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Pulitzer-winning poet inaugurates UC reading Gabrielle walter | staff reporter The University of Cincinnati featured Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove at the inauguration of the UC Presidential Readings Monday. The readings are a part of UC 2019, President Gregory Williams’ new strategic plan for the university that was unveiled in September. “By virtue of this reading series, which we hope will become annual, President Williams is making clear his commitment to that aspiration by
stimulating a wide array of intellectual pursuits and discussions across our campus,” said UC Senior Vice President and Provost Santa Ono. Williams introduced Dove at the poetry reading event. “When I was working my own memoir that took 10 years to write, I discovered a new appreciation for the men and women who created the great literature of the world and the books I had come to love during my lifetime,” Williams said. “So it is a great thrill to meet a new writer and to find out about
their thought processes and about their works and thus tonight is truly a great privilege for me to introduce and host one of Ohio’s most prized poets Rita Dove.” Dove’s first reading was a poem called “Maple Valley Branch Library 1967.” Before she began to read, she gave her personal insight of the poem. “The public libraries, when I was growing up, were a place where I could go anywhere in the world on the price see dove | 5
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PRIZE-WINNING POET Pulitzer Prize laureate Rita Dove was the first poet to participate in UC’s inaugural Presidential Readings Monday night.
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COPING WITH LOSS CCM has had three student deaths during Fall quarter.
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sean peters | chief reporter In approximately one month’s time, the College-Conservatory of Music has lost three students from varying causes. Corrine Patterson, Andrew Lynch and Andrew Howell have died in the past month in unrelated incidents. Grief is prevalent among those who knew the recently deceased. “It’s in the air,” said CCM interim Dean Frank Weinstock. “Students and faculty are shocked.” The living are left with memories, issues and questions that Weinstock said should be dealt with in an open manner. “It’s better to talk about these things than to keep them inside,” Weinstock said, reminding all UC students that options are available to ease the transition into normal life after a loss. Set up by interim Associate Dean Terrell Finney, grief counselors are on hand for consultation. To contact Academic Affairs for further information on seeking a grief counselor, call (513) 556-9470. clarification The story “Clifton not fazed by crime rise” in the Nov. 22 edition of The News Record indicated there has been a rise in crime throughout the Uptown campus area surrounding the University of Cincinnati. Despite the recent rash of area robberies, statistics from the Cincinnati Police Department show a decrease in crime for the Corryville, Clifton and Clifton/University Heights neighborhoods from 2009 to June 2010. The News Reoord regrets this error. INSIDE
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espite the recent firestorm of media coverage and authorities condemning drinks like Four Loko and Joos, there is no scientific evidence that alcoholic energy drinks pose a direct, unique health threat to consumers. The FDA and state regulators — including the Ohio Division of Liquor Control — have been pushing efforts to ban alcoholic energy drinks like Four Loko due to health and safety concerns. At University Hospital, there have been three cases related to alcoholic energy drinks since September, but the cases were fairly normal outside of increased heart rate and alertness, said Andra Blomkalns, an associate professor and director of the emergency medicine residency program at the University of Cincinnati.
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“They might have been more intoxicated, but I can’t say their behavior was specifically different,” Blomkalns said. The patients did not exhibit anything Blomkalns had not seen before. “None of the three had any medical problems,” she said. “They just needed to be observed.” Such situations are fairly common in University Hospital: panicking, intoxicated students occasionally show up. see Loko | 5
Shoppers in Ohio will be spending more money this holiday season, according to a report released Monday. Spending in Ohio during the upcoming holiday season will increase at a higher rate than national averages, according to the report “Holiday Sales Forecast,” by the Economics Center at the University of Cincinnati. “Ohio holiday spending has not been studied to this point,” said Jeff Rexhausen, a research associate with the Economic Center at UC. “This document mixes national trends with what we know about Ohio to create a more specific view of a topic we all care about this time of year.” The report projects
holiday spending across the United States to increase 2.49 percent, while spending in Ohio is forecast to increase 2.55 percent A steady rise in employment, higher taxable sales and low inflation are considered reasons for the sales forecast, according to the report. “2010 holiday spending amounts to about one-fifth of the total Ohio retail sales expected for this year,” Rexhausen said. The report suggests, however, that an uncertain economy in tandem with minimal population growth, prevented sales from being higher. “Families of various incomes continue to live paycheck to paycheck,” said John McGough, executive director of Focus on Ohio’s Future, the nonprofit group the report was done for.
The journalism program at the University of Cincinnati will be adding another faculty member this winter — the current executive editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Tom Callinan, editor and vice president of content and audience development for the Enquirer, announced Tuesday that he will retire Jan. 1. Upon retiring, Callinan will join the journalism program at UC as an adjunct professor. He is slated to instruct a journalism seminar class Tuesday evenings. Callinan has been an editor with the Enquirer for the past eight years, where he has been responsible for the content of the newspaper, its websites and nondaily publications. Before becoming editor of the Enquirer, Callinan was editor of The Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix. He has also been an editor and a reporter for USA Today and newspapers in New York, Minnesota, Michigan, Florida and North and South Dakota. Callinan was previously an adjunct professor at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, the University of South Dakota, the University of California at Berkeley’s Summer Program for Minority Journalists and Michigan State University. Among the accolades that Callinan has received as a journalist are 11 President’s Ring awards, which are presented by the Gannett Company to “recognize editors that have done the most to assure excellent progress and performance in their newsrooms.” Callinan was also named Gannett’s Editor of the Year in 1997 as editor of the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle.
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’TIS THE SEASON The report “Holiday Sales Forecast” by the Economics Center at UC projects holiday sales in Ohio will increase by 2.55 percent — in comparison to a 2.49 increase nationwide. Holiday sales amount to approximately one-fifth of yearly retail sales for Ohio.
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