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After a series of student-charged campaigns to end sexual assault on campus, Lynn Rosenthal — the adviser to the White House on Violence Against Women — visited the University of Cincinnati Friday to commend the work being done by students, faculty and administration to prevent, respond to and end sexual assault in the community.

UC planned a daylong event for Rosenthal with multiple sessions where she advised students and administration on investigating sexual assaults and keeping survivors’ best interests in the center of it all.

Rosenthal’s visit was sponsored by Amy Howton, along with UC’s RECLAIM peer advocates and the UC Women’s Center, the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence, Fellows of the Graduate School of UC and Women Helping Women.

To begin the event, Rosenthal addressed survivors of sexual assault in the audience.

“It’s you, the survivors, who are my inspiration every day,” Rosenthal said. “Every day, when I walk in that gate [to the White House,] I feel like the survivors are with me when I walk in. It is the survivors who have inspired me throughout that journey. I want to thank the survivors that are here today.”

Rosenthal was drawn to speak at UC after she saw UC President Santa Ono’s leadership and the work being done to actively improve survivor services and the way that sexual assault cases are investigated.

“Coming from Washington DC, sometimes I know that people don’t recognize the resources they have right here in their own backyard,” Rosenthal said. “I almost feel like my work in the White House is done when a college president stands before you and takes the pledge and says, ‘It’s on us.’ ”

Ono spoke on the importance of RECLAIM and the national fight against sexual assault on campuses and in communities.

“Our UC student advocates and the RECLAIM program were really central in the university’s response even prior to the White House task force,” Ono said. “They were pivotal before the report and they were pivotal in the actual report itself.”

Though UC’s RECLAIM recently lost its confidential hotline, it continues to push forward to change the university’s handling of sexual assault for good.

Lauren Stoll — a RECLAIM Peer Advocate and fourth-year social work and women’s studies student — said the event with Rosenthal and the UC It’s On Us campaign is only the beginning for UC’s fight against sexual assault.

“This is the time to start this revolution and having someone from the White House visit and say, ‘We are here to talk about this and we want to start a conversation around this,’ is powerful,” Stoll said. “There needs to be a more collaborative effort and I think this is the perfect starting point for that.”

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A passionate voice echoed across the Tangeman University Center’s Great Hall as inspirational speaker Patrice Barnes demanded that the women of the University of Cincinnati find their power and purpose.

“There is a reason for your breathing. There is a reason for the palpitation of your heart. You are here for a purpose, on purpose, to fulfill a purpose,” Barnes said.

Barnes’ speech, which included a reading of Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Women,” was just a slice of what Tiffany Petersons, fourth-year marketing student and Ms. Kuamka 2014, had in store for her inaugural I Am A Queen Women’s Empowerment Event.

With the support of the African-American Cultural and Resource Center, Women’s Center and the Ethnic Programs and Services, the event was a student-organized conglomerate of invited educational and inspirational speakers who sought to empower women to carve their own paths and to create

a community of women to support each other.

Holly McGee, an assistant professor in the history department, stressed the sense of community in her speech to the congregation of around 250 students and supporters.

“It is not the easiest thing to be in a minority position in a collegiate environment,” McGee said. “For women of color or of similar socioeconomic backgrounds, it’s important to have a feeling of having a home of people you can turn to, who look like you, sound like you and feel like you.”

Headed by Ms. Ebony J, a radio talk-show host for 101.1 The Wiz, the program featured spoken-word artist Abdine Lewis, an African dance performance by the Queens of UC African Student Association, jazz music by the band Natural Progression and a fashion show celebrating all facets of expression – from professional and cultural, to sporty and sophisticated.

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A Thanksgiving Food Drive Relay Race brought over 50 University of Cincinnati faculty, staff and students together Thursday to contribute to underprivileged families across Cincinnati while also growing a local church community.

Crossroads, a multisite, non-denominational church in Cincinnati, hosted the event. The church recently acquired a location in the Clifton community in hopes to reach UC students.

Last year 85,000 meals were provided by the Church of Cincinnati, which is comprised of 90 churches in Cincinnati and includes Crossroads.

“The Church of Cincinnati, over the last 18 years, have been feeding families in Cincinnati who couldn’t afford or wouldn’t have a Thanksgiving meal the way that many of the rest of us do,” said Lena Tome, the campus pastor of Crossroads UC.

Tome is also a UC alumna who graduated from the Lindner Honors Plus program in 2014. Her father, Brian Tome, is the pastor at Crossroads in Oakley, which is

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Before the race, participants gathered in Bogart’s. Over 50 faculty, staff and students of UC participated with UC Crossroads in a Thanksgiving Food Drive Relay Race Thursday.

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Patrice Barnes, an inspirational speaker, uses a crushed plastic cup as a metaphor to stress the importance of fulfilling one’s purpose in life by first taking care of the body during the event.

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Lynn Rosenthal, adviser to the White House, said that sexual assault will end with the generation of students in college today.

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UNIVERSITY RECOGNIZED FOR WORK AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULTProfessor noted as top cardiovascular researcher in USLEON KRATZ | CONTRIBUTOR

A University of Cincinnati professor was recognized by the American Heart Association as one of the top cardiovascular researchers in the country, a recognition that only five women have received.

Dr. Evangelia Kranias, a pharmacology and cell biophysics professor and director of cardiovascular biology at UC, was honored last week at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions for her career contribution to advancing the understanding and management of cardiovascular disease.

Kranias was honored in a special reception along with her peers, a select group of about 60 people named Distinguished Scientists by the American Heart Association at the Nov. 16-19 Scientific Sessions in Chicago.

“This year the AHA had a big reception recognizing all of us,” Kranias said. “It was a special recognition for all the distinguished scientists, who are the top cardiovascular researchers in the country.”

The AHA started recognizing worthy scientists in 2003, and four or five have been named each year since then.

Kranias was named a Distinguished Scientist in 2009, but for her, there is an even greater source of pride.

“This is the recognition of 30 years of work in our lab,” Kranias said. “This is a lifetime recognition and there are very few people in the country who have this title, and out of them there are only five women, and I’m one of them.”

Yet Kranias did not become part of such an elite category without a phenomenal career.

Kranias emigrated from Greece to the U.S. as an undergraduate Fulbright scholar at the University of Chicago, and received her doctorate degree from Northwestern University in molecular biology and biochemistry. She came to the University of Cincinnati in 1978.

Since then she has dedicated her career to uncovering new solutions to cardiovascular disease, and as a result she became Distinguished University Research Professor in 2004.

With more than 250 published works, she has contributed to numerous advancements in her field, and she presented some of these findings to the AHA last week.

“I was an invited speaker on our most recent findings regarding the regulation of the heart by genes that we recently discovered and the impact of these genes in the heart under healthy and disease conditions.”

Kranias and her team discovered one of these genes, a protein called phosphatase

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Students produce inventions geared toward improving community lifeCARSON HOOVER | CONTRIBUTOR

Engineering and nursing students met Wednesday at the University of Cincinnati’s Sheakley Complex to host the annual Robotics Night, where they displayed robots designed to assist police officers, doctors and the elderly.

Sponsored by For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology

(FIRST), an organization that inspires students to pursue careers in science and technology, this event gave students the opportunity to display some of the machines and robots they created.

After students showed off creations in the Sheakley bubble, the UC Robotics Club moved the festivities to Fifth Third Arena, where they featured their new T-shirt cannon — the BearCatapult — during Wednesday night’s basketball game.

“It’s completely functional already, but

we want to get everything 100 percent,” said Ben Roll, a mechanical engineering graduate student, in regard to the cannon. “We want to make it look good.”

The T-shirt cannon operates similarly to a Gatling gun; the machine spins and pulls a chain through, releasing one T-shirt at a time. Roll added that the group’s first-generation T-shirt gun utilized only one cannon.

A subgroup of the Robotics Club, Aerobots, is working to further the technology with a different robot.

“We’re working on the photo recognition of license plates,” said Jacob Lee, a second-year aerospace engineering student and Aerobots team leader. “When it’s done it could be used by police.”

With this new gadget, the police will be able to keep track and find people more easily.

A different robot built by the mechanical engineering students was created to paint lines, said Kevin Zhang, a fourth-year computer science student. Zhang commented on how expensive and ineffective it is for construction companies to hand-paint every line. This new product will reduce costs without compromising efficiency.

Zhang mentioned that there are about 15 mechanical and electrical engineering students working on this robot. The prototype is a senior design project, and it is expected to be completed by late spring and put into use on campus.

The College of Nursing introduced three “telehealth” robots: V-go, ROMO and Flo-bot. These robots are a major component of the Maple Knoll UC Smart Innovation Collaboratory House, a villa within a Springdale retirement home.

The telehealth robots can visit elderly patients within Maple Knoll. V-go is more visual, while Flo-bot can actually assess in-home patients, explained Robin Wagner, interim skills and simulation director.

Flo-bot has sensors that make it impossible for it to run into anything. A camera on the front allows the doctor controlling it to see the patient, and a camera on the laptop that controls Flo-bot allows the patient to see the doctor.

Doctors can look at a wound through Flo-bot’s eyes and decide how to treat it.

“The vision on Flo-bot is 20-times better than human eyes,” said Xiancheng Yu, a fourth-year electrical engineering student.

Not only does Flo-bot benefit people in the field, but it also benefits UC’s nursing students, who can experiment with it and learn about their studies outside of the classroom.

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The BearCatapult, a cannon the UC Robotics Club made, has six revolving barrels and uses compressed gas to launch T-shirts into the crowd.

Students’ palates get culture lessonMADISON SCHMIDT | PHOTO EDITOR

Members of the Chinese Student and Scholar Association serve fried rice at their booth during the International Taste event held in the Great Hall as part of UC’s International Education Week.

International Taste event brings diverse foods to campus, sees largest turnout CASSIE LIPP | SENIOR REPORTER

Recipes from across the world sizzled in Tangeman University Center’s Great Hall Wednesday night during International Taste, an event that strives to educate about other cultures while providing free food from all over the globe.

This year’s International Taste saw the largest turnout in the event’s history, according to Program Manager Nicole Jenkins.

While International Taste is normally sponsored by the University of Cincinnati’ Student Government Association, this was the first year UC International co-sponsored the event, Jenkins said.

“What [UC International] tries to do is put on events that help American students and international students know that each other are on campus,” Jenkins said.

Before students could get their share of international cuisine, they were required to visit booths set up by different campus organizations such as Cultural Connections and Latinos en Acción. They also had the opportunity to learn about the various clubs and the countries they represent.

As the students went through the booths, they earned tickets that could be exchanged for food. This was the first year students had to go through this process, said Latinos en Acción President Tamika Jones.

“I have been here four years, and there has never been this system,” Jones said.

Jones said that, in years past, the food would run out within 10 minutes because students would just come to International Taste, get their share of food and leave.

“I love cultures,” Jones said. “I love tasting the different foods from each

country, and I feel like I am able to taste a part of the country.”

Student Body Vice President Shivam Shah said he liked the idea behind the tickets.

“It’s a way for students to get more involved, more engaged,” Shah said.

Shah added that he was impressed by the large turnout this year.

Students were impressed by the diversity of cultures at the event. They had the opportunity to sample foods from a variety of cultures, from Italy to Saudi Arabia, India and the Caribbean.

“This is probably the most diverse I have seen UC since I have been here,” said Willie Bennett, a fourth-year communications student.

Bennett said his professor canceled his African-American Film and History Class that night because she wanted students to attend the event.

Sjaya Hopkins, a third-year information technology student, said her favorite part of the event was that students could enjoy so many different cultures in one facility.

“I think [UC] has a great blend of cultures. It would be cool for us to do more things like this,” Hopkins added.

Nik Worstell, a third-year sociology student and Cultural Connections webmaster, said this year’s International Taste was definitely a success.

“I think [students] came for the free food and stayed for the culture,” Worstell said.

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Anas Alsulaimy of the Saudi Arabian Student Association serves Arabic coffee during the Taste.

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Bleuzette Marshall, chief diversity officer and a doctor of education, saluted Peterson for using her platform to focus on women’s dignity, beauty and respect.

“[I Am A Queen] works against the misogynistic visuals and the objectification of women,” Marshall said. “I thank [Peterson] for elevating the conversation to the next level and allowing the women on campus and in the community to celebrate themselves as opposed to seeing themselves in demeaning ways and treating each other in a ‘mean girl’ mentality.”

Marshall described the event as a precursor to a movement for women to come together and to celebrate each other, detailing its message to remove the stigmas of media’s representation of women as bickering or petty.

“Often times we see on TV we hear about how women tear each other apart, and they’re just not kind to each other,” Marshall said. “[I Am A Queen] puts women in a new paradigm of really celebrating the intelligent, successful, beautiful women that we have in our midst on a day-to-day basis.”

Marshall also emphasized that the event challenges attendants to really think about what makes them beautiful, and what they can do with their gifts and their talents on campus and in the Greater Cincinnati area.

UC Student Body President Christina Beer also attended the event, and said she hopes to see more of them.

“Seeing these women taking on leadership is really exciting,” Beer said. “I could definitely see this as an opportunity for women, and there are plenty of opportunities for women to get invested

and empowered on campus next semester.” Peterson plans to make the event annual,

with additional plans of orchestrating a women’s conference with a soon-to-be-announced guest speaker.

“I would love to make it bigger and better each year,” Peterson said. “Not to increase the numbers for publicity’s sake, but to get the message out; for people to really get something out of it. That’s what I’m about.”

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inhibitor 1 (I–1) years ago, but it has only recently gone on to clinical trials.

“We discovered this gene’s function here, in my lab,” Kranias said. “We put it on the map, and showed that it plays a fine-tuned regulatory role for the heart’s pumping action.”

Since then, the real exciting discoveries Kranias says, are in the clinical trials being conducted around the world, which points to a new variation on the I–1 gene’s possible role in gene therapy and temporary heart disease treatment.

“Promising data show that advanced heart disease patients have survived beyond 4 years, and they are doing well, even playing golf in some cases,” Kranias said.

One injection of this gene would allow doctors to temporarily force a failing heart to beat normally, and with the strength of a healthy heart.

“This improves quality of life — keeping patients out of hospitals, because frequent hospitalizations is the major issue with heart failure patients and this costs a lot,” Kranias said.

Kranias stresses that this is by no means an alternative solution to a heart transplant, but a way to delay fatal problems until a heart is available for transplant.

“Or if somebody is old, or otherwise ineligible for transplant, they will have quality of life for a while.”

Kranias is careful to give credit to her chief collaborator, Dr. Roger Hajjar, a clinician responsible for securing a grant that allows the gene to go to human trials.

“This grant has been funded on the clinical trials, so we are recruiting the patients to start the first phase,” Kranias said.

Kranias also highlights the importance of the AHA Scientific Sessions in promoting collaboration.

“I networked with a lot of scientists — all my collaborators were there.”

Dr. Guo-Chang Fan, a UC associate professor and colleague of Kranias, agrees.

“The sessions bring me the latest science on better understanding, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease,” Fan said. “The annual meeting helps me to make new connections and exchange excellent ideas among colleagues.”

The sessions also offer an opportunity for less distinguished scientists to examine their career from the standpoint of Dr. Kranias and her peers.

“I participated in a panel discussion on career pathways for cardiovascular scientists and addressed questions by several young trainees asking what was the right path to follow,” said Kranias.

According to UC Professor of Medicine Dr. Richard Becker, this is something that makes Kranias especially valuable to UC and the medical community as a whole.

“She has mentored numerous young scientists who, in turn, made their own contributions,” Becker said. “This scholarly paradigm is the signature of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.”

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Queens of the UC African Student Association performed during I Am A Queen, a women’s empowerment event in TUC’s Great Hall Sunday.

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UC’s administration and Rosenthal agree that collaboration between the university, students, faculty and the community is crucial to ending sexual assault on and off campus.

In January, President Barack Obama signed the order to enlist a task force to protect students from sexual assault. The program, entitled Not Alone, is one of many initiatives Rosenthal is a part of to change the country’s response to sexual assault.

“When we’re addressing sexual assault issues in the White House, I couldn’t be more proud to work with President Obama and Vice President Biden,” Rosenthal said. “These are two men, leaders of our country, and fathers of daughters who get it so deeply in their hearts and who speak about it so clearly.”

Biden was the author and sponsor of the Violence Against Women Act, a federal law signed in 1994 to improve the criminal justice response to violence against women. A large part of the VAWA has been successful. According to Rosenthal, annual rates of domestic violence have dropped 64 percent since the passage of the act.

Though the White House has done work against domestic violence, studies show that the rate has remained stagnant. The Centers for Disease Control survey of violence and behavioral effects for youth in high schools reported that 1 in 10 teens will be physically hurt on purpose by a boyfriend.

“The same number as when the survey was first done in 1999,” Rosenthal said. “In this more than 10-year period, we have not moved the needle on that number.”

Rosenthal also spoke about those in the country who were never privileged enough to make it to college campuses who are also experiencing violence.

“Our efforts must extend to all communities, particularly the most

marginalized, the most isolated, and the most invisible among us,” Rosenthal said.

Sexual assault was estimated at one point to be the costliest crime in the United States, according to Rosenthal, when you consider mental health, quality of life and loss of productivity.

“This is no small problem,” Rosenthal said. “We do a disservice when we consider it to be just sort of something that happened on a bad Saturday night. It’s not that; it’s something else entirely.”

Moving forward with the momentum of this event, UC officials said they will focus on improved training, increasing prevention techniques and reshaping the way that the university handles survivors of sexual assault.

In addition to the UC It’s On Us campaign, organized and sponsored by UC Provost Beverly Davenport’s office, UC has taken steps to address sexual assault on its campus and to improve their response to sexual assault.

Some improvements have been to create a new Title IX website — which makes resources easier to find and to understand and helps the reporting process — and instituting a training program for all first-years, transfers, and international students to complete. Ono said this program is in the works to be expanded across the entire institution and will be mandatory starting next year.

“I think what’s great about college and higher education is that we are able to bring something like this into this environment with faculty, staff, students and have this conversation together as a community,” said Jason Goodrich, chief of the UC police department and director of public safety. “From the law enforcement perspective, what’s important to me is that everyone realizes these are community issues. It’s not just a student issue; it’s not just a police issue. Everything is community related, the impetus to have these discussions and get

us all going in the same direction.”Rosenthal, along with the White

House task force, suggested campus climate surveys which measure students’ perceptions of sexual assault, the number of students assaulted, the types of assault, and how students would react to someone being assaulted — if they would know what to do or what resources to use to help a survivor.

Rosenthal said that universities need an outlet for students who want to remain anonymous, but need to speak to someone about their assault. Ultimately, she said, reporting should not be imposed on a student.

“Students need a place to go that’s confidential. They need a place to go that’s somebody who isn’t immediately in that reporting chain,” Rosenthal said. “When students can tell somebody that’s happened, and know that it’s confidential, then they are more likely to make an official report to the school.”

Rosenthal commended the resources that UC has available for students and survivors to utilize when seeking help after living through an assault, and that the survivor’s wellbeing must be central in any investigations.

“Sexual violence takes away someone’s autonomy. It’s a violation of bodily integrity like nothing else that people experience,” Rosenthal said. “Complete control is lost in that moment of the assault and so for us to swoop in and take control is not helpful. What is helpful is to restore autonomy and control to this survivor.”

Rosenthal took a moment in her speech to address the students and their role in the future of sexual assault prevention.

“The passion that I’ve seen bringing men and women together. It’s just happening, it’s happening organically. I’m actually more optimistic than I’ve ever been that we’re just about there,” Rosenthal said. “This is the generation that’s going to end sexual assault on campus. It’s you guys.”

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Rosenthal spoke to a full house at TUC in the Great Hall Friday about sexual assault on college campuses and in the community.

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located about 10 minutes from UC, and has been with the church since its foundation.

This year, Tome and the Crossroads staff decided to conduct a food drive relay race in order to help build community within the organization.

For the race, individuals were instructed to gather in groups of four. Some groups signed up ahead of time and others signed up individually and worked in groups with others they did not know. Groups were given lists of food items needed to fill Thanksgiving donation boxes and had to bring back receipts from Kroger when they were finished.

Bonus points were given for extra effort, such as taking pictures with the Mick and Mack statues in front of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences. Teams were not allowed to split up and were instructed to work together.

“We wanted to do this in order to be part of the Thanksgiving food drive and provide meals, but we also wanted it to be fun and a way for friend groups to come together and for people to meet each other and create connections,” Tome said.

Justin Pichichero, a fourth-year exercise science student and regular Crossroads member, said he enjoyed the relay race. Pichichero went on the race with a

couple that he didn’t know, from which he said he received good life advice.

Cassie Schimmoeller, a fourth-year nursing student, said that this was only her third time coming to a Crossroads event.

“I started coming when it came to Clifton,” Schimmoeller said. “It was only a block away from my house.”

Schimmoeller said although she was raised Catholic, she enjoys attending Crossroads because it’s fun and she can learn from the services.

The overall goal of Crossroads is to connect seekers and allow them to experience God in a language that they can understand, Tome said.

Emily Piercey, a staff member at UC’s Campus Recreation Center, has volunteered with Crossroads in the past and is excited about its new location.

“I’ve been wanting Crossroads to come to Clifton for a long time,” Piercey said.

This fall semester, Crossroads UC held three services on Sunday evenings at Bogart’s on Short Vine Street. An average of 300 individuals have attended each service, most of who were students.

Services will continue weekly at Bogart’s at 7 p.m. during the spring semester.

“My heart is for my friends at UC and for people who are in college going through what I went through,” Tome said.

Editor’s note: This movie was reviewed by the arts editor during an all-expenses-paid press junket in New York City.

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Pop culture has long been borderline obsessed with Stephen Hawking. Ever since his 1988 book “A Brief History of Time” catapulted him

to worldwide recognition, the scientist’s name has been synonymous with genius.

Hawking has been referenced in countless shows, appeared in a routine cameo in “The Simpsons,” and in 2004 was played by Benedict Cumberbatch in a BBC television biopic. So why would a new film about our lifetime’s most brilliant mind be paid such attention to?

For one, “The Theory of Everything” — director James Marsh’s latest film about the renowned physicist and cosmologist Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and his first wife, Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) — is based off of Wilde’s memoir, “Traveling to Infinity: My Life With Stephen,” not Hawking’s famous “A Brief History of Time.”

This explains why the film revolves around the evasive science of relationships rather than the technical science of black holes and relativity, painstakingly following Hawking and Jane’s love and complicated marriage.

In Cambridge during the early ‘60s, Hawking is completing his doctorate when he meets Jane Wilde, an English student, at a campus party. In an instant, a romantic spark ignites and they fall in love. Hawking tells her he wants to find the “one single unified equation that explains everything in the universe.”

The chemistry between Jones and Redmayne is believable and organic, but their lives are changed forever when Hawking, at 21, is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and given two years to live.

Although the motor-neuron disease does slowly paralyze him, Hawking defies all odds, earning his doctorate and living his life to the fullest.

The film deals with the toll Hawking’s disease and emerging fame took on the marriage, and the untraditional yet loving father he became (“different system,” he says when a friend asked how exactly he could produce three children).

Although the film strays briefly into Hawking’s studies and scientific passions, the focus stays mostly on the domesticities of Hawking and Jane’s life. Hawking can master the intricacies of physics, but the mathematics of love are sometimes harder to ascertain, and a black hole seems to grow in his wife’s heart as his disease requires her time-consuming help.

Eventually, a maid (Maxine Peake) is hired and Hawking finds less and less time for Jane. Something

clicks when Jane meets Jonathan, the leader of a choir she joins, and her marriage is strained and put to the ultimate test. An intriguing parallel is Jane’s religiousness juxtaposed to Hawking’s skepticism of faith, something that causes a tension throughout the film and a compelling rift between the characters.

Fictional Super-8 footage depicting family events and memories adds a nostalgic tone to the film while also portraying the nonconventional elements of the Hawking family. Johann Johansson’s piano score utilizes arpeggios (reminiscent of Phillip Glass) that helix beautifully, adding texture to each scene. Cinematographer Benoît Delhomme lends a vivid luminosity to each scene — especially those

set on Cambridge’s lush campus — although at times each frame appears almost too deliberate and concisely shot.

Steven Noble’s costuming should also be appreciated; the large suits Hawking wears emphasizing his sickly thinness, and the mute colors Jane wears in the later half of the film underlining her melancholy.

Redmayne’s acting shows him at his most nuanced and skillful of his early career, the sheer physicality of his role being executed with flawless precision and grace. Redmayne spent countless hours on research (which included meeting Hawking, ALS patients and sifting through hours of footage and interviews) in order to achieve the incredibly difficult task of mastering Hawking’s mannerisms, physical restraint and ironic humor.

Redmayne spoke at a press conference in New York City about the “three dimensional research” he had to undertake. “The great thrill for us was that … we were allowed to enter the orbit of Jane and Stephen’s experience, this extraordinary privilege which also came with a great weight of responsibilities.”

In the film, as the ALS took over his character’s body, Redmayne had to relate his thoughts and feelings with very few words or none at all, relying instead on his eyes to convey his sadness or a glimmer of hope. Redmayne

fulfills an expansive span of emotion masterfully, especially for someone whose voice is literally replaced by the iconic, American-toned speech synthesizer.

Talking about the complexity of Redmayne’s role, as well as the writing challenge, screenwriter Anthony McCarten said, “Only pure emotion would have to carry the freight of what he wanted to say,” later likening the minimal dialogue to “haikus.” It’s because of this challenge that Redmayne might snag Best Actor at the Academy Awards next year.

But the film is just as much about Jane Wilde as it is about Stephen Hawking, and Jones in many ways carries the second half of the movie, playing Jane with an enchanting tenderness, her acting ranging from passionate and caring to painfully resentful.

“It’s almost like she was a dancer, so I wanted her to have this almost balletic way of holding her body,” Jones said at the press conference. Her poise and subdued movements indeed seem subtly choreographed, adding tremendously to the moods.

Director James Marsh is no stranger to creating cinematic biographies from real, often unbelievable happenings — his remarkable Academy Award-winning documentary “Man on Wire” (2008) chronicled a man’s high-wire walk between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in 1974, and his 2011 documentary “Project Nim” focused on the capacity of language in chimpanzees. So why did Marsh choose to make this a drama instead of a documentary?

“I felt that the screenplay got somewhere that a documentary couldn’t go in terms of an intimate portrait of a relationship,” Marsh explained.

What emerges from all of this is a delicately — if not safely — evoked study of a marriage, one that eventually and somewhat ambiguously did not last. Although all of the elements make this a “great movie,” it seems at times too polished, too calculated. While Redmayne stretches his dramatic bounds to great results, Walsh and McCarten seem to have played it a bit safe and formulaic with the scene-by-scene aspects.

If you want a film mapping out Hawking’s groundbreaking breakthroughs in the realms of science, you might not like this movie. But you’ll enjoy it immensely if you want insight into the fascinating relationship of Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde and their inspirational stories of optimism and endurance in the face of a physically and emotionally taxing disability.

Just like Hawking never found the equation to explain the theory of everything, you probably won’t solve the equation of love, but at least you’ll know that there isn’t always an answer.

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BAILEY DOWLIN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The photos were accompanied by a lecture from Schade last week.

‘The Theory of Everything’

In James Marsh’s galactic new film, Stephen Hawking works to find the equation of everything in the universe, including love.

PROVIDED/FOCUS FEATURES

During filming, Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde briefly visited the set to help lend authenticity to the production. Hours of poring over archive material aided the actors in recreating the unique love story.

ZACK HATFIELD | ARTS EDITOR

After hearing that the Berlin Wall was going to collapse in 1989, University of Cincinnati German studies professor Richard E. Schade, who was researching at a university in Germany’s far south, packed his bags and traveled north to the divided city.

The Berlin Wall that separated East and West Germany fell a quarter of a century ago. The Wall is now seen not as a microcosm of the Cold War — the 96-mile border divided western Europe and the Soviet Bloc from 1961 to 1989 — but a symbol of cultural and political schism for the entire world. Although reunification has been in progress since 1990, the wall’s scar across the country still leaves a notable gulf between cultures.

At UC’s Max Kade Center, located on the 7th floor of Old Chem, a photography exhibit titled “Photographs at the Fall of the Berlin Wall” is being shown as a reminder and record of the Berlin Wall. The color photos, taken by Schade in November 1989, document the physical presence of the wall rather than the people it affected.

The photos total about a dozen, and do not fiddle too much with unnecessary angles, as Schade focused instead on archiving the wall in the brief time before it was dismantled by the government and the people. This, along with the bleak sky in most of the pictures, presents an appropriately gray aesthetic.

In the photographs, there is an intentional absence of people, contributing to the haunting and intimidating exis-tence the physical wall had. Images of small sledgehammers and chisels for sale and widening crevices hint at the wall’s inevitable demise, and Schade captures the endlessness of sprawling graffiti with careful attention. Barbed wire shows the grisly violence of the structure.

“It was not a book, it was a 12-foot high scroll miles in length,” Schade says in a “visual account” of his experience. Schade has done a detailed job of translating the wall to profound, historical images we can all view, helping us recognize the structure’s place in history 25 years after its destruction.

TONY JOHNSON | STAFF REPORTER

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part One,” the third and most recent silver-screen adaptation of the wildly popular young adult series, is also the least exciting of the series.

It isn’t director Francis Lawrence’s (“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “I Am Legend”) fault. It isn’t the fault of screenwriters Peter Craig and Danny Strong – the script is clear and concise. And it certainly isn’t the fault of the star-studded cast, headlined by Jennifer Lawrence.

Instead, the fault seems to be of whatever executives de-cided to split the Suzanne Collins-authored “Mockingjay” novel into two separate movies.

Rather than tell the final piece of the story in a single re-lease, we only get to witness part one, which is practically nothing but build-up and development to the hopefully epic conclusion of the saga.

Simply put, there is practically no payoff at the end of this two-plus hour film.

“Mockingjay, Part One” at least serves its purpose, but only if “Part Two” delivers. Even though the movie is 123-minutes long, it feels as though we are cut out in the middle of the story when the credits begin to roll.

The ending feels unnatural. It isn’t exactly a cliffhanger, because there are no questions left for us at the film’s con-clusion. We are merely waiting for the second part of the same story to arrive, wondering how the revolution will fare, and why we didn’t get to see the hero Katniss Ever-deen fire her famous bow and arrow a few more times.

Despite its flaws, which mostly seem to stem from the fact that a single story has been split into two separate films, the acting is more than enough to keep us engaged throughout.

Lawrence stars as Katniss, the bow-and-arrow wielding,

tough-as-nails protagonist with a heart of gold and not a single trace of selfishness.

It’s not like you’ll have any trouble believing this, but Lawrence is absolutely fantastic. The task of pumping real human emotion into a young adult novel’s protagonist is a tall one, but she delivers seemingly without effort. Per-haps Lawrence’s greatest gift is her ability to come across as natural and real, even in a science-fiction teen-novel adaptation, a rather unnatural and surreal world.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Julianne Moore reunite in “Mockingjay, Part One” for the first and last time (rest in peace, Mr. Hoffman) since director Paul Thomas Ander-son’s 1999 drama “Magnolia.”

Hoffman is predictably great as Plutarch Heavensbee, one of Katniss’ greatest supporters and special adviser to President Alma Coin. Julianne Moore portrays Coin, and like Hoffman, she is in typical form, delivering in every way for the role she plays.

Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson and Donald Sutherland all contribute as well, rounding out a rather impressive cast for the film.

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part One” is fine. It’s not excellent, but I’m not sorry I saw it either.

It doesn’t bore us, but it doesn’t thrill us the way “Catch-ing Fire” did in 2013.

It leaves us somewhat surprised that the credits roll when they do, moderately frustrated that we never saw the revolution in action save for a dam being blown, but still slightly satisfied that we bought the ticket.

“Mockingjay, Part One” does what it is meant to do. It keeps us in our seats, keeps us from giving up on

the franchise, and keeps us hoping the conclusion is as enthralling and entertaining as “Part One” was satisfactory and dull.

‘Mockingjay’ part one necessary, but dullPROVIDED/LIONSGATE PICTURES

Main characters Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Gale (Liam Hemsworth) trudge through the desolate wasteland of District 8.

UC photo exhibit revisits Berlin Wall before iconic fall

CLAUDE THOMPSON | STAFF REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati football team claimed its first defensive shutout of the year and its fifth consecutive win with a victory over the University of Connecticut Huskies Saturday night, 41-0. This was UConn’s worst outing for its offense this season and the first time it has been shutout at home since 1978.

The game was all about the performance of the Bearcats defense, made blatantly obvious from the beginning of the game. UC allowed one first down on the Huskies’ opening drive and then anticipated a screen pass on third down, tackling the runner behind the line of scrimmage for a loss of yards. Both teams may not have noticed at the time, but that would be the recurring theme of this contest as the UConn punter, Justin Wain, finished the night with six punts.

Despite the box score, the Huskies played competitively on defense as well, snagging an interception off of UC quarterback Gunner Kiel in the end zone on UC’s opening drive. The Huskies could not generate any outcome from the offense after the turnover and ended up having to punt the ball back to the Bearcats.

The Bearcats began to rev up their offense, as Kiel found wide receiver Nate Cole II for a 6-yard touchdown pass late in the first quarter. That would be one of three touchdown passes from Kiel, including one to wide receiver Johnny Holton in the third quarter and another to tight end Jake Golic, the son of former National Football League defensive tackle Mike Golic who played from 1986 to 1993.

Golic transferred to UC from Notre Dame, his father’s and brother’s alma mater, in 2012. This is Golic’s sixth year in college and his third as a Bearcat. He was granted an extra year of eligibility after recovering from a chronic back ailment that doctors said would end his football career — similar to UC quarterback Munchie Legaux’s situation. Golic received a successful stem cell procedure and rejoined the Cincinnati squad this year.

The Bearcats scored 20 points in the second quarter including the touchdown to Golic, a 3-yard touchdown run from former redshirt freshman Mike Boone and two field goals from kicker Andrew Gantz.

Cincinnati gained 151 yards in the first quarter as opposed to Connecticut’s 15 total yards on offense going into the second quarter. The half ended with the Huskies losing more yards than they gained, finishing the first half with only nine

total yards. Cincinnati, on the other hand, registered 248 yards in the first two quarters.

The Bearcats’ 248 yards may not be the most they’ve earned in a half this season, but that’s because the offense started out deep in UConn territory twice after a couple of stellar plays from the Bearcats’ defense.

“That is the best we have played on defense,” UC head coach Tommy Tuberville said. “We tackled well, didn’t give up any big plays. You get a shutout in college football in this day and time, you’ve done something. I don’t care how the other team played, it’s just real hard to get a shutout.”

Middle linebacker Jeff Luc, who is second in the American Athletic Conference with 105 tackles, sacked UConn quarterback Tim Boyle, stripped him of the football and recovered that fumble when he finally was tackled on the Huskies’ 4-yard line. The UConn defense held firm in the red zone, which was one of the field goals from Gantz in the first half. Luc finished the game with 10 tackles and two sacks to go with his forced fumble and recovery.

Cornerback Leviticus Payne timed a Boyle pass perfectly, snagging it right out of the air late in the second quarter for his first interception of the year at the UConn 25-yard line, which proceeded directly to the touchdown pass from Kiel to Golic to give the Bearcats a 27-0 lead.

Cincinnati forced 12 turnovers in the past five games this season compared to only six turnovers in the first five games.

“Cincinnati averages 40 points a game anyway,” UConn head coach Bob Diaco said. “And now they are playing on half of a field with extra possessions? You got no chance.”

Cincinnati came out of the half and began to ice the game with running backs Rod Moore and Boone. This was Boone’s fifth consecutive game with a rushing touchdown after having his redshirt removed prematurely by Tuberville due to injuries at the running back position. UC ran the ball 48 times for 249 yards and 2 touchdowns with no player for UC having a yards per carry average lower than 5.1.

Cincinnati improved to 7-3 on the season and 5-1 in the American Athletic Conference as the Bearcats remain in contention for the conference championship. UC still trails first place University of Memphis by a half-game and is tied with the University of Central Florida for second.

Cincinnati will go on the road for the last time this season to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to face Temple University (5-5, 3-3) Saturday at 12 p.m.

JOEY LAURE | STAFF REPORTER

The University of Cincinnati men’s basketball won 69-61 over Morehead State University Wednesday. Junior transfer guard Farad Cobb led the Bearcats, scoring 24 points.

“I was just hitting shots and trying to be patient,” Cobb said. “I was waiting for a night like this, I’m glad it was early.”

The Bearcats ended the first half with a

30-25 lead. Junior forward Octavius Ellis had 10 points and three blocks. The lead changed four times during the first half.

“We won’t play a team that plays as hard or as physical as Morehead State all year,” head coach Mick Cronin said. “A young team like ours needs to be taught a lesson, that is why I scheduled this game.”

Morehead State out-rebounded the Bearcats 22-19 in the first half. UC also turned over the ball six times to Morehead State’s five. The Bearcats managed to even the rebounding with the Eagles at 35 by the end of the game.

“We need to learn how to physically beat teams,” Cronin said. “We did not out-man them tonight.”

The story of the night was the breakout of Cobb. He was 8-14 from the field and 6-9 from three-point range.

“When I got in I wanted to get him going,” sophomore point guard Troy Caupain said. “When he started hitting shots, it got the rest of the team going.”

Free balls and free throws helped lead UC to the win. The Bearcats were 22-34 from the free throw line, with Caupain and Ellis going to the line a combined 24 times.

“It was a big win for us and they were a test for us early,” Caupain said. “It was a test to see how we were going to respond. This proves Cincinnati is still rough.”

Five total guards played for the Bearcats with Caupain and Cobb getting the majority of the minutes.

“It is still a work in progress,” Cronin said. “Different guys need to step up and

score. Different games it is going to be different people.”

Cobb and Ellis, who lead the Bearcats in scoring, are both junior college transfers. This is Ellis’ second go-around for the Bearcats, coming from Trinity Valley College. While Cobb, who first played at Chattanooga his freshman year transferred to Northwest Florida State College before coming to UC.

“Last spring we were searching for

someone who can score.” Cronin said. “Farad reminds me a lot of Steve Logan, a little guy who can score. Some guys get overlooked because of their lack of size. After we lost to Harvard and scored 50 something points I told our staff to sign Cobb.”

Logan was an All-American in 2002.The Bearcats played 1-2 Eastern Illinois

University in the Emerald Coast Classic Sunday and won 54-49.

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UC football wins in blowout

DAN SULLIVAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Octavius Ellis comes down with the rebound after a missed shot by teammate Gary Clark.

Bearcats basketball wins with help of junior transfers

TAYLOR JACKSON | CONTRIBUTOR

With construction at Nippert Stadium still underway, plans for developments involving Marge Schott Stadium and Fifth Third Arena are already in the works.

Director of Athletics Mike Bohn said his goal is to make the University of Cincinnati a top competitor in sports and lead the Bearcats into a more powerful conference.

“We’re trying to get better. We want to be competitive. We want recruits to want to come to Cincinnati,” Bohn said.

The first project, Nippert Stadium, is on budget and on track to a timely finish, Bohn said. The privately-funded $86 million renovation of Nippert Stadium began in late November 2013 and is set to open Sept. 1, 2015.

Football fans can expect new premium amenities, concession stands, bathrooms, sound systems, video boards and covers over the seats among other improvements.

Bohn also has plans in place to upgrade men’s basketball and women’s volleyball with new locker rooms in Fifth Third Arena.

This privately-funded $1.2 million project will create a new locker room for men’s basketball, leaving their old locker room to

be refurbished for volleyball. The new locker room will be expanded

with space for lounge areas and video screens.

“There will be a much larger room for them to relax and a place for them to gather without feeling like they’re in a locker room,” Bohn said.

Demolition and construction is scheduled for early December.

The locker rooms are only one step in upgrading Fifth Third as a whole, as the search for an architect and designer for a renovation to the 25-year-old arena is in motion.

Bohn hopes to select an architect by early March and begin construction by March 2017.

Another $50,000, privately funded development will begin in January to renovate the Marge Schott Stadium to include baseball offices for the head coach and the staff. This follows a recent renovation to the stadium’s field that was completed in August.

Currently, the baseball offices are housed in the Richard E. Linder Center. Bohn said moving the offices to the stadium will help with the communication and connection with players, as well as with recruiting.

“It’s a state-of-the-art facility,” he said. “We want our coaches to be able to feel the excitement of having that facility where they’re housed.”

Baseball head coach Ty Neal agreed, saying, “The view overlooking the field will be a new thing for me.”

Neal also said the transition will allow the coaching staff to spend more time with the team. He said he is happy with Bohn’s developments and presence on campus.

“I think he’s got a lot of passion and a lot of energy,” Neal said. “Anytime you’re involved in college athletics that’s important. It’s an exciting time to be a Bearcat.”

The newest addition to the athletic department’s to-do list is the possibility of a new grass soccer field.

There have been a few discussions exploring the idea, according to Bohn, but nothing will happen in the near future with the current list of renovations and developments in the works.

Athletics renovations continue

MADISON SCHMIDT | PHOTO EDITOR

Renovations to UC’s campus include the updating of Nippert Stadium’s press box, seating and concessions, among other amenities.

DAN SULLIVAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Octavius Ellis sails above Morehead defenders for a basket.

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vs. Stony Brook UniversityFifth Third Arena

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@ Temple UniversityESPNews, 700 WLW

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vs. Middle Tennessee State700 WLW

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Freshman Chad Banschbach runs during a play Oct. 24 at Paul Brown Stadium. The Bearcats beat University of Southern Florida 34-17.

MADISON SCHMIDT | PHOTO EDITOR

The Nippert Stadium Renovation and Expansion program is expected to be completed next year.

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