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COMMUNITY PULLS TOGETHER A house fi re on Digby Avenue on New Year’s Day left two students from the University of Cincinnati in critical condition. The incident followed the death of fi rst-year student Jessica Galley after she was killed in a car collision Dec. 26, 2012.

HOLIDAY TRAGEDIES University in mourning after two students critically

injured in house fi re, other student dies in car accident

Owner of IGA on Ludlow

Avenue plans to open upscale

grocery store

Gaslight market in renovation

RYAN HOFFMAN NEWS [email protected]

Students and faculty at the University of Cincinnati return to campus in a state of grief after a car crash claimed one student’s life and a house fi re has two others fi ghting for their lives.

Tragedy fi rst struck Dec. 26, 2012, when Jessica Galley, a fi rst-year student and member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority chapter at UC, died in a car collision. Galley lost control of her vehicle and struck a snowplow on northbound I-71, south of the Fields Ertel Road exit. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Six days later on New Year’s Day a house fi re in the 2800 block of Digby Avenue left Ellen Garner, a 20-year-old student and member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and Chad Kohls, a 21-year-old student, in critical condition.

Firefi ghters rescued Garner and Kohls from the third story of the house, and sent them to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center for excessive smoke inhalation. Both are still in critical condition.

The tragic events during winter break brought students — especially members of Greek life — and faculty together.

“The strength of a community is manifest at its darkest moments,” said UC President Santa Ono. “The UC community is clearly a caring community; one that comes together in good times and bad.”

Members of the UC community took to social media following Galley’s death and the Digby house fi re to express condolences, love and encouragement for the victims and their families.

“We are so lucky that Jessica Galley graced us as a member of the [University] of Cincinnati community,” Ono said in a

tweet. “She touched so many lives. Rest in peace.”

A Facebook page, “Prayforchad”, was

created to provide updates on his condition. The most recent update posted on Jan. 5 said Kohls remains in

critical condition, but is making slight

improvements. “He is moving his

shoulders and head as well as opening his eyes

occasionally,” according to the Facebook post. As of press time, 1,919 people liked the page while more than 200 comments offered support and prayers for Kohls and Garner.

The families have asked for privacy, but that has not stopped friends from visiting the hospital to show their support.

“The gatherings that have shown up at the hospital have been so large that

everyone has to meet in the main lobby in the hospital instead of going up to the waiting rooms,” said John Foyles, a fourth-year fi nance student and friend of Garner.

“There is a lot of talk of the smiles she brought to everyone’s faces and how she always had a huge smile on her face no matter what the situation.”

The Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter hosted a vigil Jan. 3 at the sorority house to pray for the students and their families. The event was closed to the press but a multitude of students could be seen entering the house.

“As trying as these days have been, I have been touched by the enormous outpouring of support at Jess’ funeral and at tonight’s vigil for Chad and Ellen,” Ono said. “My heart goes out to the countless friends and family of these students as well as others who have been affected by these events.”

A memorial for Galley is scheduled for Jan. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Zimmer Auditorium. The event is open to the public. The university is encouraging anyone seeking counseling to visit the counseling center located in 1216 Crosley Tower.

The News Record will update this story as information becomes available.

JAKE GRIECO STAFF [email protected]

While construction has yet to begin, the owner of the IGA on Ludlow Avenue plans to open a market of taste and class in the Gaslight District.

After a long process fi lled with fi nancial hurdles, Steve Goessling received a $4.1-million construction loan to begin building an IGA named the Gaslight Market.

“There were a number of factors that delayed the project,” said Tom Lohre, press representative for Goessling. “The depression we went into, the housing collapse, and the fact that the banks weren’t lending to anybody.”

The City of Cincinnati Economic Development Department approved a 10-year, $550,000 loan for Goessling’s store.

Goessling plans for his grocery store to be an “exciting destination market that really dovetails to the upscale residents of Clifton and the rather more sophisticated taste of the student body,” Lohre said.

Goessling owns four properties and has innovative plans for the Gaslight Market.

“He’s really planning to make this an urban model for grocery stores,” Lohre said.

If the model of the store is successful, Goessling plans to open an additional store in the heart of Cincinnati.

The Gaslight Market will be the best of boutique grocery stores and will cater to both students and Clifton residents, Lohre said.

“It’ll have prepared foods, fi ne meats, fi ne seafood, an extensive cheese selection, and an extensive beer and wine selection.”

Goessling aims to focus more on specialty items and to keep taste-cultured Clifton residents from having to go to the Hyde Park Kroger.

“[Goessling] wants it to be an exciting experience so urban professionals will spend their grocery list there,” said Lohre.

The market will bring another opportunity for employment to the residents of Clifton.

In September, Goessling said his store will employ approximately 120 people — full and part-time positions.

Lohre said the store will have to have impeccable service and the employees will need to be personable and exhibit impeccable social skills.

No fi rm date for the start of construction has been set.

“It’s going to happen, but it’s not going to happen on any sort of timeline,” Lohre said. “Mr. Goessling is trying to get it done as fast as possible.”

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University restricts free speechThree-fi fths of college campuses, including UC, ranked as ‘red light’

universities for inhibiting free speech in annual report BENJAMIN GOLDSCHMIDT

CHIEF [email protected]

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) indicated in its 2013 report on the state of free speech on college campuses that the University of Cincinnati seriously restricts free speech.

FIRE — a non-profi t organization that supports individual rights in colleges across America — rated UC a “red light” school, which the report defi nes as a school “that has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech.”

FIRE looked at 409 of the most prestigious or prominent private and public colleges, giving each a free-speech litmus test.

The study showed approximately three-fi fths of the colleges seriously restricted free speech.

“For the fi fth consecutive year … this

percentage has dropped,” said Samantha Harris, director of speech code research at FIRE, in a statement. “FIRE is happy that speech codes have again declined, but it is hard to feel too good when so many students are still living with censorship. We will continue our work until campus censorship is a thing of the past.”

Although UC has been placed in the “red light” category, the university drastically revamped its speech code in June of 2012.

For example, there is no longer a “free speech zone,” — formally McMicken Commons — said Greg Hand, UC spokesperson.

The university also lifted its Expressive Activity Policy, meaning any student group of 25 or fewer may engage in expressive activity without calling campus scheduling.

No one from FIRE was available to specify what part of UC’s speech code earned it the “red light” rating as of press time.

The General Policy of the university speech code states, “the University of Cincinnati considers freedom of inquiry and discussion essential to educational development and recognizes the right of students to engage in discussion, exchange thoughts and opinions, and speak freely on any subject in accord with the constitutions of the United States and the state of Ohio.”

The code was changed due to a lawsuit brought forward by the UC chapter of Young Americans for Liberty — a student group dedicated to promoting individual liberty, constitutional government and Libertarian principles — when the group was barred from gathering petition signatures in certain parts of campus.

An Ohio Federal Judge ruled the university had to change its speech code to allow Young Americans for Liberty students to petition on campus.

No problems resulting from the change in speech code have been reported at this

time, Hand said.The report released by FIRE showed

positive results for speech codes at other colleges. In the 2012 report, approximately 75 percent of campuses earned a “red light” rating, but that rating fell to 62 percent in the 2013 report.

FIRE looked at speech code categories ranging from obscenity and harassment rules to Internet usage policies.

The report also looked at anti-bullying policies, and claimed “media attention [put] pressure on legislators and school administrators — at both the K-12 and collegiate levels — to crack down even further on speech that causes emotional harm to other students.”

While many might argue restrictions on “bullying” speech would be a positive thing, FIRE maintains any restriction on freedom of speech as laid out by the First Amendment is negative.

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Crime incidents in December, January

University of Cincinnati Police arrested one suspect following an attempted robbery on West Hollister Street at approximately 6:05 p.m. Saturday. A Cincinnati Police K-9 unit tracked the suspect down near West Hollister Street and recovered two handguns. Nothing was stolen from the victim, who remained uninjured.

Jan. 5

More than six shots were fired on Glendora Avenue at approximately 12:45 a.m., Dec. 29, 2012. Cincinnati Police and University of Cincinnati Police responded to the scene where arrests were made and a report was filed, said UC Police Chief Michael Cureton. No alarms sounded on campus, and students were not alerted via the Nixle system or email.

Dec. 29, 2012Cincinnati Police arrested a 17-year-

old suspect following a burglary Dec. 31, 2012, in the 200 block of Greendale Avenue in Clifton. At approximately 8:45 a.m., an individual witnessed the suspect looking into the windows of a neighbor’s residence, and reported suspicious behavior in the vicinity. Before CPD officers responded, the suspect broke into the home. Police arrested the suspect as he fled the residence. Property taken from the home was found on the suspect after the arrest.

Dec. 31, 2012

Cincinnati Police are investigating a robbery at Vine and Hollister streets that occurred at approximately 4:10 p.m., Dec. 30, 2012. Two suspects demanded property from the victim and assaulted him. The suspects were described as black males around 20 years old wearing black clothing. The suspects were last seen running north on Hollister. CPD and University of Cincinnati Police conducted a search in the area, but did not locate the suspects. The suspects stole the victim’s cell phone.

Dec. 30, 2012

Dec. 10, 2012One male was arrested in relation to

shots fired in the University Heights area Dec. 10, 2012.

Gregory Green, 18, was arrested after Cincinnati Police District Five and University of Cincinnati Police responded to Calhoun and Scioto streets in response to calls about gunfire in the area.

Officers arrested Green for carrying a concealed 9mm handgun.

For UC, two lockdowns occurred. The first lockdown was enacted for a robbery on Glendora Avenue, and the second occurred because of shots fired on Jefferson Avenue.

Three males held a victim at gunpoint at approximately 12:30 a.m. on Glendora Avenue.

The suspects took keys, a cell phone, a wallet and $11 from the victim, and fled toward Jefferson Avenue.

Nearly an hour later, UC Police responded to a report of gunshots near Daniels Hall.

Witnesses told police three suspects fled toward the middle of campus after

shots were fired.UCPD Police Chief Michael Cureton

confirmed campus went on lockdown at approximately 2 a.m. Sunday morning. Students were ordered to stay in buildings while UCPD responded to the scene.

At approximately 2:03 a.m., a witness located in the University Park Apartments reported she heard six shots fired near Calhoun Street. A second lockdown was enacted on campus at 2:06 a.m., according to police.

Two suspects were apprehended on Calhoun Street between Scioto Lane and Ohio Avenue at approximately 2:09 a.m.

A third suspect was last seen fleeing toward West McMillan Avenue.

After the two suspects were apprehended and a firearm was recovered on Calhoun Street, the university-wide lockdown was lifted at approximately 2:37 a.m.

Police believe the incidents were related.

Megabus stop coming to UCUndergraduate Student Government works to add bus stop at main campus

DANI KOKOCHAK SENIOR [email protected]

A Megabus stop will be added at the University of Cincinnati Jan. 9.

The stop will be available at no cost to the university and will be located on the corner of West University Avenue and Commons Way. Tickets can be purchased by students through the Megabus website.

Members of the UC Undergraduate Student Government Association worked to add the bus stop to campus in 2011 to make traveling more convenient for UC students, said Lane Hart, student body president.

“The idea behind was to make it a lot easier for students to have access to [travel] and so that students who are from out of town can return home more often even if they don’t have a car,” Hart said.

SG surveyed students to gauge how many would use the Megabus service if a stop were made available on campus. Positive feedback from students fueled the initiative.

The initiative was taken to UC’s Planning, Design and Construction department, which worked directly with Megabus to make the stop possible.

“We had to contact [Megabus] and try to convince them to add a stop on their route between downtown Cincinnati and Chicago,” said Wes Munzel, planner for the Planning, Design and Construction department. “It was a good match because [Megabus] is seeking opportunities on college campuses.”

Megabus makes stops at 13 other universities around the country, said Mike Alvich, vice president of market and public relations for Megabus.

The new bus stop at UC will allow students to travel to Chicago, Columbus and Atlanta.

Passengers can check up to 50 pounds of luggage at no cost, free Wi-Fi and power outlets are available on every bus, and fares start as low as one dollar. Bus tickets are available online up to four months in advance.

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WASHINGTON — Republican John Boehner narrowly won re-election Thursday as the speaker of the House of Representatives as the 113th Congress convened in an atmosphere of unusual uncertainty and turmoil.

Outwardly, the day had a festive air as children were allowed to sit in House members’ seats and the usually somber halls of the Capitol complex teemed with revelers. Thursday also had an uplifting note, as Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., who suffered a major stroke last year, climbed the 45 outdoor steps into the Senate chamber with the help of Vice President Joe Biden and two Senate colleagues.

There were celebrations of the diversity of the new Congress. The Senate welcomed its first openly gay member. Senate Republicans welcomed the first African-American Republican in three decades. The House Democratic caucus for the first time had a majority of members who weren’t white men.

But there were undercurrents of internal divisions lingering from the fight over the “fiscal cliff,” and signs of partisan battles to come in weeks ahead.

Boehner set that somber tone. “Public service was never meant to be an easy living. Extraordinary challenges demand extraordinary leadership,” the Ohio Republican told the House.

“So if you have come here to see your name in lights or to pass off political victory as accomplishment, you have come to the wrong place. The door is behind you.”

Even the election of the speaker, usually a routine matter, had moments of tension. Twelve Republicans didn’t vote for Boehner, and his 220-vote total matched the lowest for a speaker in 14 years, when there were fewer Republicans.

The dissenters were conservatives who’ve complained that Boehner is too willing to deal with Democrats. They’re still upset over the fiscal cliff deal, saying it didn’t contain enough spending cuts; 151 Republicans voted against the plan, and it passed only because of a huge Democratic vote.

Boehner has tried to get tougher, as four Republicans were tossed off key committees, and he attempted earlier this week to get a majority for a massive spending-cut package. But the suspicions lingered, and Democrats signaled Thursday that they’re going to dig in.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California was somewhat more partisan in her acceptance speech to the House. Her

calls for more diversity and immigration restructuring drew standing ovations from Democrats, while most Republicans stayed in their seats, not applauding.

“The strength of our democracy will be advanced by bold action for comprehensive immigration reform,” she said.

In the Senate, Republicans took the less conciliatory tone. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who helped craft the fiscal cliff deal, called it “imperfect,” though he said it had settled Washington’s long debate about raising revenue.

“The president got his revenue; now it’s time to turn squarely to the real problem, which is spending,” he said. “In a couple of months, the president will ask us to raise the nation’s debt limit. We cannot agree to increase that borrowing limit without agreeing to reforms that lower the avalanche of spending that’s creating this

debt in the first place. It’s not fair to the American people.”

The Democratic leader urged calm. “The recent effort to avert the fiscal cliff was an example of both the divisions and the collaborations that will mark a moment in history — and it was a moment in history,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

The new Congress began with slightly more Democrats than its predecessor had. The party now controls 55 Senate seats, up two from the last Congress. In the House, Republicans have a 233 to 200 majority, down eight seats.

The makeup is slightly different. For the first time, the House Democratic caucus doesn’t have a majority of white men. Eighteen percent of House members and 20 percent of senators are women. Nineteen percent of House members and 6 percent of

senators are minorities.Senators who won election or re-election

were called in alphabetical small groups and sworn into office by Biden, who’s the president of the Senate. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina made history as the first African-American senator from the South since Reconstruction and the first African-American Republican senator since Ed Brooke of Massachusetts left in 1979.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat who defeated popular former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson for the Senate seat vacated by Democrat Herb Kohl, became the first openly gay senator.

The Obama administration said two years ago that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, but a House Republican group is doing so.


113th Congress assumes officeWest Chester’s Boehner retains Speaker of the House role despite infighting

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MEXICO CITY — Only days after U.S. Marine veteran Jon Hammar was thrown into a Mexican prison for carrying an antique shotgun into the country, gangsters in the jail warned him of his likely fate — beheading.

“They threw every threat in the book

at me,” Hammar said Thursday in his first public remarks since his release Dec. 21 after more than four months in prison.

“They’d cut my head off, they told my family,” he said.

The gangsters demanded money to let Hammar, 27, remain alive, and the beheading threat was a scare tactic that harkened back to his tours of duty as a U.S.

Marine in Iraq.Mexican authorities arrested Hammar

on Aug. 13 at the Texas-Mexico border when he crossed into Mexico in a motor home with a vintage shotgun that once belonged to his great-grandfather.

Authorities slapped weapons charges on him. A traveling companion went free.

Hammar’s ordeal, first brought to light in a McClatchy Newspapers story Dec. 6, sparked outrage in the United States, where fellow Marines demanded his release and members of Congress called for a boycott of Mexican tourism.

The outpouring has left Hammar feeling grateful.

“In America, we have people who care,” he said in a telephone interview from his family home in Palmetto Bay, south of Miami.

“I’m really grateful. But at the same time I kind of expected that from Marines,” he said. “Marines don’t just throw each other under the bus. They look after each other.”

Despite his release just days before Christmas, Hammar only now is recovering from a stomach virus and dehydration that required hospitalization that he blames on the conditions he encountered during his incarceration.

After Hammar’s parents complained to the U.S. Consulate in Matamoros, Mexico, of the gangster threats against their son, the younger Hammar was moved out of the general prison population to a loosely guarded cage, where he spent months with his ankle handcuffed to a bed frame.

Once physically separated from the gangster inmates, the threatening phone calls to Hammar’s parents stopped, he said.

“Jail is bad no matter where you are,” Hammar said, “and when you add the variables of Mexico and what is going on down there, it just gets worse every corner you turn.”

The prison where Hammar was kept in Matamoros is notorious for being under the control of the dreaded Los Zetas criminal gang, which has used beheadings and mass killings to instill fear in rivals and protect their drug trafficking and criminal activities.

Hammar said prison inmates controlled the facility, not the guards.

“There was a tattoo artist in there, and he said to me, ‘You can die in this place for nothing,’ ” Hammar said.

Prisoners are “full-blown” mobsters, he said, some of them serving up to triple life sentences.

“I knew not to go around picking fights with anybody,” he said.

Compared to prison guards and judicial employees, however, the gangsters struck Hammar as efficient.

“To me, they were acting more professional than the officials in Mexico. If I needed a translator, and the cartel was talking to me, I had three. But when I’d go to court, they laughed at me when I asked for a translator,” he said.

At the time of his arrest, Hammar and his traveling companion were headed to Costa Rica.

The Winnebago motor home contained three long surfboards, three short boards

and a stand-up board.Surfing was going

to be therapy of sorts for post-traumatic stress disorder.

After enlisting in 2003, Hammar served a four-year battlefield tour, first offering protection to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and later deploying to Iraq, where he took part in the bloody campaign

to seize control of Fallujah from heavily armed Islamist militants.

After serving another four years in the Reserves, Hammar was diagnosed with PTSD, voluntarily checking himself into a nine-month treatment program at a facility in California’s Napa Valley.

The journey to Mexico and Central America began shortly after his release.

Hammar said he is still perplexed why U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not warn him away from taking the .410-bore Sears & Roebuck shotgun into Mexico.

“There are definitely signs that say, ‘Firearms are illegal.’ But 50 feet from that sign it says, ‘Permitted weapons go to this office,’ yada, yada, yada,” Hammar said.

Wanting to do things legally, Hammar said he checked at two border crossings.

First, he went to the Veterans Bridge, a major crossing between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros.

After asking questions there, Hammar then crossed at the nearby Los Indios crossing, obtaining a registration form for the gun.

“I went to two different border crossings and asked a dozen different people, and at the end of the day, I got a smile on their face, you know, here’s the paperwork. Enjoy yourself,” Hammar said.

“At any point, if anyone had told me that (I risked jail in Mexico), I would’ve pawned the gun in a pawnshop in a second,” he said.

Hammar said he wasn’t going to Central America to hunt — indeed, hunting for sport is banned in Costa Rica — but to surf.

He took the gun, he said, only if he needed to hunt along the way.

“Marines don’t just throw each other under the bus. They look after each other.”

— Jon HammarMarine Corps veteran

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MOSCOW — Syrian President Bashar Assad has no intention of leaving his country and rebels for the time being should put aside the demand that he step aside as a precondition for negotiations, Russia’s top diplomat said Saturday following a meeting in Moscow with the United Nations’ peace envoy to the confl ict.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told him that Assad was determined to “stay in his position to the end and will protect Syrian people, Syrian sovereignty and so on and so forth and there is no chance to change his position.” Brahimi met with the Syrian leader this past week before traveling on to Moscow.

Lavrov reiterated that Russia, which remains one of the Syrian leader’s few international allies, is not bound to the notion that Assad remain in power.

He also insisted that Russia is not supplying offensive weapons to Syria and was only fulfi lling its contract obligations to supply defensive weapons such as anti-aircraft systems. Moscow shouldn’t be held responsible for the arsenal of Soviet-era

weapons still at the Syrian government’s disposal, he said.

Brahimi in his turn warned against “the Somalization of Syria,” a reference to the long confl ict between Somalia’s government and rebels. The envoy said Lebanon and Jordan could not accommodate a large number of additional refugees if fi ghting continued in neighboring Syria.

Lavrov said Russia was still open to holding talks with the Syrian opposition without preconditions with an aim of ending the fi ghting. Moaz Khatib, leader of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, had rejected Lavrov’s call last week for a dialog.

“To me personally it came as quite a surprise to read his statement that he is ready to meet with us only if we change our position (of backing Assad’s regime) and publicly apologize for this position,” Lavrov said at a news conference with Brahimi.

“We are ready for contacts with all the forces of Syrian opposition and proceed from the notion that they are thinking not of some ambitions of theirs but of their people’s destiny,” Lavrov said. “If they are convinced that Russia may play some role in this drama they must meet with our representatives without any conditions.”

Assad has no intention of leavingThe embattled Syrian president refuses to step aside for peace negotiations

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The University of Cincinnati women’s basketball team opened Big East play with a 54-51 loss to Villanova Sunday afternoon.

“We just didn’t make plays at the end; I had a turnover at the end that was a huge turnover,” said UC junior guard Kayla Cook. “We just didn’t get stops on the defensive end, we got rattled and we just gave up open shots.”

Villanova opened the game with a 3-pointer from Sophomore forward Lauren Burford, but it then went scoreless over the next 4 minutes and 22 seconds.

The game remained close throughout the first half, with neither team leading by more than one point until Burford hit

a three with 11:42 left in the half.Forced turnovers, and baskets

from senior center Lesha Dunn, freshman guard Jasmine Whitfield and junior guard Dayeesha Hollins tied the score with 7:02 left on the clock.

The Bearcats led 27-25 at the half, after three ties and seven lead changes

After opening the second half with a 6-0 run — a product of two driving lay-ups from Hollins and one from Cook —

the Bearcats offense slowed down as Villanova began its comeback.

The Bearcats led for the first 16:39 of the

second half, but were outscored 9-2 in the

final three minutes of the game.

V i l l a n o v a guard Caroline Coyer provided a crushing 3-point blow with 21

seconds left in the game to put the

Wildcats up 52-49. Hollins cut the lead to

one with nine seconds left, but UC could not recover after a

pair of Nova free throws.

“We should’ve won today. I’m sure [Coach Perretta] is leaving here today feeling like there’s a load off of his shoulders,” said Bearcats head coach Jamelle Elliot. “We allowed them to get away with one today. If the game was 38 minutes long we would’ve won the game, but unfortunately it’s a 40 minute game and good teams find a way to win.”

Hollins led the Bearcats with 16 points, four rebounds and two assists. The game was Hollin’s 25th-straight game with double digits, dating back to the 2011-12 season.

Hollins was recognized prior to the game for scoring her 1,000th point during the Belmont game Dec. 21.

The Bearcats continue Big East play against Seton Hall at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9 at Fifth Third Arena.

St. John’s ‘outplays’, defeats UC 53-52Cashmere Wright’s heroic effort doomed by poor team performance

LAUREN PURKEY | PHOTO EDITOR

HOME WOES CONTINUE (Left) St. John’s head coach Steve Lavin gives instructs Phil Green IV, as he prepares to enter the game. (Right) UC head coach Mick Cronin is visibly upset after a call went against the Bearcats Saturday at Fifth Third Arena.

Tuberville announces six assistant coaches

JOSHUA A. MILLER SPORTS [email protected]

University of Cincinnati head football coach Tommy Tuberville hired six assistant coaches and the Bearcats’ new strength and conditioning staff Friday morning.

“I’m pleased with the staff we have assembled so far,” Tuberville said in a statement. “We have a group of excellent coaches with a wide variety of experience as well as strong recruiting ties and knowledge of Cincinnati and the Tri-State area. I’m excited to get started, fi nish off recruiting and prepare for spring football.”

Art Kaufman —with 11 years of experience as a coordinator and 29 years in college football— will take over as UC’s defensive coordinator.

Kaufman, formerly the defensive coordinator at North Carolina and Mississippi, is joined by John Lovett (defensive backs), Robert Prunty (associate head coach/defensive ends) and Fred Tate (defensive line).

Lovett returns to Cincinnati for the second time in his 35-year coaching career. He previously worked as UC’s defensive coordinator from 1989-1992. Lovett’s career also included stops as the defensive coordinator at Miami (Fla.),

Bowling Green, Clemson, Auburn and Maine.

Prunty comes to UC with a successful background in recruiting, having twice been named the Big 12 Conference Recruiter of the Year at Texas Tech. Tate, a former U.S Army combat engineer, joins UC after stops at Marshall, Tennessee-Chatanooga, Southern Miss, East Carolina, Middle Tennessee State, Jacksonville State and Texas State.

Darin Hinshaw (quarterbacks) and Blake Rolan (wide receivers), who are both former Tennessee assistant coaches, will join the offensive staff of previously named Offensive Coordinator Eddie Gran. Gran, who has 26 years of experience, is coming off of an Orange Bowl victory with Florida State, as the running backs coach.

Tuberville also announced Joe Walker and former UC standout Orlando Smith as director and assistant director of football strength and conditioning, respectively. Both Walker and Smith worked on the Texas Tech staff last season.

Smith, a two-time All-Conference USA running back in the 1990s, helped lead UC to the Humanitarian Bowl championship in 1997.

UC will likely hire two more coaches, to fi ll voids at the tight end and offensive line coaching positions.

Cincinnati women fall to Villanova 54-51Dayeesha Hollins reaches double digits for 25th-consecutive game

- Jamelle Elliot, UC women’s basketball

head coach

We allowed them to get away with one today. If the game was 38 minutes long we would’ve won the gamelong we would’ve

JOSHUA A. MILLER SPORTS [email protected]

D’Angelo Harrison’s go-ahead jumper with 31 seconds remaining propelled St. John’s University to a 53-52 upset of No. 14 University of Cincinnati Saturday afternoon at Fifth Third Arena.

“We got outplayed for 35 minutes,” said UC head coach Mick Cronin. “We had one and a half guys come to play today, when that happens you’re going to lose.”

UC guard Cashmere Wright opened the scoring with a jumper in the lane and an un-contested 3-pointer to give the Bearcats an early 5-0 lead. Wright accounted for UC’s fi rst eight points and led all scorers at the half with 13.

St. Johns trailed for the nearly the fi rst 15 minutes of the game and the Bearcats led by as many as seven, after back-to-back 3-pointers from Wright and Titus Rubles with 6:10 remaining in the half. However, the RedStorm fi nished the half on a 12-2 run to take a 24-21 halftime lead.

UC looked completely out of sync to end the half and St. John’s dominated

the Bearcats on the boards, with a 23-14 rebounding advantage.

St. John’s began the second half as they ended the fi rst, opening the second stanza on a 12-3 run fueled by two tough shots from Harrison. The RedStorm led 36-24 at the 15-minute mark.

Titus Rubles cut St. John’s lead down to single digits with a highly contested 3-pointer and a pair of free throws with 12:59 remaining, but UC couldn’t capitalize on the momentum and St. John’s pushed its lead back to double digits, 40-29 at the under-12 minute media timeout.

St. John’s lead remained around 10 points until a full-court assist from Sean Kilpatrick to JaQuon Parker cut the RedStorm’s lead to eight and sparked UC’s comeback.

Wright hit back-to-back 3-pointers for the second time in the game to cut St. John’s lead to two with 3:12 left to play, as Fifth Third Arena came to life.

Rubles made a free throw to cut the lead to one point, 47-48, on UC’s next possession. The Bearcats held St. John’s scoreless for more than fi ve minutes during its comeback stretch.

Harrison and Rubles traded 3-pointers on the next two possessions, giving St. John’s a 51-50 lead with one minute remaining in the game.

Wright converted a contested layup to put UC up, 52-51, with 46 seconds left on the clock, but Harrison answered at the other end with an impressive pull-up jumper to give St. Johns the lead again.

Rubles had a chance to win it for the Bearcats with a 12-footer from in the lane, but his shot went off the right side of the rim and UC was forced to foul with only three seconds left. Wright’s full-court heave to end the game missed the mark and St. John’s bested the Bearcats at Fifth Third Arena for the second time in as many years.

UC’s leading scorer Sean Kilpatrick was non-existent for the majority of the game, scoring only seven points on 3-14 shooting and missing several critical opportunities down the stretch.

However, Cronin criticized Kilpatrick’s defensive effort — especially on Harrison’s fi nal shot — not his continued shooting woes.

“His shooting is not the problem,” Cronin

said. “The problem is he’s playing too many minutes, and he doesn’t play the defense he needs to be playing. He had no support on the best player in the Big East [Harrison] with the game on the line.”

Wright, who fi nished as the game’s leading scorer and rebounder with 23 points and 10 rebounds, echoed Cronin’s words on Cincinnati’s performance.

“We just got out-played,” Wright said. “They beat us to every loose ball. They beat us to every rebound. They just outplayed us. We give credit to St. John’s but in a lot of ways we beat ourselves.”

JaKarr Sampson led St. John’s with 16 points and eight boards.

St. John’s forced 16 UC turnovers and outrebounded the Bearcats 40-34.

St. John’s head coach Steve Lavin knew rebounding would be the difference in this game, he said.

“The main emphasis all day from our pregame meal, to our pregame talk, to each time out, to halftime and coming down the stretch was rebounding,” Lavin said.

UC will look to break its two game home losing streak Monday against Notre Dame.

The News Record 1.07.12

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