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wednesday, april 21, 2010
THE INdEpENdENT sTudENT NEwspapEr aT THE uNIvErsITy of cINcINNaTI
daap’s father of graphic design takes his leave after 32 years.
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gordon salchowsaving historical buildings from
destruction should be a priority for uc.
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know your rootspeter Marx gives some hints on what
to look out for in the 2010 draft.
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The University of Cincinnati’s efforts to go green are being noticed — namely by a company expressly looking at education and its effects: The Princeton Review.
The Review recognized more than 280 schools for their work in becoming more environmentally friendly establishments.
UC was the only public university in Ohio on the list.
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified buildings as well as the university’s academic concentration on environmental health played a role in the decision.
“The university takes its role as an environmental steward seriously, incorporating the idea of sustainability throught the university operations and classrooms,” according to the report. “The
campus boasts one LEED Gold and four LEED-Certified buildings with all new construction on campus going forward is required to meet LEED Silver standards.”
Currently, the Joseph A. Steger Student Life Center, the Campus Recreation Center, the Richard E. Lindner Varsity Village and East Campus’s CARE/Crawley building Van Wormer Hall are LEED-certified. Teachers College is being inspected to determine if it fulfills LEED requirements, according to UC|Sustainability’s Website.
Although UC earned some praise, the report also details statistics on the school’s sustainability efforts, going into detail about things like produce coming from local farms in the dining halls and how seafood “is considered sustainable by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program.”
The result comes as UC|Sustainability prepares to launch its bike share program with a parade down MainStreet April 22.
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Students looking to make a profit selling tickets for the Ludacris concert are not only breaching university rules — they’re breaking the law.
Tickets for the show, which were free to all University of Cincinnati students, are being resold — scalped — which is not only breaking the university’s student Code of Conduct, but also illegal.
If anyone is caught selling tickets, they could face punishment by the university’s legal counsel because the violations involve university property: the tickets.
“I would assume most, if it’s happening, [is] through word of mouth,” said Nicole Lepone, assistant
director of UC’s Student Activities and Leadership Development.
Despite knowing “transactions” have taken place, the university has not caught any scalpers, Lepone said.
Members of UC’s Judicial Affairs office could not be reached.
The total cost of the concert — which mostly was made up of artist fees — came up as approximately $70,000, Lepone said.
To fund the show, PAC contacted various student groups, local businesses and companies.
“We worked for almost three months constantly,” said Bao Nguyen, who co-chaired PAC’s concert planning. “We talked to everybody — and more.”
PAC raised approximately $20,000 for the concert.
The remainder of the funding came from the university.
The public listing Website Craigslist.com also has multiple listings for the concert — which doesn’t require a UC ID to get into — some listings selling tickets for up to $80. Others list the tickets for $1.
As of press time, the Website had 22 listings for the tickets.
Nguyen puts the final figure of tickets sold at approximately 10,500.
“We worked really hard for a couple of months to keep it free,” Nguyen said. “So I’d be disappointed if people were scalping them.”
Lepone shares the feeling.“It’s pretty rare for a university to do
this kind of thing,” she said. “We just didn’t think students would take advantage of it.”
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makINg campus grEEN on top of being named one of the most beautiful campuses in the world by forbes, the university has been recognized by the princeton review for its efforts in sustainability.
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makINg sOmE prOfIt free for students, tickets for the ludacris show have “sold out,” but are also being illegally sold online and through word of mouth.
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watch yOur stEp workers perch atop one of the light poles surrounding Nippert stadium. working in the bright sunlight, saftey harnesses protect the men from a long drop outside of Tangeman university center Thursday, april 15.
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sale of free-to-student tickets could result in punishment from university judicial affairs
paavo järvi visits ccm
when: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. friday, april 23
where: corbett auditorium ccM
Ever wanted to hear the inner musings of the cincinnati symphony orchestra’s music director paavo Järvi? The university of cincinnati’s college-conservatory of Music is hosting Järvi as a guest speaker for students in a “conducting master class.”
Järvi will be giving personal lectures to ccM students. The event is free to the public. for more information, call curt whitacre at 513-556-2683 or e-mail [email protected].
the coochie chronicles
when: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. friday, april 23
where: Mainstreet cinema
“The coochie chronicles: The spoken word stage play” documents various facets of the women of color image. The play will use a mixture of spoken word, popular and original music, statistics and imagery to chronicle the realities of womanhood and the experiences of women of color. The play is the uc contribution to the Greater cincinnati Take Back the Night event. call Kimberly fulbright at 513-556-4401 for information.
bearcat bowl iv
when: 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. saturday, april 24
where: Nippert stadium
come out and support the 2010-11 Bearcat football team during its final spring practice. The first 5,000 fans in attendance will receive a commemorative sugar Bowl poster. admission is free and open to the public.
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CAT staff stuck in job limbo
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Faculty from the Center for Access and Transition at the University of Cincinnati are in suspense. Their job futures are up in the air, despite assurances from administration that efforts are being made to retain them.
Eric Abercrumbie, director of the African American Culture and Research Center at UC, previously raised the question of what would happen to the faculty of the center when it closes in June.
As it stands, it seems the majority of them will be without jobs after 2011.
A meeting hosted Tuesday, April 6, involving members of the CAT executive team discussed the likelihood of field service faculty from the center not being retained after their contracts expire in August 2011, said a source requesting anonymity for fear of recrimination.
Information was also provided to faculty members about a buyout incentive plan, offering tenured faculty a year’s salary with an additional $15,000, while field service faculty were offered two-thirds of their yearly salary.
Faculty members in the English department and faculty transferring to the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences after CAT’s closure are being specifically affected.
The information was also presented to faculty in attendance at a CAT-wide meeting April 20, the anonymous source said.
“Normally [tenured faculty] will receive a formal letter from the dean of the college they will be transferring to,” the anonymous source said. “They haven’t yet.”
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about the Miami Dolphins. They need a pass rusher and I think he’s a perfect fit.”
stock falling:Two University of Southern California
players, Taylor Mays and Everson Griffen, continue to tumble down draft boards across the league.
Standing at 6-foot-3-inches tall and weighing 230 pounds, Mays is one of the most physically gifted players in the draft, which is why he is rated the 27th-best player overall. Mays ran a 4.43 second 40-yard dash at the combine, the fastest for a safety, but there are some concerns with his overall talent level.
“Mays is big, strong and physical, but has straight-line speed though, not a great cover guy, instincts questionable, not a great playmaker, the list goes on. I think he’s more of a second-round talent,” McShay said.
Griffen, a Second-Team All-Pac 10 selection recorded 45 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss, 5.5 sacks and two forced fumbles in 2009.
“You watch [Griffen] on film — he’s powerful, he’s quick, he does everything you ask for, but then he’ll take a play off,” McShay said. And there are a lot of questions about his work ethic and football character. I think you are going to see Griffen, a first-round talent, fall to the mid to late second round.”
The first round of the 2010 NFL Draft can be seen on ESPN starting at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 22, at Radio City Music Hall, in New York City.
The second and third rounds will be broadcasted starting at 6 p.m., Friday, April 23, and rounds four through seven will take place 10 a.m., Saturday, April 24.
A graduate of Dublin Scioto High School in a suburb just outside of Columbus, Scott will try to carry his attitude into the classroom, this time as a teacher.
After graduating, Scott said he’d like to find a job as a history teacher and make use of the history degree he will receive after one more quarter at Cincinnati.
He’s hopeful a job will open up in Cincinnati, the city he’s grown to love during his four years here.
Once for a college class, Scott had to visit the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal. Since, he’s been back three times on his own.
But hanging out at museums is
hardly all Scott does for fun. In high school, he and his friends would have marathon video game tournaments, playing NCAA Football for hours on end.
He also enjoys music, and admits to listening to Justin Bieber, along with favorites Lil’ Wayne and Jay-Z.
“I listen to it more often than I should,” Scott said of catching Bieber fever. “It’s catchy. I know an up-and-coming star when I see one.”
Scott is still up in the air about finishing his degree in the summer or just waiting to finish in the fall, but he will surely go down as another one of the good guys to pass through the University of Cincinnati baseball program.
quarterback to one day develop into a starter and jump at the opportunity to grab Pike in an earlier round.
While Pike said it would be nice to stay in or close to Cincinnati for his NFL career, the Reading High School graduate and UC alumnus said he would be OK with ending
up anywhere. “It’s so hard to just get drafted,” Pike said.
“Obviously, growing up in Cincinnati and playing in Cincinnati, it would be great to stay in the area, but anywhere that takes me I’d be happy.”
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graphic design program at UC: grab hold of perceived problems and leverage them into an asset.
Something that Salchow believes was a unique challenge about UC but has become one of DAAP’s greatest strengths is the co-op program. Some critics in the design world say co-ops cause the school to overly focus on the functional side of the coin at the expense of the larger picture, but Salchow completely disagrees.
He contends the firms and companies students work for during co-op give them the practical and professional side of their education, completely opening up the opportunity for professors to go deeper into theory and foundation in the classroom.
“I believe wholeheartedly in the foundation of design,” Salchow says. “There is more rational thought involved in the process.”
This might seem surprising to those who worry about finding inspired creativity right from the outset, but as Salchow tries to emphasize to his students, especially the younger ones, a creative solution does not depend on the original forethought.
A particular project Salchow has been assigning for more than 20 years is designed to prove the notion. He challenges all of his students to create the same exact symbol and follow the same steps of development throughout.
This occasionally leads to frustration and worry among some who feel it stifles their creativity, but then Salchow holds up projects from before they were born or ones from just a couple
of years ago, and shows how even though all of the designers began with the same shape and worked through the same steps, the finished projects were unique.
The project emphasizes one of Salchow’s most firmly held beliefs: A designer works in a methodical way and the creativity is there in the individuality of the person.
His beliefs are clear and during talks on the evolution of both the design program and his personal style, the detached and rational approach was a talking point. He explained things in terms of a “constant refining process” or that the program “was initially sound” and that “the process of design is more engaging than the result.”
This mindset has lent him a particular teaching style, one that he describes as “serious and stern” but also “objective and knowledgeable.”
He also believes every individual is creative and that today’s students are as talented as ever. Salchow says he is frustrated whenever he hears a professor complain that students are not as skilled or as motivated as they used to be.
“The students have as much going for them as ever,” Salchow said.
These notions have no doubt led to his success as an educator and have earned him such honors as DAAP’s 2002 “Outstanding Professor of the Year Award.”
But Salchow also gives much of the credit for the success of the graphic design program to the faculty, saying all along there
has been chemistry and positive disagreement that have pushed the program to new levels of creativity and excellence.
That collegial environment might be put at risk now that he and two other veteran professors will be retiring during the next year, but Salchow says it is time for him to step out of that role.
As a successful career comes to a close, which included many positions on National Endowment for the Arts and Ohio Arts Council boards and being granted the prestigious title of AIGA fellow, but says he will still be working in the field, but on his own terms.
He has plans for a book and some own personal creative work, but Salchow says he can find no regrets.
“I can’t imagine a more satisfying career,” he said.Speaking on the graphic design program in DAAP, Salchow
said it is a great program — one that he would put up against any other.
And even as the design program sets up to merge, slated to merge with digital design following the semester conversion in 2012 under the potential banner of “graphic communication design,” the program retains its roots in Salchow’s foundation.
Salchow sums up his feelings about it, and says he has “great pride” for the program.
As well he should be: His most successful example of design is still changing and developing, and will outlast his own career and most likely his lifetime.
But of course that is exactly the way he designed it.
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There have been other things sent out, however.
“All faculty who are at risk of not being retained after August 2011 have been notified of their possible non-reappointment in accordance with the provisions of the AAUP [American Association of University professors] contract,” Shepherd said.
At the beginning of the 2009-10 year, there were 45 faculty, 15 tutors and seven advisers on the CAT budget, Shepherd said.
“The tutors are gone,” the anonymous source said. “The advisers are gone.”
The likelihood of CAT faculty not being retained is occurring despite increasing classroom sizes, several announced faculty retirements and faculty in the English department having to teach 10 class hours per quarter next year, the source said.
Next year, 85 percent of CAT faculty remaining on Main Campus will transfer to A&S, Shepherd said.
UC administration is attempting to keep the faculty employed.
“All efforts are being made to find an appropriate home for CAT faculty,” said Kristi Nelson, senior vice provost for academic planning.
Tenured faculty will go to A&S, while field service faculty will go to regional campuses, said Caroline Miller, senior associate vice president of enrollment management.
CAT faculty that teaches in A&S next year might have new offices, it was announced at the April 20 meeting.
They could move to the College of Applied Science on Victory Parkway.
“There will be no office hours for students,” the source said. “Who is going to drive to Victory Parkway?”
Some CAT faculty have applied and interviewed for positions at UC’s Raymond Walters and Clermont Colleges, Shepherd said.
“Any current employee may apply for any position for which they are qualified to fill,” Shepherd said. “It’s up to the individual search committees to select those they wish to interview.”
The number of faculty from CAT that have applied at UC’s branch campuses is currently not known.
Very few from CAT have been interviewed at Clermont College, however, including no English faculty, the source said.
Representatives from Clermont could not go into detail concerning the hiring of CAT faculty.
“The searches and interviews are in process and I am not able to provide information at this time,” said Victoria Hammer, associate dean of academic affairs at Clermont College.
It is the individual search committees at the branches to select those they wish to interview, Shepherd said.
Representatives from Raymond Walters were unavailable for comment at press time concerning the hiring process.
A representative involved in the hiring process at Clermont told the anonymous source that there was no intention of hiring field service faculty at the branch campus.
“[Faculty] candidacies are not being taken seriously,” the anonymous source said.
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Gordon salchow says he made his way into the design world through an “innocent process.” Growing up in midwestern St. Paul, Minn., a typical middle-class son of a mechanic and homemaker, he had not always been drawn to design.
What started as a casual entrance into the realm of design formed a successful and impressive career. Salchow, who will retire from the college of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning this year, came to the school in 1968 tasked with creating and launching a new major that was then considered cutting edge: graphic design.
And he’s been here ever since.Salchow established the program and worked as its
director for more than 20 years and has remained an integral part of its development and improvement the entire time.
He was just 27 when he arrived, and his first order of business was re-designing himself for the job.
“It was frustrating, demanding and exciting,” Salchow said. “I went all out.”
That meant long hours, a list of events and national design conferences to attend on top of envisioning a brand new program. But it also required a certain frame of reference.
“The way a person lives inspires them to act in certain ways,” Salchow says. He believes it was important for him to lead a design lifestyle, and that is why he approached his new administrative role in exactly that form.
Salchow found himself in charge of leading this new program, but he did not plan to be an educator following the completion of his own design education, which included earning a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1962 and an MFA from Yale in 1965.
But after graduate school he was offered a job opportunity at the Kansas City Art Institute helping to transform and develop its own graphic design program.
After a few years, he says he realized education was exactly where he wanted to be. He never seriously considered leaving that role.
“Education is a terrific career,” Salchow says. “It is a very satisfying and complete way of life.”
His position in education has allowed him to focus on theory and the development of design, while opening up opportunities to practice the art on his own terms.
“One of the luxuries in higher education is the ability to be selective in the projects I work on,” Salchow said.
Throughout his career he favored short-term projects, like posters and identity projects for non-profits and small-to mid-size companies. Several of his works hang on the wall of his modern home, such as posters for the Ohio Arts Council and one for the annual ATP tennis tournament held in the area.
Salchow’s posters and other works of design demonstrate the level of success he has achieved in the field; but when pressed for an answer to his most successful and proudest work of design, he points to a less obvious choice: the graphic design program he founded and shepherded to success here at UC.
“I conceptualized a program that capitalized on the unique environment of UC,” Salchow says. The primary vision was the establishment of a program with a specific and sequenced curriculum that developed students over their four-or five-year education.
Salchow refused to sacrifice in any area, with the lofty and
overarching goal being “the excellence of each aspect of what we did.”
This visionary and ambitious approach led to many innovative solutions to potential problems, such as when he created a one-week visiting fellowship for esteemed designers, which replaced a hole in the program left by budget cuts.
This program, a particular point of pride for Salchow, became one of the most well-respected of its kind, attracting design greats such as Saul Bass, famous for his posters as much as for his design work in Hollywood films, and children’s book creator Leo Lionni.
“What a designer often does is try to identify a problem and turn that into the advantage. There is a need to embrace the issues,” Salchow explains.
That is exactly what he has done with his
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ready, set, create During class, Professor Gordon Salchow (right) and Lauren Woodrick, a third-year graphic design student, create paper toy animals from scratch.
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I love to shop. In fact, I will shop for almost any thing at any time for any reason.
Need a new pan? I’m on it. How about an air freshener
for your car? Sign me up. Shoes, Kleenex, jewelry,
school supplies, groceries … whatever. Make me a list and I’ll gleefully buy it all (but you’re going to have to foot the bill).
My love for shopping is sickening and dangerous. It gives me an adrenaline rush. If I had any idea what it felt like to be high, I’d bet the feelings would be pretty comparable.
I’m on cloud nine when I’m among all of that stuff, eyeing all of the pretty, shiny products in every aisle and every single glorious department.
The euphoria lasts until I remember I started shopping because I am in dire need of some new pants.
Buzz kill.Shopping for pants or shorts
— next to bathing suit shopping — is as painful as sitting through a three-hour lecture on organic chemistry or as daunting as having to read a 400-page book on Matteo Ricci.
Why? Because the chance of successfully buying new, perfect pants is about as likely as finding a match for all of your mismatched socks.
Pants shopping might even lead one to consider checking themselves into a psych ward for depression, schizophrenia or a combination of the two.
No pant-shopping experience is 100 percent positive. You start dreading the excursion before you even leave the house. It forces you to remember the epic fail of not being able to wiggle your way into your favorite jeans that caused the need for new pants in the first place. Once you realize it’s time to shop, you have to think about the last time you had to buy pants.
Not pleasant. To buy pants, you have to try
on about 1 billion pairs in every wash, style and brand.
The pants can’t have whiskering … that makes your thighs look big(ger).
You better avoid pants without back pockets and pockets with button closures … I don’t know about everyone else, but my butt is big enough. No need to make it look even bigger.
Don’t even think about picking up a light wash … They just make everything look way bigger. And bigger is not always better.
To make it even more agonizing, no size is the same across brands. No size within the same brand fits the same across different styles.
Plus, there is almost always a trade-off when you do find a pair worth purchasing.
If the pants fit in the waist, they’re way too big in the butt. If the pants fit in the butt, they’re too long or too short.
There is much more agonizing defeat than sweet, sweet victory.
You have to decide: “Do I want to ask a friend to go shopping with me and risk looking silly trying on every pair of pants Macy’s has in my size?”
Or: “Do I go shopping alone and then, without someone to talk me out of it, binge on Auntie Anne’s cinnamon sugar pretzels when nothing fits the way I want it to.”
When you do find a pair of jeans that fit, it’s like winning the lottery or meeting the love of your life … until you look at the price tag.
The only jeans that seem to fit well and don’t have the obnoxious distressing that make jeans look old and worn — and aren’t likely to last as long — cost at least $150.
So much for feeling like you won the lottery or found love.
You’ve just been robbed and cheated on.
There used to be a Website allowing women to enter their size, shape, height, weight and other particulars and, with that information, it would suggest the best brands and styles of her body type. It used to be a free service, but now you can go through the entire process and only see the final results if you’re willing to shell out $30.
I’m not sure $30 is worth it. I’d almost rather save the money and spend an afternoon hating myself and the rest of the world in every dressing room the mall has to offer.
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You might have noticed the hole next to Jefferson Avenue. Or maybe you just saw the fence and didn’t think about what was behind.
I wish I didn’t. One of the last vestiges of former University of
Cincinnati football coach Brian Kelly is currently a hole in the ground between Daniels Residence Hall and the Edwards Center. This project comes just at the end of the “Under Construction” era of UC, just when the dust was starting to settle and the students were beginning to all believe that campus always looked like this.
It is indisputable that this corner of campus is a no-man’s land, but that doesn’t mean that it earns top priority. We will always be able to fund, design and construct new buildings. There is no lack of time for building on parking lots, open space, and even the sites of demolished buildings. There is, unfortunately, a time line of viability for rehabilitating historic buildings on campus.
Wilson Auditorium, for example, sits vacant between the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning and McMicken Hall, and has since long before I matriculated to UC four years ago. I’ve heard of students breaking in (it doesn’t
appear to be difficult), but that is beside the point. This building features gorgeous art deco on the outside, and it once served a unique purpose on campus: It is an assembly building from the era when assembly was an event, where people dressed to impress at scholastic events believing that the presentation of refined ideas merited formal surroundings.
Our campus lacks such a space now. Speakers are brought to the Great Hall: an unfortunate multipurpose space that never feels quite right. Whether it is being used for eating or speaking or just mingling, it is always uncomfortably large and open, a vague white box that doesn’t have a good reason to be the way it is.
Or how about the old YMCA? This building sits on a swath of grass, one that Students for Ecological Design once imagined as a community garden maintained by residents of the Y who would be part of an eco-housing initiative for students interested in sustainability, perhaps surmounted by solar panels. Imagine that. Instead its primary purpose currently seems to be to provide a stoop for those who need a space out of the rain.
And then there’s Old St. George, saved from demolition and developer acquisition by the university only to be partially burned two years ago in an electrical fire. The plastic protecting
its stunted steeples has ripped free, exposing the inside to water and animal damage. Meanwhile, at the ground level, daily life has claimed panes of glass from the doors and windows. It really is a matter of time before something more serious happens to destroy this gem. It would make a great interfaith chapel or campus ministry/women’s center. It could be an auditorium in its own right, a performance hall for the College-Conservatory of Music and DAAP, a coffeehouse, an art gallery or something much more.
The university has control over the property, but each quarter that it goes unused, it is less likely to amount to anything but demolition.
There is plenty of time to raise money and execute new plans for football fields, if they really are necessary. Personally, I liked the rumor that the former Ohio College of Applied Sciences would move to the lot by Daniels, freeing the money spent maintaining and transporting faculty and students to Victory Parkway every day for other, more exciting university initiatives, while making CAS resources like woodshop, construction and horticulture more accessible to the main campus student body.
For now, unfortunately, football will trump education for funding and land at what we hope will remain a “premier urban research university.”
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With all of the issues facing the University of Cincinnati student body, banning smoking on campus should be the least concern to the Undergraduate Student Government.
Student Government has been asked to endorse banning tobacco use on all UC campuses, a measure brought to SG by Colleges Against Cancer. While the legislation, if passed, would still have to be approved by the Graduate Student Governance Association and the Board of Trustees, it is still disturbing that SG finds nothing more pressing on campus to worry about than smoking.
Tuition rates for UC students will increase by approximately 7 percent next academic year. The issue was broached by SG during a meeting Winter quarter, but resulted only in questions to Bob Ambach, senior vice president for administration and finance, about the increase. SG decried the jump in tuition, and then you heard nothing more from them.
An enactment bill was recently proposed to Student Senate, requiring at-large senators to complete five hours of diversity outreach, and was defeated when voted on.
One of the current significant missions of UC is to increase and promote diversity. Yet our own elected student representatives argued, scratched their heads in confusion and ultimately tossed a roadblock into the path of diversity on campus.
What is the point, you might ask? The point is that two of the biggest issues to face UC students this academic year — diversity and tuition increases — were fumbled by our Student Government.
It seems, however, they can gather the time and energy to propose a no-smoking bill, based predominantly on the results of 6,627 students, out of 39,667 students at UC, who answered a poll on Blackboard concerning the issue.
Only 4,276 of those students favored smoke-free campuses.
There must be a silent majority, somewhere out there, that Student Government is listening to.
Either that or the opinions of 4,276 students must influence policy for more than 40,000 UC students, faculty and employees.
Why couldn’t SG listen when it came to diversity?
This utter waste of time and resources to oppose smoking at UC reeks of 11th-hour lame-duck legislative antics, considering that voting for next year’s Student Government president, vice president and senators took place this week — voting ends today — and the results will be announced at the same meeting as the no- smoking bill.
It is obvious, even to a layman, that SG has bigger fish to fry than smoking on campus.
Students being prohibited to light up a Marlboro will not improve, nor change the fact, that our tuition is going up and cultural diversity at UC requires vast improvement.
Most certainly this bill will not make up for lost time nor redeem SG and the issues it has botched this year.
Put smoking aside, bigger issues on table
nick grever
Student Government elections end today. The ballot on Blackboard will disappear, the tallies will be taken and our newest (or incumbent) representatives will be decided.
After weeks of poster plastering and speech making, the candidates’ hard work will hopefully pay off and they can begin their important work.
I guess I should’ve voted.But to be fair, who can find the
time to vote for up to eight people who I have never heard of when there is homework to be ignored, PlayStation 3 games to beat and all the other daily procedures of college life sucking up my time?
I’ll be honest; I didn’t put any effort into learning about the candidates.
Guilty as charged. But I have to question exactly
how much effort did they all put into
their weeks of allotted campaign time? All the posters in the world will
do little more than provide reading material while I wait for the elevator.
(The Greek Week schedule gets boring after a while.)
Do I recognize some names and faces after a while? Sure I do. But do I know anything of their platforms and goals? Not a clue. And the problem, I believe, stems from a lack of marketing.
The candidates don’t really sell themselves. With the exception of the Smith | Rooney campaign, I saw no candidates out and about, actually, you know, campaigning. Drew Smith and Mark Rooney have been at this Student Government gig for several years — they know how to make themselves known. All the events became a little much for me near the end, but at least they got their names and faces noticed.
As for the other candidates, outside of the various Xeroxed posters and News Record-provided photographs, I’d never know what these people looked like.
The only knowledge of their platforms came from the one-sentence sound bite in The News Record’s election preview edition — not exactly exhaustive campaign work.
If I didn’t work at the paper, I doubt I would’ve even picked up the issue, and I’m willing to bet that many of the University of Cincinnati’s student body feel the same. But the problem of bad image creation goes further than just the 2010 candidates. Student Government itself doesn’t seem to have much of a public voice.
Looking back on my four years at the UC, I can think of one thing that student government accomplished: the partnership with Metro. I’m sure they’ve accomplished more, but I’ll
be damned if I ever heard about it.Now, admittedly, I may be a cold,
unfeeling, uncaring UC student, but I doubt I’m alone. I honestly think that Student Government and its candidates would do well to work on a bit more self-promotion. UC is a campus with lots of commuter students, so it would undoubtedly be hard to spread the word. But Student Government can accomplish this; they have a lot to gain and the student body at large would have even more.
A more active and visible Student Government might spur more students to vote for more reasons than just clearing the ballot from their Blackboard homepage. That would inevitably lead to a stronger Student Government.
I don’t think I need to take a vote when I say we can all see the benefit to that.
You want me to vote for whom?Student Government needs stronger voice, presence on campus
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After splitting a pair of games in Charlotte, N.C., the Cincinnati Cyclones and Charlotte Checkers will bring the ECHL American Conference Semifinals to U.S. Bank Arena.
Cincinnati is seeking its third-straight trip to the American Conference Finals.
The Cyclones won game one of the best-of-seven series 4-3 Friday, April 16, thanks to Brett Robinson’s first professional playoff goal. Charlotte prevailed Saturday, beating Cincinnati 5-0 in game two.
The puck drops for game three at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 21, at U.S. Bank Arena. Games four and five will face off at the same time Friday and Saturday, April 23 and April 24.
HoWarD unDergoes successFul leFt Knee surgerY
Jamar Howard, a senior wide receiver for the University of Cincinnati, will be unavailable for the remainder of the team’s spring practices after sustaining a left knee injury.
Howard underwent successful arthroscopic knee surgery Monday, April 19, at University of Cincinnati Hospital. The Bearcats’ team orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Angelo Colosimo, performed the procedure.
A junior college transfer from the College of the Sequoias and a Withrow High School alumnus, Howard appeared in five games for the Bearcats during the 2009 season and caught three passes for 50 yards.
Howard will miss the remainder of Cincinnati’s spring practices, but is expected to be fully healthy by the time fall camp begins in August.
HigH scHool BasKetBall star consiDering cincinnati
Marquis Teague, a class of 2011 point guard from Pike High School in Indianapolis, will announce his collegiate destination Thursday, April 22, his father, Shawn Teague, told The Cincinnati Enquirer.
The 6-foot 2-inch, 170-pound point guard is the No. 2-ranked player in the country in the class of 2011, according to Rivals.com.
The University of Cincinnati, Kentucky and Louisville have emerged as the frontrunners to secure Marquis’ services, but Shawn Teague said the schools are still neck and neck with a difficult decision looming.
“[Marquis] likes the [Cincinnati] program and the coaches have been great,” the elder Teague said. “He likes their style of play. He’s very comfortable with them right now.”
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The Cincinnati Bengals have nine picks in the 2010 NFL Draft, including four in the first three rounds.
The Bengals have the 21st pick of the first and second rounds, and will pick twice in the third round, at 20th and 32nd, baring any trades.
Cincinnati will look to address several needs in the draft, but their biggest are at tight end, safety and offensive guard.
Tight end Reggie Kelly is currently a free agent, and rookie Chase Coffman didn’t produce the way the Bengals had hoped, which is why many draft experts have the Bengals taking Jermaine Gresham in the first round.
Gresham missed the entire 2009 season due to a knee injury, but had an outstanding 2008 season at Oklahoma, where he caught 66 passes for 950 yards and 14 touchdowns.
Gresham would have likely been a
top-15 pick if he had left school after his junior season and could develop into a special player at the NFL level as he has elite size, strength and speed.
Several players from the University of Cincinnati are projected to be selected in this year’s draft, including wide receiver Mardy Gilyard and quarterback Tony Pike.
Pike is rated as the 77th-best player overall, fifth best at his position and is projected to be a fourth-round draft pick, according to ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr.
Gilyard is listed as the 16th-best receiver in the draft and is projected to be drafted in the third round.
stock rising:Running back Ryan Mathews and defensive
end Jerry Hughes are two players that are climbing up NFL teams’ draft boards.
Mathews gained 1,808 yards on 276 attempts and scored 19 touchdowns last
season at Fresno State and is currently rated the 29th-best player overall, according to ESPN’s Scouts Inc. Mathews ran a 4.45-second 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine and is considered to be a prototype big and physical running back.
“Matthews to me is the second-best back (behind C.J. Spiller),” said ESPN’s Todd McShay. “He should come off the board at the end of the first round.”
Hughes could be one of those players who can play both the outside linebacker position and defensive end. Last season for Texas Christian University, Hughes amassed 58 tackles, 16.6 tackles for loss and 11.5 sacks.
“Hughes has been one of the most underrated prospects in this class for a long time,” McShay said. “Don’t be surprised [if he goes] as high as No. 12. I’m hearing a
Speedy centerfielder steals bases, catches Bieber fever
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short and sWeet Through 34 games this season, Jamel Scott is batting .223 with 7 RBIs, 20 runs and a team-high 14 stolen bases.
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He’s 5 foot, 4 inches, “with shoes on.”Luckily for Jamel Scott, he can use his
155-pound frame to his advantage while playing center field for the University of Cincinnati baseball team.
The career .267 hitter at UC is most known for his speed and his size. Scott stole 35 bases during his sophomore season in 2008. Through four years, he has 68 stolen bases and ranks second behind former teammate Tony Campana on the Bearcats’ all-time stolen base list.
But what sticks out most is Scott’s unselfishness.
Scott, who will turn 22 in June, recalls the most memorable baseball game of his life, one in which he
flew out while pinch hitting and his summer league team overcame a seven-run deficit in two innings to earn a spot in the Great Lakes League championship.
“Coach just said, ‘Hey, let’s see how many home runs we can hit,’ ” Scott said. “Everybody got excited and first guy up — boom, hits a home run. Next guy up hits a home run.”
With the score 8-3, Scott flew out trying to hit a home run while battling a hand injury.
In the game’s final inning, the team tried the home run tactic again and, three homers later, Scott’s team was within two runs.
Some hits and helpful errors later, the Dublin, Ohio, native found himself in the championship game of the league.
Despite not being able to help his team in the comeback, Scott still deems that game one of his most memorable baseball moments.
Scott’s attitude has always been to do whatever is best for the team and to play the game the same way, whether it’s a tie game or a 10-run blowout.
“The things you can control on the baseball field are your effort and your attitude,” Scott said. “You can’t control if you get a hit. I try to keep my effort and attitude positive.”
“The things you can control on the baseball field are your effort and attitude.”
—JaMeL sCott, UC BASEBALL CENTERFIELDER
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Who YoU Got? oklahoma tight end Jermaine Gresham could be the Cincinnati Bengals’ first-round pick in the 2010 NFL Draft Thursday, April 22.see draft | pAge 2
Pike relaxed as draft day approaches
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sit baCk, reLax Former Cincinnati quarterback Tony Pike plans to be on a golf course and with friends and family during the 2010 NFL Draft.
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With the 2010 NFL draft drawing nearer, most prospects are likely feeling mixed emotions of uncertainty, anxiousness and excitement.
Not former University of Cincinnati quarterback Tony Pike.
Pike visited a UC practice Tuesday, April 20, and is calm, cool and going into the draft relaxed and with confidence.
“I’m just going to try and relax, go out to the golf course and just be around some family,” Pike said. “When you get that call you get that call, but until then I’m just going to try and relax as much as I can.”
In fact, one of the only worries Pike has going into the draft is due to this years’ new draft format, which spreads the event out to span three days, beginning Thursday, April 22.
“It’s hard with it being spread out,” Pike said. “The first round Thursday, the second and third Friday, it’s hard to kind of figure out when to have a draft party or a get together.”
Pike’s draft position is an uncertainty, as draft analysts project him going off the board
anywhere from the second to the fifth round.Pike missed three games last season
due to injury, but still managed to pass for 2,520 yards and 29 touchdowns and has been considered a top-rated quarterback all year.
ESPN’s draft guru Todd McShay has Pike ranked fifth out of 89 quarterbacks in the draft and the 77th-best player overall.
NFL scouts and analysts have been tough on Pike for his weight, believing he has too thin of a frame to be a successful quarterback in the NFL.
Pike has also been criticized for his arm strength, citing a lack of velocity on downfield passes.
But Pike has heard all of the negatives
and has been working to improve his skills and physique for the past four months.
“It’s been a grind, definitely,” Pike said. “I went out to California for two months after the Sugar Bowl and trained out there. I came back after Pro Day and I’ve been training and throwing every day, lifting and putting weight on.”
Pike, who weighed in at 210 pounds at the start of last season, has already made gains at putting on weight to silence critics. The quarterback arrived in Indianapolis at the NFL Combine weighing 223 pounds in February.
“It’s been a grind every day. No days off,” Pike said.
Pike isn’t expecting to hear his named called Thursday during the draft’s first round, but thanks to his height, accuracy and physical improvements, teams might be tempted to take him as a backup in the third or fourth rounds.
Draft expert Mel Kiper Jr. has Pike going to Seattle in the fourth round in his latest mock draft, but teams like the Carolina Panthers, Minnesota Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars could all use a backup
“When you get that call you get that call, but
until then I’m just going to relax as
much as I can.”—tonY Pike,
FORMER UC QUARTERBACK