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University of Cincinnati Clermont campus was the venue for a three-day Homeland Security course, teaching local public-safety offi cials incident response and training for radiation

treatment, Sept. 15. “This is a responder’s course,

to familiarize what to do in case of a nuclear event and make aware of hazards, how to stay safe and how to respond when a nuclear incident occurs,” said Barry Webb, a training coordinator for Homeland Security.

The three-day course was taught to a group of 25, consisting of law enforcement, firefighters, health field professionals, Red Cross employees, active military and metropolitan sewer workers all from the Cincinnati area.

The annual refresher course incorporated in-class lectures along with out-of-class radiation scenarios spread out across Clermont’s campus. The classes are part of the eastern region of a district including 15 counties from Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. The classes are an attempt by Homeland Security to build the

local response for this district. The class’s fi nal exercise was

a scenario rendition of terrorists transporting radiological materials to the Clermont’s campus. Participants were instructed to confront the mock terrorists. Once the pretend

perpetrators were disarmed, the students then practiced clean up of radiological material from the site.

The public many times has wrong preconceptions when it comes to the hazards of nuclear

weapons,and their fallout Webb said. These wrong ideas cause people to be afraid, according to Webb.

Excluding the initial impact of the weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives, known as a dirty bomb, the threat from

radiation is much less severe than most of the public would believe, Webb said. The radiation left behind is high, but not fatal, according to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

“The public has a lack of awareness

of radiation events and are terrified by them,” said Webb. “With education their fear is reduced.” Homeland Security

President’s pay raised by 10 percentSCOTT WINFIELD | NEWS EDITOR

University of Cincinnati President Gregory Williams is set to receive an additional $41,000 — along with a $102,500 bonus — to his annual $410,000 salary coming off a year of signifi cant fundraising and the unveiling of a new academic plan.

The UC Board of Trustees approved the university’s lease of 40,000 square feet of offi ce space – which will be constructed on the 4.2-acre plot between Calhoun and McMillan streets dubbed U Square @ The Loop – and approved the purchase of a $3.4 million building on Fishwick Drive,

near I-75, to replace the UC Campus Services building on Reading Road.

Although the fi nal terms of the lease negotiation are yet to be fi nalized, the current terms outline a 10-year lease with two fi ve-year renewal options. The annual rent will be approximately $1 million with an abated rent for the fi rst year of the agreement.

The trustees unanimously approved Williams’ pay raise at Russell C. Myers Alumni Center Tuesday morning. Williams’ November 2009 contract guaranteed him a 10 percent to 25 percent bonus to his annual salary — the maximum being the $102,500

Williams was awarded. Under the presidents’ UC2019 academic

plan, which includes a plan to diversify UC’s students, faculty and staff, UC has retained 85 percent of fi rst-year students for the third-consecutive year as well as retaining 83 percent of African-American students. Williams also met his Asian-population goal of 3 percent within the fi rst fi ve years of UC2019.

Out-of-state enrollment is near its 18-percent goal at 17.8 percent, the university again set a personal best for

ZOHAIR HUSSAIN | TNR CONTRIBUTOR

The Deaconess Associations Foundation with The Heimlich Institute have completed their donation program to The Hoxworth Blood Center (HBC) at the University of Cincinnati with a $115,000 donation.

This most recent donation was part of a program awarding Hoxworth an all-together sum of $615,000 over a span of the last two- and-a-half years.

The money was donated toward current research being done in regards to Leukemia treatment and understanding the disease as a whole.

Dr. Tom Leemhuis, division director of cellular therapies at Hoxworth, has led a team in research that deals with preventing infection in children with Leukemia post-transplant.

“With this disease, the immune system is already weakened,” Leemhuis said. “After surgery, these patients are especially susceptible to and often contract infections. We’re hoping to develop a way to prevent these infections from occurring.”

Through the funding they’ve received from this donation, Leemhuis and his team hope to acquire the approval to run clinical trials and get approval for new types of medication that would prevent such life-threatening scenarios.

“We normally have diffi culty

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PAY INCREASE APPROVED UC President Gregory Williams will receive an added $41,000 to his $410,000 annual salary.

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THROUGH THE LENS Local media organizations lined up in the Russell C. Meyers Alumni Center Monday to get a shot of Rep. John Boehner as he addressed unemployment and economy.

PHOTO COURTESY BY MELINDA ZEMPERSEARCHING FOR CURE Dr. Henry Heimlich, seated, inspects lymphocytes in cellular theropy.

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The University of Cincinnati’s Clermont branch has been recognized as a military friendly school by G.I. Jobs, a premier publication for military service men and women transitioning to civilian life.

The publication’s annual list for 2011 consists of the top 20 percent of higher education centers that strive to aid military personnel. More than 8,000 schools throughout the country were researched and surveyed to fi nd the 1,518 schools that made the “Military Friendly School” list.

Currently ,there are 230 veterans or military personnel enrolled at UC Clermont, making up 5 percent of the entire student body. Comparatively that is 3 percent higher than the number of Veterans or active military personnel at UC’s main campus.

The schools that made the list use recruitment methods designed at attracting and aiding students with a military background. These methods include offering scholarships, student veterans’ clubs, military credit, and having a dedicated staff that understands the needs of former service men and women.

“Military students have unique needs. Students need a unique school and picking one is a big decision. Schools that earn a place on the list of 2011 Military Friendly Schools welcome military students and provide the best programs and policies to help you succeed, said Jeff Bosworth, Director of Veteran Affairs at UC Clermont.

Bosworth, a retired Navy Senior Chief with 28 years of military service, is responsible for assisting military personnel make the transition to academic life and receive the fi nancial benefi ts that they earned through their service.

Although his position doesn’t require a military background, he stresses the importance of having someone who can relate fi rst-hand to the needs of former and active military personnel.

Though the 1944 G.I. Bill, veterans receive assistance for higher education, but utilizing those benefi ts isn’t always as easy as one might think.

“This benefi t isn’t automatic and the veteran must go through a signifi cant initial process to get it and an ongoing processes to retain the benefi t,” said Bosworth.

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BOEHNER VISITS UC

ANTHONY OROZCO | NEWS EDITOR

Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner, the man who is two seats away from being president of the United States, spoke about jobs, small business and unemployment at the University of Cincinnati Monday.

The Goering Center for Family and Private Business of UC sponsored the luncheon event hosted in the Russell C. Myers Alumni Center allowed for the Speaker to comment on his ideas for building a stronger economy.

One of Boehner’s prominent assertions during his address to the Goering Center was that government regulation strangles the free market system.

“I went to Washington as a small business person thinking government was becoming the problem,” Boehner said. “And having been

in Washington for 20 years, I can tell you that government is the problem,” Boehner said.

Rep. Boehner reiterated that government regulations are costly, stifl ing and unattractive to small private businesses and contribute to slow development in the private sector.

“Increased regulatory costs, the level of taxation and the fact that the cost per employee in America is raising at a faster rate than their profi ts,” were some of the reasons given by entrepreneurs for exporting jobs to other countries, according to Rep. Boehner.

Boehner expressed agreement with President Barack Obama in that “everyone should pay their fair share” regarding tax breaks and being extended to smaller private companies rather than taxing wealthier Americans more as implied by President Obama. He commented that billionaires could donate to the government if they feel. The statement was received with light chuckles.

Boehner stated that more than $2 trillion in U.S. corporate profi ts are lost to foreign taxation and suggested simplifying tax codes as means of incentives for U.S. employers to bring jobs back stateside.

“Those profi ts are not coming back here … If we want jobs in America why wouldn’t we provide some special assistance that encourages those corporate profi ts back to the United States,” Boehner said.

He also suggested that Congress should become more involved with tax reforms.

“We also believe that Congress should have a more active role in approving rules and regulations as they come out of agencies,” Boehner said. “If there is a signifi cant rule change that has an impact on our economy of at least $100 million or more [it should be voted on by Congress].”

Contrary to Obama’s recently proposed American Jobs Act, Boehner said, “we need to deal with excessive government spending and we have a tax code that the American people believe is fair and actually understand,” rather than spending $447 billion to create infrastructure jobs and payroll tax cuts

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BRIEF LUNCH DATE Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner, spoke to the Goering Center about small and private business.

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CHRIS ADAMS | MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

RALEIGH, N.C. — He killed her, Joshua Stepp admitted. He slammed the face of his 10-month-old stepdaughter into a carpeted fl oor, roughed her up as he changed her diaper, stuffed wet toilet paper down her throat, and soon she was dead.

But Stepp, a 28-year-old former Army infantryman who saw combat in Iraq, insists that he is not guilty of fi rst-degree murder. His post-traumatic stress disorder left him incapable of premeditating the killing of tiny Cheyenne Yarley in November 2009, he and his lawyers say.

After a decade of combat overseas, growing numbers of veterans are relying on PTSD as a central element of their defenses in criminal cases.

Because of his severe PTSD, Stepp was not able to “form the specifi c intent to kill,” said his attorney Thomas Manning. He asked jurors earlier this month to fi nd Stepp guilty of the lesser charge of second-degree murder, which lacks the potential for the death penalty.

Stepp’s trial is being closely watched as one measure of just how far defense lawyers are able to push in arguing that the disorder infl uences veterans’ criminal behavior.

The number of such cases could rise as more veterans return from Afghanistan and Iraq with post-traumatic stress or other trauma from repeated combat tours; already, more than 170,000 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan have been diagnosed with PTSD, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Thousands of veterans accused of nonviolent crimes have had charges or sentences reduced in the last several years after citing their PTSD as a mitigating factor. Veterans with combat trauma

are now often sent to counseling and treatment programs rather than to prison for low-level offenses.

“The idea isn’t to get the guy off; it’s to help the veterans get the treatment they need. They deserve our help,” said Shad Meshad, founder of the National Veterans Foundation and a Vietnam veteran who has counseled soldiers for 40 years.

The prosecutor in the Stepp case told jurors that his defense insults veterans because it “taints their suffering and perverts this disease.”

Courts and prosecutors are far more willing now than during the Vietnam era to consider a veteran’s combat trauma in sentencing for nonviolent crimes, lawyers say. Veterans’ groups credit a growing awareness of PTSD, activism by advocates for the mentally ill and a nation sympathetic to the conditions under which soldiers must operate.

“There is defi nitely a recognition that the emotional and psychological scars of our veterans are real,” said Stephen Saltzburg, general counsel for the National Institute of Military Justice, which studies the military justice system.

A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2009 helped pave the way for combat trauma, and military service itself, to mitigate sentences. In that case, the court reversed the death sentence for a Korean War veteran because his military service and combat-induced psychological damage weren’t presented at sentencing.

Noting that the U.S. has “a long tradition of according leniency to veterans in recognition of their service,” the court said “juries might fi nd mitigating the intense stress and mental and emotional toll” of combat.

Today, more than 80 special veterans’

treatment courts have been established nationwide and hundreds more are planned, said Christopher Deutsch, a spokesman for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.

Veterans’ courts do not provide “a get-out-of-jail-free card,” said Brockton D. Hunter, a Minneapolis lawyer and veteran who since 2002 has represented more than 100 veterans diagnosed with PTSD. Instead, the courts steer defendants toward treatment and probation, often working closely with Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers.

Although many prosecutors are sympathetic to combat veterans, some

PTSD-related defense tactics are viewed with skepticism.

“Prosecutors are always wary of the ‘defense of the day,’ or trends that ... may be overused because there is some perceived broader understanding or acceptance by courts and juries,” said Scott Burns, executive director of the National District Attorneys Association.

On Sept. 12, jury members told Judge Osmond Smith that, after deliberating for two days, they could not reach a unanimous verdict on a sentence.

Following state law, the judge sentenced Stepp to life in prison.

LESLEY CLARK, SHEERA FRENKEL AND JONATHAN S. LANDAY | MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

NEW YORK — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reaffi rmed his determination Monday to seek full United Nations membership, spurning the latest attempt by White House negotiators to avoid having to block the move

and infl aming anti-American anger in the Middle East.

With the Obama administration having sided with Israel in pledging to veto the Palestinian statehood bid, mediators from the United States, Europe, Russia and the United Nations worked feverishly in closed-door meetings to fi nd a formula to restart long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian talks and to prevent a confrontation in the U.N. this week that could

plunge the region deeper into turmoil.“We continue to believe and are

pressing the point that the only way to a two-state solution — which is what we support and want to see happen — is through negotiations,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said. “And no matter what does or doesn’t happen this week, it will not produce the kind of outcome that everyone is hoping for.”

A member of Abbas’s delegation, however, said that the Palestinians won’t be deterred from proceeding with their request for full U.N. membership, which, if approved, would be widely viewed as international recognition of Palestinian statehood and a rebuke to Israel.

“Our intention to pursue full membership in the United Nations is a fait accompli,” Husam Zomlot, the former Palestine Liberation Organization representative to Great Britain, said in a telephone interview. “The question now is how to take the fastest route possible and we believe the fastest route is the Security Council.”

The issue promises to dominate the U.N. General Assembly session that opens Wednesday. President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to address the annual gathering of world leaders, fl ew into New York Monday evening.

Abbas said that he would present a letter on Friday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon — which Ban will pass to the Security Council — requesting full U.N. membership for an independent state of Palestine, according to U.N. and Palestinian offi cials. The Palestinians envision their state on the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, lands captured by Israel in 1967.

Speaking to reporters en route to New York, Abbas said he was under tremendous

pressure to reconsider submitting the U.N. application, which would have to be approved by nine of the Security Council’s 15 members.

“We decided to take this step and all hell has broken out against us,” he said. “From now until I give the speech, we have only one choice: going to the Security Council.”

Obama has promised to block the Palestinian request using the veto that the United States wields as one of fi ve permanent Security Council members. He and his aides contend that the issue of Palestinian statehood can only be resolved through direct, U.S.-brokered negotiations with Israel.

Israel fi ercely opposes the Palestinian move, denouncing it as a unilateral action that could jeopardize a resumption of the talks that stalled nearly one year ago.

The Palestinians insist they have no choice, blaming the breakdown in the peace process on the right-wing Israeli government’s refusal to freeze the construction of Jewish settlements on the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

“This is our moment to become members of the U.N. system,” Zomlot said. “We are entitled under international law.”

The issue has left Obama, who faces a tough re-election battle next year, in a diffi cult position. By withholding the U.S. veto, he would jeopardize his support among American backers of Israel. But by using it, Obama will further weaken U.S. standing in the Middle East, where popular uprisings have unleashed anti-Israeli and anti-American sentiments that U.S.-backed dictators held in check for decades.

(Clark reported from New York, McClatchy special correspondent Frenkel reported from Jerusalem, Landay from Washington.)

PTSD defense use rises among veterans

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TAKAAI IWABU | RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER/MCT LUIS SINCO

FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM Joshua Stepp is comforted by his stepmother Anne Stepp at a Wake County courtroom after being convicted, Sept. 9, 2011, in Raleigh, N.C.

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FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM The status of the Palestinian Authority within the U.N. and what an upgrade in status would mean to its rights in the international community.

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HOPING FOR MEMBERSHIP Palestinian leadership will apply for full membership to the U.N. Friday — a move President Barack Obama says he plans to veto if put before a Security Council vote.

ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN RESOLUTION

RETURNING VETERANS AND PTSD


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POLITICAL CLASS WALKS WELL ABOVE POVERTY LINEObama approval ratings nosedive

Suffrage for student trustees vital

DaviD Lightman | MCCLAtChy NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has plunged to a dismal 39 percent, the lowest of his presidency, as increasing numbers disapprove of his handling of the nation’s ailing economy, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.

The low job approval rating among registered voters, down from 44 percent last month, suggests enormous trouble for a president who faces re-election in 14 months.

The 52 percent who disapprove of Obama’s performance represents the first time that number has climbed over 50 percent.

“These numbers could typically spell doom for an incumbent,” poll director Lee Miringoff said.

Even the president’s remedies for the economy are being received coolly. One-third approved and 61 percent disapproved of his handling of the economy.

Sixty-one percent said the worst was yet to come for the economy, while 64 percent said that Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan, which he’s been pushing hard for days, didn’t go far enough.

The poll surveyed 1,042 adults, 825 of them registered voters, last Tuesday and Wednesday. The margin of error for the entire sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points; for registered voters, it’s 3.5 percentage points.

The president unveiled his jobs plan, which faces trouble in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and among liberal Democrats, before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8. On Monday, he detailed a longer-term program for reducing deficits.

Congress is expected to begin considering the jobs package next month. The plan is aimed at bringing down the nation’s 9.1 percent unemployment rate and boosting an economy that’s barely growing. It would cut Social Security payroll taxes dramatically and increase spending on infrastructure and education, and it would impose higher taxes on the wealthy by limiting their itemized deductions.

Few see the plan as the antidote for the staggering economy; 78 percent of Democrats said it didn’t go far enough. Also, 54 percent of Republicans and 59 percent of independents felt the same way.

Add the ongoing pessimism about the economy, and Obama’s personal numbers fell.

At the start of his presidency, from April to October 2009, his approval numbers ranged from 53 to 56 percent.

The president pushed a huge stimulus package through Congress within weeks of his inauguration, but the slow economic recovery eventually took its political toll. Obama’s job approval rating fell to 46 above 48 percent since.

The president’s favorability number remains higher than his job approval, and his opponent is still unknown.

Christopher myers | tNR CONtRIbutOR

During the last four years, students around the state of Ohio have encouraged greater dialogue about what suffrage entails and its relevance to member schools of the University System of Ohio. Student trustee suffrage can be many things, but mostly it should be a serious issue that concerns students.

The year is 2011, and two ideas about student trustee suffrage exist throughout the state.

The first involves the method of selection. Suffrage as allowing students to directly vote, from 10 finalists at their public university, to send one final student nominee to the governor would be a contrast to having just the members of committees and administrators decide what five applicants to send for appointment to the governor.

The second, more popular idea of suffrage is granting student trustees rights to vote on the Board of Trustees at universities. This is the idea that has been flagrantly heralded by student campaigns for the past four years; and idleness has given way to apathy.

The ballot is a powerful thing; it offers a forum to pioneering voices. The ghost of progress chokes us

when we forget that. But like youth, some folks smile when

they see that ghost; some people gnash their teeth; some people drink to it. And that ghost speaks louder at historic campuses—from Kent State to Cincinnati.

The frontiers people who pioneered this wilderness have not lost their legacies; it seems, in the course of history. But what might be said is that the only ghosts we see

are the ones we try to leave behind.Progress cannot be an afterthought.To keep it, we stay out of the clouds —

nearer to friends who need us; who want to see progress but do not.

We hope for a better life, a freer world, a greener planet — all subjective things. We decide to leave youth because others leave it too. We try to find it again — to put ourselves to rest.

There’s a higher calling than progress, right? Maybe not.

And before we go, we remember how to rise and shine without that ghost; because justice only gets louder when we ignore it.

We need our suffrage: It’s 2011, we’re young, and we’re not in college forever. But by grace — or faith — or both, we can try to be in spirit.

Christopher Myers is a fourth-year philosophy student at Ohio University.

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4Move beyond blaming educatorssauL ruBinstein, CharLes heCksCher anD pauL aDLer | LOS ANGELES tIMES

Most of the current efforts to improve public education begin with the flawed assumption that the basic problem is teacher performance. This “blame the teacher” attitude has led to an emphasis on s t a n d a rd i z e d tests, narrow teacher evaluation criteria, merit pay, erosion of tenure, privatization, vouchers and charter schools.

T h e primary goal of these measures has been greater teacher accountability; as if the weaknesses of public education were due to an invasion of our classrooms by uncaring and incompetent teachers. That is the premise of the documentary, “Waiting for Superman,” and of the attacks on teachers and their unions by politicians across the country.

We see distressing parallels between this approach to quality in education and the approaches that failed so badly in U.S. manufacturing. Recall the reaction of domestic manufacturers in the 1970s as Japanese competitors began to take

market share: Many managers and an army of experts blamed American workers. They denounced workers’ “blue-collar blues,” lackadaisical attitudes and union job protections as the chief impediments to higher quality, productivity and competitiveness.

It took nearly two decades for manufacturers to realize that this diagnosis was deeply flawed and that the recommendations that flowed from it were leading U.S. industry further into decline. Recall the success of Japanese-run auto transplants operating in this country during

the 1980s: They reached world-class quality levels with a U.S. workforce, in some cases a unionized workforce, while domestic auto companies continued to blame American workers and saw their quality levels stagnate.

Noticing the discrepancy, a growing number of manufacturers turned to the teachings of the quality guru W. Edwards Deming. Deming argued that U.S. industry’s failure was not in its workers but in the system they labored under. He taught that pushing workers to work harder in a poorly designed system couldn’t improve outcomes.

Much of the current wave of school reform is informed by the same management myths that almost destroyed U.S. manufacturing. Instead of seeing teachers as key contributors to system improvement efforts, reformers are focused on making teachers more replaceable.

Instead of involving teachers and their unions in collaborative reform, they are being pushed aside as impediments to top-down decision-making. Instead of bringing teachers together to help each other become more effective professionals, district administrators are resorting to simplistic quantified individual performance measures.

In reality, schools are collaborative, not individual, enterprises, so teaching quality and school performance depend above all on whether the institutional systems support teachers’ efforts.

There are, thankfully, some examples of education reform that have moved beyond the blame-the-teacher view. A 2010 study by researchers at Rutgers University unpacked the lessons of six cases, from across the country, urban and rural, large and small, in which teachers, unions and administrators have worked together in their school districts to improve student performance. One case, the ABC Unified School District, about 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles, created a partnership between the administration and the ABC Federation

of Teachers that goes back more than 10 years.

In this partnership, teachers, union representatives and administrators have developed rigorous peer assistance, mentoring and evaluation systems that have raised the level of teaching quality. They have worked together on recruiting, compensation and retaining high-quality teachers and administrators. The district has collaborated with teachers on planning, curriculum design and improving instructional practices.

Performance results have been outstanding. Although 25 percent of students are English-language learners and about 46 percent get free or reduced-price lunches, over the last decade the district has performed well above the state average on California’s Academic Performance Index, with strong growth in these scores of about 10 percent per year. The district’s graduation rate is 89.1 percent, while the statewide rate is 74.4 percent.

This case and many others like it were highlighted in February at the U.S. Department of Education’s conference on “Advancing Student Achievement Through Labor-Management Collaboration”.

As school begins, we would do well to remember Deming’s lesson: In education as in industry, progress toward quality will require collaboration among administrators, teachers and their unions.

Cooperation, not politics, solves issues in the education system

Students deserve a say in trustee approval process

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education reform that have moved beyond the

blame-the-teacher view.—SAuL RuBINSTEIN

Professor at rutgers university


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STYLE: Chic but edgy — I like to combine feminine pieces with harder, tough pieces for a unique spin.

INFLUENCES: The seasons and celebrities

FAVORITE DESIGNER: Diane von Furstenberg and Sarah Burton

SPOTS TO SHOP: Forever 21, Zara and Charlotte Russe

Marie ClementeMajor: Food and nutritionYear: Senior

STYLE: Anything with an edge. It could be boho or ethnic, but I’d fi nd a way to add my own fl air.

INFLUENCES: Seventeen magazine

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SPOTS TO SHOP: Forever 21, but mostly I do a lot of online shopping. ‘Seventeen’ magazine features websites in their spreads that link to accessories, shoes and clothes.

BRYNDAN KINARD | TNR CONTRIBUTOR

In late June, the Huffi ngton Post published an online article about the best-dressed colleges in the nation. The list boasted a variety of universities ranging from design schools to liberal art colleges. The University of Cincinnati was absent from the list.

In an eff ort to change the nation’s perception of our Bearcat style, once per month we’ll be looking out for students who are dressed for school and interviewing them about their personal style. Jeans and a T-shirt won’t make the cut — we’re looking for students with unique fl air. This gives freshmen the opportunity to strut their stuff and upperclassmen a chance to redeem themselves from years of sweat pants and hoodies.

Album Alert: Off-the-radar releasesTOM SEIPLE | STAFF REPORTER

In light of some big-name artists dropping albums in the next month, there are several lesser-known names that have put out fantastic albums in the past few weeks you might have missed: Megafaun – “Megafaun”

With a bouncy, bubbly attitude, Megafaun develops a spacious blend of folk and ’90s indie rock. Much of their music harkens to Dinosaur Jr. and Toadies while maintaining roots in sounds like Great Lake Swimmers. The blend isn’t entirely unique, but for what it lacks in originality, it makes up for in genuine pleasure and quality. Complete with xylophones and horn lines, Megafaun breaks into the Alternative music scene with its best foot forward.Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah – “Hysterical”

CYHASY is certainly not new to the music scene and continues in the same direction it has been

with “Hysterical.” CYHASY brings out instrumental depth seen in other bands like Ra Ra Riot and Walk the Moon, but also appeals to those who aren’t as interested in a dance-rock beat. The blend of catchy guitar work, synthesizers and string pads present a fun listening experience.Telekinesis – “12 Desperate Straight Lines”

Telekinesis clearly doesn’t believe in playing a song longer than four minutes. With most of the tracks coming in at less than three minutes, Telekinesis chews through this album quickly. The band is heavily grounded in the bass player while the guitars and pianos add layers to the bass lines. The songs march on fairly steadily and are enjoyable, but the album as a whole is rather predictable. Telekinesis will most likely appeal to fans of Interpol and other heavily bass-dominated bands, but gives it a lighter, friendlier face.Nurses – “Dracula”

Nurses can really groove on some borderline ’80s synth-pop and then turn on their Radiohead side. The vocalist for Nurses is

what gets me. His voice is high, shrill, nasally and just plain odd. This album is anything but

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“DRACULA” PROVES INFECTIOUS Members of unconventional pop band Nurses put together a unique new album blending danceable synth-pop with piercing vocals for a fresh, unrivaled sound.

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The Cincinnati Comic Expo that took place at the Duke Energy Convention Center Saturday, Sept. 17, is the largest comic event

Cincinnati has enjoyed.I’ve been a casual comic

book fan my entire life. Only in the last five years have I become interested in the actual production of comics — getting to learn more about those who create and maintain enduring characters.

The guest of honor, Jim Steranko, is best known as the creative force behind the 1960s “Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.” in Marvel Comics’ Strange Tales. Steranko’s stylized efforts have been mimicked since his fi rst foray into professional illustration exactly 45 years ago, with Harvey Comics’ “Spyman No. 1” from September 1966. He created the conceptual art and character designs for the cinematic landmark “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and also “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.”

There are ups and downs when going to a comic

convention. You’re reminded of why there are so many negative stereotypes associated with comic book nerds: Lots of those stereotypes are based in reality. Sure, comics are an amazing source of escapism — something I’ll always turn to — I just don’t see why so many comic fans feel the need to escape from their showers. There were smells in the main room you wouldn’t want to believe.

Unless you’ve got a disposable income, the trade show aspect of comic expos can be a bit of a drag: I’m a poor college student and, while there were discount comic bins where I could buy random issues at 25 cents each, that alone wouldn’t make it worth the $10 cover fee. I don’t write this to dissuade you from attending — just be sure to save up before going.

It was great being able to meet Tony Moore, the original illustrator for “The Walking Dead.” Moore fi nished illustrating the hit zombie comic after issue No. 6, but he continued to illustrate the cover art for all the issues leading to No. 24. For

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STAR WARS WHEELS Two-year-old Oliver Wells rides in his Star Wars-themed stroller (above). Comic book artist Darryl Banks works on a drawing of “Cyborg Superman” (right).

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Fall is undoubtedly the best time of year. I don’t care what any of you have to say.

As much as we’re all going to be yearning for those carefree summer days two weeks into this new quarter, there’s no denying the magic of the season.

The fi rst day of classes is like New Year’s Day in academia — you get a fresh start, an all-new set of classes (unless you failed any last quarter, I guess) and will hopefully embark on a year’s worth of new adventures and experiences both in and outside of the classroom.

For those of you who don’t share my back-to-school enthusiasm, I still feel your pain. After the novelty wears off, college can be seriously stressful. Don’t let the feeling get you down, though. Solitude and hibernation are best saved for winter, because fall is way too beautiful a season to get caught up indoors.

To me, this time of year’s about Oktoberfest brews and pumpkin lattes. Crisp weather for outdoor concerts. Costume parties and pumpkin carving. Cheesy horror fl icks and haunted houses. You get the picture.

Anyway, that’s why I’m here to tell you how to battle the back-to-school blues and stay stoked, not stressed, throughout the fall quarter.

For instance, one of my favorite places to escape to is the movie theater. I’ve got Netfl ix at my place, but sometimes you just need to get out (and away from the “Jersey Shore” reruns), if only to sit in silence in front of the silver screen.

The Esquire Theatre on Ludlow Avenue is a great little place to catch a fl ick. I love that they play mainstream new releases along with independent fi lms and documentaries you might not have the option to check out elsewhere. They also host “Rocky Horror” showings, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Another fail-proof way to blow off steam is the tried and true method of alcohol consumption. There’s actually a great bar right on campus called Catskeller that serves a wide variety of craft brews.

Some of my other favorite spots to grab a drink are The Famous Neons Unplugged and MOTR Pub in Over-the-Rhine. Fries Cafe is also a bar with a chill atmosphere that’s close to campus, and it’s dog friendly to boot. I don’t know why, but there’s just something therapeutic about hanging out with your canine companions while enjoying a beer. See for yourself and tell me I’m wrong.

There are also some great concerts and music events to look forward to in the next month. In case you haven’t heard, the annual MidPoint Music Festival will be rocking the city again this Thursday-Saturday, bringing a slew of national bands and musicians to join local acts on 18 stages at different locations in Cincinnati. Not only can you get your fi ll of live performances covering all kinds of genres, but the varied locations makes for a great opportunity to check out new bars and venues relatively close to campus. You can even take the BTS there for free.

Closely following MPMF on Oct. 7-8 is the semi-annual Clifton Heights Music festival. This is one of my favorite music fests, because it features tons of talented local musicians representing everything from Hip-hop to Folk. All the venues are right outside of campus and within walking distance from one another, so it makes for a fun, safe couple of nights of grooving and barhopping.

Of course, there’s plenty of free entertainment right here on campus provided by your fellow students. Check out the calendar of events for the College-Conservatory of Music this season (previewed by Steph Kitchens at newsrecord.org) and the schedule of exhibits set to open at the college of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning’s galleries. Students can get into a lot of these events for free, so even if you’re broke, you can still occasionally indulge in a quality night out.

Whatever your preferred method of de-stressing may be, there are tons of ways to enjoy autumn in Cincinnati. Whether you’re a returning bearcat or a brand-new bearkitten, make sure you take advantage of some of the city’s fall festivities in between classes this quarter.

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Uptown Campus freshmenAverage ACT – 25 Average SAT – 1133 In top 10 percent of class – 21.7 percent Number of valedictorians – 70 Number of salutatorians – 32 Cincinnatus Scholarship recipients – 1123 Number of National Merit and National Achievement finalists – 45 Freshman Choose Ohio First Scholarship recipients – 93 Darwin Turner scholars – 30 Demakes Legacy scholars – 23 Cincinnati Pride Grant recipients – 70 States represented by the freshman class – 37 plus D.C. Number of countries represented by the freshman class – 29

Freshmen diversityTotal freshmen Autumn 2011 – 14.7 percent students of color Autumn 2010 – 14.5 percent students of color Autumn 2009 – 15.2 percent students of colorTotal Baccalaureate Freshmen (Uptown) Autumn 2011 – 13.5 percent students of color Autumn 2010 – 12.7 percent students of colorAutumn 2009 – 10.9 percent students of color

Top 10 schools represented by UC freshmen entering baccalaureate colleges1. Oak Hills High School 2. Lakota West High School 3. William Mason High School 4. Saint Xavier High School 5. Lakota East High School 6. Elder High School 7. Anderson High School

8. Walnut Hills High School 9. Sycamore High School 10. Centerville High SchoolTransfer students1,731, up 0.2 percent from Autumn 2010

Students in distance learning programsAutumn 2000 – 213 students Autumn 2001 – 245 students Autumn 2002 – 386 students Autumn 2003 – 642 students Autumn 2004 – 1,213 students Autumn 2005 – 1,937 students Autumn 2006 – 2, 290 students Autumn 2007 – 2,559 students Autumn 2008 – 2,809 students Autumn 2009 – 3,242 students Autumn 2010 – 3,566 students Autumn 2011 – 3,915 students (up 9.8 percent)

UC international student enrollmentAutumn 2011 – 675 Undergraduate ( up 21.9 percent); 1,616 Graduate ( up 4.8%); 2,291 Total (up 9.3 percent)

Autumn 2010 – 554 Undergraduate; 1,543 Graduate; 2,097 total Autumn 2009 – 477 Undergraduate; 1,461 graduate; 1,938 total Autumn 2008 – 380 Undergraduate; 1,487 graduate; 1,867 total Autumn 2007 – 315 Undergraduate; 1,615 graduate; 1,930 total Autumn 2006 – 305 Undergraduate; 1,580 graduate; 1,885 total Autumn 2005 – 286 Undergraduate; 1,637 graduate; 1,923 total

Branch collegesUC Blue Ash College enrollment – 5,170 Clermont College enrollment – 3,950

Graduate student enrollmentAutumn 2011 – 10,700 (up 8.8 percent) (includes masters, doctoral and professional degrees) Autumn 2010 – 9,834 (includes masters, doctoral and professional degrees) Autumn 2009 – 9,250 (includes masters, doctoral and professional degrees)Source: Institutional Research

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art for all the issues leading up to No. 24. For fans of the comic, be sure to buy the anthologies and line them up in chronologi-cal order: Moore created an im-pressive zombie mural from his cover art works that will

span the better part of your b edroom wall.

Boasting an impressive amount of costumed fans, the Cincinnati Comic Expo was a great success. Their attention to detail assures true believers

everywhere that their passion is not solitary. Expos like this are the ideal setting for fans of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romance, action and every other kind of comic to let their nerd flags fly high.

FROM ALERT | 6conventional; there is tons of reverb, hidden percussion, strange synth work and experimental guitar work.Dangerous! – “Teenage Rampage”

Loud and in your face, Dangerous! doesn’t do music any other way. This group, hailing from the Down Under, brings some serious punk rock roots together with some more modern Brit-rock. Imagine combining Big Blue Van, The Hives and The Darkness, and you’d get Dangerous!. All but one song from the album is more than three minutes, and every one of their tracks is incredibly high energy. “Teenage Rampage” is a great listen for a punk rock fix with a bit more

musical complexity and tambourine. Southerly – “Youth”

My favorite from this week, Southerly delivers wonderfully lush guitar and piano work and really appeals to a sense of melodic complexity. Southerly adopts a rather simple demeanor in its music, but breaks the mold in other places. Fans of The National will appreciate Southerly as a look alike with more guitar work and a little less focus on the lyrical content of its songs. With a little more focus on modern rock music, Southerly creates a smooth listening experience with fantastic attention to details.

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enrollment with 42,750 students and saw a 16 percent increase in its number of Merit Scholars, bringing the total to 157 students.

The university raised $110 million during fiscal year 2011 and contributions to the Proudly Cincinnati campaign, which aims to raise $1 billion,

has brought the total amount of funds raised to almost $803 million. The $110 million raised in fiscal year 2011 is one of the university’s highest totals since fiscal year 2000.

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for employers.The meeting did not ignore the much-publicized

visit from Obama to the Brent Spence Bridge later this week with the issue of unemployment taking center stage as term elections near.

“I do believe that our country has big infrastructure needs,” Boehner said. “But why wouldn’t we tie that with additional exploration for oil and natural gas.”

Ohio has a 9.1 percent unemployment rate

as of August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The national average sits at 8.9 percent, not including those who are no longer pursuing employment or have not filed for unemployment, which pushes estimates into the double digits.

“At a time that spending is out of control, giving the federal government more money, would be like giving a cocaine addict more cocaine,” Boehner said.

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starting new clinical trials,” Leemhuis said. “We’re very grateful for the opportunities this funding will provide us. “

Leemhuis went on to explain that by bringing such technology to Hoxworth, doctors hope to build from these trials and make their own products to be used in the future.

Along with Leemhuis’s work, the funding from this donation will go towards the research work of Dr. Jose Cancela — whose focus lies in studying how Leukemia evolves and how stem cells move within the blood stream.

The Heimlich Institute was brought to UC by Dr. Henry Heimlich — the world-renowned physician responsible for the creation of the eponymous

“Heimlich Maneuver” in the 1940s. Heimlich went on to establish

The Heimlich institute in New York, eventually moving the institute to Cincinnati in 1990 and more specifically, to Deaconess Hospital in 1998.

Heimlich personally decided to help fund the research being done at Hoxworth. When Heimlich decided to make such a donation in the name of research at Hoxworth, Deaconess decided to contribute to Heimlich’s donation.

“Doctor Heimlich personally saw the potential in the research of Dr. Lummhuis and Dr. Cancelas,” said Patrick Ward, executive director of Deaconess Associations Foundation said

This is the first time The Heimlich Institute — or even

Deaconess Associations Foundation has been involved in an outside donation.

“It’s helping UC and Hoxworth to develop expertise and national recognition as leaders in healthcare research,” Ward said.

Ward expressed his eagerness for the people of Cincinnati to realize that something of this magnitude was being done right in their own city.

“The focus needs to be on the impact of this research and the impact it’s ultimately going to have on a countrywide spectrum,” Ward said. “We’re happy to make this happen, but the real story here is the potential impact of both of these research projects.”

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FROM TRAINING | 1

started teaching classes on Clermont’s campus six years ago, including classes preparing students for agriculture terrorism and prevention of suicide bombing.

UC Clermont professor Ed Bridgman, who serves as a training coordinator for these terrorism

classes, said there has been a shift from federal response to local response.

“Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the reasons we stepped up our local training,” said Bridgman, “before the FBI was thought to respond to terrorism, now the response is mostly locally controlled, until

federal response arrives.”“We are safer, but still have

a ways to go,” said Bridgman, “there is much greater awareness today on how to deal with terrorism threats and incidents.”

the Rooney family. I love competition, I love back-and-

forth wins and losses and I love to hate my rivals. It’s what keeps the rivalries alive. I may hate Baltimore, Cincinnati and Cleveland, but I’ll be damned if I don’t love the rollercoaster of emotions that these rivalries provide, and I hope you all love it as well.

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SHOTS-A-PLENTY The Bearcats recorded 38 shots in their weekend slate, but just one goal.


The foundation of the NFL’s AFC North is solidifi ed by cold, merciless hit men. James Harrison, Ray Lewis, Rey Maualuga, Troy Polamalu, Terrell Suggs and even Hines Ward on occasion.

Now as Bengals and Browns fans, the majority of you probably hate most of these players. Correct? Or do you love them? Do you love to hate them, perhaps? I know I do. Allow me to explain.

I’m a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, but please continue reading; I promise it will pay off in the end.

I’ve taken a lot of crap as a Pittsburgh fan living in Cincinnati — although I would expect nothing less — and before you call me a bandwagon fan, I grew up near Pittsburgh and spent quite a bit of my youth there.

Recently, during and after the beatdown the Baltimore Ravens handed my Steelers on Sept. 11, I took a lot of heat from the non-Pittsburgh fans at The News Record’s offi ce.

For your own satisfaction, I will remind you that the Ravens smashed my Steelers 35-7. Pittsburgh gave up seven turnovers by the game’s end.

Sam Weinberg, a Houston Texans fan, mocked my team’s usually punishing defense as his team routed the Manning-less Indianapolis Colts, 34-7.

But that didn’t bother me as much as the comment from our nation & world editor and Bengals fan, Jason Hoffman.

Hoffman called Ward a “dirty player.” Now, I know for a fact that Ward is an outstanding human being off the fi eld and is adored by Pittsburgh natives, in part, because of his personality.

I stewed over the comment for a few days, the passive-aggressive individual that I am, and fi nally had an epiphany of sorts: I love that people think the Steelers are dirty.

I love dirty players and dirty teams. Most of all, I love violence in sports. Can we all, as AFC North loyalists, agree on one thing? That dirty play makes rivalries as emotional, nerve-wracking and interesting as they ought to be?

Now, I can understand the whole “Steelers are dirty” thing because I feel the exact same way about Baltimore. I think the majority of their players should be locked up. I think Terrell Suggs looks like a lab experiment gone horribly, horribly wrong and I think their fans are obnoxious.

I could say the same about the Bengals as well. Bengals, Browns and Ravens fans can, and should say the same of the Steelers and their fans. I’m sure they are right now.

But isn’t that the point? I don’t think our teams should be going out and treating each other like they’re best friends. They should be beating each others’ heads into the turf. They should be throwing punches (i.e. Haloti Ngata breaking Ben Roethlisberger’s nose last season). They should be trash-talking non-stop and fi ghting during pre-game warm-ups.

We hate when our rivals do these things to our team, but we should love it at the same time. It’s what we look forward to. We don’t get as jacked up knowing we’re playing Seattle or Jacksonville on Sunday, but we sure as hell focus on those inter-division rivalries.

It’s what motivates us until Sunday, knowing our hairs will get the chance to turn white come game time.

Without these negative connotations associated with the cities and teams we love to hate, the NFL and for that matter sports, would be much less interesting. Sure, people watch Ohio State versus Michigan for the game, but they mostly watch it for the hits, the trash-talk, the gloating and most of all the raw emotion that the players and fans put on display.

Honestly, I wish the Bengals and Browns were better teams. I really do. It saddens me that these teams don’t have the careful and calculated ownership that Pittsburgh’s franchise has in

AFC North: The dirtiest NFL teams

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SAM WEINBERG | SPORTS EDITOR

With the team’s fi rst Big East contest less than one week away, giving two teams their fi rst wins of the season was not the way UC men’s soccer head coach Hylton Dayes said he wanted to prepare for inter-conference action.

The Bearcats (3-4-0) lost 1-0 against Missouri State (1-4-1) Friday before dropping a 2-1-overtime decision against Oakland University Sunday at Gettler Stadium.

In both games, Cincinnati outshot its opponents but was unable to capitalize on its chances, netting just two goals with 38 shots — 11 of them on goal.

“We got a lot of shots on goal,” Dayes said. “We created some good chances, but not all shots I thought were clear chances for a goal, so the shots total was a little misleading. But did we create enough chances to score more than one goal? Absolutely.”

Against Missouri State, both teams played nearly 80 minutes without a goal, but at the 79:42 mark, Bears’ freshman defender James Fawkes launched a corner kick into the box, which the UC defense failed to clear all the way.

Fawkes took advantage of the blunder with a 25-yard rocket that soared past UC goalie Joey Barnard to give the Bears the lone goal of the game.

The Bearcats wouldn’t fi nd their fi rst,

and only, goal of the weekend until the 66:05 mark of Sunday’s game against Oakland when freshman midfi elder Will Diebold netted his fi rst goal of the season after junior midfi elder Shamar Shelton found him open in the box.

With less than one minute remaining in regulation and UC leading 1-0, the Grizzlies were awarded a throw-in deep in UC territory.

The throw-in was knocked down in the box by Barnard, but OU junior midfi elder Jeff Cheslik swooped in on the loose ball and launched a shot into the back of the net to tie the game at one with 20 seconds remaining, eventually forcing overtime.

Both teams failed to score in the fi rst overtime, but four minutes into the second OT, Grizzlies’ senior defender Konner McNamara headed in a goal off a 25-yard kick to secure OU’s fi rst win of the season.

“It’s the mentality,” Dayes said. “Who wants it more? Who’s going to make mistakes and who’s going to crack under pressure? We cracked and let up a goal with 20 seconds left.”

The Bearcats return to action at 1 p.m. Saturday against Providence College in Providence, R.I., for the team’s fi rst Big East match of the season.

“There’s still a lot of games left,” Dayes said. “Right now we got to regroup. We have to look at our schedule, because conference and non-conference are two different segments of it.”

BRITTANY YORK | SPORTS EDITOR

Following last week’s 45-23 mauling by the Tennessee Volunteers, University of Cincinnati Bearcats’ head football coach Butch Jones said everyone

thought it was time to panic.“Everyone around here wants to push that

big red button that says panic,” Jones said. “There is no panic here.”

With a 59-14 win against the University of Akron Zips Saturday at Nippert Stadium, Jones’ words came to life. The Bearcats showed no signs of fear, proving their ability to recover

and not let last week’s performance hold them down.

To complete a 60-yard opening drive, UC senior running back Isaiah Pead put the Bearcats on the board with a one-yard touchdown run. Pead’s endzone hurdle marked the third-straight game in which he recorded a rushing touchdown, and the third-straight game the Bearcats scored on their opening drive.

The Zips initially came out strong on their fi rst possession with two quick fi rst downs, but it didn’t take long for their work to go downhill.

Three minutes into the drive, Bearcats’ senior defensive lineman Derek Wolfe knocked the ball loose from quarterback Clayton Moore’s hands, allowing junior linebacker Maalik Bomar to snag the ball and run it back 54-yards for a Bearcats touchdown.

Down 14-0, the Zips tried to put up some points, but instead lost the ball again.

Cincinnati junior defensive lineman Dan Giordano forced and recovered a fumble, though it didn’t result in any Bearcat points, as the Zips’ defense blocked a fi eld goal attempt near the end of the fi rst quarter.

The Bearcats’ defense came out strong to start the second quarter. Senior defensive back Dominique Battle intercepted a pass from Moore and ran it back 36 yards for his fi rst-career touchdown, putting the Cats ahead 21-0.

After forcing the Zips to punt, the Bearcats made their way down the fi eld again — this time helped by a 50-yard reception by senior wide receiver D.J. Woods.

Senior quarterback Zach Collaros put Cincinnati ahead 28-0 with a 12-yard dash to the endzone for his fi rst rushing touchdown of the season. He was 10-of-16 for 157 yards in his two quarters of play and was one-of-four Bearcat quarterbacks who recorded playing time against the Zips.

Cincinnati continued to dominate, and with 7:56 remaining in the fi rst half, senior tight end Adrien Robinson caught a 15-yard pass to put the Bearcats ahead 35-0.

The Zips gained just 10 yards on their next possession before senior linebacker JK Shaffer intercepted the ball and returned it 14 yards to put the Bearcats on Akron’s 29-yard line.

It took the Cats just fi ve plays to score again. Junior running back George Winn capped Cincinnati’s drive with a fi ve-yard touchdown run — the fi rst of his career.

Following a 28-yard drive by the Zips, the Bearcats’ defense scored their third touchdown when junior defensive back Camerron Cheatham picked off Moore’s pass and ran it back 53-yards to give the Bearcats a 49-0 lead at the half.

“We were very opportunistic on defense,” Jones said. “We were able to generate a pass rush, and I thought our defensive line did some good things.”

The Zips started the second half with a 64-yard drive down the fi eld. It looked like they would score their fi rst touchdown of the day, but UC sophomore defensive back Devin Drane caught his fi rst career interception in the end zone to put the ball back in Bearcat hands.

Following a fi eld goal by freshman kicker Tony Miliano, neither team could put points on the board, and possessions were traded twice.

Thirty-four seconds into the 4th quarter, Bearcats’ freshman running back Jameel Poteat ended the scoring slump by running in his fi rst-career touchdown to put the Cats ahead 59-0.

The Zips managed to avoid the shut out, scoring their fi rst touchdown with a 51-yard pass from Moore to Keith Sconiers.

In the last minute of the game, the Zips put seven more points on the board to make the fi nal score 59-14.

UC falters in weekend lossesBearcats’ offense struggles to find back of net

TAILGATING TIME

Cats fall 4-1 to ND

SEAN PETERS | CHIEF REPORTER

Tailgating fans of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats football team are taking over Sigma Sigma Commons Thursday, Sept. 22 at UC’s new tailgating spot — The Grid.

Prior to UC’s game with North Carolina State in Nippert Stadium, UC fans can enjoy all the time-honored traditions of football tailgating right on campus, with UC Rally Cats serving $1 beers

and Donatos Pizza, Buffalo Wild Wings and City Barbeque vendors selling food.

One hundred personal lots have been rented by UC fans who want a place to grill their own food, set up tents and enjoy a little elbowroom. Grilling is not permitted outside these spots.

“There’s 100 parties going on there,” said Keith Pantling, administrator of UCATS 1200 Club.

The general areas are open to all who arrive.

PHOTOS BY PATRICK STRANG | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

COME AT ME, BRO The University of Cincinnati’s defense forced six turnovers — two fumbles and four interceptions — and scored 21 points in the Bearcats’ 59-14 victory against the University of Akron Zips Saturday at Nippert Stadium.

READY FOR REVENGE UC will play NC State at 8 p.m. Thursday at Nippert Stadium. The Bearcats lost to the Wolfpack 30-19 last season in Raleigh, N.C.

Bearcats’ defense bounces back

BRITTANY YORK | SPORTS EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati women’s soccer team took an early 1-0 lead during Sunday’s game against the University of Notre Dame, but it wasn’t enough for the win in front of a sold-out crowd at Gettler Stadium, as the Cats fell to the No. 20 Fighting Irish 4-1.

Freshman midfi elder Megan Cravenor put the Bearcats on the board with her fi rst career collegiate goal. During the 10th minute of play, she headed a corner kick from Kelli Pawelko past UND goalkeeper Maddie Fox to put the Bearcats ahead.

Cincinnati dominated on offense for the fi rst 30 minutes of play, but Notre Dame held possession for most of the remaining 60.

“That’s the youth of us,” said UC head coach Michelle Salmon. “After jumping out in front of a really good team, we didn’t keep the petal to the metal, but we’ll learn from it and get better.”

Notre Dame senior forward Melissa Henderson led the team, scoring goals in the 18th, 26th and 65th minutes of play for a hat trick. UND freshman forward Laura Bohaboy tacked on another goal in the 88th minute to secure a 4-1 Irish win.

Cincinnati will take on Providence College at 4 p.m. Friday in Providence, R.I.

PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM MEYER

READY TO PARTY The Grid will be open for fans to tailgate Thursday before the UC-NC State game.

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