Liberty-Bentons Williman retires

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Published: 4/14/2014 - Updated: 2 minutes ago NOTEBOOK

BY STEVE JUNGA BLADE SPORTS WRITER

Liberty-Bentons Steve Williman wasnt exactly an overnight sensation when he began his high school boys basketball coaching career in 1980.

But, as he exits the profession, Williman will go down as one of the best coaches in Ohio history.

Williman recently announced he has retired from coaching after posting a 551-208 overall record in 33 seasons, including the last 28 years at Liberty-Benton. He guided the Eagles to a 516-133 record, that included 15 20-win seasons, and 16 Blanchard Valley Conference titles.

The high point was 1994-95 when the Eagles went 27-0 and won the Division IV state championship led by seniors Andy Butler and Matt Moser, plus junior A.J. Granger, who would later start on Michigan States NCAA championship team in 2000.

Willimans 2006-07 team, which included Nathan Hyde and then-freshman Aaron Craft, was 26-1 with a loss to Cincinnati North College Hill in the Division III state final.

Hyde later started on the University of Findlays 2009 NCAA Division II national championship team, and Craft recently concluded a much-heralded four-year career at Ohio State.

"It's always difficult to make a decision to give up something you've done for much of your lifetime," said Williman, 57, who will also retire from teaching at the end of the school year. "Our seasons are very long and very demanding. It can get to be a grind at times.

"I just felt it was time for a different face for our program, and time for me to move on to a different phase of my life."

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Old addresses returning to renewed East Liberty

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East Liberty lost 300 businesses in the early 1960s, starting with the neighborhood's initial decline. But the city's effort to stop the bleeding was actually the coup de grace -- Penn Circle.

It was designed to ring a pedestrian mall that theoretically would have competed for attention with the suburban malls that were drawing people away from the city. But it proved to be a one-way choke hold to the inner core businesses that had hung on.

East Liberty has seen a reversal of fortune in the last 15 years and has businesses lining up to get in. Last week the city brought back the circle's original street names. The work was completed Thursday.

Penn Circle South and East and Collins Street south of East Liberty Boulevard will become part of Centre Avenue. Penn Circle North will join Station Street, extending it several blocks. Penn Circle West will become part of North and South Euclid avenues.

City council last year approved the change so that addresses for new businesses could be added without duplications. City planner Justin Miller said there have been duplications and confusion because of four Penn Circle directions besides Penn Avenue. The section of Collins being absorbed by Centre had half the addresses the city is trying to phase out.

PG graphic: Penn Circle renaming (Click image for larger version)

"We're seeing a lot of development and needed to come up with a handful of new addresses," he said, adding that a return to the original street grid and names was a priority in the East Liberty neighborhood plan. "It seemed like an opportune time rather than give new developments old addresses that we'd have to correct later."

The process of returning the grid to East Liberty started a decade ago, when Penn Avenue was converted back to a two-way street going through East Liberty, connecting with the two-way of Penn through Garfield, Shadyside and Larimer. Two years ago, Penn Circle South and East were reconverted to two-way traffic in part to enhance access to the new Target store.

Mr. Miller said street sign conversion costs a "fairly minimal" $13,000 because they were made in the public works sign shop. The city is contracting for installation of signs on mast arms associated with traffic signals.

Ninety buildings, mostly businesses and apartment complexes, will be affected by the address changes and were notified at the start of the month.

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Libertarian author divides University on class

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Libertarian author and political scientist Charles Murray spoke to a full Rockwell Pavilion Friday evening on the vanishing morals of the white, American working class and an upper class that is becoming increasingly solitary. | Justin Tijerina/The Daily Cougar

Despite the controversy that has followed him in Houston this past week, libertarian political scientist and author Charles Murray spoke at UH on Thursday evening to a full room and little fanfare. Murray, a W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, spoke about marriage, ethics and the growing cultural gap between the upper and lower classes in the latest event with the Hobby Center for Public Policy and the Phronesis minor in The Honors College.

Assistant political science professor Jeffrey Church, who introduced Murray and said he was a fan of his work, spearheaded the move to bring Murray to UH.The talk was funded in part by a grant from John A. Allison IV and the BB&T Bank, with which Allison formerly worked.

Its (a) great grant it allows us to have the Phronesis Fellows, who are 15 to 20 of our best Phronesis minor students with The Honors College, and bring in the speakers, said philosophy associate professor and co-director of the Phronesis minor Tamler Sommers.Not all of them do public lectures like this, but they also have private seminars with the Fellows, who have read in advance something the speaker has done.

The people who are in charge of the money would like to see a balance in ideas. They have not told us we have to invite anybody or anything like that, but there are people in the Phronesis program with ideological commitments more conservative than most academics.

Sommers called the grant controversial, due to Allisons strong libertarian beliefs and vocal support of libertarian writer Ayn Rand.

I think its worth it, Sommers said. I think its doing so much good, allowing us to bring in amazing people from all sides. It really offers great opportunities for our students.

The lecture was originally planned to be held in the Honors Commons but was moved across the hall to the Rockwell Pavilion in anticipation of a largeand iratecrowd. Political science seniorCrystal Sowemimo planned on bringing students from theUH NAACP and UH Mexican American Studies Student Organization to protest the talk, but the plans fell through. Still, the Rockwell Pavilion was full, and Sowemimo and other students carried signs with messages such as Coogs do not welcome racism in informal protest.

Murray visited Rice University on April 7, and the protests by Rice students made headlines. Jim Granato, director for the Hobby Center for Public Policy,said he was very proud of UH students for their behavior.

Ive been in academia for over 30 years, and Ive seen talks that some disagreed with. People were totally disrespectful, nobody got to hear what the person had to say so they could decide for themselves. The fact that the people protesting let him talk thats such a credit to the University, to you guys, Granato said.

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