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newsrecord.org @NewsRecord_UC /TheNewsRecord @thenewsrecord pg. 2 | Why theft around pg. 10 | Opinion: Why I’m campus is on the rise rooting for Andrew Yang Wednesday, September 11, 2019 UC volleyball victorious in Michigan State Invitational SPENCER SCHULTZ | SPORTS EDITOR finish with a season-high .407 hitting percentage. The University of “Offensively we were Cincinnati volleyball team super sharp,” UC Head was victorious in East Coach Molly Alvey told Lansing, Michigan, last BearcatsTV post-match. “We weekend, finishing 2-1 in also put a lot of pressure on the Auto-Owners Insurance Tennessee with our serve Spartan Invitational. and its one thing we’ve The Bearcats began talked about in the past the tournament with an week … I thought it was not upset victory over No. 21 just a win, but a really well University of Tennessee in played match all-around.” straight sets (3-0). The team The success didn’t dominated on all cylinders, translate into the team’s outnumbering the Lady second match against host Volunteers in every stat Michigan State University, including eight service aces. losing in four sets. The Redshirt senior Jordan Spartans entered the match Thompson continued her with a 3-0 record having dominance, finishing with only lost one set by two 26 kills and helped the team This Story Continued on Page 8 Members from local and statewide nurses’ unions protest outside of the UC Medical Center on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. SYDNEY ASHER | PHOTO CONTRIBUTOR Nurses picket near medical campus MITCHELL PARTON | MULTIMEDIA DIRECTOR Michelle Thoman, president of the Donaldson’s termination, not naming KEELY BROWN | NEWS EDITOR Registered Nurses Association (RNA), the nurse. ONA’s local chapter at UC, and “After a lengthy investigation, we Members of local and statewide fired Jennifer Donaldson, RNA vice found that the nurse in question, nurses’ unions held an informational president. Thoman worked on the working in labor and delivery at UC picket outside the UC Medical Center specialty surgery floor, and Donaldson Medical Center, chose to leave her Tuesday evening in response to the worked in labor and delivery. patients to go to a break room to film hospital’s termination and disciplinary UC Health did not respond to a live social-media video,” Nageleisen actions against unionized nurses. The News Record’s request for said. “This nurse did not perform Ohio Nurses Association (ONA) comment on the picket. UC Health the appropriate handoff of care and officials said in a statement that the spokesperson Amanda Nageleisen abandoned her responsibility to picket is in response to the Medical said in a statement to media outlets monitor the fetal heart rates of the Center’s “prolific attempts to silence earlier this summer the union patients in her care.” the nurses’ voice” after it disciplined issued false statements regarding “The nurses’ union is grieving The UC volleyball team finishied 2-1 and won the Auto-Owners This Story Continued on Page 2 Insurance Spartan Invitational. CINCINNATI BEARCATS VOLLEYBALL VIA FACEBOOK September 11, 2019 NEWS Page 2 UC nurses rally against Medical Center Theft on the rise near UC This Story Continued from case scenario would made them afraid to Page 1 be for Donaldson to be advocate for themselves. the unjust discipline of reinstated and for Thoman’s “Just recently we had a Thoman and termination disciplines to be lifted. local union meeting, and of Donaldson, with the “We’re here because the some of these nurses work Medical Center delaying hospital administration has 24/7 so some of the nurses grievance hearings on four decided to attack the voice have to call into these separate occasions citing of the nurses at the UC meetings,” Cousins said. ‘unpreparedness’ and claims Medical Center,” she said. “We actually had managers of an evidentiary video “They’ve done that through calling and listening in on that has since, according to attacks to our union the membership meeting. the Medical Center, been directly. You have to get rid That’s intimidation.” overwritten and therefore of the disciplines that are A grievance hearing is unviewable,” according to bogus, but the big picture is set for Thoman to take a statement from the Ohio that they need to work with place Sept. 11. Cousins Nurses Association. “The nurses and the nurses’ voice said this hearing has been video was to support the to help better the conditions rescheduled four times. Medical Center’s dishonest at the [UC Medical Center].” Cousins expects and ludicrous accusation Bob Cousins, deputy termination to be the next of patient abandonment executive officer of labor step for Thoman, as she against Donaldson.” relations for ONA, said already received a final RNA secretary, Kelly the medical center has written notice. Hickman, said the best- intimidated nurses and Three weeks into the fall semester, UCPD has recieved multiple reports of theft and burglary. TNR FILE ART QUINLAN BENTLEY | CONTRIBUTOR an unlocked door or retrieved their other items. window. However, not everyone The University of This happens to be a will be as fortunate, Cincinnati Department of common tactic, Herold which is why Whalen Public Safety has received said. “Offenders tend to encourages students to keep at least five reports of theft use unlocked doors and careful watch over their and four reports of burglary windows to gain access and possessions. just three weeks into the primarily target gaming “Reported crimes are fall semester. systems, computers and investigated to the extent According to the most other electronics, cash, and possible, and the goal is recent statistics by Public occasionally car keys to see to identify the offender Safety, there were 96 if they can find the victim’s and recover the stolen reported thefts on UC’s car on the street.” property,” Whalen said. “It uptown campus in 2017, In fact, some of the items is common for someone with the number of on- stolen include wallets, to be studying and get campus burglaries and keys, backpacks, shoes, up to use the bathroom vehicle thefts being higher laptops, gaming consoles, a or get a snack and leave than the two previous years. bicycle and, in one case—a their laptop or backpack According to UCPD Chief handgun. sitting unattended. Unless Maris Herold, the past A student affected by the you have a friend with two decades have seen a thefts spoke to The News you, always take your significant reduction in Record on the condition of belongings with you.” property crimes. anonymity. Of the 48 arrests made by However, these numbers The student’s backpack UCPD so far this year, 32 are dwarfed in comparison went missing from a locker were related to property to statistics released by room in the Campus Rec crimes. the city of Cincinnati, who Center (CRC). When UCPD “In general, property reported at total of 1,268 retrieved the bag, they crimes tend to have a lower- property crimes from found that $62 had been case clearance rate than July 28 to Aug. 2l alone. stolen. violent or person-based Of those, 260 occurred “I had a really bad gut crimes,” Herold said. “The in the city’s fifth district, feeling that my bag was main reason for this is that which houses UC’s uptown going to be stolen, but I person crimes tend to have campus. pushed the thought to the far more evidence as to “Each year at the start of back of my head when I who the perpetrator was or the fall semester, we see a tossed my bag in my locker,” could be.” spike in theft and burglary the student said. “I actually Public Safety urges on and around campus,” pulled out my phone to take students to pay attention said James Whalen, director a video of my backpack to their belongings and to of Public Safety. “We put in the locker and the always keep vehicles and a lot of resources towards associated locker number residences locked. In the that.” before I headed upstairs.” case that property is stolen, In all the reported No arrests have been made students are advised to burglaries the suspect was at the time of writing. immediately contact UCPD able to gain entry to the The student said they or Cincinnati Police. victim’s residence through were lucky to have Top and bottom: Members from local and statewide nurses’ unions picket outside of the UC Medical Center on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. ALEX MARTIN | PHOTO EDITOR September 11, 2019 NEWS Page 3 A&S dean not intimidated by failing budget model KEELY BROWN | NEWS EDITOR the Office of Diversity, moment in the history of Research, McMicken is Equity and Community A&S. Numerous deans the largest college at UC, The University of Engagement for his work have led the school and housing 8,481 students or Cincinnati has appointed on behalf of staff and failed to balance the failing 18.5% of the university’s a new dean to lead the underrepresented groups. performance-based budget total population. Ferme is McMicken College of Arts Ferme, originally from (PBB) model—leaving A&S, hopeful he will be able to and Sciences (A&S). Milan, Italy, attended the university’s largest connect with each student Dr. Valerio C. Ferme Brown University as an college by revenue, millions to help them achieve their started his term as dean undergraduate student and of dollars in debt. academic goals. of A&S July 1. He started earned bachelor’s degrees However, A&S’ frightening “In a college that is so his teaching career at the in biology and religious financial history doesn’t varied, you have a lot University of Colorado studies.