Past Issues
by John Bach
Tens of thousands of people cross campus at all hours and in all seasons.
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All Around Uptown after hours
Joggers make their way along the snow-covered path of O’Varsity Way, which leads to the eight-story Richard Lindner Athletics Center, the crown jewel of Varsity Village. Just inside the front door of the Lindner Center is the UC ticket office and a soaring five-story atrium highlighted with a sports museum dedicated to Bearcats history.
photo/Jay Yocis
One of the more popular evening destinations at UC is the Campus Recreation Center (CRC) along UC’s MainStreet (at left). The 350,000-square-foot rec center — including a six-court gymnasium, suspended running track, climbing wall, Olympic size pool and hundreds of cardio and strength machines — is open 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. through the week and until 9 p.m. on the weekends. Around 2 million people a year visit facilities along MainStreet, which stretches from University Pavilion, past Tangeman University Center (center), between the CRC and the Steger Student Life Center (at right) and through Campus Green.
photo/Jay Yocis
A student strolls past the long and narrow Steger Student Life Center, the building the American Institute of Architects named among 11 of the world’s most exciting buildings in 2006. Anchors of the unique facility include a two-story Starbucks, a Subway restaurant and multiple offices for student organizations.
photo/R. Stacy Fenner
It takes an army of dedicated staff, not to mention a fleet of 337 vehicles, to keep a university of UC’s size functioning around the clock. When the place never closes, grounds-keepers such as Bill Moore, whose shift begins at 4:30 a.m., need to tend to upkeep morning, noon and night.
photo/Dottie Stover
Tucked into a lower corner of the CRC, CenterCourt is the one dining hall on campus open from 7 a.m. until midnight. Seating 390, it offers five food stations, including a Mongolian grill.
photo/Dottie Stover
UC’s Central Utility Plant, together with the East Campus Utility Plant, serves nearly 120 buildings. Inside the massive facility near the busy intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, industrial steam turbines, chillers and heat pumps allow UC to generate its own power, heating and air conditioning, while continually boosting energy efficiencies. For example, UC chills water for air conditioning when electricity is cheapest during off-peak hours in a pair of multi-million gallon underground storage tanks, then pumps it out to its buildings during the hottest parts of the day.
photo/Jay Yocis
Diverse student activities are common on campus, such as this scene captured during the Kuamka talent show inside the Great Hall of Tangeman University Center as part of UC’s celebration of Black History Month in February. Mr. and Ms. Kuamka are crowned based upon their artistic abilities in such areas as song, dramatic interpretation and dance.
photo/Dottie Stover
One weekend in the fall of 2010, a group of UC women took part in bid day, an event in which they discovered if they had been accepted into the sorority they chose to rush. Fraternity and sorority life has been part of UC since 1840. Today, 37 fraternities and sororities are on campus with more than 1,400 students represented.
photo/Lisa Ventre
Recently put on permanent display at UC’s Langsam Library, “Triceracopter: Hope for the Obsolescence of War” is a large-scale sculpture built on the frame of a Vietnam-era Army helicopter. Artist Pat Renick, who died in 2007 after 31 years on faculty, completed the work in 1976 following the Vietnam War. Now, her piece keeps watch over the largest of UC’s 13 academic libraries, which boast 3.7 million volumes and more than a half million e-books. Watch the video.
photo/Jay Yocis
More than 270 student groups offer countless choices to UC’s diverse student population. Here, the Indian dance team spends an evening rehearsing their latest choreography. The group, called UC Dhadak, encourages members of various backgrounds and combines multiple genres into one performance.
photo/Ashley Kempher
Hebrew Union College Rabbinic student Elana Dellal (center) and Provost Santa Ono (right) assist in lighting a Menorah to mark the beginning of Hanukkah.
photo/Lisa Ventre
Whether studying or goofing off together, there’s no shortage of late nights inside UC’s seven residence halls. UC provides housing to 4,524 students in university and affiliated facilities. Research indicates that students who live on campus tend to achieve higher grades and are more likely to graduate.
photo/Lisa Ventre
The UC Marching Band, UC’s oldest and largest student organization, squeezes in one more chilly practice inside Nippert Stadium before the final Bearcat football game of the year.
photo/Dottie Stover
Students pass time on Sheakley Lawn in Varsity Village, an artificial-turf open space for anyone to use. Activities there typically range from a pickup lacrosse game to Frisbee to practice for UC’s Quidditch League.
photo/Dottie Stover
First in, last out
For the early risers around campus, it isn’t uncommon to hear UC’s Army or Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) reciting their cadences as they get in a pre-dawn workout running across campus. In this case, cadets moved conditioning inside the Campus Recreation Center due to weather.
Long after the sun goes down, volunteers from the Army ROTC hang around Shoemaker Center inside Fifth Third Arena following a sold- out UC/Xavier Crosstown Shootout game to clean up the mess. The students “Shine the Shoe” after every home game to raise funds to help pay for their military ball and other events.
photo/Ashley Kempher
