Julie attended the University of Cincinnati for both her undergraduate and graduate schooling. Once having been a school teacher, she is now a seventeen year veteran of the Cincinnati Police Department. She was promoted to the rank of Sergeant in October of 1998.

Much of her work has had an impact on maintaining and improving District Four, to include Mt. Auburn, Corryville, Walnut Hills, Avondale, North Avondale, Paddock Hills, Bond Hill, Roselawn, Carthage, and Hartwell. Julie currently works as a Supervisor in the department’s Data Integration Unit. With a teaching background, she is comfortable instructing topics such as Accepting Cultural Differences at the Department Police Academy.

Julie’s immediate family consists of  four brothers, one of which works as a detective  for the CPD and head of Mayor Mark Mallory‘s Security Detail, one sister, and her parents Robert and Shirley Johnson.

Fun Facts about Julie:

• Sorority?–Yes! Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
• Sports?–Yes! Avid fan. Enjoys playing tennis and golf.
• Workout?–Absolutely. Aerobics and weight training 4-5 times a week.
• Inspirations?–Admires both parents.
• Most happiest when?–Driving with someone special on a warm sunny day in the convertible, listening to some good music.

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Everett Howard pictured with his mother, Travonna Howard.

If you’re out of the loop, let’s catch you up to speed. Everett Howard, an honors student and member of the 2011 Upward Bound six-week summer enrichment program on the University of Cincinnati’s campus, attended an event where a fight broke out last weekend. Officers called to the scene showed up ready to tackle the apparent disruption. Howard was unfortunately subdued and a Taser was used on him at the scene leaving his lifeless body behind in the crowd of students. The exact cause of his death remains under investigation as we speak.

This week, however, the magnitude of the incident set off a whirlwind of dialogue and speculation as to the following key details:

1. Why was Howard tased when he reportedly was responsible for the altercation coming to an end?
2. Should the campus police officers been allowed to use the taser in the first place?

Today, there’s more conversation developing as to the motive, the resulting punishment and the notion that something much deeper is happening right before our eyes. So far, there is a very interesting lack of information circulating. Why do you think that is?

Check out the latest reports via the links below to form your own opinion.

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This week, we started our weekend early with the University of Cincinnati & Xavier University Alumni Associations at Mixx Ultra Lounge for the official “Crosstown Shootout” Happy Hour.

Guests of all ages gathered for an evening of fun, food and fellowship as we watched the big game and shared memories of our college experiences of hanging out after classes “on the yard” and so much more. Nearly every frat was in the building, but can you spot anyone in these photos you know?

If you were there, let us know what you thought of the entire experience, including the food, the folks and the frenzy from the big game. If you’re a Bearcat or a Musketeer or just a fan good times, we want to hear from you on our message board below. Congrats to the University of Cincinnati for taking it all the way home last night. Go Bearcats!

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The football game when this happened didn’t get as much news as this. This past Saturday, during a snowy college football game between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, there was a small snowball fight going on between the fans in the student section. The UC Bearcat joined in, by standing on top of one of the stadium pillars, and throwing snowballs below. The police warned him to stop, and well…. You can see the end result below.

UC Health/University Concert to Stop Diabetes
September 5, 2010 from 9pm – 1am
Rhinos Live

Diabetes kills more Americans each year than AIDS and Breast Cancer combined. In fact, one in three of our children will develop diabetes in their lifetime if current trends continue. Together we can stop this disease that burdens and shortens life. Support the “UC Health/University Concert to Stop Diabetes”, a fundraiser to help the American Diabetes Association provide more education in prevention, treatment and research to benefit families in the community. Join Lincoln Ware from 1230am WDBZ from 9pm – 1am at Rhinos in Sharonville with 2nd Wind performing! Tickets are $20 in advance; $25 at the door. All proceeds go to the American Diabetes Association. This is a 21+ event. For more information, contact Joyce Kinley at 513-584-4971.

About 2nd Wind
2nd Wind is one of Cincinnati’s hottest jazz and R&B bands giving concert level performances at every stop! This amazing group has opened for numerous national acts including Eric Benet, The Whispers, Fantasia, Charlie Wilson, John Legend, Klymaxx, Con Funk Shun, SOS Band; gospel artists, Hezekiah Walker, Kurt Carr & the Kurt Carr Singers, BeBe and CeCe Winans and many others.

Kelly Brinson, Sr.’s family members have filed a lawsuit against University Hospital claiming Brinson was handcuffed and tased multiple times while University of Cincinnati police officers attempted to restrain him. Brinson, who originally admitted himself to the hospital after suffering from a reported psychotic episode, died several days after the incident.

Excessive force used against Brinson violates his constitutional rights according to the additional claims made by his family. The University and hospital staff both claim Brinson’s reactions were indeed violent which caused them to try to restrain him with or without handcuffs and multiple tasings. As interesting as the story reads, there’s so much more happening that we must take a look at here. What do you think is really going on with this story? Does it seem odd that Brinson’s apparent condition wasn’t addressed properly? Do you think the University of Cincinnati police officers were out of line? What does this say about the medical procedures provided by the University Hospital in situations like this? Visit WCPO.com today to read more on the lawsuit and the responses from both the University Hospital staff members and the police.

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The layoffs would come shortly after news of the efforts to balance the budget for the next year. Already 120 people were laid off last year and the university hopes to actually avoid the 24 layoffs if possible.

It doesn’t look like that will happen as the new fiscal year begins July 1st. Millions of dollars have been set aside to fill in the gaps left over from the $28 million federal stimulus gift, a set of funds that will disappear at the end of this year. So layoffs seem like they’re pretty much guaranteed at this point.

Cincinnati, how do you feel about the reports of more layoffs at UC? Do you know anyone currently working there or do you work there yourself? Let us know how the economy impacts spending when it comes to educational institutions like UC in your own words.

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This situation sounds familiar. Doesn’t it remind you of the time when you broke up with your first love? You spend weeks beating yourself up, thinking “Why did he/she leave? I thought we were gonna be together forever.”  What about the time when you worked so hard at your job, and when you least expect it, you later find out you’re laid off by your boss? Or how about the time you wished the gossip queen, in your church, would just stop spreading rumors about other people. These are all situations, where we feel helpless and powerless over a situation that we want to control.

I had an inspiring moment yesterday when i logged onto my facebook account. Just a few minutes when they made the announcement of Brian Kelly leaving, i saw this facebook group called, “Time to support OUR team”.  In the description area, it read :

What we need to do now is SUPPORT OUR TEAM!!!!

These young men have not made a single penny, they play hard because they love football, the same as you and I. The worse that we could do as fans is to abandon them, just like BK. We need to show our support now more than ever, go to the bowl if you can afford to, cheer loud, wear your red and black proud. And lets continue to do so for many years to come. Let’s show Brian Kelly that we don’t need him to be a successful program.

Thanks for the kick start Kelly, we’ll take it from here.

Wow, talk about optimism right there!! When i looked at the number of members in the group, there were 1,008 members!! 1,008 MEMBERS!! It blows my mind that just minutes after the dreadful annoucement came up, a core group as large as 1,000 people were so optimistic. Imagine the things one can do if they were surrounded by these 1,000 optimistics.  

There are two lessons we can learn from this. The first one is we can cannot control everything and everyone in our life. We are not in control of Brian Kelly’s decisions, Brian Kelly is.  We may be able to influence his decision, but in the end Brian Kelly decides for Brian Kelly. Let him go! What’s more important is that we join those 1,000 optimistic UC fans, and turn it into 100,000 or even 1,000,000 optimistic UC fans.  Bottom line is that when your surrounded by positive people, you do positive things. Keep your head up!!!

GO BEARCATS, lets have less of this:

And more of this:

VIA: Paul Daugherty, SI.com

The young man living in his car is passing out free sack lunches in the park downtown. He’s fresh from his construction job, so he looks a lot like the people he’s feeding: dirty blue jeans; hooded sweatshirt; size-12, steel-toed Red Wing boots. A homeless man, feeding homeless men. Charity squared.

In two years, he would be breaking pass receiving records on an undefeated team and playing in a game for a conference championship. NFL scouts would assess his worthiness as a No. 1 draft pick. The red carpet would roll right out there. It would be clean and waiting.

But he wasn’t thinking about that now. Couldn’t even imagine it. Now, he was wondering where he would sleep that night and how cold it would be.

Mardy Gilyard did not spend every night for six months folded up in the driver’s seat of the green 2002 Pontiac Grand Am, lent to him by the brother of his then-fiancée. That’s urban legend in Cincinnati, and it is mythic. Fact is, Gilyard did lots of time, in the fall and winter of 2006 and 2007, on living room couches and dorm-room floors.

But not this night. This night, he’d spend shivering in the car. After he worked construction, sold cutlery door to door, delivered some pizzas and fed the homeless in Washington Park.

In the fall of 2006, former University of Cincinnati coach Mark Dantonio revoked Gilyard’s scholarship. He’d come to school, but not gone to school. His grades lacked. That was a problem. Here was a bigger one: Gilyard already had registered for classes. He owed the school almost $10,000. He didn’t have a dime.

That’d be the end for most kids, especially kids from a place like Bunnell, Fla., a proud, but poor town between Jacksonville and Daytona Beach. Bunnell owns all the standard urban calamity — drugs, shootings, domestic violence — but also a lot of the virtues families need to survive. Mardy was loved and cared for. But nobody had a spare 10 grand to offer him.

The ledge awaited, and it was narrow. Gilyard wanted to jump off and go home. At home, nobody would let him. He called his mother.

“Mama, I’m coming ho –.” He didn’t get to finish the sentence.

“No, you’re not,” said Ms. Viola Gilyard Crudup, a formidable woman. “And if we see you here, we will ship you back.”

Mardy took another shot, this time with Otis, his older brother by nine years. In Viola’s single-working-parent household, Otis was brother, babysitter, man of the house to Mardy. He’d advised his kid brother to attend college closer to home. Stay in Florida, he’d suggested, where people know you and will look out for you, where your fame is recognized.

Mardy chose Cincinnati. Now, he wished he hadn’t.

“Tell mama to let me come home,” Mardy asked Otis. “Let her know I made a mistake. I need to come home and regroup”

Otis: “No.”

Mardy: “OK, bro’. But I don’t have a scholarship. If I stay, how am I gonna pay?”

“You got into the mess,” Otis offered. “Figure a way out of it.”

Mardy Gilyard has caught 75 passes this year for 1,052 yards. He has 21 receiving touchdowns the last two seasons. He has scored four more times returning kicks. He is the metaphor for how fifth-ranked Cincinnati plays the game. The Bearcats’ offense is a 33-rpm record, playing at 78-rpms. Nobody is spinning faster than their senior wide receiver.

Next spring, he’ll likely be a late first-round or early second-round draft pick, a 6-foot-1 burner with very good hands and unchallenged toughness. A slot receiver and return man, in the mold of Wes Welker and T.J. Houshmandzadeh. If the fairy tale ending plays out, he’ll sleep in a car again. But only if he wants to.

How did this happen? How did the redemption song of the college season find its way into the iPod rotation? What sort of person is homeless, yet spends his limited free time feeding other homeless? Talk about irony. Who is this guy?

“Blessed,” is all he says. Actually, Gilyard says a lot more. He talks as fast as he plays. But the conversations always ends with that. Blessed.

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