Street violence resumes in protest over shooting
CINCINNATI — Police fired bean
bags and rubber bullets to quell
demonstrators who broke windows
downtown Tuesday in a protest over
the police shooting of an unarmed
black man.
It was the second day protesters
ran through the streets, and police in
riot gear formed protective cordons
around City Hall and nearby police
headquarters. Some officers were on
horseback.
About 50 people threw rocks and
bottles at windows and a sidewalk
vendor’s stand was ransacked, said
police Lt. Ray Ruberg said. At least
five were arrested. No one was report
ed injured.
Mayor Charles Luken appealed for
calm during a Tuesday evening news
conference inside City Hall, were
riot-clad police guarded the front
door. He called for a public dialogue
to replace violence.
“If we can’t do that, then I’m not
optimistic that the future will be that
much better than the past,” Luken
said.
The confrontation came four days
after Timothy Thomas, 19, was fatally
shot as he ran from a police officer try
ing to arrest him on 14 warrants.
Thomas, of Cincinnati, had been
wanted for misdemeanors and traffic
violations, including driving without
a license and failing to wear a seat
belt.
The FBI on Tuesday opened a civil
rights investigation and will forward
its findings to the Justice Department,
said FBI spokesman Ed Boldt. He
said a ruling is not expected for
months.
Prosecutor Michael Allen said a
Hamilton County grand jury might
also investigate the shooting, which
came as tensions were already high
between police and many blacks.
Four black men have been killed by
officers since November.
On Monday, police also fired bean
bags as about 800 demonstrators
gathered downtown. Some of them
disrupted a City Council committee
meeting.
By midnight the number dwindled
to about 150 and the crowd eventual
ly broke up, police said. Only TV
camera crews were outside the police
headquarters Tuesday morning.
The Rev. Damon Lynch IE, head of
the civil rights group Cincinnati
Black United Front, said the protest
at the City Council committee Mon
day allowed people to vent some of
their frustration and anger.
‘‘The attitudes of police officers
and city officials toward the black
community must change,” he said.
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since I started doing this job,” he
said. “Most the time when I go out,
it’s to a particular classroom, or an
assembly of first and second
graders.”
But the demonstrations aren’t
purely for their entertainment val
ue, he said.
I’ve been going out
to schools since I started
doing this job.
Stan Micklavzina
Senior Instructor
physics department
“I usually like to have the teach
ers tell me what they’re covering,”
he said. “I’d rather build on some
thing they’re trying to
teach...sound, lights, electricity
and magnetism ... I like to keep it
to what the students are looking
at.”
The opportunity to awe, spark
interest in science and actively in
teract with eager and interested
youngsters provides Micklavzina
with gratification he doesn’t al
ways receive from undergraduate
physics classes.
“I want to keep everybody en
gaged,” Micklavzina said. “I try to
get the students to do that in the
physics classes — the [younger]
kids are very cooperative — when
you lecture here, you try to get stu
dents excited and to ask more
questions, but most students want
to say ‘yeah, yeah, yeah, I just want
to get out of here — I want to go eat
lunch.’” He said without the lec
ture-demonstrations fewer stu
dents would be inclined to take
courses in the sciences.
On Sunday, the long-time Uni
versity instructor performed “Dr.
Stan’s Science Circus” at the
WOW Hall, a Eugene community
arts performance center.
The event attracted nearly 175
guests and raised almost $650 to
benefit certain jeopardized pro
grams at River Road Elementary
School, where Micklavzina’s sev
en-year-old daughter is a student.
“[The money] goes into a gener
al parent funding committee,” he
said “We had a particular mission
last year; we were trying to keep
music, RE. and our library servic
es open in the school.”
At Sunday’s performance,
Micklavzina provided the audi
ence with a well-rounded lesson in
physics.
One demonstration charged the
sodium contained in a pickle, re
sulting in a lighted pickle — and
awful smell. A demonstration in
static-electricity caused a little
girl’s hair to stand on end — liter
ally. Matches carefully placed in a
microwave, something Micklavzi
na warns against trying at home,
displayed the physics of an awe
some fireworks-like effect.
Sunday’s performance provided
only a glimpse into what the
Demonstration Room has to offer.
Some apparatus in the room
date back to the early 1900s, when
the physics department was
housed in Deady Hall, the oldest
building on campus.
“The ‘patent pending’ on that
electro-static machine there reads
1904,” Micklavzina said while
looking at a machine perched high
upon a shelf.
Various gizmos fill shelf after
shelf in this room of endless sur
prises.
“Along with the shelves, there’s
all the stuff that’s in the drawers,”
he said. “There’s a lot of stuff in
here.”
Micklavzina recalls a number of
years after the passing of the for
mer Demonstration Room head,
when the room was run by under
graduate and graduate students,
with an occasional faculty member
popping in.
“During those years, the room
was basically beginning to fall
apart,” he said.
Until 1995, he directed both the
Demonstration Room and the un
dergraduate labs, but felt the effort
he was able to put into each duty
was not up to par.
Micklavzina became really in
volved with the Demonstration
Room in 1995 when he became Di
rector of Instructional Support.
“I decided to stop going for my
Ph.D. and take the position,”
Micklavzina said. “Whether or not
that was the best decision, I don’t
know — I’m happy though.”
Currently, three undergraduates
and one graduate student assist
Micklavzina in the demonstration
room; they also assisted Micklavzi
na with his WOW Hall perform
ance.
Micklavzina said that the demo
room experience sometimes leads
to students becoming involved in
research labs on campus.
For the assistants, the experi
ence provides an escape.
“Instead of always dealing with
the thick mathematical process of
physics, I go to the demo room and
play with toys; it’s fun,” physics
major Travis Shaw said.
River Road Elementary School
held a kick-off event Thursday in
anticipation of Sunday’s event,
bringing River Road and Whiteak
er students together for the first
time.
River Road Elementary School'
Principal Sara Cramer said the
feedback she has received from
Whiteaker parents following the
assembly has been positive. She
said she has heard about several
Whiteaker students disappointed
in the closure of their school, but
thanks to Micklavzina’s assembly,
now look forward to attending the
River Road Elementary.
“It’s a really great thing he’s do
ing for the school,” Cramer said.
“We’re really glad to have him as
an involved parent.”
Adam Amato Emerald
Shannon Vyff enjoys the show with her children, two-year-old Avryn (asleep) and four-year-old Avianna. Each of the three
exhibit a different reaction to “Dr. Stan’s Science Circus,” as did most of the more than 175 in attendance for Sunday’s program.
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