February 12, 2013 | The Miami Student

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VOLUME 140 NO. 37

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TODAY IN MIAMI HISTORY In 1950, The Miami Student reported that Bill Nimmo, a disk jockey from WLW-TV would be choose “Miss Miami 1950” from among eight finalists in

the campus-wide beauty contests. The women competing first wore formalwear, then bathing suits in their appearances before the judge and students in Withrow Court. The “Miss America” contest was part of the plan to create the atmosphere of a “Walk on the Boardwalk.”

Kasich proposes Miami inducts 6 into Hall of Fame college tuition cap

By Rebecca Peets

For The Miami Student

Gov. John Kasich announced a new plan that will bring two changes to universities in Ohio.

The first is a 2 percent cap on annual tuition increases at public universities. The second is a change in the criteria for which universities are awarded money from the government. Universities will now receive awards based on graduation rates instead of enrollment rates, according to the new plan.

The new plan is a significant reduction to past tuition increases, according to David Creamer, vice president for Finance and Business Services.

“Historically the tuition has risen at 6-7 percent in the past, per year,” Creamer said.

Last year’s tuition increase was 3.5 percent for Ohio residents and 3 percent for out-of-state students, according Creamer.

Recently Miami’s Board of Trustees has been again discussing a new tuition increase.

“We’ve been doing some long term planning and our assumption was a 2 percent increase, so Kasich’s plan will not change what numbers we were thinking about,” Creamer said.

According to Creamer, Miami’s Board of Trustees has been planning for this lower tuition raise to be competitive in its affordability.

“In recognition of the importance of affordability we’ve learned to operate the university at smaller tuition increases through the management of costs so students aren’t asked

to pay more,” Creamer said.

Miami is predicting a $6 million dollar surplus this year, but it’s not enough to cover everything, according to Creamer.

“Certain things cost more each year,” Creamer said. “There are added costs to provide education experiences and compensation costs are also rising. Surplus results from costs being controlled and maintained.”

Also, healthcare and technology are added costs that the university did not have to spend much on prior to the 2000s, according to Director of University News and Communication Claire Wagner.

Wagner said she believes the university will be able to budget the new changes.

“We’re leaner now,” Wagner said. “Even with the global economy the way it is we have been working to achiever more efficiencies in what we do while maintaining a good student experience.”

The change in reward criteria for universities to receive rewards will have a neutral affect on Miami, according to Creamer.

“It’s not just based on graduation rates,” Creamer said. “At some schools some students are less likely to graduate, so the rewards will go to those schools where students are more at risk.

Miami currently has the highest graduation rates in Ohio.”

The tuition cap will, however, have an effect on the plan currently being discussed

by ASG for a tuition lock-in,

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WHAT’S THE STORY, WISHBONE? Left to right: Hannah Espeleta, Katie Gallagher, and Cheryl Yu socialize puppies at the Animal Adoption Foundation, volunteering with the Miami Club Volleyball team Saturday.

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The 2013 Hall of Fame inductees receive awards Saturday at Millett Hall. Left to right: David Sayler, Dale Cohen, Karin Sherr, KyleVoska, P.L.“Pete” Miller, Jane Hoeppner, Ben Roethlisberger.

By Tom Downey Sports Editor

Miami University inducted six athletes into its Hall of Fame Saturday, with former quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (’12) and the late Terry Hoeppner headlining the class.

Roethlisberger holds nearly every Miami football passing record, and has won two Super Bowls after being drafted 11th overall in the 2004 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers.

“I love this school,” Roethlisberger said. “I really do. I’m honored to be a graduate and to have my number retired and to be in the Hall of Fame and to say I went to Miami.”

Hoeppner was head football coach for six years at Miami, and ranks second for all-time wins at Miami. He was on staff at Miami for a school-record 19 years before leaving to serve as Head Coach at Indiana University for two years before passing away from brain cancer in 2007. It was Hoeppner who recruited Roethlisberger to play for Miami.

“When they called me about this and said you’re going in with him [Hoeppner], it’s the only way I would have ever wanted it,” Roethlisberger said. “The only thing that would have been better is if he were here. I know he is here in spirit. I wouldn’t want it any other way.”

Roethlisberger was thankful

for the opportunity Miami University and Hoeppner gave him.

“Coach Hep took a chance on me, a kid that never played quarterback in high school until his senior year,” Roethlisberger said. “And that’s why I love this school and Coach Hep so much, because they gave me a chance to prove what I was capable of doing.”

Dale Cohen (’94), Kyle Voska (’98), Karin Sherr (’99), and P.L. (Pete) Miller (’71) made up the rest of the class.

first-time All Mid-American Conference (MAC) selection and won MAC titles in all four of her years at Miami. She was also a two-time Academic All-MAC selection.

Sherr is the first synchronized skater to be inducted into the Miami Hall of Fame. She was a member of the team that won Miami’s first national title in 1999.

Miller was a discus thrower for the ’Hawks for all three years he was eligible to compete. He was a three-time MAC Cham-

It is incredibly humbling as you can probably imagine and really exciting at the same time. It’s a pretty special experience. Very happy and very honored.”

KYLE VOSKA

HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE

Voska walked onto the golf team and ended up being a twotime All-American golfer for the RedHawks. He holds the single-season scoring record and took home an 11th place individual finish in the 1998 NCAA Championships.

“It is incredibly humbling as you can probably imagine and really exciting at the same time,” Voska said. “It’s a pretty special experience. Very happy and very honored.”

Cohen was a two-time

pion in the discus and is one of only five athletes to win a MAC Championship three times in discus.

Jane Hoeppner, the wife of Terry Hoeppner, represented Terry at the ceremony and agreed with Roethlisberger.

“Ben said it best,” Hoeppner said. “When I was given the announcement that Terry was going to be put into the Hall of Fame and Ben was going to be put in at the same time, it was perfect. And it was as it should be.”

‘Free at Miami Oh’ points cash-strapped students in the right direction

By Andrew Yde

For the Miami Student

While students trudge through the snow towards restaurants and clothing stores in uptown Oxford, pockets full of money, senior Tyler Nichols travels and pays far less.

Nichols’ comprehensive awareness of events on campus has gotten him loads of free food, goods and services, and now he’s sharing it with everybody.

On Jan. 7, upon the advice of senior housemate Bryan Stewart, Nichols created a blog site, freeatmiamioh.wordpress.com, Facebook and Twitter page, all for his concept “Free at Miami Oh.” “For students, I hope the blog provides information about interesting events that are either free or pretty cheap on campus or in the

area,” Nichols said. “A lot of students claim there isn’t anything to do on the weekends other than going out, but there really is a lot going on in Oxford. A lot of the time there are events that we just don’t pay attention to.”

Through social media, Nichols posts about events at which free or discounted goods are available— namely, what type of free stuff will be available at said events, who will be sponsoring them, the times during which the events will be taking place and the location of the events.

Stewart proposed the idea after Nichols came across a number of free food events on campus set to take place on consecutive days. “[Nichols] would always offer great deals and opportunities for free, so I suggested he start up some sort of blog to streamline it

for students,” Stewart said.

Nichols then put the plan into action on several formats of social media in hopes that it would catch on throughout Oxford. Right now, the pages are still taking off. The Facebook page has 50 likes and the Twitter page has six followers.

Nichols’ incentive for creating the site is to entertain and potentially assist others—nothing more, nothing less.

“No one is paying me to make the posts,” Nichols said. “I’m just writing what I think would be interesting to the readers.”

Those who have already caught on, including first-year Michael Cebulka, are seemingly interested.

“Many dining options on and off campus are lavishly expensive,” Cebulka said. “It’s always nice to know where and when I

can snag some free food.”

However, readers are not the only ones benefiting from the recent endeavor, Nichols is also learning. He has stumbled upon a number of accessible avenues for discovering narrowly known facets of local restaurants, and attaining free things, such as T-shirts, food and even Chapstick.

“How many people noticed that Doughby’s has weekend breakfast hours?” Nichols said.

“And, I [found out] that on certain days in FSB, if you wear red, you get [free] stuff.”

Beyond the parameters of his social networking pages and blogs, Nichols has further thrifty suggestions for students seeking deals on campus.

“Liking or following the Facebook or Twitter pages of student

organizations helps,” Nichols said.

“That’s how I knew that there was a mini scavenger hunt, hiding tickets around campus [that were] redeemable for a free pair of TOMs shoes.”

According to Nichols, there are even simpler ways to catch wind of bargains or perks of local businesses.

“Look at the windows of uptown businesses.” Nichols said.

“All you really have to do is take a break from texting, and look at the A frames or sheet signs [on campus and uptown].”

For those who navigate the streets of Oxford, both on and off campus, and conclude that there is ‘nothing’ to do— Nichols said he hopes that a quick skim of “Free at Miami Oh” will swiftly discount such cognition.

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Engineering students’ snowplow wins $4K

By Katie M. Taylor

Campus Editor

A crowd of Minnesotans stand and watch in the 0 degree weather as four shivering Miami University engineering students put their work to the

test. They are all watching the large, electrical snowplow the students put thousands of hours and dollars into building from scratch.

The team of four Miami graduate and undergraduate students, junior RJ Marcus, senior Chad Sobota,

and grad students Bob Cole and Mark Carroll competed in the third annual Autonomous Snowplow Competition, an event sponsored by the Institute of Navigation (ION) Satellite Division.

Though this was current members’

CONTRIBUTED BY CHAD SOBOTA

Miami University senior Chad Sobota, junior RJ Marcus and graduate students Bob Cole and Mark Carroll make up Redblade, a team of engineering students who traveled to St. Paul, Minn. for the third annual Autonomous Snowplow Competition. Redblade took second place for the third year in a row along with a $4,000 prize.

second year competing in St. Paul, Minn. at the end of January, Miami’s team, Redblade, took home a $4,000 prize after coming in second to Ohio University for the third year in a row.

The competition consists of five scored components including a preliminary design review, ten page final report, student presentation, and two fields of snow where Cole said the robots are put to the test.

“The idea for it is you’re given just a patch of snow and your robot that you build has to just go out and plow it autonomously, so once you start it up there’s no intervention between us and the robot,” Cole said.

In order for the snowplow to run autonomously, Redblade incorporated GPS technology. According to Cole, the team was forced to go outside their comfort zone to create the robot.

“You learn stuff you never even think about from a programming standpoint,” Cole said “There’s so much stuff we’ve never done before in any class. We had to design the entire thing ourselves and we’re all electrical and computer engineers, so we don’t know anything about mechanical stuff, so we had to figure all that out.”

Cole said though the event is a fun time, it prompted a lot of stress for he and his teammates.

“You’ve got to plan for everything,” Cole said. “So many things can go wrong, we found that out the tough way.”

According to Cole, the high rise buildings in St. Paul caused interference with the GPS technology being used. Sobota said the freezing temperatures took a toll as well.

“I don’t know exactly what happened but basically it was so cold that our computer that runs the program actually just died,” Sobota said. “[The] laptop would usually run for 40 minutes or so, but it ran for five minutes and died just because of the cold.”

Despite such obstacles, Sobota said the team pulled through for another successful year.

Three of the four members of Redblade began the project for last year’s competition, Marcus being the only newcomer. The team spent thousands of hours revamping the project multiple times.

“We built the robot last year, it

ROBOT

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Trustees approve construction contracts Chi Psi surprises sororities with sweets and serenades

By Katie M. Taylor Campus Editor

The Board of Trustees meeting was called to order last Friday morning, and a recital of accomplishments, reports and resolutions ensued. Along with approving nearly $20 million in construction contracts, trustees reviewed an update to Miami’s 2020 Plan, approved faculty promotion and tenure, and said farewell to student trustee junior Lot Kwarteng.

The Board of Trustees approved nearly $20 million in contracts for seven construction resolutions in the meeting Feb. 8 to build and renovate Miami housing and facilities.

The majority of the cost will go to the renovation of East Quad, a project which will eventually cost the university $84.4 million.

James Kiper, chair of the 2020 Planning Committee reviewed the plan’s primary and supporting goals, which he and College of Arts and Science Dean Phyllis Callahan collaborated on.

“There’s a little reorganization in that we initially had five different goals divided into teams,” Kiper said. “We realized, under really the president’s direction and I think he was right about this, the primary goal was crucially that first goal to promote a learning and discovery environment that produces extraordinary students and scholarly outcomes and improves our larger world communities.”

The redesigned 2020 plan incorporates one primary goal and three supporting goals that encompass four objectives each.

The first supporting goal promotes student learning, faculty research, co-curricular participation and curriculum flexibility. In addition, Kiper said the goal is to equip

students, staff and faculty with a working environment that promotes creativity, evaluates productivity and rewards success through accountable governance structures.

The second supporting goal focuses on creating a diverse culture of inclusion by bringing in a wide variety of Miamians capable of working cooperatively, and educating students to promote understanding and cultural competency.

The third and final supporting goal aims to forge partnerships with other educational institutes and corporations and ultimately positively influence the state of Ohio.

Kiper stressed the importance of metrics such as graduation rates in judging the success of the 2020 Plan.

President David Hodge applauded the work of Kiper, Callahan and the entire 2020 Planning Committee.

“Of course as we move forward now, the world is not standing still and neither can we, so this 2020 planning process is enormously important to make sure that we as a community understand the future, embrace the future and position ourselves to be even more impressive,” Hodge said.

Chair of the Board of Trustees Sharon Mitchell also thanked a number of individuals and highlighted the university’s recent accomplishments including the record-breaking number of applicants for fall 2013, student athletes earning an all time high average GPA, the recent JANUS Forum, various positive media mentions and the marching band’s performance in the inaugural parade.

According to Mitchell, the First Lady’s recent visit to Miami prompted a request.

“When the parade director asked [Michelle Obama] if she had any requests regarding the inaugural

parade, she responded that she only wanted two things, a warm place to sit and the Miami University marching band,” Mitchell said.

Hodge also acknowledged the many accomplishments of Miami groups and individuals and commented on the state of the university as a whole.

“Let me be very clear on this, I believe that Miami is a much stronger and better university today than we were at the start of the recession, and that is a remarkable accomplishment,” Hodge said.

The Board of Trustees later approved the recommendations of promotion, tenure and award of continuing contracts, and Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Bobby Gempesaw listed the many accomplishments of a number of included faculty.

Student Body President John Stefanski addressed two issues he’s making the center of his campaign for the final months of his term—academic advising and medical amnesty.

“The first-year girl whose firstyear advisor put her on a hard path that seemed as if her only option was to fail; the first-year guy who was baffled as to why he was penalized for calling help when his friend had too much to drink one night,” Stefanski said. “These were the stories that motivated us to run, that motivated us to win.”

Stefanski recognized efforts to revamp the academic advising program, and promised the board to push for medical amnesty to ensure students legal safety in the event they call police for others while under the influence.

“We shouldn’t penalize someone

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Senators discuss degrees in regional division

By Allison McGillivray Campus Editor

Process Coordinator James Oris presented a resolution in University Senate Monday to transfer the departments of Business Technology, Computer and Information Technology, Engineering Technology, and Nursing into the regional campus academic division, rather than where they are currently located, on Miami’s main campus in Oxford.

After passing through Senate, the resolution now goes to Provost Bobby Gempesaw who must review the proposal before it becomes policy.

One of the goals of this transfer is to create new four-year degrees, according to Oris.

Oris argued that with 35 other public or private community or technical college locations in the surrounding area and the cost of a Miami education, the regional campuses can only be competitive by offering more four-year degree programs, which few of the other schools offer.

Oris said enrollment has decreased at the regional campuses, and 87 percent of regional campus students are seeking four-year degrees with less than 5 percent relocating to Oxford.

The department transfer is critical for the success of the regional campuses, according to Oris.

The resolution passed with an amendment.

Senate also heard a report from Information Technology (IT) Services about the movement of

faculty email from Exchange to Google Mail (Gmail). The change will save the university $175,000 over a five-year period.

The change also allows faculty to interact more with students and other faculty members, according to Brian Henebry, associate director for Enterprise Systems and Operations.

Debi Allison, vice president for IT Services, agreed.

“This isn’t just about budget savings, there is more to it than that,” Allison said. “We’re working to improve the quality of our service to make collaboration tools more available to students, faculty and staff and improve the quality of services.

USENATE SEE PAGE 10

By Lauren Olson Photo Editor

Rich in long standing romantic rituals, Miami University is well known for its historic Upham Arch kisses and countless “Miami Merger” couples—and this Valentine’s week, the brothers of the Chi Psi fraternity began what they hope will become another romantic tradition on campus.

After weeks of preparation, Chi Psi spent Sunday afternoon delivering personalized Valentines to each sorority suite on campus. Gifts included cakes, flowers, cards, stuffed animals and serenades, each handpicked by a group of

brothers in the fraternity.

Senior Forrest McGuire, Chi Psi’s former president, came up with the idea last August.

“We just wanted to show our appreciation to all of the sororities,” McGuire said. “Our stigma is to stand out as gentlemen, and we thought that this was a perfect way to exemplify our virtues.”

After making contact with each sorority’s president, McGuire was able to compile a schedule for all of Sunday afternoon, allowing the Chi Psi brothers to deliver these Valentines during formal chapter sorority meetings—as

Chi Psi

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Chi Psi serenades the Chi O sisters in their suite on Sunday Feb. 10.

Peace Corps attracts large number of Miami students

BY Margeaux Leakas FOR THE MIAMI STUDENT

After graduation, some students move back home, some start careers and others go back to school.

Peace Corps volunteers (PCVs) do something much different; they dedicate 27 months of their lives to making a difference in another country while living their life like the locals.

According to Jessica Mayle, public affairs coordinator of the Peace Corps, Miami University is ranked No. 11 out of all of the medium size universities for having

the most students apply and join the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps has 28 Miami graduates currently in the field. Ohio is also ranked No. 10, out of the 50 states.

The Peace Corps motto is ‘it’s the toughest job you’ll ever love,’ and Mayle said the Peace Corps’ volunteers are people who love to give and help others.

“The Peace Corps is looking for students who want to make a difference,” Mayle said. “The two

peace corps SEE PAGE 10

CORRECTIONS

It is the policy of The Miami Student to publish corrections for factual errors found in the newspaper.

In the Feb. 8 issue of The Miami Student it was an reported in “Five Miami University seniors named finalists in Fulbright student program” that senior Brian Cash studied in Raunheim. He actually studied in Rosenheim.

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POLICE THS foyer to feature hanging art

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Student artists design new sculpture from old high school materials

By Christina Lundin For the Miami Student

A group of 20 Talawanda High School (THS) students are working to create a sculpture that will hang from the ceiling in the front rotunda of the high school, 5301 University Park Blvd.

Alysia Fischer, artist and Miami University professor teamed up with THS art teachers, Jim McWilliams and Sean Oswald, to facilitate the project.

The completed sculpture will be unveiled Feb. 28 during a dedication ceremony at the school. The ceremony will also feature the dedication of the new performing arts center and a performance by the concert band, chamber band and orchestra.

This is not the first time McWilliams has planned a project for his students.

“I try to organize some type of educational and interactive project or event for the students to participate in every year,”

McWilliams said. “In the past I’ve done a kinetic sculpture race and a red bull race. The new school has new spaces dedicated for artwork, so this provided the opportunity to create the sculpture.”

McWilliams said he wants the

It’s not just the teacher’s ideas. We really do have a say in every aspect of the design.”

HANNA EDMONDF TALAWANDA STUDENT

students to be the ones driving the project.

“It’s not just the teacher’s ideas,” Hanna Edmondf, a THS student and aspiring teacher, said. “We really do have a say in every aspect of the design.”

The final sculpture design was

the culmination of a lot of brainstorming and collaboration.

“The first day we all wrote our ideas on post-it notes and slapped them all on one board,” student Heather Ker said. “A lot of us came up with similar ideas.”

According to McWilliams, the concept behind the sculpture is transformation, growth and change. This concept was inspired by the change from the old school to the new one.

Talawanda High School transitioned to the new building when the 2012-2013 school year began last August.

“The sculpture will be constructed using mostly recycled material that have been recovered from the old high school – things like wires, bike rims and transparencies,” McWilliams said. “The sculpture will hopefully be the first of many pieces of student-built artwork put on display. This first sculpture will most likely stay up for at least year until it’s replaced by something else.”

Fischer, an artist who holds a degree in metals and specializes in repurposed art, is working alongside the group to guide them through the process of developing a concept and creating models.

Before the project began, the group saw Fischer’s work at an exhibit in Hamilton. Fischer also gave a presentation outlining the philosophy behind sustainable artwork.

According to Fischer, the students have responded very well to this genre of art, despite apprehensions about the quality of the materials.

“I really like working with Alysia,” said Edmondf. “I like that she takes something ordinary like trash or rubber and turns it into beautiful art.”

According to McWilliams, they will soon divide up tasks and begin building the sculpture so that it is ready in time for the ceremony.

“I think the final sculpture will say who we are as a school,” Grace Heddleston, another student working on the project, said.

Kroger unveils lower prices and organic food products

By Lauren Evans

For The Miami Student

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PUPPY PLAY TIME

Junior Hannah Espeleta socializes with puppies Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Animal Adoption Foundation while volunteering with the Miami Club Volleyball team.

USPS ends regular mail delivery on Saturdays

By Sanam Sahni

For The Miami Student

CORRECTIONS It is the policy of The Miami Student to publish corrections for factual errors.

In the Feb. 7 article “Ohio officials consider immigration law reform,” a quote was incorrectly attributed to Yolanda Vazquez.

Miami University junior, Eden Thompson is the correct source and said, “Is it fair for immigrants who were brought into this country at such a young age to be denied the same opportunities as us?”

The U.S. Postal Service will continue to deliver mail through rain, sleet or snow – but not on Saturdays.

The U.S. Postal Service has been planning this change for the past two years, according to David Van Allen, the regional spokesman for the Postal Service.

This change will help the Postal Service save about $2 billion a year, Van Allen said.

With the advancement in technology, people rely more on the Internet for mail and paying bills rather than regular mail. According to Van Allen, there has been a 50 percent decline in mail volume since 2000.

The U.S. Postal Service was established 237 years ago and has gone through innumerable changes. This is just another one, Van Allen said.

Other postal services like Fed Ex said they will not be affected by this.

“We have nothing to do with U.S. Postal Service, it’s really not going to affect us in any way,” Renee Buckner, center consultant

at Fed Ex in Hamilton, said.

Bob Coley, owner of the UPS store in Oxford, said even though this might have an impact on individuals, Oxford will only be affected because first class mail like magazines will not be delivered.

Residents are not the only people who may be affected by the change in the Postal Service schedule. Postal Service employees may also notice a difference.

The Postal Service will not hire more people since the end of Saturday delivery, Coley said.

Van Allen said this will impact about 20,000 to 25,000 positions.

According to market research, seven out of 10 Americans support five-day delivery and Saturday mail has the least impact on people, according to Van Allen.

While this change might affect some students at Miami University, others said it is not going to have a big impact on them.

“I haven’t checked my mailbox all week,” junior Justine Daley said. “What I get in the mail is bills and pizza coupons.”

She said she uses the Internet for necessities like paying bills instead of through the regular mail.

Lower prices, new organic products, quicker checkout times and the elimination of double coupons are three main components of Kroger’s new plan that was initiated in all stores Feb. 4.

“I’m enjoying the lower prices,” first-year student Erin Davis said. “As a college student I’m always looking for ways to cut costs, especially when it comes to buying food.”

With the reduction in cost also came the elimination of the double coupon policy.

“Customers who double coupons is a small percentage,” Rachael Betzler, media contact for the Kroger brand, said. “A lot of the paper coupons are $1 or higher value, which we will still be accepting.”

Customers no longer have the opportunity to take advantage of a coupon being used twice in one transaction.

As an alternative, customers may visit the Kroger web site and download coupons to their Kroger card, according to Alex Smith, manger at Kroger in Oxford.

“With the new wave in technology, customers have access to internet coupons,” Smith said.

“Everyone is looking for ways to save money.”

Customers can also look for weekly ads featuring sale items.

These products are labeled with red tags on the shelf. Blue shelf tags indicate the new lower prices offered all the time.

“We are committed to our low price strategy and also continuing with weekly promotions such

as our 50 percent off sale this week, and other sales such as Mega Events, Cart Busters and 10 for $10 sales,” Betzler said.

Since the implementation of the new program, Oxford’s Kroger has seen a major influx of new customers according to Smith.

“We have seen a variety of new faces,” Smith said. “We typically know our usual customer base but new people are coming in the store due to the new lower prices.”

...I’m always looking for ways to cut costs, especially when it comes to buying food.”

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Kroger is now also featuring new organic products, called Simple Truth Organic, available on shelves throughout the store. These products are free of artificial ingredients and preservatives.

“Customers are concerned about their health and constantly looking for healthy alternatives,” Betzler said. “Packaging has also been made simple so customers can easily understand ingredient statements.”

Davis said she likes Kroger’s new initiative.

“I’m happy there are new organic products being offered,” Davis said. “It’s nice to have options.”

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Controversial artist to bare it all in solo show

By Christina Casano

Senior Staff Writer

This week, the performance artist Tim Miller will stay at Miami University as an artist in residence in the theatre department. His stay will include workshops with a class, a solo performance and a performance based on the work of students in the class.

The five-week sprint class is called Identity and Solo Performance, taught by Polly Heinkel, adjunct instructor in the theater department. The class was set up specifically to prepare students for Miller’s visit in which they’ll work with him on pieces that they’ve written about their own experiences.

“The class is a combination of things: a lot of readings, discussions and exercises,” Heinkel said.

“It’s to get them to open up and think about their experiences, exploring all of the things that make up who they are.”

The students of the class cover a variety of experiences, from first year undergraduates to secondyear Master’s candidates.

Master’s student Ronica Arntzen is using this course to help her finish up her thesis. Arntzen directed Flipzoids in the fall as a part of the theatre department’s season. The show dealt with the

experience of immigrants and the identity struggle that comes with Americanization.

“My thesis has a lot to do with cultural identity and performance… there’s the academic side with Polly and the devising with Tim Miller,” Arntzen said. “It’ll help me unpack and explore the idea of Filipino identity.”

Sarah Senff, a graduate student

[Miller’s show] shows the flipside of the good old US of A where you can’t marry for love.”

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who just closed a solo performance, discussed her experience with creating a solo performance.

“It was interesting after just closing a solo performance of someone else’s story to discover how terrifying it is to explore my own story,” Senff said. “It’s a good thing to face head-on.”

Miller’s work focuses on identity and social awareness. He reached national recognition in the 1980s when he and three other artists had their National Endowment

for the Arts grants revoked.

Known as the “NEA Four,” Miller and his colleagues’ work was considered obscene despite being peer-reviewed before they received the grants. They sued the federal government and won the case launching them into the public sphere of awareness.

The show that Miller is presenting at Miami is US, dealing with the USA’s love affair with musicals and love stories as well as his own love story and the problems he has encountered.

“It shows the flipside of the good old US of A where you can’t marry for love,” Heinkel said.

US brings up topics of gay marriage laws, immigration, and the contradictions of the belief in seeking happiness through love and the restrictions placed on the LGBTQ community in the United States. One thing audiences need to be aware of is that Miller will perform parts of the show naked.

“His whole thing is that ‘this is my body; I’m just like every other person,’” Heinkel said. “He offered to not do it nude, but it’s a part of his work so we said to keep the show as it was meant to be.”

US will take place 7:30 p.m.

Thursday in Peabody’s Leonard Theatre on Western Campus, with a reception following. Tickets are free and available at the Shriver Box Office.

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Junior Abby Sapadin performed last Tuesday in the Brown Bag Recital Series, which will occur from 12 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. every Tuesday in MacMillan Hall’s Great Room

Jam band mixes jazz and electronica to come up with gigantic sound

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Big Gigantic performed an hour and a half set for a high-energy crowd Sunday night at Brick Street.

By Billy Rafael

Arts & Entertainment Editor

It was a dedicated crowd of neon-wearers that flocked to Brick Street Sunday night for some live electronic music. Big Gigantic, a familiar face in Oxford, performed a high-energy set to a packed venue of students looking for a break from a night of studying.

Corey Baker, aka Kill Paris, a DJ from Los Angeles, took the stage before Big Gigantic to get the crowd warmed up. Kill Paris’ set was a mix of smooth R&B samples, heavy hip hop beats and crunchy bass. Despite a few lulls, the audience enjoyed Kill Paris, but by the time he was packing up it was clear they were ready for the main event.

It was nearly 11 p.m. when Big Gigantic took the stage and the crowd was considerably larger than when Kill Paris finished.

“The house was packed for a Sunday night,” Junior Jake Menker, who was celebrating his birthday at the concert, said.

“It was a beautiful thing. Big Gigantic killed it.”

Dressed in jeans and white

t-shirts, the duo ran on only to become silhouettes for the remainder of the show to the hypnotic light show designed to complement their music. Five big screen panels put on the front of the stage for visuals combined with an array of strobes, lasers and a lot of fog helped set the scene for the other planet that Big Gigantic’s music takes you to.

Big Gigantic is the creation of producer and saxophonist Dominic Lalli and drummer Jeremey Salken. The band’s genre is known as livetronica, a type of electronic music that combines pre-made dance beats with live instrumentals. In the world of electronic music, where many DJs are being criticized for their live shows being simply a task of pushing play on a laptop, it’s refreshing to see the talent of production paired with Lalli’s live jazz elements and Salken’s hard-hitting drumbeats.

And how often do you see a pit of college students screaming, yelling and jumping up and down for a saxophone solo?

Big Gigantic has mastered the art of playing with the audience’s emotion. The duo can build up energy with a blaring drum solo and take it back down with a smooth sax solo, locking in tight harmonies with the back track. The other advantage they have is being able to span several genres of

electronic music through their production and still hold their distinctive style through the instruments they play on top. One could hear influences of house music, dubstep, trance and hip hop throughout their set, with a crowd favorite being Lalli’s take on the tenor sax riff from Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” juxtaposed to Aloe Blacc’s catchy “I Need a Dollar.”

BG’s hour and a half set brought the house down leaving the audience wanting more.

Junior Branden Baribeau felt the concert lived up to past performances.

“They are one of the bands that is always better live,” Baribeau said. “I saw them at Bonnaroo last summer and they were just as good [Sunday] as they were there.”

Senior Cameron Holland was unfamiliar with Big Gigantic until attending the concert but walked away a fan.

“I thought it was a relaxed atmosphere with music that had a unique flair,” Holland said. “It was interesting to see such an unusual combination of instruments and mediums used to produce music.”

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MOVIE REVIEW

Disney’s Paperman proves to be a contender for best animated short

By Joe Gieringer Senior Staff Writer

From the opening shot, there was something special about Disney’s Paperman that really drew me in.

Was it the beautiful aesthetic appearance? Was it the moving orchestral arrangement that backstops the majority of the six minutes and thirty-two second runtime? Was it the simple, yet poignant love story?

I honestly didn’t know – I just sat there, entranced, as this Oscarnominated short unfolded before me. (Paper puns. Ha!) Paperman is the story of George, a 1950s Manhattan businessman who has a chance encounter with the woman of his dreams on a train

platform. While at work later that day, he sees her in the building across the street and goes to great lengths to get her attention, employing the help of hundreds of paper airplanes – but to no avail. Just as he’s about to give up, luck finally starts to go his way and that’s where the real magic begins.

This short marks the directorial debut of John Kahrs, an animator whose resume includes Monsters, Inc., The Incredibles and Tangled, among other works. Using a brandnew animation technology known as Meander, Kahrs blended handdrawn, two-dimensional animation with three-dimensional CGI to bring about a one-of-a-kind finished product. It certainly took me

back, and in just those few minutes Paperman became my favorite short of all time. Its tone and visuals are so perfectly matched by Christophe Beck’s accompanying score that the viewer is transported to this fantastic world, a world that you almost believe existed at some point in time. Each stroke of the bow on a violin, each airy blow of the brass, each key struck on the piano corresponds to an equally simple yet beautiful action on screen. And as the tension builds and our characters are propelled towards each other in a dramatic climax, you won’t be able to keep that smile from widening across your face.

It’s that sense of believability that, I believe, makes this film so

magical. It plays on those deep insecurities that we all have when it comes to love: What if I miss out on the woman of my dreams? Will I ever find her again? It’s a classic story that’s been told hundreds, if not thousands, of times – but in the case of Paperman, fate fights back and gives our protagonist one more chance.

Will it win the Oscar? Sadly, I doubt it. The animation short category is fairly heavy with similarly light-on-dialogue films, the favorite of which is likely Fresh Guacamole, a stop motion treat that, as the title suggests, gives step-by-step directions on how to make homemade guac. Paperman still has a shot to steal the

Academy’s hearts, just as it’s stolen the hearts of millions, including me, in the lone week it was available on Youtube before being taken down.

Like its main character, Paperman is a genuine expression of happiness and perseverance that will lift your spirits and merit an immediate follow up viewing. It’s proof that in this day and age, where big-budget blockbusters dominate the silver screen landscape, there’s still room for animated shorts to find a widespread audience. Paperman is a sensational work of art, one that brings a refreshing twist to a conventional story.

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Late football coach Hoeppner receives his due recognition Miami University inducted six athletes into its Hall of Fame Saturday, including the late Terry Hoeppner.

Hoeppner was head football coach at Miami for six years and was on staff for 19 years, a football record, before leaving to serve as head coach at Indiana University for two years.

The Miami Student editorial board commends the university for recognizing a great talent, and furthermore feels that Hoeppner should be recognized in the Cradle of Coaches for his accomplishments during his time at Miami.

Hoeppner ranks second for all-time wins at Miami, and the Redhawks finished among the top three in the Mid-American Conference East in each of his six years at the helm. In 2003, his best season as head coach, the team only lost one game and none overall in the MAC, and ranked 10th in the Associated Press College Poll that year.

Hoeppner and the team went on to consecutive bowl game appearances, a feat that hadn’t been accomplished for 30 years.

The Redhawks won against Louisville in the 2003 GMAC/GoDaddy.com Bowl, and went on to play in the Independence Bowl the next year.

It was also Hoeppner who recruited former quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to play for Miami, before Roethlisberger went on to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers and win two Super Bowls.

Hoeppner went on to become the head coach at Indiana University for two years, before passing away from brain cancer in 2007.

Although much of the focus on this weekend’s Hall of Fame induction was Roethlisberger, the editorial board feels Hoeppner deserves the spotlight.

Along with being the only posthumous inductee, he did many great things for the university and gave much of his time and dedication, leaving an impact on the football program.

The Cradle of Coaches is made up of alumni coaches who have outgrown the MAC and had even greater success after Miami. Hoeppner fits this description perfectly and truly deserves a spot.

While Roethlisberger is a famous name, Hoeppner is the real name behind his fame. He was one of the few coaches who offered Roethlisberger a scholarship spot as a quarterback as opposed to a wide receiver or tight end.

Hoeppner was someone who could recognize great talent and was a true unsung idol at Miami.

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Vote values should be calculated Advanced education doesn’t equal moral progress based on electorate awareness It was an early morning class, scientific knowledge to date, con- wrote, “If a man is stealing nuts Equality and democracy are both ideals that sound great in principle, but like anything, their value has its limitations.

Ironically, this is especially true in politics.

But unfortunately, and especially in America it seems, we KIEL have become HAWK so enamored with equal rights and advocacy for fairness that we are sacrificing quality of decisions.

It’s disconcerting to be reminded that there are people like “Obama Phone Lady” in the world and that in most democracies, such as ours, their votes count just as much as the next person. Little argument should need to be made that this sort of voting system is not what is in our best interest, not just as a nation, but as human beings.

Though it is likely going to sound heretical to suggest it, having a weighted voting system makes by far the most sense. The exact parameters that would contribute to the weight of an individual’s vote would have to be worked out, but knowledge of issues should be first and foremost.

Opinions aren’t worth much without proper information to place things into context. We already know this, which is why most professional positions require qualifying credentials of some sort. When I go to the doctor, I want my physician to understand the practice of medicine, and when I take my car into a shop, I want the mechanic to be knowledgeable about fixing vehicles. You probably share the same sentiment.

Yet for some reason, the regard for knowledge being a qualifying factor for decision-making gets thrown to the wind when choosing the leaders and policies of our cities, states and country, an endeavor that arguably requires being able to interpret and judge more information than the previous two examples.

Weighted voting is not a new concept, nor is requiring some sort of mental capability to participate in the process. It wasn’t until 1965 that requiring a literacy test to vote in the United States was banned. The problem is that most previous systems in which votes were weighted did not do it correctly. Votes were weighted mostly according to social class, money, race and other

factors that probably shouldn’t matter. But the values and parameters are where the systems were flawed, not the concept.

Some have proposed requiring an IQ test in order to vote. This doesn’t quite get the logic right either though.

It’s far more important to be familiar with contemporary issues and understand concepts that are related to governing, both of which don’t necessarily equate with intelligence.

And while intelligence is resistant to fluctuation throughout most of the course of life, being informed is not.

Thus, the benefits of weighting votes by using knowledge of relevant topics as the primary criterion would increase the quality of vote in multiple ways.

It would have immediate effects by allocating electoral power to the opinions of those that are well informed and more qualified to be elected. It would also create incentive to educate oneself to increase or maintain voting power in upcoming elections. Single-issue voters would need to demonstrate at least an awareness and understanding of other issues. And people that didn’t take the time to inform themselves or that think a candidates stance on say, abortion rights, is the only issue that matters would consequently have an appropriate impact on choosing elected officials.

Admittedly, implementing a weighted voting system surely would be tough to accomplish, and exactly what weighting should be based on would be a contentious topic of debate. Age might be another variable worth considering. Why does it make sense that the vote of an 85-year-old individual counts just as much as a 20-year-old individual? The latter is likely going to be living for a substantially longer time, and so will probably have their lives impacted to a greater extent by election results. It similarly doesn’t make sense to keep a well-informed 16- year-old from voting, but let any Joe-Schmo above the age of 18 casts a ballot.

Current voting policies are not the best we can do. Not by a long shot.

It is time we develop an algorithm to determine how much an individual’s vote should weigh in an election. Accessibility of information is cheap enough, and the technology is available to pull off any required testing and computing. But the bottom line is, though everybody has an opinion when it comes to politics, these opinions are far being created equal, and they should consequently be treated as such.

one of those 8 a.m. miseries that I could barely drag myself across slant-walk to get to, after a late night filled with Red Bull and biochemistry cramming.

Class hadn’t started yet, and it seemed that everyone was in the same state I was—physically present but not mentally. We were a sad example of the educated future of America.

I looked at my classmate who was typing on his laptop in the neighboring desk, and that is when I saw it.

The quote was placed across a beautiful scene of outer space.

“We were born too soon to explore the cosmos, and too late too explore the earth. Our frontier is the human mind; religion is the ocean we must cross.”

Intrigued by his philosophical background, I asked him what it meant.

He said the church’s steeple had forever been the tallest point in cities, representing the sway it has held on our culture.

He then described his dream of making the library the tallest point in our society, propelling us on toward reasoning and flourishing.

We live in an age where we have put our hope in reasoning, science and education, an age of Darwin, Marx and Nietzsche, where we think critically of supernatural beliefs.

If only we could civilize and educate the world, perhaps we could create our utopia, our perfect civilization, we tell ourselves.

After secularizing most of the public sphere, we have been left with a world that is evermore advancing toward my classmate’s dream.

But what is the progress that has been made?

What do we have to show for our great education?

Despite all our learning, we have not advanced as far as we would like to convince ourselves. If we believe the education of man has delivered us from the evilness of his heart, then we have not paid attention to history.

The 20th century, in which mankind achieved its highest level of

tained more human killing and bloodshed than all of the previous 19 centuries combined. Rather than leading to peace and prosperity, our high education gave us new ways to wage war with each other.

However, the new technologies were not the only cause for the bloodshed.

and bolts from a railway track, and, in order to change him, you send him to college, at the end of his education, he will steal the whole railway track.”

Education may take the pickpocket off of the street, but it does not take the pickpocket out of the individual’s heart.

But what is the progress that has been made? What do we have to show for our great education? Despite all our learning, we have not advanced as far as we would like to convince ourselves.

Our educationally advanced philosophies have often played a role in leading us to bankrupting our morals by justifying our wrong.

(Look at how Hitler used the famous philosopher Nietzsche’s writing.)

A recent report from 2009 showed that one of India’s largest IT companies had been cooking its books for years, misrepresenting its true value.

The supposed massive profits were all lies. Ironically, the company’s name, Satyam, means “Truth.”

In his resignation, the CEO and founder said, “I was riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten.”

Hitting a little closer to home was the Enron scandal. The Houston, Texas based energy company had been hiding enormous amounts of debt by using accounting loopholes and skewed financial reporting, and shareholders lost billions when Enron’s stocks plummeted.

These examples show that crime and corruption are not only reserved for the uneducated and poor classes.

In fact, the increasing frequency of instances like these has led to the coining of the phrase “white-collar crime” to describe the cheatings of smart, rich executives.

Philosopher D. L. Moody once

Eventually, our true colors will show through, and oftentimes education merely allows the magnitude of our deception and schemes to increase.

In the end, a few examples cannot prove my point, but I hope that we can at least agree that at best, education has led to mixed results on our morality, and at worst has opened up new avenues for evil never before conceived by humankind.

We need something to change our hearts—or maybe I should say someone to change our hearts.

New laws and regulations make people either follow them as a duty or break them in rebellion.

A relationship, though, can give us new desires.

A relationship can make us turn from our old way of living.

Perhaps that is one reason why God has offered us a relationship with Himself, rather than only giving us laws to perform or a path to follow.

Only when we come into that relationship, can duty be changed to choice.

Only then will the deceptive tiger of our heart be able to be tamed.

Stephen hudson

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RACHEL’S REFLECTIONS

Privilege is always present yet hardly acknowledged, rarely put into perspective It’s no secret that our generation lives in a world where almost anything seems to be convenient, at our fingertips and easily accessible at anytime. We have multiple connections to wireless RACHEL Internet, phones that SACKS do much more than make phone calls and we are lucky enough to have access to medical care and education. But there is more to privilege than just being able to update our Facebook or Twitter accounts from any location, or the fact that we have the opportunity to receive a higher education.

With websites like First World Problems and White Whine and Twitter hashtags highlighting the “problems” people of the middle and upper classes must endure everyday, one might think that we would be more aware of how ridiculous

we can be sometimes. Namely how ridiculous we sound when we complain that there is no wi-fi, that our brand new shirt got ruined or that our new haircut looks bad.

But instead we focus on the negatives in an otherwise extremely positive and generous world, one where we typically don’t seem to know the true meaning of what hard work and dedication can mean for us. A world for many of us that has been handed over on a silver platter, where we are so blinded by what we don’t have that we cannot see just how fortunate we are.

There are some people whose behavior and attitudes lead me to think that we are a generation of unearned self-entitlement. That we feel as though the world owes us something, when in reality, we are the ones who need to give back to the world.

When I refer to the privilege experienced by those in the middle and upper classes, I don’t just mean that we have clean water and medicine as opposed to those in third-world countries. What I also think encompasses our privilege and eludes those

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of the lower classes are things we take for granted. Benefits that maybe we don’t even think about the possibility of others not having access to.

Benefits and privileges such as free medical attention for those of us under our parents’ health plans, which

A friend told me that service to a cause greater than self is the rent we pay for our room here on Earth.

many of us in college are; the ability to buy what we want or need without worry, or being able to buy things for luxury or comfort; the freedom to waste; the ability to employ people to care for our (future) children; entertainment at our fingertips; and not having to worry how an emergency

will impact our financial situation.

While many of these can also be attributed to race or even gender privileges, the real divide is evident between classes. But what is most disturbing is that while there are people who cannot make enough money to support their families living in many of the same cities or communities we live in, we are complaining about how our coffee is too hot.

We need to be aware of those less fortunate than us, who struggle to live by what is considered the norm for many of us.

However, I believe we can also be a generation that is self-aware. We can acknowledge our privilege and not see it as entitlement, but instead as something that can be used for the greater good.

“With great power, comes great responsibility.”

Setting aside Spiderman and superhero origins, this quote can actually be applied to those of privilege.

In order to prove greatness, we must be aware of expected privilege and look beyond it. By being selfaware and acknowledging our own

privilege, then we can move past it and on to greater things that actually give our lives structure and meaning.

With privilege, comes responsibility and higher expectations.

It’s what we choose to do with our own lives, regardless of privilege, wealth or having neither.

Success isn’t measured by someone’s income, but instead by how they see themselves and what they do with their lives.

A friend told me that service to a cause greater than self is the rent we pay for our room here on Earth.

Hearing this and seeing that many people of our generation will choose to give time to volunteer or non-profit organizations, such as AmeriCorps or Teach for America, gives me hope that maybe we are moving past the notion of entitlement and are instead coming to terms with the idea that we need to build upon and work on our own character.

And if you need something to really make you aware of our privilege and to put things in perspective, watch “First World Problems Read

by Third World People” on Youtube.

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years they spend in another country gives people the experience to help launch their career.”

Some Miami students get the idea to join the Peace Corps after recruiters visit, during field experience or some simply get the idea on their own.

Senior Francesca Palmer is one student who decided to join the Peace Corps without going to any of the recruitment visits.

“I love to travel, I love to talk to people and I am the type person who wakes up and says ‘I am going to do this,’ and does it,” Palmer said.

In May 2012, Palmer began to research the Peace Corps and then decided to submit an application. She leaves for the country of Malawi in southeast Africa June 18, and she will be living there for two years.

Palmer said she believes that young people in general feel rushed to find a stable job after graduation, when they need to start taking chances.

“I was surprised to hear that Miami is ranked, there are so many students that are concerned about their future and well being,” Palmer said. “They are too rushed to get into the real world.”

David Szaronos, who graduated from Miami in 2008 with a degree in finance, was one of those rushed people. Immediately after graduation he moved to Chicago and got a job as a consultant. He soon realized that the job was not the best fit for him.

“That was the first time I really took stock of who I was and what I wanted from a career,” Szaronos said. “Once I looked into the Peace Corps, I realized it had so many of the things I wanted for my life and my career—excitement, helping others and having international exposure.”

Miami graduate of 2011 Christina Zielke felt that her time at Miami influenced her decision to serve in the Peace Corps because she was able to see Peace Corps work on the ground through several of her field experiences.

“In Dominica during a field experience on ecotourism and sustainable development, I was able to help a Peace Corps volunteer serving there with a book drive project,” Zielke said.

Zielke was also doing field study through Miami’s geography department on the Kenya’s biodiversity, and her guide had started his own non-governmental organization and was applying for a Peace Corps

volunteer to assist him.

“The experiences allowed me to see first hand the type of work the PCVs around the globe were doing,” Zielke said.

Palmer, Szaronos and Zielke all said they believe they have made the right choice and recommend that students apply and join the Peace Corps.

Since Palmer is still in school, she can easily relate to many of the current students, and she recommended that they do plenty of research before starting the application process. Zielke suggested students get involved both on and off campus.

“The best way that anyone could prepare for life as a PCV is through spending time abroad prior to service,” Zielke said. “Take advantage of Miami’s superb study abroad programs.”

For those interested in joining the Peace Corps or finding out more information, Mayle gave some final advice. She suggested meeting Katie Sylvester, who is a Peace Corps field-based recruiter who will be visiting Miami Feb. 13 and 27.

“Even if the students have slightest interested they should talk to Katie because she is a returned volunteer and she’ll tell her story and answer questions for interested students.” Mayle said.

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for trying to save a person’s life,” Stefanski said. “If the culture that we have in place is a hazard to student’s safety, then we need to work to change that culture but meanwhile adopt policies that are cognizant of that reality we live in.”

To conclude, Stefanski thanked Kwarteng for his service over the past two years, and wished him the best in his future endeavors. Kwarteng later addressed the Board of Trustees, noting the honor and thanking them for the experience.

“I wish to see a Miami where no one sits on the sideline and everyone’s in the game,” Kwarteng said. “This trusteeship is one of my more cherished Miami experiences and I will walk away from this experience with a love of knowledge and a heightened sense of pride for this school.”

In return, the board thanked Kwarteng for his work and presented him with a plaque.

Hodge commented on the success of students, staff and faculty, and credited the Miami community and its individuals for furthering the grandeur of the university.

“What really matters is what happens every day on the ground, what happens in the classrooms, what happens in the residence halls…” Hodge said. “Every single aspect of Miami has contributed to making this possible, so a huge thank you to the men and women who make all this possible.”

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was our senior design project, and this year we’re just trying to pass it down to a couple undergraduates,” Cole said. “I think last year we lost count in like March or April but at that point of last year we were at about 5,000 man hours, so about 1250 hours a piece.”

Sobota said the competition gave them the opportunity to utilize information learned in college in a tangible way.

“Now I have actual hands-on experience actually making a project and getting it to work and obviously getting second place shows that we did a good job,” Sobota said.

According to him, his participation in the event may have even influenced the placement of his recent job acceptance.

“I think this project landed the job that I got because I actually got assigned at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado, which is the master control station for all GPS satellites,” Sobota said.

Marcus also believes it with help him find a job in the future.

“Employers really want to see how you can apply what you’re learning in class because anybody can get an “A” in a class, but it shows extra effort if you have a really cool project like this,” Marcus said.

Along with the practical

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Senate questioned the presenters about whether Miami would be able to keep both the muohio.edu and miamioh.edu domain names.

An answer from the Department of Commerce is expected in 2-3 months, according to Allison.

Senate expressed concern over who owns the email. Information Security Officer Joe Bazeley said Miami owns the email and in the event of a separation from Google that Miami will retain all of that information.

Senate also heard a report on the Miami Plan redesign from John Tassoni, director of Liberal Education.

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complete surprises.

Damien Watson, of the Chi Psi fraternity, said this shows a different side of the fraternity.

“The best part was presenting [the Valentines] and seeing their reactions,” Watson said. “We like to show our softer side to the girls. Our nickname around campus is ‘Chi Psi, nice guy,’ and today was a model of that.”

Reactions from the female recipients filled sorority suites around campus with smiles and giggles Sunday afternoon; it was evident that the surprise was well appreciated amongst the girls.

Jen Curry, a sophomore Chi Omega, enjoyed both a serenade and a Valentine’s Day rap in her suite.

“I think it was more elaborate than any other serenade we’ve had; everyone was so excited about it,” Curry said. “I think it definitely stands out that they did that. In the Greek system at Miami, some fraternities and sororities only interact with each other. But I think the point of the Greek system is for everyone to interact with everyone. It was really sweet of [Chi Psi] to do just that.”

Though this was the Chi Psi brother’s first attempt at thoughtfully wishing every single on campus sorority a Happy Valentine’s Day, McGuire hopes to see his event continue to be a Chi Psi tradition for years to come.

“I definitely think that we are going to do this every single year,” McGuire said. “For me, it’s very unique because a lot of people have general stereotypes about what fraternities are and what they do. This is really something that sheds a light on the good we do as a whole.

Only 365 more days until we get to do it again!” benefits of taking part in the Autonomous Snow Plow Competition, the team members agreed that it was a unique experience.

“Leading up to [the competition] in January, we were going over to Goggin Ice Center like every day and stealing snow,” Cole said.

According to him, they hauled the snow over to the engineering building to practice their plowing technique.

Along with the snowplow event, the team also competed in the ION Robotic Lawnmower Competition, which they said required even more skill.

“We did the snowplow in January and that was kind of our stepping stone for the lawnmower to make sure we were in a good place because the lawnmower was a lot harder,” Cole said. “Basically, they give you a field, and they put a random flower bed in the middle, and they put like a fence up and there was a dog that ran out in front of you, so there was a lot of stuff you had to stop for.”

According to Cole, this isn’t the end for Redblade; they continue to search for various robotic endeavors.

“We’re going to do another competition that Miami has never done before, it’s the intelligent ground vehicle competition,” Cole said. “I guess it’s pretty big, 40 or so schools go to it, so we’re going to try and check that out and see how we do.”

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too much, and I wanted to knock them off today,” McGhee said. “I just went out and played the best I could in the minutes that I had. It’s just a mentality of toughness and knowing that we can get every rebound as long as we give a better effort than the other team.”

Miami now faces Kent State University in a road battle Wednesday that will pit two struggling teams against one another. The Golden Flashes are 13-11, 4-6 MAC, but feature junior forward Chris Evans and senior guard Randal Holt who average 16.8 and 14.1 points a contest, respectively. Kent is coming off a 15-point win vs.

Central Michigan University, but has lost five of its last eight games. Miami won a tight game last season, 62-60. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.

Akron was led by redshirt junior forward Rachel Tecca who finished with a double-double. She had 29 points and 11 rebounds.

The starting point guard for the Zips, junior Kacie Cassell, finished with 10 assists.

Akron shot 50 percent from the field in the first half and 46.7 percent for the game.

Junior guard Haley Robertson led the RedHawks with 9 first-half points. She finished with 13 points. Junior forward Erica Almady had 8 firsthalf points and finished with a career-high 20 points.

“The guards were getting the ball to me and my confidence was there,” Almady said. “Coach has been trying to get me to score.”

Almady shot 7-11 from the field.

The Zips began the second half with the lead and scored many points on transition and fast break situations.

After Miami outrebounded the Zips 21-9 in the first half the Zips

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according to Creamer.

With a tuition lock-in, tuition wouldn’t rise at any point during a student’s term at Miami, according to Creamer. They would pay the exact same dollar amount each year they attend Miami.

Currently there are tuition increases each year, so students coming to Miami don’t really know what they will be paying each year.

The reason for the lock-in plan is that there is more predictability according to Creamer.

“If you’re trying to put together a budget you’re not trying to guess what you’ll be paying in the future,” Creamer said.

A 0 percent tuition increase has happened in the past at Miami, according to Wagner, under the Platinum Plan. Miami is looking at this plan again, she said.

In 2004 under the Platinum Plan, tuition was locked in for a maximum of five years excluding summers and workshops. It gave students the ability to plan

took charge and outrebounded the ’Hawks 22-14 in the second half.

Despite the loss, the RedHawks shot 50 percent from the field Saturday.

“The offense took steps forward, I am upset that the defense didn’t,” Fantanarosa said.

Fantanarosa said that the ’Hawks starters were tired at the end of the game, which allowed the Zips to pull away late.

“Our starters played a lot of minutes, they have to fight through it,” Fantanarosa said.

“We need to challenge our bench to contribute.”

The ’Hawks bench accounted for four of the 77 points scored on Saturday.

The ’Hawks will now enter a bye week, and Fantanarosa believes it is needed.

“We are tired and ready for the bye week,” Fantanarosa said.

Fantanarosa said that the whole team is not happy where they are this point and they are determined to define who they are as a team.

“We are ready to get back to practice and define our experience,” Fantanarosa said. ahead financially and provided “peace of mind about upcoming college expenses” according to the plan description on Miami’s website.

Sophomore and member of Student Senate Michael Vostatek agrees.

“I think that for the sake of parents and students in an unpredictable economy, going back to the lock-in would provide more stability and make a lot of financial sense,” Vostatek said. “By doing that, everyone knows what they’re getting into over the next four years and won’t be forced to transfer because of rising tuition costs.”

In 2004 the flat plan was $22,546 per year for up to five years. If students did not choose the flat plan they would pay $19,642 the first year and larger amounts in future years as tuition increased.

“It is still important however to look at all possible angles and make sure that no matter what, students are being given the best deal they can to attend this university,” Vostatek said.

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Surprise: Match fixing rampant in pro soccer

PEDs in the MLB, deer antler spray (cue the laugh) in the NFL, crooked refereeing in the NBA, and now, match fixing in European soccer.

Is there any integrity left in modern day sport?

With the arrival of each new scandal, it appears that anyone involved in sports will go to great lengths in order to bend the supposed rules set by sports governing bodies.

This past week a preliminary investigation by Europol, the law enforcement for the European Union, was responsible for uncovering a vast match fixing scheme in professional soccer. From 2008-2011 it appears around 700 soccer games were fixed, stretching from the United Kingdom and other European countries to Asia. Yet, Europol thinks it is just the tip of the iceberg.

The years of denial that anything of this magnitude could ever exist in professional sports is over. There is a serious problem in soccer, and it is threatening to eradicate the few remaining threads of integrity left in the sport.

The sport’s governing bodies must be assertive in dealing with this scandal, or else the game as we know it, will be lost forever.

It is not just happening on a certain level, match fixing has weaseled its way into potential World Cup qualifiers, Champions League games and so on.

Match fixing first appeared in the early 1900s and has since become a part of the sport. In the 1960s, a man by the name of Dezso Solti, known to many as the Hungarian fixer, would invite referees into hotel rooms filled with money, car keys and other lavish items with the intent of bribing them to alter their whistle usage.

The times of match fixing have since evolved and adopted a significant technological element, which has opened the door to countless profits for bettors and bookies.

It has been estimated that approximately three billion

dollars is wagered on sports every day, with most of the betting focused on international soccer. Singapore and the Philippines are known as the hubs of match fixing and are home to many of the most infamous bookmakers today.

So how exactly does it happen?

The system itself is highly intricate and complex, inevitably eliminating the opportunity for law enforcement to track and trace the betting and eventual fixes. To briefly describe the process, the bettor syndicate programs computers to place high-volume max bets on whatever the high level individual requests. Bets prior to and during the game are funneled through markets in Manila. They time the surges in the placed bets so the security centers are unable to detect suspicious activity. Not that it matters, because the security officials likely get a cut of the profits.

The bettors are able to stack the odds in favor or against a match, thereby controlling the outcome of the wagers and profiting as a result. The lower, unimportant bettors bear all the risk because they can’t change a bet once it is placed.

Referees, players, coaches and other officials are all involved in the scandal to a degree, which allows the outcomes to be determined prior to the match. As a result, the bettors are able to choose correctly and rake in the cash.

Honest competition in soccer is on its way out; exploitation for profits at every level has since taken its place. It is sad, really.

Unfortunately, I do not foresee UEFA or FIFA putting an end to the rampant corruption of the sport. As long as money is coming in and fans are packing stadiums, what is the need to make arrests and put an end to the scandal?

This is one commonality that stretches across corrupt sports entities around the globe. We see it in the NCAA, NFL, NBA, MLB and so on.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

’Hawks fall against Akron, concede MAC East lead

By Justin Maskulinski For The Miami Student

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) women’s basketball season continued Saturday as Miami University (14-9, 6-4) and the University of Akron (16-7, 7-3) met for the first time this season with first place in the MAC East Division on the line.

The Zips outlasted the RedHawks and won the game 84-77.

“This is a disappointing loss,” Head Coach Maria Fantanarosa said. “I feel better about how we responded after the Toledo loss.”

The ’Hawks fell to the University of Toledo (21-2, 9-1) 80-49 last Wednesday at home.

The RedHawks wore pink uniforms on Saturday that will

be auctioned off at a later date with all proceeds going to breast cancer awareness.

The ’Hawks led the game early by going on a 6-0 run and forced the Zips to take a timeout.

The Red and White led the Zips for much of the first half until the four-minute mark when the Zips gained momentum and went into the half with a 37-32 lead. The Zips closed the first half on a 16-3 run.

“We gave up a lot of easy points,” Fantanarosa said. “Lay ups, transitions and turnover points killed us.”

The Zips had 22 points off of Miami’s 20 turnovers.

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Condit signs 4-year extension Miami University women’s volleyball Head Coach Carolyn Condit recently signed a four year extension that will run through the 2016-2017 season. Condit holds a 509-404 record during her time at Miami.

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Condit has won Mid-American Conference (MAC) Coach of the Year five times and five MAC titles. She has taken the Red and White to seven NCAA Tournaments and has 608 career wins.

RedHawks split series with Western Michigan

By Joe Gieringer Senior Staff Writer

It was a battle for first place this weekend in Kalamazoo Mich., as the Miami University men’s hockey team split its series against Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) foe Western Michigan University.

The No. 3 RedHawks (18-7-5, 13-5-4-4 CCHA) fell Friday night in a 2-0 shutout loss to the No. 6 ranked Western Michigan. The Broncos found the back of the net just 3:31 seconds into the contest on a low shot from sophomore defender Jordan Oesterle, who beat Jay Williams as the freshman goalie was screened. Western Michigan extended its lead late in the second period when junior forward Chase Balisy took advantage of a 4-on-3 power play situation, which was all the Broncos needed.

Junior netminder Frank Slubowsky turned aside all 32 shots he faced on the evening, including 13 in the final frame alone to keep the goose egg on the scoreboard and give his team possession of first place in the CCHA. The shutout marked the fifth time on the season that Miami has been held scoreless through three periods. Williams was handed just his fifth loss in 19 games, and he managed to record a healthy 21 saves. The youngster maintains a .930 save percentage and a 1.78 goals against average (GAA), which is good for 12th and eighth in Division 1 goaltending standings, respectively.

The RedHawks outshot the Broncos 32 to 23 and went 0-for-5 on the man advantage. Though they went 4-for-5 on the penalty kill, the majority of those infractions came late in the game as the Red and White were trying to rally.

“We took a couple undisciplined penalties there in the third,” Head Coach Enrico Blasi said of his team’s late-game effort Friday night. “Obviously it’s pretty loud in here and gets pretty crazy, and you’ve got to keep your composure. I thought we lost it a little bit. You can’t kill three penalties in a row and expect to get back in the game.”

The ’Hawks tightened up their game, as they played inspired hockey on Saturday evening. Freshman forward Riley Barber quieted the fans at Lawson Ice Arena halfway through the first period, deflecting the puck past Slubowsky off of a shot that was rifled from the stick of freshman defenseman Taylor Richart. The goal marked Barber’s twelfth on the year, tops on the Miami roster.

Senior forward Curtis McKenzie extended the Miami lead 2:39 into the second session on the power play, redirecting a Barber shot through the goalie’s five-hole.

The RedHawks lit the lamp two more times, as junior forward Max Cook and senior forward Mark Hagel concluded the scoring, bringing the final score to 4-0. Ten members of the Miami squad recorded points on the night.

Goaltender Ryan McKay recorded 29 saves en route to his third shutout of the year. It could be

argued that the freshman is the best in division one hockey, as he ranks first nationally in both GAA and save percentage. He’s averaging .98 goals allowed per game, and boasts an incredible .964 save percentage through 12 starts.

McKay said his team learned a lot about themselves and what the best of the CCHA has to offer.

“We’re a gutsy group of guys, I can tell you that much,” McKay said. “You’ve got to give Western Michigan credit, they’re a great team and their building is not an easy one to play in by any means. To come out with the energy we had and fixing our game plan on Saturday, I think that was a great credit to our team.”

Though the win was a big one, Barber knows it will take this kind of performance to keep Miami on top.

“It shows we’re a team to be reckoned with,” Barber said. “That was [Western Michigan’s] first loss at home in the CCHA. I think we proved a lot to other teams, and we’ve got to, every weekend, keep knocking teams off to stay in first place.”

Miami returns to home ice for a 7:35 p.m. game Friday, Feb. 15 at the Goggin Ice Center, as it hosts CCHA rival Notre Dame in a contest that will be televised nationally on CBS Sports Network. The two teams will then travel to Chicago to participate in the first Hockey City Classic, an outdoor event featuring two marquee matchups comprised of four top-20 teams. Miami and Notre Dame will face off again at noon on Feb. 17.

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MU comes up short in battle with Zips

BY Win Braswell Senior Staff Writer

The Miami University men’s basketball team dropped its second straight game, falling 54-50 to a University of Akron team that presented Miami with several size issues. The loss now puts the RedHawks at 8-14, 3-7 MidAmerican Conference (MAC).

Scoring was hard to come by, as the Zips were able to find the bottom of the net after almost three minutes of action. The RedHawks were able to control the first half over an Akron team that featured two big men at 6 foot 11 inches and 7 feet.

Scoring runs of 13-2 and a first half-ending 8-1 run were able to give Miami the lead, 25-16.

Redshirt junior center Drew McGhee led all scorers at the half with eight points.

Akron came out firing in the second half, scoring six straight points to get within three. The game went back and forth, and Miami had a one-point lead, 43-42, with less than five minutes of action, but lost the lead, surrendering a three to the Zips.

From there, Akron held the lead for good.

Redshirt junior guard Allen Roberts led Miami with 11 points, all in the last 20 minutes.

Freshman guard Reggie Johnson and McGhee were the `Hawks’ only other double digit scorers with 10 each. Miami suffered yet another loss, after outrebounding the opponent, 32-30. Junior guard Quinten Rollins tied his career rebounding total with seven.

“You don’t need to have your butt out there if you’re going to be intimidated,” Head Coach John Cooper said. “Akron’s a good basketball team that’s wellcoached, make no mistake about it. Their winning ways, it is a culture that Keith [Dambrot] has built and a testament to what he’s been able to do there. But the intimidation thing…I understand when people talk about that, but

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Miami University freshman guard Reggie Johnson looks to make a pass against the University of Akron as the omnipresent face of Betty White looks on. Johnson recorded 10 points in the game. White celebrated her 90th birthday Sunday. you play the game. That’s the bottom line. If you’re scared, there’s no need in going out there.”

Miami was unable to do significant damage in the paint, scoring just 10 points. A very big reason was seven-foot senior center Zeke Marshall, who had 4 blocks and influenced several shots in the paint.

“When he (Marshall) goes out, it’s a different game,” Cooper said. “To be able to protect the rim like he does is an unbelievable thing to have on your side.”

Zips Head Coach Keith Dambrot was also impressed with his center’s effort.

“He’s one of the best shot blockers in college basketball, or shot changers, whatever you want to say,” Dambrot said. “Now they put some up over him today, which was impressive. [But] that Zeke factor is a big deal, even if he scores no points. People have no idea.”

McGhee and senior center Vince Legarza gave valiant effort in defending and battling Marshall down low, especially helping the rebounding effort.

“I really don’t like Akron

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