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When University of Cincinnati President Greg Williams announced his UC2019 plan shortly after arriving in 2009, it was unclear exactly how the university would reach the many goals outlined in the plan.

During a Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday, UC Provost Santa Ono and Vice Provost Kristi Nelson laid out a comprehensive action plan — referred to as the Academic Master Plan (AMP) — detailing the steps necessary to reach many of the UC2019 aspirations.

“This is where the rubber meets the road,” Williams said. “This plan contains the concrete action steps to move us toward the objectives we set forth for our university, so that our aspirations will become reality.”

The AMP consists of 180 action steps and 120 subaction steps pertaining to nine operational principles: learning, discovery, community, economy, sustainability, global engagement, diversity, mission-based health care and collaboration.

Total investments for the AMP between now and 2019 are expected to exceed $50 million, Ono said.

In the coming fiscal year, $10 million will be spent to implement the plan, Ono said.

“The initial investments in the UC2019 Academic Master Plan will come from the university academic budget, and involve both central and collegiate investments,” Ono said.

The largest portion of the preliminary money will go toward supporting students, with $4.25 million going to areas such as honors programs, scholarships, study abroad programs and an office for national awards. Of that money, $1.8 million will go towards increasing graduate assistant stipends and research.

Faculty will receive $3.3 million to enhance resources that will increase research potential and student learning. A portion of this money will go toward recruiting highly qualified and sought-after faculty members.

The remaining $2.45 million will be spent on infrastructure. This includes transforming some classrooms into learning labs and strengthening research commercialization in the form of grants and patents awarded to researchers.

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MOVING TOWARD 2019 University of Cincinnati Provost Santa Ono delivers his strategy for reaching UC2019’s academic goals to the UC Board of Trustees. While funding is locked in for the immediate future, the long-term funding remains in question.

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DOCTOR IS IN Dr. Arnold Schwartz has received the 2012 George Rieveschl Jr. Award for his work on the cardiovascular system.

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NATALYA DAOUD | STAFF REPORTER University of Cincinnati faculty member and former actor Arnold Schwartz received the 2012 George Rieveschl Jr. Award for Distinguished Scientific Research this past Thursday at Tangeman University Center.

After nomination, the Rieveschl Award Committee for Creative and/or Scholarly Works chooses a winner.

Schwartz was nominated by several of his peers for the award, and the Rieveschl Award Committee picked Schwartz as the winner based on his research in cardiovascular biology.

The internationally known doctor has focused on cardiovascular biology since his post-doctoral days. He was the first one to clone the human heart channel and identify the receptors of digitalis.

Through his work in digitalis mechanism, he developed calcium channel blockers used to treat heart failure and high blood pressure.

Schwartz became interested in cardiovascular biology by studying and researching overseas in countries such as England and Denmark, with other researchers.

“He was doing a post-doctoral fellowship in London, and he met the researcher Jens Christian Skou from Denmark at a conference,” said Keith Herrell, a spokesman for Schwartz. “He decided he wanted to work with Dr. Skou, so he took a second fellowship and moved to Denmark and worked with Skou. As he told me, that’s SEE SCHWARTZ | 6

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LONG TIME COMING Morgens and Scioto halls have been closed since 2008, and Morgens will finally reopen in the fall, but plans and funding for renovations of Scioto are yet to be determined.

NO VACANCY Morgens Hall set to reopen in fall, but excluding graduate students from plans MADISON SCHMIDT | STAFF REPORTER Morgens and Scioto halls might finally reopen for student housing after multiple complications led to their closing in 2008, but will provide little help to graduate students.

The lack of fire-suppression sprinklers in both halls located near Jefferson Avenue did not meet the University of Cincinnati’s life-safety standard and were initially closed to receive an upgrade, said Todd Duncan, director of Food and Housing Services.

“The buildings were in compliance with fire code, dictated by the construction date of the buildings in 1964,” Duncan said.

The upgrade should have only taken two years to complete — the original date to reopen Morgens Hall was in 2010.

A safety assessment of the building, however, identified the need to strip Morgens down to the base structural elements for a complete renovation, Duncan said.

The new plan started in 2011 and has turned into a $30 million project for Morgens Hall, which will be repaid by Housing and Food Services during the next 20 years, Duncan said.

For Scioto Hall, once part of the Morgens-Scioto complex, a plan has not yet been scheduled for future use, and no funding has been established for renovations.

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Morgens Hall is anticipated to reopen in fall 2013. The apartment-style dorms, however, will be offered to undergraduates, but graduate students will have to continue looking elsewhere for on-campus housing.

Morgens and Scioto halls once housed 18 percent of UC’s international students and were home to primarily international graduate students, according to a statement by Duncan in 2008.

Graduates protested the news when it came to them in March 2008, arguing that the closing would make it difficult for them to find housing for the one to two years they would remain on campus.

It is especially difficult for international students who come to the states without a car or knowledge of the area, said Tumal Karunaratne, a third-year civil engineering student from Sri Lanka.

Kasun Samarasinghe, an electrical engineering graduate student from Sri Lanka, came to Cincinnati after the halls had already been shut down.

Finding off-campus housing was not that hard, Samarasinghe said. Although he never asked for help, it would have been nice if UC had given him

University of Cincinnati students, faculty and staff thirsting for increased political coverage need look no further than the Twittersphere.

A group of fifth-year computer science students have created a data-mining platform to track information pertaining to candidates.

For their senior project, fifthyear computer engineering student Chris Nixon and fifth-year computer science students Jorge Moscat Pardos and Yemi Oyediran created Twipolitico, a website designed to gather political information from Twitter.

Twipolitico includes access to election statistics and a constant stream of updates regarding candidate popularity, as well as its own daily candidate ranking system — all based on Twitter.

“We thought it would be interesting to use Twitter because everything is public. People feel free to voice their opinions about different things,” Nixon said.

The website scans and collects information from all of Twitter, such as names of politicians and hashtags.

These tweets are ranked based on a number of criteria, including how much sentiment the tweet contains about President Barack Obama or challenger Mitt Romney.

Calculating sentiment includes scanning tweets for positive or negative comments and expressive punctuation, such as exclamation and question marks, Oyediran said.

To retrieve this information, the students use a technique called data mining.

“We like to think of it as mining through lumps of coal,” Nixon said. “We’re trying to find that diamond, that information.

We look for those tweets.”

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TRENDING THE RACE Creators of Twipolitico [from left] Chris Nixon, Jorge Moscat Pardos and Yemi Oyediran discuss their website.

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YET TO PASS Cincinnati Police Chief James Craig has requested to be exempted from having to take Ohio Peace Officer certification.

The city’s head law enforcement official has appealed to circumvent state-required training to be considered a full fledged police officer.

Cincinnati Police Chief James Craig might be found technically unqualified to exercise police powers as of July because he has not taken the certification test that earns him that authority in Ohio, said Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) spokesman Lt. Anthony Carter.

Currently, Craig serves as CPD chief and commissioner, including command over the University of Cincinnati Police Division.

Craig has been scheduled to go before the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission in July for a hearing on the matter, according to

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the commission’s online published schedule.

He requested an exemption from the test via a letter he wrote to city management in February.

All CPD recruits are required to take this certification after 582 hours of academy coursework, according to the CPD’s website.

However, Craig would only have to take a 30-hour course required for executive officers from out of state, according to the Ohio Revised Code.

Craig worked for the Los Angeles Police Department for 28 years before coming to Cincinnati and graduated from the FBI National Academy in 1998, according to his resume.

While for some it might seem logical for Craig to take the test, John Eck, a professor of SEE CHIEF | 6

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SPRAGUE SCRIBBLES JAMES

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So long UC, thanks readers I could bore readers with the stereotypical verbal tripe most farewell columns include.

I could slather praise upon my fellow writers at The News Record, beat the drums feverishly for my faculty in the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences and attempt to wax philosophical about my time at the University of Cincinnati with some witty inside jokes.

But I won’t. It’s a tired format for a farewell column, and truthfully, readers probably couldn’t give two damns about who has impacted me in my tour at UC. I will, however, thank you, dear readers because it’s you who give what I do on a daily basis some purpose.

As a news editor, reporter and opinion columnist for TNR for the last three years, I can tell you I haven’t written for the hell of it. I haven’t covered innnumerable events both on and off campus, written album reviews, fired off opinion columns or burned the midnight oil editing copy simply to see my name on the page of a paper.

I’ve done it for the readers.

You might guffaw at this notion, but it’s true.

Readers need to know what is happening around them on a daily basis — be informed whether it concerns the UC Beyond Coal movement, who is running for student government or just how good “The Avengers” really is.

This allows you to be cognizant and knowledgeable of the world that cocoons you.

It allows you to make informed decisions, form educated opinions and to have a voice in a world bent on drowning out that very voice.

It’s one of the foundations our country and its democracy is perched upon, is it not?

“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people,” John Adams said.

You, the readers, don’t always have to like or agree with that general knowledge.

Honestly, if you did, I would fear our campus had turned into a collection of subservient automatons.

You’ve voiced your opinion on a wide array of subjects in my three years with this newspaper. Some of those opinions have been favorable; some have not.

The main thing is you expressed those views … which meant you read the newspaper … which meant you not only knew but also cared about what was occurring on this campus and around it.

That is all any writer can expect or want — an audience engaged with our process regardless of the praise or scorn they may heap upon our publication.

It may be a whimsical, quaint notion, but we at TNR attempt every day to be a vehicle for readers. An avenue of truth, an arena for intelligent discourse from different points of the spectrum and a reference point for what is taking place in your world.

We do this because of the impact our publication can have on you. Anyone with a lick of sense knows we don’t do it for the money … I would have chosen international business or engineering as a major if money was my priority, as would many other fellow writers.

The impact we provide through our writing could be a news story informing you of rising tuition rates, an opinion piece that makes you question whether the Greek system on campuses is still relevant or a college living feature which spurs you to contribute time or money to a charity.

As Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Kluger once said,“Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness.”

In other words, we at TNR aim to be an embodiment of the First Amendment – a living, breathing, smudged-ink-onpulp-paper example of the freedom of press and speech we are guaranteed as American citizens.

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Young Americans benefit from act RYAN WILLIAMS The Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, aims to overhaul the nation’s health care system by providing quality health care at more affordable prices to a wider range of the population.

At nearly 1,000 pages, it’s hard for many citizens to understand everything the law contains and how it will affect them.

As a result, since its passage, the ACA has been both praised and criticized.

While confusion about the law still exists regarding things like funding sources and constitutionality, one thing that cannot be argued are the benefits college students and young Americans gain from it, as it improves the prospects of graduating college with less debt and better health.

While I personally might not support every aspect of the law, there is much I can get behind, including its establishment of a provision that allows greater numbers of young Americans to remain on family health care plans until they turn 26.

Too many college students and young professionals either can’t afford health insurance or see themselves as invincible.

For college students already dealing with crushing student loan debt and a poor job market, an LETTER TO or major illness THE EDITOR accident could put them in a poor financial situation in which they might never recover.

As a student who is personally about to attend graduate school with a number of friends doing the same, I can do so knowing I have the security of an adequate health insurance plan.

Before the passage of the health care law, I would have had to forgo health insurance in order to pay for school and living expenses.

While the ACA might be challenging for some to understand, it gives college students and other young Americans one less thing to worry about.

Additionally, the act seeks to provide quality preventative health services that have the potential to save Americans in terms of health and finances. This is because it addresses potential health issues before they

progress to a more serious, and possibly lifethreatening situation.

Services range from cholesterol and blood pressure screenings, to immunization against a wide range of diseases.

Preventative care programs allow us to concentrate on graduating from college, moving on to graduate school or starting careers, rather than worry about what will happen if we get sick.

While wealth distribution, student loan debt and a stagnant economy appear to be at the forefront of many young peoples’ minds, more support should be called to the benefits of the Affordable Care Act for the country’s future leaders.

Whether you support the law or not, the peace of mind these provisions give families, the money it saves individuals and the safety it provides to more Americans makes it one of the most valuable aspects of health care reform.

Ryan Williams is a fourth-year urban planning student at the University of Cincinnati.

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Sustainability needs more planning at UC BRIAN KUNKEMOELLER In my years of proud involvement in sustainability on campus at the University of Cincinnati, I’ve seen the students make an overwhelming effort to do their share by increasing efforts in recycling, biking, conserving water and electricity in the dorms, promoting locally sourced LETTER TO organic foods, piloting THE EDITOR composting in one of the dining halls and a number of other efforts to reduce their share of the university’s carbon footprint.

There is a question, however, that remains to be answered: what is the administration doing to match our efforts? With 63 percent of UC’s carbon footprint coming from two power plants, what is being done about it?

Currently, Ohio requires private utilities such as Duke Energy to meet benchmark requirements for renewable energy. For example, by 2025 they have to source 12.5 percent of their supply from renewable energy.

The university, while having a goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, has no such requirements or benchmarks. Though the UC2019 plan simply calls for reduction, there is no substantive goal for renewables by that date, nor any current guidelines or plan for how UC will actually

achieve carbon neutrality at UC by 2050. The Climate Action Plan in UC2019 counts on technology which does not yet exist.

Beyond simply not having measurable plans for achieving these goals, the administration is taking additional steps to kick the can down the road. Two years ago, $28 million was spent on utilities infrastructure, part of $90 million invested during the past decade on fossil fuelbased projects.

Currently, the university isn’t producing a single form of renewable energy. Not a penny from that huge chunk of change was spent on clean energy, and even now, you won’t find a single solar panel on our campus.

Delaying on this important issue will only have two possible outcomes: a massive overhaul and spending project sometime around 2049, or simply scrapping the commitment altogether.

This past month, the university took its commitment to fossil fuels to a whole new level.

Representatives from UC went to the statehouse asking the Senate to change the definition of renewable energy to include our natural gas fired utilities plant. I’m pretty sure I learned in sixth grade what renewable energy is, and what it is not.

Such a definition would give huge credits to the university, which would not only lock

in our commitment to fossil fuels, rather drive wind energy, clean energy manufacturing and green jobs out of the state. It is clear that the goals of the UC2019 plan and the actions of the utilities director are from two different worlds.

UC Beyond Coal asked the university to establish such a benchmark by setting a timeline for the least used form of fossil fuel on campus, and is getting the old runaround.

When asked to “commit to quit” a harmful fossil fuel scarcely used in the past year by 2019 — seven whole years from now — President Greg Williams balked and passed the ball to a committee with no decision-making authority on energy. More than 3,000 students and community members, including Cincinnati City Council members, Student Government, and even a member of 98 degrees, backed this simple request.

It’s time for the university to set benchmarks, create a clean energy revolving fund, divest from fossil fuels, and invest in the future: clean energy, fuel independence, sustainability and clean air.

The students want it, and our future deserves it.

Brian Kunkemoeller is a fourth-year biology student, co-director of sustainability for student government and a coordinator for UC Beyond Coal.

SB 315 bad for Ohio, should be voted down MARIA BERGH The University of Cincinnati crossed its own guidelines for academic honesty in lobbying for special treatment under Senate Bill 315 this past week.

The bill is a renewable energy issue with emphasis on natural gas and fracking. The utilities directors from both UC and Kent State University testified to the expense of developing gas-based cogeneration plants for their respective campuses in 2002 — and won concessions for the schools.

Sustainability requires innovation in technology, not in politicking.

SB 315 allowed recent cogeneration plants to count as “renewable energy,” winning the operators Renewable Energy Credits (RECs).

These are sold to non-compliant utilities, qualifying them to consume additional units beyond the limit for fossil fuels. Under the concession, universities with cogeneration plants as old as 2002 will still receive RECs. Cogeneration, however, is not renewable.

The process of cogeneration captures waste steam from conventional electricity generation for other uses, like heating.

If generation is based in fossil fuels, so too is cogeneration. UC states in its news archive that cogeneration had been planned for the university since the 1980s, making it hardly innovative.

“It’s simply incredible that our university is going as far as asking the state to simply

change the law to count their fossil-fuel based facilities as renewable energy,” said Brian Kunkemoeller, director of sustainability for Student Government. “This clearly draws fundamental questions about our leadership and commitment to sustainability.”

It seems, then, UC and KSU are seeking to capture indirect funding from this bill by claiming energy conservation as renewable energy and selling their credits to other utilities in the area.

While complaining of the expense of cogeneration to the senate, UC also proclaims cogeneration is a key cost savings measure, freeing us from Duke Energy’s fluctuating rates. This flip-flopping suggests UC is trying to get credit for previous work, which is against the student handbook.

The end result of the concession is similarly dubious: UC will be rewarded for gas-based cogeneration by selling RECs to others who will then buy and burn more gas as part of a bill that ostensibly regulates natural gas production in Ohio.

It is disingenuous for the two universities to act in this way. As institutions of higher learning, they have a mandate to provide education and rigorous analysis. Instead of seeking funding, the universities’ joint testimony ought to have clarified that cogeneration is energy conservation, not renewable energy.

Funding for the universities would still be possible, but as grants for renewable energy research and development, including

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These transparent methods would have been in line with the research mandate of the institutions, and would have provided a direct benefit to students, taxpayers and LETTER TO world by increasing THE EDITOR the skills, knowledge and the potential for green industry employment here in Ohio. In this way the bill would have promoted real change and innovation, instead of reinforcing nonrenewable energy dependence.

Instead, the universities violated the standards to which they hold their students.

They have failed to properly define their terms, have asked for credit on previously submitted work, and failed to identify the source of their bias — a desire for supplemental funding resulting from insufficient direct academic funding.

We, as students of the university, should hold them to their own high academic standard. SB 315 will be put to a vote later this week. So email your senators and weigh in on the importance of really renewable energy research; but also contact President Greg Williams.

There should be no double standard for academic misconduct between students and the institution.

Maria Bergh is a master of planning and architecture at the University of Cincinnati.

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University of Cincinnati students tear down city stereotypes KARA DRISCOLL | SENIOR REPORTER

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BUILDING NEW HOPE UC students work together to improve OTR architecture. Through bettering the community’s buildings, they hope to disprove negative Cincinnati stereotypes.

When Juhi Goel, a first-year architecture student, volunteered with Habitat for Humanity on a brisk Saturday morning in Over-the-Rhine (OTR), she expected to complete a list of tedious household tasks.

But as she climbed atop of a scaffold to paint the side of a neglected building, she contributed to the renovation of the future home of a thankful family.

They were so delighted to have a house, Goel said.

“The little kids in the family were so excited that they were going to have this backyard to play in,” Goel said. “We were cleaning the yard to make it safe for them to run around.”

While picking up litter and nailing floorboards, Goel helped to create a safe haven of play for the children of a low-income household.

She is one of many students from the University of Cincinnati who are renovating dilapidated structures in the crippled but charming community of West End. Captivated by the architectural attractiveness of OTR, one of the largest urban historic districts in America, third-year chemical engineering student Charles Marxen became interested in the preservation of the Italianate-style edifices.

Blighted by stereotypes of crime and economic turmoil, the aesthetically pleasing attributes of OTR are often and easily overshadowed by unkempt alleys and abandoned structures.

“The buildings are absolutely beautiful,” Marxen said. “They may not look like it in their current state, but if you see all of their detail and brick work, it’s gorgeous.”

Marxen and several of his friends founded the UC Preservation Action Network, a student organization that bridges partnerships with local preservation groups with the intent of giving old buildings new life.

“We do building cleanouts where someone has recently acquired an old building and they have plans to renovate, restore and turn it back into a function building,” Marxen said. “We clean up. It’s simple stuff, but it takes a lot of time to do.”

While UC Preservation Action Network preserves existing buildings, first-year architecture students Shay Meyers and Kyle Zook work with the Cincinnati chapter of Architecture for Humanity to preserve and create new structures.

Meyers and Zook contributed to the fundraising and construction of an urban shed used to store supplies and garden tools for Findlay Market’s community garden.

“A lot of tools were getting damaged or stolen so we were trying to keep everything out of the weather and locked up,” Meyers said. “We built it in a small area to the side of the garden.”

Volunteering near Findlay Market debunked many of the stereotypes the students’once subscribed to. However, some of the negative perceptions are true, Goel said.

“The first time I actually went down to OTR, I saw that it was so much more than just crime,” Goel said. “I have to admit that some stereotypes hold true but still, it’s not as bad as everyone says.”

With the help of volunteers like Meyers and Marxen, OTR continues to progressively transform into a thriving neighborhood.

The great bars and artistic events add to the character of the lively part of town, Marxen said.

“There’s a lot of art galleries, musicians and expression,” Marxen said. “It’s all about people trying to better their home, so there’s so many neat thoughts and ideas happening.”

With shops, pricey apartments and resturants sprouting up everywhere, the success of the neighborhood depends on whether value is placed on community or profit, Marxen said.

“Any time an area is going through a rebirth or is a new hotspot, it is extremely important to make sure it’s balanced. You have to make sure you aren’t pushing out local residents,” he said.

OTR residents who desire a progressive but grounded community frequently discuss the complex issue of gentrification, the displacement of low-income residents. The biggest solution that can be implemented to resolve gentrification is a balance of income levels, Marxen said.

“If you don’t mix the income classes, you’re going to push out everybody else,” Marxen said. “You need a mixed-income class in any area to make it succeed and to diversify the culture.”

Nate Hammitt, a fifth-year architecture student, volunteers with

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RESTORING CITY HISTORY Groups working to improve OTR’s architecture and housing include Over-the-Rhine Community Housing, Habitat for Humanity and the UC Preservation Action Network.

Over-the-Rhine Community Housing, a nonprofit organization focused on developing affordable housing for low-income residents.

Weaving affordable and upscale housing on streets will develop a balanced area, Hammit said.

“You have to find that magical mix where people can live together in the spirit of the community,” Hammitt said.

The assimilation of college students and residents from different walks of life makes for an interesting blend of culture, Marxen said.

“Finding a way to get the different income levels to interact would be really nice,” he said. “There’s less interaction, so how do you bridge the gap?”

In essence, OTR is a community building itself back up, Marxen said.

“Being in the history and culture of Over-the-Rhine and seeing the potential it has, it’s exciting,” Meyers said.“It’s just alive. There are so many improvements and so much work being done to revitalize the area.”

To truly understand the allure of the neighborhood, —CHARLES MARXEN students have and THIRD-YEAR CHEMICAL experience it for themselves, ENGINEERING STUDENT Hammitt said.

Goel explained that it isn’t difficult to get involved in organizations like Habitat for Humanity or Over-the-Rhine Community Housing.

“You just have to decide you want to volunteer, and I promise you’ll want to go back again,” Goel said. “This is our city, we should do something for it.”

It’s people trying to better their home, so there’s so many neat thoughts and ideas happening.

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Chelsea FC provides pro glory A month or so ago, this space was occupied by roughly 700 words detailing the brutal, undeserved and — at times — downright depressing 20-year existence of my obsessive professional sports fandom.

After 20 years of waiting for one of my beloved pro sports teams to earn a major championship, it seems ironically fitting that the first to do so would not only be from outside of Cincinnati, but outside of America as well.

As if it wasn’t enough of an irony, the victory — in all of its greatly anticipated glory — occurred in a sport I admittedly would have bashed at one point in my life for being the wrong kind of football — soccer.

Yes, in every sense of the definition, I was “that meat-headed high school football player.”

After only four or five years of supporting it, Chelsea Football Club — a club positioned in the forefront of the upper-class Fulham Road neighborhood in London, England — has delivered me the victory I’ve so direly waited for the Cincinnati Reds or Bengals to provide.

For those of you “typical Americans” who have just made the natural decision to abandon this column because it’s about soccer — I understand — please direct your attention to the futbol Americano article directly to your right. For those of you going the distance with me, good on ya lads!

During the winter of my junior year of high school, I hesitantly volunteered to battle a friend of mine in the video game FIFA 2007, because my knowledge of soccer at that time was equivalent to my ability to complete an advanced calculus problem — I twice failed basic high school algebra — he selected my team for me. I played as a blue colored team with a name more fitting of a female talk show host — Chelsea FC. As ridiculous as it might be, a fanaticism which was started by the coincidental clicking of the A button on an overused Xbox controller, has been rewarded with the ultimate victory of a Champions League Final — more or less the Super Bowl of European soccer.

Slightly before 6 p.m. this past Saturday, I stood atop the bar at Molly Malone’s in Covington, Ky., and screamed with joy to the point that I legitimately might have impacted permanent damage upon my vocal cords: “Carefree, wherever we may be. We are the famous CFC, and we don’t give a f--- whoever you may be. ‘Cause we are the famous CFC.” Saturday’s game, and Chelsea’s unlikely run to reach the tournament final in the first place, was the polar opposite of everything I’ve painfully experienced as a fan.

A team full of stars aged far past their primes, and coincidentally, in the midst of its worst league finish of the past decade, which coincided with the mid-season firing of one manager and the interim appointment of another, somehow found it within itself to pull of the most unlikely of tournament runs.

Twice needing second-leg comebacks in the early going rounds, it was unlikely the Blues would even reach the semi-final round of the prestigious tournament; it was even more unlikely they would upset the most talented team in the world, Barceolna, when they got there — both times, they did. They would play the Perennial German power Bayern Munich in the final.

Given Chelsea’s circumstances heading into the final — playing a considerably more talented team at its home stadium, with four starters, including team captain John Terry, suspended for the match — a loss seemed imminent.

For 88 of the 90 minutes of regulation, a loss approached.

Chelsea clung to life, proverbially as several its stars clung to the waning moments of their fine careers.

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Cincinnati running for wins MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

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So far this season, the Reds have stolen a total of 18 bases, a result of Cincinnati Reds’ manager Dusty Baker’s commitment to the running game.

“I always like to run, but you can’t run into outs,” Baker said. “Part of it is, we don’t have a bunch of base stealers, and part of it is about [the] percentage of being safe rather than the number. Early in the season, we weren’t hitting. If you don’t get on base, how are you going to run? There are a number of reasons.”

The Reds entered Tuesday’s game having been successful on 16 of 20 stolen base attempts but ranked only 26th in Major League Baseball.

Centerfielder Drew Stubbs leads the Reds with six stolen bases in seven attempts, but is well behind the pace he set last year when he had 13.

This can partially be attributed to the fact that Stubbs has batted second in the order for the bulk of the season — just in front of Joey Votto.

“A lot of it, the situation dictates,” Stubbs said. “For example, one that I remember

specifically, I got a base hit off [Milwaukee closer, John] Axford to start the inning. There were two outs. That’s an easy base for me to steal. He’s not quick to the plate, but Dusty [Baker] had me shut down, because he wanted Joey [Votto] swinging the bat. Consequently, we scored on Joey’s double.”

Stubbs went into Tuesday’s game with an on-base percentage of .301, but he doesn’t seem too concerned about his slow start.

“I’m not getting on base at the clip I want,” Stubbs said. “I think stolen bases also come in clusters. I haven’t really reeled off a streak.”

Votto and Jay Bruce are tied for second place on the team with three stolen bases each.

The Reds’ biggest base-stealing threat — aside from Stubbs — is Brandon Phillips, who has only one stolen base and is recovering from a hamstring injury but is close to being back to full strength.

Despite the lack of speed, however, the Reds are only half of a game out of first place in the National League Central and are coming off a series win against the Yankees last weekend.

The Reds conclude their four-game series with the Atlanta Braves Thursday night, before

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FINDING THEIR STRIDE Reds’ manager Dusty Baker has his team firing on all cylinders, as it’s won five of the last six games.

welcoming the Colorado Rockies to Great American Ball Park for a three-game series that beginning Friday.

HUT, HUT, PIKE!

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FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL Much like he did in the early going of his University of Cincinnati career, Tony Pike — who quarterbacked the UC football program to an undefeated 2010 regular season — is fighting for a spot on the final roster of the Cincinnati Bengals.

Pike looks to peak with Bengals CATHY HEBERT | SENIOR REPORTER

Tony Pike has battled adversity multiple times in his athletic career, but his latest situation might be the hardest yet to overcome.

Pike is currently working to recover from an injury and free agency woes in hopes of being invited to NFL training camp two months from now.

After being listed as the third-string quarterback at the University of Cincinnati, Pike had to work to be become a toptier starting quarterback after those in front of him went down with injuries. During his time in Clifton, he also broke his left arm twice.

The Carolina Panthers selected Pike in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He was again the third string, but saw action in one game. Later in the season, however, he suffered a shoulder injury and was

placed on injured reserve.

Following the NFL lockout, Pike arrived at the Panthers’ training camp injured once again.

Following the first surgery on his right elbow in August 2011, the Panthers released him and gave him an injury settlement.

After an unsuccessful surgery, Pike had a second, more extensive operation two monhs ago.

Two months ago, he had a second, more extensive, surgery. This time, the doctors tucked part of the ulnar nerve under the muscle to protect it.

The Bengals invited Pike to take part in their rookie minicamp last week. While the timing wasn’t ideal, the opportunity was. The camp gave Pike the opportunity to show how he is progressing, in addition to allowing him the chance to get his name circulating once again.

“The biggest thing is coming in and seeing where you are at. You want to take advantage of the opportunity,” Pike said, according to the

Cincinnati Enquirer. “Structurally, everything is healthy and the numbness comes and goes, which affects the spiral. The good thing is there is no pain,” Pike said.

As a Cincinnati native, Pike’s signing with the Bengals would make for a feel-good story. Even if he gets an invitation to camp, however, the chances of him being signed by the Bengals are slim — Andy Dalton and Bruce Gradkowski have already locked up the starting and backup spots, respectively, according to the team.

However, the idea of throwing again is enough to make pike happy, he said.

“The more I get back out there and throw, the better I feel. With the type of surgery I had, to be where I am eight weeks later, I’m excited,” Pike said. “For me to be out here and throw is light years ahead of where I thought I would be, and it gives me confidence going forward.”

Women’s soccer sets 2012 match schedule

MADISON SCHMIDT | SENIOR REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati women’s soccer team anticipates a challenging 2012 season, as they will face four 2011 NCAA tournament teams during their 18-match slate.

“As we head into our fifth season at Cincinnati, it’s important that we continue to play a challenging schedule that will prepare us in our pursuit of a Big East championship, and I think that’s reflective in the 2012 schedule,” said head coach Michelle Salmon.

The team will return to action

for a pair of matches in North Carolina against Elon University August 17 and N.C State — who is ranked third in the Atlantic Conference — August 19.

“Playing talented teams like N.C. State, Nebraska, Colorado and University of California Irvine in the nonconference will get us ready to take on the likes of Notre Dame, Marquette and Louisville in the Big East, and we welcome that challenge,” Salmon said.

UC finished its 2011-12 season with a record of 6-8 and will look to improve against its tough competition scheduled for this fall.

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ONE STEP AWAY Eighteen University of Cincinnati track & field athletes are just one solid performance away from advancing to the final round of the NCAA Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.

UC track sends 18 Cats to NCAA preliminary round MADISON SCHMIDT | SENIOR REPORTER

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TOUGH ROAD AHEAD The UC women’s soccer team has a competitive schedule, with four NCAA tournament teams scheduled.

The University of Cincinnati track and field team will take 18 athletes to the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Preliminary Round, hosted by the University of North Florida in Jacksonville May 24-26 at Hodges Stadium.

The women’s team qualified nine individuals in 12 events and the 4x400 relay. In the 2012 Big East Indoor Championship, however, Sarah Rasnick was forced to withdraw from polevaulting due to injury, and Jasmine Cotton — named Big

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The men’s team qualified six individuals in seven events.

Cotton, along with a group of 24 other field athletes, will advance directly in the heptathalon to the NCAA Championship.

The rest of the team will compete against 48 athletes in their respective events — all battling for a top-12 spot that will allow them to race in the semifinals and finals at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, June 7-8.

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FROM CHELSEA | 4 sloppily fended off wave after wave of the relentless German attack before finally losing ground with just 10 minutes remaining.

It was all over but the crying, but true to his form throughout the tournament, Didier Drogba — who has since announced his departure from the squad — saved Chelsea one last time with a headed goal that set Bavaria ablaze.

Chelsea would weather the hellacious German storm for 30 more minutes, as veteran goalie Petr Cech fittingly saved the penalty kick of Bayern’s former Chelsea man Arjen Robben to force the game into a dreaded penalty shootout.

The same spot kicks that broke the hearts of Chelsea fans in the 2008 Champions League would this time end in glory, as Drogba fittingly swept the winning penalty into the back of the net as I showered the crowded bar with bellows of joy and relief alongside my dear friend and fellow Chelsea supporter Tyler Campbell — and thus: “Carefree, wherever we may be. We are the famous CFC, and we don’t give a f--- whoever you may be. ‘Cause we are the famous CFC.” FROM SCHWARTZ | 1 when his interest to work on the heart really got going. That was the second Nobel Prize winner that Dr. Schwartz worked with.”

The Rieveschl Award is given annually to a fulltime UC faculty member who illustrates creativity and/ or scholarly works. The winner receives this award for his or her work or accomplishments that have emphasized quality work done at UC. Past awards have been sent to faculty members in categories such as Anthropology, Classics, Economics, English, History, Philosophy and Romance Languages in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences; the divisions of Ensembles/Conducting, Keyboard, Music Composition, Music Performance and Stage Design in the College-Conservatory of Music; The College of Design Architecture Art and Planning’s School of Art and Department of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and Interior Design; the College of Engineering and Applied Science; and the College of Law. Schwartz continues to do research in areas of the heart and expresses his passion for his graduate students and teaching and learning with them.

“He’s a very interesting man and a very dedicated researcher” Herrell said.

FROM SPRAGUE | 6 We don’t write to piss readers off or to massage our schizophrenic writer egos, but rather we write to exercise those rights that our forefathers found so important. Rights so integral to our society in fact, that they were figuratively the first cement footers poured when our country’s home was built.

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FROM TRUSTEES | 1 Throughout the process of creating the AMP, students, faculty and administrators provided their opinions and ideas for advancing UC towards the 2019 goals. ideas for advancing UC toward the 2019 goals.

“The provost created a system that allowed for faculty engagement to the degree that the faculty wanted to engage,” said Richard Harknett, chair of the faculty senate and a political science professor.

Former Student Body President Alan Hagerty also spoke of the inclusive nature of the AMP, which he described as “exceptional.”

“I was invited to propose alternatives and ideas, as well as give feedback for funding for certain issues,” Hagerty said.

While many at the trustees meeting praised the AMP, some are said they are uncertain about the future funding of the plan.

Ono said he believes that money raised by fundraising efforts such as the current Proudly Cincinnati Campaign and the upcoming Bicentennial Campaign will provide part of the future funding.

“I anticipate that in future years funding will come from philanthropic dollars,” Ono said.

This coincides with the recent announcement that the Proudly Cincinnati Campaign has passed $900 million in donations and is within reach of the $1 billion goal.

“We have been very careful to create a sustainable plan,” Ono said. “I am therefore confident that we will really move the needle between now and 2019.”

FROM TWIPOLITICO | 1 provide political data, but it also gives a certain power to the public as well, Nixon said.

“People say that social media is for Obama what the television was for Kennedy,” Nixon said.

Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are arguably one of the biggest influences on elections as the years go on, Nixon said.

The Twitter demographic consists largely of 18- to 30-year-olds, and Twipolitico proves that politicians are using that to their advantage.

Romney and Obama both have their own accounts on Twitter, and their tweets, and user reactions to those tweets, are recorded live on the Twipolitico website.

“Social media is a way of bringing those political issues to the forefront,” said Fred Annexstein, a UC computer science professor. “When Obama came out with his stance on gay marriage, Twipolitico saw a huge bump in activity. An independent opinion can become an important piece of information.”

“Twipolitico is already gaining worldwide recognition, with people in Toronto and the Netherlands taking notice,” Annexstein said.

As for the creators of the website, they plan to start a company and take their Twipolitico formula with them.

“We can take this to brands,” Oyediran said. “It’s a very portable application.”

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Karunaratne said,however,the only help he received were the links to a couple of websites when he looked for housing.

Both Karunaratne and Samarasinghe attribute their newfound lodgings to the help of other Sri Lankan friends, who gave them more insight on the Clifton area, Karunaratne said.

“I live thousands of miles away from UC,” Karunaratne said. “[International students] don’t know what to do or how to find a house being just given a link to a website to find on our own.”

FROM CHIEF | 1 criminal justice at the UC, believes Craig’s credentials make the test arbitrary.

“California, where he’s from, has much higher training standards than Ohio does,” Eck said.

“Assuming he doesn’t forget any faster than anyone else, it seems like policing in California shouldn’t be any different than policing here. It’s great that he’s challenging it.”

Craig’s credentials would be enough for him to retain his police powers in some states — such as Nebraska and Idaho, according to the states’ police departments’ websites — so long as he had been appointed by a state official. However, other states, like Michigan, would require him to take the same certification test as every other officer, according to the Michigan State Police website.

Eck also noted that the duties of a police chief in a city like Cincinnati are much different than most small towns in Ohio, with much smaller police forces.

Because these small towns make up the majority of Ohio, they dominate the political discourse behind these rules, Eck said.

“If he was running a police department of five people in a small town — we’re talking about five cops, one of whom happens to be the boss — he or she is going to be patrolling the streets and would have to know this stuff,” Eck said. “We’re talking about a department of well over 1,000 people. Whether he’s certified or not, the first thing he’s going to do is get on his radio and call for someone else.”

The Ohio Municipal Code states a police chief may remain a civilian — subject to approval of the city manager — but Craig would not retain his police powers this way.

Craig was selected from a field of more than 40 candidates because of his resume full of successful department turnarounds, said Cincinnati City Manager Milton Dohoney, Jr. “Chief Craig is a stand-out candidate,” Dohoney said. “When I looked at his wide-ranging and successful experience as a front line commander, his executive management skills and proven commitment to partnership and community building, I was confident choosing him as chief.”

Only four members of the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police (CFOP) members complained about Craig’s request for exemption, according to a CFOP member that requested to remain unnamed.

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