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University research funding falls KARA DRISCOLL | SENIOR REPORTER

While federal funding continues to finance research at the University of Cincinnati, one university official says UC can’t expect to rely on the trend forever.

Dr. William Ball, interim vice president of research at UC, announced an overall decrease in the university’s r e s e a r c h expenditure as he laid out his annual research-funding COURTESY OF UC.EDU

report for the UC Board of Trustees Tuesday at Russell C. Myers Alumni Center.

For fiscal year 2010, the university and its affiliates acquired $418.3 million in research funding, Ball said. Without affiliate funding, the university received $251 million. UC recieved $433.3 million in fiscal year 2009, a drop of 3.46 percent.

While UC’s downturn can be attributed to the decrease of federal funding and the stimulus plan, the impact of the lack of stimulus funding won’t become evident for a couple years, Ball said.

“We need to make sure we have a diverse stream of funding,” said Student Body President Alan Hagerty, who serves on the board as the undergraduate student representative.

Chesley in second legal suit

“It’s imperative not to rely singly on federal funding.”

Yet the bulk of funding for UC research comes from federal funding sources. Of the $251 million received in 2011, 82.98 percent came from federal sources, according to research presented by Ball.

The largest source of UC research funding comes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which contributes 40.18 percent of the overall federal funding.

UC medical researchers are currently working on projects ranging from studying migraine prevention to determining the specific mechanisms of neuron interaction.

The majority of research funding, 53.1 percent, is absorbed by the College of Medicine, according to Ball’s research Seven other colleges increased their

total amount of funding in 2011 including the colleges of Engineering, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning as well as the College of Nursing, according to Ball’s research.

The reliance on federal funding will not aid the university in the future, Ball said.

“We need to do a better job at emphasizing other sources of funding such as industry support,” Ball said.

Only 7.5 percent of funding came from industry funding, according to Ball’s research.

“So where do we need to go? We need to be more strategic in our funding sources.

We need to find collaboration. We need to be more competitive and diverse in our portfolio of funding,” Ball said.

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JACKSON PREACHES AGAIN Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson rallied Occupy Cincinnati supporters at Piatt Park Tuesday.

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A member of the University of Cincinnati’s Board of Trustees, who is already being considered for disbarment as a lawyer in Kentucky, is now a defendant in two lawsuits alleging fraud on his part.

Stan Chesley — a UC trustee and partner in the Cincinnati law firm of Waite, Schneider, Bayless and Chesley — was recently named as a defendant in two lawsuits filed in Kenton County, Ky., by former plaintiffs of Chesley’s.

The lawsuits allege that Chesley, attorney Robert Steinberg and Chesley’s law firm committed fraud regarding the financial settlement of a 2006 sexual abuse lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Covington, Ky. The latest lawsuit alleges that Chesley and the other defendants promised four of the 252 sexual abuse victims involved in the lawsuit more of a financial payout of the $84 million settlement than they actually received.

Chesley is also alleged to have told the victims payments from the lawsuit would be delayed or reduced if they did not agree to the requested attorney’s fees.

It is the second time within a year that Chesley — who served as a UC trustee from 1985 to 1994 and again from 2009 to present — has been accused of misconduct.

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IN COURT AGAIN Stanley Chesley has been accused of misconduct twice in one year.

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As Occupy movements and members around the country are raided, arrested and disbanded, the Cincinnati faction received a boost in support from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. Among the protesters was former and current University of Cincinnati students, parents, their young children and a large portion of protesters representing the Homeless Congress of Cincinnati.

“It was really moving to hear him speak since he worked alongside with Martin Luther King Jr.,” said Liz June, 26, an activist with Food Not Bombs — an all-volunteer organization dedicated to nonviolent social change. “ Jackson spoke Tuesday evening at Piatt Park to approximately 150 Occupy Cincinnati protesters during a chilly downpour.

Jackson was in town attending a supplier’s business conference and stopped by Piatte Park to voice his support for the movement.

Jackson stepped onto the fountain at Piatt Park and was met by reverberant cheers.

In his speech, Jackson drew parallels between the Occupy movement and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. “[Jackson] spoke about how Martin Luther King, Jr. was working on economic justice at the time of his death,” June said. “It was empowering to know that we are picking up where such beautiful activists left off.”

Jackson reiterated his message of economic justice.

“Too few people have too much, and too many have virtually nothing,” was the resounding phrase Jackson repeated throughout his 15-minute speech. The line was met with cheers from the protesters.

Jackson also attributed an “extreme concentration of wealth built upon government subsidy” to the negligence of banks. Banks were bailed out, but the people were left out, he said.

Jackson noted the injustice of denying medical care to those without insurance and the fact that millions of Americans are on food stamps.

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OCCUPY RALLY CRY Sixteen Occupy Cincinnati protesters were arrested Tuesday

His argument was that a war should be waged “against poverty, not against the poor.”

He commented on the issue of funding education — particularly college — and the disgrace he sees in the fact that loan offices aren’t able to provide SEE JACKSON | 4

For many people, the term eugenics provokes images of the Nazi concentration camps of 1940s Germany.

A University of Cincinnati researcher argues that eugenics might have had a much more recent presence in the United States.

Research conducted by Wendy Kline, a professor in UC’s history department, shows that past testing and use of the injected contraceptive Depo-Provera might have been a case of eugenics — the attempt to improve a society’s genetic makeup by controlling who is able to reproduce in the 70s.

“Many [women] accused scientists and doctors of using women as guinea pigs whose health was expendable in the name of scientific research,” Kline said.

Kline’s research, “Bodies of Evidence: Activists, Patients and the FDA Regulation of DepoProvera,” involved analyzing women’s complaints and public inquiries on the drug.

Study of the complaints showed that some women were simply administered the drug after giving birth without their knowledge. Others were told that the shot was the best method of birth control without being told the side effects of the drug, SEE EUGENICS | 4

UC-developed fire drone to reduce risk

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OBSERVE AND REPORT An unmanned aerial vehicle developed by UC engineers will assist firefighters with information and reduced risk.

LANCE LAMBERT | SENIOR REPORTER A new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed at the University of Cincinnati will provide eyes in the sky and timely information for the nation’s firefighters to prevent forestfire fatalities.

A group of nearly 20 students in the UC College of Engineering (COE) worked on a project called SIERRA (Surveillance for Intelligent Emergency Response Robotic Aircraft) and created a UAV — that can fly

over forest fires providing workers below with global positioning through Google Maps. It can send images, video, data and a projection of a fire’s course.

The five-pound UAV, with a 54-inch wingspan, can fly as low as 500 feet above flames, sending fire personnel radio waves containing valuable information without the expense of a helicopter or other pricey form of manned aircraft.

“The data provided will give us altitude and use mathematical algorithms to predict the fire’s path,” said Balaji Sharma, 27, a SIERRA member and mechanical engineering graduate student.

Another SIERRA member cited costefficiency as a prime advantage to using the unmanned drone.

“The UAV will provide the cheapest eyes in the sky,” said Robert Charvat, SIRREA team leader and COE graduate student. “Same surveillance at one one-hundredth of the price of a helicopter.”

UAV surveillance will keep firefighters in the loop while keeping them out of the danger zone, Charvat said.

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Forest fires are a starting point for the technology. In the future it could be used to monitor traffic, sporting events, provide police surveillance and be used in land plotting, Charvat said.

“The UAV can fly on its own or from remote control from the ground,” Charvat said. “If we told it to fly to Mason and back, SEE DRONE | 4

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PLANNING FOR FUTURE Sierra team members say they hope their drone will revolutionize response to fire emergencies.

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SILVANOMICS KEN

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Fed needs changes, reforms When the Federal Reserve (Fed) was created in 1913, it was given two mandates: keep market prices stable and maximize employment.

However, since its inception, the Fed has unofficially taken on a third responsibility: financing U.S. debt.

This was the case Tuesday when the Fed bought $4.96 billion of U.S. Treasury bonds through open market purchases.

The Fed is the largest financier of U.S. debt in the world, holding more than $1.6 trillion of Treasury bonds — nearly a half trillion more dollars than the U.S.’s second — biggest creditor, China.

The reason the Fed can buy U.S. debt is because it has the power to regulate the money supply as a tool to fulfill its mandates, and it does so by buying and selling assets.

The most common asset the Fed trades is U.S. Treasury bonds, because they are widely considered the safest and most liquid asset in financial markets.

The fact that an entity of the U.S. government can buy national debt has created a “moral hazard” — the idea that certain institutions can enable and even encourage reckless and immoral behavior.

This moral hazard is apparent in the actions of Congress — members of Congress continue to overspend because the Fed is there to purchase their excess spending.

U.S. lawmakers look at the Fed as a free lunch — the Fed buys their debt, and they do not have to necessarily borrow money from foreign governments or upset their constituents by raising taxes; however, this lunch is not free, but paid for by those who can least afford it: our lower — and middle — class citizens.

When the Fed buys any asset, it does so with newly created money, and that “paper” then enters the economy, which causes price inflation.

While prices rise for everybody, people living on low and fixed incomes are hurt the most, because the price inflation eats into a larger proportion of their income, because their money has less spending power.

The Fed has purchased more than $800 billion in Treasury bonds during the last calendar year — enough debt to make it the fourth — largest budget deficit in the country’s history.

This $800 billion will be felt by the American people through increased prices of food, energy and other consumption goods.

What would happen if the Fed stopped buying government debt?

The U.S. would lose its biggest creditor, interest rates on Treasury bonds would rise, and our government would have to live within its own means.

This possibility frightens politicians who have promised their constituents jobs, healthcare and other government benefits or entitlements.

While policy makers recognize the threat of inflation, they also know that the Fed discontinuing Treasury bond purchases would raise interest rates and stall the economy’s sluggish growth.

While this would be good for the economy in the long run because government would shrink and capital could be used to fund private sector projects rather than government debt, it would slow the economy in the short run and thus seriously injure politicians’ chances of reelection.

Therefore, one can expect the Fed to continue buying U.S. debt at least until after the 2012 elections.

“Moral hazard” is a term that was commonly heard after the 2008 financial crisis, when it was used to describe that firms made careless mistakes because they were under the assumption that the federal government would bail them out.

The moral hazard the Fed poses is something that needs to be recognized and brought to the forefront by anyone concerned with reigning in the excesses of government.

OPINION Beyond Coal letter misinformed

Group’s message misrepresented in last week’s letter BRIAN KUNKEMOELLER There was considerable misinformation about the University of Cincinnati Beyond Coal (UCBC) campaign in Brook Dietz’s letter to the editor entitled, “UC Beyond Coal moving forward”, which appeared in the Nov. 10 issue of The News Record.

I would like to clarify many of Ms. Dietz’s — who is not, to my knowledge, a member of UCBC — misunderstandings about this issue.

First of all, the group is advocating for retiring the two coalLETTER TO fired boilers, not “shutting the plant”. Should THE EDITOR down the two coal-fired boilers be retired, this would not mean closure of the facility, since there are other types of boilers (as well as chillers) in that facility which don’t use coal.

One of the boilers is outdated and already expected to retire. Retiring both of them will have absolutely no impact on staff; the facility requires that two employees on duty at all times, regardless.

On a national and statewide scale, the fact that renewable energy kills jobs is a myth.

In fact, the wind sector already has more employees than the entire coal sector in the United States, as well as in Ohio.

Mountaintop removal mining has efficiently reduced the number of coal mining jobs by replacing underground miners with huge machines, meanwhile creating a much more devastating impact on public health

and the environment.

Even Gov. John Kasich sees the opportunity for job creation in the renewable energy sector.

Plans for new Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), a program implemented by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), are moving forward, as it is widely agreed that renewable energy installations will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and help spark a weakened economy.

UC Beyond Coal members have specific ideas about how to actually get our campus away from coal. Our message isn’t simply that we should build a multimillion dollar solar array tomorrow — as Dietz suggested.

Clearly, she misunderstands the issue with that statement; solar arrays wouldn’t produce steam for heating our campus buildings and six hospitals.

A review of their mission statement, basic research on their campaign as well as a look at UC facilities would have made this clear to Dietz.

To be clear, they are exploring solutions to retiring the coal boilers, which means a 15 percent increase in building heat efficiency.

Our university has been continually investing in efficiency and acknowledging the strong returns on investment.

Joseph Harrell, utilities director, as well as Mary Beth McGrew, the university architect, have shown incredible expertise, skill and ingenuity in building efficiency measures that are saving operating costs and reducing our environmental and social impacts.

Beyond using coal on our medical campus, UCBC is also looking at renewable energy sources that could reduce our electrical input from Duke Energy, which generates most of its energy by burning coal.

As everyone knows, renewable energy forms which produce electricity do in fact have high up-front costs, and the return on investment time frames are longer than most institutions are comfortable with.

There are several federal and state guaranteed loan programs, grants, green revolving loan programs and other funding mechanisms which can spread the up front cost of renewable energy in a way that will not increase yearly operating costs as well as reduce operating costs after they are repaid.

This would keep tuition from increasing and eventually save the university millions of dollars. UC already spends millions of dollars on energy — UCBC believes there are cleaner ways to use that money without increasing our operating budget that will ultimately decrease energy costs, while creating jobs.

Clearly, this is a complicated issue for a lot of people. I simply ask that before anyone makes assumptions about the campaign or create an opinion on UCBC they simply either ask what we are actually saying or research the issue a little more.

Brian Kunkemoeller is the co-director of sustainability, student government administrative outreach and planning coordinator for UC Beyond Coal.

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Penn State student reaction pathetic

Students engaged in idolatry, rioting stereotypical Students at Penn State University should be renamed from the Nittany Lions to the Blind Idolaters — a far more fitting team name.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past two weeks, you’ve probably heard about what has been going on down in University Park, Penn.

Jerry Sandusky — a former Nittany Lion defensive coordinator — was indicted on 40 counts of sex crimes against young boys.

An investigation into the matter revealed that key Penn State faculty and members of the football coaching staff knew about Sandusky’s crimes in 2002, yet failed to act and inform authorities.

The investigation resulted in the firing of President Graham Spanier, Vice President Gary Schultz, Athletic Director Tim Curley and head football coach Joe Paterno — whose firing sparked rioting on the Penn State campus the night of Nov. 9.

Approximately 1,000 student protestors flooded the streets, damaging property, which included some light poles and a media van.

The sad part is, the logic behind the rioting is incredibly misplaced. Penn State students seem to share this sentiment of Paterno as

some sort of martyr in this scandal, but rest assured, he is no martyr and his firing was just.

He might have fulfilled his legal obligations in the matter, but he failed in his moral duties.

Why did the student’s say they rioted?

Because they felt like Paterno did nothing wrong. Well, that’s wrong. Here’s the real reason why the students rioted: Blind loyalty.

They’re upset because they STAFF think of and call Paterno a figure.”

EDITORIAL “father The funny part is, probably 99.9 percent of the students at Penn State have never even had a conversation with him. Real “father figure,” eh?

Fans and students only worship Paterno because he’s been the face of the program for the past 46 years, but what has he or the Nittany Lions done recently? They haven’t won the Big 10 since 2008 — which was shared with Ohio State — and haven’t won a national championship since 1994.

What loyalty do the current students owe him? He hasn’t done anything for them — he’s literally just a name and a face they know. Yet, students still blindly worship him.

Grow up Penn State students, and open

your eyes up to the real world. Your coach made a huge error, and the fact that you’re defending him is hurting Penn State’s reputation just as much as this scandal hurt Paterno’s.

Unfortunately, this blind loyalty can be found at many other schools across the country. Don’t think for a second students at some other schools — mainly found in the Big 10 and SEC — wouldn’t riot if the same thing happened to their coach.

At a lot of these schools, morals, logic and education take a back seat these days to the school’s sporting teams.

There’s no mistake: Paterno was a great coach — if not one of the best to ever coach the college game — and was concerned about coaching his players the “right way,” which was a breath of fresh air with all the other scandals that have been coming to light in the past few years.

Unfortunately, his incredible lapse of judgment will forever haunt and subtract from his historic career. As sad as it is for fans of the game, it’s something Penn State students need to grow up and realize.

Christian claims wrong, contentious SCOTT JOHNSON In response to the advertisement for “prodigal ministries” in the Oct. 27 issue of The News Record, Robert Fee, Academic Director of Undergraduate Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati states, “Prodigal ad not Christian in message.”

First off, I’d like to acknowledge that as a whole, Christians haven’t been the best at responding in a Christ-like fashion to homosexuality, among myriad other issues.

However, he claims, “The content is absurd and contradictory to the religious tradition it purports to uphold.”

The claim is understandable, yet without merit. To say that when the church began and all through time until now that it openly accepted homosexuality as “not an issue” is severely devoid of any truth and denies extrabiblical sources.

The Apostle Paul spoke to the church at Rome about homosexuality and its

“unnaturalness” in Romans 1.

He then again told the church at Corinth that it is something that is to be avoided, along with all sexual sin (because too often groups like WBC like to isolate homosexuality as some unforgivable, degenerate LETTER TO sin and seek to “correct” by THE EDITOR hate speech and horrible cult-like tactics).

History proves that is a distortion of the truth in context. Homosexuality was extremely common in the Greek and Roman world and

by New Testament time was very prominent.

However, the Bible isn’t the only place to hear this.

Plato wrote, “Whether one makes the observation lightheartedly or in all seriousness, one must observe that, when the male body unites with the female body for procreation, the pleasure that goes along with this is understood to be in accordance with nature, but that when male joins with male, or female joins with female, it is outside

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the bounds of nature. This outrage was first done by people whose desire for pleasure was without self-control.” Plato on Homosexuality, From Plato, Laws, 636c, trans. by Duane Garret.

What about Aristophanes, the Greek comic poet who mocked homosexuality? For example, in “Women at the Thesmophoria” he ruthlessly ridiculed the notorious homosexuality of the poet Agathon. Why don’t those people, who are viewed as “brilliant minds of philosophy and comedy” ever get called out for their opinions?

I hope we can keep in mind that while we all won’t agree on everything and every opinion, it is our constitutional, God-given right to stand for what we believe in.

Scott Johnson is a campus minister at the Clifton Church of Christ and an adviser for 4G Campus Ministry at the University of Cincinnati.

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guarding over the troops throughout the night and ensured their safety.

Saturday morning came soon, and the wakeup call was at 0530; the cadets needed to be ready, with personal hygiene completed, their tents cleaned and arranged uniformly, by 0600 to start their second day of training. Saturday’s training guaranteed to be more challenging and engaging. The training schedule would take them through simulated engagement, repelling, rope-bridge building and battlefield tactics with paintball guns.

“Today, we’ll actually get to move about in battlefield,” said Douglas Strange, 18, a first-year mechanical engineering student. “We’ll apply what we have learned and see how effective the movements are.”

The first item in the freshmen training agenda was “EST.” The EST2000 is a laserbased unit, indoor, multipurpose arms trainer. In EST 2000 training, cadets had t h e

tudents at the University of Cincinnati spend their Friday afternoon, at 1300, the ROTC weekends in an amalgam Battalion deployed to Camp Atterbury, of events, but three Ind., for their first FTX of the freshmen in the Reserve academic year.

Officer Training Corps As soon as they arrived at the camp, spent the Nov. 4 weekend their tasks were scheduled meticulously: in Battle Dress Uniform “Friday 1600 arrival to Camp Atterbury; (BDU). They wrestled to manage field 1630 tent assignments; 1645 move to Kings maneuvers and battlefield tactics, along Hall for Dinner chow,” read the schedule on with repelling from a 70-foot-tall tower the battalion orders. among the outdoor elements.

The freshmen have been studying For these freshmen, their first Field battlefield maneuvers and tactics from Training Exercise the battlefield (FTX) is also an m a n e u v e r evaluation on the manual. Thus, the application of the first task for the knowledge they first-year students have acquired to accomplish at through the first Camp Atterbury six weeks as is implementing part of the ROTC battlefield tactics, —SAMUEL MILLER Battalion.

In while the upper FIRST-YEAR ECONOMIC AND addition to their class cadets BUSINESS STUDENT academics, these move to a more freshmen are challenging task: evaluated on their Land Navigation. physical condition throughout the year “We’ve been preparing ourselves and are expected to assume leadership through the quarter for this moment,” positions in their battalion as they progress Mikkelson said. “It’s good to be able to see in the ROTC curricula. They also dedicate how the theory is applied in the a part of their week to classroom lectures field.” and “lab” training to become proficient A s t h e y in the different tasks — land navigation, r e c o g n i z e d h o w physical training, rope bridge construction to utilize and rappelling and weapons qualification the different — which are required by the U.S. Army as battlefield part of the ROTC program. movements, “Lab is every Wednesday at 1600 [in t h e Sheakley Athletic Lawn] by the baseball freshmen field in Varsity Village. There, we get to broke into practice what we have learned in lectures, the basic but it’s not the same as a field exercise,” m i l i t a r y Sarah Mikkelson, a 20-year-old cadet and a unit: the first-year mathematics student, said. s q u a d .

Thus, each quarter, cadets take the T h e s e knowledge they’ve gained in the classroom s q u a d s lectures and apply them in larger scaled would be SAM MORREN | SENIOR REPORTER “real life” training scenarios. For the the same first time, some of them have to perform throughout SCALING THE TOWER Nancy Corsmeyer, a 20-year-old cadet and first-year nursing student, climbs the 70 foot military movements, fire several weapons the weekend tower at Camp Attenbury, Ind. as a part of the ROTC’s yearly freshmen outing. in a simulator and complete tasks that to build team could mean facing their fears. The FTX work and was a three-day exercise during which camaraderie nervousness took over. The repelling tower opportunity to be introduced to the cadets refined their land navigation skills among the squad members. served to conquer one’s fear of heights and using only a compass, map, protractor and Every member of the squad serves as initial marksmanship training, static unit build self-confidence. pencil to find their way from point to point the leader at least once. They learn how a collective gunnery and tactical training.

“Even though, I’ve been practicing for Cadets were able to simulate the usage of on a course of several square miles over squad functions and maneuvers through a while, to actually do it from a tower is M-4 rifle, M-249 machinegun and the .50 various terrain features. the battlefield. very different and challenging. You have caliber machinegun.

During the FTX, cadets learned how The objective in this part of the exercise to know what your hands are doing all the “I really like shooting the .50 Cal.; It to operate as a military unit in the field. was for two squads to traverse a field time,” Mikkelson said. gives you the illusion that you are actually Cadets were then put through situational to engage the enemy. The squad leaders Sunday morning came too soon and the firing it,” Strange said. training exercises, where they led learned to maneuver through battlefield cadets were up and ready by 0600. There As midmorning arrived, cadets moved squadrons in a variety of missions, from and adjust their movement so they would was clean up and then an obstacle course to the much anticipated battlefield tactics obstacle courses to hostage rescues In not accidently fire upon the other squad. to complete, but it’s only an introduction.

FTX, the situational training exercise Friday night ended with basic drill exercise. In this portion of their training, There would be many opportunities for the challenged cadets to think on their feet movements; however, for some, their duties the freshmen were issued paintball freshmen to complete the course through guns and paintball masks to maneuver as real life scenarios and variables, not weren’t over. Throughout the night, cadets the four-year ROTC program. and implement their battlefield tactics defined in their field manuals, occurred. took turns conducting “Fire Guard” duties.

By 0700, everything was packed; they knowledge in an engagement scenario.

Fire Guards were responsible for were off to the obstacle course.The obstacle Their respective squads move about to course is the culmination of the FTX. Every engage several of the upper classmen who FTX concludes with the obstacle course. took ‘arms’ against ‘newbies’ in a friendly As with every event of FTX, the obstacle paintball battle. course is a prelude to the Leadership “The battlefield tactics was awesome. It Development and Assessment Course completely changed the show from what (LDAC). LDAC is the most important we learned yesterday. We helped each training event for an Army ROTC cadet. other navigate the battlefield and engage The 32-day course incorporates a wide our enemy. We put into practice what we range of subjects designed to develop and learned in class,” said Samuel Miller, 19, a evaluate leadership ability. The challenges first-year economic and business student. are rigorous and demanding, both In the midafternoon came the mentally and physically. The Leadership overpowering 70-foot-tall repelling tower, Assessment and Development Course where the cadets had to repel either using evaluate intelligence, common sense, a wall as aid or free style without aid of the ingenuity and stamina. wall. For some, even though they have been These challenges provide a new practicing repelling from a UC wall, the perspective on an individual’s ability to tower presented the biggest challenge: one perform challenging tasks and to make hand is your safety and the other is your difficult decisions in the most demanding support. To coordinate both sometimes of situations — war. became difficult, especially when

We helped eachother navigate the battlefield ...

We put in practice what we learned in class.

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SOLDIERS TRAINING HARD The field training exercise might be a new experience for the ROTC freshmen students, but it’s merely a prelude to the Leadership Development and Assessment Course that could make or break a cadet.

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financial support to those who wish to attend college.

“Where did the money go?”

Jackson asked, referencing to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program and tax cuts on the wealthy.

Later that night, 16 Occupy protesters decided to reoccupy the park for the first time since the three-night string of arrests that occurred the week of Oct. 23 that resulted in 45 arrests. The portesters were arrested after they refused to leave after the park’s 10 p.m. curfew.

Police arrived to the park just before midnight and arrested 16 protesters who had locked arms around the statue of James Garfield in the park.

Protesters were charged with trespassing and taken to Hamilton County Jail early Wednesday morning.

Regardless, there will be demonstrators at Piatt Park to continue their protest against Wall Street and for their First Amendment rights, June said.

including — but not limited to— irregular bleeding, depression, headaches and possible increased risk of cancer.

Kline’s research shows that the drug was mostly administered to lower-income black women at the Atlanta Grady Memorial Hospital Family Planning Clinic in the 1970s.

The drug, which began marketing and testing in the late 1960s, was also administered to impoverished women in the Third World countries.

Kline recently presented her research at an international conference on eugenics in Sweden, where it was positively received, she said.

“Most of the conference participants had no idea that Depo-Provera had been used experimentally in the U.S. and were convinced that its experimental use on poor African American women in Atlanta represented a modern form of eugenics,” Kline said.

Although the drug manufacturers were never legally penalized, public inquires such as one conducted by the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] in 1983 led to prolonged study of the drug, which was not approved by the FDA until 1992.

it would.”

Marcus UAV, Inc. built the drone, which costs $10,000 per unit to create, said Manish Kumar, SIERRA co-supervisor and an assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

SIERRA has received $10,000 from a NASA grant and $10,000 from UC to conduct research, Kumar said.

The UAV showed positive results when field-tested Nov. 5 over a controlled fire at a 37-acre burn site at Coopers Rock State Forest, W.Va. “The West Virginia Division of Forestry and SIERRA were both able to learn from each other at the burn site,” said Ted Meyer, a member of SIERRA and a UC fourth-year aerospace engineering student.

“They learned how to operate our technology and we learned how a real-life fire works.”

Firefighters can use the UAV’s information to plan, predict and attack the forest fire, Meyer said.

In 2007, Cohen started the groundwork for the project and was later joined by Charvat, who pushed the project into development in fall 2010.

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FROM CHESLEY | 1 conduct in the 2001 Fen-Phen diet drug lawsuit.

The recommendation from Graham alleges Chesley took excessive lawyer fees from the settlement, condoned misconduct on the part of his co-counsels, and the decision is still pending in the Kentucky Supreme Court.

As a member of the UC Board of Trustees, Chesley is one of nine people appointed by the governor of Ohio to be the governing body of the university.

Among the duties Chesley is tasked with as a trustee to make decisions are selecting the university president, setting tuition rates, approving contracts and setting the operating budget for the university.

The most recent controversy surrounding Depo-Provera occurred in 2004 when the FDA administered a Black Box warning label to the drug due to linkage of long-term use and loss of bone density.

The drug has been used for the past 15 years at the Southwest Ohio Planned Parenthood (PP) offices said Laurie Housemeyer, director of public affairs for Southwest Ohio Planned Parenthood.

The drug is not the most popular method of birth control, but that relating the use of Depo-Provera to eugenics might not be appropriate, Housemeyer said.

Depo-Provera is now a contraceptive method offered by family planning institutions including many PP offices around the country; however the regional PP public affairs officer did not reply to inquiry about when and how PP accepted the drug as a contraceptive method.

PP’s website states that when the drug is administered as directed, less than one out of 100 women each year will get pregnant. The shot can be used safely by most women, but women should always consult their doctor before beginning any form of birth control, according to PP’s website.

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Try to veer sexy-Rexy, Tim Tebow

The Bengals showed their “mettle” in losing to the Steelers for the seventh time in eight meetings at home. A laundry list of injuries happened in week 10, so where does the NFL really stand right now?

Simply put, the Cowboys showed they might make a chase in the NFC East; the Patriots reclaimed their post atop the AFC East; the Broncos ran the veer and humiliated the NFL for now; the 49ers sit easily above the rest of the NFC West; the Packers are the best team in the NFL, and the AFC South is now a crap shoot.

Now is when gambling strategy becomes more about getting a good price on a team than figuring out who will win games. Hang with me: I will stay above .500 this week — maybe.

(Home team in CAPS) New York Jets (-5) over DENVER: I am so happy that the Jets get to be the team to destroy John Fox’s forced embrace of the “Veer”. Seeing the Broncos complete two passes last week and win was the biggest embarrassment to professional football since the XFL. I hope Tebow fumbles 12 times.

DETROIT (-6) over Carolina: The Lions are reeling right now, and the one thing that can save them is a matchup with the newly understood Cam Newton.

Getting beat up in Chicago will serve the Lions well this week as they win big at home.

Tampa Bay (+15.5) over GREEN BAY: The Packers kept passing Monday night and cost me some coin by covering them over single handedly. Raheem Morris is allegedly on the hot seat in Tampa Bay, and the players will rally for him. Two touchdowns plus is a good price in this game.

Dallas (-8) over WASHINGTON: The Cowboys finally looked like the team all the slack-jawed ESPN types drooled over in the preseason last week. Luckily, they play another cupcake, and the betting public gets a good price at -115 for less than 10 points in this game.

Buffalo (+2) over MIAMI: The Bills have one chance to stay in the race, and, luckily, they play the Dolphins this week. Take the points, and call me in the morning.

Jacksonville (+1) over CLEVELAND: The Brownies might be the second-worst team in the NFL this year, and they are giving points. It’ll be an early Christmas, folks.

BALTIMORE (-7) over Cincinnati: A.J. Green is hurt, and Leon Hall tore his achilles: ‘Nuff said.

Seattle (+2) over ST. LOUIS: The most boring game of the week will produce another Seahawks’ win. This is yet another good price on a crappy matchup. The “sharps” in Vegas hate these things.

Arizona (+11) over SAN FRANCISCO: This will be a better game than many might think. If the Giants can play the 49ers close, the Cardinals should be able to do the same. The good prices keep coming.

CHICAGO (-3) over San Diego: Chicago went Ike Turner on the Lions last week and are getting into the part of the season where if the veteran players’ hips get oiled properly, they’ll play like all stars again.

The Chargers, however, are not playing as a cohesive unit, and that never ends well in the NFL. ATLANTA (-5.5) over Tennessee: This is our first official “throw in the sink” game of the 2011-2012 NFL season.

Simply put, the Falcons need to do every possible thing to win this week, and they should destroy the Titans.

NEW YORK GIANTS (-3) over Philadelphia: Ron Mexico has a couple broken ribs, and Vince Young might be a little rusty come Sunday night. Look for a Giants’ blowout thanks and a healthy sampling of “Manning-Faces”.

NEW ENGLAND (-14) over Kansa City: In case you thought Bill Belichick and the Patriots were done, he told his son what you can do on the sideline. Matt Cassel is done for the year with a broken hand, and Tyler Palko is playing in his first game since President Barack Obama had non-grey hair. Have fun, Palko.

Teams on a bye this week: Texans, Colts, Saints and Steelers Last Week: 8-7-1 Season: 55-45-6

Cash, Dixon lead Cincy in win BASKETBALL

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SAM GREENE | MANAGING EDITOR

CASHING IN POINTS Cashmere Wright scored a game-high 23 points Tuesday in UC’s 73-59 victory.

Despite 20 total turnovers and a sloppy second half, the University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team defeated the Jacksonville State University Gamecocks 73-59 Tuesday evening at Fifth Third Arena.

Head coach Mick Cronin said it’s always good to win, but he wasn’t at all happy with the team’s performance.

“I’m not happy with anything, including our preparation — which is on me,” Cronin said. “I have some older guys that I have to get to a better place in terms of preparing. I wasn’t happy with practice yesterday or anything.

We have a group that really struggles with handling prosperity.”

The Bearcats started off strong in the first half and were led in scoring by senior guard Dion Dixon, who had 20 total points — 16 of which came before half time.

The Cats were seven of eight from behind the arc and were leading the Gamecocks 44-21 at the half.

UC forced three turnovers on JSU’s first three possessions and held a 24-to-11 rebounding advantage after the first twenty minutes of play.

Senior forward Yancy Gates, who finished with eight points and nine boards, led the Bearcats into the half with a behind-the-back dribble and a three-point shot that sank at the buzzer.

The second half of play was a different story for the Cats.

With 12:17 remaining, Gates used his size to slam in a basket, ending a 6:08 scoring drought for Cincinnati.

The Gamecocks pulled within 10 points with 1:50 left to play.

“After we got the lead, we relaxed and stopped playing,” said junior guard Cashmere Wright. “When you lose focus, anyone can come back on you.”

Wright finished with 23 points and six rebounds, but he also had five turnovers — as did Dixon.

“For us to be a really good team, I have to get Cash, Yancy and Dion to be every-night guys,” Cronin said.

“Those guys should be playing as good as they can play and be intense at all times. They are great kids. Once they saw that we were going to win, that was enough for them.”

Cronin said the Bearcats weren’t ranked as high as he thought they deserved, and he attributed that to a lack of respect.

“We have to show people our ability. It is my job,” he said. “You have to get guys to play to the maximum of their ability.”

The Cats will look to improve upon their 40-minute performance and prove their talent Saturday when they take on Presbyterian College Saturday at Fifth Third Arena. Tipoff is at 4 p.m.

Cats ready to duel Rutgers Scarlet Knights FOOTBALL

Collaros injured, Munchie will take reigns at quarterback

SAM GREENE | MANAGING EDITOR

AVENGING THE LOSS The Cincinnati Bearcats lost their first Big East game of the season last week, falling to West Virginia University 24-21 at Paul Brown Stadium.

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ball extremely well, and he’s very athletic.

I’ve always been high on Munchie and his The University of Cincinnati football abilities. He’s a very hard worker, and I think he’s going to get the job done.” team will put its Big East first-place standing Despite Legaux’s limited action this year, on the line Saturday against the Rutgers head coach Butch Jones said the sophomore Scarlet Knights at noon in Piscataway, N.J. The Bearcats are coming off a quarterback has taken the reps in practice to disappointing game against West Virginia, prepare him for this week’s game.

“Now, it’s [about] being able to do that at where they lost more than just the game. game-speed repetition during this week of In the second quarter, senior starting quarterback Zach Collaros went down with a preparation,” Jones said. “Our team has great belief in Munchie, and fractured right ankle they believe in him. and was replaced You could see it on by sophomore the sidelines because Munchie Legaux. they see it every day Legaux had a in practice.” solid performance, Cincinnati is rushing eight times looking to avenge its for 77 yards and one first conference loss touchdown, while of the season that completing 10 passes also took away their for 144 yards. top-25 ranking, but it Despite being will be no small task replaced, Collaros against a Scarlet seems to be one of Knights team that Legaux’s biggest has the league’s best fans. Collaros said overall defense. he’s willing to do Rutgers is anything to help his No. 1 in the conference replacement get ready in scoring defense, for Saturday’s game. red zone defense “I think he’s much and takeaways, more physically gifted and they have than I am — pretty SAM GREENE | MANAGING EDITOR also accumulated much in all aspects,” 30 sacks so far Collaros said. “He UC’S LEAD PERFORMER Isaiah Pead this season. has a very strong rushed for 113 yards against WVU Saturday.

“We know they’re arm; he can run the

going to bring [pressure] from everywhere,” Jones said. “They’re going to bring double-edge pressure.They’re going to bring it up the middle, and they’re going to play press-man converge.

They’re extremely aggressive, and they play an aggressive attacking style defense.”

Another pillar of Rutgers’ game is the Scarlet Knights’ ability to get the ball to junior wideout and reigning Big East Offensive Player of the Week, Mohamed Sanu. Sanu is leading the Big East is receptions per game and has accumulated 94 receptions for 973 yards.

One area where the Bearcats could look to dominate the Knights in is the run game.

Cincinnati is ranked second in the Big East in rushing offense, which is led by Isaiah Pead, who is averaging six yards per carry and 103.8 yards per game.

The Bearcats are also ranked first in the Big East in rushing defense, while Rutgers is ranked last in rushing offense and defense.

The Scarlet Knights have also had their troubles at quarterback, using both Chas Dodd and Gary Nova this season. Dodd got the start last week, and it’s suspected that he will start again this week; but Jones said they are preparing for both.

Regardless of who starts, the quarterback needs to beat UC senior linebacker JK Schaffer — who’s averaging 8.4 tackles per game — and senior defensive tackle Derek Wolfe, who is leading the conference with 14.5 tackles for a loss.

The Bearcats lead the series 8-7-1 and have won the last five meetings. Kickoff is set for noon Saturday, and the game will be televised on ESPNU.

Injured QB nothing new for Bearcats

SAM WEINBERG | SPORTS EDITOR

If there’s one adversity the University of Cincinnati football program has shown it can conquer in the past few years, it’s replacing injured quarterbacks.

When Ben Mauk went down with an injury in 2007, Dustin Grutza filled the void and won the two games he started in Mauk’s absence by a margin of 87-24.

In 2008, the Bearcats used four quarterbacks — starting three different signal callers — and ended up winning the Big East and going to the Orange Bowl.

Then, in 2009, Tony Pike went down in week six of the Bearcats’ season against the University of South Florida, and was replaced by Zach Collaros — who, at the time, was an unheard of backup known for his baseball skills rather than his football abilities.

Collaros won all four games he started in 2009, eventually becoming the starter in 2010; and now, like his predecessors, Collaros will now need to play mentor to his backup in the light of his season-ending injury.

Like Collaros two years ago, sophomore quarterback Munchie Legaux will take over after having no starting and little playing experience.

“You can’t replace [Collaros],” said UC head coach Butch Jones.

“But also, you look at the [West Virginia] game, and he actually drove us down and he actually proved the spark. He proved the big plays and kind of got us into a rhythm offensively, so our players have a lot of confidence.”

Prior to the West Virginia game, Legaux had attempted just seven passes, completing five for 61 yards. In a little more than two quarters against West Virginia, Legaux was 10-of-21 and racked up 144 yards, while also chalking up one interception.

Where Legaux’s real strength lies, however, is his speed and elusiveness. When being recruited by Cincinnati, Legaux ran a 4.6-second 40-yard dash, and has accumulated 115 rushing yards — averaging 7.1 yards per carry — and two touchdowns in the three

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FIRST COLLEGIATE START Munchie Legaux will start, instead of the injured Zach Collaros against Rutgers University Saturday.

games he has seen action in this season.

While he doesn’t have a lot of playing experience, Jones said that Legaux takes the same amount of reps in practice as Collaros — albeit with the second stringers.

“The great thing for us, in our football program is that [Legaux] is not an unknown,” Jones said. “Our players see him on a day-to-day basis in practice and how hard he works and the time he puts into film study.”

Backing up Legaux, the Bearcats have redshirt sophomore Jordan Luallen listed as their second stringer and junior Brendon Kay as the third quarterback on the depth chart.

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