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Park regulations create controversy BENJAMIN GOLDSCHMIDT | CHIEF REPORTER

A lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Cincinnati Board of Park Commissioners raised questions of constitutionality regarding rules imposed on Washington Park by a separate, private organization.

Three Over-the-Rhine residents were named complainants in the lawsuit — Jerry Davis, Andrew Fitzpatrick and Agnes Brown — and expressed concerns in their complaint that these new rules discriminate against homeless people and violate their first and 14th amendment rights. The case is being heard in federal court.

The rules prohibit anyone from dropping off or exchanging clothing or food and disallow rummaging through garbage and recycling containers. Notices of the new rules were posted on signs in the park and on the park’s website.

A public records request revealed these rules were written via emails between

the Superintendent of Cincinnati Parks, Captain Daniel Gerard of the Cincinnati Police Department and representatives of the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC), said Josh Spring, an executive director for the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition.

“Until the Drop Inn center (which is a homeless shelter) moves, the line about food and clothing drop off being prohibited is absolutely needed,” Gerard said in an e-mail presented as evidence in the lawsuit.

The rules in Washington Park were not reviewed or formally adopted by the Park Board or discussed in a public forum, and do not apply to other Cincinnati parks, Spring said.

“Hopefully people understand that the main issue here is that Democracy was completely circumvented,” Spring said. “Even if people agree with the rules, we can’t be OK with private people creating laws.”

In its mission statement, 3CDC states it is a private, non-profit organization that

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RULES IN QUESTION Mike Franklin holds a sign asking for change in Washington Park.

Park rules are at the center of a lawsuit.

works with the city of Cincinnati, members of Cincinnati’s corporate community and the state of Ohio to further develop Cincinnati.

3CDC made final edits on rules the lawsuit addressed with input from police and park officials, Spring said.

Public relations representatives from 3CDC declined to comment.

The Cincinnati Park Board has a multidecade management agreement with 3CDC, said Jennifer Kinsley, a civil rights and constitutional lawyer who represents the plaintiffs. The agreement states Washington Park would be owned by the city and the Park Board, but managed by 3CDC, she said.

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Milacron, Clermont partner up

Wild animal law goes into effect KELSEA DAULTON | SENIOR REPORTER

DANI KOKOCHAK | CONTRIBUTOR Collaboration between the University of Cincinnati Clermont campus and Milacron Plastics Technologies Group LLC (Milacron) resulted in a machinist training program, launched Sept.

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The customized training program is designed to train 10 participants in advanced manufacturing skills while providing them with tools, handson experience and payment for their time.

The program will be conducted and refined in a newly renovated facility on the Clermont campus that was once a Ford manufacturing plant.

“At one time, [the facility] was prosperity and then it became a failure, but now this program will SOJKA again fill it with prosperity and hope for a better future,” said Greg Sojka, dean of Clermont campus. “These machinist apprentices are the pioneers for success within their families and the region.”

In the one semester program, Milacron has hired the participants as temporary employees to support the training process, said Melissa Wink, director of corporate communications for Milacron.

“Milacron was looking to establish a training program for new employees and UC East could fill the need to establish [that] training program,” said Glenda Neff, director of outreach services.

When the training is complete the trainees will be certified and will become full-time employees at Milacron.

“There is a skills gap right now, lots of people are looking for jobs but don’t have the skills necessary to be put in to the jobs manufacturing companies need,” Wink said. “This program allows SEE MILACRON | 2

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Biden hits campaign trail, promotes message BENJAMIN GOLDSCHMIDT | CHIEF REPORTER Vice President Joe Biden gave a campaign speech at Milford High School Sunday to promote his message ahead of the November presidential election.

Biden spent most of his speech highlighting the differences between President Barack Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s plans for the future of the United States.

Approximately 700 people gathered in the cafeteria of the school to see Biden speak, holding American flags and chanting, “four more years.”

Most of the criticism during the speech centered on Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan not having the “courage to actually tell you what their policies are,” and for supporting the “privileged sector,” not the private sector, Biden said.

“It might not surprise you, but I do have the courage to tell you what their policies are — they’ve written them down,” Biden said.

Biden spent much of his time criticizing Romney and Ryan’s economic policies, and a large portion of his criticism focused on their Medicare and Medicaid positions.

Under their plan citizens will need to pay too much out of pocket to get the same care they now receive for free, Biden said.

Romney and Ryan want to make “massive cuts” to social security and education to pay for “the massive tax cuts they will give to the very wealthy,” Biden said.

“All this has a giant price tag, and it’s not going to come from closing loopholes for millionaires,” Biden said. “When you give these kinds of tax breaks out to the very, very wealthy the money’s got to come from somewhere. Guess who? You.” Biden cited a study done by the Tax Policy

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CAMPAIGNING ON PROMISES Vice President Joe Biden delivered a campaign speech that critiqued the Romney-Ryan platform at Milford High School Sunday to the crowd of approximately 700 people.

Center that stated taxes for middle class families with children would go up $2,000 per year under Romney’s proposed tax plan.

“I’m not in any way criticizing those other 20,000 families, but the one thing they don’t need for lord’s sake is another tax break, and they’re not even asking for one,” Biden said.

Romney supporters from Ohio Victory — a Republican backing activist group — questioned the truth behind what the vice president said.

Approximately 100 people gathered on Eagles Way, the road bordering the Milford campus, to protest, with signs saying, “it’s not working,” and chanting, “stop killing babies.”

Christopher Maloney, a spokesman for the Romney campaign, said multiple independent news agencies and fact checkers deemed many of Biden’s statements to be false.

“Once again, Joe Biden has illustrated that he is incapable of talking honestly or substantively about the most important issues affecting Ohio workers and families,” Maloney said in an email. “It appears as though he is willing to say anything to divert attention away from the Obama administration’s failed policies.”

But prominent attendees at the speech felt that was not the case.

Biden’s speech was encouraging and positive, but not surprising because it stayed consistent with the message the Obama campaign has been sending, said Amy Brewer, a council member for the city of Milford.

“Particularly, I think it has even more meaning in a county in which the Democrats are probably a minority,” said Margaret A. Clark, a Brown County judge.

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Legislation aimed at curbing exotic animal possession in Ohio went into effect Sept. 5, following more than five months of legislation.

Restrictions in Senate Bill 310 address the previously unrestricted trade of exotic animals in the state.

Any transaction involving a wild animal or venomous snake at auction is prohibited, according to SB310. Additionally, allowing a wild animal or restricted snake to freely roam off its confined property is also prohibited.

“Allowing a dangerous wild animal…to roam off the property where it is confined will be illegal,” said Ashley McDonald, a public information officer at the Ohio Department of Agriculture [ODA]. “That’s punishable as a first degree misdemeanor for a first offense and as a felony for any consequent offenses.”

Releasing a dangerous animal into the wild, removing a microchip from an exotic animal and removing the teeth or claws of a wild animal or snake are now illegal.

“Anyone who knowingly releases a dangerous wild animal or restricted snake into the wild will be charged with a felony,” McDonald said.

Current owners of exotic animals must register their animals with the ODA by Nov. 5 and obtain a permit by Jan. 1, 2014, according to the law. Animals will then have a microchip implanted when they are registered.

Exotic animal possession in Ohio has been on the rise for the last 17 years, said Tim Harrison, the director of Outreach for Animals in Dayton, Ohio.

Harrison said he was accustomed to five or six calls per year until 1995 when he started receiving more than 100 calls to rescue wild animals in suburban and urban Ohio.

“In 1995 reality TV hit,” Harrison said. “Everybody I asked said, ‘I bought it because I saw it on Animal Planet…and I thought

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A University of Cincinnati research team announced they have successfully treated an animal model of Creatine Transporter Deficiency (CTD) that causes autism in males.

CTD affects 50,00 boys in the United States with symptoms including seizures, speech defects and profound mental retardation, said Joe Clark, a UC neurology professor who led the research team, in a statement.

CTD was discovered at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in 2000 and most of the work leading up to its treatment was completed at there and at UC. “This is actually a wonderful, tremendous Cincinnati-centric story,” Clark said. “The disease was discovered at Children’s Hospital, the animal model of the disease was made here in Cincinnati by UC, and the drug was made to treat those mice here at Cincinnati.”

Because of the proximity of the institutions, the researchers working toward finding a treatment for CTD were able to go from finding the disease to treating it in 12 years, a short time in a field where discovery of treatment cycles can take decades, Clark said.

The disorder is caused by a mutation in a creatine transport protein that results in deficient brain energy metabolism, Clark said.

Creatine is an essential component of cellular energy production. A lack of it in brain and muscle tissues can lead to severe complications.

Clark’s team found that a chemical named cyclocreatine, or CincY (pronounced cinciwhy), that was developed as a supplement to cancer treatment was highly effective at reducing the symptoms of the disease in animal models.

“After treatment there was little sign of damage in the mice,” Clark said. “But CincY is a treatment, not a cure.”

To cure the disease, researchers would have to change the genes that cause CTD. CincY is a completely effective treatment that eliminates nearly all trace of damage, but the patient will still have the disease, Clark said.

Essentially, a cure is fixing a broken pipe at the break, and a treatment is making a bypass around the afflicted area without fixing it, but in a manner that eliminates the symptoms, Clark said.

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AT THE FOREFRONT Researchers at UC and Children’s Hospital are leading the effort to combat a deficiency that can cause autism.

UC’s Office of Entrepreneurial Affairs and Technology Commercialization will work with Lumos Pharma, a privately held Austin, Texas startup company based on UC technology, to develop and commercialize CincY.

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Washington Park, the agreement requires the company to follow all Park Board rules, according to section 12 of the lawsuit. However, even if it was laid out in the agreement that 3CDC could write rules for the park, it still doesn’t have the legal authority to do so, Kinsley said.

One rule that is specifically mentioned in section 14 of the complaint is Park Rule 28 — enacted by the Park Board — which allows the Board of Park Commissioners to create special rules that could be enforced by law so long as they are posted on a sign in the park.

“Park Rule 28 would bypass the city clerk and the city solicitor, and therefore it violates the Ohio Open Meetings Act and the City Charter,” Kinsley said.

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There was no prior legislation restricting the ownership or sale of wild animals in Ohio before SB 310, McDonald said.

SB 310 was drafted after more than 50 exotic animals were set loose from a farm in Zanesville, Ohio, in October 2011. The bill was officially signed into law by Gov. John Kasich June 5. “[I] fought to the death for [the bill] to happen,” Harrison said.

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introduced Biden. The teacher exclaimed her excitement for graduating seniors because “they’re going to have President Obama and Vice President to take care of them,” Downey said.

“They were the ones who rescued the auto industry and created all these jobs in Ohio,” Downey said. “Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, they’re not really looking out for my students.”

Biden promised he and Obama would create jobs and defend the rights of everyone.

He said they would add 100,000 new science and math teachers in 10 years, one million jobs in manufacturing and 60,000 new jobs in harvesting natural resources.

“Folks, we’ve seen this movie before, and we know how it ends,” Biden said. “It ends in a catastrophe for the middle class. It ends in the great recession in 2008. The president and I have a different way forward.”

Biden described today’s Republicans as different from those in the past. He said they were not bad people, just unwavering.

“This is not your father’s Republican party,” Biden said. “I’ve worked for years in the Senate with a lot of really solid Republicans with whom we’ve had disagreements, but we always got along. But, ladies and gentlemen, this isn’t even Mitt Romney’s father’s Republican Party. We see a future where the rich and the poor — everyone — does their part.”

for the new employees to be put right out on the [manufacturing plant] floor.”

Along with part time employment, the trainees will receive 12 credit hours toward course work at UC Clermont. They will also have the option of returning as part time students on the path to an associate or bachelor’s degree after graduating the program and gaining employment at Milacron, Neff said.

After the 10 participants submitted applications, they were given aptitude tests and interviewed to determine whether they would be accepted in to the program. There is a range in age from early twenties to forties and there is a good mix of background as well. All of the participants are from the southwest region of the state, Neff said.

“These students will be working together

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throughout the program, and all classes are closed to them,” Neff said.

This program is well suited to fit the needs of not only Milacron and UC Clermont, but the surrounding region as well, Sojka said.

“This partnership will work for all participants. UC Clermont will educate and train the workers, and then they will become an asset for Milacron,” Sojka said. “It’s a great partnership between UC and a longtime manufacturing company in Cincinnati.

The program shows a win-win situation that comes from great collaboration.”

There is great possibility of growth and success as a result, and continuance, of the machinist-training program, Neff said.

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at the National Park Foundation. "That doesn't tell enough of the story."

The first phase of the memorial, which included a white marble wall bearing the names of the victims and a long slate pathway bordering the crash site, was finished in time for the last year's 10th anniversary.

With the additional funding, work on the second phase has begun.

It includes a visitors center and a learning center for school and tour groups, as well as 40 groves of 40 trees in — like the chimes — a tribute to each victim.

"I think that we've made some wonderful progress this year," said Felt, whose brother, Edward, was a Flight 93 passenger. "We're not there yet."

In July, the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded two grants totaling about $3 million for infrastructure improvements, such as a pedestrian bridge over a wetland

area. But the project has relied mostly on private contributions.

"The hope has always been that we would raise those funds on the private side," said Patrick White, the current president of Families of Flight 93 and whose cousin, Louis "Joey" Nacke II, was part of the group of passengers who stormed the cockpit.

"We know how lean the Department of Interior and National Park Service budgets are."

In May, a fundraiser at Washington's Newseum raised more than $2 million and put additional donors on the radar, White said. Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush attended, as did House Speaker John Boehner.

"Obviously we'd love to see one or more very large contributions that would put us across the finish line," White said.

Swale, who worships at the Musa Mosque, where Rogo preached, just down the street from the Salvation Army.

Kenyan authorities downplay the significance of the violence.

“It has nothing to do with religion. These are just thugs versus the law,” said Samuel Kilele, the top official in Kenya’s Coast province. Kilele said there was no evidence that any Muslim leader had ordered the churches attacked.

Others hope that the violent response to Rogo’s death serves as a wake-up call for the government to take seriously what they say is a growing terrorism threat in Kenya.

Annual reports by a United Nations commission monitoring alleged support for al-Shabab by the tiny nation of Eritrea repeatedly describe Rogo as “a known associate of members of al-Qaida East Africa and an advocate of the violent overthrow of the government of Kenya.”

“Extremism is growing, not only in Kenya, but all over Africa,” said Juma Ngao, a moderate cleric who chairs the Kenya Muslims National Advisory Council. In Kenya, radical ideology is spreading primarily from Somalia, he said. “It is very, very serious.”

Ngao blames a host of factors: anti-Americanism, youth unemployment, “bad theology” and opportunists profiting from trafficking fighters into Somalia.

Two weeks ago, when the riots began spinning out of control, Ngao and other Muslim leaders reached out to their Christian counterparts in an effort to halt the violence before it spread, he said, vowing that Kenya must not be allowed “to become like Nigeria.”

But he admitted that some churches refused to participate. Some Muslim clerics shunned the dialogue, too.

“The mad ones,” Ngao said, widening his eyes to appear crazed.

Boswell is a McClatchy Newspapers special correspondent. His reporting is underwritten in part by a grant from Humanity United, a California-based foundation that focuses on human rights issues.

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“They are pairing their elite, reliable units with their less reliable units to prevent defections,” Holliday said. White thinks the overall trend is downward for the army and that the rebels eventually will prevail. He thinks the fact that the rebels continue to contest areas in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, and in Damascus, the capital, show the military’s weaknesses.

“The army’s going to become less and less capable of conducting operations successfully, and I think the best example of that now is Aleppo,” he said. “The city is critical to the regime by all accounts, and it is disputed territory. For the regime, I think that is defeat. It’s not decisive defeat, but the regime’s inability to reclaim the city is a defeat.”

Holliday is more skeptical.

“The rebels are trying to harass supply lines, but the corollary to that is that the regime is making sure it has everything it needs in place. It’s not going to lose a fight in Aleppo,” Holliday said.

Saturday’s match against Purdue — a 3-1 defeat — followed a similar pattern to Friday’s loss.

Unanswered scoring runs cost the Bearcats once again, Alvey said.

“In the first and the fourth sets, our first contact was not so good so we didn’t control runs,” she said. “We get better at times; we just need to put together a full, complete match.”

Both squads came out with energy and pace, but Purdue went on a 9-3 run to take the first set 25-18.

The Bearcats utilized an early 6-1 run and two late kills from Scott — who finished with seven kills in the set — to take the second set, 26-24, and even the match at one set a piece.

The Boilermakers used a timely three-point run in the third set to extend its lead to 23-19 and eventually claim a highly competitive set, giving it a 2-1 lead.

In the fourth set, Purdue started on an 8-1 run and wasted no time closing out the match 25-10.

The loss dropped UC to 1-8 overall.

“We played some great opponents in this event and we played them with great toughness,” Alvey said. “We just have not been able to put together an entire match yet.”

UC will take the court again Friday against the University of Central Florida in Houston, Texas at the University of Texas Tournament.

FROM SOCCER | 6 “This was a good result for us, especially after falling behind late in the game,” said head coach Hylton Dayes.

“The guys showed great resolve to score the tying goal.

Bradley is very dangerous on restarts, but we defended well. Taylor played well in goal and made a couple of key saves late to get the result.”

UC fell to host Evansville, 2-0, in the finale of the Sunday tournament.

Evansville struck first in the 18th minute when Nate

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Opperman slotted a headed effort past UC goalkeeper Taylor Hafling to take a 1-0 lead.

Evansville put the match out of reach in the second half when Faik Hajderovic gathered a long free kick and put away his first goal of the season to cement a 2-0 victory.

“It’s been a tough go of it lately for us as we are missing a few key players with injuries,” Dayes said.

“The guys aren’t giving up and are still fighting hard. It

will be good to get home for a couple of games over the weekend.”

UC welcomes Towson University Friday, Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the nightcap of a doubleheader with the women’s soccer team, which opens Big East play against DePaul University at 5 p.m.

For updates on the UC soccer teams, as well as other sports, check out newsrecord.org

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A PAINFUL MEMORY Vasantha Velamuri, whose husband, Sankara Sastry Velamuri, was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, mourns at the place where his name is inscribed on the Sept. 11 memorial at the World Trade Center site in New York during a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The memorial for those who died taking control of United Flight 93 — a plane destined for Washington, D.C., is $5 million short of its $10 million financial goal.

11 YEARS LATER In the eleven years since the first plane hit the World Trade Center’s North Tower at 8:46 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, and set off an event that caused thousands of deaths and the complete destruction of two of New York City’s most iconic structures, America’s landscape — and the world — has changed.

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HOME AND ABROAD President Bill Clinton (from left, left photo) Jill Biden and Vice President Joe Biden help dedicate the Wall of Names at the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Penn., September 10, 2011. In Iraq, Third Infantry Division Private First Class Chad Benson, 27, of Raleigh, N.C, patrols a street with members of the Iraqi military behind him. As the focus of Middle Eastern conflict shifts from Iraq to Afghanistan, NATO forces have encountered a rash of “blue-on-green” shootings — killings of allied forces by Afghan security soldiers —and have subsequently halted training. During the alliance’s meeting in Chicago in May, however, members of NATO reaffirmed their commitment to ending the combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014.

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BIN LADEN KILLED After nearly a decade since the manhunt started, alQaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was found in killed May 2, 2011, in a compound in Abottabad, Pakistan.

Bin Laden’s death was the final blow to al-Qaeda leadership that planned the Sept. 11 attacks.

U.S. Military Casualties As of Sept. 7, 2012*

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A UNITED EFFORT Chiefs fans honored those lost on NEW GROUND ZERO The 9/11 Memorial in New York, New York, 9/11 during an NFL game between the Kansas City and the was opened to the public for the first time on Monday, September Buffalo Bills Sept. 11, 2011. Nationwide memorials as well 12, 2011. The north pool of the memorial is in the shadow of the as the new holiday Patriot Day have all been recognized in unfinished Freedom Tower. the country even 10 years after the towers fell.

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(April 20-May 20) -- It’s easier now to imagine success, to visualize it. Accept stern coaching. For about two months,

review and revise your budget. Reach out to a female. Love finds a way.

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activity is more fun, with both pain and gain. Work to increase your muscles and savings. Work on writing your novel.

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matters need attention, and you have the drive and skills to handle them. Add creativity to your experience for success, now and for the next six weeks.

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for a while (metaphorically speaking). Pay attention to background and context for the next two months. Passions simmer, and actions produce results.

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partner may want to be more direct for the next few days. Let them lead. Pay back a debt. For the days ahead, add exercise at home.

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College rankings’ validity at issue Laura Diamond and Craig Schneider | MCclatchy newspapers College rankings are so important to the Taylor family that even fifth-grader Lauren studies them.

The Atlanta girl, who dreams of oceangoing trips in research vessels, has already narrowed her search to a few schools. Her dad, Winston Taylor Jr., said the family finds rankings useful but also takes them with a grain of salt.

The father of three, including a high school sophomore, said he suspected that rankings were flawed even before Emory University disclosed last month that it intentionally submitted inflated data for them.

“I’ve always questioned the rankings’ validity,” Taylor said. “It’s marketing, and when we talk about marketing, it’s selling.”

Emory’s misrepresentation reignited a deep debate over college rankings. Even as many parents, students and college officials criticize the lists, U.S. News & World Report averages 15 million page views on its website when its new ranking comes out.

The next edition will be released Wednesday. Critics

say the lists can’t be trusted, especially because they rely on data supplied by the schools and go through little factchecking.

They challenge the notion that a mathematical formula can sum up a college — its campus culture, the accessibility of its teachers, its academic quality.

Making a decision based on rankings also can lead a student to the wrong school, a potentially expensive lesson.

Many parents won’t even consider sending children to colleges that fail to earn high marks. Colleges that nab a top spot advertise it in promotional materials.

A strong ranking brings academic prestige, bragging rights and higher achieving students. Some schools create policies to boost their standing, said Amanda Griffith, a Wake Forest University economics professor.

There’s gaming of the numbers just short of wrongdoing, experts said. Baylor University in Texas faced criticism in 2008 for paying already admitted students to retake the SAT in hopes of boosting the college’s overall average and its rankings.

Emory hasn’t determined why and when the misreporting began, but experts noted the pressure to remain a Top 20 school in U.S. News. Emory has been in

this tier for 19 years.

Defenders of the system say the rankings are valuable, allowing families to easily compare many schools and exposing students to schools they’ve never heard of. U.S. News & World Report is the granddaddy of college rankings, but dozens of rankings groups measure higher education, including Forbes, Kiplinger and Princeton Review.

These publications publish lists on most-wired campuses and school environmental policies and even quality of cafeteria food. Nearly every college can find some ranking to be proud of and promote, and many do.

Brian Kelly, U.S. News editor and chief content officer, said that when the magazine first published rankings nearly 30 years ago, the goal was to provide hard information on the complex and confusing world of higher education.

The group calculates rankings using test scores, faculty salaries, per-pupil spending and other data. It also relies on surveys that call on college officials and sometimes high school guidance counselors to rate other institutions’ academic programs.

“We are just giving people the numbers, and they make their own decisions,” Kelly said. Cheating is rare, he said.

Flight 93 memorial $5M short curtis tate | mcclatchy newspapers

WASHINGTON — A year after the dedication of the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pa., the project remains short of its financial goal and is the only one of the three major 9/11 tributes that isn't fully funded.

When the memorial was dedicated on Sept. 10, 2011, it was $10 million short of completion.

A May fundraiser in Washington and other donations, from schoolchildren to corporations, have raised $5 million, allowing construction to proceed on the second phase.

But another $5 million is needed to finish one of the signature elements: a 93-foot tower with 40 chimes representing the passengers and crew who died.

"It's not easy raising this kind of money for this kind of memorial," said Gordon Felt, who until January was president of Families of Flight 93. "My fear is the farther out we get from September 11, 2001, the more challenging it's going to be."

According to the National Park Foundation, the charitable arm of the National Park Service, more than 1.8 million visitors have come to the site, about 80 miles east of Pittsburgh, where the hijacked United Airlines flight crashed 11 years ago. Since its dedication last year, 350,000 people have visited the memorial, many of them part of school and tour groups.

Vice President Joe Biden, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will visit the site this week to commemorate the 11th anniversary of 9/11.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed that day, most of them at New York's World Trade Center and at the Pentagon outside Washington. Of the four planes that the terrorists hijacked, Flight 93 was the only one that failed to hit its intended target. While that goal remains unclear, the doomed aircraft was only 20 minutes' flight time from the nation's capital.

The passengers' decision to take back the plane from the four hijackers likely saved many more lives.

"Unfortunately, a lot of times Flight 93 is relegated to only a sentence," said King Laughlin, vice president for the Flight 93 National Memorial Campaign at

austin tice | mct

CONFLICT RAGES ON A fighter beats a poster with his shoe of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after rebel forces stormed a government position in the center of town in Al Tal, Syria. Violence in the country is escalating as the war continues in Aleppo, Syria’s most populous city.

‘WAR OF ATTRITION’

Syrian military remains strong in face of increasing rebel force

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Laura Diamond and Craig Schneider | MCclatchy newspaperes

ANTAKYA, Turkey — Though degraded by a war of attrition against increasingly capable guerrilla militias, the Syrian military remains a cohesive force capable of continuing its operations for the foreseeable future, according to independent military analysts.

The assessment that the Syrian military remains a potent force contradicts months of suggestions

by Obama administration officials that defections and the pace of the increasingly violent conflict is overstretching the military, a theme that’s been voiced repeatedly for months in official State Department briefings.

“We think that the army is increasingly overstretched. We think that the economy is under increasing strain. And we think the rebels are getting stronger,” State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said Aug. 9 in a comment.

Yet despite a bombing in July that killed four of President Bashar Assad’s closest advisers — including his minister of defense — Syrian military strategy has changed little from six months ago: using the highly mechanized army — built to fight the Israeli army — to surround

rebel-held areas and pound them with artillery and airstrikes before making incursions with infantry and paramilitary forces.

“They’re still capable of handling the threats that they’re dealing with, and they’ve been reaching deeper and deeper and deeper into their armory,” said Joseph Holliday, a researcher at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington who specializes in the Syrian conflict.

That’s not to say that the rebels haven’t made the conflict costly for the military. Since the conflict began, the military has been forced to call up reserves and it continues to use paramilitary forces to supplement its infantry.

“They’re taking somewhere around 40 (killed in action) a day. If you extrapolate from that, wounded would be about four times that number. So you can see there’s a steady toll just from combat on the army,” said Jeff White, a senior defense fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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Kenya rocked by rash of sectarian violence

Salvation Army church attacked after radical preacher gunned down alan boswell | mcclatchy newspapers

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MORE CHRISTIANS KILLED Protesters shout “Allahu akbar” at media cameras gathered outside the radical Musa Mosque in Mombasa, Kenya, following days of riots sparked by the assassination of cleric Aboud Rogo, on August 27, 2012.

MOMBASA, Kenya — On the Sunday morning after their church was attacked, forcing their pastor, his injured wife and their daughter to flee, a handful of the curious and devout shuffled through the ring of police outside, through the smokestained entrance and gingerly around shards of glass to take seats inside. Shock filled the hushed sanctuary.

The Salvation Army church had stood in Mombasa, Kenya’s second largest city, since before the country was declared independent in 1963.

Regulars said they’d always maintained neighborly relations with the impoverished Muslims who lived around them. Now that world of harmony was as shattered as the windows lying around their feet.

“It was as if there was a war here. Stones were flying,” recalled Herbert Kaduki, an elder of the church. “They were specifically targeting us.”

What now? “We still don’t know,” he replied despondently.

Kenya is no Nigeria, where Muslim-Christian antagonism dominates the nation’s politics and roils its hinterlands in fatal clashes every year. Kenya

— with a booming economy and a strengthening democracy — is predominantly Christian and the relationship between that majority and the sizable Muslim minority has been mostly friendly.

But that veneer of tolerance was ripped open recently. At least five churches, including the Salvation Army one in the poor Muslim district of Majengo, were attacked during heavy rioting, local religious leaders say. Other churches have been attacked with grenades in separate incidents over the past year.

Behind the violence appears to be an extremist Islamist ideology that’s spreading among the disaffected Muslim communities on the coast and may be fueled by Kenya’s war in neighboring Somalia against the al-Qaida affiliate there, alShabab.

The attack on the Salvation Army church occurred Aug. 27, hours after a radical ideologue and preacher, Sheikh Aboud Rogo, was gunned down on the streets in broad daylight. Kenyan police say they don’t know who the assassins were, an explanation that Muslims here openly deride.

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Monday Sept. 10 | 2012 NEWSRECORD.ORG

MILLER’S

HIGHLIGHTS JOSHUA A. MILLER

Show up or shut up, Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati’s football team opened its season in triumphant fashion on Thursday night.

33,562 watched UC send Pittsburgh back up the Ohio River with a stern beating, but what the game truly symbolized was the apathy of members of the UC fan base who were not in attendance.

UC head coach Butch Jones expressed his gratitude to both the fans and the students that were in attendance during the post-game press conference.

“I will say this: I am indebted to our student body.

Over 8,000 tickets sold, our student body and fans were outstanding,” Jones said. “That is what a hometown crowd is supposed to be. That is big time college football environment and atmosphere. And as we grow and elevate this program, that needs to become a norm here at Nippert.”

I watched the game from the press box and was present for the Jones’ press conference afterward. I felt he was not nearly as indebted to the student body as the general fan base is. Because, frankly, the student body saved UC’s fan base from being absolutely embarrassed for three and a half hours of primetime ESPN coverage.

And here’s why: The student section in Nippert Stadium is designed to hold 6,000 people — 3,000 students that pay for season tickets and 3,000 students that wait in line 10 days before every game to get their ticket.

When those sold out, more than 2,000 students paid $15 to sit in the plethora of seats apparently unwanted by more than one million people living in the greater Cincinnati area.

UC’s student body occupied roughly one fourth of the stadium on Thursday and the game still didn’t sellout. In a season opening night game against the football team’s biggest rival, this fan base can’t fill a 35,000-seat stadium — that is an embarrassment.

Saturday’s game — for which the student body has already exceeded its allotted 6,000 seats — is against a Football Championship Subdivision school, Delaware State University. I’ll be surprised if the gate surpasses 20,000 people and that is embarrassing.

The reason UC isn’t considered a big time program is the same reason West Virginia got invited to the Big 12 and Cincinnati didn’t, the same reason UC receives lesser bowl bids, the same reason Mike Dantonio left for Michigan State, the same reason Brian Kelley left for Notre Dame and – if nothing changes – the same reason Butch Jones will eventually leave for greener pastures.

UC isn’t a major program because UC’s fans don’t fill stadiums.

Jones politely alluded to this blatantly obvious issue in the same statement in which he expressed the previously mentioned gratitude.

“As we grow and elevate this program, that needs to become a norm here at Nippert,” Jones said.“That is a challenge to everyone out there we need you Saturday night out here, this isn’t a one game thing.”

I hope the fan base realizes just how serious that challenge is because with the BCS ready to be eliminated in 2014 and UC no longer able to attain automatic qualifier status, this fan base has a choice to make.

Be big time, or go back to being completely irrelevant.

If the choice is the latter, Jones and the higher quality recruits he has been bringing to Clifton will quickly head to a place where they have gone with the first choice.

The fact of the matter is, when the Ohio States, Alabamas and Oregons of the NCAA play the “Northwestern Wyoming Presbyterian A&T Tech’s” of the world, they sellout stadiums. Rain or shine, noon game or night game — and regardless of opponent — top tier fan bases show up.

UC relied on students to buy an additional 2,000 tickets for Thursday’s game to come even remotely close to a sellout.

Until that is no longer the norm, Cincinnati will continue to be nothing more than an overachieving coaching carousel for the

SPORTS UC falters in Big Ten challenge ALISSA SNODDY | CONTRIBUTOR

The University of Cincinnati volleyball team fell to the No. 20 University of Illinois in the Big 10/Big East Challenge at Fifth Third Arena Friday.

Despite the loss, UC’s head coach Molly Alvey took several positives from the game.

“I think we were much more consistent in running our system and I think we were more prepared start to finish,” Alvey said. “We clearly have some things we need to work on though.”

UC took a five-point lead in the first set, but three-consecutive kills by outside hitter Jocelynn Birks propelled Illinois to win the first set 25-23.

The Illini and Bearcats started off the second set even, until a 7-2 Illinois run put the set out of reach for UC. The fighting Illini

took a two set advantage after the 25-17 victory.

UC won the third set 27-25, thanks to consecutive kills by senior Becca Refenes in the set’s early stages, and three kills by fellow senior Jordanne Scott.

The fourth and final set ended the match when Illinois beat UC 25-22 for the 3-1 victory.

Birks finished with 25 total kills for the Illini while Scott and Megan Turner combined for 33 kills for the Bearcats.

Going into UC’s Saturday match against No. 11 Purdue University, Alvey said stopping extended runs would be a big factor.

“Tomorrow, I think we need to take where we were tonight [and] play almost exactly the same, only eliminate point runs,” she said.

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PHIL DIDION | SENOR PHOTOGRAPHER

SLOW START CONTINUES The University of Cincinnati women’s volleyball team slipped to 1-8 this season, after suffering 3-1 defeats to the University of Illinois and Purdue University in the Big 10/Big East Challenge at Fifth Third Arena.

UC dominates Pitt

PHOTOS BY LAUREN PURKEY AND PHIL DIDION

SENT UP RIVER The University of Cincinnati football team easily defeated the University of Pittsburgh in the River City Rivalry to maintain rightful ownership of the Paddlewheel Trophy.

JOSHUA A. MILLER | SPORTS EDITOR. The University of Cincinnati football team defeated the University of Pittsburgh Panthers 34-10, winning the final game the two squads will play as members of the Big East Conference.

UC’s 24 point win — its largest ever against Pitt — will keep the Paddlewheel Trophy in Cincinnati for the foreseeable future.

The blowout victory started the season off the right way, said UC head coach Butch Jones, “Anytime you open up the season with a victory — especially a Big East victory — is big,” he said.“It’s a rivalry game, a trophy game so obviously that’s great.”

Pittsburgh’s first possession resulted in a quick three-and-out. Only a student-section induced false start and timeout kept Pitt’s offense on the field. UC’s students accounted for more than 8,000 of the 33,562 in attendance.

The Bearcats wasted no time capitalizing on the early momentum, when junior tailback George Winn ran 58 yards untouched to the end zone on the team’s first offensive play from scrimmage. After a Tony Miliano extra point, the bearcats led 7-0 with 13 minutes remaining in the first quarter.

Less than two minutes later, senior defensive end Walter Stewart rushed off the right side of the line to force Pitt quarterback Tino Sunseri into his first fumble of the season.

UC’s Camaron Beard recovered it and the Bearcat’s took over inside Pitt’s 40-yard line.

Four plays later, UC quarterback Munchie Legaux connected with Ralph David Abernathy IV on the left sideline and the sophomore speedster quickly made it two touchdowns in five offensive plays for the Bearcats.

Pitt crossed the 50-yard line just once in the first quarter, only to be halted by a Nick Temple sack on third down at UC’s 37-yard line.

The ensuing punt by Pitt junior Matt Yoklic pinned UC on its one-yard line. A 27-yard completion from Legaux to Travis Kelce, followed by 13 yards rushing from Abernathy IV had UC moving once again,

but the drive stalled and the two teams traded punts for the remainder of the quarter.

Pitt’s rushing attack began to grab a foothold during the early stages of the second quarter, but an untimely unsportsmanlike conduct penalty derailed an otherwise promising drive.

Penalties derailed the Panthers on its next drive as well. A holding call nullified a Ray Graham touchdown and UC linebacker Greg Blair intercepted a pass from Pitt quarterback Tino Sunseri with 5 minutes and 49 seconds remaining in the half.

For Blair, the younger brother of former Pitt basketball standout DeJuan Blair, Thursday’s game provided an opportunity to get some revenge on his conference rivals.

“It was just a dream come true for me,” Blair said. “It’s crazy just how much bragging rights I’ve got now because I live right by Pitt’s campus, so I run into the guys all the time and for my brother too because I know deep down he wanted it to be a little closer game than it was.”

UC reached a first and goal on the Pittsburgh 10-yard line following Blair’s interception, but two sacks forced UC to settle for a 39-yard Miliano field goal. UC lead 17-0 with 2 minutes and 51 seconds left in the half.

Pitt advanced to Cincinnati’s one-yard line with four seconds remaining, but Sunseri’s attempt to throw the ball away left no time on the clock for a field goal attempt. The half ended with UC leading 17-0.

A 50-yard run by Graham put Pitt into scoring position again on the Panther’s first drive of the half, but a 7-yard tackle for a loss

by UC defensive end Walter Stewart forced Pitt to settle for a field goal and made the score 17-3.

Legaux broke free for a 77-yard run — the longest UC rush since Isaiah Pead’s 80-yard run against Miami University in 2009 — to start the next UC drive. The run set up Winn’s second score of the game, which pushed UC’s lead to 24-3.

Pitt entered field goal range once again

following the UC touchdown, only to be forced out by John Williams’ second sack of the game. Williams, a senior transfer from Central Michigan University, played for Jones at CMU before he took the head coaching job at UC. The ensuing Bearcat drive began at the one yard line, but a 42-yard completion from Legaux to senior wide receiver Kembrell Tompkins, coupled with yet another unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against Pitt, positioned UC for its fourth touchdown.

Legaux hooked up with Abernathy IV — this time from 12 yards out — for their second scoring strike of the night to give UC a 31-3 lead with 13 minutes and 54 seconds remaining in the game.

The two squads traded punts for nearly 10 minutes before Miliano – who looked much improved in his first outing as a sophomore – nailed a 46-yard field goal, to push the Bearcats’ lead to 34-3.

Pittsburgh added a late touchdown to improve the score line, but Cincinnati dominated throughout the final installment of the River City Rivalry, ending with a 34-10 UC victory.

Legaux finished as UC’s leading rusher with 117 yards to go along with 205 yards passing and two touchdowns.

“I think he managed the offense really well,” Jones said. “He was poised, calm and collected, and that is what we have come to expect from our quarterbacks. This was his first game as a full-time starter, and I thought he did well.”

UC’s defense finished with six sacks on the night, which keyed Cincinnati’s victory, Jones said.

“The by-product of playing great pass defense is a great pass rush and we may not have the most dynamic one or two individuals, but I think as a group, we always talk about the power of the unit in our program by position and I thought our kids up front did a great job and we challenged them all week,” he said.

The Bearcats take the field again Saturday against Delaware State University at Nippert Stadium.

UC men’s, women’s soccer defeated ANNIE MOORE | STAFF REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati women’s soccer team fell to the University of California, Irvine and Colorado University in the University of Denver Invitational. The Bearcats lost to both schools by a 2-1 score.

The Bearcats fell to UC Irvine Friday night, despite entering the second half with a one goal lead.

Junior forward Jazmine Rhodes scored her first goal of the season in the 22nd minute, assisted by Laura Rose and Katie Greer.

However, it would not be enough to edge UC past the Anteaters.

In the 59th minute of the match, UC Irvine’s offense exploded with two goals in a 34-second span, putting the Bearcats at a 2-1 disadvantage it would never recover from.

The Bearcats tried frantically to score, taking three shots on goal in the last six minutes of regulation. UC’s best shot at equalizing came when junior Lauren Hettinger headed Katie Greer’s corner kick into the crossbar in

the 85th minute.

Each team took 12 shots, but UC Irvine finished with a 6-1 advantage in corner kicks and a 6-3 lead in shots on goal. The teams were fairly evenly matched, except the score favored the Anteaters at the end; 2-1.

After the loss, the Bearcats returned to action against the Colorado University Buffaloes in the final day of the Denver Invitational. The Bearcats lost to CU 2-1.

The Buffaloes got off to an early start, when junior forward Hayley Hughes scored her first goal of the season in the eight minute.

UC’s defense struggled all day and Colorado outshot the UC 25-9.

The Bearcats struck back in the 40th minute when sophomore midfielder Megan Cravenor hit a shot from ten yards out, assisted by junior Lauren Hettinger, to tie the game 1-1.

An own goal by UC in the 76th minute would prove to be its downfall, as it gave Colorado a 2-1 lead, which it would maintain for the rest of the match.

UC sophomore goalie Kristina Utley

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was one of the standouts of the tournament, totaling four saves in the Bearcats 2-1 loss to UC Irvine and adding a career high 12 saves against Colorado.

The Bearcats will open Big East conference play when they host the DePaul Blue Demons Friday night at Gettler Stadium.

The UC men’s soccer team was also action this weekend, drawing 1-1 with Bradley University Friday and suffering a 2-0 defeat against Evansville University Sunday.

Shamar Shelton’s 83rd-minute goal propelled UC to a 1-1 double-overtime draw against Bradley in the opener of the ProRehab Aces Classic at Evansville’s McCutchan Stadium.

UC appeared poised for a loss to Bradley, after the Braves converted a penalty kick in the 81st minute, giving it a 1-0 lead.

But Shelton’s fourth-career goal came slightly more than one minute after Bradley took the late lead.

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