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EMBRACING HIS JOURNEY Mitchel Livingston embraces his son, Josh Livingston, at a retirement reception in the Great Hall of Tangeman University Center Tuesday. Livingston worked on numerous diversity initiatives and contributed to the concept of MainStreet.

LIVINGSTON RETIRESAfter 19 years at UC, iconic leader steps down

Ohio universities adopt uniform standards for

exemption from remedial classes

Remedial exemption standards

KARA DRISCOLL NEWS EDITOR [email protected]

After 19 years at the University of Cincinnati — a career spanning the tenures of 15 university presidents — Mitchel Livingston, vice president of student affairs and chief diversity offi cer, said farewell to the institution he helped build.

Prominent city and university offi cials honored Livingston at a retirement reception Tuesday, highlighting his numerous accomplishments with UC and the city.

While juggling his responsibilities as a member on six different corporate and community boards, including Fifth Third Bank and National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Livingston managed to spearhead the transformation of UC into a “top choice destination.”

Former UC President Joseph Steger recruited Livingston in 1994 to enrich the student affairs division and enhance the college experience on campus.

“I could see the tremendous potential of this unit and especially in the individuals committed to diversity and excellence in all aspects of university life,” Livingston said.

Refl ecting on the past two decades, Livingston said he was overwhelmed by the amount of progress he and his team were able to accomplish.

During Steger’s tenure, Livingston was at the helm of the construction of a new student union and recreation center. After six studies and 15 focus groups with students, the concept of MainStreet was conceived.

“Construction started and we ended with the most beautiful campus in America,” Livingston said. “What you witness today is what some people call the ‘Miracle in Clifton’.”

Offi cials worked to push parking toward the perimeters of campus and to create more green space on campus, such as Sigma Sigma Commons. Livingston, “a man with a vision,” worked on OneStop and

numerous diversity initiatives with heart and soul, said UC President Santa Ono.

The physical construction of main campus had a direct correlation with the prestigious quality of academics and the increase in enrollment. While students initially viewed UC as a second choice for higher education, the construction and commitment to bettering the university transformed the school into a university comparable to Ohio State University, Harvard University and Yale University, Livingston said.

“You can build in brick and mortar. You can see and you can touch it, but you can also build in other ways,” he said. “You can build in community and build a sense of institutional values.”

His commitment to diversity shows through “Just Community,” a UC initiative promoting cohesiveness and an appreciation for diversity. Livingston

introduced the concept after arriving at UC, and the program soon received national awards and attention by international fi gures such as Colin Powell, Elie Weisel and Maya Angelou.

“How grand it is that the University of Cincinnati would aspire to be a just and caring community,” Angelou said during a speech at UC.

Livingston never stopped aspiring to encourage an equal and open community at both UC and Cincinnati. His distinguished presence and his work with police and community relations have impacted the city, said Shakila Ahmad, a director on the board of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

“His infl uence is long lasting,” Ahmad said. “I’ve had the distinct pleasure of

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After months of deliberation, Ohio’s public universities adopted uniform standards Jan. 3, to exempt incoming students from taking remedial classes.

The standards include specifi c scores on standardized tests university presidents agreed would determine whether a student is prepared for credit-bearing coursework.

Prior to the uniform standards, the board of regents provided guidelines for institutions to follow, which led to wide inconsistencies of enrollment in remedial courses at public institutions.

“That degree of variance was unfair to students, and unclear to students,” said Rebecca Watts, associate vice chancellor for the Ohio Board of Regents. “Students, high school faculty, and parents need to have a very clear goal for students to be able to achieve so that they can feel confi dent that they are ready for success at their next level of learning.”

Currently, approximately 41 percent of Ohio public high school students are enrolled in at least one remedial course upon entering college, according to the Ohio Board of Regents.

At the University of Cincinnati, the new standards mean abandoning the current use of placement tests for incoming students, said Caroline Miller, senior associate vice president of enrollment at UC.

Instead, students’ placement in math and English courses will be based on their ACT or SAT scores.

Approximately eight percent of students are placed in a remedial math course upon entering UC’s main campus, Miller said.

“I think the really benefi cial thing is the greater likelihood of … curricular alignment between universities and high schools,” Miller said. “The likelihood that [incoming students] are going to be prepared is much greater.”

However, meeting the new standards for remediation-free classes will not mean guaranteed acceptance.

“If you achieve these scores, that doesn’t guarantee you admission anywhere…there still are selective admission institutions in the state,” Watts said.

The legislative initiative began in spring 2012 with faculty members from universities, community colleges and high schools around the state, Watts said.

Funding for remedial courses at public universities will be reduced to support less than fi ve percent of students by 2019, Watts said.

The standards will not include community colleges or regional campuses.

CTM meets the fi rst Monday of every month at the Clifton Recreation Center.

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Clifton town meeting funds camerasCommunity organization agrees to fund three additional cameras aimed

at detering graffi ti in Clifton neighborhoodBENJAMIN GOLDSCHMIDT

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In an effort to crack down on graffi ti in Clifton, Clifton Town Meeting (CTM) Monday allocated funding in its 2013 budget for three new deer cameras to catch vandals in the act.

Lisa Johnson, Clifton liaison offi cer, pitched the idea for the cameras to CTM and said similar cameras have provided evidence that helped get restitution from previous vandals in court. In one case, Johnson said, a “tagger” named Evan Ackner was brought to court because of video evidence and was fi ned $4,000 in restitution. Ackner will also serve 60 days

in jail starting Jan. 16, Johnson said. Two cameras are already posted in

undisclosed alleys that are hosts to regular graffi ti vandalism. CTM allocated $600 to purchase three additional cameras, and Johnson suggested posting a camera on Shiloh Street and another by the United Dairy Farmers on Clifton Avenue, though the locations will most likely change as vandals catch on, Johnson said.

“It doesn’t have to just be in one place, I want to make sure we get our money’s worth, and get our money back from whoever we arrest with them,” Johnson said. “That’s called restitution, and I want it. They’re starting to tag people’s houses; it’s not even just businesses any more. Nobody [Is] safe.”

Other neighborhoods such as Northside and Price Hill have seen some success in deterring illegal behavior using similar cameras, but there are too many “taggers” in Clifton to tell if making examples of a few would be an effective deterrent at this point, Johnson said.

Johnson noted that most known “taggers” in the area are kids who come from wealthy families in areas like Loveland and Madeira as opposed to, “just some poor kid who’s struggling and wants to deface property,” she said.

“Big brother is watching us anyway, I’d rather catch the bad guys and get money out of mommy and daddy’s pocket or their pocket, or get them expelled from school,” Johnson said. “The dean of

DAAP is working with us [and] if any of his students are caught, he’ll give them a disciplinary letter.”

Three DAAP students were recently caught with a camera, and the video evidence was used against them successfully in court, Johnson said.

Since its meeting in December 2012, CTM underwent some personnel changes including a new president, Ben Puntajo. When the pitch for funding for cameras was made to the previous administration, many members raised questions of privacy and civil liberties. Those concerns were completely absent in Monday’s meeting.

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UC hosts memorial for studentUniversity community gathers to commerate the life of car crash victim

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“On the back of an old receipt, [Jessica Galley] had doodled live, laugh, love — I think this little phrase really encompasses everything Jess was as a person,” said Katie Norman, one of Galley’s sorority sisters at Gamma Phi Beta. Galley tragically died in a car crash Dec. 26.

Galley’s father, Ronald Galley, also spoke at the vigil, and said as he was going through Jessica’s old things, he found the phrase “live, laugh, love” written on almost everything.

The vigil was held in the auditorium at Zimmer Hall, where several hundred students gathered to share memories and condolences for Galley’s untimely death.

Many of Galley’s friends shared stories of their time with her, and joked about her unique fashion sense. Stephanie Sawyer, one of Galley’s sorority sisters recalled one of her “funniest outfits,” where Galley

miraculously matched silver “space boots” with blue and pink.

A few of Galley’s closest friends recounted times when she helped them, despite being some years younger.

“Jess was the kind of friend who would stand by you when you needed somebody to be there,” said Sarah Taylor, a longtime friend of Galley’s. “She would call me up any time of the day just to make sure I was okay.”

Friends said how proud and happy she was to be a part of Gamma Phi Beta, and her father said it was “the right place for her to be.”

“She was a special girl to us, and it was nice to see how special she was to all of you,” said Ronald Galley, Jessica’s father. “Take care of each other, embrace each other, live life to the fullest — that’s what she would have wanted.”

Galley’s co-workers at Kings Island made bracelets in her honor, which are available for $5, and will go toward helping children with special needs.

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Brown outs prevented several Cincinnati fire trucks from responding to a Digby Avenue house fire that claimed a University of Cincinnati student’s life and left another in critical condition, but the Cincinnati Fire Department determined Wednesday that didn’t adversely affect firefighters efforts.

Trucks from Station 19 in Corryville and Station 21 in Lower Fairmount did not respond to the dispatch because of brown outs — the failure to staff a firehouse due to a lack of funds.

“The results of the findings indicate that there were no adverse effects to related to the brownouts,” said CFD Fire Chief Richard Braun, in a statement.

The first engine that did respond — Truck 32 housed in Avondale — arrived at the scene 3 minutes and 24 seconds after the call was placed with dispatch, said Capt. Dan Rottmueller. The call was made by one of the occupants of the Digby house.

All 10 of the occupants in the house were evacuated from the house and the fire was extinguished within 6 minutes of arriving on the scene.

Four of the occupants were rescued from the house, two who were sleeping in the basement and two others trapped on the third floor.

The two UC students rescued from the third floor, Chad Kohls, 21, and Ellen Garner, 20, were taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in critical condition from smoke inhalation.

Kohls died from his injuries Monday at 4:30 p.m. Garner remains in critical condition. A Facebook page, Pray For Ellen, was started to provide updates on her condition.

Doctors have set a target for 9 a.m. Friday to begin a gradual withdrawal of the medication keeping Garner in a medically induced comma, according to the most recent Facebook update. Previous attempts to take Garner of the medication have led to seizures.

The fire started in a second-floor bedroom early New Year’s Day. A space heater close to bedding material was the cause of the fire, Rottmueller said.

SG allocates funds to charity Wheel chair basketball tournament to be held, proceeds benefit nonprofit

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The University of Cincinnati’s Undergraduate Student Government approved funding for a wheel chair basketball tournament Wednesday.

SG agreed to allocate $1237.50 to Ballin’ For Abilities to pay for basketball court rental, trophies for the top three teams and a DJ.

The event will take place at the UC Recreation Center Jan. 20 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and will be accepting both disabled as well as non-disabled participants. The tournament aims to accomplish several goals.

“The biggest [goal] is to raise awareness for disabilities,” said Bryan Scheck, director of disability service. “I’d like to see people that are able-bodied students get the feel of what it would be like to be disabled themselves.”

Another focus of the tournament is to raise funds for Sara Spins, a charity started

by first-year student Sara Whitestone. “This organization is a nonprofit

that provides technologies and tools for students with disabilities,” said Scheck. “We’re asking $50 per team and all the funds will go to Sara Spins.”

Scheck wants students with disabilities to have the same opportunity to use the courts that are commonly occupied throughout the day.

There will be 20 wheel chairs donated to Ballin’ For Abilities for the non-disabled students who wish to participate.

The event will create an opportunity that will bring UC students with and without disabilities together as a community, according to the bill submitted by Sabrina Johnson, at-large senator.

Registration for Ballin’ For Abilities began Wednesday. There is a limit of seven participants per team.

“I’ve never heard of anything like this,” said Senator Jessica Gearhart, “I hope this is something that continues to reoccur.”

The bill passed in a roll call 28 – 1.

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working with him on a number of board of directors including Bridges for a Just Community. It was an honor to follow him as the chair of Bridges for a Just Community and a little daunting to fill his shoes literally and metaphorically.”

Beyond his achievements, Livingston’s passion remains in the heart of the student body.

He encourages students to hone their skills and embrace others.

“Take the deep dive. Master those things that are your gifts; all of us have them,”

he said. “Develop those, spend time with others and do it generously with other people. Make them apart of your journey. Don’t take that journey alone.”

After taking a year off to travel and spend time with his family, Livingston will return as a graduate professor in the College of Education.

He intends on sharing lessons learned throughout his tenure at UC with students and colleagues.

Livingston will continue to give back to the university and be involved at UC, said

UC Student Body President Lane Hart. “I have a reverence for students here and

for what this place is,” Livingston said. “This is my temple and it does magical things. It has potential and we can unleash it.”

For more information about Livingston and a photo gallery from his retirement event, check out newsrecord.org.

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celeBratinG his tenure Prominent city officials and figures from the University of Cincinnati gathered in the Great Hall of Tangeman University Center to honor Mitchel Livingston, vice president of student affairs and chief diversity officer, for his 19 years of work at the university. Livingston served under 15 different university presidents and worked to promote diversity on campus.

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[email protected]@GMAIL.COM Life & ArtsDance Marathon slated for February

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University of Cincinnati students are invited to participate in the fi fth-annual Cincinnati Dance Marathon at the Campus Recreation Center Feb. 16.

Hosted by the Cincinnati Dance Marathon student group, the event is also open to the general public.

Money raised during the 24-hour dance event will benefi t the Children’s Miracle Network, which will then donate the money to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

Stephanie Kenning, a fourth-year operations management, international business and Asian studies major and president of the dance marathon executive board, said the board hopes to raise $30,000.

“What’s really exciting about the event

is each hour we invite a family from the hospital who’s benefi tting from the money that we donate, to come and tell their story, and tell just what their current situation is and how Children’s Hospital has impacted their life,” she said.

The executive board continues to work with other campus student groups for additional funding.

“We get sponsorships from student government, from the Residence Hall Association, we have a lot of corporate donations, so we have our own operating budget for the event,” Kenning said. “So every dollar a student, or anyone who pays money to register, all of the money goes directly to the hospital, none of it goes to actually paying for the event.”

Registration for the Cincinnati Dance Marathon is $25 and is now open at cincinnatidm.org.

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Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann play husband and wife in the 2007 fi lm “Knocked Up.” Pete (Rudd) and Debbie’s (Mann) dysfunctional relationship is brought into the spotlight in “This is 40,” as writer and director Judd Apatow rejuvenates their story.

In this comedic take on family life, Pete and Debbie try to fi nd themselves and defi ne their relationship as they face the dreaded 40 years old.

The couple hits a rough patch in their relationship as Pete’s record label is struggling fi nancially, and a combination of factors including family and monetary stress lead to fi erce arguments and near meltdowns.

Rudd and Mann are passionate and hilarious. They exhibit a chemistry that makes them believable as a loving couple stuck in a rut.

While Pete and Debbie comically work to rekindle their marriage, their daughters, 13-year-old Sadie (Maude Apatow) and 8-year-old Charlotte (Iris Apatow,) experience issues of their own.

Sadie and Charlotte are a very entertaining part of the movie. While Charlotte provides an innocent perspective on the family’s problems, Sadie creates drama as she rebels against her parents’ new rules.

One of the most unique aspects of “This is 40” is the fact that Apatow’s wife, Leslie Mann, and daughters, Maude and Iris Apatow, are major characters in the fi lm. The cast creates an authentic family unit that viewers easily relate to.

Other characters Desi (Megan Fox) and Jodi (Charlyne Yi) bring an additional storyline into the movie as Debbie’s employees. The two girls amusingly combat each other as Debbie attempts to determine which of the two have been stealing money from the store. Brief appearances by Jason Segal also add to the humorous plot.

“This is 40” successfully keeps audiences laughing as Pete and Debbie experience common problems of family life. Strong cast members create hilarious characters that are consistently entertaining and relatable.


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Steel Drum Band to performProfessor, student took different paths to CCM ensemble

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The College-Conservatory of Music’s Steel Drum Band will serenade audiences with the smooth rhythms of Trinidadian pop, jazz and reggae Saturday. While the band will play traditional Trinidadian music, its director is anything but traditional.

In fact, Russell Burge, the conductor of CCM’s Steel Drum Band and an associate professor of percussion and jazz, doesn’t make dramatic gestures during performances — and he teaches his students to play without looking up at him conducting.

“I fi nd that it works drastically different with each student,” he said. “Some of them pick it up very fast and some of them are so used to playing in a band and following a conductor that it’s diffi cult for them to take care of their own business without somebody waving their hand.”

After getting his undergraduate degree in music at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., Burge majored in music and percussion at CCM as a graduate student.

CCM hired Burge as a professor in 1997. He now leads the 22-member Steel Drum Band by conducting it in a variety of genres, such as Soca — a style of Trinidadian music — pop, reggae and jazz.

“We try to get a little bit of a more wide spectrum of music and I think the students really enjoy that,” Burge said.

Burge’s strong background in jazz and percussion will no doubt help him direct the band during its annual performance in the Corbett Auditorium. But the conductor’s real work happens long before the fi nal performance.

“In a way, as a conductor your work is done by then [the performance],” Burge said. “The conductor really can just get out of the way and listen and the machine kind of runs itself.”

Even though Burge doesn’t frantically swing his arms around during performances, that doesn’t mean he isn’t passionate about the band and its show.

“I started playing at a pretty young age and both my parents were musicians,” he said. “I was involved in the bands and orchestras and it was just something that … I really enjoy doing.”

His passion for percussion strengthened when he realized each instrument has a unique sound, even though they might be related to one another, such as the steel pans and marimba xylophones.

“I think that just the variety of all those kinds of things really was interesting to me and that you can play so many different styles of music,” he said.

Burge plays with the Cincinnati Symphony and the Percussion Group of Cincinnati. He used to function as the principle percussionist of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, has performed across the globe and has recorded with Cincinnati’s NPR affi liate WVXU.

One of Burge’s students, Shane Jones, doesn’t have extensive percussion experience like Burge,

but he is just as passionate.Jones made music with pencils and

coffee cans to feed his passion when he was just 4 years old. Now a second-year masters student in percussion performance at the College-Conservatory of Music, Jones plays drums at school, in his free time and as a member of the Steel Drum Band.

He’s come a long way from pencils and coffee cans, but the passion still remains.

“When I’m looking to relax and enjoy myself, I can go and do the same types of things that I do at school,” Jones said. “When we’re rehearsing steel band, it’s a bit different than sitting in a class studying for an exam — we’re playing music.”

Jones considered studying engineering at the University of Hartford before attending CCM, but his excitement for music classes drove him in a different direction.

With the help and direction of a percussion professor at Hartford, Jones realized music would shape his future.

“It was music that made everything else worthwhile and that’s when I decided that it had to be music as the main focus,” Jones said.

He studied a variety of genres, including

Middle Eastern Frame drumming, Brazilian, African, Cuban and Haitian drumming.

“Throughout my whole entire education I was always encouraged to keep an open mind … the more I opened my mind the more I learned about the music of all cultures, the better musician I became and still continue to become,” Jones said.

Jones hopes his interest and familiarity with different cultural music will ease the transition to life after college.

“It’s diffi cult — defi nitely takes a lot of time management and a lot of dedication,” he said. “I hope to have a solid foundation … so that in the professional world I never have to turn away an opportunity because I don’t know something or because I’m not good enough.”

The Steel Drum Band Annual Performance will take place Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Corbett Auditorium where the percussion ensemble will also feature ragtime xylophone music.

The Steel Drum Band will also perform during “A Moveable Feast” Jan. 18 at 6:30 p.m. inside CCM Village.

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SAN DIEGO — The gunman stalked the dormitory halls yelling, “I’m going to kill somebody,” pounding and kicking on doors, and fi ring his weapon in the air.

The resident assistants remembered their training: Turn off the lights, barricade the doors with chairs and tables, lie fl at on the fl oor, push back if the killer tries to bust in, or jump out a window if it isn’t too high.

The drama was all staged but with a life-saving purpose Tuesday as a dormitory at San Diego State University became a stand-in for Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook Elementary and the engineering building on the campus here — all scenes of deadly rampages.

Two-dozen people from colleges and schools throughout Southern California came to campus for a two-day session with the chillingly modern title of Active Shooter Response Training.

Although the program of lectures, discussions and scenarios was planned months ago, the recent shooting in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six adults were killed, only heightened the urgency of planning for possible violence.

Bret Bandick, a trainer from Texas company Response Options, played the role of a heavily armed killer targeting students at the Olmeca Residence Hall.

He fi red an airsoft gun into the air and at doors to provide an extra dose of realism. Resident assistants and others played the role of students caught by surprise.

In the fall, those same assistants will be giving a new, mandatory 90-minute seminar to all incoming freshmen at San Diego State on how to survive an on-campus shooting.

The session will be in addition to the university’s system of alerting students via emails, text messages and social media when a gunman is suspected.

“Our responsibility is to give people as many tools as possible to survive,” said Capt. Lamine Secka of the San Diego State police force.

Kerry Harris, also an instructor with Response Options, said the strategy “is not rocket science.”

“We tell people they should fl ee if they can, hide if they must and fi ght back if there is no other option,” Harris said.

The San Diego State resident assistants did better than many people who have taken the same training, Harris said.

The event drew police offi cers and school offi cials from Orange, the Vista and

Escondido school districts in northern San Diego County and the campuses of Cal State Los Angeles, San Diego State, UC San Diego and the University of San Diego.

San Diego has reason to be concerned about school shootings.

One of the fi rst high-profi le school shootings that gained national attention occurred here in 1979, when 16-year-old Brenda Spencer used a rifl e to kill two people and wound nine others at an elementary school across from her home.

“I don’t like Mondays,” Spencer told a reporter by telephone during the rampage. She is serving a 25-year-to-life prison sentence.

In 1996, a graduate student at San Diego State killed three of his professors in the engineering department.

The gunman pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty and is serving a life sentence.

In 2001, two shootings in high schools east of San Diego left two dead and 18 wounded.

One shooter, then a 15-year-old student, is in prison; the other, an 18-year-old former student, committed suicide while behind bars.

In 2010, a mentally disturbed man jumped the fence at a Carlsbad elementary school and wounded two students before being subdued by construction workers. He is serving a life sentence.

By the time of the 2001 shootings, nationwide police protocol for school shootings had changed to emphasize an immediate response by the fi rst offi cer on the scene rather than waiting for the SWAT squad to assemble.

The change in tactics was prompted by the 1999 shooting at Columbine High in Colorado where 15 people died, including the two shooters who committed suicide, while the SWAT squad was being assembled.

“After Columbine, we learned that you just can’t wait for SWAT,” said Lt. Joe Florentino of the San Diego Unifi ed Police Department, which deploys 43 offi cers to protect 200 sites with 133,000 students and 15,000 employees, the second largest primary school district in California.

When a 15-year-old student opened fi re at Santana High in Santee on March 5, 2001, the fi rst police offi cer on scene was an off-duty San Diego offi cer who was registering his daughter for classes.

“When everyone else was running away from the sound of gunfi re,” said San Diego Police Lt. Andra Brown, “he was running

toward it.”The post-Columbine era also brought

more training for offi cers and dispatchers and, in some cases, better weaponry for beat cops who may have to confront a shooter with multiple weapons or assault weapons.

“Lock down,” a term and practice once used in connection with prison riots, became common parlance a decade ago to describe keeping students in their classrooms during an incident.

But those changes, Florentino said, are meant to limit the casualties once a shooting occurs.

The better strategy, he said, is to be

aware of any advance signs that a student might pose a threat.

The San Diego school district has a policy of following up, with counselors and police offi cers, when a student is heard making possible threats or posting troubling comments on social media.

In rare cases, a student is put on a 72-hour psychiatric hold at a mental health facility, Florentino said.

“If a student says something odd, we don’t just ignore it,” Florentino said. “We have to be right 100 percent of the time, we know that.”


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ACTIVE SHOOTER TRAINING San Diego State Chaplain Dana Garrett and retired police offi cer Chuck Harold simulate a police team entering the Olmeca Residence Hall at San Diego State looking for an active shooter on January 8, 2012.

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The University of Cincinnati women’s basketball team continued Big East play Wednesday night, losing 56-64 to the Seton Hall Pirates.

Seton Hall scored first, a product of an early basket from senior forward Alexandra Maseko, but UC answered quickly with a 3-pointer from junior guard Kayla Cook to put the Bearcats up 3-2.

The momentum swung in the Pirates’ direction as the first half ran down, when Cincinnati junior guard Dayeesha Hollins took a hard hit going for a rebound. She left the game with seven minutes remaining before halftime.

The Pirates led by as many as eight points in the first half, but the return of Hollins with 5:30 left in the half helped the Bearcats reduce the Pirates lead to just three points, 22-25, at the half.

Seton Hall out-rebounded Cincinnati 19-17, but the Bearcats held Seton Hall to just 33.3% from the field. But UC’s leading scorer Hollins had an uncharacteristically slow first half, producing only five points.

“I challenged [Hollins] at halftime,”

said head coach Jamelle Elliott “[I told her] you have to find other ways to help us win besides going to the rim because they’re not going to allow you to do that.”

The Bearcats came out with new-found energy in the second half, forcing a turnover and tying the game at 25-25 with a 3-pointer from Hollins all in the first minute of the half.

Cook added another basket less than a minute later, forcing Seton Hall head coach Anne Donovan to call a timeout with the Bearcats lading 28-26 with 18:12 left in the game.

The bearcats led by as much as seven in the second half, but as the minutes ticked away the score got closer and closer with both teams exchanging shots and free throws. At the end of the game, the Pirates pulled ahead and won the game from the free-throw line.

“At the end of the day, they found a way to win.” Hollins said.

Hollins paced the Bearcats with 23 points, and six rebounds. Hollins made five consecutive shots from outside the arc in the second half and led the Bearcats’ resurgence, scoring 17 of her 23 points in the second half.

The Bearcats play Tuesday against the South Florida Bulls in Tampa, FL.

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Notre Dame defeated the University of Cincinnati 66-60 Monday night, handing UC its third-consecutive loss at Fifth Third Arena.

Cincinnati’s defense, playing without junior forward Justin Jackson for what UC head coach Mick Cronin hinted at as a bad attitude, improved on its performance against St. John’s, but the Irish used superior passing to win the game. UC head coach Mick Cronin thought turnovers cost his team the victory.

“In my opinion, seven second-half turnovers beat us,” Cronin said. “We shoot 57 percent in the second half, shoot 67 percent from three, and those are seven [wasted] possessions.”

Titus Rubles, who started for the first time this season, opened the scoring with an uncontested dunk, after a perfect pass from Cashmere Wright. Wright passed Cincinnati legend Oscar Robertson for the fourth highest assist total in UC history with his opening pass.

Rubles finished the game 1-9 shooting.UC guard Sean Kilpatrick appeared

to regain some of his scoring form by matching his 7-point total from the St. John’s game before eight minutes had passed to give the Bearcats a 12-9 lead. But Kilpatrick briefly retreated to the locker room with an apparent right leg injury and didn’t score again in the first half.

The Bearcats led by as many as nine in the first half after back-to-back 3-pointers from JaQuon Parker, but UC unraveled again to end the half.

Notre Dame outscored Cincinnati 21-8 over the final seven minutes of the half to take a 32-28 halftime lead. The Irish continually exposed the Bearcats during a late run with quick passes to open 3-point shooters.

Eric Atkins, Scott Martin, Jerian Grant and Pat Connaughton all hit 3-pointers for Notre Dame, which finished 6-8 from beyond the arc — UC shot 5-15.

Notre Dame continued its impressive 3-point shooting after the break, with Martin knocking down another uncontested shot to spark an 8-2 Irish run to start the second half.

The Irish appeared to pull away in the second half, until UC redshirt freshman Shaq Thomas hit a 3-pointer from the right corner to begin an 11-2 UC run that gave the Bearcats a 47-45 lead.

The lead didn’t last long, as Notre Dame pushed its advantage back to double digits with 5:44 remaining in the game.

The Bearcats fought back to within striking distance several times in the closing minutes, but a pair of tough shots from Grant kept the game just out of UC’s reach. Grant’s fade-away jumper with 1:30 remaining proved to be the game’s

final dagger.“Jerian Grant made two NBA shots late

that really ended the game,” Cronin said. “He put us out of reach. Very few guys can even get that shot, let alone make it.”

All five Notre Dame starters finished in double digits, while only Kilpatrick (15 points) did so for the Bearcats.

Kilpatrick acknowledged Cincinnati can’t afford to continue its three-game slide.

“It’s the Big East now,” Kilpatrick said. “We’re in a league where everyone on their roster can play. That’s something we’ve really got to figure out now. It’s not like it’s December anymore. It’s January and this is the meat of our schedule and we’ve really got to get that in our minds.”

UC might have to right the ship without Jackson, as it is not clear if he will play in the game at Rutgers Saturday.

Notre Dame outlasts UC 66-60Bearcats drop third-straight home game

Another year of college football passed and the BCS proved once again it doesn’t matter what people want — as long as money continues to flow.

Millions of people — 26.4 million, according to ESPN — sat glued to their television sets and watched the two “best” teams in college football square off in the Bowl Championship Series national championship game.

What some hyped as a return to college football’s elite for Notre Dame turned out to be a laugh as the Irish fell to the Alabama Crimson Tide 42-14. That is all I can say about the game. That’s not a jab at how horribly unentertaining the game was either.

I didn’t watch.For 14 years the BCS has been the

be-all and end-all of college football and for the last four years I haven’t watched any non-Bearcat bowl game — I will only support my school and not greedy millionaires.

College football has always been about tradition, rivalries and every Saturday meaning something. Yet fans still watch bowl season — more people watched Alabama destroy Notre Dame than the 2012 national championship, where Alabama destroyed LSU — allowing computers and filthy-rich CEOs to make a mockery of their favorite sport.

A true playoff system is on the horizon, but why did it take so long? Are you telling me a March Madness type of postseason for college football wouldn’t be successful?

Some argue allowing more teams to compete for a national championship would devalue the meaning of the regular season — that is complete and utter crap.

Before the season starts, only a few select schools have a realistic shot at making a national championship run. Boise State finished undefeated twice since 2006 and the Broncos don’t even have a title game appearance.

It’s not just the non-BCS schools. Auburn got left out of the title game in 2004 when current Cincinnati head coach Tommy Tuberville led them to a 13-0 season with four victories over top-10 teams.

That same year, Utah went 12-0 under Urban Meyer, winning every game by double digits but there would be no title chance for Utah either.

The 2009 Cincinnati Bearcats and Texas Christian Horned Frogs went undefeated but had to hope and pray for a Texas loss in the Big 12 championship game to even hope to play for a national title.

These teams are being punished despite perfect records. What more could each team do? In the end, TCU and other teams didn’t get a chance because they aren’t part of “the group.”

This group — or the cartel — are the ones who control college football.

When Northern Illinois got into a BCS bowl game this season ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit went up in arms over how much of a travesty NIU could get in over Oklahoma or Texas A&M. NIU isn’t part of the cartel — so in the mind of college football’s aristocracy — it doesn’t belong.

Occasionally we get a “BCS buster” who will act as an underdog and try to play the roll “Cinderella schools” do in college basketball. But there’s one glaring difference:

Cinderella actually gets to go to the ball (see: Butler). The closest a BCS buster gets to the dance is the line to get in, only to be turned away at the door.

The BCS’ stranglehold over college football is a topic argued to the point of exhaustion by ESPN talking heads. When the 2014 season rolls around, fans will have a slightly better system — a four-team playoff — but it still won’t be perfect. Until everyone is able to take a stand and demand what we deserve, college football will remain the controversial joke it is today. Sadly, nothing will change.

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Ehinger named FWAA Freshman All-AmericanJoshuA A. Miller sports editor

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The University of Cincinnati football team finished the 2012-13 season ranked No. 22 in the USA Today Coaches Poll, after defeating Duke in the Belk Bowl.

Cincinnati narrowly missed out on the final Associated Press Top 25, finishing 28th.

The Bearcats scored two touchdowns in the final 45 seconds to secure a come from behind victory over the Blue Devils and guarantee UC’s fifth 10-win season in the past six years.

Cincinnati is one of only four NCAA FBS schools to win 10 games in five of the past six seasons, joining Oklahoma, Oregon and back-to-back BCS National Champions Alabama.

No team in the Big East won as many games or conference championships in the

past seven years as Cincinnati, with 65 wins and four conference crowns over that time. The Bearcats are also the only team in the NCAA to win its conference championship four of the past five seasons.

Cincinnati will enter next season with its third different head coach in the past four years. Tommy Tuberville, who was hired less than 48 hours after former head coach Butch Jones accepted the head coaching position at the University of Tennessee, takes over a program coming off of back-to-back bowl wins.

Ehinger earns All-America honors

University of Cincinnati offensive lineman Parker Ehinger (Rockford, Mich./Rockford) was named to the 12th annual FWAA Freshman All-America Team Monday by the Football Writers Association of America.

Ehinger and UC’s offensive line unit led the way for George Winn’s 1,000-yard season — the third-straight year UC has produced a 1,000-yard rusher — and allowed just 15 sacks, which ranked in the top-20 in the NCAA FBS in 2012.

Cincinnati also lead the Big East in yards per carry with an average of 5.3 yards, which ranks 14th in the country. UC rushed for 200 or more yards in seven games.

UC also led the Big East in scoring offense (31.0 ppg) and was second in both total offense (430.8 ypg) and rushing offense (199.8).

Ehinger started 12 of UC’s 13 games this season, after emerging as a set starter against Delaware State. Although his first start came at right guard, Ehinger started the Virginia Tech game at right tackle, in place of an injured Sean Hooey, and retained the right tackle spot for the final 10 games of the season.

UC dropped by Seton HallPirates come from behind to defeat Bearcats

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