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THE NEWS RECORD Thursday | Sept. 13 | 2012

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SG approves funding for first Fall Ball THURSDAY | MAY 31 | 2012

MADISON SCHMIDT | SENIOR REPORTER The University of Cincinnati Undergraduate Student Government administration approved allocating $2,000 of its co-sponsorship allocation funds of the academic year to the Sigma Phi Women’s Honorary Fall Ball — a group Student Body Vice President Maesa Idries is affiliated with — at its Wednesday meeting. The bill passed via majority, allocating $2000 to the event. The amount is one-third of SG’s total cosponsorship allocation, according to their budget. Student Body President Lane Hart, who was not present at Wednesday’s meeting, was hesitant to say whether the allotment was too much at the beginning of the school year. “Sometimes you have to get down to the wire and someone says, ‘Hey, I have this really good event would you like to find it,’ and some senators may say, ‘No, we can’t fund it because we don’t have any money in this line,’ when other people may advocate for putting money back in that line to fund it,” Hart said. The allocation was not an overwhelming amount to start the year with, as similar amounts have been spent

before, Idries said. While Idries is the student body vice president, she is still an active member of the Sigma Phi Women’s Honorary. As the president of the honorary last academic year and being in charge of alumni relations this academic year, she said her level of activity in the group has declined this year. The planning of Sigma Phi’s Fall Ball began more than one year ago, with Idries at the helm as president of the organization, Hart said. “She’s been planning [Fall Ball] for a long time,” Hart said.“I mean, even since before we were elected.” Currently, her involvement with the Fall Ball event involves selling tickets and promoting the event. “If you want to know what my involvement is right now, there is a certain amount of tickets I have to sell right now as a member of the organization,” Idries said. The bill was written and endorsed by Regan Noppenberger and endorsed by Andy Koesterman. However, Idries submitted the bill to senate. “I didn’t vote, I didn’t discuss the bill, I didn’t write the bill,” Idries said. “I just SEE SGA | 2

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STUDENTS VOTE Undergraduate student government approved cosponsorship of the Sigma Phi Fall Ball.

Professor honored by SPJ

Professor named scholar

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A University of Cincinnati professor and student organization adviser will be presented with a national award at the Excellence in Journalism Conference. Jenny Wohlfarth, an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies for the journalism department, is being awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ David L. Eshelman Outstanding Campus Adviser Award because of her position with UC’s chapter of SPJ. SPJ.org describes the recipient of the award as“[a] person who has made an exceptional contribution to the campus chapter for which he or she serves as SPJ adviser.” Wohlfarth has been the adviser of UC’s chapter of SPJ since the spring 2009 when the chapter was recovering from a few years of sporadic membership, she said. UC’s SPJ 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2 president, Sara Maratta, and vice president, Michelle Tufano, nominated Wohlfarth for the award. WOHLFARTH The students told her they nominated her in April, which she thought would be her only connection with the award, Wohlfarth said. In August, Maratta called Wohlfarth to let her know she won the award. Wohlfarth feels honored, flattered and stunned her students thought to nominate her for the award, and surprised to compete on a national level with other SPJ chapters, Wohlfarth said. “Our chapter is a great chapter, it’s an active chapter, but it’s smaller compared to other schools,” she said. “We just became a department this year, so [I] figured we weren’t necessarily on national radar, but we really are.” Wohlfarth has been a teacher, adviser and mentor the entirety of her four years at UC, and continues to be today, Maratta, SEE WOHLFARTH | 2

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RYAN HOFFMAN | NEWS EDITOR The University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees met Wednesday afternoon and decided final compensation for former president Gregory Williams to the tune of more than $1 million over the next two years. Williams will receive $255,000 for his tenured, full-time position at the College of Law this year. The $255,000 is the maximum amount of money that a faculty member in that position can make. “He’s a tenured professor and he’s fully entitled to receive that salary,” said Francis Barrett, chairman of the board Williams’ resigned abruptly Aug. 21, but maintains his position as a tenured full professor in the college. He will not be teaching any classes this year because all of the faculty appointments were made earlier this year, Barrett said. He will receive a $112,750 bonus — 25 percent of his 2011-2012 annual base salary of $451,000. Williams contract with UC made him eligible for an annual performance bonus, ranging from 10to-25 percent of his base salary. This final bonus is at the maximum amount allowed under Williams’ contract. Williams will serve as a consultant for UC until Sep. 15, 2014. “We were fortunate enough to reach a consulting agreement with Dr. Williams,” Barrett said. “He will be available at our discretion as we may need his services concerning the university, UC Health, Proudly Cincinnati, UC Foundation,

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U-Square and the university’s central role in the Big East Conference, among [other] primary items.” For his consulting work, Williams will receive $300,000 from Sept. 15, to Sept. 15, 2013. Williams will also receive $200,000 from Sept. 15, 2013 to Sept. 15, 2014. Williams is also scheduled to receive a $100,000 supplement at the end of this year. This compensation is a part of Williams’ contract, Barrett said. His provided housing, the UC House, must usually be vacated within 30 days of resignation or termination, but the board agreed to extend his occupancy to Jan. 31, 2013. When asked whether or not there might be some confusion in the UC community as to why Williams was receiving this money Barrett said no. “I think people will appreciate what we have done in the best interest of the university they have a continued working relationship where we need it,” Barrett said. “When you consider the amount of money that’s at stake here we think that this is a good financial deal for the university.” Williams’ final payments will come from UC’s general fund, Barrett said. Williams, who officially took over as president in November 2009 for Nancy Zimpher, had more than two years left on his contract at the time of his resignation. The board convened at 3 p.m. in the SEE SETTLEMENT | 2

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Cincinnati police chief denied waiver

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PAYMENTS DECIDED The University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees agreed on a settlement package for former UC President Gregory Williams.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) named a researcher from the University of Cincinnati “Nurse Faculty Scholar” to continue studies on reaction and resilience to violence in hospital emergency departments. The $350,000 research grant recognized Gordon Gillespie, an assistant professor in UC’s College of Nursing, and 12 other recipients who showed promise in their field of study. “The RWJF foundation went out looking for the best in the nation and selected Gordon, from UC’s College of Nursing, as a finalist,” said Donna Martsolf, associate dean of research and translation at UC’s College of Nursing. “That brings a lot of recognition to the research and the growing college.” The award also includes a leadership training aspect that will provide Gillespie with mentorship on a local and national level, Martsolf said. Martsolf will serve as Gillespie’s nursing faculty mentor throughout the research process. “I will assist [Gillespie] in meeting personal goals as a researcher and taking full advantage of what the grant offers him,” Martsolf said. “And through this mentoring and research process he will become an even more promising faculty member.” Gillespie has found the amount of assault toward workers in emergency departments is higher than in any other workplace. In his observations, he found some workers persevered through verbal and physical assault with resilience and patience. Other workers ultimately became distressed and have left the emergency department, Gillespie said. “My goal, as a researcher, is to identify the predictors of a more resilient emergency department worker in order to modify the reaction of all emergency department workers by creating an intervention program that

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Cincinnati’s Chief of Police, James Craig, was refused a waiver for the Ohio Peace Officer Exam after the state training commission announced Sept. 6 it does not have the power to grant any such waiver. “The opinion of the commission that was issued last week is that it did not have the authority waive the test,” said Dan Teirney, spokesperson for the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission. Craig said he plans to appeal the decision. “[Craig] has 15 days after the decision to make an appeal in the Hamilton court system,”Teirney said. “Then the process would continue through the court legal appeals process.” Craig said his decision to appeal the waiver is based strictly on principle. “This exam does not test your ability as a police officer, it tests what a person learns in the police academy,” Craig said. “To be candid, it [the exam] does not affect my job at all,” Craig said. “I am a police chief, not a police officer. Without taking the exam,

I cannot write a ticket but I can still arrest a felon.” Craig said his previous 36 years of police experience in Michigan, California, Maine and now Ohio attest to his ability to act as an effective police chief. The exam requirement prevents future qualified candidates from considering the position, he said. “If I had known this exam was a requirement at the time that I was looking at this position, which it was not, I probably would not have applied, as would have many of my colleagues,” Craig said. By fighting to lift the exam requirement, Craig said he is fulfilling his responsibility to support the voters’ decision on Issue 5, which allowed for the City of Cincinnati to hire a Police chief from out of state. “I am the first outsider,” Craig said. “There will be others who follow me, and this exam has a chilling effect of undermining the effort of finding the best candidate for the position.” Craig will continue in his duties as police chief even without his Peace Officer Certification, just as he has done for the past year.

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REFUSAL TO TEST James Craig, Cincinnati’s police chief has been refused a waiver to skip the Ohio Peace Officer Exam. “James Craig is the Chief of Police and will remain the Chief of Police — period,” said Meg Olberding, spokeswoman for Milton Dohoney, the city manager. Donohey is the only person with the SEE CHIEF | 2


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