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The convention industry in the Cincinnati region is booming as the city is outdrawing other U.S. cities in booking conventions.

The region is 11 percentage points ahead of other eastern seaboard cities in convention bookings from 2010 to 2014, according to the company Trends, Analysis and Projections, which monitors convention bookings for 50 cities throughout the United States and Canada, including Cincinnati.

The Cincinnati USA Convention and Visitors Bureau creates a list of approximately 500 corporations and organizations fit to meet in Cincinnati. They then book the conventions mostly through solicitation, but also use trade shows to attract organizations.

The bureau attended 26 trade shows

throughout the country in 2009, setting up a visitor’s booth and offering slideshow presentations in order to inform prospective why Cincinnati would be a great place to host their convention.

“The goal of success of the Cincinnati USA Convention and Visitors bureau, Duke Energy Convention Center and the city of Cincinnati is a great opportunity to show the things the city has to offer,” said Jon Frost, marketing manager for Duke Energy Convention Center. “When we get the chance to bring a convention in, it is a chance for them to show what the city has to offer for a week, which in turn brings people to our area.”

Hosting conventions in the city helps bring visitors and is huge for the economy, said Randie Adam, director of marketing for the Cincinnati USA Conventions and Visitors Bureau.

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A Student Government “mini social” has caused some internal discord among student representatives.

The event planned for Student Government members took place at Catskeller Wednesday, Feb. 3, after the weekly Student Government meeting.

The stated purpose of the meeting was to reinforce friendships and working relationships between student Senate members, said Sen. Lane Hart, an internal holdover senator.

Student body President Tim Lolli was recorded in the meeting’s minutes saying the social was a way of rewarding representatives for putting in uncompensated hours.

There was, however, opposition to the bill from some senators.

If the Student Government wanted to get together socially, it should use their own money, said Sen. Andy Koesterman, a second-year marketing student who voted against the bill.

“My opinion was that we were basically having the student body buy us dinner,” Koesterman said. “Which I did not think was right.”

The University Funding Board (UFB), which is part of Student Government, allocates operating funds for student organizations on campus. The funds are to be used by the student groups to promote interaction and awareness benefiting the entire student body.

The funds are collected from the general fee money that all students pay to the university as part of their tuition bill.

The $292.60 spent on the student government event nearly matches the $300 allocated by the UFB for yearly operating funds for student groups on campus.

“In order to have a successful Senate, members must be able to cooperate and

collaborate,” said Sen. Alyssa Penick, a fourth-year neuroscience and biology student.

The event was the result of a student Senate appropriations bill, which originally called for $271.70 to be allocated from the Senate’s operating budget for the event.

The bill was later amended, passing by a 19-7 vote. The change increased the total funding for the event to $292.60 — to account for 10 percent overhead.

These funds were used to purchase meals up to a total of $6.50 for 38 Senate members at Catskeller.

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The University of Cincinnati will soon revamp UC|21, the university’s strategic plan for charting its academic course, to include more diversity initiatives.

“We are not walking away from that road map of goals for this university. They will be reshaped, they will be modified, they will be restructured in some forms, but the heart of what UC|21 tries to do will remain the same,” Vice President of Student Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer Mitchel Livingston said during his address at the Student Activities Board Presidential luncheon. “But what UC|21 lacked from its very inception is an explicit commitment to diversity.”

While what the new UC|21 initiatives will look like is still unclear, Livingston is confident the Diversity Council, (a task force created to tackle issues of race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability status, socioeconomic status, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and regional or national origin) will create a specific diversity plan by the end of the summer.

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In efforts to reduce the carbon footprint, the University of Cincinnati will sponsor a Bearcat Bike Share pilot program, which is midway through the fundraising process.

Student Government agreed to donate $7,000 to the pilot program although directors Alan Hagerty and Shawn Tubb requested a donation of $9,000.

The bike share is based on daily rentals through the Campus Recreation Center. The bikes will be stored in the area between Market on Main and CRC, which is one reason that justifies the request for security cameras, Tubb said.

Students and faculty will be able to rent a bike during CRC operating hours, but must return the bike by the end of the day. Small damages and regular maintenance will be at no cost to the renter. However, late fees and cost replacements will be applied as necessary.

“Keep in mind that this is a pilot program, so things will have to work themselves out,” Tubb said.

The program’s total cost is $18,500, including

Prescription drug abuse prevalent among students

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University of Cincinnati students are popping prescription pills to do more than stay awake for examinations, according to a student-conducted survey.

The 10-question poll, conducted by electronic media adjunct professor Steve Oldfield and his class, polled 784 students in a two-week period in early February found 40 percent of those who completed the questionnaire were using the drugs for things other than studying for tests.

“I was surprised how many people knew someone who use or abuse prescription drugs,” Oldfield said. “It was kind of shocking.”

Results from the survey showed almost half of those who admitted to using the drugs illegally abused Adderall, a medication used to treat attention deficit disorder.

“When I was in college, we took No-Doz or chewed on coffee beans,” Oldfield said.

The survey served as a group project in Oldfield’s Research and Resources Class, and students were tasked with physically handing out surveys to students on campus.

Instead of using a widespread random sampling, the students who conducted the survey aimed for certain demographics and distributed the poll to random samplings within the group, said Darienne Jordan, a first-

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Livingston paraphrased UC President Greg William’s commitment to diversity by saying, “In part, the success of my presidency will be determined by how effective I am working with you to make diversity and inclusion an integral part of the education experience at the University of Cincinnati.”

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the purchase of 20 bikes and two security cameras.

The cost of 20 bikes is estimated at $6,000 while each security camera is estimated to cost $2,000. Other items include locks, taillights and headlights, maintenance, signage, contingency fees and baskets, which are estimated to cost $1,200.

In the last two weeks, the program received $3,450 from various colleges and faculty within UC. A survey was sent to the entire university to gauge wants and needs, which will be applied to the final settings of the bike share. More than 2,000 students responded in fewer than 10 days.

Helmets are not part of the proposed plan, Hagerty said.

The fitting of helmets depends largely on the individual and there is the concern of hygiene, Huff said.

The official vote of Student Government was 20-3-to-1. Due to the large donation, advertisement and credit to Student Government will be displayed on the bikes and racks.

The pilot program members are continuing to work with local businesses, like Queen City Bike and Campus Cyclery in order to educate volunteer mechanics. The program will also work in conjunction with efforts to make the city more bike-friendly.

The program will kick off April 25 — Earth Day.

electronic media student and a student in Oldfield’s class.

“Even though we had certain people target demographics, we randomly selected,” said Jordan, who surveyed black students.

Although the questions were initially based on alcohol and drug use combined, the students decided to change the poll due to the prevalence of respondents claiming they had a friend who abused prescription pills, said Nina D’Eramo, a first-year electronic media student also in Oldfield’s class.

Approximately 70 percent of those who responded said they thought prescription drug abuse on campus is common.

The results of the survey were tallied almost in tandem with the March 8 release of Sen. Sherrod Brown’s letter to President Barack Obama regarding the widespread abuse of prescription pills and its effects.

“From 1999 to 2007, Ohio’s death rate due to unintentional drug poisonings increased more than 300 percent, largely due to prescription drug overdose,” Brown wrote. “In 2007, unintentional drug

poisoning became the leading cause of injury death in Ohio, surpassing motor vehicle crashes and suicide for the first time on record.”

Although the poll was mostly focused on prescription pill abuse, it also found statistics on drinking. Of the 82 percent who said they drink at least once a month, 70 percent admitted to drinking underage.

The survey’s respondents were made up of 403 males and 381 female undergraduates and has a margin of error of 3 percent.

The convention bureau brings planners to Cincinnati, showing them the city, and hoping in return to have them to book their conventions in Cincinnati.

The Convention and Visitors Bureau booked 130 different groups in 2009.

The culture and arts in the city help make their trip more memorable, Adam said.

The compactness of the city brings the organizations to Cincinnati. Sixty percent of the total population is only a day away, said Barrie Perks,vice president of sales and services for the Cincinnati USA Convention and Visitors bureau.

The conventions in Cincinnati have been excellent for the economy, bringing in an estimated $59 million in economic impact to the city in 2009.

One of the conventions coming to Cincinnati in 2012 is the World Choir Games. Citizens from 90 countries will come to the city, bringing approximately 20,000 choir members and attendees.

The Fraternal Order

of Police are also slated to have their convention in Cincinnati in 2013, booking approximately 15,000 rooms.

“It feels great. Washington D.C. and Chicago’s prices are higher so we are competing,” Perks said. “Their prices have come down, so we are still winning which makes us feel great. We are never satisfied, always wanting more.”

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In the March 10 issue of The News Record it was inaccurately stated that the 2009 tax forms required gun owners to register each gun at a cost of $50. There is no fee on the tax form.

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During the weekend, I was privileged enough to attend a live broadcast of “Freedom Watch,” a Fox News program hosted by Judge Andrew Napolitano.

During the taping, Napolitano asked, “Do we have a two-party system in this country or is it really just one big government party with a Republican wing that likes war and deficits and a Democratic wing that likes taxes and welfare?”

And he’s right: The two-party system in this country is more like a singular party system with two competing factions within it that play Americans against each other.

We often get pulled into a ficticious game of left versus right, where we are presented with a false choice between mainstream Democrats and mainstream Republicans who, more or less, promote the same policies. It’s a choice not all that dissimilar from asking, “Which would you rather have clawing you to death: A tiger or a lion?” While it is still a choice, it’s a choice that ultimately leads to the same ends.

The Republican wing of this big government party takes us into numerous wars and the Democratic wing continues and escalates those very same wars. The foreign policy of both sides revolves around neo-conservative dreams of policing the world and intervening where we please.

Both Democrats and Republicans dominate elections at all levels, making it near impossible for a third party candidate to ever compete with the power and deep pockets of the big government party. Its monopoly over ballot access in every state currently prevents anyone who doesn’t want to slap either the big D or big R next to their name from being considered a legitimate candidate.

Mainstream Republicans and Democrats both hold the same distain for the Constitution and the rights it protects. When the Patriot Act was originally pushed through Congress in 2001, a majority of both parties voted in favor of the bill dealing a severe blow to the Constitution. And, just recently, the government once again supported another extension of the bill that would keep certain provisions pertaining to the governments’ ability to wiretap alive.

Another favorite pastime of the big government party is to see who can outspend the other in the quickest and greatest ways possible. The leaders of both the Democratic and Republican divisions of the big government party subscribe to the theories of Keynesian economics, in which mass government intervention into the economy is promoted and practiced. The carelessness they express is leading us to the ruins of our economy. In the last few years, both parties have given us expensive stimulus bills and bailouts. The wars cost nearly $1 trillion every year to maintain.

It is often said most Americans don’t consider themselves to be either a Democrat or a Republican but instead prefer to label themselves as independents. The number of American voters not affiliated with either major party increased by a few percentage points since last year, according to Rasmussen Reports. The rise of such movements as the Tea Party are proof that a greater number of Americans are getting fed up not with just the status quo Republicans or Democrats but with the system entirely. More people are beginning to realize just how similar these two parties actually are.

Those who grew tired of the eight years the Republicans trampled our country strived for something different and gave the Democrats a shot. But the actions of the Democrats in the past few years should be proof that change did not come by simply voting the only other “viable party” into office.

In response to Judge Napolitano’s question, his guest answered it precisely. It’s indeed a two-party system. It’s them, the establishment party, versus us, the American people.

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Growing up sucks. The bittersweet days of sleeping until 2 p.m., only to awaken to music blaring through your neighbor’s windows and people drinking beer on the front porch are soon to be gone. And that’s just a typical Tuesday during Spring quarter. Yeah, I won’t be doing that anymore.

It’s taken me some time to conclude my college career and, as an undergraduate student, I have seen and done many things that many other students don’t get the chance to, working as a News Record editor being one of them.

As my time at TNR winds down, I found it only fitting to pass on the wisdom I have accumulated as a Bearcat. Think of this as a chat with your grandfather who had to walk two miles uphill both ways to school without shoes, except my mistakes and regrets are less painful and more entertaining.

The first bit of advice I would to impart is, college, as we know it, is nothing more than a business. There is no need for our bills to be as astronomical as they are if higher

education, as an institution, was still just about receiving a diploma.

Some might argue the extras contribute to learning outside the classroom and becoming a more well-rounded student and, in some instances, this is true. I, for one, have learned a lot from the student groups I have been a part of, but that doesn’t mean I need a recreation center, shuttle system, cutting-edge architectural structures (The University of Cincinnati spent $1.7 billion in 15 years to be named one of the most beautiful campuses by Forbes.) or sports teams in order to learn.

These extravagances add up to less money in my pocket. Imagine if the money spent on these things went toward attracting top-notch faculty.

And speaking of student groups, getting involved is another college must-do. Whatever you are interested in, there is a student group for it, trust me. And these student groups receive a sizeable budget courtesy of the campus life fee on your bill. Take advantage of these opportunities — you’ve already paid for them.

Getting involved also helps you learn probably the most valuable

lesson I will be taking away from UC: navigating the bureaucracy. The iron cage of bureaucracy is inescapable, especially at an institution of this magnitude.

Inevitably, you will work where a mountain of paperwork is required to complete a simple task. Or, better yet, you might find yourself in a situation where you must contact several different people to get to the bottom of something, all of them directing you to someone else because your question doesn’t exactly fit into their job description. Learning how to overcome these obstacles set forth by bureaucracy will help you significantly once you graduate.

Not to say my college experience was all bad: I was fortunate enough to go on trips, attend conferences, make friends, network and write as

much as I wanted, to name a few things. It’s not that I didn’t value my time at UC, it’s just most of the true learning I did happened outside of the classroom, for better or worse; because college isn’t about learning facts or information anymore.

The piece of paper they mail you six to eight weeks after you graduate isn’t nearly as important as your internships, industry contacts and real-world experience. This is something they don’t teach you.

So, students of UC, enjoy your time here while you can, and take advantage of your opportunities outside of the classroom.

Jamie Royce is the (former) opinion editor of The News Record who blogs at s t u f f q u e e r p e o p l e n e e d t o k n o w.wordpress.com.

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The News Record, an independent, student-run news organization of the University of Cincinnati’s Communication Board, is printed during the school year every Monday, wednesday and Thursday, except holidays and examination periods, from its office located in 509 Swift Hall and is distributed to the UC community. The News Record distributes to more than 80 locations and has a weekly circulation of 22,500. One copy per person is free. Additional copies can be picked up at The News Record office for $1.

The fiery debate of smoking on the University of Cincinnati’s campus has been stoked by a recent poll on the UC Blackboard Web site. The poll was sponsored by Student Government in conjunction with the student group College for Cancer.

The results were overwhelming, indicating 64.34 percent of the 6,102 students responding favor a non-smoking UC campus.

While the thought of a smoke-free UC campus is appealing, a tremendous amount of work needs

to be done by the student body before attempting to institute a no-smoking policy, including enforcing the current rules UC has in place.

The current university regulations concerning smoking, according to UC spokesperson Greg Hand, were instituted in December 2005. The policy was voted on and approved by many UC groups, as well as the entire student body.

The policy forbids smoking in parking garages, enclosed buildings, athletic facilities and UC vehicles. It also prohibits smoking within 25 feet of windows, buildings and entrances.

Students who commit an infraction are subject to repercussions outlined in the university code of conduct. Employees and faculty are subject to disciplinary action from their supervisor.

Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has a no-smoking policy for all of its campuses. The policy has been somewhat successful, according to Claire Wagner, director of news and public information at Miami.

The Miami community at large enforces the policy

and Wagner has seen individuals disciplined for smoking on campus. Despite this, students, faculty and employees still smoke on campus, she said.

Look around. UC students, employees and faculty can be seen violating UC smoking policies daily. Very little is done to correct this behavior.

The UC smoking policy states, “It shall be the responsibility of all members of the University of Cincinnati community to observe this rule and to direct those who are smoking to designated smoking areas.”

Has the UC community truly done that, or have we become oblivious to it?

If we have become apathetic toward smoking 25 feet away from a building, how will we enforce no smoking at all?

Laziness on the part of the UC community to stand by its current policy is not a reason to create a new one. If the policy is truly put in action and is still found to be troublesome, then discussions concerning a new policy can begin.

There is an old saying: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Unfortunately, the current UC policy hasn’t been used enough to even be broken, let alone fixed.

Student Government should poll students again, asking students in favor of a non-smoking policy if they have actually addressed violators of the current UC rules.

It is easy to answer a poll feigning indignity at smoking on campus and demand a new policy. It’s a lot harder to stand up and support what you already have, which is what the UC student body should do before calling for a new policy.

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Sunday’s Oscars, like past Oscars, had its share of memorable moments.

From the touching tribute to the late director John Hughes, to Kathryn Bigelow being the first woman to win Best Director for “The Hurt Locker,” the 2010 awards won’t be forgotten.

Inevitably, the telecast also had moments which didn’t please everyone. One such instance occurred when Ben Stiller presented the Oscar for Makeup dressed as a Na’vi from “Avatar,” which the film’s director, James Cameron, clearly had a less than flattering reaction to.

The one which really stuck out for me, though, was when the during the past year, or rather the past year since the previous Oscars as a few of the artists listed passed on earlier this year.

This tribute raised my eyebrows because there were a few surprising omissions. Two such omissions, which several news wires have already taken the Oscars to task for not mentioning, were Bea Arthur and Farrah Fawcett. Although they were both better known for their TV and stage work, both women had a nice number of feature films under their belts. Fawcett, for instance, had memorable appearances in films such as “Logan’s Run,” (1976) “The Apostle” (1997) and “Cannonball Run” (1981), which co-starred Dom DeLuise, who also passed away this year and was mentioned in the memoriam. This, along with how much they were both loved by audiences over multiple years, would warrant some sort of tribute from such a prestigious institution as the Acadamey, I would think.

However, Arthur and Fawcett weren’t the only artists who passed away during the last 12 months and went overlooked by the Academy. Among the others were actor Ricardo Montalban, who was had a memorable film career in the 1940s and ’50s before landing his most famous roles as Mr. Rourke on TV’s “Fantasy Island” and as Khan in “Star Trek.”

Another startling omission was Don LaFontaine. You might not recognize his name, but his distinguishable voice narrated countless movie trailers (among other things, including the Oscars) throughout the years. Not long ago, he appeared as himself on a commercial for Geico being introduced as “the announcer guy from the movies.” I would think this would warrant praise from the filmmaking community.

Other late, great artists who didn’t get mentioned were George Carlin, probably the most influential comedian of his generation, and Forrest J. Ackerman, publisher of “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine, which was an inspiration to such filmmaking legends as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. Both Carlin and Ackerman made film appearances over the years as well.

This isn’t the first year the Acadamey has committed such oversights. Montalban’s fellow Star Trek alumnus DeForest Kelley, who played Dr. McCoy on the series, wasn’t mentioned when he died in 1999, despite the fact that, like Montalban, he had extensive film credits prior to boarding the Enterprise.

Not surprisingly, fans of Fawcett, including her long-time beau Ryan O’Neal, have already taken the Academy to task for failing to mention her. Bruce Davis, the executive director for the Academy, has replied with this (quoted from cinematical.com):

“It is the single most troubling element of the Oscar show every year. Because more people die each year than can possibly be included in that segment.”

Perhaps mentioning each and every great artist who has passed on during the past year is more difficult than it seems, so oversights may be inevitable. In a case such as Fawcett’s, though, I would think she would be as memorable as Michael Jackson, who was mentioned in the Oscar Memoriam and who died the same day as Fawcett.

Perhaps, the Academy should start sending out memos asking the public to remind them of the great artists who have passed on so that such oversights would be minimized.

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The last time I heard about the Gorillaz, they had departed completely from their 2005 album “Demon Days” and were producing Chinese operas about Buddhist monkeys seeking nirvana. Crazy shit.

For all intents and purposes, I assumed the Gorillaz were dead. Its founding members Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett having moved on to bigger and crazier things with the release of the 2007 circus opera “Monkey: Journey to the West.”

When I heard the Gorillaz were in the process of dropping a new album, I was a bit skeptical. “Monkey” entailed men on stilts dressed in silk costumes enacting

the fairyland of a 16th century Chinese novel. Then I heard Bruce Willis is starring in its new single’s music video with a .357 Magnum and a nitro-fueled car chase, and figured I’d give the album “Plastic Beach” a try.

Band persona Murdoc Niccals wrote on the Gorillaz’s official news site that “Plastic Beach” was intended to be a worldwide collage.

“Via the guests I brought in and used, I could take little snapshots of the world … It’s just a picture. Plastic Beach: it’s another place, another way of looking at the world,” he wrote.

Having experience with collaborating with a number of artists on “Demon Days,” and having been traveling the world for the better part of the past four years, Albarn and Hewlett wrangled

15 contributing artists’ into the new album — the diversity shows.

“Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach,” the second track on the album, introduces you to the first guest vocal artist: granddaddy Snoop Dogg. Snoop opens the album with his own style of beats and gangsta funk, resonating of the Gorillaz’s earlier albums.

After a few songs, the album dives off the deep end into what Niccals describes as ‘crack funk’ with the album’s most hyped single “Stylo.”

This is the single — its video featuring Bruce Willis kicking ass.

The darkest track on the album, the politically charged lyrics of “Stylo” rings of the overpopulation of the planet, and that we are “Coming in on the Overload/ Overload /Overload.”

The track was good enough to entice Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bobby Womack into recording his first vocals since 2004. His voice explodes over the grimy synths in the beat.

“Glitter Freeze” brings post-punker Mark E. Smith of Britain’s The Fall — it is exactly what you would expect to hear when a project like the Gorillaz crosses paths with the chaotic noise makers of Britain’s punk boom of the ’80s: an instrumental lined on all sides with the noise of pissed off synths and drum machines.

With the range of sound encompassing everything from the classical to the crazed, there is almost too much variety on the album. With 16 tracks, all having different influences and artists,

Since the indie band’s last Cincinnati performance in 2009, the group lost all but two original members, front man Richard Edwards and bass player Tyler Watkins.

“It had a lot to do with people touring for a long time and maybe they were ready for a break,” Edwards said. “For this [new] record we didn’t have as much need for the auxiliary instruments.” This might have been another reason why several band mates called it quits last year.

But without a variety of instruments, no female vocals and no packed stage, the band had to prove itself. The dual level ballroom at the Southgate House was packed from the stage to the back wall, with eager young bodies hanging over the railing to get a good look at the performance.

The band played songs from their previous albums “Animal!” and “Not Animal!” as well as songs yet to be released on the 2010 album “Buzzard.”

“We’re going to try a couple of our new songs before we go on with the old,” Edwards shouted over the audience.

With that, a western twanging melody cried out from Ronnie Kwasman’s guitar. Cameron McGill played soft, sad piano in the background. Edwards wowed the crowd with his vocal skills as he sang the first half of the song in a high falsetto, hitting every note with determined precision. His emotional cries sounded like that of a young boy’s, giving the new song a beautiful, unsettling feel. The song ended abruptly, leaving audience members thrilled. The new Margot seems to be a hit.

Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s has the perfect formula for songwriting. With soft, chilling notes erupting into booming, howling crescendos, both the new and old songs do what music should do: make the listeners feel.

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She’s a 10. He’s a five … plus one half for niceness and being funny. Subtract one for his Dodge Neon — now he’s a four and a half. In “She’s out of My League,” Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is working as a transportation security administrator in the Pittsburgh Airport with aspirations of becoming a pilot when Molly, (Alice Eve) a stunning blonde bombshell walks through security, accidentally leaving her iPhone behind. One call leads to a visit and then to a date as Kirk and Molly grow closer as a couple.

In a comedy filled with C-list celebrities, I was quite surprised by the love story, but not by the predictable ending. A not-so-good-looking guy (Baruchel) is hand picked by a knockout event planner (Eve) after swearing off the hot “Ken”-looking men and moving on to the safe type (like not-so-hot Kirk).

Baruchel, who is known for the guy with the “f*cked up” hair in “Knocked Up,” makes a superb breakout leading role as the awkward Kirk who is content with his dead-end job while sharing his ex-girlfriend with her new boyfriend ... until Molly comes along.

Eve is a breathtaking British actress who sheds her English accent for an American one. Although she did a fantastic job in the film, a few slips of her accent were easily noticeable, but not distracting.

Throughout the film, the theme of being hot and being average was relevant. Unlike some comedies, “She’s Out of My League” has such a central message that left me smiling and feeling good — in order for a relationship to work, you must believe that you are good enough to be with that person, whether they are a 10 or five.

Refreshingly, “She’s Out of My League” is an original movie. It was written by Sean Anders and John Morris — both writers for the

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Stripped of their trumpet, cello, auxiliary percussion and several former members, a new Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s stepped onto the stage at the Southgate House Saturday night.

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For Gilyard, Pro Day was a chance for the wide receiver to improve upon his 40-yard dash performance from the NFL Scouting Combine, where he ran the drill in 4.56 seconds.

“At the combine he did OK. He didn’t really hurt himself, but he didn’t really help himself,” said Clif Marshall, Gilyard’s trainer from Ignition Athletics Performance Group. “So what happened today was he improved on his 40-yard dash.”

Gilyard’s unofficial 40-yard dash time Wednesday was 4.47 seconds. Gilyard said the look on Marshall’s face as he crossed the finish line was all he needed to see to know he had improved his time.

“I did way better than I did at the combine. I mean, way better,” Gilyard said. “I feel like in my 40 I ran smoother, I ran better. I didn’t even need to see my time, because I know it’s better.”

Gilyard had set a goal of running a 4.5-seconds 40-yard dash and isn’t concerned when some say his time in the drill might not be fast enough to compete with top-level NFL defensive backs.

“I’m not a straight-line guy,” Gilyard said. “That’s not me, that’s not my M.O. I run away from people that run 4.3s. I’m not a 4.3-in-a-straight-line guy. I haven’t run track in forever.”

Gilyard ran a 4.03-seconds

20-yard shuttle run and posted a time of 6.71 seconds in the 3-cone drill. Both times were the lowest of the day in each event.

“I don’t think I could have run better,” Gilyard said. “I slipped a little bit in my 3-cone, but I still ran a stupid time.”

Pike elected not to run in the timed drills, but did throw for the NFL scouts on hand in passing drills and came away happy with his performance.

“I was happy with how I came out and threw today compared to the combine,” Pike said. “Overall I had a good day.”

Associate head coach and defensive backs coach Kerry Coombs was pleased with the way Pike, Gilyard and their teammates performed Wednesday.

“I think our kids have shown up extremely well,” Coombs said. “I’m very pleased with the way they’ve run and with the way they’ve tested.”

Coombs is the lone member of the Cincinnati coaching staff to have coached this year’s senior class. Jones, hired near the end of last season, wishes he could have had the chance.

“I wish we had them all back,” Jones said of the departing seniors. “But that’s the beauty of college football. Players graduate and they move on, and it’s up to the next senior

class to provide stability and leadership.”

The goal of Wednesday’s Pro Day was to improve the participants’ draft stock, but Pike remains unsure of where he’ll be selected in April’s upcoming NFL Draft.

“It could be anywhere,” Pike said. “You can sneak to the late first [round], or you can drop anywhere. [Scouts] are kind of saying second or third [round] right now, but as far as that goes, you don’t know anything.”

“For this [new] record we didn’t have as much

need for the auxiliary instruments.”

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Run maRdy Run Mardy Gilyard performs in the 3-cone drill in UC’s Pro Day at Nippert Stadium, Wednesday, March 10. Scouts from 26 NFL teams were on hand for the event.

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“I’m not a straight-line guy.

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M.O. I run away from people that run 4.3s.

I’m not a 4.3-in-a-straight-line guy. I haven’t

run track in forever.”

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upcoming comedy, “Hot Tub Time Machine” due in theaters March 26.

This movie was hilarious above all and made me cheer for the mismatched couple because, for some reason, they just seem right. You will be laughing for minutes at a time, whether it be at Baruchel’s character getting a little too excited and ending

up with a “big freaking oyster” in his shorts or being close-lined by his ex in a full airport terminal.

“She’s Out of My League” is a film that defies the expectation that all comedies have to be raunchy and disgusting. It adds respectable humor to a love story and tells it in an appropriate manner, leaving you satisfied as the credits roll.

This movie ranks with “Knocked Up” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” on the humor scale and overall great comedy.

Spend the money to see “She’s Out of My League” because you never know how you will decide to rate yourself. Is a f ive really a 10? It’s up to you to decide.

After showcasing a few more “Buzzard” songs, Edwards remained with an acoustic guitar accompanied by Eric Kang on a slide guitar. As the first few notes trickled into the air, applause and cheers broke out. “Broadripple is Burning,” a favorite off the album “Not Animal!” is an infectious acoustic indie song about sadness and abandon.

Edwards remained passionate throughout the entire song. His rich, crackling wails prompted everyone to sing along as he forcefully strummed the guitar. He held the last note for what seemed like forever, leaving the final line, “I will haunt you like a ghost,” hanging eerily in the air.

After watching Edwards own the stage with such a strong performance, it’s clear Margot is his band. His creativity and musical integrity have kept the band alive despite the setback of losing half its members. His next step is to change the band’s recording style for the upcoming album, “Buzzard.”

“We tried to make an effort to make more live recording, playing until we have a take that’s good,” Edwards explained. Instead

of recording each instrument separately and combining them in the studio as usual, Margot will be playing and recording the songs together as a band.

After selecting and signing with a new label within the next several weeks, the group will be ready to complete recording and release “Buzzard” later this year. Edward’s dedication and faith in his music has led to massive changes for Margot. Hopefully, those changes will lead to success for the new members, as well as even greater performances to come.

sitting down and listening all the way through took some effort. I skipped a lot of tracks while going back to listen again, mainly because the good is jumbled up with the bad.

Some of the collaborations were amazing, but others are left lacking. The coherence between the tracks suffers due to the gaps between styles.

While the purpose of this is to provide a small snapshot of the world, the medium of a studio album limits the Gorillaz’s ability to tie the experience together into a single package.

Overall, there is a lot of the old Gorillaz in the album. A heavy use of funky synth beats and trippy electronic rhythms shines through almost every track. Their sound is mixed with the styles of a crazy range of artists, and some completely new things come from it.

It’s worth checking out if you’re looking for some new sounds.

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“It was a situation where Josh didn’t have great command early but he did a good job

of not giving up a big inning,” Cleary said. “We obviously needed our bullpen to come through and they did.”

Next up, UC faces off against Niagara in a four-game series beginning Friday, March 12, and wraps up Sunday, March 14. A double-header is scheduled for Saturday.

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swing batteR batteR Senior Jamel Scott leads the University of Cincinnati baseball team with nine stolen bases in 10 attempts, and is batting .220 in 41 at bats. UC improved to 6-4 with their 13-6 win against Le Moyne College March 10.

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If for nothing else, University of Cincinnati students should go to Marge Schott Stadium to check out some of the hottest chicks this campus has to offer.

You’ll see some quality baseball while you’re there, to boot.

Ten games into the season, the UC baseball team has a chance at being better than their projected seventh-place finish in the Big East.

The biggest question beginning the year was who would provide the offense for a team that lost its top-three home-run hitters and its two batting average leaders. Truth is, no one has provided the power in the lineup, but timely hitting and solid pitching has the Bearcats sitting at 6-4.

Last season, the Cats hit 72 home runs in 58 games. Through 10 games this season, UC has hit just seven home runs; a significant drop off from one year ago.

Through 10 games in 2009, UC scored 86 runs, compared to the start of this season where UC has scored 66 runs.

It’s not like no one has hit for the Bearcats, though. T.J. Jones has struggled in the field with a team-leading five errors at second base, but his .350 average at the plate in 40 at bats leads the team.

Jones also leads the team with 12 RBIs, including a solo home run in Wednesday’s game against Le Moyne College.

Newcomer Mikel Huston has also added quality plate appearances and should start seeing more at bats. He has 12 hits in 25 at bats and has proved selective at which pitches he swings at. Huston has five walks to go along with four RBIs and is a perfect 2-for-2 when stealing bases.

UC head coach Brian Cleary has always been aggressive on the bases, but he needs to be even more aggressive this season, lacking a slugger who can score runs in bunches with one swing of the bat.

Anytime center fielder Jamel Scott gets on base, he will try to steal. Scott is batting just .216, but he’s stolen nine bases in 10 attempts this year.

The fourth inning of UC’s 13-6 win over Le Moyne Wednesday was a perfect example.

Down 3-1, the Cats loaded the bases after a couple of walks and one single. A single off the bat of catcher Jimmy Jacquot scored a run and left the bases loaded. Then designated hitter Beach Brooks hit what was probably the longest single in the history of baseball off the top of the right field wall to score two more runs.

The three-run fourth Wednesday could have been more harmful for Le Moyne had it not been for a double play but the Bearcats have used big innings to fight back in a number of games this season.

In a game against Youngstown State University, UC put together a five-run third en route to a 7-6 win.

Two nights prior, the Bearcats, down 4-0, scored nine runs in the sixth inning and went on to a 15-5 win.

Most impressive though was against Purdue Saturday, Feb. 27, when the Cats were down 6-0 in the bottom of the ninth and scored seven runs in the inning for the win.

Pitching has been adequate enough to keep UC in most games including their 12-4 win against No. 13 Ohio State.

Brian Garman has been most impressive for the Cats. In 10 innings this season the lefty is 1-0 with a 1.80 ERA and 14 strikeouts.

Brian Sand has also been impressive. He pitched five relief innings and got the win against Ohio State and has a 2.61 ERA in 10.1 innings.

UC’s pitchers have done a great job of getting ahead of hitters in the count and it shows because as a team, Bearcat pitchers have struck out a 76 hitters this season.

The Bearcats might have something this year. It will be tough to hang with teams like Louisville (12-0) for the conference title, but a seventh place finish isn’t in the cards either.

The Cats don’t play Louisville this year — which could be a good thing or a bad thing — but hopefully once conference play opens up Friday, March 26, UC will be clicking on all cylinders.

Think the UC baseball team will enjoy success without a big bat this season? E-mail Garrett at sabelhgt@mail.uc.edu.

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BIg-tImE Bat T.J. Jones went 1-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs and two runs scored, including a solo home run in the first inning of Cincinnati’s 13-6 win against Le Moyne College Wednesday, March 10.

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A two-run sixth inning, followed by a six-run eighth for insurance, pushed the University of Cincinnati baseball team past the Le Moyne College Dolphins Wednesday, March 10, at Marge Schott Stadium.

After tying the game at six in the sixth inning, left fielder Justin Riddell knocked in pinch hitter Cory Hough to give the Cats a lead for good in a 13-6 win.

The bullpen for the Cats (6-4) made all the difference, as winning pitcher Andrew Strenge entered the game in the fifth inning and threw 3.1 innings, allowing just one run on five hits, while striking out four batters.

“He really settled down and got out there and got comfortable and really started being able to throw his breaking ball for strikes,” said UC head coach Brian Cleary. “We’ve pitched well so far, we’ve played well defensively so far and the offense, which has been a work in progress, was much, much improved today.”

Catcher Jimmy Jacquot provided most of the offense with three RBIs in a 3-for-4 day at the plate, including a two-run homer that sparked the six-run eighth inning.

“A big inning is typically so decisive in the outcome of the game, and we were able to enjoy one today and prevent them from ever getting one,” Cleary said. “We were able to keep them from getting the four-or-five-run inning and that was able to help us.”

T.J. Jones chipped in a solo home run as well in the first inning and seemed to put his fielding problems behind him in an errorless day in the field.

“It’s not so much taking pitches but just swinging at good pitches and not helping the pitchers out,” Jones said. “It’s a little different this year without all the home-run hitters, so we kind of have to manufacture runs a little bit different this year.”

Starter Josh Godfrey had a day he’d like to forget in a no decision. The redshirt junior allowed five runs in 4.2 innings

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tony Pike, mardy gilyard and 11 other former University of Cincinnati football players returned to nippert stadium Wednesday, march 10, to work out in front of scouts from 26 nFL teams as part of the University of Cincinnati’s Pro Day.

“I’m excited for them,” said Cincinnati head coach Butch Jones. “you look at everything they’ve brought to this football program, and then they’re able to display their skills today and for the national Football League.”

scouts watched with keen eyes as players were put through a variety of tests and drills, including the 40-yard dash, 225-pound bench press, 20-yard shuttle run and 3-cone drill.

clutch free throws and another dominating rebounding performance gave cincinnati its second win in the Big east championship in as many days at Madison square garden in new York city.

Yancy gates led the Bearcats with a team-high 16 points in a 69-66 second-round win against Louisville.

Senior Deonta Vaughn made two free throws with five seconds remaining to stretch cincinnati’s lead to three after a reginald delk 3-pointer brought Louisville to within one.

the Bearcats outrebounded the cardinals 54-33 one night after beating rutgers on the glass 44-28. Ibrahima thomas and Jaquon parker each grabbed a game-high eight rebounds. six of parker’s rebounds came on cincinnati’s offensive end.

Louisville shot 44 percent from the field, and connected on 10 of 18 from beyond the 3-point arc, while cincinnati shot just 4 of 18 from long range and 35 percent overall from the field.

Bob Huggins and West Virginia await the Bearats in the quarterfinals, and will tip off at Madison square garden at 9 p.m. thursday, March 11. In their lone meeting during the regular season, cincinnati lost at west Virginia 74-68 Feb. 27.

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Cats movIng on Yancy Gates scored 16 points and grabbed six rebounds in UC’s 69-66 win against Louisville Wednesday, March 10.

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