newsrecord.org@NewsRecord_UC /TheNewsRecord @thenewsrecord pg. 4 | UCPD officers pg. 7 | Nine questions save student’s life with Trevor Moore Wednesday, March 6, 2019 New poetry club at UC ANDREA WARD | CONTRIBUTOR of the Cincinnati Poetry Collective, a new poetry Chairs and lime-green club at the University of couches are arranged in Cincinnati. Organizers Ryan a large circle next to the Talbot, Malik Aguiniga and stacks in the Elliston Poetry Ava Whitson, all of whom Room in Langsam Library. are second-year students at Roughly 30 students talk UC, founded the club to fill and laugh while music plays a poetry hole on campus, in the background, and they said. different scenes flash from The three of them met in a projection that stretches fall 2018 when they sat next across the ceiling and the to each other during a small far wall. introductory poetry class A podium placed next to taught by Kimberly Grey. a stack closes the circle. “All throughout the There’s enough room for class, we kind of slowly someone to stand behind opened up with each other,” it without bumping elbows said Aguiniga, the vice with a shelf that houses president of the club and a a portion of the room’s communications student. poetry collection. Nineteen Talbot, Aguiniga and students stand behind the Whitson have been writing podium this evening, and since childhood, but Grey’s each of them share some of class cemented their shared their poetry. Poetry Continued This is the first open mic on Page 2 Hannah Beachler, a University of Cincinnati DAAP graduate, won an Academy Award for Best Production Design. PROVIDED BY DAVID AGELL | CREDIT TO CHRIS BRITT DAAP graduate wins Academy Award KEELY BROWN | NEWS EDITOR Design, Architecture, Art and Planning “Moonlight,” the Miles Davis biopic (DAAP), where she studied fashion “Miles Ahead” and Beyoncé’s 2016 Hannah Beachler, a University of design before landing her dream job television special and visual album Cincinnati graduate, recently became on the “Black Panther” production “Lemonade.” the first African-American to win an team. DAAP programs are annually “Black Panther,” produced by Marvel Oscar at the 2019 Academy Awards for ranked among other top world and Studios, is the world’s ninth highest- best production design. Beachler was national class programs. grossing film of all time, racking nominated for her work on the 2018 Beachler’s time at UC prepared her up $1.35 billion at the box office. blockbuster film “Black Panther.” for a job as a production designer. According to Marvel’s website, the Beachler, 48, first attended Wright Throughout her career, she has movie follows the story of T’Challa, State University in Dayton, Ohio, worked on numerous notable movies, a superhero who steps up to lead A member of Cincinnati Poetry Collective reads one of her poems at where she studied film. She later including the 2015 Rocky film “Creed,” DAAP Oscar Continued on Page 4 the Cincinnati Poetry Collective’s first event on Feb. 28, 2019 in the became a student at UC’s College of the 2016 best-picture winning drama Elliston Poetry Room in Langsam Library. ALEX MARTIN | CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER March 6, 2019 Page 2 was also a poet, and she left Students launch poetry club in Langsam money to the university to establish “a chair of poetry Poetry Continued to start with something a expected. to encourage and promote from Cover little lighter to encourage “We had a great turnout the study and composition more students check it out, because it was built with of poetry.” passion for poetry. Talbot, Aguiniga, and “That class totally changed Talbot said. love,” Aguiniga said. Organizers began the Keress Weidner, a first- Whitson want to keep the my life,” said Whitson, the poetry tradition alive in art director of the club and event by sharing some year English student and an background information assistant at the library, said the Elliston Poetry Room, a fine arts student. around campus and, if their The class visited the about the club. Afterward, he heard about the open mic each of them shared event from a friend. club is successful, around Elliston Poetry Room, the city. For now, their focus and after that, the idea of a poem, and Aguiniga “The shear turnout in itself encouraged attendees to was surprising,” Weider said. is building a community for launching a poetry club UC undergraduates to share took root. snap after each reading. “I was elated to see it.” They then called names More than 30 students and workshop poetry, they “We’re like, hey, let’s said. establish something diverse, from the list of students came, and the event ran for who signed up to read. After about two hours. Twenty-two The Cincinnati Poetry artistic and get people Collective meets every cranking,” said Talbot, going through the list, they students shared a combined opened the floor to anyone 33 poems in the Elliston Thursday from 5:30 to president of the club and an 7 p.m. in the Elliston English student. who wanted to share a Poetry Room — a room that poem. The room filed with poets like Robert Frost and Poetry Room to workshop, They were encouraged to talk and hang out with do so by Grey and Michael the sound of snapping John Ashbery have read, fingers after each speaker lectured and workshopped anyone who is interested Peterson, the curators of the in writing or learning room. Talbot, Aguiniga and finished reading. in. The room continues to “It’s beautiful to see just host renowned poets every more about poetry. More Whitson collaborated over information can be found winter break to formally kind of UC’s lifeblood year, Peterson said. spilling into this room,” The room is named after @cincypoetrycollective on establish the club. Instagram. “This is just really Talbot said. George Elliston, a woman Talbot closed the open mic who worked as a news Information on Elliston important to all three Poetry Room events can of us,” said Whitson. portion with another poem, reporter for the now-defunct and Aguiniga ended the Cincinnati Times-Star at a be found at the Visiting “That definitely kept the Writers Series section momentum going all event by leading a haiku time when few women were prompt about pizza and allowed to write hard news, of the UC Department through the process of of English website or @ getting things together.” tacos. according to the Elliston The turnout was higher Poetry Room section of the ellistonpoetryroom on The Feb. 28 open mic was Instagram. the club’s first. They wanted than any of the organizers UC Libraries website. She Malik Aguiniga, vice president of Cincinnati Poetry Collective, reads a poem. ALEX MARTIN | CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER March 6, 2019 Page 3 Two hundred years of Boldly Bearcat women — Part III ELIZABETH SCHMITT | FEATURES EDITOR Championship, but she was never able to compete due to then-ongoing World War II conflicts. This the third installment of an ongoing series that pays Nolan was actively involved in the tennis community homage to women who have influenced the University of and served on the Women’s Committee for the U.S. Lawn Cincinnati and its surrounding community. Tennis Association. She was also the first president of Ten Plus, a support group organized for UC’s women’s athletics, Evelyn Venable (1913-1993) according to the UC Hall of Fame. Nolan, outspoken in her As the voice of the blue fairy in Disney’s “Pinocchio,” life as she was in her career, ventured into the workforce as Evelyn Venable radiated the sound of ethereality — an a stockbroker who advocated for equality in the workplace. essence that was mirrored in her on-screen presence in Often referred to as a “noisy feminist,” she campaigned as a films like “Death Takes a Holiday” and “Cradle Song.” Democrat for a congressional bid in 1962, but she ultimately A Cincinnati native, Venable attended the College- lost to her opponent, three-time Cincinnati mayor Carl W. Conservatory of Music, but she left the college in 1933 Rich. to join a Shakespearean acting troupe, according to UC Still, Nolan continued to be a dominant force in the Magazine. After playing Ophelia in “Hamlet” at the Los business sector. In 1990, Cincinnati Magazine described Angeles Biltmore Theatre, she signed a film contract with her as “a stockbroker and a rather formable athlete, ran for Paramount Talent. U.S. Congress in the early ‘60s. She has an old-fashioned, The starlet played timid leading roles which, according enthusiastic, arm-swinging, pre-soundbite speaking style to IMBD, resonated with her off-screen presence as well. that reminded us of the days when the government seemed Often described as luminous, Venable has claimed to be the to be possible and even respectable.” inspiring figure for Columbia Pictures’ “lady of liberty” logo. The actress eventually earned her star on the Hollywood Marian A. Spencer (1920-present) Walk of Fame and married cinematographer Hal Mohr. A beloved figure in the Cincinnati community and After the birth of her two daughters in the early 1940s, namesake of UC’s newly opened residence hall, Spencer Venable gave up her film career to raise children. After her graduated from UC in 1942 with a degree in English. She daughters were grown, Venerable enrolled at UCLA and is considered one of earliest and most visible civil rights earned degrees in Latin and Greek. Then, in 1967, she joined activists in Cincinnati, according to a biography by the the staff at UCLA as a professor in classics and drama. She Cincinnati History Library and Archives.