Ohio Legislature Passes HB 26 Bill Increases Transportation Funding by $10M
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Matt Football 2 Teaford 4 Preview Teaford stands Bearcat football out among politicians team begins today spring practice THE NEWS RECORD / UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI NEWSRECORD.ORG MONDAY, MAR. 6, 2017 Ohio Legislature passes HB 26 Bill increases transportation funding by $10M JACOB FISHER | STAFF REPORTER efforts to increase state transit offense as well, citing the death of funding. Sam DuBose at the hands of former Ohio’s public transit system Representatives from the Ohio University of Cincinnati Police appears poised for a comprehensive House hope the funding will ease Department Officer Ray Tensing in expansion as the state’s House of access to funds for local projects like July 2015. Representatives pass House Bill the Western Hills Viaduct. Levying “Sam DuBose didn’t do anything 26, which would increase statewide additional funds for some of the wrong, and he’s dead today with a transportation funding by $10 million. state’s pilot programs to alleviate bullet in the head,” said Reece during “There’s a lot of stuff in this highway congestion is also a focus. the legislative session. bill that’s trying to help local The bill commissions a joint effort Ultimately, the provision did not governments,” said Representative between the Ohio Department of pass. According to Ian Rice, a second- Robert McColley, a key sponsor of Transportation and the Kentucky year political science and pre-law SHAE COMBS | PHOTO EDITOR the legislation. “They’re crying out for Artist Amanda Bialk speaks to customers about her handmade ceramics at the Transportation Cabinet to study student, it would have been little DAAP Makers Market, March 4, 2017. help.” the proposed Eastern Bypass of more than “a Band-Aid on a much The bill, which passed with an 83-13 Cincinnati. bigger problem.” vote, comes in the wake of a 2014 Derek Bauman, vice-chair of the “Changing a law on a license plate study by multinational engineering pro-public transit organization All requirement will not fix the issue and design firm Parsons Brinckerhoff Aboard Ohio, called the proposed [of] racial biases in our society,” said DAAP throws first that called for Ohio to double its bypass “a multi-billion dollar Rice. “We need to make sure that, as a transportation funding. It outlines suburban sprawl-inducing highway society, we are more inclusive.” an $8 billion spending budget, which project.” Although it doesn’t look like the bill poses a “potentially significant annual According to Bauman, would cause any change in funding ‘Maker’s Mart’ revenue gain for counties,” according transportation funding needs to go for UC’s transportation system, some to Ohio’s Legislative Service to public transportation and not new students hope that its passage might NOELLE ZIELINKY | STAFF REPORTER sold handmade clothing, Commission. highways, citing over 70 new miles of persuade the university to revisit fund such as t-shirts with Though the need for public transit interstates that will require regular management for its current public DAAP held its first printed designs on them grows steadily each year, its funding maintenance from other pending transit services. Makers Market this past and shorts with patchwork has slowly declined. Accounting for “We need to focus on expanding Saturday where students, projects. detail. Handmade jewelry inflation, state funding for transit has The bill contains a provision that services such as NightRide and the alumni and other members was also sold, as well as been cut in half since the turn of the of the Cincinnati design reduces the absence of a front license shuttle program,” said Rice. “UC has hanging plant holders century. community sold their plate to a secondary offense if the great programs when it comes to made from types of colored While Ohio consists of numerous artwork. vehicle is legally parked. transportation, but expanding our yarn and rope. metropolitan areas that necessitate This artwork ranged from Dan Whitsell and Terah Representative Alicia Reece current programs will allow us to graphic prints to ceramics public transit access, representatives unsuccessfully attempted to instate a serve more students and provide a Coleman explored new from car-dominated rural and to woodwork. The event mediums with their provision which would make driving safer environment for everyone.” suburban districts have long resisted was held on multiple levels artwork that they sold at without a front plate a secondary of the DAAP building, and the market. Whitsell, a it was bustling with visitors third-year industrial design the entire time. Vendors student, and Coleman, a were able to explain their fifth-year industrial design artwork to potential buyers student, were curious about and give them a sense of creating a line of smaller who they are. bags, experimenting with Sammi Hayes, a fourth- new materials. year fine arts student, “I have experience makes paper plants. She making bags and other says that a particular soft goods,” said Whitsell. assignment sparked her “And Terah was interested inspiration for this idea. in experimenting with “I’ve always loved the different products and shapes, forms and colors construction methods, so it of plants,” said Hayes. felt like a good option for “Combining that with the Makers Market.” pattern design felt very These two made small natural, so in response to bags made out of used the assignment I created denim and made them into my first paper plant something practical. installation.” “We focused the project Since then, this project around reusing worn-out has taken over Hayes’ main jeans for the denim bags body of work. The process and experimenting with to make these plants, embroidery. Our goal was though seemingly simple, is to make simple and useful quite interesting. objects that gave new “I begin by screen printing life to the materials,” said bright patterns onto green Whitsell. paper,” explained Hayes. Joe Walsh, a 2015 DAAP “Then I hand cut and alum, sold his graphic assemble plant sculptures prints, shirts and pins. from that paper.” “My art is me drawing Vendors were located things how I wish on multiple floors of the they looked, most of it DAAP building, which technically of a real thing, encouraged potential or a memory,” Walsh said. buyers to venture around “But I put it through a the different tables to see stylistic lens, usually what everyone had to offer. making it more geometric The overall atmosphere and symmetrical than the was very upbeat, and all thing really is.” of the vendors were more All artists and makers than happy to answer presented their most questions about their intricate and compelling artwork or explain the artwork at this market and different steps taken in drew in crowds from the order to create their art. UC community and the Some of the artists also PROVIDED greater Cincinnati area. Cincinnati Metro Bus at Fountain Square. UC med college discovers treatment for brain and blood cancers MOUNIR LYNCH | STAFF REPORTER the patient’s production of Medicine’s Department need for novel therapeutic multiple drug combinations Medicine’s Division of of a protein called S6K1 of Neurosurgery Ronald agents for patients with for their ability to eliminate Hematology Oncology Researchers at the could eliminate PTEN- Warnick, MD, is excited glioblastoma,” Dr. Warnick PTEN-deficient cancer were both collaborators in University of Cincinnati’s deficient glioblastoma cells. to see what this project told Cell Reports. cells. Dr. Plas’ lab was this study. The American College of Medicine have Glioblastoma is known as is discovering right on After having discovered ultimately successful in Cancer Society, the discovered a new way to the most aggressive form UC’s campus. Dr. Warnick the connection between finding a drug combination National Institutes of personalize treatment for of brain cancer and one of believes that this kind of stopping S6K1 production that could achieve his Health, the UC Brain patients with difficult brain the most difficult to treat. therapeutics research is and the elimination desired results. Tumor Center and the and blood cancers. Medical Director of the UC necessary for treating brain of PTEN-deficient Atsuo Sasaki, PhD, and Anna and Harold W. A team of scientists from Brain Tumor Center and tumors. glioblastoma cells, Dr. Plas’ Hala Elnakat Thomas, Huffman Endowed Chair the UC Cancer Institute professor in the College “There is a desperate research team at UC tested PhD, from the College of funded the study for has discovered a variety Glioblastoma Experimental of potential therapies Therapeutics and the UC that can treat cancers Medical Scientists Training lacking essential tumor- Program. suppression factors that The next step in the occur naturally in the research is using this drug body. Anna and Harold combination to test the W. Huffman Endowed safety and application of Chair for Glioblastoma the new drug combination Experimental Therapeutics using models with an and UC cancer researcher end goal of sending the Dr. David Plas, MD, told combination for a clinical Cell Reports last month trial. about the groundbreaking “We have great hope that discovery in his research. our new data will lead “We found a new academic and industry combination of researchers to investigate therapeutics that could S6K1 as the center of new treat cancers that lack a combination strategies for protein called PTEN. PTEN cancers of the brain, blood is an important tumor and other tissues,” Dr. Plas suppressor, which means said. that it stops cell growth This combination of drugs and division according to has the potential to become the needs of the body,” said a game-changer, according Plas. JAE S. LEE | THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS | TNS to Dr. Warnick. Dr. Plas’ laboratory at UC A scar from a brain surgery is seen on Chase Sims’ head at Prestonwood Baptist Church on April 20, 2016 in Plano, Texas.