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Faces of Clifton: Story of a Homeless Man Women's Basketball Preps For Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 pg. 5 pg. 11 Faces of Clifton: Story of a homeless man Women’s basketball preps for AAC News Study shows more Ohio adults are smoking marijuana than in the past LAUREN STYCZYNSKI | STAFF REPORTER increase your risk of lung, of stroke. head or neck cancers. A University of Texas study A recent study found that “It [still] seems risky to found that chronic weed more Ohio adults now use me,” McDaniel said. “While smokers have higher blood marijuana than previously there [doesn’t] seem to be flow — and often greater recorded, according to data physical benefits, I have seen oxygen levels — in the brain. from the National Survey friends become incredibly These can prevent blood on Drug Use and Health unmotivated due to their clots in the brain and thus (NSDUH). high weed smoking and I reduce strokes. Approximately one in seven don’t think I could risk that.” But unfortunately, more Ohio adults say they use Chronic users should research on weed and marijuana. be aware that excessive its effects on the body is From early 2015 through smoking can increase necessary and will likely the end of 2016, the number susceptibility to chronic be published as stigmas of adults that smoke weed bronchitis, among other surrounding marijuana in Ohio increased by 14.9 conditions. continue to shift. percent over the previous However, it’s not all bad As Ohio gears up for 14 two years. The analysis news. Unsurprisingly to the farms to produce marijuana was curated by drug masses, marijuana possesses for medical purposes, the policy reform group Harm some medical benefits as health implications of this Reduction Ohio. well. For example, marijuana plant are important to keep “I don’t think these recent smoking can reduce the risk in mind. stats are surprising [due to] the amount of social media exposure and the myths of marijuana being shot down,” fourth-year liberal arts student Caroline Curry said. “More people are getting to know it better.” “It’s become legalized in quite a few states for recreational use,” fourth-year architecture student Damian McDaniel said. “You can feel it in the air … change is coming.” However, as one might expect, smoking weed regularly can affect the daily lives of students, especially those at UC. While marijuana is generally known to relax one’s muscles, it can actually increase your heart rate. Studies have shown that within a few minutes of smoking weed, your heart rate may increase by 20 to 50 beats per minute depending on your average resting heart rate. That same report also indicated that smoking weed could be a trigger for a heart attack. As such, if you are planning to smoke, Feb. 28, 2018 | newsrecord.org 28, 2018 | newsrecord.org Feb. going to the gym may not be the smartest idea. The combination could be fatal. RANDALL BENTON | SACRAMENTO BEE | TNS Unlike cigarettes, however, The Food and Drug Administration has warned the public to beware of fraudulent a recent study found that advertising that promises that certain marijuana-derived products can be used to 2 smoking marijuana does not prevent, diagnose, treat and cure cancer. News UC professor testifies about Russian election interference PARKER MALATESTA | NEWS EDITOR fact, they were controlled by Defendants,” the indictment Valley is a step in the right direction. Along with open reads. “Defendant organization [Internet Research Agency] dialogue, he said it’s important that they don’t see University of Cincinnati political science professor Dr. had a strategic goal to sow discord in the U.S. political regulation as the only option. Richard Harknett testified in the Senate Armed Services system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election … Last year, researchers at the University of Washington Subcommittee on Cybersecurity last week regarding [Defendants also] solicited and compensated real U.S. developed a new algorithm allowing them to turn audio the U.S. Department of Defense’s role in safeguarding persons to promote or disparage candidates.” clips into a realistic, lip-synced spoken word video. democratic elections from foreign interference. The organization mentioned is the Internet Research The team successfully created a realistic video of former Harknett stressed caution of future experimentation from Agency, a Russian-based group engaged in operations that President Obama talking about terrorism, economics and foreign adversaries and promoted a culture shift in the interfere with elections and political processes. other topics using audio clips from speeches. They used government’s cybersecurity realm, drawing from ideas “They’re a sizable operation,” Harknett said. “They’re existing weekly video addresses, which were originally on including the “doctrine of restraint” to more anticipation- emboldened to experiment further.” a completely separate topic. style tactics. Samples of Russian-sponsored political advertisements The experiment paints a picture detailing the future of He characterized the Russians’ 2016 presidential election on social media include taglines like “Ohio Wants Hillary information consumption. interference the “stone age” due to new technologies which 4 Prison,” “Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had Regarding a grand solution, Harknett believes there is will continue muddling fact and fiction. proved just how evil she is” and “Donald wants to defeat need for a “fundamental shift with the objective of eroding Harknett said the hacking capabilities displayed are “not terrorism … Hillary wants to sponsor it.” their confidence” in the Defense Department. exclusive to Russia,” citing China, Iran and North Korea as Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have As technology evolves, Harknett says problems are regimes which have the ability to do so as well. served as useful tools for Russian interference, leaving inevitable. He said a successful future will require constant Special Counsel Robert Mueller III indicted 13 Russians only the American government to question the market, and self-surveillance with a major need for better educated, last week with conspiracy to defraud the United States. decide whether they can solve the issue without political tech-savvy citizens. “Defendants [13 Russians], posing as U.S. persons and pressure. “We trust our eyes and our ears,” he said. “How do we creating false U.S. personas, operated social media pages In 2016, the British government concluded that they, too, authenticate?” and groups designed to attract U.S. audiences … [and] were reliant on the market regarding cybersecurity issues. falsely claimed to be controlled by U.S. activists when, in Harknett said politicians creating incentives for Silicon Feb. 28, 2018 | newsrecord.org 28, 2018 | newsrecord.org Feb. 3 PROVIDED News Bearcat LaunchPad visits the Brandery, pitches plans for startup companies BRIANA RICE | CONTRIBUTOR those outside of Cinncinnati. “Bearcat Launchpad is the most helpful Bearcat LaunchPad, a student-led and hands-on program available on UC’s organization that helps students create campus,” Brandery co-founder Robert business plans for their own startup McDonald said. “It’s so much more than companies, visited one of Cincinnati’s just a teacher talking to you or telling you biggest and oldest startup accelerators what to do.” this week. The Brandery, founded in 2009, Besides offering advice about optimal welcomed students from the group on a ways to start a company, McDonald tour of their facility, offering a private allowed some students to pitch plans for demonstration and answering any their own startups. questions posed by Bearcats. Fourth-year marketing and information AL SEIB | LOS ANGELES TIMES | TNS “We provide funding, mentorship, systems student Jacob Burge and his A line of off-shore oil rigs in the Santa Barbara Channel near the Federal Ecological Preserve en route to the Channel Islands information about the community and National Marine Sanctuary in March 2015. The Trump administration proposed to open for exploration the largest expanse of business partner, second-year marketing the nation’s offshore oil and natural gas reserves ever offered to global energy companies. how to get involved,” said Shelbi Howard, student Liam Stojanovic, hope to fourth-year industrial design, information streamline grocery delivery services with technology and entrepreneurship student, their startup, Accord Grocery Delivery. and the leader of Bearcat Launchpad. “We want to make a system to make Warm weather helping prove climate change “Right now, we have seven student-led multiple grocery orders at once, in startup companies. particular those in a certain area,” Burge DARIUS DUDLEY | STAFF REPORTER trend is statistically and land as sea levels rise. While the group accepts applications from said. “It is about efficiency. Each time an significant — it is not a both undergraduate and graduate students, Last Tuesday was the order is placed, incentive increases.” fluke. We are far outside of “I think climate change the group consists of only undergraduate warmest recorded day in The company’s Facebook page launched natural temperatures and it’s needs to be taken more students for now, Howard said. February for Cincinnati, in January. Users can visit the page for accelerating, which is scary.” seriously by the government,” While touring the Brandery, students met with temperatures reaching information on how they can get their As global carbon emissions second-year criminal justice with its founder and manager, as well as upwards of 79 degrees. continue to rise, so does student Rebecca Gulick said. groceries delivered from Kroger to any some of the generators, or “funders.” They This breaks the 72-degree the correlation with rising “These corporations are only Cincinnati location. explained the origins of the Brandery, record set two years prior, temperatures. out to make money, which is McDonald shared startups with similar presented opportunities for involvement according to the National “Global carbon production by design, so someone needs premises and acknowledged flaws in and offered advice for students to Weather Service.
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