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monday , may big east championships Drakeford wins 400-meters, Cincinnati men finish sixth. page 6
Vol. CXXX Issue 74
3, 2010
peanut butter and jelly Serve Beyond Cincinnati dishes out a tasty staple to the homeless. page 3
how low can you go Ludacris brings his southern-fried rhymes to the Queen City. page 5
University stocks bleeding Bearcat red NET ASSET LOSSES
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The University of Cincinnati balanced its budget despite substantial asset losses caused by the biggest recession since the 1930s. The university posted asset losses of $301 million in fiscal year 2009, according to a report released by the Ohio Board of Regents March 30. “When the stock market went down, our endowment went down,” said James Plummer, UC’s vice president of finance. The university’s endowment lost almost 26 percent of its market value between June 2008 and April 2009, according to the official budget report for fiscal year 2010. The university does not expect any further losses this fiscal year, according to the budget report. Although the figure might look steep, UC wasn’t the only school that experienced a loss. “We did better than a lot of schools out there,” Plummer said. “We actually did better than Harvard.” Despite drop, the university did manage to meet a balanced budget, Plummer said. Having a sound bottom line stays on track with the university’s
“We did a lot better than a lot of schools out there. We actually did better than Harvard.” —JAMES PLUMMER, VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE
Structured Deficit Policy, which was accepted by UC’s Board of Trustees in November 2008. The budget report for fiscal year 2010’s policy makes it so departments cannot run negative fund balances. The report also states the new policy was passed in hopes of improving the university’s ability to cope with emergencies. The report also goes as far as planning for making up past financial losses. The university will set aside $10 million every year to reduce the structural deficit and to eliminate negative fund balances that had accumulated in the years before the Structured Deficit Policy see stocks | page 2
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events farmers market
when:
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, May 3
where:
McMicken Commons
Looking for some fresh produce? The College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning’s Students for Ecological Design is organizing a farmers market on campus to give students access to local produce. The market will also feature things such as coffee and soaps. For more information, call Kailani Novotny at 650-400-5780 or e-mail novotnkc@email.uc.edu.
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den of inequity The Calhoun Street Garage on campus housed a rash of vehicle break-ins in April.
Break-ins raise fear, questions
f to (e)mbody when: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Monday, May 3
where: Catskellar
Spoken word and hip-hop performances by The Athens Boys Choir and Katastrophe are scheduled to be featured at an event marking the first day of the University of Cincinnati’s Pride Week. F to (e)Mbody’s performance aims to bring “trans-art and visibility to college campuses.” For more information, contact Alyssa Gates at gatesas@email.uc.edu.
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ceas energy conference
when:
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 4
where:
Duke Convention Center
The University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering and Applied Science is lending a hand in hosting the Technology Exposition. The event is scheduled to showcase hundreds of displays as well as advertisements for the college’s tracks that focus on green technologies. For more information, call Arthur Davies at 513-556-9181 or e-mail arthur.davies@uc.edu. index
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spanning the globe Asuka Yamaki, Japanese exchange student and vice president of the Japanese American Student Society, leads a dance procession through McMicken Commons Thursday, April 29, during the Worldfest International Festival. Worldfest is a week-long celebration of the 2,500 students and scholars on campus from other nations.
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Despite the amount of alcohol on and around the University of Cincinnati’s campus, students might be surprised at the amount of arrests for alcohol-related incidents. As of March 2010, the UC Police Division responded to 13 incidents in which someone was arrested for alcohol-related charges. During that same span, UCPD made 16 arrests in drug-related incidents. Although the number of people being arrested might seem low, a significantly larger amount of people were “referred for disciplinary action.”
In 2008, 176 individuals on UC’s main campus were referred, though only 19 of the cases resulted in arrests, according to statistics from the Office of Postsecondary Education, a branch of the U.S. Department of Education. The overall proportion of arrests to referrals was approximately 11 percent. Alcohol-related arrests on campus for four-year public institutions came in at approximately 28,000, according to Department of Education statistics. “Remember that these are only for on campus, so this is really not the whole picture,” said Karen Patterson, UCPD assistant police chief. “It is, however, very eye opening.”
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One University of Cincinnati student is questioning how seriously the UC Police Division is about crime after having her vehicle broken into on campus. The student, who wishes to remain anonymous, allegedly waited approximately 15 minutes for a UCPD officer to arrive at the Calhoun Street parking garage after a vehicle break-in Thursday, April 22. “I was so scared,” the student said. “I didn’t know if [the perpetrator] was still up there.” The student arrived to the vehicle after class to find the back passenger window popped out of its frame, the doors unlocked and the glove compartment opened. The incident was reported at 8:50 p.m., according to UCPD report logs. “The response time depends on several things like the type of crime, if the crime is occurring at the time and the location of the officer,” said Capt. Karen Patterson, assistant chief of UCPD. The officer was dispatched from the Old Chemistry building at 8:50 p.m. and arrived at Calhoun garage at 9:01 p.m., Patterson said. The student called UCPD a second time while waiting on the officer to respond to ask the dispatcher why the response time was taking so long. Upon responding, the officer said he was on foot because the department was trying to cut back on gas, the student said. Calhoun garage had 14 incidents of theft from vehicles, criminal damaging and receiving stolen property in April, out of 24 reports from all campus parking garages, according to UCPD report logs. Past surveys conducted by UC Public Safety have shown the biggest complaint of the UC community was the lack of officers on foot, Patterson said. “He was walking so slow,” the student said. The responding officer was also nonchalant in his response, the student said. see UCPD | page 2
“The response time depends on several things like the type of crime, if the crime is occurring at the time and the location of the officer.” —CAPT. KAREN PATTERSON, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF UCPD
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