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Program promotes leadership, professional development HUY NGUYEN | CHIEF REPORTER

Hamilton County Judge Fanon Rucker challenged students to defy social injustices and take control of their potential at the University of Cincinnati’s 26th annual Diversity Networking Reception Tuesday in the Russell C. Myer’s Alumni Center.

“No person, no statistic can define me, reduce me, or limit me or keep me from creating a new reality,” Rucker said. “When the next history book is written, I will not be a footnote, I will be a whole chapter.”

The reception was organized by the UC Career Development Center and Advance, a student organization that promotes leadership and professional development opportunities for African-American students.

Resume building, interviewing, networking and understanding business culture are all practiced in the reception to prepare students for the transition from college to real-work environments.

The reception gave African-American and minority students the opportunity to practice their networking skills by interacting with a variety of invited Cincinnatibased employers and businesses.

Employers attending the reception get to know UC students and gain early student access for possible internships, co-ops and full-time job openings.

“We continue to reach out employers who we think students are going to talk to, like Duke Energy and

engineers, so we try to match up students with what they would be interested in,” said Advance President Tiffany Brooks, a fourth-year food and nutrition student.

Some of the companies who appeared at the event included Eli Lilly and Company, Kroger, General Electric, Fifth Third Bank and more.

While many businesses were there to help students find opportunities, it was up to students to be prepared and introduce themselves to prospective employers.

“Students are supposed to be showcasing themselves so they should have their resume and business cards, they should be talking to employers, kind of going with a game plan, telling them where they want to be,” Brooks said. “A lot of my engineering friends actually have gotten their coop positions through here, so I know it is a very successful endeavor.”

Robert Bouquett, a fifth-year information systems student, had his first experience at the annual networking reception Tuesday and said it was appealing to find a large number of employers in one place.

“I think that over the years the level of employers has significantly improved, so that’s definitely what made me come out,” Bouquett said.

Bouquett said he is currently looking for businesses offering spring internships and entry-level positions in project management. He was confident that the reception would give him the chance.

“I feel like it prepares you for the real world,” Bouquett

said. “In the real world, it’s not necessarily what you do, it’s who you know, so it’s a perfect opportunity to get to know more people that can help you intern.”

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Municipal Court Judge Fanon Rucker spoke at the Gateway to Professionalism: 26th annual Diversity Networking Reception, where students learned how to build resumes, interview and network.

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Cincy Comic Con features UC artists ALEX BARHORST | CONTRIBUTOR

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Students and faculty view the screening of Fruitvale Station in the TUC Cinema Monday evening and discussed the social climate around racial tensions on campus and nation wide.

HUY NGUYEN | CHIEF REPORTER

Students and professors discussed institutional changes at the University of Cincinnati Monday to understand inequality in backgrounds of incidents like the DuBose officer-involved shooting.

Several students brought up the relationship between black students and the University of Cincinnati Police Department. They also questioned how black students were supposed to trust campus officers in the wake of so much coverage of police-on-black violence.

“Young black men must be feeling posttraumatic stress from the repeated killings of other black men on the media,” said Earl

Wright II, a UC Africana studies professor.

Wright II proposed that the university introduces grief counselors to relieve post-

The community is not humanized. traumatic stress in the community.

The discussion began after a screening of “Fruitvale Station,” a movie written and directed by Ryan Coogler. Based on real life, the movie portrayed the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, who was killed by local police at the Fruitvale subway station in Oakland, California.

“Fruitvale Station” won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, as well as Best First Film at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Organized by UC’s Department of Diversity and Access and the Department of Sociology, the movie screening was free to all students and faculty willing to engage in discussion.

“There’s a lot of emotion, a lot of thoughts, feelings that are associated with viewing this film because it humanizes a person who was judged or criminalized by virtue of what he was wearing, by virtue of skin color,” said Omotayo Banjo, a

A hurdle of creators, comic enthusiasts and costume fanatics were featured in the third annual Cincy Comic Con at the Kentucky Convention Center Friday through Sunday.

Adding to its ever-growing popularity, big-name artists like Jeff Parker, popular for DC Comics’“Batman 66,” made an appearance at the event.

“This is an excellent creator-focused convention,” Parker said. “It’s always full of actual comic book fans who are readers and not just collectors.”

Three first-year students from the University of Cincinnati’s school of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning — Jane Woywod, Elena Butler and Amy Tam — were in attendance at their own booth and showed off the artwork they made for the show.

“It’s a really fun experience and I’m glad I came,” Butler said. “Amy looked into setting up a booth at this convention and, although a little hard to obtain, it was worth it to show our artwork to the public.”

Tam said she found it interesting to watch from her booth as Cincinnatians patrolled the event in costumes, talking to each other about art and comics.

Appreciation for creation was a key factor in exhibits such as the “Bricks On The Banks” display, where visitors could witness true LEGO masterpieces.

The Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana LEGO Users Group partnered with Cincy Comic Con to engage LEGO enthusiasts and event attendees with their projects.

The LEGO sculptures depicted scenes ranging from whole cities in action to battles between medieval armies.

Other events were being held across the convention floor as well.

An artful sketching duel was played out between Tony Moore, known for “The Walking Dead” comics and Johnny Ryan, known for the “Blecky Yuckerella” comics.

Lined up along the walls of the event

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Health & Wellness Fair promotes active lifestyles, healthier options MATT NICHOLS | COLLEGE LIFE EDITOR

Fitness challenges, free handouts and over 50 booths promoted health awareness at the 16th annual Health & Wellness Fair Wednesday in McMicken Commons.

The fair, organized by the Student Wellness Center, took place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and promoted active lifestyles through on-campus and off-campus resources.

“We bring off-campus and on-campus health and wellness resources to the middle of campus so students can get the information they need,” said Michelle Glancey, a fourth-year health promotions and education student and Student Wellness Center employee.

This year’s event brought a wide range of services, including representation from UC’s Campus Recreation Center.

The CRC promoted its Healthy U program at the event, as well as other upcoming services.

“We’re just trying to overall promote healthy individuals today,” said Terence Hoff, a fifth-year health promotion and education student and CRC staff member. “We always try to get a little bit of a competitive edge going on at our table since we’re the Campus Recreation Center, so today we have the plank challenge going on.”

The plank challenge dared students to attempt holding a plank position for the longest time possible, with only forearms and toes allowed touching the ground.

Bestowed to a student timed at over six minutes in the plank position, the winner of the challenge received a free Healthy U T-shirt.

“Everyone jokes about putting on the freshman 15,” Hoff said. “So we’re hoping to educate them a little more on being healthy and how they can get involved in a lot of free things we got going on at the rec center and on campus in general.”

The fair also gathered representation from Planned

Parenthood and University Health Services, who provided free HIV testing and Meningitis B vaccines, respectively.

Tyler Anderson, a third-year business student, was one of many event attendees impressed by the range of services displayed at the fair.

“This is wild,” Anderson said. “I had no idea we have so many different health-related organizations on campus.

It’s good to know that I can find help if I ever need it.”

Among the vast selection of informative booths was

representation from the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Relay For Life and Hamilton County Recycling, among others.

All representatives offered small — but useful — free gifts including apples, Band-Aid packages and red blood cell shaped stress balls.

While giveaways helped draw students in, the main goal of the event was to inform students about services provided to them.

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Olivia Clements and Alissa Jones, second-year students, listen as Jenny Lohmann (right) explains how to lessen their carbon footprint through recycling during the annual Health & Wellness Fair.

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UC students seek changes, reclamation of peer rights CAROLINE CORY | CONTRIBUTOR

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Students gathered in the Teachers College Sunday to discuss where the university has room to increase diversity and inclusion.

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communications professor.

Sarah Mayorga-Gallo, a sociology professor, said the film is a good representation of the lack of control people have when they are poor, of color or living in certain neighborhoods.

Another topic discussed was the separation between the UC community and the surrounding community.

“All the surrounding communities are primarily black and poor, the University of Cincinnati overwhelmingly not,” said Ervin Maliq Matthew, a sociology professor. “We take our police and expand them into these communities to safeguard our students, they don’t police the community, they protect our students from the community.

The community is not humanized.”

Faculty urged students to continue pressuring UC administration in order to keep attention on the subject of social inequality in Cincinnati and be in unity with the surrounding community.

“There is no long-term solution for the University of Cincinnati that does not entail uplifting the surrounding communities, and we need to get on that yesterday,” Matthew said.

Students gathered over cookies Sunday for focused conversations on equality, student rights and resources at the University of Cincinnati and a chance to collaborate with ideas for campus change.

Led by the Student Rights and Interests Committee (SRIC), the discussion was centered on racism on campus, resources available to students and promoting awareness for sexual and gender-based assault and violence.

“The reason we’re in this room is because a person got shot,” said Tobi Akomolede, a fourth-year computer science and Student Government member. “We had somebody die as a result of UC existing. What [diversity training] happens at orientation is not enough – we need to demand better than that.”

In addition to improving diversity training, many students said they felt that classes highlighting diversity awareness and addressing prejudice should be implemented in the freshman curriculum.

“There is a problem that no one wants to recognize — that racism is an issue that exists in general,” said Kendal Lindsey, a fourth-year public health student.

According to Student Government Senator Veronica Nunez, a third-year communications student, racism extends beyond campus and, although UC has a very diverse student population, not every student feels they have a say in the changes implemented by the university to address racism.

“The fact that students don’t feel they have a voice is terrible,” Nunez said.

An online resource for students, website UC is Listening allows students to provide suggestions, compliments, file complaints, ask questions about the university and receive a response from those involved in the decision-making process. Though the website is available, it has not been updated

since September 2008.

Colin Baker, a third-year communications student and chairman of the SRIC, said he feels the university and students should be held responsible to know what rights and campus resources are available.

“It’s extremely difficult to let students know their rights,” Baker said. “They’re disconnected from the community. They don’t know their resources.”

The postponing of fall semester training for Reclaim, an advocacy-based program dedicated to providing support survivors of gender and sexual-based violence, was also discussed Sunday.

The program was postponed due to lack of funding, but some students believe the cancellation has a deeper meaning.

“Reclaim can go back to what it was, but it won’t get the support it need,” said Christian Jackson, a non-degree-seeking student. “The lack of support is really a lack of trust.”

Administration members decided the postponing of Reclaim’s fall training at a meeting Aug. 17.

Sophie Shemas, a fourth-year environmental studies student and director of Women’s Affairs said Reclaim is a necessary resource since gender and sexually based violence and assault happens all year.

This issue could be due to a lack of oncampus education and corrected through diversity classes, Shemas said.

“There’s a misunderstanding of feminism and what gender rights are, especially with sexual assault and violence,” Shemas said. “Campuses have a higher rate of those than communities off-campus. The misunderstanding is led on by gender roles and expectations on women.”

Training for the 2015-16 school year will be reinstated in spring semester.

“Every student in this room has power,” Akomolede said. “You have a voice, and that’s your power.”

Women’s Center director search presents candidate PATRICK MURPHY | NEWS EDITOR

Two candidates have stepped forward to fill in the role of the University of Cincinnati’s Women’s Center director after former director Amy Howton resigned in late August.

Janine Kossen was the first candidate to showcase her credentials at a presentation Wednesday.

Administration, faculty and students rated the candidate on knowledge of federal regulations, women and gender issues, vision, theory and practice, experience in development of leadership programs, learning outcomes and outcomes assessments, ability to collaborate with stakeholders across an institution and management and supervisory experience.

Kossen went through each category listing her work in several fields, including as senior policy and advocacy officer for Women’s Protection and Empowerment, senior policy advisor in the Bureau of Global Health and Office of Population and reproductive health and director of Public

Policy in Advocates for Youths.

“The challenges of student programming include funding cuts, institutional support and belief that gender equality has been achieved,” Kossen said. “I hope to envision the future of the Women’s Center in collaboration with students.”

The course then shifted to community questions and concerns.

Maria Castro-Reece, a law student, asked how Kossen might extend collaboration of the Women’s Center to other organizations.

“First, I would set up those meetings,” Kossen said. “And, with developing programs, making sure that we invite as many organizations to come and support each other.”

Castro-Reece said while she believes Kossen has a lot of experience, some students desire a candidate with more of a focus on women and gender theory rather than law policy.

“It sounds like she has got a lot of experience,” Castro-Reece said. “I really liked her focus on dealing with institutional barriers.”

Concerning Reclaim and peer advocacy,

Kossen said best practices must be looked into and conversations must be held.

“There’s a lot of value in peer-supported programs,” Kossen said. “There are many opportunities for those who feel safer going to peers.”

Bryce Mickey, program coordinator for Racial Awareness Program, said it would be interesting to see how these promises turn into practices.

“I think she did a good job answering some pretty tough questions,” Mickey said.

“She had members of administration in the room with students and was asked a question about how she could bridge that gap. She answered that questions very tactfully, again, it will be interesting to see those words put into actions.”

The second candidate, Angie Fitzpatrick, will present her credentials at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Counseling and Psychological services building on U-Square 225 Calhoun St. “Students should serve on every board, task force or committee on campus,” Kossen said. “Student representation is challenging, but needed.”

SG seeks affordable textbooks with IncludEd HUY NGUYEN | CHIEF REPORTER

Students could save up to 50 percent on course material costs thanks to the new University of Cincinnati textbook affordability initiative, IncludEd. Gigi Escoe, vice provost for Undergraduate Affairs, addressed Student Government Wednesday to discuss the Textbook Affordability Committee’s proposed policies and gain SG support.

While most universities are only asking for faculty to use cheaper textbooks and academic resources, UC is going beyond and negotiating directly with publishers and bookstores, Escoe said.

Part of the committee’s proposed policies was the use of IncludEd, a program to automatically give students required online access codes with Blackboard instead of having to buy the codes from bookstores.

In addition, the online materials will all be made compatible with Blackboard rather than with multiple external sites.

An IncludEd pilot program was used in general chemistry courses to test out the option.

Escoe said before the program 18 percent of students would delay in buying online chemistry resources, but IncludEd made online resources immediately available for students at the start of the course term and increased overall course performance.

Using IncludEd to make online resources available for specific courses will require a mandatory fee for all students enrolled in the course, but IncludEd will only be used if negotiations with suppliers for fee cost will save 40 to 50 percent of the cost.

IncludEd will only apply to online coursework not available with cheaper options like rentals or library loans. Refunds are available if the associated class is dropped.

“UC’s approach to textbook affordability, which I think is unique, is actually getting some recognition from our state leaders because we’ve pulled together students, faculty, our finance and administration personnel, the bookstore

and administrators to work on the problem together,” Escoe said.

IncludEd will be limited to courses in business, mathematics and a few others in the spring semester, before being available to more classes in the 2016 fall semester.

SG Sen. of Arts and Science Daniel O’Connor updated SG on the Academic Affairs Committee’s progress on developing a glossary of UC academic terms for students.

O’Connor, who is also the Academic Affairs Committee chair, has been working with the committee since the beginning of fall semester to make academic language and vocabulary more transparent for students.

“We kind of, as a committee and in a lot of our own experiences, feel that there isn’t really a lot of easy accessibility to vital academic information that we think students need to be able to see very easily through the UC website,” O’Connor said.

Before working with SG, O’Connor worked in UC Advising and Academic Services and encountered students who were not familiar with many UC operations.

“Stuff like grade replacements, the add-drop process, the difference between a dual major and a dual degree — there’s a lot of terms that affect students very directly and it’s very unclear where you can find information about this,” O’Connor said.

The committee believes it will complete the glossary terms by the end of the week and will be available for review by Lisa Holstrom, the senior assistant dean of Academic Services.

The glossary will either be made into a resource database for UC Advising or an entirely new page on the UC website, O’Connor said.

An executive nomination was brought up at SG for a new Campus Life Committee legislative aid.

Schuyler Hahn is on the Campus Life Committee and explained to SG he enjoys interacting with new and different things on campus and wants to contribute more to the university.

Hahn was voted to the position of legislative aid 27-0.

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Event networks black graduate students, promotes community ALLIE ALU I | STAFF REPORTER

The second annual Black Student Graduate Welcome greeted students Tuesday in hopes of increasing campus involvement and establishing a sense of community among graduates.

The African-American Cultural and Resource Center event provided students with networking opportunities and informed them on upcoming events to be held on campus.

“Our purpose is to introduce black graduate students to the resources they have on campus they might not know about,” said Aaryn Green, a graduate assistant at AACRC and secretary for the Black Graduate and Professional Student Association. “We give minority students the

opportunities to meet each other and make sure they don’t miss out.”

The event also placed a focus on financial aid opportunities for graduate students.

“Minority students often miss out on opportunities at the university and we want to give them the chance to get as much information as they can,” Green said.

Green said there is a growing need for more professional and social support for black graduate students on campus.

“I went to UC and I really understand what UC has to offer for its students,” Green said. “Grad school is a hard process and a lot of black students feel that they are the only people of color in their program.”

Events like the Black Student Graduate Welcome help to

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Food and raffles kicked off the second annual Graduate Student Welcome Tuesday evening, hosted by the African American Cultural and Resource Center.

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were artist and creators who came to engage with fans and promote their work.

Kendall Swafford, owner of comic store Up Up And Away Comics and organizer of Cincy Comic Con, reflected on reasons behind the event being such a hot destination.

“Three years the convention has been held and all along the idea was to give the comic book fans of Cincinnati a convention they deserve,” Swafford said.

“My partners and I got together and made this a reality so that fans can meet artists, creators and exhibitors right here in their hometown.”

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The CRC is promoting the Healthy U slogan and has two initiatives for students to live a healthier lifestyle, Hoff said.

“Right now we’re promoting our Healthy U boot camp, which will start next week on September 22nd and will be on every Tuesday and Thursday all the way through October 15th,” Hoff said.

The high-intensity interval-training program will run for 45 minutes, starting at 8 a.m. on the Nippert Stadium field.

“It’s a great way to get a quick workout in before class,” Hoff said.

The CRC is also launching a new and healthy Eat Smart program in campus dining halls.

“We all know that it can be kind of challenging with all the unhealthy food sitting around in the dining halls,” Hoff said. “Anyone with a dining hall pass can join our Eat Smart program, which will help educate [students] on what to go for with healthier options in the dining hall.”

These programs are designed to offer aid to students that need it, but that can only happen if students are aware of the services.

“We want students to know what’s available for them,” Glancey said.

“Because at the Wellness Center we are a health and wellness resource, so we want to point people in the right direction.”

alleviate this concern, Green said.

While Green aims to bolster involvement in the AACRC, he also hopes other student organizations get attention as well.

“There really is a need for this networking event for our black grad students, they want to see and meet other students,” Green said. “It really helps us build a community of support for each other.”

Multiple booths were prepared for the event, including representation from Omega Psi Phi Fraternity’s graduate chapter, Cincinnati Young Black Professionals and Taft Research Center.

The booths geared many active African-American students to take advantage of opportunities provided by the AACRC. “I wanted to be among a diverse group of people, and that’s what this event does for me,” said DeVonna Gatlin, a chemistry graduate student. “I want to make my presence known for the chemistry department as a whole.”

While the event helped graduate students network and meet each other, it introduces also introduced them to all opportunities available.

“I’m new to UC and this is my first year,” said Clarence Rashad Pace III, a first-year chemistry graduate student.

“This event helps me get a sense of how diverse the campus is. I definitely like the networking opportunities and meeting so many other students.”

Much like Pace and Gatlin, sociology graduate student Curtis Webb felt that the event had done many positive things for himself and his peers.

“I think it is especially important to have a space for people who look like me, and to see supporters at UC for people who have racial backgrounds,” Webb said. “I feel like this has all helped me, especially at the beginning of the year to show off the resources for African-American students.”

For Webb, that community has already made an impact on his UC career.

“It is so important to have a community,” Webb said. “It’s just good to see other smiling faces.”

Q&A: UC Ariel String Quartet’s Jan Grüning, Amit Even-Tov MONROE TROMBLY | STAFF REPORTER

University of Cincinnati’s resident string quartet, the Ariel String Quartet, opened their season Sept. 1 with a little taste of Mozart, Berg and Tchaikovsky.

TNR spoke with Amit Even-Tov, cello, and Jan Grüning, viola, about chamber music, their upcoming season and role as UC’s resident string quartet since their establishment in 2012.

TNR: What exactly does it mean to be UC’s resident string quartet?

Amit Even-Tov: What we have been doing for the past three and a half years is all playing our own series, which includes four concerts a year.

TNR: Now with the Beethoven Cycle complete, what is the Ariel Quartet’s next big project?

JG: Well, luckily, the repertoire for our genre is so vast. But we try to not limit ourselves because we think that actually there are many massive works written in every period of writing for this genre.

So, one of bigger projects for us right now, was to study Alban Berg’s “Lyric Suite,” which is also a piece intimately related to the LaSalle Quartet. It’s an insanely complicated and diverse piece that is not played very often for those reasons.

We’re very much looking forward to our Carnegie Hall debut, which will take place in May this season.

Jan Grüning: As we arrived, we didn’t know what the idea was for the school, because every school has a different system of running.You have to kind of figure out how things work, and how can I do best what I want to do.

AE: Other than that, we’ve just opened our season here, so we have three more concerts to go, which we’re very excited about. When we get to choose the programs for CCM, we really take care of it and we care about each program.

Together with the whole string department, everybody decided it would be good for us to divide people up in groups and take a little bit of the administrative duties as well.

And we have a few guest artists that will play with us – one of them is Awadagin Pratt, who will be playing with us in November.

So, what was most important for us was to kind of make sure, I guess, that everybody would get regular weekly coaching throughout the whole semester and have some sort of performance goal to work towards.

TNR: Do you feel like most people’s knowledge of classical music is limited to symphonies and large orchestras — not intimate chamber music?

At the same time, you know, with the series that we are playing here regularly, it’s really great the students kind of get to know us as players, and not only as teachers.

AE: Another element that was important for us is students see we are rehearsing at the school. So, they’re kind of in regular touch with professional musicians.

JG: I think that specifically — I mean chamber music — is seen as something specific.You have to have sort of a fetish.

Going to the symphony is always great, its always fantastic, we have a wonderful symphony here in town. But going to a chamber music concert is something that can expose you to a very direct experience I think.

You go and you see a handful of people, it doesn’t have to always be a quartet, but a handful of people sitting on stage and creating music just the four of us together and communicating directly with each other and to the audience.

AE: I think an important aspect of it is, basically in a big orchestra there are a lot of people who play the same parts. When it’s just the four of us we each play our own part.

TNR: The Ariel Quartet will be the faculty string quartet-in-residence until 2022?

JG: Yeah we have a contract that is for seven years.

AE: We made this our home and we’re very happy and thrilled to stay and to keep growing what we have started doing already.

Our main part of residency is being involved with the community, not only with the students.

One of the main things for the future we’re planning is for our students to go and do some outreach programs at schools and senior centers — so we share what we have here with the community in Cincinnati.

JG: It’s important for us to look for ways to share with the community because you know people can say,“oh, those guys stuck at CCM, they’re stuck in the last century.”

There is some truth to that. There is music that is composed today that’s being played today. Not often enough, but there is sometimes. But I think it’s a responsibility that everybody has, and that we take very seriously to see how what we do is relevant to today’s world. And one of the main aspects for us — we have done a lot of social projects — is to reach into the community, share our music with the people.

Also, another aspect of it is creating some kind of a community. A tight community of chamber music lovers at this school, that share this love, who enjoy music making and the together aspect of it. Sharing the process.

TNR: The Ariel Quartet became CCM’s official quartet-in-residence in 2012, and you followed in the footsteps of the LaSalle quartet?

JG: The LaSalle quartet was here for, I think, over 30 years. I’m not certain of the exact years, but they certainly left a large footprint, I would say.

Henry Meyer, the second violinist ran the string department for many years. They were all very involved, and Walter Levin taught quartets and chamber music all over the world.

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The members of the Ariel String Quartet, UC’s quartet in residence, opened their season on Sept. 1 in a series of four performances held annually in CCM’s Corbett Auditorium.

‘Nuances’ depicts fractions of landscapes, beauty of light in everyday life NICK RIDDICK I | CONTRIBUTOR

Confusion and disappointment may be the two emotions to strike the mind of a university student approaching the art exhibit “Nuances” for the first time.

After careful consideration of each canvas, however, those premature inspections of minimalist paintings will certainly give way to deeper insights.

Stewart Goldman, a Cincinnati visualarts veteran who currently serves on the Cincinnati Art Museum board, depicts colorful fractions of complex landscapes in his paintings.

His fractions — depicted in the newest exhibition at the school of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning’s Meyers Gallery through Oct. 25 — are much more telling than an ordinary holistic view of a landscape.

Goldman’s long career dates back to his first “Paintings” exhibit on display at Cheltenham Art Center in 1961 and has transitioned from common themes of figurative representation to a more postmodern style of abstraction.

“Nuances,” is a very evident throwback to the origins of his creativity.

As the poster near the entrance of the gallery describes it, Goldman’s minimalistic visions of fragmented landscapes “emerge from figurative realism in fissures of isolated colors.”

The colors encapsulate a kaleidoscope of light gleaming through crevices of landscapes and intertwining trees.

Each detail, or nuance, dripped onto the canvas as an unsuspecting and isolated entity, leading to the initial impression of disarray — especially without any previous context of the artistic process behind each piece.

The gallery provides Goldman’s guiding blueprints of what appear to be collaged

polaroid landscape photographs on the wall, possessing no color themselves aside from the classic black and white contrast.

It is easier to understand Goldman’s artistic process, building his paintings off of the designs and specifics of the black and white photographs.

Spanning from the most simplistic, to the most complex piece — a distinction told through space and distance between designs on the campus — Goldman

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The DAAP Galleries presents Stewart Goldman’s “Nuances” at The Philip M. Meyers, Jr. Memorial Gallery, a collection of minimalist landscape portraits.

conveys messages of discrete symbolism in each piece.

The final painting on the wall is nearly an exact interpretation of the original photograph, which is depicted in Goldman’s own colorful words or brush strokes.

The conservative size of the exhibit does not work against its power, though it does work against its demographic reach.

Much like any piece of minimalist work, it has its issues with clarity and generational disconnect.

Some viewers may be disappointed in the simplistic meaning behind “Nuances,” given most youth’s take on fascination with abstract artwork and search for a level of contemporary surrealism or idealistic output.

This exhibit focuses on the minor conditions of existence, which make every street corner, park and forest beautiful to the eye, as opposed to existential meanings about life or philosophy lessons on a canvas.

These conditions are accentuated through blotches and streaks of paint in the most poignant spots of any given landscape, while leaving mostly blank canvases.

The strong aesthetic specialization and stillness to Goldman’s pieces, as well as his delicate fractions of landscapes tell the story of focus and serenity.

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Bearcats slide past Jaguars to win ZACH EDWARDS | CONTRIBUTOR

The University of Cincinnati men’s soccer team came out with a 2-1 win Monday against Indiana University — Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Jaguars.

The Bearcats took the field in the first half, making sure to keep the ball away from the Jaguars while maintaining possession of the ball for over 30 minutes of the 45-minute half.

Despite dominating possession time, the Bearcats only outshot IUPUI 5-4 in the first half.

The game’s momentum officially shifted when sophomore midfielder and forward Jack Clark was fouled in box, with only two minutes left in the first half.

Senior midfielder Emmanuel Appiah shot the penalty kick with ease into the far left corner of the net, pulling the Bearcats up 1-0 at the half.

Senior forward and midfielder Alejandro Garcia took pressure off of the Bearcats to begin the second half.

Garcia made a goal in the 60th minute of the game, which allowed Cincinnati to begin playing passive-aggressive.

The team focused on being defensive, running down the clock and attempting shots when the opportunity allowed.

This type of play may have forced the Bearcats to put their guard down.

IUPUI finally struck in the 66th minute with a free-kick assist from junior

midfielder Cristian Soto to freshman defender Ben Thornton, who delivered a header inside the six — making the score 2-1.

In the 80th minute of the game, the Bearcats faced a challenge when senior midfielder and forward Terence Carter was penalized with a red card after delivering a slide tackle from behind.

This forced UC to play with only 10 men on the field for the remainder of the game.

Regardless of being limited to 10 players, the Bearcats maintained composure for the last 10 minutes and played smart and defensive.

UC pulled out the nail-biting win 2-1 over IUPUI. UC head coach Hylton Dayes said the team played a solid game and scoring first was what really pushed the momentum their way.

“I thought it was a good bounce back game,” Dayes said. “I thought our guys fought hard against IUPUI team, who is hard to break down.”

Dayes expects to use this formula in their upcoming games.

“We have to defend well and stay organized,” Dayes said. “That is our formula to success.”

The Bearcats play the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix, a Horizon League team who holds a record of 1-3-1, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

NICK BROWN | STAFF REPORTER

Alejandro Garcia narrowly misses the ball as an IUPUI defender knocks it away Monday night as the Bearcats squeak out the Jaguars 2-1.

Organizations team up to banish profanity during games DAVID WYSONG | SPORTS EDITOR

Organizations are teaming up in hopes to end the Ruckus’ – University of Cincinnati’s student section – use of profanity and swearing towards opposing teams during football games.

The RallyCats, Student Government, Student Athletic Advisory Committee, the Department of Athletics and university officials are all collaborating to end the issue, said Spencer Gaters, a fourth-year architectural engineering student and president of RallyCats.

Gates said the Ruckus’ behavior and use of profanity during football games is not condoned.

“This is definitely a widespread issue,” Gates said. “I have talked to a couple other schools’ student section leaders and this is not just unique to UC, but we want to do everything we can not to follow in the footsteps of other schools.”

RallyCats, a student-ran spirit squad at UC, was the first to attempt putting a halt to these chants Saturday during

DAN SULLIVAN | PHOTO EDITOR

Student Government and university athletic officials are currently in the process of finding a solution to the profanity directed toward players and officials during the Bearcats’ game against the Temple Owls.

the Bearcats game against the Temple University Owls.

The organization posted a tweet asking students to refrain from chanting curse

words at future games, as it reflects poorly on the university.

The spirit squad also said on Twitter that students should stop the profane

chanting from spreading by not joining in.

Opinions on the issue stretch far and wide through UC students, former students and Bearcat football fans.

“As long as it is a rarity, I don’t have a problem with it,” said Dan Vondrell, a former UC information systems student.

“Student sections at all schools chant [profanities] from a bad call. Now [if they constantly chant profanities] throughout a lot of games, that’s a different story.”

Brian Miller, a second-year special education student, agrees cursing is not a good representation of UC. “I thought it was a bad representation of the school and university as a whole,” Miller said. “I hope people know that student representatives will do everything in their power to avoid another similar incident. I think we should continue to express our school spirit how we chose to, but we should not direct explicit comments towards the opposing team.”

Bearcats travel to beat RedHawks During the first two games of the 201516 season, the Bearcats started off the The University of Cincinnati Bearcats first quarter slow scoring a mere seven will travel Saturday to Yager Stadium, points against Alabama A&M University home of the Miami University of Ohio and holding scoreless in the first quarter RedHawks, to take on the long-time rival. against Temple.

With the second-longest rivalry in “We need to work on just coming out NCAA Football Bowl Subdivisions, hot; just being consistent,” said Mike referred to as the Victory Bell rivalry, the Boone, sophomore matchup marks the 120th running back. “I feel time the teams will play like we started slow last We lost and usually against each other. game, a couple turnovers when you lose you “They hunger for in the beginning made us, they hunger to either fall down or us a little sluggish on beat Cincinnati,” said offense.” pick up — I feel like cornerback Adrian Witty.

Though the football we are picking up.

“They play us hard every team’s goal to go year. Every year I have undefeated is already out been here, they have of reach, players believe played us hard. We just have to go there their potential is still high. and make a point.”

“I feel like we are even better because Witty believes showing presence on the we are more focused and more field was what the team lacked in their determined,” Boone said. “We lost and loss to Temple Saturday. usually when you lose you either fall “That wasn’t us last week,” Witty said. down or pick up — I feel like we are “We are just going to go there, take care picking up.” of business then go home.”

Witty’s attitude resembled his In the all-time series between Miami teammate’s optimism. and UC, the RedHawks lead in amount of “[The team’s potential] is same as wins with a 59-53-7 record. before,” Witty said. “The first goal is to Despite having less wins, the Bearcats win them all and we can’t do that now, have won the past nine straight but we can still win the rest. That is the matchups. In 2014, the Bearcats beat the goal – to win as much as possible, that is RedHawks 31-24 at Paul Brown Stadium. everybody’s goal.”

In order to make it 10 straight wins The Bearcats will play the RedHawks against Miami, players said they believe 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Yager Stadium. The they must come out hot. game will air on ESPN3.

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NICK BROWN | STAFF REPORTER

Gunner Kiel looks to lead the Bearcats to victory against the Miami University Redhawks after coming back late in the fourth quarter against the Temple Owls to lose 34-26.

Freshman baseball class to add depth to roster, represent states EMILY WITT | STAFF REPORTER

Representing eight states across the country, the University of Cincinnati baseball team’s freshman class adds depth, new talent and fan excitement to the 2015-16 roster.

The 17-member class, which is still dominated by Ohio students, represents Texas, Michigan and Virginia, among others.

Out of the nine players from Ohio, five are players from Archbishop Moeller High School, Colerain, Western Hills, Mason and Batavia high schools.

Each player enters the program with numerous accolades, ranging from MVP to regional and state championships.

This includes infielder Cameron Alldred, who was recently named Ohio Division IV Player of the Year.

The freshman class consists of four

infielders, outfielders and right-handed pitchers, as well as six left-handed pitchers.

Two infielders, Aldred and Cole Murphy can also pitch — Alldred as a left-hander and Murphy as a right-hander.

“It’s a good class and it’s a goodbalanced class,” said UC head coach Ty Neal. “The big picture was we needed a lot more depth and a lot more positions.”

A noticeable roster change is the increase of left-handed pitchers, which was nearly doubled to add depth and because Neal was a left-handed pitcher himself, he said.

“I’m a former left-handed pitcher and I’m a pitching guy,” Neal said. “I think lefthanders can offer some things right away, where for right-handers it’s a little tougher for them.”

Neal believes the class has the potential to make an impact early on, despite their

freshman status.

“We needed good athletes and good guys that could really impact the game, specifically with position players,” Neal said. “We looked for guys that are multisport athletes and have some athleticism and aptitude. You have a good feeling that they are going to have a short learning curve when they get here and make that adjustment pretty quick at this level. We’re always looking for physical tools.”

As fall practices began Sunday, Neal’s approach to practice is different than before. For the first few weeks, he plans to place an emphasis on teaching.

“We’re putting a big focus on teaching,” Neal said. “The worst thing we can do as coaches is assume that these guys know how to play the game and know what we’re thinking. We’re really making time to slow things down and teach these guys

our expectations and philosophies.”

Beginning his third year as head coach at UC, Neal enters the 2015-16 season with an overall record of 37-72 and a .339 winning percentage.

His record against teams in the American Athletic Conference over the past two years is 6-18.

Neal said he is planning to improve his record and game play for the beginning of the season in February.

“I think last year I put too much emphasis on the end result of the [wins and loses],” Neal said. “We want to get these guys ready to play the game. I think if we handle the little things and take care of what we can control, the winning will start taking care of itself.”

Fall practices will continue into late October, while regular season play begins in February of 2016.

ARTS / 5 THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 2015

ETC’s season opener ‘Luna Gale’ generates social empathy, compassion KRANTHI PAMARTHI | CONTRIBUTOR

In an attempt to present more socially conscious plays, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC) started off its season with “Luna Gale.”

“Luna Gale,” written by Pulitzer finalist Rebecca Gilman, brings an intense opening to ETC’s 30th season and continues through Sept. 27.

Directed by Lynn Meyers, the play is a gritty social debate on morality that will not back off until the audience is unsettled.

Gilman may have written this piece to have a long-lasting effect on society and Meyers, alongside her actors, made sure this vision comes to life.

“Luna Gale” is set in the present-day town of Cedar Rapids, Iowa and revolves around seven visible characters with one powerful, invisible character — Luna Gale.

Stage designer, Brian Mehring, seamlessly integrated various sets into one single rotation platform.

The design did not waste an inch of space and was successful in rotating through six different sets.

As the sets rotated and “Luna Gale” unfolded, the lighting and sounds created a somber feeling of a fading memory.

The show begins when young Luna is brought to a hospital by two meth addicted, utterly incapable parents.

After her parents are deemed unfit to

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Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati presents Pulitzer finalist Rebecca Gilman’s play “Luna Gale,” the tale of a child’s life and the social worker who guides her through different obstacles.

take care of a 6-month-old baby, Luna is left to be cared by her grandmother.

As the play unfolds into a complicated plot woven around Luna’s guardianship, the characters are forced to confront inner demons that represent motifs of larger evils in society.

Annie Fitzpatrick plays Caroline, a Department of Homeland Security officer looking into deserted and orphaned

children whose parents were incapable of providing them with care.

Fitzpatrick was definitely the highlight of the show, displaying a wide variety of emotions and dealing with the many moral dilemmas her character’s profession pose.

Starring as Luna’s mother, Karlie, Molly Israel does a wonderful job illustrating the major progression her character goes through.

Patrick Phillips takes on the role of Luna’s father, Peter, and makes the transition from an incapacitated meth addict to a loving parent who has lost a precious child.

Phillips attitude and body language on stage helped emphasize his moral transitions throughout the performance.

True to the role of Cindy, Kate Wilford performs as Luna’s controlling Christian grandmother.

The character’s inability to accept the world around her, along with her fear of loneliness, unravels the deep, dark core of the play as she drags down everyone around her.

Brent Vimtrup performed as Caroline’s boss, Cliff, and Charlie Clark played the role of passionate, smooth talking Pastor Jay. Together, Vimtrup and Clark star in more comedic roles of the somber play.

Although the play answers the question of Luna’s guardianship, by the time the show is wrapped up, new questions rise and make the audience wonder if Luna is society herself.

Much like the little child unaware of happenings occurring around her, does Luna represent a society completely oblivious to the moral evils it harbors?

The audience is left to their own interpretation.