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A&S native to be new McMicken dean LANCE LAMBERT | SENIOR REPORTER McMicken College of Arts and Sciences students will soon find themselves under the leadership of a new dean — one who has walked in their shoes.

Ronald Jackson, an arts and sciences graduate, received both his undergraduate and graduate degree from the University of Cincinnati.

A professor of media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois (IU) and a Cincinnati native, Jackson is set to start July 1 as dean of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, pending a final approval by UC’s Board of Trustees.

Jackson, associate dean of the College of Media at IU, has been selected by UC Provost Santa Ono to replace Valerie Hardcastle, arts and sciences’ current dean, who will return to the faculty in a teaching capacity June 30.

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A search committee chaired by UC College of Law dean Louis Bilionis was responsible for compiling a pool of candidates. Its search began in fall 2010.

While Bilionis’ committee of two students, six professors, a trustee and a UC alum developed a pool of candidates and set up the interview process, the decision to select the new dean was left to Ono. “[The committee] did what is customary: Talked to all the stakeholders and found what opportunities and challenges face the college,” Bilionis said.

Jackson’s strong academic record and strong leadership skills made him a good candidate, Bilionis said.

“Jackson has great potential for [A&S] and for UC2019,” Bilionis said.

With a starting salary of $240,000, Jackson will have a mostly average salary compared to deans in a similar UC office — a worthy amount considering the size and complexity of UC’s A&S college, Ono said.

A&S is currently the largest college at UC and serves as the home college to 7,769 of UC’s 42,421 students in 2011. “[Jackson] is an excellent scholar and administrator coming from an AAU institution,” Ono said. “He was highly recommended by university presidents and provosts and impressed the search committee with his vision for A&S. He clearly understands what it takes to lead a researchintensive college.”

Ono was searching for a candidate who could connect with A&S students and make the quality of the undergraduate experience a major priority.

“I was particularly impressed by his genuine passion for UC, being an alumnus and former Darwin T. Turner Scholar, and for his palpable love for students,” Ono said.

Bilionis said he was excited at the news of Jackson’s hiring. “[This is an] important day for McMicken,” Bilionis said.

“One can hope for good days ahead.”

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SHORTER PAPER BILL By setting up a printing system similar to Main Campus’s, UC Clermont has reduced its waste of paper by more than 300 percent.

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ANTHONY OROZCO AND SAM MORREN | THE NEWS RECORD An alleged incident between a University of Cincinnati professor and a student has resulted in the teacher being placed on paid administrative leave and facing a misdemeanor charge in Hamilton County Municipal Court.

Thabiti Asukile, an assistant professor of Africana studies, is scheduled to appear in court June 1 for a pre-trial hearing. He is facing a third-degree misdemeanor charge of unlawful restraint.

The alleged incident occurred during the late afternoon March 2, when a 2 0 - y e a r- o l d second-year chemistry s t u d e n t walked into Asukile’s office in French Hall, ASUKILE according to a court affidavit filed by the complainant who wished to be left unnamed.

Asukile’s attorney, Robert Newman, said the professor is innocent. Asukile did not respond to requests for comment.

“I am confident that a jury is going to find that professor Asukile is quite innocent of this charge,” Newman said.

According to the complainant’s affidavit, he entered Asukile’s office looking for his English professor and was confronted. “[Asukile] said ‘I know you are looking for me, you are standing there like you’re looking for me or something,’ ” the student said in the affidavit.

The affidavit alleges that Asukile then approached the student in an intimidating manner.

“I noticed he had tears in his eyes, pupils dilated,” the complainant stated in the affidavit.

Asukile then asked for the student’s identification, according to the affidavit. The student alleges that, as he reached for the door to leave, Asukile held it shut, preventing him from leaving.

The complainant explained the incident in further detail in an interview with The News Record.

“I never really said I wanted to leave,” the student said. “Just my hand on the door should tell you I wanted to leave.”

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Printers are no longer working overtime at the University of Cincinnati’s Clermont College (UCCC) after wasteful printing was targeted by a policy change to require students to pay for their prints.

UCCC switched to the same system currently in operation at UC’s main campus during the 2011-12 Spring quarter, which requires students to pay for their prints after a complimentary $7 worth of complimentary prints.

This switch cuts the college’s total prints

down from an average of 42,086 per month to a monthly average of 14,053, according to an email from Judy Quillen, equipment/application specialist at UCCC. “I think people are more careful now that they have to pay for printing,” said Gregory Sojka, UCCC dean. “Before the switch, you would hear stories of students printing the entire book Moby Dick in the computer lab. When it’s free you don’t care.”

The savings from the switch is an estimated $2,000 per month in printing — not including the savings from fewer ink cartridges being used and fewer printer repairs.

“We are seeing less paper being wasted,” said Charles Cole, student assistant in the UCCC computer lab. “It was amazing to see how much waste we had before. Before the switch, we were emptying the recycling bin out every night.”

Now, UCCC is going as long as two weeks without emptying recycling bins, Cole said. “[We’ve seen] about the same student activity in the computer lab, just less printing and less wasteful printing,” Cole said.

Many students at UCCC have complained about the new policy, however, citing a lack of notification.

“I think it is stupid,” said Paschal Lanigan, a second-year criminal justice student at UCCC. “It took me forever to know what was going on. The school didn’t provide us with all the info about the switch.

During Winter quarter, UCCC worked to inform students about the change, Cole said.

“Some of the issues students are running into are that they are forgetting to log out and other students are draining their Bearcat cards,” Cole said. “Soon the monitors will automatically log the students out.”

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The founding dean of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering and Applied Science, Carlo Montemagno, might be a Cyclone pending his candidacy for Iowa State University’s senior vice president and provost position.

Montemagno is one of three finalists in the running for the position at ISU, and was the last of the three to give a presentation as part of the interviewing process.

If Montemagno is awarded the job at ISU, it would not interfere with his contract with UC, and his starting date would be tentative, he said.

In his presentation, “Iowa State University: From Great to Eminent,” given at the Gallery of Memorial Union, Montemagno addressed the main difficulties Iowa State — along with virtually every university in the country — faces in the coming years.

“Most colleges face the same basic problems,” Montemagno said, “like [trying to increase] diversity, elevating the stature of the research enterprise and establishing new models for sources of funding.”

Based on his experience with these kinds of issues at MONTEMAGNO UC, Montemagno said he feels prepared to take on these challenges at ISU. “You have to mold challenges to achieve desired goals,” Montemagno said. “Being an eminent university means being recognized worldwide as being the best.”

States across the nation are cutting back on spending for higher education and, as a result, universities are having a hard time staying on par. Montemagno addressed this issue while keeping his eye on improvement—not just the maintenance of current standards.

“It will be important to increase academic achievement with limited resources,” Montemagno said. “We’ll have to eliminate what

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The Interventional Management of Stroke 3 (IMS 3) trial has suspended enrollment after researchers said its continuation would not deliver anticipated results.

Dr. Joseph Broderick, professor and chairman of neurology at the University of Cincinnati, said his team has decided to put the trial on hold.

The trial was looking for a difference of at least 10 percent toward a favorable outcome for patients treated with mechanical thrombectomy compared to IV recombinant (rt)-PA alone, Broderick said.

IMS 3 was comparing intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) — a medicine used to dissolve blood clots — independently with a combination of tPA and intra-arterial (IA) therapy, using intra-arterial tPA or mechanical thrombectomy in stroke patients, Broderick said.

The goal was to prove that combination therapy was more effective than tPA alone, but the results, were not what he had hoped for but he remains optimistic about mechanical

embolectomy technology, Broderick said.

The IMS 3 is a randomized trial that was scheduled to enroll 900 patients that scored an eight or greater on the National Institutes of Health Stroke scale and received treatment within three hours, Broderick said.

The primary outcome is favorable regarding functional independence three months after treatment using a Modified Rankin Score of zero to two to gauge results, Broderick said.

Safety concerns are not why the study is on hiatus, and while results will remain unknown to Broderick and the other investigators, patient BRODERICK follow-up will continue.

The earlier phases of the trial, IMS 1 and IMS 2, revealed that revascularization — introducing a new blood supply to a body part — past six hours showed similar results to when no revascularization occurs, strengthening the correlation between time to revascularization and improved functionality

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The Food and Drug Administration has approved three embolectomy devices: MERCI, Penumbra and Solitaire. These devices are used for reperfusion, which restores blood flow to the brain after a stroke has occurred.

“We know the devices can remove clots, but we need to prove that they improve patient outcome compared to standard therapy,” Broderick said.

Dr. Pooja Khatri, an investigator involved in the trial and a professor of neurology at UC, presented a study at the American Academy of Neurology’s 64th annual meeting and said the use of mechanical embolectomy almost doubled in the United States from 2008 to 2010.

This reflects practice changes with specialists in the United States being trained and more exposed to the devices, Broderick said.

Hospitals, as well as physicians, are getting reimbursed for mechanical embolectomy therapy, Broderick said, and this might also factor into the increased use of the procedure.

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Discharge deserved for Marine

Marines swear to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic … and to obey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.” Simplistic explanations need not be voiced because the First Amendment isn’t mentioned.

It is the most important liberty afforded American citizens, but it must be treated with all due respect.

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees several things — the freedom of the press, religion and, most importantly, speech — namely speech of a political nature.

Every day, activists from both sides of the political aisle espouse their beliefs all over the country, strengthening part of the fundamental foundation that holds this nation together, but it’s not an all-inclusive right for some.

As a member of the media — albeit as a collegiate journalist and intern — it’s with the utmost regard I hold freedoms of speech and the press. This situation, however, warrants unusual scrutiny.

Former Marine Sgt. Gary Stein was officially ordered to be other-than-honorably discharged from the military April 25.

His crime? He started a Facebook page dedicated to ousting President Barack Obama from office in addition to selling bumper stickers and T-shirts calling for the same.

Stein overstepped his rights and knew the consequences going in.

Call it bias, hate for the military, disdain for the Marine Corps, or whatever you like. The plain and simple fact is this man signed a contract handing over his First Amendment rights and later violated said contract.

Having served as a noncommissioned officer (NCO) in the Marine Corps, I understand both the hell of war and the disgust felt, at times, for elected officials. Those feelings, no matter their strength, cannot allow a Marine NCO to abandon his or her oath nor the obligatory respect owed to the commander in chief.

We are the “president’s own,” or so the moniker attached to our band says.

Stein’s situation is not unheard of. During the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, a multitude of service members from the Army and Air Force were seen on many broadcast news stations stating their request for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign and even then-President George W. Bush to do the same. They should have been punished in the same manner, but the times were different then.

Soldiers in the early days of a war, with bodies rotting around them and the threat of death creeping into the forefront of their brain, are subject to a small measure of dissent and ill-planned disrespect toward authority — it’s understood to a certain extent.

“Peacetime” dissent against a sitting president, however, can never be tolerated.

Especially from Marines.

When joining the armed services, each man and woman hands over certain rights to serve the most powerful military in the world. These rights, while valued among civilians, are merely a speed bump to the positive mental attitude needed to lead soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines into the depths of perdition and live to fight another day.

The military is not an easy life — check out the more than 70 percent divorce rate or the stream of stories in the media depicting tales of rampant drunkenness, assaults or suicides. You can gauge a measure of its stress.

That being said, such a life is not a reason to betray the man charged with your service.

There were times when I questioned the purpose of our involvement in Iraq, and my oath was tested when, serving under Obama, I was

Student loan reform needed for future ALAN HAGERTY A national political debate has kicked off regarding the July 1 interest rate hike on subsidized Stafford Loans. The good news is that both Republicans and Democrats have expressed support to keep the rate from doubling to 6.8 percent. It is vitally important that momentum is maintained to prevent the increase and to start a broader conversation about the issue of student debt that affects students all across Ohio.

As the student body president of the University of Cincinnati, I see how heavily the costs of debt weigh on potential students, current students and recent graduates. That’s why I joined with nearly 200 other student presidents and represented approximately 2.5 million students to provide the perspective of the very constituency that will be affected by this change.

If Congress does not act, the July rate hike will hit 7.4 million students who are currently paying for college with the help of a subsidized Stafford Loan. A 6.8 percent interest rate will cost the average college student an additional $1,000 per year that they are in school.

Consider Phillip Dinovo, a well-known student leader at the University of Cincinnati.

An above-average high school student, he has

succeeded in college but hasn’t received much in terms of performance-based scholarships.

Moreover, his family owns a small business, increasing his tax bracket and reducing his need-based financial aid package. Thus, at the end of his fourth of five years at a public institution, Dinovo now has more than $45,000 LETTER TO in student loan debt.

THE EDITOR He is already nervous about graduating because, at that moment, the repayment clock starts ticking.

State budget shortfalls are leading to increasing cuts in higher education appropriations and college costs are rising at both public and private institutions. The average borrower comes out of school with more than $25,250 of loans — up from $9,250 in 1993. Americans as a whole owe $1 trillion in student debt.

Carrying this much debt this early in one’s working life means that my generation now starts their careers and begins building their lives several steps behind. Monthly payments keep graduates from being able to afford homes, cars and, in some cases, even rent, forcing a move back home restricting geographic and occupational mobility.

Borrowers often cannot take jobs that will

have greater earnings and opportunity for career advancement in the long run if they have alternative work with higher shortterm pay levels. They find it harder to start their own businesses and may even be turned down for jobs if the employer requires a credit check.

At the same time, while the costs are growing, a college education is becoming more and more necessary to make it in Ohio and across the country. A 2011 study showed that getting a bachelor’s degree increased a person’s lifetime earnings by 74 percent compared to graduating from high school alone. For my generation, landing a job that pays enough to support a family is becoming more and more difficult for those priced-out of postsecondary education. By 2018, 63 percent of jobs will require workers with a college degree or other postsecondary education. As it stands now, we will be at least 3 million degrees short of meeting that need.

I can look around in class and see the future of America seated next to me. But if we’re going to have a future that works for everyone, we need to reform the way we deal with student debt.

Alan Hagerty is the student body president at the University of Cincinnati.

Silent protest better than religious hijinx MAX MOLLERAN | TNR CONTRIBUTOR Tuesday afternoon on campus showcased an important juxtaposition happening during the normal, day-to-day of campus life: The University of Cincinnati Alliance was hosting a grill out in celebration of gay pride week while one of the many evangelical groups was giving fire and brimstone sermons on an adjacent hill.

Christian groups like this come to campus fairly regularly and, most times, students would gather around the preachers and begin to confront them with shouts and derogatory jokes — this time a very different kind of protest began.

Second-year journalism student, Luca Acito, sat down in front of the preachers with a small sign that read, “Don’t these guys have something better to do?” This simple demonstration was noticed by third-year psychology student Jason Brown, who decided to join him.

“I really don’t believe that we should have to deal with our ears being harassed for hours

on end,” Acito said..“People shouldn’t have to be put down in order to believe something.”

As Brown and Acito protested, several passersby showed their support. Immediately, the two protesters decided to see if they could get more people to join with them.

“Acito would say ‘If you don’t have class, you could join us,’ ” Brown said. “We got a couple takers. Some of them would have to go, but they would just be replaced.”

As more students joined the protest or passed by, a discussion began.

“What I think a lot of people took credence with was the fact that no one wanted to hear them spout out the things they were saying,” Brown said.

The preachers lectured about basic Christian values and an unquestioning faith in God. Acito said he is not necessarily against religion, but “there are better ways to go about it than yelling at every little thing that people do wrong in the preachers’ eyes.”

Acito had a very different message in mind: “I just wanted people to question the morals that these ‘preachers’ seem to hold so high.”

People have largely silently protested the preachers by ignoring them, or they have overtly confronted them. Something that made this protest special was not only the dedication of the protesters — some even skipping classes to make their point — but that they did at times engage the preachers in civil and intelligent conversation.

Among these topics were rape, divorce and, of course, homosexuality.

“I think that silence was the correct way to protest,” Acito said. “Everything that would and could be said would be shot down and/or flipped.”

Students have banded together in the past to shout at the evangelicals, only to see their arguments twisted, making dialogue very difficult.

Preachers come to campus a lot at UC. Next time you see one, instead of fighting back, try Acito and Brown’s approach. It kept things calm while still getting the message out. Silent protesting might be the best way to protest anything — especially that which proclaim their cause the loudest.

Gun incident another Kent State black eye JOE BIALEK Well, it appears the ghosts of Tin Soldiers and former President Richard Nixon are coming back to the Kent State Campus.

First, your most ambitious students are being charged more money because they choose to take more credit hours — without any justification for the increased fees.

Second, the annual out-of-control beer party is put down by an armed SWAT LETTER TO wearing similar THE EDITOR team uniforms as the National Guardsmen did 42 years ago. Except that this time the tear gas is far more potent.

Now you have a Justice Department under the leadership of a Democratic president who decides they would rather look anywhere but at KSU, or, Dealey Plaza, the Lorraine Hotel and the Ambassador Hotel for that matter.

According to an article run by the Cleveland Plain Dealer: “The FBI’s Cleveland office apparently destroyed the original Strubbe tape in 1979, according to the Justice Department.” This begs the question why it wasn’t given to the Smithsonian Museum as an artifact of history? Why the rush to destroy the tape?

Per the article: “Some details of the altercation Allen identified on the recording seem similar to an incident involving Terry

Norman, a Kent State law enforcement student who was carrying a concealed .38-caliber pistol during the May 4, 2011 protest.”

Norman was photographing demonstrators for the Kent State University police and the FBI. He claimed he was assaulted by angry crowd members and said he drew his gun to warn them away. Further, “several witnesses said they heard a Kent State policeman who inspected Norman’s gun exclaim that it had been fired four times.” And, finally: “Some Guardsmen claimed they had fired in reaction to gunshots, possibly from a sniper...”

Listening to the audio tape recording of what transpired that fatal day one can fairly easily trace the sequence of events. What prompted the Guardsmen to fire appears to be their hearing of pistol shots coming from the crowd of protesters.

Now, given the hostile environment they got themselves surrounded by, any type of nearby gunfire would certainly invite a retaliatory response.

Someone in an officer capacity ordered firing because they believed the Guardsmen were in harm’s way. What a bizarre series of events.

All this time, because of a deliberately botched investigation by the FBI, we the American people, have been duped into thinking the deaths and injuries of 13 students were the result of some rogue element within the Ohio National Guard where, in fact, it

turns out that an undercover spy sent in by the law enforcement establishment inadvertently (or perhaps purposely) set off this chain of events when he was discovered by an angry few.

The Strubbe tape is the Zapruder film of this historic event — something the “authorities” didn’t count on. One has to wonder if there was other audio — or even video — that recorded this event that was only to be confiscated by “officials” as they were in Dealey Plaza.

All four events have the same common denominator: Do not mess with America’s war machine because the consequences can be deadly. Perhaps one day, other students or faculty will have the courage to come forward to tell what they know or perhaps tell what they were told not to say. Maybe KSU will have it’s own “Deep Throat” hero emerge shortly before his or her death who reveals what truly happened.

As Col. Jessup in “A Few Good Men” shouts, “You can’t handle the truth.” The response by the American people must always be to “let us decide what truth we can and cannot handle” otherwise what is the point of the United States Constitution? We must get to the bottom of this tragedy before it is too late.

Citizens of this great country, it’s up to you.

Joe Bialek is a retired professor who lives in Cleveland.

PAC concert important tradition in Clifton During your time on the University of Cincinnati’s campus, you’ll come to learn that there is always an event taking place.

The longer you spend here, the more you’ll figure out which ones are worthwhile and which ones just aren’t for you.

Among the countless annual events, few are as popular and fun as the Programs and Activities Council’s Spring Concert on Sigma Sigma Commons.

Outside the sports world, no other event on campus brings out as many students and their friends out of the house on a Saturday night.

Best of all, it’s free for everyone.

Year after year, PAC manages to book national acts for the concert and, for the most part, reviews among those who attend are positive. There are always a couple hiccups, though, like two years ago when the concert

was moved indoors, which took away from the fun. Or last year when students just weren’t feeling T-Pain and his auto-tuned step show.

The resulting TNR review of T-Pain’s performance did garner STAFF a few extra laughs for EDITORIAL everybody when Mr. Pain took note of the critical review and informed the world via a series of extra-long tweets that he was “not even mad,” and that he allegedly took our school’s money and bought a Rolls Royce with it.

For the record, the PAC concert is paid for with student fees and the sum paid to every year’s act is nowhere near enough to buy a Rolls. E-class Mercedes sure, but no Rolls.

Every year’s act is decided upon through a process of surveys and votes, according PAC, and it seems the people want hip-hop every May.

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Even if hip-hop isn’t your thing, the Spring Concert is a must-see event.

It’s not every day that you get to jump and dance on campus with thousands of your classmates while a Grammy Award-winning performer puts on a free show just for you and your friends.

The Spring Concert brings the campus together in a celebration of the school year coming to a close.

With the football and basketball seasons behind us, it’s the final opportunity of the school year for everyone to get together to make some lasting memories. It should not be missed.

This year, The News Record signed on for the first time as a sponsor of the event, donating funds to show our support for what we believe to be an important student tradition.

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Grades useless for draft

The National Football League’s draft came and went, and now several analysts will go back into hibernation — exactly where they should stay.

In an era dominated by immediate gratification and excessive analysis, the process leading up to and following the NFL draft has become inundated with content that’s more repetitive than insightful.

The new process, which was implemented for the 2002 draft, means a solid two weeks of seeing the likes of Mel Kiper Jr. and Michael Lombardi populate big screens across the world, doling out the worst facet of draft coverage: grades.

For those not as obsessed with the NFL as I, allow me to enlighten you. Somewhere in between the Joe Montana and Steve Young eras, somebody thought it would be a good idea to give traditional letter grades to each team based on what needs they met in the draft and how well they did compared to the other 31 franchises.

In effect, they are giving a grade for a decision made in a “war room” by a bunch of executive types guessing at who will best fit their team’s roster.

Prognostication abounds.

This system would be all well and good if football — or sports in general — was just a factor in a mathematical algorithm, but it’s not. Young — sometimes immature — men who have been treated like gods for their entire 20-plus years of existence are suddenly given princely sums of money and told to go be a professional — hilarity sometimes ensues.

Cincinnati has been host to several of these failures, or “busts” as they are commonly referred to. Akili Smith took his ransom in 2000 and quickly set about to some of the worst quarterbacking ever seen.

David Klingler was the first pick for the men in stripes in 1992 out of the University of Houston. Klingler was a simple guy from a small Texas town and couldn’t handle the metropolis of Cincinnati. Nor could he hit the broad side of the proverbial barn. He subsequently bowed out of the NFL in 1998 after the Green Bay Packers were the third team to cut him.

Other notable busts include everyone’s favorite QB, Ryan Leaf , who couldn’t knock it off and fell from grace in less than four years. Leaf is now a resident of the Texas corrections system, awaiting arraignment this morning on charges of theft, burglary and two counts of criminal drug possession.

Then there was Lawrence Phillips, JaMarcus Russell, Heath Shuler and Ohio State’s gambling man, Art Schlichter, who all fell victim to injuries, drugs or just terrible play at some point in their less-thanfive-year careers — Russell was more lazy and inefficient than anything else, though.

So where does that leave the endless parade of draft grading and preeminently giving the Lombardi Trophy to teams because they get to draft first overall? Front and center on ESPN and the NFL Network, absorbing an average 8.1 million viewers spanning four days of coverage, which is more than all other sports combined during that same time period.

The machine will continue to be fed.

Kiper and his cohorts will hit the TV with their hairspray, makeup and ridiculous suits and talk about great measurables, character guys, high motors and true football intelligence. They will go on ad nauseam, handing out grades based on all these things before the first pigskin is ever snapped in August.

New players in the NFL, while becoming immediately wealthy, are at odds with statistical certainty. They think playing forever is a certainty and the signing bonuses, entourages, fast cars and faster women will always be there, yet the average NFL career is only 3.5 years — less than the length of an average first round draft pick’s contract. To be fair, a lot of first-round draft picks do enjoy nine to 11-year contracts, but the majority of players don’t last that long.

The NFL’s model of media saturation has led to this insane grading system, but that’s the way the Rog’ wants it.

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Bearcats bounce into GABP MICHAEL WYLIE | STAFF REPORTER

The Cincinnati Reds are set to host the fourth annual Bearcats at the Ballpark event at Great American Ball Park May 11, when the team takes on the Washington Nationals.

Before the game, fans are invited to visit the Holy Grail at the Banks for the official pre-game party from 4-6 p.m., which will feature University of Cincinnati and Reds giveaways.

The first 100 fans to visit the UC Alumni Association table on the restaurant’s side patio will be given a prize as well. Fans are also invited to arrive early at GABP to see a special on-field presentation featuring the Bearcat and other UC representatives.

This event has really taken off in the past four years, said UCAA associate director of marketing and public relations, Lauren Boettcher.

“Even though this is only our fourth year teaming up with the Reds to put on this event, it’s really turned into a tradition for UC faculty, alumni, students and supporters,” Boettcher said.

The Reds have won seven of their past 10 games and finished April three games out of first place with a

record of 11-11.

The Nationals had one of their best Aprils in franchise history, finishing 14-9 and currently sit atop the NL East.

The starting rotation for Washington has an earned run average of 1.93 and is led by ace Stephen Strasburg (2-0, ERA 1.14).

The Nationals called up phenom center fielder Bryce Harper Saturday, showing why he was the No. 1 pick in the 2010 MLB draft.

Harper hit 1-3 in a game in which the Nationals maintained the lead until the ninth inning before being defeated on a walk-off homerun by slugger Matt Kemp of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The 19-year-old Harper is the No. 2 overall prospect, according to ESPN and will look to fill the leftfield void Washington has struggled with all year.

UCAA members, faculty, staff and students can purchase discounted tickets to the game, and those who purchase tickets by May 3 will be eligible to win a chance to watch the Reds take batting practice.

Other prizes include a VIP press level tour of GABP and a chance to catch the first pitch.

The Reds and Nationals game is scheduled for a 7 p.m. first pitch.

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SHOWING CINCINNATI SUPPORT The Reds will host Bearcats at the Ballpark for the fourth consecutive year, giving Cincinnati fans a chance to come together to support its local teams and mascots.

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y e n r u o T t s a E g i B t Golf falters a Cats limp to last place at Big East championships JASON HOFFMAN | OPINION EDITOR

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SEASON’S FINAL SWING The University of Cincinnati men’s golf team wrapped up its 2012 campaign with a 12th place finish at the Big East conference tournament.

The University of Cincinnati men’s golf team ended its season Tuesday with a disappointing finish at the Big East championship tournament in Orlando, Fla. The Bearcats sent five players to the tournament, spanning three rounds of stroke play on the 7,257-yard Watson Course at Reunion Resort, placing last in the team standings when the final putt was made.

Freshman Jared Howard boasted the best finish for any of the Bearcat golfers, placing T-42 after shooting a 230 total, finishing 14-over-par. Howard, however, struggled in the final round with a 10-over-par 82.

Junior David Tepe finished the event three places behind Howard, following rounds of 79-76-76.

Tepe, the third-year player from Liberty Township, Ohio, will look to emerge as a leader of the golf team next season after strong performances in the fall portion of this year’s outings.

The tournament began Sunday at 8 a.m., and by the time the dust settled, the Bearcats had played themselves into last place.

“Jared Howard was great playing in his first career round at the Big East Championship,” said head coach Doug Martin, following the first round. “But overall, today was not the start we hoped for. We continue to makes mistakes we

cannot afford and play stretches of holes that really hurt us. We have 36 more holes to play and need to eliminate our foolish mistakes.”

The Bearcats failed to improve following the first round and ended the tournament with a team total of 927, 63 over par.

Other players competing for UC were junior Andrew Desmarais and freshmen Michael Wolf and Mike Irwin.

Martin’s squad sustained multiple injuries to players, resulting in underclassmen having to fill in for the end of the season.

Notre Dame, the only Big East team to get a vote for the nation’s top 25 rankings, won the team portion of the event with a 12-below-par total of 852.

Max Scodro of Notre Dame took home medalist honors at the tournament, carding scores of 69-68-73 for a 6-under-par total.

Although the Fighting Irish won the Big East tournament, there is no promise it, or any other team from the conference will be invited to participate in the NCAA Division I golf championships as there is no automatic qualifying system like what exists for collegiate basketball.

The NCAA championships will take place May 29 to June 3 at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

The tournament will take place at the site of the PGA Tour’s Northern Trust Open and plays to a par of 72.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

UC lacrosse season marks end of era

MADISON SCHMIDT | STAFF REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati women’s lacrosse season came to end Monday, as the Bearcats fell 11-14 to the University of Detroit.

The Bearcats outscored Detroit in the second half, but the Titans secured the win late, scoring the final goal with less than 10 seconds remaining.

Cincinnati’s second-half heroics were the result of efforts from junior Marissa Pierson, who tied a career high with four goals. Junior Kylie Ramsland and senior Ali Mattingly also gave solid performances, scoring three and two goals, respectively.

Senior Rachel Mercier kept in her late season form and ended her UC career in style, as she chipped in two assists to continue her 16-game point-scoring streak.

Cincinnati concluded its regular season with a 3-13 record, finishing 0-7 in the Big East Conference.

“The outcome wasn’t what we had wanted,” said senior captain Cathy Hebert. “We worked a lot harder this year to make sure it went better than last year.”

Despite a seemingly disappointing season, the Cats’ hard work was not in vain — their record improved, as compared to last year’s two total wins for the season. Cincinnati also finished third in the Big East in draw controls per game with 14.29.

In addition to ending its season, the women’s lacrosse team also says goodbye to head coach Lellie Swords, who resigned Tuesday, in addition to nine seniors.

Parting seniors include leading scorer and team captain Laura Simanski, who led UC in several statistical categories this season, including goals (36), points (47) and the most goals scored in a single game (7).

Herbert and Simanski, along with the

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LAST DITCH EFFORT The University of Cincinnati women’s lacrosse team fell to the University of Detroit Lions 11-14, after the Lions scored their final goal with less than 10 seconds remaining in Monday’s game. other seniors, were recognized on senior day following the game against Syracuse, April 22 and have been with the team since its induction into the Big East Conference four years ago.

“Senior day was emotional for all of us because of how close the team has gotten,” Hebert said.“Being college athletes, we haven’t exactly had the typical college experience, but it has been a rewarding one.”

In her final words to the returning members

of the team, Hebert said not to waste any time.

“Enjoy every second of what you do, because it goes so fast,” she said. “And because it goes so fast, just work as hard as you possibly can to improve and do your best.”

With the losses of Coach Swords and the nine seniors, UC lacrosse will have a great deal of work to do in the offseason if the team wishes to improve upon its 2012 campaign.

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SPOTLIGHT

Photos courtesy of TROY FRASIER

AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY More than 468 University of Cincinnati alums have participated in the Master’s International Program since it was created in 2004. Currently, 10 International Program members are serving in the Peace Corps, which requires students to complete two years of class work during the 27-month Peace Corps experience.

JOINING FORCES The University of Cincinnati’s School of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning continues to collaborate with the Peace Corps kara driscoll | senior reporter Whether in the classroom or in the heart of the rainforest, students at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning are pursuing both peace and academic superiority through the School of Planning’s collaborative Peace Corps programs.

In collaboration with the Peace Corps, the School of Planning houses two programs for students studying international service and community planning education.

“It gives students an opportunity to unite their professional Peace Corps experience with their academic experience,” said Master’s International student Mona Almobayyed. “Often there is a disjoint between academics and profession and this allows you to address the disjoint and to be able to connect the two together.”

Created in 2004, the Master’s International Program requires students to complete two years of class work with a 27-month Peace Corps experience.

Students call it the “sandwich program” due to the service experience being sandwiched in between years of academic work, Almobayyed said.

“You do one year of graduate work, two years in the Peace Corps, and then your last year of graduate work,” she said.

DAAP is the only college in four states — Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee — to have two Peace Corps-related programs. Developed in collaboration with the Peace Corps, both programs enable students to incorporate service with graduate degrees in community planning.

Thus far, more than 468 UC alums have participated in the program serving more than 139 countries.

The program continues to grow, Almobayyed said.

The School of Planning added the Coverdell Fellow Program in 2004, two years after the program was created.

The fellowship allows students who have already

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completed a Peace Corps commitment to apply what they learned abroad to a masters or doctoral degree.

Currently, 10 students are enrolled in both programs and have served in locales from Samoa to Senegal.

In Guatemala, Mona Almobayyed worked as a municipal adviser — focusing on women’s issues, community connection and youth involvement.

While serving in a women’s office, Almobayyed worked on organizational projects such as updating databases, converting paper filing systems to electronic, and encouraging communication between the office and town council.

“When I first got on-site, I presented a short and long term plan for the women’s office to the town mayor,”Almobayyed said. “They said that no one had ever done that before and the next day the mayor had sent notices to all of the offices saying they had to make short term and long term plans too.”

Additionally, Almobayyed worked with women in urban and rural parts of Guatemala.

While coordinating workshops on women’s rights and gender equality, Almobayyed discovered a passion for the subject and proceeded to complete her thesis on females who run micro enterprises in developing countries.

“We did productive trainings where women would learn how to make something like lotion or specialty food in hopes of forming a business out of it,” she said.

Second-year Coverdell Fellow Troy Frasier worked as an Agro-business volunteer in the Southwest Pacific country of Vanuatu.

“I did a lot of workshops on sustainable farming and chicken management,” Frasier said. “I also helped start a farmers association in my village.”

With the help of constituents in the farmers association, Frasier constructed a local tree nursery where the village grew fruit, nut trees and other trees for firewood and building material.

The association also worked on increasing the production of manioc flour, wheat used for baking — the import substitution project allowed for locals to produce and sell their own flour rather than relying on imports from Australia.

The project also worked as an economic stimulus, Frasier said.

“The manioc flour was packed for sale on the local

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Help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women.

2. Help promote a better

understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served.

3. Help promote a better

understanding of other people on the part of Americans.

AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY After receiving a degree in geography from Ball State University, Troy Fraiser [left] came to UC to study international service and community planning while serving in the Peace Corps. He is now a second year DAAP student after serving in Vanuatu.

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the sense of community

in the rural village that we stayed in was so

strong. americans often

overlook the importance of this in our cities and

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foster these community ties in cincinnati.

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market,” he said. “The project was a success and was still in operation when I departed in 2009.”

While the Peace Corps experience is a rewarding one, it is not without difficulty and adjustment.

The Peace Corps is not as easy as some might think and there are struggles that come along with these experiences, Frasier said.

“When you go into another community as an outsider, it takes time to build a network of coworkers and friends to the point that you are no longer an outsider,” first-year Coverdell Fellow Jeff Kelley said. “It’s like you’re a stranger in a strange land.”

The Peace Corps tells volunteers it takes between three and six months to settle into a new community, Kelley explained.

The slow pace of a different culture opposed to America’s fast-paced society was an especially hard adjustment, Almobayyed said.

“I struggled with the fact that time and being on time is just not valued as much as here in America,” Frasier said.

“Everybody was on their own time and instead of working, you could sit under the mango tree all day and talk and that was OK.” Regardless of cultural barriers and the adjustment time, Frasier encourages anyone who has a true desire to live with, learn from and help people from another culture to consider the Peace Corps experience.

“The Peace Corps program provides a lot of opportunities to challenge yourself and learn not only about different cultures and places but also so much about yourself as a person,” Kelley said. “As a volunteer, you gain a lot of insight into the community development.”

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FROM ASUKILE | 1 his reputation for student involvement in the policy processes. At UC, he instituted a student honor code where 86 percent of the student body voted on the content of the code.

“The path to achievement includes a long-term commitment to quality, the willingness to alter behaviors and support each other and change,” Montemagno said. “Truth, honesty, trust, selfless risk taking, new ideas and mentoring are all necessary behaviors, and ISU already has many of them.”

According to the affidavit, after examining the ID and talking a bit more with Asukile, the professor told the student to leave.

The Ohio Revised Code states, “no person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly restrain another of the other person’s liberty.”

Newman disputed the allegations. “[The student] was not restrained ... it is just incredible that he claims that he was restrained because all he had to do was walk away,” Newman said. “I’m dumbfounded by the charge.”

If found guilty by the jury, Asukile could face no more than 60 days of jail time and a maximum fine of $250.

In addition to the criminal charge, Asukile faces administrative discipline from the university through a mediation process, according to John Bryan, vice provost for academic personnel, who is conducting the university investigation.

The disciplinary process is outlined in the collective bargaining agreement

between the university and the American Association of University Professors.

“We don’t believe in firing someone if they’ve done something minor and have not had an opportunity to rectify the behavior,” Bryan said. “[Mediation] is something we would like to do quite soon. … This is not a situation we want to just leave up in the air.”

The mediation process is scheduled for May 10.

Asukile was involved in a previous disciplinary incident at UC. In 2010, Asukile was suspended for bringing a gun to campus, Bryan said.

On July 20, 2010, Valerie Hardcastle, dean of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, issued a letter of reprimand to Asukile, stating, “The Provost’s office and I both accept your explanations that you were bringing your gun to UC’s public safety office for safe-keeping and that you were unaware that knives and nunchucks are strictly forbidden on campus.”

FROM MARINE | 2 involuntarily recalled to service for a period of less than 18 months in Afghanistan.

The problem with this entire situation continues to be the way a “leader of Marines” treated his oath to not only the president, but his Marines.

Marine NCOs, a responsibility delineated to a lower rank than any other branch of service, do not simply lead their troops into combat, but inherit the responsibility of setting the example for their charges to follow.

Maybe Stein thought he would be the impetus for change in the U.S., but as the dust settles on his career in the Corps, he is finding allies in the conservative media and the ACLU. Unfortunately, Stein failed to weigh the outcome of his actions with the same cunning needed to lead Marines into battle — he’ll never lead them again and neither will I. Maybe Marines need chaos around them to make great decisions, but I choose to believe Stein just needed to take a step back from the situation and do a cost analysis.

He would still have the privilege to lead members of the best fighting service in the world had he respected his oath.

Stein swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic when he took his oath. Had he used that as his defense, he might still be in litigation.

Or have a Supreme Court date on his calendar.

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