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Food Truck Festival

Students enjoy various foods at PAC’s Food Truck Festival

Talib Kweli

Performers engage in socially responsible hip-hop

THE NEWS RECORD / UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MONDAY, SEPT. 14, 2015

Bearcat football team suffers crushing first loss to Temple CLAUDE THOMPSON | STAFF REPORTER

The saying goes, ‘Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.’ The University of Cincinnati men’s football team came close to completing a fantastic comeback on Saturday, but fell short on quarterback Gunner Kiel’s fourth interception of the night to lose to the Temple University Owls 34-26. The Bearcats turned the ball over 5 times, including Kiel’s career-high four interceptions, and surrendered an onside kick in the third quarter to the Owls. The onside kick set Temple up to score 21 points in what would be the pivotal quarter of the game. Through the first half, Cincinnati had kept the game under control until Temple scored with around 30 seconds left to put the Owls up 10-6 going into halftime. Cincinnati outgained Temple 211 yards to 117 after two quarters of play, but was held to only 6 points – UC’s lowest first half scoring total since scoring zero against Miami University (Ohio) on September 21, 2013. Cincinnati was forced to settle for three field goal attempts in the first half, with

Kroll Inc. releases DuBose report

DAN SULLIVAN | PHOTO EDITOR

Chris Moore flips through the air after getting hit in the open field as the Bearcats lost a close game in the final minutes to the Temple Owls 34-26.

kicker Andrew Gantz making two out of the three, but missing the first attempt of the night wide left from 53 yards out. Gantz did make the other two field goals from 27 yards and 22 yards after UC’s drives stalled in the red zone and the team couldn’t put the ball into the end

zone for touchdowns. At the start of the second half the Bearcats came out on defense, but promptly surrendered a 100-yard touchdown return on the opening kickoff by Temple running back Jahad Thomas, who would finish the night with 325 all-

purpose yards. Kiel answered quickly with a touchdown of his own as he threw a deep 88-yard scoring pass to Mekale McKay to bring the game within five points. The play was the biggest play in Kiel’s career and the third biggest play in school history. Kiel would finish the evening with 52 pass attempts, completing 30, for 427 yards, while only having been sacked once. In an attempt to even out the scoring early, head coach Tommy Tuberville decided to attempt a two-point conversion, but Kiel’s pass fell incomplete to keep it a five point contest. Temple would not be outdone, however, and Thomas cut through the Bearcats defensive line and ran 56 yards to score his second touchdown of the game to put the Owls up 24-12. “They played well,”Tuberville said. “They whipped us pretty good with their running game in the third quarter, where they scored 21 points. They had us on our heels.” The Owls came out to kick the ball off, but instead attempted an onside kick. This took the Bearcats special teams SEE FOOTBALL PG 4

STUDENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS TAKE ON FIRST RESPONDER JOURNEY

UC REMEMBERS 9/11 VICTIMS

HUY NGUYEN | CHIEF REPORTER

The independent investigative report of the officer-involved Samuel DuBose shooting was released 12:30 p.m. Friday by the University of Cincinnati Public Safety. Strategic consultant firm Kroll Inc., which was employed July 31, conducted the report and released it to the University of Cincinnati Police Department Aug. 31. Kroll Inc. was hired for the purpose of completing a review of all events during the July 19 fatal shooting of Samuel DuBose and for how UCPD personnel handled the situation, while remaining separate from UC, Director of Public Relations M.B. Reilly said in a news release Friday. “This is a huge first step in making sure that factual information can be out there from an unbiased point of view,” Student Body President Andrew Naab said. The Kroll report’s review of the July shooting evidence finds that UCPD officer Ray Tensing did not have a reason to shoot DuBose and that he disobeyed UCPD’s policies on deadly force. Additionally, Tensing did not provide an accurate statement of the shooting and the acceleration of DuBose’s vehicle to the Cincinnati Police Department, the report said. Despite the lack of evidence to support his affirmations, Tensing said both in his initial statement ant the July 21 statement to CPD that he only fired his gun after fearing for his life from being dragged by DuBose’s vehicle. “Moving forward, the university is committed to working with our community to rebuild the trust that we have lost,” said Vice President of Safety and Reform Robin Engel said at a press conference Friday, following the release of the Kroll report. Engel affirmed efforts were being made to improve UCPD policy, including making a community advisory council to evaluate Public Safety reform, conducting a full review of all UCPD aspects and activating an early warning system to monitor UCPD officer behavior. The early warning system looks at SEE DUBOSE PG 2

DAN SULLIVAN | PHOTO EDITOR

On the 14th anniversary of 9/11, students and community members came together at Nippert Stadium to run 2,071 stairs in honor of the first responders who climbed the Twin Towers to save those trapped during the attack. STEVEN BEYNON | CONTRIBUTOR

An early morning staircase run at Nippert Stadium was orchestrated on the 14th anniversary of 9/11 by the University of Cincinnati’s Army and Air Force, Reserve Officers’Training Corps (ROTC) department. ROTC cadets, students, firefighters and Cincinnati police took on the challenge of running 2,071 steps in 56 minutes or less — three laps up and down Nippert Stadium’s staircases. “Two thousand and seventy one steps is the highest any first responders were able to climb before the towers collapsed that we can prove,” said Lt. Col. Tyler Moore, commander and professor of aerospace studies. It took 56 minutes for the World Trade Center’s South Tower to collapse in 2001

after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175, which was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists. Over 300 people participated in the run, but the event was originally just a physical fitness activity planned for ROTC cadets to put in perspective the experiences first responders went through on 9/11. “This started as a joint physical training plan between the two ROTC departments we came up with,” Moore said. “Then we thought to invite the Veteran’s Affairs people, then we got campus police and the fire department involved and it just snowballed from there.” The first 300 runners that showed up received free T-shirts provided by the Ohio Veterans of Foreign Wars. Members of the Ohio VFW donated over $3,000 to pay for the shirts to support the event. The run also honored the two University

of Cincinnati alumni who were killed on 9/11. Lt. Col. David Scales graduated from the College-Conservatory of Music in 1979 and was killed when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. Cathy Salter, a 1989 McMicken College of Arts and Sciences graduate, was killed in the World Trade Center’s North Tower. Six other UC alumni also worked in the towers, but lived through the attacks: Dorothy Hirshman, James Lee, Theresa Snyder, Lyndelle Phillips, Linda TianoPrusock and Sunil Rajani. During the event at Nippert Stadium, students reflected on their memories of 9/11. “I remember sitting in my classroom and all the teachers were whispering,” said Cathey Henrey, a second-year student. “We SEE 9/11 PG 2

Professors deliberate Iranian diplomacy with U.S. ALEX MUTNANSKY | CONTRIBUTOR

DAN SULLIVAN | PHOTO EDITOR

Richard Harknett, head of the political sciences department, informs faculty and students Thursday on the Iranian nuclear deal and its global implications.

With the Iran Deal vote impending in Senate, the University of Cincinnati Political Science Department gathered at a panel Thursday to discuss the implications of the deal. Richard Harknett, a political science professor, said the panel’s objective was exploring different perspectives of the implications on the Iran Nuclear Deal. In addition to Harknett, the other four panelists included Dinshaw Mistry, a political science professor; Brendan Green, a political science assistant professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ethan Katz, a history assistant professor and Michal Raucher, a Judaic studies assistant professor. Mistry began by showing where Iran fell on the nuclear weapon spectrum, consisting of three tiers in which countries normally fall. Nuclear active countries constitute the highest tier in the nuclear weapon spectrum. Iran falls in the middle tier, along with other countries with some nuclear capabilities. Countries on the lowest tier have little to no nuclear activity. Diplomacy between the U.S. and Iran began in fall of 2002 with the initial deliberation of the Iran Nuclear Program, according to Dinshaw. Although Iran suspended the program in 2003 for a highly representative European Union deal in the E-3 Iran agreement, Iran was later caught buying nuclear materials for the program. This led to a series of sanctions from 2006 through 2010, including an arms embargo and national sanctions on banking and oil exports. The current agreement includes decreasing the number of centrifuges from 19,000 to 600, as well as decreasing Iran’s THE STUDENT VOICE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

stock of enriched uranium from 12,000 kilograms to 300 kilograms over 10 to 15 years. Green considered three methods to handle the Iran Nuclear Program. The first method involved U.S. sanctions and support from other world governments, which Green compared to a Cold War approach. This approach avoids the cost of a war and other countries would support the plan, Green said. However, it also allows a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and upsets Israel, a long-time ally of the U.S. The second method was a preventative attack on nuclear weapon locations in Iran. This approach would use military operation, either through the air or ground troops, to eliminate nuclear build up. Green said this method would avoid an arms race and prevent any chances of the program being recreated. However, it would also prove to Iran why they built the weapons, and promote them to destroy American-traded oil in Saudi Arabia. The third method was the current diplomatic deal, which Green said could be the beginning of a positive relationship for the two countries and allows for a stronger front against ISIS. Green outlined the three options to show there is currently no better option to deal with the problem. “Green made it very easy to follow his points about what the alternatives are,” said Andrew Reis, a second-year prenursing student. “He made it easy and interesting for all of the non-political majors in the room to get involved.” Katz said Iran was a very nationalistic country. During the early 20th century, the U.S. had a positive relationship with Iran, until the country orchestrated an overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iran’s left-wing socialist SEE NUCLEAR PG 2

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