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TEDx Women’s 2UCincinnati 6 Lacrosse Popular lecture Lacrosse series gives maintains advice on how winning to make an ways with impact win over Detroit THE NEWS RECORD / UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MONDAY, MAR. 7, 2016 NEWS BITES Men’s basketball upsets No. 24 SMU DAVID WYSONG | SPORTS EDITOR The Cincinnati Bearcat men’s basketball AMIR SAMARGHANDI AND HUY NGUYEN | NEWS EDITORS team concluded their 2015-2016 season Sunday with a 61-54 win against the No. 24 Southern Methodist University Mustangs. UC finishes the regular season 22-9 overall UC medical students make and 12-6 in the American Athletic Conference. healthy recipes for Kroger The Bearcats looked for a signature win all shoppers season and got just that. SMU is the highest- Sweet potato fries, pretzel wands and ranked team UC defeated this season. banana ice cream — these were some The game started slow offensively for both teams of the free foods available from UC with only 12 total points scored through the first medical students this weekend. 7:28 of play. Medical students set up booths at the The Mustangs jumped out to a 16-13 lead with Covington Kroger Saturday to show 8:43 remaining in the half, but the Bearcats their takes on healthy, delicious and answered with an 8-0 run to go up 21-13. affordable recipes. SMU pulled back within one point multiple The recipes were a part of the times during the next minute and a half, but UC Physician and Society course’s ended the period on an 11-3 run to take a 34-27 lead collaboration with Kroger and into the locker room. Covington’s Center for Great Cincinnati kept a steady lead over SMU for most Neighborhoods. of the second half and claimed their largest lead of Along with free healthy samples, the game 11 points with 8:11 remaining. students gave out recipe cards for SMU inched their way back into the game and shoppers to take advantage of for their ultimately cut their deficit to three points off a own recipes. layup from freshman guard Shake Milton with 1:55 “As part of our community outreach remaining in the game. project in Covington, we wanted to The Bearcats stretched their lead to 58-52 off a free share recipes people can use that are throw from junior guard Troy Caupain with 50 seconds both simple and nutritious,” said first- left. year medical student in the UC College The Mustangs then missed two consecutive three- of Medicine Vasantham Annadurai in pointers with under 40 seconds left and the Bearcats did a press release Friday. “The Kroger not look back. in Covington is a great partner for us Senior forward Coreontae DeBerry scored 10 points because of their focus on fresh food.” and seven rebounds. He did not miss a shot from the field The Center for Great Neighborhoods’ or free throw line in his final home game at Fifth Third partnership with UC is advancing its Arena. efforts to improve health in Covington “I just really wanted to finish and finish my last home through the Plan4Health initiative, game strong,” DeBerry said. “I was hurt from the last game which seeks to identify and improve we played, so I just didn’t want to feel that way no more… access to, and consumption of healthy So I just found a new set of motivation as just go for food, particularly fruits and vegetables everything, go all out and like there’s no tomorrow.” for people with limited means,” said Cincinnati struggled making shots throughout the whole Dan Petronio, associate director of the game. They went 29.5 percent from the field and 5.3 center. percent from 3-point range only making one 3-pointer the entire game. Nancy Reagan, one of the most SEE BASKETBALL PG 6 NICK BROWN | CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER influential first ladies in history, Troy Caupain (10) squeezes between SMU defenders for a layup. Caupain led the Bearcats in scoring dies at 94 with 14 points in the 61-54 victory over SMU at Fifth Third Arena Sunday March 6, 2016. Former First Lady Reagan died of congestive heart failure Sunday, according to Joanne Drake, a spokeswoman for the Reagan Library. Reagan became First Lady of the United States in January 1981, after her UCPD citations spike husband Ronald Reagan’s election in the 1980 U.S. presidential race. She was known for her influence CAROLINE CORY | CHIEF REPORTER traffic stop. UCPD Officers Philip on her husband’s policies and her Kidd and David Lindenschmidt campaign against recreational drug University of Cincinnati Chief supported Tensing’s version of use, Just Say No. Jason Goodrich and Major Tim events that stated DuBose dragged Thornton resigned recently from him with his vehicle — which was their respective positions, leaving clearly contradicted by Tensing’s PROVIDED Public Safety Announcement behind many questions about the body cam footage, according to an Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde in “Zootopia.” UC Public Safety sent an email to tactics used by UCPD leadership official report. students Friday to be aware of a man under their reign. “Any car movement before the with criminal history spotted on UC’s Since Goodrich’s arrival in 2014, moment Tensing fired his weapon Uptown campus. the number of citations issued appears to have been minimal,” Brian Johnson, who has been seen on to black individuals more than according to the Kroll Report, UC’s Art director takes long UC’s campus before, has a history of doubled to 1,330 in 2015 compared independent investigation of the to 610 in 2014, according to the criminal trespassing, drug possession event. UCPD Traffic Stop Summary. and public indecency, according to Although UCPD has formally In 2012, UCPD handed out 187 apologized for the DuBose road to ‘Zootopia’ Public Safety. citations to blacks, a 700-percent shooting, some students feel that He is described as male, black, about difference compared to 2015. it is not enough to apologize for 6 feet tall and weighing about 160 MOLLY COHEN | SENIOR REPORTER Robin Engel, director of the one incident when the reasoning pounds. Institute of Crime Sciences (ICS) behind the shooting goes beyond Matthias Lechner traveled far and wide before he set Johnson was last seen sleeping inside and Murat Ozer, ICS researcher, the death of one man. roots in Ventura, California, to work as an art director for the common area of a residence hall, compiled the summary. “I would like to see them according to Public Safety In 2012, whites were issued 136 apologize for the biases that have Walt Disney Feature Animations. If students find Johnson on campus, citations compared to 442 in 2015 been engrained in the department,” Originally working in Germany’s animation industry, they are to contact UC Police — a 325-percent increase. said Adam Denny, a second-year Lechner later traveled to Hamburg, Germany; Seoul, immediately at 513-556-1111, or on The resignations came shortly women’s, gender and sexuality South Korea, and Vancouver, British Columbia, to work UCPD’s LiveSafe app. after Exiger began their UCPD studies graduate student. on various film projects. After receiving a call in 2012 review. Exiger is a regulatory Some UC students feel racially from the writer of Disney’s upcoming film, “Zootopia,” consulting firm hired in response profiled by UCPD and believe Lechner was invited to join the Disney team as art Super Saturday to the DuBose shooting. Goodrich and Thornton should director for environments of the film. The firm will release a report have resigned after the DuBose Four years later, Lechner’s design work can now be Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) of their findings in April and a easily won caucuses in the incident. found on the big screen in Disney Animation’s 55th comprehensive report by June. “I have been approached by overwhelmingly white states of feature film. “The review has identified officers before. Recently, they Directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, the film Kansas (68-32) and Nebraska (56- some gaps and oversights in waited outside the bathroom features a world where animals have evolved to the 44) — yet former Secretary of State management. This information while I went to the bathroom human level — elephants run ice cream shops and sloths Hillary Clinton dominated Sanders was shared with key leadership since I matched the description of in Louisiana (71-23) thanks to including Chief Jason Goodrich operate the Department of Motor Vehicles. a suspicious character who had Being from a small town in Germany, Lechner said he overwhelming support among African and Major Tim Thornton,” said been around the law school,” said never could have predicted where he would be today. Americans. James Whalen, director of public Bennett Allen, a black third-year “I’ve been a Disney fan since I saw the ‘Jungle Book’ Sanders won 38 delegates Kansas and safety and interim UCPD police law student. “Clearly we have a Nebraska. Clinton scored almost as chief. “Looking toward the future police force hostile to people of when I was 6,” Lechner said. “I wanted to go into animation because of that.” many delegates in Louisiana — 37. of the department, Chief Goodrich color.” As art director for environments, Lechner leads a scene Business mogul Donald Trump won and Major Thornton submitted Although the resignations of from his initial sketch through the different stages of in both Louisiana and Kentucky, yet their resignations. Goodrich and Thornton caught The most-discussed part of their design production, a process that takes around one and a the largest story emerging from “Super some people off guard, others were tenure was the shooting of Samuel half months to complete.