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Flyer News •Friday, December 4, 2009 START HINTING NOW VOLLEYBALL HITS THE NCAA PAGE 11 FRIDAY NEWS, DAYTON A TOP 20 MOST DANGEROUS CITY PAGE 3 DEC. 4, 2009 A&E, FACULTY TAKES CENTER STAGE PAGE 6 OPINIONS, YOUNGER GENERATION SELLING SEX APPEAL PAGE 9 VOL. 57 NO. 18 Monday, Nov. 30 marked the end of Stewart Street bridge construction, which was celebrated with a community cer- emony where a ribbon cutting was the fi nal step in signifying its reopening. JARED SZECHY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER STEWART STREET BRIDGE: New, improved and open MEAGAN MARION Hospital, Mary Boosalis, were in atten- Funding was provided by the Ohio De- with 10 foot sidewalks, a recreation trail Assistant News Editor dance. partment of Transportation, Ohio Public and pedestrian plazas at both ends. Ad- Dayton’s assistant director of public Works Commission, Miami Valley Re- ditional LED lighting underneath the After 17 months, $16.5 million and a works, Steven Finke helped design the gional Planning Commission and the city bridge provides an aesthetic view of the number of workers and planners, Stewart bridge along with Richard Perales, UD’s of Dayton. Ahern and Associates Inc. was Great Miami River and can even change Street Bridge opened Monday afternoon campus planning director. Finke’s grand- the contractor who took charge of the con- colors, such as red and blue to support the with Rudy Flyer leading a procession of father was the resident engineer for the struction, according to Finke. The project UD Flyers, Bucaro said. cars across the way. original bridge built in 1912 and Finke was finished a few weeks before schedule. The city’s new bridge has progressed City officials, residents, students and had the opportunity to work on the new “This was the city’s project,” said Ted into a six lane passageway across the other members of the UD community and improved bridge his grandfather con- Bucaro, UD’s director of government and river from Patterson to Edwin C. Moses gathered on the bridge Monday for the structed. regional relations. “But they came to us boulevards and brings a modern appeal ribbon-cutting ceremony. Former mayor Reconstruction of the bridge cost $15.2 for input about placement and specific fea- to downtown Dayton as it sets the tone for Rhine McLin, UD President Dan Curran million, but add in the design and the to- tures we wanted to enhance.” and president and CEO of Miami Valley tal project cost $16.5 million, Finke said. The modern design is fully equipped See BRIDGE on p.3 weather TODAY SATURDAY SUNDAY (Source: www.nws.noaa.gov) 34/20 31/22 37/26 FINALS MAKING YOU FAT? 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Not only can the rebuilt bridge in top 20 most dangerous cities hold more cars than the previous bridge, it can now handle an in- crease in traffic and provide saf- SARA DORN viduals from the Dayton area that dangers by leaving campus and Dayton’s much safer,” Taulbee Chief Staff Writer come to our campus who are not heading into the city’s streets, but said. “I’ve driven through Over er travel for motorists, bicyclists welcome.” usually these students prefer to the Rhine (a neighborhood in and pedestrians. CQ Press’s 2009-2010 City Last year’s incident in Garden stay on campus for safety issues Cincinnati notorious for daily The transformed bridge in- Crime rankings were released Apartments on Stewart Street after their experiences. violence) and it’s not somewhere I stills a sense of innovation for the this November and included Day- where a student was held at gun- “I’ve stumbled through the want to be.” city, defining special city land- ton, Cincinnati and Cleveland in point found Dayton residents, streets of Dayton alone at night For many students, worry- the top 20 most dangerous cities marks such as UD and downtown. who were not affiliated with UD, and never felt in danger,” said ing about daily violence on UD’s in the U.S. During the construction, Day- guilty. This is a firsthand exam- sophomore J.T. Allen, a resident campus, although located in a Out of 393 cities, Cleveland ton residents and UD students ple of why Dayton is dangerous of Dayton’s suburb, Oakwood. dangerous city, is not a problem. came in 8th, Cincinnati 19th and found new ways to get around the and the types of danger residents “But I wouldn’t want to do it By staying on UD’s campus and Dayton 20th. The findings are face: guns. again.” not venturing far into Dayton’s city and adjust as best they could. based on six crime categories: “The majority of the crime in Students from the other cit- streets unaccompanied, students There were not many complaints murder, rape, robbery, aggravat- Dayton is gun violence resulting ies on the CQ Press ranking list can, for the most part, be assured about the inconvenience of get- ed assault, burglary and motor primarily from the drug trade,” see Dayton as a haven of safety a safe experience free of crime, vi- ting around, Bucaro said. vehicle theft. The city of Dayton’s Burt said. compared to their hometowns. olence or being held at gunpoint. He claimed the redesigned high crime level sometimes car- Although there have been Although Cincinnati and Day- “I always feel safe at UD,” bridge as a new gateway to the ries over to UD, and often times is crimes on campus in the past and ton are close in rank, sophomore sophomore Caroline Roberto said. university that will once again the main reason for violence and Dayton is voted as being the 20th Mike Taulbee, a Cincinnati resi- “I’ve never seen anything bad mischief on campus. allow students the opportunity most dangerous city in the U.S., dent, believes his hometown is happen and “About 63 percent of our ar- to walk to sporting events at the most students feel safe on cam- much more dan- gerous. nothing has rests last year were not students,” UD Arena and Welcome Stadium. pus. This includes those who have “Com- happened to Police Chief Bruce B u r t It will also make getting home for seen the potential pared to me.” said. “We C i n - the holidays easier for those us- have indi- cinnati, ing the highway. Sophomore Anna Scott from Chicago marveled at the bridge. “I drove on it for the first time ever and it will definitely be a big help,” Scott said. “The bridge be- ing out was not really an inconve- nience because sometimes it was easier to get off earlier anyways to avoid traffic. It did take me AGGRAVATED MOTOR VEHICLE several tries to find a good route Dayton statistics MURDER RAPE ROBBERY BURGLARY ASSUALT THEFT around though.” Incidents 2008 34 118 574 482 936 2539 The Stewart Street Bridge is just one of nine bridges to be re- Incidents 2009 32 106 587 458 585 2304 placed in Dayton over a seven year period started in 2005, ac- Percent Change -6% -10% 1% -5% -38% -1% cording to a press release from Dayton’s Department of Public The CQ Press ranks the most Affairs.
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