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132 YEARS IN PRINT VOL. CXXXII ISSUE LVVII
MONDAY | SEPTEMBER, 24 | 2012
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Man shot near campus early Saturday KARA DRISCOLL | NEWS EDITOR
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JEFFERSON AVENUE SHOOTING Emergency crews help a man who was shot in the leg on Jefferson Avenue.
A man was taken to University Hospital after being shot in the leg Saturday morning. Five males approached a 22-year-old man on West Charlton Street and engaged in a verbal altercation, said University of Cincinnati Police Department Chief Michael Cureton. One suspect produced a gun and fired one shot in the air and a second shot that struck the victim’s leg, Cureton said. The victim, whose name and age were not released, sat conscious on the sidewalk of the 2700 block of Jefferson Avenue when Cincinnati police and UCPD responded to the scene around 12:30 a.m., authorities said. It is not known why the victim ended up on Jefferson Avenue, Cureton said. The victim was not a UC student, police said. “My understanding is that it is non-life threatening injuries,” Cureton said. David Vaughn, a first-year electronic media student, was on Jefferson Avenue and stumbled upon the victim. “I was walking down the street and all of the sudden, I saw this guy on the ground screaming and I thought they
were just partying too hard,” Vaughn said. “He was just... screaming. I wanted to help him but I didn’t know what was happening. I was just shocked.” When severe and frequent crime occurs on the perimeters of campus, it increases fear among students who are aware of the occurrence, Cureton said. “[The shooting] makes me feel a little unsafe and uncomfortable,” Vaughn said. “But I expect that living in Clifton.” The shooting isn’t a reflection of campus safety, said Justin Kay, first-year criminal justice student. Kay heard the gun shots from Daniels Hall and watched police arrive at the scene, he said. Kay doesn’t feel unsafe in the Clifton, he said. “It was really close to campus,” Kay said. “I feel like the police presence is more than enough.” UCPD has increased patrol in the area in the sense that patrol isn’t so random but directed where there is activity, Cureton said. The suspects fled the scene, heading toward Short Vine in a white van and a black Honda or Acura, Cureton said. “That could’ve been me being shot, or anyone,” Vaughn said. No arrests have been made as of press time.
UC joins Canadian research ANNIE MOORE | SENIOR REPORTER
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Toronto collaborated to better understand the rare dry tropical forest forests at the Ankarafantsika National Park in Madagascar. Brooke Crowley, an associate geology and anthropology professor for UC, Keriann McGoogan, an anthropology professor at the University of Waterloo and Shawn Lehman from an associate anthropology professor at UT researched stable isotopes and used them to measure environmental effects on the dry, deciduous forests of Madagascar. Researchers used carbon and nitrogen signatures in leaves from the edges of the forest to gauge the effects of environmental disturbance, Crowley said. “Along forest edges, trees are exposed to different environmental conditions than those typically found in the forest interior,” Crowley said. “Such conditions, including increased wind and sun, and lower relative humidity, can result in changes in tree size and species composition within the forest edge.” “Specifically, how are common plants responding to varying soil, water, and chemical conditions near and far from the edge,” Lehman said. These edge effects can be measured using either biotic factors such as tree height, or abiotic factors such as light levels and temperatures, Crowley said. Crowley and her colleagues hope that the stable isotope data can create a chemical signature that combines these two indicators, she said. “If we can identify these patterns in leaves, then we might be able to use isotope values in fur samples to identify animals foraging in edge habitat,” she said. All of the information they collected will help in the effort to conserve forests at Ankarafantsika, Crowley said.
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MILITARY SKILLS TRAINING Tyler Higgins and Megan Howard use maps to navigate the hills and valleys of Mt. Airy Forest Friday, Sept. 21.
NAVIGATING WILDERNESS
ROTC cadets prepare for classes, hone land-navigation skills TYLER BELL | STAFF REPORTER University of Cincinnati ROTC cadets honed land-navigation skills at Mt. Airy Forest Park Saturday. The course was the first of this year’s training, aimed at preparing cadets for the Leadership Development Assessment Course (LDAC). “This is basic prep for their summer training, Leadership Development Assessment Course, LDAC we call it,” said Ret. Army Major David Ramsey, UC ROTC advisor. There are 31 cadets in this year’s junior class, Ramsey said. “It’s one of the biggest, if not the biggest classes we’ve ever had,” Ramsey said. Ramsey retired from the Army in 2011, and has been advising the UC ROTC program for 10 years. He served as a military policeman, and later an engineer. The cadets do land navigation throughout the year to prepare for LDAC where they are tested for proficiency in orienteering by finding marked points on the course, Ramsey said. “We come out here just about every season, and during the fall and spring we go out to Camp Atterbury, Indiana,” said Cadet Landon Grey, officer in charge of the daytime portion of the event. “There’s a much bigger [land navigation] course out there, it’s pretty massive actually, and we train on that as well.” This is the first time Grey was put in charge of a land navigation event, he said. Last year he was charge of a full day of training at Camp Atterbury, where the LDAC is held, Grey said. The cadets receive prior instruction on how to orienteer themselves in the field, how to plot points on a map and various methods to get to their destination, Grey said.
“Land navigation can be fun,” Grey said. “People stress out about it sometimes, but as long as you know what you’re doing… it’s pretty easy and it’s pretty enjoyable actually.” The two most common methods of finding navigation through the woods are terrain association, where the navigator uses landmarks to orient themselves to the destination, and dead reckoning, where the navigator walks overland directly to the objective, said Cadet Levi Leonard, the student-officer in charge of the nighttime portion of the event. “It’s called dead reckoning when you go straight through the woods, but other cadets just use terrain association and walk along paths till they get in the area of the point,” Leonard said. “Some people like to walk on the roads, and some people like to blaze through the bushes,” Leonard said. “We leave it up to them, they can do it how they’re most comfortable.” Though the ROTC program has professional military advisers, it places an emphasis on cadets leading cadets, and for this exercise the fourth-year cadets were in charge of third-year cadets who navigated the course, said Cadet Maria Harford, a fourth-year criminal justice student. The ROTC program is based on the cadet’s class, Harford said. “Ones are just new to the program and twos are getting into it, but threes, that’s your main year before you go to camp,” Harford said. “That’s who we’re training today. Fours, we just run the ROTC program.” The course has 20-25 points and cadets are given five coordinates to plot on their map and find in two hours, said Cadet Tyler Higgins, a fourth-year engineering student. “The points are on trees usually,” Higgins said. “They’re orange pieces of two by four, you’ll know them when you see them.”
TYLER BELL | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
STANDING AT ATTENTION ROTC cadets prepped for Leadership Development Assessment Saturday at Mt. Airy Forest Park. At the points are orange blocks of wood with a number and letter inscribed on the side. When the cadet finds the marker they write down the number and letter to prove that they made their way to the correct destination. Higgins found his first point quickly, but had trouble with the second. Other cadets had trouble finding that same point, and milled around the area trying to find it. Higgins gave up on the point after roughly ten minutes, choosing to save time and find the other points. Higgins’ third point was several hundred meters away and took him across Mt. Airy. Roughly an hour later Higgins had found most of his points and headed back to the beginning of the course, where the Military Sciene Level 4’s were waiting to evaluate the cadets’ progress. “[The event] went pretty well,” Harford said. “They were pretty intense.”
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What: Men’s golf at Cardinal intercollegiate When: Monday and Tuesday. Where: Off campus What: Men’s Soccer vs Cleveland State When: Wednesday 7 p.m. Where: Gettler Stadium
LIFE
What: CCM faculty artist series When: Monday 8 p.m. Where: Emery 2100 What: CCM faculty artist series When: Tuesday 8 p.m. Where: Emery 2100 What: Catskeller Pint Night When: Wednesday 5 p.m. Where: Catskeller
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ACADEMIC
What: Men’s golf at Cardinal intercollegiate What: UCBA SAT workshops When: Monday 6 p.m. Where: Muntz Hall 351
What: International Leadership Collaboration When: Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Where: Swift 719 What: Student Career Fair When: Wednesday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Muntz Hall 351