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Seven thefts reported in residence hall over one weekend Daniels Hall residents unaware of burglaries; UC students not alerted

right next to us when we were asleep,” McNair said.

Her roommate left her laptop directly underneath her bed before it was stolen.

McNair and one of her roommates left their dorm unlocked because they thought another roommate would return later that night, but she did not.

McNair said she and her roommates always lock their dorm now, even if they will only be gone for a few minutes.

Although McNair does not feel less safe in her dorm now, she is more cautious and keeps her valuables locked away.

“Keep your eyes open,” McNair said.

“You really have to think in the thief’s mindset. Just hide everything. Even being in a dorm, you’re not always safe. There’s so much supervision there, but not as much as you think there would be.”

McNair, a photographer, said she lost a lot of work that was on her computer, and she could not do any of her schoolwork the week it was stolen.

“All my photos — I had at least 7,000 photos on there over six years — over

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Seven burglaries from Daniels Hall dorm rooms were reported between 8 p.m. Nov. 1 and 2 a.m. Nov. 2, a weekend one resident said was crowded from the post-Halloween festivities.

Alison McNair, a first-year fine arts student and Daniels Hall resident, discovered that her MacBook Pro laptop and $40 were missing when she woke up on Nov. 2.

McNair’s roommates were also missing a Mac laptop and $200.

University of Cincinnati Police are investigating the thefts, which are documented on a crime map on UCPD’s website.

McNair said the burglars must have been looking for two specific things — Macs and cash — because her and her roommates’ cellphones and PCs were not stolen.

“The guy who came in must have been

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Daniels Hall houses 700 students on 12 floors, according to UC’s housing website.

UC student sent UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI EXPANDS POLICE FORCE nude picture to NINE NEW HIRES SWORN IN underage girl NATALIE COLEMAN | NEWS EDITOR

A University of Cincinnati student faces a misdemeanor charge of disseminating matter harmful to minors after sending a naked photo of himself to a 13-year-old girl.

According to Hamilton County court records, Benjamin Morrow, 20, was communicating with the girl on a phone application called Kik. He requested the girl send him a picture of herself and after receiving her photo, Morrow sent one of his own — a full-frontal nude.

Morrow sent the photo to the girl, a resident of North Carolina, on Jan. 4.

Morrow claims in an affidavit that he believed the girl was of age and that “at no time did it cross [his] mind that she was underage.”

He continues in the report that sending the photo was “a mistake in judgment.”

Morrow posted a $200 bail Wednesday.

The complaint against Morrow was filed in Chatham County, NC, but was forwarded to the UC Police Department for investigation.

Morrow is a student of UC’s College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, and is expected to graduate in 2017, according to the UC student directory.

He is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 3 for a pre-trail hearing. Morrow is from Columbus.

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Nine new police officers were sworn into the University of Cincinnati Police Department Wednesday, bringing the total number of officers to 51.

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Benjamin Morrow, 20, is a UC student expected to graduate in 2017.

Nine new police officers were sworn into the University of Cincinnati Police Department Wednesday, bringing the number of UCPD officers to 51.

The new hires came as part of UC’s initiative to hire 24 new police officers in response to the increase in enrolled students.

“Our officers really are the frontline for recruitment and retention of students in this university,” said UC Chief of Police Jason Goodrich, who joined UCPD Nov. 3.

According to Goodrich, the new officers will be split between the evening shift — 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. — and the night shift — 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. — which overlap during the early hours of the morning.

UC President Santa Ono spoke to the new police officers before they were sworn in.

“The financial resources [Ono] has provided this police department are amazing, and his commitment to making the University of Cincinnati safe is undeniable,” Goodrich said.

Ono remarked that above all, the officers must have empathy and compassion for the students and members of UC’s community.

“Policing is not just a career, it’s a calling,” Ono said. “As a UC police officer you’re called on to develop partnerships with students, with faculty, with staff, but also with the Cincinnati Police Department itself.”

Tim Kincer, one of the sworn in police officers, came to UC from the Great Oaks Police Academy in Sharonville, Ohio.

Kincer said he was excited to work with the intersection of campus and city he will encounter at UC.

“It’s in the city, but it’s a mix of college students and city. It’s a different feel from a municipal department,” Kincer said. “You’re protecting youth, but you’re also helping something grow.”

Ono spoke to the new hires about their importance to the safety of students and maintaining the feeling of safety on campus.

“On any given day there are approximately 80 to 85,000 people on this campus and they all look up to you,” Ono said to the new hires. “Without you we could not cultivate an educational environment that allows our community to grow and prosper and allows students and faculty to pursue their academic work and perform on the field, perform on the stage, perform in a concert hall, to discover new cures for cancer and all sorts of diseases.”

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Student government supports fourth-annual Black Girls Rock event CASSIE MERINO | CHIEF REPORTER

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Christina Beer, student body president, discusses the need to honor women of all backgrounds.

To recognize women of color at the University of Cincinnati, Student Government will support the fourthannual Black Girls Rock event.

The event is held by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. The fraternity will honor five black female faculty members and five black female students who exemplify leadership and commit to bettering the UC community.

“We pick the winners based on their outstanding leadership and influences on the University of Cincinnati,” said Nloh Masango-Diborane, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. faculty adviser.

The women being honored are nominated through faculty and students who think they represent UC well.

“I think it’s important to support, to be honest, everybody, and definitely black women but people of all backgrounds.

I think especially this one, this was extremely important for us to support

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because its an up and coming event, it’s been going on for three years now and they really need our help and support to boost it up a little bit more and get that attention,” said Cristina Beer, student body president. “I have personally attended the event last year, it was a great event and great turnout so us being there to support them again just really shows that people coming to support an event like this is really important.”

Last year the event had a turn out of 205 people.

This event will be held on Feb. 21 form 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Tangeman University Center Cinema. SG is giving a monetary contribution of $600 for catering.

SG will also honor members of the UC community who have made a positive impact on the UC community through its eighth annual 2015 Government Leadership Summit on March 30.

The event will host 100 guests made up of campus leaders, public officials and UC administrators. SG will put $4,368 toward the event.

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Students write thank-you messages on a sprawling banner and pose with the Bearcat during the university’s first Thank-a-Donor day, held on multiple UC campuses Tuesday morning through afternoon.

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Card making, photo booths commemorate support, recognize individuals for impact on university ALLIE ALU | STAFF REPORTER

Hundreds of individuals who make significant contributions to the University of Cincinnati often remain completely anonymous to students, despite their substantial impacts on the school. But the university’s donors were put in the spotlight Wednesday morning during UC’s inaugural Thank-a-Giver Day. Colorful cookies, thank-you cards and a sprawling banner decorated Tangeman University Center Atrium between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., enticing students to

participate in activities throughout the day.

The event, dubbed #UCTAGDay, was also held on UC’s Medical, Blue Ash and Clermont campuses.

“TAG Day is a unique way for UC to recognize and thank our generous donors, and also to create awareness among the UC community about the significant impact private support has on our great institution,” said Laura Bolduc, vice president of donor engagement. “We are immensely thankful for the funds provided by UC’s committed supporters.”

The event also gave students the opportunity to thank the people who make donations to UC, supporting scholarships, innovative teaching and research, student activities, modern facilities and more.

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A blank banner was covered with red and black messages throughout the day Tuesday, thanking donors for their contributions.

thank UC donors, whether it be alumni, corporations, or UC fans,” said Adrienne McDade, associate director for annual giving at the University of Cincinnati Foundation.

To celebrate the day, red tags were posted around campus with philanthropic facts about the event and former donors.

One tag featured on the event’s website read, “In 2013, President Santa J. Ono sold UC’s presidential residence, creating about $3 million for endowed scholarships.”

Another, mounted on a window in TUC, read, “Park National Bank has provided an annual gift to our community arts programs since 1990.”

“We want to get the message out to students that it takes the entire UC community to run this great university,” McDade said. “This event is the first of its kind at UC and part of a bigger plan to build a culture of student engagement and philanthropy. We feel education is the first step into reaching these goals.”

According to Bolduc, the event strived to inspire donors to continue giving to the university.

Students passed in and out, relaxing at tables, writing thank-you notes and signing a banner in red and black ink.

“TAG Day is important to me because we get to thank UC donors that are responsible for our scholarships, athletics and a lot more,” said Christopher Brinckman, UC student and philanthropy chair of the Association of Fundraising Professions. “It’s a big thing that we can give personalized thank-you messages to the donors. We’re taking the time to thank the donors, which is amazing.”

Laura Mersmann, UC student and Student Alumni Council historian, shared similar views of the event.

“If anyone gives something, you always want to thank them,” Mersmann said. “This event is raising awareness to students that there are people, whether it is alumni or other people, supporting and investing in them.”

UC Blue Ash exhibit frames distinct photo philosophy ‘Tao of Photography’ features student, faculty work, employs principles that emphasize interaction KYLEY FREDRICK | STAFF REPORTER

Small images in perfect alignment cover the walls in a brightly lit room at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College Art Gallery.

Many of the photographs featured in the college’s “Tao of Photography” exhibit are up-close and appear “in the moment.” Most of the subjects in the pictures do not realize they are being photographed and are in a natural, unposed state.

The exhibit, which is open through Dec. 5, includes 129 individual works and 13 collaborative pieces by 63 artists. The works were selected from seven series of “Tao of Photography” seminars at UCBA between 2002 and 2014.

But what exactly is Tao (pronounced dow) photography?

“Tao photography for me is the idea of going with the flow,” said Korinna Reed, curating assistant and electronic media student at UCBA. “One thing that really stuck out to me was a specific project we had to do where we couldn’t pick the object to photograph — it had to pick us. It’s a way of opening your eyes and mind to the

world and photographing objects that you may have not even thought of before.”

Reed is pictured in several of the photographs on display at the exhibit, standing in a green, army-styled jacket and staring off into the background, unaware that she is being photographed.

H. Michael Sanders, UCBA electronic media professor, curated the exhibit and led and designed the college’s “Tao of Photography” seminars.

“This is photography that uses the philosophy of Taoism to think about how we approach photography,” Sanders explained. “Some of the concepts and principals have to do with being free of preconceptions, not forcing anything to happen, but to allow it to happen and be ok with that; accomplishing things without setting out to do them — a way in which we get things done the easiest way that they can get done.”

One photograph titled “The Eye of the Beholder” is a large picture of an eye comprised of various smaller photographs, all using Tao principles. Photography is always in the eye of the beholder, so to say, but this method of photography truly shows what a photographer is freely encountering.

“These types of principles are things in the seminar that we talk about and attempt to apply to photographic

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Student Katie Schwartz shows off her work to her friend Aaron Coots during the exhibit.

practice,” Sanders said. “So the resulting photographs are more about the person’s interaction with the real world that they encounter than a pre-ordained subject that they are going out to capture.”

The exhibit showcases the photography of students and faculty taken since 2002, when the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash’s “Tao of Photography” seminars began.

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Jason Goodrich joined the Unviversity of Cincinnati Police Department Nov. 3 as the new chief of police and director of public safety.

to interact with students, and he enforces this with what he calls a balanced philosophy.

“They spend half of their time on community engagement,” Goodrich said. This means meeting UC students and families and being a visible and approachable figure in the community.

“The other half of the time is proactive enforcement,” he added. “So half brings down fear, and the other half brings down actual crime.”

Goodrich said the news hires underwent a rigorous process of background checks and tests. “They’ve all earned the spots that they occupy.”

According to Goodrich, one of the benefits to working at UC is being able to take part in the higher education that officers help protect.

“Six of these [new] officers have bachelor’s degrees. One has an associate’s degree,” Goodrich said.

“One of the great benefits here at the University of Cincinnati is the ability to build on that. That pursuit of education and further development to assist in the career progression is a great benefit, a great recognition, a great accomplishment.”

Senate falls short on Keystone, battle looms with Obama next year MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON — The Senate failed to vote for construction of the Keystone XL pipeline Tuesday, rebuffing a Democratic senator fighting for her political career and setting up a confrontation between President Barack Obama and a Republican-controlled Congress over the pipeline next year. Senators voted 59-41 for the pipeline, falling one vote short of the 60 needed to get past a threatened filibuster and pass the bill.

Fourteen Democrats joined 45 Republicans in voting for the bill. The vote was steeped in election politics.

After refusing to allow a vote for months, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., cleared the way to help a fellow Democratic senator, Mary Landrieu, facing a tough runoff election in Louisiana, where the pipeline is popular.

Her opponent, Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy, sponsored similar pro-pipeline legislation, and it passed the House of Representatives last week. Reid and Senate Democratic leaders allowed the vote in hopes of boosting Landrieu’s prospects against Cassidy back home.

They still opposed the bill themselves and did not use the party machinery to formally push for or against the bill, leaving her and other Keystone supporters scurrying for yes votes.

“We usually know the outcome of the vote before we take it because the deals are all cut,” Landrieu said on the Senate floor. “I brought this bill to the floor knowing in my heart that we have 60 votes.”

Democratic foes, who say the pipeline would harm the environment and contribute to global warming, were supportive of Landrieu’s political plight but staunch in their opposition against her bill.

In one breath, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., ensured that Landrieu got credit for the bill by reminding senators that they were voting on Landrieu’s, not Cassidy’s, measure.

In the next, she blasted Landrieu’s bill, saying the “XL” in the pipeline’s name stands for “X-tra Lethal.”

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A coalition of Native American groups and cattle ranchers — ­ the Cowboy and Indian Alliance — take a horseback ride around the Mall in Washington, D.C. as a protest of the proposed construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, April 22, 2014.

“I believe it’s one more capitulation to our fossil fuel habit, one more accelerant to global warming that threatens our children’s future,” added retiring Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. “Every dollar we spend today on developing and using more fossil fuels is another dollar spent in digging the graves of our grandchildren.”

Republicans, the oil industry and labor unions, have touted the pipeline as a job creator that would help the United States lower the amount of oil it uses from the Middle East.

“The Keystone XL pipeline really is, if there is such a thing, a win-win,” said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. Tuesday’s vote doesn’t the end of the Keystone debate.

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Republicans vowed to approve the 1,700mile pipeline that would bring crude oil from the Canadian oil sands in Alberta to American refineries on the Gulf Coast when they control both the House and Senate next year.

“Once the 114th Congress convenes, the Senate will act again on this important legislation, and I look forward to the new Republican majority taking up and passing the Keystone jobs bill early in the new year,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who will be the Senate majority leader next year.

If Congress passes a Keystone bill, Obama would have to decide whether or not to veto it. His aides signaled they don’t think Congress has a say.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Tuesday called the bill “a piece of legislation that the president doesn’t support because the president believes that this is something that should be determined through the State Department and the regular process that is in place to evaluate projects like this.”

The State Department, which determined in its first review that the pipeline would not have a significant impact on climate change, is now assessing whether the project is in the U.S. national interest.

In addition, the administration is also waiting for a ruling from a lawsuit in Nebraska that could change the route of the pipeline. The State Department in January said an average of 42,100 jobs a year would be created during construction of the pipeline, with wages totaling $2 billion.

However, once the pipeline became

operational, it would only require an estimated 50 employees — 35 permanent workers and 15 temporary contractors, according to the State Department.

If the Canadian crude, some 830,000 barrels per day, were processed in the United States and not exported in its raw form, it would add business across the energy chain, from U.S. refiners turning oil into products to those who distribute, wholesale and deliver gasoline to stations nationwide.

That’s not how it’s being sold by politicians for and against, however.

They mostly suggest the crude oil would transit U.S. territory for export out of the Gulf Coast seaports.

“Understand what this project is: It is providing the ability of Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else,” Obama said Friday. “It doesn’t have an impact on U.S. gasoline prices.”

The comments didn’t sit well with energy experts. “That’s sort of a facile political phrase. It’s a route to supply crude oil that will enable refined products to be exported,” said Kevin Book, who heads research for ClearView Energy, a policy advisory group.

There’s a good likelihood that the Canadian oil actually would go to U.S. refiners. Canadian crude oil is of a heavier grade, and it competes with imported oil from Mexico and Venezuela.

The Keystone XL pipeline could force those two countries to discount their oil to compete with the Canadian product, and that’s likely to boost profit margins of U.S. refiners.

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half of them got lost since I didn’t have it all backed up,” McNair said.

McNair said she believes UCPD is doing everything it can, but there is more she would like to know.

“What really concerns me is that they haven’t sent out an email,” she said.

“Something on campus you’d think would be a priority and they’d let everyone know.”

Michele Ralston, UCPD public information officer, said the police only issue public safety alerts if they believe there is an ongoing threat and the threat is within the Clery Timely warning zone around and on campus.

“We have a person of interest and the case is actively under investigation,” Ralston said, declining to further discuss details of the investigation.

Nathan Mohamedali, a first-year architecture student, said he was more surprised that he did not hear anything about the incident from his resident assistant or those who run the residence hall.

Mohamedali’s three roommates were also unaware of the thefts.

“I don’t think I feel any less safe now than before the incident,” Mohamedali said. “But it’s another thing I wish I didn’t have to worry about.”

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Allison McNair, first-year student living in Daniels Hall, said she keeps her valuables locked away after having her laptop and money stolen Nov. 2 while she was sleeping.

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Dealer, comprised of duo Nate Wells and Kyle Mashinot, say their sound gravitates toward rock and soul. They are working on a concept album that addresses the heroin problem Cincinnati faces.

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argaret Thatcher famously stated in a 1976 speech titled, “British Awake” that “The Soviets put guns over butter, but we put almost everything over guns.”

Dealer, a musical group comprised of two men — Nate Wells and Kyle Maschinot — stands for a message much bigger than themselves. Beginning as best friends, then bandmates in rock group Black Pharaoh, the two are now working on a new concept album: “Guns and Butter.”

The “concept” could be spun in a lighthearted way: Our world is consumed with instant gratification; heads will bend in worship to iPhones and social media.

Dealer translates this onto a hard-hitting topic in Cincinnati — heroin addiction.

Wells and Maschinot have used their music project as a means to further the discussion about heroin and its relentless grasp on the Greater Cincinnati area.

I met with Wells and Maschinot on a cold Sunday evening at a local bar called Towerview. We sat outside in a partially heated patio so they could smoke their cigarettes as televisions glared in the background.

Wells told me it was ironic that we decided mutually to meet here. He informs me he has written lyrics, “Across from the Towerview we have a taste for the body ravage.”

He tells me this bar is a setting in a story from their concept album — across

the street from where his friends started buying dope.

Let me start by asking, what exactly is “Guns and Butter” ?

NW: “Guns and Butter” is an old term people used to say. But basically, guns and butter is a concept story about a cult that starts in a city that’s kind of on the brink of madness. With Cincinnati being overrun by heroin and violence, and corrupt politicians [we see that] even in the mindset of a very conservative city, a lot of very “unconservative things” go on.

KM: It has been building and becoming a living breathing entity. So now it’s to a point where we have to put the story together to show it to everyone because it’s really an exaggeration of the lives that we have led — but not too far of an exaggeration. Like if someone was to write a true story but changed character names — with a little drama added.

NW: It’s like a ‘70s action movie over the last three or four years of our life.

Is there a specific message you are trying to relate to your listeners?

NW: We really want to speak the idea of “truth.”Truth doesn’t really lie in your college degree or how much money you have, or your financial statement, or how many networking associates you have, or

how many employees you have. At the end of the day when you lay your head down, what’s going to be real to you? When you die you are not going to be looking at your college degree, or how much money you made, or how many b-----s you got with.

It’s not going to be like that. You’re going to be looking at what’s important to you.

KM: It is all temporary.

NW: A lot of things people are striving for are temporary things as opposed to real things, and the message we want to get across is: follow the path that you think is right for you and then what you need will follow.

I just watched your music video for “Take My Money.” Why did you guys decide to use that video to bring up opiate addiction awareness?

KM: That is a big part of our story in general. A lot of ex-friends, ex-bandmates, people that you try to look out for or are there for, have gotten sucked into the wave of heroin. In reality, our city has become a growing problem and it really is a huge chunk of what people throw their life away on. We decided if we are experiencing all of this and seeing so much decay, addiction and heartache, then we really felt the need to speak up on it, especially when transitioning from one project to the next. We needed to make a statement.

If this had a hand in ruining what we had

going before — we needed to tell people to not throw their life away — it’s just butter.

NW: I also feel like it’s a thing that is addressed in Cincinnati and it’s addressed on the news and everything, but you really have to delve into how bad the problem really is on your own if you want to look into it. And its getting to a point where everyone I know is affected by it personally. You know somebody on dope.

I know somebody on dope. It could be one of your best friends going through it.

It’s a f------ b---- man. We are not trying to point a finger at an addict; it is not really at that as much as pointing them to a mirror to make them realize ‘you’re worth a lot more than that.’

Cincinnati is worth a lot more than 32 overdoses in a weekend. You don’t even hear about that on the news. They are flooding you with fear of Ebola and ISIS and the Islamic state and consumerism — what’s really happening in Cincinnati is people are offing themselves in record f------ numbers.

It’s not even the addicts affected by the side effects of overdoses. The friends we have in Avondale and North College Hill are affected by the violence of it. This is all what pretty much sparked the campaign for “f--- heroin.”

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‘Citizenfour’ profiles Snowden, investigates US privacy post-9/11 MONROE TROMBLY | STAFF REPORTER

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The poster for ‘Citizenfour’ depicts fugitive Edward Snowden.

For a documentary that details the efforts behind lifting the veil over the National Security Agency’s spying, corruption and secrecy, “Citizenfour” offers little insight into the agency itself. Instead, the story is told through former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and his decision to leak classified information detailing NSA spying programs, and his hopes to rouse the American public to respond.

Documentarian and MacArthur Fellow Laura Poitras (“My Country, My Country,”“The Oath”), who is known for making eye opening, probing documentaries of America in the post-9/11 world, directed the film. Poitras met with Snowden in early summer of 2013 in Hong Kong, China, joined by renowned investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. She was eventually placed on a kind of “watch list” by the American government and questioned numerous times when crossing the American border, at one time having her equipment seized without charge.

Snowden first contacted Poitras anonymously under the pseudonym Citizenfour, and claimed that he had access

to copies of thousands of classified documents that he wanted to share and publish to the public. “Citizenfour” is the result — a documentary detailing the mere two or three weeks of meetings Greenwald, Poitras and Snowden held in Snowden’s Hong Kong hotel room. During the documentary, a palpable, infectious feeling of paranoia creeps up your neck as you understand how the events unfolded.

The film opens with a slow-motion shot of the ceiling lights of a tunnel expressway. Poitras’ voice coolly recites one of her first emails received from the source signed by Citizenfour. The words appear in a plain typeface on the screen, Poitras opting for a less stylized or exaggerated font that would stray attention from the pertinent subject material at hand.

For a film that is mostly driven by the spoken or the written word, Poitras lets the stories and the facts speak for themselves — creating an objective portrayal of the NSA’s global surveillance dating back to 2001.

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Students gather to partake and cheer on participants in the Gatorade Pong event held at Sheakley Center on Monday evening. Students compete for a $500 prize at the annual event.

Gatorade Pong raises awareness of drunken driving JAELYNNE JOHNSON | STAFF REPORTER

The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee put on what it calls another successful event to bring awareness to drunken driving by playing a popular drinking game with a twist on Monday.

The organization had its annual Gatorade Pong event in the bubble on the Sheakley Athletics Center.

SAAC serves as a liaison between the University of Cincinnati’s athletic department and the studentathletes.

“The purpose of the event is to raise awareness against drinking and driving and to raise money for Mothers Against Drunk Driving,”said SAAC president Nathan Anderson, also a third-year student on UC’s swim team. “This year we had 135 teams sign up for the event and with their participation we were able to donate $2,700 to MADD.” MADD is the nation’s largest nonprofit working to

protect families from drunken driving and underage drinking. According to the organization’s website, MAAD was founded by a mother whose daughter was killed by a drunken driver.

Starting UC quarterback Gunner Kiel and teammate Lindsay Crook won the tournament and took home the prize of a special Xbox package.

“I love this event because we are able to bring hundreds of UC students out to an event that supports such a good cause and gives back to the community,” Anderson said. “On a college campus, we need to be aware of the effects that driving under the influence of alcohol can have on yourself, others, and the entire community. An event like this lets everyone have a great time, while also taking the time to think about their actions and results.”

SAAC hopes to continue its relationship with MAAD and increase the awareness of drinking and driving not only at UC, but in the Cincinnati community as well.

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Members from the Student Athlete Association organize Gatorade Pong results at Sheakley Center on Monday evening.

Volleyball season winds down KENSINGTON WIELAND | CONTRIBUTOR

University of Cincinnati volleyball head coach Molly Alvey said a “fighting spirit” is what is most important to her team and aggressive is exactly how one could describe the Bearcat volleyball team this season.

With a 14-14 overall record, the team has taken many games down to the last second, but as senior middle blocker and outside hitter Me’Ashah Nicholson emphasized, “We just need to learn how to finish at the end.”

Finishing is in the near future for the Bearcats as they only have three games remaining in regular season play.

The team began the season on a high note, sweeping northern foes Rutgers University, University of Rhode Island and New Jersey Institute of Technology 3-1, 3-1 and 3-0, respectively at the Art Carmichael Invitational with Alvey praising the team for “staying disciplined and having a balanced showing from

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Junior outside hitter Morgan Allred bumps the ball during UC’s 3-0 loss Sunday to Houston.

everyone on the court.”

The team next picked up some heavy mid-season wins on the road at Houston 3-2 and at Tulane 3-1 again “battling until the end, game point to game point” with these two teams, according to Alvey.

The Bearcats then entered a slump falling in six straight matches, with five of those being conference opponents.

Alvey is confident that this was a rare showing for the team that “looking from top to bottom, should be sitting at the top of conference year in and year out.”

Strong offensive play in middle blockers Nicholson and freshman middle blocker Courtnee Bowser has kept the team consistent and has only added onto the strength brought week after week by a solid line of upperclassmen.

Reliable play by junior outside hitter Morgan Allred, the return of red-shirt junior setter Caitlin Ogletree and the addition of junior transfer right side hitter Emma Roberson all give this team the “invaluable college experience” they need to get the edge in down-to-the-wire matches in a talented conference.

During Sunday’s match against Houston in Fifth-Third Arena, the team saw more strong offense play. Bowser led all players in kills in the first set.

UC dropped the first set 25-18 with the help of a five-point scoring run by the Cougars. The next two sets saw the Bearcats and the Cougars going head-tohead with both sets ending in a two-point difference, 26-24, 26-24.

Nicholson said that the team only saw positives from this and learned that “any team is beatable,” which was proven true as the Bearcats outlasted the Cougars earlier in the season 3-2.

During her three years at the helm of Bearcats volleyball, Alvey has improved on the season record each year and continues to add depth to the program.

The team just inked four 2015 players, which Alvey said will help toward the “eventual goal of becoming a top-30 program.” Alvey notes “resiliency and getting mental rest” as the volleyball team’s main focus in finishing strong in conference play.

The Bearcats traveled to the University of Memphis for a rematch from UC’s 3-1 loss Sept. 26. Wednesday’s game saw two close sets with UC taking the first 25-21 before dropping the second 25-22.

Memphis won the third and fourth sets to take the 3-1 victory again.

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Fourth-year golfer Jared Howard is tied for the lowest score and most rounds played this season.

Golfer driven to improve JOEY LAURE | STAFF REPORTER

University of Cincinnati golfer Jared Howard started this year off on the right foot by helping the men’s golf team win at the Bearcat Invitational on Oct. 7.

Howard is tied for most rounds played this year and is also tied with the lowest score with a 67.

My goal is to win a college tournament which is something I have never done,” Howard said. “And just trying to improve on last year.”

Last year, Howard broke the university record for lowest scoring average in a season, with a score of 72.86. Howard’s best finish in a tournament was second at the Cleveland State Invitational in October 2013.

“Honestly, I did not even know I broke the record last year,” Howard said. “I can’t worry about what happened last year though. Last year is in the past, all I can do is continue to get better.”

Being from a well-known golf town like Dublin, Ohio, has its advantages.

Howard went to Jerome High School in Dublin, where he first learned to play golf.

“Muirfield Village is one of my favorite courses,” Howard said. “Dublin is a huge golf town. My dad always took my brother and I to the course to improve our game. The junior and high school golf is very competitive there as well.”

Howard has played in every tournament the Bearcats have had since his freshman year. Howard has only continued to get better in the time that he has been here. He helped his high school win states in 2007, runner-up in 2008 and a third-place finish in 2010. Now, Howard has helped the Bearcats win two tournaments in the past two years.

“I chose UC because of coach [Doug] Martin,” Howard said. “I thought that if I came here he could help me improve my game. Plus the facilities here are awesome.”

Since Howard was a freshman, he has seen the team build a new golf workout room and become a fully-funded program.

“The team is definitely in an upward trajectory,” Howard said. “Being fully funded really helps coach Martin with recruiting. So, I think the team is going to be really good in the years to come.”

Howard, a marketing and business student, is in his last year at UC but still has plenty of goals and aspirations beyond school. He is still very focused on this year and wants to accomplish the team goals, as well as his individual goals set for the rest of the season.

“I know for sure that I want to become a professional golfer,” Howard said. “So hopefully I can either be on the Web.com tour or the PGA tour.”

Women’s soccer program finishes fall play with notable performances GLEN HARVEY | STAFF REPORTER

University of Cincinnati women’s soccer started its 35th season as a varsity team on fire, going 7-2-2 in the team’s first 11 games and leading to the team’s first double-digit-win season since 2008 and second since 2002. The Bearcats finished 10-8-2 (4-5 in conference play) and protected home field with an impressive record of 7-1-1 at Gettler Stadium where they averaged the highest attendance in program history.

“We want Gettler to be a place that people fear to come play and I want UC to be a program that people fear, but you can’t be great at home and not on the road so we have to find a better balance to our program,” said head coach Neil Stafford.

This was a great season statistically for women’s

soccer; 2014 marked the first time in over a decade that three or more players scored at least five goals each. This dates back to legendary head coach Meridy Glenn’s regime (1983-2007) when she built UC into one of the nation’s elite soccer programs.

Junior forward Danielle Rotheram led the team with seven goals followed by sophomore midfielder Katy Couperus and freshman forward Julie Gavorski who each had five.

Couperus was also acknowledged as second team All American Athletic Conference while finishing second on the team in points (15) with five goals and five assists. Senior defender Jae Atkinson was selected to the Capital One Academic All-District Team, an award that accounts for on-field play and classroom work with

at GPA no lower than a 3.3 to go along with her two goals and team-leading 11 assists.

Two freshmen were recognized for their performances on the field. Selected to the conference’s all-rookie team were Gavorski and defender Vanessa Gilles. Gavorski finished the season tied for first on the team in points scored during conference matches (6). Gilles helped post eight shutouts as a defender and scored four goals with one assist while on offense.

Women’s soccer honored eight seniors this season that finished their careers as Bearcats.

Coach Stafford has the team on the rise, improving on the teams record from 8-11 in his 1st season since coming over from Central Michigan to 10 wins and eight losses in his sophomore campaign at UC.

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The packaging for Macaron Bar’s to-go boxes was designed by DAAP graduate Kyle Oldfield, a close friend of one of the owners. The shop will also sell coffee and tea in its contemporary atmosphere.

Forthcoming OTR shop first in city to focus on macarons SHEALYN HOEHN | CONTRIBUTOR

Over-the-Rhine is preparing for its newest installment on Main Street, an independent business that will be the first of its kind in Cincinnati: Macaron Bar. Macarons seem to be the “it food” of the century, becoming more and more popular in places such as New York and Los Angles, which is exactly what motivated founders Patrick Moloughney and Nathan Sivitz to open their own store within the hustle and bustle of

Cincinnati’s city life.

A macaron is a small, colorful French pastry, consisting of a flavored jam or filling — called ganache — sandwiched between two small biscuits.

Moloughney and Sivitz have studied the culinary arts in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, London and Paris to ultimately bring their work back home and into the vibrant energy of OTR. Moloughney has a B.A. from George Washington University and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University. Before

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Macarons are a cultural staple in French cuisine, and are everywhere in Paris and other major cities.

opening the Macaron Bar, he was a brand manager at Procter & Gamble Co. for 10 years, where he led the expansion of Mr. Clean Car Wash, which was P&G’s first foray into retail services.

Cincinnati native Nathan Sivitz has a B.S. from Xavier University and a strong passion for baking.

He studied pastry with a focus on macarons at The Gourmandise School in Santa Monica, California, and the “pièce de résistance” of his training was a macarons master class at Ecole Lenôtre in France.

University of Cincinnati College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning graduate Kyle Oldfield, a close friend of Moloughney, designed the to-go packaging for the macarons.

While the local bar scene seems to have adopted more of an artistically rustic perspective, the Macaron Bar stands out with its contemporary décor and product.

The wooden floors, exposed brick, infusions of steel and stained glass and bright white countertops give a perfect foundation for the shop’s brightly assorted macarons.

Starting at $2, each kosher, gluten-free macaron holds the best-kept secrets of the duo’s travels and then some.

In addition to macarons, the store will sell coffee and tea.

These drinks will be made fresh when ordered. This practice will give customers the feeling of being taken care of, versus

the standard restaurant practice of use of a community coffee pot.

The Macaron Bar only uses local ingredients, using coffee from Deeper Roots, a local roaster based out of Mt. Healthy.

The tea comes from Essencha Tea House in Oakley.

“The acidity of the drinks pair with the sweetness of the macarons perfectly,” Moloughney said.

The Macaron Bar doesn’t just cater to taste. It promises to give 5 percent of all revenue back to one of three non-profit organizations: Freestore Food Bank, Community Shares or the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

Moloughney plans to open stores in other locations, such as Downtown, Hyde Park, and then possibly a kiosk in Kenwood Mall.

Upon opening, the Macaron Bar will begin baking classes on Saturdays for those who want in on the secrets of making the perfect macaron.

For the first few months, the shop plans to open at 8 a.m. for the early birds and will close around midnight to catch some of the bar traffic and those who want to top off the night with a sobering hot cup of coffee and sweet treat.

The shop is making minor finishing touches and plans to make its big debut by the first week of December.

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Tom Wesselmann’s art frequently combines found materials with vibrant colors. ABOVE: His “Still Life #20” from 1962 mixes painting with sculpture.

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In a 1984 interview with art critic Irving Sandler, renowned pop artist Tom Wesselmann revealed that “painting, sex and humor” were the most important things in his life. This is vividly apparent in an ongoing exhibit of Wesselmann’s career, “Beyond Pop Art: A Tom Wesselmann Retrospective,” which is open now until Jan. 18 at the Cincinnati Art Museum.

The exhibit showcases a wide array of Wesselmann’s art and summarizes his progression through different styles and mediums chronologically. The Cincinnati Art Museum walks viewers down a visual timeline across multiple forms of media with its presentation of “Beyond Pop Art: a Tom Wesselmann Retrospective.”

Wesselmann graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in psychology in 1954. During his first few years at UC, he developed an interest in cartooning and decided to further his artistic career at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Cooper Union in New York.

After leaving the Cooper Union in 1956, Wesselmann began working on abstract collages, which he built from scraps and trash that he found on the street. These early works are not typically talked about when discussing Wesselmann, but they are on display in the museum’s retrospective.

The colorful multimedia pieces look nice framed and next to Wesselmann’s other work, but they are definitely less impressive than the rest of the pieces in the exhibit. This is exciting to see, because it lets viewers observe Wesselmann’s beginnings and how his artwork morphs over the years into something completely different.

The series “Great American Nude” was started in 1961 and marks a turning point

in Wesselmann’s artist style from heavily abstract to heavily figurative work. He claimed that he strayed from abstraction because he felt that he was too inspired by another abstract artist, Willem de Kooning.

Wesselmann believed he could not develop his own unique work if he kept working in the abstract.

The “Great American Nude” series is based around a patriotic color scheme of red, white, blue and other patriotic colors like gold and khaki.

The pieces from “Great American Nude,” like much of Wesselmann’s work, could easily be dismissed as pornography without prior knowledge of how the female figure is used as a source of design within the art community.

The paintings juxtapose the idea of the odalisque — the reclining nude female pose depicted in many paintings by European masters — with a collage of patriotic symbols and images, such as presidents’ faces and American flags.

Shaped canvases play a huge part in Wesselmann’s work toward the middle of his career. All over the walls of the Cincinnati Art Museum, spectators can see huge disembodied lips spewing cigarette smoke or mouths depicted in different expressions from the works of the “Mouth” and “Smokers” studies. These pieces blur the lines between sculpture and painting with their shaped canvases.

Regardless of how impressive the scale of the mouths is, they feel mass produced and simple compared to Wesselmann’s figurative paintings.

During the time that Wesselmann worked on his “Great American Nude” series and his “Mouth” studies, he also created a series of still life sculptures based on American culture.

The Cincinnati Art Museum displayed many of the original sketches for these sculptures in frames next to the actual

creations, giving viewers wonderful insight into Wesselmann’s artistic process.

Wesselmann was getting tired of painting full-length nudes as he continued the “Great American Nudes” series, and felt the need to do something new in his work. Not wanting to stray completely from his figurative work, he began the “Bedroom Paintings” series in 1965.

This series shows Wesselmann’s artistic growth and incorporates skills from all of his previous work.

The works from “Bedroom Paintings” depict close-ups of female faces in different states of ecstasy, emphasizing the objects that surround her in the bedroom.

This series takes inspiration from the eroticism of “Great American Nude,” the detailed expressions from the “Smoker” and “Mouth” studies and the wonderful renderings of up-close objects credited to his practice with still lives.

The exhibit then charts Wesselmann’s exploration into what he called “Steel Drawings,” which were images rendered from cut steel in an era before the ability to accurately cut metal with lasers.

Wesselmann then returned to the abstract in his work in the ‘90s, when he began creating pieces from scraps of metal leftover from his “Steel Drawings.”

And so Wesselmann found his own way back to abstraction — right where he started in 1959.

The Cincinnati Art Museum chose an engaging variety of Wesselmann’s paintings from the “Sunset Nudes” series which he worked on in the 2000s. These pieces include a variety of styles that can be observed in Wesselmann’s earlier paintings displayed in the rest of the exhibit.

It is intriguing to see the way that all of his previous work contributed to his final paintings before his death in 2004.

Poitras narrates, but chooses to never show her face. Contrastingly, as Snowden describes the programs he used at government contractor Booze Allen Hamilton the camera never strays from his face, trained on his eyes and his emotions.

“Citizenfour” is not a documentary that delves into the complex NSA surveillance programs themselves in detail, but rather focuses on the ramifications of leaking classified information.

Greenwald and Poitras crafted this film to evaluate what it means to be a whistleblower both in the 21st century and under President Barack Obama’s administration. “Citizenfour” is less concerned with the copies of PowerPoints that Snowden obtained, and more concerned with his reasons to have them published, as the NSA has continually said that its methods and activities are justified in combatting terror.

In a country and world with less and less privacy every day — all in the name of fighting terrorism — Snowden was motivated to become a whistleblower not by fame or ego, but by feeling he had an obligation to share, and let the public decide for themselves if these practices were not just legal, but moral or ethical.

“I’m mostly concerned with the increased state power against the people’s ability to oppose state power and policies,” Snowden replies in the film when asked what was his main motivation to leak the information.

“I’m getting paid to sit there designing systems to limit that same ability.”

He talks about knowing the Internet before it was being watched, how people joke of “ending up on a list” due to a certain search, and how this is making people consciously watch what they type, “limiting the boundaries of their intellectual exploration.”

The film also focuses on how Snowden chose to publish the classified documents first, and then come forward in an act of courage, defiance and denouncement of the NSA. He feared that coming out first with the documents would insert bias; detracting from the main stories he wanted the public to focus its attention on. But of course when watching CNN from his Hong Kong hotel room, Snowden sees Wolf Blitzer and the rest of his staff focusing on nothing else besides the question: Who did this?

“Citizenfour” may not be the most flashy documentary, but Poitras excels in capturing the humanity of Snowden; the humanity in his ideas, in his actions and in his reasons why he chose to do what he did, things that essentially turned him into an outlaw.

The simplicity of this documentary and subtle power that it wields is all that’s needed to make this an incredibly compelling profile piece, a piece that boils down to the question of if we don’t have a right to privacy, then how do we have a right to free speech?

As Snowden currently hides in an undisclosed location in Russia, living on a three-year residency permit as he continues to seek asylum from the European Union, the film inevitably hints that we may be losing those rights too.