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No laptop, no service

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computer lab consolidation McMicken might require students to own laptops just as they require certain textbooks.

A&S considering closing off some labs, requiring notebooks jeremy davis the news record

The McMicken College of Arts and Sciences is considering plans to eliminate several computer labs, which might require students to own laptops.

Although details of how the change will be put implemented are under consideration, the laptop requirement could be similar to textbook requirements, said Robert Frank, associate dean for research and graduate studies at A&S. “Some professors will design courses so that a laptop with specific software will be needed, other courses will not involve use of a laptop,” Frank said.

With the possibility of several labs being eliminated, students within the college could face an additional financial burden.

To purchase laptops, students could use financial aid instead of personal funds, said Valerie Hardcastle, dean of A&S. At least one faculty member agrees.

The plan makes sense, said Leland Person, senior associate dean for academic affairs in A&S. “A survey we conducted last spring indicates that 95 percent of our students have a computer, and 85 percent have a laptop,” Person said. “Given those numbers, it doesn’t make much sense

to continue maintaining general use Hardcastle said. “So instead of pretending labs, especially when the university we have enough money to go forward, we provides some; for example, the one in need to find a different way to manage Langsam Library.” going forward.”

In order for this plan to take effect and to cut current budget costs, the college aims to eliminate eight to 10 of its 18 general-use computer labs.

“We are hoping to save a few hundred thousand dollars in computer replacements costs,” Frank said.

Hardcastle agrees.

Due to the college’s budget constraints, maintaining the current number of computer labs is difficult, Hardcastle said.

“We simply can’t afford to maintain the 18 labs we currently have with all the budget cuts we are experiencing,” Hardcastle said.

The process of cutting back and eliminating the computer labs is still in the planning and brainstorming phases.

“We are in the process of surveying our departments to determine which of their labs would need to stay open and which might be able to be closed,” Person said. “At this point, no decisions have been made.”

If approved, the laptop requirement will likely take effect in the next sam greene | the news record academic year.

“The real way to look at this is some labs safe The journalism lab in that we don’t have money right now,” McMicken will not be affected by the cuts.

In the past two years, Valerie Hardcastle has interviewed for two different positions at two different universities.

Hardcastle, dean of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, was most recently turned down for the executive vice president and dean position at Colorado State University.

The official announcement came Tuesday, Feb. 16, stating Colorado State would hire Rick Miranda, the interim executive vice president, as the permanent replacement.

“I met Rick Miranda,” Hardcastle said. “I think he’ll do a fabulous job.”

In 2009, Hardcastle was nominated for a dean position at The Ohio State University. She interviewed in April 2009 as a top-three candidate and, in May, she withdrew her name from the candidacy pool.

“I realized I would rather be [at the University of Cincinnati],” Hardcastle said.

Interviewing at other institutions isn’t about wanting to leave, Hardcastle said.

“I don’t think people should draw the conclusion that I’m wanting to leave,” Hardcastle said. “Interviewing at different institutions allows you to poke around in other institutions and bring those ideas back to your own university.

I find it professionally helpful to see how other universities do their affairs.”

The decision to apply for the position at Colorado State was “more a pull than push,” Hardcastle said.

“I’m very happy here, but there were personal considerations that existed there that don’t exist here,” Hardcastle said.

Every year Hardcastle is nominated for five or six administrative positions at other universities.

Additionally, she receives approximately 10 solicitations every week for a provost or administrative position, she said.

In 2008, Hardcastle earned $163,200. In the current fiscal year, Hardcastle will earn $226,918, said Greg Hand, university spokesperson.

“I don’t think people should draw the conclusion that I’m wanting to leave ... I’m very happy here, but there were personal considerations that existed there that don’t exist here.”

—valerie hardcastle, college of arts and sciences dean

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The College-Conservatory of Music’s harpsichord and baroque performance instructor Vivian S. Montgomery has teamed up with the Cincinnati baroque violinist Jennifer Roig-Francoli to put on a period-instrument show.

The concert serves as the debut for the band, “Adastra.”

Tickets are $15 for general admission and $7 for students and seniors; tickets can be bought at the door.

E-mail Vivian Montgomery at vmontgomery@verizon.net for more details.

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For some University of Cincinnati workers, snow days bring a workday starting long before the first classes would have begun.

The UC facilities management department’s grounds, moving and transportation division begins its cleanups after a snowfall, regardless of the university being open or not.

“These guys have been in since 3 o’clock, 4 o’clock in the morning,” said Greg Hand, UC spokesperson. “They’re ones who deserve a salute when you go by.”

During a snow cleanup, there are up to 45 people working to clear walkways, paths and steps around UC’s campuses. Facilities management is responsible for removing snow from East and West campuses and the College of Applied Science on Victory Parkway as well.

“We’re ready by 7 [a.m.]; that’s our goal,” said Rick Wiggins, director of facilities management at UC. The self-imposed deadline has Wiggins and his crew clearing more than 12,600,000 gross square feet of the three campuses.

During the 2009 fiscal year, approximately 340 tons of salt were applied to the three campuses. Despite the figures for the 2010 fiscal year not being totaled up yet, the costs will add up to be much larger than 2009, Wiggins said.

The total cost of dispersing salt reached approximately $52,780, said Marie Sutthoff, program director of facilities management.

More than 1,700 overtime hours and 100 “double time” hours — hours worked during weekends and holidays — were documented in 2009, according to facilities statistics.

Although there have been multiple attempts to quantify exactly how much it costs campus to close for a snow day, there has not been a concrete figure, Hand said.­­­

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Interested in going to Africa to help install solar panels?

The Department of Energy and Materials Engineering and the Nano-Power Africa project is sponsoring Carol Smith­ Hathaway, executive director of Solar Light for Africa, to come to UC and deliver a presentation regarding the installations as well as detailing some of her trips to Africa and Tanzanian villages. E-mail Gregory Beaucage at beaucag@uc.edu for more information.

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Peaks stripped for coal

Appalachia devastated by mountaintop removal techniques of mining Tea Party It’s not just an environmental the state capitol Thursday, Feb. 11, has been strip-mined. In that same hangover curbs issue. Aside from tearing to pieces protested MTR and lobbied members area, more than 300 million gallons It’s difficult to put into words one of the world’s oldest and most of the state legislature to support of toxic coal sludge — 30 times more revolution my relationship with coal. It’s love- biologically diverse regions, MTR the newly introduced Stream Saver than the Exxon Valdez spill — broke causes enormous amounts of damage Bill. The legislation would prevent free from its holding and poured into hate, with a whole lot more hate.

Max Webster

The Tea Party movement is an interesting political phenomenon and, as with any popular social movement, it has both a good side and a bad side.

The Tea Party is typically characterized as a radical group of angry Republicans, hell bent on opposing any and all things Obama. The group has been constantly lambasted by political commentators and pundits as a fringe collection of people who would love nothing more than to forever rant and chant at a Sarah Palinpalooza. But with a closer look, the movement gets a bit more diverse than that.

Starting with the positive side of the movement, I do believe despite all the tea drinking drama, this movement represents something important for our democracy.

For the first time in a long time, a majority of Americans long to give Uncle Sam a swift kick in the pants. A Rasmussen report found that 76 percent of Americans are angry about current government policies.

People are looking for answers the president and Congress aren’t providing.

That’s where the Tea Party movement comes in. At its core, the movement represents something perfectly healthy for a country valuing liberty and challenging people in power. When the people have an overriding distrust in the government’s action, it provides the necessary check on Washington, D.C., be it Democrat or Republican.

But such a movement can easily fall astray, becoming detrimental to the very principles it rallies to guard.

What started as an independent, grassroots effort

by Americans who were tired of governmental business as usual is now being commandeered by hawkish, neoconservative politicians looking to cash in on a movement crossing over to the mainstream. It’s quickly becoming a faction comfortable with the traditional Republican or neoconservative status quo Americans have seen during the past few decades.

Instead of championing Congressman Ron Paul, who is credited with starting the modern Tea Party movement during his 2008 presidential campaign, the tea partiers now embrace people like Palin as their hero. While Paul is shunned by the FOX News sponsored tea parties, Palin speaks at events like the National Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tenn.

“I am a big supporter of this movement,” Palin said at the convention. “I believe in this movement. Got lots of friends and family in the lower 48 attending these events across the country and just knowing that this is the movement and America is ready for another revolution and you are a part of this.”

Sure a revolution of ideas would be great, but is Palin the one who should be leading it?

Soon after she criticized president Obama for being a “charismatic guy with a teleprompter,” Palin was busted for reading notes written on her hand during an interview session at the convention.

Even everyone’s favorite obscure former congressman, Tom Tancredo, had to get in on the tea-loving action. He inspiringly contributed his belief in requiring a civic literacy test before voting.

After all, Obama was elected by “people who could not even spell the word ‘vote’ or say it in English,” according to Tancredo.

This is precisly the kind of rhetoric that will ultimatly be the downfall of the Tea Party.

If the movement has accepted Sarah Palin as their de-facto leader, nothing substantial will change in D.C. A large faction of the Tea Party movement has lost its way, but fortunately, the good and the bad sides of this movement can still balance each other. Aside from all its obvious faults, the movement still represents a time when average Americans, frustrated with just about everything Washington does, are speaking out and taking action.

Despite all the negative sides of the Tea Party movement, it still has one very redeeming quality: It has a bone to pick with the government.

Has your tea gone cold? Tell Jeremy at daj8@mail.uc.edu.

Everything in my life — my TV, laptop, cell phone, everything — is powered by coal-based energy. And I love these things.

For powering all of the junk in my house last month, I owe Duke Energy $300. It’s stiff, I know.

Hence, the hate.

But that’s superficial hate.

Where the real hate comes from, where the true cost of pumping electricity into my house is shown, is in mountaintop removal, the preferred method for harvesting America’s coal.

Mountaintop removal, or MTR, is a radical form of strip-mining, employing heavy explosives and towering draglines to tear off the tops of mountains to expose the coal seams underneath, allowing coal companies to extract the coal as quickly and cheaply as possible.

To date, almost 500 mountains have been completely obliterated.

to the health and economies of coal field communities across Appalachia.

Coal companies only need a few dozen workers to complete a job that previously employed entire mining communities. Any resources necessary to support alternative economic development (i.e. logging, eco-tourism) are stripped away.

But what’s even more devastating is the destruction of the region’s waterways, which communities have used for centuries for survival.

A 2005 Environmental Protection Agency study found MTR destroyed more than 1,200 miles of Central Appalachia. In Kentucky, 47 percent of the commonwealth’s waterways are unsafe for swimming, fishing or drinking, the typical pollutants being the sulfates and heavy metals created in the strip mining process.

In a battle to clean up the region’s waterways, more than 800 Kentuckians gathered on the steps of

coal companies from dumping the overburden from mining operations in the streams and headwaters in the valleys below.

The bill doesn’t have a realistic chance of passing, but if “I Love Mountains Day” is any indication of the strength of the movement, the fight against MTR is looking good.

What started five years ago as little more than a press conference by the non-profit organization Kentuckians for the Commonwealth has grown into an annual protest drawing more than 3,000 people in the past three years.

“We’re gaining ground and I really do think we’re winning. When I see this large of a crowd turn up on a day like today to rally, it just gives me something to be proud of,” said Mickey McCoy. McCoy is a KFTC member from Inez, Ky. the county seat of Martin County, where more than 25 percent of the land surface

the county’s waterways.

But the problem is not raising awareness against MTR in central Appalachia — those people are all too familiar with the devastation.

They are the ones who have lived for generations in the country’s highest poverty zone. They’re the ones who have to deal with black, yellow and red water pouring from their faucets.

They’ve watched their land and communities divided by coal barrons.

They know what’s at stake; the average American doesn’t.

Duke Energy is the third-largest consumer of coal in America, and as long as that demand remains, there is never going to be a real push to end MTR. Americans must come to terms with the cost of our lifestyles. It is simply not acceptable to perpetuate the tragedy of MTR when we have the technology to make coal use obsolete.

Max Webster is a second-year journalism student.

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Vegetarianism: ditch meat to go green Maria Bergh

Next week will be my second anniversary as a vegetarian. In most of my travels this past year, it hasn’t been difficult. Indeed, there have been several occasions at which my diet was assumed or vegetarians were a large minority. I had almost forgotten the stigma of saying, “Well, actually, do you have anything without meat? You see, I am a vegetarian.”

This is quite the accomplishment, considering the first time I went home after denouncing meat my mother had steak waiting for me, forgetting I had sworn off my favorite food. And, to be honest, there is very little in this world as delicious as a good steak or a well-seasoned slab of barbequed ribs.

So, why be a vegetarian? For me it’s a matter of sustainability. The meat industry in this country consumes the corn and soybean industry, which is based on the petroleum and water industries causing wars, as well as depleting and polluting groundwater.

The excess of this system (supported to wastefulness by our government’s subsidies) is exported as aid to other countries where it is frequently fed to hungry livestock instead of hungry people, to fatten them for the very rich to eat in imitation of the American lifestyle, leading to heart disease, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. This drops the price of grain in those countries, making it even harder for the poor to earn their daily wage and encouraging the production of export crops — tacitly creating a colonial economy.

Livestock was originally valued for its ability to convert inedible grasses into proteins. Now we

waste our grasslands on growing inedible strains of corn and soybeans to fatten our livestock, ensuring hunger somewhere.

By my theory of vegetarianism, small family farms selling locally are virtuous and wonderful, even if they do raise meat, but they make up less than 5 percent of the American population.

But my current neighbors are ranchers and my coworkers are vacationing farmers (winter is the offseason, of course, and meat farmers have beef-sitters) I’ve come to realize that 5 percent is close to 61 million family farmers in America. This number is so much larger, so much more of our culture, than I had ever imagined.

It makes me question my vegetarianism because, if anyone deserves support, it is these hardworking, smart, humble, thoughtful people. I admire their loyalty to tradition, living with the rhythm of the land.

Imagine what a change would come over the world if meat was not shipped from miles away, but grown nearby; if your milk wasn’t pasteurized harshly, but came fresh and sweet from the cow; or if your produce was fed with manure, instead of with petroleum-based fertilizers. Imagine how much greener and affordable the world would be if we lived with nature instead of against it.

Talking with these farmers and the impoverished homeowners I work with is hard.

Both are shocked that I don’t eat meat. The farmers are hurt because I don’t support their industry; the homeowners are disconcerted because they feed me to show their thanks.

At home, I would make an exception and eat whatever they offer, but while working for the Fuller Center, I cannot. Each day it is a different homeowner, a different volunteer farmer. And so I turn them down, smile and say bacon smells better than it tastes, remembering the meat we buy at Wal-Mart is sadly much more likely to come from a feedlot and agribusiness than one of my newfound friend’s farms.

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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Trustees to vote on 7 percent tuition hike for the 2010-11 academic year It is wise to be wary of price increases, no matter what you’re purchasing, but when it comes to financing an education, a 7 percent increase, like the proposed University of Cincinnati tuition hike, can really add up.

Seven percent might not seem like much, but this increase would tack an extra $219.31 per quarter to the bill for a full-time in-state student on Main Campus. That adds up to an extra $657.93 out of students’ pockets per school year.

“No one wants to raise tuition, but the financial situation is not a good one,” said UC President Greg Williams. “We need to figure out how to continue to provide highquality programs.”

The proposed tuition increase could go into effect as soon as fall

quarter if it is approved by the Board of Trustees.

R i s i n g tuition costs are attributed to myriad of different reasons — keeping up with current inflation or compensating for the weak dollar, responding to the demand of production costs, limiting the student body — but UC’s tuition increase is expected in response to a state-wide tuition freeze.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland mandated a two-year tuition freeze and UC elected to continue the freeze for a voluntary third year in 2009-10.

“We are proposing a two-step process,” said Robert Ambach,

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chief financial officer of UC. “Tuition increased 3.5 percent last year, but we didn’t put it on students’ bills, meaning we didn’t collect the approved tuition. This year, we are proposing to do so by rescinding the previous waiver and asking for an additional 3.5 percent.”

The additional money would be used to cover ongoing university expenses. This includes salaries, fringe benefits, campus utilities, library operations and international recruitment councils.

Approximately $1 million would be made available to improve campus life as the Undergraduate Student Government sees fit, Ambach said.

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action to raise tuition, it’s basically to continue to provide high quality programs to the students.”

While it’s unlikely any individual student would truly benefit from paying an extra $657.93 each year, this might be what is necessary for the university to keep operating at status quo. Whether or not that is the best means to an end is not yet clear. Student life fees seem menial in comparison to maintaining cutting-edge faculty, learning materials and facilities.

A 7 percent increase is small, considering student tuition bills have remained virtually unchanged for the past three years. As long as the University of Cincinnati utilizes the money in a way that promotes higher education, the money is well spent.

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Happy 60th birthday, Charlie Brown Like many others, I identified with Charlie Brown and his underdog status and chastised myself when I think I’ve missed the chance to do something great.

For that, I say, thank you, Charlie Brown.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Charles Schulz’s legendary comic strip “Peanuts.” It was the first fictitious world I wanted to live in.

Schulz obviously did as well.

He was notoriously shy — not to mention he gave the character his first name. Schulz’s father, like his creation’s, was a barber.

Schulz originally planned to name the strip “Good ol’ Charlie Brown” but the strip’s distributor, United Feature Syndicate, insisted on a name that would imply more of an ensemble cast of characters.

The strip’s arrival in the 1950s became the perfect antidote to the decade’s dominating McCarthyism, which would sadly claim darker comics such as “The Vault of Horror,” “The Haunt of Fear” and “Tales From the Crypt.”

Although Charlie Brown was the strip’s main character, there was an equally memorable set of supporting players who seemed to represent other aspects of humanity.

Lucy was snobby and loud. Linus was rational (as long as he had his trusty blanket with him). Schroeder was the tortured artist (at least when Lucy came near him), while Sally was playful. Frieda was vain and Pig-Pen was grungy.

In the latter half of the 1960s, more diverse characters, such as Peppermint Patty, Franklin and Marcie would be introduced and live in a different neighborhood from the original gang.

Then there’s Snoopy, by Charlie Brown’s side from the beginning. It wasn’t until the ’60s, however, that he became a superstar.

In addition to walking on two legs and having thought-balloons for dialogue, he began to act out any fantasy he wanted. Among them, the WWI Flying Ace, the Beagle Scout, the World’s Greatest Novelist and, naturally, the first Beagle on the Moon (It’s a small wonder that NASA would name two of its spacecraft for him and Charlie Brown on its Apollo mission prior to the 1969 moon landing).

Many of these personas were shared in the company of Snoopy’s bird-friend Woodstock, introduced in 1970. Their interactions with each other, as well as their commentary, made the duo a precursor of sorts to C-3PO and R2-D2.

Not surprisingly, Snoopy elicited realistic and not always pleasing reactions from others in the strip.

There is no doubt that, without “Peanuts,” Americans would never have the seen the comics “Garfield,” “Mutts,” “Calvin and Hobbes” or “Doonesbury.”

“Peanuts” began as comics ran the domain of superheroes and political satire; it expanded the field by becoming a daily study on growing up and what it means to be human.

The success of the strip led to TV and movie adaptations (And, in recent years, an endorsement deal with MetLife which has become as lucrative as the Pink Panther endorsement of Owens Corning).

The first movie adaptation, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” has become a holiday tradition. Other specials — holiday-themed and otherwise — followed. Of all the strips “Peanuts” inspired, only “Garfield” would achieve similar success.

Make no mistake, Schulz reinvented comics with “Peanuts” the same way Ian Fleming reinvented the spy genre with “James Bond.”

Schulz’s work, however, always seemed to have a more personal touch. “Peanuts” became, for all intents and purposes, his diary.

From the first strip Monday, Oct. 2, 1950, until the last Sunday, Feb. 13, 2000, he always spent part of each day at his desk.

Schulz passed just hours before the publication of the final strip, which carried a haunting, preordained air to it. He announced several months earlier it was his retirement strip.

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save the children University of Cincinnati students came together for the first Clifton Zombie Walk Friday, Nov. 13. Bearcast organized the walk of the living dead.

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Undead, flesh-hungry beasts are usurping the silver screen, helping students procrastinate and even making Jane Austen interesting.

For years there has been little to no objection toward the increasing popularity of zombies in popular culture. The phenomenon isn’t new. Zombie culture gained much momentum with the release of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video.

Since then, drones from the undead have never been the same.

Zombie films, although gruesome in nature, are loaded with political and social commentary. The films also cast reflections of humankind in times of war, illness, poverty and political upheaval.

George A. Romero’s 1978 “Dawn of the Dead” was the basis for blasting consumerism and worked to expose inherent class divisions in American society. The film — which takes place in an abandoned shopping mall — is being fortified by survivors. Several of the survivors are police officers who, in order to survive, had to kill and steal. Romero’s point: Police are no better than anyone else.

The film is less reliant on monster zombies and more focused on how people react and work together when survival is on the line.

But the phenomenon isn’t limited to a Hollywood-based fascination.

University of Cincinnati students have proven their devotion to blood and gore in the first Clifton Zombie Walk last Friday the 13th (Nov. 13, 2009). Students at the Bearcast-hosted event put on their best faces and wandered the streets and campus in search of brains.

“Left 4 Dead 2” is the fast-paced shooting game that forces survivors of a zombie outbreak in New Orleans attempting to escape with their lives (and brains) still intact. With the chaotic atmosphere created from running through New Orleans, it’s not hard to figure out which natural disaster is being reflected through a zombie apocalypse.

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“Night of the Living Dead” revived the zombie genre in film by placing the focus not primarily on the undead ghouls, but the protagonists fighting to survive inside an abandoned farmhouse. Featuring one of the first black leading male roles opposite a white woman, creator George Romero made this film in the midst of the civil rights movement to showcase the claustrophobic nature of a divided nation.

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“The Walking Dead” is the quintessential zombie comic: Rendered completely in black and white, the art is simplistic but emotionally centered on finding peace and reason in the midst of a living hell.

The comic is slated to be turned into a television series on AMC in the near future.

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Hot Chip worth double dip New album is next step in right direction for electropop band michael vest the news record

Hot Chip’s new “One Life Stand” is it’s fourth electropop studio album.

The band hasn’t released an album since 2008’s “Made in the Dark.”

The catchy songs “Ready For the Floor” and “One Pure Thought” made the record a Top- 10 hit in England, but it peaked at 109 on the charts in the U.S. Hot Chip’s new album picks up where “Made in the Dark” left off. The amiable 10 songs on “One Life Stand” are chock-full of catchy melodies and effortless choruses.

“One Life Stand” isn’t just a collection of songs for the dance floor. There is a quality of depth to the songs. That depth comes from singer Alexis Taylor. Taylor spins delicate melodies over pulsing drums and dizzying

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synths. His soulful voice brings a sense of ache and melancholy.

Nowhere is that more evident than on the best song of the album, “Slush.” It’s a mournful ballad about growing older. When Taylor hits the chorus singing, “Now that we’re older/ There’s more that we must do,” its hard not to feel the pain in his voice as he deals with the thoughts of aging. The song is simple, but it packs an emotional punch.

The album’s lyrics are hopeful about love and deal with the importance of human connections. The album’s title, a clever play on “one night stand,” is a marriage proposal, while “Brothers” is a hopeful song about friendship.

Joe Goddard proclaims, “It’s a wild love that I have for my brothers.” The song could have come off as some lame bromance, but it’s actually touching.

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dance song that sounds a lot like Depeche Mode. The verse and chorus beautifully contrast each other. Joe Goddard has a moody, deadpan voice with cryptic lyrics. The chorus sung by Taylor is shamelessly ecstatic, and takes the song to new heights. Taylor sings, “My heart has flown to you just like a dove/ It can fly, it can fly.” Those tacky lyrics sound like they could’ve come from a Hallmark card, but they don’t come off as overly sentimental due to Taylor’s delivery.

“One Life Stand,” even after multiple listens, is a fulfilling album. Each time through, a new song could become a favorite. The catchy songs about love are likeable after the first listen. The songs are easy to dance to with just the right amount of melancholy. Hot Chip was focused and knew what it wanted to do with this album. The sweeping electropop is straight forward, heartfelt and not cluttered with too many layers.

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Last year, Seth Grahame-Smith adapted Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” to “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.”

The new, old classic sticks to the original tale of a young, independent-minded English woman coping with love and family pressures to wed. Grahame-Smith, however, throws in the ever-popular virus that turns the dead into walking, cannibalistic corpses.

“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” is also being produced as a film starring Natalie Portman as a 19th-century zombie assailant.

A release date has not been announced.

But that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of zombie movies to watch. Romero assisted in remaking yet another old-school horror flick, “The Crazies,” due out Feb. 26. The original 1973 film was not actually a zombie thriller. It told the story of a small town in Pennsylvania, quarantined after a government virus spread to locals. The virus forced victims to insanity gradually, causing them to die — or go on a killing spree through the town.

In the remake, Romero and director Breck Eisner have chosen a path more suited to their monster-loving fans. Virus recipients embody a new kind of zombie — they gradually slip into autopilot mode before completely shutting down and transforming into veiny, horrific killers. While the infected aren’t munching on corpses in the film’s trailer, they attack remaining townspeople in a variety of twisted, skin-curling ways.

So long as the masses keep coming back for a zombie fix, the entertainment industry is more than prepared to produce a plethora of films, novels and games to satisfy the undead hunger.

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Tourney hopes on line vs. Marquette Sam Elliott the news record

Cronin’s time at Cincinnati needs to end

Is everyone ready for at least three more years of UC basketball mediocrity?

While the University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team is clinging (understatement) to its NCAA tournament hopes, Bob Huggins is preparing his eighth-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers for a possible No. 2 seed in the big dance.

But I don’t want to make this about the past.

At this point, blame has to be placed on Cronin and a coaching change needs to be made.

The UC basketball team is nothing short of an embarrassment. Not because of their record, I can deal with that, but because of a lack of consistency and motivation.

They have the talent to win games, but laziness, mental errors, turnover out of timeouts and a lack of consistency is inexcusable.

To go into South Florida Tuesday night and be down 18 points late in the second half is pathetic.

Isn’t this team fighting for a spot in the Big Dance?

It’s like the team doesn’t care.

Do you ever see them play with the fire former teams had? Or play with a chip on their shoulder like they’re out to prove something?

Jason Maxiell and Eric Hicks wouldn’t put up with half the crap this team goes through.

Those guys would fight anyone at anytime to defend their teammates. Cronin’s players this year would fight anyone at anytime to defend only themselves.

I’ve heard he should have one more year, and I have to ask why?

One more mediocre year where UC doesn’t make the tournament isn’t a step in the right direction. Might as well find someone now and start the rebuilding process again.

Not once have I ever heard Cronin say it was his fault or he has to do a better job — enough with the excuses.

I’ll give a prime example.

My job forces me to listen to the “Chris Mack Show” on the radio every week.

Chris Mack is the coach of Xavier University and week after week I hear him say he has to do a better job at coaching particular players or he needs to do better getting certain players involved in the offense.

Mack doesn’t have the most talented players in the world, but he gets the most out of them every night.

And I know Cronin would counter by saying Xavier isn’t in the Big East. Well, no, they’re not.

But it doesn’t mean his players don’t play hard every minute of every game.

It honestly sickens me to watch the Cats this year. I long for the days when UC players were swatting shots across the court or dunking over players, putting them on a poster.

UC used to be the team embarrassing whoever stepped on the court with them. Now they’re embarrassing themselves by stepping on the court.

I don’t know why I’m surprised this season turned out the way it did. Every year, Cronin-coached teams have underachieved, but he was given a pass because they were young, inexperienced and rebuilding.

That might be true, but a consistent lack of effort has been a constant every year since Cronin’s arrival.

Ultimately, Cronin has to be responsible for it. If he knew when he recruited his players they didn’t play with any sort of passion, then why recruit them? If he didn’t know they lacked effort, it’s his job to pull the effort out of them.

Four years is plenty of time.

UC managed to let go of former women’s coach J. Kelly Hall after two seasons and a 14-17 record in his final season.

If two years is enough for Hall, how much time does the men’s coach deserve?

Huggins had the ability to make the most of his players’ abilities. Cronin simply doesn’t.

It’s never easy for someone to lose a job, and it’s not something to take lightly, but it’s time to cut ties with Cronin.

He’s had plenty of time to put a competitive team on the court and it hasn’t happened. Steps in the right direction aren’t coming quickly enough — if they’re coming at all.

It’s time to circle the wagons and rebuild the program with a coach ready to bring in some fresh faces. A coach who can pump life into his players and maybe into Fifth Third Arena.

Think Cronin deserves another year to right the ship? E-mail Garrett at sabelhgt@mail.uc.edu

After two weeks of playing away from Fifth Third Arena, the University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team returns home for a critical home game against Marquette University, Sunday, Feb. 21.

The Bearcats went 1-1 on their two-game road trip that included a 60-48 win against Connecticut Saturday, Feb. 13, and closed with a 65-57 loss to South Florida, Tuesday, Feb. 16.

In order for Cincinnati (15-10, 6-7 Big East) to have success against the Golden Eagles, the team needs to return to the mental approach it possessed before beating UConn, said head coach Mick Cronin.

“We’ve got a big home game coming up on Sunday, and I told the guys, ‘You’ve got to have the mental edge,’ ” Cronin said. “We had the mental edge at UConn. Our guys say that they knew Saturday how big of a game it was.”

Sunday’s game is just as important if the Bearcats have any hope of making the NCAA tournament this season.

“You have to have unbelievable respect for your opponent, and we need to play every game like our life is on the line,” Cronin said.

The Golden Eagles (16-8, 7-5) are riding a five-game winning streak heading into their Thursday night matchup with Pittsburgh and are currently projected to make the NCAA tournament, according to ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi.

“We have to understand that Marquette is coming in Sunday thinking if they win, they’re locked in the NCAA tournament,” Cronin said.

The Golden Eagles are led offensively by senior forward Lazar Hayward and junior

“We have to understand that Marquette is coming in Sunday thinking if they win, they’re locked in the NCAA tournament.”

—Mick Cronin, UC head coach

Jimmy Butler. Hayward ranks seventh in the Big East in scoring with 18.6 points per game.

Butler is shooting better than 56 percent from the field this season and is averaging more than 15 points per game.

Marquette is dangerous from behind the three-point line this season. Senior guard Maurice Acker is shooting a league-best 50 percent from long range, and Marquette’s three-point shooting as a team is tops in the Big East.

The Golden Eagles also rank third in the conference in three-point percentage defense, which could spell bad news for the Bearcats, as they average less than 30 percent from beyond the arc.

Cincinnati will need to counter with offensive production from guards Lance Stephenson and Deonta Vaughn, its leading scorers this season with 11.6 points per game.

Stephenson is looking to bounce back from a sub-par performance against South Florida Tuesday in which the freshman scored a season-low four points and committed four turnovers.

The Bearcats and Golden Eagles will tip off at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 21 in Fifth Third Arena and will be televised on Fox Sports Net Ohio.

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On the brink Three of Cincinnati’s final five games of the regular season are against top-10 opponents.

The Bearcats are 4-8 this season away from Fifth Third Arena.

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Swing, batter Batter The University of Cincinnati basball team opens the 2010 season Friday, Feb. 19, against the Florida Atlantic University Owls.

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Brian Cleary has always tried to build his lineup around a power-hitting slugger to help score runs in bunches.

The University of Cincinnati head baseball coach knows he’ll have to reevaluate his strategy this season though with the loss of Mike Spina and Lance Durham who combined for 32 of the teams’ 72 home runs last season.

Cleary voiced his concern about how his team would score this year and said he has tried to build a pitching staff that could take some pressure off of the offense.

He’ll find out how his new system works when the Cats open play with a three-game series starting Friday, Feb. 19, against Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla. Cleary’s pitching staff will face a tough test right away as FAU returns four players who batted better than .300 in at least 60 at bats last season.

Right-handed junior Dan Jensen will have the opening-day nod for a staff Cleary said could be very successful.

“We have a pretty good chance to be good on the mound this year,” Cleary said. “It will be a good test for us right away. We have some freshmen that I think are going to be really good right away.”

Jensen threw 31 innings in relief last season and posted a 3-4 record with a 4.60 ERA in 25 games.

No doubt UC will be at a disadvantage as they’ve only practiced on the field at Marge Schott Stadium twice this year.

Cleary knows his players will need some time to become acclimated to playing with each other in game situations especially since FAU is such a well-balanced team.

“They haven’t been outstanding in one part of the game but they’ve been able to do everything well,” Cleary said. “The challenge for us is to try to get down there and play well, given the limited amount of time [we’ve had on the field].”

Offensively, UC will have to try to play a lot more small-ball than in years past and try to find more ways to score than with just a home run.

Unfortunately for Cleary, he lost one of his better utility men in Zach Collaros.

The probable starting quarterback for the UC football team next season decided to concentrate on the pigskin and give up baseball after last season.

“I think he felt like it was going to be a little too difficult for him to do,” Cleary said. “He felt like he really needed to pay attention to football, which I understand.”

First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. Friday from Florida where UC plays its first six games of the season before returning home Friday, March 5.

briefs track and field school record broken at hoosier hills

ulis earns big east honors after career-high night

The University of Cincinnati men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams had several athletes place at the Hoosier Hills Invitational.

Sophomore Troy Cooper highlighted the Bearcats performance, placing second in the indoor shot put with a school-record throw of 56’ 5-1/4”.

Five athletes from the men’s team recorded wins and sophomore Brianna Patton became the 19th women’s athlete to qualify for the Big East Indoor Championships.

Next up on the horizon for the men’s team is the outdoor season opener Saturday, March 20, at Gettler Stadium. The women’s team travels to New York Saturday, Feb. 20 for the conference championships.

University of Cincinnati junior guard Shareese Ulis was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll Monday, Feb. 15.

Ulis led the Bearcats to an overtime win against Syrcause with career-high 25 points along with two steals.

Her game-tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation forced overtime. Ulis averaged 19 points and 40.5 minutes in the Bearcats’ two games last week while shooting 46 percent from the field, 41 percent from 3-point range and 70 percent from the foul line.

Senior guard Kahla Roudebush has received the award three times this season, making Ulis the second Bearcat this season named to the Honor Roll.

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