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Vol. CXXX Issue 78

wednesday , may 12, 2010 cyclones force game 7

Cincinnati storms back, ties conference finals at three games each. page 6

share the road Cincinnati Bike Month gives pedal pushers a reason to rejoice. page 4

it’s showtime

Drag show entertains and advocates sexuality and gender issues. page 3

UC graduation rate experiences upswing james sprague the news record

Due to increases in enrollment and academic success initiatives during the past five years at the University of Cincinnati, more students are leaving with a UC diploma.

Enrollment at Uptown Campus increased from 27,343 in Fall quarter 2000 to 31,134 in Fall quarter 2009, according to statistics from UC’s Office of Institutional Research.

There is a positive correlation between the rise in enrollment and graduation rates, said Caroline Miller, UC’s senior associate vice president for enrollment management.

In that time span, graduation rates also increased from 51.7 percent in 2000 to 55.4 percent in 2008-09.

UC is set to award 4,396 degrees — ranging from associates to doctoral — at its graduation celebrations in June, an increase of 620 from June 2009.

The benchmark graduation rate for universities is based on first-time, full-time freshman entering the university, Miller said.

Those students are tracked and the graduation rates are determined by how many obtain baccalaureate degrees by the end of the student’s sixth-year, Miller said.

Part of the reason is the implementation of academic success criteria by UC in 2006.

The program profiles incoming college freshmen and has measures sets for each specific college within the university and on admittance standards for students to baccalaureate programs, Miller said.

Aside from that, UC has a prior history of admitting students who didn’t have a chance to graduate, Miller said.

Branch campus, distance learning and transfer graduation rates are kept for comparative data by the university but not included in statistics released to publications such as U.S. News and World Report.

Student performance is also contributing.

ACT and SAT scores for incoming students, along with average high school grade-point averages, have also increased since 2000, and UC has only made acceptance requirements more stringent than in the past.

The scores for the ACT went from an average of 23.2 in 2000 to 24.8 in 2009. SAT

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THE UC GATEKEEPER Caroline Miller oversees enrollment at the university.

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clarification In the Monday, May 10, edition of The News Record, in the “CoB nearing final stretch in dean search” story, the article should have mentioned that statistics used for the faculty headcount were from 2009.

The present headcount comes in at approximately 70 faculty members. The College of Business is also indeed more than 100 years old. The News Record regrets these errors.

events paper pallets lecture when:

Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 12

where:

Room 4000 Tangeman University Center

Join Joe Harrell for a discussion about the realities of turning paper pallet waste into a source of fuel. Harrell’s visit is part of UC|Sustainability’s Climate 101 lecture series. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Michelle Bova at 556-1933 or e-mail bovame@mail.uc.edu.

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cover to cover Ben Kossenjans, a third-year computer science student, and Nadia Byron, a first-year industrial design student, read through the Bible Tuesday, May 11, outside Tangeman University Center. The group is seeing how long it will take to read the Bible from start to finish.

volunteer opportunities when:

11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Wednesday, May 12

where:

MainStreet Express Mart Tangeman University Center

Cyprus’ silent occupation

Looking for a way to get some public service hours? The University of Cincinnati’s Center for Community Engagement will be in TUC to help. Area non-profit organizations will be on hand to aid in finding a way to get started. For more information, call Clare Zlatic at 556-1559 or e-mail clare.zlatic@uc.edu.

Ambassador sheds light on little-known conflict

history department wine tasting when:

5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Friday, May 14

where:

Van Wormer Hall Rotunda

Looking for a way to sip some wine and help out your home college? In honor of Alumni Weekend, the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences will be hosting a wine tasting. Proceeds go to the history department.

Tickets are $25. RSVP online at artsci.uc.edu/alumniweekend or e-mail Lindsey Theobald at theobalr@uc.edu.

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—ANDREAS KAKOURIS AMBASSADOR OF CYPRUS

Kakouris also shared his feelings on the lack of attention given to the Turkish occupation, which is currently non-violent. “[The occupation] is morally, ethically and legally wrong,” Kakouris said. “Unfortunately, we live in a society that, unless one sees blood spilled, it is not news.”

In 1983, Turkey declared a “unilateral declaration of independence” in the area occupied by its military. The declaration was condemned as illegal by the United Nations, which called for the withdrawal of Turkish troops.

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voice against injustice Andreas Kakouris, ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, describes his country’s conflict.

His Excellency Andreas Kakouris, the Republic of Cyprus’ ambassador to the United States, visited the University of Cincinnati campus to remind Americans that human injustices are still occurring outside U.S. borders.

The 36-year occupation by Turkey of a portion of Cyprus was the focus of a lecture given by the ambassador Tuesday, May 11 at the Max Kade German Cultural Center.

Cyprus is an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and once belonged to the Roman, Ottoman and British empires before becoming an independent republic in 1960. The republic was admitted to the European Union in 2004.

Kakouris described the history of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, which occurred in July 1974 as an effort by Turkey to restore constitutional order to the island. It resulted instead in the occupation of nearly 37 percent of the island’s territory and is still ongoing.

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University of Cincinnati students and faculty have helped reverse a 29-year-old mistake.

On Wednesday, May 5, Raymond Towler was proven innocent and released from prison after serving nearly 30 years. The Ohio Innocence Project, an organization based at the UC’s College of Law was partly responsible for his exoneration.

Towler, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1981 for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl, was proven innocent due to advancing technology and new DNA evidence.

Towler is the 10th individual to be released since the Ohio Innocence Project was co-founded by UC law professor Mark Godsey and John Cranley, an attorney at law working with Keating Muething & Klekamp in Cincinnati, in 2003.

Towler was the longest-serving imprisoned individual to be released in Ohio’s history.

Among the students who worked to free Towler was Matt Katz, a second-year law student, who said he had a gut instinct that Towler was innocent.

“Sometimes when you review these cases you have to wonder to yourself if the person is actually

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guilty,” Katz said. “But when I met Towler there was no doubt in my mind that he was innocent.”

Brian Howe, a third-year law student who also worked on Towler’s case, said Towler was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time and his conviction was mostly due to faulty eyewitness identification.

The Ohio Innocence Project worked to free Towler since 2004 and originally tested for DNA in 2008, but initial results were not enough to set him free at the time.

But he never gave up hope, Howe said.

“He was cautiously optimistic,” Howe said. “But he was never angry or upset about it and he was really happy to be free.”

At the court hearing Common Pleas Judge Eileen Gallagher was very emotional and gave an eloquent speech, said Howe who was at the hearing. In her speech Gallagher offered Towler an Irish blessing and got up from her bench to shake his hand.

Towler, 52, is currently living in Cleveland with his family.

“I can’t even imagine going through that,” Howe said.

Katz also felt an obligation to get Towler out.

“I felt bad leaving him there,” Katz said.

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uc student reports sexual assault near parking garage The University of Cincinnati Police Division has received a report of a sexual assault that allegedly occurred on campus this past weekend.

The victim reported to UCPD that she was out with friends and last remembers being at a bar on Vine Street in Corryville Friday, May 7. It is reported by the victim’s friends that she left the bar with a young man who offered to walk the victim home.

The victim woke up Saturday, May 8, in the proximity of the Richard Lindner Varsity Village Garage. She was taken to University Hospital for examination.

Exams of the victim indicate she was raped. The victim is a UC student.

UCPD is investigating the incident and the UC Sexual Assault Coordinator has been contacted to provide support to the victim.

Anyone with any information about the incident is encouraged to call UCPD at 513-556-4900 or Crime Stoppers at 513-352-3040.

The News Record will update the situation as more information becomes available.

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“It’s all about qualification,” Schnier said. “It is all about the individual. At the Big East [championships], we were very team orientated and it’s all about scoring points, where as this is very individualistic.”

Cincinnati’s distance runners, throwers and jumpers will head to the Cardinal Invitational. State champion Eric Finan and runner-up in the 5,000 meters at the Big East Championships leads the group.

“Sixty percent of our team will go to Cardinal Invitational at the University of Louisville and [Finan] will go with them,” Schnier said.

The NCAA Championships

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begin Wednesday, June 9, in Eugene, Ore. Four Bearcats have the best chance at making the cut for the NCAA Championships, including Drakeford and Finan, who are ranked No. 14 and No. 22 nationally in their events.

Sophomore Brian Zimmermen is currently No. 4 in the nation in the javelin throw and sophomore Terrence Somerville is ranked No. 23 in the hurdles.

“Our first goal is to get as many to the [NCAA Regional] as possible,” Schnier said. “Our second goal is advancing to the national championships.”

from genderf*ck | page 3

The performances were practiced and rehearsed as early as Winter quarter of this academic year in a reserved room in the College-Conservatory of Music. A lot of the material was recycled from previous acts and shows put on by GenderBloc.

What makes GenderBloc so unique is the fact that, although it represents the LGBTQ community, it’s not just comprised of those people.

“It’s not just gays for gays,” said Walters, a straight ally and fifth-year fine arts student. “It’s everyone.”

GenderBloc is comprised of all sexualities and orientations. There are men for men, women for women, men for women and women for men.

Thus, the Genderf*ck Drag Show allows for viewers to see both sides of the coin; there are people who are not part of that niche who support it.

“It’s definitely an education about being free to express

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your gender in any way that you see fit. If you want to dress masculine or feminine, that’s OK. If you want to switch back and forth, that’s OK, too,” Miller said. “It’s very much about gender identity and showing that everyone has those multiple facets of their gender.”

Seeing the drag show has changed many people’s views of the LGBTQ community, seeing as the vast majority of the drag show goers are generally heterosexual.

“It changed their perception of LGBTQ,” Royce said.

“It was cool to hear someone say, ‘Why would I ever say things like faggot?’ ” Although the Genderf*ck Drag Show is one night full of entertaining performances, seductive poses and laughter, the bigger message GenderBloc advocates is in effect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

“People are people,” Hargis said. “It doesn’t matter how they dress or who they fall in love with or who they have sex with. People are just people.”

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citizens) were killed, 200,000 were forced from their homes and 1,619 were reported missing during the invasion. Among those missing were five American citizens.

Kakouris compared the Turkish occupation to a political ethnic cleansing.

“Turkey brings illegal settlers to the island to change the demographics of the island,” Kakouris said.

Kakouris expressed hope for continued negotiations with Turkey and how Cyprus is determined to do it without outside influences.

“If this doesn’t work out, we will regroup and try again,” Kakouris said.

Previous negotiation efforts aided by other countries failed, due in part to those countries doing what they though was in Cyprus’s best interest, Kakouris said.

Kakouris finished his lecture outlining the goal of the Cyprus government.

“All we want in Cyprus is those values and principles that you hold dear here in the United States,” Kakouris said.

The lecture was enjoyable, said Zoe Desalle, a third-year history student.

“There was a certain bias but that is to be

expected,” Desalle said.

Kakouris expressed his pleasure with the visit to UC and being able to discuss world affairs with students and faculty.

“I’m very appreciative,” Kakouris said.

Other stops Kakouris made while in Cincinnati included Children’s Hospital, where he met staff that will be treating a Cypriot child this summer.

Kakouris acknowledged UC’s archaeological reputation during the lecture.

“UC is rather prolific in digging and Cyprus is an archaeological playground,” Kakouris said.

The ambassador also met with UC Provost Anthony Perzigian, who is of Armenian descent.

Armenians are among the population of Cyprus.

“They had a connection,” said Lia Seremetis, a fourth-year communication student who spent the past two months organizing the ambassador’s visit.

Seremetis felt the audience was impacted by Kakouris’s lecture.

“It was amazing,” Seremetis said. “You could tell the audience was interested.”

The UC political science, European studies and UC international departments sponsored the lecture.

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scores increased as well, from 1097 to 1128, according to UC statistics.

Increased emphasis on keeping students in college has also participated in the rising numbers.

“I think UC has paid a lot of attention to its retention supports,” Miller said.

The graduation rate of students coming to UC from two-year campuses, such as Cincinnati State, is even higher. “[UC’s] biggest feeder is Cincinnati State and those students have a 70 percent rate of graduation,” Miller said.

One reason for that success is that those students have previously cleared the hurdles that prevent success at Cincinnati State before coming to UC, Miller said.

Miami University currently has the highest graduation rate of Ohio’s public four-year colleges at 81 percent, while UC stands sixth, according to the website Complete College America.

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“Well I think 10 hits is actually a decent night in college baseball, but I think we also got ourselves out way to many times,” Cleary said.

UC freshman pitcher Zach Isler picked up the loss and dropped to 0-3 on the season. Miami freshman pitcher Brandon Adkins picked up his first win of the season and moved to 1-0.

Peters and Jacquot both went 2 for 4 from the plate with one RBI. Game two of the home-andhome series will be played at 6 p.m., Wednesday, May 12, at McKie Field at Hayden Park in Oxford, Ohio.

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PHOTOS BY COULTER LOEB | the news record skyrockets in flight Audience members toss around an inflated condom during intermission at the Genderf*ck Drag Show Friday, May 7.

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THE DRAG SHOW IS ABOUT MAKING PEOPLE FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE AND PUSHING BOUNDARIES.” —KIMMINS SOUTHARD THIRD-YEAR SOCIAL WORK STUDENT

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The bathrooms adjacent to Catskellar in Tangeman University Center are exactly the same — two stalls, two sinks, towel and soap dispensers. There isn’t even a urinal in the men’s bathroom. Most people can’t tell the difference between the two. Yet, within 30 minutes of two signs being posted rendering the bathrooms gender neutral, they were ripped down.

There are many people who aren’t comfortable with the idea of gender-neutral bathrooms.

GenderBloc, a radical activist group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and allied students, focuses on gender issues, including transgender and genderqueer activism. They put up the gender-neutral signs in honor of the Genderf*ck Drag Show hosted Friday, May 7.

“Do you go into the bathroom of your sex or gender identity? If you don’t look like you belong, what happens?” asked K.D. Miller, a fourth-year special education student. “It makes people take a step back and go, ‘What do I do?’ which is what transfolk do every day.”

The Genderf*ck Drag Show isn’t a typical drag show — while there are some risqué shenanigans and funny performances, it is a way for GenderBloc to be seen, entertain drag show goers and spread a larger message to students as a culmination of the University of Cincinnati’s Pride and Visibility Week.

“We’re trying to get people to understand that it doesn’t matter what you identify yourself as; you’re still a human being,” said Lindsey Hargis, a UC alumna.

It’s a very unique form of activism and outreach, said Jamie Royce, a UC alumna.

Friday Night Live helped host the event, passing out sex kits to incoming audience members. All donations and tips received during the performances were split 50/50 between TransOhio and GenderBloc.

The show opened with emcee Royce, who discussed recent hate crimes and the lack of safety for the LGBTQ community.

Royce, a Great American Condom Campaign advocate, threw condoms into the crowd throughout the night while discussing safe sex.

The show featured the following characters and their drag names: Phil McCock, Heywood Jablowme, Adonis, Paxton Bound, Allusion,

Hard to handle Heywood Jablowme (K.D. Miller) dressed in suspenders and red bowtie lip synched to the Black Crowes hit.

Ben Eatiner/Anita Butch, Victor Vixen, Buster Hymen, Shadow Banks and Johnny Rammer.

In the first act, Heywood Jablowme (K.D. Miller) performed to “Hard to Handle” dressed in suspenders and a red bowtie.

Paxton Bound (Kay Ess) and Johnny Rammer (Lauren Welborn) performed “It Ain’t the Meat, It’s the Motion” which involved a lot of stripping and grinding against one another.

Heywood Jablowme then showed the crowd there is such a thing as a happy ending through the lyrics “The Pretender” by the Foo Fighters.

Phil McCock (Kimmins Southard) and Ben Eatiner (Jamie Royce) explained what would happen “If I Were Gay.” Shadow Banks (Eric Hilson) received a hands-on lesson from Heywood Jablowme accompanied by “Love, Sex and Magic” by Justin Timberlake and Ciara.

Allusion (Alyssa Gates), Phil McCock and Adonis give a new spin on M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes.”

Victor Vixen (Chelsey Walters) and Buster Hymen sang along to “Schadenfreude” from the musical “Avenue Q” discussing taking pleasure in other people’s pain.

Phil McCock, Heywood Jablowme, Adonis, Paxton Bound, Allusion and Anita Butch sang along to “The Bitch of Living” from the musical “Spring Awakening.”

Perhaps the most applauded act was when Heywood Jablowme helped all of the GenderF*ckers come out and give them proper identity labels such as: stone butch, straight ally, gay and femme.

The reactions throughout the show ranged from smiles, laughter and in-awe mouth dropping.

“Have you ever looked back in people’s faces in the movie theater?” said Chelsey Walters, a fifth-year fine arts student.

“That’s what I love. Not the before, not the applause — the reaction. You see what you’re getting out of it.”

The acts throughout the show demonstrated what is going on in the LGBTQ community and what needs to be done. Audience members were shown what it means to be a part of LGBTQ and the strides GenderBloc has taken to better educate the community.

“There’s so much work that needs to be done to make the world a better place for all people,” said Southard, a third-year social work student. “There’s a lot of different ways to go about that, and the drag show is about making people feel more comfortable and pushing boundaries.” see Genderf*ck | page 2

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Big moves, big bags, big decisions I posted on The Fashion Dungjen blog that, once I got a job, I was going to treat myself to a present. Not just any present, but a nice, fancy, handmade, very big bag.

Well, now that I have a job lined up for postgraduation, I think it might be about time to treat myself. I posted the entry about the bag I wanted back in January. Actually, I hadn’t given it much thought since then. In fact, I kind of forgot about it. Looking at the blog about a week ago, though, rekindled my desire. From there, I spent way too much time and stayed up way too late trolling Etsy.com to find a bag that fit what I was looking for.

I ended up finding a few that I feel like I can’t live without. I can’t decide which one I want, so I’d like a little help, if you don’t mind. Who better to ask than the people who know my ideas about style best: my readers. When I went on the hunt for a book bag, I got a ton of e-mails with suggestions on what to get and what to avoid. You guys rule.

So, once again, I’m soliciting your advice.

Observe: The Chotto. I like this bag because it’s big and has two strap options: shorter for wearing on the shoulder and longer for wearing across the chest. I prefer longer straps so I can wear a bag across my body, but it isn’t totally necessary. That’s why this bag gets bonus points for having both options. I am also a huge fan of gray. The bag is from Etsy user ChristyStudio; $35.

The Letter Bag. This bag almost seems to be the dream bag for a journalist. It’s called the letter bag and really fits a lot of gear for a writer. The description on the Etsy page says it has excellent internal organization: a small pocket for an iPod, a pencil slip, a pocket for “the records of your daily doings,” a pocket with a snap closure for notebooks and a deep zipper pocket for other random stuff. It can also carry a 15-inch laptop and books.

The inside also has D-rings for keys and is lined with a waterproof fabric. From Etsy user Moop; $118.

The Market Bag. The market bag is made of 100 percent organic fabrics.

The strap is adjustable so, as I mentioned before, I can choose to wear the bag either on my shoulder or across my body.

Bonus points. From Etsy user Moop; $113.

The Porter Bag. This is the bag I originally wanted and posted to my blog in January. I like it because of the different strap options and the color — the one I really like is in a color called rosewood.

It also comes in a gun metal gray which I am also partial to.

The description says it’s most suitable for overnight stays, but that just means, to me, that it’s extra big to carry all of my extra stuff. From Etsy user Moop; $91.

The Messenger Bag. You might have noticed I have a thing for the bags made

by Moop. They are great.

Excellent, even. The messenger bag gets serious bonus points since it’s outfitted with a lot of internal storage and a slip on the back for extra space. This bag is lined with a fire-engine red waterproof fabric so it’s double fun on the inside. From Etsy user Moop; $131.

All of the bags are kind of expensive, but I feel like I’ve earned it. Four years of school, three years of never-ending, but [mostly] excellent work at The News Record totally earns me a bag, even if I do have to spend more than $100 on it.

Maybe that’s crazy. Maybe I shouldn’t do it.

Maybe.

But I’m going to anyway.

I’ll be totally honest, I posted this entry to my new blog “Are we there yet?” last week. The poll I posted with the blog post is tied at four votes for The Chotto bag and four votes for The Letter Bag. There’s also a lone vote for The Messenger Bag. Still, though, I’m torn.

Help me! You can see pictures of all of the bags that I posted to my blog at www. taylordungjen.wordpress.com.

Vote in the poll, shoot me an e-mail, do whatever you want, but I need your guidance in picking our the perfect bag to carry all of my stuff when I start my post-UC life.

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here is something beautiful about biking. It gets you and your stuff where you need to go. It doesn’t require a lot of lanes. It isn’t restricted by pavement. It doesn’t require a long walk from the parking lot. There’s little maintenance, few mysterious parts and all of us can justify the cost of fuel (Hey, I enjoy donuts a lot more than British Petroleum, thank you, particularly because they don’t pollute entire wetlands — just my arteries.).

Sure, there are bikers out, but the bike lanes (You can ask “we have bike lanes?” without embarrassment.) haven’t been overburdened, nor have there been massive demonstrations in the street. In fact, if I hadn’t caught the tail end of Portland’s Pedalpalooza two years ago, I would think Bike Month was as lame as, say, National Letter Carrier Day (April 5, by the way, and they do a food drive, so all-in-all, not so lame). I mean, we all enjoy biking, but who really cares?

In Portland, bike month stretches into a second month. There are events every hour of every day (there is a naked bike ride, a zombie ride and bike polo). And often, those events continue, year round, in some less intense form. My favorite is breakfast on the bridges (in Portland, free organic/vegan/to die for home made quirky pastries from local stores, and local fairtrade Stumptown coffee).

Cincinnati is imitating this tradition, 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., Friday, May 21. I’ll be there to network, because it’s a start.

That’s all we’ve got: a start.

When I complained in Portland about our lack of bike culture, they asked me what we were starting.

So here’s to promoting biking in a city that provides a single two-bike parking rack at its central Whole Foods (Heck, if those consumers don’t ride bikes, who does?).

Biking needs promotion because it is a vulnerable activity. It takes energy. It takes knowledge of the streets. It takes some compassion from motorists, some equipment and a little bit of support (particularly when you get a flat in traffic). None of these things might strike you as being accessible … that’s because they aren’t. Bike month is about bringing the know-how and help to you, to make every person a little more aware and able to bike everywhere they might want to go, so we can all breathe easier. Not just because motorists will give us enough space, but because a couple more Ludlow residents will leave their steel suitcases at home and commute in a more carbon-footprint and air-quality friendly way.

Bike Month is shaping up to look pretty good.

On Tuesday nights, Grammar’s (a bar in Over-the-Rhine) is hosting bike-themed movies, like “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.” On Saturdays, there are booths at Findlay Market handing out Cincinnati Bike Maps and talking it up.

And, bonus, next week is bike to work week, including “commuter stations” which translates to “free coffee.”

That’s worth an early ride (cough, commute, cough) up to Hyde Park’s Coffee Emporium on anna bentley | the news record Monday morning. Just get there before 9 a.m.

If you don’t have your own ride, UC offers a locked up Students and bike enthusiasts lock up the UC Bike Share bikes after the program was bike share program, loaning bikes out from the Campus Recreation Center. I can’t imagine a started on Earth Day, April 22.

Biking is hard to condemn (unless you’re driving aggressively within close range, in which case, shame on you) and easy to fall in love with.

Hills and all, biking is cheaper and more accessible than driving or a buying a bus pass in Cincinnati.

There’s no waiting, no parking, no fueling, no missed busses or lights. It provides mobility within a neighborhood, which is what most students need.

It is a subculture — there are bike geeks who look a lot like hippies crossed with motorcycle gangsters. With all of this going for it, one wonders why University of Cincinnati President Greg Williams isn’t allowed to elect to spend one month’s automobile allowance on a really elegant bike setup to glide into appointments in style.

Coming from New York City, he is likely used to alternative transportation already. And, to be quite frank, the cost of even one month’s subway pass is sufficient to procure a ride-able bike, let alone the sum our university provides for Williams’ monthly vehicular upkeep.

May is bike month in Cincinnati. This might come as a surprise for you if you’ve looked around.

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all lined up Bikes from the UC bike share program are available at the recreation center. better population than students to make a statement to Cincinnati that bikers are a legitimate form of transportation. We’re young, entitled; we don’t scare easily and we’re in shape. I mention entitlement and scared because drivers in Cincinnati aren’t particularly bike friendly, largely because they’re not used to caring about their two-wheeled friends.

That said, it’s worth it.

Give one of the bikes a spin (check the brakes first) and if the curfew and availability begins to grate on you, get your own. The Northside cycling co-op, aka MOBO, (take the 17/18/19 bus north from Clifton Avenue) will help you figure it out for cheap.

And maybe, just maybe, some day we will have real bike infrastructure in Cincinnati. Maybe you’ll find that your limit screw needs some attention, you can handle a chain breaker and you keep one day each month free for zoo bombing (all appropriate activities for the whole family, I swear).

It is a good feeling to know a city from wandering its streets on wheels, to take a jaunt over to Eden Park, or even to Hyde Park square, without batting an eye or feeding a meter. Start a good habit this May, and get out and ride. I bet you’ll have fun.

Biking needs promotion because it is a vulnerable activity. It takes energy. It takes knowledge of the streets. It takes compassion from motorists.

CINCINNATI BIKE MONTH EVENTS Friday, May 21

Saturday, May 15 Commuter training

10 a.m.

Learn how to safely commute by bike. Corner BLOC Coffee Shop in Price Hill.

Saturday, May 29

breakfast on the bridge

cincy bike-about

6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Hosted by Bike Newport, enjoy breakfast on the Purple People Bridge.

10 a.m.

Meet at Fountain Square and learn just how easy it is to navigate Cincinnati on a bike. If it rains, plan to bike Sunday instead.

mobo fundraiser

7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Fourth annual fundraiser for the Mobo Bicycle Co-Op at Mayday, 4227 Spring Grove Ave. More information is available at www.mobobicyclecoop.org.

Saturday, June 5

Wednesday, May 19

bike show

ride of silence

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

A ride to honor those who have been injured or killed while riding bicycles. Route TBA.

noon to 4 p.m.

Celebrate Bike Month in Newport.

*A full calendar of events is available at queencitybike.org

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Tiger Woods: world’s No. 1 golfer, liar If there’s one thing we’ve learned since this past Thanksgiving, it’s that we can believe everything Tiger Woods is telling us, right?

The world’s No. 1 golfer is quickly becoming less trustworthy than the boy who cried wolf.

Here’s a guy we all thought was happily married to a beautiful Swedish blonde bombshell.

Turns out he was banging more than one dozen women on the side.

After months of seclusion and sex-addiction therapy, Woods came out of hiding to deliver one of the most rehearsed public apologies of all time Feb. 19.

Clearly, Woods was sorry ­— sorry for getting caught with his hand in so many cookie jars.

In the most anticipated return since the Prodigal Son, Woods stepped back into the tee box at Augusta National April 8. His top-five Masters finish made us all think Tiger’s game hadn’t missed a beat.

We should have known better.

After he missed the cut at Quail Hollow in his second tournament back, Woods had to start fielding questions about his relationship with swing coach Hank Haney.

After his first round at The Players Championship Thursday, May 6, Woods told reporters nothing had changed in his relationship with Haney and that the two continued to speak every day.

We should have seen this next one coming: Monday, May 10, Haney resigned as Woods’ coach.

Everyone knows a good breakup should at least be done over the phone if not in person.

That didn’t stop Haney, who apparently wanted to quit so badly he resorted to breaking up with Woods through a series of text messages.

Normally it’s the golfer, not the swing coach, who wears the pants in these relationships.

Players are the ones typically breaking up with swing coaches, not the other way around.

One of the last big names to have his coach bail on him was the controversial John Daly. Before his coach left him and his entire life became a controversy, Woods’ similarities with Daly were few and far between.

So, a quick recap. Woods has lost both his wife of five years and swing coach of six.

And now it looks like his golf game might have packed up and left, too.

En route to missing the cut at Quail Hollow, Woods posted the worst 36-hole score of his career.

It makes sense, really. All Woods has known for years is winning golf tournaments and committing infidelity. They were always a package deal.

Continuing to excel at one while cutting out the other as your life is in shambles can’t be easy.

But with all Woods has lost, at least he still has his health, right?

This man just can’t catch a break.

Woods had to withdraw from the final round of The Players Championships Sunday, May 9, because of spasms and pain in his neck, which he claims has been bothering him since two weeks before the Masters.

Just imagine the following situation with me for a moment, will you?

It’s the middle of the night and you’re backing out of your driveway when out of nowhere this fire hydrant jumps right into your path. One collision.

Then some tree thinks it’d be hilarious to jump in front of your path as you pull forward.

Two collisions.

Then your beautiful wife — who just spent the entire previous day making the Thanksgiving meal before finding out you have 47 girlfriends on the side — starts smashing your windows in. There’s glass flying everywhere. You don’t know where the next blow is coming from. By this point, your neck has taken quite a beating.

But Tiger continues to insist the pain and neck spasms that kept him from competing last weekend aren’t in any way related to that incident.

And hey, we have every reason to believe him now, don’t we?

What do you think? Can you believe anything Tiger Woods says? E-mail your antics to Sam at elliotsu@mail.uc.edu.

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Hoping to give head coach Brian Cleary a win for his birthday, the University of Cincinnati baseball team fell short, losing 7-4 to the Miami (OH) RedHawks Tuesday, May 11.

The game was the first of a two-game, home-and-home series.

“I certainly don’t think we pitched well enough, especially early in the game,” Cleary said. “We’ve just got to play better.”

Miami’s offense came into the game hot, averaging almost 10 runs per game in its last five games and the RedHawks wasted no time getting on the board.

Miami put up an easy run in the first inning after Bearcat catcher Jimmy Jacquot committed an error overthrowing third base trying to catch a Miami base-runner stealing and Miami sophomore Jordan Jankowski hit a solo home Eamon Queeney | the news record run to give the RedHawks an early 2-0 lead. down and out University of Cincinnati pitcher Sam The Bearcats would soon answer with a run Slavik hangs his head as the Bearcats lost to Miami (OH) of their own. With runners on second and third in May 11. Slavik gave up five runs in 2 1/3 innings of work. the bottom of the second and no outs, senior first

baseman Kevin Johnson laid down a bunt that brought sophomore T.J. Jones home from third.

The score would remain 2-1 until the top of the fifth when the RedHawks’ bats caught fire again, blasting six hits — including two home runs — to give Miami a 7-1 lead.

With two singles and a double in the bottom of the fifth, the Bearcat started to cut into the deficit with runs scored by junior Chris Peters MU and freshman Jake Proctor.

The Bearcats dug further into the RedHawks’ lead in the eighth inning with a double by sophomore UC Kendal Coleman that brought Jacquot home from second to trail Miami 7-4.

But Cincinnati’s hopes of a comeback would end there. The Cats finished the eighth and ninth innings failing to produce any more offense, recording only one more hit in the ninth.

The Bearcats finished the game with 10 hits and one error while the RedHawks finished with 11 hits and zero errors.

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CYCLONES FORCE GAME 7

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Three-Straight wins Cincinnati once trailed the Reading Royals 0-3 in the American Conference finals. But after three-straight wins, the Cyclones have forced a game seven to be played at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 12, with a trip to the Kelly Cup finals on the line.

Three goals in two minutes help push series to brink Peter Marx the news record

Once down 0-3 in the series, the Cincinnati Cyclones battled back, forcing a game seven with a trip to the Kelly Cup finals on the line.

The Cyclones defeated the Reading Royals for the third-straight time, 6-3 in game six of the American Conference finals Tuesday, May 11, at U.S. Bank Arena.

Under head coach Chuck Weber, Cincinnati is 8-2 in elimination games and 5-0 when facing elimination in the 2010 playoffs.

“We don’t have any super stars on this team,” Weber said. “We have a bunch of guys that are going to put on their hard hats and go to work every night.”

Cincinnati is looking to make its first trip back to the Kelly Cup finals since the Cyclones won the championship in the 2007-08 season.

The first period was a wild one, as Reading got off to an early 2-0 lead, but the Cyclones wouldn’t trail for long.

Cincinnati came back quickly, scoring three goals in less than two minutes.

The Cyclones scored their first goal of the night on a 5-on-3 power play. Barret Ehgoetz was in the right place at the right time, as he smacked in a rebound that sailed off the crossbar and into his lap by the near post.

Just more than one minute later, with 9:54 remaining in the first period, Cincinnati went on to score two more goals in the next 26 seconds.

The first goal came off another rebound, as Dustin Sproat sent a laser past goalie Matt Dalton.

Ehgoetz gave the Cyclones the lead when he scored his second goal of the game on a diving shot just outside the goalie’s crease.

The Royals and Cyclones went into the first intermission tied 3-3, but Cincinnati would tack on two more goals in second period, taking a C y c l o n e s the 5-3 lead going into the third.

Brett Robinson scored the Cyclones’ fifth goal of the night 7:29 into the second period and R o y a l s Sproat scored an empty net goal — his second of the game ­— with 2.6 seconds remaining.

Cincinnati pulled goalie Robert Mayer after the first period and went with Jeremy Smith for the rest of the game. The move turned out to be a good one.

“Mayer went in cold and did a great job shutting them down and the boys worked hard in front of him,” Weber said.

Mayer finished the game with 14 saves and no goals allowed.

The Cyclones outshot the Royals 33-21 on the night and only committed five penalties compared to Reading, which had nine.

The Cyclones face off against the Royals in game seven of the conference finals at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 12, at U.S. Bank Arena.

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Big game seven Dustin Sproat and Barret Ehgoetz each scored two goals to lead the Cyclones to a 6-3 win Tuesday, May 11.

Bearcats at last chance for regional qualifying Hunter Tickel the news record

Regional qualification will be on the minds of several Bearcats as they head into two vital meets this weekend: the Georgia Tech Invitational and Cardinal Invitational.

The University of Cincinnati men’s and women’s track and field teams kick off the first competition Friday, May 14, in Atlanta, while the Cardinal Invitational begins the following day in Louisville, Ky. The two events are the last chances for individuals to record performances strong enough to earn them spots at the NCAA Regional meet, which begins Friday, May 28, in Greenville, N.C. “The purpose of the meets are to get people qualified for the regional,” said UC head coach Bill Schnier. “We have some people that are not in the top-48 that are

trying to get there and we have some in the 40s — they are trying to stay there.”

Athletes are eligible to perform at the NCAA Regional if they have times that rank among the top-48.

Relay teams must record a time in the top-24 of the region.

The men’s 4x400 relay team is currently on the fringe, holding the 24th and final qualification position. The team includes senior All-American Antione Drakeford, the Big East 400-meters champion.

The Georgia Tech Invitational will showcase an abundance of talent from across the nation and be largely composed of sprinters and hurdlers.

“It’s a very large field,” Schnier said. “All the ACC teams will be there and the Big East.”

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Ian Johnson | the news record

You’re Being chased Cincinnati’s track and field athletes have one final chance to qualify for the NCAA Regional meet, which begins May 28.

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