” and the Oakland Athletics made for a great story.

Know how it ended?

The A’s made the playoffs five out of seven years, but never advanced to a World Series. Then they receded back into mediocrity after the rest of the league caught up with general manager Billy Beane’s tactics.

In the same way you know the New York Yankees are always going to make the playoffs, it would be inconceivable to bet on anyone other than Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City or Arsenal to win this year.

It’s possible another team could sneak into fourth place.

But as a player, if Champion’s League is your goal, playing for one of the aforementioned sides is crucial.

And that’s precisely why Dempsey’s desire to leave Fulham doesn’t make sense. The teams seriously going after him don’t measure up. Dempsey should not transfer this year.

But let’s get one thing clear: I don’t think it’s because he’s not good enough.

Dempsey has long been one of my favorite players. He’s got a swagger about him that is sorely lacking among other U.S. players.

In a 2009 Confederations Cup match against Brazil, the U.S. looked lost. Brazil dominated our national team in every facet of the game.

Late in the second half, Brazil went up 3-0 and began to joga bonito — which means to play beautifully in Portuguese.

In English, it means to show off.

Brazil’s players juggled the ball, attempted multiple step-over maneuvers, flip-flaps, elasticos and many other flashy tricks with weird names.

Deflated, embarrassed and defeated, most U.S. players stopped trying at this point. But not Dempsey.

Dempsey demanded the ball, and, when he got it, refused to pass. He did some moves of his own, putting the ball through one Brazilian’s legs, attempted a Rabona and drew a free kick by dribbling right at and around a defender.

On a night when most Americans were thoroughly outclassed and humiliated, Dempsey’s game made a statement: I can play with anyone.

It was a statement he backed up with last season’s Premier League campaign. The Football Writers’ Association voted Dempsey the league’s fourth best player after he tallied 23 goals across all competitions.

His 17 league goals put him in fourth place on the goal-scoring charts behind names like Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie.

What makes Dempsey’s achievement even more impressive is the fact that he scored those goals on a midtable team, played midfield — not striker — and doesn’t take penalty kicks.

On the other hand, Rooney and Van Persie led Manchester United and Arsenal’s front lines while also serving as their team’s respective main penalty kick taker.

Dempsey has earned every bit of the arrogance he plays with, but in this case the swagger is misplaced.

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The Hamilton County Grand Jury exonerated Dezmine Wells of all charges related to claims of sexual misconduct, Wednesday Aug. 28, 21 days after Xavier University expelled him.

Wells, who was named to the Atlantic 10 allFreshman Team for the 2011-12 season, was dismissed by Xavier on Aug. 3, after being accused of rape by a female student of the university.

An Aug. 21 statement from the university said Wells’ behavior was not tolerable, as per Xavier’s Code of Student Conduct.

“A serious violation of Xavier’s Code of Student Conduct will not be tolerated. All Xavier students are subject to the same protections and consequences,” the statement said.

Wells’ expulsion was not made public until Aug. 21, as a result of an appeal filed by Wells.

Wednesday, Wells was cleared of any wrong doing by the Hamilton County Grand Jury.

The Cincinnati Reds look set to start the final month of the season with the best record in Major League Baseball.

With the first four months of the season in the books, most teams know what its strengths and weaknesses are. The wear and tear of a 162-game marathon breaks many clubs around this point in the season, with injuries being commonplace throughout MLB. The Reds haven’t been hit by injuries as bad as in previous years.

Even though Joey Votto missed nearly two months after a torn meniscus in his knee operation, he is set to rejoin the team in September.

Cincinnati held up well without Votto and his absence has allowed National League Rookie of the Year candidate Todd Frazier to continue developing. But Votto’s return should help the Reds finish the season strong, and build confidence going into the playoffs.

The Reds’ pitching has been solid all year. Johnny Cueto — who currently leads the majors with 17 wins — is looking to become the first CY Young winner in the franchise’s storied history.

Cincinnati has only used six starting pitchers throughout the entire season — a feat almost unheard of in modern baseball. The Oakland Athletics used nine starters this season and sit second behind the Reds in that category.

The flame-throwing closer Aroldis Chapman anchors the bullpen and put his name in Red’s history Monday night. Chapman recorded his 25th consecutive save, which broke a record shared by John Franco (1988) and Rob Dibble (1991).

Although Cincinnati currently holds the best record in baseball (80-52), the Reds have been inconsistent all year at the plate and have shown a constant inability to hit with runners in scoring position.

The Reds hold a tie for 12th in league wide team batting average (.256), but have shown the ability to hit the long ball. Cincinnati hit

“After this office conducted an independent review of all of the evidence, it was presented to a Grand Jury yesterday. The Grand Jury declined to charge Dezmine Wells with any criminal offense,” Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said in a statement.

Deters went on to say he felt the situation merited a re-evaluation by the university.

“I have nothing but the greatest respect for Xavier University, and in particular [President] Father Graham. I would sincerely hope the institution would revisit this situation.”

Wells was tapped to be the star of the Xavier team as a sophomore, following the graduation of seniors Tu Holloway and Kenny Frease and the transfer of junior Mark Lyons.

Wells will be remembered by many University of Cincinnati fans, and fans around the country, for his role in the opening stages of the UC and Xavier brawl last December. Wells shoved Cincinnati freshman guard Ge’Lawn Guyn after

the two exchanged words near the UC bench and the infamous fight ensued. Wells received a four game suspension.

Wells is leaving Xavier after starting 32 games.

He averaged 9.8 points and 4.9 rebounds per game as a true-freshman.

“I didn’t think the process was fair,” Wells told CBS Sports on Wednesday. “I went into it as guilty and having to prove my innocence instead of them having to prove that I was guilty. I feel like everyone rushed the process and panicked. They went with a gut feel. I understand the severity of the accusations. Rape is one of the highest felonies in the world, but I think they just panicked.”

“I’ve learned that people can come up with the wrong perception of you, but I’m still thankful of the fact that I can still play basketball and have a chance to take care of my family down the road.”

Wells told CBS. Wells is set to transfer and will sit out the 201213 season.

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154 homeruns as a team, which puts them at 8th in MLB. Defensively, the Reds are among the best in baseball, ranking ninth in errors committed and 10th in fielding percentage.

Cincinnati must focus on finishing strong because its toughest stretch of opponents all season loom within the next 30 days.

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Head Coach Butch Jones named junior Munchie Legaux the University of Cincinnati football team’s starting quarterback Tuesday. The quarterback beat out senior quarterback Brendon Kay for the job.

Legaux saw action in six games in the 2011 season, including three starts after Zach Collaros broke his ankle against West Virginia in November.

Legaux threw for 749 yards and five touchdowns, adding 185 yards rushing and a pair of scores on the ground for a 2-1 record as a starter. He helped UC clinch its third Big East conference title in four years.

“I was excited to get the news I was going to be the starting quarterback,” Legaux said. “All the hard work and dedication I put in during the summer and last season with some games under my belt paid off.”

Jones hopes the announcement will help promote continued competition between Legaux and Kay. “Both have had outstanding camps. The reason why Brendon and Munchie have both taken such great strides entering this season is that they are pushing each other on the field and helping each other off the field,” said Jones. “I want Brendon to keep pushing him (Legaux). We don’t want that competition to end and we want to keep that type of climate and that type of culture.”

Legaux will lead UC for the first time this season Thursday, Sept. 6 at 7:30 p.m., against the University of Pittsburgh.

Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals — all teams in playoff contention the Reds have struggled against.

The Cardinals, who currently hold the second Wild Card spot in the NL, swept the Reds in a three-game series over the weekend and moved to eight games behind the Reds in the Central.

While the Pirates have struggled recently and trail the Reds by nine games, Cincinnati can still be

The University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team signed the tallest player in its history, Wednesday.

A 7-foot-1-inch-230-lb. center from Sudan, David Nyarsuk finalized his NCAA paperwork Tuesday and has officially enrolled at UC. Nyarsuk played the last two seasons at Mountain State University and has been cleared by the NCAA to play two seasons, starting this year.

At MSU, Nyarsuk led the Cougars to a 59-15 record, which included the 2011 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Division I National Championship game, and the 2012 NAIA semifinals.

Nyarsuk ranked second in the nation in blocks both his freshman and sophomore years, with 97 and 102 blocks respectively.

During his time at MSU, Nyarsuk averaged 10.2 points, 8.0 rebounds and 2.8 blocks. He shot 55.7 percent from the field in his final year.

Nyarsuk averaged 10 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks in his 2009-2010 season at Mountain State Academy. He played there before

threatened for the division because there are six games remaining between the two squads.

The Reds should advance to the playoffs for the second time in the past three seasons baring an absolute meltdown. Cincinnati will look to improve upon its zero win performance in the 2010 playoffs and bring a World Series trophy back to the Queen City for the first time since 1990.

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joining MSU. The addition of a talented big man will add to the team’s depth, said head coach Mick Cronin.

“We are very excited to add David to the Bearcat family,” Cronin said. “He was a top 20 prospect at his position coming out of high school and has proven to be a great shot blocker as a college player.”

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