Greater Cincinnati works to generate high college student interest in STEMCHRISTINA DROBNEY | CONTRIBUTOR

With a $1.2 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, the University of Cincinnati is working to produce the next generation of talented workers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics — commonly referred to as STEM.

In an effort between UC, local high schools and the local information technology industry, a new program called Design-based Information Technologies Learning Experiences (DITLE) is due to launch in September. The program, meant to attract students to focus on IT programs, is expected to reach nearly 5,000 students in a period of three years.

Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions and Cardinal Solutions are partners

in the project, a joint effort including many local resources. INTERalliance in Greater Cincinnati and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers are also partnering with UC on the program.

The list of local high schools involved includes: Aiken, Hughes STEM, Withrow, Oak Hills, Taft Information Technology and Walnut Hills.

“[The program] will promote information technology with secondary-school students,” said Chengcheng Li, assistant professor of information technology and the project’s principal investigator. “It will prepare educators of science, technology, engineering and mathematics to integrate IT skill into their instruction and expand the infrastructure that supports IT education.”

UC plans to use the grant to address the shortage of workers and jobs within the information technology fields in the Greater Cincinnati area.

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I have an innate fear of the dark, dangerous streets around campus.

Never have I been attacked, robbed, or assaulted on these streets. Never have I witnessed a break in or a car window being smashed. Never have I been a victim of these things. And yet, I fear those streets. I avoid them. I take the long way around. I beg my sister to come pick me up from campus—sometimes she does. Last week when she did, she brought our 80-pound Newfoundland with her in the back seat. She said she wanted protection. Even in our cars, we still fear these streets.

Sometimes, I make the mistake of telling my father when I walk home alone. I tell him so I can prove to him that I didn’t get robbed. ‘Look dad, it didn’t happen to me! It isn’t as bad as you think!’ One night, maybe I won’t be so lucky.

I’m lucky that he cares enough to be angry at me. I don’t blame my dad for getting angry when I tell him

I’m walking in Clifton alone at night. I understand the way his heart sinks, imagining his child is wandering the dark streets surrounding campus. His mind must run wild with the possibilities. Some are valid, and some aren’t.

In his mind, he’s helpless. He’s terrified that one day I won’t make it back to the apartment. Maybe one day I won’t.

I can’t know how I would face a situation where someone walks up to me with a gun and asks for my belongings. I like to think I’d resist— I don’t want to lose the thousands of dollars I walk around with every day: my laptop, my phone, my camera. Almost every student is carrying around the same things at any given moment.

The targets on our backs are there.And no one can change that.Almost every day, we receive the crime alerts from the

University of Cincinnati Police Department. Another group of students gets their phones stolen. Another student was robbed of his or her wallet.

My immediate thought is to avoid the streets for a few days—maybe weeks. I adapt to the crime happening around campus. I bend my route home to avoid the crimes.

Normally I’d walk right down Straight Street and hang a left on Luna Avenue. During the day, it seems fine. The porches have people and hanging flowers. The dogs are resting in the sunlight in their yards.

But at night, Straight Street feels like a gauntlet. I have to part-run, part-fall, part-trip down the street

until I can power walk the last few feet to my door. My hands are clenched, I’m on high alert, my eyes are pivoting at anything that moves. In this time, a rouge cat on the sidewalk might terrify me.

I have not always been this way.I am not naturally a scared person. It’s usually the

opposite.For four years, I went to high school downtown at

the School for Creative and Performing arts deep in Over-The-Rhine—13th and Sycamore were my usual stemming grounds. This was not a very safe area. In fact, it still isn’t. But for some reason, I wasn’t scared walking those streets. Sometimes even late at night, after a particularly long orchestra concert. I liked walking the streets alone. It was empowering. I lived there. I loved staying late to hang out with my friends in the city. Maybe back then I was ignorant to the crime happening around me that could have easily happened to me. Maybe I was just a naive high school student.

Now in Clifton, something has changed in me. The crime alerts remind me of why I should be scared, but these are not an accurate depiction of what is really happening on the streets. But regardless, this is how students react to hearing about crime near them. Our behavior changes, we default to fear. We lock ourselves in our apartments, only leaving for short intervals to pick up a late night snack before we’re back again, hiding in our homes.

Although crime decreases,some still fear Clifton streets

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Chief diversity officer privately previews first-time assesment results to student governmentKATIE COBURN AND KINSLEY SLIFE

The University of Cincinnati conducted its first-ever climate assessment spring semester. Bleuzette Marshall, chief diversity officer, privately revealed highlights of the assessment’s results during the student government meeting Thursday.

The assessment consisted of a customized online survey that looked at diversity and inclusion at UC through multiple lenses, Marshall said.

“As a strategy to enhance a culture of inclusion, we conducted a climate assessment to provide a snapshot of the university’s current diversity and inclusion strengths and opportunities for improvement,” Marshall said. “Results of the assessment will serve as a baseline to measure our progress over time.”

An invitation to take the assessment was distributed via email to the university community April 17, 2014. Faculty, staff and students were allotted one week to participate in the survey.

Shivam Shah, student body vice president, said the survey was a necessary and appropriate step for UC to take toward increasing diversity and inclusion.

A company that regularly implements surveys of this kind to universities created the assessment’s questions. UC’s diversity department then modified the questions to fit the

university’s community, Marshall said.The assessment maintained participants’ anonymity —

Marshall said she was confident this did not skew results.“This survey was done via third party so it was done

without any bias towards what’s been happening here at the university, which is something that I really like,” said Christina Beer, student body president. “It gave us the opportunity to look at ourselves and say, ‘These are some of the opportunities that we can see in need of improvements.’”

The university completed the assessment and is currently reviewing its data, Marshall said. Results will be officially released at a university-wide Town Hall that is estimated to take place mid-October.

The university will use the assessment’s results to evaluate UC’s diversity and inclusion status and to calculate where to invest resources that would grow the university.

Respondent feedback provides identification of necessary practices that will enhance the recruitment, retention and development of diverse talent and create an inclusive environment where everyone can learn, grow and thrive, Marshall said in an email after the student government meeting’s conclusion.

“There were a lot of good things that came out of the survey, especially the fact that 95% of students said that they wanted to graduate from the University of Cincinnati,” Beer said. “It shows that we have a lot of pride in our university but that there are still a lot of opportunities for improvement, which there always will be.”

Marshall said UC should conduct the climate assessment every two years based on its diversity plan.

Marshall also talked about the university’s recent improvement in diversity and inclusion.

“With a concerted effort from many individuals across the university, we are moving the dial on our campus-wide diversity and inclusion initiatives,” Marshall said. “From recruitment and retention to promotion and accountability, members of our university are stepping up to make a difference.”

Alongside this year’s record enrollment, UC’s retention rates have increased to 87 percent, which Marshall said is a record high and only three percentage points shy of UC’s goal to reach a 90 percent retention rate.

“In less than a year, we’ve tripled the number of underrepresented minority faculty members thanks to the Strategic Opportunity Hiring initiative in Provost’s Office,” Marshall said.

To ensure that everyone actively participates in building an inclusive environment at UC, President Ono and Provost Davenport incorporated diversity and inclusion into the performance evaluation process for their direct reports, Marshall said.

“A lot has happened within a year and can be summed up in one word – progress,” Marshall said. “We can’t rest on our laurels because there is still work to be done, but I’m extremely proud and excited about the progress we’ve made so far.”

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Amina Ait-Bella, a first-year political sciences student, rose above her competitors Wednesday afternoon, winning a Campus Recreation Center challenge during the fifteenth-annual Health and Wellness Fair.

The contest challenged competitors to hold a plank, a stationary position in which the body is parallel to the ground with weight supported by the forearms and toes, for longer than previous participants. The CRC was one of more than ten organizations that banded together to inform students not only about resources offered by the university, but also about services found outside of campus.

“People need to learn about sexual health,” Ait-Bella said. “There’s fitness, there’s men’s and women’s health, and also prevention. And it is an eye-opener for a lot of people.”

The plank activity promoted services such as personal nutrition and training, said Colin Riley, CRC personal trainer and dietitian. Ait-Bella won the challenge by holding a plank for 5 minutes and 12 seconds. Throughout the fair, students visited booths on McMicken Commons to learn about health, fitness and giving back to the community.

The main focus of the event was to make sure students are aware of the services available to them, and most of the offices represented are located within university buildings, said Cathy Castillo, Student Health Services director of business affairs.

SHS, the home of two campus health clinics, a pharmacy, Employee Disability Services and more, was also present at the fair, which was an opportunity for the resource to make personal connections with students.

“If you ask the average student where University Health Services is, they don’t know,” Castillo said. “But they won’t forget that we gave them an apple and a cold care kit, and then they will come looking for us.”

Nicolas Cobelo, a fifth-year civil engineering student, didn’t know about the fair until he walked by it after class. He stopped because of the opportunity to donate bone marrow through Be The Match, a national bone marrow registry.

“I always like to help anyway I can, I usually donate blood a lot, and I saw the Be The Match donor registry and decided to sign in to donate bone marrow whenever I can,” Cobelo said.

The Hoxworth Blood Center also set up camp on McMicken Commons, promoting a UC Blood Drive to be held Sept. 15—19 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m..

“We love participating in any of these events on campus,” said Laura Reynolds, manager of mobile recruitment for the Hoxworth Blood Center. “We’re a part of the University of Cincinnati, so it helps us to feel more connected that way, and it is also just another way to get the word out.”

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Internship, co-op program offers global perspective CASSIE LIPP | CONTRIBUTOR

An internship and co-op program is offering students the opportunity to obtain a global perspective by living and working in Asia among 60 percent of the world’s population.

The professional and cultural Singapore Experience, a program offered through the University of Cincinnati’s division of professional practice, takes participants to the lively Asian city south of Thailand and Cambodia.

The program is one-of-a-kind, tailored to the specific interests of the students involved. Internship and co-op placements are available in areas from art, fashion and culture to communications, business and accounting.

Through the program, students can become acquainted with people from all around the globe and be immersed in a multi-cultural society as they work unpaid internships and co-op jobs.

“Singapore is a very small country, but very vibrant,” said Darnice Langford, professor of professional practice. “It really is an exciting place.” Langford spoke at an informational session for the program Tuesday in Swift Hall.

The experience has a 100 percent placement rate, according to Langford. All students who have been accepted to the program since its establishment in 2013, have gotten jobs, she added.

“Our students that have done this program seem to do very well in the job market for the next co-op position,” Langford said.

Working in Singapore offers a great incentive for students because it is a global hub and catches employers’ attention, said Brian Larger, a junior finance and information systems student. Larger participated in the experience and worked as a forex, or foreign exchange market, trader.

The program’s cost is $5,750 for the summer or $6,980 for fall and spring semesters. The increase in price is primarily due to the longer housing requirement.

The cost of the program includes: housing, orientation activities, Visa services, full on-site support and emergency services, professional networking opportunities and some cultural and recreational activities. The Singapore Experience spans 10 weeks in the summer and 13 weeks in the Fall and Spring semesters.

The most significant piece of advice Larger had for students interested in the program is to not worry too much about money. Larger was able to pay for the experience with grants from UC International and the Freeman and Gilman foundations with out-of-pocket expenses totaling about $1,500.

“Pace yourself, and don’t get overwhelmed,” Larger said.

Students who apply to the program and are accepted are able to apply for grants from UC International and the Freeman Foundation. The grants are not awarded based on financial need, but rather on the quality of the proposal the student submits. Students can also reapply and attend proposal workshops from UC International for assistance.

The Freeman Foundation awarded UC’s Division of Professional Practice and Experimental Learning (UC ProPEL) $200,000 this year. This is double the amount they awarded last year, said Erin Cohen, Singapore Experience coordinator. The larger grant enabled UC ProPEL to start The Hong Kong Experience, she said.

The Hong Kong Experience will be structured similarly to the Singapore Experience, Langford said. The first group of UC students will participate in the Hong Kong Experience this summer.

All full-time, matriculated students aged 18-25 in good academic standing, with a GPA of at least 2.0, are eligible to apply for the Singapore Experience. The application deadline for summer semester is December 1. The deadline to apply for grants is March 15.

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Emily Hoff, a first-year nursing student, answers a survey for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital on sickle cell awareness. Organizations on and off campus set up on McMicken Commons for the Student Wellness Center’s Health and Wellness Fair that encouraged awareness of personal and spiritual health.

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The Pet Partners, a therapy pet program dedicated to visiting schools and homes for emotional well-being, set up a booth at the fair. Students pet a number of dogs including Squish, left, a French Bulldog and Roger, a Chinese crested.

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Trainer Colin Riley, right, encourages Daniel Pa-lay, a second-year medical lab sciences student, who attempts the CRC’s plank challenge.

Driven to serve: Students give back through assorted activitesHundreds volunteer during Community Plunge, extending a variety of services to 22 partner sites A.J. KMETZ | STAFF REPORTER

Cleaning alleys, picking up trash and crafting homemade cards were three ways more than 300 students gave back to the community Sunday during the third-annual Community Plunge.

The event, in conjunction with the University of Cincinnati’s Center for Community Engagement, is a day of service and volunteering. The Community Plunge works with several partner sites including the American Cancer Society, St. Joseph Orphanage, the Pro Foundation and more. Students registered to participate through Campus Link and chose their volunteering site day-of.

The Community Plunge began as a partnership between the Center for Community Engagement and UC’s Greek Life, said Fran Larkin, CCE program coordinator.

This year’s event kicked off at 10 a.m. on McMicken Commons, offering 22 different Cincinnati organizations and agencies to choose from.

The event’s Greek partnership helped secure the support of Total Quality Logistics, a local company that focuses on hiring UC graduates, and which also has strong ties to the university’s Greek community. TQL provided breakfast for the volunteers before they were sent out.

The Plunge packed eight charter buses with student volunteers, according to Luke New, fifth-year marketing student and director of community service for UC’s Interfraternity Council.

Cassandra Thorpe, director of student athlete development, said the event was open to everyone on campus, but that it had a heavy Greek presence.

“More involvement [of organizations] increases participation,” Thorpe said. “As more word gets out, it’s definitely going to grow.”

The Plunge’s partner organizations allowed students to serve in a variety of ways. A street beautification non-profit called Spring in Our Steps put 24 students to work, cleaning alleyways in Northside as a part of its Allies for Alleys campaign.

The organization’s co-founder, Christian Huelsman, said the goal of the campaign is to create positive public spaces by cleaning up all 25 of Northside’s alleys. Spring in Our Steps has also worked on alleys closer to UC, including Shorre and Colby alleys, Huelsman said. Sunday’s event followed a similar one held Saturday that was open to all members of the community.

Not all participants got their hands dirty. One group of about 25 students was sent to Grace Hospice in Norwood, where they were put to work making cards for residents and their families for holidays and birthdays.

Hannah Scully, the site coordinator from the Community Plunge for the hospice group, said service like writing cards is just as important as labor-intensive

service. “It’s something that a lot of people don’t think about,”

Scully said. “Picking up trash feels more like a chore. People are a little more excited to do this.”

Shelby Duncan, volunteer coordinator for Grace Hospice, said she was thankful for the students’ work.

“People who stay in hospices are usually in a lot of pain,” Duncan said. “Knowing that people are thinking of them is really special to them.”

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More than 300 students filled McMicken Commons Sunday during the third-annual Community Plunge.

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Josh Adkins, officer of University of Cincinnati Police Department, pets Roger, a therapy dog of the Pet Partners Program.

At night, it’s the few criminals who get free run of Clifton because we’re all avoiding the streets.

This is what we are told to do, not what we should be doing.

It would be easy to write this from a place of anger, yelling that UCPD wasn’t doing its job, but the numbers say otherwise.

In the first eight months of 2014, Part I crimes —including homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft and forcible rape— have decreased 42.9 percent, according to student body vice president Shivam Shah from information he learned during a meeting with the UC Institute of Crime Science.

That’s not big, that’s huge. I wonder if students are even aware of such a decrease in their daily lives. Do they sense that 42.9 percent when they’re walking home at midnight? I’d say no.

So, why is it we have such a disconnect between the crime that is actually happening to students and their fear levels?

UCPD and Cincinnati police seem to be doing something right. Maybe we should trust the numbers.

The number of crimes is lessening, but maybe we’re worried because when there is crime, it seems to be worse—more violent, more brutal.

The only way students will change their conception of Clifton crime is by empowering themselves and self-defense.

Empowering ourselvesDebbie Gardner has seen from the

inside the Cincinnati police system. She worked for eight years as a deputy sheriff for the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department before retiring to become the founder of the Survive Institute—a manifestation of Gardner’s extensive self-defense and knowledge on crime survival.

Gardner and her husband Mike Gardner conduct self-defense workshops for families, colleges and corporations around the country.

For 32 years, they have used their experience to teach the inexperienced how to transform fear into courage.

“Students choose UC because it has remarkable educational programs that are affordable,” Debbie Gardner said. “But then a parent will say ‘My daughter is in the DAAP program, but I am so worried about her living over there.’ It is the constant, repeated dialogue.”

Parents perpetuate our fear. Of course

there is crime, we’re an urban campus, but we still need to function and go to class.

“This is an epidemic,” Gardner said. “The epidemic is fear of crime. We can correct that with courage and confidence.”

I pay over $5,000 a semester for tuition. I am actively involved in organizations. I cannot avoid being here late. I pay for the experience of being here, for the incredible education I’m receiving, for the feeling of being a part of a greater community.

Should that warm feeling of being a part of a college community disappear from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.? When all the crazies come out? When the streetlights flicker on?

I don’t accept that fear as a fact of my life, and I don’t think other students should either.

“We don’t live in a utopia, so it makes sense to follow some guidelines,” said Shivam Shah, vice president of UC student government. “One of the big keys to being safe is being aware of your surroundings,” Shah said. “If you’re not walking around in the best place in Cincinnati, and it’s night and you’re alone, just be aware of your surroundings.”

The university is slated to spend $2.5 million this year towards safety, compared to 1.1 million last year, according to Shah. After a very long wait—since July 2013— UC has begun conducting interviews for the new permanent chief of UCPD. Interim Police Chief Jeff Corcoran started in July 2013

as interim UCPD chief.“There are a couple candidates

that have been called for on-campus interviews that are all top of the line, very qualified candidates,” Shah said.

There have only been a couple candidates called for on-campus interviews, which makes Shah think that we’re close to finding a new chief.

“Usually one of the last processes is bringing them on campus for interview,” he said.

UCPD is also putting safety tips at the bottom of the crime alerts.

I hope that this continues. Students who read these crime updates don’t usually get any information on what they could do in these situations. This is a step toward proactive thinking. Teaching students how to be safe, and then how to defend themselves when they do meet crime, is a package deal. We need both to thrive— physically and mentally.

“What’s the point of all the new restaurants, all the new housing if you can’t function once it’s dark outside?” Gardner said. “We’ve got to get out of this default to fear. We’ve got to get students to live out from under this umbrella called ‘Every day I might get attacked.’ ”

UCPD, along with UC administrators, and even parents and alumni, need to be instilling confidence in students. Teach us that we can defend ourselves. Parents need to make peace with the idea of their college students fighting for their right to live, to their belonging, or to their safety.

Self-defense is your right.“Parents can only give their students

what they have,” Gardner said. “If parents have fear, they can only give their students fear.”

Students need to be aware that they have a choice.

They can chose to defend themselves against their attackers. They are not just helpless victims. Sometimes, a gun in your face is paralyzing, but the choice to fight back is real. But students need to learn how to defend themselves correctly. All we need is the defense training.

Students have to chose to be players in this chess game called violence on campus. We’ve been programmed to believe there is nothing we can do. How can we be players in the game if we don’t know we’re on the board?

“National and regional job analysis point to a growing number of jobs in IT and not enough graduates prepared to fill the jobs,” said Helen Meyer, associate professor of secondary education and director of the UC Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Center. “UC has a lot of fantastic programs which attract and prepare students in STEM areas throughout the university and we see this as a way to support local students and provide them with advanced preparation to pursue IT.”

Li is leading the program alongside Meyer and Hazem Said, an associate professor and head of the School of IT within UC’s College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services.

“I believe students should become involved with stem subjects to create a foundation of knowledge that will be used for a lifetime,” said Hailey Miller, a first-year nursing student. “If students are not learning these topics from the beginning it will be more challenging to apply the concepts the way that’s necessary.”

The program will use a combination of UC course work from the School of IT, school-based clubs and activities, industry field trips, mentorships and internships to encourage typically underrepresented IT students from area high schools to get a head start on their careers, Meyer said.

“The comprehension of these type of topics are becoming more and more important to succeed in any academic or career setting,” Miller said. “If not taught sooner than later, students will not be able to compete with many others.”

There is also a specially focused course for teachers and pre-service secondary teachers so they can teach and integrate IT into their high school classrooms.

“Information Technology is interconnected with all domains of our society,” said Lawrence Johnson, dean of CECH, in a press release. “An interdisciplinary approach will elevate our level of understanding of how students learn core information technology concepts and result in a more holistic approach to teaching these concepts to students.”

Teachers of students from all grade levels in the country are being asked to encourage their students to join STEM-based careers.

“There is a great deal of emphasis on STEM and STEM preparation nationally and regionally,” Meyer said. “But frequently when people are discussing STEM they are leaving out the ‘T’ and focusing on science, engineering and mathematics.”

Meyer thinks that the program can serve as a model for urban partnerships and development for the nation. The program will impact not only UC but other communities in the Cincinnati area.

“UC is a leader in the region in so many ways and DITLE will continue to fulfill this leadership role by working closely with the two largest local school districts and industry partners to enhance the region,” Meyer said. “UC gets stronger when the city and entire region gets stronger.”

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Clifton Heights Tavern, formerly Baba Budan’s, plans to bring food to the plate LAURA GERACI | CONTRIBUTOR

With more than 50 varieties of beer and a manager deemed among the “12 Most Badass Bartenders in Cincinnati,” Clifton Heights Tavern has a lot to offer, from its all-inclusive environment to recreational activities.

It seems as though every bar in Clifton has its own clique or only attracts a certain group of people. But the tavern – formerly known as Baba Budan’s – is an exception, guaranteeing a warm welcome and an abundance of friendly faces from staff and customers.

The name was recently revised to better identify with University of Cincinnati students and the Clifton community, according to management.

With five different breweries and local craft beers, you are more than likely to find a drink that satisfies the taste buds.

From time to time, the bar mixes things up and experiments with strange European imports, but they always have at least four drafts on tap, and plan on expanding to eight.

The most popular choice is the everyday specials, which include $2 long island iced teas, $2 Labatts and a draft option for $2 or less.

Another crowd-pleaser is the bar’s $10 domestic buckets, served during all college and pro football weekend games, consisting of five domestic beers for $10.

Tuesday nights are deemed “Bucket Nights,” enabling customers to order five Coors Original or Coors Light for just $5. It doesn’t get much better than $1 a beer.

Clifton Heights Tavern isn’t the kind of bar that wants you to wake up in the morning furious at how much you spent the night before. The staff strives to make you have an affordable, and most

importantly enjoyable, experience.Staff members balance friendliness,

knowledge and speed, so you are getting the best service possible.

Kyle Kuznof-Dineen, Clifton Heights Tavern manager, was even on local city guide Impulcity’s list of “12 Most Badass Bartenders in Cincinnati.”

In addition to its tempting drink deals, the bar features a warm and inviting atmosphere, with a lengthy bar, high stools, and 10 to 15 high-top tables bathed in dim lighting.

The building is fully equipped with pool, skee ball, darts, a jukebox and

plenty of TVs, which are always tuned into sporting events.

Accompanying the bar’s name change is the righting of the tavern’s only wrong—the fact that it did not serve food.

Beginning Oct. 1, Clifton Heights Tavern will serve quick, easy food, with a menu including typical bar food like nachos, chili, steak hogies, walking tacos and even a Frito pie.

Clifton Heights Tavern is the perfect bar for any college student to hang out with friends, watch the next big game or meet new people – all while sticking to a budget.

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How ‘Adventure Time’ captivates all ages of viewersKYLEY FREDRICK | CONTRIBUTOR

At the surface, “Adventure Time” is a quintessential animated kids’ series, full of outrageous characters and embellished fart jokes. Nomenclature for profanity comes from math terminology; although the humor in this show seems innocent, it is anything but exclusive to children. “Adventure Time” has important life lessons to be learned in every episode, all starting with a boy and his dog.

Finn, voiced by Jeremy Shada, is a human boy interested in fighting evil and bringing justice to the post-apocalyptic land of Ooo he lives in. Finn dresses in a white hat, blue clothing and carries a handy green backpack; which holds anything from whitey-tighties to “soul food” essential for a long journey. His adopted brother, voiced by John DiMaggio, is a mustard-yellow dog named Jake. The bright-eyed pooch can magically transform his body to various lengths and sizes at will.

The duo travel the vibrantly colored land of Ooo, making friends and occasionally bringing down bullies or evil kings. If watched closely, the mystical setting gives way to the bleak backstory behind Ooo. In the past ‘The Great Mushroom War’—similar to a nuclear war—altered Ooo and makes Finn believe he is the last human left. Both Finn and Jake struggle to maintain their morals in a place where corruption and wrongdoing run rampant.

Pendleton Ward is the creative genius behind the show’s growing empire. His Emmy Award-winning series is expanding in ratings and gathering a surprising amount of adult followers. According to the Animation World Network, the premiere of the show’s sixth season scored the most-watched telecast to date in 2014 among kids 2-11 and 9-14. However, no one is too old to watch “Adventure Time.”

There are countless discussion forums dedicated to the interpretation of the show’s plot. Bloggers and commentators alike are obsessed with theorizing “Adventure Time.”

How did a cartoon about a boy and his dog create a strong bond with its adult viewers? Many would argue this show is relatable in a plethora of ways to college-age people. The childlike quality of “Adventure Time” brings people back to a time when they were discovering the world for the first time. In some ways, being a college student is like starting all over again. Then again, some individuals refuse to grow up. It is arguable most adult viewers of the show are simply children at heart.

Often times, deeper meanings are embedded within the storyline. Questions most of us are still asking shed light on life’s difficult experiences. Characters like Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess (voiced by Pendleton himself) and the Ice King may appear dislikable because of the mischief they cause, but have redeeming qualities that humanize the show.

For instance, in the episode “It Came From the Nightosphere” Marceline the Vampire Queen thinks her dad doesn’t care about her because he lives in the “underworld” and never sees her. She plays the guitar and writes songs about him, revealing her sense of abandonment. When Finn plays a recording of Marceline’s song for her father, he asks for forgiveness and explains how hard it is to be the Lord of Evil. The father and daughter communicate their differences and reach an understanding. This is a teachable moment for children, but more importantly a reminder for ¬adults that forgiveness and reconciliation are invaluable.

It is refreshing to come across an animated series with a well thought out storyline, one which is not just concerned with keeping the attention of a five-year-old. This show has a lighthearted tone and witty dialogue, but bridges a connection with people on an emotional level. Through Finn and Jake viewers may find themselves chuckling along to jokes, or empathizing when hard times come their way. “Adventure Time” discusses topics like loss, love, cruelty, bravery and uncertainty. College students could stand to learn from the challenge incorporated into this “children’s show.” At times it is interesting in comparison how the strange land of Ooo can reflect the world we live in.

Palette-pleasing bar to serve up new features

BAILEY DOWLIN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Tavern-goers relax in the dim lighting of Clifton Heights Tavern, which was formerly known as Baba Budan’s. The name of the bar was changed to appeal to the University of Cincinnati and Clifton communities, according to management.

Ariel Quartet commences CCM’s concert seasonCollege’s Quartet-in-residence delivers musical beauty note by note ZACK HATFIELD | ARTS EDITOR

Audience members in the full house of Corbett Auditorium coughed nervously, waiting for the College-Conservatory of Music’s first show of the fall season to begin after a long silence. Then, after the momentary suspense, a quartet entered radiantly onto the stage to a thunderous applause.

Tuesday night’s show celebrated the renowned Ariel Quartet, CCM’s quartet-in-residence since 2012, as well as the classical music legend and pianist Menahem Pressler.

Before the concert began, Pressler accepted an invitation to Cincinnati’s American Classical Music Hall of Fame on behalf of the Beaux Arts Trio, of which he was a founding member.

The Ariel Quartet, who formed in Israel, consists of Alexandra Kazovsky and Gershon Gerchikov on violin, Jan Grüning on viola, and Amit Even-Tov on cello. The quartet, who formed in Israel over 16 years ago, are all either 30 years old or younger—which makes their accomplishments in the field of classical music even more awe-inspiring.

The Ariel Quartet performed Joseph Haydn’s Quartet in G major, Op. 76

as its first piece. They played full of vivacity and charisma, the entire quartet animated by the music. Each musician breathed life into Haydn’s quartet, the sounds relaying beautifully through the crisp acoustics of the auditorium.

The next piece played was composer Alban Berg’s String Quartet, Op. 3, a capricious piece the quartet played with audacity and liveliness, the unnerving dissonance contrasting with the first performance’s fluent beauty.

After a brief intermission, Pressler joined the quartet to play a resonant interpretation of Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34. Pressler played emotionally and at a perfect pace, showing the audience he’s still captivating, even at 90 years old.

This first show of the four-part series proves that the Ariel Quartet is more capable than ever; able to play every note they perform with lyricism and enchantment.

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The members of the quartet performed at CINCYinNYC to acclaim earlier in spring, and recently performed a complete cycle of Beethoven’s String Quartets before each musician turned 30.

“Each musician in the quartet breathed life into Haydn’s quartet, the sounds relaying beautifully through the crisp acoustics of the auditorium.”

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Finn and Jake star in “Adventure Time.”

BAILEY DOWLIN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Clifton Heights Tavern offers more than 50 varieties of beer, in addition to five breweries and local craft beers.

Meet Jon, an aspiring musician: he walks to the edge of a rocky bluff with a moleskine and pen, desperately trying to write lyrics, and witnesses a man trying to drown himself in the ocean. The man’s friends watch from a short distance, impartial and seemingly disinterested as two police officers try and subdue the man each time he lunges for the bottom of the shallow water. Jon, horrified, turns to the closest person of the group and asks who the man is. Don answers, “He’s our keyboardist.” This opening scene is representative of the film’s subtle irony. Long story short, Don asks Jon to join the band for the night as keyboardist, later on enlisting him to travel with the group to Ireland to record an album. There, at a countryside retreat, is where Jon meets and lives among the band members, including Frank, a quirky and highly creative individual who is instantly recognizable from a paper-mache head that he has always worn. The leader of the band, named Soronprfbs, he’s a

man who is limitless in originality. Jon envies Frank’s descriptive, metaphorical, and detail-oriented lyrics as opposed to his own, and documents everything that he experiences via blog and Twitter. Maggie Gyllenhaall also stars as Clara, Scoot McNairy as Jon, and Frank is played brilliantly by Michael Fassbender. The film is loosely based on Chris Sievey’s comedic, musical character Frank Sidebottom, who was initially created to be an overly optimistic and enthusiastic fan of Sievey’s band, The Freshies. Frank Sidebottom was later developed into a full-blown comedic act of Sievey’s, touring England extensively. The plot of the film is inspired by screenwriter Jon Ronson’s short experiences as keyboardist in Chris Sievey’s Oh Blimey Big Band, detailed in his memoir, “Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie.” The screenplay first began as an adaptation of Ronson’s writings but later became a fictional take on his time in the band. “Frank” is an extremely delightful film for it’s dark but comedic take on the act of creativity and self-expression. It has appropriate amounts of seriousness, yet “Frank” is more so a comedy on what it means to be innovative, and what it takes. The film doesn’t ridicule creativity, but

rather hilariously contemplates how hard it is to convey emotion, thought, and feeling in an artistic, musical way. Frank has the uncanny ability to read, understand, and convey emotion in a stream-of-consciousness way, and he finds meaning in every little thing around him. It’s ironic how he’s labeled as a freak, yet people can’t help but follow him and his music. Contrastingly, Jon is knowledgeable and passionate about music, but he speaks as if reciting from a book, analyzing everything he’s saying as he’s saying it, instead of just going with it and not looking back. His overly careful and methodical way in which he tries to make music doesn’t seem to work as opposed to Frank. The film’s idiosyncratic music and feel is largely inspired by musicians such as Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, who made some of the most peculiar, stimulating, and fascinating compositions ever heard. “Frank” excels in questioning what it means to be fully expressive and true to one’s self and nature in a world saturated with social media and systematic crafting of musical images. While it examines the pros and cons of social media, the film focuses more heavily on the essence of creativity, achieving this through remarkably well-drawn and in-depth characters.

Director Lenny Abrahamson’s new film traces innovation’s process, questions role of social media

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After four long years, another inventive album from alt-rock’s dreary heroes

Although the title means “The Painter” in Spanish, you won’t find any songs about watercolors on the album; it’s simply an anagram of the band’s name. Their first album in four years, Interpol has returned with “El Pintor,” a love letter to the alternative, dark roots that put them on the map in the early 2000’s. This is the band’s fifth album since their formation in the clubs of New York in 1997. It consists of ten haunting tracks performed by Paul Banks (guitar, bass, vocals), Sam Fogarino (drums, percussion), and Daniel Kessler (guitar, piano). Paul Banks also takes up the bass guitar for this album after original bassist Carlos Dengler left the band. The songs on “El Pintor” are reminiscent of the sound that the band created when they first got together: a gloomy, dark noise with a creeping pace. Vocals and guitar are the key players in this album. The ghostly singing paired with a guitar’s slow crescendo throughout each piece echo with a grainy static that blends seamlessly with the trademark reverb of Kessler’s guitar. Almost every song on the album begins with a singular and unique guitar riff that is built up, expanded, and re-imagined by the end of the song. The album opens with “All The Rage Back Home,” which begins with eerie whispers of a conversation between a man and a woman struggling with the way they feel for one another. The chorus then jumps into a much more upbeat melody with a high pitched guitar riff. The song transitions back and

forth between Interpol’s dark sound and something much more progressive. “My Blue Supreme” offers a different feeling than many of the other songs on the album. A man talks about love and cruising in his “Blue Supreme.” The first description for this song that comes to mind is simply “cool.” When lyrics like “When love comes, honey, take it/Only one in a hundred make it/You fake until there’s nothing to fake,” are sung, it draws the image of a world-weary man in a leather jacket giving his sad advice to a more innocent youth. Perhaps the creepiest song on the album, “Breaker 1,” warns us to “come back, come back” to the lull of slow, evolving guitar playing. Banks tells us that the “beast inside” him wants “you so much darling/needs you so much darling.” The chorus chills listeners with the repetition of the line “come back, come back, I’m the warning/Come back, come back, breaker one.” The track also features the most interesting use of background vocals on the album, really utilizing the the white noise of the vocals and guitar to emulate a sound like someone calling into a walkie-talkie, warning someone on the other end to come back. Interpol has created more than just an album with “El Pintor,” they have created and helped navigate listeners through a dark and secret atmosphere. The songs on the album do not dwell on perfection and pitch, but rather let all the pieces of their band blend together. Voice, guitar, bass, and percussion mesh to form solid and intriguing pieces that convey a dissonant and unsettling feeling in the listener.

RUSSEL HAUSFELD | CONTRIBUTOR

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The band recently released their first album, “Soft Friday.”

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Michael Fassbender (pictured above in the mask) plays the eccentric Frank, who guides viewers of the film through a poignant story examining the hardships of self-expression in the 21st century.

‘El Pintor’ paints Interpol’s dark world

A&Q London’s psych-duo Coves to perform at MidPoint

After the release of its first LP, “Soft Friday,” Coves plans to tour the U.S. alongside Dutch indie band The Raveonettes. Coves’ style is a bit kaleidoscopic, a hint of ’60s underground bands like 13th Floor Elevators mixed with a more modern rockabilly sound. Both bands are making a stop at Cincinnati’s monstrous MidPoint Music Festival at the Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. on Sept. 27. The band sat down with The News Record to talk about touring the U.S. for the first time, not planning, and why you shouldn’t form a band.

TNR: How did you guys meet and get into making music in the first place?

JR: We live in London now but we’re originally from a small town called Leamington Spa. We knew each other from working at a music venue, so we kind of met through work.

TNR: What is the songwriting process like? Do both of you write the songs or is it usually one member who serves as lyricist?

JR: I’ve always had a little studio, so I put the tunes together and Beck will come in with words and work on melodies. She likes to do a lot of visual stuff after that.

TNR: Was creating ‘Soft Friday’ a challenge, it being your first full length album?

JR: No, not really. There wasn’t a plan involved. We were

just sort of messing around with these songs anyway. There was no set idea to release it or even play live. It was mostly just fun.

TNR: How would you categorize yourselves?

JR: I tend to listen to a variety of different music, so I never like to necessarily pigeonhole ourselves into one thing. It’s always more of a surprise when we record. I’ll say ‘Oh this sounds a bit like Easter & the Bunnymen’ and hey, it does.

TNR: Has Coves toured the U.S. before? How was it if so? If not, how do you think you’ll be received?

JR: No, we’re really excited. Neither of us have even been on holiday. I don’t know if we’ll be received well], I hope so. We’re touring with The Raveonettes so that’ll be great too. I really have no idea what to expect. We hear American audiences are really good. London audiences are notoriously known for being rather cold.

TNR: How does England shape your music, if it does?

JR: Now that we’re in London it’s different because we were in a small town, living and recording in a small space. And it was very much influenced by that; there weren’t many outside sources or anything. In London there’s a different pace of life.

TNR: If you could give any advice to someone forming their own band, what would that be?

JR: Not to [laughs]. I’ve been in plenty of bands before who were in it for the wrong reasons. Just do what you want. That’s when the best stuff happens. That’s when stuff comes out.

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‘Frank’ opens dialogue about struggles of creativityMONROE TROMBLY | STAFF REPORTER

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Cincinnati crews visit local park for day of high-speed creativity on four wheelsALEX TAYLOR | CONTRIBUTOR

It is easy to recognize the familiar rough sound of a skateboard, longboard, scooter or bicycle when walking to class and the instinct to either step to the left or the right to let the rider pass. On Sept. 7, a group of longboarders came together, thanks to Paul Wright, a local longboarder, for the Ault Park Longboard Jam in Mount Lookout. Participants soared down hills, carved corners and slid with their longboards.

There’s a stereotype of skateboarders and long boarders: lazy kids that trespass and ruin private property with their boards. This is not the case. It’s a sport that very seldom has facilities for longboarders to practice in to enhance their skills. So, they take to the streets, sidewalks, and unique architectural properties that they know will challenge them and enhance their skills. Longboarding is a sport that takes strength, coordination, balance and willingness to hit the ground hard, but get back up, and try again.

You may have seen some of the participants around the University of

Cincinnati campus with their boards. Adam Gates, an entrepreneurship student in Carl H. Lindner College of Business, and Jeff Mclntosh a UC alumnus, lead the unofficial UC Longboarding Crews.

“All different skill levels are welcome to board with us,” said Boris Gabriel, head of the Cincinnati Longboard Crew.

Being part of the crew means you meet up with other longboarders at a location with steep hills and limited traffic. Most longboarders that came Sunday have been boarding two to five years, and their skills showed, carving and sliding down one of the trails of Ault Park. Longboarders reach high speeds going downhill then slide sideways.

“I’m from Vermont and I learned how to longboard going down a four-mile hill reaching up to 65-70 mph,” said longboader and UC student Tyler Patno.

The gear to get started longboarding includes: a helmet, kneepads, elbow pads, and gloves with round-sliders.

There are different styles of longboards with sizes ranging from 24-46 inches in length. The three basic styles of decks are: flexible drop-through, traditional cruiser shape and commuter style.

What makes each style different, other than the obvious shape, is the flexibility, stability, and ease of carving corners. Under the deck are the trucks, which act

as an axel for the wheels.There are different lengths of trucks,

depending on the size of the longboard. The general rule of thumb is to choose trucks that are closest to the width of the deck. When choosing wheels, longer decks work well with bigger wheels and smaller decks with smaller wheels.

There are two options for wheel shape: sharp-lip or round-lip.

Sharp-lip wheels are for general cruising and slides because they give the rider more grip, where the round-Lip wheels are designed for more intense slides and carving due to less grip.

The size of the wheel and the wheel’s hardness are other factors in choosing the proper wheels for longboarding. For short boards 60-67mm wheels are recommended, medium 68-72mm and large 70-75mm.

So what’s next for these long-boarders? Courtney Walsh, a UCBA student studying radiology technology, heads to Toronto, Canada, for The Board Meeting.

“It’s going to be a great time,” Walsh said. “All skill levels go and it’s fun.”

At this event, participants are dressed in white shirts and ties and ride down Yonge Street. Both UC Longboarding Crew and Cincinnati Longboard Crew will get together for another longboard jam at Eden Park in the next few weeks.

Bearcats add another shut out to season after claiming two conference awards

CLAUDE THOMPSON | CONTRIBUTOR

One shot was all it took for the University of Cincinnati women’s soccer team to put a goal on the board and take the lead for a match that would ultimately end in a 5-0 thrashing of the St. Francis University Red Flash at Gettler Stadium.

The first shot of the game belonged to junior forward Mackenzie Grause and that was all she needed as she found the back of the net in the 3rd minute to get the UC Bearcats off to a lightning quick start. The assist went to senior defender Christi Mason who played on the first UC corner kick of the match before it rebounded right to Grause, ready to receive and deliver.

That goal quickly put the winless Red Flash on their heels, but the Bearcats unleashed their now signature press offense on the ailing opponents and buried goal after goal. The pressure of the Bearcats was so intense that the team drew seven offside calls, including one

goal being called off—the second goal called off this weekend for UC.

Head coach Neil Stafford employed a multitude of substitutions in the match and out-subbed the Red Flash 15 substitutes to five. This kept fresh legs out on the field and helped the team continue to keep the ball on the opponent’s side of the pitch.

“To see us sharing the game,” Stafford said about his substitutions. “… that’s the most important thing we’ve got going on right now and it’s been nice to have everyone included.”

One of the substitutes was junior forward Danielle Rotheram, who came on to shoot three times, score twice and assist another goal, this goal by fellow forward Taylor Jackson.

“Allowing my work rate to evolve was helping me see the game better… knowing when to make the early runs in behind the defense,” Rotheram said.

The American Athletic Conference selected Rotheram as Offensive Player of the Week—her first career league award. Bearcat teammate and freshman defender Vanessa Gilles was the recipient of the league’s Defensive Player of the Week award.

The defense, led by starter Gilles, held the Red Flash to only three shots on the afternoon and prevented the opposition from scoring a goal for the second time this weekend and the third time this season.

“I think teams have dropped off on us and made life a little bit easier for us,” Stafford said. “We’ve stayed very well organized and I’m very, very impressed with what [assistant coach] Gavin MacLeod has been doing with our defensive structure.”

Stafford coaches a complete-team defensive philosophy.

“We start defending from the front,” Stafford said. “We can’t defend individually. It’s a one, collective effort. Our forwards do a good job of shaping how we want [the opposing players] to go and our midfielders provide that support and then, obviously, our defenders clean up. That’s the mentality of pressure, cover and balance for us right now.”

The Bearcats hit the road for their next match against Marshall University 4 p.m. Friday before returning to Gettler Stadium to host crosstown rivals Xavier University 1 p.m. Sunday.

ALEX TAYLOR | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERJeff McIntosh. glides down a hill on a Cincinnati path as a part of the University of Cincinnati Longboarding Crew’s visit to Ault Park in Mount Lookout Sunday.

OP: UC football prepares for season without notable rivalries

UC quarterback decision shows talent all around

Scheduling poses problems for football program, leaves voids in competitionPATRICK LAAKE | STAFF REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati Bearcats have a serious problem on their hands this year; every big rival is gone.

This year’s schedule disappoints on every level. Every home game is against a mediocre team at best and our two giant road games are turning out to be pretty average.

Ohio State University was the big turn on this year for Bearcat fans but since the loss of Braxton Miller—and then add in a 1-1 start to the season—the Bucks aren’t looking too hot. Will it still be amazing to see Cincinnati take over the state of

Ohio? Yes, but by beating a team who lost multiple All-Americans from last season, that’s not that special.

The next biggest game is University of Miami and they haven’t had a good season since the early 2000s. The Hurricanes were just destroyed in Louisville and are only expected to win six or seven games.

Last year, the finale against University of Louisville highlighted what was an OK schedule. Now that Louisville has taken the Keg of Nails to the American Athletic Conference, Cincinnati is left wondering who their biggest rival is.

“It’s a little different, we don’t have the Pittsburgh or the Louisville on the schedule this year,” said senior running back Ralph David Abernathy IV. “New rivalries are going to start.”

All good rivalries are within close proximity to one another, the Bearcats’ closest opponent in the conference is University of Memphis. Is our next big rival that far away from us?

Now, if athletic director Mike Bohn can pull some strings and get Ohio State, the University of Kentucky, University of Pittsburgh, or West Virginia University to commit long term to playing every year, then we might have a rivalry.

This season, the expectations are through the roof and they should be. Cincinnati’s toughest test will be under the lights at OSU, but after that it should be smooth sailing. The Bearcats are flat out better than everyone on their schedule. The only other team that will threaten the Bearcats for the AAC title is the University of Central Florida and, as

fate would have it, the two don’t play each other.

Cincinnati is still years away from the College Football Playoff, and rightfully so since the last two major Southeastern Conference teams they played were the University of Florida and the University of Tennessee, both ended in 30+ point losses.

Cincinnati isn’t ready for a stage or teams like that.

The Bearcats need to step up the scheduling in the future, otherwise why would fans buy season tickets just to see Memphis and Southern Methodist University every year?

This season will be another step in the process, but look for the Bearcats to finish 10-3 with a trip to an average bowl game.

PATRICK LAAKE | STAFF REPORTER

For the second year in a row the University of Cincinnati Bearcats have not named a definite starter at quarterback. Munchie Legaux, Gunner Kiel, and Jarred Evans are all expected to see the field Friday, when the Bearcats open against University of Toledo.

Last season Legaux and Brendan Kay split time throughout the first two games until Legaux suffered a severe knee injury in a 45-17 loss at University of Illinois.

With Legaux’s senior season cut short, Cincinnati applied for a fifth year of eligibility, the NCAA granted the extra year and it seemed like the quarterback conundrum was going to be back for another year.

At the beginning of the year, it looked like it would be Legaux and Kiel dueling it out for the position. Then Evans stepped into the picture.

“We’re going to see all three this year,” said head coach Tommy Tuberville. “It is going to depend on what they do on defense.”

Evans has put an entirely different wrinkle in the situation. Evans is a junior college transfer from Santa Barbara Community College in California and is in his third year of eligibility. He is a dual threat—with passing and rushing game— just like Legaux.

For the past few years, there was a buzz surrounding Kiel with everyone just waiting until the golden boy could lead the Bearcats.

Kiel was a top prospect coming out of high school and he accepted a scholarship from the University of Notre Dame. He was expected to start there until fellow freshman Everett Golsen stole the show. With Golsen expected to be the starter for the next four years, Kiel jumped ship and came to Cincinnati.

It was just a matter of time until Kay and Legaux were gone and the job would belong to Kiel. Now with Legaux’s extra year and Evans coming in, the question is: Will Kiel ever get to start in college?

“Gunner hasn’t played in three years, that’s concerning,” Tuberville said.

A three-quarterback system is risky, to say the least. None of the guys are even getting half the reps and that could especially affect Evans, who is new to the system.

Last year, the system worked against Purdue University but in the second game, neither quarterbacl could get into a rhythm so the offense struggled.

During the first week of the season, Vanderbilt University threw out three quarterbacks against Temple University and that was an absolute train wreck. This system has rarely been successful, so Tuberville has to play this just right.

“[They’re] going to be a couple bullpen guys to come out and give a different wrinkle,” Tuberville said.

Luckily the Bearcats open up against a couple Mid-American Conference universities and hopefully have this completion completed by week three when they travel to play Ohio State University in their stadium, commonly referred to as “The Shoe.” For Cincinnati to have any shot at beating the Buckeyes, there will need to be strong leadership behind the center.

So far, there is no indication of who is ahead in the race. Maybe one quarterback will play an entire half or they might switch mid-drive. Toledo’s coaching staff is going to have their hands full this week trying to prepare for three different scenarios.

Longboarding: Carve, slide on free ride

FRIDAY, SEPT. 12

7:00 pm

Football vs. Toledo,at Paul Brown Stadium

7:00 pmMen’s Soccer vs. Xavier,

at Xavier

1:00 pmWomen’s Soccer vs. Xavier,

at Gettler Stadium

SATURDAY, SEPT. 13 SUNDAY, SEPT. 14

SPORTING EVENTS THIS WEEKEND

Women’s soccer puts out Red Flash’s light