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wednesday , feb . 17, 2010 the fashion dungjen Nail polish serves as an accent to any ensemble. page 3

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troy evans Former UC Bearcat wins Super Bowl ring with New Orleans.

Check out photos from the last two days without classes. page 4

Individuals pose threat to cyberspace page 6

With three parts to Internet security, two UC professors argue final tier is overlooked cybersecurity actually contribute unwittingly to national vulnerabilities because their computers and other devices can be used by those with malevolent intentions,” said Stever, acting head of the department of political science.

It’s not to say that individuals intentionally harm the cyber network, but rather through ignorance.

People can open an e-mail or an attachment with a virus and not even know what they did, said Kevin McLaughlin, assistant vice president of information security and special projects at UC. On the other side of the spectrum, the motivation behind computer hackers is rooted in several causes, including money.

“It’s no longer pleasure or somebody

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Two University of Cincinnati professors, James Stever and Richard Harknett, co-authored a paper focusing on the threat individuals can be to cybersecurity.

“The Cybersecurity Triad: Government, the Private Sector Partners and the Engaged Cybersecurity Citizen” reflects the same mindset of Washington administrators who are reexamining the policy on cybersecurity.

The third prong of the threetiered concept is individuals are largely overlooked as a threat to national security.

“Individuals practicing poor

saying, ‘Hey, see what I did,’” McLaughlin said. “Now there are financial gains.

They can capture passwords, including online banking.”

The authors recommend that people take the initiative to learn the proper way to move through cyberspace, according to the paper.

One of the first steps is to change their attitudes toward the cyber community from a private, personal concern to that of a public good.

“In the cyber world, one person’s negligence jeopardizes other people’s security,” Stever and Harknett said. “Hence, cybersecurity is a public good.”

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Students fund van for Jarvis

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playing it safe Senior Kurt Olding works on his gaming skills in Tangeman University Center Friday, Feb.12.

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brief undergraduate research fellowship opportunities deadline

Interested in getting some money for research? The University Research Council is currently accepting applications for the Undergraduate Student Research Fellowship Program. Applicants must be engaged full time in their research during the period the grant spans. Those who are accepted will receive a two-month stipend ($1,500 per month) from July 1 through Aug. 31. For more information, e-mail Linda Minton at Linda.minton@uc.edu.

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After months of fundraising, Mike Jarvis and his family have the handicap van they need.

A November 2009 car accident left Jarvis, a second-year College of Business student, paralyzed from the chest down and his family in need of a special van to get him to and from rehabilitation.

Kyle Neyer, a second-year marketing student, and Jarvis’s roommate at the time, wanted to help. He started the Facebook group “Handicap Van for the Jarvis Family” to raise awareness and money to purchase the van.

Neyer needed $36,000­ — he helped raise approximately $44,000.

Jarvis and his family received the money the week of Feb. 8.

After five days of fundraising and asking for donations on Facebook, Neyer raised $20,000. Money came from University of Cincinnati students, their parents and people across the United States who heard of the accident through the group. A fundraiser at FB, a downtown bar, also raised additional funds. “[Jarvis] told me how much easier it has made his and his parents life not having to rely on an outside service for transportation anymore,” Neyer wrote in a message to members of the Facebook group.

Jarvis was paralyzed when he and four UC students were involved in a Nov. 20, 2009, accident. The men were traveling to a retreat for their fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, when Ryan Atkins, a second-year student, lost control of the GMC Envoy. The vehicle flipped several times before crossing into Interstate 75’s northbound traffic in Rockcastle County, Ky. After the accident, the men were taken to the University of Kentucky Medical Center for treatment. Mark Wood, Pike president, canceled the retreat when he heard about the accident. Jon Doerger, Kyle Quinn and Dan Rehard, who were all in the SUV, were released from the medical center and are back on campus attending classes.

Atkins, who is paralyzed from the neck down, was transported from the UK Medical Center in late November to a therapy center where he’s been recovering. Before winter see van | page 2

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Clearing up campus University of Cincinnati workers start plowing and clearing campus early in the morning. Although classes were canceled beginning at noon Monday and all day Tuesday, UC facilities management and parking services were still working.

• UC Facilities management and grounds moving and transportation are responsible for clearing campus.

• UC Parking services is responsible for clearing roads.

• Facilities has a self-imposed deadline of 7 a.m. for clearing walkways.

• There are up to 45 individuals working at once clearing up East and West campuses and the College of Applied Sciences.

Source: Rick Wiggins, Facilities Management

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Service learning courses receive grant to incorporate community hannah hasson the news record

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The University of Cincinnati has been awarded additional federal funding to promote service learning within its classes.

The $29,634 grant is carry-over funds from the three-year Great Cities Great Service grant and will support 20 service-learning courses at the university, said Michael Sharp, director for community-engaged learning at UC’s Center for Community Engagement.

The funding is applied to specific courses, which serves the community while still incorporating a traditional role of academia through projects and

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group work. The money will be split into 20 mini grants.

The funding is available to UC through a partnership with Ohio Campus Compact, a non-profit organization that works for civic development and higher education, Sharp said.

“The greater attention to the concept of service, the greater the likelihood that it will engage more people in contemplating service,” said Christine Lottman, a human media and cultural studies field service associate professor. “The more people are aware of and accept service as part of our cultural norm, the greater the likelihood it will become an expected aspect of our interpersonal makeup.”

The grant also aims to help UC faculty and students convert to semesters.

The mini grants will allow faculty to incorporate service learning into 14-week courses, Sharp said.

“While everyone is busy breaking apart their classes, we’re saying, ‘Hey, have you thought about this new way of learning, service learning?’” Sharp said. “We’re trying to seize this moment where UC is unfreezing.”

With courses centered on service learning, the faculty can engage the community while teaching, Sharp said.

“The overall purpose of the grant is to energize service learning here at UC,” Sharp said. “We’re hoping it gets the word see Service | page 2

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COMMUNITY SERVICE MONEY The Center for Community Engagement is taking steps to incorporate service-learning into classes by giving $750 grants.

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UC commuters need snow days

Dear Editor, I am writing this partly in support of the statement by University of Cincinnati professor John Maddux in the Feb. 15 News Record article “UC’s inaction irresponsible,” and partly because I am infuriated with the complete disregard for the safety of UC students, especially those who have to commute to campus.

I live in Green Township, and my commute requires me to drive up and down hills and around curves, especially the portion of Queen City Avenue between Ferguson Road and Sunset Avenue. I see institutions such as Northern Kentucky University, Xavier University, College of Mount St. Joseph and others announce class cancelations before 7 a.m. or earlier because of weather and road conditions resulting from heavy snowfall.

But when a highly accredited institution such as the University of Cincinnati waits until noon to announce closing, I feel incredibly disrespected by the UC administration and I wonder why I am spending a large amount of money to go here.

I agree with Maddux when he states the arrogance administrators show by ignoring weather reports and snow emergencies demonstrates a complete lack of concern for commuter students like me. For the UC administration’s policy that students should take their own discretion in coming to class is a non-answer and a slap in the face.

The University of Cincinnati should care more about safety on campus grounds and consider those people who have to drive to class in the morning. Whoever is responsible for making the decision to close campus in situations like these, shame on you. This is one future alum who doesn’t plan on making a donation to the university in the future.

Sincerely, Bob Bruns Fourth-year political science student luge | from page 3 Muffling the sound of the crash surely was intended to alleviate the disturbing impact of the crash, displaying more sensitivity on NBC’s part in handling the matter than other networks.

Had it been an American who died, the entire video most likely would not have been broadcasted because the media tends to be more sensitive when covering national stories.

The media has sensationalized the news story because of its current relevance and its shocking content — it’s a no-brainer ratings boost. But the focus needs to shift back toward the other dedicated athletes competing for their chance at winning the Olympic gold.

Stephanie Kitchens is a second-year journalism student.

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try to let the last five months sink in.

“I really don’t think it has settled in for me yet,” Evans said. “Every day it’s something I think about like, ‘Wow, we won the Super Bowl.’ It’s starting to settle in, but I haven’t really sat down and really reflected yet.”

Evans knows he will forever be associated with the 2009-10 Saints, and the Lakota High School grad couldn’t think of a better group of men to go down in history with.

“We’ll sort of walk together forever, so to speak, with this big win,” Evans said.

Not only did Evans’ Saints have a good season, but his alma mater had its best season this year.

The Bearcats finished off a perfect 12-0 regular season on their way to a Sugar Bowl appearance in New Orleans.

Evans wasn’t shy about letting his fellow Saints teammates know how his Bearcats were doing, either.

Of course, after the Sugar Bowl, Evans admitted he took some good-natured ribbing from his colleagues about the 51-24 Cincinnati loss at the hands of the Florida Gators.

When Evans looks back at his days as a Bearcat, one lasting memory stands out. It was Sept. 18, 1999 — Evans’ junior season at UC. A crowd of roughly 17,000, just less than half of Nippert Stadium’s capacity, was on hand to

watch the Bearcats play ninth-ranked Wisconsin.

“It was a typical Cincinnati crowd back then,” Evans said. “Word got around that Cincinnati was beating the [ninth-] ranked team in the country today and, by the end of the game, the stadium was packed.”

Cincinnati was able to hold on for a 17-12 win despite playing against eventual Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne.

Evans went on to win the Jim Kelly Award in 1999 and 2000 as the player with outstanding spirit. He came to UC in 1997 and played four years as a Bearcat before graduating with a business finance degree in 2000.

As for the Super Bowl coin flip, Evans sort of had that fall into his lap.

Four Saints players went to midfield for the toss, Drew Brees, Jonathan Vilma, Will Smith and Evans. After looking at each other and trying to decide who among them would make the call, Evans stepped in.

“I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it today, forget it, I feel good. I think me and Emmitt can connect on one,’ ” Evans said.

Sure enough, Evans and 2010 Hall of Fame inductee Emmitt Smith, who tossed the coin, connected, and the Saints went on to a 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in what will most certainly go down as one of the greatest Super Bowl’s ever.

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anyone else on the Cincinnati team, and his six wins were also tops for the Bearcats.

“It’s just a difficult thing to replace in one year,” Cleary said.

“We have some freshmen that I think could be like those guys, but maybe not necessarily right away.”

Sophomore T.J. Jones is coming off an excellent freshman year in which he hit .327 with 32 RBIs. The Bearcats will look for Jones to help replace some of the offense they lost.

“He just looks a whole lot more comfortable to me on the field than he did as a freshman,” Cleary said. “He works incredibly hard, he looks a lot more consistent to me at the plate. You can win with guys like him.”

After hitting .294 with 30 RBIs last season, junior Justin Riddell will look to provide the Cats with another strong bat. Riddell will begin the season hitting in the clean-up position.

The addition of freshman infielder Logan Jackson should provide the Cats with more offense.

Jackson was named second team all-state in Kentucky as a high school senior.

One concern for Cincinnati will be its pitching staff. The Bearcats struggled in 2009, allowing a From NASCAR | page 6

finish thanks to 144 minutes of delays, and all because professional racecar drivers couldn’t deal with something you and I face out on the open road everyday: a pothole.

The patch of broken asphalt between turns one and two brought the race to a halt with 75 of the initial 200 laps remaining after it was believed to cause damage to a number of cars.

Track officials spent one hour and 40 minutes repairing the pothole.

Drivers fell asleep in their cars. Think of how fans watching TV felt.

And the repairs didn’t even work. A second stoppage with 39 laps remaining lasted another 44 minutes.

Track officials weren’t even prepared for the asphalt reconstruction surgery. Members of the repair crew had to borrow materials from drivers’ pit crews in order to make the final repairs.

Sure, the race’s finish was one of the best and most exciting finales in recent memory with its double overtime-style final laps, but no casual fan had stuck around long enough to see it after all the delays.

During the down time, NASCAR’s golden boy, Dale Earnhardt Jr., halfjokingly suggested track officials just place an orange traffic cone on top of the pothole and force the drivers to adapt.

Earnhardt has been critical of the Daytona track before, and with good reason. The track surface hasn’t been repaved in FROM cyber | page 1

responded to with notions of civic duty and responsibility.

Yet, the concept of the Internet being a public good is only one of many perspectives.

“It’s a great area of debate,” McLaughlin said.

“In my viewpoint, the Internet is a shared resource on the professional side.

It’s a performance and business-enhancing tool. But on the personal side I agree with them completely.”

Despite differing opinions, information technology experts agree that a couple of the best ways to get the information to people is through presentations and seminars.

Harknett and Stever suggest individuals voluntarily attending seminars, or complete a seminar, resulting in the reward of a password to computer operating systems.

.318 opponent batting average and needs to improve from its 6.73 ERA last season.

“We’ve really made a concerted effort on trying to build enough of a pitching staff that — instead of trying to outscore everybody — maybe we can hold them down a little bit more,” Cleary said.

The season begins when the Cats go on the road to take on Florida Atlantic in Boca Raton, Fla. UC’s schedule won’t get any easier, as the Bearcats have a tough match-up when they take on preseason No. 21 Ohio State in the Big Ten/Big East Challenge in St. Petersburg, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 28.

UC will also face the Kentucky Wildcats at Marge Schott Stadium, as well as a home-and-home series with rival Xavier University.

The challenges will continue as Cincinnati will face three Big East teams ranked in the preseason top-40: South Florida, St. John’s and Notre Dame.

The Cats get a break in the regular season, as they don’t play Big East favorite, No. 21 Louisville.

The Bearcats will be looking to return to their 2008 form where they finished second in the Big East and reached the finals of the Big East tournament.

31 years. It’s no wonder the thing was falling apart.

“We’re the world center of racing.

This is the Daytona 500. This is not supposed to happen,” said Daytona International Speedway President Robin Braig.

Real sports don’t have problems like this.

You don’t see LeBron James or Kobe Bryant worrying about getting a splinter from an NBA hard court.

And when NFL teams take the field to muddy and undesirable conditions, they play through it, like the Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins did in November 2007.

Sure, other sports have also been prone to some wacky delays recently.

Manu Ginobili and the invading bat at the AT&T Center last November and Major League Baseball and its fair share of animal-related delays over the years come to mind.

But, the NBA and MLB aren’t to blame for those snafus. Football fields, NBA hard courts, ice rinks and baseball diamonds are regularly kept up to code.

NASCAR and Daytona are directly at fault for Sunday’s pothole debacle.

More than 30 years shouldn’t have gone by between repaving in the first place and track officials should have at least been prepared to make any repairs.

NASCAR is already the laughing stock of the sports world, and it certainly didn’t do anything to help itself over the weekend.

UCit already provides brown-bag lunch seminars for faculty and staff and presentations for students, especially on protection within social networking Web sites.

“We’re very aware of internal and external threats posed by individuals,” McLaughlin said.

When the Internet first became available to the general masses, it was decided the government would have few restrictions toward what people could and could not do with it.

“In avoiding empowering the state, cyberspace has evolved toward the other extreme of open anarchy,” said Harknett, associate professor of political science. “The possibility of cyber attacks that dismantle financial, transportation, electrical, water and energy

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What: College of Engineering blood drive Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where: Tangeman University Center, Room 400ABC What: “No Impact Man” movie viewing Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: MainStreet Cinema What: METRO/CWEST talent show auditions Time: 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Where: Lindner Hall, Room 223 What: Acoustic Brew Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Where: MainStreet Cinema What: Cincinnati-Opoly Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: Tangeman University Center, Room 400B

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out and energizes faculty in a way that they serve the community.”

Funding is essential to the teaching curriculum for Heidi Kloos, an associate professor of psychology. Kloos teaches a communityservice class on children’s learning.

“The goal is to bring to life what students learn in the class room,” Kloos said. “Rather than merely studying children’s learning from the account of others, students can observe first-hand children’s learning, create their own materials and experience the difficulty that comes with informal learning.”

The recipients of these mini grants include programs within the College of Allied Health Sciences, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, CollegeConservatory of Music, College of Engineering and Applied Science, College of Medicine and Raymond Walters College.

“I am hoping that all of us, faculty, students, and staff alike, recognize that we can make a commitment to service,” Lottman said. “I have seen a significant shift since I started working here, so I think we are definitely building momentum.”

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infrastructures is not the stuff of science fiction.”

Hackers are getting smarter; they are able to protect themselves against getting caught now more than ever, McLaughlin said.

“It’s going to point back to you, so it looks like you did it,” McLaughlin said. “You’re just collateral damage.”

Because individuals might not know whether or not they load viruses onto their personal or business computers, a virus or malware can exist for months before being detected.

“We would hope that the reality of threat would help in changing the population’s approach,” Stever said.

“But unfortunately, it may not happen until a major attack occurs.”

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break, Atkins said he felt bed sheets between his legs and, in mid-January, he was taken off a ventilator and is breathing on his own, Wood said.

Jarvis was moved from the Medical Center to the Dodd Medical Facility in Columbus where he’s been receiving physical therapy.

Although Jarvis was once only able to communicate only with his eyes, he’s now talking and can lift his arms above his head. He has no mobility in his wrists or hands; he is paralyzed from mid-chest down, Wood said.

Jarvis returned to his parents’ home Tuesday, Jan. 19. His family is putting an addition onto their Lexington, Ohio, home to make it wheelchair accessible. become a fan of the news record on facebook. 2,000 by march 11.

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DUNGJEN taylor dungjen

Nail polish accents any ensemble I don’t think it’s a secret to suggest I love shoes. They’re the perfect necessary accessory that can totally change an outfit.

They come in every size, shape and color. They can be tall or short. Have a round toe, square toe, peep toe.

They’re brilliant.

But an option that is less painful than six-inch pumps but will still add a punch to your appearance is a fresh coat of paint … for your fingernails.

Having your nails painted is an easy way to bring out an accent color in a shirt, necklace or another part of your outfit.

It’s an easy way to bring spunk to a monotone ensemble.

What’s great about using nail polish as an accessory is it can be changed every day (although, it is, a lot of work) and, like the it colors of any season, change.

In the coming warmer months, it is always a refreshing experience to shed darker colors from fall and winter and slip into something springy. This year, consider passing up the pastel hues that remind you of spring — those that can also be closely associated with Easter are a good indication of what to stay away from. If you’re dead set on pastels, do something a little different and try a polish with a matte finish. Using a flat color is an on-point trend that will carry over from winter 2009 with ease.

But if you’re feeling more bold, there are more exciting options. Try gold, white, sand and pale gray. These are a few favorites you should definitely allow yourself to be tempted by. While white and pale gray might sound safe and boring and totally not spring, that is not the case. White and gray are usually trending during winter months; now, though, by switching seasons, it’s more high-brow fashion than ever. But don’t think you have to stop with muted tones — a bright ruby red is always a classic and stylish favorite, try a blue metallic or purple with a high sheen.

Nail art is also something to consider. Traditional French-tips are always a popular favorite, but trying them in a different way will spice up the whitetipped nails. Try a black and brown combination or perhaps red with sand or pale gray tips. The possibilities could be endless. (University of Cincinnati fans might even find themselves with red nails and black tips — not a combination that you might wear every day, but perhaps on special schoolspirit occasions.)

The French tips are easy to do at home if you don’t want to pay the salon prices. You can buy a kit at a local drugstore that will show you where to put a crescent shaped sticker on your finger nail so lines will be straight and even. A kit costs anywhere from $5 to $8, depending on the brand.

This spring, instead of a $50 necklace, splurge on a bottle of nail color. You can try salon favorites like OPI or Essie, but don’t be afraid to spend a little more for a color you can’t live without. If there’s a color you like but aren’t sure you want to commit, purchase a less expensive brand and give it a try before spending more on a designer brand.

And keep these hints in mind for tip-top tips: —Darker colors can sometimes stain your nails yellow. To avoid this, try applying a basecoat to your nail before the dark color.

—If you’re worried about nail polish making your nails more brittle, try using a nail strengthener instead of a base coat before you apply nail polish. Also, give your nails a rest from time-to-time and don’t constantly have a coat of polish on. Try to avoid nail polish and nail polish removers containing formaldehyde.

—If your nail polish chips easily, the last swipe should be from left to right just under the tip of your nail. Don’t polish right on the edge, though. It will be more likely to chip if it’s on the edge. Also use a top coat to ensure a longer-lasting manicure.

Short nails are less likely to chip than longer ones.

—To help your nails dry fast, dip them in a bowl of ice water. Don’t be a masochist, but expect it to take at least five to 10 minutes.

Tell Taylor your polish pointers by writing to thefashiondungjen@gmail.com.

maria bergh

I walked into Terry’s house almost on a dare. My employer called it his “peach”; my supervisor Matt didn’t say anything about it, except he’d rather see it burn and rebuilt from scratch. Terry was in the hospital with his son who has a kidney condition.

I walked through the back door opening; the door was long gone.

Heel to toe I crossed the kitchen on a single two-by-four joist, the floor nonexistent. At the doorframe leading into the rest of the house, I paused to pull back a cotton sheet strung up as a curtain, the only barrier between living space and wilderness. Around me, men were pulling out the last boards, leveling new foundation blocks and speculating other necessary repairs.

I stuck my head under the curtain tentatively: I wasn’t sure what room I was about to enter, or whether Terry and all of the inhabitants were truly out of the house. The room was empty and incomprehensible. There was a bed piled high with items, chairs filled with drawers, kitchen

appliances, heaters and boxes. A television sat across the room and the walls were lined with shelves and old wood paneling.

I went down the hall searching for the living room. I found a bathroom, a few spare rooms and a utility room. Puzzled, I came back out and saw the living room was the first room, the everything room — the entire home. Everything else was a largely uninhabited expanse, empty, as though no one properly moved in or knew how to use the space. It wasn’t until I was on the top of a ladder nailing cladding to a new wall that I stared over the roofline and realized what was wrong.

The entire back room had fallen off. A year and a half ago, before Hurricane Ike, this had been a kitchen. A tree landed squarely on the roof and, after one year, water damage tore the room apart.

Through this, Terry continued to use it, unable to change the storm and unwilling to undergo more variation in a life that has very narrow margins. While Terry was out, crew members were ripping

into the room, in hopes that we could fix his home without interrupting a moment of his life.

The ridgeline of Terry’s roof, rather than forming a straight, firm spine against the sky, curved, like a back arched in pain. The slant of the roof fell away from it in a valley, but the shingle pattern looked wrong. In the living room, the shape was explained by a large post taking the place of a ceiling light in the center of the room, on which the roof leaned like an elbow.

We were, and are, strictly not to touch the rest of the house, no matter how needy it is. Why? It could be we don’t have the money.

But we are respecting Terry’s privacy. He has put his entire life into this house and rarely leaves; he has a very small world.

Before we judge Terry, it is important to realize any man or woman who has lost so much clings to what remains. It is simply human nature to stabilize and hang on, just as one would a broken limb. The easiest and most natural way to heal is to hold still.

But it is equally true that without moving, one will only stiffen and weaken. An injured muscle, once the healing process is started, must be flexed and strengthened or else it will never fully recover. And this is where Terry, and most of us, needs help.

It is easy to be laid off, rejected, beaten, addicted or attacked individually, as a country or as a state. It is incredibly hard to forgive, move on and realize there is growth in the loss. In losing we learn to trust, and in trusting we find what is really important. By giving away what isn’t necessary, there is room for what is even better.

As long as we cannot distinguish between the things that need to stay and the things that would be better to change, we, individually and as a society, will be crouching in one room, unable to see beyond our walls to the possibilities that lie in the rebuilding.

Maria Bergh is a fourth-year architecture student and intern for Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders, rebuilding houses in Texas after Hurricane Ike.

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NBC stops broadcasting luge death video Stephanie kitchens

The XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, got off to a tragic start Friday, Feb. 12, when a luger lost control of his sled during practice and died.

Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, from the Republic of Georgia, failed to properly maneuver a difficult 270-degree turn during practice and slammed into an unpadded steel pole while he was racing at approximately 90 mph.

The luge track had been criticized for being too technically demanding, fast and dangerous. In the week preceding the fatal accident, more than one dozen lugers crashed on the course.

The facility where the games are taking place, the Whistler Sliding Centre track, cost more than $100 million to construct. It boasts the world’s longest drop at 152 meters and propels lugers to speeds of 95 mph.

The International Luge Federation and Vancouver Olympic officials released a joint statement indicating the death was caused by human error, not by the track itself.

But Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia, said an athlete’s mistake should not result in his death.

Since the accident, Olympic officials agreed to raise the wall in an effort to prevent another luger from getting thrown off the track where Kumaritashavili did. They also added padding to the steel pillars, reconfigured the contours of the final turn and removed a 90-foot drop.

These safety precautions should have been implemented in the original design and construction of the track; many of the lugers who practiced on the course expressed concern for their safety before the accidents.

Not often are lugers forced off the track from a crash, but it does occasionally happen and the dangerous steel posts should not have been overlooked in the design.

Videos and photos of Friday’s accident have made the rounds on the Internet and network television news, some broadcasting it multiple times at regular speed and then in slow motion.

NBC was the only network to muffle the sound of the crash.

NBC, the network broadcasting the Olympics, stopped showing the video altogether as of Saturday night. NBC stated it did not want to show this video before the luge competition and they would not be airing it again.

Viewers complained via Twitter about the gruesome content. Others called in their protests, indicating the video should not have been shown repeatedly before the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics.

A graphic image or video puts journalists in a precarious position of power. Should they display the entire video or edit the content? And if they choose to edit it, then it is important to make sure the story does not become skewed from the revision.

The airing of Kumaritashvili’s fatal crash was disrespectful to his family and friends. The

journalists could have described what happened and showed parts of the video without showing the actual crash.

Warning the viewers of graphic content is essential. This way viewers can choose to flip the channel if they do not want to see carnage.

A popular argument for broadcating such explicit content is children see violence in movies and video games as well as on the news. But the news is about real people whereas movies and video games are fictional, for the most part. see Luge | page 2

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After weeks of health care reform stalls, President Barack Obama has finally decided to jumpstart Congress by guiding it through the stymied process. In an announcement Friday, Obama asked congressional leaders of both parties to meet with him in a health care summit. Obama also pledged to put up a comprehensive outline of the Democratic plan on the White House Web site, which will allow Republicans and the public to see exactly what Democrats are proposing.

After weeks of Republicans legitimately criticizing the Democrats for a lack of transparency, they are getting exactly what they asked for.

Not only is Obama promising an open, televised debate with both sides, but he is also making his side of the argument fully available to the public days before the debate.

And the Republican response?

“It’s a trap,” said radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

House Minority Leader John Boehner echoed Rush Limbaugh’s sentiments: “I don’t want to walk into some trap. I don’t want to walk into some political event.”

For a comedian, this is material writing itself. After weeks of Republicans railing against Obama for not televising all health care talks on C-SPAN, Republicans get exactly what they asked for and respond to it negatively.

It is completely ridiculous, but it’s not surprising. After their victory in Massachusetts, Republicans have decided their stonewalling strategy is the best course of action for victory in 2010. As they see it, this is the strategy that made Obama look like an empty suit and it is what made health care reform go from fairly popular to nearly hated by the American public.

The problem is the political strategy does not meet with moral and economic realities. As everybody has probably heard by now, rising health care costs are by far the

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biggest contributor to America’s growing deficit. It is also the cause of bankruptcy for many Americans every year, with almost two-thirds of bankruptcies in 2007 credited to astronomical medical bills.

To sit by and act like health care reform is just a political pawn is disingenuous.

Republicans constantly criticize Obama’s huge deficits and they are right to. Yet when Obama wants to move forward in massively cutting those deficits, Republicans seem content to rest on their laurels.

That is not to say Republicans should blindly go along with everything Obama wants and support the health care bill without any opposition. Even liberals and Democrats have quite a few problems with the reform and no progressive will ever say the bill is perfect. But Democrats know no one is going to get everything they want, and discussing the current bill, giving new proposals and admitting mistakes with the

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current health care system are all important steps toward progress. Just like Obama should be trying to make the process as transparent as possible, Republicans should be more willing to take part in it.

It is sad two years after promising to put “country first” in presidential campaign slogans, Republicans are now OK with putting politics first. Even worse, Americans will probably reward them for it by giving them more seats in the House and Senate this November.

But that does not eliminate the problem. Whether Republicans or the public like it, health care reform must happen. Avoiding the issue will not delay it and will actually make the problem much worse by edging the government — and more Americans — toward bankruptcy.

If Republicans truly care about the deficit, now is the time to act.

German Lopez is a third-year journalism student interested in world politics.

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UC alum wins Super Bowl with Saints Garrett Sabelhaus the news record

Troy Evans will forever be referred to as a Super Bowl champion.

Super Bowl XLIV, to be exact.

There is no doubt the night of Sunday, Feb. 7 will be a memory painted in his memory for the rest of his life.

Evans, a former linebacker at the University of Cincinnati, also called the coin toss prior to kickoff in the New Orleans Saints’ first NFL championship.

But Evans won’t be remembered for the rest of his life because correctly picked heads or tails. His children and eventual grandchildren will

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Pothole delay embarrasses Daytona 500

Never before in NASCAR has one weekend been as highly anticipated and hyped as the past weekend had been.

And never before in NASCAR has one weekend failed to deliver on expectations as badly as the past weekend did.

In the days leading up to the weekend, the Nationwide Series, the minor league of stock car racing, received more media attention than the big boys in the Sprint Cup Series.

And all because of a woman.

Danica Patrick had never driven a lap in a legitimate NASCAR race, but her debut in the Nationwide Series Drive4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway Saturday received more media attention than possibly any other rookie driver in NASCAR’s history.

Despite the hype, Patrick told reporters her only goal was to successfully finish the 120-lap race.

But, 69 laps into the race, a 12-car wreck that originated in front of Patrick caused her to crash into the wall. Her long-awaited NASCAR debut ended in a puff of smoke and twisted metal.

And just like that, NASCAR lost its newest media darling and one of its biggest stories of the weekend in a 35th-place finish.

It also likely lost thousands of casual fans that, once seeing Patrick’s exit, had little interest left in the race’s outcome.

So, things didn’t exactly go NASCAR’s way Saturday.

Sunday would surely be better, right?

Wrong.

The Daytona 500, the Super Bowl of stock car racing and Sprint Cup Series season kickoff, made NASCAR look like amateur hour.

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Television coverage that started at 1 p.m. Sunday managed to stretch its way into a primetime see NASCAR | page 2

always be able to call him a Super Bowl champion.

The win hasn’t yet sunk in for the Saints’ linebacker and special teams captain, who is back in Cincinnati just more than one week after the big game. After all, the family man has a birthday party to plan for his soon-to-be one-year-old daughter Parker.

Evans also has a four-year-old daughter Payton; he and his wife Jill are expecting a third daughter in April.

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Super Bowl champ Troy Evans (54) has spent eight seasons in the NFL, the last three in New Orleans. He recorded 29 tackles in 2009.

Cincy gets Bull-ied, falls to USF Peter Marx the news record

The Bearcats’ road woes continued Tuesday, Feb. 16, as they fell to the University of South Florida 65-57 at the Sun Dome in Tampa, Fla., before a crowd of 6,607.

Cincinnati (15-10, 6-7 Big East) trailed by only one point at halftime, but was kept scoreless until the 15:32 mark, falling behind as the Bulls went on a 9-0 run to begin the second half.

UC struggled on the offensive end all night and finished the game shooting 38.8 percent from the field, 27.3 percent from beyond the arc and 61.5 percent from the free-throw line.

“When you can’t make one footers and free throws, it’s tough,” said UC head coach Mick Cronin.

“You’re only going to stop them so much. They only scored 65.”

South Florida took a commanding 49-31 lead, its largest of the game, with 7:53 remaining, but Cincinnati wasn’t finished just yet.

The Bearcats attempted a late comeback as senior guard Deonta Vaughn scored 11 points in the final three minutes of the game, but it wasn’t enough as South Florida made its free throws down the stretch.

Vaughn and freshman point guard Cashmere Wright both finished with a team-high 14 points apiece.

The Bulls (16-9, 6-7) snapped a two-game losing streak and earned a much-needed win, bolstering their NCAA Tournament resume.

Dominique Jones led South Florida, scoring 19 second-half points and finishing with a game-high 26.

“Tonight he gets 26 on 12 shots.

That’s hard to do,” Cronin said. “He’s USF as good as it gets in this league and he showed it tonight.”

Sophomore Yancy Gates and freshman UC Lance Stephenson both struggled for Cincinnati, shooting a combined 2 of 10 from the field. Gates scored three points and Stephenson finished with four..

UC has five games remaining in the regular season; three against top-10 teams. Cincinnati will likely need to finish the season with a 9-9 conference record to have a chance of being selected to play in March Madness, which means it will likely have to beat at least one top-10 team.

Next up, the Bearcats return home to face Marquette University at 2 p.m Sunday, Feb. 21, at Fifth Third Arena.

“We have to understand that Marquette is coming in Sunday thinking that if they win, they’re locked into the NCAA Tournament,” Cronin said. “We need to play every game like our life is on the line.”

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Just not enough Deonta Vaughn scored 14 points in a 65-57 loss to USF Tuesday.

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The University of Cincinnati baseball team is ready to begin its drive for a Big East championship as the 2010 season is set to begin Friday, Feb. 19.

The Bearcats were picked to finish seventh in the Big East by collegebaseball360.com. The University of Louisville, defending conference champion, was picked to repeat in 2010.

After the departure of Mike Spina, Lance Durham and relief pitcher Jake Geglein, Cincinnati has holes to fill this season.

Spina and Durham accounted for more than 100 RBIs and 32 of the Cats’ 72 home runs last season.

With that kind of loss in production, Cincinnati will focus on small ball this year.

“We have to move runners in scoring position more and we have to take advantage of chances where we can score single runs,” said UC head coach Brian Cleary.

Geglein’s 2.97 ERA last season was 1.5 runs fewer than anyone see Baseball | page 2