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Student groups pool resources for earthquake aidariel cheung

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In light of the recent tragedy that struck Haiti, University of Cincinnati students are finding ways to help those in need.

From student organizations to individuals who want to make a difference, the UC community is coming together.

The College Republicans will collect donations in front of Tangeman University Center From Tuesday, Jan. 19, through Friday, Jan. 22.

“We noticed no one else was doing anything on campus, so we decided to take action,” said Haleigh Jones, a second-year Spanish student and director for recruitment of College Republicans.

“We’ve had some people make very generous contributions for college students,” Jones said. “And a lot of people have given us their change, which adds up quickly.”

The College Republicans teamed up with Matthew 25 Ministries, a disaster aid and

humanitarian relief organization that has worked with Haiti for more than 10 years and is based in Blue Ash.

“Now we need to show the people of Haiti that they haven’t been forgotten,” said Joodi Archer, the development director and public relations coordinator for Matthew 25 Ministries.

Others are capitalizing on events that were already planned as a way to jump-start relief efforts.

David Oliveira Jr. and Wally Vega conceived special College Nights at The Mad Frog after an impromptu discussion.

“It was kind of spur-of-the-moment,” said Vega, a UC graduate. “We said, ‘Why don’t we just tell people to bring clothes, since they’re coming anyway?’”

The two spent 30 minutes before the event sending text messages to friends and asking for donations. As a result, they collected nine baskets of clothing.

“So then we said, since that was so quick, why don’t we make a video about it, go at it

a little bit harder and see what we can do,” Vega said.

The two hosted a second College Night Wednesday, Jan. 20, at The Mad Frog. They plan to donate 30 percent of what they collected.

“Our generation has always been the generation of instant gratification,” Vega said. “Most of the college people now haven’t been a part of something like this. This is the first time they can really help out the people in need.”

The Hoxworth Blood Center has also played a role in helping Haiti.

“We just decided it was timely,” said Alecia Lipton, Hoxworth community relations manager.

Hoxworth raised $705 with 141 donors Friday, Jan. 15.

“It’s inspiring to me to see all of the students who do care,” Jones said. “And when I find people who don’t care, I view it as my responsibility and personal challenge to make them care.”

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Two professors in the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences are working hard to demonstrate methods of helping Haiti, a country they know very well.

As one of the most impoverished countries in the world, Haiti is suffering from more than last Tuesday’s earthquake.

“What strikes me the most as a Haitian is not that the earthquake itself could have been avoided, but that the gravity of the effects of the earthquake could have been avoided if previous aid had offered long-term solutions for Haiti,” said Myriam Chancy, a Haitian scholar and professor.

The tremendous amounts of loss could have been avoided if past responses to emergency situations in Haiti, and its increasing instability, had been responded to with long-term solutions designed with Haitians, Chancy said.

Jana Evans Braziel, a Haitian literary scholar and associate professor of English, recently returned from Port-au-Prince after attending the Ghetto Biennale art exhibit in December. Her close friend, 18-year-old Alex Louis, was one of many friends she left behind. Louis contacted Braziel and confirmed his safety.

“In his e-mail to me, Alex wrote: ‘Port-au-Prince no longer exists,’” Braziel said. “Words fail me.”

Chancy, a Haitian scholar, novelist and recent addition to the university, empathizes with Braziel’s anxiety.

As a native of Haiti, Chancy is only beginning to process the loss.

“We call it collective and personal patrimony,” Chancy said.The cultural history, the buildings and streets are collective

losses for those affected while the sentiments connected to those places are personal and the context of loss varies per individual.

Trying to describe what it feels like as a Haitian is as if it were the White House that collapsed, Chancy said.

“These places that are tied to your earliest memories – you try to tell people this is where I’m from,” Chancy said.

The earthquake that shook Haiti Tuesday, Jan. 12, measured 7.0 on the Richter scale. As the people barely got to their feet, an aftershock rumbled on Wednesday, Jan. 20, recorded at 5.9, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The epicenter of the quake was only 35 miles West of Port-au-Prince.

“At this point, it’s like waves,” Chancy said. “Now it is in the phase when people are dying because of the effects.”

Relatives who were lost to the natural disaster cannot have a proper funeral or burial. Chancy created a Web site with memorials dedicated to her loved ones.

Casual acquaintances are also missed, including Chancy’s friend Myriam Merlet.

Merlet, a Haitian feminist leader and chief of staff of the Haitian Ministry, died underneath the rubble left behind by the Jan. 12 earthquake. Although she sent text messages alerting people of her location, the rescuers arrived too late, Chancy said.

Family members and friends in the United States anxiously follow Twitter updates from those in Haiti, breaking news releases and other media outlets.

“I stayed wired to the Internet almost 24/7, barely eating,” Braziel said. “I realize that the hell I’m living is a luxury.”

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working for haiti Kaitie Baxter collects donations with the help of friends for the Haiti catastrophe. They raised $272 as of wednesday, Jan. 20.

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Iranian-American public intellectual Haleh Esfandiari provided insight into the complex relations between the United States and Iran Tuesday, Jan. 19, at Xavier University’s Cintas Center.

Esfandiari, who was born in Tehran and has dual citizenship in Iran and the United States, focused her presentation titled: “My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran” on her memoir of the same name as well as current Iran-U.S. relations.

As a 67-year-old woman, she was held in Iran and imprisoned in solitary confinement at Evin Prison for 105 days in 2007.

Her story began Dec. 31, 2006 when, following one of her frequent visits to her elderly mother in Iran, the taxi carrying her to the airport was forced off of the highway by another vehicle. Three men descended on the taxi and threatened Esfandiari, stealing her belongings including both her Iranian and American passports.

In the months that followed, Esfandiari was trapped in Iran as she fought through a tangled mess of bureaucratic red tape in an

effort to replace her stolen documents. She was arrested on charges of “endangering national security.”

Esfandiari is employed by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as the Director of its Middle East Program. Iran’s Intelligence Ministry used her work there to subvert the Iranian government.

Following a more than three-month period of interrogation, the Iranian authorities released Esfandiari on bail.

Esfandiari felt she was caught up in the brewing animosity and mistrust between Iran and the U.S.

“Thirty years of silence [between Iran and the United States] did not accomplish anything,” she said. “On one hand, there is a need for engagement and on the other hand, a need to condemn the human rights violations on the ground.”

Some critics say President Barack Obama does not have much to show in the way of results, but Esfandiari remains patient.

“One year is not enough time to fix everything—[Obama] does not have a magic wand,” Esfandiari said.

Esfandiari believes these types of actions created an atmosphere of paranoia amongst certain elements in Iran’s government and contributed to

the conditions, which led to her arrest and the arrest of others in similar situations.

As three American hikers remain imprisoned in Iran facing espionage charges, tensions between the United States and Iran continue to run high.

“Iran is in the midst of a very deep crisis,” warned Esfandiari. “It is impossible to predict how this crisis will play out.”

Richard Edward Lindner, a well-known businessman and philanthropist, died Saturday, Jan. 16, at his home in Indian Hill. He was 88.

Lindner was born Sept. 14, 1921, in Dayton to parents Clara Ann Serrer and Carl H. Lindner Sr. His older brothers were Carl Jr. and Robert; also had a younger sister, Dorothy.

While the Lindner name is known synonymously throughout the region with United Dairy Farmers convenience stores as well as American Financial Group, Richard Lindner was also famous for being the operator of the Thriftway grocery store chains and charity work.

Lindner’s business skills were sown when he was a junior high student at Amity School in Deer Park. It was during this time that he and his siblings helped their parents by delivering milk bottles to homes.

The lobby in downtown’s Aronoff Center for the Arts is named after him and the University of Cincinnati’s own Richard E. Lindner Varsity Village is another reminder of his $10 million donation for its construction. He also contributed to the Richard E. Lindner Dining Room at the Shoemaker Center.

“Richard E. Lindner was a tremendous friend to the University of Cincinnati and to many organizations throughout the Cincinnati community,” said UC President Greg Williams. “His visionary gift to athletics helped to transform our athletic program and put the university on the national stage.”

Lindner became president of Thriftway Inc. after buying out his brothers in 1963 and due to a sponsorship by his company, Cincinnati’s ATP tennis tournament became a highly regarded event. In 2008, Lindner’s contributions to the

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sport of tennis earned him an induction into the Cincinnati Tennis Hall of Fame.

In 1942, he married Helen Victoria Gill of Lynn, Mass., and the couple remained together for 35 years until her death in 1977.

Survivors include: his

brothers, Carl H. Lindner Jr. and Robert D. Lindner; his sister, Dorothy L. Kruezman; a son, Richard E. Lindner Jr., and three daughters, Charlene W. Lindner, Suzanne L. Cowgill and Carol A. Lindner, all of Indian Hill; 10 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

The Arts and Sciences professors are not the only individuals directly affected by the tragedy in Haiti. Chancy drafted a proposal to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as students want to build emergency shelters in Haiti.

Partners in Health, rooted in Haiti, is one of the most equipped organizations working to alleviate the devastation. The Hoxworth Blood Center on Highland Avenue is accepting blood donations as well.

“If you are absolutely broke, then give blood,” Braziel said. “Do not do nothing in the face of the single-most catastrophic natural disaster.”

from lindnEr | page 1from Haiti | page 1in 10 minutes of action due to foul trouble throughout the night. With no Stephenson and little Gates, the team’s usual secondary scorers were forced to carry the load.

Vaughn led the Cats with 20 points and shot 3 of 5 from three-point range. Fellow senior Rashad Bishop scored in double digits for the second-consecutive game, adding 15. Cincinnati shot better than 55 percent from the field and better than 35 percent from beyond the three-point arc.

“Deonta had a great night, Rashad had a great night [and] our offense was excellent,” Cronin said.

This game, it was the Bearcat defense that didn’t play up to par, Cronin said. Cincinnati forced the Bulls to shoot just less than 17 percent from three-point range, but allowed South Florida to score 42 points in the paint and grab 12 offensive rebounds.

“Our defense wasn’t as suffocating as it has been tonight. We gave up 10 layups in the first half,” Cronin said.

The Bearcats will be leaving the friendly confines of Fifth Third Arena Sunday, Jan. 24, when they travel to Freedom Hall to face the University of Louisville in a noon tipoff.

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What’d you say? Vampire Weekend are being heard more than ever because of their brand new album, “Contra,” available to stream at www.vampireweekend.com.

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Vampire Weekend’s first studio album, released two years ago, brought with it a fresh sound; their second studio album, “Contra,” develops and evolves from their self-titled debut.

Vampire Weekend is known for being a preppy quartet influenced by African pop, which they infuse with clever and catchy lyrics.

In their sophomore album released last week, Vampire Weekend plays with percussion, synthetic beats, ska, auto-tune vocals and even samples M.I.A.

But that is what sophomore albums are about: taking risks and improving on their predecessor.

“Contra” is unmistakably Vampire Weekend, but the new elements and often more reflective lyrics create a more mature record.

Often, successful freshman albums are followed by mediocrity. Lead singer and guitarist Ezra Koenig, keyboardist, guitarist and producer Rostam Batmanglij, bassist Chris Baio and drummer and percussionist Chris Tomson, prove that they are not just another band; they are here to stay.

The title track “Horchata” is named after a traditional summer drink originating in Spain. Like traditional Vampire Weekend songs, they start the album with a song that is reminiscent of a day at the beach.

Vampire Weekend produces lyrics that tackle more mature topics than their

first studio album. On their nostalgic first track: “Oh you had it but oh no you lost it/ You understood so you shouldn’t have fought it.”

The second, third and fourth tracks increase the momentum of the album. “White Sky” is among the best on the album with its synthesized beats and Koenig singing in high-pitched falsetto. “Holiday” is a lively song and comments on recent times with references to invasions and bombs.

Then breezy “California English” sweeps in with Koenig’s auto-tuned voice, creating a new sound for Vampire Weekend.

Auto-tune has had a painful death in the hip-hop and rap industries, but it sounds fresh in a different genre.

“Taxi Cab” slows the pace of the album with a reflective and melodic love song unlike any previous Vampire Weekend song. Then “Contra” picks up again with the fun, catchy tune “Run” that will have you tapping your feet.

“Cousins,” their first hit single from “Contra,” is similar to Vampire Weekend’s first hit single “A-Punk” from “Vampire Weekend.” Both are the most rock and guitar driven songs on their respective albums, although for originality “A-Punk” wins.

The video for “Cousins” is their best video to date even though it was produced with a low budget. It is a dizzying, entertaining video

that is creative, like their lyrics.The last three songs on Vampire

Weekend’s “Contra” are all strong and unique in their own right.

“Giving Up the Gun” is an upbeat song that already has a remix version created by LOL Boys that can be found online. If you are a fan of Vampire Weekend or remixes, both tracks are worth owning. However, the remix version drags because there are no lyrics and a lot from the original is lost.

The ninth track, “Diplomat’s Son,” samples M.I.A., an eclectic artist from a completely different genre. Yet, the two sounds mesh surprisingly well and produce a memorable song for “Contra.”

The final song, “I Think Ur a Contra,”

highlights Koenig’s evocative vocals.Vampire Weekend knows

themselves well; it was not by random chance that this album is entitled “Contra.” Their array of musical influences, their sound and lyrics are constantly contradictory, which is what makes them interesting and different.

Vampire Weekend’s debut was lighthearted and fun. On this sophomore album they have established themselves as professional artists and are not afraid to take risks or have a little fun.

In “I Think Ur a Contra,” Koenig sings, “Never pick sides/ Never choose between two”.

And I won’t. “Vampire Weekend” and “Contra” are both masterpieces.

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“The Book of Eli” is a surprising film. If you based your impression of the movie solely on the previews, you’d assume it’s just a badass action movie with Denzel Washington beating people up in post apocalyptica. And, for the most part, you’d be right. But as the film progresses, tiny bits of nuance emerge to make the movie more than just a hack and slash adventure.

The film obviously revolves around a man named Eli (Washington), a survivor of The Flash who is heading west. As he travels, we learn that he is traveling west to share the knowledge of a book in his possession. Books are a rare commodity in this world, which is a problem for Eli when he enters Carnegie’s (Gary Oldman) town. Carnegie is searching for one specific book and, surprise, Eli’s book is the one he’s after.

The plot of the film isn’t exactly hard to grasp,

but very little is told to the viewer. Eli’s name isn’t explicitly stated until more than halfway through. But since it’s in the title, I don’t feel bad giving it away. And as the film progresses, little bits of layering are added on. One could sum up the entire film in just a few sentences, but that is not to say the plot is not interesting. It is genuinely exciting to see how it all plays out. And there is an interesting twist to be found near the end of the film. Just don’t come into The Book of Eli expecting a tale full of twists and turns.

No, most of the joy of this film comes from the acting. As always, Washington is a powerhouse. When he’s whupping up on desert bandits, he does so efficiently and ruthlessly. Washington did all of his own hand-to-hand combat, lending even more badassery to the proceedings. But the true power of his performance comes from his interactions with Oldman’s Carnegie. The two characters are yin and yang of one another. Carnegie’s bull-headed lust for power crashes against Eli’s single-minded mission. Both actors

are fantastic at their characterization. The film is at its best when these two veterans square off.

Now, the other actors, the same praise can’t be given. Mila Kunis’ Solara is the requisite companion to warm Eli’s heart. Too bad she doesn’t quite get the job done. Sure, she’s appropriately spunky and eager to help. She just doesn’t quite get the audience to connect. Maybe it’s because I kept hearing Meg’s voice, from “Family Guy.” But I suspect it’s just because she doesn’t have the acting chops to reliably pull of a dramatic role.

“The Book of Eli” is a film that might not look like it has much substance. And, on the surface, it doesn’t, but it’s enjoyable nonetheless. However, as the film progresses, we learn more and more about the main character and his journey. And what we are left with is a very exciting and, ultimately, satisfying movie. It may not be an exceptional piece of film making, but if you’re looking for something to see that isn’t “Avatar,” “The Book of Eli” surely won’t disappoint.

The recent earthquake in Haiti has prompted many celebrities to mobilize their own relief efforts. Among them is George Clooney, who is working with MTV to put together a telethon fundraiser for the victims.

The 7.0 earthquake, which struck the country’s capital Port-au-Prince Tuesday, Jan. 12, brought much devastation leaving thousands of people dead. In addition to Clooney, other famous figures such as Lance Armstrong, Sandra Bullock, Madonna, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have contributed to the relief effort.

Clooney famously headlined a similar relief effort for the oppressed people in Darfur following his first visit to the region in 2006. He and his father, journalist Nick Clooney, made a documentary about the Darfur refugees titled “A Journey to Darfur.” The proceeds from its DVD sales went to the International Rescue Committee. The actor was appointed as a messenger of peace by the United Nations Jan. 18, 2008.

Although the details of other celebrities who will take part are still being worked out, the two-hour special will air commercial-free Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. on MTV, ABC, NBC, CNN and HBO.

Haitian musician Wyclef Jean has urged his fans to make donations for the relief effort via his Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund Web site (yele.org) or to simply text ‘Yele’ to 501501 on a mobile phone to give an automatic $5 donation to the charity. More than $1 million in donations has already been received.

These star-powered events will result in more aid for Haiti. After Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans in 2005, celebrities put together the “Shelter From the Storm,” a one-hour benefit concert which reached viewers in 100 countries and raised more than $30 million for Bayou relief.

The American Red Cross reported Wednesday that it received $35 million in donations in the two days following the Haiti earthquake. This is more than what was donated in the same time period following Katrina and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. To donate to the Red Cross, text ‘HAITI’ to 90999.

Other stars are planning relief benefits as well, including magician David Blaine, who started a 72-hour ‘Magic Marathon’ in Times Square on Friday. The proceeds from this events and his online store will be given to the Red Cross.

In the political realm, President Barack Obama has already pledged millions of dollars in aid to Haiti. In addition, former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have set up a relief fund for the stricken area.

The various celebrity Tweeting, benefits and donations are helping to make the current fundraising effort for Haiti the most successful post-disaster response in years.

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Cincinnati is not home to the Village Vanguard. We don’t have Andy’s or Iridium or Green Dolphin Street. But, what we do have is Phil DeGreg and Kim Pensyl.

DeGreg and Pensyl played a program completely made up of George Gerswhin’s music at the University of Cincinnati’s Werner Recital Hall Tuesday, Jan. 12, and proved why they are, in their own individual right, assets to Cincinnati’s jazz scene.

Although not played in a jazzy-type setting, Werner Hall provided acoustics that allowed listeners to hear every note in the flurry of scales

the duo played. Jazz is characteristically played in a dark, smoky room, but the high walls of Werner Hall gave the concert a sense of grandness. It was an interesting way to hear some jazz renditions - and it wasn’t bad.

By the third tune, DeGreg shed his suit jacket and really started to heat up. I’m not a fan of Gershwin, but the way live jazz is, it’s hard not to be blown away by some of the musicians on stage. Pensyl and DeGreg are no different.

It wasn’t even the music they played. Their personalities dominated the stage.

DeGreg plays with a kind of bottled-up intensity. When he’s behind the keys, his upper body stays still, but his knee bounces up and down and sometimes he suddenly jumps off the

bench with a kick. On the slower songs, DeGreg leans forward, looking over the rims of his glasses as though he were looking over a cliff with a steep drop. He had an almost royal look about him. It isn’t hard to imagine him wearing a tuxedo with tails playing some Chopin.

Pensyl, however, moved with a rhythmic rock. It didn’t look like he was actually playing an instrument. His sway was like a metronome going back and forth steadily. Even though his trumpet sometimes blared and sometimes only seemingly whispered, there was a strange sense that even as he played the soft notes, he was employing all his talent and dexterity. The range of sounds Pensyl can produce with his horn is strange - at times it didn’t even sound like he was playing

the same instrument. The loud, fast tunes echoed throughout the hall and the quiet, consistent notes seemed as smooth and brittle as a thin layer of ice.

It was good to see that DeGreg and Pensyl maintained a balance with each other. When DeGreg would play, Pensyl sat in his seat awaiting for a cue to come back in, but as he was waiting, his eyes would close and the audience could see that he was playing - but just in his head.

So for any student doubting the integrity and quality of jazz in Cincinati, just head down to the College-Conservatory of Music and see for yourself why Coltrane and Dolphy made a joint stop here in the ’60s.

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philanthropists’ night on thE toWnGeorge Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis pictured at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards show at The Beverly hilton in Beverly hills, Calif., sunday, Jan. 17.

Uncle Sam claims about 28.2 percent of American’s yearly income. That translates to working three months per year without pay.

Old Uncle Sam has gotten bloated over the years, and needs more of our cash to sustain himself and receives it by instituting a wide variety of taxes that reach into nearly every aspect of our lives. Taxes hit Americans in many ways and we simply cannot avoid them. They can come at us as sales tax, property taxes, social security tax or in the most dubious form, the income tax.

It’s pretty safe to say paying income taxes is not ranked highly on anyone’s list of things they love to do. Honestly, does anyone actually enjoy forking over their dollars so politicians can throw it in the direction of crooked bankers or use it for their own selfish means? If so, please find help.

Opponents of the income tax, in any form, would love to see it finally extinguished from our lives. One opponent, Ohio Rep. John Adam’s has initiated a crucial chip in the monolithic block that is the income tax. Adams has introduced a piece of legislation in the Ohio General Assembly that would effectively phase out Ohio’s state income tax over a period of 10 years.

“The bill phases out the income tax on individuals, estates and trusts over 10 years. Under the bill, for taxable years beginning in 2010 through 2019, a taxpayer’s net tax liability will be a decreasing percentage of the tax that would have been due if computed on the basis of current law tax rates,” according to the Ohio Legislature’s Web site. “The percentage reduction is 10 percent per year. For taxable years beginning in 2019 and thereafter, no tax is levied. Any nonrefundable credit not utilized and authorized to be carried forward to subsequent taxable years is carried forward without regard to the reduction percentage.”

While the money generated by state income tax makes up a large part of the state budget, Adams believes the cost can be replaced by other taxes.

“When the people we chase out of the state decide to stay, they will create jobs,” Adams told the Dayton Daily News. “The tax base will expand. That’s the way it works in every scenario.”

Inevitably, opponents of such a move or those unsure of how we could live without an income tax, will wonder how the government would be funded without it. To answer those who would ask such questions, you would simply need to look at the first hundred or so years of our country. The United States survived all the way to 1913 without an income tax at the federal level (although an income tax was imposed on a few separate occasions before then). Things weren’t perfect, but at least Americans didn’t have to worry much about their hard-earned dollars being whisked away to feed a leviathan government.

Phasing out the income tax will not be possible unless the size of government is brought down to a sustainable level, both in Washington, D.C., and Columbus.

“Big government is destructive when it takes your money and when it spends it,” wrote Texas Rep. Ron Paul on his Web site. “There is no economic benefit to supporting a government sector as massive as ours. In fact, this country thrived for well over 100 years without an income tax. Today, if you took away the income tax, the government would still have revenue from other sources equal to total government spending in 1990, when government was still too big.”

It’s important that in the midst of these difficult financial times, Ohioans and all Americans alike feel some form of economic relief. The eventual phasing out of the income tax, whether it be nationwide or here in the Buckeye state, would be only a positive step in the direction toward slapping Uncle Sam with some financial sanity.

Has Uncle Sam drained your booze budget dry? Tell Jeremy at daj8@mail.uc.edu.

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The soccer experience for the average American is weak. To us, it’s those falls of your formative years chasing a ball around a lumpy field through a mad pack of overzealous first graders and not getting to kick it one lousy time. It’s your teenage sister swooning in front of a poster of David Beckham plastered on her bedroom wall. It’s your old man saying, “Put the football game on already, would you? I’m tired of this crap.”

I, on the other hand, am not the average American. Few things could give me more pleasure than watching Lionel Messi take on four defenders, beat all of them without breaking a sweat and net the most amazing goal you’ve ever seen all while an insane Spaniard screams jubilations through my TV set in a language that I don’t even understand.

But there is an ugly side to the game.

Imagine attending a Bengals game, climbing to your seat and finding that seat next to a group of Ku Klux

Klan members in full dress, protesting throughout the game. This is the type of situation soccer fans find themselves in around the world.

The Togolese national team, en route to play Ghana in the opening round of the Africa Cup of Nations, was ambushed by separatist rebels in the northern Angolan province of Cabinda Friday, Jan. 8. Three members of the team’s staff were killed and two players remain in serious condition.

The motivation for the attack was political, but this is certainly not the first act of political violence to bruise the eye of the international soccer community. Soccer, like no other sport, is used by supporters as a staging ground for protest; all too often these protest end in brutality.

The history of violence in the sport goes back to the very beginning. In 1314, when the ball was a pig’s bladder and the rules up for interpretation, King Edward II of England banned the game throughout his kingdom — the matches between rival communities often lead to rioting.

In the modern age, politics being played out on the field have had much more considerable repercussions.

In 1969, Honduras battled El Salvador on the field, while the two nations were already battling off the field over land reform and immigration issues. But when the pair met again in the qualifying rounds of the 1970 World Cup, tensions finally boiled over and riots broke out during the match. Honduras won but retribution was swift. Less than one month later, the Salvadorian forces attacked for four days in what has come to be known as the 100 Hour Football War, losing nearly 3,000 people in the carnage.

Again in 1990, ethnic tensions exploded between fans of the Serbian club Red Star Belgrade and the Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb. Thousands of supporters of both clubs rioted for more than one hour inside the stadium injuring hundreds and forcing a stop to the match. Many mark this moment as the opening of the ethnic violence that resulted in the series of wars and genocides in the region throughout the 1990s.

Across Europe, the story’s the same. There’s the ‘Old Firm’ derby in Glasgow, which pits the predominantly Catholic side, Celtics, against the mostly Protestant side, Rangers.

There are the bands of ‘Ultras’ in Italy who abide by the far right politics of Italy’s Northern Alliance and routinely direct racist chants at black players and maliciously throw them bananas.

Even the United States, so safe from soccer’s influence for so long, is getting into the act. Groups like the New York Red Bull’s Red Skins, a group of socialist-anarchist skinheads, have garnished a reputation for brawling with stadium authorities. Fans of Ohio’s very own Columbus Crew fought with supporters from England’s West Ham United during a friendly match in 2008.

Why soccer and not other team sports? Maybe it is the popularity of the game that causes people to rally. But it is clear that the politics of the game is going a long way into making what is dubbed the “beautiful game” into an ugly sport.

We enjoy a safe and stable lifestyle in the United States. Sometimes there are situations we have no control over like natural disasters — most notably Hurricane Katrina. In times of great despair and need, Americans have shown their resiliency and benevolence in rallying together to solve problems of blockbuster proportions.

While the relief effort after Hurricane Katrina was highly criticized, in the end, New Orleans and the surrounding areas received substantial aid from ordinary private citizens. Americans across the country took in Hurricane Katrina victims, sent food and worked alongside Gulf Coast locals to rebuild.

In light of the earthquake that rocked Haiti — the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere — boatloads of aid and support are pouring into the Caribbean nation. But besides food, clothing and medical supplies, countless facets of life in Haiti, however normal it was to them, have been adversely affected. Take for instance the education system in Haiti.

The entire education system has collapsed, as three main universities were destroyed or badly damaged, Joel Jean-Pierre, the Haitian education minister, said to Reuters. Half of Haiti’s primary and secondary schools were damaged in one of the world’s hardest-hitting earthquakes on record.

U n f o r t u n a t e l y , natural disasters happen. Simultaneously, in this world, change is the only constant, and with change comes opportunity. Haiti faces one of the greatest rebuilding

challenges in the world, forced to use the limited resources it has to somehow, some way, normalize life again.

It’s hard to imagine: Thousands of school children aimlessly roam the streets in search of a classroom or a playground, parents not knowing what the next day will bring. And the privileged few, the fortunate ones who actually attended college, now have no where to better themselves — to better their country.

This is a call, a challenge to all American universities and grade schools to accept Haitian earthquake refugees to teach them the indispensable skills needed to foster a better Haiti for tomorrow. It’s our duty to provide an environment for them to gain the credence they need to work with their countrymen and rebuild Haiti.

Besides, a little Haitian culture here state side wouldn’t hurt our students living in a fantasy camp bubble, but that’s another issue for another day.

Sending immediate aid is necessary, but providing educational means are real — education can teach people the value of growth and stability, instead of mere survival. Just as much as it’s their time to rise, it’s our time to rise again as a nation and support a neighbor in need.

If we do not act, it’s a sign of American devolution and desensitization from humanity. Devolution is not an option. From great despair comes true happiness.

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“[I am] very proud of the job they are doing,” said Gene Ferrara, director of public safety. “There is a perception that [campus] is not safe, but I have data and statistics that show we’re pretty safe.”

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In most of the robbery or theft alerts that are e-mailed to students, there isn’t much stolen. It’s really just the incident itself that is cause for alarm. But this has changed, as over winter break, eight iMac computers were stolen from an on-campus computer lab. This incident leaves one wondering exactly how does someone, or even a group of people, walk around campus with eight of these 26-inch monitors undetected?

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University of Cincinnati men’s basketball fans expected a freshman to help senior Deonta Vaughn lead them to victory this season.

Just not this freshman.Making his first career start

at Fifth Third Arena, Jaquon Parker scored 15 points and dished out five assists in 35 minutes of playing time — all career highs — as the Bearcats beat the University of South Florida 78-70 Wednesday, Jan. 20.

“Shots were going in, I was hitting shots,” Parker said. “It was a good game for me.”

Vaughn was happy to see his young teammate succeed at an early age where not many players have successful first starts.

“You don’t see too many people who come in like that besides me my freshman year when I got my first start,” Vaughn said with a smile. “He played great, he got good rebounds, he was strong with the basketball and just all around he played great today.”

Head coach Mick Cronin said that the toughness that Parker has shown him was a big reason he gave the freshman the start at point guard.

“He’s practiced well and he’s gotten better,” Cronin said. “And I think in the snippets that he has played he has shown that he’s not going to make mistakes.”

The expected star freshman, Lance Stephenson, is listed as day to day with an ankle injury he sustained during practice Tuesday. Cronin is hopeful Stephenson will be able to return for UC’s next game at Louisville Sunday, but won’t have more details on the injury until Friday.

“It was bad enough that there was no chance of him playing tonight. He’ll be off tomorrow again, so that’ll give him 48 hours and we’ll re-evaluate him,” Cronin said. “I’m not going to play him unless he’s OK. I’m not going to put anybody out there on one leg.”

Stephenson’s absence made for Cincinnati’s 12th different starting lineup of the season.

Another of the Bearcats’ top scorers, Yancy Gates, was limited to only eight points

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rEach for it Yancy Gates has quickly emerged as one of the best post players in the Big east.

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In only two years, sophomore forward Yancy Gates has gone from a young freshman struggling to live up to his hype, to a team leader that has shown he can be a force to be reckoned with in the Big East.

“Yancy has shown improvement,” said UC head coach Mick Cronin. “I know because I’ve [seen] him since ninth grade [and] those others who understand how much he has improved with his effort from trying to get more consistent.”

One of the biggest things Gates has worked on and improved has been his aggressiveness on the court.

In high school, Gates played for a team with other talented players and was used to being laid back on the court. However, in order to play competitively in the Big East, Cronin needed Gates to be tougher and more aggressive.

“Talking to coach Cronin and going through practices, he always reminds me I need to be more aggressive,” Gates said. “I feel like I can do it.”

Cronin has also asked Gates to become a leader on the team, and Gates has answered the call.

Gates is not the typical vocal leader commonly seen hyping his team up before games. In fact, just the opposite is true. Gates is a silent player who leads with his actions rather than words.

“There’s more than one way to be a leader,” Gates said. “You don’t have to be to the guy out there who talks and is telling people what to do. You can just go out there and try and play hard and lead by example.”

Leading by example is exactly what Gates has

done, anchoring the Bearcats defense as well as being a low-post presence on offense.

On defense, Gates has been the physical player the Bearcats need.

One of the biggest defensive accomplishments of Gates’ career was against Notre Dame Saturday, Jan. 16. Gates limited Notre Dame’s Luke Harangody, the Big East’s leading scorer, to only 14 points on 5-of-20 shooting.

“[I] just went into the game with a defensive mind set, probably more then I ever had in my life,” Gates said. “[Harangody] just had 31 against Syracuse. For him to only have 14 when he came here, that was big to me.”

On offense, Gates is averaging 10.7 points per game, third highest on the team. He has been consistent with his shooting, averaging more than 50 percent from the field.

“Our passing to him has been a little

bit better, Lance has got him a lot of easy baskets this year,” Cronin said. “He’s the guy who can finish. If you give him a drop off pass he can catch it and dunk it.”

Gates has been lights out rebounding on both ends of the court, averaging seven rebounds per game and helping the Bearcats lead the Big East in rebounding margin.

“Coach just needs me to rebound more so that’s just what I try to do when I go out in a game now,” Gates said.

In only a year Gates has improved every aspect of his game. With two years of eligibility remaining and Gates already coming into his own, the Bearcats can look forward to seeing their silent leader improving even more as he continues to develop.

Despite some painstaking losses that make some wonder why they even root for the them, the University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team has some qualities that could help them down the stretch run.

With 11 games remaining, plus the Big East Tournament, UC sits at 13-6 with a 4-3 conference record. If this team has taught us anything, it’s that it wins games it’s supposed to lose.

The problem though is the Bearcats also lose games they are supposed to win.

It’s really hard to tell which UC team will show up night in and night out. This can be blamed on any number of things.

Head coach Mick Cronin deserves some of the blame, for sure. How he couldn’t have his team prepared for games against Seton Hall and St. John’s is beyond me.

The Cats shot 52 percent from the field against Seton Hall, a percentage high enough to win the game. They outrebounded the Pirates that day 34-22.

What cost the Bearcats were turnovers. UC turned the ball over 18 times compared to only seven times Seton Hall coughed up the ball.

Turnovers aren’t the coach’s fault though; He doesn’t tell Lance Stephenson to go out and give the ball to the other team six times during the course of the game.

It also didn’t help that Seton Hall’s Jeremy Hazell lit up the Cats for 33 points.

But what is so frustrating is when Seton Hall has only one conference win and that win is against UC. I don’t see UConn or Georgetown lying down and dying in front of Seton Hall like the Bearcats did.

One game with a lot of turnovers can easily be forgotten and should have been when four days later the team traveled to St. John’s.

I thought they would do all right. I figured Cronin could find a way to split with Seton Hall and St. John’s on the road and come home without too much damage done.

I thought “Born Ready” would dominate at Madison Square Garden like all the best players do, right?

Wrong.Instead, Stephenson

buckled like a bad knee under the pressure and scored only seven points.

Come on Stephenson, seven points against the Lakers next year will earn you a seat at the end of the bench — if you’re lucky.

His six turnovers didn’t help much either.

This game wasn’t all on Stephenson. Cronin should once again take some of the blame for UC not beating one of the weaker teams in the conference.

Similar to the Seton Hall game, Cronin doesn’t deserve all the blame.

After all, he didn’t miss all 12 three-point shots his team took. He wasn’t 1 of 7 from the field like Deonta Vaughn, or 0 of 5 like Dion Dixon. He didn’t turn the ball over 21 times and he didn’t call for the inbounds play where Rashad Bishop chucked it past half court with 14 seconds remaining in the game.

Let’s face it — this team makes rookie mistakes that, at times, leave me wondering how they’ve won any games.

But then there are those times when I think UC could hang with any team in the country.

They have a big man in Yancy Gates who continues to improve every game and they are deep on the bench. The Bearcats are one of only two teams in the Big East to not have a player averaging more than 30 minutes per game.

It may not seem very important right now, but the last few seasons UC has not had the deep bench and it cost them during the final games of the season.

Stephenson and Vaughn drive this team but when they’re not on, UC has a very tough time winning.

As hard as it may be to believe after the Seton Hall and St. John’s debacles, Cincinnati’s two stars are showing signs of becoming better playing with each other.

They still have plenty of work to be done if they want to make the NCAA Tournament, but I like this team going forward.

I get the feeling once tournament time rolls around they won’t be one and done in an embarrassing loss to DePaul like last year’s horrendous finish to the season.

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Despite 25 points from senior Kahla Roudebush, the University of Cincinnati women’s basketball team lost to Georgetown Tuesday night, giving them four losses spanning the last five games.

“We’re doing a lot of things right,” said head coach Jamelle Elliott. “We’re close to coming over the hump and winning some of these basketball games and the last game was an example of that.”

The Bearcats’ next game is against Seton Hall at 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 23. UC will be seeking its second Big East win of the season.

The Pirates come into the game barely afloat, having lost their last seven games and still winless in the Big East.

“Seton Hall is in the same boat we are in,” Elliott said. “They have been in some close games recently. They are playing hard and have also come up short, but they are right there on the cusp of winning basketball games.”

UC is 8–9 and 1-4 in the Big East and is currently in 13th place in the 16-team conference. The Bearcats were picked to finish last in the preseason league poll.

“We still have to prove that we can close games out in the last five minutes,” Elliott said.

A win at Seton Hall would put UC in ninth place in the league, but Elliott insists they’ll have to keep the Pirates off the glass if they are going to win.

“Seton Hall is a dangerous team because they go after the offensive rebounds hard every possession,” Elliott said. “They have a team full of athletes that really get after it and that has been one of our weak links this season.”

Junior guard Ebonie Williams is shooting just less than 42 percent from the three-point line for the Pirates and is tied for fourth in the Big East.

“We need to limit them to one shot because they have a really good shooter in Williams,” Elliott said. “This will be a good test for us especially after the game [Tuesday] against Georgetown.”

UC will counter on the offensive end with Roudebush who is coming off one of her best games.

“Kahla is playing like the Big East first-team player she was picked to be at the beginning of the season,” Elliott said. “She is somebody who is producing on the court, she’s a senior, she has been here three years; she knows what it takes to win in the Big East Conference.”

Following Seton Hall, UC stays on the road for an 8 p.m. tip-off against DePaul Wednesday, Jan. 27.

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